Category: Caving
Caving and potholing (including SRT – Single Rope Technique) – anything speleological in nature!
The weather had remained dry overnight so I took the chance of a trip up to Grey Wife Hole on Newby Moss, an interesting Sunday cave only 15 minutes from the road. The original plan was to go and dive the sump. Common sense prevailed and I went up with the aim of checking the …
Several people from WMCEG and a couple from Dudley CC have expressed an interest in supporting a trip down the Lost Johns cave system for which WMCEG had a permit for the 14th. In the event five people turned up for the trip. Rach, Rich and Colin from WMCEG: Keef and Brendon from Dudley, we …
A mixed trip of caving, cave diving and cycling had been planned as the summer holiday for a small party including Andy (Rach please note) Sue, Marcus, Cath, little Peter and Colin. A house was booked that we had used several times before as it is centrally located in the Doubs caving area of France …
As the weather had destroyed any chance of getting any interesting caving done over the weekend myself and Andy headed off to a flooded quarry in Cromhall, Gloucestershire. The aim was to test some kit configurations for use on holiday and also test some recently serviced equipment. All the kit worked well. My new configuration …
Marcus wanted to go and have a look at sump six in P8 (Jackpot) in Derbyshire. Several years ago he did some work towards sump ten but had always by-passed sump six which branches off between sumps five and seven, both of which drain into six. With sump six being the lowest point in what …
Rick asked me along to the Coventry swimming pool to act as official observer whilst he tested his new micro rebreather. The rebreather is a pendulum type semi closed design purpose built to minimise size and weight. Containing only 600 grams of absorbent it gives a duration of up to one and a half hours …
Dave was volunteered by work (yes, it was a jolly) to stand by Long Churn Cave, to help a film crew in a helicopter locate Upper Long Churn cave for the forthcoming BBC series on caving with Kate Humble and some other guy...
It’s been two and half years since I’d been caving, and I wasn’t sure if my over suit still fitted, but Sunday 11th was the date we had a permit to do Notts Pot, courtesy of WMCEG. Now we live locally, there was no need for the early starts we used to make, so me …
Dave took Kath caving... well, sort of. Along the River Eden north of Little Salkeld are some sandstone caves [to] visit.
