I met Keith in the morning at the Orpheus hut, leaving Karen with her parents. We headed for the Old Smithy Cafe in Monyash for breakfast and then drove up Derby Lane and got changed, sheltering from the drizzle at the back of my car.
Keith rigged down the entrance pitch and I followed down. We were planning to do a rough survey to check where the current dig (the end of "North-West" Passage) lies in relation to the surface. We measured with a 5 metre household tape and Silva compass so it wasn't going to be a highly accurate survey, but it should be good enough to do a rough check.
Once we had the underground survey, we prusiked back up the entrance pitch and then measured out the lengths and directions on the surface. This indicated that the dig was roughly below a shakehole in a nearby field which has a line of blind trial shafts.
We got changed again and had a quick brew in the cafe and then back to the Orpheus hut.
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