Saturday 21st March 2020

John Cooper, Nigel Graham, Pete Hann and Adrian Vanderplank. Capping kit taken to bottom. Whilst Adrian continued capping the conglomerate boulder the rest first moved spoil from the middle stacking space to the top stacking space. Then moved on down and moved Adrian’s spoil up to the ledge then on up to the alcoves. Good outward draught the whole time. Discussion at the end between Adrian and Pete which resulted in decision to move to stronger boulder breaker next week. 2 hours. John.

Saturday 14th March 2020

John Cooper, Nigel Graham, Pete Hann and Adrian Vanderplank. One mix of cement and capping kit taken to bottom. Whilst Adrian continued capping the conglomerate boulder Pete built up above the Slot where the mud was getting washed out. After a while Pete descended to replace John and continued cementing work below the Slot. The boulder is still large. 2 hours. John.

Saturday 7th March 2020

John Cooper, Nigel Graham, Pete Hann and Adrian Vanderplank. Last week was too wet but this week was fine. Started by clearing the entrance shaft. Pete loading, John on the Naughty Step, Adrian and Nigel on the surface. 22 loads cleared it. The Pete to the bottom with John above him stashing clatch and rock about 3m up. Eventually Nigel and Adrian arrived, Nigel’s first time this far down. We then moved on up and cleared from the bottom step to the top of the tunnel before we called it a day. 2 hours. John.