Galegarth Pot via Galegarth Pot

A three man team assembled in the Dales, after much discussion we opted for Ireby. Arriving at Masongill we found a team of four heading down Ding-Dong-Bell and a car of three; Mike, Sam and Rob who were off down Ireby to shift bags of sand from the Skylight dig. They asked if we fancied helping out, we agreed..

A cold walk over the fell and down some fancy new steps to Ireby – upon entering we noticed something, water and plenty of it, especially down Bubbles. At this point, Sam declared he wasn’t going any further, based on the weather forecast with the potential for more rain (Bubbles was very wet already). Sam pointed out the dam was buggered and thus the stream on the surface was sinking differently and causing us these problems. We exited into the cold again, Alex sampled Ireby 0.5 and after much discussion we went our separate ways; we headed over to Easegill to sample the delights of Galegarth Pot. A mixed bag of crawling, walking, climbs, some nice formations. Dunc and Rob free-climbed the pitch and followed the lower level passage, negotiating a little squeeze and climb back to the higher level completing a short but interesting round trip!