sinker
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12 years ago
Bad news chaps....I have seriously pulled my back and am currently "up on blocks". I did it on Sunday and gave it a day or two to see if it settled but it hasn't 😞
So unfortunately I won't be out to play this Thursday, unless you all decide to just go straight to the pub, in which case it may be do-able, but as for walking/abseiling/prussiking/sliding down stopes etc....no chance 😢
I had half considered a return to "new" Bwlch y Plwm this week so feel free to organise that trip amongst yourselves if you fancy it....as long as we can all go another time as I was REALLY REALLY looking forward to it..... 😠
Over to y'all and sorry again.... 😞
Yma O Hyd....
Willy Eckerslyke
12 years ago
That's really tough luck, get well soon but give yourself time to recover properly.

I vote we leave the new B-y-P until you're on your feet again.
:thumbup:
"The true crimefighter always carries everything he needs in his utility belt, Robin"
pingu
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12 years ago
My sympathies mate, hope you are soon back to fitness. :thumbup: New B.y.P. sounds good to me, unless anyone wants to go somewhere else. Meet in the car park at Penrhyndeudraeth about 18.00?? :thumbsup:
skimble
12 years ago
"Willy Eckerslyke" wrote:

I vote we leave the new B-y-P until you're on your feet again.
:thumbup:


And another vote for delaying the trip from me :thumbup:
Willy Eckerslyke
12 years ago
Hmm, I'm in two minds about doing a trip this Thursday - busy week plus the SRT course all weekend...
But I don't feel like sitting indoors, so is anyone else up for new B-y-P? Call it an extended recce and we can return again another time.
Thinking about that flooded passage that Skimble and I waded part way along, and which seemed to be heading towards "old" Bwlch y Plwm - I wonder if a dinghy would be the answer?
Are there any issues with boating along a passage that I haven't thought of?
"The true crimefighter always carries everything he needs in his utility belt, Robin"
simonrl
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12 years ago
I definitely can't make tomorrow night either 😞 Sorry!
my orders are to sit here and watch the world go by
sinker
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12 years ago
I am now mobile, but extremely uncomfortable 😞
I think that you should go to the "new BYP" if it takes your fancy and ....Willy......boat.....go for it! Photos please! :flowers:
We can always visit again in a couple of weeks, I will tag along then and you can show me the sights :flowers:
Yma O Hyd....
Blober
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12 years ago
Get better sinker! :thumbsup:

Yeah I'm gonna skip this week as well, need to save my money on the train fare and give Willy Eckerslyke a break from chauffering me around 😞 😉

If you guys go have fun!
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simonrl
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12 years ago
"Willy Eckerslyke" wrote:

Thinking about that flooded passage that Skimble and I waded part way along, and which seemed to be heading towards "old" Bwlch y Plwm - I wonder if a dinghy would be the answer?
Are there any issues with boating along a passage that I haven't thought of?



Go for it :)

The place was so much more extensive than we thought and that's definitely worth doing. And perhaps we can all go back and drop that lower section next week or the week after?

my orders are to sit here and watch the world go by
Willy Eckerslyke
12 years ago
Nah, I'm afraid I'm not going to make it this week after all. :thumbdown:
Let's make a proper job of it when the gang's all together again! :thumbsup:
"The true crimefighter always carries everything he needs in his utility belt, Robin"
pingu
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12 years ago
Thats ok by me. I may take an evening stroll above B.y.P. 2 to look for other adits/levels etc. Watch this space!! ::)
davel
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12 years ago
There are various holes around and to the east of ByP that skimble and myself have looked at recently:

http://www.aditnow.co.uk/photo/Bwlch-y-Plwm-Lead-Mine-User-Album-Image-73557/  but it wasn't somewhere I'd been before.

SH 629 414 - slot between boulder and rock face with pitch (3? m to floor) visible. This is between the above level and the big open workings and is on the right hand side (looking down) of a wide gully between rock outcrops.

SH 6319 4145 - level marked on 1:10,000 map. Very short trial (not out of daylight).

SH 632 413 - shaft/open working. Perhaps 7 m deep. Abseiled from tree to earth/boulder pile in open stope. Steep descent to water either side of pile. West: a shaft visible below water level but stope does not appear to continue far in this direction. East: stope continues downwards and there is possibly a level heading outby (see below), but it would involve getting pretty wet to investigate.

Level and tip east of SH 632 413 presumed associated with above mentioned open working. Water deep i.e. limited air space. Would need a major digging or siphoning effort to clear it.

SH 6347 4147 - short level to pitch down where the level is stoped out up (in one place to day) and down, Pitch is about 5 m to apparently deep water. Passage can be seen continuing beyond stope but it could only be reached by installing a bolted traverse and I'm not certain that it continues much beyond the stope. There is an old iron pump rod with an eye at one end and a forked eye at the other at the lip of the pitch. Presumably there is a lower level otherwise the water would be up to the level we came in on.

SH 6348 4149 - short trial, barely out of daylight.

SH 6371 4145 - level to north of main Hafod Boeth workings. Wet - skimble reported crotch deep-water. Level splits a short way in. Straight on went for 60 or so paces to backfilled end. Right went for 15 paces. No stoping.

Dave
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12 years ago

Late post from me....too much work on.....and not realising its Thursday today 😞
🅱Me... Back n Boogying ag wrth n modd
pingu
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12 years ago
Many thanks for the references Dave. 😉 I may take a look next one day next week and report back. Good job we gave tonight a miss. Got a panic e.mail and I'm now having to spend the night writing a risk assessment, etc for a band I work for. They started a tour of Scandinavia today and haven't got the correct paperwork 😮 😮
sinker
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12 years ago
Tell them that you need an all expenses paid trip to Scandinavia in order to properly complete the paperwork :lol:
Yma O Hyd....

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