Saturday 29th December 2018

John Cooper, Pete Hann, Adrian Vanderplank, Jude Vanderplank and Barry Wilkinson. Two mixes of cement sent to the bottom with Pete. The rest of us hauled 52 loads from the top intermediate stacking space to the surface. 2½ hours.John.

Saturday 22nd December 2018

John Cooper, Nigel Graham, Pete Hann, Geoff Newton, Adrian Vanderplank, Jude Vanderplank and Barry Wilkinson. All working the bottom up to the top intermediate stacking space. Once this was full we left Adrian, Jude and Pete at the bottom whilst the rest of us moved on up and hauled 7 loads to the surface before the others came out. 2½ hours.John.

Saturday 15th December 2018

John Cooper, Nigel Graham, Pete Hann, Adrian Vanderplank, Jude Vanderplank and Barry Wilkinson. All working the bottom. Once Jude had cleared a bit of loose rock Adrian started capping his way on and down. Regular loads hauled up to the bottom stacking space. 2½ hours.John.

Saturday 8th December 2018

John Cooper, Nigel Graham, Pete Hann, Adrian Vanderplank, Jude Vanderplank and Barry Wilkinson. One mix of cement done and sent to the bottom with Pete and Adrian plus his capping kit. The rest of us followed to get out of the wind. We hauled the spoil up from the bottom stacking space to the top stacking space until it was cleared. We then moved up and Nigel and I hauled to the surface in the rain and sleet whilst Jude loaded and Barry got very wet on the Naughty Step. Plenty of spoil left for a drier day! We left Adrian and Pete still capping and cementing. 3 hours.John.

Saturday 1st December 2018

John Cooper, Nigel Graham, Pete Hann, Adrian Vanderplank and Barry Wilkinson. Two mix of cement done and sent to the bottom as three loads with Pete Hann. Adrian plus his capping kit followed but waited to load. With Barry on the Naughty Step Nigel and I hauled 13 loads to the surface before Barry called it a day, very drippy today! Barry then came up and I went down. Pete was still cementing from the second load. After a while Adrian did some capping but the rock was hard. I went out to collect his second battery and send Barry and Nigel back to Upper Pitts. When I returned the first battery had just expired but better progress was being made with 2 caps in each hole. Finally Pete went back and cemented in the rocks that Adrian had capped. 3½ hours.John.