I wrote at the time:
After buying a new harness and wellies from Inglesport I headed on to Bull Pot Farm. I was
supposed to meet Jim from Red Rose at 11am, to look at Javelin hole. However he did not turn up
(well not until a lot later I believe). I decided to have a look down Javelin hole myself to see how
much had been done and how flooded was it. Short answer was yes, it was still flooded but not
completely as I was able to get close to the dig face. So now I was bored and as I was on my own I
decided what the heck lets do Mistral (as it was an easy cave and I am unlikely to fall off anything
or get stuck and need help). It took me over an hour to get there as I poked my head down every
little shake hole on the way there and moved a few rocks on the off chance, which made me quite
thirsty.
Anyway I finally arrived in Mistral relived to be in the cool air and have something to drink I
decided to take in a part of the cave I have never seen before known as the Canyon and Far
Streamways. The entrance to this part of the cave starts just beyond the Dinnertime Series when
coming from The Hobbit. A crawl under the right hand wall as if going back on your self leads to
extensive mainly crawling passages, which I poked around in pushing all the ways on I could find. I
found some surprisingly large chambers after some flat out crawling. Another way on led to some
decent though short-lived walking passage that finally terminated in a large chamber, with a
slippery slope to nowhere. Well I was happy and had got my caving fix for the week so I followed
my muddy nose to the exit and popped out a couple of hours after I entered.
I re-visited Javelin Hole to see had the water levels dropped, they didn’t seem to have at least not by
much. I could however tell Jim had been there as things had moved since I was last in there.
I hopped into the car to go to Ingleton to watch this 1940s parade they had
on. Unfortunately I was too late for it. So with the weather still looking dry
I decided to do the fabled waterfall walk. It was within 20 minutes of
starting this walk the heavens opened and drenched me to my skin (I was
only wearing a T-shirt). Not to be deterred by a bit of rain I pressed on and
completed the walk despite looking like a drowned rat by the time I
finished it. I just as glad I was not underground in anything with a stream
in it when that hit.
