This year’s annual gathering will be a circular walk taking in Giggleswick /Scar and surrounds. We will be meeting at the Council roadstone layby on the summit of Buckhaw Brow ( B6480 ) on the road towards Giggleswick at the earlier time of 10.30am. We will walk along Giggleswick Scar which has many small cave […]
Red Rose Journal 12 is published and available for sale to members and non-members alike. The glossy A4 publication chronicles the period 2016-2024 and has 167 pages and covers exploration in the Dales (Ingleborough, Dentdale, Barbondale, Ease Gill) and Scotland; articles including the Three Counties Traverse and conservation; and a thorough first hand account of […]
After 6 years of working this cave almost every Thursday night, the elusive junction with The Precambrian Series in Aygill Cavern has yet to materialise – but we are getting closer. Rollerball is now 175 metres long and 35 metres deep and still going. Digging has, on occasions, involved a massive team effort to remove […]
Hazeltop Cave is awaiting a push at the current end of the cave, a nasty boulder choke with slabs of roof hanging off. But the carrot is the 3 kilometres the cave still has to go to reach the rising at the top of Barbondale. We will return in the spring/summer when the weather is […]
The Casterton Pot diggers are inching their way closer to Bull Pot of the Witches! Well, metre-ing their way might be more accurate, particularly these last couple of weeks. On successive Wednesday evenings the south passage dig has produced 10 metre extensions on both days – giant leaps forward in the history and slow slog […]
