Easy Sunday trip down Notts II featuring Rob, Jim, Chris, the other Kris, Myself, Hal & the SRT dildo!
Managed to get underground before lunch which was a bonus. I'd been wanting to descend this hoyle for some time having read the breakthrough in Descent in my early years. The incredible 50m scaffolded entrance shaft is an awesome feet on engineering which really has to be witnessed or climbed down to appreciate in full.
We steadily made our descent, hands freezing to the scaffold as we sank lower and lower to the depths below. Finally rid of shoring we reached solidness and regrouped before the other Kris took charge and led the way. Dropping down a few small, scratty climbs with comedically attached insitu ladders we reached a large drippy chamber where Hal left his snack drum, poor life choices had led him to don a wetsuit for a remarkably dry trip - he was melting. An obvious scaffold shaft led down a few metres followed by a short passage and climb which dropped us into the main streamway.
We raced downstream shouting and whooping, the passage not too dissimilar to SMMC, a short cascade was negotiated depending on how hot cavers were. this soon led to a crawl in water and the downstream sump.
We returned and headed upstream from the junction stopping to marvel at the humongous stal boss which and various formations which lay above the stream canyon. Continuing upstream we eventually med a muddy dig at the end of a chamber where we had a good 10min conversation on subjects which I shall not mention here...
The other Kris and Hal headed through a canal here to try and cool off whilst everyone else headed out via some photogay.
We were thoroughly frozen by the time we got back to surface and the wind chill up top was grim but all in all an awesome Sunday trip if only to marvel at the entrance shaft.