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Dowkabottom cave

Alex Ritchie · Nov. 12, 2011, 12:30 p.m. 2 people · 1 hour and 30 minutes
Cavers Solo
Date/time entered Sat 12 Nov 11 — 12:30 2011-11-12 12:30
Date/time exited Sat 12 Nov 11 — 14:00 2011-11-12 14:00
Trip type Sport
Country United Kingdom
Notes

Rick had to pull out due to door problems, so I had to do my own little trip. I went down the main cave first. I don’t know why, maybe because I was on my own but for the first 30 minutes of the trip I could not help but feel nervous. Anyway that went away once I reached the main chamber.

I followed the water and went through a very cold wet crawl (The water was flowing strongly and quite deep) I reached the choke and though there was a nice pile of stacks, they don’t seem to have gotten anywhere with there dig. I had a look down a few side passages nothing of real interest, but the main cave was nice and nicely decorated it is just a pity about all the graffiti, though I managed to clean a scrawl someone did in mud.