Black Pepperrrrr????
Remember this place from being a little kid; go for a meal with the family, mess around in the fields opposite, and look into the large, dark tunnel that was so much more than any of my childhood RCP times! First visited myself, on a boring day off work, in the rain. Now this doesnt sound like the smartest of ideas, however all the land that surrounds the river upstream, is marshy cow-inhabited farmland. The downside of this was that the inside of the drain smelled like a farm, and with a rather obvious sewer overflow flowing furiously out of the wall further downstream, the air stunk like I was gonna find a body down there. The flow was very low, on my initial reccy, so back home for the waders, torch and camera!
The culvert carries the Walshaw Brook underneath Walshaw, aptly named because it goes under the best Pastahouse north of Bury!
There is an interesting mix of brickwork and RCP, a couple of waterfalls that were near-impossible to climb back up, and a manhole chamber. In sections the floor also had a mini channel, creating slightly wet and very slippy banks, but hey, beats tripping over sunken boulders!
Visited for a second time with my drain bud - took the new 4gas and this proved to have been a good idea; after a couple hundred meters, it eventually tapers down to the point that even chest crawling was impossible, but being short and young, and also eager to find the outfall we decided to press on. After what seemed like forever (but only a few meters) forwards, the alarm went off, right next to my ear. Checked the screen and it showed:
o2: 17.1/2% (fluctuating)
h2s: 2 (not sure what measurement that is)
.. time to GTFO either way, commence backwards crawl, hands were covered in black sludge
Worth noting we also found a ruined mini moto, who would do such a thing!
On with the pics!
The Infall
The first Waterfall
Using the tripod's spirit level in order to show the descent
And the suicide stretch, no light visible in the distance so I think we need to find the other end!
Cheers for looking
Remember this place from being a little kid; go for a meal with the family, mess around in the fields opposite, and look into the large, dark tunnel that was so much more than any of my childhood RCP times! First visited myself, on a boring day off work, in the rain. Now this doesnt sound like the smartest of ideas, however all the land that surrounds the river upstream, is marshy cow-inhabited farmland. The downside of this was that the inside of the drain smelled like a farm, and with a rather obvious sewer overflow flowing furiously out of the wall further downstream, the air stunk like I was gonna find a body down there. The flow was very low, on my initial reccy, so back home for the waders, torch and camera!
The culvert carries the Walshaw Brook underneath Walshaw, aptly named because it goes under the best Pastahouse north of Bury!
There is an interesting mix of brickwork and RCP, a couple of waterfalls that were near-impossible to climb back up, and a manhole chamber. In sections the floor also had a mini channel, creating slightly wet and very slippy banks, but hey, beats tripping over sunken boulders!
Visited for a second time with my drain bud - took the new 4gas and this proved to have been a good idea; after a couple hundred meters, it eventually tapers down to the point that even chest crawling was impossible, but being short and young, and also eager to find the outfall we decided to press on. After what seemed like forever (but only a few meters) forwards, the alarm went off, right next to my ear. Checked the screen and it showed:
o2: 17.1/2% (fluctuating)
h2s: 2 (not sure what measurement that is)
.. time to GTFO either way, commence backwards crawl, hands were covered in black sludge
Worth noting we also found a ruined mini moto, who would do such a thing!On with the pics!
The Infall
The first Waterfall
Using the tripod's spirit level in order to show the descent
And the suicide stretch, no light visible in the distance so I think we need to find the other end!
Cheers for looking
