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AKA hole via AKA hole and Ireby fell

Alex Ritchie · Nov. 17, 2024, 6 a.m. 4 people · 7 hours and 11 minutes
Cavers James Carisle, George North, Pete Hall
Date/time entered Sun 17 Nov 24 — 06:00 2024-11-17 06:00
Date/time exited Sun 17 Nov 24 — 13:11 2024-11-17 13:11
Trip type Sport
Region North Yorkshire
Country England
Clubs RICHARDS DIGGING LOT
Rope descent 105m
Rope ascent 70m
Notes

A through trip to take out old gear and bash in through bolts. This is quite a long and difficult trip. AKA hole is not the easiest of places especially between the 3rd and 4th pitches with some narrow thrutching. We got past the collapse from last time, with a lot of SRT over the top, it would require 50m rope but thankfully George said it would be left in situ. Gear taken to the dig including a shovel, there's some nice steam passage here. The duck was just a puddle really but it was flat out in the puddle. We reached the rope ladder up, where we found that one of the P-anchors had fallen out (I think it was the backup one). Thankfully we could still rig it. The old rope ladder was removed (it was in a poor state) and stayed as my friend for the rest of the trip. Out we went, down all the esculator rifts and through the long crawl between Duke street 2 and 1. The exit was sportingly wet, but not the wettest I have seen it, it did mean all the mud got cleaned off. Bubbles proves to be quite difficult with bags and tiredness. In all I counted 15 pitches, for the through trip.