Saturday 12 August 2022

Nigel Graham, Pete Hann, Adrian Vanderplank.To the bottom with capping kit, 12gm cord plus 650 mm drill bit. After an abortive attempt to cap the left hand side of the passage, to widen it, attention was turned to drill a 600 mm hole in the large boulder at the end. With that completed another attempt was made on capping the side with more success, this made it easier to load the hole with 12 gm cord and attach the det. Nigel and Pete transported all the kit out leaving me just the wire to unroll. Started to wind in the wire but with fumes coming up past, abandoned that and made my way out. Despite all the frustrations of the trip all major objectives achieved. Adrian.

Boulder being demolished Photo AV