Where the hell were we?!

[Broken Chris]

So, after deciding not to do Gingling this weekend due to Friday night's deluge, we thought we'd have a crack at Trapdoor pot. Unfortunately our cave karma had obviously been used up earlier in the month and we ended up wandering around Fountains Fell for hours without finding it. 

We did however end up in the entrance to a cave that looked interesting but I've got no idea what it was called. It was in a reasonably large shake hole west of the path up from the road to Cold Coates, had a jammed beam of wood above a small water fall and a squeeze down in to a chamber with an abandoned wooden ladder. There was then a short shored-up drop in to a couple of meters of stooping size rift which then popped out in to the top of a small pitch that seems to have been dug significantly - there was at least 10m of scaffolding and shoring and a single Petzl permanent bolt at the head of the pitch.

It's a bit of a vague dsecription, but does anyone have any idea where we might have been!? I'm pretty sure it wasn't Trapdoor as it didn't match the description in NFTFH and there was a very dead sheep we had to crawl over to get to the 10m pitch so it didn't look like anyone had been there recently.

Answers on a postcard.....

Cheers,
Chris

 

[Loki]

The Dark Lord would know. 
BTW.  you were on Dowlass Moss, Not FF.

 

[smollett]

I think I may know the hole you mean. The description of the passage sounds about right. The shakehole is fairly large with the entrance on the north side. It seemed a bit unstable when I went down for a look. NC2 doesn't have this hole that I am thinking of in it but the shakehole is clearly marked on the nc2 map (next to trapdoor pot). If it is the same one you were about 50m from Trapdoor pot entrance. I don't remember a ladder but it definately has a wooden beam across the top.

 

[dunc]

If it is the same one you were about 50m from Trapdoor pot entrance.

Mudfoot Hole is about 50m from Trapdoor, in a large shakehole, never been so couldn't say if it's the one you're on about. It's in rrcpc journal 10.

 

[mrodoc]

Lost?

 

[Broken Chris]

Errr, yeah, fair point mrodoc.

We were definitely in the right place though, which made it all the more annoying that we couldn't find it! Thanks to all for the suggestions as to where we might have been, i'll get the rrcpc journal and hsve a read