Swildon's Hole
Today's caving group was Tim, Myself, Matt and Steve. The idea was to take a new caver to sump 1 for their first trip but unfortunately they didn't join us. We met a group on the way through Barne's loop who reported there to be a few inches airspace in sump 1. Matt was keen to go there to see if today was going to be the day he made it through.
I had been leading the group but shortly before the sump we made Matt go in front so he could just go straight to the sump and try going through. To everyone's amazement he just marched up to it, took a breath and with three pulls on the rope was the other side feeling the adrenaline rush! Finally Matt could see the Wookey Hole sign post that he has wanted to see for a few years.
The trip from there continued to look at sump 2 and then have a look at the trouble series - maybe Matt could do the ducks as he had just proved himself with a sump! And indeed once more he amazed us all by going through the first 2 ducks!!
Today's trip was really enjoyable and full of achievements.
This is the route we took.
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