Balkon - Cathedral Kazam - Wild Honeycomb shaft - The Hangman

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place: Balkon

Sun 15 Jul 2018    Tue 17 Jul 2018

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Becka Lawson Sun 15 Jul 2018 Tue 17 Jul 2018
George Breley Tue 17 Jul 2018
Luke Stangroom Thu 19 Jul 2018
Mon 16 Jul 2018
Becka Lawson



Spent over an hour trying to calibrate top Camp's collection of distox's (my two, CHECC and ULSA). I won with 0.35 and 0.5. Luke at 0.65 was way off and two Distox's refused to pair with George's PDA. Eventually underground and swiftly to Kathedral Kazam. 2 traverses were still in but short pitch needed rigging. Luke then rigged Wild Honeycomb shaft. Ash has - audaciously - rigged this off naturals last year but it hadn't been surveyed, leaving George and Rachel's Nature Calls surveys at the base floating. George and I followed Luke down surveying, with Luke concerned he'd taken the wrong route, but all was well.

At the base, there's a sort of horizontal level which we rigged a short pitch down (7m) and then what George and Rachel had done as a 13m chimney down which Luke and I declared a pitch. This led to a ledge with a vast, perched boulder next to it. The Hangman.

the pitch had a massive echo and stone rattle. We drilled the pitch head spits but were out of hangers, so headed out.

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Survex files on this date:
    caves-1623/264/lower_balkon/mash
    caves-1623/264/lower_balkon/mash2
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    Balkon - Cathedral Kazam - Wild Honeycomb shaft - The Hangman