Tunnocks - Goody Goody

Tue 04 Aug 2009
Becka Lawson



Dragged in a drill and rope to check out more QMs. Checked on the Usual Suspects water level - siilarly damp (still raining). Started with a QMB nearly opposite Naughty Naughty in Dubious Pleasure and hit the jackpot - it startedas a crawly/stoopy passage and gradually got larger and even had crusty stal formations. Traversed over a blind pit and then a larger drippy pitch on the right. At the next pitch the ledge looked too teetery so Andrew put in a traverse line on naturals (needs 20-25m). Then hit an even bigger pitch which Holly and I excitedly lobbed a couple of big rocks down before Andrew screamed stop at us. Spoil sport. "There's a rope". Oops. We'd managed to come to the eyeholes visible level with the main hang ledge in Usual Suspects. Got around to the second eyehole and then hit a short but monster section of phreas - maybe 15m wide with a howling gale coming out. We teetered up a vast pile of rocks semi-stuck together to end up overlooking a giant pitch. Unfortunately in the wet conditions we couldnt' see down as it was filled with a fine mist and the disto-x struggled too. Surveyed 350m - a fine trip. The end section seemed to have way too much cave and too little rock holding it all up.

T/U 9 hrs

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Survex files on this date:
    caves-1623/258/dampsquib
    caves-1623/258/goodygoody
Wallets on this date:
    2009#24 ['plan']
    2009#39 ['goody-goody-therion', 'Goody-goody', 'goody-goody-therion-sketch']
Logbook trips on this date:
    204 - Derigging
    204 - Derigging #2
    Tunnocks - Goody Goody
    Tunnocks - Damp Squib