Vince, Nick, Brockers, Jake, Jon
Early at the cave to replace 10mm jute rope on the haul up out of the ‘pot’ with a 14mm hemp rope. These twisted natural fibre ropes are easier to grip with muddy gloves. The knots tied only last week were already tight. I was just about done as the team arrived.
Apparently, Brockers had been selected as ‘digger’ and he made his way towards AUD followed by Jake, Jon, and Nick. Meanwhile, I made my way into Can of Worms to continue the removal of calcite-cemented conglomerate boulders on the southside of the [current] end chamber. Just working at an annoyingly loose rock that just wouldn’t come free when I heard movement in the pot so went to help with spoil clearance dragging the few bags I had filled with me.
At the pot met Nick, who then helped with removal of rocks from CoW, before we cleared all the spoil from AUD and CoW out to the surface. Then returned for the next lot. The backlog of spoil was also moved out to the surface, this time with Jon’s added assistance. Back for more, by now time had moved beyond midday and a message was relayed to the digging team at AUD. Soon others could be heard, and all spoil was moved out the surface, bags were emptied, and racks added to the western wall extension. Nobody bothered counting how many bags; later at the Hunters’ we agreed it was greater than 10 but less than 100. It was a fun morning as ever!