Had a trip in yesterday with JonT whilst Moose and John Beck were surveying the entrance shaft. You have no idea how big this place is. The photos are great, but still dont/cant do the place justice. We had the 500 watt flood light on, and you can just make out the event horizon in distance below :shock: . Its hard to take it all in.
As for rigging - we had a 200m rope which went all the way - well in titan - entrance shaft is about 50m I guess, although we had the luxury of being winched in and out again on grums amazing hydrolic winch - much appricatied after jugging back up titan, cheers grum
There are ropes and bolts everywhere so simple rig is :-
approach belay bolt on left six feet back from breakthrough window, once on lip of window the worlds largest hanger is on the left looking out, get your short cows tail in this allowing you to reach up and rig a y hang off the two hangers above (not P bolts) This gives a fantastic free hang all the way to the event horizon. Here there is a traverse line bolted out to the right and left from a group of boulders. (care as there is still some loose rocks around this area). The next y hang is just out of sight over lip directly below (again not P bolts - but they do look rather substantial. Rigging this was quite exciting as your dangling on the lip of the event horizon with nothing to put your feet on and just a huge void below. It took us ages to find the way out through the boulder choke below. Essentaily - if your at the back/top of the slope looking towards the waterfall then near the bottom on the right is a large boulder, crawl flat out under this, then turn right, the rest is obvious.
Weirdly - going back up wasnt too bad, since you want to stop all the time and look around. Pretty wet yesterday though.
I now have new found respect for what moose and the lads have acheived -'good effort' doesnt even come close 8)