Saturday 13th April 2024

Mike Kushy and Sam Hill.

Mike to start with. Set about opening up the top of the awkward 10ft climb and removing rock. SH arrived and downsized rock in the chamber. Once the climb was opened up SH went down to see the bottom and start work on removing obstructing rock. Unfortunately we couldn't quite squeeze over the long boulder so each of us took turns attacking it. In between a couple of new routes around the boulders were opened up to investigate other ways through, nothing easy to be had. A hard attempt at the end to squeeze into new passage but just too tight, one more attack with pfs and failing that we'll just turn it into dust. 5 hours for me. MK 

Looking into the sharp end. Photo MK.

Head first view of over the boulder. Photo MK.

Top of the 10ft climb down. Photo MK.

Wednesday 10th April 2024

Sam Hill and Adrian Miles. Good session last night. Ran out of drill juice. Sam started at 6pm breaking up the boulders that had already been started on. Adrian joined just after 7pm and moved rock up cave to ledge. Both then switched around with Adrian on the drill using up  remaining juice. Some larger lumps in chamber still to breakup, but majority of rock was moved back up to below the top step. 2 3/4 hrs. Sam.

Where the boulders were. Photo SH.

Looking down the hole. Photo SH.