drainrat
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Who: Myself (freelance), Oggy (DCC)
Where: Gautries Hole, Peak district
When: Wednesday 15th August 2012
After an aborted trip a couple of months back due to the entrance series being sumped, we returned in earnest to have a poke around, a first time trip to Gautries for the two of us.
We hadn't a clue where we were going as we like to have an air of exploration to our caving, the only real knowledge we had was that it was going to be a tight, crawly, muddy trip. Our follow your nose ethos took us around the majority of the cave, having now studied the (out of date) survey, we missed nuns chuff and the other side of the plughole in the first chamber.
We had a look at the sump below angle chamber, negotiated the muddy duck and found the water washed passage revealed by the Eldon. This was followed to a sump and small passages just past the sump. Returning from the sump, we climbed a seemingly pointless knotted rope up a blind aven and tried a very tight body sized tube - this had a very tight 's bend' that was rather tricky to negotiate being 6' 2" followed by an even tighter vertical tube that had been banged. This was getting daft, so I turned back.
Missing the way back to pool chamber, we started going steeply up dip, grovelling up a very gravelly tube, swimming through some aquatic passage until finding the worst dive base in Derbyshire. The water looked inviting, but we left that one for another day.
Plugging the plug hole on the way out enabled us to flood the first chamber and have a much needed wash! We pulled the plug before leaving and heading to the Wanted for a swift pint.
Where: Gautries Hole, Peak district
When: Wednesday 15th August 2012
After an aborted trip a couple of months back due to the entrance series being sumped, we returned in earnest to have a poke around, a first time trip to Gautries for the two of us.
We hadn't a clue where we were going as we like to have an air of exploration to our caving, the only real knowledge we had was that it was going to be a tight, crawly, muddy trip. Our follow your nose ethos took us around the majority of the cave, having now studied the (out of date) survey, we missed nuns chuff and the other side of the plughole in the first chamber.
We had a look at the sump below angle chamber, negotiated the muddy duck and found the water washed passage revealed by the Eldon. This was followed to a sump and small passages just past the sump. Returning from the sump, we climbed a seemingly pointless knotted rope up a blind aven and tried a very tight body sized tube - this had a very tight 's bend' that was rather tricky to negotiate being 6' 2" followed by an even tighter vertical tube that had been banged. This was getting daft, so I turned back.
Missing the way back to pool chamber, we started going steeply up dip, grovelling up a very gravelly tube, swimming through some aquatic passage until finding the worst dive base in Derbyshire. The water looked inviting, but we left that one for another day.
Plugging the plug hole on the way out enabled us to flood the first chamber and have a much needed wash! We pulled the plug before leaving and heading to the Wanted for a swift pint.
