Trip: Best/worst/most wanted

[cap n chris]

There's a neat little thread on Darkplaces which goes along the lines of...

a) What's your favourite underground trip(s)
b) What's your least favourite or most horrific underground trip(s)/experience(s) and...
c) Where would you most like to go?....


I suppose it's pretty easy and relevant popular stuff would be along the lines of:-

a) Swildon's/OFD/Gaping Gill/Swinstow/Otter Hole/Little Neath
b) Eastwater/Eastwater/Eastwater/Eastwater
c) Lechuguilla/Carslbad/Mammoth/Sarawak etc..

 

[dunc]

a. OFD2(The streamway is best bit), Birks Fell, LJ-Boxhead.. (and more besides!)
b. Horrific? Not been anywhere like that, despite some places being crap I figure anywhere underground is good!l
c. Anywhere I haven't previously been...........

 

[lizzy]

best way to cave is in a strecher being carried out by loads of men!

 

[darkplaces]

A tear of pride on my little furry face that the same question makes it here...

a) What's your favourite underground trip(s)
The mineral mines in cumbria; for a number of reasons like they are amazing, grubby, wet, some vertical, the company.

b) What's your least favourite or most horrific underground trip(s)/experience(s)
Monkton Farlegh Mine one night when we nearly lost someone.

c) Where would you most like to go?....
Its no secret, I would love to be let loose in Spring and Tunnel Quarry. Just let loose no time restrictions, no area restrictions, just let loose before it gets worse and before anything is removed. I mean a legal visit, totally, you wont catch me breaking in. Wow, I just want to see it. I'v got the books the videos, i'd even buy a t-shirt if they made one!

 

[Jagman]

favourite Carrock Mine, Lake District, virtually intact ladderways and lots of false floors over 120foot stopes, amazing vein of quartz (containing wolfram

least favourite/worst in the above mine, once climbing a ladder 150feet up when the end I was standing on fell off, next on the same trip, free climbing a ladder suspended over a 100foot shaft, get to the top to discover its held on by two bits of twisted lighting cable and nothing else :shock:
walking /stooping in a seldom visited level in Nenthead whilst the shale roof drops down the back of your neck, don't like shale much

most wanted Spring and Tunnel Quarries (dont much care how ) maybe some of the tunnel complexes under London.
Most definate of all the reputed 750feet of ladderways in Greenside Mine, Ullswater (may attempt these this week

 

[ian mckenzie]

a. Dent de Crolle 1990, because I made an important and lasting friendship there.
b. HH in New Zealand 1987, because some friendships were permanently damaged there.
c. Would like to see the karst at Isla Madre de Dios/Diego de Almagro in Chile in 2006!

 

[tubby two]

a. hunters lodge inn sink with mr jarrat a few years back.
b. been some minging places, but enjoyed it all.... somehow.
c. currently, the passage of time....

tt.

 

[andymorgan]

(a)Swildon's, G.B., OFD 1, Ogof Draenen
(b) Lionel's Hole - wetter than expected, got lost (good fun in a way though!)
(c)Daren Cilau, Main Chamber of Gaping Gill, Mammoth Cave (as I will be living near there in a couple of years)

 

[graham]

(a) Well the biggest silly grins were after Lascaux, Le Tuc d'Audobert & Altamira.
(b) The last squeeze my fat arse got stuck in.
(c) Chauvet.

 

[MSD]

favourite: Swinsto/Simpsons exchange on ladders. What a great day out!

worst: Southerscales pot in meltwater in a dodgy wetsuit with no kneepads. Took several months for the skin to grow again on my knees! And the cave is crap, the "waterslide" mentioned in the guidebook is the biggest let down I ever had. Plus the lifeline jammed on the pitch, meaning that muggins had to climb a 40ft, really wet pitch in the dark with no lifeline (I only had carbide).

most wanted: explore a 1000m deep cave

 

[cap n chris]

(c) Chauvet.

But I thought you'd just been there? Oh! Oops! Sorry. Hush hush. You ain't seen me, right!

 

[bubba]

a) Probably the Peak classics like Nettle/Giants/P8

b) Getting stuck in Dynamite Series / Torch bulb going when exploring the caves under Symonds Yat with a friend years ago and extremely luckily finding our way out blind.

c) Pennyghent / and something big like the Berger. And a trip deep into Lechuguilla would be truly amazing.

 

[cucc Paul]

A) Swildons, just like the stream way really great fun plus its big enough to squirrel around in all day if you like. Darren, I like the crawl makes the following passages look really big and inviting.

B) Priddy Green Sink, sink should be changed for stink, plus had to be rescued :roll:

C) coventosa in spain looks inviting a few people from our club went, the photos look amazing, austria next summer yay... not sure of which cave, caves though

 

[Wolfart]

A) Cuckoo Cleeves, it was the first cave i went into and got me hooked all those years ago,Little Neath river cave,Coventosa,Dan yr ogof(up to great north road), Black chasm in California.andmillerton lake cave cut out of granite wounderfull sculpture
B) Slaughter stream,cos they opened the sluice gates when we went down the ladder pitch
C) its got to be Lechuguilla

 

[graham]

(c) Chauvet.

But I thought you'd just been there? Oh! Oops! Sorry. Hush hush. You ain't seen me, right!

September, all being well.