Gear in Brown Hill Pot

[topcat]

I suppose the critical factor is this: if you would be happy to use the in situ [ie it is safe] then ok. If you feel the need to rig over it for safety then it needs to come out.

Ironically when I was last the Brown Hill I pulled on the in situ at the pitch head struggle and felt that it did help. BUT if the rigging had been single rope/clean I probably wouldn't have been struggling quite so hard in the first place.!

15-20 years? And used how often by the caver who left it? Pointed questions, I don't expect an answer

 

[JAA]

@porgzilla Hello. Yes I’d expect when the dig “goes” that anything remaining on the Ian Plant pitch and the final pitch is likely to be removed/binned and replaced.
Did you have a look down the dig? (More than welcome to if you go back)

 

[porgzilla]

@porgzilla Hello. Yes I’d expect when the dig “goes” that anything remaining on the Ian Plant pitch and the final pitch is likely to be removed/binned and replaced.
Did you have a look down the dig? (More than welcome to if you go back)

Thanks!

You know, I totally forgot to suggest we have a look at the dig.
The two of emerged pretty beat up after many hours down there and headed straight down to the car.

Any idea where the dig may emerge?
I'm wondering about the size of the pitch depending on where it comes in.

 

[JAA]

Thanks!

You know, I totally forgot to suggest we have a look at the dig.
The two of emerged pretty beat up after many hours down there and headed straight down to the car.

Any idea where the dig may emerge?
I'm wondering about the size of the pitch depending on where it comes in.

In theory it should come in at the top of or just to the side of the very top of the big pitch.
( Between BHP and Thunder Hole the big pitch is under the green grassy bit of the surface we think)
Gravel and small rocks which now fall down the rift at the bottom of the dig fall for a short distance and are landing in a puddle/pool by the sound of things so I’m going to chance my arm and say another few metres down there will be a narrow rift heading horizontally and breaking out in the roof of Puit Ian Plant.
But who knows….

 

[JAA]

For anyone reading and thinking “what are they on about?” See here… https://ukcaving.com/board/index.php?threads/an-east-kingsdale-project….32696/

Any new faces always welcome!

 

[Badlad]

It just goes to show the enormity of the effort required to remove old abandoned rigging in caves. Don't leave it in the first place