204 - ->Gaffered -> The Wares + Derig
Becka Lawson
Pootled to the Wares & headed off for a QM I'd been hankering after
checking. QM 04-49A. We'd left it as a steep ramp needing a handline in
2004. I rigged a handline up (needs ~25m rope) using 2 naturals then
hand bolted a spit on the left wall then a very fine thread on
the left wall then tied off on dodgy naturals at the top. Surveyed up to
find an extensive horizontal level - yippee. Sadly this was a derig trip
so we surveyed as much as we could, as far as a complex chamber with
several pitches, and we had to run out leaving lots of QMA's. Aaron's
light played up then fell apart and he couldn't find his spare
batteries, "I think I've learnt a lesson about redundancy today" says he
... Then slog, slog, slog, up the derig. Martin set off first with a
tacklesack & then pulled a second sack up Gaffered, I derigged & Aaron
did a tacklesack shuffle. We ended up getting 3 tacklesacks all the way
out, one at the bottom of E entrance pitch & one tied to the bottom of
Gaffered pitch so a pretty good job.