99 - 99

Wed 21 Jul 2004
Jenny



Walked back up to our bivvy in the sun; when we got there, Olly wasn't feeling too well, so we decided that I'd explore 99 whilst Olly sat on the surface and patched his oversuit. I went down rigged off the v.dubious tag bolt and a spike. It went down an inclined rift with snow on the floor for a bit less than 10m then wiggled round right and then left to be below itself again. Here there were 2 old spits, the first of which I rebelayed too. After this a draft was coming through a small ice-covered rift heading roughly towards the appropriate part of Brave New World. I kicked lots of snow out of the way and attempted to fit through the pitch head; I got roughly half way before feeling it was a bit too tight and committing, and decided to come out, which was easier said than done.

After a while of fruitless wiggling I got a bit scared and asked Olly to put his caving gear on to come + help. As soon as Olly left I found a foothold and freed myself sufficiently to escape, but at least Olly had practice at getting into caving gear quickly! I came out, leaving the ice squeeze for either a day later on in expo with less ice, or a day with a hammer.

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Survex files on this date:
    caves-1623/248/248-2
    caves-1623/204/deepsouth/razor8
    surface/1623/251to204d
Wallets on this date:
    2004#06 razor 8 ['razor8extend', 'razor8notes2', 'razor8plan', 'razor8notes1']
    2004#08 248-2|248 part 2 ['2003-02-elev-all', '2003-02-02notes1', '2003-02-02extend', '2003-02-02notes2']
    2004#14 ['notes2', 'notes1']
Logbook trips on this date:
    Loser Plateau - Surface Prospect
    204 - Gaffered
    99 - 99
    204 - Razor Dance
    2003-02 - (Blaudrachenschact)