Caving & Exploration (1954-2019)
Fossil for me started with a number of tourist trips followed a few years later with considerable fun via several club projects. The first finding Chris C demonstrating what happens when you attempt to drill out a hole where all the caps haven't done their business. The next finding Joe demonstrating Fossil's uncanny ability to …
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, …
Ian Cummins, Adele, Steve Woods, 26/11/2017. Fossil is a very odd cave - horizontal progress is slowly gained via a variety of arduous up, over and down manoeuvres leading to a fine stream passage that normally does not have much of a stream, but has several tantalising avens that generally sport old ladders or ropes …
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