Homecoming - start of the Second Coming

Mon 15 Jul 2019
Daniel Heins



Blog Post - Reply #5 on: July 18, 2019, 03:33:10 pm An update on the past few days of exploration at Homecoming!
[ Editor: this blog post has been split up into separate logbook entries for each trip. ]

Monday Jul 15:

Dickon and I went down Homecoming to the start of the Second Coming (after the airy Gromit pitch) and did a 2 bolt climb into a small lead that turned out to be a bit of phreatic passage heading generally east. ~200m of survey (including a short 15m pitch and a bit of clambering about) has resulted in a new area of the cave (dubbed 'Propane Nightmares') breaking away from the main passages. Most of this section was straightforward and linear, though an area centered around a surprise sump has a maze of cutarounds. Onward we have left one notable lead in one passage climbing upward, and another pair of leads at the end of another leg, with a good lead continuing on top at phreatic passage, and another lead dropping down a rift.

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Survex files on this date:
    caves-1626/359/propane_nightmares
Wallets on this date:
    2019#03 propane nightmares ['plan3', 'notes3', 'elevation1', 'plan2', 'plan1', 'notes2', 'notes1', 'elevat…
    2019#04 ['notes2', 'notes1']
    2019#06 ['plan1', 'notes1']
Logbook trips on this date:
    homecoming - Shopping trip
    Happy Butterfly - Rigging Happy Butterfly
    Balkon - Trip to Northern Powerhouse in Balcony
    Homecoming - start of the Second Coming
    Happy Butterfly - Happy Butterfly
    Homecoming - Propane Night
    Balkon - re-rigging Honeycomb
    Balkon - upper level
    Homecoming - rigging entrance and 3 pitches