David Cooke, Euan Goodland, Lawrence Wilson, Paul Stockall, Will Puddy, Yvette Mayo

All met in the car park and walked up the West Twin Brook that has been significantly scoured out following a recent storm.

Worming down the entrance tube and through the Letterbox squeeze we turned immediately right into the Purgatory series via an awkward feet first corkscrew and a short crawl.

Surprisingly here we could stand up and follow a number of fairly roomy rifts, after examining a number of possible dig sites and climbing up into a substantial boulder choke we examined a beautiful phreatic tube that ran along one of the rifts at roof level in one direction and to an abrupt apparently dead end the other.

We returned by the same route, the corkscrew squeeze proving a lot harder on the way out particularly if you are tall (well that’s my excuse anyway!) An impressive collection of juicy spiders were enjoyed by most on the way out.

Who would have thought that there was so much more cave in Sidcot than the normal tourist route, definitely worth a visit. Debriefed at the Woodborough

— Lawrence Wilson 19/11/2024