Lancaster hole 14/3/09
Four of us set off to do the wilftaylor passage and Montagu cavern route , one down Lancaster hole rigged by Nigel we had a quick trip up to the colonnades then over to fall pot for the decent down to the master cave and a quick look at the sump before climbing up wilf taylor way via double-decker pot and on to have a look at the downstream side of bpotw sump , a quick trip through cross passage to have look to see how much water was flowing down that passage as there wasn’t any flowing out of bpotw sump . then it was off for a crawl down Montagu cavern (can I say at this point I’ve done this trip twice but always the other way round so doing it in reverse was a challenge and I didn’t have a survey so was doing it from memory) this is where it went a bit wrong I missed the turning to the left and me and Nigel ended up having a crawl up the passages to the Saturday afternoon series before giving up and turning round. it was after this I noticed the turning we should have taken so off we went back on the right track hahaha. I had trouble finding the little ladder that I knew we had to climb down so after a quick chat and a rest we all decided to head back the way we had come, as i sit here righting this report and looking at the survey (I should have taken) I now know the hole I was looking at before we turned round would have taken us to the ladder and back into cavern at fall pot , sorry guys
Anyway the return trip gave us a chance to do double decker pot again and another fine amble up the master cave before heading out
Trip time 4hrs ............ Paul , Nigel , Alex , Sue
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