Lost John's Cave, Yorkshire Dales

With rain most of the day on Friday and a showery Saturday forecast, Karen and I drove up to Greenclose, the Northern Pennine hut to find only Boyd there. After unloading the car and a brew of tea, we drove over to The New Inn in Clapham for the remainder of the evening. Afterwards we left to return to Greenclose and had a quick look at Clapham Beck which was fairly high as expected with all the rain. Back at Greenclose we found Pete Wagstaff had arrived along with three members of another club.
In the morning after cereal for breakfast we drove to Bernies in Ingleton to meet the others for 10:00 am as arranged. Soon Mat and Nikki Adlam-Styles, Chris Jackson and Dave Phillips had turned up and several breakfasts were ordered and consumed. Once this was done, we drove to Cowan Bridge car park to sort out ropes and drop off some of the cars. Once the tackle bags were stuffed with the correct ropes in the correct order, three vehicles full of cavers and caving gear drove up to the parking place on Leck Fell. So far the weather was dry and looked like the forecast of a little light rain would probably be true, so once all were changed into caving gear we were relieved to find the steam enter Lost John's was back to normal levels.
The plan was to rig both Cathedral/Dome route and Hammer Pot with some continuing along Battleaxe Traverse and down Valhalla, while the others just went as far as the start of Battleaxe Traverse. I rigged Cathedral/Dome as far as Dome Junction followed by Boyd, Mat and Nikki while the others followed Hammer Pot down into the cave. After managing the swing through into the hole part way up Dome pitch on the third attempt, I was entertained by Mat who had abseiled a bit to low and missed the deviation just above!
Below Dome Junction pitch I met Karen who had already been to the Traverse and I passed her to have a look myself. I could hear the odd shout above the thundering water below and after a quick Mars Bar, I headed back the way I cam passing Mat and Nikki en route who were making their way to the Traverse.
While Karen and I headed back the up Cathedral /Dome route de-rigging as we went, Boyd, Mat and Nikki followed the Hammer Pot route our of the cave. We met Pete Wagstaff coming out of the New Roof Traverse as I was de-rigging the first pitch.
Another great trip down an excellent cave followed by chips in Bernies!