Wet in the Dales

[langcliffe]

...when you say the first pitch of Aquamole ? do you mean the whole way down (unlikely) or just the last bit, which is often 'drippy'?

And if P-1 was soggy, how was the last pitch?

It was very drippy in the entrance rifts, but it became positively hostile from the main ledge (the one above the final Y-hang). We had to use both rebelays on the second pitch.

We didn't do the last pitch. We had intended to descend the alternate pitch, but we were getting quite cold by the time we got there, and I had also realised that there was probably going to be a bottomless lake at the bottom. So we had a mooch around checking out the anchors for a future visit, and emerged to be confronted by a rain storm - which almost made us go back inside again.

 

[grahams]

Just to 'whet' your appetites, here's a few shots taken around Goyden Pot yesterday (3rd Oct).

Scar House Reservoir - all of this water (and more from further down-valley) is Goyden-bound.

Goyden entrance

And it's been much wetter. The tide mark is at least 15 feet above Church Pot which is located in the pool, left foreground.

Goyden 'breathing'.

 

[ianball11]

My word that looks wet.  Good thing Im not going there!

 

[Goydenman]

Graham that's not Goyden breathing it is taking a quick gasp before the next flood  :. It is just one flood after another.