surface - Garlic Cave area prospecting

Sat 29 Jul 2023
Botch

We were both tired from 2 days in FIsh Face so went to prospect around Garlic Cave. We took a couple of blue barrels over for GC storage. We stopped via Homecoming to have a look and took some extra stuff to take down the hill. We dallied a bit looking at plants and arthropods and also got a bit lost. Once at GC we relocated the Jape Drum and removed the soup inside then had bread and cheese while looking at the view. We had limited time to prospect so set off quickly. At first we found little but then by levitating over some bunda we located a couple of decent prospects - one hole under a green alder (needs capping due to boulders) and another large slope to a small square hole with a 10m drop below in big area of bunda, no movement. We then headed back and got very lost on the 'well cairned' route back. On the way we located a very good lead, drafting with a snow plug and a massive train tunnel near the path that has leads in the back that could have been blocked by a snow plug before. We were very late to meet our lift back, but so were they. Back down for a swim in the lake with lightning.

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Survex files on this date:
    caves-1623/317/2023-ft-02-part3
    caves-1623/315/2023-jss-01_trip1
    caves-1623/315/2023-jss-01_trip2
Wallets on this date:
    2023#56 Mendip Man ['original survey plan of main passage', 'plan56', 'elev56_02', 'LRUDs for rift…
    2023#57 2023-ft-02-part3 Mahlstrom ['elevation', '2023-ft-02_part3_notes1', '2023-ft-02_part3_notes2_4csA8iv', '20…
Logbook trips on this date:
    Maelstrom - "Undersold"
    Mendip man - Mendip man - Surveying trip
    surface - Garlic Cave area prospecting