Yordas Pot

James, Steve

With enough rope to rig everything we set off into the bottom entrance to have a look, just because you can.

The rain of the afternoon / evening was not having much effect but there was a reasonable amount coming down the chapter house pitch.

A scramble up the slippery stream bed, soon found us at the top entrance. We’d decided to not do a pull through as it was forecast more rain and it had been a while since either of us had been in. Indeed the tree across the top that I last used to go down was obviously long gone.

The first pitch down with deviation was straightforward, so it was just a case of follow the water and there was enough of it to get a full soaking with either your chin or an ear in the water from the start.

A quick look up to the middle entrance we were soon into rigging the chapter house pitch. It seemed to take a while and neither of us warmed up in the process. The deviation provided a bit of frustrating excitement but the water was avoided.

By this time we were fairly cold so logically we decided to split up with Steve going back up the pitch and James walking round to rig down the middle entrance so we could both avoid the wet crawl in reverse. What could go wrong ?

Nothing as it happens, and with impeccable timing we met at the middle entrance and quickly exited. Whilst James was de-rigging the middle entrance Steve nipped down the top pitch to retrieve the krab off the deviation, do a change over and exit out of the top pitch. With more good timing we both met at the top finally warming up after a bit of exercise.

James birthday finished off in style on a wet night in Kingsdale. Wet but clean kit returned to the hut and that was it.