Douk cave and Skirwith cave

[buddah]

Visited today with andyj, darwen dave and Reddood

[captain cave man]

not bad pic's fellas.....was the first not a mix of great douk and douk cave ?...........as for skirwith did you get up the waterfall small climb and beyond !.....next time your in the area let me know i might just pop over for a larf underground ... n a play on the srt .....keep having fun n be safe.....nick (cpc/dcc)

[buddah]

cheers man, tbh i have no idea of the names i just heard it said buy one of the other guys. yeah i went up behind the waterfall into that small passage but the other guys wearnt feeling it. yeah yeah il let you know the more the merrier.

[Reddood]

I would of gone up there mate, i wasn't sure why we didn't, i just presumed it didn't go anywhre when everyone turned around.

anyway, some of mine

Then onto Skirwith, which is an abandand show cave

[mr beardy]

loved it when i went to great douk a while back

[captain cave man]

some very nice pics in both sets, first time we went to skirwith it took me ages to find the o'yl lol.....i c u found a dinosaur too hahaha, 9th picture from the bottom (the place where it gets to a flat out crawl just before you go through the roof !, you have to try this when she is letting more water through like 4 inch off the roof !.....I did once hell scary but fun ! although she is a grade 1 in flood she's a killer....

[Reddood]

To be honest, when it comes to caves me and buddah are very much novices, we've done LOADS of mines, but these are a very different kettle of fish. It doesnt help that i have a major fear of been in any space that has water and is confined, I.E. ANY wet crawl, this is cos when i was 12 (ish) i got trapped in a tight space in a cave while the watter was rising, took them 2 hours to get me out and resulted in a broken arm and dislocated shoulder, as well as various scares.

This is that bad that even on the crab walk in giants hole, various bits made me very light headed and gave me blury vision (mainly towards the end where it gets a bit tight and you have to lie in the water to get round one of the corners), i will have a go at pretty much anything, but if this had of been any wetter, i would of turned back, now i've done it with not much water in it, and i know i easyly fit through, i would have a go at it with a bit more flow, but if you're wondering why we are doing the novice stuff, it's cos thats what we are.

no problem with SRT though, so if you know of anything that has lots of big pretty formations, and doesnt involve swimming through tiny holes, give us a shout

[mr beardy]

alum pot might be worth a shot, not sure about water etc ccm will though

[Reddood]

we've done that as far as the slab/bridge. I think there is a report on here

[mr beardy]

ah right nevermind