Sheffield University Speleological Society (SUSS)

By Tim Webber
Brendan and Tim fancied something to do on a Saturday.
So we drove through Monyash and throw a rope down Knotlow engine shaft.
Enter Hillocks, find our way through to Whalf. After 1 false lead, find our way through Meccano Passage (Hmmm nice), drop down to Waterfall chamber in Knotlow. Brendan goes up the big [...]

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By Andy Chapman
This year, I was given the chance to join the Mexpe expedition to the Sierra Negra region of Mexico, in order to survey and explore the cave Tres Quimeras to it’s resurgence.
Myself and Imogen Furlong had arranged to meet the rest of the expedition team in the Mexican city of Tehuacan. The first [...]

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Ireby Fell to Ireby 2 (27/05/09)
By Andy Chapman
Sam and Andy decided to head up to North Yorkshire for a mid-week sortie.
After observing the weather (continuous drizzle) and chatting to the Inglesport staff, a trip through Ireby Fell to Ireby 2 via the bubbles route was decided on.

They slid down the concrete tube, tackle bags in hand towards [...]

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16/05/2009
By Tim Webber
When offered a chance to dive the newly opened Bagshaw resurgance, i jumped at it.
The resurgence itself is in the middle of the village and spews out of a pipe with a mined sluice/level. Enter that to find dive base and the pool of water.
A steel ladder takes you down the pot, useful [...]

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Saturday 16th May 2009
By Mike Soulby
Myself [Mike] and Rob2 went up to white river at the weekend to have a look at a lead in the white river series in peak cavern. We bombed down JH, through speedwell, up block hall and through watt passage to our destination, Kingdom inlet, which is just on your [...]

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By Chris Playfoot
This came about after having Nettle Pot planned for the Friday night and Steve getting a call off Glyn (TSG) seeing if he wanted to go down Winnats Head to tidy up some blast debris from a previous digging trip. After numerous phone calls going to answer phone on everyones behalf we eventually [...]

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By Henry Rockcliff
 4 of us went in through titan and did a bit of digging in Western Highway. Tom 2 joined us later via JH (he over slept after only finishing his trip in winnetshead late on friday). We managed 86 buckets the passage is still going up and has an increasing amount of gravel [...]

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By Mike Soulby
2nd November 2008:
Katie, Ali and Alisa had space for one more person for a trip they had planned but had at least two interested cavers to choose from but couldn’t decide who to pick. So they performed a good old ‘biscuit toss’ to decide who to take, now please remove any vile connotations [...]

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By Henry Rockcliff
4 people from york uni cc, tsg and sheff uni ss, went to western highway
on the 3rd of may. Rigged in titan (sad though it is i can now tie the knots in the ropes
in the right place as i pack them so rigging is very quick).
We dug 56 bukets of mud and [...]

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