Heron Pot and Yorda - Ingleton - may 2011

[Reddood]

Visited with Darwin Dave and AndyJ, big-up to andyJ for doing all the rigging.

Heron Pot, has a very similar feel to it as the crab walk in Giants hole, but with a little more room, or at least for the most part. It's a simple through trip starting up the hill, following the main stream way down to the first of 2 abseils, both rigged as pull throughs meaning we would have to squeeze out of the hole at the end no matter how much water there was, luckyly there wasnt much.
really enjoyed this place, it was fun, there wasnt a whole lot of room to get pics of the good stuff, so not many pictures, and the ones i have taken were mainly done hand held with the flash on, so they aint great.

pics.

Then onto yorda, this is more of a verticl cave, we went in at the second pich down the hill to avoid the crawl after the the one at the top of the hill.

After the first short abseil, you are right at the bolts for the second, andy quickly rigged this and down we went, comming to the 3rd.

Looking at all the bolts in the wall i began to wonder what i had let my self in for, after watching Andy spend 40 mins swinging from one bolt to the next to rig a traverse out to the pich, i decided it was probably a bit beyond my ability, andy tried to get me onto the rope, i did the first 2 sections of the traverse and decided if i was to continue i would get stuck on the 3rd or 4th due to the hight of the bolts, and would no doubt have to be rescued, as we hadn't rigged pull throughs, i headed back, SRT'd back out and walked down the hill to the lower chamber, feel a bit of a tit for not doing it, but not as much of a tit as i would of felt if someone would of needed to rescue me.

once in the lower chamber, andy ascended the ropes and derigged it all, i walked out of the big hole in the wall into the sun, which did a good job of drying me.

and that was that

[MJS]

Cracking stuff, makes me want to get back into caving

[Nicola]

You have some cracking pics there!

[captain cave man]

not bad pic's fellas nice two cave systems too, yordas final pitch you could have done as a pull through ! straight down the middle of the water... ...... sounds like you had fun too and recognised your limitations well done for this !, hope you have a go at bull pot and calf holes next .....perhaps ill bump into you in't this area some time

[Reddood]

yeh, which is what i would of done, but i wasn't rigging

[BB]

Very nice indeedy!

[SilentHill]

Done both these and I really miss my Caving days Happy memories though.

Great stuff lads, keep em coming.

I look forward to reports on the following shortly....

BLACK SHIVER POT
MEREGILL HOLE
STREAM PASSAGE POT
PENYGHENT POT
BIRKS FELL CAVE
GG MAIN SHAFT ABSEIL

[ERNIE99_UK]

You went to great effort to bag those pics by the look of it. The amount of equipment you must have to carry and the time to set it up is worth it though!

[captain cave man]

Done both these and I really miss my Caving days Happy memories though.

Great stuff lads, keep em coming.

I look forward to reports on the following shortly....

BLACK SHIVER POT
MEREGILL HOLE
STREAM PASSAGE POT
PENYGHENT POT
BIRKS FELL CAVE
GG MAIN SHAFT ABSEIL

reading by what was written you might be waiting some time .......but then again GG main shaft 354 feet is awesome when your out of the chimney and into thin air if you get below you lit OMG comes to mind hahahaha........I had a friend who took a bad fall in Black shiver ! reet at the bottom in the trench ended getting pulled all the way out !.....bot fun as spit went some years ago

[SilentHill]

reading by what was written you might be waiting some time .......but then again GG main shaft 354 feet is awesome when your out of the chimney and into thin air if you get below you lit OMG comes to mind hahahaha........I had a friend who took a bad fall in Black shiver ! reet at the bottom in the trench ended getting pulled all the way out !.....bot fun as spit went some years ago

The main shaft really is a head spin for sure. When technology of the day was the rack We witnessed a bad fall in Stream Passage. Some poor dude unclipped from the rope on a ledge which was a fair way from the floor. God knows what made him think he was down I will never know. Took them 6hrs to get him out. Luckily just broken bones.

Worst trip I did was Quaking. 12hrs down that tight bastard and still never bottomed it