alastairgott
Well-known member
I joined a team of clapdale veterans for a lovely trip down Christmas pot, some interesting pitchheads and much less mud than in wiz caz that we visited 2 weeks ago.
A lovely sunny day out and a walk up long lane, which I didn?t know was a thing brought us to clapdale bottoms with much talk of the old clapdale (Lancaster) hut on route. What an amazing place this would have been to have a hut.
Soon we were at the entrance and proceeding down a cave with lovely pitches, some breakdown passages and some passages with lovely formations. And then we arrived at the bottom of the cave where there was evidence of much supermarket caught ring pull fish! Peskytarians!
I was pointed at the drainpipe where I was told it was a thing, but three of us tried it and didn?t fit today. One of our team said he?d been down the cave 50 times, this was revised to 20times when I quizzes him about how many times he?d done the drainpipe. Either way, fairly impressive and determined to have done that bit of passage 20 times, let alone at all! Hats off!
A lovely sunny day out and a walk up long lane, which I didn?t know was a thing brought us to clapdale bottoms with much talk of the old clapdale (Lancaster) hut on route. What an amazing place this would have been to have a hut.
Soon we were at the entrance and proceeding down a cave with lovely pitches, some breakdown passages and some passages with lovely formations. And then we arrived at the bottom of the cave where there was evidence of much supermarket caught ring pull fish! Peskytarians!
I was pointed at the drainpipe where I was told it was a thing, but three of us tried it and didn?t fit today. One of our team said he?d been down the cave 50 times, this was revised to 20times when I quizzes him about how many times he?d done the drainpipe. Either way, fairly impressive and determined to have done that bit of passage 20 times, let alone at all! Hats off!