White Rabbit's Hole - Dig

[MikeK]

Blog updated.

https://whiterabbitsholepriddy.blogspot.com/?m=1

 

[Lankyman]

Great find. Out of interest, in the video what is the bluish colour on lots of the rock surfaces? Is it a product of your lighting or is the limestone actually that colour?

 

[MikeK]

Great find. Out of interest, in the video what is the bluish colour on lots of the rock surfaces? Is it a product of your lighting or is the limestone actually that colour?

It's very very dark black rock limestone, but there is also alot of sandstone cobble and rock around...so the lighting reflects that lovely blueish tint off the shiny black surfaces.

 

[The Old Ruminator]

Well done MK. Poor old MW missed the fun as off to Spain yesterday. After all the effort your team deserves this.

 

[Lankyman]

I'm not very familiar with Mendip caving - are you heading towards a known cave or the Great Unknown?

 

[MikeK]

I'm not very familiar with Mendip caving - are you heading towards a known cave or the Great Unknown?

The Great Unknown and prophesied/theorised 'Mendip Master Cave'

Riding the open (partially collapsed) bedding all the way down to the water table hopefully. Which would bring us fairly close to Wookey also, if we get to them depths and stay on the same direction.

We have got another thread on here, but we went through some name changes...so the title of the previous one is a bit confusing.

 

[MikeK]

Link to blog.

Blog updated: Finished the entrance and proved a solid light connection to the new chamber which will allow us a safer and shorter route in, once opened up and made safe.

 

[Tritim230]

A work of art. Well done.

 

[MikeK]

Blog updated

We also done did one of them 3d scan things of the recent chamber we discovered, Tea Party Chamber.

PolyCam scan

Aerial screenshot from PolyCam with dimensions, thanks Mike W

 

[MikeK]

P.s. the hyperlink to the 3d scan is best viewed on mobile in 'game' mode.

 

[The Old Ruminator]

Looking forward to the survey MK. Er I dont have a mobile.

 

[ChrisB]

I dont have a mobile.

It works on PC without any extra mode. I think the point was "if viewing on a mobile, it's best viewed in game mode"

 

[MikeK]

Link to blog
Latest scan of Tea Party Chamber
Quick scan of exit route from TPC to surface.

Few links above of latest blog updated and IPhone scans (credit and thanks: Michael Waterworth)

Plan view of 3d scan

Elevation

Newly fitted footbar in Tea Party Chamber

In the opened light connection looking down into the void of TPC

Latest surface image with ground 'scaped.

 

[MikeK]

Click here to view blog updates

Latest survey, thanks JC.

Plan view, overlaid.

Face of current dig site, The Hookah.

Some nice formations appearing.

 

[cap n chris]

Excellent stuff! Well done, keep going!!

 

[Goydenman]

brilliant work.... dig on

 

[MikeK]

Click here for a link to our blog.

Click here for our latest videos.

Another weekend another breakthrough. Mike Kushy, Ed Ford and Hollie London pushed on to yet another but larger phreatic chamber 10m long x 4m wide x 3m high with a liquid mud floor all over...and a nice broken column to boot.

Things have certainly started getting interesting quickly upon hitting the phreatic at 60m depth. As always we're always open to having new team members and now is the perfect time to get involved, just send a dm

 

[MikeK]

'Refined photo's'.

MK looking at the 'broken column' formation, photo' HL.

Photo HL.

EF in the new chamber, photo' HL.

HL coming back out of the chamber, photo' MK.

The formations in the 'intermediate chamber', photo' HL.

 

[asheshouse]

Wow!

 

[tim.rose2]

These chambers are all very nice, but where's the mile of streamway you keep telling me is going to take you straight to Wookey?