We spent almost 2 hours digging andcutting about a meter deep pile of debris away from the Lilburn entrance so that we could open the gate (after a brief questioning of whether this really was the right sinkhole because we couldn't see the gate). Weentered the cave and proceeded down the Corkscrew to South Seas Junction and followed the telephone cord to River Pit Ave. At R1 we encountered anexposed downclimb. I seemed to remember a description of this fromTinsley but was unsure. I did the climb, but others were uncomfortable with proceeding. I scouted ahead until I felt fairly sure that I was nearthe Flush Room and then returned. We looked for about half an hour for analternate route, but were unsuccesful. After scouting out a couple of climbing leads near River Pit we exited the cave. The main lead marked onJed's updated quad would require some kind of protection (probably acombination of bolts and slings). It windows out over River Pit and might actually be more easily climbed from there.While not successful in retrieving the wire at South Seas (our primaryobjective), we did succeed in clearing the entrance and introducing twonew cavers to the cave, and I also learned most of the route to South Seas. --Kirk
We spent almost 2 hours digging andcutting about a meter deep pile of debris away from the Lilburn entrance so that we could open the gate (after a brief questioning of whether this really was the right sinkhole because we couldn't see the gate). Weentered the cave and proceeded down the Corkscrew to South Seas Junction and followed the telephone cord to River Pit Ave. At R1 we encountered anexposed downclimb. I seemed to remember a description of this fromTinsley but was unsure. I did the climb, but others were uncomfortable with proceeding. I scouted ahead until I felt fairly sure that I was nearthe Flush Room and then returned. We looked for about half an hour for analternate route, but were unsuccesful. After scouting out a couple of climbing leads near River Pit we exited the cave. The main lead marked onJed's updated quad would require some kind of protection (probably acombination of bolts and slings). It windows out over River Pit and might actually be more easily climbed from there.While not successful in retrieving the wire at South Seas (our primaryobjective), we did succeed in clearing the entrance and introducing twonew cavers to the cave, and I also learned most of the route to South Seas. --Kirk 
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