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- | ==== Far Rift Dig. Update to 11 Feb 2019 ==== | + | ==== Far Rift Dig. Update to 11th Feb 2019 ==== |
Through usage a few names for discoveries have stuck, the existing rift (with the knotted rope) at the end of the original dig with water in is now " | Through usage a few names for discoveries have stuck, the existing rift (with the knotted rope) at the end of the original dig with water in is now " | ||
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-- Lawrence 11/2/19 | -- Lawrence 11/2/19 | ||
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+ | ==== Gough' | ||
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+ | Emma, Chris C, Rachel & Andy, Lawrence, Rich and Andy C | ||
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+ | Tourist trip in via the Gough' | ||
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+ | Turning immediately to the right we went through the horizontal squeeze through 'the Portcullis Crawl' which is interesting on the return to the top of the rift. Then a careful flat out crawl past the stalagmite column into 'Boot Scraper Chamber' | ||
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+ | After exiting the cave and climbing over the fence we washed off our suites etc in the river. | ||
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+ | -- Emma | ||
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+ | ==== Far Rift Dig. Wed 6th, 7th Mar 2019 ==== | ||
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+ | The Team: Andy Sparrow, Richard Nurse, Will Puddy, Lewis Tucker (new member), Rachel Sparrow, Lawrence Wilson | ||
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+ | Following on from previous report. | ||
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+ | Andy returned from Alps and the small hole across the bedding plane was enlarged, as it would take three or four visits to allow access to see around the corner digging along the narrow rift continued, more as something to do rather than with any expectation. | ||
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+ | Wednesday 6/3/19\\ | ||
+ | With a new member recruited to the team (Lewis), | ||
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+ | The diggers went up and examined the result of the last blast, progress but no way through so continued the digging. After half an hour a large rock was removed and a small air space was revealed above it. The clay changed to pebbly sand with the air space enlarging as they went, after 1m of rapid progress pebbles started to bounce down into a void ahead! Richard pushed and was through, closely followed by Lewis and Will. The small tube broke into one end of a large rift about 4 or 5m from the floor. This was down climbed and the large size of the breakthrough seen, they decided to return at this point to get Andy and myself to join in, sadly we had exited the cave a couple of minutes earlier so caught up with us washing kit in the river, much excitement and talk of ways on, as it was late it was decided to reconvene the following evening to explore. | ||
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+ | Thursday 7/3/19\\ | ||
+ | Seven o' | ||
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+ | The floor slopes down at about 30 degrees, at the higher end it is mostly clay with a possible dig site under the Sparrows nest. At the lower, far end there is a lot of sand and another good dig site. There is bat shit everywhere, even more than in Backstop Rift. A few small passages were pushed but none went, the rift was climbed from the floor to no avail. | ||
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+ | Back at the ledge Rachel and Andy had spotted a high level traverse about half way up the rift, this was crossed into an unstable area with lots of leads in all directions, the most intriguing of which is a small bedding plane heading off South-East, it dips down, is half full of mud but can been seen going around a slight bend about 4m ahead. | ||
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+ | So in summary, up to 30m of new cave discovered, this is the third rift we have encountered and they seem to be getting progressively bigger as we go. More evidence of bats, still no clue where they are coming from, there was no known open link between | ||
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+ | What next? We desperately need all of the new extensions surveyed (Max has volunteered).\\ | ||
+ | There is a lot of " | ||
+ | Access needs improving all the way from Referendum rift.\\ | ||
+ | Traverse line, hand line, platform or staples need fitting at traverse.\\ | ||
+ | Bedding plane and other leads need digging/ | ||
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+ | -- Lawrence | ||
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+ | ==== Lionel' | ||
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+ | Will Sampson, Danny Burnett, Barry Hulatt | ||
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+ | Three of us, Will Sampson, Danny Burnett and me, Barry Hulatt, did a quick trip around Lionel' | ||
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+ | -- Barry Hulatt | ||
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