Looking for an ecrin roc if anyone has one to sell? Cosmetic condition not important as long as it's functionally sound! Money waiting.

After our previous trip to find Gods bridge river cave, and failing miserably, we decided to have a trip back (11/09/2015).  Last time we were there we pushed as far as possible, through very tight beddings and ducks, into the small cave just west of the bridge itself and eventually (after...

Went back, to have a look at something we found last summer, last night to dig the entrance.  After shifting a lot of rock it looked a lot more promising. However its  still very tight and due to the angle you have to access at a lot of the stream flows into the legs of your over suit.  Slot in...

New pothole found last friday night, we went back last night with ropes etc, but unfortunately the entrance to the pitch is too tight, will have to try a ladder next.  We can see into the pitch and it seems to be about 8 to 10 meters deep, we improvised a cave drone using rope, a lamp, and a...

Over the past couple of weekends I've been out and about between Teesdale and Brough, looking at a few bits and bobs listed in NC1 and some listed elsewhere, here's what happened...apologies for not having photographs of everything but there were certain points on this trip where I was that...

After spending all day saturday digging in a particularly dirty hole we decided to have a good yomp out over the moors to look at an area I've been meaning to go to for ages. As usual this has lead to finding far more than I expected and another trip planned for this weekend.  Firstly the area...

As most of my pottering about is done in the wilds of Weardale I thought it was about time that I had a look at the generally neglected Magnesian limestone of coastal County Durham.  I mentioned this to a few people and one of them told me an interesting story about finding a cave near Hesleden...

Have recently gotten landowners permission to dig an area in Weardale, the main (recorded) caves are known as Low Bishopley caves (Moldywarps 12 i think).  There are 4 recorded caves there and I was going to have a crack at the back of the first two to start with as theres the possibility of a...

Last winter my freind Chalky and I decided to have a wander up to Harnishaburn pot to have a poke about and maybe have a look in some mines as well.  However the weather being slightly worse than inclement (as it always seems to be in Weardale) the mines were out of the question, as Harnishaburn...

Right! Where do I start? I had a few hours spare yesterday afternoon/early evening and seeing as the Bollihope burn is on my doorstep and I've always overlooked it, due to having very small caves, I decided to don my overalls and go for a wander! The cave guides list the Bollihope caves...

AS people seem to be enjoying the photos from oop North I thought Id chuck together a few pics from previous trips, these go back a fair while and im not entirely sure on dates but here you go: These are all the photos I have on my work computer so theyre not the best: Sowan Burn Elf Clough...

We had a little trip out on saturday including a few hours at Ayleburn (see my trip report), the caves are fantastic but the pot is now full of farm rubbish and liquid sheep!

And then eventually we got back in the car and Drove to Ayleburn, strangely there are a lot of coal workings all over this valley, we mooched about down the dry stream bed (the stream dissapears a few hundred yards upstream of the caves and does not reappear for as far as we walked down it which...

What started out as a well defined plan to go and do Tutmans hole rapidly descended into chaos (as usual).  Off the top of my head I decided that Elpha Green was a viable option so we jumped in the car and headed Allendale-wards! The Cave guides advise asking for permission to access Elpha...

With bleary eyes we left Consett at the ungodly hour of 08:30 on saturday morning and surviving entirely on redbull and Mcdonalds coffee we headed towards the Eden valley.  Part way there however we had a slight detour to look at Great Eggleshope mine, a vast set of workings which I will...