Vince, Brockers, Jake, Jon, and Tav.
On an early spring morning in the sunshine, Hallowe’en Rift is a pleasant place to be, on the surface anyway. Added the few rocks that were available to the embryo spoil heap wall and scratched around some sediment to consolidate the wall. Then packed away the very dry and dusty bags ready for refilling at some later stage. When todays team had assembled all set off underground.
Tav led the way to the NE extent (An Unexpected Development area) with Jon to clear the filled bags and rocks away, Jake was hauling the spoil up the slope, Brockers moving it across the chamber (Trick or Treat) to the hump. Before joining the team, I decided to take a quick look into Can of Worms to see how it was progressing. While I was there, I made a very token gesture of filling some loose bags (3no.). then along the NE passage to move spoil.
As digging continued, spoil was moved through the cave to the surface, rocks were added to the ‘embryo’ wall, bags were emptied, then back underground to repeat the process. By the end of the session, about 50 bags were filled, hauled, and emptied plus several skip loads of rocks. Some larger rocks were left lurking in the chamber waiting for a reduction to more manageable (and useable) sizes.
As ever, the morning was rounded off with a visit to our favourite hostelry! Another good session.