Vince, Mike, Jake, Jon, Tav, Nick, and Brockers. The full squad!
At the cave, while waiting for the team to arrive added the pile of stones recovered last weekend to the wall extension and levelled spoil behind the wall, created more space for emptying bags later.
The team assembled. Underground in Can of Worms, me and Mike rotated the digging under the ‘arch’ on the SW side of the chamber, Jake, Jon, and Tav removed the spoil and between filled bags and rocks cleared the remaining slumped material off the ledge. Also, venturing to the bottom of the pot to tidy the spillover material from there too. Nick and Brockers were on the surface taking care of spoil redistribution.
At the dig face, a large boulder was removed from overhead that had been part of the sediment-fill in another ‘cross-rift’ that needed to be cleared before concentrating again on forward progress. Much of the silt trickling down your neck, which was irritating! Steady progress was made throughout the session and with the full team assembled spoil was shifted through the cave to the surface and on to the spoil heap. This meant digging was continued beyond midday. No idea how many bags were filled, hauled, and emptied today – someone said, “quite a lot!”
Satisfied with the morning’s effort, we departed, re-assembling at the Hunters’ for the usual post-digging refreshments.