Meet location: I suggest we meet at the car park near the bridge at Trefriw - not the pub car park because the Landlord was abit touchy once before.

This link should give the location of the carpark. Zoom out to find the way to get there....

goo.gl/maps/ATWqI

Meet time: 11.00 am Saturday 12th January.

Trip description: Truck from Trefriw to the Forest. Ascend the miners track up through the forest to the mine entrance. Mine is on two levels. Top level is a vast, cavernous stope with a vaulted atmosphere, strewn with crystals of many colours, acid pools, plenty of yellow sticky mud. Lower level is flooded knee deep with blood red water on entry, then a long dryish walkable passage, with some muddy places, and a short incline. Lots of interesting features.

Bring: cave suits which will get very muddy, and a change of clothes for the pub afterwards, wellies, helmet and lights, packed lunch, camera.

Non-SRT. No ropes required.

Coming so far....

John N
Bella N
Richard Timms
Phil Scott
Rob Sweetie

Sorry John, am going to Yorkshire this weekend, this week hasn't been too good so a good sporting Yorkshire classic will sort me

See you all soon.
Tom

Thanks for letting us know Tom. Also for your help with the fun last week!
We will do this mine and the Gold mine again soon, so keep watching.

Can't make this one

Trip Report....
Had an excellent trip. Bella took most of us up the steep incline from the place where wre park the truck, but Mr Sweetie and I went up the more leisurely Miners track to the lower addit and then a scramble to the main mine entrance. On the way we found many more features in the landscape that show former mining activities including another huge wheel.

We took the normal route around the mine admiring formations and crystals. It was not as wet and muddy as I have experienced on previous visits. We also extended our explorations much further in the lower reaches of this mine and found many more parts that I have not ventured into before.

After lunch in the cave like entrance opening, we descended to try and find the lower adit. Again on the way down Bella discovered another cave like adit hole with a vole and a bat in it. It seemed to have been filled and may be a trail adit of a blocked off passage.

We found the lower adit and the water level seemed higher than before, so I begun to kick away the leaves and rubbish that was causing a blockage to the normal drainage of the mine. Soon there was a fine torreent of red water cascading out of the adit. I kicked a lot more and the torreent increased dramatically now a wall of white water was crashing down the hillside. I managed to squeeze further into the entrance and kicked a lot more and it was really amazing how much more water was released. Soon everyone will be able to get in easily. But I hear rather desperate voices form outside, saying that I had better get out quick.

By now the whole of the hillside was a wall of foaming muddy water, trees were being washed away and were crashing headloing down the hill leaving a great scar like a gorge. People were saying we had better clear off quick and they were pointing at several houses below that seemed about to be washed away.

On the way down the Miners path we decided that if anyone asked we would all be called 'Ian Adams'. We got to the truck and drove carefully down to the village. Quickly changed in to clean clothes and went to the 'Old Ship' Pub, to be welcomed by a warm fire.

Although we missed a walk along the lower adit on this occasion, we certainly had a lovely time in the pub, and I thoroughly recommend it. Excellent beer, excellent food and a wonderful atmosphere. Also enjoyed looking at some brilliant pictures on Phill Scotts laptop.

A return trip to include the lower adit is planned soon.

JohnNicholson wrote:
Preferably when the flood of biblical proportions subsides John!

If it ever does.....

I think you have been hanging around Mick too long

Well it's currently 1.34am and in my drunken stupor I've only gone and made a bloody video....click here

There is a geocache hidden inside the wheel at the beginning ) Nice edit of the miners working inside. Great shot at 4:28 Awesome flood damage by John lol

Sweetie wrote:



Brilliant, still laughing.

Haha! good work, Didn't expect the BBC news report at all

Hahahahahahaha - brilliant!

Nice report from a mine "somewhere in North Wales".
Pity the distraught householder in Llanberis has blown your cover though. whistle:

RichardSawyer wrote:
Or is that a red herring?

There were lots of red herrings washed up in the Conwy Estury last night.

hey - looks like you had fun well done chaps

Brilliant video!Thats just what happened!