mikem said:
Criteria are on the original post - it includes those he thinks should be, but excludes those he thinks shouldn't! (Do longcliffe / long rake include natural passage?)
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90% of Longcliffe is natural passage. We're still trying to work out where most of the galena was
I've never been down Long Rake as it was 'closed' due to a carbon monoxide scare the week before my first trip. It's never been resolved and it's never been re-tested as far as I know, and as a committee member of DCA, that bothers me - not least from a safety perspective, as CO in a mine is very, very odd (though I have subsequently been on a test where we found lethal levels in a shaft near Elton, but the circumstances were extremely fuzzy to say the least - but the meter
was calibrated). But mainly as Long Rake's meant to be one of the best trips in Derbyshire, and does have plenty of natural, I'm assured - and a swallow at the bottom that goes to I know not where, but I have an idea. The landowner is iffy about the liability issues, despite reassurances that there are none, but I think we should politely but firmly request another test - it's been over ten years. We don't have to go down immediately and could easily do a controlled test down the shaft first. But I'm straying off-topic