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Dive 🤿


Aakersberget
KU / 15m / JR FW AN TR HW / ⭐🎬Video

Taj Mahal Cenote
TU / 15m / FW / 💯🔥🌟📷Photo

Tulamben
IN / 15m / FW /

Tulamben
IN / 30m / FW /

Tulamben
IN / 25m / FW /

Tulamben
IN / 32m / FW /
Deep dive

Lovina Beach
IN / 15m / FW /
Night dive

Menjangan
IN / 15m / HW /

Menjangan
IN / 18m / HW /

Lovina Reef
IN / 12m / HW /

Lovina Reef
IN / 12m / HW /

Surf 🏄


Moen
SJ / 1h / FW /
Nice to get out. Dad and Fred on shore admirering my shenanigans.

Lynaes kite
SJ / 2h / SG /
Nice session with Soeren

Lynaes
SJ / 2h / SG /
Morning session

Landerslev
SJ / 1h / SG /

Kitesnow Excercise
JL / 1h / solo /

Ice kite
JL / 1h / solo /

Struer
JL / 1h / solo / ⭐💯
Snow kite - awesome

Cold Hawaii
JL / 2h / solo / 💪💯⭐
At last I felt ready to go to the north sea. Amazing ride.

Klovvig
JL / 2h / solo / ⭐
Superb and brilliant flat water spot discovered

Wave session
JL / 2h / solo / ⭐

Ejsing
JL / 2h / solo /

Quikcy
JL / 1h / solo /

Off shore
JL / 1h / solo / 💀
In the search for pancake flat water I went out in pure off shore wind at a place where the water gets deep quickly and in really cold water (only just finished April). Eventually I fell over and could get the kite back up in time before the water was getting me really cold. I decided to quickly emergency release the kite (which wasn't trivial) and swim to shore. The kite took off on its own on the water. I drove to the nearest harbour and chartered a boat to go out and rescue the kite. Quite an epic afternoon.

Lundoe
JL / 1h / solo /

Ejsing
JL / 1h / solo / ⭐
16m2 kite. Old school

Paraglider 🪂


Lindtorp
JL / 1h / PP / ⭐
Just as I thought I was getting comfortable with it all Allan phone me up with a last chance before going back to CPH to try towing. I said yes and got towed up to 300 meters height and then released my thingy and had a mad mad flight down to earth. It was absolutely mental and I was just screaming and giggling the whole way down. Awesome kick!

Toftum
JL / 4h / PP / ⭐
Brilliant session with lots of top landing and take offs. Managed to stay from the beach the whole time and was generally pretty much comfortable with everything. Great fun.

Bovbjerg Fyr
JL / 4h / PP /
Another great session at Bovbjerg. This time top starting and just enough wind to keep on hanging. It required care with the flying and I ended up on the beach a few times. Biggest tick was a couple of 100% self supported take-offs from a remoter spot and flying back to the others gaining height. Super satisfying.

Bovbjerg
JL / 4h / PP / ⭐
Awesome session learning to beach start. Quite tricky and also a notch up on the danger scale. Really good fun though flying low over the sand dunes and taking off and landing constantly. Also went with PP; <7> flying all over to the lighthouse which was a great trip.

Toftum
JL / 1h / PP / ⭐💯
The tick is in the bag! Ever since the first session in Toftum this place remained number one on the ticklist. Great session feeling really in control all the time. The new school wing is really comfortable and launches and handles really smooth. Did 3 succesfull top landings and 2 beach landings. The wind picked up in the end making the last run a bit epic.

Hamborg
JL / 1h / PP / ⭐
Fully self supported with Poul on the ground obviously. Had some crash landings which I learned a lot from. Landed with my bum on the top on the slope (controlled) and in a fence (not controled).

Venø
JL / 2h / PP / 🌟
4 runs at Venø with last run unsupported. Sideways winds. Crossed brake launch.

Toftum
JL / 4h / PP /
Ground control. Crossed brake launch in stronger wind. Hard work.

Bovbjerg
JL / 2h / PP / ⭐
3 runs at Bovbjerg. Forward launch.

Toftum
JL / 5h / PP / ✨
Ground control. Crossed brake launch technique.

Bovbjerg Fyr
JL / 3h / PP / ⭐
Joined the yearly parafun meet. Awesome to be back in the air. Happy I hadn't forgotten. Brilliant to be back with the club.

Via Ferrata 🔗


Liaucous VF
AR / 500m / lead AX / ⭐
It was so good we had to do it twice

Liaucous VF
AR / 500m / lead AX / ⭐
Excellent Via Ferrata in Gorges du Tarn

Bastille VF
GR / 400m / lead AX / ⭐🌤💪📷Photo
Axel on the Grenoble via ferata. 9 years old. At the limit. The yoor made it happen.

Bastille VF
GR / 200m / solo / ✨📚Report
Lunch time climb. With skateboard.

Mountains 🏔


Mont Blanc TD
CH / 4000m / SF / 🥀💪
Excellent trip to Mont Blanc with Mark, Sean and Mark. Got to 4000 something and returned.

Matterhorn TD
CC / 4000m / SF FW UH / 📚Report
Successfull ascent.

Aconcagua TD
MZ / 6000m / SF FW / 🥀🌬💪📚Report
900 meters from the top.

Ice climbs 🧊


Monday Money W4
CO / 220m / alt SF / 🥀🦎 📷Photo
Picked one of the big ones. Long walk in and an absolutely knackering climb up to the base of the ice fall. We started the first pitch but were drained after the walk and hill climb. We bailed.

Valmiana W3
CO / 200m / alt SF / 🌟 📷Photo
Good conditions throughout. Had the route to ourselves.

Cascade Lillaz W3
CO / 200m / alt SF /

Ozzimosis W4
RU / 60ft / lead FZ SF /

Fabrikkfossen W3
RU / 60ft / sec FZ SF /

Rjukanfossen W4
RU / 60ft / lead FZ SF / ⭐💯
Frits fell in the lake on the way in.

De kaller meg fjaard M7
RU / 60ft / lead TW / 📷Photo

Bullen W3
RU / 60ft / lead FZ SF /

Gaustaspoekelse W4
RU / 60ft / lead FZ SF /

Nordkroken W5
GB / 60ft / sec JC AK / 🌟

The Undertaker W5+
GB / 60ft / sec JC AK / ⭐💯📚Report

Birthmaker W4+
RU / 50m / sec JC / ⭐
John in his element. Linking two lines on Gausta making this one.

Unnamed W4
RU / 50m / lead JC /

Gaustatoppfossen W4
RU / 50m / alt JC / 📷Photo

Trappfoss W4
RU / 200m / alt JC /

I Just Love a Nice Stein Pull! M6+
RU / 60ft / sec JC / 💪⭐

The Undertaker W5+
GB / 60ft / sec JC / 🔥💪📚Report
Absolute beauty. Climbed with head torches at night.

Tjonstadbergfossen W4
RU / 180m / alt SF / 🌟

Swiss Army W4
RU / 50m / lead SF / 🌟

Camillas Foss W4
RU / 200m / sec SF / ✨

To menn og et foster W4
RU / 90m / alt SF /
Sean dropped 4 of my ice screws on the route! Even so, we had a great time.

Bullen W4
RU / 20m / sec SF / ✨

Rjukanfossen W4
RU / 80m / lead KR JC / ⭐💯
Brilliant route. Lovely walk in, route and walk out.

Bullen W3
RU / 30m / lead KR /

De kaller meg fjaard M6
RU / 60ft / top JC / ⭐

Sabotoerfossen W4
RU / 80m / lead KR / 🥀
Half of the climb.

Unknown W2
RU / 60ft / lead KR /

Swiss Army W4
RU / 100m / lead KR / 🌟

Anakje W3
RU / 60ft / alt FZ / 🌟
Introduction climb for Frits. The ice was the best I have climbed so far. One blow and the pick was placed.

Blindtarmen W4
RU / 60ft / lead FZ /
Good ice all the way. Highlight of the weekend. I found the second pitch pretty steep and sustained. Top belay was in-situ slings with maillon around a block (as opposed to the guidebook bolted belay) and the half-way belay and abseil point was to in-situ bala-threads without maillon. The guidebook description is odd: we walked up easy slope to the what we would describe as the first pitch. Did then a full rope length (50m) on quite steep ice and then a second 40m to the top with some bridging out of the left rock wall.

Fabrikkfossen W3
RU / 300m / lead FZ /
Nice long and easy for the grade I thought. Abseil on trees all the way down on the right facing the waterfall. Worked fine on a 50m rope.

Gaustaspoekelse W4
RU / 60ft / lead FZ /

Ozzimosis W4
RU / 30m / lead FZ /

Patri W4
CO / 100m / alt PW / 🥀
Everything I hate about ice climbing in the alps. Long walk-ins, queues at the routes and unpredicatable avalanche conditions. We bailed mid-way due to disagreements on commitments.

Acherote W3
CO / 60m / alt PW / 🥀

Lillaz W3
CO / 200m / alt PW /
Better day than the day before. Finished with festive snowball attack on Richard and Tim.


Bjornstadsbekken W4
LH / 200m / alt PW / 🥀💯
A stunning line in perfect condtions. For some reason Paul did not want to finish the complete climb

Lillehammer W3
LH / 20m / alt PW /

Oppdal W3
LH / 20m / alt PW /

Agnesberg W4
GB / 20m / lead AK /
Evening roadside ice.

Ozzimosis W4
RU / 60ft / lead /

Sabotoerfossen W5
RU / 200m / lead AK /

Verdens Ende W5
RU / 20m / alt AK / 💯

Vermorkfossen W5
RU / 60m / lead AK / ⭐

Vermork Bridge West W5
RU / 60m / lead AK /

Vermork East W4
RU / 120m / alt SF / ⭐
Super hard finish to a great weekend.

Kaminfossen W4
RU / 120m / alt SF / ⭐
Excellent lead from Sean. Proper outing.

Bullen W3
RU / 50m / lead SF /
Sean kicked off the weekend of ice with a steady good lead up the right hand gully. Ice wet but good ice

Broken Pillar W5
RU / 15m / lead SF / 💪
Just brilliant. Precarious climbing up the free hangin pillar. A peak of my sport ice climbing career

Topp W5
RU / 50m / lead SF / 🔥📷Photo

Unknown W5
RU / 50m / lead SF /
Easy lead, steep but with steps all the way.

Julevask W2
RU / 50m / sec SF / 📷Photo
Good route with a steady flow for the grade

Ozzimosis W4
RU / 50m / lead SF / ⭐📷Photo
Ticked this awesome classic of the crag. Great climbing all the way

Fyrstikka W5
RU / 50m / lead SF / ⭐📷Photo
My first WI5! intimedating looking from below but the wall training had me totally fired up for this sort of job. Super route.

Jomfrua W4
RU / 50m / sec SF / ⭐📷Photo
First WI4 lead from Sean. Inspiring lead from the old hatter.

JG Climb W3
LH / 80m / alt JG / 🌟 📷Photo

Gaustaspoekelse W4
RU / 60ft / alt PW /

Jomfrua W4
RU / 60ft / alt TW PW /

Unnamed W4
RU / 60ft / alt TW PW /

Kjoekkentrappa W4
RU / 60ft / alt TW PW /

Bullen W3
RU / 60ft / lead PW TW / 📷Photo

Anakje W3
RU / 60ft / alt TW PW /

Minidisken W4
RU / 60ft / alt TW PW /

Klassisk 4 W4
RU / 60ft / alt TW PW /

Skrueis W3
RU / 60ft / alt TW PW /

Aarsdagen W3
RU / 60ft / alt TW PW /

Pisse Froide W4
LG / 150m / lead TW PW / ⭐📷Photo
Great route climbed with my best friends

Pylone Right W3
LG / 70m / lead PW TW / ✨
Managed to squeeze an ice climb out of a visiting German friend. We didn't do much but it was worth it.

La Colere du Ciel W3
LG / 1000ft / alt TW PW / ⭐
Excellent route. Super festive glissade down to the valley afterwards.

Symphonie d'automne W4
LG / 120m / alt TW PW / 💯📷Photo
The classic of the crag. Excellent snowblade descent afterwards.

Stalactus W4
LG / 50m / alt TW PW /

Caturgeas W5
LG / 600m / sec SF / 🔥💯⭐💪
600 meters of pure ice! We ticked all of it although it took us 15 hours! (and then 3 hours to get down). Quite a day out.

Chizarton W3
LG / 20m / lead JA / ✨
Initiation ice climb for James. He did very well. The finishing top is quite unpleasant.

Chizarton W3
LG / 20m / lead CW / ✨
Lots of fresh snow made the ice climbing less pure. Still a good initiation climb for Celine who did very well.

Version Originale W3
LG / 25m / sec PE /
Climbed with Pete from the internet. Meeting him was a fun story. Hooked up prior to Facebook and all that - internet was more a forum for nerds (like me). We met at a bar in BourgdOissan and Pete was a travelling ice climber just like I was at my trips to Chamonix before I moved to Grenoble. So he was carrying _all_ his gear and was fairly random in general. After we had climbed he kept sticking to me and came to my flat at Valentines day walking up the stairs in ski boots. As I was courtisating Celine at the time (we had just met) I was a bit in a dilemma inviting him in. The dilemma was a lot of fun.

Sans Issue W5
LG / 50m / lead PE / ⭐
Excellent route visible from the valley below. I found this dude who was keen to climb and it worked out nicely.

Le Voile du Chizarton W4
LG / 30m / top / ⭐
Self toproped because I'm such a sad lonely git down here in France. Excellent stuff though - did it four times for some proper forearm training. Selftoproping worked really well with the Petzl Traction. Ice conditions are *superb* this year.

Les Larmes du Chaos W4
LG / 90m / PW TW alt / ⭐
Very atmospheric climb. Good bit of spin drift on the second pitch steep (85 degress) and quite remote.

La Grotte W3
LG / / sec TW PW / 🌤⭐
Superb settings. Full sunshine perfect ice.

Pylone Left W4
LG / 70m / alt TW PW / ⭐
Less ice than two weeks ago (more delicate) but colder (better ice).

Pylone Right W3
LG / 70m / sec / 🌟
First ice climb in LG. Excellent stuff.

Central Gully W3
LD / 200m / alt TW / ⭐🔥📚Report
My first proper iceclimb. Good stuff although a bit thin and delicate at places. Released a huge rock which thundered down the gully which was packed with 4-5 other teams. Not good! Nobody got hurt luckily.

Juvsojla W6
RU / 50m / WISH / 🔘
Straight 50m pillar

Blocs 👊


Liten og Full f6b
GB / 8m / solo / 🌟

Ockero
GB / / LP KR /

SS Sloper f6c+
KJ / 10m / LA / ⭐🎬Video

Marie Rose f6c
FB / 8m / solo FZ JG LP LW / ⭐

To Gode Juggar 6b
KJ / 8m / LA FZ / 🎬Video

Mr Magnet 6b
KJ / 8m / LA FZ / 🎬Video

Hajfinna 6b
KJ / 8m / LA FZ / 🎬Video

Vaxelstrom f6c
GB / 8m / solo /

Langle Ben f6c
FB / 8m / solo JG LP LW / ⭐

Lots of blocs f6a
FB / 8m / lead JR /

Caves 🪖


Jingling Pot
YS / 2h / TW AX / 🌟🎬Video

Sell Gill Hole
YS / 2h / TW AX / ✨☔
Axels first visit to the Yorkshire caves

Hunters Hole
MD / 1h / TW AX / 🌟
Axels first SRT trip

Swildons Hole
MD / 1h / FW AX EW / ✨
We got to the down climbs.

Goatchurh Cavern
MD / 2h / FW AX EW / ⭐
Axel and Elias did the drainpipe.

Goatchurh Cavern
MD / 2h / PW AX EW / ⭐

Agen Allwedd
LL / 11h / TW MB / ⭐
Excellent digging trip to dig 9. Also saw the Corkscrew Chamber which was found the day before.

Agen Allwedd
LL / 14h / MB RS / ⭐
13 hours spankotronic. With John Stevens

Agen Allwedd
LL / 8h / MB / ⭐
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.

Agen Allwedd
LL / 11h / RS MB / ⭐
Continuing the dig. Excellent burly trip. I enjoyed being at the sharp end much more this time. We've hit a boulder section.

Agen Allwedd
LL / 12h / MB / ⭐
Digging trip towards Daren. Excellent team effort hard work but good fun. Digging is not for the claustrophic amongst us.

Maskhill Mine
PD / 7h / TW RS MB / ⭐💀
Brilliant rig. World class. The subsequent connection was an ultra burly bit of caving. I was particularly traumatised by the gravel-stream squeeze that nearly caught me on the return. Next time I will remember to turn my head the right way. Good effort from Martin leading this bit and not drowning while reversing in the sump. Double black helmet.

Ogof y Daren Cilau
LL / 22h / RS MB AW FW / ⭐📚Report
Highlights: sucessfull use of heyphone wading through bonzai streamway pushing to Aquenos Choke. Exit series felt hard.

Ogof y Daren Cilau
LL / 45h / RS MB / ⭐
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!

Ogof y Daren Cilau
LL / 32h / TW MB RS PW / ⭐
Trip to the restaurant of the end of the universe

Scialet de la Chique
VC / 3h / FW /
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.

Scialet de la Chique
VC / 3h / MB / 🌟
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.

Scialet du Pot de Loup
VC / 3h / PW / 🧭Topo
Nice trip with Paul which regained his interest in caving. A great easy cave.

Scialet du Pot 2
VC / 1h / MB TW / ⭐🥀
The Pot 2 attempt - Grosvenor style. Martin lead down to -80 meters. To be continued.

Scialet de Malaterre
VC / 1h / MB PW TW / 🧭Topo
Tried out my new caving radios which works extremely well on these long vertical pitches.

Scialet A2
VC / 5h / MB / ⭐📷Photo🧭Topo
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.

Scialet de Malaterre
VC / 4h / JA / 🧭Topo
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.

Glaciere d'Autrans
VC / 4h / MB / ⭐🧭Topo
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 an inspirational ice-stal-chopping session as we were stopped but an 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 horn and hurried out after exhaustive cold caving session.

Scialet des Joufflus
VC / 4h / MB / 🧭Topo
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!

Scialet des Joufflus
VC / 3h / AW / 🧭Topo
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.

Ogof y Daren Cilau
LL / 28h / MB RS TW JT / ⭐⭐📚Report
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 Martin doing the car shuttle on foot both ways and for the amble lager refreshments in the Hard Rock Cafe and Royston for the very inspirering bit of cave leading in the Rock Steady Cruise.

Grotte de Bournilllon
VC / 2h / /
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.

Trou du Diable
VC / 1h / CW / 🧭Topo
Solo with ground support (making tea).

Gaping Gill
YS / 3h / TW MB RS / ⭐🔥💯📚Report
Lateral Shaft. Superb rig avoiding most of the water of the main shaft. Mindblowing

Gaping Gill
YS / 3h / TW MB RS JT / ⭐💀
Main Shaft. Wild decent. Although the water level was low we ended up right in the end waterfall which is serious stuff and very scary but excellent adrenalin fun at the same time. The tick is home!

Rowten Pot
YS / 3h / TW RS MB /
Excellent sporty rig.

Ogof y Daren Cilau
LL / 7h / MB RS /
Fantastic trip. Made it to the Bonsai Streamway and back.

Ogof Ffynnon Ddu
LL / 6h / MB RS /
A job needed to be finished. We wanted to finish yesterdays objective of getting to Smiths Armery but the area was in flood now and we made it past the traverses into OFD3 and reached the roaring streamway which was fantastic to watch but a certain deathtrap to enter. Great trip

Ogof Ffynnon Ddu
LL / 6h / DG RS MB /
We did an unplanned round trip due to some tricky navigation in the Shambles. On one of the many tricky climbs Tom lobbed of and fell around three meters but luckily landed on his feet and not on one of the sharp boulders. He sprained his angle badly and we abandoned the trip and got out safely.

Grotte Gournier
VC / 1h / JR /
Jesper's first caving experience. Another team was already in there which unfortunately took the edge of the scaryness factor and it was really plain sailing. Still enjoyable.

Grotte Gournier
VC / 4h / WW /
As festive as caving gets. This huge and relatively easy cave is guarded by a big lake which we crossed in my new rubber dinghy. Seriously festive approach. Followed by a 6 meter steep climb directly from the mooring spot and then a 30 meter high leve traverse with some fairly serious exposure. Great cave.

Scialet de Pot de Loup
VC / 4h / DS /
Good SRT initiation trip for David. We went down the 40 meter pitch and then up again. Got through most of the SRT curriculum including a helping hand from above once or twice. It was raining heavily the whole day but the cave stayed dry.

Trou de Glaz
CR / 1h / DS /
Went back for a further exploration. Annabel announced her disgust of the un-rock but David is keen on more. This cave is massive. Over 50 kilometers of known passageway with numerous through trips under Dent de Crolles. The mountain is basically completely hollow and will be the focus of activity in the near future. As with all Grenoblois speleoaction it requires a fully equipped SRT team to explore.

Trou de Glaz
CR / 20m / MB CW /
Walked up the Dent de Crolles. Nipped in to a huge cavity with our c-rack. Massive draft coming out of the cave. Will be back for further exploration.

Scialet de Pot de Loup
VC / 3h / MB / 🧭Topo
Absolutely superb SRT trip. Beautiful lines and an amazing 40m drop from an overhanging speleothem. Easy and highly recommendable. Approach - 8 seconds from the car.

Glaciere d'Autrans
VC / 9h / MB / ⭐🎬Video
Long day out. 13 hours including the walk. We got back to Grenoble at 4am in the morning. See map

Trou de Diable
VC / 1h / MB / 🧭Topo
Beautiful walk-in - quite long. Descended amazing looking shaft (140 meters straight!). 10 meter down bolt ripped. Mission aborted. Glad to be alive. See map

Scialet des Joufflus
VC / 3h / MB / 🧭Topo
Beautiful cave - lots of little lakes and excellent formations. Perfect rig as well. See map

Glaciere de Carri
VC / 7h / MB / ⭐💀
Desperate trip. Got back up to the surface at 12'o'clock at night after a long day in the darkness. Our friends in Grenoble was getting well worried and had started phoning the local police etc. Luckily they sensibly held back any rescue attempts as we were perfectly fine. Glaciere de Scary!

Scialet de Fee Anglaise
VC / 4h / MB / 🧭Topo
Excellent cave ends in a big lake which goes of in the distance. Next time we'll bring a boat and explore further. This time we both put the double amount of clothes on and was relatively warm. See map

Scialet de Malaterre
VC / 6h / MB / ⭐🧭Topo
Massive cave shaft - starts with a 120 meter (360ft) drop of a bridge - straight down in to the void. Desperate trip - quite wet and extremely cold. See map

Manor Farm Swallet
MD / 4h / DG MB /
I decided to postpone the UK underground retirement for one more trip - I couldn't say no to a trip down Manor Farm with DG and MB. I wasn't disappointed. Dave now goes under the nickname 'Mr. President' (president for the HPCC) and I had the great pleasure of pushing through some really dodgy loose bouldery bits in the far end which was rewarded with a huge chamber which almost certainly had some further continuation. Dave and Martin unfortunately didn't reach this glorious chamber as they reckoned the boulder bits were too unstable.

Ogof y Daren Cilau
LL / 6h / FW / ⭐
Did it! RR went with us for 10 meters and then decided to back out after a worm attacked her in the entrance. We'd seriously misproportioned the whole cave - the entrance crawl and chambers beyond was much bigger than expected. We forgot the map which ment we couldn't make it further than the Great Chamber

Thrupe Lane Swallet
MD / 4h / FW DG TW /
Did the full through trip. A great evening out with TW and DG - possible the last for a long time now that Fred is going back to Denmark and Mathias is going bigger voids in Grenoble.

Goatchurch Cavern
MD / 2h / RR LH / 💀
Brilliant trip. Laerke's first ever caving trip and she was so on for it that we decided to do the full Goaty - into the letterbox and back. It's f*cking scary in there - sort of smells of evil and it was a stupendious effort from the girls.

Fairy/Hillier's Cave
MD / 4h / FW TR RR /
The Rhoades sisters had an unsettled bill in the sump of this fine system. We went all the way through Cambridge Grotto to the Red Room. Good to be back.

Ogof y Daren Cilau
LL / 2h / FW RR /
Oh baby! This hole had been on the ticklist for quite some time and still is! We had to turn back approx 350 meters in through the 530m crawl that guards the cave. RR had some bad equipment and was freezing and we decided to go back before it would be too late. I have the feeling we will be back - soon.

GB Cavern
MD / 3h / FW RR DG TR /
Fine trip. Dave pointed out a number of challenges which we should attempt soon.

Sidcot's Swallet
MD / 2h / FW RR /
We got as far as the 'very narrow tube' and despite Mathias' attempt of squeezing through in underpants only there was no way it would go. Good trip.

Goatchurch Cavern
MD / 2h / FW /
Our sister Henriette went to Bristol to figure out why her brothers like caving. She didn't find the answer but found out she is definitely not desperate to get underground again. Instead we went on an epic trip on the narrowboat

Bull Pot
YS / 4h / FW / ⭐
A hidden gem. Excellent rig. The line is just pure beauty.

Hurnel Moss Pot
YS / 6h / FW / ⭐
Long walk. Long rig. Well worth it. FW rigged the hole thing.

Alum Pot
YS / 2h / FW /
Such an amazing hole in the ground. It was raining and there was quite a bit of water.

Eastwater Cavern
MD / 4h / FW /
Great little Saturday afternoon adventure. It was/had been raining a reasonable amount and there was a sizable stream entering the cave. We managed to do a nice round trip

Thrupe Lane Swallet
MD / 4h / FW TW /
Excellent trip. Did a 'double' abseil simultaneously next to each other and swapped over in the bottom

Shatter Cave
MD / 2h / FW TW DG /
Very pretty cave in the Fairy Quarry. It's normally locked so you need an official guide for this stuff. Impressive formations

Thrupe Lane Swallet
MD / 4h / TW /
We did the Latheral Aven pitch. But we missed our honoured caving mentor DG Grosvenor who unfortunately had other obligations this Friday evening

Thrupe Lane Swallet
MD / 4h / TW DG /
The second big SRT trip after Rhino Rift to do in the MD. We did it in three pitches - excellent stuff. We will be back soon to do the big 200ft single pitch

Fairy/Hillier's Cave
MD / 3h / TW /
A job needed to be done and TW and I went in to finish the Fairy Cave business. We reached the 'Red Room' which is in the connected Hilliers Cave and is the furtherst reach of the system. Quite an amazing system and very well worth it. Recommendable

Fairy Quarry Cave
MD / 1h / MI /
Not an ideal trip. I forgot to stock up on carbide and didn't have a lot of juice in the batteries. So we went in as far as the duck and probably partly because I was nervous about the lights Mikkel didn't fancy the duck and we blew retreat and went out. Shame because I would have liked to show Mikkel the Red Room.

Lionels Hole
MD / 3h / FW / ⭐💯
Awesome trip. We did the round trip which has some extremely challenging routefinding speically on the return. We were very pleased to get out

GB Cavern
MD / 4h / DG TW /
Great evening out in the MD. GB has some really awesome formations and some quite entertaining squeezes

Swildon's Hole
MD / 4h / FW /
We were back to complete the round trip that we had attempted with Peter three entries down. This time the mud sump that we had rushed through was filled to the roof with water and after an hour or more of pumping water with no noticeable effect we went to explore the Black Hole Series instead. This ended when we arrived at a 40 foot pitch. Good day out. We were both exhausted

Rhino Rift
MD / 2h / TW /
We got a hold of the key yet again. Tim rigged and I de-rigged

Fairy Quarry Cave
MD / 3h / FW DG / 📷Photo
We went in with Dave Grosvenor on a good trip in to the wonders of Fairy Cave. A surprisingly muddy experience. Some good technical obstacles to keep the wriggling techniques uptodate. A Grosvenor Special.

Swildon's Hole
MD / 4h / FW PS / ⭐
An excellent trip! We went into the St. Poul Grotto Series which included some very low crawls and passing a mud sump. Peter did well in this -not- a beginners section of the cave. We didn't manage the through trip though since Peter started having more than enough. We didn't realize that this actually was our probably one and only chance of ticking this sought after Swildon's collectors piece. Bummer!

Swildon's Hole
MD / 4h / FW TW RR /
Good Trip. TR and RR both did Sump 1 in freezing cold water and in a very uninviting condition. RR even managed to become a 'Son of The MD*' as she fell into one of the pools twice. *) Read the guidebook for a further explanation

Swildon's Hole
MD / 10m / LK HL /
I took Lars and Helene down Swildons Hole for a grand caving trip. Unfortunately the mission was aborted shortly after entering the cave due to too much 'noia'

Goatchurch Cavern
MD / 1h / LK HL /
After the failed attempt in Swildons we went for the Goatchurch instead - objective: to go through the drainpipe. We got to it after some persuasion but that was as far as the party wanted to go. Drainpipe 2 - Lars Klammer 0

St. Cuthberts Swallet
MD / 3h / FW DG TW /
The yearly 'Insult DG' trip was as festive as ever. Sparrow treated us with several muddy squeezes and a good selection of pretty formations

Simpson's Pot
YS / 3h / FW TW RS /
Tried a 'canyoning rappel' technique for the abseils. Worked okay but figures of eights and doubling the rope is preferable

Manor Farm Swallet
MD / 4h / DG /
A bit of a project. Check out the Trip Note with a little drawing

Goatchurch Cavern
MD / 2h / FW /
We finally managed to get all the way in to the 'letterbox' - the furthest end of the classic cave. The letterbox is an extremely tight squeeze section very awkward specially on the return

Cueva Miso Ha
MX / 1h / FW TR /
Mathias negotiated a tricky entrance to a cave with a waterfall coming out of it. Ended in some muddy dig business

Cueva Xtacumbilxun
MX / 2h / FW TR /
Some interesting exploration but we didn't go down the main shaft where it looked really interesting. No SRT kit. Very visited

Rio Frio Cave
BZ / 1h / FW /
Huge short cave. Explored some galleries but no interesting passages

St. Herman's Cave
BZ / 2h / FW /
Through-trip Big cave little technical side passages. Very visited

Poptun
GM / 3h / FW /
Big tube with mud and good formations second level round trip with somewhat technical climbing and crawling. Long. Very visited

Lanquin
GM / 3h / FW /
Big chambers bats spiders lake with potential river lots of potential side passages one easy squeeze. Total virgin experience. Only very few traces of humans. Unique. FW managed to catch the 'Bat Disease' or Histoplasmosis as it is apparently called - pretty nasty lasted for weeks but he survived. Only he nows sleeps hanging from the ceiling

Lanquin
GM / 1h / FW / ⭐🔥💯
Psycedelic praying with candles etc. reentry with smoke and strange sounds. Photos

Gaping Ghyll
YS / 4h / TW / ⭐
Bar Pot. Possible my best caving trip so far. Interesting SRT'ing good deal of route finding and a long section of tunnels. All rewarded with the inconceivable main chamber of Gaping Ghyll. Photos

Alum Pot
YS / 3h / TW / ⭐
What a cave! Massive 60 meter free abseil down the amazing shaft

Ogof Ffynnon Ddu
LL / 4h / DG /
Excellent through trip. Hard. Wet. Had to swim several times. Massive cave system

Goatchurch Cavern
MD / 2h / KM PD /
Katerina did the Drain pipe. Well done. Photo

Hunter's Hole
MD / 2h / TW /
Practicing SRT for our Gaping Ghyll project

Gaping Ghyll
YS / 2h / TW / ⭐☔
Dihetheral Way. Too wet too scary. We will be back. Photo

Sell Gill holes
YS / 3h / TW /
Wet Entrance. My first rig - brilliant stuff. See map . And here are a few good photos

Sell Gill holes
YS / 3h / TW /
Dry Entrance. Good SRT practice. See map

Jingling Pot
YS / 1h / TW /
Main Shaft. 50m down. 50m up. 6 dead rabbits in the bottom. See map

Simpson's Pot
YS / 4h / TW /
Simpsons Pot to Kingsdale valley entrance. Excellent through trip featuring a spectacular 25m abseil. Photo

Clearwater Mine
FD / 3h / DG TW /
Ancient Iron Mine. Bow to the Ham

Swildon's Hole
MD / 2h / DG TW / ☔
Very wet conditions

Goatchurch Cavern
MD / 3h / LK / 📚Report
The guys had visited me all the way from Denmark to see Britol Rovers play against Oldham Saturday the 21th of February. Having arrived already Thursday night we were looking for something to do Friday. With Keld and Frede Firsttimer

St. Cuthberts Swallet
MD / 2h / DG /
An extremely beautiful cave. With Andy Sparrow

Swildon's Hole
MD / 2h / JL /
Jakob did the sump 1 of Swildons. On sight. Photos

Goatchurch Cavern
MD / 2h / MI /
Started caving at 11pm!

Otter Hole
FD / 10h / FW TW DG / 💯⭐
The entrance of Otter Hole has an exiting feature. The river Wye is tidal so the entrance is only open an hour or two during low tide. When the water comes in the entrance (and exit!) closes for about 10 hours which means that once we enter we are comitted for the whole day. Read the whole Trip report

Goatchurch Cavern
MD / / FW MF /
Entertaining trip. Went all the way past the Drainpipe and up in the letterbox

Sidcot's Swallet
MD / 2h / FW /

Goatchurch Cavern
MD / 2h / FW / ⭐🔥
Our first cave ever. Excellent trip. Photo

Swildon's Hole
MD / 4h / FW /

Black Shiver
YS / / WISH / 🔘
Dangerous SRT

Snowboard 🏂


Chamonix
CH / / solo / 🌤
Got the randonee skis out and revisited the Grande Jorasse basin where Fred and I had been 7 years ago. Went up to Refuge Lascaux (2450m) and headed back. Brilliant trip. 6 hours

La Grave
LG / / solo / 🌤
Definitely the last run of the season. Lovely day, lots of sunshine but quite desperate snow conditions. I was almost caught in the biggest avalanche I have ever seen - I was completely alone on the whole Vallon side just catching my breath right under La Meije. I hear a crraaaackk, look up and boy oh boy oh boy, the whole serac fall is coming down. Absolutely mind-blowing to watch. It was just getting bigger and bigger in classic avalanche style - you know, developing this huge cloud of snow thundering down toward the valley floor right where I was standing. I waited a few second admiring the spectacle and then I was okay, that actually looks like a bad job and I started the engines and got further away while I could. I stopped some 500 meters further down and looked up again. Like some big disgusting animal the avalanche ate its way down the face and 30 seconds or so later engulfed the place where I had been in cloud and debris. Eventually it reached where I now was but was now a mere wind of snow. Absolutely fantastic to see. All other stuff was very avalanchy as well, but nothing as major as that baby. If only I'd brought my camera. I switched to my skiis midday but changed back to the gun after one desperate run.

La Grave
LG / / solo /
Brilliant day. Worked on trying to jump the big serac thing on the left of the drag lift in the top. It's a massive drop and the landing is not very steep so you really gotta go for it all the way. I was there a couple of times but didn't do it. Even Tigers has limits. :-) - I successfully did my usual cliff jump on the left of the telepherique which is always amazingly adreanline pumpy.

La Grave
LG / / solo /
Woke up. Looked at the webcam. Looked good. Headed off. Scrounged my way to a free lift ride. Conditions was pretty desperate actually. Fresh snow but very cold and the base was rock solid (not good for the big air landings). Also the avalance risk was quite obvious very high and I was glad to reach the bottom in one piece

La Grave
LG / / MB / ⭐
Superb day. Excellent big air jumps and some really pumping carving. Absolutely shagged afterwards also partly because of heavy drinking at the previous night with Martin, Christian Holst and forty bottles of bottles of Christians vodka

La Grave
LG / / MB /
Gnarled around a bit to figure out what the best descend would be with the access to P2 being unskiable. Perfect weather and only few people

Sherre Chevalier
LG / / SN /
Plenty of untouched snow, but weather a bit unstable. Good fun

Derby de La Meije
LG / / solo / 💪💯⭐
Yearly off piste race of festive proportions. Came in 84th in the my category - time 12m33s

La Grave
LG / / DS /
Steep aaaaand deep. Did my favourite left side (facing the mountain) exclusively. Lot of queing in the lift unfortunately

Alpe Duez
LG / / DS /
Did some excellent cliff jumps. Visibility was poor but due to heavy snowfall

Courchevel
LG / PD / DS /
Despite quite crazy conditions (fluffy snow, sun, fog, snowstorm, rain, slush - all in a day) we managed to get some good stuff done. Good jumps.

La Grave
LG / / DS /
David and Annabel joined me for the evening and we had a good day skiing/boarding. Still plenty of deep snow

La Grave
LG / / RG /
It had snowed a lot the previous day and we arrived to a perfect morning. Perfect snow, lots of it, no people

La Grave
LG / / solo /
Ice climbed Saturday and it then snowed 30cm during the night and Sunday was a real treat on the gun. Excellent cornice surfing on the Vallons side. I think I've found my favourite line in La Grave. If only the lift didn't close so early (4pm). I was the third one down the slope in the morning though!

CH / / /
Still powder left from the day before and an excellent snowdepth, soft and perfect for trying some festive jumps.

Sept Laux
GR / / PD /
It had snowed in the morning, and the bastards closed the top bit (avalance danger) so I was confined to the piste. :-(

Sept Laux
GR / / solo /
First time in the local ski resort. Good potential

La Grave
LG / / /
Only fresh powder on the very top section - really good stuff. The lower parts was icy and tricky on the Powder Gun

La Grave
LG / / solo /
Bought a Swell Panik Magistral board and had the most amazing day in La Grave. 10-20cm of fresh powder under clear blue sky.

Alpe Duez
LG / / RG / ☔
It changed from rain to snow mid day. We should have stayed one more day

Alpe Duez
LG / / PD RI RG /
Highlight of the day was the lunch in the Marmotte Restaurant

Alpe Duez
LG / / PD RI RG /
Spend the New Year break in Alpe D'huez the closest big resort to my new home in Grenoble

La Grave
LG / / JR LK / ⭐
A week to check out the powder in Chamonix and La Grave. Great trip together with the skiers Jesper Ritzau and Lars Klammer. No trip report. No photos. But we have a fully edited movie (9 MB!)

Col de Palet
GR / 4h / solo / 💀
Did the Col de Palet to Champagny run (alone!). A bit irresponsible in retrospect. Desperate on a snowboard

Chamonix:
CH / FW / <9> /
We only had three days as the following days was ear marked for Christmas purposes. There where a lot of nice offpiste riding

Chamonix
CH / / solo /
Spent two months in Chamonix, one week in Serre Chevalier (and La Grave) and one week in Val d'Isere. The off piste conditions in Val d'Isere was unbelievably good.