# 1623/182 Puffball and Icing Sugar Cave history

# 182 Puffball and Icing Sugar Cave History

### 1990

07.30 | Discovery by Jeremy (15 min) and Adam (35 min)
08.02 | Joe (1 hr) and Adam (2 hr) push and find going

### 1991

07.04 | Del, Juliette, Julian H, John (3½ hrs) start rigging
07.05 | Tony, John, Mark M (8 hrs) explore Shell Pitch and Q8
07.06 | Del, Juliette, Julian H, Mark M (9 hrs) push beyond Shell pitch
07.07 | Gill, Jon, Olly (7 hrs) push end and survey partway out
07.08 | Gill, Olly (11 hrs) survey down first rope, pushed Tarzan's Folly to Dark Room
07.09 | Mark M, Julian T, Olly (10 hrs) push From Dark Room to Cloud Chamber
07.10 | Tony, Del, Julian H, Juliette (10½ hrs) survey, and push Fat Knot Fruity - hit by flood pulse
07.12 | Mark D, Jon (8½ hrs) push down Traditional Style pitches
07.12 | Julian H, Mark M, Julian S (9½ hrs) survey from Darkroom down 2 pitches
07.16 | Mark D, Julian H (4 hrs) push lead above Q8
07.17 | Wookey, Julian H (3¾ hrs) flood-aborted survey/derig
07.23 | Andy, Wook (10 hrs) derig 1st wave
07.24 | Henri, Olly (8¾ hrs) derig 2nd wave

### 1992

06.26 | Mark M, Julian H, Alastair (9 hrs), Matt (6 hrs) rig in
07.02 | Mark M, Julian H, Alistair (9½ hrs) rerig/push Piezo towards Dark Room
07.03 | Mark M, Julian H, Alistair (11 hrs) push Piezo into Darkroom
07.03 | Matt, Glen, Julian S (7 or 8 hrs) discover Brute Force and Ignorance
07.04 | Glen, Mark M (11 hrs) rerigging and ferrying gear to front
07.04 | Matt, Julian S (7 hrs) rig Ignorance into Dot-to-dot
07.07 | Mark S, Clive (5 hrs) tourist to Natural Redundancy
07.08 | Olly, Julian S, Glen (7½ hrs) pottering and down to Darkroom
07.08 | Matt, Julian H, Alistair, Mark M (14 hours) push Navigational Limit and collapse entrance
07.10 | (probably really 07.09) Olly (¼ hr) gingerly retrieves drill from entrance
07.10 | Dave, Andrew (3 hrs), "everybody else" stabilise entrance at some risk
07.11 | Julian H, Richard, Aggy (8½ hrs) layed 600m cable and checked wet-weather rigging
07.14 | Alistair, Clive, Fran, Mark M (13 hrs) push two pitches to sump
07.14 | Richie, Jerry (9½ hrs) tourist and pull drill up Piezo
07.14-15 | Olly, Julian S (9 hrs) do lots of survey
07.16 | Richie, Ali M (5½ hrs) surveying in Strike 2
07.16 | Julian H, Wookey (11 hrs), Gill (8 hrs) surveying and some derig
07.17 | Olly, Julian S (9 hrs) surveying QS&C
07.18 | Julian H, Mark M (11½ hrs), Andy, Tony (8½ hrs) photo and derig bottom
07.23 | Julian S (1½ hrs) fails to derig as no rope to pull out
07.27 | Wookey, Olly (6 hrs 20) derig most
07.28 | Wookey, Olly (6 hrs 50) survey, push odds, derig more
07.30 | Clive (2 hrs?) goes to derig, but already done
08.01 | Olly (8½ hrs) solo survey, push and derig

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