107 - Pushing

Sat 11 Jul 2015
Matt

By this point Joe had rigged to China so decided to join them for a trip to survey a lead we had poked our head in last year.

A short pitch with 2 Y-hangs drops down the side wall through the boulders onto a sand and rubble slope.

There is a scary looking climb down to the left QMC and a small passage going off to the right QMC.

At the bottom of the slope we entered a narrow phreatic rift with a sandy floor "Smooth Sandy Bottom".

Surveying was slow and 4½ h later we hadn't really got very far. We left an aven lead QMB and the rift continues with a slight draft QMB

p5 + p6-8 rigging topo

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Survex files on this date:
    caves-1623/107/smoothbottom
    caves-1623/264/darkartsiv
    caves-1623/264/darkartsv
Wallets on this date:
    2015#01 ChinaC lead west wall below scramble ['notes2', 'notes1']
    2015#02 Balcony, end of Dark Arts leads ['notes2', 'notes1', 'elev', 'plan']
    2015#81 Dark Arts V ['notes2', 'notes1', 'elev', 'plan']
Logbook trips on this date:
    Tunnocks - Entrance De-ice
    107 - 107
    Balcony - Dark Arts
    107 - Pushing