Llethrid Swallet - 21st Mar 2009

Saturday March 21st 2009

Members present: Ben Reynolds,  Gary Douthwaite,  John Singleton,  Luke Brownbridge,  Matt Ewles

We spent about 6 hours looking for the entrance, including randomly digging in a depression that had been filled by a mud slide (edit first we looked in the wrong valley though). It turns out the entrance is about 6 meters to the right from where the river sinks and was camoflaged in leaf litter (the enterance is a chipboard and steel hatch with a square cut in the centre). Once inside there is a stooping height enterance passage. The way on is through a hole in the floor to the right. This leads on to the stream passage which narrows (we were up to waist height in water after about 10 meters). At this point we found ourselfs lacking and went for for food.

Edit: Rumour has it that the entrance may have collapsed around the time we were there (it wasnt us) so this description may be a bit crap or better than the book. Also the GPS point are a tad off (they are about 20m further up the hill than the cave is), but it is helpful to check you havent got the wrong valley.