Sheffield University Speleological Society (SUSS)

by Edd
I hadn’t caved with UBSS for over a year so I thought I best show my face. I packed a spare Peachey & MUSCovite Ben to be sure I had fun trips  and we chugged up to the Dales in my new diesel car.
The first thing I discovered about my intrepid team was that [...]

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By Rob Eavis
There was a roll of red & white tape left at the Divers Camp in AI Passage for a good while, awaiting use somewhere. However on 7th Sept 2008 the whole passage flooded and it disapeared.
From a certain cave diver off UkCaving:
It was festooned through over half the sump yesterday. I had a [...]

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by Edd
I’ve wanted to learn rescue techniques for a long while and with a day off, and having nipped to the shops for Rob2’s beers, the deal was done.
We went for a dangle in Horseshoe Quarry starting from trying to haul Rob on the rope with nothing and progressing through counterbalancing and introducing more and [...]

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By Ellie
The day started off relatively smoothly. Bit of ‘house’ watching and then all the necessary faff that goes with any caving trip. Ali donned his wetsuit as P8 was expected to be a tad chilly.
The drive to the cave was very uneventful, parking caused some minor issues as the car park was covered in [...]

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After leaving at about 2.15 for our 1 o’clock trip we arrived at p8 to find the car park rather full of snow we finally managed to park just down the road. In the process of getting changed Sam discovered that he had forgotten his helmet. We all had a good laugh at him, then [...]

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Rob was keen to do the Three Pots so I tagged along with SUSS again because I had nothing better to do. The weekend didn’t start brilliantly: I was over 30 mins late having driven past the railway station three times in my attempt to find H’s house and Rob’s van was several hours late [...]

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My chaffeur, Big Jim, turned up on cue in Horton-in-Ribblesdale and so I was off to the YSS. With us came the Dead Kennedys and John Shuttleworth tapes – what else would you wash-up to in the morning?
The overall results from my six-night stay weren’t that impressive – one successful trip in four attempts – [...]

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