South
Gully Route, Eldon Hole - 20/01/2008
Report by Jules Barrett
Cavers: Jules Barrett
(EPC), Ann Soulsby (TSG)
Derbyshire was awash
with the Peak Cavern Entrance flooded and all of the active swallet
caves giving it both barrels. We arrived at the TSG in the morning and
since I'd not done the South Gully route in Eldon Hole before we
thought that we'd have an afternoon in there. We changed at the TSG hut
and drove to the parking for Eldon Hole. On the way we met a group in
wetsuits on their way to P8 which would have been particularly wet
today. We walked up to Eldon Hole in light rain and rigged the first
Y-hang. A rebelay just over the edge and deviation leads to another
couple of single-bolt rebelays and then a deviation on the opposite
wall leads to the bottom. At the bottom we didn't go through to the
main chamber but came back up the ropes and Ann de-rigged.
An excellent SRT route
down Eldon Hole!
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