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< p > < font color = "#000000" > Webeditors notes: this log has been rendered
using the same ink colours as in the original book. Often, this makes it
clearer when comments have been added by other writers. We hope you
don't think it looks too messy - original logbooks, after all, < b > are< / b >
messy !< br >
The first part of the log is traditionally taken up by the journey out.< br >
If this is of no interest, here is a link
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< a id = "#id1989-travelout" > 1989-08-04 | TEAM EUROTRAIN | Tanya, Julian, Mark D, < u > Penny< / u > < / a >
< p > Friday 4th August 1989
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< p > Team Eurotrain's journey out got off to a tense and exciting start when
Tanya failed to rendezvous with the rest of us at the appointed time at
London Victoria to catch the 1pm train to Dover. A very red and flustered
Tanya finally jumped aboard the train at about 12.57 - and then the train
finally left the station about ten minutes late anyway !
< p > The rest of the journey went remarkably smoothly. A tip worth noting is
that it is definately worth spending the extra money to book couchettes for
an overnight journey. Mark and I did so, and arrived in Austria relatively
fresh and rested (they even take your passport and ticket off you so that
you're not disturbed in the night), whereas Tanya and Julian, who went for
the much cheaper option of seats, arrived looking very tired after a
disturbed and uncomfortable night bedded down with some Inter-railers !
< p > Arriving at Salzburg station, we got onto a train for Attnang-Pucheim
almost immediately, and at Attnang Pucheim our connecting train to Bad
Aussee was already in the station.
< p > The last stage of the journey was a very hot walk to Hilders, where we
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proceeded to eat, drink, swim etc. (we arrived mid-afternoon). Chris &
Becka were already on the plateau (they'd left a note & Chris's
startling purple tent - once seen never forgotten !) Mark D & Julian
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valiantly volunteered to walk down to town for some beer, where (luckily)
they met Adam plus car to ferry them back up the hill.
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< a > 1989-08-04 | TEAM AVENGER | Becka Lawson, < u > Chris Densham< / u > < / a >
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< p > Car having been bought in panic, we travelled across the unavoidable
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parts of Europe sans ownership documents, green cards, etc., ate bread, brie
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and wine, then trogged round a few classic German towns visiting Becka's
cousins + lots of tourists (Pinkelsbü hl is as sweet as it sounds). Got
lost on way to Austria, so went to Jugoslavia instead. Paid £ 17 for
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lacking greed card - thoughts of cheap food, booze &
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< strike > sex< / strike > BKA - but, shock, horror - campsites were £ 3-4 a
night ! Campsites full of horrendous English touroids so, after a night sans
tent in a forest with lots of creepy noises, we found a place called
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'Logarskie Dolina' in Slovenia where campsites were with toilets but without
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people to collect money (another site got washed out as soon as we arrived -
involving pissed off Dutch people in several feet of water, a happy English
couple (us!) getting a free night on the floor of the Gastina over the road
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& some distressed children (also on floor of Gastina & one on top of
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the pool table !) whose 'mama' is downstairs enjoying a very prolonged
session of beers.) Anyway, trogged around hills of Yugo, Becka carried the
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rucksack, Chris moaned about his knees but took photos & all &
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sundry enjoyed bonfire back at camp. Dragged heels back to Austria (Friday
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night) & lugged tackle up (Sat.) to 161 which was unfortunately still
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there (albeit somewhat smaller than memory sed). Avenger clunked around
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right hand bends back to base camp & beer (Sat night).
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< p > Becka's bit - Enthusiastically arrived a full 24 hours before
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< u > anybody< / u > else & worried we might be a week early, whilst buying in
booze & being < u > well< / u > -pampered by Hilde. Collected stuff we'd dumped
on Hilde the week earlier, & managed 6 functioning light sources between
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the two of us. Scared off a good 10 other campers < u > all< / u > by ourselves !
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Got back Sat night, after a day on the plateau & found a < u > heap< / u > (no
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kidding) of brain-dead CUCC + empty crate (after 3 hours < u > solid< / u >
drinking !) of beer - < u > no< / u > tents up, < u > no< / u > food left, just a
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pillaged wreck of bottles ! Left to Hilde's, with Paul Ibberson & crony
from LUSS, who'd had a memorable fortnight getting < u > v< / u > wet & snowed
on - ha, ha ! < u > Lots< / u > of tackle-hauling & caving Sat & Sun.
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Pissed down (+ hail) Sun, ah, fond memories of ol'Osterreich. X
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< a > 1989-08-04 | the red rusty Renault | Adam, René < / a >
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< p > Being the first to leave UK a lot happened between there & now - so
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briefness is required. Roughly. Drove to Cambs Thu 20th. Collect food at
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Dan's. Eat courtesy of Becks & hit the road to Dover. Get there ~
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midnight, time enough to catch earlier ferry, having picked up a seaman
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hitcher (who slagged off P& O as being dead unsafe). Filled up with
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petrol, but since a queue behind, drove off a bit to sort out
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papers/tickets. However forget lights & drive towards a policeman
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guarding a place where noone (but I did) stop. Was duely chastised for
"driving without illumination at this time of night". On to France. Take
wrong road. Goes fine, though a bit dodgy mapreading with one person. Near
accidennt in Belgium. Try to sleep past Lux but too hot. Weather too hot for
German Hills, car regularly overheats. Get flat tyre just past Karlesruhe
(but don't notice until completely kanackerd as so much rear load !) Just
make it to Pforzheim before tyre place shuts. Hence to LEchtal. Two days
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good walking tho' very humid & sweat gallons. Sleep in car as nowhere to
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pitch. Get benighted first night due to late setoff (to avoid thunderstorm)
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& over-ambition late in the day. Sadly, only time I forgot Petzl !
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< p > Onto Erwald/Meiminger Kette. Short walk day travelled. One day fester
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because hips murder. Went to climb Zugspitze & got early start to do
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long roundtrip. Get most of way up. Get charged 5 Schillings "fü r the
making of the vey". Sign says path closed because Steinschlag (rocks
falling) ignore as already climbed ~ 4½ thousand feet. Get shouted at
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& find that there are men working above deliberately lobbing rocks &
if they had seen me & stopped work to avoid killing me there was a
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10,000 Schilling fine !
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< p > Pissed off & stormed down, drove a bit & decided to do another
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hill higher than I had got to (fit of pique). Regretted it as by the end of
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the day I had managed ~ 20 miles & nearly 10,000 feet. Bugger.
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< p > Thence to Stubaital. Drive round very steep hills late at night
completely lost after being stung for a £ 2.50 toll for motorway S of
Innsbruck. Brilliant limestone in Stubaital; completely brilliant. Managed
to get to over 10,000' for first time ever. Unable to take full advantage of
the Stubai Alps as not hutting but day walking.
< p > By this time cannot be bothered looking for tent pitch as have spent ~
week in car.< br >
Mark (D) has just winged about my verbosity so I shall be brief as
originally promised.< br >
Move to Zillertal.< br >
Rains lots.< br >
Put the car into skid on a wooden bridge on corner.< br >
Go to Venediger gruppe. Felbertauern tunnel £ 9.00 toll (Bastards)!!< br >
Snows a lot< br >
Cannot get far because snow ~2000m too deep to follow path.< br >
Move to Glockner gruppe to find low level route.< br >
However this has ~ 1 foot snow at 1900m so give in (this was near Kals on
gross glockner).< br >
Next day beautiful blue sky so decide to go up grossglockner. Set off.
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Forget camera. Return. Set off again & realise forgot map !< br >
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Bugger. Back down.
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< p > Get to ~1000' from top after easy glacier traverse. Meet English &
ask whether top safe. (looked steep & icey). They say OK, but must have
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assumed that I had crampons as a 45° snow field with ice just under
really shitted me up (as ~ 2000' drops!) Everyone else was roped, crampons
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& ice axes (at least I had an ice axe).
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< p > I have NEVER ever been so scared in my life. I almost cried !
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< p > Quickly down. Next day short photo-walk & then to Hilders (meeting
Mark & Julian in Bad Aussee with beer).
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< p > Average rain/day: 2 times< br >
Total feet climbed: 65,000< br >
Joints hurted !< br >
Time here (15 days) Adam.
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< a > 1989-08-06 | Team slow and reliable (sometimes!) in Rover | Mike, Tina, Mark F< / a >
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< p > [exact date unknown]
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< p > Trailer was visible with the sun in the right place - well the shadow was
anyway. It was unnerving driving around a corner and getting the passenger
to stick their head out to see if it was still there after a bump. Rover was
leaking lots but then we got used to it and realised that driving faster
didn't necessarily increase the temperature. We also got used to finding
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stopping places with water supplies. Well when you get to 32 something's
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always a bit wrong.
< p > Good tapes - "bat out of hell" -> lovely to put the foot down.
< p > Even got a good ½ nights sleep in a car park. Made really good
time. But we thought we got to Hila's at 10pm. actually we'd adjusted the
watches the wrong way so it was midnight. Damn no schnapps ! Oh well off to
bed and a cuddle. Next morning tent a bit damp. Late on moving the tent
hopefully will be better. Oh and by the way I came here for sunshine ->
why IS IT RAINING !
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< p > < a id = "id1989-161-2" > 1989-08-07 | small trip | Julian, Chris, Becka< / a >
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< p > Down 161 & surveyed as far as 1 station beyond lower bolt on 2nd
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pitch. Back out !
< p > T/U 3 ½ hours
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< p > < a href = "#id1989-161-1" > Previous trip< / a > /
< a href = "#id1989-161-3" > Next trip< / a >
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< p > < a id = "id1989-161-1" > 1989-08-07 | 161 | Adam, Mark D< / a >
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< p > Down 161 rigged 1st pitch & new second pitch. Not very efficient,
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hope we "warm up" a bit as time goes on.
< p > T/U 4 hours
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< p > < a href = "../1988/log.htm#id1988-161-29" > Previous trip (last year)< / a > /< a href = "#id1989-161-2" > Next trip< / a >
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< p > < a id = "id1989-161-3" > 1989-08-08 | Bypass searching trip | Tina+Bill+Mike R< / a >
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< p > (a) First tried skull pitch via the eye holes at the bottom. Loose and
chossy (so what's new!). Landed on boulders, two small ways on, both
blocked.
< p > [sketch]
< p > (b) Traversed left past old third pitch to ledge - lobbed rocks down to
give 2½ second drop. Bill banged a bolt in and descended over lots of
rubs - need four ropeprotectors !! Some ways on at bottom so then Tina went
down followed by me. Lands by huge boulder, way on is through hole between
dubious looking boulders, to a further pitch. Added another bolt and I went
down. Bottom turns into enormous descending rift like above squeeze pitch
but narrower. Had a poke down it, then came out. Met Del, Juliette, Tanya +
Julian and exited.
< p > T/U 7½ hr
< p > [full page sketch plan and elev]
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< p > < a href = "#id1989-161-4" > Survey trip< / a > /
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< a href = "#id1989-161-5" > Drunk & Stupid discovery< / a > /
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< a href = "#id1989-161-6" > Tourist trip< / a > - all same day< br >
< a href = "#id1989-161-2" > Previous trip< / a > /
< a href = "#id1989-161-7" > Next trip in 161< / a > /
< a href = "#id1989-161-8" > Next trip to this descending rift< / a >
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< p > A Blue interlude !< br >
< blockquote >
Absence makes the heart grow fonder,< br >
absence makes the wrist grow stronger,< br >
absence makes the prick grow longer.
< font color = "#008000" > < --- sexist crap.< / font >
< / blockquote >
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< p > < a id = "id1989-161-6" > 1989-08-08 | tourists | Tanya + Julian< / a >
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< p > < u > The Tourists< / u > struggled down 1st pitch and established chocolate
stockpile, passed Del+Juliette rerigging 2nd pitch, watched Mike+Tina
descending down their discovery, pottered down to Mark F + Jeremy, listened
in to them throwing rocks, watched them descend into oblivion from a
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newly-bolted knot, went back saw D& J < u > still< / u > re-rigging 2nd pitch,
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explored some bouldery small passages with an entrance partway up 2nd pitch.
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When D& J were done we went up and jumped out. (well, prussicked really).
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< p > T/U 6 hrs
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< p > < a href = "#id1989-161-4" > Survey trip< / a > /
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< a href = "#id1989-161-5" > Drunk & Stupid discovery< / a > /
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< a href = "#id1989-161-3" > Search for bypass< / a > - all same day< br >
< a href = "#id1989-161-2" > Previous trip< / a > /
< a href = "#id1989-161-7" > Next trip in 161< / a >
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< p > < a id = "id1989-161-4" > 1989-08-08 | small trip | Juliette + Del< / a >
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< p > Team veggie slop managed 1 bolt and 5 survey points in our stint ! No
excuses but rock kept exploding; + worrying about a rub. Surveying is not
cold if you're wearing enough layers to look like a 'Michelin (wo)man'. T/U
6 hrs
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< p > < a href = "#id1989-161-3" > Search for bypass< / a > /
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< a href = "#id1989-161-5" > Drunk & Stupid discovery< / a > /
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< a href = "#id1989-161-6" > Tourist trip< / a > - all same day< br >
< a href = "#id1989-161-2" > Previous trip< / a > /
< a href = "#id1989-161-7" > Next trip in 161< / a >
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< p > < a id = "id1989-161-7" > 1989-08-09 | drunk and stupid discovery | Becka, Adam, Chris< / a >
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< p > Mark F and Jeremy had discovered '100m' of pitches from an extremely
unlikely looking hole just before the old 3rd pitch (also unlikely looking).
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Adam & Becka surveyed from Del & Juliette's point at head of pitch to
limit of M & J's discoveries. Their estimate of pitch lengths made up in
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consistency what they lacked in accuracy, ie. the 40m pitch shrank to barely
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20m & the 60m down to 30m. However, 30m v.v. fine. From bottom of 30m,
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the previous limit, pushed onwards. Vadose canyon - 3m pitch + traverse, 6m
pitch, traverse, 8m pitch. Two ways, wet (not done) dry (done) - was 10m down
to floor - one way back toward water was looking tight, other way was tighter
- a small window was hammered out from rabbit size to almost human size by
Bka. Best bet is wet way above 10m or above 30m pitch.
< p > It rained a lot today - motivation from 1st camp as it pissed down at 6.30
a.m. very hard - but after a wet walk to 161 was a dry change. Pitches rigged
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away from water at least. Trogged back to car park & Hilde's - met Penny,
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Mark D, Julian, Bill back up.
< p > Food + beer + bed at Hilde's
< p > T/U 10 hrs
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< p > < a href = "#id1989-161-5" > Previous trip (Drunk & Stupid discovery)< / a > /
< a href = "#id1989-161-9" > D& S "deemed too dangerous"< / a > /
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< a href = "#id1989-161-14" > Next Pushing Trip< / a >
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< p > < a id = "id1989-161-9" > 1989-08-10 | DS survey | Mark D, Julian + Penny< / a >
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< p > Went down with the intention of carrying on surveying down Mark &
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Julian's hole, looking at various openings noticed by Chris as we went.
Horrified by the rigging of the first pitch down the hole (whatever happened
to traverse lines, and surely bolts aren't meant to stick halfway out of the
rock ? - and being in a hurry to push down a new route is NO EXCUSE for
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shoddy & < u > UNSAFE< / u > rigging) we decided to leave the task for someone
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else, and continued surveying down the main route. Surveyed small draughting
passage (choked) at top of third pitch, then down third pitch. Took a trip
down to look at the squeeze, then out.
< p align = right > T/U 8½ hrs
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< p > < a href = "#id1989-161-10" > Main Route rigging< / a > /
< a href = "#id1989-161-8" > Alternative Shopper< / a > /
< a href = "#id1989-161-11" > Right Hand Route< / a > /
< a href = "#id1989-161-12" > Left Hand Route< / a > (all same day)< br >
< a href = "#id1989-161-7" > Previous trip < / a > /
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< a href = "#id1989-161-14" > Next D& S Pushing Trip< / a > /
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< p > < a id = "id1989-161-8" > 1989-08-10 | mellow trip | Tina + Tanya< / a >
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< p > A laid-back + well mellow trip. After much faffing (guilty as charged)
traversed over top of Mike + Tina's pitch. Tina bravely descended to put in
another bolt, then decided she needed a driver - spotted by yours truly at
top of 2nd pitch by choccy dump! So I summoned all 2 milligrammes of my
courage + went + fetched it. Returned, + Tina continued to put in bolt while
I sat + shivered + sang appallingly (lovely acoustics, wish I knew the words
to the Wild Caver). Bolt was probably fine, but Tina unsure, me cold, both
bit cheesed off after total faff round + freezing cold, so exited.
< p align = center > T/U 5 hours
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< p > < a href = "#id1989-161-10" > Main Route rigging< / a > /
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< a href = "#id1989-161-9" > D& S aborted< / a > /
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< a href = "#id1989-161-11" > Right Hand Route< / a > /
< a href = "#id1989-161-12" > Left Hand Route< / a > (all same day)< br >
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< p > < a id = "id1989-161-14" > 1989-08-11 | pushing new route | Tanya + Del< / a >
< p > [exact date unrecorded.]
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< p > Well hard pushing trip down new route (J+M's). Down to bottom chamber,
unethically hammered like fxxx 'til Del could squeeze cheese through. This
revealed yet more ledges, continuation etc. some cave ! Other way is narrow
wet rift, continues also but horrible + drippy. From tape rebelay ledge, tube
off to one side goes down + down (climbing + stuff). Finally got rope and
hang into the new chamber, loads more cave !!
< p > Relaxed exit.
< p align = center > T/U 8 hours
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< p > < a id = "id1989-161-15" > 1989-08-11 | Niflheim Rigging Trip | Mark F + Tina + Mike R< / a >
< p > [exact date unrecorded.]
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< p > Really rather efficient trip down, mainly 'cos only two bolts had to be
added (one at the 45m pitch and one on the bridge in Niflheim). Niflheim is
too wet ! On arrival at the bottom I discovered that my spare carbide
container was full of spits - then Tina discovered likewise. Mark didn't
have any either 'cos he had a large generator. So we left with rather less
light than was ideal, with added entertainment when Tina's Croll got jammed
solid at a rebelay - I had to 'ab back down and it took both of us to
release it.
< p align = center > Time underground 11 hours
< p > Mark's description of the bottom of Niflheim -< br >
Short climb down from boulders at bottom of pitch lands on floor of large
rift (not false floor). Both obvious ways on along the rift blocked at floor
level - one by sandy slope, other by boulders. Only obvious way on is a 2'
diameter horizontal tube with ~3" water flowing down it. Other ways on may be
found by climbing above the large boulders blocking rift.
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< p > < a id = "id1989-161-13" > 1989-08-11 | R.H.Route | Chris, Juliette, Becka< / a >
< p > [exact date unrecorded.]
< p > Down through squeeze, no probs (!) & dragged down 200m. Rigged rest of
RH route into Knossos. Jeremy & Juliette surveyed a stretch. I gardened
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round the main chamber than we all poked through Star Wars to look for ways
on. Jeremy found a 2.5-3.5 drop down < u > big< / u > shaft, yet to be rigged...
V.V.< u > V< / u > .HOT going out - Alpinex definitely superfluous. General unfit
feelings.
< p > T/U 10½ hrs
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< p > < a href = "#id1989-161-14" > Drunk & Stupid< / a > /
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< a id = "id1989-161-16" > 1989-08-12 | guilt survey | Wookey, Julian, Juliette (Joules)< / a >
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< p > A trip for more surveying guilt ridden nice + short to get down to the
fireworks which were going to be tonight but really (since they are tomorrow)
we need to work ourselves into fest (iva) (er) mode, underground
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well-late. down Mark & Jeremy's route - so we resurveyed for 4 hours by
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accident - so we forgot the hangers, so we put the bolt in the wrong place. A
very enjoyable trip.
< p > Why when I close my eyes do I only see [small sketch] could this reflect
on my sketching abilities. Oh yes + Julian wears Y hangs - very appropriate.
A trip to the local supermarket for some 'breifs' like the ones the carrots
come in.
< p align = center > enough said
< p align = right > 6½
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< p > < a id = "id1989-161-18" > 1989-08-13 | Bills route | Chris, Del, Becka< / a >
< p > [exact date unrecorded, but checking wrt to shopper survexblock it looks like it was the 13th.]
< p > Surveying trip down Mark, Tina & Bill's route over the top of the 3rd
pitch (carry on from traverse line). Q.fun & we finally finished a route!
Down to the bottom, v tight rift downstream, Del & I squeezed through
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(ripping oversuits) but blocked ~4m down. Chris found a 5" pitch (few seconds
[?? ??]; opening up a [??]) but we've got enough on our hands already, so
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detackled, hauled out the rope & replaced rope by braidline on traverse
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line. Out. V civilized trip into sunlight !
< p align = center > T/U 5 hrs
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< p > < a href = "#id1989-161-8" > Previous trip< / a > /
Next 161 trips: < a href = "#id1989-161-20" > Finding Dreamtime< / a > /
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< a > 1989-08-12 | PETE L arrive | Dan< / a >
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< p > but Dan is far too knackered to write anymore so won't !!< br >
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(Thank God!!)< br >
Dan
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< p > < a id = "id1989-161-10" > 1989-08-10 | fools | Jeremy + Juliette< / a >
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< p > Fools - idiots, who else would set off on a poxy trip in the rain.
Yes Jeremy + Juliette (muggins again). The weather forced us down into 161.
Raining as I got to the rebelay. Re-rigged pitch 3. Collected a sample of
the wonderful bolting rock.
< p > Gained "valuable" experience of bolting (1½ hrs to do ½
a bolt whilst Jeremy rigs entire 4th pitch + puts in bolt) so out + down.
< p > T/U 7 hrs
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< p > < a href = "#id1989-161-8" > Alternative Shopper< / a > /
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< p > < a id = "id1989-161-11" > 1989-08-10 | Rerigging trip | Bill, Adam< / a >
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< p > Aim to rig 4th pitch & down RH route to Knossos. Realised at start
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v.short of rope. Bill conned into going down new route to collect rope only
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to find it was Boris after the Bag had split & he had prusiked all the
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way from the bottom of the 30m pitch !< br >
Bill not chuffed (even less than usual)< br >
On way down had to rerig 3rd pitch (new one) as Jeremy had failed to leave
enough rope before attaching lower down.< br >
Also had to carefully garden - rope already tied on lower down - as stacks of
hanging death (well, a pile of loose rocks just where one was likely to
thrash about at a rebelay).< br >
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Rigged thro' squeeze & it became apparent that very short of rope (due
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to failure to get a sensible rope from new route)< br >
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Met Mark F & Del & cut a ~60m length of their 200m rope. Rigged down
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to the notorious sandy ramp where put in two spits in RH wall to avoid it
then exited.
< p align = center > Time U/G 8 hrs
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< p > < a href = "#id1989-161-10" > Main Route rigging< / a > /
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< a href = "#id1989-161-12" > Left Hand Route< / a > (all same day)< br >
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< p > < a id = "id1989-161-17" > 1989-08-11 | Survey trip | Jeremy, Mark D & Adam< / a >
< p > [exact date unrecorded.]
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< p > A wonderfully efficient trip during which nearly 40 legs done + a new bolt
put in 4th pitch to elliminate rub. Amusement by insulting each other.
Surveyed from top of 4th pitch to first part of sandy ramp in RH route, so
joining Jeremy's earlier survey.
< p align = center > Time U/G 5½ hrs
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< p > < a id = "id1989-161-12" > 1989-08-10 | rig niflheim | Mark + Del< / a >
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< p > Intending to rig Niflheim but carrying 200m rope is knackering. Bag popped
through squeeze v. easy (!!) and < u > then< / u > Adam decided he'd like 50m of
it. Slow rigging left us halfway down pitch from Arrow chamber. Fun at
squeeze + out.
< p > T/U 8 hrs
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< p > < a id = "id1989-161-19" > 1989-08-14 | Drunk and stupid | Mark D, Chris, Becka< / a >
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< p > Down newly named "Drunken Stupid / Drunk & Stupid" Chris & I
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surveyed from bottom 30m on, Mark rigged on: unfortunately no spits, but
Chris had some (lucky). Rigged 25m pitch followed by further small pitch into
chamber. Met large joint between two types of limestone. trè s
interesting. Took form of very thin, long hading rift ½ m-1m wide x up
to 20m long x ~50m deep to another 2 second drop, left for another day< br >
Good trip
< p align = right > TU 9 hours
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< p > < a id = "id1989-161-20" > 1989-08-14 | Survey & push from Knossos | Wookey, Mike TA, Adam< / a >
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< p > Continued survey from 14 bolt of traverse to pitch into Knossos. Area
surveyed: down thro' Star Wars, joining onto last years carbide mark at pitch
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bottom (into Knossos). At bottom of slope out from Star Wars is left &
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right divide. Rock at junction marked 10 WMA on back. Way left (looking at
mark) surveyed round, eventually connected back via the way right (mark 18).
Also going right (looking at mark 10) chamber entered was surveyed by radials
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from points 16 & 20. Point 26 leads to an unsurveyed passage leading to
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extensive phreatic passage. Point 32 in this passage MUST be joined with 26
(point 32 connects to a side chamber (off chamber containing radials from
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16 & 20) via a dodgy climb).
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< p > The point 15, found by following the wall round from 10 via 18 leads to
the pitch Mike rigged and from 15 on is unsurveyed.
< p > Animals bit< br >
Banged in < u > five< / u > bolts - pitch is about 30m to climb down over ledges.
Lobbing a rock down gives a 2½ -3 second drop. Bolt at top of this but
not descended.
< p > [sketch of rigging]
< p align = right > Animal T/U 8½ hrs< br >
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Wooks & Adam 9 hrs
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< p > < font color = "#008000" > Also Beyond pitch 3 poke while others descend -
gained passage beyond 3rd pitch(es). Big and descends, eventually fizzles out
at some pitches, maybe over L/H route. WARNING: the loose boulders are very
loose, and a slip goes down a 30m pitch !!< / font >
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< p > < a id = "id1989-161-21" > 1989-08-15| Push-Survey 161 RH Route (12h) | Dan, Tina, Jeremy, Julian< / a >
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< p > Tourist down to Knossus. Julian & I scrambled around Knossus,
generally being very impressed. Went thro' Star Wars & Tina & I began
survey thro' bits of Tower Blocks to an inlet (Yapate) & on round to
Animal's bit. Met Jeremy & Julian at bottom of this pitch.
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< p > At bottom of p11 was this [plan]
< p > Quakingesque passage descended by Jeremy/Julian
< p > Rigged on down 4m over horrible rub point to ~20m free hang into
streamway. Last 5m hang in water.
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< p > Down in streamway water disappears into rift & traverse carries on.
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< p > Out to meet Joe, Planc & MikeT in Knossus. I found squeeze impossible
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the wrong way round.
< p > Dan
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< p > < a id = "id1989-161-23" > 1989-08-15 | Push 161 beyond Flapjack | Joe, Mike, Peter< / a >
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< p > Started 4pm, descending to meet previous party coming out at Knossos.
Flapjack pitch(es) give nice descent but there are LOTS OF RUBS. Care !
Last belay into wet part very awkward on return - can it be rerigged to
left out of water ? Water sinks through boulders to canyon reached a bit
further down passage. We rigged this (4m) and followed narrow descending
canyon which suddenly drops through squeeze above enormous shaft (could
rig from here but not worth it because of water). Back to < u > top< / u > of
4m pitch - traverse onwards at this height (small climb over 2m wall)
over stream canyon and eventually over huge pitch. CARE ! brittle rock,
greasy mud and loose sand. Bat skeleton found at "Bat Corner" (Mind).
Traverse continues over another hole to 30m? pitch in narrow rift ending
at a superb window over a clear 4 secs (70-80m??) drop. Good take off for
a free hang well away from water. Interesting to note that this series
trends roughly due west, whereas Knossos is NE of squeeze pitch, so we
are returning towards the peak. Long slow trek out to a fine hot sunny
welcome at 8AM.
< p > Time underground 16 hours
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< p > < a id = "id1989-161-24" > 1989-08-16 | Becka does the squeeze the wrong way round with a broken leg | < u > Wookey< / u > , Becka, Chris + Mark D, Adam, Mark F, Julian, Tanya, Joe< / a >
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< p > ... & lots of Austrians.
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< p > W, Bec went down to finish off Niflheim but had a slight error at the
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squeeze. Becka sent me (wooks) down 1st & then proceeded to come through
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on a C-rig at several thousand miles an hour, nearly getting me on the head
but miscalculating slightly and hitting the wall instead thus breaking her
leg quite a lot. 'Oh shit' I thought (Becka probably thought something a bit
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stronger). I parked her on the ledge with her help & we diagnosed a
well-broken femur & no other injuries other than scraped knuckles. Her
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leg was hung on a ladder while I went to get help. Soon found Chris (who went
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to look after Becka) & then MarkD who leaped into action instantly &
dashed off to get pulleys, gear & splints.
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< p > Rescue proceeded from here with remarkable efficiency. Animal was
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despatched downhill & found Joe at camp trying to get brekky & Julian
& Tanya on path to cave. He smashed cave to car park record (50 mins) and
found Mike Thomas who co-ordinated helicopters & rescue services from
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Bergrestaurant.
< p > Meanwhile MarkD splinted Becka's leg amidst much blood-curdling screaming
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& me & Adam rigged pitches with pulleys, jammers & hauling ropes.
< p > With Chris as leg-wallah, really impressive self-help from Becka &
mucho prussiking, hauling & man (woman) handling by me, Adam & Mark D
we (very) slowly progressed up squeeze pitch, the rift section & the 4th
pitch to find that Austrian cave rescue & helicopters (Army & Navy)
& doctor had arrived. Mark F, Tanya & Julian pulled her up 3rd pitch
where Austrians took over, loaded her into a coffin & took her along
boulder ramp & up 2nd pitch by wild traverse line & then (after much
faffing with winch) she was pulled up to the surface & choppered to
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hospital.
< p > < u > Mark D's version of events< / u >
< p > Coming down 4th pitch: "Hey Mark we've got a problem: Becka's fallen down
the squeeze and broken her leg" says Wookey. "Oh shit" thinks Mark too...
Rush back out to collect gear: 1st aid kit, loads of crabs, chest harnesses,
jammers etc. nicked off people's gear. Also the frame out of my rucksack to
use for splints. Got down to Becka to find her on a very small ledge with the
ladder wrapped round her leg (for support). Considerable difficulties
splinting her leg because ledge so restricted. Pulled her up to the larger
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ledge just above with much pain & then retied the splint. Then Adam &
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I pulled her through the squeeze with Chris positioning her from below. Becka
was really brave and helped herself a lot. We all cheered when she got
through: we knew then that we would get her out. Slow but steady progress up
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rift, 4th & 3rd pitch, where we met the Austrians.< br >
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These rescue techniques really work!
< p align = right > Mark D
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(I was last & missed helicopter ride, sob ! Adam)< / font >
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< p > (Tanya & Julian waited for 2 hrs at entrance to avoid "too many cooks"
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in the squeeze syndrome until Wookey shouted up for extras. Helped at 3rd
pitch haul up and in Austrian operation. Would have been better if more news
had been freely dispatched from the rescue front backwards rather than having
to be demanded. Some of the screams were quite disconcerting. T/U 8 hrs)
< p > T/U Wooks, Chris, Mark D, Adam = 10 hrs< br >
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& Becka !
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< p > < a href = "#id1989-161-24b" > Becka's version< / a > of events (written much later:-) /
< a href = "#id1989-161-15" > Previous Niflheim trip< / a > /
< a href = "#id1989-161-29" > Next LHR Pushing Trip< / a > /
< a href = "#id1989-161-23" > Flapjack trip< / a > (same day - supplied rescuers)
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< a id = "id1989-161-5" > 1989-08-08 | Initial push & discovery of drunk & stupid | Mark.F, Jeremy< / a >
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< tr > < td > Initial intention < / td > < td > : to rig down to squeeze< / td > < / tr >
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< tr > < td > problem < / td > < td > : Mike, Tina & Bill
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in way looking for bypass< / td > < / tr >
< tr > < td > solution < / td > < td > : Help look for bypass< / td > < / tr >
< tr > < td > location < / td > < td > : Improbable - obviously choked hole on< br >
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< p > As we had nothing else to do we banged in a couple of bolts (typically
badly placed as "it won't go") and Mark abbed down. Much to our surprise
there was a way on - totally invisible from the top.< br >
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So we went down threw a ladder down a quick climb & found a pitch (we
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described as 40m, later surveyed as 20m - oh well).< br >
Descends to a false floor - three ways off:< br >
Down ~15-20m but below boulders - unexplored, left to a squeeze - Mark
looked at, right - I looked at to a beautiful 30 (guessed 60) m pitch.< br >
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Banged in some bolts at head of 30m & descended - Mark had look at way on
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at bottom but time to go out.< br >
- An ace pushing trip - a great route.
< p > T/U 8 hrs
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< a href = "#id1989-161-3" > Alternative Shopper discovery< / a > /
< a href = "#id1989-161-6" > Tourist trip< / a > - all same day< br >
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1989-08-14 | < u > Team Peugeot< / u > - get incredibly lost in France, Luxembourg & Germany, not to mention Austria & then go walking in & around Stubai Alps. | Juliette and Del< / a >
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< p > [exact date unrecorded.]
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< p > Thanx for navigation above + beyond (+ through) the call of duty. Drove
in convoy with Wook + Ros in Team Escort - destination unknown (anybody seen
some scouty types ?).
< p > Technique: drive until one driver starts swerving around as asleep, then
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stop & swap to slightly less knackered driver.
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< p > Technique works fine except navigator gets to stay awake all time
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(Juliette) & anything faintly resembling a junction or a town caused mass
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hysteria in the few brain cells left on duty in the sleep laden head.< br >
Result: Took a long time + all drivers asleep for Austrian driving stretch
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& finding "Solden" ("where?") damn near impossible especially last
junction involved some neat juggling of two autobahns & a main road with
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obscure turn offs the wrong way.
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< p > Del drove the last stretch & only ended up facing the Armco once.
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< p > Carefully leaving the rope on the surface - they descended. Restart.....
< p > Surveying happened. Down to the pushing front, where are the spits ? Oh
no - it is a carbide container, well done Del ! So we sat around for some
time until I begin to refill my carbide with spits.
< p > This couple makes - 'two wrongs = right' Del brought carbide thinking it
was spits + myself vica versa. So the bolt went in + we went out.
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< p > < a id = "id1989-161-24b" > 1989-08-16 | Becka's version of accident | Becka< / a >
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< p > Off down to do Niflheim. Decided I was feeling even fatter than usual, so
would use a C-rig instead of normal Petzl stop rig, as recommended by Wookey,
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Jeremy etc. Unfortunately, being vastly less competent than J& W, I must
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have let go of the rope when descender got well jammed in part of the
squeeze. Didn't jam for long. Whoosh, < u > horrible< / u > flight down, bang on
big ledge, splat on smaller beneath. Managed to clip in cowtails to ladder
rapidly, so I didn't < u > quite< / u > hit the bottom. Scream at Wookey "My legs
all wobbly - God it's jelly" Disgusting sight as we flailed helplessly
around. Got seated, and with Wookey's help, used ladder to do a leg support.
Mark D did an excellent job splinting while I enjoyed myself screaming. Got
up the squeeze facing wrong way with remarkably little trouble (Wooks had
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hammered it a bit) Mark D & Adam were incredibly strong, hauling me up as
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a near dead weight up the narrow rift, Wookey helping on 3rd pitch (4 people
on one belay point at one point). Chris was fantastic, prussiking besides me,
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& keeping my leg at a 'comfy' angle, & stopping it swinging into the
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wall. Met Austrians top of 3rd. Was bundled into a tight coffin, man handled
to an aerial runway to bottom of entrance pitch, then eventually mechanically
winched to top of cave. Also winched into helicopter, man dangling by my
side, which was good fun. Rescue took ~8 hours - hospital staff seemed
surprised what good shape I was in - normal pulse, blood pressure,
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temperature etc. Probably due to the excellent rescue, v.smooth &
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organized + good fortune (good weather, lots of people around, I was on my
way in so wasn't tired etc.) Furious with myself for making such a stupid
mistake, but otherwise in good spirits. Diagnosis femur broken midway in two
places, ~1" apart. Operated on that night, metal splints nailed in, to be
removed in a year. Thanks v.much to everyone - CUCC, ExCS, Austrian cavers,
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the helicopter crew, doctors & hospital staff - not much I can say, but
v.grateful & v.sorry for all trouble caused.
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< p align = right > Rebecca
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< a href = "#id1989-161-29" > Next LHR Pushing Trip< / a > /
< a href = "#id1989-161-23" > Flapjack trip< / a > (same day - supplied rescuers)
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< p > dived in < u > Altaussee< / u > below the "Steinwand", looking for the resurgence.
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Dived to -42m (135ft) depth, without success - Phil Carried (NOT COMMON)
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< a > 1989-08-17 | Altausseer See again. | John Cordingley + Andy Goddard< / a >
< p > We dived again a bit further
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up-lake. Andy G went in first, to -30m. Phil Murphy went in next, also to
-30m, followed by Mike Thomas, who searched to -27m. John C went in last,
reaching -36m and found a dead body. Brought out a right humerus just so you
know we're not bullshitting ! Upon surfacing the heavens opened and delivered
a terrific storm - hence we all walked back in the thrashing rain in drysuits
- quite exhilarating ! - - so where is the sump - - ??
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< p > < center > < b > ASTON DIVING SERVICES< / b > < br > < br >
A.G.GODDARD, J.N.CORDINGLEY, R.M.THOMAS, P.J.MURPHY< br > < br >
SUMPS EXPLORED
SEARCHES UNDERTAKEN< br >
SYPHONS SURVEYED
STIFFS RECOVERED< br >
< font color = "#000000" > SIGNS LIBERATED
BEERS DRUNK< / font > < br >
REASONABLE RATES< / center >
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< p > < font color = "#202020" >
Quote:- Millars to Waddington: "Well, what about you ? At least we're
thinking about going underground ... or at least, we've got the
equipment, just in case."< / font >
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< p >
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< u > Altausseer See< / u > . After trip to report body to bobbies
with Mike T. and Hans we went to the local firemen/lake rescue team.
Got a boat ride to dive site ! JohnC dived along with Hubert Gaisberger
and Wolfgang Gasperl. Failed to relocate body but found a boot - lost
before surfacing. Then a cucc/CDG team drank a barrel of their excellent
beer !
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< p > John C, Hubert + Wolfgang dived again to -36m depth in the rain. JNC went
in first and failed to find body again. Did find the boot again however -
complete with foot and a sock. Marked position with lead block and line.
Continued search for body without success but did find the resurgence at
last. it consists of hundreds of tiny blowholes at -36m over a 30m square
area of the lake bed. Many of these were blowing up sand like minivolcanoes,
which continually rolled back in :- [sketch]
< p > - a strange landscape to cross ! Wolfgang + Hubert dived next - again
failed to locate body but it must have been near the lead block - so they
will search again when vis. is better. Mike T, Andy + Phil completed the
search underwater beneath the Steinwand at -35m without finding any enterable
cave. So - there is a lot of water resurging in the lake bed at around -36m
depth - but no enterable cave. The body is apparently that of an adult male
who was drowned in 1955. His brother still lives in Altaussee. Then we had
some more beer ! The most appropriate name for this spring would seem to be
"Steinwandquelle". It is almost certainly this spring which accounts for the
holes in the ice seen in winter, according to Karl Gaisberger.
< p > "RANCID DEAD PERSON SPRING" WOULD BE A BETTER NAME ! (This comment from
Aston "virgins enlightened" Diving Svces.)
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< a > 1989-08-20 | Goldloch (Resurgence next to Hallstattersee/Kessel) | Phil?< / a >
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< p > Open for 6 months due to road widening. Karl Gaisberger said it hadn't
been dived. G.Zauner (boss of diving school in Hallstatt) also thought this
< u > BUT it has< / u > . Dived under loose rock to -6m. Lens shaped passage,
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clean-washed & not that big drops slowly round corners to -10m. Shaft
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drops down to -24m where white line carried on .... Returned because tables
written on photo-copier paper had disintegrated below 24m ! Mike T
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< a > 1989-08-20 | Kessel | Phil?< / a >
< p > < / p > Kessel. The first sump (52m long) was passed to a small rift. Phil dekitted
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and followed the rift to sump 2, the passage would be desperate with diving
gear. A new 4mm braid line disappeared into sump 2, obviously someone has
been active recently. We searched for a bypass to the dry passage but none
found. Later John C found a possible bypass (*). We were asked to "star" in a
film on the area being made for German T.V. - we may be unable to find a
diveable sump but its certainly a laugh diving in Austria.
< p > * JNC found a window on left leading to pot down to -10m and a continuing
bedding. Line ends at -10m.
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< p > < a id = "id1989-161-25" > 1989-08-20 | 161 - 20/8-21/8 RH push via Flapjack pitches | Planc, Mark D, Adam< / a >
< p > 20/8-> 21/8 RH push (via Flapjack pitches)
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< p > Planned to go & continue pushing after those who had intended to go
down on 20th. However, the underground campers were later & slower than
expected & we met them ~4.30 with most people still above Knossos.
Comtemplated going straight out & returning day after but discussion with
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Jeremy -> continuation to pushing front as Jeremy thought most folks would
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want an early night (& would only reach the push front at ~7.20, hardly a
day trip). So we continued. At bottom Joe & Juliette still wanted to go
to front. We went down while they set up camp & Planc rigged the 4 sec
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drop after Bat Corner as a free hang (after it took us ages to untangle Boris
in the rift!) Prob ~60m deep fine pitch. At bottom stream sourced from roof
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& quickly disappeared into apparently impenetrable rift - Bugger.
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< p > However, a short rift traverse lead to a passable descent off naturals
through a complex multi-level rift. At bottom only way on thro' a rather damp
hole. Planc rigged dry bolt. Mark D froze bollocks off rigging a spit with
the stream entering a hole in his oversuit. This provided a short broken
pitch to a tight rift above a circular shaft (est as 120m by dropping a stone
but turned out to be ~50m - misled because water at bottom). Pitch piss wet.
Dark black sump at bottom with a small ledge nr. water. Adam lost SRT bag at
top on way out (cord broke). Knot in bottom to aid rough survey if necessary.
< p > Stopped on way out at camp as we lost our hexa burner, teabags etc. in my
SRT bag.
< p > Time out ~5 hrs including brew stop. Est depth nearly 600m at sump. Out
for sunrise, beautiful.
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< p > Mike T and John C dived beneath the big wall called Falkenwand to look for
a big cave entrance at -19m. Searched ¼ mile section of underwater
verticalness thoroughly betwee surface and -25m by going along at different
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depths. Very enjoyable "BSAC-style" dive !
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< p > < a id = "id1989-161-27" > 1989-08-21 | D& S | Dan. Penny, Julian, Mark F< / a >
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< p > Uneventful trip down to front - nasty rebelay rerigged to a traverse
then lined climb down streamway. At the front, Dan climbed down a tight
point in rift to discover he was standing on a small lump of rock above a
2 s drop - rigged rope to pull him out then descended pitch. Series of
short free climbs following streamway (~25m down) drops into chamber across
the rift (~15m x 5m x 10m high). Ways on:- climb to hole in chamber< br >
- pitch following water off way down to chamber.
< p > Note - was intended to survey on this trip but Julian dropped the tape
down pitch almost hitting Dan.
< p > T/U 11 hrs< / font >
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< p > < a id = "id1989-161-28" > 1989-08-22 | Drunk & Stupid re-rigging + (pushing) | Tanya, Chris D, Julian< / a >
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< p > Down cave late as usual + shortage of carbide for Chris. Gathered all
ropes and ladders we could find on the way and draged them down with
ourselves. Put ladders here and there in rift beyond wet nappy chamber, added
in extra belay into last large pitch and handlines in freeclimbable approx
45° streamway and in the mud chamber. Tanya set forth back at entrance of
mud chamber, Chriss rigged small pitch down the water way at side of mud
chamber < font color = "#800000" size = +1 > *< / font > and followed water until
passage became too tight < font color = "#800000" size = +1 > +< / font > . Discovered
way on: a hole 15' up on far side of mud chamber. Tanya had an epic at the
head of pitch where Chris had added in extra belay (the rock is rotten !
there are no footholds. Important: get < u > above< / u > traverse line or you are
in for some quite hectic thrutching.) Chris leapfrogged ahead and passed
slack on entrance rope through all the rebelays from the bottom to the base
of 20 metre pitch by which time it was getting late and his teeth were worn
out. Tanya and I took it slow on the way out. Very tedious.
< p align = right > T/U 12 hrs
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* 3 naturals out of 3 belays ! Shame about the lack of tapes / time to push /
number of rubs etc. !
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< a > 1989-08-21 | C.D.G. (Northern) < u > GOLDLOCH< / u > | Phil and Mike< / a >
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< p > Phil dived along the line found by Mike to -36m. The line changed from
white to yellow at -24m. As I had no line reel to continue descending so I
surveyed on the way out. A then dived and layed line to -50m but is too
pissed to write about it.
< p > We then went to Kessel to star in a German T.V. extravaganza. Alien
camera hogged while I pushed on incredibly tight J.N.C. find - had to do it
for the audience. We watched the film in the cameramans dormobile - excellent
laugh.
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< a > 1989-08-22 | GOLDLOCH | Alien, Phil< / a >
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< p > Alien pushed it to -65m, Phil reached -6 before his gear died - bastard
luck. We then went to tell Gerhard Zauner who was so impressed he bought
us beer and had Alien signing a survey. Every time he mentioned -65m he
crossed himself. Alien + C.D.G. + Mark (chef) now have hero status.
Suddenly Zauner decided we were O.K. so he gave us a huge amount of info
on the local risings. Mark was impressed by the S.S. memorabilia.
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< p > < a id = "id1989-161-26" > 1989-08-20 | Animal's bit | MikeTA, Del< / a >
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< p > Disposed of Tina at the station, drove up to the plateau, went down RH
route to join the underground camping group. Nearly failed to find the camp
but fortunately bumped into Del + Wookey coming out fo their obscure bit.
Camp was pretty good. Slept to about 8.30 and then faffed for 3 hours before
'going' caving.....
< p > < u > Del + Animal< / u >
< p > Poking down Wookey's bit:
< p > (a) Very tight muddy inlet on l/hand side gets like Quaking so gave up.
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< p > (b) followed route to new pitch but spotted
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lights below, turned out to be the other side of the flapjack shaft (could
spy the blue rope protector).
< p > (c) Back to end of main bit of passageway, joint effort to put one bolt in
at pitch but ran out of rope.
< p > Decided to come out early, but kept on catching up with Juliette and Joe
so it took 4 hours from the camp to the surface (on full tummies 'cos we had
some grub first).
< p align = center > Animal - T/U 24 hours
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< a > 1989-08-20 | Team Camping 20-21st Wook's bit | Wook, Jez & Dave, Del, Joe, Juliette< / a >
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< p > Team camping trip being organised for a change with gear lists etc. which
is fine but results in us being a little slow. Under ground by 12.30. 6
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people & 8 bags produces hyper-slow progress & so caught up by team
hard (Mark D, Adam & Planc) while Juliette had epics at Knossos pitch
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head while Joe threw rocks at her in an attempt to help!
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< p > Arrived at camp at 6.30ish, brewed up & split into teams. Wook &
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Del went to survey off Tower Blocks (OLYMPUS series). Jez taught Dave to
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bolt & went to rerig flapjack. Joe & Juliette went down to help rig
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70m (laugh) pitch.
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< p > All finished between 11 & 12. Had tea & a fairly warm night. I
tried a bivvy bag & was rewarded with a v. soggy sleeping bag (surprise!
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surprise!)
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< p > Next day me, Jez & Dave went to survey bottom after team hard
returned at 3 am to tell us of sump (waking all but me). Animal & Del
see above, Joe & Juliette went to rig pitch at end of inlet, bolted it
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but found insufficient string.
< p > Survey team made it to bottom (well only Wooks was stupid enough to go
down ridiculously soggy last sump pitch!) Came out in 4 hrs 20 mins including
some derigging - all hyper knackered.
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< p > Waddington's Beer to caving ratio becomes finite !
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< p > Schwarzmooskogeleishö hle. (New entrance)
< p > < font color = "#000000" > Left camp in the pre-dawn light and set off on the
epic walk-in. Ages to get to Kataster 28 - hang a left here. Beautiful
sunrise as we hacked up the German's path-to-the-bivouac-cave. Snow already
softening as we passed Bunter's Bulge. Got to the German bivouac before
midday, and eventually caught the French photographic party near the entrance
at 2pm after a sweaty 9 hour walk-in. Investigation of the walk-in entrance
suggested a height of 13" and a width of about 2 feet - draughting out at
0° C strong enough to snap off Sequoia gigantea trees at three miles. Both
Jeremy and Waddington wittered furiously over the 6km flat-out entrance
crawl, but couldn't turn round owing to the< / font > ice-axes being in the way.
Soon found an expiring Frenchman in the way who needed escorting out, so we
put our crampons on and ignored him. Within hours, Planc and Thomas were down
the 50m overhanging ice-pitch on a few feet of knotted Blue-water while
Jeremy was hung up on a loop of effete pink climbing rope - he asked for a
knot in the end and it soon got jammed. Waddington spent an hour or so trying
to get 11mm stiff Blue-water into a 9mm sticht plate before conceding defeat
and changing to a figure-eight. Soon released Jeremy but ran out of
arm-strength pushing the iron-bar-like Blue-water through the figure 8.
Swapped to the pink python and lobbed into the < font size = +5 > BIGGEST< / font >
chamber we've seen for some time. Also full of ice ! Soon blinded by French
flash bulbs the size of your head and in severe risk of melting the whole
shebang. Found Planc 30 metres up the first ice-stalagmite hanging from one
ice-tool but he soon fell off with a huge crash of broken ice. As the rest of
the party descended, all the formations filled with front-point scars and the
French shouted more and more frantically for lights to be turned out. Flashes
fired (well two out of three) and everyone went blind for five minutes.
People who valued their eyesight started exitting as the strobe-rate got near
epilepsy-inducing frequency. Couldn't resist what is probably (log book
confirmation) C.U.C.C.'s first ever ice-screw rebelay. Escorted French
near-corpse to entrance and then waited for rest to appear. All out after a
couple of years caving time to find that only a couple of hours had passed
on the surface.
< p > A much recommended tourist trip if you can get a helicopter ride to the
entrance - brilliant formations no doubt better earlier in the season.
< p > A remarkable, near light-speed walk back in only an hour and a half, for
the loss of about 37 litres of sweat each (much less than on the walk-in!)
< p > < font color = "#000000" > TU ~2½ hours< / font >
< p > Andy Waddington (first trip with CUCC for ~ 3 years)
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< p > Another quote. Waddington in the kartoffelhü tte.
"I don't care, as long as I'm on page three first !"
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< p > Phil instructed while Alien slobbed. After rescuing a surf board sail,
took Mark (chef) for a flipper, Animal followed by Mark F (who found a pike
and a vase) and was followed by Julian. Tanya peeed on the surf board.
Mark (chef) managed to burst an eardrum after reaching -6m depth - serves
him right for having such shit ears.
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< p > Quote from Del to Juliette (before the dinner)
"You can be pleasantly stuffed tonight..."
< p > Quote from Adam "I had a week humping sods"< br >
[OK - so it was about archæ ology...]
< p > 01-54 Friday 25th - It was a good dinner and I've just got warmed up to
serious drinking - but every bastard else has pissed off to bed !
Anti-social pillocks - how can a piss-artist keep his average up with no
support ? hmmmmmph ! A.
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< p > go on an overnighter for 1st trip down Niflheim since it was rigged. (on
11th Aug - 12 days ago !!)
< p > Set off at 8.30 (just as it went dark). Dave the hand carried tacklebag
with all the bits of gear we could scrounge/find - 1 ladder from camp,
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braidline from surface, another ladder & more braidline from top of pitch
3 & (shock, horror!) one SRT rope from bottom of squeeze, a whole
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15m !< / font > Zoomed down to bottom of seriously damp Niflheim in 2 hrs
with no injuries other than a seriously wet wellie.
< p > Looked around at bottom to discover that, contrary to public opinion, it
was totally all down here; found lots of passage, 3 pitches, a couple of
crawls and a silted-up sump - ideal campsite crapper.
< p > [a great deal of sketching of Ragnarok]
< p > After poking around a bit went down 4m ladder pitch to left of passage
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& found stream canyon beyond 12m (maybe less) to floor. 17m pitch under
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rocks in main pasage looked more promising so went down there instead. Dave
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then bolted next (11m pitch) & he & Chris investigated squalid bits
at bottom whilst I went back, nicked the Niflheim rope & bolted down into
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chanber on oter side of bridge. Promising looking pitch beyond so I started
bolting it. Was v. bored when Dave came back saying their route was crap
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& could they have some rope back to get out with ?
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< p > I derigged sufficiently to chuck rope back down, & Dave went to
continue bolting whilst me & Chris tried to survey passage - unfortunately had total instrument failure (except the tape - that was OK) so just did
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sketch and bearings overleaf.
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< p > Eventually descended last 6m pitch at 6.30 am to find it went into 'too tight' rift. Now v. bored, cold & tired so exited.
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< p > On way out I noticed other way on (p3) & checked that but it was crap as hell ! hmpf.
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< p > Out in 2¼ hrs (me & Dave) & 2¾ (Chris)
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< p > Chris had the shits all trip and crapped at bottom of 4th (now named 'LOOSE BOWELS') & in 'THE BLACK LAGOON'.
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< p > Dave fell asleep at camp 1 & Chris fell asleep on drive back !
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< p > Ha, successfully tired him out (Dave) !
< p > TU 13/½ hrs
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< p > Prospecting on the West side of the Hinter
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Schwarzmooskogel.
< p > (1) Descended 15m shaft which we painted no 165 - in a fault line on
W.side of H.SMK
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< td > Cross on Schonberg< / td > < td > 331° < / td > < / tr >
< tr > < td > < / td > < td > Brauning Nase< / td > < td > 226° < / td > < / tr > < / table > < / center >
< p > (2) Found another shaft in same fault line, but further north in area
of bare limestone. This already had a bolt in the entrance, which we didn't
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than 35m. This is not an area looked at by CUCC before, so may well be the
pirates seen camping near the Augsteck, or possibly the Germans.
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< td > Cross on Schonberg< / td > < td > 322° < / td > < / tr >
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< p > After a day of recovery from dinner & general festering with the
Hohlenrettung people some keenies drove up & camped on plateau (inc.
Wookey). Team less keen went up in morning from Hildes (0800!) & met up
with Wookey at camp. Mill around, go to cave, mill around a bit more, &
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lights etc., & let team 'mega-mug' - (Animal, Jeremy, etc.) overtake
& derig Flapjack etc. & as a result missed out on the hot tea at
the camp. Dan & Wookey surveyed Olympus, conveniently meeting team
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'de-frig' (Animal Jeremy etc.) as they came up Flap-jack thus getting a
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closure loop. (oh-dear) Chris & Adam (meanwhile) rigged down pitch
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Del had started on, off Olympus. Chris almost put in 2nd attempt at a bolt
15ft down on large ledge (beneath bolt) before 3 cracks appeared in rock
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& a lump fell out beneath bolt hole. Adam spurned backup belay (small,
highly mobile stone) at head of pitch & used a bigger (& therefore
more reliable) rock as back up before descending & putting in a more
successful spit underneath Chris's & descending ensuing 20 ft pitch.
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A stream canyon continued. The rock split around Adam's next bolt too (to
show he's not immune) so Chris free climbed down to a rabbit sized
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continuation of the stream & disappointment. So went out, noticing rock
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around bolt at head of pitch also split ho ho. ie. for this short section
5 attempts at bolting: 1: shattered at beginning, 3: rock split around, 1:
OK. Not very good !
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< p > Adam & Chris said 'Hi' to Dan & Wookey doing the real work of
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surveying along the gorgeous passage off Olympus joining up with Flapjack
from derriè re. Chris helped/hindered survey, while Adam put in bolt
(after several attempts) at head of pitch over on other side of passage
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beyond campsite of Knossos (& got v. bored). Survey of stuff above
complete, an Uncle Ben's rice meal was consumed before Dan & Wookey
went off to look at the bits around 'Over the Rainbow' & Adam &
Chris went to look at pitch Adam had just put a bolt in. C went down &
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put bolt at head of 40m* pitch below, then A went down it (after having a
false start down without 29m rope to continue to bottom of pitch, knot being
required in centre). A. reported 5m pitch down continuing stream passage
below. Time was now 3 a.m. so a fatigued retreat was beat back to surface
around 6-6.30 a.m. According to Dan + Wookey about their sojourn at 'Over
the Rainbow' - it went.
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< p > < font color = "#800000" > * Of course, 40m is subject to usual 100% bullshit
factor. In this case bullshit particularly gross since no knot change for 29m
rope so prob. 25m at most. - Ah well !< / font >
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< p > Entered cave around 11 am. Went down left hand route to camp where
Animal, Jeremy, Julian were still in bed. Photoed formations and Arrow
chamber, sloping passage. Then left for R.H. route photos out from Tower
Blocks where there was a sudden increase in water in seconds at about
4.15 pm. Photos in Tower Blocks, Star Wars, Knossos, Frozen Stream etc.
Came out to photo Bungalow pitch, Squeeze pitch and second pitch. Exited
around 10.30 pm
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< p > Surveying Niflheim
< p > Went down to junction below squeeze ahead of another party (or maybe I'm
thinking of yesterday's trip down D+S ahead of above trip - too much caving
- can't think straight). Started survey at junction and exploring various routes off passageway to Arrow chamber. One off first sharp RH bend (going straight on) appears to be going - yes I know - < u > not< / u > helpful - shut up Dave ! Del disappeared down the rift for a while - "its very deep". Juliette was fast realising her artistic skills, when we came to the origin of Niflheim's "wet" bit. Ah! this is why Del's been dragging a plastic bucket down with him (I didn't want to ask - I thought it was the answer to Chris' squits - keep your cave clean; you've heard of the 'pooper scooper' well we've got the 'bucket carry outer' !) Del descended below the water while Juliette put the bucket in position to collect the water to keep darling Del dry - a pity she didn't tell him when it was full. Instead, what was a sprinkle of water became a collected torrent as a < u > whole< / u > 30 seconds worth of Niflheim water was deposited on Del's head ! I had a short go at doing the note taking as far as the start of Niflheim and then we had to come out to make the call-out time.
< p > 25 points surveyed, the LH route was longer than we'd thought (or I'd remembered) but a pretty good trip !
< p > Time underground 8 hrs.
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< p > Squeeze bypass, down Drunk + Stupid (possibly ?)
< p > Gratuitous trip by Dave H thru squeeze to check happy campers + where's
our rope, eh? Oh there isn't any. So Del + Dave wait at 4th pitch while photo
trip goes thru. Then down D+S. Ju got off 2nd pitch (20m) halfway down, to
find way off with 5m pitch. At bottom of 20m, Dave moved slack in rope around
while Del + Juliette rigged down hole in floor - No go Joe (there is a
bollard dropped down there, oops sorry!). Down 30m pitch and finally Dave
manages Indian Rope Trick to ledge (at +7m). You work out how he did it?
Juliette wormed her way up rift (bearing 030° ) from bottom of 30m
v.tight, climbs. Anyway, Dave the cordless bolter sets off down rift (bearing
190° ), 15m pitch to a ledge and carries on.... Oh yes, there is a hammer
down there, dropped by nameless woman ! Voice connection from New rift to
D+S, no lights so far. Quick out but soaked by afternoon thunderstorm
filtering through, so exit to dry change (ooh luvly).
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< p > Plan: Nip down RH route, make a rope collection, check out Over the
Rainbow, camp down Niflheim, sleep, spend next day poking around passages
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at base having a brew up every single hour, camp & sleep again. come
out, pop down Drunk & Stupid to show how hard we are and come out in the
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evening reluctantly just in time to make the call out.
< p > What happened in fact: Down flapjack late in the day, derigged pitches
below, dumped Boris for MarkD to deal with and pulled rest of rope up
flapjack (helping with Dan's surveying separate passage across-pitch
link-up), had brew up at old underground camp and exited Knossuss.
< p > [sketch of OTR chanber]
< p > A = Over the Rainbow< br >
B = Descent drop to underneath Over the Rainbow< br >
C = pillar, D = OTR bypass< br >
E = free climbable drop from which you can see person at the bottom of B< br >
F = Pot of Gold
< p > Jeremy descended B, Julian saw him from E. Animal discovered F. Pot of
Gold immediately entered phreatic swiss cheese labyrinth half clogged with
soil. Somewhere (take left turn soon after entering) there is a pitch into
a chamber all of whose exits drop into a rift. The way on, downwards, was
extensively looked at and was promising enough - to Animal and Jeremy - to
make us forget Niflheim and set up camp in nice sandy passage 3 mins up
LH route. The night was cold enough to freeze an elephant alive. (Julian
hadn't worked out how much clothing it was necessary to wear < u > inside< / u >
the sleeping bag). The crapper was up a loose, noisy scree slope at back.
Put a change of plan note at bottom of squeeze pitch. Water supply from a
secluded pool a little down RH route.
< p > In morning we found 3:05 note left by Dave's team on their exit. (Notes
left by other teams are wonderful). David paid us a visit, then Keith, Ian,
Mark and none of them got any coffee out of us because we were running short
of meths.
< p > Pot of Gold swiss cheese (route through) surveyed, pitch bolted and rift
descended, freeclimb false floor to false floor to bottom, followed through
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tight bit to head of 25m pitch While Animal bolted this, J& J investigated
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sound of noisy streamway, and located it. And found it unfollowable. Julian
discovered several clean-stone-floored long phreatic snake holes, which would
have been tight if the snake had just swallowed a pig. These came out in
derelict falling-to-bits chambers which connected to other side of pitch
being bolted. Pitch went nowhere fast. Surveyed it all except derelict
chambers and snake holes.
< p > Went back to camp and it now had a breeze which blew candles out and
clothes against the ceiling. A drip appeared in the upper passages near
crapper. Deduction: weather was crap. Woke up in morning feeling just as
fucked as when we had hit the pit. Very cold everywhere. Jeremy's guts were
soiled so we went straight out. And the weather was crap.
< p > T/U 47 hrs 59 minutes
< p > Conclusion: Camping underground is crap. Unless the facilities are
exceptionally good and as nice as in a tent on a campsite, you don't get
rested and might as well not have gone to sleep. Could do better.< / font >
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< p > Team Sweat: Ian (still in wooley), Keith, Tanya, Julian, Del,
Juliette, Mark F, Wookey, Animal< br >
Got the Potato Hut to over 40° on the thermometer. Animal sweats the most
and wrung out his skids.< br >
Tanya went in the river !!< br >
T/S (sweating) ~30 mins
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< p >
drip - rain, pour } - WET. Pitch, pitch< br >
bolt / survey Prussic add infinitum
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< p > An overnighter. We started fantasising about morning emergences to bright
blue skies before we even went in. Zipped downwards, Chris removing even
more aluminium from the rack. (Why is it so fascinating + satisfying
watching those grooves form ?)
< p > At the Black Lagoon, we avoided the gurgling sump monster - (thumper)
and began work. Tanya and Dave braved the ice to survey. Chris and I began
bolting - down the end of Wookey's little yummy pipe. Loads of naturals
everywhere. Rigged 30m + 20m down 2 pitches from end of pipe but did not
reach so out with the Millars hundred. Juliette, anxious to begin knitting
socks, knitted rope instead in the crawling pipe. Dave (the cordless drill)
now takes over from Chris (natural man) and begins tapping.
< p > Tanya + Chris finish the survey and begin tandem prussicing out of the
big wet pitch (both enjoy this lots).
< p > Oh yes ! The mystery note. On arriving at the bottom of Niflheim Dave +
Tanya discover a 'cryptic clue'
< p > [sketch of location of note]
< p > "CUCC 1/9/89 Kaninchenhö hle< br > Dan Mace < address> "
< p > but why ? we know this.
< p > Many suggestions were made. "Dan changed his mind and came down Niflheim,
went down pitch X + discovered evidence of French sabotage"< br >
"Dan needed to alert us, but the only bit of paper available is this naff
bit" - wrong as today's date.
< p > So French sabotage all the way. Dan + co. discovered a 'mysterious' rope
at the bottom of D and S. Obviously French.
< p > So we finally have a connection. Discovered by all above ground, the D.S.
lot by studying the survey, the Niflheim lot by Chris's intuition having
been told Dan's French sabotage story.
< p > We all met up at the squeeze. I was perplexed, standing at the bottom.
< p > Chris above, Dave below, Tanya between. Deep powerful grunt (assumed to
be Dave's feminine gasp in rhythmic sessions).
< p > "Push with your head on her hip" says Chris, Grunt, ahhh...
< p > Was it twins - Dave is a vet, he should know (Dab hand with hauling
lambs from sheep (elbow deep)).
< p > The great moment came, Tanya had done a handstand above the pitch !
< p > Dave declares that 'he prefers sheep'.
I never knew about these Welsh origins - And anyway, Tanya's hair is fluffier
than any sheep. Poor taste, I don't know !
< p > Those fantasies of blue skies must have brought the clouds. But never
mind. Austrian old ladies gave chocolate in exchange for tea. Chris - the
undernourished look works again (cream cakes and now chocolate) Maybe they
feel the need to mother him ?
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< a id = "id1989-161-37" > 1989-09-01 | The French Connection | Dan, Jeremy, Julian, Penny < / a > < br >
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< p > < strike > DRUNK & STUPID< / strike > < / font >
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< font color = "#505050" > < - FRENCH LETTER SERIES (Paul)< / font > < br >
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< font color = "#800000" > survey to the bottom & finish the route< br >
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< p > 'THE FRENCH CONNECTION'
< p > starring:-< ul >
< li > El Presidente Jeremy
< li > Julian the Keenest Man on the Expedition
< li > Dan the Second Keenest Man on the Expedition
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< li > Penny the Expedition Treasurer & the least keenest woman on the Trip
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< / ul >
< p > Filmed in Glorious Technicolour by an unknown Austrian Photographer.
< p > Set off for the plateau in Jeremy's car remarkably early (for CUCC).
Leaping enthusiastically (ha ha) from the car outside the Bergrestaurant
we were immediately accosted by a strange man festooned with cameras who
requested 'a minute' of our time. The next twenty minutes was spent
trooping on and off an empty Bundesbus while the above mentioned
photographer did his stuff - apparently we look like four typical Loser
walkers! The photos are to be used for advertising the bus service - we
are *stars* (autographs given for a small consideration!)
< p > Finally made it to the cave and eventually got underground. Jeremy and
Julian zoomed on down D+S to push, and Dan and I started the survey at
Wet Nappy Chamber. Approximately twenty survey stations later J+J appeared,
demanding that we choose to hear first the 'bad news or the good news'.
< p > The BAD news:- "IT ENDS"
< p > The GOOD news:- "We've connected with the French Cave"
< p > INSTANT EXCITEMENT
< p > Instant acceleration of survey in order to reach the 'French' cave before
we have to go out.
< p > Julian (no-one else would have done it!) had pushed something both
obscure and constricted and come upon the end of a very clean unmarked
piece of 10mm Edelrid hanging down a pitch.
Thought process:< br >
(1) Rope is clean therefore cannot have come from anywhere in 161< br >
(2) Bolts are very good therefore they < u > cannot< / u > be CUCC bolts< br >
(3) We have no idea where we are so we can't be anywhere near anywhere else:
< br > THEREFORE this must be the French cave!
< p > The more we thought about it the more reasons we managed to find to
convince ourselves that the French Connection was a fact.
< p > A note was left attached to the bottom of the rope, and it was surveyed
to, and we set off out.
< p > THE SEQUEL:-
< p > Back at Base Camp, Dan and I rush to work out the survey data and plot
the centre line on the rough survey to see where it goes relevant to salient
points elsewhere in the cave.
< p > Circa two hours and much calculator programming later:-
< p > "Right Dan, where's the end of D+S?"< br >
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"-7 North & 42 East".< br >
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"And where's the current end of the Niflheim survey?"< br >
"Um.... +7 North and 42 East"< br >
"Aren't they sort of rather ... um ... < u > close< / u > ?"
< p > A rush to the log book confirms:- the French Connection is in fact the
bottom of Niflheim.
< p > Kaninchenhö hlensystem becomes Kaninchenhö hle once more. We have
no second entrance, but we do have one big survey loop.
< p > Oh, well, never mind. I don't know what the French is for "ha ha we've got
the highest entrance" anyway.
< p > Time on the bus:- 20 minutes.
< p > Time underground :- 11 hours
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< p > < font color = "#000000" > "I'm very disappointed with Dan's performance on
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< a id = "id1989-161-35" > 1989-09-01 | The 3½ hr extravagance ! | < u > David< / u > & Wookey< / a >
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< p > Went up in cars (Chris, Del, Juliette, Jeremy, Adam, Wookey and myself)
to discover the 'sprinkling' of snow visible from base camp was, in fact,
an enormous amount - 4-6 inches plus drifts ! Jeremy and Adam return to
base and we carry on pretending to go caving ! (all but Wookey that is,
who really did want to go and collect his trangia + clothes from the camp
below Knossus before going home with Del). Even though Wookey was intending
to go on his own if no one would come it seemed a pretty good idea for at
least one person to go down with him.
< p > After about 45 mins of falling all over the place in the snow drifts (it
was in fact a very pretty walk up there!) we got changed + disappeared down
the 1st pitch to reemerge 3½ hrs later, Wookey having been all the
way down to the camp by Tower Blocks whilst I waited above Knossos. Also
rerigged 3/4 pitch to push a large boulder down which was sitting on the
rebelay rope to the top of 4th pitch. Pleasant surprise to see Chris and Del
and Juliette waiting for us up top.
< p > TU 3½ hrs.< / font >
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< p > < a id = "id1989-161-36" > 1989-09-02 | Rush back | Mike + Tina< / a >
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< p > Rushed back to Austria. 30 hour train journey and still so keen to be
whisked up to the cave.
< p > Leisurely start - underground by 1.30 ! Entertaining rigging the rope
across the head of the third pitch. First I lifelined Mike with our climbing
rope across a very nasty loose boulder slope. Then we tried to rig a rope
straight across. Oh dear rope not quite long enough.
< p > Much deliberation. Eventually I abseil down to 2nd rebelay on 3rd pitch
and "brainwave" -> nice ledge to walk around. Well, fairly nice compared
with the boulderslope and the possibility of being stuck half way across a
rope.
< p > Whee nice big passageway - stomp stomp stomp. Pitch, go down (nice
natural, no wasting time bolting anything here). Oh dear, horrible tight rift
with another pitch on it (undescended).
< p > Next an eyehole was found halfway down pitch with a little chamber and a
freeclimb down. We put the remainder of the rope down as a handline. More
passage way at the bottom and nice mud formations on the walls. There are
a few holes in the floor, tight but rattle a long way. Also a very deep rift
with water going down it (undescended). We walked as far as we could and at
the end there's a promising looking pitch. Not very deep (~10m) but it looks
like it goes somewhere, there's lots of rattling at the bottom.< br >
Surveyed out.
< p > 11 hr trip and it was pissing down when we came out.
< p > Tina
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< p > Drunk & Stupid Photography / Detackle
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< p > Down at 3:30 pm. Smooth trip on the way down; lots of photos (1½
rolls) of most of the best bits. Very impressed with final rift into mud
floored chamber; spectacular views. Herad some really incredible sounds at
the bottom, We presume that it was from "Thumper the talking sump" at the
base of Niflheim. It sounded like a selection of tubular bells playing: a
really fantastic phenomenon. Really hard wark detackling: by the time we
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were out of D& S we had 4 bags of rope, 3 ladders & my camera box.
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Then came most unwelcome findings "Chris has done a Becka and fallen down
the squeeze" etc. etc. (read rescue report for details).
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< p > < a id = "id1989-161-42" > 1989-09-03? | Six go Detackling A Cave | Juliette, Dave, Mike R, Jeremy Tanya, Tina< / a >
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< p > [Date uncertain]
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< p > (1) Juliette, Dave, Animal - Down Niflheim
< p > Trip to close the survey loops down Niflheim and to detackle it. 'twas
wet, and the slithy cavers did gyre and gymbal on the rope. Dave and Juliette
tandemed up the main pitch. Mike surprised Juliette by falling down a small
hole, light went out but it didn't hurt so I didn't say anything so Juliette
thought "Oh no etc. etc.". Met Tina at the squeeze so over to ----
< p > (2) Jeremy, Tanya, Tina
< p > First off the idea was to be a < u > second wave< / u > down the cave. Got to
cave just as first wave was going down. Dave not even changed. Oh dear,
severe misjudgement of time. Oh well lets tackle haul some gear down. Don't
forget stopping at camp for a brew, some pilchards and porridge ! Oh well,
5 O'Clock down teh cave's not < u > too< / u > late is it ! Tanya gave me + Jeremy
the willies by chucking great boulders down and we couldn't hear anything.
Eventually Jeremy prussiked part way up to shout "Tanya, you OK?". I met
Mike + co. at the squeeze. Me + Mike detackled Dreamtime. Me + Tanya hauled
gear up from bottom of 1st pitch to ledge, Mike helping. Jeremy + Tanya did
2nd pitch. Dave + Jeremy last bit ledge to top of entrance. Tanya had a
tackle sack fall on her head. Was v. brave. We all gave a cheer as last bit
of cave was detackled. Drank beer at 1 O'clock on hillside, got back
2.30 am !
< p align = center > Dave, Juliette, Animal T/U 11 hours< br >
Tina, Tanya, Jeremy ~ 7 hrs
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hauled all rope and ladders to the surface.
< p > T/U 4½ hours< / font >
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< p > Shot down, Jeremy pulled Adrian & Boris from Flapjack pitches, Mark F
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waited. I looked at current pushing front to see if obviously going to close
off. Didn't ! (rocks fell many bounces down rift 'till banging faint)
therefore didn't rig because next year. Surveyed from top of wet pitch
("Wish you were her (not me) pitch"), estimating pitch size. Jeremy returned.
Ate food at camp (might as well carry out in stomach). Lugged gear out
(loads). Got hit by falling rock on Knossus pitch (lucky near top). Hauled
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all gear thro' squeeze after noting Dan's note re Chris's fall & swearing
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insulting a lot.
< p > In process of carrying all gear to bottom of 4th pitch when hear rescue
needs more ropes for hauling CD (we had assumed from Dan's note that CD just
shaken and able to get out without others hauling him).
< p > Rescue delayed exit into horrid night.
< p > Rescue details must be elsewhere, therefore not repeat.
< p > Time U/G 14 hrs
< p > Details of cave explored in Survey book.< / font >
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< p > This trip not written up in base camp logbook.
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