Saturday 28th of May
I went up to GG with Mike on a warm, sunny day and, after a brief in-out debate, decided on Stream Passage to Flood Entrance. We were held up by a fairly large group going down Stream Passage, then showed some people the main chamber, before heading out Flood Entrance.
We then went down Corky’s Pot, one of my favourite GG routes, with its fantastic final pitch into Mud Hall, bottomed only 45 minutes after entering the cave. The real journey hadn’t yet started though.
At the foot of the big pitch in Bar Pot we could hear a lone voice above us, with no idea what she was saying. After a bit of shouting we ascertained that she wasn’t about to head down, so we quickly went up the rope and found someone we had assumed had been a part of the large group we had encountered in Stream Passage. In fact, she was on her own and had no idea how to get out from the top of this pitch.
We led her to the top of the greasy slab, which she only just managed to climb up with a great deal of flapping about. We assured her that we would be stronger together and that going out Small Mammal Pot made more sense for her than a Barexit, but she insisted that she had to go out Bar Pot; having been stuck there three years ago, she had demons to conquer and simply would not listen to reasoned debate.
Skyrmy and I kept our union strong and exited with aplomb, leaving the Barexit campaigner, presumably, to flap about aimlessly on her own, slowly declining in strength.
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