The plan for the day was some obscure route around Easegill led by Dunc, unfortunately Dunc slept in much more then he meant and decided rather then be an hour late, not to come at all.
With Dunc out of the picture and not knowing anything more then tourist routes in Ease Gill, me and Mike s were struggling for a trip idea. I remembered a cave I had always wanted to do which was Aygill Caverns.
Not knowing exactly what to expect when we found it we spent the first 20 minutes scrambling about in crawls thinking we were in the wrong cave as they all closed down, that was until I spotted a well worn climb up.
After some crawls we were soon at the first pitch, which was already rigged though the rope was really dodgy and in need of replacement.
At the bottom we spent a while finding the way on until I with my passage finding nose found the way on through a slot in the floor. This dropped us down into the stream.
A vertical squeeze dropped us into a small chamber before the rather wet 2nd pitch. At the bottom several streams joined us and as a consequence the amount of water increased massively, it had recently bucketed it down.
The cascades down were sporting, and required more traversing over the water than climbing due to the power of the water. It was sporting but not dangerous. At the bottom we had a look around a few passages in roof and lower down.
We did a few accidental round trips and thought this must be it, so we climbed back up the cascades and explored some up stream passages for a while before they closed down, so we called it a day and headed out.
