Bubbles Route

Sunday 7th May 2006 Dave Ramsay, Ruch McDonald. Holes drilled and cleaned ready for resin bolting.

Sunday 7th May 2006 Dave Ramsay, Ruch McDonald. Holes drilled and cleaned ready for resin bolting.

Whilst Messrs Pickup/Walsh examined the head of Ding pitch and carried on the cement routine Messrs Parker/Speight had a look at the new series. Very nice – an entertaining way to keep out of the ways of the hordes. On the way back from the pitch head the (straight ahead) inlet was examined and led to definite possibilities. Through the initial rift led into a small chamber and to the left was a gritstone run-in ending at a small vertical … Read More

Monday 12th Dec, Andy walsh, Bill Sherrington. Pleasnt walk acros the mire to put in a bag of cement in the top of Bubbles route. Mission accomplished then Andy did a little bit of proddling ,bringing out more looseness. More solid rock now appearing at the top of bubbles.

Back in the dim and distant days of last year: T “Date: Wed, 10 May 2006 13:40:13 +0100 On the way back from the pitch head the (straight ahead) inlet was examined and led to definite possibilities. Through the initial rift led into a small chamber…..to the right and appearing to take the draught was a pair of small tubes……t’other having smallish stones and mud and might just be large enough to get through (without capping) to what looks like … Read More

Tuesday 24th April Mercer and Parker A lot of water coming down the streamway but the dam system soon cleared the way for entry to Bubbles route. Unfortunately not only was the expected small stream running through the small chamber but both the dug passage and the side passage had small streams running. Lying at the junction of three streams whilst capping, not to mention the cold strong draught, meant that we didn’t stay in for long. —