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Pegleg pot

Alex Ritchie · June 22, 2023, 1 p.m. 5 people · 3 hours
Cavers Isaac 'Pete' Neale, Chris Scaife, Richard Bendall, James Weight
Date/time entered Thu 22 Jun 23 — 13:00 2023-06-22 13:00
Date/time exited Thu 22 Jun 23 — 16:00 2023-06-22 16:00
Trip type Exploration
Region North Yorkshire
Country England
Clubs RICHARDS DIGGING LOT
Surveyed 45m
Notes

Dropped down the first pitch to explore the upstream sump that Chris had reported drained on his trip on Tues. We surveyed through the low but dry passage coming across a canal which then led through to an aven chamber. We dug out the way on underneath exploring another 20m of passage until it finished in a small standing height "chamber" down a small drop, blocked with rocks. Back in the aven chamber we used combined tactics with me on top and I managed to climb up onto a ledge 7m up. This excitingly had a stooping passage leading off, which unfortunately turned out to be known passage and I was soon in the main streamway in Pegleg (Entered where the large kern is, at station 8 upstream of the large rock). We had managed to connect what's normally a flooded well, down the 7m pitch beyond suprise hall to the bottom of the 15m pitch, you normally traverse over.