Stream Passage Pot

The cave was dug into on 10 March 1949, and explored by the Northern Pennine Club during the following Easter weekend. The entrance became blocked in the early 1980s, and in 1984 it was re-opened by the Bradford Pothole Club who installed galvanised tubing through the unstable boulder ruckle in the shakehole. The galvanised tube was replaced by the current black poly tube in Summer 2024 after the galvanised pipe had deteriorated. In November 1979 the cave became the centre of a major rescue when Jeremy Peterson went missing on a solo pull-through trip. He was found alive and well after 57 hours, having gone off route and fallen down the Mud Pot pitch. He had fractured a wrist and was badly…

Stream Passage Pot is at the end of a blind valley. The water sinks to one side of the valley before the end, and the entrance is through a boulder ruckle down a vertical lined shaft for 6 m. An awkward passage soon terminates in a small pitch 6 m into a chamber where the stream enters. A high meandering passage from the chamber leads after about 200 m to an 85 m deep rift which is descended in three stages. The descent route involves traversing and technical rope rigging to avoid the waterfalls. The last pitch drops into Stream Passage in Gaping Gill. The water flows through Stream Passage into Stream Chamber. From here a route to the right follows a succession of chambers towards Gaping…