258 - Tunnocks - Pidgeons in Flight -> Pidgeon Droppings

Sun 27 Jul 2014
Becka



Looked at the pitch below Bob On but decided to rig the one below the traverse just beyond Pidgeons in Flight. Neil rigged whilst Rob + I surveyed down. Neil's pitch ("Pidgeon Droppings") is nicely rigged in 3 short drops (bit loose at pitch head). This lands next to a wet, undescended pitch but we went for the blowing horizontal lead. It was crawly, past 2 fairly freshly dead bats to a bad step traverse. Neil put in a couple of bolts to drop below the traverse which was blind, + then to put a handline over the traverse, we wrapped up the survey here + headed out. En route I replaced the nasty, slippy red 9mm on the climb up to the Balcony (just beyond String Theory) with thicker rope + put the red 9mm as a handline up to that climb.

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Survex files on this date:
    caves-1623/258/pigeondroppings
Wallets on this date:
    2014#02 Pidgeon Droppings ['notes2', 'notes1', 'plan1']
Logbook trips on this date:
    Matt & Aled jolly in 107
    1623-107 - Alcove pop + Nipped down
    258 - Tunnocks - Pidgeons in Flight -> Pidgeon Droppings
    107: Aled wants to drop a pitch, take 1