Les W said:You could also use a "Peli" case
But then you'd need a second mortgage!
Les W said:You could also use a "Peli" case
I never said they were cheapdamian said:Les W said:You could also use a "Peli" case
But then you'd need a second mortgage!
kay said:From the step up you basically keep going straight forward, keeping alongside the left hand wall. It gets lower and lower, and you pass ?three trickles of water coming in from your L. Look out for a hole in the ceiling - you wont see daylight from it. Pop through the hole in the ceiling into a passage which is off to the left (compared with your travel along the stream passage below). That comes out into a small chamber, bear left again and you emerge in a rift, with daylight above you - this is now Middle Washfold Cave, and you clamber out on to a limesone pavement.
rob_ said:we will probably be going back to Great Douk to “finish” it, the question I have now is what do you do with your supplies, presuming you have any, We usually take a backpack each with food, drink, spare torches and space for the waders, this has never been a problem before but if were going to be crawling along wet passages then we need to either not have these or have them waterproof?
rob_ said:approximately how far beyond the Y junction do we have to go before we get to the hole in the roof?
rob_ said:approximately how far beyond the Y junction do we have to go before we get to the hole in the roof?
rob_ said:One of the reasons I didn’t want to continue is because the waders would have been useless when crawling on your belly in freezing cold water.
kay said:You could try poking around from the other end. If you're standing on the path, to the back left of the Middle Washfold pavement is the 'wet' entrance where the obvious stream goes underground. I've not been down it, and it apparently chokes before the junction with Great Douk. At the other end of the pavement there is another stream, and you can follow that down a daylight rift, and that passage goes via a bedding plane crawl into the chamber before the passage to the hole in the floor which drops into Great Douk.
The usual entrance is at the back of the pavement towards the left - an 18 inch wide rift which you can drop into and which develops into a winding passage which leads into a small chamber. Way on is more or less opposite you,slightly to the right - duck under into another short crawling passage which leads to a hole in the floor (the hole in the ceiling from the other side). If you do it that way round, you know it's going to get steadily better.
rob_ said:One of the reasons I didn’t want to continue is because the waders would have been useless when crawling on your belly in freezing cold water.
rob_ said:I've no idea what you’re talking about but that’s probably because I don’t know WHERE you're talking about, but you're making me worried about getting lost now! How likely is that?
What’s a bedding plane crawl?
kay said:Another fun thing to do is look for a passage just on your left after you've climbed up the waterfall at the Great Douk end - it leads to a sump, but more interestingly it leads to a 'window' in the cliff where you can look down on the shakehole.