A visit to the digface in Grolsch Passage. Managed to make about 2 meters progress, removing 22 trays of spoil. The whole passage is really impressive.

Two-nighter into Dweebland (the end of the cave so far). Excellent trip. Flawlessly executed. We let off two smoke bombs (one failed) at the end to see if there's a draught towards Aggen Allwed. There is. Get your crowbars out!

Fred's first rig in the Vercors unmedium. The pendulum was as festive as ever, and worth noting is that we managed to get up that climb in the end (fairly committing) taking us all the way to the bottom.

Excellent cave - easy in all respects (rig and walkin). Martin regained his unfire with a steady lead to the bottom. All bolts overtightened subtracts a star, good photoshooting and muddy fun adds it back.

Nice trip with Paul which regained his interest in caving. A great easy cave.

Tried out my new caving radios which works extremely well on these long vertical pitches.

The Pot 2 attempt - Grosvenor style. Martin lead down to -80 meters. To be continued.

Full on caving. Included a dangerous 25 meter pitch lead in Wellingtons with only a sling and my bolt kit (thank god for that) as protection. Fantastic cave - highly recommendable.

Great initiation trip for the new speleo recruit. Messed up the logistics by forgetting one descender at the training wall back in the hut. We managed nevertheless and bottomed out the main shaft in style. Good effort from James it being his first real vertical cave.

Desperate. Approach was as hard as ever and the amount of ice in the cave was worrying although on the same time ultra festive. Martin fired up a inspirational ice-stal chopping session when we were stopped but a almost complete blockage of ice in the entrace tunnel. Reaching a depth of approximately 100 meters we eventually decided that this was a black helmet danger zone. Huge television sized blocks of broken off ice was scattered around the shaft, and after a quick statistic calculation on when the next bit of ice could be coming down, we decided to blow retreat and hurried out after a pretty full on cold day.

Excellent job to the bottom. The route finding to the last pitch is a bit tricky until you realize you have to gnarl your way through a hole in the roof (upwards) with the festive aid of a spit/stal sling. The squeeze to the beginning of the last pitch is not as bad as it looks - go in feet first, and you can stand up half way (not imidiately obvious). Yoor!

Really easy when you've already done it once (but not all the way to the deck). The approach was definitely the crux walking in thigh/waist deep snow to the cave. A festive day. Good effort from Andrew who hadn't caved for 10 years and was srt'ing on a rather made up and minimal rack.

Long trip with an overnight camp in the "Hard Rock Cafe". The further speed trip to "The Microns" was a seriously burly piece of work. Good effort from M doing the car shuttle on foot both ways; and M+R for the amble lager refreshments in the Hard Rock Cafe; and R for the very inspirering bit of cave leading in the Rock Steady Cruise.

Went up to have a look. Couldn't resist. Went in. Normal way too wet, so I opted for the highlevel dry fossil way which was much longer than I expected and with some pretty nasty (but polished and obvious) squezes. Good training, but cave soloing doesn't feel very clever.

Absolutely superb SRT trip. Beautiful lines and an amazing 40m drop from a overhanging speleothem. Easy and highly recommendable. Approach - 8 seconds from the car. See map

The guys had visited me all the way from Denmark to see Britol Rovers play against Oldham saturday the 21th of February. That in itself was of course pretty big, but having arrived already thursday night we were looking for something to do friday. Read the Trip report and see the photos