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Had a word with Dave Ramsey who gave us a few pointers for this trip, and then we were off.
Parked in the usual place by the stile, cause we can
As both places were already rigged it meant no gear apart from SRT kit, went in Rift (that's new Rift, Nigel) and made our way down Route 66 into Coates Cavern then onto the start of Pleasure Dome.

It was at this point that Stu decided to turn round and exit back out of Rift, so we then carried on and made our way through to the Temple of Doom and the extensions. This involves a varied assortment of caving, consisting of hands and knees crawling, flat out crawls and thrutches.
Pretty soon we arrived at the first squeeze which involved me dropping the top half off my under and oversuit off, once through this and kitted back up we set off again through a wet craw and a flat out section, as the passage opened up again we soon arrived at the second squeeze (Point Squeeze).

Having failed to get through this with my kit on, it was time to strip off again to under crackers and T shirt, even then it was still very bloody tight, but a bit of verbal encourage from Ian helped and pretty soon i popped through.
After this it was easier going for a while, but then it starts with a flat out mud floored crawl that soon turns into a squalid mud floor that then turns into a flat out cobbled floor crawl with water in it, lovely
Once through this and its only a matter of minutes before you pop out into sensibly sized passages of Ireby, all that was left then was the steady meander out using Bubbles Route as our exit

Trip time 4hrs30
Stu Weston, Ian Walker, Keith Mason

Well done Keith & Ian, Is this the first ever trip from Rift to Ireby by anyone other than the original diggers?

awesome

Not sure Alan, but if not we can't be far from being the first

I hate you - not fair!!

Nothing to do with Rift,but note the BPC have put another entrance into Gaping Gill - This time OBJ has been connected into the system

Oh no, not another walk up again....

Now that sounds hard! Could well make my list........ of caves never to try! LOL

If Keith strips off (Again) to squeeze through, I have no chance.

Well done / Congrats etc...

Now this trip has not been done yet.How many are up for this?

alans wrote:

Now this trip has not been done yet.How many are up for this?

Definitely .. if only I had time

Nice one Keith

I saw the state of Keith when they got out, and was glad to have made the call to exit Rift, I was in no way cave fit enough to cope with that kind of punishment, some people do this for fun too!
Well done to Keith and Ian, hope you managed to get clean before you went out on Saturday night.

hmmm striping off to get through a squeeze, thank yourself lucky i wasnt there with my camera then again i thank myself lucky ive read this report one trip that aint going on my to do list

apart from that well done ian n keith

why is everyone congratulating US? it's the diggers and sureveyors who need the praise, we just went along for a tourist trip when all the action was over.

grockle