81 - crap lead
Jenny Black
Went to 81 for an easy day to tick off the crap lead near the RH
route from 81b. To me it looked like a tight, loose & awkward route
through a boulder choke that obviously didn't go. Only went in cos Olly
thought it was "interesting". Having moved the loosest rocks out of the
way I wriggled through and it opened up into a rift. The boulders looked
less bad from below, so Olly came through as well. Got into a rift with
various holes in the floor to a lower passage in the same rift. I
traversed right to the end to where it was easy to climb down. This got
us down to the top of a lot of ice which formed a floor to the rift
chamber.
Walked carefully around on the ice we saw some cool curved ice
formations. At the end of the ice there appeared to be a pitch down
between the ice and rock. We were without gear so steered clear, but
hypothesized it might drop into the ice castle passage in 148. Surveyed
out (checking that the outer lead didn't do anything interesting)..