Trips in Derbyshire

[emgee]

Brightgate Cave - no tackle required iirc.

Any chance of a mooch round Baggers?

What's Brightgate like? Met a couple of lads who reckoned it was fantastic. I'd just been taking someone down Jugholes. They looked like local lads who were dressed fairly well for uderground rather than cavers. Good place to take novices?

 

[JB]

Brightgate's a nice little cave. Only been in the once and it was a while ago but I remember it being a good half day trip. You crawl in the entrance and climb down a hole in the floor. You're then into a maze of fairly tight passages that leads into the bigger stuff on the other side. There's a couple of decent sized chambers with roofs formed by bedding planes. Good examples of cavern collapse. Also worth looking out for the really obvious phreatic tube in the roof. Ends in a dig but I don't know who's digging there.

 

[Iain Barker]

What a nerk!

I mean Magpie Sough!

I'll torture myself for a bit.

 

[Mark]

I mean Magpie Sough!

Are you sure your'e up to tackling the new caves of the Peak District book

 

[Bog]

Its his age

 

[AndyF]

I've found it surprising this year the number of uncapped gapping hole mine shafts that there are still around in Derbyshire.

We've been scouring a part of Via Gellia and found nearly twenty so far. No sleepers, no wood, no beehive, just a durt great hole in the bushes. We've been going down them, most about 30-40 feet deep and blind, or just with a short length of passage, though one went for 300+ feet, and a couple have have good easy digs in them.

We've been searching for a recorded but lost sough (Potosoi Sough), and thought the shafts above might provide a route down to it, but we are still 200 feet above the sough level and looks like we will have to dig.

 

[danthecavingman]

P6 and Christmas / Snelslow take most of the swallet water. The P7 stream is impressive in wet weather. Giants and P8 don't take the bulk of the water especially in flood.

 

[anfieldman]

Just got back today after our 'tour of Britain'. We only spent three days in the Peak District but we are lucky to have relatives in Whaley Bridge! Thanks for all your suggestions and very kind offers such as a loan of a ladder. Unfortunately I received most of these emails after we had left.
We also had a chat to the fabulous owners of Caving Supplies in Buxton who were very helpful. I would recommend this shop to anyone planning a trip to the area.
Oh and thanks to Iain Barker. Your advice in your replies may not have helped me because I did not get your reply until we got back, but we did buy a copy of your book 'Classic Caves of the Peak District' which was great!
We would like to come back again soon and try out some of the pots with the help of some SRT training.
Thanks once again and have a great Christmas.

Mark.

 

[paul palir]

if you fancy a short trip thats reasonably easy with no SRT try suicide hole at the bottom of winates pass but it wont take you 3 hours (maybe 30 Min's if your slow or curiouse)

 

[paul palir]

Just got back today after our 'tour of Britain'. We only spent three days in the Peak District but we are lucky to have relatives in Whaley Bridge! Thanks for all your suggestions and very kind offers such as a loan of a ladder. Unfortunately I received most of these emails after we had left.
We also had a chat to the fabulous owners of Caving Supplies in Buxton who were very helpful. I would recommend this shop to anyone planning a trip to the area.
Oh and thanks to Iain Barker. Your advice in your replies may not have helped me because I did not get your reply until we got back, but we did buy a copy of your book 'Classic Caves of the Peak District' which was great!
We would like to come back again soon and try out some of the pots with the help of some SRT training.
Thanks once again and have a great Christmas.

Mark.

has anybody followed the route listed for the round trip for giants hole in this book IT LIES!!!!!
it is the second right out of the giants windpipe to get to the top of the crab walk NOT STRAIGHT ON like the book says

 

[paul palir]

When will the new Classic caves of the peak district be published and is it written by someone that has actually been down the caves???????????

 

[Mark]

has anybody followed the route listed for the round trip for giants hole in this book IT LIES!!!!!
it is the second right out of the giants windpipe to get to the top of the crab walk NOT STRAIGHT ON like the book says

If you need a book to find your'e way from giants windpipe to the top of crabwalk your'e in the wrong game mate.

 

[cap n chris]

Surely anyone going to the trouble of putting something in a book should ensure that it's accurate? - even if some people don't need directions, any given should still be correct!

 

[Stu]

When will the new Classic caves of the peak district be published and is it written by someone that has actually been down the caves???????????

Looks like you just volunteered!