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With the less than wonderful weather and the numbers wanting to cave dwindling, the Simpsons/Swinsto exchange became a through trip in Swinsto.
We popped into Valley Entrance to check the water levels & rig the pitch. The pitch was already rigged, so we decided to use the in-situ ropes.
We then wandered up the hill straight to the entrance of Swinsto.
The water flowing in the cave was reasonably high, but did not cause any problems other than a couple of the pitches being a bit damp & some deep bits in the Long Crawl.
Other than a cockup by the derigger on the third pitch (not used to deviations on a pull through) and the rope twisting badly on the first part of the Split Pitch, the trip went without incident.
It was a little damp in places and any exchange with Simpsons would have been very wet.

Valley Entrance team: Ros, Stu & Dave.
Valley Entrance time: About 20m
Swinsto Team: Ade, Rich, Stu, Lukas & Dave.
Swinsto time: About 3h