SWILDONS SUMP1 ROPE

[Walrus]

Ok, since you all know what & where it is, give it an appropriate name for future reference!

 

[Les W]

Ok, since you all know what & where it is, give it an appropriate name for future reference!

How about "Unnamed Squeeze near Birthday Squeeze"  :

Does it for me 

 

[cap n chris]

Or "The Infamous Squeeze" or just "The Tight Squeeze" - I think the latter gets used quite a lot anyway. Any future revised issue of the Mendip Bible may benefit from a suitable editing of this part of the trip description. 

 

[badger]

how big is your chest paulf?

les how tight is tight squeeze for you?

the round trip still on my list of trips to do on mendip, have only met you once les but would say about the same size, although shorter

 

[Les W]

I am snug in the "Unnamed Squeeze" but I don't believe it's impassable for most people. It is the nature of the passage that causes the problems here, It slopes sidways so the tendancy is to always end up in a tighter bit, the rock (flowstone) is smooth and the widest bit is uphill.

I have heard of some epics here "I had to take my wetsuit off" was one, but I haven't heard of anybody not getting through.  :-\

 

[mrodoc]

I had an interesting time in August with wetsuit unzipped but help from CCC members and Ken Passant got me through. Hadn't done it for 10 years and had put on some weight so not surprising. Only squeeze I had trouble with. Blue Pencil was awkward but no desperately tight. Recently went to end of Renascence Series and the Stoops are pretty unpleasant IMHO. Still got some nice pics of Black Chamber for www.darkanddeep.co.uk !

I gather Upper Flood squeezes are far tighter so I will have to forgo that pleasure pro tem.

 

[Stupot]

The rope came out this morning and a notice has been put inside the block house notifing cavers.

Stu.

 

[Cave Monkey]

Just out of curiosity...

What has been used in the past to 'line' the sump apart from the standard rope ?

The reason I ask is when with Dep and Paulf at the sup it was very apparent that the chaffing on the rope was caused by the tug signal system combined with the tie off point for the rope. Can anyone think of anything suitable for a line that would be more resistant to this problem ? 

Apologies to grandmothers with eggs!

 

[paulf]

how big is your chest paulf?

46 inch chest & 43 inch tight on my rib cage after that my gut moves in & about.
I suggest if you're big have some one in front but most importantly have someone behind to lift your legs up to get right angle through (Cheers Dep & CaveMonkey)

 

[Dep]

how big is your chest paulf?

46 inch chest & 43 inch tight on my rib cage after that my gut moves in & about.
I suggest if you're big have some one in front but most importantly have someone behind to lift your legs up to get right angle through (Cheers Dep & CaveMonkey)

hehe!
Just grabbed a tape measure and measured.
34" normal
Can squeeze tape-measure to 30" without discomfort - could probably go to 29 if pain was no object.
I shall always think of it as "Paul's Pants Squeeze"

 

[paulf]

Once my wetsuit was off it was properly all the wee which was the added lubricant Glad i wasn't last ! mind you it warmed the Mud sump for you Dep

 

[cap n chris]

Hawserlaid, Cave Monkey.

 

[Dep]

Once my wetsuit was off it was properly all the wee which was the added lubricant Glad i wasn't last ! mind you it warmed the Mud sump for you Dep

maybe that;s what stung my eyes!
Got my hair clean though - perhaps you should market it? 

 

[cap n chris]

Don't piss in caves except a) if you're wearing a furry suit which will absorb it all so you carry it out of the cave with you or
b) in a streamway where the flowing water will dilute the urine

Urine in ponded water in caves is fucking disgusting, it quickly goes rancid and makes people instantly gag-vomit.

 

[Dep]

Don't piss in caves except a) if you're wearing a furry suit which will absorb it all so you carry it out of the cave with you or
b) in a streamway where the flowing water will dilute the urine

Urine in ponded water in caves is fucking disgusting, it quickly goes rancid and makes people instantly gag-vomit.

Chris, I think Paul was just joking with me!
None of us would dream of pissing anywhere other than fast flowing water and some of us not even then.

 

[cap n chris]

Glad to hear it.

As you may be able to determine, I am not a great fan of people pissing in caves. Anyone caught pissing in dry caves should be forced to drink it.

 

[whitelackington]

They would have a job.
If u pissed in a dry cave, the piss would rappidly be absorbed by the cave.
What do u want them to do,
suck it out of the ground :alien:

 

[cap n chris]

Granted if you piss into sediment banks (i.e. sand/gravel) but not if someone wees directly onto a limestone floor.

 

[cap n chris]

Popped through the sump this morning - without a rope it's OK but certainly a bit more interesting. Without a line laid through it, any group attempting to do  sump 1 as a downstream approach without prior knowledge of the sump would find it hard to locate! Anyho, bumped into Stu and gang on my way out as they were going to place a new rope in.....

 

[mak]

Ok, since you all know what & where it is, give it an appropriate name for future reference!

Dave :