Digital photos from around and beyond Schoolboy Error
Aven
by Carl Clarke (A1-B4), Paul Dold (B5-K3) & Paul Fretwell (K4-L3)
with Paul Fretwell (e.g. D1); Paul Dold (e.g. F5); Chris Agnew (e.g. A5);
Dave Garmen (e.g. B1); Carl Clarke (e.g. D4).
A1-A4, B5, C1-5, D1, K3-4: Top of Schoolboy Error Aven
K5: Looking up Schoolboy Error Aven shortly before the breakthrough
A5, D2, D4: Waterfall chamber just upstream from sump.
B1: One of the rift passages.
B2-4: In the roof of the Quake Rift.
D3: Passage leading off at top of Schoolboy Error Aven.
D5, E1: Passage leading from waterfall chamber to sump.
E2-3: The Jail, just before the sump.
E4: The crawl to the sump.
E5, F1: Mud drip holes in the floor of the large rift passage.
F2: Looking down the aven found in the extensions from the balcony
half way up.
F3: The junction where the passage breaks out into the big rift.
F4-5: A broken curtain in the Quake Rift.
G1-4: Formations on the Quake Rift near the point where the stream starts
to
cut down into the floor.
G5: Fossil (ammonite?) near the terminal choke at the end of Quake Rift.
H1-3: Large sandstone boulders and water emerging from the terminal choke.
H4-5: Streamway heading from terminal choke down to waterfall chamber.
I1: The traverse from the top of the waterfall to get to the floor in
waterfall chamber.
I2: Looking down from the traverse in waterfall chamber.
I3, J2: Phreatic passage heading NE from top of Schoolboy Error Aven.
I4: Formations in passage heading NE from top of Schoolboy Error Aven.
I5, J1: The Doilies in the passages heading NE from top of Schoolboy
Error Aven.
J3: The end of the Doily Series of passages.
J4-5, L1-2: The final chamber of the Doily Series of passages.
K1, L3: Squeeze connecting the two parts of the final chamber of
the Doily Series.
K2: Hypodemic Lance (3m stal) in the final chamber of the Doily Series.
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