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Marble Steps 15th Sept 16 Sep 2012 10:44 #8464

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As Chris wanted to tick off Marble Steps, that was were the 4 of us headed to. Fairly steady going, although we did have a bit of a cock up with ropes so had to do the bypass route for the second pitch :laugh:
Went down to the bottom via the Ninety route, then crawled upstream till we got to the old dig then it was just a case of retrace our steps back to daylight.
Trip time 3hrs30
Susan Blackburn, Alex Wallman, Chris Tate, Keith Mason

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Re: Marble Steps 15th Sept 16 Sep 2012 12:51 #8465

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shame i missed it :( its been on my todo list

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. 16 Sep 2012 22:20 #8469

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Re: Marble Steps 15th Sept 17 Sep 2012 07:27 #8470

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The water levels were very low dude :)

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. 17 Sep 2012 08:06 #8471

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Re: Marble Steps 15th Sept 17 Sep 2012 18:17 #8474

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paulgeddes wrote:
shame i missed it :( its been on my todo list


Take it off Paul, its a horrible cave, gave me the heebee Geebee's (if thats how one spells a feeling of impending doom)

you will not catch me down there again.

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Re: Marble Steps 15th Sept 17 Sep 2012 18:53 #8476

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Take no notice of him Paul, it's well worth doing dude. A choice of 3 routes in and 2 routes to the bottom :)

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Re: Marble Steps 15th Sept 17 Sep 2012 21:02 #8479

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I agree with Keith its a great cave, although I wimped out of doing the 90 I would be more than happy to go back and even have a go rigging a different route.

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Re: Marble Steps 15th Sept 18 Sep 2012 12:53 #8483

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I thought Marble Steps Pot was a great trip when I last did it. On ladders of course ( just shows how long ago it was )

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Re: Marble Steps 15th Sept 19 Sep 2012 12:08 #8487

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Horrible trip? Nah its an decent trip. No mud, plenty of SRT and some big passages. Granted there is one moderately tight pitch in the middle, but other then that there is nout to it.

Only problem is, its too short as it don't go anywhere at the bottom.

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Re: Marble Steps 15th Sept 19 Sep 2012 13:43 #8488

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Intestines makes an excellent exchange as well.

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Re: Marble Steps 15th Sept 19 Sep 2012 17:34 #8489

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Sorry you are wrong Alex,you just have not been to the end of Marble Steps Pot yet. There are at least two ways on at the bottom - One heading towards Keld Head & the other towards Rift Ireby etc. where do you think all that water goes? B)

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Re: Marble Steps 15th Sept 19 Sep 2012 19:08 #8490

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sounds like one to put on my "to do" list :evil:

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Re: Marble Steps 15th Sept 19 Sep 2012 19:48 #8491

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Paulh wrote:
sounds like one to put on my "to do" list :evil:


Defo worth doing Paul :) Let me know when and maybe we could sort out an exchange trip ;)

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Re: Marble Steps 15th Sept 19 Sep 2012 20:00 #8492

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Well Alan until I grow gills, its the bottom/end as far as I am concerned.

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