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September Caving Expedition  Jason Mallinson saw me in Bernies one day in February and mentioned that he was going to dive some sumps at the bottom of Bu56 – a 1300m deep cave. As I was already signed up for Hils trip I thought another slog down a cave with a load of diving gear sounded right up my street!
It soon became apparent that Jason wasn’t organising a small team of dedicated cavers – but was involving the whole YSS in this massive undertaking. This wasn’t really my scene but I gave in and begrudgingly joined the YSS along with quite a few cavers from other clubs. As time rolled on the plan changed and it became clear that a second diver would be useful – at least for surveying, bolting and taking pics. I thought it might be my chance – but I could only manage 1 week off and Jason was going to be in Spain for 3 weeks! I therefore suggested to Phil that he ought to talk to Jason and was quietly very pleased that a BEC man would also be diving in the cave! Meanwhile as I could only do one week I volunteered for the final week and the de-rig. |
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Last Updated ( Tuesday, 14 October 2008 )
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Picos - Summer 2008 |
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 Picos – Texa Before Christmas, Hilary Greaves persuaded me to join her on an expedition to the Picos, along with Tony Seddon to dive some sumps at the bottom of a 900m+ deep cave.
By the time we departed in July the team had grown to include quite a few of my friends – a team of Irish cavers, Phil Rowsell, Simon Cornhill, Rich Bayfield, Pete Whitaker, Will Stewart and various other people. Along with Rich Bayfield and Will – I was heading out for the last two weeks of the trip to pick up any diving leads left and help de-rig the cave. Knowing that I might be limited with my diving or not get any at all I did a lot of research on Culiembro – the resurgence for the area – incase we had any spare time. As the team were already in Spain I managed to get a txt from Hils before I left telling me the score – that the main sump had gone deep (43m by Tony S), that one had been bypassed and that the final upstream one had been passed and a dry passage explored to a waterfall. My mission was therefore to go out – get straight down the cave and up the waterfall!! |
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Last Updated ( Thursday, 09 October 2008 )
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22nd and 25th Septemeber |
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P8
On my second diving trip down this cave the water levels were much lower. I’d previously stashed a 7 ltr cylinder and carried in another today so that I would have plenty of gas. I found the line I’d laid last time in the middle of the dry passage leading upto sump 4 and climbed down the ladder into the sump. This was open and fairly pleasant. On the far side sump 5 was closed and so I dropped my kit off and went up over the bypass. Sump 6 stank of diesel and I swam around in the pool here trying to feel the floor with my feet. I then followed the cresta run upto the start of sump 7 before heading out and home. Hurtle – The Deep
I finally got to put my new deco skills (and card to buy deco gas) to good use by making to the end (well almost) of the deep in Hurtle. I used EANx28 for a bottom gas and EANx78 for deco. Spent 1hr and 40mins in the water. |
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Last Updated ( Monday, 13 October 2008 )
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23rd. 24th, 25th August |
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August Bank Holiday – P8, Bagshawe and Ireby Fell Three days of caving… what to do with all that time!! Predictably the weather wasn’t the best and With my various caving friends occupied in other placed I had a bit of a mixed weekend. On Saturday I dived in P8 assisted by Mandy Fu. The water level was very high but as I’d never dived there before I didn’t have anything to compare it to. After the first three sumps I walked along the passage to sump 4 and was surprised to find no line in the water. Fortunately there was an old line reel back in the preceeding passage. After clearing the mud off this I decided that it wasn’t in too bad condition (although it wouldn’t spin). I lined into the sump but..... |
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Last Updated ( Tuesday, 07 October 2008 )
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30th-31st August |
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Wigmore again…John Maneely and I visited the end of the cave and made a surprising amount of progress – we dug through two obstructions and regained the streamway – although we were still in the boulder choke. John let one final snapper off before we retreated for beers. On Sunday I carried for John and he dived the landing sump in Swildons – the line had long since been removed from here so he replaced this and belayed to two hastily constructed silt screws – made by me outside the Wessex changing room. |
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Last Updated ( Tuesday, 07 October 2008 )
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Wigmore and White Pit |
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After returning from the Picos I heard that Wigmore was sounding very promising and wanted to get back down. So we planned a trip for Sat 9th August. However the weather had other plans and when we woke up the rain was torrential. Instead therefore we had to content ourselves with another photo trip, this time in the cave before the sumps and dropping off diving kit for another time. One the Sunday our Wigmore frustrations led us to White pit as a potential sump might be opened up here after a lot of digging. The following weekend – Belfry BBQ weekend we planned another Wigmore trip but if anything is guaranteed to provide crap weather then it is a BEC BBQ! So once again we were down White Pit – this time with enough ladders…. And so we started work on the new sump pool! |
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