2005 Warrens Self Respect

Trip Leader Paddy

Things started of in a particularly normal fashion at the BWR Café, Most of us were feeling pretty average after up sizing our hangovers during a particularly large evening on some salubriously inebriating liquids. This was to be mitigated with large plates of artery hardening fast-breaking meals and lots of coffee, things started to pick up after about the 3 or 4 cups and we were soon vivacious about getting out of reach of the sun. We assembled at the hut, There was Andrew, Patrick, Mark, Brian, Gary, Kurt, and a late addition to the group Ian!

We assembled an array of equipment we thought we may require including a somewhat interesting rope that we disinterred from the voluminous piles of stuff in the rope store, we loaded the equipage into the mélange of vehicles and headed off to the start of the cave. We aggregate again on top of the large gas pipe! and proceeded to get our gear sorted, Andrew had his new red beaver on so we volunteered him to be the first to proceed through the paddock of rather large male bovine domesticated animals. At the top of the pitch Ian our safety officer proceeded to rig a redirector and Andrew preformed some magic and soon we had a bomb proof rig.

We all descended the shaft and got to the bottom, Andrew went on to rig the next few pitches and the rest of the group went to look at the pulchritudinous formations in the temple of Pluto passage. We all started to make our way down the pitches and climbs till we caught up with Andrew, the last pitch was rigged in an interesting fashion with the help of multitudinal throng of crabs. At the base of the pitches there is a stream way, we headed down stream for quiet a way, stopping for a while in a rock fall passage, the group became rather discombobulated so we spent some time there having an oral discussion on miscellaneous topics, once the group had un-discombobulated itself we proceeded further down the passage, we encountered some anastomotic passage followed by some quiet incommodious rift passage.

After some more romping down the passage we encountered a rather muddy climb with a big carbide sign saying Virginia and an arrow pointing up an exceedingly muddy bit of a climb, Kurt had a perfunctory attempt at getting up but failed so we decided to leave it at that and headed back, we ambled back through the passage with people taking various routes and we were soon at the base of the main pitch, Everyone made it up using a multitude of different techniques and the mellifluous thought of the cold beverages waiting at the cars meant we beat a subitaneous retreat back to the vehicles. A good trip all in all, well worth going back to see the other end of the cave, TUG 6hrs.