That small rift chamber is not mentioned in Northern caves, infact the rift is a too tight rift apparently. So not certain how many had been down the hole before us let alone through the dig (Well it would have been impossible to enter without digging).
Oh 14m deep and it looks like it was going over a drop after that too tight bit in the stream it won’t be long until it’s the deepest cave in Weredale.
Red mud, I think don is getting mixed up with the cave/mine we visited in the Lakes. Pikedaw is only muddy if you try the wet final sections towards the sump at the bottom.
Well done in getting through Don, it sounds like you had an easier time of it than the other two. I think you would have been fine beyond the Gripper if you remember the forum when you were planning this trip I said you would get wet there. Beyond it would have been fine. I have done it in very wet weather.
Okay instead of reading it here, I have written it as agreed for our Journal. Chris, (Scaif) I have just e-mailed you can you let me know if you have gotten it or not?
It’s a pity you did not go down the 4th pitch, as you only go down a few meters and would be out of the water then. I have been down when it’s reasonably wet but I guess it was really wet when you did it.
Good report. This place and the walk back made me the coldest I have been for a long time. At least two years I think. I kept getting cold shivers that whole night and never took my coat and hat off despite being sat in-front of a lit fire until I went to bed.
I actually took the high route this time (the bypass has a squeeze almost as tight but dry) and Rob asked me where the narrows where underneath me. Rob is the original thin man! Still hard to keep up!
Oh and unlike a certain BRCC trip 8 years ago, I went back through the crawl first before continuing to give Shaman his gear back. If I had not there probably would have been a Shaman popsical waiting for me.
I forgot to say well done on the fine in Fresnado, we have a good combined distance now! That big chamber sounds awesome . I see you did not go back after that second surveying visit. Is that it, or have you guys saved something for me, at Easter ? :)
There was a slightly more awkward rift section where you have to traverse above the floor level that Daz did not like the look of. I don’t think Daz likes these kind of passages, I remember he certainly did not like Bubbles.
