Saturday morning saw myself, Jess and Brendan sat around as
usual in the SWCC hut nursing a full teapot. I had abstained from making any
trip decisions and Brendan was looking worse for wear after not a lot of sleep
courtesy of a heavy snorer in the bunk below him the night before. After a
couple of teapots we finally decided to see what the water levels were like in
OFD1 for a possible trip in to OFD1 ½.
Plodding down the hill we were soon at ‘The Step’ checking
out the water level. Although high it was probably at a doable level, but as
the forecast was more rain we decided to abandon our original trip plans and
have a poke around passages that Jess and I hadn’t been to before on the round
trip.
En route we diverted to check out The Maypole Traverse
before continuing through to explore Slime Street, then in to the Subway to
re-emerge in Bridge passage. After getting a little giddy in the roll over
crawl we continued on to Starlight Chamber, where Brendan and I went for a play
in the tight bedding planes and chokes past Coronation Aven before heading to
Lowe’s Climb. The water levels were pretty impressive and we were glad we had
decided to do our alternative rather than push on in the stream way. On the way
out we checked back at the step and were awed to find that the stream level had
risen a good 3 feet from when we had entered!
After the slog back up the hill we were surprised to find we had managed to spend a full 7hrs playing underground and were all glad to see the
familiar teapot back at the hut.
A good fun trip visiting some interesting parts of
the system normally passed when on the ‘trade routes’
Present: Brendan Marris, Jess Burkey & Mark Burkey
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