| Date |
Cave |
Work in progress |
Members |
| 1/7/97 |
|
Expedition leaves Oxford |
|
| 3/7/97 |
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Arrival at Los Lagos |
|
| 4-7/7/97 |
|
Top Camp established |
|
| 7/7/97 |
C4 |
Entrance pitches rigged |
KDH, OJH, FB |
| 8/7/97 |
C4 |
Rigged to Maria Rosa |
WGJ, JW, AMW |
| 10/7/97 |
C4 |
Rigged to Hash Brown |
GL, OJH, FB |
| 10/7/97 |
C4 |
Rerigging |
JW,AMW, KDH |
| 11/7/97 |
C4 |
Rigged to Free n' Easy |
NJM, WGJ, JW |
| 12/7/97 |
C4 |
Rigged to There be Dragons |
OJH, GL, FB |
| 12/7/97 |
Area F |
Shaftbashing F44 |
KDH, NJM |
| 14/7/97 |
Area F |
Location of F41/F80/shaftbashing |
GL, OJH, WGJ, AMW |
| 15/7/97 |
Area F |
Shaftbashing |
GL, NJM |
| 15/7/97 |
D7 |
Entrance rigged/breakthrough to 2nd
pitch |
NJM, AMW |
| 16/7/97 |
F41 |
Previous limit reached |
NJM, KDH |
| 17/7/97 |
F41 |
Cave apparently bottomed in choked chamber |
GL, AMW |
| 17/7/97 |
Area F |
F88 located/examined |
KDH, WGJ |
| 17-18/7/97 |
C4 |
Rigging completed. Lake established as sump
after leads checked with big light. |
NJM, OJH, FB, JW |
| 18/7/97 |
F88 |
Entrance pitches descended |
KDH, NB |
| 18/7/97 |
Area F |
Shaftbashing F28/F89/F90 |
GL |
| 19/7/97 |
Area F |
Shaftbashing F90/F5b/F5c |
GL |
| 19/7/97 |
F88 |
Rigged to Rastaman Redemption |
KDH, NB |
| 20/7/97 |
F88 |
Surveyed to limit of exploration |
KDH, NJM, AMW |
| 20/7/97 |
Area F |
Shaftbashing F18/F19 |
GL |
| 20/7/97 |
F41 |
Survey |
IB, WGJ |
| 20/7/97 |
F88 |
Pushing Rastaman Redemption |
OJH, NB |
| 20/7/97 |
F41 |
Jolly/orientation practice |
ADK, JW |
| 21/7/97 |
F88 |
Leads at base of Rastaman Redemption checked |
IB, WGJ |
| 21/7/97 |
D7 |
Gardener's World descended |
ADK, NJM, AMW |
| 22/7/97 |
F88 |
Exhausted leads at bottom of cave |
PH, GL |
| 22/7/97 |
F41 |
Way on via alternative 4th pitch
discovered |
JW, LM, AG |
| 22/7/97 |
Canalizos #1 |
Entrance pitch rigged |
HJ, RBG |
| 23/7/97 |
Canalizos #1 |
Cave extended beyond 'impenetrable' rift at
limit of SIE exploration |
GL, HJ |
| 23/7/97 |
F41 |
New route extended to head of big pitch |
AG, LM, JW |
| 23/7/97 |
F88 |
Jolly - identified leads across head of Rastaman
Redemption across traverse |
RBG, FAL, ADK |
| 24/7/97 |
Canalizos #1 |
Cave extended by two further pitches to
apparent sump. |
GL, HJ |
| 24/7/97 |
Area F |
Shaftbashing F45a/F46 |
WGJ, JW, LM |
| 24/4/97 |
F88 |
Vampire's Leap rigged and pushed |
RBG, FAL |
| 24/7/97 |
F41 |
Ice Spider descended to choked
floor |
AG, OJH |
| 24/7/97 |
Area D |
Shaftbashing D9, D12, D14, D15 |
PH |
| 25/7/97 |
Canalizos #1 |
Sump found to have drained (!) - extended
into phreatic section and boulder choke |
ADK, OJH |
| 25/7/97 |
Area D |
Shaftbashing D13-15 |
PH, IB |
| 25/7/97 |
D20 |
Shaftbashing |
RBG, LM |
| 26/7/97 |
Area F/D/6 |
Shaftbashing F91-93 |
GL, LM |
| 26/7/97 |
F74 |
Shaftbashing |
IB |
| 26/7/97 |
Area D |
Shaftbashing D16-17 |
PH |
| 26/7/97 |
F88 |
Crossed Vampire's Leap to pitch into
blind shaft |
PJH, FAL |
| 27/7/97 |
Area D |
Shaftbashing D15-19 |
PH |
| 27/7/97 |
F88 |
Survey completed |
RM, HJ, LM |
| 27/7/97 |
F86(a)/F41 |
Shaftbashing F86/F86(a) and rigging in F41
for photography |
AG, JC, FAL |
| 27/7/97 |
Canalizos #1 |
Examination of boulder choke |
GL, ADK |
| 27/7/97 |
F41 |
Photography trip |
BL, TCG, AMW, RW |
| 28/7/97 |
Area F |
Shaftbashing F94-99 |
GL |
| 28/7/97 |
F41 |
Survey of extensions to head of last pitch |
JC, OJH |
| 28/7/97 |
C4 |
Draft traced and all downstream leads tied
up/detectors placed and flow volume measured |
AG, PH, BL, HJ |
| 28/7/97 |
Canalizos #1 |
Digging boulder choke and exploring aven
chambers |
TCG, LM, RBG |
| 28/7/97 |
F88 |
Photography trip |
JW, PMM |
| 29/7/97 |
Canalizos #1 |
Digging choke and placing line in sump area |
GL, JC, RW |
| 29/7/97 |
D19 |
Descended two pitches to boulder chamber |
FAL, NJM, RM |
| 29/7/97 |
F88 |
Pushed blind inlet beyond traverse and
derigged cave |
HJ, AMW |
| 29/7/97 |
Canalizos #1 |
Photography trip |
OJH, PMM, JW |
| 30/7/97 |
D19 |
Explored choked leads/identified possible
alternative route |
FAL, NJM, RM |
| 30/7/97 |
Canalizos #1 |
Digging boulder choke/surveying Gerbilism/photography |
TCG, LM, RBG, AG, BL, ADK |
| 31/7/97 |
C4 |
Photography trip/detectors removed |
PMM, JW, JC, RW |
| 1/8/97 |
C4 |
Derigging |
Practically everyone but... |
| 1/8/97 |
Area 8 |
Shaftbashing Pozu Xastre and 13/8 |
TCG(!) |
| 2/8/97 |
Area F |
Shaftbashing F13 |
HJ, FAL |
| 2/8/97 |
D20 |
Further pitch descended to end of cave |
BL, TCG, LM |
| 2/8/97 |
Area F |
Shaftbashing F96 |
RM, NJM |
| 4/8/97 |
Canalizos #1 |
Rigging in parallel shaft |
NJM, HJ, FAL |
| 4/8/97 |
Areas E/F |
Shaftbashing - E14 identified |
JC, AG |
| 4/8/97 |
Canalizos #3 |
Rigging entrance pitches |
TCG, LM |
| 4/8/97 |
E12 |
Abortive attempt to move boulder blocking
rift ends with Rob's head exploding |
RBG, RW |
| 5/8/97 |
Canalizos #1 |
Rigged to base of parallel shaft |
BL, HJ |
| 5/8/97 |
Canalizos #3 |
Cave conclusively bottomed. Possible
alternative route identified through window |
TCG, LM |
| 5/8/97 |
E14 |
Tubular Bells descended |
JC, AMW, AG |
| 5/8/97 |
D19 |
Alternative route descended to aven chambers
with drafting boulder floor |
NJM, RW |
| 6/8/97 |
Canalizos #3 |
Pushing tight leads |
RBG, RW |
| 6/8/97 |
Canalizos #1 |
Pushing leads at base of parallel shaft |
BL, HJ |
| 6/8/97 |
E14 |
Digging squeeze at base of Tubular Bells |
JC, AMW, AG, LM |
| 7/8/97 |
Canalizos #3 |
Clusterfer descended to Tortellini
Streamway, with upstream sump and downstream rift |
JC, TCG, LM |
| 7/8/97 |
D19 |
Pushed terminal lead and derigged |
RBG, NJM |
| 8/8/97 |
Area F |
Shaftbashing around F96 |
JC, NJM |
| 9/8/97 |
Canalizos #1 |
Push to window across final pitch in parallel
shaft/begin to derig main shaft/epic |
BL, NJM, KAW, RW |
| 9/8/97 |
Canalizos #3 |
Push rifts and survey all extensions |
RBG, JC |
| 10/8/97 |
Canalizos #3 |
Derigging |
JC, KAW |
| 11/8/97 |
Canalizos #1 |
Derig main shaft |
RBG, KAW, NJM |
| 11/8/97 |
F41 |
Complete survey and derig |
JC, AMW |
| 11/8/97 |
Canalizos #1 |
One pitch descended through window at base of
parallel shaft, to head of 25m pitch |
BL, RW |
| 12/8/97 |
D7 |
Push to third pitch and survey |
KAW, NJM, AMW |
| 13/8/97 |
Canalizos #1 |
Connection of pitch in parallel shaft to Clusterfer
in Canalizos #3, survey and derig |
RBG, KAW |
| 14/8/97 |
D7 |
Push to tight drafting rift at base of Misfit,
survey and derig |
RBG, NJM |
| 14/8/97 |
Top Camp |
Attack and definitively destroy |
3 COWS |
| 14-17/8/97 |
Top Camp - Los Lagos |
Huge loads carried back down the hill several
times a day |
The survivors, especially KAW |
| 19/8/97 |
Oxford |
Expedition arrives back to a very welcome
homecoming party |
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