A trip in to the Cave with Dangerous Dave

[Oggy]

For anyone that has been worried about the where abouts of Cannon Ball Dave theres no need as I found him this morning. It appears that with all this bad weather he has gone in to hibernation for the winter. I went to visit him this morning in his new home, heres a few pics

Just give him 3 knocks on the man hole cover and he will come out to say hello


If he asks you in for a brew then just beware of the steep steps
















































Dave said if he wakes up in time and the weather improves he will be above ground again and blasting them downhills around spring time ;D

Cheers for the trip m8, much appreciated, real intresting morning, looking forward to trying them other mines soon

Ps. I carnt belive how warm it was, I dont blame yoiu for spending the winter down there

[nicky]

Don't you worry you are going to get stuck in those narrow spots??? What would happen if you did get stuck???

Makes me nervous looking just looking at the pics!!

[Dave]

A few more pics.
We found some other people hibernating down there. Couldn't wake one of them up

Glad you enjoyed it Oggy. Blaenau next m8.

[James]

That's exactly the sort of reason I said no yesterday mate. F That.

[Damon]

Can't imagine anything worse that that sort of stuff, bonkers!

[Deleted]

Takes all sorts in this world, my (non biking) mates think I'm crazy for wanting to ride up and down mountains.

[Arnie]

Thats mental. Nice one lads! Hope I can join you on the next one (car depending!)
Were these copper mines?

[Oggy]

Think Dave said they were more like access tunnels for the main mines, get ya ass on the next one Arnold, the one at Blaenau sounds mega

[Craigy Boy]

looks good mate! bit bonkers like

[ady]

;DMad mad mad...don't think rumaging around in dark holes is for me!

[boolie]

Oggy.....................you do the strangest things...............

[Oggy]

Jan 11, 2010 21:11:12 GMT boolie said:

Oggy.....................you do the strangest things...............

You wana see what i get up to on a saturday night then again perhaps you dont

[boolie]

Jan 11, 2010 21:22:56 GMT Oggy said:

Jan 11, 2010 21:11:12 GMT boolie said:

Oggy.....................you do the strangest things...............

You wana see what i get up to on a saturday night then again perhaps you dont

Will take your word for it................................

I must admit it looks facinating, wouldnt mind having a peek (at the caves that is)

[boolie]

Your mate looks like that bloke off Auf Wiedersane Pet (or whatever it was called) you know the one who is married to that blond woman who was in Corrie, then Waterloo Road and now shes on Loose Women................................ god, cant think of her name (or his) but you know who i mean............................

[Oggy]

It was seriously interesting, there were clog prints in the mud left by the kids mining down there, they looked so fresh they could have been made yesterday, it felt really strange looking at them. There were also loads of bits of clay smoking pipe all over the place, they used to love smoking back then, also glass bottles that were left by the miners. Dave said that the miners were a superstitious bunch and they used to leave there smoking pipes in the mines as gifts to the mine Gods. Gutted I didn't get some pics of all the stuff down there