There had been quite a
lot of heavy rain during the night so we decided to leave Diccan Pot
for another day and changed plans to Marble Steps Pot. Again the
forecast was for occasional light showers.
We met Mark Silo in
the morning at breakfast at Bernies in Ingleton. Afterwards we drove
to Masongill Lane where there was a very large amount of run-off
gravel and small rocks on the road as you reach the water treatment
building with a very obvious increase in erosion on the lane as it
headed away uphill towards Turbary Road.
We met another group
of cavers getting changed and although they were also planning on a
trip in Marble Steps Pot, they were only intending to drop down the
Sidewinder route and then return, while we were planning on the
alternative Gully Route and further.
I clambered down the
surface gully and waited for Keith and the others as Keith was doing
the rigging. I was last in our group to start down the ropes and I
had trouble getting past the rebelay just inside the cave! Typical –
it's a little awkward as you have to swing a bit to reach it and then
are quite off balance when getting past. I hadn't dropped down far
enough initially and couldn't reach the rebelay so dropped sown a
little more. I didn't want to injure my shoulder which is still a bit
weak after an old injury so I gave up and left the others to
continue.
They had what sounded
like a great trip and reached the bottom of the cave.
Afterwards we returned
to Bernies for a meal for some of us while the rest had food in the
New Inn, Clapham.
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