The water sinks to one side of the valley before the end, and the entrance is through a boulder ruckle down a vertical lined shaft for 6 metres (20 ft).

An awkward passage soon terminates in a small pitch 6 metres (20 ft) into a chamber where the stream enters.

The descent route involves traversing and technical rope rigging to avoid the waterfalls.

[7][8] The entrance became blocked in the early 1980s, and in 1984 it was re-opened by the Bradford Pothole Club who installed the current galvanised tubing through the unstable boulder ruckle in the shakehole.

[9] In November 1979 the cave became the centre of a major rescue when Jeremy Peterson went missing on a solo pull-through trip.