Caving Weekend Yorkshire Dales

I felt knackered when arriving home from work and Karen offered to drive. So we set off for the Yorkshire Dales at around 6:30pm and left a very cold Peak District to find an even colder Yorkshire Dales with quite a lot of snow lying on the ground from earlier in the week: luckily the roads were fine. We arrived at the YSS place in Helwith Bridge and found quite a lot of cars parked there with a large group from VMC (a mountaineering club?) busy cooking in the kitchen with torches as there was a power cut. They told us, from Alan Speight, that a group from Manchester University Speleological Club were likely to arrive later as they hadn't been able to get to Bull Pot Farm where they had intended to stay, so the Orpheus CC lot (us) could use the YSS Members' room.
We dropped our gear off and headed fro the pub: The Helwith Bridge, just a couple of hundred yards away. Here we found fellow OCC members Jim Alder and Jess Eades who were chatting to members of Bradford Pothole Club. There was a single emergency light in the bar with some candles, due to the power cut and despite having some cooked food, Jim was disappointed that he couldn't have any chips due to the power cut. After an hour or so the electricity came on and Colin the landlord turned the lights off as it was quite nice with just the single light and candles. Later on Mark Silo and Pete Wagstaff arrived along with Robert Protheroe-Jones and Phil Walker.