Gaping Gill - Sunday 26/5/2013 - DO NOT MISS IT

[Danny Sutton]

It's that time a year again where you can go and see gaping gill main chamber with the lights turned on.

This is the spring BPC winch meet, you can go in and out on the winch,you can SRT in and out or you can SRT in and go out on the winch.

Use of the winch costs £10, if you see the effort andwork that goes into setting this up, £10 is a small price to pay.

some blerb..

Situated on the SW slopes of Ingleborough at an altitude of 1300ft (400m) above sea level, Fell Beck ends its meandering course abruptly, and plunges 330ft(100m) down into the limestone plateau creating Britain’s highest unbroken waterfall. It lands on the floor of Gaping Gill, the largest cavern in Britain, known as the Main Chamber

It is an experience never forgotten and many visitors return year after year, becoming familiar faces to be welcomed back as old friends. The cavern is floodlit, allowing the public and cavers alike a view not normally seen outside Winch Meets

The Gaping Gill system is one of Britain’s longest and most complex cave systems. As well as the Main Shaft the system has nineteen other entrances. All these entrances unite underground and the water running through the caves eventually emerges into daylight at Ingleborough Cave, the Show Cave passed on the walk up to Gaping Gill. The connection between the two caves was made in 1983 by cave divers negotiating flooded sections of passages called sumps, using breathing apparatus.
The other entrances are not suitable for inexperienced cavers, who should use the winch.

The plan..

To meet in clapham at 9.30 - 9.45am and set off on the walk up the fell.

MEETING DETAILS-
Meeting at The Church of St James, Clapham, Yorkshire.
The nearest postcode i can find is - LA2 8HH which is about 150m away.

park where you can, you cant (you're not supposedto) get changed in Clapham village, pack for a walk up the fell, it's a fair way.

we will decide who wants to do what (SRT / Winch / SRT+Winch) and SRT route will be decided depending on the people and the weather on the day..

we will all agree to meet in the main chamber at an agreed time where we will go and explore, we'll then return to the main chamber, where people exiting on the winch will exit on the winch, those SRT'ing will exit via SRT. all meeting on the fell for the walk back down.

Simples..

Really, no matter if you are into caves or mines, this is something you really should make the effort to see, you wont have to get soaking wet or covered in mud, the system on these winch meets really does offer something for everyone no matter what your interest or ability.

Who's comming?

and the next day in a bankholiday, so you wont (maybe) have to get up early the next day..

Mad-Dan
Andy (weather he wants to or not)
Tony
Debz
Tim
Mike L
Newstuff - (needs a lift)
Aunty V
Ali
Amy
Richard S
Jaden
Dylan
GUY

[Ali Wiseman]

If I can get a lift, I'm fancying being a lazy sod and using the winch.

[steven cross]

[quote="NewStuff" post=17463]If I can get a lift, I'm fancying being a lazy sod and using the winch.[/quote]just need a winch on trevor rocks next  :whistle:

[Tony Salusbury]

Me and Debz are in.

[Ali Wiseman]

Lol... git.

[Dylan Roberts]

I would love to do this trip but I think I`m doing a triathlon that weekend.

[Tim Watts]

I'm in - i'm actually not working and currently have a empty space in my diary - shock horror!!!

Get my name on the list danny old boy.

[mike leahy]

i should be ok for this one as well, any idea which route we are doing

[Tony Salusbury]

Has the date changed for this? I thought it was on the 12th May. If its tge 26th then count Amy in too :-)

[Danny Sutton]

Tim, great stuff, I'm in the Wessex on my phone so can't edit the post, you'll have to wait till I get home..

Dylan, cancel your triathlon.

Mike, no idea yet, depends on what people want to do..

Tony, no the dates not changed..

[Tim Watts]

i'll do it myself ;-)

[Iestyn Rhys Pritchard]

I'm working, and with the new rota I can't swap shifts with anyone

[Vikki Sestan]

I'll be there - looking forward to it since I couldnt make the last visit

[Danny Sutton]

Nice one Vikky :-)

added to the list.

starting to recover from the weekend now.

[Tim Watts]

woop woop - 'tis gonna be a corker!