144 - Day 1 142/41 -> 144
Mon 23 Jul 1984
Brian Derby
Brian Derby
It was decided to put 3 intrepid speleos who had never been down 142 on this trip. Long delay as Mike's exhaust was welded up. Took wrong turning on footpath, got to 142 at 4 pm. In to big chamber pitch no problems on route finding. Spent a long time mucking about failing to find the draught from the ramp/chamber after the tube. Bill found what later was found to be the way on past a small bit of hanging death. H.D. was moved and small sequence of ramps + pitches followed. Way on is through here. Tackle dumped and out in 20 mins.
4 hours
Previous trip (last year)