Sell gill holes via Dry route

Weather: Rain followed by more rain with a little bit more rain thrown in for good measure.

It was wet out, that was for sure. The river Ribble at Horton was threatening to burst its banks, the railway bridge leading into Settle was flooded. The rain however did not dampen our spirits and wet set off along up the path to Sell Gill. We already decided earlier that I should rig so rig I did. Dropped down the first pitch no problem, with only a trickle going down. Dunc descended next and did a Daz and dropped his camera (in tub). Luckily it was only from 6 metres and his camera survived. We dropped the second pitch, with no issues, I rigged the Y-Hang quite far out to try and avoid the water.

Third pitch was different firstly I had to rig the second Y-hang right out, making it free hanging to try and avoid the water but even this did not work as half way down the water tried to take my wellies off. I decided it was not a good idea to go down any further and went back up.

Good job I did because the previously dryish 1st and 2nd pitches were no longer so, I can imagine what the third pitch would be like now. We got a good shower on the second one, where a new flow of water decided to gush down where the rope was. On the way out whilst hoping the first pitch would get a little dried I had decided to take a quick look at calcite way. We all gritted our teeth and pushed on up the first pitch to be greeted by on and off driving rain.