Thursday Night Trip - 26th June 2014 - Cabin Shaft

[Tony Salusbury]

Howdy folks.

Here is this weeks trip.

Trip: Cabin Shaft (Minera) - Cabin Shaft Knowledge Bank

Trip Type: General mooch. Entrance via electron ladder or SRT. Lifeline will be provided for non SRT users.

Meet Point: The Moors Inn, Bwlchgwyn, Wrexham, Clwyd LL11 5YL, UK (Junction of A525 & B5430)

Google Maps: 53.069918, -3.121383

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Meet Time: 6:45pm

[mike leahy]

i'll be there

[Tony Salusbury]

Can you bring 2 electrons please Uncle Mike?

[David R]

I'm up for this, see you there.

[Tom Howard]

I shall be there.

[Joel Colk]

I will be there, lets have a crack at the through trip!  :woohoo:

[Anthony Britner]

see you there. and what does the through trip entail?

[Joel Colk]

No SRT, just an easy through trip .

[Ali Wiseman]

[quote="Suboffender" post=23221]No SRT, just an easy through trip .[/quote]

I wasn't aware of one without SRT on the other end. Which one is it?

[Tom Howard]

I will throw in a bit of tat the middle climb. Newstuff, cabin shaft to Grand Turk, which one are you talking about?

[Joel Colk]

Tom has hit it on the head.

When i last did it about 7 years ago, was just a knotted rope climb up an internal shaft. No SRT was needed for the through trip.

There is another one you can do that drops you down an internal shaft actually into grand turk passage, but you would need another rope pre-rigged at the other side of Grand Turk to get out

[Les Williams]

[quote="Suboffender" post=23225]
There is another one you can do that drops you down an internal shaft actually into grand turk passage, but you would need another rope pre-rigged at the other side of Grand Turk to get out[/quote]

Is the other shaft the one just before the sump in Grand Turk? Where does that come out?
I was down there many years ago and freeclimbed up to a level which seemed to stop at a ladderway but all the ladders had rotted away and fallen down so there was no way up without rigging from above or bolting up.

[Joel Colk]

[quote="LesW" post=23227][quote="Suboffender" post=23225]
There is another one you can do that drops you down an internal shaft actually into grand turk passage, but you would need another rope pre-rigged at the other side of Grand Turk to get out[/quote]

Is the other shaft the one just before the sump in Grand Turk? Where does that come out?
I was down there many years ago and freeclimbed up to a level which seemed to stop at a ladderway but all the ladders had rotted away and fallen down so there was no way up without rigging from above or bolting up.[/quote]

I think that's the one,

Speedycaver bolted up it from the bottom a few years back to find it lead to an old Dam.

After speaking with a few NWCC cavers, it seems that you can actually get to here from inside Minera mine. I need to get better directions and try to make the connection myself.

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