Wednesday - 27th August 2003
People present - Adam and Sarah Cooper

We entered via main entrance down the very dry river passage driest Adams ever seen it, he usually sees it wet! Inspected the sump, back along labarynth passage to five ways along and up the ten foot climb using the ladder (now thats what I call a ladder, one that is solid and comes from homebase!) explored cap tunnel, and then cap left crawl. Well that at least was what we intended doing!!!!! until Adam decided that we needed to go up the smallest squeeziest tightbit he could find "its this way, there is only a few metres and we are out, if you can do this you can do any cave in yorkshire"

(If I can get out of this alive I aint setting foot in another cave ever more like! I thought)
and the alternative is to give up and go back the way we came all that way.......... (Well you know me, don't like to be beaten or to give up in a hurry... anything anyone else can do I can do better and all that lol) (cough!)

"after you love" he said, such a gent, well I got severely stuck! I couldnt move my arms or my legs, my lamp fell off, my helmet got stuck so I took it off and pushed it infront of me I was laid there, completely wedged, screaming for a pen and paper, and a tube of ky jelly !

"what for?" he said

"I wanna resign from caving as of right now, call cave rescue!"

I have never ever seen such a small hole, it was like trying to stuff a hippo thro a cat flap!

Anyway, eventually I reverse shuffled out the passage (the rat hole!) banging my hips on the way out and ripping my caving suit... ! The air was blue by this stage, I didnt want to give up but realised that the bit of the cave that we were trying to negotiate was only suitable for stick insects and people built like Barbie (i.e. not like me and Adam!!!)

Eventually we found the right passage, after adam had shuffled up the cat flap to see if it really was the right way and decided it wasnt,(I COULD HAVE TOLD YOU THAT! arghhhh!) we broke through into Pillar Pot passage (which was big enough to fit a full size hippo through I might add ;o) ) and then exited via the Main Entrance.

I guess it was a good trip on the whole, I enjoyed the slides and the crawls and that but next time I don't want to get stuck thanks!

Sarah Cooper