Dale Head Pot

[Pete Brookdale]

Has anyone been down Dale head in the last few weeks? what condition are the spits etc?

 

[Speleodroid]

Has been couple of yrs since my last trip in there when the rigging was off a mixture of spits and naturals and was do-able, but not great!

However, i 'believe' that it now has fixed bolts of some form.

Am sure someone who has been down there since my trip will confirm this though?

A fine trip!! 
(....in dry, settled weather....!)

 

[Pete Brookdale]

cheers for that, i'll let you know how dry and settled the weather is tonight lol!

 

[Cavematt]

Pete, what was the rigging like for Dale Head? Following an aborted trip a few years ago (due to dodgy spits) we returned last year to P-hanger it for the CNCC but found that someone had already beaten us to it (for the entrance pitch at least). The CNCC have no knowledge of this and so it can't be included in their rigging guide, and we haven't had a chance to return yet to confirm whether it has been hangered all the way to the bottom, or if just the first pitch has been done.

 

[Alex]

He won't know as the trip was rained off.

 

[Pete Brookdale]

I can confirm Dale Head Pot is 'P' anchored all the way down now, by who i have no idea but no need fo dodgy spit anymore!

 

[Alex]

Doubt there CNCC, but I would take those solid looking bolts then dodgey spits any day.

 

[Glenn]

Doubt there CNCC, but I would take those solid looking bolts then dodgey spits any day.

I can confirm that they are not CNCC/BCA anchors.

 

[Pete Brookdale]

Alex you should have known they are not Cncc otherwise why would Malcolm ask me to check if it had been 'P'd 

 

[Alex]

Well I had no idea who "Malcolm" was did I, you never said he was CNCC? Only person I know on CNCC is Damian.

 

[damian]

Only person I know on CNCC is Damian.

Except I'm not!

 

[Pete Brookdale]

lol :

 

[Alex]

I thought you were lol, I guess you just do the bolting for them.

 

[Glenn]

I thought you were lol, I guess you just do the bolting for them.

Damian is just one of a number of volunteers who install anchors on behalf of CNCC (and all cavers)