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Put in all the [illegible] words. Corrections from Olly.
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@ -30,7 +30,7 @@ went.</p>
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<p>One and a half pitches in ropeless and I suggested we swing
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across and look at the lead that leads back towards the old route into
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the cave. After swinging across we went down two short pitches – much
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[?] opens out to the side of the first pitch. At the bottom of the
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bigness opens out to the side of the first pitch. At the bottom of the
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second short pitch a short section of rift leads off to another
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drop. We turned round here. </p>
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@ -67,12 +67,12 @@ miss our call out so headed out leaving the survey for the next trip.</p>
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<p>First we tidied yesterday’s survey then went up the short pitch to
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the ledge, down the other side and up into the main Ropeless passage.
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Headed towards the [?] lead. On a sunnty day like today there is a very
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Headed towards the northern lead. On a sunny day like today there is a very
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strong draft from here, cold too.</p>
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<p>Got to last year’s pushing front and followed the draft descending
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short climb/pitch to a ledge with two ways on. Took the RH way with the
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draft down a rubble slope. Lost the draft part way down by I [? ?] down to
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draft down a rubble slope. Lost the draft part way down but I diligently poked down to
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the bottom through the boulders until it got too tight. I reckoned that
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we lost the draft to a window part way down the slope. Olly clambered
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across, to get into passage the other side. He accidently let the rope
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@ -1022,7 +1022,7 @@ parallel rift) and another climb/pitch heading north. Decided to leave that unti
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more gear.</p>
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<p>While Olly derigged Stuart looked at a roof tube above which looks promising but needs a
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drill. Moved on to the [Eother ?] place in [Eoth ?] to take the rope to the start of the traverse. On the way out we had a
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drill. Moved on to the Coldest place in Earth to take the rope to the start of the traverse. On the way out we had a
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look at getting into the roof tubes level with the top of the short pitch. Stuart traversed
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across from the pitch and I climbed from the bottom further along. The climb up was easy and
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I got to a similar level to Stuart. I knocked off a few loose holds and climbed up
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@ -1068,8 +1068,8 @@ gravel. The horizontal passage ended up choked in mud, but we could climb down a
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vertical oxbows. Once it stopped being free climbable a lead went down and east, and another
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down and west of this pitch. Looked like a window into a big passage 34m down.</p>
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<p>Surveyed back to the main passage hearing Olly drill as we went. Olly was low in hiltis
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so we gave him some more and looked at the next lead [illegible]. This ended in 2 different small
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<p>Surveyed back to the main passage hearing Olly drill as we went. Olly was low on hiltis
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so we gave him some more and looked at the next lead back. This ended in 2 different small
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pitches. We surveyed this and followed Olly down the pitch. The pitch looked to have
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multiple windows into it and was just under 50m deep to a big rocky floor. Olly went west
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through breakdown shafts and wriggled over a rock, he said “we’ve not found KH, but I think
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@ -1120,7 +1120,7 @@ wriggled down the rift which got increasingly echoy. I got to a pitch down that
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it belled out a lot. I didn’t have survey kit but estimate pitches 20-25m deeps and very
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interesting in its location relative to China. There is a lot of cave still to find here!
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Grade 1 surveyed back and continued to de-rig to the end of Sleepless. I bolted up into the
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roof tube. A couple of short climbs lead to [alastn?] aven, which might be free climbable. Surveyed
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roof tube. A couple of short climbs lead to a last aven, which might be free climbable. Surveyed
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this and continued to derig and bag carry. We got all five bafs of gear, plus survey kit
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through Pushing the Envelope. Too one bag out each to the entrance chamber.</p>
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<div class="timeug">T/U: 10hrs 30</div>
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@ -1133,7 +1133,7 @@ through Pushing the Envelope. Too one bag out each to the entrance chamber.</p>
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<p>Stuart rejoined us for the final derig. Got the gear to ropeless junction and had a quick
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side trip to show Stuart Wonderland and look at the roof tube there. Frustratingly after
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getting all the gear in, the fully charged, unused drill battery did half a hole. I
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suggested that Olly tried to lasso a spike as a belay which he [dilgently?] did after several
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suggested that Olly tried to lasso a spike as a belay which he dilgently did after several
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attempts. Sadly the spike then came down the pitch, so the lead is still going… Finished
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derigging + hauled the 6 bags up the entrance pitch and carted them back to camp. There
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are a lot of great leads in 107 and possible connections with 101 and 76 still to be
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