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Dismal Hill Cave - 29 Oct 2006

Sunday October 29th 2006

Members present: Laz Abbott

Report by Laz Abbott

We thought this was the entrance to Old Ing Cave (to the left of the track, on the way to where Old Ing actually resides...).

It comprises a tight bedding plane entrance (several spiders' webs accross the entrance!) in a 5 ft deep shakehole. After a couple of metres it opens out into a low crawl with a few inches of water in it. After about 6 meters, I reached a constricted pitch head. It was quite difficult to see the bottom 'cos it was quite tight but looked to be about 8-10 metres. It was probably just about free-climbable but there was a distinct lack of bolts or natural belay points!, and looked like it might be a one-way trip!

Eventually, I managed to turn round after backing up a bit, and exited. No one else seemed keen to give it a go!

;)