Dudley Caving Club Trip Reports & News

Brendan and Mark have been threatening to take me caving for some time but it's only a few weeks since my pelvic scaffolding was surgica...

For Sunday we were joined by Ian who had requested a through trip. Jess and I were feeling somewhat better rested after a good meal and nigh...

As members of not just Dudley CC but also SWCC, Brendan, Mark and myself had been asked to help out on one of their 'Provisionals' ...

Our original plan had been a through trip for Sunday, but after our adventures the previous day and because of the water levels, a slightly...

OFD Top Entrance, Navigation Exercise Sunday 10 August 2014. Jess had very kindly offered to ride shotgun for me on this navigation exerci...

The Dig Weekend at the Brickworks Dig was so popular that the exercise needed some careful planning. It was decided that while one team was...

An earlier attempt to reach the Annex had failed with both Mark and Brendan being unable to squeeze down the tight tube from Crystal Pool Ch...

The plan for the day was to visit the Waterfall Series in OFD1, but as we thought that this might not fill the day we also decided to visit ...

After spending some fun filled hours exploring every inch of the Railton-Wild Series we moved on to our main objective the Waterfall Series....

Following a visit earlier in the year we planned our return to OFD 1.5 so that we could visit the Boulder Bridge and the passages below and ...

On Thursday Andy approached me for a gentle Sunday trip, so as Brendan, Chloe and I were to be in South Wales for the weekend I invited him ...

This was a trip on the top of our bucket list for some time, but with the exceptionally wet winter the direct route up the streamway had bee...

Saturday morning saw myself, Jess and Brendan sat around as usual in the SWCC hut nursing a full teapot. I had abstained from making any tr...