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====== Log Book 2018 ====== | ====== Log Book 2018 ====== | ||
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- | ==== Mangle Hole, Fri 15th Dec 2017 ==== | + | ==== Mangle Hole. Fri 15th Dec 2017 ==== |
So I returned to Mangle Hole yesterday with my new friends Mr. C. Bar and Mr. M.tock to see if I could make any progress. | So I returned to Mangle Hole yesterday with my new friends Mr. C. Bar and Mr. M.tock to see if I could make any progress. | ||
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- | ==== Sidcot Swallet Jan 2017 ==== | + | ==== Sidcot Swallet. Jan 2018 ==== |
Hi I was asked to right up a club trip what can I say but wow 😲 we started going to sidcot swolet but I don't not get throw the first squeeze after the entrance then we presented to go on a nover trip and it was amazing involved a lot of climbing and weching hopefully if I am allowed I would like to do this as my club trip as it was really good fun and axel struggled with it and for the first time ever I was better than him at it that felt good as normal struggling to keep up if I was to do a club trip here who is up for it I will check the name with Barry I would like to take a club rope down with use as we had to stop because there was a little bit of a free claim straight down that looked fun but there scechey so rope and Belay from the top will be needed to explore there then ended up at hunters after. | Hi I was asked to right up a club trip what can I say but wow 😲 we started going to sidcot swolet but I don't not get throw the first squeeze after the entrance then we presented to go on a nover trip and it was amazing involved a lot of climbing and weching hopefully if I am allowed I would like to do this as my club trip as it was really good fun and axel struggled with it and for the first time ever I was better than him at it that felt good as normal struggling to keep up if I was to do a club trip here who is up for it I will check the name with Barry I would like to take a club rope down with use as we had to stop because there was a little bit of a free claim straight down that looked fun but there scechey so rope and Belay from the top will be needed to explore there then ended up at hunters after. | ||
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- | ==== Tween Twins Friday | + | |
+ | ==== Tween Twins. Fri 17th Aug 2018 ==== | ||
Jonathan Williams, (leader), Aidan Harrison, Emma Gisborne, Lawrence Wilson | Jonathan Williams, (leader), Aidan Harrison, Emma Gisborne, Lawrence Wilson | ||
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-- Lawrence Wilson | -- Lawrence Wilson | ||
- | ==== Bradshaw' | + | ==== Bradshaw' |
Pete Sanders, Emma G, Chris Castle, Andy Watson (leader). | Pete Sanders, Emma G, Chris Castle, Andy Watson (leader). | ||
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-- Chris Castle | -- Chris Castle | ||
- | ==== Cloford Quarry Big Cave Thur 13th Sept 2018 ==== | + | ==== Cloford Quarry Big Cave. Thu 13th Sept 2018 ==== |
Chris Castle, Emma Gisborne, Andy Watson (leader) | Chris Castle, Emma Gisborne, Andy Watson (leader) | ||
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My first trip down Hunters Hole was excellent and a real SRT playground, huge thanks to Sean for doing all the hard work. | My first trip down Hunters Hole was excellent and a real SRT playground, huge thanks to Sean for doing all the hard work. | ||
- | -- Lawrence | + | -- Lawrence |
==== Oregon Caves. Sep 2018 ==== | ==== Oregon Caves. Sep 2018 ==== | ||
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A pleasant walk back to the cars via fields and stiles (much easier) was followed by a debrief or two at the New Inn, Cross | A pleasant walk back to the cars via fields and stiles (much easier) was followed by a debrief or two at the New Inn, Cross | ||
- | -- Lawrence | + | -- Lawrence |
==== Vallis Quarry Cave. Thu 11th Oct 2018 ==== | ==== Vallis Quarry Cave. Thu 11th Oct 2018 ==== | ||
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- | ==== Shute Shelve Cavern Mon 15th Oct 2018 ==== | + | ==== Pierre' |
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+ | Barry, Dan, Will, Axel | ||
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+ | Four of us did a trip down Pierre' | ||
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+ | We had some interesting gymnastics in Pierre' | ||
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+ | -- Barry | ||
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+ | ==== Burrington Coombe. Thu 11th Oct 2018 ==== | ||
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+ | It is sometimes easy to forget how lucky I am to have the Mendips on my doorstep and to treat it's gorges as nothing more than roads with bends in them that get me to where I want to be. | ||
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+ | I thought I would share an unusual period in Burrington Coombe that perhaps goes to show that others also just use it as a road, or possibly race track. | ||
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+ | On Thursday 11/10 I was working for Charterhouse outdoor centre doing morning and afternoon trips gorge walking in the East Twin valley. After a successful morning trip I loaded the kids into the minibus and drove down the Coombe to turn round and head back to the centre for lunch, however, rounding the bend at the West Twin valley we came across a car on its roof with a paramedic just arriving on scene, the young lady that was driving was out of the car and fine so we headed back. | ||
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+ | After lunch I drove back to Burrington but was confronted by lorries reversing back up the Coombe and drivers flagging me down to say that there had been an accident and the road was closed, assuming that it was just the recovery of the mornings crashed car I carried on as I would be parking before I got to the closure, however when I got to the sharp left handler with the matrix sign I saw that it was a head on collision between a lorry and transit van (not much left of the van) not wishing to have the kids walk past the gory scene I went back to the Burrington Hams car park and took them for a walk instead. | ||
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+ | Saturday morning saw me doing a morning Goatchurch trip for some scouts. To my surprise there was a car on its roof resting on the bottom of the Rock of Ages. | ||
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+ | Sunday and a morning down Goatchurch then afternoon down Swildons, amazingly no upside down cars at all! It was too good to last as Andy Sparrow came out of Goatchurch in the afternoon to find a car on its roof at the bottom of the West Twin valley. | ||
+ | So in summary a 400yard stretch of road had seen at least 4 separate accidents in 4 days writing off 5 vehicles and who knows what injuries. | ||
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+ | It's Autumn so the roads are wet and have leaves on them, but nothing out of the ordinary or one would think dangerous? | ||
+ | I'll continue to use the gorge roads and remind myself how lucky I am to be able to use them as part of my " | ||
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+ | -- Lawrence | ||
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+ | ==== Shute Shelve Cavern. Mon 15th Oct 2018 ==== | ||
Chris Castle, Lawrence, Andy and Rachel, Neil and Carol, Will, Kriss Cawson and Nikolai Stankiewicz (guests). | Chris Castle, Lawrence, Andy and Rachel, Neil and Carol, Will, Kriss Cawson and Nikolai Stankiewicz (guests). | ||
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- | ==== Shute Shelve Cavern. 21st Oct 2018 ==== | + | ==== Shute Shelve Cavern. |
Chris Castle, Judi Durber, Peter Sanders, Emma Gisborne, Brendan Hanley. | Chris Castle, Judi Durber, Peter Sanders, Emma Gisborne, Brendan Hanley. | ||
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==== GB. Mon 29th Oct 2018 ==== | ==== GB. Mon 29th Oct 2018 ==== | ||
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==== Far Rift Dig. Thu 29th Nov 2018 ==== | ==== Far Rift Dig. Thu 29th Nov 2018 ==== | ||
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Andy, Lawrence, Paul | Andy, Lawrence, Paul | ||
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