Lancaster Hole

Saturday March 29th 2008

Members present: Andy Tricklebank,  Gary Douthwaite,  Imogen Shepherd,  Jessica Walkup,  Matt Ewles,  Matt Gosling,  Natasha Durham,  Nicola Gover,  Richard Gover,  Steve Gilbert

Another trip into lovely easegill. This time exploring wilf taylors passage, waterfall passage and various other bits. Good to get to know new bits!

The fat team set off for waterfall passage while the others did some other route, and we went via ade's crack (hehe) into the waterfalls. Quite high water levels made this bit a tad exciting on the climbs, but you can see how it'd be really fun in lower levels (like a waterpark!).
Eventually it got too scary as theres a climb down a large waterfall, which was thundering! returned and headed down what looks like a flood overflow (forget the name) and bumped into the others.

Spent a while re-rigging as the fixed line was very frayed, then off to the main stream (which was quite full!), and looked at the bottom of what we would have climbed down from waterfall-we would have died! :s the sump looked very ominous too, and lots of foam around made me nervous! then off to stop pot and stake pot, across the scary muddy slope over big drop bit, where the boys told us we would die a lot.

Pottered slowly back out after being flummoxed by changing batteries in a light (call ourselves graduates) and headed out to lots of rain and a curry.
Much fun.