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Rift Pot 5-5-2013 05 May 2013 21:40 #10546
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- Ales Hrabec
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Our ambitious plans are a bit smoothened...and I have to say: fortunately. My body is aching after yesterdays epic trip (to be written by supercaver 2013). Three of us haven't done Rift Pot yet so Keith is happy to bring us there. Cave is already rigged so everything is much easier and sounds rather like a Sunday trip.
Despite 10% precipitation probabilty weather forecast is a bit drizzling. We descend down the steep shakehole towards the entrance and one by one disapper inside the rift. I don't really like the entrance, it's quite dangerous with a lot of loosen boulders. To make the trip more interesting, Gordon left his descender in the car. We share it on the first pitch...and the rest is about Keith's enjoyment of italian hitch (dear heavens, I wouldn't do the last pitch like that...). We follow the strenuous entrance crawls and constrictions until the head of the 2nd and 3rd pitch. The last one is quite spectacular...I'm suprised by the chamber immenseness. We take our harnesses of and we explore the bottom of the cave. It's nicely decorated...but what is really lovely, it's the size. At the end Keith shows us the two passages towards Large Rift. My temtation is too high, so me and Keith start heading towards the dry route and Julie and Gordon are going to enjoy the bottom of the cave. The crawl is very very muddy and quite long. After several minutes of sighing we pop out on the bottom of the Colossom (?) pitch. On the way back I feel like that the 'wet option' might be easier. I follow Keith and soon we meet up beyond the duck. I found it quite ok, even if it was about ten meters long...water was suspiciously warm
The small bottom round trip is looped.
On the way back I take advantage of the position of rope hanging on top of the ''hill'' and swing over the ''whole'' chamber (and hit Keith which is prusiking on the second rope). The way up is fairly steady and soon we meet back on the surface. ...followed by traditional cheessy chips Nice lovely jubbely Sunday trip!
Party: Keith M., Julie B., Gordon A., Ales H
Trip time: 4:00
Despite 10% precipitation probabilty weather forecast is a bit drizzling. We descend down the steep shakehole towards the entrance and one by one disapper inside the rift. I don't really like the entrance, it's quite dangerous with a lot of loosen boulders. To make the trip more interesting, Gordon left his descender in the car. We share it on the first pitch...and the rest is about Keith's enjoyment of italian hitch (dear heavens, I wouldn't do the last pitch like that...). We follow the strenuous entrance crawls and constrictions until the head of the 2nd and 3rd pitch. The last one is quite spectacular...I'm suprised by the chamber immenseness. We take our harnesses of and we explore the bottom of the cave. It's nicely decorated...but what is really lovely, it's the size. At the end Keith shows us the two passages towards Large Rift. My temtation is too high, so me and Keith start heading towards the dry route and Julie and Gordon are going to enjoy the bottom of the cave. The crawl is very very muddy and quite long. After several minutes of sighing we pop out on the bottom of the Colossom (?) pitch. On the way back I feel like that the 'wet option' might be easier. I follow Keith and soon we meet up beyond the duck. I found it quite ok, even if it was about ten meters long...water was suspiciously warm
The small bottom round trip is looped.On the way back I take advantage of the position of rope hanging on top of the ''hill'' and swing over the ''whole'' chamber (and hit Keith which is prusiking on the second rope). The way up is fairly steady and soon we meet back on the surface. ...followed by traditional cheessy chips
Nice lovely jubbely Sunday trip!Party: Keith M., Julie B., Gordon A., Ales H
Trip time: 4:00
