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Summary
In 7:50 Out 10:30
In pub 10:50 (Rifleman's Arms Blaenavon late drinking and Food!?!-- Lamb&Fox
closed monday and tuesday)
Highlights
We broke new ground and turned left into upstream passage, we failed to pass
the 500m crawl to reach waterfall series. We did pass a fiesty squeeze( that
gave Daves ribs a tickle) only to reach more enclosed crawls (it is worse than
southern streamway).We were not sure we were on course and the pub threatened.
Later we noticed the 500m crawl into the waterfall series.
It is a seriously sporting trip to make it to the end of bolderland (longer
than the round trip-- it has a frightening writeup). We completed 1/4 of the
possible guidebood sections and so were not bold enough.
There are some excellent large mud formations just around the corner from cairn
junction.
We looked up Big bang pitch and well is looks great worth an SRT trip.
There are lots of other inlets to tempt the curious Paul was still insisting that he could have had another 15 minutes up one inlet or the long crawl.
Carolines kneecap moved to the side during her first exposure to welsh boulders
(hopefully not the last).
She had to contend with one of Daves dodgy lights in the entrance series. She
was initially surprised when it kept going out!
Robin was the trip navigator. Everything went right !?! Perhaps he should do
this more often.
His fitness seemed to have improved enough to carry the bag.
The feret was nervous about her neck in the entrance series, and her breathing on the way out was a good impersonation of Daves snoring. Glad to have you back.
We found a newt towards the end of upstream series.
The lamb and fox was closed, but we were let into a lock in at the Riflemans
arms in Blaenavon. We finished off the food and had several beers. There was
some confusion whereby the drivers had their second beer and Robin who was
not driving only had a half. We stayed too long and we were rather late back
to Aust.
Must only have one beer!
After ganging up with Paul about Daves driving (Natalies kebab was mentioned several times). The Feret came back in Daves car.
FYI
Ogof Draenen translates to cave of the hawthorns. But Robin reckons the slugs were more prominent than the trees.
Dave the Cave