After the usual pre-caving breakfast in Monyash café, Karen,
Keith and I stopped off at the Orpheus cottage to collect some ropes
and tackle bags for a trip down Eldon Hole. As it was a sunny but
cold day this was a good choice because you actually spend quite a
lot of time exposed to the weather while descending this large open
pothole.
We were soon all at the bottom of the open pot and dropping down
the small constriction into the large underground main chamber. Keith
arranged the the “pull-up” using the fixed cord to allow he and
Karen to prusik up to Miller's Chamber.
I waited in the Main Chamber having a look at the various digs
searching for the suspected continuation of the cave beneath as I had
been up in Miller's Chamber several times before.
Soon the two of them had abseiled back down ans I started on the
way out and back up the open pothole back to the surface where I sat
in the sunshine looking at the views into the distance until the
other two arrived.
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