Other Sites and Blogs – Darkness Below

We can’t hope to bring you every story, but there are plenty of caving and mining blogs out there you can browse at your leisure – so have a read through some of the best! If you know of a blog you’d like us to add to this page please let us know.

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Hard Rock Cafe

Today's trip was to be a fairly tough one, involving roughly three miles of varied caving, reported to take 10 hours. This included the infamous Daren Entrance Series, the ladder up into Higher Things and a few “Velcro-mud” belly crawls for good meas ...
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INCIDENT 58/2025. JUNE 29th SUN 13:00hrs GAPING GILL AREA, CLAPHAM, NORTH YORKSHIRE

The team were called by Yorkshire Ambulance Service to a walker (M 75) who had fallen and hit his head on some rocks in the vicinity of Gaping Gill. The first team members set off in CRO 4, our Honda Pioneer ATV, followed closely by more members in CRO ...
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INCIDENT 58/2025. JUNE 29th SUN 13:00hrs GAPING GILL AREA, CLAPHAM, NORTH YORKSHIRE

INCIDENT 57/2025. JUNE 28th SAT (same day) 22:50hrs LONG CHURNS and ALUM POT, SELSIDE, NORTH YORKSHIRE

As the vehicles returned to base from Incident 55, with Incident 56 ongoing the team received our fourth call of the evening, from North Yorkshire Police, alerting us to a party of three cavers (F 39, F 29, M 26) overdue on a trip through Long Churns d ...
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INCIDENT 56/2025. JUNE 28th SAT (same day) 21:02hrs (same time!) INGLEBOROUGH, NORTH YORKSHIRE

Whilst the Duty Controller was starting incident 55, a second call came from North Yorkshire Police (2 seconds between the police messages on the log!) requesting assistance to investigate a report of an injured walker (F) heading very slowly towards H ...
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INCIDENT 55/2025. JUNE 28th SAT (same day) 21:02hrs COW POT TO TOP SINK, EASEGILL, LECK, CUMBRIA

As the team were returning to base from the previous incident one of the Assistant Controllers (Underground) who was staying at the Red Rose CPC hostel, at Bull Pot Farm, alerted the Duty Controller that a party of four cavers (all M in 50s) were overd ...
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INCIDENT 54/2025. JUNE 28th SAT. 18:26hrs. RAVEN RAY, WATERFALLS TRAIL, INGLETON, NORTH YORKSHIRE

The Team were called by North Yorkshire Police to assist with a visitor (F, 24) who had slipped whilst on the Waterfalls Trail and hurt her ankle. She was unable to put weight on the ankle or continue her walk. After an assessment by team RRMTs (Casual ...
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28th June

Vince, Jake, Jon, Nick, and Mike An early start (underground before 09:00) to carry out some “rock-bothering” before the rest of the team arrive. Before starting on the boulders in Can of Worms continued on to AUD area to install a M6-size eyebolt above the location of the faunal remains (STN.1) so enabling a plumb-line … Continue reading ...
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28th June

Draenen Short Round Trip

Due to pregnancy I missed the Dudley’s recent excursions into Draenen. Keen to put this right, I joined Dave and Loz for the Short Round Trip. It’s called “short” but compared to other round trips (e.g. in Aggy) it certainly felt long. I'm not sure ...
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ALERT ONLY, JUNE 28th SAT 15:49hrs INGLETON WATERFALLS TRAIL, INGLETON, NORTH YORKSHIRE. ALERT No 5 OF 2025

The team were called by North Yorkshire Police to a report of a walker that had fallen and injured themselves on the Ingleton Waterfalls Trail. As the Duty Controller was making initial enquiries with staff at the Waterfalls Trail they confirmed that t ...
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ALERT ONLY, JUNE 28th SAT 15:49hrs INGLETON WATERFALLS TRAIL, INGLETON, NORTH YORKSHIRE. ALERT No 5 OF 2025

25th June

Solo Spent the morning at home pottering around getting a few things together ready for a ‘Bear hunt’. At the farm dithered a bit with ‘this and that’, chatted with the farmer, and so was a little later underground than anticipated, no matter! Today’s objective (beyond Trick or Treat/AUD area) was to have a closer … Continue reading ...
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23rd June

Vince, Roz and Sara Just for a change, a tourist trip into Hallowe’en Rift. Route from entrance via Merlin’s, Tuck Shop, An Emotional Journey to An Unexpected Development involves quite a lot of crawling. Dragged along a ladder and rope to descend the rift in AUD with Sara (Roz stayed at the top) followed by … Continue reading ...
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INCIDENT 53/2025. June 20th FRI. 16:31hrs SCALEBER FORCE, Nr SETTLE, NORTH YORKSHIRE.

The team were called by Yorkshire Ambulance Service (YAS) to assist with a visitor (f,28) who had fallen on the footpath downstream of the waterfall. It was reported that she was suffering neck and lower limb injuries and was having difficulty with bre ...
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INCIDENT 53/2025. June 20th FRI. 16:31hrs SCALEBER FORCE, Nr SETTLE, NORTH YORKSHIRE.

21st June. Solstice!

Vince, Jake, Jon, and Nick As seems to be usual I arrived at the cave with time to spare so occupied myself fettling walls and packing bags until the team assembled. Jon has returned from injury although the story we had fabricated was more imaginative, Nick was [almost] recovered from a long bike ride, Lôn … Continue reading ...
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INCIDENT 52 / 2025 JUNE 14th SAT 16.27hrs. KINGSDALE, NORTH YORKSHIRE

Whilst busy with the previous 2 incidents, the Team received a call from North Yorkshire Police concerning a lone walker (F, age not known) who had become separated from her group whilst doing the 3 Peaks Walk. She had apparently descended into the wro ...
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