BS17 - 'Quest to BS17'
Richard Mundy
The previous night I had been down to 'God Loves A Drunk' with George
North. On the 3rd I therefore hurt and my caving gear was thoroughly
soaked through. Given no sun to dry it, a day of top camp festering
ensued. I erased the memories of prussiking through 2 deg C Razordance
waterfalls ("the wettest I have ever seen it" - Mark D) by going on a
mission for Dave L; a quest to BS17.
BS17 is about a 1h10 walk away, with no heavy pack in ordinary
clothes. One travels over the ridge behind the bivvy and over two
subsequent hills, before coming across a fairly low ridge, perhaps 500m
long and running E-W. On the far (North) side of the ridge, the
limestone takes the form of a series of 5m cliffs up the slope.
Organhoehle, BS17, is likely to be one of the many holes in these
cliffs. The GPS point did not correspond to one exactly, but there were
half a dozen possibilities within 50m. The area around the ridge appears
very promising for caves. The limestone is not very broken-up and there
are holes, big & small, everywhere. The side of the ridge is
particularity nice in that it offers many horizontal entrances.
I took my photographs using Ollie S's camera before stumbling back in
thick fog, hoping the GPS did not pack-up.