Visited with some UCET members.
The Croesor to Rhosydd through trip, known as the CRTT, is a trip through Croesor slate mine, then making the connection into rhosydd and exiting through rhosydd adit 9 or through a quarry which has broken through into some areas of rhosydd.
The trip involves 2 abseils, a zip wire over a flooded chamber, a bridge over another flood (it's still hanging in there ed) then theres the remains of 3 bridges you have to cross, another abseil into a boat, you then cross the "lake", get out of the boat and climb a rope, you're then into rhosydd, the trip from here on is simple route finding, well it's simple if you know the way, not so simple if you dont.
we met up at the cafe in Tan-y-Grisiau, then drove up to the Croesor entrance in a 4x4, got kitted up and did the trip, Exiting through No9 adit, then making the return trip over ground back to the car just in time for it to be pitch black, not a very nice drive back down in the dark, not when you're in the back of a pick-up with half a tonn of caving/srt gear in a huge box.
some pics, not that many, it's hard to get a groupe to stand still for a long exposure picture lol..
I've done this trip a few times now and still havent spent any time exploring rhosydd mine, i need to get on that.