Trip report
| 2010-07-03 | Cliefden Caving weekend at Cliefden, Central West |
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| Arrived Friday night through cold sleet and a little snow (near Mandurama) to find Harry and Andrew already at the Hut. Andrew had a good fire going. After settling in Rod,Dave Tab, Mark, Elanor and Kate, Grant and Lara also arrived before 9:30 pm with Ros and John arriving around 10:30pm. Sat Morning saw us head off for Island Cave. The party was split in two with Dave T, Grant, Lara, Harry, Ros and John entering by CL6. and Mark, Rod, Elanor and Kate entering by Cl 55 entrance. We caved from 9:30 to about 1pm and then back to the hut to meet Mike and to have lunch. After lunch the team trogged until sunset with Rod and Ros finding the entrances to Wyreemba (CL 9) and Lock (CL10). Board games around the table that night (thanks Kate). Sunday morning We all headed for Main Cave CL1 in two parties. One entering at 9:30 to place the Plane table and the other party about half an hour later. The "Party of the first part" headed off for some trip leader training while the Party of the second part did some photography of survey techniques in the main chamber. Both parties met by the clown room and then exited by 1:30 pm. We noticed that there seemed to be some damage to a large Stal Just inside the main chamber (possibly due to rockfall from the entrance) there seemed to be much more mud tracked throughout the cave than previously. After lunch and the clean up we left the property by 3:30 pm. | |
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Mark, Kate and John in Cliefden Main
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