'Slippery Hole'
Richard Mundy
The previous day, we walked to 2007-04 with Wookey. On the 8th we
pushed and surveyed this. The cave is in a loose depression on the ridge
behind the bivi. It has plenty of snow in the entrances and dramatic
slabs of rock hovering above it.
The north entrance leads to 'Slackwell's Stumble', a boulder choked
passage with bouldery floor.
The other entrance leads to a snowy slide down into ' John's Winter
Wonderland' or alternatively a precarious 3m climb leading to a boring
chamber or a bouldery passage into 'Quick wee chamber', with a ledge on
the opposite side.
Quick wee has a high entrance inaccessible to us. John's winter
wonderland has a too tight passage that echoes and feels as if it may
'go' under the snow.
2007-04 has been tagged by us as such.
We had several 'brown alert' moments on climbs, due to slipperiness
and looseness. Another memorable time was when I put in a crap spit,
then reached to hang a sling from a natural. The snow under me
collapsed, dropping me 4m. Luckily onto more snow. I slid down the
snow towards the Winter Wonderland, before the rope became taut and
caught me. Worrying.