gaffr wrote:This area looks at bit familiar. When descending from A'Chrois, early sixties, we blundered into the caves area, drawn in by the smell of wood-smoke and made to feel very welcome, tea and biscuits, by the folks staying there. From what I remember they appeared to be RAF rescue folks....one of which I have though was the author of 'Space below my feet'...but that may well have been a young man's imagination. But the cave that we went into had a longish sloping descent into the main chamber.
It has been said by someone writing that.....during the last 5,000 years of mans existence that if that time was divided into 800 lifetimes the last 650 or so of these lifetimes would have been spent in caves.
There are lots of caves there and
the cave in Borthwick's book is one with a long, sloping descent into the main chamber. I've found a couple which fit the bill but I'm not absolutely convinced I've found the one he stayed in, although our cave for the night does have the other cave he mentions which is reached up the short 'easy' arete - that's the one in our photos and is the one which apparently has an underground loch down a slope in the back of it. Without a rope I doubt I'll find out...
Brilliant report Walkaboot - I think it's a lot better than mine personally - maybe I was too tired when I wrote mine. I was certainly knackered when I got back by the time I'd got everything sorted out, unpacked, dried out, washing done etc. and then stayed up late to write my report. Your pics have come out better too - you probably have a better camera than Richard's and you'll be more used to using it. On the 'Billy didn't want to leave' pic, it looks like I'm crying on his shoulder!
We just have to do it again sometime