For Sundays outing it was back to Bull Pot
Farm. Our objective for the day was to begin to get the basics of navigating
the Ease Gill system under our belts by going in Wretched Rabbit to Stop Pot.
Changing we again met up with a number of
other groups who asked what were up to, none of whom could understand why we
would want to cave without an SRT kit….Wretched Rabbit is an exit not an
entrance!
We consulted our newly acquired surveys and
descriptions trying to make head nor tail of them. Brendan had been in this
part of the cave before, but that had been 25yrs ago….yep he really is that
old!
On our way to the entrance we met up with
one of Red Rose’s member who was going in to County Pot to do a through trip
and out Wretched Rabbit. He gave us a brief description of the route and it
sounded nothing like the guide, but we’d soon find that his was by far more
accurate and easier to follow.
Upon finding the unassuming entrance we
headed in and soon found ourselves at the head of a number of vertical climbs
with in situ hand line. We made our way
down these and in to a crab walk rift passage, which changed level a number of
times, but generally kept to the stream. On our way we again bumped in to Alf
from Red Rose who again gave us further navigational instruction.
Before we knew it we emerged at Eureka
Junction and made our way up the 7m fixed ladder in Stop Pot and continued on
through to Monster Cavern. Here we took a couple of photographs before beginning
to head out. As we exited we crossed paths with several Crewe members who were
doing a top sink through trip.
The exit itself went smoothly, although was
uphill all the way so a little tiring. Again we stopped a couple of times for
photo’s to break up the slog. At the rope climbs we again paused to get a publicity
shot for UKcaving and Spanset who provided our recent prize.
Again a great trip and I look forward to
going back to begin to put together the navigation of the massive Ease Gill
System.
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| En Route between Eureka Junction & Stop Pot (Photo Brendan Marris) |
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| Passage just before Monster Cavern |
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| Monster Cavern |
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| Entrance Passage After Climbs |
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| Entrance climbs (Photo Brendan Marris) |
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