Peter Burgess
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It seems weird that I'm accused (yet again) of being a wind-up merchant
Cap 'n chris and friend.
It seems weird that I'm accused (yet again) of being a wind-up merchant
mrodoc said:(NOT goon suits) which leaked like sieves. I remember being in Stoke with my Dad and remarking that I could hear an inlet stream - turned out to be the water emptying out of his immersion suit when he stood up!
more "walking in a cave" than "going caving".cap 'n chris said:Gone cavin'....
rob_ said:So I'm interested in other cave systems similar to Dow, Brains mentioned the Long Churns and Great Douk, can you tell me more about these?
Thanks for all your help,
Rob.
rob_ said:Had a great time, found the entrance easy enough after a good look at what I assume to be the entrance to great douk pot (scaffolding with ladders leading down into a hole in the ground), climbed up the waterfall and started off into the gloom! We’d only been travelling a few minutes when we saw daylight again and came out into a shake hole that we assumed to be the end, we were rather disappointed at this, I decided to follow the stream and see where it went and hey presto! We’re back in the cave system again. The rest of the walk was good fun, a few places where we had to crouch to get past stalagmites at chest height, a few what sounded like giant waterfalls but turned out to be little swirly pools of water. A little spur pot only crawling height that we investigated for a few meters before crawling backwards into the main cave. But we came to a part where the main stream veered off to the left into a passage about groin height so we continued on up a step into a passage that gradually got lower and lower until we were crawling, we then got to a “Y” section where we had to decide left or right, my friend went off to investigate both passages whilst I stayed in the original one, she came back with nothing to report so instead of risking getting lost we came back the original route. So what I want to know is where is this “rift” we were supposed to get out of? Did we go past it? Did we not go far enough?
Thanks again for all your help.
Rob.
rob_ said:But we came to a part where the main stream veered off to the left into a passage about groin height so we continued on up a step into a passage that gradually got lower and lower until we were crawling, we then got to a “Y” section where we had to decide left or right, my friend went off to investigate both passages whilst I stayed in the original one, she came back with nothing to report so instead of risking getting lost we came back the original route. So what I want to know is where is this “rift” we were supposed to get out of? Did we go past it? Did we not go far enough?
kay said:And there is a 'wet' entrance from Middle Washfold - again, I've not been in that.