Great Douk Cave
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Great Douk Cave is a great beginners caving
trip. It starts at the bottom of a tree-lined collapse close to the track where a small stream cascades from a passage at east end and sinks into the rubble beside a long-term cave dig
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A simple but greasy two metre climb up at the water fall gains a walking size passage. Continue for approx 800m until it lowers into a crawl, bear left at a junction, and then climb into a roof passage that leads out onto the moor at Middle Washfold entrance.
Caving
Caving—also occasionally known as spelunking in the United States and potholing in the United Kingdom—is the recreational pastime of exploring wild cave systems...
trip. It starts at the bottom of a tree-lined collapse close to the track where a small stream cascades from a passage at east end and sinks into the rubble beside a long-term cave dig
Cave digging
Cave Digging is the practice of enlarging undiscovered cave openings to allow entry. Cave digging usually follows a search of mountains and valleys in karst topography for new caves. Often it takes place underground in places where a large passage has clearly been backfilled with silt, or choked...
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A simple but greasy two metre climb up at the water fall gains a walking size passage. Continue for approx 800m until it lowers into a crawl, bear left at a junction, and then climb into a roof passage that leads out onto the moor at Middle Washfold entrance.