Sometimes it pays not to look up.

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This weekend I was with someone using a stinky, and it's certainly less scary when you can't see all the stuff hanging by a thread just above your head!
 
It's the streamway chokes that are really scary. Looking up one realizes they are virtually impossible to stabilize - you just have to hope the current route isn't supported 20 metres up by  a bit of grit!
 
Nay - it's the underwater ones that are really scary, where you also have to worry about bubbles dislodging stuff and then suddenly you can't even see.
 
I always stop and tell people to look up at that point!!  :)

I took a few people on their first trip in Draenen a couple of weekends ago and not one of them looked up till I told them to. One of them pointed out some white patches that look like strike marks. Has someone been throwing rocks at it to try to bring it down?!!

There's another good one in the passage just before Fault Chambers.  :)
 
Pitlamp said:
Nay - it's the underwater ones that are really scary, where you also have to worry about bubbles dislodging stuff and then suddenly you can't even see.
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It's definitely making the diver exploring our new mine very cautions!
 
Dow Cave:
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and Short Drop:
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I'd like to press 'like' but I really, really don't..... I remember tiptoeing through Dow trying to convince myself it probably wouldn't fall down today.
 
There is a partially collapsed wall in the first chamber of Reservoir Hole - been like that ever since it was entered in 1965. We looked at stabilising it but looked up - and up - and up and realized best left well alone!
 
Odin Mine, beneath the southern slope of Mam Tor, which is essentially the roof just here.
 

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What about the Goydon big passage, you really don't want to look up there as it's actively falling down (though probably in flood).
 
Speleofish said:
I'd like to press 'like' but I really, really don't..... I remember tiptoeing through Dow trying to convince myself it probably wouldn't fall down today.
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It PROBABLY won't...
 
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