Over the second May Bank Holiday weekend, a group of Dudley Caving Club members headed north to the Yorkshire Dales for a fantastic few days of caving, climbing, and underground adventure. Armed with enough caving gear to sink a small ship and optimism…
A few members of the club who are also volunteering with the local cave rescue team, have taken part in an underground rescue practice in one of the Shropshire mines.On top of the usual communication, search and route-finding skills being practiced, th…
Very happy bunch of full, new and returning members got together on the 9th of May for a simple, easy and joyful trip to the Music Room in Aggy. The trip was attended by a record number of members, hence a split to 2 smaller and more manageab…
On Saturday 25th April 2026, Dudley Caving Club as part of ongoing celebrations held a 60th Anniversary Dinner at the Lodge in Dudley. The event was attended by 47 guests. A wonderful mix of founding & original members, retired, current and new mem…
After a tiresome unsuccessful attempt to find the High
Traverses shortcut link to the Southern Stream a week before and having said
that we won’t be back in Aggy for a good while, by Wednesday we were ready to
find this ”mysterious” connection, that …
It was supposed to be a nice and easy Sunday trip to Aggy.
It was already completed by Loz and Mark number of times in the past, the only
difference this time was to find the shortcut via the High traverses. Loz
wanted to do a decent trip before her bi…
Our first trip into Coniston Copper Mines which has been on the bucket list for quite a while. We met up with Dom from CATHMS, who was able to show us around the mine. Bartek brough his camera equipment, so we had to stop quite a few times for some sho…
Heading north from Birmingham, Dave, Jas and Oliver set off
for the mid-Peak District. Upon arriving at Castleton for a 4-hour trip into
Peak Cavern, we headed for our base at the TSG. A group of around ten of us
were led to the Cave’s impressive entra…
Heading north from Birmingham, Dave, Jas and Oliver set off
for the mid-Peak District. Upon arriving at Castleton for a 4-hour trip into
Peak Cavern, we headed for our base at the TSG. A group of around ten of us
were led to the Cave’s impressive entra…
We were asked to help to document the radiolocation
and possible connection point towards the Symonds Yat cliffs. Loz and I joined
a well-choreographed trip where a number of people have been allocated critical
tasks by the Diggers. Our party of …
TitanIt was a long-awaited trip to Titan for the four of us who had never visited it before. Since we weren’t planning to go far into the system but were only doing a bounce trip with a potential look into the connection, we weren’t in a rush to …
DYOIt was Loz’s trip to get familiar with the Dali’s Delight series of the cave. Water level in the Lake 2 & 3 were lower than usual, barely a belly level. Getting through the cave was straight forward following fairly know route. On the way there …
OFD 1-3-1 AttemptAfter the OFD 3 trip back in December 2024, an idea was sparkling in Dave’s’ head, a super adventurous traverse of the Ogof FFynnon Ddu, starting from the bottom, the OFD 1 entrance, visiting the Smith’s Armoury in OFD 3, and tur…
OFD 1-3-1 AttemptAfter the OFD 3 trip back in December 2024, an idea was sparkling in Dave’s’ head, a super adventurous traverse of the Ogof FFynnon Ddu, starting from the bottom, the OFD 1 entrance, visiting the Smith’s Armoury in OFD 3, and tur…
