Sleets Gill

Location
Grid Reference: SD 9594 6927

Altitude: 280 m

Description
A complicated hydrology means settled weather many days before (and during) the trip is essential.

Fine entrance down steep slope with some low sections, this leads through some varied passage to the Main Gallery. Easy strolling along this fine passage before it chokes, near the far end a slot drops into some crawling passages, one can be followed down the aqueous Hyperthermia (with connection back to near the start of the Main Gallery). Another through the low and wet Hydrophobia, which emerges in easier passage before lowering to a short free dive and further passage. Before the sump a clamber up rocks leads to The Ramp - impressive but very slippy at the bottom.

History
In March 1992 Roy Deane and Les Hewitt found the crawls from the Main Gallery to the exit ramp flooded by rising water. Because the system floods to the roof and weather prospects were not good, the UWFRA took the decision to dive the two casualties out

References and Further Reading

 * 1) Brook D. 1968, "Sleets Gill Extension, Litondale", ULSA Review No. 4, pp 5-9
 * 2) Latham A. 1968, "Diving in Sleets Gill", ULSA Review No. 4, pp 9
 * 3) Long H. 1968, "Sleets Gill Cave and Beyond", ULSA Review No. 4, pp 4-5
 * 4) Monico P. 1989, "Sleets Gill Cave", ULSA Explorations Journal II, pp 47-52

Other
Sleets Gill Memoire - A personal memoire of Sleets Gill