Last two weeks of caving
Denial – Washfold Pot
- Group of 7
- Wandered around a field for a while
- Very early call out
- Great entrance
- Took 1hr to do the first 10-15 mins of caving (urgh)
- Quite cold
- Forgot kneepads
- Headache
- Squeezey bit
- Fell 4m and bounced off a rock near pitch head
- Cool traverse
- Cool 40m pitch
- Sketchy climbs
- Wished I was taller
- Descending in rifts
- Crawling in water
- Polyprop handlines
- Standing on Pete’s head to get out
- Pete and I out at 4.10pm
- Getting changed while Jack and Benji sat and watched from the van
- Changed call out for the rest of the BPC group
- Rest of group out at 8.00pm
- Bruised
- Ate a lot of biscuits!
- Excellent trip
VERDICT: 10/10 (Brilliant)
Anger/Frustration – Swildon’s Hole
- Very cross at going caving
- Ladder broke
- No water in many of the ducks
- Blisters and bruised feet
- Fell down the climb, managed it on the second attempt
- Fell down Blue Pencil Passage
- Didn’t manage to hit Rob’s 2hr target time around
VERDICT: 4/10 (-2 for no water)
Bargaining – Lost John’s, Craftsman’s, Voldemort, Notts 2, Swinsto
Faff-tastic to the extreme – see Jethro’s report on the day. Swinsto was the nearest we could manage to getting underground that day.
VERDICT: 7/10 (- 3 for the faff)
Depression – Eastwater
- Drove down to do Charterhouse
- Guide cancelled on the morning due to sickness
- Rob strangely happy about this
- Decided to do Eastwater
- Rob scared of cows
- 45° slopes
- Couldn’t find concrete platform
- Went wrong way
- Found the crawl
- Strange bedding plane near entrance to reach the lower level
- Great fun sliding down the slopes
- Funny watching Rachael and Rob try to go down a shitty hole with handline
- Rachael and Rob returned from handline
- Back up the slope
- Less fun on way up as gravity wasn’t helping
- Got lost a little
- Interesting route finding
- Fantastic little cave for the different levels
- Very different to anything that I have done before
- Found concrete platform on way out
- Found out the shitty hole emerged at the top of a pitch (when read book at BEC)
- Wells is very lovely
VERDICT: 9/10 (-1 for feeling like I was going to fall off the edge of the world)
Acceptance – Nettle –> Derbyshire Hall
- Managed to arrange a trip to DB (took 4 years!)
- No idea where we were going
- Light died on the second rebelay so changed light
- Fresher Max had done it DB the last two weeks
- Max ‘They didn’t make me remember the route last time’
- Jacob and I accidentally rigged Elizabeth
- Pouring water on Leo’s head
- Had two functional krabs
- Jacob and I – hysterical laughter every time Max replied ‘dunno’ when Leo asked ‘Does this look familiar?’
- Increasingly irate Leo
- Slid 4m down the rope due to mud
- Jacob couldn’t undo his harness for the squeeze
- Very good trip
VERDICT: 6/10 (+4 for the company – the trip was nothing special)
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