26th-18th November 2010
A gorgeous winter weekend with blue skies, frost and ice, and an inch or two of snow to wake up to on Saturday morning.
- Caves attempted:
Pool Sink - Wretched Rabbit Exchange
- Date:
- 27/11/10
- Estimated time underground:
- 6hrs
- Present:
- Kathryn
- Ed, Wouter, Sytske, Bryn
First time in Pool Sink for Kathryn and I, and with a large group of novices we did a moderately convincing job of pretending we knew where on earth we were going. After a slightly tortuous entrance, it's a lovely streamway with cascades, a few pitches and no great difficulties. We also headed upstream below the first pitch to see Magpie Chamber. There's a bit of a confusing mess of passages down at the bottom, but we somehow followed our collective nose and emerged at Holbeck Junction. We met Toby and Ollie's group heading the other way near Stop Pot. Check out
Toby's photos of his group.
Aygill Caverns
- Date:
- 28/11/10
- Estimated time underground:
- 4hrs
- Present:
- Kathryn
- Toby
- Wouter, Sytske, Mikaela
Another beautiful frosty day saw us down Aygill Caverns. The bit we did consists of a couple of pitches leading to a lovely streamway, upstream and downstream. The water was very cold so we didn't head down through the low sections to the sump. Instead we had a bit of a ferret around in some higher level passages. A couple of minutes after we got back to the surface it started to snow very heavily and within a few minutes there was an inch or two covering the farm road once more. We made a very speedy exit from Bull Pot Farm, sliding the car down the lane and not emerging from the blizzard conditions until a junction or two down the M6. I reckon if we'd have surfaced half an hour later we might have been stranded overnight!
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