7th April 2016: with Jake, Nick, Brockers, Duncan P, also Sam Batstone, Roz Simmonds, Jeremy and Luke Hawkes.
Duncan has a sore back so took Roz, Jeremy and Luke on a tour around while the rest of us headed down the rift to dig. Nick, Jake and Brockers went to the bottom, Sam stayed at the top of the ladder to haul the skip and pass it up to myself where I was stashing the rock debris at the base of one of the climbs. There was a lot of rock coming up and eventually the available space, that was limited anyway, was just about used up. More of the spoil had been stacked below the ladder and there’s still plenty of sediment, some quite sloppy, to remove. There’s plenty to keep the team busy for a couple of weeks or so. By the time the tour party reached us we were just about ready to leave the cave and head up to the pub. With all the rock stacked at the base and part way up the rift the climb, that had been a tad awkward, was now much easier. A good session.
