P8 / Jackpot - 11 Nov 2006

Saturday November 11th 2006

Members present: Ben Taylor,  Chuck Holder,  Elizabeth Kern,  Francesca Gregory,  James Gregory,  Saskia Klerk

Spent perhaps 15-20 minutes finding where we were supposed to park and a further 55 minutes of wandering around to actually find the cave. We ended up asking another group of cavers for directions, though we were about to go and look in the right place anyway.

Pretty busy down the cave, rather a lot of waiting around near waterfalls, even more so with 4 beginners. It's not too hard as a beginners cave, but we should probably limit future learning-SRT trips to 2 or 3 beginners unless there is some way to guarantee there won't be any other groups down there (which is impossible as it is a popular cave).

The day was rounded off with a lot of rain/cold/wind/dark when getting changed. I guess it wasn't actually as cold as it could have been but having the wind drive rain into you whilst changing is still quite unpleasant - a low grade 5?