SamT
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Took part in my first rescue today....
An old climbing friend had asked me if I'd take him and his two daughters on quick easy caving trip.
Managed to beg and borrow a load of decent kit for them so they were well attired.
Went for quick jaunt to have a look at garlands, then a trip up the ladder out of basecamp chamber along to the sump (upper syphon complex??) - and back again, and out. Brilliant trip it was too and they really seemed to enjoy it.
As we were heading back up from garlands - we bumped into a couple of lads - the first was well kitted out in PVC suit wellies gloves etc. Behind him trooped a younger scrote in just a t-shirt, trakie bottoms, trainers and baggy looking helmet.
Fair do's I thought thinking back to the 1950s photo of the scout by the great piller in just his swimming trunks. Rather him than me though.
Anyways - we were just sorting out the ladder pitch when they came past us and dissapeared off upstream towards the sump. 5 minutes later there was all sorts of shouting. At first I thought it was "below below", but they werent above us. This mutated into a muffled "do you want some help" which we kindly declined. Then the shouting got closer and clearer - and the scrote appeared shouting "Help Help - me mates stuck".
Anyway - found the kid lying in one of the narrow squeezy bits (a bit like the vice) - well and truly wedged. I chukled a bit to myself, then got him to relax and stop struggling, and slowly, inch by inch manged to pull him back up and out.
He laughed about it - owed me a pint - usual banter.
Now comes the wierd bit - Instead of skulking off with his tale between his legs, head down, as I would have done - they joined us at the bottom of the ladder and he regailed me with tales of how his names Paul - he's in the Crewe, knows Ralph Johnson, He's in Cave rescue, rescued someone from Block Hall (the hung up girl/rope cutting incident) blah blah blah.
Oh well - fair do's, I just hope that who ever knows him - gives him a bloody good ribbing for getting stuck and having to be pulled out by a stranger whist taking someone on a begginers trip
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And at the same time have a quite word with him about taking inadequately dressed begginers on trips and having to be rescued by stranger :spank: .
Would have been a lot more stressful for the scrote if we hadn't have been there.
An old climbing friend had asked me if I'd take him and his two daughters on quick easy caving trip.
Managed to beg and borrow a load of decent kit for them so they were well attired.
Went for quick jaunt to have a look at garlands, then a trip up the ladder out of basecamp chamber along to the sump (upper syphon complex??) - and back again, and out. Brilliant trip it was too and they really seemed to enjoy it.
As we were heading back up from garlands - we bumped into a couple of lads - the first was well kitted out in PVC suit wellies gloves etc. Behind him trooped a younger scrote in just a t-shirt, trakie bottoms, trainers and baggy looking helmet.
Fair do's I thought thinking back to the 1950s photo of the scout by the great piller in just his swimming trunks. Rather him than me though.
Anyways - we were just sorting out the ladder pitch when they came past us and dissapeared off upstream towards the sump. 5 minutes later there was all sorts of shouting. At first I thought it was "below below", but they werent above us. This mutated into a muffled "do you want some help" which we kindly declined. Then the shouting got closer and clearer - and the scrote appeared shouting "Help Help - me mates stuck".
Anyway - found the kid lying in one of the narrow squeezy bits (a bit like the vice) - well and truly wedged. I chukled a bit to myself, then got him to relax and stop struggling, and slowly, inch by inch manged to pull him back up and out.
He laughed about it - owed me a pint - usual banter.
Now comes the wierd bit - Instead of skulking off with his tale between his legs, head down, as I would have done - they joined us at the bottom of the ladder and he regailed me with tales of how his names Paul - he's in the Crewe, knows Ralph Johnson, He's in Cave rescue, rescued someone from Block Hall (the hung up girl/rope cutting incident) blah blah blah.
Oh well - fair do's, I just hope that who ever knows him - gives him a bloody good ribbing for getting stuck and having to be pulled out by a stranger whist taking someone on a begginers trip
, And at the same time have a quite word with him about taking inadequately dressed begginers on trips and having to be rescued by stranger :spank: .
Would have been a lot more stressful for the scrote if we hadn't have been there.
