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<h1>Expo 2005</h1>

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<div class="tripdate" id="t2005-07-16A">2005-07-16</div>
<div class="trippeople">Tony, <u>Wookey</u></div>
<div class="triptitle">Drive out</div>

<p>Tony collected Wook from house then headed to the T-store where we found Nial &amp; a huge pile of gear. It was clear that it wouldn't all fit, but we got most of it in, just leaving the expo computer monitor and printer plus some of the first aid stuff behind for the people coming out after week 1.</p>

<p>Ferry was a couple of hours late and for some strange reason we couldn't wait in the port so were given an exit passs and sent out to wait in Dover for an hour. So had some chips.</p>

<p>Uneventful drive over apart from when smoke started coming from the dashboard. Fiddled for a bit but couldn't get dash apart so turned everything off and continued. (Turned out to be fan relay crimp. <i>[I think that's what this says - I know sod all about cars, is this a plausible reading? - DL]</i>) No rain all the way. Arrived at about 3pm Sunday 17th.</p>

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<div class="tripdate" id="t2005-07-21B">2005-07-21</div>
<div class="trippeople">Earl, <u>Wookey</u></div>
<div class="triptitle">Rigging Gaffered</div>

<p>Mark &amp; Nial had rigged the entrance whilst we fettled tags and generally sorted the bivi somewhat. Finally got underground at 2.50pm weighed down with 300m of rope. Overheated getting to the top of Gaffered, with Earl giving Wook the <i>[illegible]</i> tour on his first 204 trip.</p>

<p>Wook rigged down with 100m rope; Earl added rebelay 40m up that he missed. Did some gardening at the top of Tape Worm then rigged on down. Faffed somewhat rigging traverse up to LX Tape. Got as far as the top of Trihang. Wook too much of a wuss to reach Earl's spits, so rigged off a different one. Good trip. Long way back up Gaffered. Out 10.15.</p>

<div class="timeug">T/U 7.25h</div>

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<div class="tripdate" id="t2005-07-22A">2005-07-22</div>
<div class="trippeople"><u>Jenny</u>, Olly B</div>
<div class="triptitle">Setting up 76 camp</div>

<p>We carried up a load of gear the night before, but sadly the water butt I'd carried up a few days earlier had only managed to collect a few inches of water. The first job was to get out the gear we left in a cave (to small to have a number or name) at the end of last year. This should have been easy, except what had been dry last year now had enough of a trickle of water to have lots of ice. Some of the gear came out easily (food was fine) but I had to sit in the drips for half an hour hammering out the tarps from the ice; fortunately we had a bolting hammer to use. Next we set up the water tarp and my hands thawed! The water we had left in the bottles in the cave seemed to have survived fine, probably due to being frozen most of the time.</p>

<p>We looked at 76a and noted that there was still a lot of snow and no entrance, though ~30cm had melted in the last 2 days. We walked over to 97 which had more snow than last year but looked open; reexploring this became Plan B. We headed back to 76a and whilst Ol took photos I kicked out snow from the entrance. Finally we had a cave to explore again! We headed back down the hill, me to carry a load I had left at top camp a few days before, and Olly to find a more direct route to the col not via old Top Camp - in the process he re-found some old caves (see below).</p>

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<div class="tripdate" id="t2005-07-22B">2005-07-22</div>
<div class="trippeople"><u>Olly B</u></div>
<div class="triptitle">Attempting to Reinvent the "Superdirect" route</div>

<p>The earlier explorers of 76 speak of a "super direct" route from the col to 76. The route we used last year went via top camp (handy for stopping for a drink!) and then swung out onto the plateau, then back to 76 with a few awkward climbs, so there seemed scope for improvement. So I started from the tent pitched near the 76 bivi cave (2004/01), and headed along the break of slope towards the col. The route seems pretty promising, and partly already cairned. At one point I walked across a snowfield which might be harder once the snow melts. Eventually I popped out on the open limestone pavement to the far right of lower top camp as you look out onto the plateau from there. Just by a squat cairn I noticed faded orange-ish paint. Hard to be sure, but it seemed to say "80". Took a few pics. Looking later, this is in the right area to be 80, but 80 has a tag and the paint is/was on the shaft wall, not on pavement by the cairn. Need to go back to look for tags... Backtracked and aimed up and left to catch the start of the 161/204 path, which I succeded in doing. With a bit of fettling and some more cairns this is a very promising route!</p>

<p>Jenny would be a while longer so I ambled down, diverting onto the terraces before Br&auml;uning Alm. Investigated a few holes, and then the foundations for what will presumably be another hut. There's currently a cement mixer (orange) and a large tarp-covered object (green/blue) next to the foundations. Just below this I discovered a gaping entrance unbered "96" in orange paint - this is an "exact location unknown" cave, so needs a GPS fix - mine was at 76 so will try to fix it later, although the new hut will make it hard to miss (it'll be the only hut on the other side of the path to all the others!). Wandered a little more, then rejoined the path just before the Stogerweg turnoff. Crossed the temporary electric fence and waited a few minutes for Jenny while fending off inquisitive cows.</p>

<p><i>[Annotation in Jenny's handwriting]</i>PS: The Renault garage down the road is very good + cheap + quick.</p>

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<div class="tripdate" id="t2005-07-22C">2005-07-22</div>
<div class="trippeople"><u>Wook</u> + Nial</div>
<div class="triptitle">More Gaffered rigging</div>

<p>Back to Gaffered to carry on rigging down. Rigging the steep "traverse" up to Cerberus is a right pain. (Bring a skyhook.) It would be best to leave this rigged in future. Got to the bottom of Cerberus to find that the "50m" we were going to cut off the bottom of the 200m rope to rig Gardeners World with was only 12m long, so our plans were a bit buggered. Also we had forgotten the Sirens traverse rope so used a little 7m bit we had. Trundled through the Underworld soily bits and rigged Gardeners World traverse with the 12m bit. Added one extra bolt before the end and then tried rigging down with 33m. It wasn't long enough to get to the bottom. So Wook put in a bolt on the LH wall to try and improvise the rigging. Then we pissed off out from -250m. Out at 9.15.</p>

<div class="timeug">T/U: 7.5h</div>

<p>Shortage of cave food (flapjack and choccy) staved off by Wook's sausage and sweetie pot.</p>

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<div class="tripdate" id="t2005-07-23A">2005-07-23</div>
<div class="trippeople"><u>Wook</u>, Nial, Tony</div>
<div class="triptitle">Cresta Run Push</div>

<p>Relatively short + easy trip as we wanted to go down the hill and had run out of cave food. Went down to Cresta Run (some fun passages) to the chamber [Toothless] at the end containing a wet lead up a dodgy climb and a continuation leading to a pitch.</p>

<p>Decided not to do either of those & instead aimed for climb back up to solution level we had just come down from. Wook shinned up, doing some gardening en route. Good thread near lip made it reasonably non-scary despite high level of chossiness. Passage went, so we spent the next couple of hours surveying it. Nice passage, depite not being huge. Lots of small leads. Still going at the end and quite chilly, so must have a draught.</p>

<p>Gardened choss above Rhino Rift pitch en-route when Wook tried to shift loose rock & whole pile became unstable, rolling a rock onto Nial whilst he was tring to have a piss. Some very big rocks shoved down pitch.</p>

<div class="timeug">T/U 5hrs 20min</div>

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<div class="tripdate" id="t2005-07-23B">2005-07-23</div>
<div class="trippeople"><u>Jenny</u> + Olly B</div>
<div class="triptitle">Rigging 76</div>

<p>Walked back up to 76 in the afternoon, discovered that the "80" found the previous day was 80, was tagged and is practically on the 204 path. Much sorting out of gear later we got underground about 3.30pm and Olly proceeded to rig the thick 112m down Plugged Shaft. I followed and took the bolting hammer to the ice in the entrance, which was quite satisfying but made ice water go in the holes in my gloves + gave me cold hands for most of the rest of the trip. Olly rigged down, adjusting the rigging a bit from last year (adding a rebelay instead of the guide line that didn't work), he then wanted to add a rebelay, so I prussiked back up to the entrance where I had left the pot of spits + the drill bit - oops... The new bold definitely improves the rigging, as does one less snow plug (it seems to have alread melted and collapsed). Olly continued rigging down (probably one more bolt needed between rock bridge + epic deviation) past the ledge, down to the ledge below, and so down to the bottom of Plugged Shaft, where the rope ended (without much to spare) and we came back out.</p>

<div class="timeug">Olly 5h 35; Jenny 5h 25</div>

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<div class="tripdate" id="t2005-07-24A">2005-07-24</div>
<div class="trippeople"><u>Jenny</u> + Olly B</div>
<div class="triptitle">99</div>

<p>Woke up planning to go into Brave New World and begin ticking off QMs, but there was a message on the phone asking Ol to phone home or check mail; we didn't know how urgent it was, so he SMS'ed home + we surface surveyed whilst waiting for a reply. We discovered that the disto isn't worth using above ground on a sunny day. We surveyed from laser 6 to 2005-<i>[blank]</i> to 2004-02 and 2004-01. The phone message turned out to be about our house alarm and therefore not urgent, but Olly wasn't feeling so enthused about 76 any more and time was pressing on. So we re-explored 99 instead. Olly rigged down using the original spits + naturals (rigging shown over the page); there was more cave than last year (because there was almost no ice) but still a fair amount of snow and one hell of a draught. Just as the the 39m rope ran out we got to what had been described in the 1970's as an "impenetrable rift", it was still impenetrable (obviously...) but we could see ~2m away the cairn Ol had built in the Test Tubes in 76 last year, so it had connected, and pretty much where we expected. This is where most of the draught was coming from. Ol continued down, the cave was now much smaller, but less draughty and much less snow. We got to the limit of 1970s exploration, at an undescended ~20m pitch. We had no slings left, or the drill, but found two reasonable threads + Ol went down. The pitch turned out to only be 7m deep, and there the cave ends - may be a good thing as 99 is cold + snowy + nasty! We set off back up, surveying as we went. Olly was very cold as he had to wait at the 76 connection for a while whilst I got the tacklesack + me up the bottom bit. So we postponed surveying the top half of the cave, and left the 39m rope in place. I gave Olly the tacklesack to take out as I had brought it in and some way out, and I thought carrying it would help him warm up. I regretted this most of the way out as I hadn't realised Ol was ill - he kept saying he might be sick and I was lower down the cave. Ol managed to get both himself + the bag out of the cave without being sick, which was nice. We sat around eating mashed potato trying to warm up enough to go back + finish surveying. In the end we gave up + walked down the hill, still wearing our furry suits.</p>

<p><i>[DIAGRAM OF 99 RIGGING]</i></p?

<div class="timeug">T/U: Olly 3hrs 30; Jenny 3hrs</div>

<p><i>[DIAGRAM OF PLUGGED SHAFT RIGGING]</i></p>

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<div class="tripdate" id="t2005-07-25A">2005-07-25</div>
<div class="trippeople">Frank, Becka, <u>Dave</u></div>
<div class="triptitle">Journey out</div>

<p>Mainly uneventful; I spent most of the journey asleep, having only recently returned from a trip to Argentina (14h plane flight back). The only noteworthy incident was an irate German who tried to have us arrested after Frank forgot to turn his lights on before pulling out of a service station (turning them on a second or so later). We sat on the hard shoulder waiting for the police to arrive, but they didn't, so we buggered off.</p>

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<div class="tripdate" id="t2005-07-26A">2005-07-26</div>
<div class="trippeople">Olly B, Jenny, <u>Dave</u></div>
<div class="triptitle">Surface work near Brave New World</div>

<p>Finally woke up at 11.30, having walked up the previous evening in the last of the light, and found myself being talked into looking for caves in the vicinity of No Ways Aven in 76. [<i>Footnote in Jenny's writing:</i> Well if you had woken up earlier we could have all gone caving.]</p>

<p>Slightly to the south of the GPSsed point, near the path from Top Camp to 76, we found <b>2005-92</b>, a narrow shaft with a strong draught; Jenny descended and reported that it choked.</p>

<p>Not far from here was <b>2005-93</b>. This had a rusty but usable spit, but no evidence of a number or other marking. I abseiled in to a snow plug; a slot down one side required caving gear, so Jenny had a look, but it was too tight.</p>

<p><b>2005-94</b> is a small shaft, descended by Jenny to an impassably tight rift.</p>

<p><b>2005-95</b> is a somewhat larger cave with three interconnecting surface shaft to a snow plug; there may be a way on under the snow but it could not be reached with the present snow levels.</p>

<p><b>2005-96</b> is somewhat to the north of the others, the other side of the bunde clump which marked our best guess at the position of No Ways Aven. It is a narrow (~1.5m dia) tubular surface shaft to a pebble + snow choke.</p>

<p>In the last of the light, surface surveyed to 104.</p>

<div class="timeug">T/U Jenny 0.75h, Dave 0.5h</div>

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<div class="tripdate" id="t2005-07-26B">2005-07-26B</div>
<div class="trippeople"><u>Becka</u>, Wookey, Nial</div>
<div class="triptitle">Gaffered -&gt; Earthenware / Hardware</div>

<p>Scored lots of QM's between Earthenware and Hardware, surveying lots of loops and trying to make sense of the survey. Mostly ticked things off, just leaving a QM down a narrow, rifty passage with a small stream in it. Going to be a pig to draw. Dave had made a blown-up laminated survey just of Subsoil which was the <u>bee's knees</u> for checking off QM's + re-finding survey stations.</p>

<div class="timeug">T/U 9.5h</div>

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<div class="tripdate" id="t2005-07-27A">2005-07-27</div>
<div class="trippeople">Olly B, Jenny, <u>Dave</u></div>
<div class="triptitle">76: Lead off Taproom</div>

<p>We all slogged down to the Taproom with a tacklesack each, and Ol began rigging across the shaft to <b>QM 77-04 A</b>. An interesting pendule/traverse ensued: [<i>diagram</i>].</p>

<p>Eventually Ol reached the other side and Jenny and I surveyed across, derigging the middle anchors of the traverse en route to leave a classic pendule. Meanwhile Olly had wandered along the rift to the next pitch. We elected to rig down this, rather than descending the shaft with the pendule, as it wasn't drippy.[<i>rigging sketch</i>]</p>

<p>Oddly enough, the second pitch landed in Keg Series (at the ledge just before the 2004 limit). Olly was feeling a bit tired and ill, so I took over the drill to bolt up to the window in the wall (<b>04-47 A</b>). This led to 20m or so of pleasant passage with a slot in the floor. Jenny thrutched into Razor Prance and we established that RP was the bottom of the aforementioned slot. The new passage (<b>Razor Advance</b>) continues until the floor runs out (where the slot widens to the whole width of the passage), at which point a rope is needed to descend to the floor. This lines up pretty neatly with the undescended pitch at the end of Razor Prance below, and will be much easier to get to.</p>

<div class="timeug">T/U 11.5hrs Dave, 12h Olly + Jenny</div>

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<div class="tripdate" id="t2005-07-27B">2005-07-27</div>
<div class="trippeople"><u>Becka</u>, Tony, Nial</div>
<div class="triptitle">Cresta Run</div>

<p>Surveyed the pretty bits + then steeply up in tight passage until got to a pitch head (p20?) with a possible continuation of the passage on the far side. <u>Very</u> cold and windy so checked out the various QMs on the way back. Went down via Helter Skelter - much better than Swings + Roundabouts.</p>

<div class="timeug">T/U 5h</div>

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<div class="tripdate" id="t2005-07-28A">2005-07-28</div>
<div class="trippeople">Wookey, Earl + <u>Becka</u></div>
<div class="triptitle">Gaffered -&gt; Earthenware + Heavily Soiled</div>

<p>Earl rigged the slot in Earthenware we step over (<b>04-26B</b>) whilst Wookey + I surveyed <b>04-25B</b> for 30m or so (<b>Software</b>) until got to a a <u>very</u> draughty pitch. (04-27A and 04-24A don't exist). [<i>The survey sketch from this trip suggests that such passages did exist but they connected to Software.</i>] We ticked of <b>04-33A</b> (soon choked) and <b>04-38B</b> (ditto) + double-checked the pitch at the end of Hardware (<b>04-40B</b>, probably downgradable to a C, as is <b>04-39 B</b>) [<i>Footnote</i>: Horrible loose pitch head but strong draught. We checked + this didn't connect to the stuff [<i>Software</i>] we surveyed down 04-35A on 26/5/05.]</p>

<p>Back to Earl and Wookey: went 25m down his pitch (<b>Firmware</b>) to end of a rope + a ledge. Dropping rocks revealed a further 20m pitch + then further rattles - rather damp. Then onto Heavily Soiled + Soiled Passage to end. Surveyed the chamber [<b>Night Soil</b>] just with an 8m handline around the spike and then Earl put a spit in to descend <b>04-55</b> to a <u>fine</u> large, ascending passage with a strong draft - QM A++. Out, leaving three <u>strongly</u> draughting leads (Software, Hippocratic Oath and end of Hardware).

<div class="timeug">T/U 10.5h</div>

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<div class="tripdate" id="t2005-07-28C">2005-07-28</div>
<div class="trippeople"><u>Dave</u>, Olly + Jenny</div>
<div class="triptitle">Surface work</div>

<p>In the morning, Olly + Jenny went down 99 to complete the survey + derig, while I slogged up to 204 to collect some blank tags. We then indulged in some tagging:</p>

<ul>
<li>97 and 104 now tagged</li>
<li>2005-91 now tagged and surface surveyed (?)</li>
<li>2005-92 to 96 tagged (previously photoed and GPSsed)</li>
<li>81 GPSsed, tagged + photoed</li>
<li>85 tagged + photoed</li>
<li>95 + 96 tagged, photoed + GPSsed</li>
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<p>Jenny tried to find 86 but without luck.</p>

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<div class="tripdate" id="t2005-07-29A">2005-07-29</div>
<div class="trippeople">Wookey, Andrew + <u>Becka</u></div>
<div class="triptitle">On A Mission -&gt; Faith -&gt; Beyond Belief</div>

<p>Surveyed for two hours, me moaning + cold, in quite small, awkward passage, with a break in a largish, loose chamber with a pitch, and another through rocks in the floor, still going down pitches but not terribly exciting. One tight, drafting horizontal lead left, just after the drippy small chamber. 

<div class="timeug">T/U 5h</div>

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<div class="tripdate" id="t2005-07-29B">2005-07-29</div>
<div class="trippeople"><u>Dave</u>, Nial, Frank, Mark</div>
<div class="triptitle">Dachstein</div>

Up insanely early (5.30am!) and Frank drove us to the Dachstein-Sudwandbahn cable car station, arriving just in time for the first cable car at 7.50. A slightly laborious trek over soft snow brought us to the beginning of the via ferrata up to the summit of the Hohe Dachstein. This ferrata was easy but exceedingly airy, at least for a novice like me. We topped out at around 10.30.</p>

<p>The second part of the ferrata down the western ridge was easier and much less busy, and we soon emerged on the snowfield. Here we swung to the right to rejoin the cables across the northern spur at Steinerschart'n. Three of us laboriously trekked down the other side, while Frank bumslid down a snow slope at an angle of about 50&deg;; he was with difficulty persuaded not to climb back up and have another go.</p>

<p>By now it was getting really hot, so we hurried (as best we could on soft snow underfoot) back to the shade of the cable car station, returning via Liezen in absolutely stifling heat. This is definitely the way to do it: get up early and do the walking before it gets seriously sunny.</p>

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<div class="tripdate" id="t2005-07-30A">2005-07-30</div>
<div class="trippeople">Andrew + <u>Becka</u></div>
<div class="triptitle">Gaffered -&gt; Heavily Soiled</div>

<p>Surveyed from Hippocratic Oath up a very steep ramp in lovely shaped passage. At the top, took the main left, following the draught. A sling is handy to traverse around a small hole, after which the passage got smaller + more wiggly + we ticked off all but one small draughting lead. Efficient trip, given I'd had to start from base camp.</p>

<div class="timeug">T/U 8h</div>

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<div class="tripdate" id="t2005-07-30B">2005-07-30</div>
<div class="trippeople"><u>Jenny</u> + Olly</div>
<div class="triptitle">Rebelay failure + surface stuff</div>

<p>We headed into 76 with a heavy tacklesack each, planning to go down the 1970s route, with Ol bolting on down + me rerigging ropes to free up the 93m rope without needing to cut it. So we entered the cave, with Ol in front. Just as I was starting to abseil down Draught Bitter, I heard a Bad Noise, followed by the sound of Olly swearing. My first thought was that I had knocked rocks down, although I was in a freehanging bit of the pitch. Then Olly shouted up that he was OK, but that something in the rigging had "changed" and that he was going to prusik back up to the rock bridge rebelay. Once Olly was safe, I could abseil down, inspecting the rigging en route. It turned out that the middle rebelay was no longer fully attached - that is, the rope was still attached to the hanger, which was still attached to the spit, which was still attached to the rock, but that ~20cm diameter piece of rock wasn't attached to any other rock on the wall of the cave. We calculated that it was a fall factor 1/2 and the hanger above looked fine, as did the rope, though the bit Olly's stop was on was quite elongated. Most importantly, Olly didn't seem to be hurt. Once I had checked the rope was safe for Olly to ascend, we decided to come out, partly to check that Olly really was OK and partly because we had packed the drill at the bottom of the bag, planning to sort stuff out in the Taproom, not hanging in Plugged Shaft. Having safely exited the cave we had somewhat less enthusiasm for going back underground than normal, so we did some surface wandering instead, hoping to find 2004-04. We did not succeed in this, but we did discover several other interesting holes:</p>

<ul>
<li><b>2005-97 (Fluted Pot)</b> - a fluted draughting shaft, roughly between 76 and 97, which Olly descended on natural belays + it went for 4m before becoming too tight. UTM WGS84 33 410657E 5281932N 1623m alt. Currently untagged.</li>

<li><b>2005-98 (Hanger Pot)</b> - this had no visible paint or tag, but a few metres down was an in-situ hanger with traces of orange paint. It was the sort of hanger you do up with an Allen key, not a spanner, and was an old-style Petzl twist. This is a twin shafted pot with snow - too cold + icy to descend further without an oversuit. (Descended by Olly.) UTM WGS84 33 410640E 5281925N 1643m alt. Currently untagged.</li>

<li><b>2005-99 (Cutlass Cave)</b> - promising looking smallish horizontal entrance from a snow-filled shakehole. I (Jenny) went in some way until it got too tight to do alone + without an oversuit. UTM WGS84 33 410613E 5281892N 1629m alt. Currently untagged.</li>
</ul>

<div class="timeug">T/U 2h</div>

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<div class="tripdate" id="t2005-07-31A">2005-07-31</div>
<div class="trippeople"><u>Dave</u>, Olly B, Jenny</div>
<div class="triptitle">Rigging down 70's Route</div>

<p>We wandered down to the Taproom, with interludes while Olly bypassed a dodgy bit of rope in Plugged Shaft and Jenny rerigged the Boulder Chamber stuff with a shorter, thicker rope. In the Taproom, the promised lead at the far left corner didn't seem to exist; rigging down at the far right corner revealed a long, narrow, straight rift with a pleasant traverse level to follow. [<i>Annotation in Jenny's handwriting:</i> In fact the route dropped down on the right, but continued on the left, so the two leads kind of merge.</i>] Around 30m later a short pitch led to a small chamber with a deep hole in the floor.</p>

<p>Olly attempted to right down this, while Jenny and I followed behind surveying. Having put ina rebelay 5m down Olly declared himself too cold and too psyched out to continue. On the way out we went into BNW - the Test Tubes are nowhere near as bad as I had feared - and all of us had a try at the climb in All Ways chamber; soon all of us decided it needed rope and bolts, and finally we came out.</p>

<div class="timeug">T/U 11h</div>

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<div class="tripdate" id="t2005-07-31B">2005-07-31</div>
<div class="trippeople">Andrew, Wookey + <u>Becka</u></div>
<div class="triptitle">Gaffered -&gt; Heavily Soiled (again)</div>

<p>Andrew took photos whilst we flash-serfed. Unfortunately, the shot of Gaffered didn't work out. Then we surveyed to the right from the top of the steep ramp from yesterday, into a chamber where Andrew found a failry obscure way on through a narrow rift on the left. This led to a small chamber with two ways on that soon fizzled out and a boulder choke. We were about to pack up when Andrew wriggled up behind the boulders and disappeared ... for some time. Bum. I moaned and whinged all the way up a 45&deg; slope of perched boulders covered in impact marks. Lovely-jumbly. This led to a big space at the bottom of a <u>huge</u> aven with just one small lead off in one corner heading down steeply (needs a rope to be sensible). We ended up <u>way</u> above all the Underworld level - potty.</p>

<div class="timeug">T/U 10h</div>

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<div class="tripdate" id="t2005-08-01A">2005-08-01</div>
<div class="trippeople"><u>Dave</u>, Wookey</div>
<div class="triptitle">Surface documentation work</div>

<p>In the course of a long and inordinately tiring surface walk, visited the following caves:</p>

<ul>
<li><b>207 + 208</b>: Both already tagged; took photos.</li>
<li><b>159</b>: ditto.</li>
<li><b>145</b>: Photoed main + b entrances. Took a photo of what we think is 145c, but didn't tag it as we weren't sure.</li>
<li><b>156</b>: already tagged, so took photo.</li>
<li><b>1997-07</b>: took photo.</li>
<li><b>209</b>: found it was not tagged, contrary to what the list said, so added a tag and took a photo.</li>
<li><b>136</b>: sorted out by decree the confusion over which of b, c + d entrances is which, and took photos of them. [<i>Sketch of entrances, labelled</i>]</li>
<li><b>135</b>: tagged</li>
<li><b>225</b>: tagged, GPSsed and photoed. GPS 35931 82452 1738m (dataset coords).</li>
<li><b>96WK12</b>: added a tag "2005-89" and took GPS fix: 35694 82252 1694m.</li>
</ul>

<p>All the above numbers are from Wook's Garmin GPS12, which was persuaded to produce dataset coordinates with the following settings: Position Format: User Grid; Longitude Origin: 13&deg; 20' E; Scale 1.0; False Easting 0; False Northing 4800000; Austrian datum.</p>

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<div class="tripdate" id="t2005-08-01B">2005-08-01</div>
<div class="trippeople">Andrew + <u>Becka</u></div>
<div class="triptitle">Faith -&gt; Beyond Belief -&gt; Atheism</div>

<p>A rocky start as Andrew's light died in the entrance crawl (good place to do it though) so he went back out to borrow Frank's and got very hot. Went slickly after that. I grumbled big-time when I realised that the pitch Andrew was going to rig wasn't the large one over a dodgy traverse but was <u>another</u> wriggle down through boulders following the draught. A psychological backup looping a rope around one of the boulders was followed by an efficiently placed spit in the middle of the boulders down to large draughty passage ... which went for about 30m to a squeeze up through yet another set of boulders + to the bottom of a large aven with no tempting ways on. Back in the 30m of passage there is a small draughting pitch on the left but with yet more boulders balanced at the top. We headed back out to the junction just after the drippy chamber + I had a look left down the passage that Wookey, Andrew + I hadn't surveyed on 2005-08-29. It went down, down, down for over 10 minutes of crawling with a couple of squeezes over wedged boulders. The draught seemed to gradually weaken + it got a bit smaller but I couldn't manage to kill it. Out nice + early for the stomp down the hill for the dinner.</p>

<div class="timeug">T/U 5h</div>

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