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3rd February 2018

With Nick, Jake and Jonathon. For one reason or another, a smaller team today. Nick's turn to dig, after bailing of course, Jake clearing away, it's getting a long way now, the rift is c.10m in length and progressing. I was on the slope, man-handlin ...
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1st February 2018

Survey drawn by Robin Taviner
With Jonathon, Jake, Brockers, Nick and Duncan. Initially, I went to the end, reeling in the wire as I progressed, to check the results of Tuesday evenings effort. It had done just what it was supposed to do. ...
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30th January 2018

With Roz. After a decent dry day...it's still wet and muddy underground! Continuing the expansion works at the current end of Another Emotional Journey. Drilled 4no. 550mm x 12mm holes on the left-side of the rift ...
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27th January 2018

With Brockers, Jake, Nick, Jonathon and Tav. Jon digging, Tav, back into action after a few weeks off, was clearing back to Nick, on the slope, Jake, up-top, loading the skip to Brockers on the haul and shuttle. Surface duties for me ...
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25th January 2018

With Jake, Nick, Brockers, Jonathon and Mike M. After reeling in the wire, I was upfront clearing the rock and gravel back to Jon. Mike, back on the slippery slope was then transferring the spoil up to Brockers. Jake was on the haul and shuttle, Nick ...
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23rd January 2018

With Matt, Brockers and Duncan. It was as wet and mucky as expected. As I drilled the required holes, 4no. 550mm x 12mm, and sorted stuff out, with Matt's assistance, Brockers replaced the skip on the long haul and then, finally got the better of th ...
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20th January 2018

With Brockers, Jake, Nick and Matt. Five go Digging! Nick filling the bags, I was clearing the bags away to Jake, on the slope, passing the spoil up to Matt, who was loading the skip to Brockers on the haul and shuttle. ...
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Incident 3/2018 – Jan. 17th Wed. 12.45 Cross of Greet, Lythe Fell, Lancashire – Mountain Rescue

A call was received by Bowland Pennine MRT from Lancashire Police to a vehicle and three occupants stranded in snow near the Cross of Greet. BPMRT used Sarloc (a mobile phone tracking app) to identify that the vehicle was in CRO’s area, and passe ...
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Draenen – The Geryon

Team: Claire Vivian and Tarquin Wilton-JonesTime: 12 hours. (Saturday 6th January) It all started off so well! Wake up a 5.30am. Yes. Taxi to train station at 6am. Yes. Catch train to Cardiff at 6.30am. Yes. Then things started to go wrong. Leave Neath ...
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OFD1 to Cwm Dwr

OFD1 to Cwm Dwr – Sun 10 DecemberTeam: Jo White, Helen Hooper, Andy Jones, Darren Mackenzie, Lee Smith, Ariana PrestonTime: 4 hoursNew SWCC provisional member Ariana Preston tells us about her first OFD through-trip. All photos by Darren Mackenzie Our ...
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Rock of the day

Found last weekend during digging activities by Jonathon, another cobble of lias, with striations etched out along laminations and cleavage (?). This weekend, Brockers recovered this fragmented stalagmite from within the sediment as digging progressed ...
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13th January 2018

With Brockers, Jonathon and Nick. On the surface, prior to venturing underground, the drier bags were collected, shaken to remove any loose sediment, packed-up and dispatched into the cave, ready to be re-filled. A rather subdued Brockers, suffering ...
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11th January 2018

With Jonathon, Brockers, Nick and Mike M. Jonathon up-front digging, Brockers clearing away the filled bags to Nick, on the slippery slope, Mike was on top of the slope, loading the skip to me, on the haul and shuttle. It's still wet and muddy. ...
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Incident 2/2018 – Jan. 9th Wed. 12.45 Thornton Force, Nr. Ingleton, North Yorkshire – Mountain Rescue

The team were called by Yorkshire Ambulance Service to assist a walker (f,26) who had fallen and sustained chest injuries whilst undertaking the Waterfalls Walk. Team members arrived on scene and after verifying that the casualty was able to walk with ...
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Holmebank Chert Mine

Holmebank Chert Mine Fan Entrance lock installation 9th January 2018 Today I was up at Holmebank Chert Mine near Bakewell on behalf of the Derbyshire Caving Association and the Peak Instructed Caving Affiliation. One of the access points to the ...
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Incident 1/2018 – Jan. 8th Mon. 13.10 Moughton Scar, Crummackdale, North Yorkshire – Animal Rescue

The team’s first call of 2018 occurred when we were contacted by a local farmer, concerned for a sheep that had become stuck about 40 foot up a crag. A small team attended and met with the farmer, and then proceeded to extricate the sheep. ...
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6th January 2018

With Jonathon, Jake, Nick and Brockers. Festivities over, things return to normality. My turn up front, digging; Jonathon, after three days on his sick-bed had wrested himself away to attend, stood in the 'drippiest' spot and cleared away the filled ...
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A Sterling Job!

December 31st 2017 was a wonderful example of SWCC members coming together and proving that many hands make light of hard work. So read all about it or even better watch the video!Ashford Price, the owner of Dan-Yr-Ogof show cave had very generously of ...
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