Guided Caving Trips
These are intended for those with a certain amount of previous caving experience who have a particular objective in mind, or those who would benefit from suggestions of a suitably challenging caving trip.
Guided trips may be either in horizontal systems requiring little or no ropework or in vertical systems using SRT.
I can provide - 
- organisational input
- knowledge of access, route finding, equipment requirements and weather limitations
- all equipment and clothing
- safety backup and support
Examples of 'classic' trips which I would be happy to guide include -
- Bar Pot to Gaping Ghyll Main Chamber - SRT skills required
- Simpsons Pot or Swinsto Hole Pull Through - SRT skills required
- Lancaster Hole sightseeing tour Near Series - Colonnades etc. - SRT skills required
- Lancaster Hole to Wretched Rabbit or County Pot through trip
- Pool Sink to Wretched Rabbit through trip
- Alum Pot via Lower Long Churn to the Sump - introductory SRT
- Valley Entrance and The Kingsdale Master Cave trip to the Great Aven and beyond to Spout Chamber - introductory SRT or ladder
- Heron Pot through trip or SRT in and out - good for introduction to SRT skills
- Rowten Pot - SRT skills required
- Jingling Pot - SRT skills required
This is a suggested list and is by no means exhaustive.
Group Sizes for Technical Caving
SRT Trips - 3 maximum
Less technical trips with short pitches - 5 maximum
Guided Scrambling
I have many years local knowledge of the mountains of the Lake District and can make suggestions as to interesting and exciting days out which may be a little more rocky and adventuous than you had previously considered. Some of these would involve the use of a rope for protection on the exposed sections. I can also work in Wales or Scotland. Technical scrambling is weather dependant.
Suggestions in the Lake District include -
- Jacks Rake on Pavey Ark in Langdale
- Sharp Edge and Hallsfell Ridge on Blencathra
- Cam Crag Ridge, Langstrath in Borrowdale
- The Helvellyn Ridges - Striding Edge and Swirral Edge
- Pinnacle Ridge on St Sunday Crag in Patterdale
- Raven Crag, Yewdale near Coniston for a short day out
- Easy Terrace on Dow Crag, Coniston
- Slab and Notch Route to the summit of Pillar Rock
Group Size for Technical Scrambling
Guided Hillwalking
If the talk of rocky ridges and ropes all sounds a little too daunting a gentler approach may be more suitable on more conventional footpaths, perhaps with some input on navigation skills using map and compass.
Group Size for Hillwalking
Guided Rock Climbing
Rock climbing on some of the Lakeland Classics. Climbs of several pitches up to about 150m in height. Some ropework experience useful! Weather dependant. Suggestions include -
- Corvus in Borrowdale
- Little Chamonix etc. on Shepherds Crag
- Castle Rock South Crag
- Raven Crag in Langdale - Middlefell Buttress, Revelation, Centipede etc.
- Scout Crag in Langdale
- Dow Crag - C Buttress Ordinary Route and Giants Crawl
- Esk Buttress - Bridges Route and Bowers Route
Again if these seem a little too adventurous a selection of short climbs might be more appropriate.
Group Size for Rock Climbing
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