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The smoke flue is passable (unless somthing has changed this week!)

I can't think where those photos are taken? Could someone pinpoint them perhaps? eg, distance from brick lined tunnel etc? They don't look at all familiar to me :confused:

I can't think where those photos are taken? Could someone pinpoint them perhaps? eg, distance from brick lined tunnel etc? They don't look at all familiar to me :confused:

The collapse is not on the brick lined side of the tunnel that would be entered from the gate, but as seen from the inner end of the adit.
Enter the mine along lake level adit, then climb up over the wall that is opposite the back vein incline where the ladders are. Walk up the incline that would originally come out on the surface at fl.5 or 6. Take the first right into the inner floor 2 adit and walk thru 4 ins high water untill you get to the inner side of the original fall.
Thought you would have recognised the area by looking at the photos Chris.

It's quite possible that the existing collapse has settled a bit, which (by my reckoning) would cause the gap to the roof at the inbye end to tighten up a bit.

It's possible a bit of new material may have come down, but it'll be shiftable.

I would imagine that now the smoke flue is gated, it will have removed the passing traffic that would otherwise be shifting dirt out of the way as people slither through the gap.

You get to the smoke flu by going through stripey vein on lake level and going through to the head of the OVI. Put the incline to your back and walk forwards then to your right.

Climb a wall in what appears to be a dead end and you are on top of a fall. Follow the wire cable installed by SpeedyCaver over some very large slippery slabs.

Once clear of the slabs you need to ascend a scree slope one level (it gets quite tight at the top) which brings you into a passage.

Turn right along this into gradually deepening water and eventually to the old collapse squeeze and then the flu itself.

It was clear when I was last there three weeks ago

You get to the smoke flu by going through stripey vein on lake level and going through to the head of the OVI. Put the incline to your back and walk forwards then to your right.

Climb a wall in what appears to be a dead end and you are on top of a fall. Follow the wire cable installed by SpeedyCaver over some very large slippery slabs.

Once clear of the slabs you need to ascend a scree slope one level (it gets quite tight at the top) which brings you into a passage.

Turn right along this into gradually deepening water and eventually to the old collapse squeeze and then the flu itself.

It was clear when I was last there three weeks ago

You are nowhere near the floor 2 adit collapse there are you.

I think we are too 😉
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To my knowledge the one above the BVI has been blocked for a few years at the very least.

I do have it on good authority though that the blockage is fairly close to the surface, and there is a school of thought that it wouldn't take much work to clear.