Seventy Three Series: Steve Woods & Johnny Roe (19th June 2018). Pics by Johnny Roe.
FCCC Presidents’ Meet by Johnny Roe
Robinson’s Pot by Elise Ward
Robinsons Pot (2nd June 2018). Club Trip - Andy Cole, Ian Cummins, Nigel Easton, Adele Ward, Elise Ward, Peter Whitiker, Steve Woods. Pub Trip - Chris Camm, Joe Parsons. I don’t know about anyone else who caves but the plan in my head is; wakeup, cave, pub, and basically nothing else that happens I am …
The F&C Caving Club by Johnny Roe
Seventy Three Series: Chris Camm, Iain Geldard, Johnny Roe (12th May 2018). Pics by Johnny Roe.
Fossil Pot by Peter Whitaker
Steve Woods & Peter Whitaker, (16 Feb 2018). I had always heard tales of caving in the coldest depths of winter. When I first went a CPC club caving trip on 01st January 1995, my bootlaces froze, so did my belay belt, as they were called then. The trip was Great Douk in Chapel-le Dale, …
Eldon Hole by Denis Bushell
Eldon Hole: Denis, Jack, Fay and Vic (26th November 2017). Snowy, misty, dull, wet morning in Perry Vale Derbyshire. Fay and I met Jack and Vic at the Wanted Inn. Quick recce of trip plan and then off to Sweetknowle house to get changed. Short walk up to pot with entrance rift shaft festooned with in …
Marathon Obsession (Mossdale Caverns) by Simon Beck
Great Whernside appeared to hover in the twilight that evening. A pleasant approach it was, but one preferably done after as opposed to before. The sheep obviously bedding down for the night scattered as I approached, the few that remained were like curious gargoyles atop the Scar. It was pitch black as I organised things better done in the daylight. Strange sounds are carried to the Scar by night, reflections of the world left behind..
Bar Pot by Simon Beck
Bar Pot: Simon Beck, Ian Cummins, Fay Hartley, Dennis Bushell, Leif Andrews, Adele Ward (January ‘17). Over the last half decade or so I've probably only attended a small handful of official club related meets. I was reminded of this today as the experience felt rather alien and I seriously racked my brain to remember …
Sunset Hole by Nigel Easton
Sunset Hole: Jack Upsall, Nigel Easton & Phil Parker (May ‘17 / Sat Club Meet). And then there were three. After meeting Jack in Inglesport the plan was to meet Phil in the layby past the Hill Inn. Umm problem number one, there were cars everywhere as we encountered the three peaks Pure Challenge. Once …
Goat Inlet & Straw Chamber by Simon Beck
Langstroth Pot: Simon Beck, Ian Cummins (Spring 2016). The photos below were taken over the course of two trips during the spring of 2016. The first of these, a trip to photograph the beautifully well decorated inlet leading to straw chamber was undertaken rather impulsively one evening during very dry conditions. The inlet leading to …
White Keld: The Beginning by Martyn Soliman
White Keld: Martyn Soliman and Graham Huck (1997-2001). Recently for their 250th edition Descent published an article by Emma Wharton about the recent attempts being made to push White Keld towards Mossdale Caverns and Langcliffe Pot. The first divers to enter and push White Keld were White Rose members Martyn Soliman and Graham Huck. Here …
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