Vince, Jake, Jon, and Nick
As seems to be usual I arrived at the cave with time to spare so occupied myself fettling walls and packing bags until the team assembled. Jon has returned from injury although the story we had fabricated was more imaginative, Nick was [almost] recovered from a long bike ride, Lôn Las Cymru (NCN 8 mostly) completed this week.
A brief discussion regarding venue and strategy and we settled on Can of Worms with the task of removing the bulge of rock/calcite obstructing access to the cross-rift, this would be attacked from both sides. Jake from the ‘dig’ side with Nick on the approach side after retrieving some hefty bars from AUD area. Jon and me, were on spoil removal. It was pleasantly cool underground while on the surface it was very warm and humid.
The spoil was moved out to the surface, rock added to the western extension wall, and bags emptied in the space created. At the end of the session, 44 bags had been filled, hauled, and emptied plus an unspecified quantity of rock hauled and placed on the wall. And the skip can now be loaded direct at the dig-face in CoW. There is one large boulder that requires some further attention to reduce its size to more manageable pieces.
Refreshment was very welcome at the Hunters’ it had been warm work today!