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PeteHall
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16 years ago

Yesterday I made a trip from Rampgill down a couple of sumps and out through Brownley Hill; it was a little damp...

The water is chest-chin deep for a fairly long distance, with one section where I was ballancing on tip-toes on the rails to keep my nose out the water.

With a few hours work I think I could significantly lower the water level through a lot of it, but should I do that?

Although lowering the water level would make the trip more accessible and pleasant, I found the deep water the most enjoyable and exciting part of it. The passage is passable, so should it just be left?

What's everyone elses view on the matter?

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RJV
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16 years ago

Leave it as it is I think. Its passable so there wouldn’t seem to be a great need to change it.

As you suggest, it adds interest to the trip.

Rich

Mr Mike
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16 years ago

I was going to ask if anyone had done this trip recently, don't need to now.

YES, leave the water as it is, its one of the deepest sections around Nent, and when you do it for the first time, it gives an awesome feeling of bloody hell this is deep!

On another note what is the state of the crosscut passage to the first sump into the sub level, before the big drop to BH. Did you have to clear anything or was it open all the way?

Mr Mike www.mineexplorer.org.uk

simonrl
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16 years ago

Definitely agree, deep water adds to these trips. I wasn't expecting to enjoy it the first time, but it was great fun bobbing along undergound passages...

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RJV
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16 years ago

It was open all the way on Friday and the few tighter parts looked well travelled so I'd guess that its been that way for a while.

ben88800
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16 years ago

Your all mad, but yes leave the deep water its more fun that way especialy for the taller mine explorers

Barney
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16 years ago

Maybe the only consideration would be how easy can a broken explorer on a stretcher be evacuated? 😮

jagman
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16 years ago

COMRU (mines rescue types) invested in a floating stretcher just for this eventuality.
By all accounts its very unpleasant to float along in 😉

sparty_lea
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16 years ago

"jagman" wrote:
COMRU (mines rescue types) invested in a floating stretcher just for this eventuality.
By all accounts its very unpleasant to float along in 😉

Being in any type of stretcher is unpleasant. Even if you're fit and its just an exercise, by the time you've been dropped in puddles, banged off the walls and roof, been tripped over and left lying around while you're mates have a mars bar and decide what they're going to do to you next you're likely to be a hypothermic wreck.

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Jasonbirder
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16 years ago

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Even the thought of altering it sounds like blasphemy to me!
Leave it as it is :)
From a rescue point of view...you're unlikely to be injured in the deep water part anyway...so if injured before you could be hauled up and out of Rampgill...if injured after you could be evacuated through Brownley Hill...

PeteHall
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16 years ago

#11

"Mr Mike" wrote:
I was going to ask if anyone had done this trip recently

I don't think anyone can have done it for a while, have a look at the colours that were down there; I imagine it would taken quite a while to settle that much...

🔗Brownley-Hill-Mine-Lead-Mine-User-Album-Image-168[linkphoto]Brownley-Hill-Mine-Lead-Mine-User-Album-Image-168[/linkphoto][/link]

Unfortunately it's all brown now since I've been through and stirred it up 😞

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Bob Pit
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16 years ago

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Should there be a advised minimum height warning for this trip, for those of us who are 'vertically challenged'? I must remember to dig out my old platform boots and inflatable armbands if I'm ever in that area. :ohmygod:

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sparty_lea
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16 years ago

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"PeteHall" wrote:

"Mr Mike" wrote:
I was going to ask if anyone had done this trip recently

I don't think anyone can have done it for a while, have a look at the colours that were down there; I imagine it would taken quite a while to settle that much...

🔗Brownley-Hill-Mine-Lead-Mine-User-Album-Image-168[linkphoto]Brownley-Hill-Mine-Lead-Mine-User-Album-Image-168[/linkphoto][/link]

Unfortunately it's all brown now since I've been through and stirred it up 😞

It obviously settles out pretty quick, there were two of us through there on Friday.

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PeteHall
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16 years ago

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"sparty_lea" wrote:

It obviously settles out pretty quick, there were two of us through there on Friday.

I took that picture a few weeks ago, the picture doesn't quite capture the colour, it seemed much brighter in reality.

What was it like when you were down there? It was all brown on Monday...

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sparty_lea
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16 years ago

#15

Like a swimming pool.......... in more ways than one 😉

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