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Marble steps pot via Cake Corner and Strwam gully

Alex Ritchie · April 26, 2025, 6:15 a.m. 5 people · 4 hours and 52 minutes
Cavers George North, Andrew Richards, Long Bob, Pete Hall
Date/time entered Sat 26 Apr 25 — 06:15 2025-04-26 06:15
Date/time exited Sat 26 Apr 25 — 11:07 2025-04-26 11:07
Trip type Digging
Region Yorkshire Dales
Country United Kingdom
Clubs RICHARDS DIGGING LOT
Rope descent 80m
Rope ascent 69m
Notes

Decided to go down the new entrance opened last time. Most of the rope is directly tied in but some is not and the mallons used are extreemle rusty. The entrance is open enough SRT can be worn through it, the pitches themseleves are weirdly rigged with cery long loops between each.

From the bottom of these pitches I followed the normal route to the bottom via the "ninety", where I met up with the others.

Most of the time was spent pulling the drag tray along, when it was quite I went and visited the downstream sump, where I have not been before. More intense drag tray pulling until 3pm, where I left for the surface oweing to the fact I was visiting my parents later. Took me an hour to exit.