[ Caving trip list ]

Yorkshire Dales (Brackenbottom, 15th-23rd June '08), QUBCC

• Diccan (rigged)
• Alum Pot (SE route)
• Jingling (rigged cleft, exited direct)
• Routen (derigged top pitches)
• Bull Pot (was in flood, very wet at the bottom of the second-last pitch so exited)
• Simpson's pot (past the climbs and to the blind pot and back out)
• Kingsdale mastercave (to routen passage up to neck deep section, east passage and philosopers crawls to swinsto final chamber)

Fermanagh (ICRO), 18th-19th April '08

• ICRO rescue practice (Cascades) + moving into the new stores.

Fermanagh (QUBCC), 22nd-24th Feb '08

• Pidgeon pot (down to the bottom of the second pitch). Beginners SRT trip.

Wales (Mine exploration weekend), 15-17th Feb '08

• Cwmorthin-Oakley
• Croesor-Rhosydd
• Another mine up near the carpark for the above two trips

Clare (BCL training weekend), 8-10th Feb '08

• Poll Dubh (Group observation)
• Poll na gollum (Scope of BCL)
• Poll Dubh (incident handling)

Clare (ICRO practice), Dec 1st '07

• Cullaun 5

Fermanagh (Boho), DIT Freshers trip #2, 23-25th Nov '07

• Pidgeon pot
• Whitefathers

Clare (Lisdoonvarna, Sleepese hostel) DIT Freshers trip, 12-14th Oct '07

• Poll dubh. Through trip from south to north.
• Poll na gollum. In main stream down to the main junction, back out gunmans.
• Cullaun 2. Main stream down to close to the climb into the sump.

Fermanagh, 14th-16th September 2007

• Pidgeon pot (alternative entrance, now PBolted), ICRO practice.

Fermanagh, 27th-29th July 2007

• Reyfad (Access is still closed to all cavers! This visit was undertaken as part of an EHS project)
• Cascades. Myself/Aileen. Visited up and downstream sumps. Got slightly misplaced in the entrance series, but only briefly.

Fermanagh, Sat 16th June 2007

• ICRO Strether workshop (At the new climbing wall in gortatole)

Mallorca '07 (Canyoning trip). 12th-21st April.

• Coanegra (Easy, fun trip. Brian broke his foot :/) [les/aileen/ronan/john/brian]
• Coanegra. Whoa, entirely flooded! went swimming instead of doing the canyon! [big group!]
• Torrent de. paries (joins at bottom of sa fosca). Too flooded to descend! :/ Loooong walk back out. [les/john/kim/sal/alieen/geoff/ronan]
• Diners. Looooooong trip. Bit of a disaster (it went dark before we got out. nuff said). Entirely dry, apart from the end. [sal/aileen/john, kim/dave/laura]
• Biniaraix. Long walk up all those steps! Brilliant views though, and the canyon was fantastic. Probably the best trip![sal/kim/les,john/ronan/aileen]
• Almedra. Great fun, and had a couple of jumps! One was (or seemed) really big and was fantastic fun to do.[sal/john/aileen]

SCF April 6-9th '07 (Kilfenora)

• Kilcorney: Cave of the wild horses
• Pollballygonaun (Really quite good fun. Short trip, entrance right beside the road)

Yorkshire (YSS AGM 2006)

• (Finally) walked up pennyghent!
• Aquamole pot. great little trip!

Co. Clare (QUBCC Christmas trip '06, 15th-18th Dec 2006)

• Cullaun two. Did the round trip, but it was way too wet to climb down into the sump :(
• Poll Dubh. Ended up exploring the crawls downstream, instead of going upstream and doing the through trip :(
• Poll na Grai. Got as far as the faulted canyon passage on the far side of the crawl/stoop in canals.. and then turned back. QUBCC not impressed with clare caves!

Gouffre Berger (YSS '06 expedition, Autrans - France). Jul 30th - Aug 11th 2006.

• Tourist trip to camp 1 (John Gilbert, Les Brown, Aisling Mathews, Katie Walsh, Ronan O Cealachain, Aileen Connor). Tuesday August 1st. Approximately 9hours. Slow paced trip to camp 1, where we setup a hot point for Irish contingent to camp just up the great rubble heap from camp 1. Aisling and Katie remained there for the night, while the remainder of the group exited the cave. Water levels were incredibly low (there was no river at the bottom of Aldos!), and I got to camp 1 with dry feet. Discovered my Platypus had a leak. Very enjoyable trip.
• Bottoming trip. (John Gilbert, Ronan O Cealachain, Les Brown, Aileen Connor). Thursday 3rd August. Approximately 38hours. Continuing past camp 1 to the hall of the thirteen after a brief stop for food, we discovered all the gour pools had dried out. It was an incredible sight, albeit a little disappointing compared to that observed two years earlier. We continued down to the canals, where we discovered we needed to climb! up to the traverse lines -- the water was indeed low. I managed to get through the canals with dry feet, and at that point determined I would bottom the cave. My initial plan for this trip was to get as far as the canals, and probably turn back there given my memories of discomfort and cold from my previous berger bottoming trip. I got wet up to the waist at that horrible flowstone obstruction in the cascades, which themselves were very timid compared to my memory of them from the previous berger expedition. The last time I was there, I seriously considered turning back. This time, no such thought crossed my mind. We continued at a jolly pace to the bottom of the grand canyon, where we temporarily sat in our survival bags waiting for a group coming up from the bottom to finish a section of pitch climbing before we continued on down into the cave. Having reached the bottom of the houricane pitch I pushed on with Ronan to the start of the canals after the 1000m inlet, where some awquard traversing resulted in my getting thouroughly drenched. With the aim of having no reason to return to the berger, I set off for the pseudo siphon by myself -- Ronan refusing to get his feet wet after seeing my spectacular dowsing. I pottered down for a while until I reached a cascade into a pool of water with no obvious way down. I decided that was obviously the siphon (there were a few short bits of tat tied off and broken, which i presumed were the start of dive lines broken now by flood water), only to be told later by Pete of the YSS that you could climb up and traverse down and continue for another 100m. Oh well. Les and Aileen caught me at that point, and I then turned back ready for the ascent. After feeling a little daunted, I finally got going at a happy pace and myself and Ronan set off. Les caught us at the bottom of the grand canyon, where he waited for Aileen. Myself and Ronan pushed on then and at a steady pace (my speed, not Ronans since he had trained for the trip!) eventually got back to the camp site just in time to radio the surface with our status. We encountered a group that were setting up camp above vestiere (Pete, Pete, Ingrid) and another at the UK campsite at camp 1. After 8 hours sleep, we all 4 (for Les and Aileen soon arrived at the camp site) awoke at 11am in the morning. We were unsuccessful in using the radio to contact the surface (! still no idea what went wrong there), but the other two groups had exited the cave before us. The water in the cave had risen substantially, and when myself and Les arrived at the bottom of the little general it was obvious the weather outside had taken a real turn for the worse. Lake Cadeaux had appeared overnight, as had a second lake at the junction with Petzl galery which prooved awquard to traverse about. Les checked Aldos pitch and discovered it was tanking. At that point we decided we would have to settle in for a long sit out, and soon Ronan and Aileen arrived. We all stripped down and got into sleeping bags and our survival bags, and hibernated. At some point, about 3hours or so in, Les decided he was feeling energetic and set off for camp 1, with the aim of bringing up a few supplies for the sit out (food etc. which we had abanondend earlier that day). He contacted the surface, but on trying to return to us discovered that it would be dangerous to do so as the water had risen again. The bottom of Aldos (just outside, in the starless river) was now like sitting in a heavy rain shower. Not the nice place It initially seemed to be. Cold, wet and tired I was unable to sleep, although ronan was out for the count and so was Aileen (she keeled over ontop of me and remained there for the remainder of our 10hours of sitting out). Eventuially the rain seemed to clear and Ronan braved his wet clothes to go check the pitch. It was wet, but passable. We dressed, determined none of us were in a suitable state to go looking for Les, and exited the cave hoping he had made contact with the surface. We had not heard from him for over 7hours, and were slightly anxious that he were OK. When we got out, he had indeed made contact, and the girls (Aisling and Katie) had nice hot food for us. Derry and Alex provided dry wam clothes and sleeping bags, and we hopped into the tent to warm up. Shortly after becoming warm andresting, (about an hour), les arrived and was eager to set off for autrans to go to bed. We got back to the car, changed, and set off. The shop had just opened at about 6am when wearrived and all stocked up on food. Back at the campsite an extended shower was had by all 4 of us before going to bed. What a trip :). It was excellent fun, we were well equiped at all times, and despite being cold at the aldos sit out the entire experience was nowhere near as bad as my memories of the preivious bottoming trip I had made to the berger.
• Derig trip. (John Gilbert, Ronan O Cealachain, Aisling Mathews, John Moore, YSS guy (cant remember name)). Tuesday 8th August. Approximately 9hours. Myself, Ronan and Aisling got down to Vestiere. The others collected bags to sherpa out to the exit at Camp1 and set off while we deriged the cave from vestiere back to camp 1. I did vestiere and the calcice slopes, While ronan did the great cascade and balcony pitch. We broke the irish hot point, and with Erik the dutch caving machine set off for the exit. Neither myself nor Ronan could keep pace with him for long :). Nice trip, although quite tiring. Next expedition I will train. Seriously, I will!

Yorkshire (13th-17th July 2006)

• Penyghent pot (to the sump, finally!)
• Black shiver pot (only as far as the big pitch, had terrible headache)
• Lost johns (monastary route) to Boxhead via 'the tube'. Superb trip, derigged boxhead.

Clare (ICRO practice in June 16th-18th)

• Doolin river cave (eugh!)

Yorkshire (2nd - 11th June 2006). YSS.

• Sell gill (dry route - went as far as the ladder pitch up, and an unrigged pitch down after a long crawl)
• Sell gill (wet route)
• Ierby Fell (shaddow route and new route in entrance)
• Meregill (in mere entrance, as water was exceptionally low. got as far as bottom of canyon)
• Meregill (got to the crawls at the end of the cave after the inlet from black shiver. water very murky down there!)
• Diccan
• Alum Direct
• Gaping Gill Direct (amazing fun :))
• Flood entrance
• Penn y ghent pot (got down past niagra pitch before turning back)
• Heron pot

Fermanagh (April 28th-May 1st 2006) Agnahoo

• Noons (as far as arch 2, a few boulder chokes in). Laura, Aileen, Ash and Myself.
• Tullyhona. As far as the perched sump and the far side of fenian terror bypsas. Myself, Steve Bus and Ash.

Fermanagh (14th-17th April 2006. Student caving forum - the event on the island)

• Poll na gollum of the boats - all the way to the final chamber. Found entrance to windows passage.
• Poll na sumera.
• Cascades - visisted all sumps with Shannon & Sheran (from oz)
• Poll a raftra - Got to final sump/canall - found some frogs there :)
• Whitefathers. Last minute thing with DCU. Fun :)

Clare (16th-19th 2006 - March)

• Poll balinny (as far as brians squeeze with a hammer. its not any bigger though :/)
• Doneyvarden cave: Downstream and upstream to the second-last junction
• Poll dubh: throughtrip
• Upper poll na gollum: Bakers rift, downstream to teh waterfall, upstream to end of sort & long galeries.

Clare (4th March 2006)

• ICRO practice: Rigging at the cliffs@alide. Coastguard helicopter demo.
• Poll na gollum to poul elva (with les and ronan in an hour. beat the folks we met coming up poul elva to leave the site!)

Fermanagh (22nd Feb 2006)

• Helped sort out new ICRO store (shelves etc.)
• Cascades with Gaelan & Katie.

Fermanagh (4th Feb 2006)

• ICRO practice: Noons hole

Fermanagh (for new years 2005/2006)

• Poll na gossan ( :-) )
• Poll tullyard on ladders (it took 4). Shannon down to mid way.
• Whitefathers. Amazingly fast water and high levels.

Trinity freshers trip 2005: Fermanagh

• Marble arch cave (with an inflatable boat!)
• Poll na gollum of the boats

Fermanagh (13th August 2005)

• ICRO Vertical rescue practice. Noons hole rig for a haul.

Yorkshire Dales 2005 (BPC - June 13th - 19th)

• Jingling, down to the dig at the very bottom
• Rowten, down to the sumps
• Alum pot + Upper long churn (great fun)
• Easegill (Lancaster hole - wretched rabbit, also a quick look at the colinades)
• Tatham wife. GPS was very usefull in finding the entrance. Park at the quarry carpark, go up to the nick, over the style, off to the left and follow the wall until you veer off to the left. Entrance is in a doline where a stream sinks.
• Sell Gill (wet route). Walked right past the entrance and kept going until we ended up on the pennine way close to calf holes. Oops. (it was very foggy out)
• Yordas cave (amazingly wet and great fun!)
• Notts pot (central route). Walk back down past lost johns, and enter the field with a gate. follow the wall on the right hand side up past many dolines and eventually its off over the far side of the wall down in a depression where there are what look like a couple of dolines side by side.

Fermanagh (2nd-5th June 2005)

• Media relations course
• Tullyard-shannon cave (As far as georges choke). Very cool. Very loose :)

Doh.. missing several trips here to fermanagh.

Fermanagh (dates?)

• Dig in tullyard with les, oz, steves and ronan.

Clare (18th-20th Feb 2005)

• ICRO Practice. (Well, turned out to be a store inventory + cave file creation. Poll na gollum upstream (east passage to first survey point), and then did the round trip.

Fermanagh (DUPC/DCUCC). Beginners SRT trip. (Jan 28th-30th)

• Pidgeon pot.
• Prods.

Clare (DUPC+QUBCC Joint trip) 17th-20th December 2004

• Pollnagollum: Gunmans/muddylinks/BPG/Main junction/Main streamway
• Pollnagree: Down as far as the inlet sump.

Yorkshire (YSS. CHECC Symposium 2004). DUPC/QUBCC/DITCC. 26th-29th November 2004

• Sell Gill (Rigged goblin route. Properly this time!), came out fossil route
• Juniper Gulf (Finally got a trip to this cave! *VERY* good fun, and quite cold and wet at the bottom. We didnt go down the final little bit however owing to the time etc.) The derig was interesting in one or two places, and impromptu pull throughs were rigged twice for safety!
• We were going to do rowten, but someone didnt rig it before us as the claimed they would. Drove to the entrance and found no sign of anyone, so drove back and discovered they wimped out.
• Midnight trip to little hull pot on pennyghent. Drove to within 200m of the cave entrance, wearing full caving gear *nice*. Very cool trip, im surprized its not described better in the guidebooks, definately worth a return trip sometime.

Clare (DUPC): 8th-10th October 2004

• Coolagh river

Ogof Draenen (WA;es): HPCC, 2nd October 2004

• Round trip with dave.g elaine myself and frank. garry dropped out just after the entrance :(

Swildons Hole (Mendips): 15 September 2004 (HPCC)

• Beginners trip, up to old 40, pottered back to the ladder pitch, went all over the entrace ways and back out.

GB Cave (Mendips): 8th September 2004 (HPCC)

• Short trip into GB. In through the devils elbow, over the bridge, down to the somethingorother-pot, down to the ladder climb, and out the normal way.

Gouffre Berger (France): 20th - 30th August 2004 (Irish student expedition)

• First trip: Berger :: John, Derry, Steph, Larry. Double rigged entrace pitches. Derry & Steph turned back before Aldos, Myself and Larry continued. I was ill at camp 1 (possibly my drinking water got messed up?), and after an hours kip in my bivy bag was woken by some french guys on their way out from a the bottoming rigging trip. I started to make my way out, thinking larry would promptly follow but the arrival of Eoghan, Donal and Enda gave him an opportunity to delay for a while longer (i was sitting 1/2 way up the grand ebolis). Once larry made a move we managed to do a loop and end up back at the bottom of the grand ebolis. Larry decided to camp there for the night. I made my way out with a french guy (matthew) and was just about able to keep up with him. He zoomed on out once we got as far as the bottom of aldos. I was utterly wrecked, and Enda + co. caught up with me at gontards, so the remainder of my trip out was with some company (very much appreciated). Ive some vauge memory of letting another french guy pass me at gontards, giving me an opportunity for an extended rest (of which many were taken mid-rope-ascent!). On the way into the trip, rennauts (?spelling) girlfriend was VERY unhappy at the top of cairn pitch - even with my dodgey french i could make hat much out from my perch at the top of the holiday series, so i dropped down and attempted to reassure her as we got her off the pitch head. Derry tells me she was saying hail marys in french as she pclimbed ruiz and the entrance pitch - and i heard a lot of 'putan' comments, which im convinced must be some sort of swear!
• Second trip: dent de crolles :: Through trip from tru de glaz to guillers mort. Very fun. Very enjoyable. VERY COLD! Very gw:-)
• Via ferrata in Grenoble
• Second trip: Berger :: John, Les, Steve, Steve, Enda, Donal, Eoin (Jesus). Bottoming trip. All went to plan thankfully! As far as the canalls all was fine. The ropes in teh canalls made me thankfull that im light .. i do wonder how strong 6 pieces of core are, that have been in situe for probably several years. The cascades freaked me out a good bit, and i thought of turning back a few times. When we hit the top of hurricane Les turned back, and the noise was deafening (much worse than before), although when i looked at the pitch it didnt seem almost as bad as the grand cascade, so i went down it. At the bottom i took a leek and started straight back up to try and catch Les, id made the bottom of the pitches and id leave the sump viewing for another year :-) . The slog out was painfull. Not physically, as the exit from the first trip had been, but mentally (although initially i had little energy and motivation to derig), and was got quite cold at camp2, so staretd to leave. The cascades werent as bad on the way out as i immagined them, and the canalls only took a short while to get through -- much more enjoyable when youre not stuck in water up to your chest waiting for steve to move along :-) When we got the camp1 we went for a sleep - dry clothes and a sleeping bag from duncans kit bag. The timing was such that we would arrive out the next morning at about 11 o clock - with nice sun to enjoy. Dragging out three bags wasnt as bad as i had thought (mind i didnt end up with any heay stuff - just bulky things), and for the most part kept pace well with Les. The second part of the meanders killed me - Although i was so close to the entrance i really didnt mind at all. I ran into Duncan in them, and wanted to punch him for bouncing with such visible energy infront of me - although it was nice to run into a face having lost contact with les probably about 40mins before. Finally made it out at 12 o clock to the lovely sun, where Denise made tea and pampered us. A day of lounging in the sun before wandering out to the cars with _very_ sore feet.

Yorkshire: 12th - 20th June 2004 (BPC)

• Sell Gill - Wet route (Fixed rig) & fossil route
• Routen - Rigged in
• Ierby fell - Mna-mna.
• Hurnel moss - Rigged in
• Lost Johns - Rigged in
• Searched for Heron pot - but didnt find it!
• Alum

Fermanagh: 24th/25th April (Agnahoo)

• SUI Advanced SRT course. Quick review of rigging with a trip to the bottom of noons on sat. Rescue techniques done at the frame in gortatole on sun.
• Prods - Derig trip for Les' dig.

Fermanagh: Easter weekend 2004 (thurs-mon)

• Poll na gossan - up the climb into pirates passage. Didnt go past the choke though :(
• Marble arch - as far as the mexican passage and everything else i hadnt done. Caving during season in MAC is fun :)
• no more caving.. too much fun to be had :)P

Prolonged dry spell.

Due to that whole final year thing ive been excessively inactive. Perhaps ill get away some weekend soon.

Fermanagh: December 5th - 7th, Boho, DCUCC

• Noons: As far as arties chamber
• Prods: Rigged in, pottered up cascade inlet, the high-traverse into a few chambers, climbed a couple of avens and did a nasty crawl off from one of them in Formation passage. Also did a 'duck/free-divable sump' into formation passage which turned out to be unnecessary.

Fermanagh: October 31st - November 2nd

• Pidgeon pot: the dig: mud.

Boho, Fermanagh: DUPC freshers trip 2003

• Boho: Virgin circuit -> main sink -> maze -> out for lunch :)
• Cascades: Led in and only nearly got lost once! Managed to lead out fine too!
• Marble arch: Sooooo very little water! Went as far as legnabrockey way, down to lower cradle, and up to the main showcave entrance.

Doolin, Co. Clare: 3-5th October 2003

• Poll balinney: not as bad as expected, although there was a long stall for an hour as someone negotiated a narrow section of passage....
• Poll na gree: ICRO rescue practice. Rigged 'pitches' which would make nice textbook rigging if there were bolts in for Y-hangs..

Sept 20th: South Wales (HPCC)

• Draenen round trip (or not since we couldnt find the connection), 7hours in total, three of which were spent trying to find the way on from 4-ways..

Sept 4th: Mendips (HPCC)

• Trip down Manor farm swallet. Fun entrance pitch on ladder, and lots of fun free-climbs in the cave.

Aug 5th: S. Wales (HPCC)

• Trip into dranen as far as the megadrive. 3Hours 15mins, which was pretty OK time!

July 16th: Mendips (HPCC)

• Longwood august: Beginners trip for HPCC members. Did a mini-round-trip in the entrance series, going in the wet way, past swing-pitch and back out the dry way. Good fun, with a slightly constricted entrance squeeze before the little ladder pitch.

June 13th - June 23rd: Yorkshire (BPC Hut)

• Friday: Calf holes - Brow gill.
• Saturday: Rowten, Jingling
• Sunday: Penyghent pot
• Monday: Alum (Rigged direct, did diccan, derigged dolly-tubs)
• Tuesday: Ireby fell cave
• Wednesday: Ease gill (messed about in mistral for 5hours)
• Thursday: Lost Johns (Rigged all but the battle axe traverse)
• Friday: GG (Did a nice round trip. Mud hall is amazing!)
• Saturday: Marble steps (Rigged bottom two pitches, de-rigged cave)
• Sunday: Swinstoe - valley

May 31st - June 2nd: Fermanagh (Boho)

• Noons: The wet-route on the pitches, and went down into high noons left.

April 18th-21st 03: Student Caving Forum 2003 - Doolin, Co. Clare

• Cullaun I
• Cullaun II
• Poll na gollum : Cave rescue practice
• Cullaun V

April 11th-13th 03: Doolin, Co. Clare

• Coolagh River Cave (All of it, except for the connection from the bedding cave in poll donough to the main cave!)
• Fergus River Cave (Not quite all of it, we got lost in the bedding cave in gurgle chamber and did a huge circle!)
• Poll na gCeim (ooooooh can you say dodgey rigging? thats what you get when you trust a cave diver...)

March 14th-17th 03: Fermanagh [DCUCC]

• Cascades: visited all the sumps.
• Poll na gossan: down as far as mud hall. (I rigged the entrance pitches).
• Noons-Arch: ouch ouch.. the pain the pain! At the time its all OK. Crucifiction crawl is hard on the way out cos youre tired.

Feb 28th - 2nd March 03: Fermanagh [DUPC]

• Pigeon Pot: Down as far as les' dig & the 'traverse of death'!.
• Coolarkin
• Poll na gollum of the boats (er, rubber rings!).

21st - 23rd Feb 03: Fermanagh [DUPCish]

• ICRO Advanced Cave Rescue Rigging Course: Pigeon (rigged for hauling) on sat, Tyroleans, V-Rig and counter balances in Gortatole on the sunday.

31st Jan 03: Fermanagh [DUPCish]

• Poll pruglish - Poll na tagah : Tried both, but were too wet so we ended up in....
• Poll tullyard!
• MAC (in slit, out icc .. went as far as the wet wiggle).

17th Jan 2003: Fermanagh [DUPCish]

• ICRO Cave Rescue Rigging Course. Basic gear review, Z Rigs, floating pullies and doing it hands on in Gortmcgonnell pot.

28th December 2002: Fermanagh [DUPC]

• John Thomas - Was in flood with a rather deep sump. Did a bit of poking about, and ended up in Steves dig.
• Little Gortmcgonnel Pot - Easy trip to give Sean a chance to do something a bit harder than poll tullyard. Was well rewarded with home cooked Spag Bol. and very nice Apple tart & Ice cream!!
• MAC (to Skreen hill II)
• Arch Cave entrance (OK, so it doesnt count .. but we did it on new years day).
• Hanging rock entrances (Ditto as for the Arch Cave entrance).

30th November 2002: Fermanagh [DUPC]

• Prods (where was the 5th pitch? :-) .. and whats this about there being nothing at the bottom of the pitches??!).
• MAC (ICRO Rescue practice) .. just past the fly-over, as it was in floods & the water was rising.

22nd November 2002: Fermanagh [DUPC]

• Poll Tullyard (Rigged the pitch). Beginners SRT trip.
• Little Gortmcgonnel Pot (First two pitches. Someone got the time wrong and we left a few hours early!)
• Little Gortmcgonnel Pot (Part II: got to the bottom!).

8th November 2002: Cork [DUPC..ish (myself/brian, mark & sean)]

• Ovens Cave
• Mamoth Cave
• Beaumont Quarry Cave

19th October 2002: Clare (First freshers trip this year) [DUPC]

• Cullaun II: Main stream -> pool chamber, then back up old streamway. With a quick look up into year passage.

6th-8th October 2002: Clare [DUPC]

• Pol Dubh: ICRO Rescue exercise.
• Fisher st -> Aran view (at midnight!). Lots of fish, eels, and spiders eugh.
• Poll na gColm -> Poll elva. Man-eating horse in the poll elva field...

28th September 2002: Fermanagh [DUPC]

• John Thomas (As far as the gours. didnt dare go further). One muddy cave - thank god for the new power hose my mums bought :-)

18th Setpember 2002: Wales [HPCC]

• Aggen Alweed (Grand circle RT). Speed cavers wanted 5hours. Best i could do was 5hours 45mins. Home at 4 in the morning. Very tired. never again...

11th September 2002: Mendips [HPCC]

• Beginners trip into Swildons with Charles & Caroline, aswell as a bunch of other beginners i dont know. Short trip about the entrance series/40ft pot/20ft pitch for about 2hours.

4th September 2002: Wales [HPCC]

• Ogof Draenen. Went down towards where the round trip comes out onto the beyond a choke streamway. Only made it as far as the two chokes however before turning back.

28th August 2002: Mendips [HPCC]

• Swildons hole (Round trip). Now that the mud sump is bailable we attempted the round trip. Unfortunately Dave got stuck after the troubles in a squeeze that he was unable to pass, so we turned about and came back out the way we went in.

21st August 2002: Mendips [SBSS]

• Mangle hole. Longish ladder entrance pitch (used several ladders). Pain in the ass to extract the ladders from. For a tiny cave was a lot of fun!

14th August 2002: Mendips [SBSS]

• Shatter cave (Fairy cave quarry). VERY decorated cave, everything sparkles and virtually nothing is broken. Never have i seen a cave with so much conservation tape!

7th August 2002: Mendips (30min drive from Bristol) [SBSS]

• Swildons Hole (More or less directly down to sump 1 which was free-dived, then visited Tratmans Temple on way out).

2nd August 2002: Yorkshire (Camped first night, YSS second)

• GG (In/Out Bar, Photo trip into main chamber)
• Marble Steps (First two pitches. Had to leave then to catch train back to Bristol :( ).

14th June 2002: YSS hostel (Yorkshire)

• Sell gill (fossil route)
• Dow cave
• Rowten (first pitch)
• GG (In Stream, out flood)
• Rowton (bottomed to sump)
• Hurnel mos pot (on 9mm static :p)
• Ease gill (top-sink -> lancaster hole)
• Alum (Direct route :-))
• Swinstoe -> Valley (pull through trip)

7th June 2002: Rainbow hostel (doolin)

• Looked for moonmilk but didnt find it....
• Cullaun one
• Poll cragreagh
• Poulnagollum

SCF 2002: Bank holiday ending 1st april (boho)

• Noons hole
• Poll na gossan
• Poll na gollum (of the boats)

23rd November 2001: Second DUPC freshers trip (boho)

• Marble arch cave
• Poll tullyard

12th October 2001: First DUPC freshers trip (doolin hostel)

• Poul na gree
• Cullaun two

Summer 2001: Boho {Training trip for France}

• Poll pruglish - Poll na tagah (through trip)
• Whitefathers

Summer 2001: Camping {Birthday trip for ... someone}

• Doolan river cave (Fisher st. -> St Cathrines)

October 2000: First caving trip

• Poll dubh
• Looked for faunarooska but didnt find it..