Rose Cottage
Top Dig Connects
After many months of work the second Rose Cottage entrance has now connected back in with the main cave near Paul's Personal Project over the Christmas break. Jane Clarke and Trevor Hughes had the dubious pleasure of breaking through the final few feet of crud.
On the first Wednesday digging session of 2007 a large team assembled to pull out all the remaining skips and digging bags to final put this one to rest.
Was it all worth it? Why did we dig there in the first place? Where will we go now?
All I can say is, thanks for finishing it. Now can we get back to some proper exploration!
Rose Cottage Top Dig is heading for....
Last weekend Tony Jarrat and I had a bet on after a digging session on Friday night. I thought he was heading in the wrong direction and was over 3m away and he thought he was on course and really close. Since there was beer at stake we undertook to survey it on Saturday night. Realising that the pub was open this was pushed back to Sunday afternoon.
On Sunday, Rich Smith, Henry Bennett and Doug Harris (MCG - getting some digging lessons in for Upper Flood) ran a tape and compass over the place and discovered....
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Pitch Found in Rose Cottage
Following work done on Wednesday 22nd March 2006 JRat and Tangent cleared the debris at the End of Prancer's Pride to gain access to the top of a pitch.The new pitch shown here now leads to a much deeper cave than just a few days ago.
A team of four descended on Saturday night and dropped a 2m rope, 10m
ladder, 5m free and another 4m free climbed pitch to a ...........