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Can someone write a report of the other bits as well? It would be good to have a record of this for the next journal.

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I suppose, now you mention it, that part was a little bit foul.

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Did you do this yesterday?

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Just to explain how I rigged the hang for the pitch at the end of the first traverse in the Lower Streamway:

The pitch head is a narrowish hole in the floor of the traverse, with P-bolts on either side of the traverse just before the hole and another P-bolt on the right wall after the hole. I rigged a Y-hang from the first bolt on the left and the bolt on the other side of the hole, with a deviation sling from the P-bolt on the right wall before the hole.

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Someone from Morley Pothole Club has posted this on ukcaving:

“For anyone interested, our friend was transported to LGI where it was found he had fractured vertebrae and brusing to the leg and ankle. He was discharged later in the evening.”

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There were three CRO callouts – Aquamole, Alum (alert only) and Rowten. The rebelay incident was Rowten.

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I’ve asked the whippersnapper to drop it off at Inglesport when he’s next there.

It breaks my heart that an enjoyable caving trip has been overshadowed by screwgategate, but a half turn towards lefty loosey after righty tightying makes deriggers very happy.

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He’s right – it’s been retrieved!

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I’m sure there’s a hilarious play on words here, but I just can’t work out the link between Led Zeppelin and Brewery Shaft.

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He is assiduous and meticulous – just look at the concentration:

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Alex has his own bolting kit now, so you don’t need to worry about things like that.

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I agree that the final pitch in Trapdoor is spectacular, especially considering how narrow everything else is in that cave. I think another trip that has a similar feel of being all narrow and thrutchy, then opening out on to a huge pitch is Corky’s Pot. Well done for completing the trip, you’re a gnarly caver now!

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Why were you called Dickfingers?

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Woohoo! Janet’s first trip report.

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Good work, chaps. Plenty of new stuff found over Easter. Sounds like you had some good days caving after I had left too.

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