By Tom Bell On 31st October I got a second look around Ogof Draenen’s gigantic system on a digging trip to the Dolimores series alongside Peter (a chap from Hampshire), Trevor (a friendly local) and three Aberystwyth Uni student cavers, Oli, Henry and Rich. After getting ourselves optimally wet in...
By Henry Rockliff The trip last week on tuesady had 5 of us head down for a good dig. we got about 70 buckets. It continues up steadily and is all looking good. We broke the pick axe! And wore a hole in one of the buckets and there is...
By Imogen Furlong Well its been a while since I did any caving on Mendip, and I’ve always found Eastwater cavern to be really rather grim and scary. The last time I went down Eastwater in fact was 10 years ago, and I thought I’d never go down again. But,...
by Henry Rockcliff On saturday myself and Edd got 50 bukets out, which was pretty good for 2 of us (thanks edd for doing the bulk of the hauling). The passage is still going up nicely, digging might be geting a bit easier, (less hard packed gravel). I have made some new improvements (soon to...
By Tim Webber (taken from Tim’s website) Situated in a significant Shakehole not far from Long Rake Mine, (200m deep) on Bradwell Moor, Crem was first investigated by Monty Grainger in1939. EPC dug it further in the 50s and SUSS had a go during the 70s, spured on by two...