Present: Michael Holliday (SUSS/TSG), Alex Ried (TSG), Toby Wheatcroft (SUSS)
The NCC shafts have always been a favorite of mine (https://tinyurl.com/SUSSNCCreport), and I intend to give it a good once-over in the next month or two. My source for almost everything is the excellent summary report by Wayne Sheldon in TSG18 - if anyone else has any good sources, do let me know.
A few weeks back a couple of cyber messages dropped through my portal. One was an email from Simon Brooks, asking for a key-holder for a Tuesday evening trip into Peak Cavern for a group of visitors to Hidden Earth from Pakistan, and the other was a report of a TSG trip involving losing a nut from the P32 which was holding the new deviation on the down pitches of the NCC shafts. I was also looking for a suitable trip for the Tuesday Night Gang, so it looked as though all three requests could be satisfied, and I wrote back to Simon saying it was on.
Ann Soulsby, Ade Pedley, Dave Ottewell, Alan Brentnall
A small party of four (Lee Langdon, Ade Pedley, Christine Wilson and myself) went into NCC Shafts with the intention of sorting out a better rig for the 2nd pitch. When this pitch was originally bolted, the few bolts which were available left the rigger with a long tension traverse along a gulley, a fall from which might have had serious consequences. The new solution is a high deviation from a P32 above and part way along the gulley which lands the caver nicely within a couple of metres of the rebelay.
On Saturday, Phil and I had arranged to be digging in JH, however......Due to the rather heavy precipitation (combined with the fog I encountered on my journey to the Hut), we decided instead to have a wander into Peak and elected to have a look at the NCC Shafts as I had only been as far as Galena Chamber previously. We passed Irene in the Great Cave (who was busy with a group of customers) and made our way down the slide and into the cave "proper".