20/12/14
Went to check out Hope Shaft with Rob and stash mince pies and beer for the following day’s Cave Crawl.
Picked up all the ladders we could carry and made our slippery way up the hillside. Took us a while to connect all the ladder’s together and sort them out (because we’re useless with ladders). I headed off down and with a bit of thrutching made it to the bottom. Decided against doing it the following day. At 30m it would’ve taken us forever to get 10 people out, and it’s a bit loose in places, so decided it would be best to miss it out. Rob waited on top and I disappeared along the middle level to retrieve the handline I’d left on the 2nd pitch a few weeks before. Up and out and back to the hut for a curry. (Mike, Rob)
Derbyshire Pennine Club 