I think by this point I was finally starting to get used to larger pitches, though I still had a heart in mouth moment stepping out onto the big pitch.
I wrote: A short SRT trip down Bar pot one of the few caves that was still dry. A one and a half hour walk (I guess it must have felt like that) lead us down a picturess walk to the cave from Clapham. The first pitch was tight at the top making
descending and ascending awkward but fun. The second pitch was not awkward at all, though there
was one little bit before the pitch where you have to pass another pitch head un-roped that makes things more interesting.
After those pitch's and a hand-line traverse plus some crawling the main chamber was reached,
Now we knew that there would be a lot of water least of which because of the amount of wind
going though the tunnel but I cannot describe the amount of water coming down it was
tremendous! The force of the water was so great that when you looked up the shaft you can see the
water bouncing off the walls from the top of the falls which was almost horizontal.
Coming back up the main pitch with Dom de-rigging, a crab got stuck and would not undo and
again this time with Chris de-rigging at the top of the first pitch where we all spent around a total of
half an hour trying to free it, gloves, rocks and anything we could put our hands were used to try
and free but with no luck.
