Walked up to 204 in the evening to see where it was and say "hi" to Earl + Becka. 204 bivvy is ~45mins from our bivvy, but I don't walk very fast.
+Decided to carry the drill through the Test Tube to bolt stuff in Brave New World. We decided it would be better to carry SRT kits +rather than wearing them too. Carrying tackle made the Test Tube seem much smaller and more arduous... Turned right into BNW, and Olly got +started with putting a traverse round the pitch that had made me scared the previous day. All went well till he dropped his stop onto a +ledge a few meters down. Shortly, the stop was retrieved and the traverse line rigged across, we were a bit cold so decided to postpone +further bolting and to survey leftwards at the next junction. This led to an aven that looked not too hard to climb and a probable passage +heading off at the top. We surveyed back, then I started to bolt down the pitch at the end of the traverse line, the ~15m pitch came down +to a high vadose passage that shortly led to a further pitch down that we had no rope for. Olly put in 2 spits in preparation for a later +trip and we surveyed back out. We still had hours left before our callout, so we went to look at the stream canyon beneath the passage on +from the ptich, assuming it would come out in the same pitch, soon it came out in what seemed to be yet another pitch... we surveyed this, +then left the cave.
+Didn't feel like carrying tackle through the Test Tube again, so took survey gear to tick off some leads (hopefully). The first lead we +looked at was the tube on the right around halfway along, near the probable 99 connection. It got progressively narrower, and then there +were some small pristine white stals. We decided that it would be hard to get past them without touching them, so surveyed out. Continued +into Brave New World, and turned left to survey the oxbow passages, these are small and crappy and the 3 passages end up uniting and going +to a pitch in a stream canyon - we surveyed to here and attempted to plumb the pitch. It is ~6m deep. Still had time left so went the +other way along BNW, round the pitch and to the cahmber we started surveying from on the 25th. Looked down the passage on the right, this +gets bigger for a bit raising our hopes of this being the Train Tunnel passage we had been looking for, but it got lower and a crawl led +to a big aven chamber which looked not too hard to climb. From the chamber it was not obvious where we had come from as it all looked +small, so Olly named it "No Ways Chamber" though in fact I found another crawl out near ours that became vadose passage of a reasonable +size to an aven - this is still to be surveyed.
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