Trip suggestions?

[caving_fox]

Having an inspiration failure - sing the praises of your favourite trip suitable for:
Peaks or Dales
2 reasonably experienced cavers (eg max 120m rope).
Forecast damp.

We've done most of the usual suspects, and could always do them again, but if you know of something fun please post here.

 

[andrewmcleod]

Usual 'damp weather' SRT options in the Dales are Rift Pot (Allotment) which I've not done in almost a decade, Rowten (eyehole route), Boxhead Pot, Lost Johns (entrance streamway can flood, not Monastery), Sell Gill? (dry route). Aquamole goes in somewhat damp but the entrance is fairly unpleasant (particularly the last pitch of the rabbit warren bit). Jingling is totally safe until the stream overflows and is then apparently pretty lethal...

 

[Cavematt]

Some less-commonly visited Dales suggestions/ideas...

We did Jockey Hole a few years ago. Not much to it, essentially just a large (but very impressive) pitch... but we had a great time.

Neighbouring Rift Pot (Allotment, not the one at Masongill), as Andrew has mentioned, is a great wet-weather... almost all weather... option (via the Ramblers route in particularly wet conditions) and probably doable with two well-packed tacklesacks.

Vesper Pot is generally fine in damp (but not very wet) conditions - it's one of my favourite potholes.

Valley Entrance up to Toyland and the Victoria Extensions is rarely visited but a great (shorter) day out and should be OK in damp (but not extremely wet) conditions. There were good in-situ ropes on all three up-pitches last time we were there.

Five Ways Pot is an excellent trip, fine in damp conditions but again, in serious flood a bit unpleasant on the earlier climbs/pitches (we anchored it during fairly wet conditions and it was unpleasant but not unsafe).

Descriptions/topos for all of these on CNCC website.

 

[pwhole]

For the Peak District, what about Longcliffe Mine? Plenty of SRT, spectacular natural cave co-opted by the miners, and easy access, only 15 mins walk from Castleton (though uphill!). We spent five years excavating the bloody place and it barely gets any visitors

 

[Alex]

If it's not collapsed Hurnal moss cave (not pot). I don't think it's flood prone, once down the first pitch, get's quite big and then more challenging lower down, but nothing grade 5 though. Biggest issue, is I am not sure how the shoring in the entrance series is doing.

 

[caving_fox]

Thanks all a few to think about, and keep an eye on whether damp is turning into wet.

 

[Badlad]

Mayday Hole.

 

[testgerbil]

Hagg Gill is a bit off the beaten track but afaik doable in pretty wet weather. V pretty in parts too

 

[Lankyman]

Pikedaw Calamine Caverns is an interesting trip if you've not been before and pretty much unaffected by rain as far as I recall.

 

[flashheart]

Hagg Gill is a bit off the beaten track but afaik doable in pretty wet weather. V pretty in parts too

We were once refused permission by the farmer when we visited in wet weather. He was very friendly, and in retrospect the water would probably have been too high in the streamway. We headed to Wet Grooves mine in Wensleydale instead.