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If you haven't already tried the quiz, you can find it here: http://ukcaving.com/board/index.php?topic=13685.0
The answers are:
1. Bar Pot - Gaping Gill Main Chamber - Mud Hall - Mud Henslers - Henslers Master Cave -New Henslers
2. Meregill Hole - Master Cave - TorrentPassage - Crossover Passage
3. Lancaster Hole - Wilf Taylor's - Waterfall Passage
4. Langcliffe Pot - Skirfare Inlet - The Roads - Strid Passage
5. Boxhead Pot - Tate Galleries - Lyle Cavern High Level Series - Lost Pot Inlet
6. Valley Entrance - KMC - East Entrance Passage - Philosophers Crawl
7. Lancaster Hole - Graveyard Series
8. Goyden Pot - Cap Left - Baffle Plates - New Stream Sump - New Stream Passage - River Passage
9. Ireby Fell Cavern - Cripple Creek - Ireby II - Skylight Passage
10. County Pot - Razor Passage - Ignorance is Bliss - 2nd Pitch Bypass via Trident - Battle of Britain Hall - The Snake
11. Lancaster Hole - Ramsdens Crawl - The Wormway
12. Scrafton Pot
13. Ireby Fell Cavern - True Grit - NE Inlet
14. Crystal Cave and Dog Hole: Wet Route and Barkers Passage
15. Mistral - Redwall Chamber - Intercounty Passage - Hall of the Mountain King - Leck Fell Lane - Ratbag Inlet
16. Mossdale Caverns Near Series: Assembly Hall - The Trenches - Broad Street - Blackpool Sands
17. Blishmire House Cave: Main Stream and Orbit Passage
18. Lancaster Hole - Arson Shaft - Magic Roundabout
19. Black Keld Dry Series
20. Keld Head - Kingsdale Passage - Dead Man's Handshake - The Dark Side
Additional Notes:
Numbers 1 to 10 are all classic trips, well worth doing.
1. The GG circuit is popular and well known
2. The Meregill loop probably doesn't get as much traffic as it deserves. It gives lots of excellent, and fairly straightforward, horizontal caving to complement the more vertical entrance series.
3. The Wilf Taylor's, Waterfall Passage combo has got to be one of the best trips in the area - one to do again and again
4. This one is not so well known, but Langcliffe Pot offers one of the longest round trips in the Dales. Craven Crawl and Stagger Passage are hardwork and some sections of the route are very wet. It's one you'll either love or hate.
5. The Boxhead round trip is described in NFTFH and it's got everything: big pitches, big passages, a tight wet section, some awkward climbs, tricky route-finding and some fine formations - lots of challenges, but nothing too desperate.
6. Valley Entrance to the Swinsto Waterfall and back by the other route is a great beginners trip
7. This circuit around Lancaster Hole's Graveyard Series makes a very fine trip and a nice change from the usual route down Kath's Way
8. This is just one of many options in Goyden Pot. Take a survey and explore The Labyrinth.
9. The 'Ireby Round' is the big round trip of the Dales. It's long, it's hard and it's got lots of everything: pitches, awkward climbs, intricate squeezes, a long flat-out crawl and some big chambers and huge passages.
10. County Pot offers lots of options for round trips. With this one, you can leave your SRT kit at the 1st pitch, and you don't have to struggle up Poetic Justice. The down climb to the stream below Cotton Chamber can be a bit intimidating and is sometimes very slippery, so it's not one for novices. The optional extra bit via The Snake is a must for its historical significance - it gets a great write-up in the book 'Underground Britain'.
Numbers 11 to 20 are more of a mixed bag.
11. Ramsden's Crawl is great - if you like that sort of thing. It's long, it's low, it's wet and it's got a couple of squeezes to slow you down. There's some pitches at the end that take you down to the Wormway which will make a fine round trip. I haven't done that bit, so I don't know whether the anchors are in good condition.
12. Scrafton Pot is a bit like one of those Escher drawings of never ending staircases. It's loop has two down-pitches that you can pull-through, but no up-pitches or even any significant climbs. Once you've been round it, you want to go round again to see how it works.
13. 'True Grit' is the second big round trip that Ireby Fell Cavern offers - a sibling for Cripple Creek. If Cripple Creek is the older brother, then here's his young punk sister. It?s a great trip with lots of variety and a memorable section of low airspace and liquid mud.
14. Crystal Cave to Dog Hole is not a popular round trip. It may not even have been done yet. Barker's Passage is too tight for most, but I'm sure if you're small enough it will make a jolly fun trip.
15. The Intercounty Passage loop is an esoteric gem that is well worth seeking out for lovers of the Pippikin system.
16. The Mossdale near series provides an enjoyable short round trip with roomy chambers, big streamways and intricate connecting passages. This is Mossdale without the Marathon crawls and Drown-or-Glory ducks.
17. Blishmire House Cave - it looks nice on the survey, but has anyone ever been there?
18. The Magic Roundabout in Lancaster Hole is an extremely fine trip: a huge up-pitch, another up-pitch, then some really nice varied pasage and three pull-through down pitches. The up-pitches are currently rigged, but the bolts are starting to get a bit rusty. This trip is a worthy candidate for some eco-bolts.
19. Black Keld has a dry series?
20. This one's all underwater and includes the infamous Dead-Man?s Handshake, which got its name when a dive line got pulled into an impassable constriction and one of a pair of divers found himself on the wrong side. The first diver headed out - there was nothing he could do. The second diver kept calm and eventually found a way around the constriction.
The answers are:
1. Bar Pot - Gaping Gill Main Chamber - Mud Hall - Mud Henslers - Henslers Master Cave -New Henslers
2. Meregill Hole - Master Cave - TorrentPassage - Crossover Passage
3. Lancaster Hole - Wilf Taylor's - Waterfall Passage
4. Langcliffe Pot - Skirfare Inlet - The Roads - Strid Passage
5. Boxhead Pot - Tate Galleries - Lyle Cavern High Level Series - Lost Pot Inlet
6. Valley Entrance - KMC - East Entrance Passage - Philosophers Crawl
7. Lancaster Hole - Graveyard Series
8. Goyden Pot - Cap Left - Baffle Plates - New Stream Sump - New Stream Passage - River Passage
9. Ireby Fell Cavern - Cripple Creek - Ireby II - Skylight Passage
10. County Pot - Razor Passage - Ignorance is Bliss - 2nd Pitch Bypass via Trident - Battle of Britain Hall - The Snake
11. Lancaster Hole - Ramsdens Crawl - The Wormway
12. Scrafton Pot
13. Ireby Fell Cavern - True Grit - NE Inlet
14. Crystal Cave and Dog Hole: Wet Route and Barkers Passage
15. Mistral - Redwall Chamber - Intercounty Passage - Hall of the Mountain King - Leck Fell Lane - Ratbag Inlet
16. Mossdale Caverns Near Series: Assembly Hall - The Trenches - Broad Street - Blackpool Sands
17. Blishmire House Cave: Main Stream and Orbit Passage
18. Lancaster Hole - Arson Shaft - Magic Roundabout
19. Black Keld Dry Series
20. Keld Head - Kingsdale Passage - Dead Man's Handshake - The Dark Side
Additional Notes:
Numbers 1 to 10 are all classic trips, well worth doing.
1. The GG circuit is popular and well known
2. The Meregill loop probably doesn't get as much traffic as it deserves. It gives lots of excellent, and fairly straightforward, horizontal caving to complement the more vertical entrance series.
3. The Wilf Taylor's, Waterfall Passage combo has got to be one of the best trips in the area - one to do again and again
4. This one is not so well known, but Langcliffe Pot offers one of the longest round trips in the Dales. Craven Crawl and Stagger Passage are hardwork and some sections of the route are very wet. It's one you'll either love or hate.
5. The Boxhead round trip is described in NFTFH and it's got everything: big pitches, big passages, a tight wet section, some awkward climbs, tricky route-finding and some fine formations - lots of challenges, but nothing too desperate.
6. Valley Entrance to the Swinsto Waterfall and back by the other route is a great beginners trip
7. This circuit around Lancaster Hole's Graveyard Series makes a very fine trip and a nice change from the usual route down Kath's Way
8. This is just one of many options in Goyden Pot. Take a survey and explore The Labyrinth.
9. The 'Ireby Round' is the big round trip of the Dales. It's long, it's hard and it's got lots of everything: pitches, awkward climbs, intricate squeezes, a long flat-out crawl and some big chambers and huge passages.
10. County Pot offers lots of options for round trips. With this one, you can leave your SRT kit at the 1st pitch, and you don't have to struggle up Poetic Justice. The down climb to the stream below Cotton Chamber can be a bit intimidating and is sometimes very slippery, so it's not one for novices. The optional extra bit via The Snake is a must for its historical significance - it gets a great write-up in the book 'Underground Britain'.
Numbers 11 to 20 are more of a mixed bag.
11. Ramsden's Crawl is great - if you like that sort of thing. It's long, it's low, it's wet and it's got a couple of squeezes to slow you down. There's some pitches at the end that take you down to the Wormway which will make a fine round trip. I haven't done that bit, so I don't know whether the anchors are in good condition.
12. Scrafton Pot is a bit like one of those Escher drawings of never ending staircases. It's loop has two down-pitches that you can pull-through, but no up-pitches or even any significant climbs. Once you've been round it, you want to go round again to see how it works.
13. 'True Grit' is the second big round trip that Ireby Fell Cavern offers - a sibling for Cripple Creek. If Cripple Creek is the older brother, then here's his young punk sister. It?s a great trip with lots of variety and a memorable section of low airspace and liquid mud.
14. Crystal Cave to Dog Hole is not a popular round trip. It may not even have been done yet. Barker's Passage is too tight for most, but I'm sure if you're small enough it will make a jolly fun trip.
15. The Intercounty Passage loop is an esoteric gem that is well worth seeking out for lovers of the Pippikin system.
16. The Mossdale near series provides an enjoyable short round trip with roomy chambers, big streamways and intricate connecting passages. This is Mossdale without the Marathon crawls and Drown-or-Glory ducks.
17. Blishmire House Cave - it looks nice on the survey, but has anyone ever been there?
18. The Magic Roundabout in Lancaster Hole is an extremely fine trip: a huge up-pitch, another up-pitch, then some really nice varied pasage and three pull-through down pitches. The up-pitches are currently rigged, but the bolts are starting to get a bit rusty. This trip is a worthy candidate for some eco-bolts.
19. Black Keld has a dry series?
20. This one's all underwater and includes the infamous Dead-Man?s Handshake, which got its name when a dive line got pulled into an impassable constriction and one of a pair of divers found himself on the wrong side. The first diver headed out - there was nothing he could do. The second diver kept calm and eventually found a way around the constriction.
) i.e. Brass Monkey Passage, but in fact it belies its name, and is quite a pleasant passage (though probably not under wet conditions, though you'd not get down Aquarius if it was very wet).