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New rigging guide and descriptions

GarDouth

Administrator
Here's a couple of ideas for caving trips after lockdown...

Boggarts Roaring Holes (Dowlass Moss) has been recently IC anchored throughout (before lockdown!) and a new rigging topo is now available to download.

https://cncc.org.uk/cave/boggarts-roaring-holes

Two new route descriptions are also available - one for Boggarts and another for Trapdoor Pot...

https://cncc.org.uk/caving/descriptions

Thank you to our excellent CNCC volunteers for their hard work.


Looking forward to getting back underground!  :bounce:
 
Nice one. It may be worth noting in the guide for Boggerts that the low crawl beyond penguin hall floods in really wet weather. Its not a dry trip people think it is, despite what it says in NFTFH. A waterfall appears in the roof of the crawl well before you reach the actual stream-way and makes things too wet. Not certain how one could build a damn to divert that as it says in the book.

The drilled hole over the pit is useful, I have always done it unprotected and it's nice to know I don't have to anymore.

EDIT: I see the warning about very wet weather, so you already covered this. But it's still worth mentioning where you run into trouble a short jaunt down to penguin hall might be worth the trip.
 
What is the size limit for these slender sounding holes? Easier or harder than Pippikin for instance?
 
Trapdoor is certainly physically narrower than Pippikin in places.

I don't remember the narrower parts of Boggarts being especially tight. Perhaps on a par with Pippikin, but I'm sure others will contribute with their views/experiences.
 
Pippikin very smooth so you basically fall through on the way down. Trapdoor much less travelled and I think narrower as Mark says. Never done Boggarts, it sounds like a shithole. I'm sure I will be forced into it on a rainy day at some point...
 
I have done it - as far as pitch 6, so it can't be too bad.  I remember it as being awkward, unrelentingly snug and a bit thrutchy, but not what you'd call desperately tight.
 
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