Small silver mine at Spitegrenda, Kongsberg Norway

[francis]

Me and a friend went to one of the smaller mines in Kongsberg (Norway) where we both live, for an evening trip after uni. None of us had been to the mine before. Infact, by the looks of things, nobody had been there before us. There were no bolts there from before, and no signs of any traffic. The mine is about 70m deep, and is a vertical shaft with a few small levels that go out to each side. This was my friends third SRT trip, and his first SRT trip which involved multiple and freehanging rebelays. He did really well!

When putting the bolts in I tried pressing the drill only just hard enough to get the hammer action going, like I had been advised to on the forum previously. The drilling went really smoothly

For bolts I used 10mm, M8 Hilti's. 7 were required in total.

I took some pictures on the trip, but most of them didn't come out very well because of the reflectors on my mates trousers

The pictures are taken with a Nikon D80, 18-70mm lense and an SB600 flash.

Here are the ones that came out the best.

Francis

 

[whitelackington]

The walls look very hard, what rock do you think it is Francis?

Well done by the way.

 

[francis]

The walls look very hard, what rock do you think it is Francis?

Well done by the way.

From what I have been able to find on a geological map on the internet, it looks like the rock in the area is various forms of gneiss.

Francis

 

[hoehlenforscher]

Looks very gneiss 

 

[graham]

Why did your mate change his trousers during the trip?

 

[francis]

Are you referring to the pic where the trousers are a slightly different colour? If so then it turned out like that because the pic wasn't exposed properly, and I did my best in Lightroom to salvage it.

Francis

 

[desses]

Why did your mate change his trousers during the trip?

I certainly did not change my trousers during the trip

 

[Peter Burgess]

Welcome to the forum, desses. A strange first post, one has to say, if taken out of context. 

 

[desses]

Hehe, thank you. Yes, I just had to say that we did not have a dressing room down there

 

[cap n chris]

The featured rebelay looks like it must have been quite "fun" to negotiate, a tad ungenerous making the changeover potentially tricky!

 

[francis]

The featured rebelay looks like it must have been quite "fun" to negotiate, a tad ungenerous making the changeover potentially tricky!

Maybe a bit, but the rope ended there, so I figured that it was better to do it that way than to have a knot change 1m before the rebelay. There was just enough slack to lock off, so it wasn't too bad.
Putting the bolt in was more of a hassle because I didn't have a skyhook to keep me over on that side. I will definitely be buying a skyhook in the near future (if anybody has a better idea, please let me know ).

Francis

 

[AndyF]

Great pics.....   looks an interesting place 

 

[Elaine]

desses - I just love your avatar - it is soooo sweet! 

 

[Hughie]

Why did your mate change his trousers during the trip?

Big pitch + dodgy hanger + thin rope = change of trousers 


Apologies, desses.

 

[desses]

desses - I just love your avatar - it is soooo sweet! 

Thanks, Ive heard that I was unusual sweet as a baby

 

[desses]

Why did your mate change his trousers during the trip?

Big pitch + dodgy hanger + thin rope = change of trousers 


Apologies, desses.

(*laughing*)

 

[MSD]

If it was a thin rope, it must be the 9mm stuff Francis pinched off me (what are fathers for?). We had better warn Sam T that if he keeps producing all these young lads he will find his rope store empty one day....

Mark

 

[desses]

Hehe, we used only 10mm rope at this trip. Francis keeps his 9mm ropes at home