Anyway, we were joined
by Keith and Boyd Potts at Bernies for breakfast along with Brian
Potts, Phil Wall and Jo White.
After meeting up
afterwards at the Cowan Bridge car park we decanted into three cars
and made our way to the Leck Fell car park where we parked up and
changed into caving gear.
Boyd, Karen and myself
made our way to Short Drop Cave while the others headed for Gavel
Pot. The plan was for Pete to rig the pitch and traverse in Gavel Pot
linking with Short Drop Cave so we could exit that way, while they
then had a look at Gavel Pot and then exit via Short Drop Cave.
We made our way
through Short Drop, pausing to rig the short pitch and soon reached
the traverse at Gavel Pot which had been rigged as planned by Pete. I
saw Brian Potts there and assumed that he was coming down, so I
waited until he could pass by but he disappeared again.
So the three of us
passed the traverse and I headed up the entrance pitch to arrive in
the large impressive open depression of Gavel Pot almost exactly an
hour after entering Short Drop Cave. Not a very long caving trip
then!
Pete had found that
you could get into Gavel Pot via a muddy slope at the foot of the
entrance pitch and he and the others had dropped down the rest of the
pot.
Karen, Boyd and I
walked back to the cars and got changed out of our caving gear and
then sat in our car or Boyd's van to await the others.
After 4 hours (!),
Pete returned followed by Brian some distance behind. They had
re-ascended Gavel Pot's entrance pitch and joined us at the car park
while the rest planned on exiting via Short Drop Cave. There was no
sign of them, which was unexpected, so Pete headed off to find them
as they had obviously not found their way out yet.
By now Karen and I had
reached the time we planned to head for home so we left Keith's gear
(which he had left in our car) with Boyd and we headed for home.
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