Here it is:
Trip: OHA
Trip Type: SRT trip to the sump to start the siphon or a general mooch
Meet point: Cilcain Bridge
Meet time: 18.30
Notes: Look on the knowledge bank!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
i'll be there , just not sure what time yet
mike - i'll send you an email - pretty sure i wont be there either. :-/
Yep I'll b going and Dave . Wood like
To c SRT and how it works in a mine :-)
It's a cave Ian (not a mine). You will get caked in shite, you will get wet, you have some crawling (got any knee proctectors?), some scrambling and some electron ladder work - even a knotted rope assisted freeclimb if you get that far in. Just a fraction further you will have a canal of water up to your neck.
The cave requires great dedication to the sport of caving ... or is it stupidity ? :blink:
Count me in.. please :D Now the weather is a tad calmer, the river shouldn't be quite as wild as last time ;)
TLH
You are "counted in" as one of the mad men Tom ;)
Tidy :) See you all tomorrow.
I will come - may be bringing Vikki Socks ( who says this is the best cave ever! ).
I don't mind if I only do the ladder descent and the crawl to the first sections, and then go back. I need to get used to this big brother of Poachers. I am told there is a lot of pretties to see.
Bella is absolutely spitting bricks that she can't come, but may be if the sumps are set up she could join another trip over the weekend.
[quote="JohnNicholson" post=6697] .... I am told there is a lot of pretties to see.[/quote]
Who told you that John ?
Is there some other definition of "shit hole" that I am unaware of ?
;)
Ian
I am sure you are not suggesting that we should NOT go in to OHA. I look forward to the trip tomorrow and will then be able to make up my own mind.
Nope ... I was suggesting there might not be quite as many pretties as you may have been led to believe ;)
Enjoy the trip B)
Ian
If you want to experience a cave system that changes features every couple of hundred yards, OHA is your baby :)
You not going then Ian? :evil:
Mick told me it was like a clean washed Yorkshire Pothole...
Ian is a really nice clean guy - he does not like getting dirty.
But that does not stop him from getting other people very dirty - I had a frightful job cleaning both the inside and the outside of Bella's Beaver after the last Poacher's trip.
On another matter...
I don't want to set off from Bangor when there does not seem to be any 'leader' for this trip.
It seems that Mike L may come, or may be late. But I don't want to arrive at Cilcain Bridge to find a gang of nice people who have never done OHA before.
I suppose we can always do Poachers again.
I am going Les .... Mick may not have been entirely accurate with his description :whistle:
Thanks again for a wonderful and quite 'sporty' trip. Despite all Ian's warnings about the mud, he did admit to me (twice) that OHA is a 'fantastic' cave. We only did a fraction of it, and I was very aware that we all got covered in mud, but Ian's suit remained relatively clean.
As someone said on the trip OHA is very similar to Poachers, but every quality is much greater - the big chambers are bigger, but the squeezes are tighter, the boulders are bigger and coated with slippery clay, the ups and downs are much greater - so there is a lot of scrambling, and there are many more divergent route - so lots to explore.
I definitely want to go again, but to take it slowly, and probably a whole day trip rather than a Thursday evening rush.
[quote="JohnNicholson" post=6715] Despite all Ian's warnings about the mud, he did admit to me (twice) that OHA is a 'fantastic' cave. We only did a fraction of it, and I was very aware that we all got covered in mud, but Ian's suit remained relatively clean.[/quote]
True, true and true ;)
here's my vid of the trip (my very first). Its a bit short, had battery trouble (seems to be a re-occuring event for me, maybe i should learn from it, oh, well).
[video]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_JKMpYFYkNU&feature=youtu.be[/video]
Excellent Tony!