Wretched rabbit via Wretched rabbit, to Diamond hall

Alex Ritchie · Nov. 23, 2025, 6 a.m. 6 people · 6 hours and 20 minutes

Cavers ian Lawton, Andrew Richards, Pete Hall, George North, James Carisle

Date/time entered Sun 23 Nov 25 — 06:00 2025-11-23 06:00

Date/time exited Sun 23 Nov 25 — 12:20 2025-11-23 12:20

Trip type Digging

Region North Yorkshire

Country United Kingdom

Clubs RICHARDS DIGGING LOT

Rope ascent 8m

Notes

Went in Wretched rabbit, the loose path was fun for my leg. Rigged 2 of the climbs with SRT to make things easier on my leg, glad I did as I was knackard afterwards. This is the first time I have been moving underground at this speed, but glad I can still do it.

The destination was diamond hall (a little bit beyond the Minarets). There was lots of low crawls and flat out bits which my first job was to excavate a bit. Afterwards I went into the loft, which I explored a little before moving the rocks into a dead-end crawl ready for more. Moved tons of rocks and my arms were pretty tired. Glad I rigged the entrance now. Anyway eventually the rocks stopped coming and Andrew slipped through, only to find well more rocks lower down and no chamber in-sight. Whether it goes anywhere I don't know but it's going to need more scaff.

Leaving the cave my leg was getting tired and it didn't help when I fell over on a rock crossing the stream, so the walk back was a bit slow.