Mark Wright
Active member
When we first made the connection back in 1984, Colostomy Crawl was pretty tight. Whilst most remember their trip as being mainly glutinous mud, when we first went up it the floor of the crawl had a thick crust of hard, sharp mud which ripped our wetsuits and scraped any exposed skin.
I was the first through the tight section at the end of the Trenches and Keith and Clepto both had to enlarge it further to fit through. Bograt and I had been up during the week before the breakthrough to chemically enlarge it.
I?m not sure how long it is via Faulty Tower but it was about 400m from the original Windtunnel to the top of Egnaro Aven.
Soon after making the connection Frank Brown and Pete O?Neil made regular trips into Speedwell to climb Cliff Cavern with the likes of Pitlamp and myself carrying all the climbing gear through Treasury Sump so they just had themselves to make the long crawl.
Similarly, Richard Bartrop and I carried climbing gear through Treasury to help climbers scale Block Hall. It?s a pity there weren?t any decent lights available at the time. If there had been we might have actually found Heaven at the top.
With all the early traffic the thick crust soon broke up and it became what it is today. I?ve been down it many times but the last time I went up it was with Pitlamp to explore the tight passage at the junction of Liam?s Way and Colostomy Crawl, soon after making the connection. Now that is tight.
Mark
I was the first through the tight section at the end of the Trenches and Keith and Clepto both had to enlarge it further to fit through. Bograt and I had been up during the week before the breakthrough to chemically enlarge it.
I?m not sure how long it is via Faulty Tower but it was about 400m from the original Windtunnel to the top of Egnaro Aven.
Soon after making the connection Frank Brown and Pete O?Neil made regular trips into Speedwell to climb Cliff Cavern with the likes of Pitlamp and myself carrying all the climbing gear through Treasury Sump so they just had themselves to make the long crawl.
Similarly, Richard Bartrop and I carried climbing gear through Treasury to help climbers scale Block Hall. It?s a pity there weren?t any decent lights available at the time. If there had been we might have actually found Heaven at the top.
With all the early traffic the thick crust soon broke up and it became what it is today. I?ve been down it many times but the last time I went up it was with Pitlamp to explore the tight passage at the junction of Liam?s Way and Colostomy Crawl, soon after making the connection. Now that is tight.
Mark
