thehungrytroglobite
Well-known member
Hi,
We're at GSG until Monday eve and are looking for advice on the caves. The CNCC caves of scotland guide doesn't give much detail on how they respond to water. It's been fairly wet over the last few days, with more showers forecast over the weekend although it looks like we may get a dry spell tomorrow morning & Monday. The forecast isn't for torrential rain, just showers but obviously it's hard to know how heavy those showers will be.
We're guessing Uamh na Claonite is out of the question (shame since id heard great things about it), but hoping we can still do ANUS and Rana Hole.
For ANUS, it says 'water may flow down the constricted entrance when wet' but gives no info on how long this constricted entrance is, if the cave itself floods, whether there is airspace or not, etc?
For Rana Hole, it says 'Black Rift pitch may become impassable when very wet' with no info on whether it actually DOES become impassable or not, and no elaboration of what 'very wet' means - I feel like it has been wet but not VERY wet as far as Scotland is concerned? It would be great if there was actually a rough scale (ie. Wet, quite wet, very wet, extremely wet, biblical) that was used to provide a more useful point of reference in cave descriptions.
Does anyone know the answer to my above questions? Or have any recommendations for other caves to do in Assynt that are okay in the wet?
We wanted to climb suilven but I think that has quite a lot of river crossings so maybe not a good option? Anyone know of any good hikes that are less likely to be cut short by high rivers?
Thank you!
We're at GSG until Monday eve and are looking for advice on the caves. The CNCC caves of scotland guide doesn't give much detail on how they respond to water. It's been fairly wet over the last few days, with more showers forecast over the weekend although it looks like we may get a dry spell tomorrow morning & Monday. The forecast isn't for torrential rain, just showers but obviously it's hard to know how heavy those showers will be.
We're guessing Uamh na Claonite is out of the question (shame since id heard great things about it), but hoping we can still do ANUS and Rana Hole.
For ANUS, it says 'water may flow down the constricted entrance when wet' but gives no info on how long this constricted entrance is, if the cave itself floods, whether there is airspace or not, etc?
For Rana Hole, it says 'Black Rift pitch may become impassable when very wet' with no info on whether it actually DOES become impassable or not, and no elaboration of what 'very wet' means - I feel like it has been wet but not VERY wet as far as Scotland is concerned? It would be great if there was actually a rough scale (ie. Wet, quite wet, very wet, extremely wet, biblical) that was used to provide a more useful point of reference in cave descriptions.
Does anyone know the answer to my above questions? Or have any recommendations for other caves to do in Assynt that are okay in the wet?
We wanted to climb suilven but I think that has quite a lot of river crossings so maybe not a good option? Anyone know of any good hikes that are less likely to be cut short by high rivers?
Thank you!
