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akaTONYMONTANA

hi there wich region do you cave in?
as a youngster i spent many happy hols at my aunts cottage (crina bottom) at the foot of mount ingleboro
my father actually discoverd white scar caves with chris long before ww2
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Post 2

Potholer

I'm mainly divided between digging in North Wales and sport-caving in Yorkshire. The Yorkshire club I belong to has a cottage near Newby.


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Post 3

akaTONYMONTANA

have you ever done gaping ghyll that place spooked me when i was a kid


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Post 4

Potholer

I've been down 'Dihedral' a few times.
That's a rope route that starts off in a small passage close to the main drop on the surface, and leads to a ~40m drop onto a ledge to the side of the waterfall, where you can look up and see the daylight in the maninshaft, and then leads down a couple of short rope sections to the final hang, which is a very airy free-hang off an overhang, and lands you in the Gaping Ghyll main chamber.

It's a very impressive rope route, though really one to save for dry weather.


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