After an amazing trip to King pot I was intrigued to go and have a look at some of the other East Kingsdale classics. With a future Spectacle-Vesper exchange in mind I wanted to make sure I'd get through Splutter crawl. Fortunately Mike was also up for a recce so we headed up onto the moor on a glorious evening.
We found the big pile of stones that acts as a distinctive way point for pots in this area and located Vesper before retracing our steps back to Spectacle. The entrance didn't quite match the CNCC description but after a pitch and a couple of short drops we found a crawl that did match in all but one way. While the description mentioned shallow puddles of water, this crawl sported continuous and deeper than I'd have liked water.
I sat and looked for a bit before deciding I definitely wasn't up for it before letting Mike have a closer look. I'm pretty sure he'd have gone for it but I was almost back at the pitch by this point and so he (reluctantly?) followed.
From the comfort of an armchair I think the CNCC description is making the most of the constrained space and throwing the word tight in early, describing the entrance pitch, is probably just forewarning of things to come. NFTFH with a bit more space gives, as ever, a spot on description.
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