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Dave H
Guest
Ah! You've just reminded me of a little problem I had in there many years ago. I was travelling downstream of the connection at some pace as we were a bit late and couldn't find the crawl (someone was sitting in front of it!)
I caught the outside of my left wrist on one of the sharp ledges down there, and received a 3" cut right down to the tendons. Wrapping it up with a cloth from one of the camera ammo cans, stopped the bleeding, and whilst my mates were gathering round I noticed the now vacated crawl. I didn't have any problems getting to the large entrance pot. You all say that's not too scary - quite correct, but that was about to change!
Most of the guys (and girls) I was with had recently had Mountain Rescue training, and insisted (forcibly) that I was in no fit state to climb a ladder or prusik out and would have to be hauled out of the tallest part of the pot. I'm not a lover of heights and this was an exceptionally scary 70', especially because they were getting quite a bit of bounce in the hauling.
Being a Sunday evening, we couldn't find the local doctor, but we did find the vet in one of the pubs. I reckoned that vets have to study for longer than doctors, so I let him sew it up, and a good job he made of it too.
I never want to be hauled up a pitch again :evil:
I caught the outside of my left wrist on one of the sharp ledges down there, and received a 3" cut right down to the tendons. Wrapping it up with a cloth from one of the camera ammo cans, stopped the bleeding, and whilst my mates were gathering round I noticed the now vacated crawl. I didn't have any problems getting to the large entrance pot. You all say that's not too scary - quite correct, but that was about to change!
Most of the guys (and girls) I was with had recently had Mountain Rescue training, and insisted (forcibly) that I was in no fit state to climb a ladder or prusik out and would have to be hauled out of the tallest part of the pot. I'm not a lover of heights and this was an exceptionally scary 70', especially because they were getting quite a bit of bounce in the hauling.
Being a Sunday evening, we couldn't find the local doctor, but we did find the vet in one of the pubs. I reckoned that vets have to study for longer than doctors, so I let him sew it up, and a good job he made of it too.
I never want to be hauled up a pitch again :evil: