Cumbria Police contacted the team when a caver at Bull Pot Farm reported a caver (m,78) was apparently 2 hours over his due return time from a trip to Wretched Rabbit. The caller confirmed his car was still at Bull Pot. A vehicles and initial party of 6 team members were mobilised, whilst members of Red Rose Caving club went with the ‘grab bag’ (left for such incidents at Bull… ...
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Driving down the A38 to Burnham on Sea you can't miss the prominent feature of Brent Knoll sitting atop a Lias inlier (c.139m AOD) standing out from the surrounding levels. The Iron Age hill fort has produced evidence for Roman occupation to the 4th ...
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20th October: with Jake and Tav. Well what do you know! Should have brought the camera as all the Hallowe'en decorations were out, there were ghosties, ghoulies, skellies, coffins and things floating in the sump pool. What can you say! Up at the ...
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Two walkers (m, f) reported themselves lost, between Ingleborough and Horton in Ribblesdale. Although describing themselves as appropriately equipped and well-provisioned, they had no torch and believed they would not reach Horton before it got dark. Unfortunately, although their phone was on a network claiming ‘99% UK coverage’, it was not possible to call or text them nor could their location be ascertained by ‘SARloc’. As they did not appear… ...
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Solo. At the current end of Merlin's drilled 7no. holes - 3no. on either side and 1no. in large flake of flowstone in the floor, all prep done, retired to a safe distance, made some loud noise, the cave shook! There will be rubble for the weekend. ...
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Paul Fairman of the BEC had arranged a weekends play in North Wales and had kindly invited Jess and I along. So although not officially a Dudley trip we did have a presence!Our first days play turned in to a fun day of the blind leading the blind ...
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A member of a practice expedition group (f,15) with Type 1 diabetes, fainted while walking along the lane. CRO members collected her and brought her back to Clapham, tired and cold, with fluctuating blood-sugar levels. Once stable and after a medical consultation, she was taken home by one of the group’s supervisors. Volunteer hours: 3 ...
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With Nick, Tav and Jake. As we walked up to the cave I joked "Nick have you walked all the way up here without your hat"...only to realise that I had done exactly that! Jake saved my embarrassment by lending me his hat as he was on surface duties th ...
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Three days of field schools with Peter Hardy, author of 'The Geology of Somerset' and Gill Odolphie, Adel Avery and Juliet Lawn from the Somerset Earth Science Centre. In conjunction wit the Geological Society's Earth Science Week. Day 1, 12th Octo ...
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With Jake and Tav. Tav headed to the rift to retrieve a skip and rope while Jake and I went on to the dig at the end of 20. There we continued where we left off last week just using the mattock to loosen the fine sediment, silty sand with some inter ...
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With Tav and Jake, later joined by Nick who had been delayed by a late train. While I planned to apply some rock engineering to the end the rest of the team were to set about clearing the remaining spoil from Sunday's session. Tav gave me a hand to ...
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Two cavers (m) were reported overdue from a trip to Ireby Fell Cavern, understood to have begun at 1100. As initial inquiries were being made, the whole team were placed on standby, and a team member sent to check whether their car was at the expected parking point. As the team member arrived, he found the two cavers just changing out of caving gear. They had started their trip later… ...
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30th September-3rd October and 7th-10th October 2016: with Bath and Camerton Archaeological Society (BACAS). Spent a few days with BACAS carrying out geophysical survey of two sites in Stanton Drew. the first location was at Tithe Barn fields, ...
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With Jake and Nick. Jake doing the digging, Nick clearing back and loading the skip, my turn on the haul and shuttle, it was relentless and very warm and sweaty work. By the end of the digging session I had to climb nearly out of the entrance to add ...
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A German photographer had contacted Dudley Caving Club to ask if we would be able to take him underground for a photo shoot and so Jess and I offered to escort them. We met up at SWCC and proceeded to spend the next 8 hours undergro ...
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With Jake. Tav took some members of the Axbridge Caving Group (ACG) on a tour. Tom Chapman briefly appeared to show where the small mammal bones had been found and led us up to the main entrance. Jake and myself climbed up to the proposed adventure ...
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6th October: with Jake. Tav took some members of the Axbridge Caving Group (ACG) on a tour. Tom Chapman briefly appeared to show where the small mammal bones had been found and led us up to the main entrance. Jake and myself climbed up to the prop ...
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A school student (f,13) with a medical condition fainted while walking between Malham Cove and Gordale Bridge. When CRO arrived, Yorkshire Ambulance Service personnel were walking her gently to the road ambulance, to be taken to hospital for a check-up.  After taking some other students back to the village, CRO stood down, .  An air ambulance also attended, but was not used. Volunteer hours: 7 ...
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