Crewe Climbing and Potholing Club

Club Meets 2012
January
Waterfall Hole Derbyshire
Aquamole Pot Yorkshire

February
Holme Bank Chert Mine Derbyshire
Lost Johns Pot / Boxhead Pot Yorkshire

March
Poachers Cave North Wales
Simpsons Pot / Swinsto Pot Yorkshire

Apri
Lancaster Pot / Cow Pot Yorkshire
James Hall Over Engine Mine Derbyshire

May
Penyghent Pot Yorkshire
Swildons Hole Mendips

June
Otter Hole Forest Of Dean
Ibbeth Peril 1&2 Yorkshire
Nenthead Cumbria

July
Shuttleworth Pot Yorkshire
Ogof Draenen (to be confirmed) South Wales

August

Photographs of work being done by Crewe CPC members on the Whirlpool crossing in Speedwell Cavern

A Blast From The Past. Giants hole 6 July 1974.

Slovenia July-August 2011.

Top Tips for SRT - The Gentle Art of Derigging.

Xmas Dinner.

SRT Training.

Remaining Meets 2010.

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Majorca 2011 trip report. Lanzarote Lava Tube Caves. John Gillet's trip to this island. Hammer Pot Rescue, 25 years ago.  Up the Aranzadi Wall in La Verna Chamber, Pierre Saint Martin. John Gillet.

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• Notts II.
• Croesor Rhosydd: North Wales slate mine traverse.
• Speedwell and the Boulder Piles: Maintenance in the Bottomless Pit and altering the JH drainage system after a collapse threatened the route through from Speedwell.

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Len and his team have been busy yet again in the village of Cromford. A shaft appeared in a nature reserve quite close to a public footpath. Len manufactured a “bat friendly” cap and he and John fitted it. It allows access to cavers who have permission. He descended about 8 m to find it blocked with branches from nearby trees. Len is hoping to descend the rest of the shaft, which he estimates is 25 to 30m deep, before the bats return to their winter hibernation sites.

• Another mine recovery project
• CCPC trip to Kyrgyzstan. A full report is in the separate file.
• Gouffre Berger. A full report is in a separate file.
• Returning Gear
• Yet another Kirkham project
• Club training
• Meets
• CCPC tee shirts
• A thought for 2011. Slovenia?

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kyrgyzstan for nl.doc

Berger_Account_AB (2).pdf

The Bung, Speedwell Cavern, summer 2010

Brian Edmonds

The first we heard of a problem at the Bung was in the TSG Chapel getting ready for a normal Peak trip. Ralph, key holder for the day, was buttonholed and the poor state of the pointing and masonry was discussed. As Ralph was going in Speedwell later to check on the condition of the JH choke we left it to him to assess the problem.

• Morocco Trip: February 2010 Ascent of Jebil Toubkal
• Lloyds Spar Mine
• One of us is Jinxed!
• Congratulations
• Hillocks - New Entrance!
• Rob Farmer Memorial Training
• Trip Report: Seathwaite Wad Mine, Borrowdale
• Mallorca Trip: 21st to 28th March 2010.

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Another Mine Recovery Project.

We were recently requested by the Staffs Wild Life Trust to rebuild and cap a dangerously “run in shaft top in the Staffs Moorlands,one of many that we have treated for the SWT in this area.