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Default Alum pot / Long churn cave - N/Yorkshire - April 2011 - 17-04-2011, 00:23

Visited this place a couple of weeks ago with Darwin Dave and AndyJ but didn't take any SRT gear in with us, Today was an attempt to get down the dolly tubs pitch and into Alum pot.

Visited with Buddah.


Not a great deal to say about the place, but it was quite Dry today, dryer than last time, we made our way through the cave, which involves a couple of small climbs down, heading to the top of the dolly tubs, this is then at a gess i would say a 25m decent which brings you half way down into alum pot.

a small climb down onto a ledge, and you can walk round to a bolder which is wadged between the walls, sitting on the bolder maybe 40m in the air is IMO not very plesant, not having a head for hights doesnt really help though.

this is as far as we made it, we only had a 10m hand line and 50m of rope and they were both allready rigged else where to get this far, we needed another rope to get any further down, maybe next time.

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Default 17-04-2011, 09:29

Nice Pics


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Default 17-04-2011, 12:32

I've seen a few reports of this place now and it looks stunning everytime. I'd love to see it for real but my SRT days are over
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Default 17-04-2011, 12:42

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I've seen a few reports of this place now and it looks stunning everytime. I'd love to see it for real but my SRT days are over
Theres only one small bit of srt needed to get where we got which was about half way down alum pot. But its well worth it is definitely one of the most special things ive ever seen! We couldnt of picked a better day for it either, as you walked out into alum pot and the sun was shinning through all the mist from the waterfalls it really was stunning.


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Default 17-04-2011, 17:08

Great pics guys.
The views from the bottom of the Dolly tubs pitch are amazing ain't they.

While you were there myself and Andyj were only about a mile away on the other side of the valley. We were swimming around in Dismal Hill cave.

And you thought Long Churn was wet.
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Default 17-04-2011, 19:05

it was dry in there yesterday, other than the pools, there was next to nothing flowing through the place


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superb photos guys
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Theres only one small bit of srt needed to get where we got which was about half way down alum pot. But its well worth it is definitely one of the most special things ive ever seen! We couldnt of picked a better day for it either, as you walked out into alum pot and the sun was shinning through all the mist from the waterfalls it really was stunning.
I don't like SRT or ropes at all anymore, I was even thinking of getting rid of my kit . I dunno maybe I'll give it another go but done right next fooking time.
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I don't like SRT or ropes at all anymore, I was even thinking of getting rid of my kit . I dunno maybe I'll give it another go but done right next fooking time.

You had a bad experience on ropes or something?


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