Legends Session

My first attempt at a short fictional piece. I've years worth of notes and ideas but this is the first I've actually committed to co...

Will begin writing the back-log of Sessions up after a couple more sessions. Or maybe I'll wait till I get to a hundred.  https://www.yo...

  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6iNhCgUMyUM Copyright © Simon Beck, 2021. The copyright for this article and photographs, remains with the...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_juQSNxvXL8 Copyright © Simon Beck, 2021. The copyright for this article and photographs, remains with the a...

Another long overdue piece with the odd addition to come no doubt. Took me weeks of thinking about it before I finally sat down at the compu...

 Here's the video from my most recent session, the write-ups will follow soon. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DPrEwztFXqw&t=229s

  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zQhvJ89-zqw

Mossdale Sessions 85 - 88 14th, 21st, 25th, 28th May 2020 (All undertaken solo) These were the first series of visits post Covid-Lock...

Session 85's Youtube offering, and my  first underground outing in a few months. The write-up should follow soon. Would actually like to...

Mossdale Session 84 Mon 23rd March 2020 (Simon Beck) 'Duchovny 19' Another early start, arriving at the scar for half nine...

Mossdale Session 83 Sat 21st March 2020 (Simon Beck) 'Mossdale is mine!' Postponed from the previous day. I hadn't qui...

Mossdale Session 82 Wed 22nd January 2020 (Simon Beck, Nicola...) 'La Femme Nikola' Today's was the first Mossdale vis...

Still in the process, or yet to complete the written side of Sessions 82 - 84, but here are a couple of video offerings from 83 & 84. Al...

The cogs have been in motion for some time now, no more so than recently. I am very protective of my efforts and investments, and the way I ...

Twelve years since my first trip down Mossdale. Even though I've clocked up a respectable number of visits, somewhere in the 30s, it...

Over the last half decade or so I've probably only attended a small handful of official club related meets. I was reminded of this today...

Not much of a report really and more of a 'new year start as I mean to go on'  type of thing. After the overdue nature of my previ...

The photos below were taken over the course of two trips during the spring of 2016. The first of these, a trip to photograph the beautifully...

With a body still tender from Langcliffe Pot three weeks earlier I wasn't wrong to predict I'd be in pain throughout the entirety of...

After going through all my Mossdale photographs this is a collection of the best ones. The vast majority of them i'm afraid were blurry ...

Today's trip was only my third time beyond Nemesis, yet I couldn't shake the feeling I'd been there more often. I've obviou...

An assortment of footage featuring Mossdale Caverns

I seldom leave Wharfedale for caving these days and it's been an age since I did a three peaks classic. My increased bias towards the Mo...

I've only two choices, carry on or turn around, both offer torment but only one attainment. There is no where to hide from this crushing...

My first lonesome trip of the New Year. The variable weather had forced me to cancel this one several times over the past week. I'd been...

I've ended up doing the traverse of Dowbergill Passage many times this past year, most of these trips have been for sport, to keep fit ...

Icy roads and a bitter gale almost forced me to reconsider doing this one. I'd foolishly brought very little warm gear for the overland ...

Some of us will forever be governed by the sensations we have long sought, collected and experienced throughout our lives. Some of thes...

I think it was sometime in 2013 when I first started this Blog. I was getting pretty lazy with my journals at the time and felt it was time ...

Re-edited August 2018 by the author, with only a few of the additions left out from the original. I was never happy with how cluttered thi...

I still remember how I really enjoyed writing this piece. I also remember cursing myself at the time for not writing a lot more about my e...

Originally posted on Ukcaving.com October 2012. All I have to say about this piece is; it still does a great job of reminding me how good...

This article was originally posted on ukcaving.com in November of 2011. I have made some corrections to this piece, so it does differ sligh...

This was the first article i wrote after returning from London during the summer of 2010 it was originally posted on Ukcaving.com in August...

A Ukcaving.com piece from May of 2008. I don't know why I've kept hold of this one, not a great piece, but it did precede what tur...

Another old article posted on Ukcaving in 2007. This was one of my first online trip reports. The spelling, punctuation and layout of the o...