Nielson Cave

July 1-2 2006 - Jon Jasper

Location: Logan Canyon Trip Leader: Peter Hartley On Trip: Peter Hartley, Jon Jasper, Brandon Kowallis, Jason Ballenski, Harrsion Holden We re-rigged Fantasy dry on Saturday by placing a couple of bolts on the opposite side of the shaft around the -30' mark. From the new hang it was clear that the 'Fantasy Borehole' was just that. The true shape of the shaft is a fissure with no leads. Brandon and Harrison took a look at the 'window to the stream' in the floor of the final chamber near the bottom of the cave but didn't think it worth digging. Sunday we climbed across the top of Spiffy Delux pit at the top of Upper Ancient Stream and left a traverse line in place. This led to maybe 200' of streamway to a 20' cascade. Jon climbed that and we put a fixed rope on. A further couple of hundred feet of bigger walking passage led to a breakdown taking aa huge amount of air. Climbing up into the breakdown lead to a very complex and large series of breakdown room. There is a huge dome coming in at one point. Cave is still rigged. Probably heading back this weekend to fully explore and map the breakdown room. Main objective, to track the airflow.