Technical Speleological Group

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Introduction

Miller's Chamber, Eldon HoleThe Technical Speleological Group (TSG) is an active, Derbyshire-based caving club. Despite our name, we cater for a wide range of caving activities, from purely recreational trips to exploration and digging.

We are based in Castleton, in the heart of the Peak District, and close to several of the best caving trips in Derbyshire, as well as numerous pubs. If you are interested in joining, come along to a monthly club meeting at the Chapel.

A members-only forum is also available for discussion of projects and other club issues in the Information menu.

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Read about our latest exploits below:

 

FOUL Pot

Trip Reports

FOUL Pot, 11/11/2011
Written by Ben Wright and Steph Dwyer (BPC)

As I was busy Saturday and Sunday, but still wanted a proper trip, we decided a Friday night epic was needed instead of heading to the crown as usual and getting wasted. Turned up at the dump about 4pm and festered for a while until Steph turned up at 5:30 with dinner. I packed rope and we headed off to the Dalehead lay-by on Fountains Fell to do the largely unknown gem that is FOUL Pot (ask Mike Bottomley what it stands for!). I'd been down a few months previous in wet(ish) weather and we'd got the impression that it was fairly weatherproof, so we ignored the slight drizzle and forecast rain.

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Odin sub-Cartgate Explorations

Trip Reports

Trip on: 18th December 2010. Present: Mickey Campbell, Jess Eades, Martyn Grayson, Phil Wolstenholme.

The lower levels and routes in Odin have always intrigued me, partly as very little clarification or documentation exists other than the 1975 Peter Lord/SUSS survey, and as I was planning a very detailed photographic survey project of the site, I was anxious to ascertain that at least some of those routes still existed, and were stable enough to visit. Shortly before Christmas, on a shivery  minus-5 Saturday morning, a group of us set out to explore the sub-Cartgate pitch and level marked on the survey that lies approximately at the altitude of Knowlegates Sough.

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