Ogof Carno trip 19/10/2003

Selenite Rift

All pictures by Peter Wilton-Jones. Some pictures taken on way out of cave. Click the thumbnails for the full sized pictures.

  1. Huw at the gated entrance to the adit
  2. Some Herald moths just inside the entrance
  3. Tarquin pointing out geological stress damage in a partially bricked section, about 500 metres in
  4. Huw with The Piddler, the longest 'rusticle' in the adit, which always dribbles
  5. Chris with more rusticles in the adit
  6. Tarquin 1000 metres in, the entrance can be seen as a spec of light in the distance
  7. Just over 1000 metres in, the limestone is reached and a few cave digs appear. From here on, the limestone is strong enough to support the roof, and it is mostly unbricked
  8. Tarquin 1700 metres in, the entrance can still be seen in the distance
  9. 1760 metres in, the entrance to dripping aven is finally reached by Chris
  10. Some 16 year old concrete derived stal under the concrete floor of the Dripping Aven
  11. Chris in the continuation; Adrian's Crawl - blasted to make it large enough for cavers
  12. Adrian's crawl ends at a hole in the floor
  13. The hole opens onto a 10 metre ladder
  14. Tarquin on the ladder, which lands in Carno's Last Stand, a reasonably large chamber
  15. Tarquin in 'Desperate Duck'
  16. Huw in 'Desperate Duck'
  17. Chris being forced back into 'Desperate Duck' for a picture
  18. After a series of crawls Chris and Tarquin stand in Dune Chamber
  19. Beyond Dune Chmber is a wall with a choice of over or under - Chris and Tarquin again
  20. Huw climbing the wall with Tarquin traversing. We then bypass the mud silo, where it is easy to fall in, and very difficult to get out
  21. In the bypass, we get better acquainted
  22. It's a male bonding thing - Chris, Huw and Tarquin
  23. After a step over a deep rift, Chris sits at the head of Silo Pitch
  24. Chris climbing Silo Pitch. At the bottom, the passage leads through the Brickyard and over the deep Pandora's Pot
  25. Tarquin in an awkward rift between Pandora's Pot and Cough And Drop
  26. Just before Cough And Drop, Tarquin and Huw stand in a section of large passage (for Carno)
  27. Cough And Drop is followed by Full Moon Crawl; Tarquin in a squeeze in the first half of the crawl
  28. Tarquin at the middle of Full Moon Crawl. On the return, we take the squeezes and climbs of Over The Moon to bypass from here to the Brickyard
  29. Chris starting the second section of Full Moon Crawl
  30. Huw in the second section of Full Moon Crawl
  31. Tarquin in the second section of Full Moon Crawl
  32. The 'Black Man's Nob' with a perfectly named 'Mars Big One' in Upstairs Passage
  33. No teeth please - Tarquin getting far too friendly with the 'Black Man's Nob'
  34. Upstairs and Downstaris end in Whale Chamber, the biggest chamber on the trip; Huw, Chris and Tarquin
  35. Tarquin 'rope walking ;)' up The Blowhole
  36. Huw, Tarquin and Chris in the passage beyond Whale Chamber, the biggest seen on the trip
  37. The same people in the same passage - again
  38. Chris in Selenite Passage. The selenite covers the wall making it look like wrinkled plastic
  39. A close-up of the selenite in Selenite Passage (also starring Peter's hand!)

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