Nettle Pot

[DAN]

Who has been to the deepest point in nettle and knows how it ends? I would imagine not many have been there because of the sqeeze before the 2nd ladder pitch. 

 

[Rob]

I presume by "deepest" you mean down the ladder pitches in Hell...?
It ends at a very interesting little rift, all scaffolded for a good 5m before. Can hear a stream at the end. Have been there a few times and no noticable draft.
Halfway down the second pitch is a squeeze off to the side into a sizable chamber. I pushed along a small passage from here to a calcited boulder choke which looked very interesting, might be worth a crack if anyone wants a project. I think that one drafted and it is heading away from all known cave...

 

[Big Jim]

I think Grayson n Tooley went down to Hell couple of weeks ago Dan.  Have a word with Mart.
J

 

[Moose]

If you or anyone else goes... please, please, please survey it from where Wood & Pemberton left off.

The elevations are potentially very interesting, or at least they would be if we knew what they were?

 

[Dickie]

"It ends at a very interesting little rift, all scaffolded for a good 5m before. Can hear a stream at the end."

Confirm that.
I went down with Ben when he was digging down there (when he was living in the hen hut at Rowter Farm) and you could just get your head in to look along a small rift with water flowing along it to.......?? This was pre-capping, which might rattle the walls a bit less than banking.

Definitely worth another look, but very loose around there (ha - we laugh at loose!!!)

 

[Armchair]

For the historically minded, Ben called this bit 'Pain Street'.

 

[DAN]

I went past two lots of scaffolding then down another pitch with a very old electron Ladder and along a flat out tight crawl then down another pot  into a flat out streamway. It Goes a long way, which i presumed was not suveyed. The stream at the end appeared to meet a bigger stream, as the water could be heard sloshing about. The end that i got to was as far as i was prepared to go on my own, which i think is as far as anyone has been since the 80's as there was gravel calcited to the floor which i had to break of. The passage contiued but looked tight and passable but only just. We are heading back there when i get back from work in a couple of weeks time.

 

[graham]

Go for it Dan!

I find it fascinating that an open (sort of) lead like that has remained untouched in one of our well-known caves for so long.

Oh to be 20 years younger & several stone lighter.

 

[DAN]

I take it from that, very few people who are still alive have been there?

 

[andychapm]

Hi Dan,
Give us a shout when you're back, I'd be up for having a look.
I'll even return your helmet!!! Sorry about keeping it so long!!

 

[Rob]

I take it from that, very few people who are still alive have been there?

Me n a bunch of others from SUSS have been to the very bottom of that stream passage a couple of times. Didn't find it difficult to get their, but the end we reached was completely impenetrable. Strange how it doesn't match your description.  :-\

 

[Pitlamp]

Someone else who may well have been there is Pete O'Neill. He did a lot of trips down Nettle with the late Frank Brown (Red River Series and other things discovered etc). Perhaps if anyone bumps into Pete they could ask him and post any useful info on here?