107 – Rigging + connection to old route
Jenny
Back into 107 with a bit more rope. Olly rigged the next pitch – I
am impressed that he got a clean hang here. Landed in an aven chamber
with a big boulder. Evidence of people. We followed the rift on and
concluded that it was the 1970s route. Followed the walking size rift to
the pitch at the end and surveyed out from their hang bolt back into
ropeless, derigging as we went.
Back in ropeless Olly rigged along the traverse with more
rope and more hangers than last year. Instead of the free climbed
traverse at the end we dropped down to a ledge off to the left. This led
to two short segments of passage each of which ended looking down on the
big boulder in the aven chamber seen earlier. It is increasingly looking
like a lot of cave in a small area! We were cold and didn’t want to
miss our call out so headed out leaving the survey for the next trip.