This is a film featuring just some of the caving on the Long Round Trip in Slaughter Stream Cave going in the compulsory (for conservation and safety reasons) anti clockwise direction. It gives a flavour of what this route offers in around 3 minutes on what is a 5-6 hour trip for fit cavers who know the way and 7-8 hours for those competent cavers who are new to the route. The film is made up from footage taken on several digging trips that resulted in the connection and formation of this 4.5km round trip that is likely to be soon recognised as the best of it's kind in UK caving. It features many of the diggers involved in the project. The parts of the cave shown are featured in the sequence they are encountered and include many of the more notable landmarks and obstacles to give a good impression of the sorts of caving involved.
The route has pitches; climbs; dangerous traverses; crawls; a squeeze; fine fossilised passages; active streamways and formations. It is set to become a classic.
I have given the film a music sound track and no narrative or labelling of places as I want it to provide an entertaining impression of the route and the cave and not be a guide to the route. Nevertheless hopefully it will give groups wishing to do the route a good impression of the sorts of things likely to be encountered. A route description should be taken in by all cavers which also explains how to look after and conserve this very special cave - the longest cave in Dolemite in the UK (and probably Europe). For more information contact FODCCAG - www.fodccag.or...