Caving Saturday June 16
Meet at Bernies for another trip to County Pot with Sam, Steve Bell, Grovel, Andy Reay, Gerry and such like. Any more information needed contact Grovel.
(Read the comment below for the write-up of the trip, and how half the party tried to leave the other half in the cave.)
(Read the comment below for the write-up of the trip, and how half the party tried to leave the other half in the cave.)
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posted by SCUBA News @ 10:25 am
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At 5:45 pm,
Grovel said…
A jolly fine day was had by one and all (who is this All, I don't remember him being on the trip with us!)
The party split into two, a brave, hearty soul who wanted a proper trip joined Sam on his epic crawl around Mancunian Way. So Sam and Steve set off early, with express instructions as to how the rest of the team would mark their departure from the system – we will tie an obvious big knot in the ladder. Steve made two fundamental mistakes on this trip; going with Sam and (what is the most important piece of equipment NOT to forget when crawling) – yes he forgot his kneepads!
The remainder of the party (Squeaky Dave, Andy, Gerry, Tony and Grovel) set of more leisurely to do a trip down to the big stuff. When we reached the bottom of the first ladder I noticed Sam had not clipped the bottom C-links into the P hanger (the one to stop people removing ladders) - remember this for later. We wandered around the system and up to the high level. On the way out Squeaky was pontificating on how easy it was to exit County by free climbing the pitches (you are probably ahead of me). The time was getting on, but we were not too worried as their was an obvious method of marking our exit from the cave for the Super Hero party.
Arriving back at the pitch and, you’ve guessed it, NO LADDER!
“Okay Squeaky, show us how to free climb the pitch”
“ Ooo argh my …. is hurting and there is no way I can do the climb!”
Grovel duly gets us up the pitch and we make our way back across the moors, where we are met by the sheepish Super Hero party. “We thought that the clipping in of the C-links was ‘an obvious big knot in the ladder’. Sorry”
Not much blood was spilled and we all saw the funny side of the event.
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