Stop Pot
From Ease Gill
Stop Pot[edit | edit source]
Stop Pot is a major junction in the Easegill streamway. It is in a very bouldery area, with a boulder choke downstream.
Several routes lead from Stop Pot. The following are described from a position in the streamway, surrounded by boulders, at the base of the boulder slope leading up to the fixed ladder, where the streamway splits. In a clockwise direction:
- Upstream, following the left-hand wall, leads to Holbeck Junction.
- A few metres upstream, on the right-hand wall, a climb onto a ledge leads to Depot Passages.
- Following the stream downstream to the left, and clambering ahead over boulders leads to a dry route through the choke, towards Eureka Junction.
- Between the two branches of the stream is a large ascending boulder slope; part way up the boulder slope, on the left, is the route to Four Ways, a flood-escape route into Wretched Rabbit.
- At the top of the boulder slope is the Stop Pot ladder, up to Mainline Terminus at the start of the high-level route leading towards Lancaster Hole and Cow Pot, with a connection to Link Pot, Pippikin Pot, Bye George, Peterson Pot, and Mistral.
- Following the stream downstream to the right leads to the wet route through the choke, towards Eureka Junction.