Sheffield University Speleological Society (SUSS)

By Henry Rockcliff 
The dig continued up hill with ever more rock in the fill this makes the
digging harder but still nothing like as hard as dragging the fill up
the hill.
the air seemed to hold up dispite a much bigger team although we did
get though some 17-18 ah of power at about 11-15 v the new [...]

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by Rosie Hadfield

I decided that it was mandatory to go caving on my birthday, so I managed to persuade Rob2 and Mike to come out and play. We had some rope in the back, an ancient caving guide and no idea where we wanted to go…
We got to HitchnHike still with little idea of where [...]

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By Andy
Me, the Brown and Jon Pemberton (Eldon) decided to spend a bit of time in one of Jon’s many digs at Stoney, trying to push it further.
Ivy Green mostly consists of crawling, sometimes through mud, ocassionally through quick lime. The first is horrible, the second doesn’t even warrant thinking about-it burns!!!!!!! At least the [...]

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Sally and me headed up to the dales with the intention to have a bit of a potter round Kingsdale and tick off a few classics we’ve  overlooked. Bull Pot was decided on, cos the weather was looking a bit sketchy and we both didn’t fancy lugging a load of rope down with us. Spent about [...]

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By Henry Rockcliff
Well after the last trip, I completely broke the fan whilst testing it. I removed it from the cave to fit a new connecter, which failed on the
last section. 
 
BUT….i have now got a better* fan and I am keen to do a long trip on the 20th. Is any one coming with me (some people [...]

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By Rosie Hadfield& Jane Rigby
I ran a guided tour of Castleton pointing out the local sites of interest and noticed a SPSI(1) near to the “3 Roofs cafe”. The River Castle, that runs thrhought the picturesque village of Castleton, Derbyshire, England, Europe, The Earth (SK66 TSG) sinks into 2 isometric phreatic tubes; and resurges some [...]

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By Rosie Hadfield
Despite no-one quite knowing how to get to Knotlow-Hillocks, we managed to navigate there for midday. On the way we discovered that Ali had forgotten helmet, lamp and wet suit socks…it would be an interesting trip.
We sat in the sun watching Jim rigging the Knotlow Climbing Shaft for an inordinate amount of [...]

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