Dudley Caving Club Trip Reports & News

We begun our weekend with breakfast in Coleford before heading to the camp site to meet up with the others. Ian and Rich were joining Emma...

After a busy Saturday the Dudley group set off  to explore Wet Sink on the Sunday - after the obligatory breakfast and faffing of course! ...

A tired looking Dudley bunch met at the 365 steps car park at 8am. The night before had seen the worst thunderstorms and heavy rain of the ...

After a night of stupendous thunder and lightening we woke (did we sleep?) to persistent rain, the Otter Hole team headed off and it was for...

As a talented cave photographer with thousands of great pictures to his credit and whose pictures have appeared in books and magazines, Bren...

Another major engineering feat in the Forest area. Lots of scaffolded climbs through tons of loose rocks lead to a nice SRT pitch into a bi...

A trip down the main stream and into the rifts beyond. We completed the trip by going up Coal Seam passage and coming back down stream. ...

My second attempt on this collector's item - the first was two years ago.  This time the lock had to be broken off (which shows how oft...

Yet another visit to Westbury Brook for Peter and myself to try and find the way on past the “railway tracks” this time we had the advantage...

After a very wet start above ground, we spent several hours practising stretcher packaging and handling in the Pancake Mines. A very useful...

Several scenarios were investigated on the day mainly involving stretcher handling in the pitch bypass crawls. MCl & EPo worked on movi...

A over-tide trip to the camp beyond the Hall of Thirty for members that had not visited the cave before - so why was Keith on the trip?  W...

The round trip with an excursion to see the dead dogs, plus a diversion to go downstream to sump two - very nice keyhole stream passage just...

After spending an hour digging out the streamway we decided we had had enough and made an early exit. Keith Edwards in the entrance cra...

Present:  PAn, SBa & AGr

We arrived at 12:30am (Sunday morning) to be told that the rescue team were making good progress and were on the pitches. We ascertained t...

The  Gloucester Cave Rescue Group  hosted this practice from the end of  East Stream Passage  in  Wet Sink .  EPo, MCl and GSm went undergr...

The following team assisted in the rescue of an injured caver from this system.   Dave Bowdley on the phone at the cave entrance. Muddy...