Masson Mine

Boyd had asked Karen, in particular, if she could come along on a beginners caving trip as two ladies, Christine and Sheila, had been in contact with him to go on a caving trip. Someone called Alex had also planned to come on Sunday to also go on a caving trip but he hadn't been ab;e to make it in the end.
Keith, who had stayed overnight with us, Karen and myself were up at 18:30 for a quick bowl of cereal then we went to Monyash for breakfast in the café before moving on to the Orpheus CC cottage for the Orpheus CC AGM. The second AGM of the weekend!
The AGM started at 10:30ish and was completed by 12:30ish. Sheila and Christine arrived before 13:00 and after a cup of tea, we left Keith cutting up the 200m of rope we had bought some time ago to replace old rope in the tackle store.
We were also joined by Elaine Hillyard and her other half Mike.
We drove to Salters Lane near Jughole Wood and after changing into caving gear, the six of us, Karen, myself, Boyd, Elaine, Christine and Sheila headed along the rough track leading towards Masson Quarry while Mike went for a short walk.
At Masson Quarry we found a couple of tents pitch and then the owners of the tents, who were climbers, top-roping some of the bolted routes in the quarry.
We set off into the mine using a handline on the two sort drops at the entrance and had a good wander around including seeing a guided trip of tourist being shown through the show mine section beyond the gate.
After an interesting and enjoyable trip, except for having to pick up rubbish in one chamber with old mine-working remnants, left behind by some dirty b*stards, we returned to the surface to the warm sunshine.