The Three Peaks

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Gaping Gill Area Area Map

• Gaping Gill - Main System:
  • Bar Pot (III) P - The easiest and most popular route into GG (safe in any weather)
  • Corky's (III) - Heavily engineered new entrance with good final pitch
  • Disappointment Pot (IV) P - Hardest of the classic routes, the wet squeeze and duck put many off
  • Flood Entrance (IV) - Classic alternative route
  • Henslers Pot (V) P - Superb but non-trivial new addition to GG
  • Jib Tunnel (Dihedral) (III) P - Possibly the best pure SRT route in the Dales
  • Main Shaft (IV) P - 100m free hanging descent, bottom third is very wet
  • Marilyn (III) - New alternative to Disappointment Pot, which avoids the ducks
  • Motley Pot (IV) - Upstream entrance to Disappointment Pot - currently blocked
  • Rat Hole (IV) P - A splendid SRT route with unusual rigging
  • Rat Hole Sink (IV) P - The upstream entrance into Rat Hole
  • Small Mammal Pot (IV) P - Interesting alternative to Bar Pot (safe in any weather)
  • Stile Pot (IV) - Alternative tackle-free entrance into Small Mammal House (safe in any weather)
  • Stream Passage Pot (III) P - Another classic which includes three great pitches
  • Wades Entrance (III) P - Easier entrance into Flood Entrance
• Grange Rigg System:
  • Christmas (III) P - Nice SRT route dropping into the well decorated main streamway of Grange Rigg Pot
  • Grange Rigg (IV) - Very good trip with a bit of everything: pitches, water, crawling, walking, climbing and formations
  • Pay Sank (III) - New quick entrance into the farthest reaches of Grange Rigg
• Ingleborough Cave:
  • Beck Head - The resurgence - divers only
  • Beck Head Stream Cave (II) - Superb stream cave
  • Fox Holes (IV) - Obscure back entrance
  • The Show Cave Entrance (IV)
• Hurnel Moss Pot (III) P -Straightforward SRT with a big, dramatic final pitch
• Jean Pot (IV)
• P5 (V) - Nasty tight entrance series, leading to bigger and better stuff
• Car Pot (IV) - Baptistry Crawl protects some fine formations
• Clapham Bottoms (III)

Chapel-le-Dale Area Map

• Sunset Hole / Lower Sunset (III) P - Popular beginners trip down a clean-washed streamway
• Meregill:
  • Meregill Hole (IV) P - Superb trip to the bottom. One of Yorkshire's finest
  • Little Meregill (V) - Very tight alternative entrance
  • Aven Entrance (IV) - Popular alternative entrance, harder but less weather dependent than the original
  • P101b (III) - Ends half-way up the wall of the big surface shaft of Meregill hole
• Black Shiver (V) - Classic deep Yorkshire pot with more to offer than SRT
• Great Douk/Middle Washfold (I) - Excellent beginners or children's trip
• Hardrawkin Pot (III) P - Archetypal Yorkshire potholing
• Knacker Trapper (III) - Tight and hard for its grade
• Roaring Hole (III) - Boulder chokes and pitches lead to a wet final streamway
• Southerscales Pot (III) - Strong kneepads recommended

Birkwith Area Map

• Birkwith Cave (II) / Coppy Gill Exit (III) - The main cave to the canal is a simple beginners trip. The canal requires inflatable flotation
• Calf Holes / Browgill (II) P - Great beginners through trip, starts with a simple abseil
• Coppice Cave / Ling Gill 7 (III) - A through trip for the connoisseur
• Old Ing / Dismal Hill (III) - Enjoyable and varied through trip
• Red Moss Pot (III-IV) - Very good horizontal trip with good formations and lots of water

Fountains Fell Area Map

• Magnetometer Pot (III-IV) - A fantastic, long trip with two pitches and some superb streamway
• Hammer Pot (V) - Tight rifts make for a very tiring trip to the bottom
• Gingling Hole (IV-V)
• Gingling Sink (III)
• Dale Head Pot (V) - The Dig Climb has been rescaffolded making access safer
• Echo Pot (V)
• Strangle Pot (V)
• FOUL Pot (?)

Malham Area Map

• Pikedaw Calamine Caverns (III) - 20m entrance shaft leads to roomy chambers and interesting mined areas. Good for a wet day

Penyghent Area Map

• Hunt Pot (III) P - Dramatic entrance shaft leads to less satisfactory caving beyond
• Hull Pot (II-V) - Huge surface shaft 90m x 18m x 18m deep. More popular with walkers than cavers
• Little Hull Pot (IV) P - Good trip with three pitches, and a bit of crawling
• Penyghent Pot (V) - Eleven pitches (some free-climbable) to the sump - potholing at its best
  • (Friday 13th Extensions) - A hard trip starting from the bottom of Penyghent Pot
  • (The Living Dead Extensions) - Makes Friday 13th look easy. The hardest trip in the Dales?
• Sell Gill Holes (III) P - Choice of two SRT routes lead to the main chamber, recent extension continues further and deeper
• Penyghent Long Churn (III) - 3 pitches to the bottom
• Jackdaw Hole (II) - Prominent surface shaft next to the path, with some passages leading off

Ribblehead Area Map

• Thistle Cave (II) - Easy through trip in two sections with tight exit
• Runscar (II) / Scar Top (III) - Runscar is a pleasant through trip for novices. Scar Top is a bit harder
• Roger Kirk (III) - Good through trip, including the wet 'Tube'
• Ribblehead Caves (II)

Alum Pot Area Map

• Alum Pot and the Churns:
  • Main Shaft (III) P - Spectacular 250' surface shaft
  • Lower Long Churn (III) P - Very popular for beginners, joins the main shaft lower down
  • Upper Long Churn (II) - Excellent simple beginners trip
  • Diccan Pot (IV) P - A big, wet, vertical route; one of the best of its kind in the dales
  • November Hole (III) - Short but very awkward through trip, not to be underestimated
• Borrins Moor Cave (III) - Several entrances into a network of shallow horizontal passages
• Fell Close South Cave (III)
• Washfold Pot (V) - A good trip to the bottom, easy for its grade
• Wilson's Cave (II)

The Allotment Area Map

• Juniper Gulf (IV) P - A classic Yorkshire Dales pothole, with a stupendous final pitch
• Nick Pot (IV) P - Contains the deepest underground pitch (Vulcan) in the Dales
• Hangman's Hole (V) - Loose
• Long Kin East/Rift Pot:
  • Long Kin East Pot (IV) P
  • Long Kin East Cave (I)
  • Rift Pot (IV)
• Lizard Pot (III)
• Long Rift Pot (I)
• Marble Sink (V)

Newby Moss Area Map

• Pillar Holes (III) P - Choice of routes, popular for SRT practice
• Long Kin West (IV) P - A deep pot, lacking in the horizontal
• Grey Wife Hole (III)
• Newby Moss Pot (IV)

White Scar Area Map

• White Scar Show Cave - A fine, wet trip beyond the show cave to the sump, or a harder trip to The Sleepwalker Series
• Skirwith Cave (III) - An interesting trip past old show cave relics leads to a waterfall climb and more big passage
• Tatham Wife Hole (III) P - Popular trip - lots of depth with not much gear
• Quaking Pot (V) - Tight, hard and tiring. One of the hardest trips in the region
• Trapdoor Pot (?) P - Another recent addition to Yorkshire's deep pots
• Boggarts Roaring Holes (IV) P - One more recent addition to Yorkshire's deep pots

Bruntscar Area Map

• Bruntscar Cave (III)
• Daimler Hole (III)
• Gatekirk Cave (II)
• Greensett Cave (II)
• Browside Cave
• Blake Bank Moss

P = Permanent Anchors