Tatham Wife Hole Down Pitches 1 and 2 - 10th May 2009

Sunday May 10th 2009

Members present: Alexander Stelfox,  George Bunyan,  Jonathan Booth,  Matt Gosling,  Matthew Chubb

After an interesting route up the hill we quickly found the cave, an un-inviting scree crawl in a large shake hole. Gong carefully down this we followed the stream through a fun rift to the first pitch, a short 6 metre abb, then more of the rift until we arrived ina large-ish chamber at the top of the second pitch. An interesting collection of jammed boulders hung like Damocle's sword above the pitch head, I didnt hang around when it was my turn. The pitch went down onto a scree slope, then a great pitch down a waterfall left us shivering at the bottom and with turnaround time approaching we decided to head back. Mat let me de-rig and all went well, we were out in good time and greeted by a fantastic view. A great cave with a lively streamway and some good pitches, it's one for the PVC though.