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7th November Short drop – Gavel – A classic trip with classic people.
Weather Dry and Misty
4 of us did this trip, some of us having not caved with each other for almost a decade! It was like the BRCC of old!
People: Don I can’t believe it is Miller, Chris which Chris, only the editor of Descent Chris Scaife, Alex aka Holey Moley Magnus Ritchie and Dan the legend of the forest Jackson.The trip itself was nothing special or hard like our old trips but it’s the people you cave with who make it, making this one the good ones.
Leck Fell was heaving so we had to park further away ensuring a slightly longer walk in what was rather mild weather. We entered short drop using phone navigation and proceeded through short drop. We were sure to get a picture of the suspended boulders with Dan underneath to compare it to one I had took almost exactly some 16 years prior. Don rigged the pitch and then Dan took over for the traverse. For someone who has not done rope-work for a while, he sure was slick!
Onwards into Gavel, where we hit the biggest obstacle, students! Chris gracefully or should that be foolishly let them go first, and we then had to wait 45 minutes for them to get their freshers down the pitch, using both holes. Finally it was our turn and off we went with Chris rigging this one. We were soon exploring the delights of Glusfourth’s (Spelt something like that) and Echo chamber, before heading out the way we came.
The only thing of note on the way out was a big scream from Don (ah good times) as a bat had decided to use his SRT kit as a roost, we carefully relocated the poor thing to a more suitable location, before Don put his kit on.
We exited and enjoyed a night on the tiles well wooden floorboards around Kendal and a curry that did arrive within this century. We clinked our glasses to Mike before eventually calling it a night at a much earlier time then he would have “bloody light-weights” he would have called us.
Weather Slightly sunny!
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8th November – Notts 2
Another trip with even more classic/lesser spotted Black Rose people
People: Dunc can do it Jones, Rob does cave more than two times Sanctus, Chris, Dan and Alex
A quick Sunday trip down this classic (how many more times can I say that?) cave. We noted the rotten stemple at the top (now been removed by someone, thankfully) and the loose ladder at the bottom but otherwise it was an uncomplicated trip taking in the downstream sump and Curry inlet.
On the way to Curry, as the passage opened up and a chamber with rock chairs presented itself we paused to induldge in Capri sun and Goblin IPAs, all in honour of Mike, who unfortunately is no longer with us, but still I feel he was there in spirt. We were sure to pour one out for him. Rest in peace mate.
Finally on the approach to Curry by the trip leader of some students from Lancaster University (the leader of which was down a welly) who recognised me from my Magnus exploits and I apparently needed no introduction to the rest of them.
We headed out, and finished the day in a much more civilised way than usual at the Tea rooms at the bottom of the hill, where we were joined by John where’s my SRT kit Proctor, Daz of childcare and Carol of I won’t write anything mean here as I don’t want to get in trouble de la fuente.
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