204 - Surveying in Riverdance

Thu 27 Jul 2006
Dave

Surveying went impressively smoothly modulo the usual crap instrument problems; took ~3h to get to pushing front! I wanted to do more bolting but I wasn't hyper keen + Deep was less keen still so we decided to turn round.

At 2nd pitch met Mark's team doing photos - I posed on the pitch, came out rather well I think. We were informed that thunder was audible in Cave Tree, so rather than go out we went to Choc Salty Balls for a look at the dig 01-35 D.

Sandeep crawled in first + after rearranging some boulders we squeezed out into a little chamber. I climbed up into the ceiling where the draught whistles out of a boulderous chimney. I moved more rocks + got into a horrendously loose chamber - floor is a critical angle boulder slope. Draught comes down from the top but I'm not going up there, it looks bloody lethal.

Went back out for survey gear + surveyed in, amid much ranting at the extreme crapness of the pencil I was using. Couldn't find a good point to link to so the link is a bit of a bodge.

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Survex files on this date:
    caves-1623/2004-08/2004-08
    caves-1623/2006-71/2006-71
    caves-1623/204/trunk/riverdance3
    caves-1623/204/trunk/fingerbang
    surface/1623/99to269
Wallets on this date:
    2006#09 ['notes2', 'notes1', 'fingerbang-plan', 'fingerbang-elev', 'riverdance3extend',…
    2006#16 Surface Stuff (near 76) ['notes0001', 'notes0002']
    2006#17 ['notes0001']
Logbook trips on this date:
    204 - Surveying in Riverdance
    Loser Plateau - Surface Stuff (near 76)
    Hauchhoehle
    Hauchhoehle - again