Caving & Exploration (1954-2022)
Out Sleets Beck Pot Club Meet: Derek Hammond, Jack Upsall & Steve Woods (Sunday 14th August '22). It's been a very busy summer, and a while since I'd been on a club meet so this was long overdue. And meets have been really well organised this year, thanks to Phil Ryder our new Social Secretary, …
Leader Adele Ward - Chris Dudman, Geoff Dudman, Kevin Vester. Switched from Smelt Mill Beck Cave due to weather forecast. Photos by Geoff Dudman and Adele Ward.
Leader Adele Ward - Geoff Dudman, Matt Dudman, Lee Smith, Kevin Vester, Andy Brennan (NYMCC), John Cameron (NYMCC), Connor Stokes (NYMCC), Sparky (NYMCC), Flour Loveridge (RRCPC), Pete Talin (RRCPC). Rather wet underground as the excellent photos by Connor show.
Leader Adele Ward - Chris Dudman, Matt Dudman, Fay Hartley, Lee Smith, Pat Sanderson (NYMCC), Connor Stokes (NYMCC), John Cameron (NYMCC). It was too wet underground to take photos, but I caught the cavers on the surface and managed to get a couple - Phil. Plus one of the cavers sunbathing by Adele.
Alum Pot: Leader Fay Hartley - Adele Ward, Lee Smith, Andy Cole, Chris & Geoff Dudman, Steve Woods, Pat Sanderson (NYMCC), & Connor Stokes (NYMCC)
Leif had spent a lot of time sorting this weekend - and what fun it was! With a dryish trip led by Leif into the back of Smallcleugh, it fell to Adele and me to show Mick and Steve G the delights of the wet way from Caplecleugh to Smallcleugh - a favourite of ours …
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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 …
Narrowly avoiding a head first manoeuvre that wouldn’t have turned out so well and climbing out of the end of the t-shaped rift I was joined by the others in the chamber below for a breather, a laugh and a drink of pop and a collective sharing of the fun we’d all equally just had..
Hagg Gill Pot. Nasty ladders, Super Cave. 7 March 2018 Jack, Faye, Denis, Phil, Adele I’ve chatted several times with Faye about getting out on one of her and Jacks mid week jaunts. Excited to have the run down on this little beauty of a cave , friends tell me - the formations are specular. …
Hagg Gill Pot: Jack, Fay, Denis, Phil, Adele (Wednesday 7th March) Spot on with our Window of Opportunity – the Wednesday before, Northern England was covered with disruptive snow, and the day after, the snow returned. Yet on the 7th Langstrothdale looked stunning – white edges to every field and lane, and, by the time …
Wednesday 18th October 2017 Sell Gill Jack, Fay, Gen Lovely, warm walk up to a surprisingly dry entrance. 3 pitches and the somewhat underwhelming “2nd largest chamber in England” according to my copy of PU. (Note for younger readers, PU = Pennine Underground 1965). Noted do-ableness of Goblin in these conditions; then out.
Alum Pot: Adele Ward, Ian Cummins, Fay Hartley, Leif Andrews (21 October 2017). https://youtu.be/BOQlzj3onJY With Pen-y-ghet Pot postponed due to the weather, a quick visit to Alum Pot, before ‘Storm Brian’ battered The Dales.
AKA Juniper Gulp: Ian Cummins, Fay Hartley, Leif Andrews, Adele Ward (11th November 2017). A Club trip to one of Yorkshire’s finest SRT trips were the words Ian told me. Homing in on SRT trips….. “so how big is this pitch mate?” An 8am start from The North East Squad saw us descending on The Penyghent …
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 …