We've received some important news regarding a complete blockage in the system - please see Peak District Caving Info here:

https://peakdistrictcaving.info/notices/view/15

The notice has also been posted for all the main entrances listed in the Cave Registry - Ringing Rake Sough (Youd's Level), Deep Shaft and Gentlewoman's Pipe.

Hasn?t this possibly been known for a while, there?s a Masson CC trip report from sometime in 2020 referencing meeting a blockage

Yep - just found it - we hadn't received any reports on this directly until last week, so it's looking like it may have been blocked for a year or so:

https://massoncaving.com/2020/07/19/day-deep-shaft-to-youds-18-7-20/

Are they really going down with no ascending gear? That caused the last rescue from this system.

zomjon said:

Hasn?t this possibly been known for a while, there?s a Masson CC trip report from sometime in 2020 referencing meeting a blockage

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I hope you?ve only just discovered that!