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Greg in 'Sandwich Chamber'
Fit for Insane Worms and Geckos in G5
Chris in Tin Can Alley
Phill in the horrible bit of passage that links Sump 12 with Sump 12a
Greg descending Ammonite Shaft

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Caving: Croesor Rhosydd Mine (25-Aug-2025)

Straightforward through trip.  The zip-line across the first lake was very fast and it is definitely important to control your speed.  The canoe is starting to leak, so we had to spend a bit of time bailing it first. ...

Caving: St Cuthberts (03-Aug-2025)

Old route to boulder chamber. Upper traverse chamber. September squeeze, sept series, victory passage, back via cone chamber and illusion. Squeeze into cat gut rift, rabbit warren extensions. Gour hall, in up the chain back the bottom way. Sumps 1 and 2.  Back via rabbit warren, harem passage (detour to fingers and cave pearls) then railway tu ...

Caving: Stoke Lane Slocker (22-Jul-2025)

Low water level trip into Stoke Lane. Great fun.  Sump 1 was fine, just take it steady.  Then a good explore of the impressive chambers before sump 2. ...

Caving: Swildons Hole (06-Jul-2025)

Trip to the Mud Sump. Very dry conditions. ...

Caving: Goatchurch Cavern (22-Jun-2025)

Kids trip to the drainpipe. ...

Caving: Shuttleworth Pot (08-Jun-2025)

Caving trip after Rescon weekend, before the journey home. ...

Caving: Alum Pot (07-Jun-2025)

Various training scenarios in Long Churn as part of the RESCON weekend. ...

Caving: Stream Flood (01-Jun-2025)

Through trip from Stream Passage to Flood Entrance. ...

Caving: Death's Head (31-May-2025)

Through trip from Death's Head to Lost John.  We made a slight error at the bottom of the first pitch, where I started traversing along some bolts, but I should have just gone to the boulder floor and onto the next very short pitch to reach the main chamber.  The scaffold climb down through the bottom of the main chamber was very impr ...

Caving: Nick Pot (30-May-2025)

Evening trip to Nick Pot.  Suprisingly the water levels seemed very high on the walk up, but we thought we'd continue to have a look. Tim rigged the entrance and the Traverse of the Gods (which was a pretty cool high-level traverse).  We were then at the top of Vulcan Pot, which was thundering with water.  I went cautiously  ...

Caving: Swinsto Hole (05-May-2025)

Lovely low water levels.  It makes the trip quite a bit easier as you don't really need to rig the deviations etc, you can just abseil straight down and not get that wet. ...

Caving: Rowten (04-May-2025)

We arrived in Kingsdale at 10am and quickly found ourselves at the entrance to Rowten.  Greg volunteered to rig the Eyehole Route and Bean volunteered to rig the Big Gully Route.  Bean then went on to rig the bottom part of the cave, down to the sump.  Bean, Aidan, Matt and Andy M visited the bottom while Danielle, Rich, Gr ...

Caving: Notts Pot (03-May-2025)

After a 9am briefing meeting, we all made our way to Leck Fell.  The entrance to Notts was found without any fuss, following the directions on the trip description.  Bean and Aidan rigged the entrance series, Left Hand Route and the Lower Streamway. Wayne and Andy M rigged the Centre Route.  Andy M tested the effectiveness of modern ...

Caving: Simpsons Pot (10-Apr-2025)

Through trip with Helen and Andy. Water levels were really low, the duck was almost non-existent. ...

Caving: Eastwater Cavern (01-Apr-2025)

Another evening explore of Eastwater.  Went through the Woggle Press (that we missed last week), then to the Crossroads, turned left and down Dolphin Chimney and Dolphin Pot.  We then headed down towards 13 pots, but we were unsure of the route and the bold step so started to head back.  At the crossroads, we turned left and went thr ...