25th August 2016: with Nick and Peter ‘Snablet’ MacNab.
Snablet is over from New Zealand to visit for a week before heading onto China to meet up with Mad Phil Rowsell to go caving there, so I gave him a call at his parent’s to invite on this evening’s trip.
We headed up to the top of Chamber 20 and along to the high route in the rift to clear the bang I had placed a fortnight ago. As we intend to put this dig on hold for a while I wanted to retrieve the wire as well. Snablet and Nick cleared the debris while I sorted out the wire, a good pile of rock was shifted and there is a decent face to continue the widening process when we return in the future.
That job done we headed back up to Chamber 20 and on to the area where the UBSS had been looking some while ago and there we did some furtling about.
Before deciding to have a poke at a different site in the same area. We cleared a large pile of loose rock from the spot until we were left with a number of much larger boulders that will require capping to reduce them into more manageable pieces.
We then had reached a natural pause and it was time to depart. A steady trip out of the cave, got changed and headed up to the Hunter’s Lodge Inn.
A fine way to spend my 60th birthday – caving with my friends!
