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With the heavy rain earlier in the week, I had written off Sleets Gill with its unusual hydrology. So the Sunday trip was to be Dowkabottom Cave.This has long been a favourite of our president, but unfortunately he had just retired from caving. With a bit of gentle persuasion we managed to get him to postpone his retirement for the trip.We got off reasonably early as the president had an afternoon appointment he needed to get to near York.Having walked (steeply) uphill, passing some ancient settlements, the president lead us straight to the shakehole containing the cave.Ros