+Hamish had his first go at bolting with Harry showing him the ropes and it was the first time for all of us using pulses, which are excellent but slightly scary with how easy they are to put in. Having dropped the initial entrance shaft, we were surprised to find that the cave kept going, leading into a further pitch which landed on a snowy slope. Descending the snowy slope we hit horizontal passage with an impressive ice column and stal. The passage headed off in two directions, we started with the obvious passage which led to a scramble up boulders into a chamber which didn’t go. Harry and I started surveying from here back towards the entrance whilst Hamish had a look down the other passage. We had forgotten nail varnish so resorted to scratching crosses in the walls as survey points. The other direction ended in a draughting sharp squeeze which Harry and I were unconvinced by as we weren’t in oversuits but Hamishes youthful enthusiasm was excellent as he cracked on in just a short sleeve tshirt and found it kept going. +
+There was a pitch after the squeeze and the rest of our rope was still on the surface which made a good excuse for going out for lunch with a chance to warm up in the sunshine. After lunch we headed back in and hamish rigged the pitch after the squeeze which led to more horizontal passage with a couple of dead bats in. We came to a boulder floored chamber which choked at the top end of the slope and a pitch at the bottom end. Hamish started rigging this pitch whilst Harry and I surveyed back towards the entrance. Hamish dropped down to a ledge and having run out of bolts we decided to finish surveying out and come back another day with more kit. Our new find was named Hahaha Hohle due to us all having names starting in ‘Ha’. We walked back down the hill, somehow getting a free beer off the barman at the Loseralm on our way down which was a great end to the day. +