Lancaster hole via Lancaster hole and County

Alex Ritchie · July 15, 2023, 6 a.m. 4 people · 5 hours and 23 minutes

Cavers Rich, Phil, Yanis

Date/time entered Sat 15 Jul 23 — 06:00 2023-07-15 06:00

Date/time exited Sat 15 Jul 23 — 11:23 2023-07-15 11:23

Trip type Sport

Region North Yorkshire

Country England

Clubs YSS

Rope descent 33m

Rope ascent 8m

Notes

Lancaster hole - Cape Kennedy - County

Rigged Lanc hole and headed across the very slippery (swear it's getting worse) passage to Stake pot. Turned off on the other-side and after some navigation using phone and a very necky traverse (I went the wrong way) we reached the 88ft pitch, where we turned right. After about 50m or so a hidden hole in the roof led through to cape Kennedy and the decorated passages beyond including the fire hydrant. We returned to Stake pot, where Yanis and Phil went back out Lanc and we went out County passing 6 other YSS cavers not far ahead, slowly making there way out. Even though we exited County and walked across the others still had yet to make it out and took well over another hour to exit.