News from 2025

Maskhill Mine. Saturday 18^th January 2025

Sun Jan 19 2025

A change of plan. Instead of the scheduled trip to Longcliffe Mine, we decided to do the trip that was cancelled by snow earlier in the month. Seven of us went underground on a cold and misty day in Maskhill Mine. We descended to West Chamber, where we found TSG member Luke Brock preparing to dive a sump at the end if an inlet between the West Antechamber and West Chamber. Gaz and Jenny went out via the already rigged Oxlow entrance. The others returned via Maskhill.

In Wharf Climbing Shaft, Gaz McShee has continued to remove rocks dropped by vandals during the summer that were blocking the way on in to the rest of the system.

Newsletter 158. December 2024

Thu, Jan 9 2025

Our most recent newsletter is now available to read.

Cancelled Maskhill - Oxlow Trip

Sun, Jan 5 2025

Lots of snow and an amber weather warning lead us to abandon the planned trip today.

Rigging Guide Update and an Apology

Sat, Jan 4 2025

The rigging guide has two changes.

• The Carlswark Cavern Eyam Dale Shaft has been updated, following The DCA's rebolting. There are now two resin anchors to protect the pitch head approach, rather than having to rely on dodgy trees.
• There is a new topo that shows the cliff descent in Eldon Quarry to reach Sidetrack Cave.

We would like to apologise for the CCPC web site outage over Christmas. All should now be back to normal.