Vince, Jon, Brockers, Jake, Nick, and Tav
Arrived at the cave ahead of the team carrying drill and plugs/feathers to deal with a couple of boulders left-over from last weekend on the ledge. Just finished as I heard voices approaching.
I moved along the passage into Can of Worms to get digging underway, I was soon joined by Jon. There is plenty of room for two people to dig. Jon concentrated his effort on following the narrow fissures downwards, while my effort was focussed to the southwest where calcite-cemented boulders of conglomerate and fine-grained sediment needed to be removed. It was not especially easy digging but by the end of the morning we had created more space than we had started with, progress was made. There are a couple of large lumps of conglomerate impeding downward progress, they are beyond the capabilities of plugs/feathers requiring more aggressive attention. A job for another day.
All the spoil had been moved to the surface where Nick had emptied all the bags and added rocks to the spoil heap wall. No idea how many bags, but all seem satisfied with the mornings progress. The session was rounded off, as usual, with refreshments at the Hunters’ Lodge Inn.
Note – 12th January: solo trip into Can of Worms to attend to the rock obstructions. We’ll see on Saturday just how well things went!