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Another cave on my to-do list and, having finally emerged from bed, Nigel offered to show us the way.

This is a very pretty and extremely delicate cave and its well-preserved nature some 15 years after its first discovery probably justifies the original decision not to publicise more than a 4-figure grid reference.

We had a very pleasant few hours poking around all the nooks and crannies while gawping at the incredibly varied formations ... superb mud, some very good curtains and stals, plus the infamous blue ones. Excellent stuff.

In future I'll ditch SRT in favour of a ladder for the 10m pitch and bypassing the 14m pitch via a drop down on the right. That'll mean no tackle bags of SRT kits going anywhere near the very delicate formations ... plus no SRT kits to scrub afterwards!

Party: Nigel Steel, Gordon Aitken, Brian Cullen & Damian Weare
Time: 3hrs ???

sounds good and only a 10mtr pitch, anyone fancy another trip there on the 11th sept of my first trip underground since my accident

Paul, I think I'd probably give it a miss for your first trip back - the entrance section is a little tight and awkward and, should anything go wrong, it would be quite tricky to get you back out. Maybe better once you've got a couple of trips under your belt.