The Snake, from County Pitch to Confusion Corner

The Snake, from County Pitch to Confusion Corner

From the bottom of the County Pot Pitch, ascending a boulder slope to the right leads to a crawl to the right. This is initially hands and knees, then lowers to a flat-out crawl. Soon, a junction with a small streamway is reached. [Upstream, to the right, is the original route from Oxford Pot.] Crawling to the left, downstream, the passage soon enlarges and descends some short cascades. A junction with a larger stream is reached. Continuing downstream, to the right, leads to the top of an awkward 2m descent, best done by bridging across the passage. This drops into a rift passage that runs in both directions. Downstream, to the left, is a narrow meandering stream passage, with a few short crawls round corners. After about four minutes, this reaches a larger passage, at the bottom of a boulder slope to the left. Following the stream soon leads to the main streamway in County Pot, at Confusion Corner.

• Downstream leads towards Battle of Britain Junction and Poetic Justice
• Upstream leads back to The Broadway.