23rd June

Roz (l) and Sara (r) post-trip!

Vince, Roz and Sara

Just for a change, a tourist trip into Hallowe’en Rift. Route from entrance via Merlin’s, Tuck Shop, An Emotional Journey to An Unexpected Development involves quite a lot of crawling. Dragged along a ladder and rope to descend the rift in AUD with Sara (Roz stayed at the top) followed by a tour of the rest of AUD then along towards Trick or Treat via the T-Junction (not going down Toil and Trouble) to the current dig in AUD area and location of faunal remains. Then back through to the Soft South therefore avoiding more crawling! A brief stop at Can of Worms to look at rocks that require size reduction and the results of Saturday’s ‘bulge’ removal which is impressive – it is now a spacious access to the ‘cross-rift’ and easier to load the skip at the current dig-face. Then a return to the surface, round trip completed, and a fine little trip it is too! Very enjoyable.

Sara prepares to climb the ladder in An Unexpected Development.