204e Pingu pitch

Wed 03 Aug 2011
Olaf Kahler

Returned to Pingu pitch with a drill and Gareth. While Gareth, Fer and the drill went down to the big new pitch from the day before, Aiora and Olaf put in 2 more deviations to the lower end of Pingu pitch, to avoid rubbing ropes and to practice hand bolting. Later on, Gareth came up with drill, while Aiora and Olaf went down. A deviation and rebelay later we arrived at the bottom of the pitch, which was rather dissapointing. The trickle of water disapeared in a puddle and the passage was desperatly narrow rift bit filled with rocks. Surveyed on the way out and derriged the whole pitch series. Unfortunately got stuck at the last rebelay, so we left one tackle sack full of rope and rigging gear behind to be picked up another day.

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Survex files on this date:
    caves-1623/204/trunk/pingu3
    caves-1623/258/sovein3
    caves-1623/258/intothinair
    caves-1626/loutoti-01/LT-Horizont
Wallets on this date:
    2011#15 ['notes0001', 'notes0002', 'plan', 'elev']
    2011#17 ['notes0001', 'notes0002', 'plan']
    2011#24 ['elev0001', 'elev0003', 'notes0005', 'notes0001', 'notes0002', 'plan0004', 'pl…
    2011#26 ['notes0001', 'notes0002', 'plan', 'elev']
Logbook trips on this date:
    204 Pingu pitch - bottom right
    Tunnocks - Leads in higher level above Sting Theory, So Vein and IntoThinAir
    204e Pingu pitch
    Final trip to finnish derig of 204
    161- Pushing lead in roof of Repton