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Sump monsters in Rowten

Monday, August 15th, 2016 at 9:20 pm Written by:

This one has been on our minds since we were caving novices in CUCC (back in 1987) when some of the big boys went to dive the sumps in Rowten Pot and had a bit of an epic. Twenty-nine years later Becka and I used the rigging put in for the Eurospeleo conference, took a small pony cylinder and checked it out.

It was lovely with masks, warm hood, bright LED lights, proper wetsuits (much better than what they had in the bad old days). We went back and forth a couple of times without the tank, and then exited through Valley Entrance — with some complaining at the short pitch from the streamway, which I climbed out and she whinged at, in spite of the fact that she goes bouldering most weeks, and I don’t because I hate it.

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