... Newly aquired Cave Surveys
and misc. items ... Newly aquired Cave Surveys
and misc. itemsNOW SOLD OUT - awaiting
Re-Print
Newsletter: Vol. 46 No. 4 (October 2009)
News-Sheet: No. 250: (January 2010)
For the latest club news-sheet mambers may click on the "NEWSSHEET" link on web page left hand panel
Journal: No. 10 (1993-2009): (December 2009)
Available from the club at £20 + £5 postage
CONTENTS:
Editorial Paul Swire 6
The Early Days of the Red Rose Cave and Pothole Club Tom Sykes 8
WHARFEDALE:
Mossdale Caverns - In Search of Gripper’s Rift Paul Swire/Neil Pacey 9
Stukbar Pot, Langstrothdale Dave Ramsay 13
GRETADALE:
Jinglepot Hole Ben Young 15
FOUNTAINS FELL and PENYGHENT:
Echo Pot – Far Away in Time Paul Swire 16
Other work on Fountains Fell Paul Swire 18
Penyghent Pot - Kaboom Aven Pete Hall 18
Penyghent Pot - Interdiction Mike Cooper 20
Penyghent Pot - Eerie Pot Paul Swire 21
Penyghent Pot - Too Long Gone Rich Gerrish 21
INGLEBOROUGH:
Work in Gaping Gill Neil Pacey & Paul Swire 25
Dowlass Moss Hugh St.Lawrence 26
Five Ways Pot Hugh St.Lawrence 28
Fulcrum Pot Hugh St.Lawrence 30
Loose Pot Hugh St.Lawrence 30
Stock Pot Hugh St.Lawrence 30
Trapdoor Pot Hugh St.Lawrence 31
Boggarts Roaring Holes Hugh St.Lawrence 38
Gritstone Sink Rich Gerrish 41
Mudfoot Hole Hugh St.Lawrence 42
Canary Pot Simon Jobling 45
Minor Digs and Caves Hugh St.Lawrence 46
Dowlass Summary Hugh St.Lawrence 47
Jenkin Beck Cave Ray Duffy 48
Goesunder Pot - White Scars Ray Duffy 49
Ten Pound Gill – Jane Eyre? Mike Hale 50
Bilberry Pot - Chapel-le-Dale Ray Duffy 51
Black Slither Pot, Double Bucket Pot and Tin Pot Two Paul Swire 55
RIBBLEHEAD:
Ribblehead Dig, Blea Moor Cave Mike Hale 57
SCALES MOOR and EAST KINGSDALE:
OS Pot Hugh St.Lawrence 57
Crescent Pot Neil Pacey 59
Various Hugh St.Lawrence 60
Brown Hill Pot - Par Dessus Mike Cooper 60
WEST KINGSDALE and MARBLE STEPS:
Green Laids Pot (McShea’s Mine) Dave Ramsay 61
Marble Steps Pot Pete Hall 65
Rift Pot - Temple of Doom Series Pete Hall 65
Tow Scar Cave Bill Sherrington 66
LECK FELL:
Ireby Fell Cavern
East Inlet Dave Ramsay 67
True Grit, Glory Holes Dave Ramsay 68
The Glory Holes - Cripple Creek, a dry route into Ireby II Paul Swire 71
North East Inlet and Adulterer’s Passage Pete Hall 75
The Bolton Extensions Mike Hale 76
The Story of Bubbles Simon Jobling 77
NOTTS II:
A Dry Way In Andy Walsh 79
Committee Pot Breakthrough Dig Rich Gerrish 81
Passchendaele Area Dave Ramsay 83
Inlet 7, Oliver Lloyd Aven Dave Ramsay 89
The Truth about Voldemort Hole anon. 96
Showerbath Inlet Rich Gerrish 99
Green Tape Inlet Aven Extension Paul Swire 100
Hard Enough in Notts II Bill Sherrington 102
Brown Trousers in Inlet 14 James Carlisle 106
Lost John’s:
Tantrum Aven Paul Swire/Neil Pacey 110
Work in Boxhead Pot Mike Hale 110
Short Long Drop Cave Dave Ramsay 111
Caving Sans Le Welly Paul Windle 113
Pippikin Pot:
The Exploration of Smashing Inlet and Bye George Pot Pete Hall 115
Beelzebub’s Hairy Ringpiece - Entering the Devil’s Arsehole Dave Lacey 122
The Big Mean Porridge Machine Pete Hall 125
Svengland Andy Whitney/Hugh St.Lawrence 131
Further work in the Misty Mountain Series Neil Pacey 135
Electric Winegum (I and II) Paul Swire 136
Red Wall Chamber Sam Lieberman 136
Bargain Passage, The Hobbit Paul Wilkinson 137
Muddier than Mud Itself Dave Ramsay 137
Far Streamway James Carlisle 139
Link Pot:
Rose Tinted Passage Dave Ramsay 141
Echo Crawl - ‘Wrestling Alligator’ Neil Pacey 141
Misery Street Neil Pacey 143
D’oh Hole and Previously Enjoyed Hole John Baker 144
EASE GILL and CASTERTON FELL:
The Dark Side of The Grind James Carlisle 146
A Grand Day Out: Gaping Gill Main Shaft John Baker 151
Leck Beck Head East Flood Rising Jim Newton/Paul Swire 152
Boulder Cave Extension Ray Duffy 153
Lower Kirk Cave 6 - Ease Gill Ray Duffy 155
Mir Hole Jon Shaw 156
Old Holborn Cave Ray Duffy 157
Saint George’s Cave John Baker 162
Second Best Hole Paul Swire 162
Cow Dubs Two, Cliff Cave and Howgill Sink Jim Newton 162
Top Sink Ray Duffy/Sam Lieberman 163
Boundary Pot:
Savages Bypass - an alternative to the Bar Steward’s Passage Bert Savage 165
Boxing Day Aven Neil Pacey/Paul Swire 166
Gimli’s Glee Paul Windle 166
Bar Steward’s Passage Left Hand Upstream Inlets Ray Duffy/Sam Lieberman 167
Inlets below Savages Bypass ladder pitch Ray Duffy/Sam Lieberman 168
Pickwick Pot Sam Lieberman 168
Thackray’s Passage Oxbow Sam Lieberman/Ray Duffy 169
Borehole:
Finger Slitting Good Passage / Blissful Aven Sam Lieberman 169
Galaxy Passage Ray Duffy/Sam Lieberman 170
Pool Sink:
The Baby Feeder Andy Pringle 171
Craven PC 1980 Extension revisited Sam Lieberman 176
Anemolite Junction, right hand branch Sam Lieberman 176
Wretched Rabbit Area
Wretched Rabbit Passage Andy Whitney 178
Dreamweaver Rich Gerrish 180
Upstairs Downstairs Simon Jobling/Sam Lieberman 183
The Three-Pronged Attack - Trident Andy Whitney 191
Two New Entrances to Ease Gill Hugh St.Lawrence 192
Lancaster Hole and Cow Pot:
Breakdown Cavern, Main Drain John Baker 195
The Subway, EarSeries Neil Pacey 195
Hemmingway Hall Extension Neil Pacey 196
Saturday Afternoon Series Neil Pacey/Angela Hare 197
Handles for Forks? John Baker 200
Right to Roam Traverse Mike Hale 202
The Slug-World Retro Diary 1997 to 2000 Mike Hale 202
Shorty Hole Paul Wilkinson 206
Cow Pot to Aardvark Country Ben Young 208
The B.S.A. Extensions in Cow Pot Ray Duffy 209
Cow Pot Entrance Training Route Ray Duffy 211
Woodhouse Way Tom Clayton 212
Bull Pot of the Witches:
Burnett’s Great Cavern Jim Newton 213
Snakes and Ladders Hugh St.Lawrence 214
Kerplunk Inlet Tim Eastwood 215
North Chamber Extension Sam Lieberman 218
Downstream Sump - My First Dig Peter Devlin 223
Top Tip Toby Speight 232
Bull Pot - Aygill – Barbondale Hugh St.Lawrence 237
Casterton Pot Hugh St.Lawrence/Pete Hall 237
Herbert’s Hole John Baker 238
Kirtle Pot (Rollerball) Hugh St.Lawrence 242
Our Lady’s Cave Jim Newton 242
Aygill Caverns Hugh St.Lawrence 244
A Day Out in Aygill Caverns - observations and hypotheses Hugh St.Lawrence 248
The Stockdales of Bullpot Farm Tom Sykes 253
BARBONDALE:
The Churns Bill Sherrington 255
Porthole Hugh St.Lawrence 265
Bucket-on-the-Head Hugh St.Lawrence 266
Battery-on-the-Head Hugh St.Lawrence 278
Dog Hole Neil Pacey 279
Barkin Mad Cave Ray Duffy 279
Brittannia Cave Pete Hall 280
Strike Cave Pete Hall 280
Spider Cave Pete Hall 283
Sig Pot Pete Hall 283
Hanging Pot Hugh St.Lawrence 287
Barbondale Water Tracing Hugh St.Lawrence 288
OTHER AREAS:
Silence of the Lambs, Dentdale Hugh St.Lawrence 291
Bluecaster Fell Area Dave Ramsay 292
Haverbrack Bank Pot (Dog Hole) Jim Newton 294
Red Rose Abroad Paul Swire 296
Seeking Sieben Hengste’s Bottom Entrance David Foxton 300
STOP PRESS :Paul Swire 306
Vein Pot, The Allotment 306
Redhead Rift Series, Stake Pot Series 306
This Side of the Gill, Casterton Fell (John Baker) 307
Sunnycrest, Casterton Fell 307
Javelin Hole, Casterton Fell 307
Dragon Hole, Ease Gill 308
Dunald Mill Hole, Morecambe Bay Area 308
Sunset Hole, Chapel le Dale 308
Howgill Sink, Ease Gill 308
Main Line Terminus, Ease Gill Caverns 308
Gale Garth Pot, Casterton Fell 308
Hazel Sike Sink and Flake Pot, Casterton Fell 309
Blythe Hole, Ease Gill 309
Bramble Hole, Ease Gill 309
Moral Highchair Hole, Casterton Fell 309
Blackmoss Pot, Wild Boar Fell 309
Knucklebone Pot, Upper Wharfedale 309
Fox Scar Sink, Great Whernside 310
Bolton Schoolgirls Cave, Giggleswick 310
Quaking Pot 310
Maple Leaf Dig and Diamond Hall, Lancaster Hole 310
The Bucket Mine area, near Gour Hall 310
Whittle Cave, Ease Gill 310
Lost Marbles Pot, Marble Steps 310
Steps Pot, Marble Steps 310
Eye Hole, Leck Fell 311
Fester’s Passage, above The Incredibles, Notts II 311
Count Lazlo Stroganoff’s Aven Area, Notts II 311
Echo Inlet, Notts II 311
Rumbling Beck Cave, Leck Fell 311
The Dead Bobbin Series, Rumbling Hole, Leck Fell 311
Bumbling Hole, Leck Fell 311
Ireby 0.5, Ireby Fell 317
Ireby Fell Cavern, Skylight Passage 317
Ireby Fell Cavern, Blissful Creek, Uranus Crawl 319
and Upstream Waterfall Passage
Smokeless Hole, Leck Fell (John Baker) 321
Other Caving Club's publications recently received:
* (denotes donated)
British Caving Association:
Newsletter No. 11 (June 2009)
Handbook 2009-2010
British Cave Research Association:
News (August 2009)
Cave Radio & Electronics Group - Journal No. 72 (2009)
Speleology: No. 14 (August 2009)
Cave Studies Series No. 18 - Eli Simpson and the BSA (2009)
British Mountaineering Council:
Summit 53 (Spring 2009)
Members Handbook (2009)
Cave Diving Group:
Newsletter Nos. 174 ( January 2010)
Cave Rescue Organisation:
Rescue 2009
Chelsea Speleological Society:
Newsletter: Vol. 52 No. 2 (February 2010)
Craven Pothole Club:
Record No. 97 (January 2010)
* Cwmbran Caving Club:
Journals Vol. 1-9, Vol. 10 Nos. 1-2, Vol. 11 No. 1, Vol. 13.
Thank you Pete Mohr
Derbyshire Caver:
Newsletter: No. 130 (Winter 2009)
Descent Magazine:
No. 212 ( Feb 2010/Mar 2010 )
Grampian Speleological Group:
Bulletin - fourth series Vol. 4 No. 2 (October 2009)
Grosvenor Caving Club:
Newsletter: Issues: 143-147 (July 2008/January 2010)
* ISCA Caving Club:
Journal: Nos. 1 - 18 (1984-1995)
Newsletter: Nos. 4 & 8. (1992-93)
Thank you Pete Mohr
* Lancashire Caving and Climbing Club:
Journal (1965-1968)
Mendip Caving Group:
MCG News Nos. 357-358 (2009)
* National Caving Association:
Radon Underground (1996)
* National Speleological Society:
Large collection of "Journals", "Bulletins" and "News" dating from 1988 to 2009 (almost a complete set)
Thank you David St. Pierre.
Societa Speleologica Italiana:
Speleologia, NO. 60: Anno XXX - (Giugno 2009)
Societe Speleologique de Wallonie:
Regards No. 71- Speleo info - (2009)
South Wales Caving Club:
Newsletter 126.
SWETC Caving Club:
50th. Anniversary Souvenir Issue: Vol. 17 No. 1 (2008)
Westminster Speleological Group:
Newsletter No. 2009/4 (October 2009)
Other Books and Publications recently received:
* (donated)
2008 Crete Expedition Report (Red Rose Cave and Pothole Club / White Rose Pothole Club)
Yorkshire Geology, Paul Ensom (2009)
Living in Darkness - Stephanie Jutta Schwabe (2009)
* Manual of U.S. Cave Rescue Techniques - Second edition 1996
* The Cave of the Petralonian Archanthropinae, Rick Jaffe (Greece - 1982)
Recent new DVD, Video and CD-ROM:
CD:
Barbondale: Photographs to accompany a lecture by Andrew Walsh on the "Caves of Barbondale" (Hidden Earth Conference 2008)
Easegill Survey Data:
Latest update of current survey (December 2008)
Digitized Surveys:
CD of digitized surveys - RRCPC surveys appearing in Journals 1-10 (1960-1997)
The Red Bus Trip to India:
CD and notes on British Speleological Expedition to India 1970.
Photograpohs and notes from Lecture presented at BCRA Conference "Hidden Earth 2008" by Jim Newton
DVD:
The Titan - from the Top a film by Dave Webb (2008)
Daren Cilau: a film by Steve Sharp (2008)
Cave Surveys added to library:
Easegill Caverns:
- Sheet 3. Snail Cavern to Holbeck Junction - Scale 1:750 (2006) see: For Sale
- Special Sheet Trident Series - County Pot - Scale 1:200 (2006) see: For Sale
Also available: Sheet 1 (LANCASTER HOLE)
Sheet 2 - SOLD OUT (awaiting re-print) (LANCASTER HOLE: Stake Pot to Oxbow Corner)
The following new surveys
Bown Scar Cave - Littondale (1949)