Saturday, February 17 - I arrived at the lake around 8:30 am to find the platform had already been assembled and placed next to the marker buoy that was frozen in the ice.  By 9:00 am the rest of the crew arrived and began setting up Pipes Point Winter Camp.  Holes were cut in the ice, then myself and Alex went under the ice to attach ropes to remove the large slab of ice to drop the platform through. 

Once the hole was open, we added weights to the platform, attached ropes and slowly lowered it to the bottom.  The platform needs to be leveled out, but that process is scheduled for the March ice dives.

Sunday, February 18 - Excess weights were removed from the submerged platform, cave lines were moved from old scuba bottle to the platform.   John Martin and I verified that previously installed cave lines to 70' ridge were still installed, and ran new line from 70' ridge (bird point on ridge) west to 5th pipe on the "Five Pipe Tour."

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