Caving - Featured Photos

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

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Caving: St Cuthberts (17-Sep-2020)

Pulpit Pitch, lower mud hall, rocky boulder, chockstone rift, coral chamber, coral squeeze, fracture rift, boulder chamber, upper traverse, high chamber, catgut, RWE, struggle passage, plantation, stal pitch, dining room, cerberus series, everest, boulder chamber, pillar chamber, mud hall, wire rift. ...

Caving: St Cuthberts (06-Aug-2020)

Wire rift, mud hall, pillar chamber, boulder chamber, strike passage, railway tunnel, rabbit warren, plantation, gour hall, sump 1. Back out via main stream, stal pitch, bypass passage, water chute, mud hall and wire rift. ...

Caving: St Cuthberts (23-Jul-2020)

Evening trip: Wire rift, lower mud hall, rocky boulder, chockstone rift, coral chamber, coral squeeze, fracture rift, boulder chamber, upper traverse, hareem, railway tunnel, rabbit warren, dining room, cerberus series, lake chamber, everest, boulder chamber, crystals, lower mud hall and out via wire rift. ...

Caving: Dan-Yr-Ogof (17-Jul-2020)

First proper caving trip post covid-19 lockdown. The showcave was still closed. Nice to be back underground on a decent trip. Did the round trip plus a loop up to the risings. ...

Caving: Swildons Hole (04-Jul-2020)

First Covid-19 post lockdown trip with the kids. Short dry way in, to just beyond the ladder pitch, out via the wet way. ...

Caving: St Cuthberts (01-Mar-2020)

Rescue of party that were trapped beyond the entrace rift. Fire brigade pumped out enough water until we were able to get in. ...

Caving: St Cuthberts (18-Feb-2020)

Wire rift, mud hall, pillar, boulder chamber, upper traverse, high chamber, september chamber, catgut, RWE, RW, plantation, gour hall. Then back out via plantation, RW, railway tunnel, strike passage, curtains, boulder chamber, pillar, mud hall and wire rift. ...

Caving: St Cuthberts (17-Feb-2020)

An explore around Rocky Boulder and Coral Chamber. Wire rift, mud hall, lower mud hall, rocky boulder. Then back to mud hall and pillar chamber to boulder chamber then quarry corner. Abseiled down the rescue route to chockstone rift. Then Coral chamber, coral squeeze, fracture rift and back to boulder chamber and out. ...

Caving: Swildons Hole (09-Feb-2020)

Avoiding the storm by heading underground. Long dry way in, short dry way out. ...

Caving: St Cuthberts (08-Feb-2020)

Wire rift, mud hall, pillar chamber, boulder chamber, upper traverse, harem passage, railway tunnel, fingers, rabbit warren, plantation, gours, sump 1. Back out via stal pitch, dining room, cerberus series, stafford boulder problem, everest passage, curtain chamber, boulder chamber, pillar chamber, mud hall and wire rift. ...

Caving: St Cuthberts (30-Jan-2020)

Wire rift, mud hall, water chute, bypass passage, sentry passage, upper traverse, harem passage, fingers traverse, everest, lake chamber, cerberus series, dining room, stal pitch, plantation junction, rabbit warren, railway tunnel, strike passage, boulder chamber, pillar chamber, mud hall, wire rift and out. ...

Caving: Dan-Yr-Ogof (24-Jan-2020)

Evening round trip to make the most of the low water levels. ...

Caving: St Cuthberts (23-Jan-2020)

Wire rift, mud hall, pillar chamber, boulder chamber, everest, dining room, rabbit warren, struggle passage, plantation junction, underneath the gours, sump 1, sump 2. Back to sump 1, over the top of the gours, plantation junction, rabbit warren, railway tunnel, harem passage, upper traverse, boulder chamber, pillar chamber, mud hall and wire rift. ...

Caving: Swildons Hole (09-Jan-2020)

Short trip to the Mud Sump then to Sump 1 and back out again. Reasonably high water levels. ...

Caving: St Cuthberts (28-Nov-2019)

Evening trip with Matt & Mandy: Wire rift, mud hall, pillar chamber, boulder chamber, strike passage, railway tunnel, rabbit warren, RWE, catgut, september chamber, illusion chamber, cone chamber, september boulder ruckle, high chamber, upper traverse chamber, sentry passage, bypass passage, water chute, lower mud hall, mud hall, wire rift ...