JC, MK and Mike Wise. John and Mike started at 6.20. 9 buckets (small) filled. John started to take them out, then MW joined us. Not much draught initially, used my vape to find where it had gone / was coming from. Broke into another chamber after a hairy collapse, draught good in there. /heading toewards cliff again now. 2 round trips now in the dig, 24 small buckets and 3 large ones. Just over 3 hours, Mike.
John Cooper, Mike Kousiounis and Mike Wise. Drill and 9 empty
buckets (5L) taken in my John and Kushy. Kushy filled them and John then moved
them out leaving Kushy to plug and feather. The buckets were in the Second
Chamber when Mike Wise arrived and the two of them moved them on out. John on
the surface. Back down and the buckets were refilled by Kushy and again John
and Mike Wise moved them out to the surface, along with 3 large buckets of
rocks. Back down again and this time Mike Wise filled some of the buckets
whilst Kushy ferreted about in other bits of the choke, preferring to dig an
alternative route out rather that return the way he went in. Finally completed
filling the 9 buckets which were moved to the bottom of the entrance shaft.
They were compacted into 6 before hauling them out. 3 hours. John.
From Kushy
John Cooper, Mike
Kousiounis and Mike Wise.
John and I got
to the dig about 6.20pm. Filled up 9 small buckets of catch from the bottom.
John started to ferry these out whilst I worked on opening up the dig face.
Mike Wise then arrived to help John take the buckets to surface. Mike came back
down to the face and took some photos, another 9 buckets filled and passed up.
Whilst Mike and John relayed them up cave I used my vape to figure out where
the draught had gone (not much draught this evening) the slight draughts all
seemed to be coming from the direction in which the higher horizontal passage
heads (towards the cliff face). With this in mind I chose to attack a small hole
near the calcited area, slightly higher from the dig face and heading
horizontal. Space could be seen quickly, I wiggled about a large chunk of
calcite and in doing so a collapse happened in front somewhere, quite
substantial, Mike could hear it up cave and shouted back to check in on me.
This collapse opened up a hole in the floor higher up in the existing
horizontal bit. Mike confirmed this but was unable to get in so I went back up
cave along the horizontal bit and managed to wiggle my way down into a new
chamber. The draught was more significant again here, a few ways to choose from
but a nice horizontal black hole emits the draught again heading towards the
cliff face (we can't be far off now). At the end I managed to break up the
calcite from the other side and squeeze back to our original dig site,
completing the 2nd round trip of the cave thus far. 6 more small buckets were sent
to surface. 24 small buckets and 3 big buckets this evening, I believe. Just
over 3 hours. Lots more
clatch and rocks to clear to tidy up the previous chamber. Just
over 3 hours.
