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Trip Reports

A large collection of full trip reports for a variety of caves. To see everything we get up to you need to visit our Log Book or select a year from our Log Book Archive:
2001 : 2002 : 2003 : 2004 : 2005 : 2006 : 2007 : 2008 : 2009 : 2010 : 2011 : 2012 : 2013 : 2014

North / Yorkshire Dales

A

Alum Pot (04/01/03)
Alum Pot (12/01/08)
Aquamole Pot (10/09/11)
Ashberry Windypit (19/03/03)

B

Barbondale Bash (07/07/08)
Barbondale Traverse (Crystal Cave to Bucket on the Head) (20/06/10)
Bar Pot (01/12/07)
Birks Fell Cave (31/05/08)
Birkwith Area (Dismal-Old Ing, Coppice Cave) (10/04/10)
Black Shiver Pot (29/03/03)
Boggarts Roaring Holes (24/08/08)
Boggarts Roaring Holes (07/02/09)
Brown Hill Pot (29/05/09)
Brown Hill Pot (23/04/11)
Bucket On The Head (29/11/08)
Bull Pot (12/09/10)
Bull Pot – very wet! (06/08/11)
Bull Pot and Yordas Cave (06/04/13)
Bull Pot of the Witches (05/01/08)
Bull Pot of the Witches (27/02/13)
Bye George Pot to Peterson Pot (16/08/09)

C

Car Pot (02/03/13)
Cherry Tree Hole (29/12/07)
Christmas Pot (17/04/04)
County Pot (Depot 1.5) (09/12/06)
County Pot (Easter Grotto/Spiral) (08/11/08)
County Pot (Trident wandering) (16/05/09)
County Pot – entering via Wretched Rabbit(13/06/09)
County Pot – then Wretched Rabbit (very wet) (02/04/11)
County Pot to Wretched Rabbit (22/06/13)
County Pot to Wretched Rabbit (12/10/13)
County Pot to Wretched Rabbit via the snug Mancunian Way Extension pitches (28/06/07)
Cow Pot (to Pristine Way?)(15/03/08)
Cow Pot (Aardvark Country in-out) (30/01/10)
Cow Pot (Aardvark Country through to Wretched Rabbit) (30/10/11)
Cow Pot followed by a visit to Bull Pot OTW (18/08/12)
Crackpot Cave (29/12/11)
Crescent Pot (to the duck) (10/07/11)
Crystal Cave and Dog Hole (10/06/06)
Crystal Cave to Bucket on the Head (28/07/12)
Cupcake to Big Meanie (BM to Notts II) (17/03/12)

D

Dalehead Pot (15/04/12)
Darnbrook Pot and Cherry Tree Hole (Upstream/Far North) (14/06/09)
Deaths Head – Big Meanie exchange (14/11/09)
Diccan Pot (snowy adventures) (02/01/10)
Disappointment Pot (29/05/08)
Dow Cave – solo venture up the Caseker Gill extensions (02/01/11)
Dow Cave – Providence Pot (02/10/11)

E

Ease Gill Traverse – Top to Pip (15/06/08)

F

Fairy Holes Cave (Weardale) (05/10/13)
Flood Entrance Pot – exit via winch (25/05/08)
FOUL Pot (21/09/13)

G

Gaping Gill – Far Waters – via Small Mammal / Stile Pot. (29/01/11)
Gaping Gill – our 10th anniversary trip. (Main Shaft, Dihedral, Rat, Bar, Corkys). (19/11/11)
Gillgarth Cave along with Fell Close Caves and Borrins moor Cave (04/06/11)
Gingling Hole (22/08/02)
Grange Rigg Pot (28/09/08)
Growling Hole (22/11/08)

H

Hagg Gill Pot (15/10/11)
Hammer Pot – two versions of the events at Stemple Rift (20/09/09)
Hammer Pot – demon banishing (27/10/12)
Hangman’s Hole (24/05/08)
Hangman’s Hole (22/10/11)
Henslers Pot – (GG winch, so we split up and exited in twos via Marilyn, Bar, Corkys) (??/??/??)
Hunt Pot and Shrapnel Pot (08/06/08)

I

Ireby Fell Cavern – SRT training (11/08/07)
Ireby Fell Cavern – Cripple Creek-Skylight round trip (28/03/09)
Ireby Fell Cavern – to Duke II (with flashbacks to previous adventures) (02/04/10)

J

Jean Pot (melting snow) (08/12/07)
Jean Pot (30/08/09)

K

King Pot (21/04/07)
Knacker Trapper Hole – to the bottom (04/07/08)
Knacker Trapper Hole – to the bottom (27/07/08)
Knacker Trapper Hole – upstream (23/01/10)
Knacker Trapper Hole – an esoteric round trip (01/03/14)
Knock Fell Caverns – amazing? (27/12/12)

L

Lancaster Hole – Chasm Pitch (02/12/06)
Lancaster Hole (27/10/07)
Lancaster Hole – to County pot (23/02/08)
Lancaster Hole – Maracaibo (14/02/09)
Lancaster Hole – to Wretched Rabbit (via Depot 1.5) (09/05/09)
Langcliffe Pot – to Boireau Falls Chamber (01/04/12)
Langstroth Pot (06/10/07)
Langstroth Pot via Hole in the Floor (07/12/13)
Large Pot (Colossus) (13/10/07)
Large Pot (Colossus) (09/06/12)
Large Pot – New Rift Pot (21/02/09)
Link Pot to Peterson Pot (20/11/10)
Long Churn Cave – novice SRT (14/04/07)
Long Churn Cave (09/02/08)
Long Drop Cave (18/08/07)

M

Marble Steps Pot (11/01/03)
Marble Steps Pot (01/03/08)
Marble Steps Pot – poking around on Wet and Sidewinder routes (08/12/13)
Meregill Hole (22/03/03)
Meregill Hole (17/02/08)
Mistral Hole and Javelin Hole (04/07/09)
Mistral Hole (21/07/07)
Mistral Hole – solo (14/09/08)
Mongo Gill Hole (17/06/06)
Mossdale Caverns – Kneewrecker / Far/Dull North (04/09/10)

N

Newby Moss Pot (01/11/07)
New Goyden Pot (13/09/03)
Notts II – Curry Inlet and Inlet 5 (13/09/08)
Notts II – and Voldemort Hole (07/08/10)
Notts II – Curry Inlet (17/11/07)
Notts II – Inlet 5 extensions (19/01/08)
Notts II – easy trip (13/09/08)
Notts II – Cupcake (not quite) (14/12/11)
November Hole + Borrins and Upper Borrins Moor Cave (25/07/06)

O

Out Sleets Beck Pot (22/02/03)

P

Pay Sank (04/06/12)
Penyghent Pot – to the downstream sump (03/05/09)
Peterson Pot to Mistral Hole (20/06/09)
Peterson Pot to Mistral Hole (12/11/05)
Pikedaw Calamine Caverns (15/06/13)
Pippikin Pot to Bye George Pot
Providence Pot – Dow Cave (29/12/08)
Providence Pot – Dow Cave (02/01/09)

Q

Quaking Pot – recce to The Crux (28/11/10)
Quaking Pot – quick visit (20/05/06)

R

Rat Hole (06/12/08)
Rift Pot (old) (09/02/08)
Roaring Hole (01/09/07)
Robinson’s Pot (09/06/07)
Rowten Pot – Valley Entrance (free-diving) (21/04/12)
Rowten Pot – cave and pot (08/07/06)
Rumbling Hole – Dead Bobbin Series (28/11/07)
Runscar and Scar Top Try, Caving (27/05/07)

S

Selside – Long Churn, Wilsons, November (01/07/06)
Sleets Gill Cave (15/05/08)
Small Mammal Pot – GG (01/04/06)
Spectacle Pot (21/03/09)
Stream Passage Pot to Corkys (via Whitsun Series) (25/05/13)
Swan Dike Pot – quick recce (28/02/04)
Swan Dike Pot – beyond The Trick (17/07/10)
Swindon Hole to Boundary Pot (16/07/13)

T

Tatham Wife Hole (North Branch Inlet) (16/03/13)
Trapdoor Pot (03/05/08)
Turbary Pot (25/04/06)

U (no entries yet)
V

Valley Entrance (12/04/08)
Valley Entrance (free dive practice) (27/06/09)
Vesper Pot (25/01/08)

W

Washfold Pot (07/04/07)
White Scar Cave – to the upstream sump (12/09/09)
Windypits – Ashberry 1 and 2, Noddle End Windypit (28/12/11)
Witches II Cave (Shuttleworth Pot) (21/08/11)
Wretched Rabbit (25/08/07)

X (no entries yet)
Y

Yockenthwaite Pot (31/03/07)
Yockenthwaite Pot (inc. Fossil Rift) (01/12/13)
Yordas Pot (06/09/08)

Z (no entries yet)

Other Areas
Peak District

Alderley Edge (Wood and West Mines) (11/01/09)
Bagshawe Cavern (25/11/10)
Titan to JH (12/10/03)
Titan to Peak Cavern (11/01/09)

Wales (north and south plus Forest of Dean

Agen Allwedd – Grand Circle and Iles Inlet (11/02/12)
Croesor Rhosydd through trip (19/10/08)
Dan Yr Ogof – round trip (30/09/12)
Daren Cilau – to the Antlers and Time Machine (23/02/02)
Daren Cilau – to the Antlers (19/07/12)
Daren Cilau – Hardrock Cafe (exit via Cwnc). Plus OFD I – Waterfall Series (15/03/14)
Ogof Draenen (War of the Worlds). Plus Ogof Craig a Ffynnon (12/03/10)
Ogof Llyn Parc – winch and round trip (14/08/10)
Little Neath River Cave – Along with Bridge Cave, Town Drain, White Lady.. (22/06/14)
Ogof Ffynnon Ddu II – A very wet Top-Cwm Dwr (20/05/02)
Ogof Ffynnon Ddu II – Towards The Crevasse (25/10/03)
Ogof Ffynnon Ddu I – round trip. (18/07/09)
Ogof Ffynnon Ddu I to II – via Top Waterfall. (29/09/12)
Ogof Ffynnon Ddu II – pottering. Plus Ogof Craig a Ffynnon (11/03/11)
Otter Hole (between tide trip) (19/04/08)

Misc (Mendip, Devon, Scotland, foreign etc)

Applecross caving weekend:Alternate view (18/05/12)
Borneo / Gunnung Mulu National Park (**/09/10)
Dachstein expedition (12/08/10)
Dachstein expedition (return of the misery) (**/08/11)
Devon caving – Afton Red Rift, Bakers Pit, Dog Hole and Pridhamsleigh (26/03/13)
Eastwater Cavern (25/03/13)
Felix Trombe (Trou Mile to Pene Blanque) (30/07/12)
Gouffre Berger (**/07/03)
Greater Nenthead Traverse – Caplecleugh to Nentsberry Haggs (28/05/11)
Matienzo expedition 2013 (**/07/13)
Mulu Pinnacles and a few show-caves (25/12/13)
Priddy Green Sink to Swildons Hole (23/03/13)
Skotino Cave (12/08/07)
Slovenia – a caving holiday (**/05/09)
Upper Flood Swallet – Neverland (24/03/13)

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