United Cavers Exploration Team
Cave and Mine Exploring => Trip Reports => Topic started by: Andrew Farrow on Feb 10, 2013, 08:55 PM
attending :
sean taylor [ UCET ]
andy farrow [ UCET ]
a last minuite trip organised by sean [ thanks mate - it got me out of going shopping with dan ]
a big thanks to joel colk and ed coghalan for providing surveys and navigation advice
an absolutly bonkers day out - there was snow in them there hills ` - and it was far warmer underground than on the surface
as it was our first time - we did a pretty basic touristy round trip - from the mallcleugh adsit - to the ballroom chamber [ found a guest book - and left a message ] - and with minor distractions and interludes - returned via the small-cleugh flats to hard cross-cut
just to be different - i actually took my camera [ pics to follow ]
we kept pretty much t the sall-cleugh level [ with ocassional forrays into the flats above ]
our major interlude was a short abseil down the " hydraulic shaft " in elliots string - but due to having limmited rope and supplies - we only went down to the gallery at minus 10m to find that it didnt go anywahere
is it worth taking a long rope on the next trip ? to get to the bottom ????
we could have spant all week in there - the urge to just have a look down various winzes / rises and branches was over whelming
navigation only failed us once - somwehere between small-cleugh flats and the hard crosscut - i missed the ` dog leg ` - and we ended up facing a collapse
despite my reservations - we followed the " yob splatter " arrows - with an aggreement - that we would return and exit via the flatt cross cut - desite the extra walk - if we didnt get our bearings in the next 10 minuites - fortunatly after only 5 we had possitivly identified hard cross cut - and were on our way out
emerged into 100m visibility - we should have taken surface shots on the way in
but a amazing place - the entire region is simply riddled with explorable mines
but its miles away in the middle of nowhere - one for a summer camp trip ?????
thanks for the trip report andy.
sounds like you had a good day out
[quote="Andrew Farrow" post=14307]
we followed the " yob splatter " arrows [/quote]
LOL :cheer:
Nice report - Thanks ;)
A few pictures from the day, good write up andy.
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I Didnt even get an invite.
Bad friends....
Sorry pal I seen you was working and I don't often get chance to get my hands on a van with no tracker on it.
no excuse.. lol, yeh i was working, i would of sacked work off, but by the time i herd you were going, i had allready agreed to go to london on saturday morning.
as it turned out i only had to go to brum, but still, i had to go. it isnt that far is it, about 120 mile?
Posted double delete please