204 - Huge passage

Wed 15 Aug 2001
Becka Lawson



Back to where we'd finished surveying down 12B yesterday at station 7. Surveying down into chamber (after putting in a largely superfluous 8m handline). Turned left, free-climbed down to bottom of chamber, clambered down + over boulders into rift for ~20m, until got to edge of very large pitch. 2+ second free drop + lovely clean shaft. Surveyed all that. Back to chamber, continued surveying up passage until popped out into HUGE passage. Ignored right passage + surveyed along passing several QMA's + getting 5 consecutive legs of over 20 metres. Finally ended in loose boulder slope leading up to hole in ceiling. Do-able but not great - the passage high above just before the boulder slope looked better. Back down the massive phreatic passage + met Martin, Tony + Letty. Sent them to look at the big stuff, whilst Earl + I surveyed up right where we'd popped out into big stuff. Didn't go far, right ended in another boulder slope up, straight on was a good, draughting walking size passage. Earl + I went back to the chamber with Letty to tie up + finish the survey there whilst Tony + Martin surveyed the first left in the big passage which became a rift + then we could see their light from our passages near the chamber. Fine trip. Out.

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Survex files on this date:
    caves-1623/204/trunk/scroat
    caves-1623/204/trunk/moreballs
    caves-1623/204/swings/swings
    caves-1623/204/swings/prettybits
    caves-1623/204/swings/juicybits
Wallets on this date:
    2001#08 ['notes4', 'notes2', 'notes1', 'notes3', 'notes5', 'plan', 'elev']
    2001#12 prettybits & juicybits, Dutch Beauty ['notes4', 'notes2', 'notes6', 'notes1', 'prettybitsplan', 'notes3', 'notes7', …
    2001#14 ['plan']
    2001#27 Mick"s bypass ['notes']
Logbook trips on this date:
    204 - Huge passage
    204 - No pain no gain
    204 - 204
    204 - 204C (Hopefully)