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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Entrance Pitch Make Over: Steve Woods, Adele Ward Meeting for an evening trip at the beginning of the week, neither of us think it’s going to be a long trip. The aim was to try and sort out the entrance pitch, which had previously been bolted for the use of ladders. Drill spots selected…. reaching for the …
Fossil Pot: Ian Cummins, Adele Ward (14th October 2017). With Ian feeling rested from his holiday, a date was set for a little nasty of a caving trip. Ian had explained the complexities of sherpa duties, it sounded a ball ache. But Hell will freeze over before I see my friend go down alone! With …
Fossil Pot: Steve Woods, Adele Ward (8 Oct 2017). Fossil Pot has been on the radar for a while. Just about every single one of my friends have been there, so super keen I met Steve in Grassington. A detour to Hucky’s as we had to collect gear. It’s always a pleasure to hear Hucky’s …
Fossil Pot (Underground team): Ian, Denis, Jane, Simon, Duncan Smith (CDG/BPC), (Above ground): Steve Warren, Maud, Steve Woods, Cammy, and Joe Parsons (18 Oct 2014). This dive had been on my mind for several years, with my imagination fired by the sketchy details of an intersection with collapsed mine deads at the lower end of the …
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Fossil Pot: Steve Warren, John Clarke, Chris Smith, Abigail & Gary Rhodes (10 March 2007). After an absence of six years, Fossil Pot has lost none of its charm. The squeezes are still a cause for hesitation, especially for myself; and especially the Pie Muncher which was passed on the proviso that no-one would object …
Fossil Pot: Abby Rhodes, Gary Rhodes (1st Sept 2007). Some time ago we had a trip down Fossil Pot as a club. Good trip, especially with 40ft of pipe to drain a sump. We did that but that’s another tail.. On way out at bottom of the entrance pitch on the opposite side to the …
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