October 23 Floods

[Hasbeen caver]

A bit damp in the Peak District on Friday.

This video shows what it was like in Castleton. Worth watching for the commentary as well as the pictures....

Anyone got any links to film at Stoney, for example. I had a look at Carlswark resurgence this afternoon, and it's still welling up powerfully there, 2 days later.

 

[StoneyPeakyCaver]

Carlswark Resurgence Friday 20.10.23

 

[StoneyPeakyCaver]

Waterfall, swallet , Saturday night 21.10.23

 

[Cantclimbtom]

A bit damp in the Peak District on Friday.

This video shows what it was like in Castleton. Worth watching for the commentary as well as the pictures....

Anyone got any links to film at Stoney, for example. I had a look at Carlswark resurgence this afternoon, and it's still welling up powerfully there, 2 days later.

For a "Viking", he's well versed in his Saxon

 

[Mark]

Waterfall Swallet - Friday 20th October at the height of the deluge.

 

[A_Northerner]

Down P8 last night, we must have been the first people down there since the floods.

Walking into Mud Chamber was like breaking virgin passage. Inches of fresh, untouched sediment over everything. We were making fresh footprints in inch-thick organic sediment that was laid on the ledges for the traverse over the main streamway canal.

Up the slope to Xmas Aven, T'owd Man's rift has a thin layer of fresh dark brown sediment overlaying the usual orange clay in there, meaning something has been flowing down it, perhaps the water that comes into Stalactite Grotto from the Flats above Idiot's Leap (which would have been over head height based on the foam).

I hoped the flood would have flushed out a lot of sediment from the Downstream Sumps but there's definitely much more down there than before. I wouldn't be surprised if it had blocked up during the flood and backed all the way up the rift. Most of T'owd Man's Rift would have been underwater.