Eldon Hole - Trip Report

[Mark Wright]

Speleotron,

The constriction is at the level we are currently at. It was an awkward squeeze you had to go through to reach the bottom of the original dig. Its not there any more and it wont be long before all traces of the original dig are gone.

There will be a small team going down on Saturday lunchtime. I'm working on Saturday morning so wont be there until later in the afternoon. Can't help with a lift unfortuantely as I'm not really sure when I will be there.

Maybe someone else on here may be able to help with your transport problems or choose a different weekend when more people will be going.

Mark

 

[Speleotron]

OK sounds good.

No point sorting out a lift for me if im only 50 50 about coming, I'll know tomorrow. I could get a train to Hope or somewhere like that.

Jonny (I was on the york Berger expedition in 2011 that you and the badgers came on)

 

[Moose]

For the record:

Myself and Ron Hammond (ex EPC member) went up to the entrance today to get an accurate GPS fix on station 0.

Once the data has been post processed we will be able to confidently hang the work Rob and Katie did onto a fix which is within a few hundred millimetres of spot on.

Either myself or Rob will post a link when the survey is 100%

 

[Mark Wright]

Moose,

Thanks for that.

Mark

 

[seamoose]

The constriction is at the level we are currently at. It was an awkward squeeze you had to go through to reach the bottom of the original dig. Its not there any more and it wont be long before all traces of the original dig are gone.

Rough sketch I made at the time of our original dig, showing the awkward constriction....

Jase

 

[Speleotron]

I'm up for coming on Saturday if somebody can give me a train station and a time to meet them there. No worries if you're not short staffed any more and it's too much of a faff.

 

[Rob]

On the West wall of Eldon Hole, ~15m down, there's a couple phreatic looking passages/alcoves that are easily visible from the North Route. Does anyone know of anyone who has been into these? It looks like only a few bolts would be required, so i presume someone has, plus I've heard a rumor that they don't go anywhere other than "a pretty little grotto". But i'd like a first hand report if possible....

 

[Moose]

The GPS data for the fix at the entrance is now as good as it's going to get. Thanks to Ron for the processing work.

I've now integrated that into the survex model and the link to it is here:

https://www.dropbox.com/s/tjmwcual5fk36ty/Eldon_Hole_Master.3d?dl=0

Also working on a surface overlay of the DTM data, that's partially done as you will see if you hit the 'surface' button.

 

[Rob]

So according to this, the top of Damocles is 22m directly below the surface.

 

[Moose]

No Rob.

The top of Damocles Rift IS 22m from the surface.

 

[ianball11]

No Rob.

The top of Damocles Rift IS 22m from the surface.

  made me chuckle

 

[alastairgott]

Jonny, (aka Speleotron) I guess you could get to Stockport train station and if Mark R is passing through Stockport he could give you a lift?

Not sure what the cost would be.

knew you'd be interested in this

 

[alastairgott]

other than that you've got two options:

both involve walking from doveholes (near Buxton) to Eldon hole

1) train to Manchester then second train to doveholes.
or
2) train to Stockport then 199 skyline (bus) to doveholes.

 

[Speleotron]

THanks Gotzone how far is Eldon Hole from Dovestones?

 

[alastairgott]

Dove holes, make sure you goto dove holes....

Dovestones is quite a way. But it does have a nice reservoir and hills.


Google says 4miles walk to eldon lane but says that'll take 1hr 20ish, you know the way from eldon lane. If not you can see eldon hole on satellite. It's north of the top of eldon lane (past the wood).

https://www.google.co.uk/maps/dir/Dove+Holes,+Derbyshire,+UK/Eldon+Ln,+Buxton+SK17+8EW,+UK/@53.305662,-1.857957,13z/data=!4m8!4m7!1m2!1m1!1s0x487a33cc272a676f:0xd85181db8886a8ba!1m2!1m1!1s0x487a2d8ea62d723b:0x80f39bc39585ea1f!3e2?hl=en


Or ask someone whether they can pick you up...

 

[Speleotron]

Thanks. If sombody can pick me up form a station I'll come along, if its going to be a faff then no worries I'll come along later, sounds like a great dig.

 

[Mark R]

Hi, sorry but I'll be coming from the other direction as late as possible and probably with the remnants of a mild hangover!

 

[pwhole]

Just out of interest, where is station 0 in relation to the surface features? Or which route top is nearest?

 

[Rob]

Station 0 (rh270515) is the concrete anchor at the top of the West Route.

Station 1a is the left concrete anchor at the top of the East Route.

Station 1 is the main edge at the top of the East Route.

 

[Mrs Trellis]

There's the hourly 190 bus Buxton to Whaley Bridge via Chinley railway station and the Wanted Inn, Sparrowpit.

Trains from Manchester Piccadilly to either Buxton or Chinley then bus to the Wanted Inn. They reckon it's about 100 minutes in total Piccadilly to the Wanted.