Thanks Simon, but that link only gives me Bangor grrr im working off my fone, pc is dead 😞 do I come through Bethesda ??

Mate come past the lake, down Nant Ffrancon twisty bits, long straight, bunkhouse on the RHS, look out for the Life Centre on the RHS, about 1.5 miles before bethesda. :thumbsup:

Cheers bud, think I know where it is now, woo hoo :thumbsup:

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Sounds like we have a plan 🙂 See you all Thursday :thumbsup:

Suboffender should be joining as well

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Another day I can't come out but beer will be drunk instead so not too disappointing for me this week.

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I was hoping to, but contracted whiplash.

Gutted as i have been wanting to do this one for ages. Get some good pics everyone 🙂

I'll be there, haven't been u/g for around 3 weeks ( 😮 ) so I can't wait! :thumbsup:

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Last night was fun inside and out 😉 cheers guys

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Great fun all round :thumbsup:
And you got Simonrl's new hat in the photo too 😉
Cracking picture as usual :thumbup:
Post up the rest ASAP :flowers:

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It's a very good hat :)

Nice little trip Thursday night; usual suspects!

Where I got the idea it would be 15 minutes walk up is anybody's guess. It was more like an hour of floundering through snow.

Worth it for the views though :)

View up the Ogwen valley

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The mine is quite small, on (as per the survey) three levels

We had a quick look in the upper level and then explored the middle level. By mutual agreement we didn't do the abseil to the bottom level. We tried to think of some plausible excuse for wimping out of it, but basically we decided it was too wet and too cold outside. Another time :thumbsup:

A few photos:

Upper level timbering, shaft to middle level

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Various artifacts metal 'thing', wooden box, rusted section of rail

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Rail traverse shaft to lower level

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The contemplative miner - sinker looking for all the world like "he wished he hadn't bothered"

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Until the next time!

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A good night out 🙂 and yes great views !!

Loved the 15 min amble up the huge mountain in 4 feet of snow :thumbsup: :thumbsup:

Bring on next week 😉

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lovely pictures.

Nothing better than going underground in the snow 🙂

The metal "thing" in the third photo is a broken off end of a cast iron sleeper for round rail. The two holes take the bent over ends of two round rails to form a "joint".

I wonder if this was obtained second hand from Penrhyn that used a lot of it in the early days. There was still quite a few lengths lying around up until the late 80s when they were buried by the ever advancing new tip.

Thanks John, that makes sense of that. I wish I'd paid a bit more attention to the rest of the rail now to see if there were any in-situ. Is this the same or similar to Thomas Hughes rail?

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(ChrisP's photo)

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did you go down the shaft ?
also was the extension on the top shaft explored ?

did you go down the shaft ?
also was the extension on the top shaft explored ?

No, we were entirely un-adventurous. It was very wet in there and cold outside. I'd like to say this is atypical behavior for us, but I'd probably be lying :lol:

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No, we were entirely un-adventurous. It was very wet in there and cold outside. I'd like to say this is atypical behavior for us, but I'd probably be lying :lol:

Ahh...but remember the New Year's Resolution.....
Ahem....even though it was made in April! :lol:

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No, we were entirely un-adventurous. It was very wet in there and cold outside. I'd like to say this is atypical behavior for us, but I'd probably be lying :lol:

Ahh...but remember the New Year's Resolution.....
Ahem....even though it was made in April! :lol:

Therein is the problem, I made three and I've already forgotten what one of them was.

But yes, next time, if we see it, we'll drop it*

(within reason, I'd hate for Rockchick or Labrat to read that and assume it applies to some terrifying 700' drop they've got in mind...)

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Theres no excuse lads, we just didnt fancy it AT THE TIME 😉

Now for this weeks big wet drop......

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