Sludge Pit Hole
Tim and I decided to go caving today and stay over at the club hut over night. We weren't in a rush as the weather was foul and we didn't fancy braving it! We had some lunch and then eventually got the car packed up with a range of caving kit, overnight stuff and a cool bag of food. It was a very slow journey up there as the weather didn't make for good visability. As we got near to Shepton Mallet it was clear that they had not had the bad weather that we had had and at Priddy they had only had one shower early afternoon! We unloaded the car and decided where we were going to sleep.
We kitted up and made our way to the cave. It was a short walk from the caving club. The pad lock on the door was a bit stiff but we got it open.
A few meters in we came to the pitch. Tim got rigging while I sorted the signing in book. We then realised we forgot to bring the survey with us! Luckily we had looked at it before setting off but we could briefly remind ourselves as there was one in the front of the singing in book.
I decended the pitch first, once we were bth at the bottom we ad a look around the chamber for the ways on. We decided to take a route we thought would take us to Strike Chamber - not sure that is where it actually took us as we didn't find a convincing chamber just a whole load of boulders - think we might have been in Boulder Chamber instead!!
We made our way back to the chamber we decended the ladder into and took the other passage which looked like a more substantial passage. This turned out to be Fault Passage. We took the lower passage first which was Main Rift - we found a stal that was worth a photo!
On return to Fault Passage we took the upper route and headed towards the maze and had a bit of an explore round the different routes.
After a bit of exporing we had both had enough and made our way back to the ladder. I ascended first while Tim belayed and had the camera ready!
A few meters in we came to the pitch. Tim got rigging while I sorted the signing in book. We then realised we forgot to bring the survey with us! Luckily we had looked at it before setting off but we could briefly remind ourselves as there was one in the front of the singing in book.
I decended the pitch first, once we were bth at the bottom we ad a look around the chamber for the ways on. We decided to take a route we thought would take us to Strike Chamber - not sure that is where it actually took us as we didn't find a convincing chamber just a whole load of boulders - think we might have been in Boulder Chamber instead!!
We made our way back to the chamber we decended the ladder into and took the other passage which looked like a more substantial passage. This turned out to be Fault Passage. We took the lower passage first which was Main Rift - we found a stal that was worth a photo!
On return to Fault Passage we took the upper route and headed towards the maze and had a bit of an explore round the different routes.
After a bit of exporing we had both had enough and made our way back to the ladder. I ascended first while Tim belayed and had the camera ready!
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