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swildons upper series- first time

portlandcaver

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streamway in the blockhouse wasn't too high (so i hear) went down to daylight chamber and then went down the long dry way to the old grotto by which time i was dry from the streamway at the entrance, long dry way was beautiful loved climbing between all the pillars and flowstone, the old grotto was mind blowing, the calcite curtains were really cool when lit up from behind with a headlamp, we then carried on through down to jacobs ladder which was fun and then through some flowstone covered passages (i remember seeing a really small pillar hanging on the wall) to the eight foot which we climbed down, we then followed the path down to 20 foot pot but didn't go down as quite a few in the group were relatively new to caving, we then reversed our trip and were planning to come up long wet way but didnt as another group from our team was allready going up so we reversed the long dry way, went to far ahead of my group, got out of the blockhouse and waited a bit but worried that my team would be looking for me so i plunged into the icy depths again (alone) into the daylight chamber where i discovered my team and left this wonderful cave for the last time! hope to go back sometime and possibly do a trip through sump 1 and long wet. had some pretty intresting features loved old grotto and the false floor. as was with group of underage didnt get a chance to go to the hunters for a pint  :beer: =( but its another good reason to come back to priddy  ;)
 
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