Category: Caving
Caving and potholing (including SRT – Single Rope Technique) – anything speleological in nature!
One of the blog's authors, Colin (aka Colon), is joint author of the new Cave Diving Group's (CDG) manual for cave diving...
A day with lots of places and things to do....
The beautiful scenery was all getting too much, our eyes were sore, so we decided that a caving trip was due...
Our planned trip to Peak Cavern and Speedwell was cancelled due to rain. What to do for a caving trip in Derbyshire that didn't involve a stream?
The plan for today was to dive in Tucks Rift. The weather forecast that had predicted the dry spell would end on Friday had been wrong, sadly so had the forecast that had predicted the weather front would come across late on Saturday...
After a damp week in Derbyshire Saturday brought some very heavy rain, enough to scupper any distant plans we had of caving; either wet or dry. After a meeting on the Saturday night me, Marcus and Chris agreed to head over to Holme Bank Chert Mine on the edge of Bakewell for some practice and …
After the post on the recent trip to Doom's Retreat Pete asked if any of the photographs Clive took would be available. Clive has kindly agreed to this...
These guys all work with me and we had discussed doing a caving trip together for a while...
In the back end of the Devils Arse show cave (formally known as Peak Cavern) lies Doom’s Retreat. Reached by diving through Ink Sump it has been the site of a great deal of digging effort by several teams of diggers over many years...
