Read’s Cavern - Wed 24 Apr 2024

Adam Fletcher, Andy Sparrow, David Cooke, Euan Goodland, Judi Durber, Lawrence Wilson, Peter Sanders, Rachel Sparrow, Will Puddy

Gary and Avril

All met up at the Burrington Inn, then lift shared up the very bumpy track to park at the UBSS hut, a very pleasant walk in spring sunshine to the always impressive entrance. Here we split with Andy, Rachel, Lawrence, Gary and Avril going in the dry entrance while the rest went via the Wet entrance before successfully bottoming out the cave at the sump.

Sliding our way in we abruptly arrived in the impressive Main Chamber before having a look in the once very pretty Grotto.

From here we had a good look around the Main Chamber but couldn’t find the way into Junction Chamber (wrong name?) the entrance has possibly been filled with debris, there are huge amounts of flood bebris newly deposited, presumably from the February floods.

Exiting via the Wet Entrance we walked over to Bath Swallet where we had a look at the top of the pitch. The other group weren’t far behind us so lift shared back and arrived at the Woodborough within a few minutes of each other.

Good to see so many members out for a Wednesday night’s caving

— Lawrence Wilson 28/04/2024

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