Caving - Welsh's Green Swallet

Caving - Welsh's Green Swallet

Group of 4 - Tim, me, Paul and Matt

We went into Welsh's Green Swallet.  Once we found the entrance we rigged the pitch and abseiled into the cave.  After the entrance section we arrived into a small chamber with enough room for us to reorganise ourselves into a suitable order for rigging the next pitch.  The next section was a low hands and knees crawl in a streamway till we reached the ledge at the pitch head.  The stream tumbled straight over so we were going to get wet on our way down!!  Tim rigged the pitch and we abseiled down.  The next section was more crawling!  Still in the stream but now with a lot of glacial silt - otherwise known as mud!  We found our way to the first aven chamber, it was nice relief to stand up for a bit.  After attempting some photos we rejoined the streamway and continued to crawl.  The rest of the trip was crawling in water and sloppy mud. Tim and Matt went on a bit further and found the second aven chamber.  A nice trip, I would go back but not in a hurry!!!

Unfortunately none of the photos came out!!