Hurnel Moss Pot

A cracking trip down Hurnel moss :)

The weather was beautiful, which meant that it was a little warm on the long walk up. We came across what may have turned out to be Grey Wife hole first (?) thinking that was our pot - alas no. So more walking, but we were soon at another large shakehole, the correct one. Yay!

The entrance is a short crawl to the pitch head, rigging the pitch head was a little constricted, but I was soon down to the next set of rebelays, and then onto the traverse to the Poseidon pitch. I was rattling along at a decent pace. The traverse was awesome, minimal footholds; it was literally hanging on to the p-hanger time. I think that they could have put p-hangers in so you didn't have to do the traverse but where would be the fun in that.

Then it was onto the huge the Poseidon pitch, split in the middle by an easier traverse, with a massive Y-hang before going down the second part. This cave is just one huge pitch really, I was rigging tight (as per usual :-P) to try and avoid having to use the pre-rigged knot pass (plus I needed that bit of rope at the bottom). In reality the rope lengths suggested by the rigging guides are way longer that we needed, so in the end I didn't need to worry about it.

At the bottom there are loads of boulders, where Matt and I seem to spend ages deciding the best way down to go and see the "sump". Eventually we plumped on going off a flake protected by a tacklsack and a piece of plastic left in situ, backed up off a rock jammed between boulders. Once down is was a case of walking along a fine rift before suddenly the cave ends in quite a pathetic sump - there must be potential for more here though.

The way out was a fun prussik with additional camera flash duties...

A really nice day, spent with Cat (+others :-P) ending up with some good food in Austwick :)