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Rumbling Hole is known locally as The Faeries Workshop because faeries can often be heard working away with their hammers in the depths of the entrance shaft.  According to our chairman Stu (who is a faery denier) it's water dripping behind a large flake that makes the ringing sound.

The impressive entrance shaft which is 50 meters (160 ft) was first descended in 1899 by the Yorkshire Ramblers Club, presumably on rope ladders.  Even today, with modern SRT gear, it certainly gets your attention with a free hanging re-belay near the top.

Anyway, we managed it and continued down numerous further pitches to the very bottom where we were met by the resident frog.  Everyone refused to kiss it so we left it there as it would have quickly frozen to death on the surface in frog form as temperatures were well down.

Team:  Janis, Paul D, Ade, Alan C, Paul M

Well done. I hope the weather was kinder to you than I had at home.
Is that Janis of Alloa???

Some photos from Paul of the Rumbling Trip