Jon, Hal, Chris, Jim, Joe, Rob
I'd missed the last 3 trips due to holiday, so was biting at the bit to see what the lads had been up to. Also after last week they were a little unsure of the best way on and wanted someone else (me) to make a decision.
Hal and Jim chose to stay topside so us "youngsters" headed down. Me n Chris went straight to the dig whilst Joe helps Jon with some photos further back. It's awesome to get your tackle bag delivered down the pipe right where you need it!
Chris dug for half an hour then i had a go. We were just heading down in the floor to see if it changed and started to open up at all. It didn't, unfortunately, just packed with mud. J&J joined us and we had a 5 minute natter about the best route. I spouted some bullshit which they seemingly needed to hear and we decided to change plan and head horizontally, following the draught. This is clean and draughts pretty well, but looks like it could be quite lose so we'll have to be careful. Weirdly it's kinda back towards the shakehole and the other entrance, which doesn't feel right.
I installed a temperature and humidity datalogger to try decypher what the draught is telling us. Possibly a stupid academic exercise which will end up with us misinterpreting the results and doing the wrong thing, but TBF that does sound like something i'd do.
Joe spent 30 mins attacking the first boulder then Jim made his first input of the night by shouting down the tube "Pub". He was right, the pub was good.