18/11/15
First time down Waterfall Hole. Not sure why it’s taken us so long to get round to it! After heavy rain all day yesterday, we found the entrance in the right hand wall and wriggled through the entrance crawls pushing various ropes and ladders in front of us (not sure what was needed, so came prepared).
Laddered down the 1st pitch then scrambled through various boulders and another short rift to reach the stream and the cascade down into the roof of Waterfall Chamber. Found the cunning little feet first way down into the next level and arrived at the base of the waterfall. Quite an impressive, wet and noisey place for Stoney! Headed on down through Showerbath Passage and laddered into the bottom of the wonderfully squalled EPS Aven.
On the way out we had a look to see if we could find Great Gunn’s Rift. Remembering the description, we crawled through the initial dug out rift until it became a flat out crawl then headed up through a cherty slot and up into the rift proper. This can be followed for 5 or so meters before meeting a col and a cross rift where you can then ascend further up the inclined section of the rift, popping out into the base of a drippy aven. Wasn’t as big as I was expecting but seemed to fit the description otherwise. Climbed it for about 6m and scrambled up through some boulders in the roof to find yet more boulders and gloop blocking the way on. There looked to be a slight hole up in the jumble but it didn’t look particularly inspiring or particularity safe. Seemed to be taking a slight draught though. Scuttled back down to regroup with Rob and headed out. Good trip! (Mike, Rob)
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