4th February 2016: with ‘Jake’ Johnson, Nick Hawkes, ‘Tav’ Taviner, ‘Brockers’, Tom Chapman, Les Williams and Sam Batstone.
While Tom took Les and Sam for a tour around the rest of the team headed on to the dig off the top of Chamber 20. I proceeded to the end with the drill to go about my task at the bottom of a c.3m narrow rift, Nick followed me down to start removing the accumulation of debris there, the others were placed along the passage to haul the spoil out. The requisite holes were drilled, a considerable amount of spoil removed, it was time to complete the evening’s work from a safe distance. A loud bang, then ‘kerplunk’. something moved, the wire could not be retrieved so had to leave it in place until the next session. Nick and I then hurried along to catch up with the others and all out of the cave. Most of us made it up to the Hunter’s for the usual debriefing.
