Yorda's Cave, Kingsdale
A former Victorian show cave near Ingleton in the Yorkshire Dales
We've made a couple of visits here now in varying conditions to complete the through trip
We abseiled down the 60ft pitch at the top entrance and into the chamber below
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From here on in it was a 'wet crawl' the second time we visited there was no chance as it had been raining hard and the top chamber was full :eek:
Next up we abseiled another pitch and navigated through the passageways to the top of the Cascades
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Getting down involved a traverse and further abseiling into the chamber below known as Chapter House
I was now fairly soaked, as I hadn't bothered with the wetsuit
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We continued on through a breach in the calcite wall and out into the Main Chamber
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A quick poke about this vast space before heading out of the bottom entrance and back out into daylight
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