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Group: GSG Date: 6 March 2026 Location: Borrowdale, Cumbria Present: Alan Brentnall In Search of Millican Dalton’s Cave Every year, on a weekend in either February or March, an ageing group of climbers, mountaineers and fell walkers (The Langdale Festerers) meet up in Keswick for a re-union dinner. In 2026, Read more…
Group: GSG Date: 28 February 2026 Location: Assynt Present: Rich Pease, Alan Brentnall The proposed GSG Skye trip had been cancelled, so I decided to go over to the hut at Elphin and have a break, maybe a bit of walking in the local mountains, possible a cave-spotting walk over Read more…
Group: GSG, GUPA Date: 17 January 2026 Location: Yorkshire Present: Paul S, Lina, Geri, Andrew (GUPA), Alec (GUPA) Staying at Bull Pot Farm, so a trip into Easegill was on the cards. With Lina and Geri wanting to get some SRT experience, and there having been limited rain in the Read more…
Group: GSG, UBSS Date: 10 December 2025 Location: Yorkshire Present: Graham Mullan When Linda and I first started visiting the Dordogne, back in the 90s, we acquired a copy of Pierre Vidal’s Cavernes en Périgord (second edition, 1987). In 2007, after one of those plans hatched on the back of Read more…
Group: GSG Date: 7-8 September 2025 Location: Yorkshire Present: Tim Butterworth, Jessie O’Shaunessie, Derek Perttiglio, Tamlin Barton, Ross Davidson Heron Pot Sunday 7th September Present: Tim Butterworth, Jessie O’Shaunessie, Derek Perttiglio, Tamlin Barton, Ross Davidson A quick trip, appropriate after our gruelling exchange on Sat. We rigged the high traverse Read more…
Group: GSG Date: 4 September 2025 Location: Portknockie Present: Alan Brentnall Last week, as part of my recovery process, after my recent bout of pneumonia, Alison and I had a three day stay at Findochty (or Finechty as the locals have it) on the north Moray coast. It’s a beautiful Read more…
Group: GSG Date: 30 August 2025 Location: Angus Present: Andrew You could be forgiven for thinking that the sea caves at Arbroath are similar to many other sea caves around our coasts -shallow indentations formed by wave action in non-limestone rock – but they couldn’t be more different. You get Read more…