Mike Kushy, Courtenay James, John Cooper and Mike Wise. Courtenay made a nice cement mix on the surface then carried it down to the first bedding chamber. The calcite squeeze was hammered slightly more open by Kushy, Mike and John. Several buckets of spoil and boulders were removed from the very bottom of the “final” bedding chamber with a possible draughting way on was visible. John went out to the cement mix and stabilised some boulders while the rest of us went into the boulder chamber (see Oct 16th log), shouted up to John and dug rocks out of the hole in the floor. 2½ hours. Mike Wise.
John Cooper, Courtenay James, Mike Kousiounis (Kushy) and Mike Wise. One mix of cement (half a bag) taken in. We first enlarged the calcite blockage mentioned in the previous report. Then a tour round. MW took pictures and video. Cemented in below the original “final squeeze”. Going to be a sod to survey! 2½ hours. John
MK, JC, MW and
CJ.
Met Tuska on the
surface measuring up and sorting surface stuff. Courtenay made a cement mix and
we all headed down. Ferried all the tools into the newer section of cave. Mike Wise
started to enlarge the calcite squeeze then John took over. Meanwhile the rest
of us started taking photos. John had made the squeeze big enough for us all to
carry on down cave. I showed John where the boulder chamber is and he also
looked at the bottom. John then went to work more on the calcite squeeze whilst
the rest of us took more photos. We also had a little poke at the muddy area, I
predict this to go Saturday fairly quickly.
On the way back
we headed into the boulder chamber to photograph more. The prime dig site was
blowing a really good draught this evening, strong then the bottom of the
bedding chamber, Mike W was very keen to dig here. Whilst in the boulder
chamber we could hear John above and managed to have a conversation, to a
certain extent. 2½ hours, Mike.
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