bog4053
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There are a number of rarely or never entered places in Whitewell Pot:
* A series of drops just inside the entrance descending to about 50 feet, described as the Upper Series on the 1970 LUPC survey. People other than ourselves have evidently been down there.
* The window between the bottom of the second pitch and the bottom of the aven above the phreatic series. It is possible for a small person to squeeze through this window and link the parts of Whitewell Pot described by John Crompton in 1958 and those which had opened up when he returned in 1962. From his OUCC survey and description, John Crompton evidently wasn't aware of the window.
* The aven above the phreatic series splits into three but the right hand one is most obvious and the others are easily missed. One of the left hand ways achieves a height of 78 feet after going through a window and negotiating a passage we had to hammer our way through a couple of weeks ago.
* The continuation of the left hand "too tight" inlet upstream in the phreatic series. We cleared a way through in 1970 to gain another 30 feet of larger passage which turned right up a ramp before turning left to another choke.
None of these are mentioned in Northern Caves or shown on the OUCC survey and I would appreciate information from anyone who has entered them.
* A series of drops just inside the entrance descending to about 50 feet, described as the Upper Series on the 1970 LUPC survey. People other than ourselves have evidently been down there.
* The window between the bottom of the second pitch and the bottom of the aven above the phreatic series. It is possible for a small person to squeeze through this window and link the parts of Whitewell Pot described by John Crompton in 1958 and those which had opened up when he returned in 1962. From his OUCC survey and description, John Crompton evidently wasn't aware of the window.
* The aven above the phreatic series splits into three but the right hand one is most obvious and the others are easily missed. One of the left hand ways achieves a height of 78 feet after going through a window and negotiating a passage we had to hammer our way through a couple of weeks ago.
* The continuation of the left hand "too tight" inlet upstream in the phreatic series. We cleared a way through in 1970 to gain another 30 feet of larger passage which turned right up a ramp before turning left to another choke.
None of these are mentioned in Northern Caves or shown on the OUCC survey and I would appreciate information from anyone who has entered them.