Gaping Ghyll Traditional Cache
sleepless42: Will have to archive this one too as I am unable to maintain. Sorry to dissapoint - no one wanted to adopt me!
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This is a moderate walk of about a 5 miles return from the car park in Clapham. If you go through Ingleborough Woods you are required to pay 40p each, but this gives you the option to visit Ingleborough Caves (at additional cost of £4.50).The cache is a plastic sandwich box containing the usual sort of things.
Fell Beck is like any other Yorkshire stream until it enters the Gaping Ghyll pothole in the shadow of Ingleborough. The vertical drop of 110m makes it Britain’s highest unbroken waterfall, and the cavern into which it falls is bigger than York Minster.A network of tunnels lead off from the main chamber, and the stream eventually reappears as Clapham Beck at Beck Head Cave a short distance from the main entrance of Ingleborough Cave near Clapham. Gaping Ghyll was first descended in 1895; the way through to the outlet passage was eventually discovered in 1983. The more adventurous can descend into Gaping Ghyll during the late May Bank Holiday. The BPC link www.bpc-cave.org.uk provides more information.
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