Beginner Caving Day (Horizontal) at Pure Outdoor

Take your first underground steps into a Peak District cave system and learn about its creation over 300 million years, discover beautiful formations and fossils as well as evidence of mining dating back centuries. With vast chambers, roaring waterfalls and serpentine passages the caves and mines of the Peak District await your next adventure!

• A place where the walls are made entirely of fossils, entwined with veins of minerals
• Move through passages cut by ancient waters and see beautiful crystal formations
• Full on caving adventure in beautiful Derbyshire

Our Beginner Caving Day offers an ideal first taste of underground adventure. During the day you'll visit up to 2 local cave systems. This activity is suitable for everyone, the systems we visit are mostly walking sized with some sections of stooping or hands-and-knees crawling. Each trip lasts 2 to 3 hours and the level of challenge is tailored to you. Before setting out you'll be kitted out with over suit, wellies, kneepads, helmet and lamp and we'll make a plan to be safe underground, including taking a detailed look at the weather.Once you're underground and moving confidently you can choose to explore beyond squeezes and short climbs or try your hand at navigating under the expert supervision of our guides. Warm, dry and refreshed back at The Adventure Hub our instructors can advise on the progression to help get you caving.Please note that this is not a typical 'come and try it' guided day, but a full-adventure. You will get wet, it will be dark and you do need to have a good level of fitness. Knowledgebase> What to wear on caving trips?> 3 Epic Caving Adventures in the Peak District