Homecoming - Bolting and descending pitch

Sat 27 Jul 2024
Rosa B

Myself and Aidan wanted to return to homecoming to explore our leads above Radagast further.Our main aim was to descend a pitch we have named 'tiered gherkin' into the stream way we could see below. The pitch was drippy with a few re-belays required. Unsure of how passable pitch will be in wet weather. Some 'fuck no's from Aidan when bolting as the wall made some dull noises when hit with a hammer. Whilst Aidan was bolting myself and James M tried out our opera singing skills with a range of languages. We initially descended down the left side of the pitch as it was drier but there was not an obvious way down to the streamway so Aidan went to bolt in the other direction. Whilst he was doing this I tried to climb down via a few routes however overcommitted and got myself jammed in a rift for a good while. Lengths of pitches were recorded and a couple of extra bits of survey data was collected to solidly connect our surveying from a few days ago to the main data. Aidan is to explore Banana Boat Stream way with James M and Colin on Monday.

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Survex files on this date:
    caves-1623/264/lower_balkon/tamponturnaround
    caves-1623/264/lower_balkon/pitstop_5
    caves-1626/359/cawodydd_cachlyd
    caves-1626/359/belowradagast2
Wallets on this date:
    2024#21 cawodydd_cachlyd|Cawodydd Cachlyd ['No uploaded scans or incorrect path to wallet contents']
    2024#23 topos Welsh Engineering ['Welsh Engineering Rigging Topo 2-2', 'Saruman Topo & Sketch-2', 'Saruman Topo…
    2024#24 Below Radagast 2 ['notes1-belowradogast2']
    2024#26 Welsh Engineering ['WelshEngineering26Notes-1', 'WelshEngineering26Notes-2']
    2024#29 pitstop_5 ['No uploaded scans or incorrect path to wallet contents']
    2024#30 Tampon Turnaround ['TamponTurnaround.metadata[1]', 'TamponTurnaround.ext-elevation[1]', 'TamponTu…
Logbook trips on this date:
    Homecoming - Bolting and descending pitch
    Homecoming - Watershed Murder Camp
    Homecoming - Sauruman Pot
    plateau - Prospecting to Stone Arch