What a difference a day makes, their was no sign of the flood waters that had blocked a lot of the road's in the dales a day earlier (as reported by Tony Myers who had been called out by Swaledale FRO for a fell rescue).

We planned to make our was to Hurnell Moss via Clapdale Drive & Trow Gill, but we had just reached the lake when some friendly locals pulled up in a Landrover pickup and offered us a lift (thanks very much) as far as Ingleborough Cave, which took a lot of effort out of the walk and considerably reduced the time it took us to get there.

We took a few minutes to have a nose around the YRA dig in the next shake hole over.

As water levels weren't to bad we rigged the Posieden pitch using a 'Y' hang and a deviation to get us down to Posieden ledge where we traversed out and rigged a 'Y' hang to descend the remainder of the pitch.

Once at the bottom we had a quick look around and took some photos before making a quick exit.

We set off from Darlington at 7.00am, we arrived at Alum pot lane at 8.15am.

We noticed small amount of water in a normally dry delve so we new to expect a wet trip, when we got to the cave we where surprised to find low water conditions we made our way down to the Dolly Tubs pitch, I rigged a different route to normal using a traverse halfway down.

We rigged the Greasy Slab next and noticed we where a rope short we proceeded down and decended the next pitch from the bridge, that was the last rope so we made our way out.

We left Darlington at 6:30 to avoid most of the early morning traffic, as we reached the dale's the rain clouds were low in the sky and we passed through several showers.

The worst of the weather seemed to be behind us by the time we reached Leck Fell and the sun was breaking through.

We were glad to get out of the car (due to the rancid smells that kept appearing) and down the hole, we choose to rig the alternative (as described in C.N.C.C. rigging guide 2) using the deviation.

The first rope ran out at the end of the traverse to the second 'Y' hang, but a 20 in my bag finished the first pitch.

We completed the rest of the cave quite quickly, only stopping to take a few photo's (these should be added in the next 3 -4 weeks).

We were back out in 4 hours, so we headed off for a cup of tea and a butty in Inglesport.

We set off from the car on the long haul up to Bar Pot in good time (a club record).

After rigging the first pitch and abseiling down without any problems, we proceeded to the fine 35 meter second pitch, abseiled down and made our way to Gaping Gill's Main Chamber.

Once their we took some photos and explored the South East Passage and Old East passage before making our way back to the surface and starting the long (but this time much easier) haul back to the car.