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Sunday, 20th Jun 2010

Maskhill Mine

  • Mike Rippon
  • Matthew Chubb
  • Christopher Jones
  • Toby Buxton

 

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Mike Rippon 4 3 2 1 4
Christopher Jones 4 3 2 1 3
Toby Buxton 5 3 2 1 2
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Great trip. Entrance series is a bit grotty and drags on a bit, especially on the way out with a gigantic tackle sack! West chamber is absolutely stunning though and well worth the effort & the pitch with the in-situ guideline is excellent fun too. Shame we couldn\'t do the exchange and avoid the long exit, ultra faff cuz of a stupidly late start, got back home at 3:30am, quite ambitious for a post-titan Sunday trip :-S

Hardcore 3 due to scrotty entrance shaft and large quantities of falling rocks
21st Jun 2010    Mike Rippon
Maskhill is a fantastic trip, requiring a hell of a lot of rope and some pretty challenging rigging for those of us with less reach. Much of it was clearly bolted by an 8-foot giant who believed short people should not be rigging. Enormous Y-hangs are all over the place - the biggest being at the top of the last pitch into Oxlow West Chamber - both arms about two metres long! A lot of banter was had with me loudly complaining about being unable to rig these enormous things and Mike laughing his head off somewhere above me. The West Chamber and Pool chamber definitely made this trip worthwhile: West Chamber is gigantic and pool chamber (though apparently pretty godawful in wet conditions) is a bizarre end to the cave - a small chamber with perfectly turquoise water (until we visited, anyway).
22nd Jun 2010    Toby Buxton