Gruelling Caving Trips?

[Sublime Lime]

Not caved much in South Wales. Anyone have any recommendations for some tough trips that are pretty fun to do down there? (Small/Wet or long and technical)
Have done Daren-hard rock and OFD stuff but open for any and all recommendations.

 

[Babyhagrid]

Ogof pont gam,
Rhyd sych
Llanelli quarry pot has some tight sections and the entrance is sometimes full of quarry.
OFD 1-3-1
In OFD Pendulum passage has fun traversing, same as OFD 3 and marble showers. (OFD 3 is probably the best introduction)also prokofiev for tight caving.
Agen allwedd, grand-inner-outer circle (where you do all 3 in the same trip)
Anything deeper in daren such as bluey greenies or spaderunner (currently sumped)
Draenen , cantankerous surveyerous is a long way and also the realm of Baron von carno and breadfruit boulevard are fun.
The draenen round trip is fun and wet in places too.
Pwll y gwynt is short but has tight and SRT.
Far north of DYO is long with some wet
A trip to the end of Craig y fynnon (promised land) is fun and muddy but not that long,

I'm sure there's plenty else but that's what came to mind

 

[Tritim230]

Otter Hole over tide trip to the end of Tunnels Left

 

[BigDyl]

Daren cilau to the helibeds

 

[PeteHall]

Otter Hole over tide trip to the end of Tunnels Left

Nearly the season for that too, but looks like most dates for the year are already booked, so if you want to go, best book soon: https://rfdcc.free.nf/sites/caves/otter_hole/2025_weekends.htm

 

[Brains]

Sit on the sofa eating takeaway and drinking beer for a few months. All trips will become desperately hard

 

[Huge]

Otter Hole over tide trip to the end of Tunnels Left

Otter Hole between tides trip to end of Tunnels Left?

 

[Tritim230]

Otter Hole between tides trip to end of Tunnels Left?

Certainly if you are quick!

 

[marsrat]

Southern Streamway with a camping tacklebag, a scaffold board and a scaffold bar.

 

[hyweldavies]

Southern Streamway with a camping tacklebag, a scaffold board and a scaffold bar.

Or a stretcher with a big bloke in it

Thankfully I didn't do that bit, but the bits I did do were hard enoufh

 

[mrodoc]

Or a stretcher with a big bloke in it

Thankfully I didn't do that bit, but the bits I did do were hard enoufh

I remember that episode. He kept saying we were going round in circles. Certainly felt like it.

 

[mrodoc]

Certainly if you are quick!

Rather spoils the trip. I remember once a party member insisted (and this was over the tides) on racing back to the sump only to have sit shivering for an hour before it opened.

 

[Huge]

Rather spoils the trip. I remember once a party member insisted (and this was over the tides) on racing back to the sump only to have sit shivering for an hour before it opened.

Only been in Otter twice. One between tides, one over tide. On both we went to the end of Tunnels Left and both trips were excellent.

 

[mrodoc]

This was taken in the 80's with Derrick Guy as the model. We are both still caving - just. This is at the far end of the cave where the streamway is.

 

[Cantclimbtom]

Wow, he could've made an attempt to smile!

 

[Tritim230]

Wow, he could've made an attempt to smile!

He was thinking of the journey back

 

[hyweldavies]

This was taken in the 80's with Derrick Guy as the model. We are both still caving - just. This is at the far end of the cave where the streamway is.

I think I was on that trip !

If I remember rightly, you'd managed to pressgang Derek to help with your photos on the way out so you two got out ages after the rest of us. I wouldn't have minded if Derek hadn't been my lift back to Hertfordshire

It was still a great trip to be fair. Cripes that's about 40 years ago

My next trip in Otter was the much more recent rescue

 

[mrodoc]

Hywel you are dead right. It was 8/9/84 and with mewere John Swift, Derrick Guy,you, John Elliott, 2 Hades members, the now late Pete Rose, We went to the bitter end with John inspecting Gravel Grot an inlet at the end. Many photos and I took in a tripod, old style big metal ammobox, and a spare cell in a tackle bag. It wrecked the cell. We entered at 7.15 and emerged at 6.40 - a civilised timing!

 

[Rhys]

My next trip in Otter was the much more recent rescue

That "recent" rescue was in 2003. Nearly 22 years ago!

 

[mrodoc]

That "recent" rescue was in 2003. Nearly 22 years ago!

How times fly when you are having fun. I remember the practice rescue before that when Sid Perou came along to assess the cave and I met a caving monk.