Here is a very incomplete list of some of the trips the Eldon have been up to recently.
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- Written by: Chris Hibberts
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Team: Chris Hibberts & Rob Eavis
A few weeks had now passed since the last trip into the Far-left series of LWS swallet where a team had been in to open up the 3 squeezes that lead to the rift at the end. Tonight’s plan was to cap and dig the mud filled rift at the far end of the far left.
I picked Rob up on route to save taking 2 cars and after Pre caving Beers, accompanied by Mr Porky’s scratchings and nuts, we kitted up. Whilst discussing durability that modern caving suits seem to lack, Rob noticed, much to his amusement, that in the rush of getting his caving gear ready he had in fact picked up Katie’s over suit. Undeterred by Rob’s new fetish for cross dressing we head over to the entrance.
Beer and MrPorky's - By R. Eavis
It was turning out to be quite a leisurely affair as we made our way through the now very familiar parts of the cave. We stopped at the crawl that leads to the pitch head at the top of Brooklands to reminisce over the various trips that had made significant breakthroughs. It really was a team effort to get to where we had.
Chris H Brooklands Pitch - By R. Eavis
Down the pitch we ditched our SRT kits and made the climb up to what used to be the tight squeezes into the rift in the far-left series. After a short toilet break, we made our way to the end of the rift which was full of mud. At the bottom of the mud filled rift there is a hole which you can see on around 5m and down around 2m, down just gets way too tight. So, the plan was to use the newly acquired shovel to removed enough of the mud higher up, where it was much wider, to obtain a better view through the gap to see if the way on higher up opens up.
Chris 'the piss' Hibberts - By R. Eavis
Removal of the mud turned out to be quite easy at first, and after pushing some of the spoil forward through the gap at the bottom it just disappeared down the rift falling quite a considerable way. Rob commented that this was now like no digging that he had- done before, it was digging without having to worry about what you did with the spoil. Just the kind of dig TA are down for. Although the mud was coming out easily it was now body position that was causing an issue, and we had to keep taking mud out above. In essence we were now creating a coffin level through mud, the shovel marks on the rock looking like t’owd man pick marks.
Far left's new Coffin level - By R.Eavis
We took digging in turns of 5-10 minute stints, alternating the attack from the left side to the right side and after around 1hr we had made quite considerable progress of around 2m into the rift. Exiting the dig was getting a little tricky as some of the spoil had now turned into a thick gloop which tried to remove your wellies the second you stood in it. The top of the dig was getting wider, but the goal was to get the hole at the bottom opened up. With another 30 mins of digging Rob, lay down at the floor of the dig, finally managed to get far enough forward to get some of the mud to fall. Helmet off he managed to squeeze his head through….. “Oh No It doesn’t look good”. These were not the words I wanted to hear.
After looking through the gap, down just got tighter and tighter, forward looked like it hit a mud wall, and up was just full of mud. Looks like this is the end of the digging and the end of the road for the far-left. At this point we could both hear the faint calling of the Mechanics and decided it was time to exit and quench our thirst for beer. Rob had also now coined a new TA saying..."We know when to fucking give up...."
The end at the end - By R. Eavis
Such a shame that this cave looks like it’s not going to give up the miles of master cave that should be lurking below, it now looks like the only glimmer of hope is to carry on the arduous work of capping the floor in the Narrows in the far right….
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- Written by: Jeff Wade
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Grace aux chaussons néoprènes de JP on a survécu la sortie…
Il faisait froid dehors, moins quelque chose, donc un temp idéel d’aller sous terre avant la réunion mensuelle du club au ‘Mechanics’ à Eyam à côté. Une sortie à Flower Pot était prévue, mais pour ma part je ne savais pas où dans le réseau de Carlswalk on va aller.
En arrivant au parking pour quelques pré-bières au chaud, deux équipes se forment ; un qui va agrandir une fissure qui va shunter un boyau pénible pour aller facilement vers le fond de Clog Passage depuis Flower Pot, et le deuxième équipe (que je faisais parti) va aller vers Dynamite Rift qui était très peu visité depuis sa première exploration et qui pourrait avoir les points d’interrogation à reprendre.
À ce moment là j’ai rendu compte que cette sortie sera très aquatique, et Jon Pemberton de ‘équipe 1’ m’a prêté ses chaussons néoprènes, comme il va aller aux galléries sèches. Quel ange !
Pour arriver au Dynamite Rift il faudra traverser les Dynamite Series qui consistent de plusieurs salles (Midnight, Success et Dynamite Chamber) avec les boyaux aquatiques entre eux. Grace de Rob et Joe, j’ai eu la chance à faire celui le plus aquatique en premier qui commence avec une étroiture qui s’ouvre sur un angle droit et un petit boyau plus que la moitié rempli avec de l’eux car il a bien plu pendant les derniers jours. J’ai enlevé mon casque et puis avancé tout doucement au dos pour garder la bouche dans l’air, il avait un bon 10 à 15cm d’espace d’air, donc ça va. Par contre, les chaussons néoprènes de Jon n’étaient pas suffisamment pour autant d’eau, et moi comme les autres nous étions bien trempés.
On a vite fait avancer vers notre objectif du jour Dynamite Rift, et Rob a attaqué le puit montant décrit dans les mémoires de John Beck comme un point intéressant. En haut, Rob a trouvé un tout petit boyau qui part avec malheureusement très peu d’intérêt. On a fouillé dans les alentours de ce puits montant mais il avait les pincements dans la gallérie phréatique qui se forme quelques mètres au-dessus le sol sans suite.
Par contre la gallérie continuait tout droite vers le nord-ouest jusqu’une flaque d’eau. J’ai eu la chance d’y aller en premier dans de l’eau bien fraiche pendant que les autres m’attendaient. La fissure assez rectiligne jusqu’à ce point-là viendrait s’ouvre sur un laminoir au plafond qui part à gauche avec quelques fistuleuses, et au sol il avait du sable bien colmaté où quelqu’un avant avait creusé. En lançant les cailloux il me semblait qu’il avait un petit réseau tout à gauche, mais c’était impossible à voir, et il avait un plafond pas de trop stable car quelqu’un avait mis en place deux barres de fer assez optimistes. Dans la fissure en amont, et la flaque d’eau, il avait un fort courant d’air aspirant qui était perdu en rentrant dans cette petite salle à la fin. En cherchant j’ai trouvé une lucarne en haut à droite qui prend le courant d’air et qui va suivre la faille sans doute.
On était gelés, donc on est filé vers l’entrée pour voir comment les autres avaient avancé. Ça faisait des années depuis j’avais fait le Porth Crawl, et pour les trouver on était presque obligé le prendre, et on a bien chauffé là dans.
Malheureusement l’autre équipe n’avait pas fini, et on était coincé. Joe nous a dit << j’entends les frissons >>, pour ma part j’étais en train de me cailler ! Après dix minutes de bruit du frissonne et perfo, la fissure était agrandie par les autres, et delà les explorations à l’avenir à Clog Passage peut être fait sans stress et peur des étroitures difficiles.
Tout ensemble on est sortie vers une nuit gelant, et puis le Mechanics pour quelques verres bien mérités et la demi-finale aux fléchettes sur le grand écran !
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- Written by: Victoria Kocher
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Well it was a busy week of festivities and I wanted to thank everyone for making the effort and spreading the cheer. Eldon Pothole Club met up in the Peak hotel for a fine meal and catch up. It was great to see those that were able to make it and BOB TOOGOOD too . Lucky us . We stopped by that other club in Castleton to spread our cheer… some stayed late and spread all kinds of stuff.. allegedly.
The Tuesday nighters made it out for our Christmas Caving. The food was wonderful and the company even better . Many different clubs are represented in this group and we all bring a different bit of expertise to each trip out. If you could not make it it is ok .. but make it soon . Let’s keep it up for the New Year! Happy holidays and cave on x
- Gentlewoman's to Youds - 5/11/2024
- Searching for the Aussie - 19/09/2024
- Knotlow Bung - 12/09/2024
- Medals down Whalf - 29/08/2024
- Great Stoney Traverse - 11/07/24
- Akrasia – 04/04/2024
- 3rd Time's a Charm - Gentlewoman's to Ringing Rake through trip - 14/03/2023
- Gentlewomen’s Shaft to Youd’s Level – we will be back!
- Starlink to Jupiter – 18/01/2024
- Winter Evening Giants Round Trip - 11/01/2024
- La Trampa Del Pug - 05/11/2023
- Winnats Head - 16/10/2023
- Castle Town Caving - 04/10/2023
- Sliding in the mud in Merlin’s Mine - 18/7/23
- Giants Round Trip - 27/06/2023
- TSG and SUSS Conquer the Stoney Middleton Master Cave - 10/06/2023
- Tour de Dynamite - 11/05/2023
- Red Salopettes - 29/04/2023
- Catching a Worth While Shuttle - 30/03/2023
- The long-awaited return to MG – 04/05/2023
- Change of Plan - Notts II – 30/04/2023
- Looks crap but he's happy - 20/04/2023
- Clatterways Levels - 14/03/2023
- The Titan Streamway vs Jon, Jim and Ben - 05/03/2023
- Titan through to Peak - 04/03/2023
- Don’t just chuck it in! - 16/02/2023
- Notts II - 15/01/2023
- Gaping Gill / Victoria’s Sponge – 14/01/2023
- Tuesday Nighters out on a Wednesday - 04/01/2022
- Peak Showtime Spectacular – 15/12/2022
- No Warmth, No Dogs, No Messing – 03/12/2022
- The Wrong Rope Grommit - 24/11/22
- Giants Hole with a splash of H2O and Rn - 17/11/2022
- Tasting the Forbidden Fruit – 3/11/2022
- Bruce Lee, Fairy Liquid and an SRT Dildo – 14/10/2022 – 16/10/2022
- Moorwood Sough - Tuesday nighters, again on a Thursday - 01/09/2022
- Trip out to Carlswark Cavern - 21/07/2022
- Buxton Carnival 2022
- Aygill Caverns - 26/06/1988 (+34 years)
- An Ease Gill Traverse - 25/06/2022
- Potholderz - 02/06/2022
- Waterways Swallet -Tuesday Nighters 18/05/2022
- Knickers, Nickergrove and Schrodinger’s Streamway - 05/05/2022
- Tuesday Split - 26/04/2022
- It was a Monday crawl - 04/04/2022
- Hillocks – Wharfe climbing shaft to Knotlow – climbing shafts
- Bagshawe New Bits - 08/02/2022
- Follow the Leader - 01/02/2022
- Lockdown 2.0 - Cackle Mackle Mine - 12/11/2020
- Arbour Seats Surveying - 21/01/2020
- Nenthead weekend - 5-6/10/2019
- Lingards Cave - 04/07/2019
- On How the Eldon ruined the Cow Pot survey, Matienzo - November 2015
- Derbyshire Hall - 22/12/18
- Solo Aboard the Gravy Train - 6/12/18
- Went Boom – 29/11/2018
- Sidetracked by Science - 09/11/2018
- Youth of Tomorrow 9/9/2018
- Ricklow Cave - 2/7/2018
- Dr Jackson's Survey - 07/06/2018
- Newburgh Level - 13/03/2018
- A Game of Thrones - 22/12/2017
- Rowter Xmas trip - 16/12/2017
- Absolution - 12/11/17
- Cripple Creek - 04/11/2017
- Flat Out Walk - 09/11/2017
- A point of engulfment - 07/09/2017
- A bit on the side - 19/07/2017
- Boulder Pot - 14/07/2017
- Englands Green & Pleasant Land - 01/06/2017
- Hollywood Bowl - 17/02/2017
- Picnic Passage 16/11/2016
- Paternity's Fault 15/05/2016
- Carlswark 06/05/2016
- Swildons Hole 01/04/2016
- JH to Peak 16/03/2016
- Mountbatten Pot 21/04/2016
- Trapdoor Pot 20/02/2016
- Giants Hole 30/01/2016
- Ireby Fell Cavern 23/01/2016
- Neptune Mine 19/01/2016
- Stream Passage Pot to Corkys - 23/05/2015
- Water Icicle - 07/05/2015
- Crusader - 03/02/2015
- Water Icicle - 27/03/2014
- Rowter - 20/03/2014
- Titan Streamway Survey Trip - 01/06/2013
- Western Highway - 29/03/2013
- P8: Ben's Dig - 27/06/2009
- Hungerhill Swallet - 22/06/2009
- Nickergrove Mine - 20/06/2009
- Daren Cilau - 20/06/2009
- Nettle - 13/06/2009
- Juniper Gulf - 12/06/2009
- Maskhill - Oxlow Exchange - 29/01/2009
- Titan/J.H./Peak Cavern - 17/01/2009
- Fireset Shaft - 06/01/2009
- Ivy Green Cave - 24/11/2008
- Marilyn and Gaping Gill - 15/11/2008
- Carlswark Cavern (Dynamite Series) - 08/10/2008
- Carlswark Cavern (Dynamite Series) - 08/09/2008
- Eyam Dale House Cave - 07/09/2008
- Nickergrove Through Trip and Carlswark Cavern - 07/07/2008
- Gentlewomans to Youds Through Trip - 29/05/2008
- Bagshawe Cavern - 28/02/2008
- Craig a Ffynnon, South Wales - 16/02/2008
- Bradwell Dale and Bagshawe Cavern Clean-Up - 09/02/2008 & 10/02/2008
- Brown Hill Pot, East Kingsdale, Yorkshire - 09/02/2008
- Bagshawe Cavern in Flood - 21/01/2008
- South Gully Route, Eldon Hole - 20/01/2008
- Caplecleugh to Rampgill Through Trip, Nenthead Mines, Cumbria - 19/01/2008
- Full Moon Series, Bagshawe Cavern - 17/01/2008
- Peak Cavern Entrance to Titan Through Trip, Peak/Speedwell - 13/01/2008
- Titan, Far Sump Extension, Peak/Speedwell - 12/01/2008
- Cwmorthin Mine, N. Wales - 06/01/2008
- Croesor-Rhosydd Through Trip, N. Wales - 05/01/2008
- Cathedral - Dome Route, Lost Johns Pot, Yorkshire - 29/12/2007
- Notts Pot, Leck Fell, Yorkshire Dales - 27/12/2007
- Hungerhill Swallet - 20/12/2007
- Hungerhill Swallet - 17/12/2007
- King Pot, East Kingsdale, Yorkshire - 17/11/2007
- Hungerhill Swallet - 30/10/2007
- Winnats Head Cave - Downstream Pitches - 29/10/2007
- New Oxlow Extensions - 18/10/2007
- Lu Blue Sump and the Streaks Pot through trip - 05/10/2007
- Crumble/Beza route, Nettle Pot - 29/09/2007
- Western Highway, Far Sump Extension, Peak/Speedwell - 24/09/2007
- Filthy Five Pitches, Giants Hole - 20/09/2007
- Perryfoot Cave - 18/09/2007
- North Gully route, Eldon Hole - 18/09/2007
- Dr Jackson's, Perryfoot and the Dr Jackson's - Perryfoot Connection - 17/09/2007
- The Ride of the Valkyries, Far Sump Extension, Peak/Speedwell - 14/09/2007
- P8 to downstream sump - 14/09/2007
- Dr Jackson's Cave - 11/09/2007
- Hypothermia Crawl, Rowter Hole - 07/09/2007
- Heron Pot, Kingsdale, Yorkshire - 02/09/2007
- Giants - Oxlow Connection - 30/08/2007
- Swinsto -> Valley Entrance Pull-through, Kingsdale, Yorkshire - 26/08/2007
- Gingling Hole, Fountains Fell, Yorkshire - 25/08/2007
- Rowter Hole - 20/08/2007
- Buxton Water Aven, Peak Cavern - 06/08/2007
- Buxton Water Aven, Peak Cavern - 31/07/2007
- James Hall's Over Engine Mine (J.H.) - 29/07/2007
- Eldon SRT Rescues/Problem Solving Day, Pindale Farm - 28/07/2007
- Dan Yr Ogof, South Wales - 23/06/2007
- Giants Hole - Novice trip - 23/06/2007
- Grange Rigg Pot, Yorkshire - 30/05/2007
- Rowten Pot, Yorkshire - 29/05/2007
- Ireby Fell Extensions, Yorkshire - 26/05/2007
- Oxlow to bottom of Maskhill - 22/05/2007
- Knotlow Climbing Shaft - 16/05/2007
- DCRO Practice, Stoney Middleton - 13/05/2007
- P8 to Sump 4, Derbyshire - 02/05/2007
- Buxton Water Aven, Peak Cavern - 02/01/2007
- Waterways Swallet, Derbyshire - 13/11/2006
- Daren Cilau, S. Wales - 10/11/2006
- Bar Pot -> Gaping Gill Main Chamber, Yorkshire - 09/12/2005
- Tatham Wife Hole, Yorkshire - 08/12/2005
- Juniper Gulf, Yorkshire - 24/10/2005
- Swildon's Hole, Mendip - 19/04/2003
- Crumble and Beza, Nettle Pot - 06/03/2003
- Bagshawe Cavern - 21/01/2003
- Hillocks Mine - 16/01/2003
- Sidetrack Cave - 04/01/2003
- Birks Fell Cave, Wharfedale - 21/09/2002
- Lancaster Hole -> Wretched Rabbit, Lancaster Easegill system - 27/04/2002
- Croesor-Rhosydd - 02/06/2002
- Eldon Training Workshop - 27/01/2002
- Braida Stomp Weekend (Tatham Wife Hole & Lower Long Churn) - 24/11/2001
- Eyam Dale House Cave - 09/08/2001
- James Hall’s Over Engine Mine (J.H.) - 21/01/2001
- Jug Holes - 29/12/2000
- Lancaster Hole - 18/11/2000
- Bar Pot - 18/11/2000
- Ogof Ffynnon Ddu (OFD), South Wales - 24/09/2000
- Little Neath River Cave - 23/09/2000