Caving in Ireland (29th - 31st March)

[ianball11]

Really? wow!

I'm pretty confident it was left there in April '99

Definately still there in 2006.

My memory is getting sketchier, but I remember the boulder was making the entrance very tight and seemed to be held up by mud on one side and not too much of anything solid.  Getting past it was very tight for our thinnest guy but doable going with gravity but coming up might have been very tough for us fatties and then with the risk of the boulder moving it seemed a better option to get it up, with the ropes srt kits and pulleys we had, though three of us couldn't shift it and we'd no scaffolding so a bit of hammering was the next plan, never went back though.

Perhaps it was a different ladder? The Huddersfield one might have still had the yellow and black tape we used to mark kit.

 

[Subpopulus Hibernia]

Maybe there was a boulder down at the bottom, though I though I would have remembered it. The descent was quite easy, no tight bit and a handy slide down to the bottom. Interesting site, could yield dividends with some determined capping.

Were you digging with Darren Perrin? And I presume we are talking about Pollnapeace, just up from the Monastir Cliff? Otherwise there's possibly a second ladder out there to be claimed. Didn't Huddersfield once dig some shafts near Shannon? Could be there, though I checked these recently and there was no ladders trapped in them.

At the same time myself and Al were at Pollnapeace we went a-looking for Rod's Pot, which we couldn't find. This was also extended by Darren Perrin at the same time that Pollnapeace was being dug. I'm tempted to think that it was filled in. The only other site we found was a choked rift that we dug for 15 minutes and opened up enough to see a tight rift descending. A few rocks clattered down this a short way. How close was Rod's to Pollnapeace or Templebawn?

 

[ianball11]

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