Lost Johns – Sink Chamber

Jason, Pete, Ray, Steve, Tom

Thwarted by the rain yet again, our planned trip to Scanty Lardos was diverted to Lost Johns. Some of us were seeing the looming Berger expedition in July rapidly approaching, and a fast energetic trip down Dome route to the blind Sink Chamber was exactly what we needed to reassure us that we might be able to manage at least some of the Berger. 

Pete’s been keen to start learning some rigging, being a competent de-rigger now, and he made light work of stringing up the Shale Cavern pitches for us. The waterfall from Monastery route was really thundering into Sink Chamber and hand gestures were the only way of communicating down there. 

We were surprised to get back out into sunshine, with the sun not having set below Casterton Fell yet. Summer caving season is upon us, hopefully with some warm spells so we can finally get stuck into something other than wet weather trips, which we’ve really done to death over the past year 💦