Crewe Climbing and Potholing Club

Welcome!

We are an active and friendly caving club that welcomes both new and experienced cavers. Despite our name, we are mainly a caving club, though some members do climb as well. We are mostly based in Cheshire and Staffordshire, but some members live further away. Our caving and mine exploration takes place locally in the Peak District and Yorkshire Dales and further afield in this country and abroad.

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If you are totally new to caving and want to know what it is all about, then read What We Do and Why We Do It.


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Latest News

The latest news from the club. Just the most recent updates appear here. All the news, including older news (olds?) can be found from the News page.

Bull Pot of the Witches

Mon, Mar 25 2024

A trip to this Dales cave near Casterton Fell yesterday.

Rigging Guide

Tue, Mar 19 2024

Some updates to the rigging guide for the White River Series in Peak Cavern. The Moosetrap series in White River, Peak Cavern, has been updated following a recent visit to the top of the third pitch. The Ventilator series, down from the White River has been updated to reflect the recent rebolting work by the Peak Cavern Keyholders. Pull through and pull up ropes in the the following topos have been standardised to show the total length of rope required to pull through, or up. Only those routinely rigged as pull throughs, or pull ups are shown this way. Nickergrove Mine, for example, where pull through is an option some visitors take, is shown with rope lengths for regular rigging.

The pull down rope is shown as a dashed line for clarity, unless that rope is anchored at the base of the pitch and supporting a caver's weight, where it is shown as a solid line. Pull up cords are shown as a dotted line.

Peak Cavern and Bats (not in Peak Cavern)

Sun, Mar 10 2024

Two club events this weekend. Saturday had eight of us on a trip to the White River Series in Peak Cavern. We were followed along Colostomy Crawl by three Notts Uni student cavers with similar plans to us. The large numbers made the climb up Block Hall very time consuming, so three Crewe and one of the Notts cavers decided to turn back. This team discovered a large block of clay had fallen and blocked the Trenches since the morning. To get out, they had to dig their way through, using SRT descenders as spades! The others explored the White River Series and took a look down Moosetrap, before descending the newly updated pull through rigging of the Ventilator pitches.

Sunday saw three people meet up with bat expert and TSG caver Jess Eades for a bat identification session in a mine adit by the Via Gellia. Two bats of different species were found and identified, so the day was a success! Thanks to Jess for a fascinating day. A full report will be in the next Newsletter.


Try Caving

Try Caving

We can arrange supervised caving trips for individuals, or for small groups, with all equipment provided. Our ability to do this was initially funded through a National Lottery grant. If you are interested, then please get in touch.


Peak District Rigging Guide

The CCPC Peak District Rigging Guide has moved on-line. The most comprehensive collection of SRT rigging topos for the Peak and free to use by all cavers. Accessible by clicking, or tapping the book below and via a link in the menu on any page.

CCPC Rigging Guide

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Caving Conservation Code

As a club we aim to minimise the impact we have on the cave environment by following the BCA Caving Conservation Code.

  1. Cave with care and thought for the environment.
  2. Disturb nothing whether living or geological.
  3. Avoid touching formations.
  4. Keep to marked routes and never cross conservation tapes.
  5. Take nothing but photographs.
  6. Do not pollute the cave, leave nothing behind.

Risk Statement

As a club, Crewe Climbing & Potholing Club (C.C.P.C.) recognizes that the activities undertaken by Club Members may involve a danger of personal injury or death. As participants in such activities, all adult Members of C.C.P.C. (including Temporary Members) must be aware of, and accept, these risks, and must be responsible for their own actions, and for their own safety. [CCPC Risk Statement. 01-01-2015]


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Alum Pot

Alum Pot. Photo © Gareth Williams 2022.


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