Saturday 2nd March 2024

John Cooper, Pete Hann, Nigel Graham, Adrian Vanderplank and Jude Vanderplank. Sleet/rain on surface – not nice. One full mix of cement done. Adrian capped rocks for building material. Most of the cement was then used by Pete building up the wall. John used a bit of cement higher up. Meanwhile, on the surface, Nigel was moving spoil from the heap to the wall fill. A second full mix of cement was then done before Jude and Nigel retreated back to Upper Pitts. All this was used by Pete building up the main wall. Nice holes in the floor but a lot of clatch to move out first - 4 people? Filled up the water container but no sand or cement on site now (just rock dust). 3½ hours.John.

Pete wall building. Photo AV.

Looking back out. Photo AV.

Onwards and downwards. Fossil, upper centre left? Photo AV.

Onwards and downwards. Photo AV.

Wednesday 28th February 2024

John Cooper and David Morrison (Tuska). John started at 15.00 and moved rocks up from the bedding plane to the base of the entrance shaft. Only about half a dozen left to move when Tuska arrived at 16.00. By then the heap of rocks had very nearly reached the bottom of the fixed ladder, which would have pleased Nigel. Tuska then hauled rocks for 2½ hours, John loading and moving the last few up from the bedding plane.Towards the end Tuska was working in the dark as he had not brought a light along and it was thick mist. All spoil cleared when we left. However, a look at the bottom showed lots more cementing, clearing and boulder breaking still to do. 3½ hours. John.