Another day at the mine...

Spent another weekend working in Williams. Going is getting tougher; we didn't break out into any free passage on Saturday so every foot had to be earned the hard way.

Saturday turnout was good, we had enough people to completely empty the spoils from the entire previous weekend and two evenings during the week - created enough space within the cave to work with a smaller crew Sunday, before another big gang is required to haul again.

Photos in the gallery...

Sunday's 4-person crew refilled a good portion of the passage while making another 5-6 feet of progress. So it's still a mine.

Extrication Class

Yes, I look like a total geek. What can I say? I took a class last week where we learned to rescue people trapped in a vehicle accident. Basically we cut up cars.

One of the cars available was Joan and Ko's old Mazda. Although I didn't get to do it, the ensuing class did a simulation and they did use it - so the Mazda is no more.

See photos of the remains here.

Big turnout at Williams

At least 9 people helped dig again on Saturday. Although about 15 feet of prgress was made, a lot of rock still needs to be hauled, and the hauling is people-intensive. See the gallery for a few more shots of the dig. The ongoing crevice still draws a lot of air, but isn't very big. Breakthrough appears to still be at least a trip or two away...

Photo gallery options...

Here is an alternative Williams Dig gallery - Flickr only allows three galleries for free, and it's hard to host small web images, so the GreatJournal site might be a better long-term solution to hosting sets of photos.

The interface at GreatJournal isn't as nice as Flickr though - you can't change the order of photos in the gallery being the worst problem. Photos are listed in the order they're uploaded, and that is that.

Digging at Williams

Here's an appropriate miner-looking photo of K-Rock with the Ryobi. Check out the Williams Dig gallery for more photos.