Darren Chapman, John Cooper, Mark Easterling (Bean), Aidan Harrison, Pete Hellier, Mark Kellaway (Mak), Alex Lane and Adrian Vanderplank. Cool and dry with a really colourful sunset. Cave walls damp and a small trickle of water down the shafts. With such a large team and two buckets we were able to haul up two shafts at a time. To start with each load was hauled up Father Duckmas. The load was removed from the bottom rope transferred to the next rope and hauled up to the Tunnel where it stashed and the empty bucket reurned. Meanwhile the other bucket was attached to the bottom rope, filled and hauled up. In this way 17 loads were raised and stashed at the Tunnel. Everyone then moved on up and the process was repeated for the top two shafts. At one stage Bean was hit by a falling rock that had not been removed from a bucket before it was sent down again. That’s two consecutive sessions where someone has been hit by a rock falling from a bucket! At the end of the session the hammer, chisel and crowbar from the Soakaway dig were brought out. 1¼ hours. John.