This must had been not much later than the time I got flooded down Ireby Fell, I think the main objective of this trip was to get my descender back (I assumed I borrowed one for this trip).
Mike wrote at the time:
Alex, Dan and I met in Inglesport before heading to a snowy Masongill. Original plan was to follow the Overshadow route down to the main stream. However, following conversations with Mr Ramsay, it became aparrent that if he couldn’t fit down that route, there was little point in me trying. Permission granted to use ropes on Bubbles soon saw us pootling around back to the foot of the overshadow pitch.
Back in the main stream, Alex and Dan stayed low whilst I went high figuring I’d be able to drop back into the stream at some point. When the point finally came, it looked decidedly tight. A bit of yelling for Alex and Dan to backtrack soon saw Alex appear below me (after a bit of a climb up from the stream) however with most of my SRT kit off – it still looked awkward so a retreat was made to pick up the trade route through the crawls.
Once we were all back together we headed for Well pitch where Alex and Dan opted for the traverse across the top whilst I dropped down and then back up at the other end to reunite in Alex’s camp where he gleefully found his descender and krab.
The intrepid pair then set off to recce a higher level passage whilst I sat and relaxed until they returned. Once back we began the return journey – passing a team from BPC who kindly gave permission to exit via their ropes on the trade route pitches.
