76 - Brave New World
Jenny
Got bored of sitting in the tent in the rain (there are only so many games of I Spy you can play...) and went back to BNW. Olly continued to bolt across to 04-23A and traversed over the secondary pitch that joins the main lower down. Sadly the passage it reached soon was choked with lots of rocks which was a shame. We surveyed and moved to the climb in All Ways Chamber, using a sling to stand in to place the first bolt, then I came down and Olly climbed up and placed the second, higher bolt and scrambled over the top. Whilst our methods seemed to work, they don't seem to really match those in "Alpine Caving Techniques"...
The climb led to a passage on the left, up and over boulders to an aven, with no way on. Back at the top of the climb, another climb up on the right led to a short section of promising looking passage and a choke. Olly derigged the climb, but the bolts are still there if anyone else wants a look at an aven or a choke. We moved on to No Ways Chamber, where I climbed up the aven to the west with the aid of a bolt as a runner. This was also choked, although there may possibly be a way through that I couldn't see, for small people, but it didn't look likely. We gave up for now, somewhat disappointed at the lack of horizontal passage, and went out.
On the way out the big snow plug had gone, presumably due to the large amounts of rain. And the draught was reversed! It was almost like being in a different cave, quite freaky.