Your favorite SRT trips?

[droid]

Simpsons/Swinsto exchange. Not strictly an SRT job but enjoyable nevertheless.

 

[Pete K]

Not strictly in Derbyshire either.

 

[droid]

THAT's what you get for not looking at the thread trail at the top of the page. :-[


Nettle. When yoiu can breathe

 

[jasonbirder]

I'd say...

Nettle especially Crumble/Beza route
JH
Oxlow/Maskill
Block Hall up into White River
Snake Mine
Gentlewoman's Shaft...and out Day Shaft
Snake Mine

In the old days Long Rake Founder Shaft was a good trip...but it seems to have gone the way of a few Derbyshire trips these days...

I personally like Hungerhill Swallet - but i'm nearly alone in that LOL!!!

 

[al]

Hungerhill? Brilliant trip, especially Deep Space and the Worms series. But don't tell everybody!

 

[zomjon]

jason, did you mean to put Snake twice, or is it really your favourite!

 

[global_s]

Right time to do some more ticking. Does anyone know where I can find a survey/rigging guide for Maskhill online?

 

[mr conners]

http://www.hitchnhike.co.uk/acatalog/pdf_cave_guides.html

I think hitchnhike have one online.

 

[global_s]

Thanks, but it's not one of the ones that's up.

TBF since it's mostly straight down I assume just the description in the guidebook would suffice?

 

[bograt]

Right time to do some more ticking. Does anyone know where I can find a survey/rigging guide for Maskhill online?

Try the DCA web site, go to handbook, not easy to navigate, but then neither is Maskill. 

 

[global_s]

Right time to do some more ticking. Does anyone know where I can find a survey/rigging guide for Maskhill online?

Try the DCA web site, go to handbook, not easy to navigate, but then neither is Maskill. 

Sweet. Nice and easy then. 

Thanks for that link, it's a very usefull resourse!

 

[bograt]

Right time to do some more ticking. Does anyone know where I can find a survey/rigging guide for Maskhill online?

Try the DCA web site, go to handbook, not easy to navigate, but then neither is Maskill. 

Sweet. Nice and easy then. 

Thanks for that link, it's a very usefull resourse!

Tell your mates 

 

[psychocrawler]

Sorry to hear that the Risky Business traverse to Joint Effort above Cliff Cavern is no longer deemed safe. It is a splendid spot with loads of atmosphere.

 

[Brains]

Get the CCPC rigging guide, its not that big so tick everything off. You will have done a lot of Deryshires finest by the end

 

[global_s]

Get the CCPC rigging guide, its not that big so tick everything off. You will have done a lot of Deryshires finest by the end

That sounds like quite a good plan for winter!

 

[Brendan]

The Risky Business traverse may no be deemed safe, but there should be a decent rope up to Joint Effort (as SUSS put it in only a few years ago). The traverse was excellent, but the slight feeling that the ledges might disappear from under your feet did make it a place to focus the mind!

 

[pwhole]

Well I reckon it's time to sort the whole thing out and get all the remaining pitches re-bolted properly once and for all.

 

[Brendan]

The rope up to Joint Effort is a new route on bolts less than 3 years old, and the lower part of the original route up (i.e. up to Cliffhanger sump) is not much older.

 

[pwhole]

So both routes up now don't require negotiating the traverse at all?

 

[Scud]

The Risky Business traverse may no be deemed safe, but there should be a decent rope up to Joint Effort (as SUSS put it in only a few years ago). The traverse was excellent, but the slight feeling that the ledges might disappear from under your feet did make it a place to focus the mind!

The last time i was at Cliff Cavern was during the DCRO search of the system last year. There was a rope going up the left hand side of the aven, I'm assuming to the Joint Effort side. The rope going up looked okay but the first rebelay part way up the aven, the karabina on the bolt looked very corroded indeed so i didn't fancy the prussic due to this. I couldn't see the bolt due to the corroded karabina.

Can you remember what type of bolts were installed and were stainless?