Nice cave how far can you go beond the water fall ?
The original cave is 1km, but a good part of this is beyond the sump and the bit between the current opening in the middle of the field and the cliff seems to have been lost.
cap 'n chris said:when you do it 4 or 5 times in a year
as we did in 03 you tend to not want to see it again for a loooong time!!!
.. you wouldn't want to be a professional caving leader then?.... 8-10 times in a week is more like the frequency of visits in popular caves on Mendip.
LoneRanger said:Most of the cave is before the sump. The bit between the cliff and the main entrance has not been lost, but the through trip has.
Where exactly is the entrance to that bit? We looked around the base of the cliff area but couldn't find it.
LoneRanger said:Where exactly is the entrance to that bit? We looked around the base of the cliff area but couldn't find it.
just to the right of the left hand building.
How easy was it to spot?
LoneRanger said:Easy enough, and it did nicely fit the NC description.
Are you sure that the cave that you found was not Skirwith lower entrance? Did you go to the end?
LoneRanger said:I've just looked in NC2 (1991) and can't find any mention of the the Rift cave that you reference. What page are you on? Have you got a different edition of NC2?
I've just looked in NC2 (1991) and can't find any mention of the the Rift cave that you reference. What page are you on? Have you got a different edition of NC2?
1996 reprint of NC2 (1991). Page 229, the last sentence of the Skirwith Cave description. It may be that I'm reading it wrong, but it seemed to me that p228 "Entrance above rising under small cliff is a low bedding plane" and p229 "14m N of rising at old car park is entrance into rift cave which terminates in a small chamber after 39m" are describing two separate caves ... mind, I'm assuming that the flat area under the cliff where the buildings are is the same as the 'old car park' - that's where my mistake may be! In which case what I found would have been Skirwith and not this other mystery rift cave.