Really Tight and Sporting Squeezes
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blackshiver
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A Northern Dales classic technical squeeze that floods to the roof within seconds.
https://www.flickr.com/photos/74732072@N08/12194663714/in/dateposted-public/
https://www.flickr.com/photos/74732072@N08/12194663714/in/dateposted-public/
blackshiver
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A wet one - Scoff trying to get back through the Merlin's Sleeve squeeze in The Well (Excalibur pot system).
https://www.flickr.com/photos/74732072@N08/14812119452/in/dateposted-public/
https://www.flickr.com/photos/74732072@N08/14812119452/in/dateposted-public/
Duncan S
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OK - will add that to the listPeteHall said:Duncan S said:
You need to get yourself down Pierre's Pot Duncan. It's a cracking cave with some interesting squeezes and if you make it to the end, would reward your camera very well I think
The talk in the pub tonight was shoving me down Priddy Green Sink - nobody thinks I will make it but everyone thinks it will be 'fun' for me to find out.
Before I try that, I've mandated a trip down Blue Pencil to make sure I can get around the corner.
Apparently, if I can get through Priddy Green Sink then Blue Pencil will be a breeze; but there's no way I want to get stuck in Swildons 4.
David Rose
Active member
Blue Pencil is easy so long as you go down it backwards facing the right hand wall. Coming back face the same way. Otherwise your legs get stuck.
Duncan S
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Thanks everyone
Yup - it's my legs that are the problem in Blue Pencil. Six months ago I was given 50/50 odds of being able to fit through by the Swildons regulars, but my caving experience has come on in leaps and bounds and I'd like to think those odds have improved as I'm getting better at working caving problems out.
LOL - dive my way out!!!!
My total diving experience is a one hour try dive in a swimming pool.
I have a suspicion it would end up being very expensive in beer to thank the MRO for coming to get me
Yup - it's my legs that are the problem in Blue Pencil. Six months ago I was given 50/50 odds of being able to fit through by the Swildons regulars, but my caving experience has come on in leaps and bounds and I'd like to think those odds have improved as I'm getting better at working caving problems out.
LOL - dive my way out!!!!
My total diving experience is a one hour try dive in a swimming pool.
I have a suspicion it would end up being very expensive in beer to thank the MRO for coming to get me
Over the Hill
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chunky said:
A much more accomplished caver than myself years ago failed to bottom Marble Sink on a trip I was on. Some times being tall just don't work but he left me with brown trousers climbing down in other pots rated as "gear required".
caving_fox
Active member
chunky said:
I'm 6'2 with long legs, and I don't recall having any particular problems in blue pencil. It was a few years ago since I last did it mind, so maybe I've selectively edited those memories!
Leclused
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An other squeeze clip from Belgium from 00:45 - 1:59
https://dl.dropbox.com/u/3779209/Blog%20clips/achtedeur%2030%20april.wmv
This is me doing the first descent in a tube after enlarging the entrance Two weeks later we discovered a new cave via the black hole at the my right side Currently this cave is almost 600m long. We are now working in a drafting boulder choke in narrow tube leading upwards. Tricky stuff because we are pooking in the choke above our head.
The squeeze itself has been enlarged a bit afterwards (but not much) it is still a pain in the *** to come back.
from 00:45 - 1:59 https://dl.dropbox.com/u/3779209/Blog%20clips/achtedeur%2030%20april.wmv
This is me doing the first descent in a tube after enlarging the entrance
Two weeks later we discovered a new cave via the black hole at the my right side Currently this cave is almost 600m long. We are now working in a drafting boulder choke in narrow tube leading upwards. Tricky stuff because we are pooking in the choke above our head.The squeeze itself has been enlarged a bit afterwards (but not much) it is still a pain in the *** to come back.
MJenkinson
Member
caving_fox said:
You do also possess the ideal cavers frame though as well!
David Rose
Active member
I am 6 ft 3 and 56 years old, and I last did Blue Pencil a few months ago. With all your recent experience, you'll have no trouble, and Swildons 4 is well worth a visit. I will be interested to hear how you get on in Priddy Green Sink, having always been rather put off by the guidebook description.
pwhole
Well-known member
Last December I managed to pull a large mole off my back going through the squeeze into Heaven, in White River, and that's polished smooth flowstone - at least the bottom is. It was hanging on by a thread when I got back to the hut - I didn't even know I'd done it, but luckily someone spotted the blood on my back when I got out of the shower. I got them to plaster it back on, and then had to wait five days before I could get it examined at the doctor's, what with their busy diaries and everything. It's gone now, as I had it removed a couple of weeks later, explaining to the doctor (quite seriously), that I had some tight squeezes to get through, and it wasn't worth the risk of doing it again. He did look at me a bit funny, I must admit.
But I literally know my limit now, and it's about six inches. :-[
But I literally know my limit now, and it's about six inches. :-[
