Vince, Jake, Nick, Jon, Tav, Mike, and todays guest digger, Harley Bennett
While waiting for the team to assemble at the cave I spent some time ‘titivating’ the spoil heap prior to the morning’s activities, before packaging the dried bags ready to be refilled later.
The team duly arrived. I wanted to have a look to see if the area where the bears are located had dried out so took Harley on a round trip to An Unexpected Development (Harley is working towards a Duke of Edinburgh Award) ending at Can of Worms. The ‘bear’ area has not dried sufficiently so no further excavation possible at present. There are a lot of tools and bags left in this area that could do with clearing back towards the cave entrance so they can be used elsewhere. When we got to CoW, Harley was directed towards the dig where Tav and Jon were busy digging and I went to the bottom of the entrance to help with spoil removal, Jake went up to the surface to haul bags and rocks out. Mike was on the ledge hauling spoil from the dig, Nick was doing his own ‘thing’ on the ledge, I’m not sure it is entirely necessary, but I couldn’t be bothered to argue the point.
The backlog of bags and rocks in the entrance were cleared, and I returned to the surface to help Jake empty the bags and add rocks to the wall before going back underground to resume my position. The morning progressed steadily.
At the end of the session, about 75 bags had been filled, hauled, and emptied plus several skip loads of rocks added to the wall. And the weather was good!
Onwards to the Hunters’ Lodge Inn for the usual refreshments and debrief discussion.