Thrupe lane swallet

[chris1984]

was just wondering if anyone had been to thrupe lane with all this bad weather planning a trip on sat if it is all ok

 

[Les W]

Bad weather all gone...
Pretty sure it's all fine.
Swallet caves respond quickly to the weather so any flooding will be long gone (unless of course it pi$$es it down Saturday morning... ) 

 

[Fulk]

unless of course it pi$$es it down Saturday morning

I hope that it pisses down dollars on Saturday. 

 

[Duncan Price]

was just wondering if anyone had been to thrupe lane with all this bad weather planning a trip on sat if it is all ok

You might have to dig the entrance open.  It was well choked with stream debris a few weeks ago.

 

[chris1984]

Sounds like it could be a mission just getting into the cave was the gate still on or has it finally given up will let everyone know what i find on sat

 

[Gibbonda]

Just been down tonight!! Loved it, plenty of water to make my choice of wetsuit over fleece a good one! After 20 mins digging out sweating in the heat, we decided to squeeze through the broken half. Perseverance was damp but fun, cowsh crawl was deep, followed the marble stream to the atlas pot but couldn't quite figure the deviation, got down to the lowest big ledge where you can the do what i assume is the final pitch to your right or some other route heading down gradually to the left, with a y hang from the two obvious Ps on the little ledge above, found a bolt hole to screw in a deviation. Rope looked like twas rubbing a lot. Any ideas for this bit??

To cut a mission short, found out I had forgotten my ascenders and will was getting cold in his fleece. So we decided to leave atlas for another day and made a fairly arduous and damp exit sharing wills ascenders. (Particularly refreshing at the bottom of Perseverance with two bags going up before I even saw an ascender!) Glad to see the last light at half 9, shame to miss the opening ceremony ( hello iplayer ) Im hoping will shut the gate while I quickly went to check if my ascenders still belonged to me!

I think a rain free Saturday trip would be most enjoyable, my tip is still a wetsuit, hot rigging the entrance, but happy days inside!

 

[cap n chris]

got down to the lowest big ledge where you can the do what i assume is the final pitch to your right or some other route heading down gradually to the left, with a y hang from the two obvious Ps on the little ledge above, found a bolt hole to screw in a deviation. Rope looked like twas rubbing a lot. Any ideas for this bit??

Hi Mr. Kitty,... from the y-hang on the traverse ledge just descend about 5 metres to a standing area; the way on is now away from the pitch, downslope, past a couple of mud-coated boulder steps/climbs to approach Slither Pot - a p-anchor on the right hand wall in combination with a natural spike on the LHS provides rigger to protection to 2 p-anchors at the pitch head, c.20m, which can be done as a straight hang if fending off the walls with your feet or with a deviation part way down (don't use the big wobbly spur of rock for your deviation anchor, though) - guestimate of 30m rope should be more than adequate. The base of the pitch is a flat out gravelgrovel following the water to a large rift, downstream leads to cave's end, while upstream is some good climbing to the base of Atlas; an SRT round trip can be rigged here.

Other exchange options can be done between Railway Series and the traditional way in which you took.

 

[William007]

Yes, I shut the gate but a shovel is needed to clear the entrance properly!

 

[chris1984]

Well we ended up going down on sat was an interesting trip for my friend as it was his first time really enjoyed the srt and the lovely duck at cow shit crawl went down to the end of marble stream way about 2 and a half hours and back to a nice sunny day on the surface