New 2017 Cwmorthin Exploration Guide

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RAMPAGE
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8 years ago

Just wanted to mention that the latest edition of the Cwmorthin exploration guide is up on the Cwmorthin page. It shows the position of all the technical bits (pitches, tyroleans, traverses etc) in both veins. It has no historical element and doesn't need it with Grahams excellent composite survey already available.

If you like to explore Cwmorthin then I hope you find it useful!

Miles

Beneath my steely exterior beats the heart of a dashing hero

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towim
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8 years ago

Read it shortly after you uploaded it mate......

Hmmmm...... ::) :devil:

Ironing 2 miles deep into a system? you obviously dont understand.

RAMPAGE
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8 years ago

"towim" wrote:
Read it shortly after you uploaded it mate......

Hmmmm...... ::) :devil:

Sorry Tagnut. People need to know you spilt blood in the mine mud there.

Beneath my steely exterior beats the heart of a dashing hero

towim
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8 years ago

Yes the Old Vein sure has taken various body parts from me over the past 6 months! Great guide btw.

Ironing 2 miles deep into a system? you obviously dont understand.

RAMPAGE
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8 years ago

You can't blame the Old Vein for that important bodily omission mate.

Glad you like the guide.

For those reading, Towim was one of the small team who built a lot of the rigging in the Old Vein.

:thumbup:

Beneath my steely exterior beats the heart of a dashing hero

llay101
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8 years ago

Excellent guide, Matt how is your "corona"?

Rwy'n hoffi tyllau mawr

towim
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8 years ago

It will be flowing tomorrow night :lol:

Really wish I had taken more pictures over the past year! Would have been a great write up!

Ironing 2 miles deep into a system? you obviously dont understand.

RAMPAGE
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8 years ago

pfff, bad spell check and bad proof reading!

should read "Cornea" 😃

Beneath my steely exterior beats the heart of a dashing hero

dwarrowdelf
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8 years ago

thanks for posting the edited guide.:)

Was wondering what exactly that entertaining tipper/ bucket/ water tank thing poised above the roofing shaft was ;D

'I wonder how many breakfasts, and other meals we have missed inside that nasty clockless, timeless hole?'

'The Hobbit'
J R R Tolkien.

Pete K
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8 years ago

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That's my flopjack. It fills from drips roughly every 3 hours and then becomes top heavy and capsizes, sluicing 40 odd litres of water down the shaft. The point has been to clear the mud and debris from the tunnel to stop it dropping on people on the pitch. It's been in for about a year now and cleared the shaft almost back to bare rock.
When done here it might find a new home in the Old Vein.

Not seen the sun for months. Now evolving to see in the dark.

grahami
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8 years ago

#11

Well done Miles! Well written and very clear, I'm extremely unlikely ever to trust myself to ropes etc., but if I was, it would be of great use. I like the way you have used the "official" floor names etc., and yet have added interesting names to the new features.

Grahami

The map is the territory - especially in chain scale.

Margot
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8 years ago

#12

Thanks Miles! Very useful.

RAMPAGE
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8 years ago

#13

Just wanting to say to anyone who has a copy of this guide and uses it - I have just uploaded a minor update.

It covers the new Bridge of Peril and some other very minor amendments.

Beneath my steely exterior beats the heart of a dashing hero

bob adams
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8 years ago

#14

I always give the Flopjack a push when passing :o:o:o

Great guide Miles well done