Description:
A handline is necessary to descend the snowslope from the surface.
At the bottom, to the right is a small blind chamber. To the left duck
under a small 'doorway' into a chamber. The immediate impression is
of an old dry cave, with brown stalactite and collapsed reddish boulders.
Traverse over a small blind pit to the head of the first pitch, which is 12 m in a
clean shaft and leads to the head of the sloping ladder climb.
At the bottom of the ladder the pot closed down with tight rift development to the left
and right. To the right the rift is too tight but descends to the same shaft as the
left. On the left a short vertical squeeze of 1m, in which stemples were
placed to aid ascent, opens out onto a short pitch which twists
down to a further pitch of 34m.
Here the pot widens out; a large natural spike gives a feehang down the centre of the
shaft. Again there is an abundance of brownish calcite. The pitch lands
on a sloping boulder floor. This quickly leads to a parallel shaft, and the next pitch of 25m.
The hang is from the corner of the shaft, but soon the rope is hanging free
in the centre of a very large shaft, with deepeing blackness as the shaft widens.
What appears to be a stream can be seen below; but this in fact a puddle on the
spacious, flat, rocky floor. Water trickles down the shaft from an unseen inlet.
A small trickle runs away at the bottom of the shaft into a rift which
rapidly becomes phreatic, and a pool is reached at stream level. Unfortunately it
was too tight to get into the pool, to see if the cave continues, without extensive hammering. Above the pool
the rift finishes. An inconclusive end to a fine pothole.
