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Mon, May 12 2025
Five were underground with the club for a trip to the Gaping Gill system under Ingleborough. We descended Bar Pot and followed the usual route to visit Main Chamber. The prolonged dry weather had reduced the usual fall of water in to the chamber to a relative trickle and the usual draught in the passages approaching the chamber was missing. The Bradford Pothole Club had set up the winch and were starting to install lighting here for their upcoming winch meet. We briefly met one of their members in the chamber, before he returned to the surface in the winch cage. We took a diversion to look at Sand Cavern on the way back to the base of Bar Pot. Exiting and derigging Bar Pot was soon accomplished and everyone managed the sometimes awkward entrance pitch head without problems. The walk back down to Clapham was the usual slog, but this time in sunshine, rather than the more common sideways sleet! We had all emptied our water bottles by this point, so the promise of a trip to a pub, strictly for rehydration purposes, was an added incentive. Some photos from Grace.
Mon, Apr 14 2025
AAnother new to the club cave. Fiveways Pot on Dowlass Moor. This replaced the Millwr Tunnel trip, which has been put back till later in the year. Four club members and a GPS gadget to find the entrance. After the awkward entrance series, the descent to the sump was relatively straighforward. Around four hours spent underground, but a longer than usual walk too and from where the vehicles were parked. Some photos from Gaz.
Tue, Apr 1 2025
On Saturday we descended Curtain Pot, on Fountains Fell. A tough trip, made slightly easier by being able to use someone else's ropes. Thanks for letting us use them. Some photos from Gaz.
Tue, Mar 19 2025
We visited this Yorkshire pot on Saturday, getting to the ducks and possibly the sump at the bottom. Some photos from Gaz.
Tue, Mar 4 2025
Sunday saw us visiting Goodluck Mine , by the Via Gellia. Many thanks to the fine folk there for showing us round.
Tue, Feb 18 2025
We reached the bottom of Marble Steps Pot on Sunday, via the Gully and 90' Pitch routes. Met up with a couple of guys doing a digging project on the way out. Six members on this trip. Some photos from Gaz.
Tue, Feb 4 2025
A trip to P8 on Saturday, with three members visiting Ben's Dig to look at the progress Sheffield University Speleological Society (SUSS) have made. They have removed an impressive depth of mud!
The rigging guide topo for P8 has a small alteration. The length of rope recommended for the true second pitch has been increased to 18m.
Sun Jan 19 2025
A change of plan. Instead of the scheduled trip to Longcliffe Mine, we decided to do the trip that was cancelled by snow earlier in the month. Seven of us went underground on a cold and misty day in Maskhill Mine. We descended to West Chamber, where we found TSG member Luke Brock preparing to dive a sump at the end if an inlet between the West Antechamber and West Chamber. Gaz and Jenny went out via the already rigged Oxlow entrance. The others returned via Maskhill.
In Wharf Climbing Shaft, Gaz McShee has continued to remove rocks dropped by vandals during the summer that were blocking the way on in to the rest of the system.
Sun, Jan 5 2025
Lots of snow and an amber weather warning lead us to abandon the planned trip today.
Sat, Jan 4 2025
The rigging guide has two changes.
We would like to apologise for the CCPC web site outage over Christmas. All should now be back to normal.
Alum Pot. Photo © Gareth Williams 2022.