Concern was expressed for two Three Peaks walkers (f, f, ‘mid twenties’) descending to Sulber Nick, one in trainers and with a twisted knee. Their car was found still to be in Horton car park, so a call-out was initiated. As a CRO vehicle was on its way from Clapham to Sulber Cross-roads with two small search groups a third group, preparing to walk up from Horton, found that the… ...
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Another Three Peaks walker was reported to have set off to climb Ingleborough at 16.20 and was described as inexperienced, boots and gloves soaked through when he set off and had no torch. He was found by his own companions, just before another call . ...
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1st September 2106: with Jake, Tav and Nick. Capping boulders at the top of Chamber 20 new dig site. Some went, some needed more than one hole, some didn't go at all. We shifted a lot of rock and more requires removing before a proper look can ...
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29th August 2016: With Nick Hawkes, Pete Bolt and Snablet. L to R: Pete, Nick, Vince and Snablet almost ready to venture underground. A great trip ably summed up by Nick in his report below: "The trip was arranged amidst a birthday drinking ses ...
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Solo. I was in Wookey Hole with others on Saturday so didn't make it to Hallowe'en the rest of the team however, did and had cleared the sediment surrounding some large rock obstructions. My task this evening was to start the process of removing t ...
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Sparkler Son DoongThis was the final tour, both for me and Oxalis, well not quite as there was a Japanese film group going in a day after, but more on that later.Happy to helpAs we were walking down the initial hill, we caught up with some of the villa ...
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27th August 2016: with Duncan Price, Rick Stanton and Karen Dealy. Trip to assist Duncan who was going to dive the sump at the end of the dig [not quite] to Wookey 24. I hadn't seen the passage beyond the inclined bedding as this had been opened w ...
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Catas Birthday Weekend Oi Oi!One long weekend in the planning for months. 2 nights underground, 3 cars, 15 people, one big party in the Catacombs! This was my third trip mostly underneath Paris, in what is now looking very much like a yearly event.Gale ...
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I set up my YouTube channel in September 2009 to showcase my caving videos. I never thought anyone but friends and family, and on second thoughts perhaps not family, would ever watch them. However in the first year the channel had an amazing 1464 views ...
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Three cavers (m, 24; f, 24, m, 24) were reported overdue on a through trip from Top Sink to Lancaster Hole. They had made only slow progress and became lost, eventually deciding to await rescue near Stop Pot. Mixed teams of CRO and Red Rose Cave & Pot-hole Club members began searching the system and located the missing party at about 04.20. All were guided safely to Lancaster Hole, to… ...
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While the Ingleton incident was on-going, a walker (f, 59), on the Pennine Way south of Water Sinks, was reported to be collapsed, unconscious and having CPR administered. A small group of CRO members, who were with the team’s display trailer at Malham Show, arrived on scene very soon after the air ambulance and road ambulance. Sadly, resuscitation was unsuccessful. Once Police approval had been received, the deceased was carried… ...
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A walker (f, 54) on the Ingleton Waterfalls Trail tripped and fell, injuring an ankle. As it would not bear any weight, she was carried by stretcher to the road-head and, in the absence of an ambulance, assisted into the family car to be taken to hospi ...
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Four adult walkers (m) reported themselves lost on the descent from Ingleborough attempting to reach Horton in Ribblesdale. Whilst speaking to them, their mobile phone ran out of battery, before their exact location could be ascertained. As a search was being organised of the eastern flank of Ingleborough, a further call was received from the Gaping Gill Winchmeet to say that the four walkers had arrived at their location. Whilst… ...
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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 Phill.Chris T ...
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25th August 2016: with Nick and Peter 'Snablet' MacNab. Snablet is over from New Zealand to visit for a week before heading onto China to meet up with Mad Phil Rowsell to go caving there, so I gave him a call at his parent's to invite on this even ...
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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 record turn out. Over the years Phil ha ...
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23rd August: Dolebury Camp. NGR ST 4500 5895 The hill fort is dated to the Iron Age and is bivallate on three sides but here on the south side there is a single rampart protected by the steep slope. Heading up the eastern rampart. There are e ...
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Stormy SkiesI've had three days off between tours but have managed to keep busy and got into town a few times between the rain showers.Tiny LizardOxalis has just created a watersports centre at Chay Lap, and as is always the case there was a grand open ...
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