16-JB-01 Dirty Snow

Mon 18 Jul 2016
Jenny Black



Weather wasn't great, so we had quite a slow start. Headed back to 16-JB-01 to look at Olly's new lead. Again we started the rope at the ledge, but went down further along, then Olly went to the northen end of the cheesey chamber and over a rock bridge to a rift. The end of this dropped down to a very dirty snow cone, with deep drip holes. Firstly all looked south, and saw two tight rifts dropping in (the ones we were the top side of on the 9th). To the East was a short passage heading off which quickly ended. Traversed round the west of the snow, underneath is a layered snow plug, so presumably it has been here for many years. Passage continued to the north through a squeeze, through some rocks and up a climb. Although there were a lot of boulders and collapse it felt fairly solid. Decided that we couldn't get further without gear. Surveyed out.

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Survex files on this date:
    caves-1623/289/dirtysnow
    caves-1623/258/hydra/screamer
    caves-1623/258/hydra/papawpassage
    caves-1623/264/watertorture
    caves-1623/264/keepsongiving
    caves-1623/264/longdrop2
Wallets on this date:
    2016#38 Scream if you want to go faster ['notes2', 'notes1', 'elv', 'plan']
    2016#39 Just Keeps Giving (Hilti-a-Plenty) ['notes2', 'notes1', 'elv', 'plan']
    2016#40 Water Torture (Hilti-a-Plenty) ['notes2', 'notes1', 'elv', 'plan']
    2016#41 Papaw Passage (Song of the Earth) ['notes2', 'notes1', 'plan']
    2016#44 Surface 97->271c->271b, 2004-07 ['notes']
    2016#47 Long Drop 2 ['elv', 'plan']
    2016#58 dirtysnow ['dirty_snow', 'dirty_snow-1p', 'dirty_snow-1p', 'dirty_snow-1s']
Logbook trips on this date:
    Balcony - Long Drop final push, survey & Derig
    Tunnocks - Camp Kraken, Song of the Earth + Derig (Downstream)
    Tunnocks - Song of the Earth and Camp Derig
    16-JB-01 Dirty Snow
    Tunnocks - Camping in Tunnocksschacht - CHECC Grand Prize entry