29/04/21 - Jeff W, Jon P, Luke C
Photo trip from the entrance to Inglorious Bastards. Presumably so uneventful that none of them could be bothered to write it up.
30/04/2021 - Jeff W, Rob E
Just the two of us, and I was nicely impressed that it was Jeff’s 3rd trip in 3 days. He’s a good’un.
Pre-beers completed we headed down to get some photos in Loper Lust. This is certainly not the easiest of photography locations but thankfully Jeff was on form and got some good shots without too much faff. As a model I was very grateful of his haste as it’s a very windy place to be lying about, covered in filth.
We then went on into Wet West to inspect a side passage (Deep South) that heads towards the flatout Black Draught passage, off of Inglorious Bastards chamber. We managed to get a good voice connection from here a few weeks ago and it may well provide a better connection than the current Loper Lust one, which we know sumps in very wet weather, and did I mention it’s filthy!
We had always planned for today to be a quick inspection so didn’t bother with capping gear. This was a faux pas on my behalf which I realised instantly upon arrival that it’s a perfect location for capping. With just a hammer and crowbar we did not achieve very much. That did however make us go for more of a look about the end of Deep South and there’s at least two very promising digs here heading away from the known Cussey and taking mega draughts. This sort of project is exactly why we started pushing Cussey, so it’s great that we’ve got something to get our teeth into straight away, and driven us more to now make the Black Draught connection also.
We headed straight out from there, noting that it took us 15 minutes to get through LL and back to Inglorious and a further 30 minutes to the surface.
The breakthrough point, by Jeff