Tuesday, 19 February 2013
Caving in Yorkshire Dales
Caving Activity
Long Churn & Alum Pot Cave
Ingleborough,Yorkshire Dales
18 Feb 2013
My preparations for caving activity
our food...nasi goring + ayam goring + talur
yeah..this is it..as stated above
Lah..with his homemade sandwich tuna green apple
My backpack
Nemo and his stuffs
Still busy preparing his food
Lah and his stuffs..
I am ready to go. .
Nemo is ready to rock n roll
"Don't judge my path if you haven't walked my journey"
- Quoted
Carniege Outdoor..set to go..
our caving team..new members Kate (USA) and Chivu (France)..
In the van..Jason and Adrian
Suasana dalam van. . *vain*
form to be filled.
Adam, our caving instructor, is giving some brief info
Set our suits
Bruneians (Nemo & Lah) are preparing their coverall
one of the beautiful sceneries I had ever seen in UK
I didn't really know what's the name of this gorgeuos mountain.
"I'm in Red", that's what I actually said !!
we were absolutely ready
good to go bro?
It's dark now..
checking his nipples...hahaha
Chivu (French) & Kate (American)..smile for the camera
Kate, Nemo & Vicky...
Adam (Yellow) was giving some additional advice to us
It was really a good fun !!
Eeeeee....smile :)
Happy faces...
Lah...after did descending through one of the
waterfall obstacles
Chivu..I didn't really know how to spell his name
climbing up the slippery rocks
Jason (red) and Kate had a chat
while waiting for the others
Limestone..which aged roughly 300millions
blurrredddd....
Dry bags...
Climbed up (15 meters) by using the 'commando' ladders?
our instructor, Adam..
another picture of Limestone
Jade, one of my classmates
Adam was trying to pull up our group back to the main entrance
The main entrance to the Alum Pot Cave
(courtesy to google, just to give the pic how it looks like)
The Long Churn Cave
The lower part of Alum Pot cave, pic 1 (courtesy of google)
The lower part of Alum Pot cave, pic 2 (courtesy of google)
We began our journey from Leeds Met University at 1600hrs roughly. This group consisted of 8 students who are currently taking Leadership Through The Outdoor Module, and 2 guidances (Jason, Carniege Outdoor Instructor and Adrian, our module lecturer). It took for about 1hour and 15mins drive from Leeds to our main destination which was located in Ingleborough, North Yorkshire. Before going to the main site for caving, we were given a brief information on how things would work in the cave and what type of suit did we have to wear for this activity. We were asked to use waterproof coverall, a pair of wellington boots in order to avoid cold flowing water and also given a helmet (with headlight attached) to each one of us. After the briefing, we drove uphill for about 10mins to the main entrance of the site. Then we had to walk for about 20 mins. The weather was okay at that time. After 20mins walk, we entered the main entrance of the Long Churn cave. I think this was our first time to experience entering the cave through the fast following stream and it was absolutely freezing cold.
Luckily, I brought my phone and took some pictures of us in the cave. I really did not want to miss a chance for not bringing my phone during this activity even eventhough we had been told not to do so. But I was stubborn hahaha and yeah I did not regret to bring it and happily had a chance to record all our caving activity that time, at least. In the cave itself, we faced various of obstacles which were basically forcing us to do more physical challenge towards it. We needed to do abseiling activity that obviously to get us down to Alum Pot area (I think so), the lower part of the cave. It was just 15 meters descent. After that we had to walk for only 10 meters from the descent area and tried to switch off our headlights and amazingly we could see a lonely star in the sky from the Alum Pot site. We could also see a huge 'mouth of cave', which had a steep hole probably 35 meters descent from where we were standing. I think this was personally my best caving experience and had gained a valuable knowledge through it.
Monday, 18 February 2013
Sunday, 17 February 2013
Map & Compass Session for Hiking and Kayak Expedition 2013
Map & Compass Session
11th February 2013
Headingley Campus, Leeds Met. University
We were having discussion regarding the trip
Trying to get better understanding on how it works
After the canoe practical session in the afternoon, we had also a basic session for Map & Compass Reading. This is the important knowledge that each one of us should have conquered in order to have a safe journey during the expedition. Some of the knowledge that I gained in scouting is also very useful for me to get used to this kind of activity. But yeah, I admit some of it I already forgot. I asked my lecturer Ashley to give us some refresh memory on how these thing worked.
1st Practical Session for End of May Canoe Expedition 2013
Kayak 1st Practical Session
11th Faebruary 2013
Carniege Swimming Pool, Leeds Met. University
Nemo smiles for the camera.
3 types of kayak;
Sea Kayak (orange), Canoe (green) and Rapid Kayak (yellow)
After the training.
Help me please. . .
Lah. . After the practical session
Nemo and Jason gathered the kayaks.
Vicky. . .
This was our first practical session for the Kayak/Canoe Expedition that will be held in May. This was also one of the preparations that we need to do in order to get used in handling the kayak/canoe. It seems that we will be using 'CANOE' instead of 'SEA KAYAK' or 'RAPID KAYAK' for the expedition. Probably this is due to energy consumption that we will spend for the trip which canoe is more 'save-energy' type of boat and can accommodate two people. I am not so sure about that yet. Hopefully, we can make this trip successful and I really can't wait for it !!
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