Billed as a photoshoot, I took the opportunity to join the trip to look at something that has been nagging me for a few years and Phil Pappard for 45 years (probbably), that is to look at the dashed line drawn on the survey at the end of Rocky horror.
I convinced Pete Hall to come with me and we split off at the slope going up to the Trident series.
Going through the boulders is difficult, both slippery and loose, but it's easiest to descend only when you need to (reach a wall of boulders) and then invariably find the way through on the left. You will come to larger river passage (well the passage is the same size just not as bouldery) from here we followed a slope up on the left.
Following seldom travelled sandy banks where I stopped just short last time, we scaled yet more boulders to reach the objective.
At the top, all the crawls seemed to close down and the cave looked very unstable here (shale, lots of undergood movement and sideways stals). However, there was space on the left-hand side exactly as shown on the survey.
This starts off dogey but after 5m of crawling through dubious rocks we were in a tall rift about 5m high and up to 2m across.
We began surveying and it continued round a slight corner on the right after a wedged boulder and seemed to continue further still. It lowered to a crawl under yet more boulders before unfortunately coming to a halt in a complete choke.
We surveyed out to the main chamber, there's no kerns or survey points to tie into, but we hope it should be obvious where it is on the survey.
We then headed out and came across the photoshoot, where Pete joined them. Noticing it was now 7:30pm, I thought I better get a move on, or risk being locked out of my apartment as John would have gone to bed.
Solo exiting, I made it out by 9:15, which was the right choice as the others exited at 11:30ish too late for Pablos as it would be midnight at the bar and more like 1am for me, meaning John would have gone to bed.
