Hangmans hole
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Speleodroid
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Trip report from ULSA website:
http://www.ulsa.org.uk/rants/rant.php?rant_id=491
Fine trip! Just watch out for loose rock/walls peeling away. As Beardy mentioned, the description in "Not for the Faint Hearted" is the best one to get hold of.
http://www.ulsa.org.uk/rants/rant.php?rant_id=491
Fine trip! Just watch out for loose rock/walls peeling away. As Beardy mentioned, the description in "Not for the Faint Hearted" is the best one to get hold of.
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wildsurf
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It's been 8yrs or so since I went down Hangmans. It was my first ever grade V trip.
I remember the horrible flat-out muddy crawl at the start with half my face in wet mud. Then a series of tight loose pictures at least one of which was partly rigged of a small round stub of stal. Not a spit in sight let alone a P-anchor. Then the bottom was full of loose rotten limestone. When free-climbing out of a pot at the bottom big flakes of limestone would just peel away in our hands.
Fantastic little atmospheric pothole despite there being nothing to see I thoroughly enjoyed doing battle with the cave.
I remember the horrible flat-out muddy crawl at the start with half my face in wet mud. Then a series of tight loose pictures at least one of which was partly rigged of a small round stub of stal. Not a spit in sight let alone a P-anchor. Then the bottom was full of loose rotten limestone. When free-climbing out of a pot at the bottom big flakes of limestone would just peel away in our hands.
Fantastic little atmospheric pothole despite there being nothing to see I thoroughly enjoyed doing battle with the cave.
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Langthwaite Pot
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Hangman's Hole isn't a good choice in wet weather - Unprintable passage gets a little moist.
George.
George.
Speleodroid
Member
That doesn't mean it can't flood!! If you look at the places in Northern Caves which have flood warnings, they tend to be places where the risk and/or degree of flooding is significant.....e.g. diccan, washfold, marble steps, bown scar, sleets gill, crescent etc etc etc.
When we went down Hangmans in February, water levels were pretty low and unprintable passage had lots of airspace. In normal to above average conditions, the crawl can have a very limited airspace and in wet weather would, i imagine, become very desperate indeed or impassable due to run-off flowing in from the entrance shakehole.
Like most others, one for a settled day
When we went down Hangmans in February, water levels were pretty low and unprintable passage had lots of airspace. In normal to above average conditions, the crawl can have a very limited airspace and in wet weather would, i imagine, become very desperate indeed or impassable due to run-off flowing in from the entrance shakehole.
Like most others, one for a settled day
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Langthwaite Pot
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We went there on a wet day, and not only is there an inlet in the side of the entrance shakehole that makes the entrance climb very wet (impassable), there is also a much larger inlet above the slot into Unprintable Passage. Being in Unprintable Passage when that waterfall turns on would not be clever indeed!
George.
George.