Derbyshire Names

[Rob]

Coal Axe Chamber

IIRC it's up by Mud Hall in The Pilkington Series. They (Tony Marsden?) climbed up a calcity aven to find, near the top, a small axe resting on a ledge.

Seebackroscope Aven

Matt Ryan (I think) climbed a thin solutional aven in the Main Streamway. After bolting up one wall to the top it seemed that there was black space behind his head but was unable to turn around to see into it. He returned later with a "mirror on a stick"...

 

[Pitlamp]

Well done - the second one's right.

You're miles out on the first one though Rob - literally; it's the other end of the system! When we climbed Bell House Aven (the last aven on the right just before going into Lumbago Walk at the inner end of the Vestibule) it topped out at a rift made too narrow by an accumulation of sloppy white Moonmilk. Around this time Ben Bentham had come across an ancient coal axe in one of his P8 digs. So we borrowed it to chop out enough of this calcite to get through into a small chamber beyond, hence "Coal Axe Chamber". The only problem was that John Cross was belaying on a ledge partway up the aven - and right in the firing line. He got absolutely splattered in the stuff, unbeknown to the victorious explorer 30 m overhead.

Here's another one then; why the "Chocolate Orange Dig" (in Speedwell)?

 

[Elaine]

Here's another one then; why the "Chocolate Orange Dig" (in Speedwell)?

Was it Terry's?

 

[Peter Burgess]

I think the first boulder they hit fell apart into a hundred segments.

 

[underground]

Here's another one then; why the "Chocolate Orange Dig" (in Speedwell)?

Sounds like a massive moving boulder could be involved somewhere in that one John...

 

[Scud]

Quote from: Pitlamp on April 04, 2008, 08:00:36 pm
Seebackroscope Aven

Matt Ryan (I think) climbed a thin solutional aven in the Main Streamway. After bolting up one wall to the top it seemed that there was black space behind his head but was unable to turn around to see into it. He returned later with a "mirror on a stick"...

It was Duncan Collis who actually climbed Seebackrosope Aven

 

[Pitlamp]

Back in the 1980s there was an advert on the telly for Terry's Chocolate Orange. In it a great circular boulder was accelerating down a passage towards you which almost filled the passage, so there would be no escape. The Chocolate Orange Dig was just like that! (It was in one of the rising chokes on New Rake in Speedwell just upstream from Rift Cavern (& Egnaro Aven). The dig stopped later because when the White River Series was discovered a part of it was found to be right above this choke.

(By the way, yes it was Duncan Collis who climbed up in the Main Stream Passage into a roof rift but could bend round far enough from the top bolt to view what lay at the top.)

OK then - what about the "B cubed dig" in Peak's Upper Gallery? Anyone remember why that got its name?

 

[Mark]

OK then - what about the "B cubed dig" in Peak's Upper Gallery? Anyone remember why that got its name?

Bottoms, Bograt, Beck

 

[Pitlamp]

I knew you'd know that one Mark!

Actually I think Steve Breedon was involved at some point as well. Haven't seen him for donkeys years; I wonder what happened to him.

 

[TimN]

Saw Steve Breedon at Busters funeral last year..still the same Steve.