Depth through thought

Editor: Andrew Morgan andrew.morgan@ed.ac.uk

Upcoming trips:

• 3rd-5th June (end of 5th week), Peak District (permits for Titan, Peak), staying at TSG. Coordinator: Anthony Johnson
• 17-19 June (end of 7th week), Dales.

Fifteen Years

Fleur Loveridge

Otter Hole
Fifteen years
Worth the waiting
The entrance passages
As I remembered

Squalid
Very very squalid
But this time, the sump
An ankle deep stream
Trying vainly to run clear
In the estuarine slime

Onwards
Thru boulder chokes
Streamway, squeezes, climbs
Stopping only to scrub suits
Before the upper series

Gradually
The secrets disclosed
First delicate straws then
Magnificent high curtains
Stupendous huge stal bosses
At least thirty of them

Beyond camp
It just gets better
Fantastic gours, crystal pools
Untouched mud we taped and
Calcite flows we cleaned

Tiptoeing
Back, minimise impact
Tired bodies move, slither
Through the earth and water
Will I be fit enough still
In another fifteen years?