Ease Gill trip

Saturday 1st April 2006

An SOC trip to the Holbeck Junction area of the Ease Gill system. We entered via Wretched Rabbit passage and Spiral Staircase to Holbeck Junction, then did a loop via Easter Grotto before heading downstream to Stop Pot and exiting via Manchester Bypass and County Pot.

Cow Dubs pool

Cow Dubs pool

11:49 AM

Decorated chamber near Holbeck Junction

Decorated chamber near Holbeck Junction

1:13 PM

Stalactites

Stalactites

1:16 PM

Stalactite group

Stalactite group

1:18 PM

Pretty formation on side wall of main streamway

Pretty formation on side wall of main streamway

1:51 PM

Gaynor with stal growing on false floor

Gaynor with stal growing on false floor

1:52 PM

Straw forest in Easter Grotto

Straw forest in Easter Grotto

2:18 PM

Helictites on a stalactite

Helictites on a stalactite

2:21 PM

Bristly stalactite again

Bristly stalactite again

2:23 PM

John and Chris enjoy a break before the Stop Pot ladder

John and Chris enjoy a break before the Stop Pot ladder

3:27 PM

Richard

Richard

3:29 PM

Gaynor

Gaynor

3:29 PM

Carrot Chamber, with eponymous vegetable stal

Carrot Chamber, with eponymous vegetable stal

3:55 PM