Rigged entrance pitch as far as second deviation but found deviation tat (meant to be in-situe) had been removed along with hanger. Dickon spent 10+ minutes swinging to find bolt but it could not be found. Returned to surface leaving rope and rigging gear at last rigged Y-hang.
<divclass="trippeople"><u>Becka Lawson</u>, Tom Crossley, Mark Shinwell</div>
<divclass="triptitle">Prospecting past Fisch Gesicht, beyond the ski pole line</div>
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After the first spit had been set we realised that we'd forgotten the bolts, doh, so the tags for these caves have been hammered into cracks and only cucc-2018-ms01 has a hole drilled.
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<b>cucc-2018-ms01</b><br/>
Becka's phone GPS 33+ 410730 5274320 Alt 1698m Accuracy 4m<br/>
Description: Rubble slope with snow plug down to a jammed boulder. Wriggle down next to it to a 45° ramp down. This levels off to a tight squeeze down to a small chamber. Around 30m long with no draft.<br/>
Sketch: see notes and photo on Becka's phone at 09:30 on 13/7/18<br/>
Notes: tag hammered into crack near to placed spit<br/>
Photo: Becka's phone at 14:00<br/>
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<b>cucc-2018-ms02 Blitz Baum Schacht (Lightening Tree Shaft)</b><br/>
Becka's phone GPS 33+ 410635 5283186 Alt 1724m Accuracy 4m (see also Mark's GPS)<br/>
Description: Around 30m NNE (say 020) from distinctive, large, dead tree struck by lightning. A 30m+ shaft, rocks rattle for several seconds. Hole ~5m long x 1m wide.<br/>
Notes: tag hammered into crack on flat area on long side<br/>
Becka's phone GPS 33+ 410376 5283124 Alt 1714m Accuracy 3m (see also Mark's GPS)<br/>
Description: Squeeze through boulders then drop down c2 and along a tall, narrow rift for ~10m to head of ~7m pitch. Weak draft out. This was re-found by Dickon and Jon later the same day and they said there was also a phreatic tube visible from the pitch head. <br/>
Notes: tag hammered into above entrance boulders <br/>
Photo: Becka's phone and Mark's phone at 16:10
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<b>cucc-2018-ms04 </b><br/>
Marks's phone GPS 00409613 5282951 Alt 1680m Accuracy 3m<br/>
Description: 10m+ shaft, approx 2m long x 0.5m wide, in a line of similar shafts<br/>
<divclass="trippeople"><u>Tom Crossley</u>, Chris Densham</div>
<divclass="triptitle">Tunnocksschacht/258 - String Theory to Procrastination Rig</div>
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In via usual route to head of String Theory. Found Three ropes (~35m, ~45m, ~60m). Used ~45m and ~35m to rig String Theory (Crossley Rigging). Found ~90m left at head of Procrastination. Used ~20m rope (brought in from top camp) to rig traverse and ~90m to rig pitch of Procrastination. (Densham rigging).
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Left tub of flapjacks, snickers, 4 curries with bothy bag at base of Procrastination. Also left 90m 9mm rope for Kraken with slings, snap gates, hangers and maillons.
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Returned to Top Camp ~5 mins before callout - blame my (Crossley's) slow rigging of String Theory. Brought ~60m rope out of cave.
<p>Prospected along side of Kleine Wiltkogel along South edge heading West. Little but choked shafts for most of the day, but promising end of the day with two good leads. Conveniently, another team claimed to have discovered one of the better finds 2 hours before we found it. This is heavily disputed and questionable.
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<p><b>CUCC 2018 DM01 +</b><br/>
Jon's phone DD 47.69781N 13.81647E<br/>
4m climb to cobble floor. Crawl under arch leads to 2m deep hading rift. Choked.</p>
<p><b>CUCC 2018 DM02 -</b><br/>
Jon's phone DD 47.69756N 13.81331E<br/>
8m climb in narrow shaft. 8m climb in wide rift to snow plug. Squeeze past snow plug horizontally 10m leading to small chamber w ice formations. Small window with cobble floor leading to undescended 10m pitch. Rocks rattle at bottom. </p>
<p><b>CUCC2018 DM03 +</b><br/>
Jon's phone DD 47.69813N 13.80967E<br/>
Large open shaft leads to snow plug, undescended. 30m? Continuation unknown.</p>
<p><b>CUCC2018 DM04 -</b><br/>
Jon's phone DD 47.69714N 13.80618E<br/>
Large undescended open shaft. 25m? Continuation unknown, potential passage on.</p>
<p><b>CUCC2018 DM05 +</b><br/>
Jon's phone DD 47.69665N 13.80597E<br/>
Large open shaft. 10m. Small rift at bottom leads on another inspected 10m drop. Almost certainly chokes.</p>
<p><b>CUCC2018 DM06 -</b><br/>
<b>*THIS CAVE IS A DUPLICATE OF CUCC2018 MS03, which was apparently explored by Becka 2 hrs earlier (or so she says)*</b><br/>
Jon's phone DD 47.69514N 13.80591E<br/>
Climb down boulder tickle 5m leads to 2m climb. Rift continues to 4m pitch into chamber, unpushed. Small passage in roof above pitch ledge to left continues 30m through narrow crawl to 4-way intersection. Unexplored further.</p>
<p><b>CUCC2018 DM07 -</b><br/>
Jon's phone DD 47.69429N 13.80534E<br/>
Large open shaft. In, down over snow plug 30m. 2 consecutive pitches. First 5m, 2nd unknown.</p>
<p>Surveyed out of cave, tag left on small shelf right under surface level. Lack of pencils led to ditching of DM06, though this is an interesting cave. DM06 still unexplored.</p>
<p>Jon sprained ankle before cave entrance, the effects of which showed up shortly after arrival to top camp, and which subsided by the next day. Strange stuff which unfortunately led to me being unable to push further the next day. :-(</p>
