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New Rift Pot 08-01-14 09 Mar 2014 22:47 #12951
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Friendless once again I set off to have a search for the Mousehole duck in between Large Pot and New Rift.
I met the early A-Team on their way out, looking happy to be in the cars and no one seemed interested in a second trip.
I set off up the hill and headed to the big shakehole, made hard work of everything, the climb, crawl, squeeze, pitch, traverse and deviation before setting off for the Crystal Inlet Susan told me about last time.
More bad photos taken I went through the bypass following the description detailed by the digging team on UkC. Dropping the small climb (with the in the way rope) then reailised I was lost and tired. If I'd found the mousehole I might have been tempted to go for it, rather than the 75m to go through the bypass, but I didn't find it, so off back through the passages and into the Rift Pot end before an even slower crawl out.
It's still all digger rigged in case anyone fancies it.
I met the early A-Team on their way out, looking happy to be in the cars and no one seemed interested in a second trip.
I set off up the hill and headed to the big shakehole, made hard work of everything, the climb, crawl, squeeze, pitch, traverse and deviation before setting off for the Crystal Inlet Susan told me about last time.
More bad photos taken I went through the bypass following the description detailed by the digging team on UkC. Dropping the small climb (with the in the way rope) then reailised I was lost and tired. If I'd found the mousehole I might have been tempted to go for it, rather than the 75m to go through the bypass, but I didn't find it, so off back through the passages and into the Rift Pot end before an even slower crawl out.
It's still all digger rigged in case anyone fancies it.
New Rift Pot 08-01-14 10 Mar 2014 14:08 #12957
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Well done Ian. 
New Rift Pot 08-01-14 10 Mar 2014 16:16 #12961
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Agreed! and glad you reminded me.
I asked Beardy of the digging team down there, about the ropes for permission to use and along with the usual check it first approach regarding any fixed aid, he said be wary of them, one of the ropes on the lower pitches was already there when they started digging down there, which from the Descent article could have been in 2011!
He neglected to mention which one though.
Not that that stopped me using them
I asked Beardy of the digging team down there, about the ropes for permission to use and along with the usual check it first approach regarding any fixed aid, he said be wary of them, one of the ropes on the lower pitches was already there when they started digging down there, which from the Descent article could have been in 2011!
He neglected to mention which one though.
Not that that stopped me using them
New Rift Pot 08-01-14 10 Mar 2014 19:51 #12969
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Agreed! and glad you reminded me.
I asked Beardy of the digging team down there, about the ropes for permission to use and along with the usual check it first approach regarding any fixed aid, he said be wary of them, one of the ropes on the lower pitches was already there when they started digging down there, which from the Descent article could have been in 2011!
He neglected to mention which one though.
Not that that stopped me using them
Nice one dude, at this rate you will soon be in Large Pot
If you tried to plan all your GG trips around the winch meet then rope wouldn't be a problem either