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To bail or not to bail that is the question…

Trip date: 9th-11th December 2016 Team: Stuart Bennett, James Hallihan, Piers Hallihan,Duncan Hornby, Jo Myburgh,Helen Stewart, Malcolm Stewart, Phill Thomas, Claire Vivian The team arrived on the Mendips Friday evening around 9.30pm. Abandoning Piers and ...

To bail or not to bail that is the question…

Trip date: 9th-11th December 2016 Team: Stuart Bennett, James Hallihan, Piers Hallihan,Duncan Hornby, Jo Myburgh,Helen Stewart, Malcolm Stewart, Phill Thomas, Claire Vivian The team arrived on the Mendips Friday evening around 9.30pm. Abandoning Piers and ...

Provisional Members’ Weekend

On a gloriously sunny 5th November 15 provisional members gathered in the Long Common Room. It was the first visit to SWCC for some and for several more, today would see them complete their first ...

Provisional Members’ Weekend

On a gloriously sunny 5th November 15 provisional members gathered in the Long Common Room. It was the first visit to SWCC for some and for several more, today would see them complete their first ...

Slip ‘n’ Slide

Team: Andy Freem, Antonia Freem, Mark Hampson, Colin Hoare, Duncan Hornby, Phil Knight, Tim Lewingdon, Chris Taylor & Claire Vivian. Trip dates: 22nd-23rd October 2016. With the exception of Colin and Phil (who turned up ...

Big pitches vs. sore knees!

Trip Dates: 16th -18th September 2016 Team:Derek Cousins, Celestine Crabbe, Mark Hampson, Duncan Hornby, Richard Sore, Helen Stewart, Malcolm Stewart, Phill Thomas, Claire Vivian Another cracking weekend away, this time in the Peak District. With glorious ...

Upper Flood Swallet

This is a report for an Upper Flood Swallet trip on 6.8.16 written by SWCC provisional member, Chris Taylor. The full team were: Celestine Crabbe, Kevin Speight (MCG), Chris Taylor and Phill Thomas. All caving photos are by ...

2016 Tresviso Expedition

Three SWCC members (Gareth Davies, Martin Grove and Duncan Hornby) joined the Tresviso 2016 expedition run by the Bradford Pothole Club member Phil Walker (an ex SWCC). In total 21 people joined the expedition, a ...

May – July events

Where to begin! It's been a very busy few weeks, what with film crews, evening trips and club meets. The late May Bank Holiday weekend saw Celestine, Steve, Michael, Damien and Phill head off for a over the ...

Evening route finding

Tuesday 5.7.16 Team: Jen Baxter, Lisa Boore, Paul Tarrant, Dan Thorne, Claire Vivian Being as Paul was injured, this was going to be a smaller trip that would focus on route finding and visiting some ...

Mined out!

Dates: 24th -26th July 2016 Team: Bill Buxton,Graham Christian,Brian Clipstone, Howard Dare (& Molly),Kevin Diffey, Andy Dobson, Dave Dobson,Clark Friend, Chris Grimmett (& Sheelagh), Mark Hampson, Duncan Hornby, Harvey Lomas,Fred Levett, Tim Lewington, David Mullin, ...

Mud and Midges

Team: Adrian Brown, Duncan Hornby and Claire Vivian Trip date: 12th June 2016 On Sunday Claire and I met up with Adrian to visit two caves in the western part of the Black Mountains: Pal-y-Cwrt ...