P8

After breakfast at Monyash café, the two of us (myself and Karen) drove to the OCC Cottage to meet Chris Jackson, Joe Burmeister, Ashleigh Richardson, and Pete Wagstaff who were all taking part in a SRT workshop being run for the club by Nigel Atkins.
After a quick talk through a few situations with a Powerpoint presentation in the club library, we all headed for P8 for an underground session.
We split into three groups of two with Nigel, assisted by Matt (an aspirant CIC), and made our way to three pitches which are rigged in The Flats area of the cave above the streamway near Idiot's Leap.
Matt watched and offered suggestions as Karen rigged the pitch we were allocated (which drops down the the shelf just below Idiot's Leap). Karen then prusiked up a short distance and then feigned “being knackered”. I then tied one end of a spare rope being carried by Matt to one of the anchors, attached my Mini-traxion and lowered this down to Karen with a karabiner attached.
Karen was instructed to attach this to the top of her Croll. I then pulled on the other end of the rope to lend assistance as she prusiked back up.
Afterwards we joined the others at another pitch further down the streamway and as we all sat in a small chamber above the pitch, Nigel covered various situations and problems and how to cope with them.
As the time approached 17:00, we had been underground about three and a half hours and we packed up and returned to the hut.