Reservoir Hole stuff, and boy there's a lot of it

[The Old Ruminator]

Log.
The Long Road South.
Following the Golgotha fault.

Possibly the end of The Frozen Deep is somewhere above the choke in the river cave at Gough's.

 

[The Old Ruminator]

Gone to bed ----

 

[Amy]

No words...just amazed. That, my good sir, is BADASS.

 

[tony from suffolk]

Wonderful...

 

[caving_fox]

Excellant news. Lovely photos. Just shows what's still there waiting to be found.

 

[mrodoc]

Everything to play for in Spider and Bone Holes where I anticipate future similar finds

 

[Pipster]

Thanks for posting the photos with commentary, and the diagrams.  8)

Brilliant!

I love "The Gatekeeper" photo - definetely one of those "so close - but so far" moments when you reached that point.

 

[Nigel]

Short video of The Frozen Deep.
R H Frozen Deep

 

[SamT]

:bow: :bow: :bow:

Just goes to show you..

I'm sure there are plenty of these voids, laying about, waiting...


Thankfully  - todays generations of explorers will conserve the finds as best as possible, unlike bygone eras, where similar stuff was trashed, the stall smashed and taken away. (I was in Giants Entrance Series with the Kids last weekend and I was noticing the shear number 'stumps' where stall that clearly quite large diameter had been 'removed'  )

 

[rhychydwr1]

Just wait until William Gough sees these photos.  He will want to open it as a show cave.

 

[Roger W]

Great photos of a fantastic find!

You will need a "No Breathing" sign by that "Incredible fragile 5m column" though.

 

[whitelackington]

Well done you "near pensioner" diggers 

 

[mrodoc]

We discussed the possibility of a show cave but it lies under 400 ft of limestone in an AONB with no way to get in horizontally either - it is a very long way from Gough's show cave.

 

[graham]

We discussed the possibility of a show cave but it lies under 400 ft of limestone in an AONB with no way to get in horizontally either - it is a very long way from Gough's show cave.

It'd be nice to be able to show the general public such a fantastic find, but as well as the logistics being iffy, so would be the economics. Not only would it be difficult and expensive to get the work done*, but it would not generate much of a return. It is highly unlikely that another cave, Cheddar already has two, after all, would generate sufficient extra visitors to justify the expense, both capital and ongoing running costs.

Unless it had a cable car.

*Not impossible, though, I reckon I've been in a number of show caves with longer access tunnels, many with electric trains.

 

[ttolyaj]

A fantastic find Willie all ways said it still had a lot to give, and I expect there will be more yet to come. Could it possibly end up with a dry route to the Cheddar river system>

 

[mrodoc]

A fantastic find Willie all ways said it still had a lot to give, and I expect there will be more yet to come. Could it possibly end up with a dry route to the Cheddar river system>

a lot of boulders to contend with methinks but anything is possible.

 

[Burt]

Old guys rule!

Well done all.

 

[chriscastle46]

Most excellent news. I suspect that the regime at Longleat will want to look into the logistics of opening it up to the public and when they find it's not feasible, will completely lose interest. They weren't particularly bothered about the press release and the free publicity at first, until Hugh made a fuss.

As a representative of Cheddar Caves I will, of course need to be taken on an inspection tour at the earliest opportunity! I'll need to see if we can get another Adventure Caving route there.


(Not really).

 

[cap n chris]

Regime.

Sounds a bit militaristic.

 

[bograt]

Belated congrat's lads, nice to know us old'uns can still do it
Experience rules OK!!