Trip report to FollowJess & Kay in Main Passage (Photo Brendan Marris)Jess in Main Passage (Photo Mark Burkey)Jess near Trident Passage (Photo Brendan Marris)Kay near Trident Passage (Photo Mark Burkey)Kay and Jess in the first chamber, Erse Passag ...
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With Alex Gee. Really good to see Alex up at Hallowe'en again. While I slipped underground to take some photo's Alex went to look at a feature he wanted to check out on the hillside. In particular wanted to try and take an image of the current wor ...
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4th August 2016: with Tav (Duncan Price and Claire Cohen). Tav and myself made our way quickly up to the high route along the rift that we had started to widen last week. Cleared the debris that had been created and drilled some more holes and cha ...
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3rd August 2016: Kingdown Unconformity. Mercia Mudstone Group (Marginal Facies) - Conglomerate of Triassic Age approx. 200 to 251 million years ago overlies Oxwich Head Limestone Formation of Carboniferous Age approx. 326 to 335 million years a ...
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As we move into August, and my last Month here in Vietnam, I find myself very busy, an extra tour at the end of July means I have very few spare days. This extra tour was a group booking f ...
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A walker (m,69) was reported to have collapsed at Malham Cove, ‘on the pavements’. The Yorkshire Ambulance Service paramedics assessed him, then waved off the air anbulance and stood CRO down, as the patient was at the gate on to the Malham Rakes road. Only one CRO member reached the patient before the ‘stand-down’, although eight others were en route. Volunteer hours: 12 ...
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This was a taster trip for Ross to see if he would like to take up caving as a hobby, the original plan was to do Ogof Pen Eyre followed by Shakespeares cave, but due to extensive roadworks and difficulty parking I decided to take him to Eglwys Faen wi ...
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A caver reported a lamb at the bottom of the 15m open shaft of Fluted Hole. A small CRO team confirmed this and rescued the animal, then, because it did not appear to be in tip-top condition, took it back to Bleak Bank Farm for attention. Volunteer hou ...
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Trip report to followChloe and Mark admire formations en routeRichard in passage near the haggis basherBrendan in the main stream wayPresent: Jess Burkey, Brendan Marris, Richard Dearden, Chloe Burney, Mark Burgess & Mark Burkey ...
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With Matt Tuck. Started the session scratching away some sediment from the passage floor before deciding to see what effect 'capping' would have on the slab of rock in the roof. The slab measured about 1 metre in length, 700mm wide and ranged betwee ...
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A climber (m) fell approximately ten metres from the East Wing of the Cove, sustaining suspected back and neck injuries. After assessment by Yorkshire Ambulance Service paramedics, he was placed in a vacuum mattress (whole-body splint) and on to a Bell mountain rescue stretcher. Because of the steepness of the ground and proximity to the Cove face, a Coastguard helicopter was called in from Humberside ...
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Hang Lanh is planned to be part of a new tour including this cave and Hang En, this trip was undertaken to check out the suitability of the tour. Normally, when tours go to either Hang Son Doong or Hang En, the drop off point is at kilo ...
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28th July 2016: with Tav, Nick Hawkes and Matt Tuck. After about a three month lay-off it was good to return to the explorations beyond Chamber 20. This was a relatively quick in and out trip to get things going. We had followed the lead first p ...
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Tuesday 26th JulyHang Dinh Mot exit twoWe went on a day trip to visit Hang Dinh Hai, to see if it would be suitable for tourism. Deb, Watto. Adam, Chau and myself went, with us came Mr Dinh who the cave is named after. We also wanted to see if we could ...
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Green beetle on blue plastic. Another week another tour, always fun, always different! Hang Son Doong entrance passageWeather has been good and when we met the group coming out we were told that the lake had finally gone. Collection buckets No dramas with t ...
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Two walkers (f,30 m,32) reported themselves lost on Ingleborough whilst trying to get back to Clapham. Contact was eventually established with them, and using Sarloc, their location was eventually confirmed as being Stone House, Selside. The pair were ...
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A walker (m79) slipped and fell over whilst descending the summit ridge of Whernside. He sustained minor cuts to his head, a rib injury and grazing to his knee. He was cared for by CRO members and carried by stretcher down to Bruntscar for tranfer in a ...
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24th July 2016: Sunday morning and the dog needed a walk so decided that I would go over to Hallowe'en Rift and get the lump of flowstone that I had left there. Parked at the end of Dursdon Drove and walked along the hilltop at Rookham before cro ...
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