204 - Gaffered / Underworld push, survey + derig
Becka Lawson
Tempted Earl down [Comment, in what looks like Mark's
handwriting: ooh err!] with promise of long bolted traverses
across Sirens. Unfortunately he managed to do it all on naturals
(why do we bother with drills?) (Mind you, Earl was eyeing
up the v. long traverse to the opposite side of the chamber
where it looks like another phreatic passage may head off.) Popped
over + it looked like it went - again - so we settled down for a
long survey. Strong draft throughout most of the area. Straight on
from the traverse, through the bracket-fungus rift gets to a
convenient ledge behind a column overlooking what looked v.like the
shaft we'd finished our survey on (Martin + me, 29/7/03, see in
write-up). Earl rigged another traverse line on naturals along this
ledge (superfluous?) + we kept surveying up the slope beyond. Ran
out of time with plenty of horizontal QMs - Earl frustrated as we
could have stomped around everywhere if we didn't have to wait for
him to draw his damn pictures. V. odd little pool filled with
?mud/?calcite which we didn't survey to the end. Plenty to go back
to next year - a whole new phreatic level? Derigged; I got 2 bags
out + Earl got the remaining 2 bags tied to the bottom of the 70m
Gaffered pitch. Another v. fine trip.
T/U 10hrs