YSS

YSS

Yorkshire Subterranean Society

YSS

YSS

Taking in the Three Peaks

YSS

YSS

Purpose built SRT wall

Welcome, Guest
Remember me
Forgot your password? Forgot your username?
YSS
Forum
Caving, Walking etc.
Trip Reports
Bari Cave Albania
This is the area for all the YSS trip reports only please

Topic

Bari Cave Albania 26 Sep 2011 18:14 #5512

  • keithm's Avatar Topic Author
  • keithm
  • Offline
  • Platinum Member
  • Platinum Member
  • Posts: 3217
  • Thanks: 503
After the first few days of carrying kit up onto the Karst and prospecting, we finaly got a chance to find our first cave. We called it Bari, as it was pointed out to us by a sheperd and the Albanian word for sheperd is....Bari.
It started out with a 55m entrance pitch which was rigged off a natural flake and 1 bolt we put in, this then dropped us onto a snow slope, this was followed through a squeeze and down to the head of a snow slope dropping away at about 70degrees with about 10" of space against the rock.
We squeezed down this 30m until we were out of rope, so after tying on another 50m the next bit can only be described as arse twitching. Dropping past the end of the snow slope we were suddenly plunged into a huge shaft, which turned out to be 81m deep with huge snow and ice formations in it.
After a lot more cold, hard work we managed to get it down to 235m a job also made a lot easier with the use of the YSS drill.
Phil Baker, Lee Langdon, Keith Mason
The following user(s) said Thank You: alexw

Please Log in to join the conversation.

Re: Bari Cave Albania 26 Sep 2011 21:27 #5518

  • alexr
  • Visitor
  • Visitor
Very jealous, congrats on the discovery. At least I now know where you guys had been. Been very quite at the YSS for that last month or so.

Please Log in to join the conversation.

Re: Bari Cave Albania 26 Sep 2011 21:42 #5519

  • keithm's Avatar Topic Author
  • keithm
  • Offline
  • Platinum Member
  • Platinum Member
  • Posts: 3217
  • Thanks: 503
Yep awesome place Alex, limestone everywhere. Just spoilt for choice....

Please Log in to join the conversation.

Last edit: Post by keithm.

Re: Bari Cave Albania 29 Sep 2011 12:11 #5525

  • stuartw's Avatar
  • stuartw
  • Offline
  • Platinum Member
  • Platinum Member
  • Posts: 787
  • Thanks: 258
You guys may have taken the YSS drill on its holidays, but having been to Dan's talk at Hidden Earth - the Eldon lads took a quad bike for getting to the caves, now thats caving in style!

Please Log in to join the conversation.

Re: Bari Cave Albania 29 Sep 2011 15:34 #5527

  • keithm's Avatar Topic Author
  • keithm
  • Offline
  • Platinum Member
  • Platinum Member
  • Posts: 3217
  • Thanks: 503
It didn't quite get the kit up all the way, but it certainly helped.
Only time i had a lift on it was on the way back from the Orange Bar, not sure what was more scary.....the caving or Wendy's driving :woohoo:

Please Log in to join the conversation.

Re: Bari Cave Albania 05 Oct 2011 13:03 #5565

  • gordona
  • Visitor
  • Visitor
These trips sound fantastic. reminds me of Star Trek 'To boldly go where no man has gone before'.

Look forward to the talks you'll be giving with photos Keith!!!??

Please Log in to join the conversation.

Re: Bari Cave Albania 05 Oct 2011 18:02 #5569

  • dweare
  • Offline
  • Platinum Member
  • Platinum Member
  • Posts: 1395
  • Thanks: 405

gordona wrote:
Look forward to the talks you'll be giving with photos Keith!!!??


If only you'd gone to Hidden Earth, Gordon !!

Please Log in to join the conversation.

Re: Bari Cave Albania 06 Oct 2011 20:10 #5578

  • keithm's Avatar Topic Author
  • keithm
  • Offline
  • Platinum Member
  • Platinum Member
  • Posts: 3217
  • Thanks: 503
Even I missed Hidden Earth as well Gordon :(

Please Log in to join the conversation.

Re: Bari Cave Albania 07 Oct 2011 09:16 #5581

  • gordona
  • Visitor
  • Visitor
And there was I thinking Damian was telling me I had missed YOU talking at Hidden Earth!!

LOL :laugh:
Still there's got to be a chance for you to offer a 'casual' YSS one??

Please Log in to join the conversation.

  • Page:
  • 1
YSS
Forum
Caving, Walking etc.
Trip Reports
Bari Cave Albania

Contact Us

Bookings

Membership

Secretary

Treasurer

About

There are many club organised caving weekends, with a mixture of easy and difficult caving.  Over the past few years we have given lots of people the opportunity to experience caving with our "Try Caving" events.  These are quite popular and quite a few people have subsequently joined the club. We have YSS members caving most weekends so it is easy for new cavers to tag onto the easier caving trips and find people to help with more training.

Location

Old School House
Austwick Road
Helwith Bridge
North Yorkshire
BD24 0EH

Sorry, this website uses features that your browser doesn’t support. Upgrade to a newer version of Firefox, Chrome, Safari, or Edge and you’ll be all set.

Color: "#89a2ae";