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====== ATLAS Invites You To A BBQ! ======
 

...well sort of.

ATLAS are planning to carry out some maintenance and clearing work at Thrupe Lane Swallet on both **Sunday 29th and Monday 30th August** 10am onwards and are asking for volunteers to assist.

ATLAS have a long standing connection with Thrupe Lane Swallet having dug it open back in the 70's and more recently Hobnail Hole to connect with Upper Butts' Chamber, making for an excellent through trip and an option to divert the stream away from TLS entrance via the Hobnail Channel. Due to more extreme weather conditions we are experiencing and the stream no longer flowing under the road, more debris, silts and gravel get washed down stream filling the Hobnail Channel and blocking Thrupe Lane Swallet entrance gate. 

ATLAS are planning to have a BBQ smoldering away such that you can bring and cremate your own fodder and a chance to catch up with old and perhaps new friends. Thrupe Lane Swallet Entrance pitch will likely be rigger, along with Perseverance Pot and a ladder into/out of King Cobble Hall to enable through trips. As well as food - wheelbarrows, shovels, spades, wellies would also prove useful. If you can assist on either or both days, although not critical, it would be handy to have an idea of numbers, please drop Dave King a message.

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20th August 2021