Category: Caving
Caving and potholing (including SRT – Single Rope Technique) – anything speleological in nature!
We don’t class ourselves as novice cavers anymore, so we thought we should take a trip underground on our own. Rachel knows half of Oxlow Cavern pretty well, having been there several times to dig, so we thought we’d go and discover the other half. We set out about 1pm in rain and wind. Happily …
A through trip from Ogof Ffynnon Ddu I to OFD II was planned with Brendan (DCC), Richard and I. In the end a metallurgy professor from Oxford also joined the trip. A really fabulous trip it was. We started off at the bottom of the hill and went through various places, some of which I …
With the resent weather in South Wales ruling out a return to Tucks, Andy and I headed further West to a dig site near the South Wales caving club hut in a cave called Gents Dig. The cave is located in an otherwise blank area of the survey of the large OFD cave system that …
On Saturday, Richard and I met Colin and Sloth in Bernies cafe, where we were assembling for a trip down Bar Pot (the second time within a month for Colin and I). A few hours later we started down the pot and descended down the two large pitches which I rigged. Following we took a …
Since last weeks disappointment we had found out from the land owner that in the week before our previous dive attempt a farmer further up the valley had sprayed the bracken in his fields. In light of this information we now assume that it was the chemical that had stained the water, produced the bad …
After the previous dive at Tucks Rift both of us (Andy and Colin) had high hopes for the day's trip...
This weekend, I have not only learnt the delights of Bar Pot and Grey Wife, but also, how committed and absolutely crazy my friend Colin is. Seriously, this man is nutty. Caving is one thing, cave diving is another thing. However cave diving in Grey Wife is a completely different matter. The amount of effort …
The plan for the weekend involved three choices for the Saturday. We (Rach and Colin) ended up taking the second choice which was Bar Pot, one of the simpler entrances into the Gaping Gill system. After a quick walk up to the entrance we dropped down pitch one (the photo is Rach half way down), …
After enough good weather in the Hepste valley in South Wales Andy and Colin thought Tucks Rift might be in condition. This is a long term project that has resulted in us finding about 100 m of previously unexplored passage and one aven with an impassable surface connection. At the end of this passage there …
