New Cave found on the Blorenge! Ogof "Hammer"

Another new cave has been found on the Blorenge. On Sunday 23^rd October, the day after the Draenen Rescue Practice, I'd arranged to go digging with Martin Beale (CSS) and Duncan Butler. A number of factors including lack of sleep, excessive alcohol intake, wet gear and apathy changed plans. Duncan and I needed to retrieve some gear left at Ogof Cwmwl Ddu which we had spent 8 hours in the day before. So a plan was hatched to go to the cave with no vowels and retrieve our gear while Martin would then walk back to Whitewalls.

An Update from the Blorenge

Toby Maddocks and myself spent the best part of last Thursday 27th October over on the Blorenge. Following on from the fun we’d had the weekend before with the new cave in the millstone I thought it might be an idea to check out the defined series of shakeholes that show up on the aerial photo of the area between our site and the towers. You can see an aerial photo of the Blorenge here. Needless to say that this was unfruitful but at least we can rule them out for now.

One interesting point was that the vertical range between them was about 40m and that the highest is the same height as Cwmwll Ddu. So the limestone may be 40m (or more thick). We are at about 25m at the moment….