Rowten Pot

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Rowten Pot is a cave system in the Pennines, on the top of West Kingsdale at grid reference SD697780.

It is in the north-west of North Yorkshire, close to the borders with Lancashire and Cumbria

[edit] Techniques for visiting this pot

Although this pot was originally explored using ladders this is not recommended as it requires rather long ladders and is very wet. Today the cave is normally entered using SRT (Single Rope Technique). By this method it can be visited even in fairly wet weather. The pitches themselves are quite spacious, however there is one tight traverse. Several relatively technical rebelays are required in order to stay out out of the water and progress through the cave in a safe manner.

[edit] Point of recent historical interest

The failure of an anchor point known as a spit near the top of the first pitch at a single anchor point rebelay, resulted in the seriously injury of a caver. This accident was one of the main motivations for the replacement of all spits in the majority of UK caves with the far stronger and more durable P-hangars.