BYE GEORGE POT and Cigalere Passage

SD 6711 7963 Alt 356m Length included in total length of Ease Gill Caverns 80km

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The entrance is situated in a shakehole about 100m from the wall corner of the second field directly below LECK FELL HOUSE. where a timber covered entrance reveals a plastic tube and 3 metre climb down into the cave. This entrance provides another way into the lower reaches of PIPPIKIN POT

The passage is small and immature and is extremely awkward in places. It starts with a 20m hands and knees crawl to the top of a 5m pitch, The Tuck Shop. The only way on is a low wet crawl through the Ochre Winfreys, a muddy squeeze, leading to about 80m of sideways walking passage. Eventually THE BACKBREAKER is reached. This is a very tight squueze on a bend ending in a pool of water. After about 100m of walking passage a collapse of boulders is climbed over leading to some stooping and hands and knees passage to a squeeze over a calcite boss. This leads on through a squeeze and formations to the 150m long dry passage - Smashing Inlet.

Eventually Smashing Inlet enters the upper reaches of the CIGALERE STREAMWAY. To reach lower PIPPIKIN the 20m GRAND CASCADE needs to be descended followed by a canal to a rough crawl. Finally several sporting cascades are descended to emerge in LECK FELL LANE in the lower reaches of PIPPIKIN POT

R.R.C.P.C. 2000