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First trip of the weekend with our man from Alaska aka Jim Nicholl's
5 of us met up at the TSG hut on the Saturday morning and after the obligatory buttie from the cob shop, we got kitted up and headed up to Titan.
As I had already rigged it on the Tuesday, this speeded things up and pretty soon we were all down at the bottom with no drama's . From there we had a steady trip through, stopping off at the bottom of Leviathon for a chockie break, it was at this point that Jim was starting to feel it so after passing the Bung and Short By-Pass we took his tackle bag off him and shoved him to the front to set the pace.
Steady going through Colostamy but we made it the rest of the trip was also steady but finally we got to Buxton Sump for a wash off before exiting via Peak, emerging into glorious sunshine
Trip time 5hrs
Jim Nicholls, James Finch, Stu Abbott, Andy Mason, Keith Mason

Englands best through trip no hang on i take that back , JH to speedwell is better

paulgeddes wrote:

Englands best through trip no hang on i take that back , JH to speedwell is better

Not sure about that dude, but it's up there with them

Don’t get me wrong and im not trying knock it, titan is a fantastic place but if you think about it its just a big pitch with a rebelay half way down , it would be a lot more fun if it followed the wall down with multiple rebelays and some traverses , just think you could have the worlds first underground via ferrate in there ( hmmm now there is a thought )

paulgeddes wrote:

Don’t get me wrong and im not trying knock it, titan is a fantastic place but if you think about it its just a big pitch with a rebelay half way down , it would be a lot more fun if it followed the wall down with multiple rebelays and some traverses , just think you could have the worlds first underground via ferrate in there ( hmmm now there is a thought )

Not knocking it dude, I was refering more to the whole trip rather than just the Titan part of it

to be honest Keith its a wonder your not sick of the sight of the place i would love to see a chart of the people who have done it the most, i bet your up there in the top ten

how many times have you done it know ?

paulgeddes wrote:

to be honest Keith its a wonder your not sick of the sight of the place i would love to see a chart of the people who have done it the most, i bet your up there in the top ten

how many times have you done it know ?

At least 40 times dude

40 times - bet its more than that Keith - ive done it 6/7 times now.

Anyway there are pics but facebook is playing up for downloading pics, common problem, will add once its working again.

Pics as promised

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Nice one James you finally sorted it eh!

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I don't actually like the trip that much, I agree the pitch needs to be broken up more. It's a right pain in the butt descending on a stop. I however would love to give the JH route a go. Hmm you caving this long weekend Keith? Monday is probbably best for me if you are underground, don't mind if I phone you in the morning to check your still going do you?

iball wrote:

Is that a helmet mounted camera?

Yes Ian, it's a GoPro Hero2 and i was impressed with it. to the point of thinking of buying one

alexr wrote:

I don't actually like the trip that much, I agree the pitch needs to be broken up more. It's a right pain in the butt descending on a stop. I however would love to give the JH route a go. Hmm you caving this long weekend Keith? Monday is probbably best for me if you are underground, don't mind if I phone you in the morning to check your still going do you?

No worries dude

alexr wrote:

I don't actually like the trip that much, I agree the pitch needs to be broken up more. It's a right pain in the butt descending on a stop. I however would love to give the JH route a go. Hmm you caving this long weekend Keith? Monday is probbably best for me if you are underground, don't mind if I phone you in the morning to check your still going do you?

Alex - get a simple

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Simples

iball wrote:

Is that a helmet mounted camera?

Jims camera was helmet mounted - the pics above are using my old fashioned hand mounted camera

keithm wrote:

iball wrote:

Is that a helmet mounted camera?

Yes Ian, it's a GoPro Hero2 and i was impressed with it. to the point of thinking of buying one

be nice to see how well it has worked first thoe with a scurion as the main light it will be fine

Yo Paul, have got the video's he took in Titan and Eldon Hole. The only light source he was using were 2 mag light type things
Will bring the Vid's with me next time I'm up

cheers Keith then you can show me how yours works

paulgeddes wrote:

cheers Keith then you can show me how yours works

I only said thinking of buying

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I been looking at thos Go-pro things, I kept thinking they would get in the way but looking at it, its not much bigger than my backup light. But I am left with the problem of having no backup light if I have the go-pro strapped to my head.

The other issue with the camera's I have had in the past is lighting and scratching the lense.

alexr wrote:

I been looking at thos Go-pro things, I kept thinking they would get in the way but looking at it, its not much bigger than my backup light. But I am left with the problem of having no backup light if I have the go-pro strapped to my head.

The other issue with the camera's I have had in the past is lighting and scratching the lense.

And dropping it