YCC Blog
Ireby Fell Caverns
Matt Ewles | 16 June 2011
Not the most delightful weather for early June, but we arrived at Masongill at a very efficient 11am, in rain and cold wind. However, the rain was only forecast to be light, and it had been very dry recently, so we happily headed off down the traditional route of Ireby...
Top Sink - Lancaster Hole via Main Drain and Double Decker Pot
Matt Ewles | 18 April 2011
Finally nice to have the chance to complete this very satisfying through trip! Gary and I had done Top Sink to Wretched Rabbit last year and so we were confident in the routefinding. The guide in Not For The Faint Hearted is excellent. The only slight areas of confusion are...
Nick Pot (Thornber's Entrance)
Gary Douthwaite | 15 March 2011
A stunning SRT trip. Not the most exciting of caves, but it has to have the most spectacular shaft in the Dales, easily rivalling Titan (although maybe not quite as high)! Quite easy to locate the entrance, just off the three peaks path from Horton to Ingleborough. A short crawl lead...
Boggarts Roaring Holes
Matt Ewles | 28 February 2011
A great return trip to Boggarts. Quite a difficult cave to find, but it can be found just a couple of hundred metres along the base of the steep gritstone cap of Ingleborough. A GPS is highly recommended for the return trip as if the mist comes down during your...
Little Lechuguilla
Richard Gover | 6 February 2011
Little Lechuguilla really lives up to its name 8)8) Graveyard Series was great, never bothered with it before but really enjoyed it and the formations are great. Bit muddly after that up to Skittle Alley. Popped over to Fall Pot after hoping it would be a lake, but sadly not. Just...
Ogof Draenen to Sendero Luminosa
Richard Gover | 17 January 2011
An amazing trip. Fired up with enthusiasm after hearing about Mark, Andy V and Jennie visiting some of the far reaches last March we decided to visit War of the Worlds. A long (5h40 in, 5h out) trip, but not too demanding - just lots and lots of cave. The...
Lease Rigg Whinstone Mine and Christmas meal at Hutton-le-Hole
Matt Ewles | 7 January 2011
Note that members above were those on the mine trip. The Christmas meal itself was attended by 20 people from our club and the North York Moors Caving Club. A quick and easy trip around Lease Rigg Whinstone Mine provided just enough exercise to work up a thirst - and it was...
Rowten Pot (Gully Route)
Gary Douthwaite | 1 December 2010
After sacking off Car Pot due to lack of interest, the focus of the day was to a somewhat easier option in the form of Rowten Pot. My initial thoughts were that I wasn't interested in another trip down Rowten but the suggestion was made by Rich that we give...
Spectacle Pot P-Hangering
Matt Ewles | 17 November 2010
After our trip down Spectacle Pot in October 2009, this was a cave that was high on our priority list to return to and install P-hangers! Having completed the course, Mark and Gary were the installers and I was the bag carrier and general dogsbody! A team of Rich, Nikki,...
Robinsons Pot
Matt Ewles | 4 October 2010
A rather wet day saw the entire Dales in flood, and not surprisingly the river by Darnbrook Farm was a heavy torrent! Nontheless we made quick progress down the entrance. This was an unusual descent, with the entrance being a manhole cover right underneath Darnbrook Farm, with the cave actually being...
Rowten Pot
Matt Ewles | 4 October 2010
With the weather having been extremely wet all week, and heavy rain forecast for the entire day, we decided that a trip down Rowten would be fun and one of the few options open to us! We had the whole of Kingsdale to ourselves, with most cavers put off by...
Croesor Rhosydd
Matt Ewles | 21 July 2010
Report edited and updated following return trip in November 2011 Croesor Rhosydd - what an exciting adventure this was! Sunday morning was not a pleasant one - heavy rain and winds pummelled the tent all night, and by morning, visibility was low and the weather was atrocious! This had not been forecasted...
Hurnel Moss Pot
Matt Ewles | 11 July 2010
A very enjoyable trip down Hurnel Moss on a swelteringly warm spring day! I've been wanting to do Hurnel Moss for years, as it is one of the Yorkshire classics that I had yet to tick off my caving wish-list. I was expecting a good vertical adventure and I wasn't...
Dan-yr-Ogof
Nicola Gover | 8 July 2010
I've been wanting to do this cave for a very long time, but never got picked out of the (unsurprisingly) massive hat. Yey for weekends with small numbers of people! Bit of a sleepless night the night before as I hadn't used my new phone alarm before and was paranoid...
Ogof Carno to Whale Chamber
Tash Durham | 7 July 2010
Having not caved for a year Ogof Cano was a fairly harsh reintroduction, including plenty of flat-out crawling, stomping and climbing not to mention incredible amounts of mud! Even with a slightly faded caving memory it felt like a very distinctive system (of which we only scratched the surface!). The entrance...
Ogof Ffynnon Ddu (Top entrance - Selenite Tunnel - Main Streamway)
Gary Douthwaite | 7 July 2010
OFD is always fun but not sure I'll ever get used to the navigation around Top entrance! We left the leading up to Nikki but still managed to go around in circles several times before finding the way to Maypole Inlet. Not that I would have done any better and...
Ogof Carno to Whale Chamber
Gary Douthwaite | 7 July 2010
Carno, a cave I'd been looking forward to for ages, did not disappoint. It has to be the most unusual and interesting trip I've ever been on and I would recommend it to anyone. A good mixture of interest, easy and hard bits and a dash of excitement. Parking right on...
Ogof Draenen (Gilwern Passage to Hearts of Olden Glory Streamway)
Gary Douthwaite | 7 July 2010
Not really feeling like *another* Draenen round trip we decided to investigate another area - Strawberry Passage - or so we thought! With low water, the entrance was rather more pleasant than on previous trips with only a small amount of water going down the slot above the scaffolding. Still managed to get...
Ogof Draenen (Gilwern Passage to Hearts of Olden Glory Streamway)
Matt Ewles | 4 July 2010
A little bit of a mistake in this trip, which was originally intended to be Strawberry Passage! We headed down at midday via the pitch bypass to Cairn Junction. Looking at the survey (of which we only had a very small scale copy) it appeared that Strawberry Passage headed off to...
Dale Head Pot
Matt Ewles | 20 June 2010
We had a short but enjoyable trip down Dale Head Pot on Saturday. The cave is very easy to find, and the obvious entrance shaft can be rigged from metal stakes and a single bolt rebelay just over the edge (hidden by foliage). The bottom of the 5m shaft is horrible,...