Expo 2005 is in the planning stages currently, more information will be placed here as it becomes available.
+Expo 2005 has now happened. Information about the expedition will filter onto this site gradually.
-The current thinking on dates for the expedition is shown in the calendar.
+Here are some of the pre-expo documents, for archive purposes:
+ +Walked back up to the bivi in the afternoon attempting to find 1999-OB-01 and 1999-OB-02 on the way. Failed in this, though we did find 101 and 102, which are tagged (though 101a isn't and the paint is very faint). These were duly photographed. Discovered that the bearings for 1999-OB-02 line up quite near Pancake Aven, so plan to look harder for it next year.
+ +Went into BNW with the drill battery to climb the final good up-lead (04-30) then look at some of the down pitches. Olly climbed up to a ledge and put in a bolt, and traversed across placing 2 bolts on the way. The climb/traverse wasn't too epic, except the only rock good enough for bolts was at foot level.
+ +[Diagram]
+ +Olly successfully reached the passage without falling off. And we decided that the best way to retrieve the hangers was for me to second the climb climbing-style, which was quite exciting as Olly had placed a bolt to protect him stepping across the exciting bit, but I had to remove it first. Anyway, we walked along a short way to the top of 04-29V as expected, and scrambled down (still attached to the rope) onto the fairly stable boulder slope and walked up it. The main way on choked, but a walking passage led off on the left. This shortly split with the right-hand passage choking (though quite possibly diggable on the left, but that seemed to reconnect). The two left-hand passages soon connected, with the second being the easier route, another passage led off on the right which we looked at later. We headed down the main passage, initially crawling then walking in the roof tube of a rift passage. I predicted it would reconnect near where we started the climb and Ol predicted it would join the Oxbows. We reached a junction, where left continued in similar fashion to arrive near where we started (04-31C) and I hated being right... Straight on got small, right went for 25m to a choke. We headed out, surveying it as we went. When we got near the start of the rift, Olly looked at the last lead, which very soon connected with the Oxbows (ticking off 04-43B in the process, so for the first time for me at least, our first and last stations were the same and we connected to two stations from last year, and ticked off 4 QM's!).
+ +We left the climb rigged, leaving the end of the 2000 39m rope there. Then went to look at 04-40A. Olly put a couple of bolts in what looks like a lovely pitch - NO CHOSS, not anywhere. Very echoey, but sadly the rope didn't reach the bottom. We went out carting the rope + drill + SRT kit through the Test Tubes. BNW is weird - all the QM's seem to either choke or reconnect to known cave. Whilst we have surveyed more cave, the maximum extent of BNW is virtually unchanged. There are still good leads there, but they are either small or pitches.
+ +Frank assured me that it would only take a couple of hours to tidy up some loose ends in High Hopes and fish the rope out. This estimate turned out to be wrong by a factor of 150%, so this could almost be called a proper caving trip.
+ +Went in the 204G entrance, leaving Nial to follow us in and derig the rope. Derigged a traverse in High Hopes. and recorded a couple of legs to link the surveys. The rope was left on the next muddy downclimb, though the hanger and tape were retrieved (the rope is left tied round a natural). We then came across a blind pit in the floor with a rope down it. Frank went down with an end of rope for a quick Grade 2 sketch and then derigged it. The down (coming from G side) pitch-cum-climb into the chamber near Pile Driver was left rigged [i.e. Wookey's original up-climb from Toothless into High Hopes]. All other ropes between there and the down-pitch into Swings were removed.
+ +With that we staggered out of the E entrance with 3 bags between 2 feeling depressingly unfit. A nice tourist through some bits of the cave I've never previously visited.
+ +Went down Keg Series, leaving the drill at the Taproom for tomorrow, and derigging up to the Taproom. We cut off the end of the rope for the climb into Razor Advance, and cut off the top end to leave the pendulum rigged - so the 80ish metre rope with no end markings left is the 2004 rope that was 101m or 103m or somesuch. I carried the bag out and was tired.
+ +Went down to the Tap Room to push the 1970s route as far as possible, survey + derig. Got to the ledge we got to last time (which is now called Spent Ledge because of all the carbide there and some reference to popular culture that Olly thought of that I didn't get). Olly bolted down like this:
+ +[Diagram]
+ +to land on a ledge with a ~11m pitch below. We turned round here + surveyed back, and derigged to the bottom of Saved Shaft, getting the 4 bags there, 2 of which we took out.
+ +Derigging Saved + Plugged Shafts didn't go too badly + we got 4 bags out of the cave - trip wasn't epic like I thought it would be. And we did a carry down in the morning before caving. The carries down were worse than the derigging.
+ +PS Thanks for coming to rescue us, sorry we didn't need rescuing. Actually, no, I'm glad we didn't need rescuing, but I am sorry you thought we did.
+ +Went in. Took some photos from the bottom of Pie Series to the top of Monster Munch. Went out. Observed that it was raining. Cursed loudly.
+ +Pie Series: OK with use of Traxion + foot jammer hauling rig. Upper horizontal stuff: extremely tedious! 3 return trips through Tacklesack Blues, much fun all round.
+ +Down to the rebelay above the eyehole pitch. 180m of rope does not fit, even in a big tackle bag. Magic Roundabout with 3 bags, lots of bits and rope hanging out, was I glad to see Phil who helped get them out.
+ +This is an index to all caving trips that took place on Expo 2005, -plus anything else that people saw fit to record in the logbook.
- +plus anything else that people saw fit to record in the logbook. The +list of trips here includes everything mentioned in the logbook, any of +the three callout books or the Time Underground page in the bier book. +(That is, everything except the few obviously silly entries, such as a +slightly pathetic attempt by a certain team of expo slackers to claim +time underground for a trip to Halstatt salt mines - you know who you +are, and I'm afraid everyone else does too.).| Date | Person | Dest'n | T/U | Logbook writeup | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2005-07-16 | Tony, Wookey | Driving out | 0 | logbook | |
| 2005-07-21 | Mark, Nial | Cresta Run (Toothless) | 8 | [Not written up] | |
| 2005-07-21 | Earl, Wookey | Gaffered rigging | 7.25 | logbook | |
| 2005-07-22 | Jenny, Olly B | Setting up 76 camp | 0 | logbook | |
| 2005-07-22 | Olly B | Surface work | 0 | logbook | |
| 2005-07-22 | Nial, Wookey | Gaffered rigging | 8 | logbook | |
| 2005-07-23 | Nial, Tony, Wookey | Cresta Run (High Hopes) | 5.5 | logbook | |
| 2005-07-23 | Jenny, Olly B | 76 | 5.5 | logbook | |
| 2005-07-23 | Stuart, Emma, Olly M | Surface work (?) | 0.5 | [Not written up] | |
| 2005-07-24 | Olly B | 99 | 3.5 | logbook | |
| Jenny | 3 | ||||
| 2005-07-24 | Nial, Earl | Gaffered | 10 | [Not written up] | |
| 2005-07-25 | Frank, Becka, Dave | Journey out | 0 | logbook | |
| 2005-07-26 | Jenny, Dave, Olly B | Surface work near 76 | Jenny 0.75, Dave 0.5, Olly 0 | logbook | |
| 2005-07-26 | Wookey, Nial, Becka | Gaffered (Someware) | 9.5 | logbook | |
| 2005-07-26 | Earl, Tony, Frank | Cresta Run | 8 | [Not written up] | |
| 2005-07-27 | Jenny, Olly B, Dave | 70's Route/Keg Series connection (Adventures in Time + Space) | O+J 12, D 11.5 | logbook | |
| 2005-07-27 | Nial, Tony, Becka | Cresta Run | 5 | logbook | |
| 2005-07-27 | Wookey, Earl, Frank | ? | 8 | [Not written up] | |
| 2005-07-27 | Mark, Emma | "Mysteryville" | 0.5 | [Not written up] | |
| 2005-07-28 | Becka, Earl, Wookey | Gaffered (Software/Firmware/Night Soil) | 10.5 | logbook | |
| 2005-07-28 | Olly B, Jenny | 99 | 2 | [Not written up] | |
| 2005-07-28 | Olly B, Jenny, Dave | Documentation + tagging work | 0 | logbook | |
| 2005-07-28 | Stuart, Emma, Olly M, Peter | Hauchhohle | 7 | [Not written up] | |
| 2005-07-29 | Wookey, Becka, Andrew | Beyond Belief | 5 | logbook | |
| 2005-07-29 | Dave, Nial, Frank, Mark | Dachstein climbing | 0 | logbook | |
| 2005-07-29 | Martin, Peter | Twiglets QMs | 5 | [Not written up] | |
| 2005-07-29 | Emma, Olly M | Surface work 800m East | 0.5 | [Not written up] | |
| 2005-07-30 | Andrew, Becka | Gaffered / Heavily Soiled | 8 | logbook | |
| 2005-07-30 | Olly B, Jenny | 70's Route, rebelay failure + surface work | 2 | logbook | |
| 2005-07-30 | Nial, Martin | 4 Pitches of the Apocalypse | 12 | [Not written up] | |
| 2005-07-31 | Olly B, Jenny, Dave | 70's Route | 11 | logbook | |
| 2005-07-31 | Andrew, Becka, Wookey | Heavily Soiled / Earthenware | 10 | logbook | |
| 2005-07-31 | Martin, Nial | 4 Pitches of the Apocalypse | 13 | [Not written up] | |
| 2005-07-31 | Frank, Earl | Cresta Run / Faith | 7 | [Not written up] | |
| 2005-08-01 | Dave, Wookey | Surface documentation work | 0 | logbook | |
| 2005-08-01 | Becka, Andrew | Faith / Unconformity | 5 | logbook | |
| 2005-08-01 | Jenny, Olly B | Surface wander | 0.5 | logbook | |
| 2005-08-01 | Earl, Frank | "Gone to find 204G" | 0 | [Not written up] | |
| 2005-08-02 | Olly M, Mark | 2004-18 | 0.5 | [Not written up] | |
| 2005-08-03 | Andrew, Becka, Martin + 6 ARGE | 145 | Andrew 7.5, Becka + Martin 6 | logbook | |
| 2005-08-03 | Dave, Mark | 2004-18 + prospecting | 5 | logbook | |
| 2005-08-03 | Sarah, Olly M, Phil | Treeumphant | 8 | logbook | |
| 2005-08-03 | Emma, Stuart | Hauchhohle | 7 | [Not written up] | |
| 2005-08-04 | Dour, Dave, Nial | Below Fat Worm | 13 | logbook | |
| 2005-08-04 | Jenny, Olly B | Surface shaft | 0 | logbook | |
| 2005-08-05 | Dave, Stuart, Sarah | 204G/H/I | 5 | logbook | |
| 2005-08-05 | Olly B, Jenny | BNW | 9.5 | logbook | |
| 2005-08-05 | Dour, Julia | 161g/h | 0 | logbook | |
| 2005-08-05 | Nial, Becka | Photo trip | 4.5 | logbook | |
| 2005-08-06 | Dave, Andrew | High Hopes -> G/H | 4 | logbook | |
| 2005-08-06 | Nial, Becka | Subway | 12.5 | logbook | |
| 2005-08-06 | Olly M, Emma | Hauchhohle | 7 | [Not written up] | |
| 2005-08-06 | Stuart, Sarah | 204G/H/I | 2 | [Not written up] | |
| 2005-08-07 | Jenny, Olly B | BNW | 11 | logbook | |
| 2005-08-07 | Andrew, Nial, Becka | Hanging Onto Faith | 4.5 | logbook | |
| 2005-08-08 | Jenny, Olly B | Walking back | 0 | logbook | |
| 2005-08-08 | Andrew, Becka, Nial | Subway | 14 | logbook | |
| 2005-08-09 | Dave, Phil | Hauchhohle | 8.5 | logbook | |
| 2005-08-09 | Andrew, Becka | Hanging Onto Faith | 5 | logbook | |
| 2005-08-09 | Dour, Frank | 204G | 2 | logbook | |
| 2005-08-10 | Peter, Phil | Surface wander | Peter 0.5, Phil 0 | logbook | |
| 2005-08-10 | Frank, Dave | Hauchhohle | 8 | logbook | |
| 2005-08-10 | Dour, Julia | More useful surface stuff | 0 | logbook | |
| 2005-08-10 | Becka, Nial, Andrew | Subway | Becka + Nial 15.5, Andrew 14 | logbook | |
| 2005-08-11 | Andrew, Becka | Hanging Onto Faith | 6.5 | logbook | |
| 2005-08-13 | Nial, Andrew | 4 Pitches of the Apocalypse | 15.5 | [Not written up] | |
| 2005-08-10 | Jenny, Olly B | BNW: Loopy | 12.5 | logbook | |
| 2005-08-11 | Olly B, Jenny | Keg Series derig | 6.5 | logbook | |
| 2005-08-11 | Frank, Dour, Nial | Derigging 204G | Frank + Dour 5, Nial 0.5 | logbook | |
| 2005-08-12 | Olly B, Jenny | 70's Route derig | 10 | logbook | |
| 2005-08-13 | Olly B, Jenny | Derigging Plugged | 3.75 | logbook | |
| 2005-08-14 | Dour, Phil | Gaffered derig | 5 | logbook | |
| 2005-08-14 | Andrew, Dave | Hauchhohle photos | 3.5 | logbook | |
| 2005-08-15 | Dave | Hauchhohle derig | 6.5 | logbook | |
| 2005-08-15 | Phil, Andrew | Gaffered derig | 5 | logbook | |
| Date | +Person | +Dest'n | +T/U | +Logbook writeup | +Survey notes + |
+
| 2005-07-16 | +Tony, Wookey | +Driving out | +0 | +logbook | ++ |
+
| 2005-07-21 | +Mark, Nial | +204: Cresta Run (Toothless) | +8 | +[Not +written up] | +2005#02 + |
+
| Earl, Wookey | +204: Gaffered rigging | +7.25 | +logbook | ++ |
+ |
| 2005-07-22 | +Jenny, Olly B | +Setting up 76 camp | +0 | +logbook | ++ |
+
| Olly B | +Surface work | +0 | +logbook | ++ |
+ |
| Nial, Wookey | +204: Gaffered rigging | +8 | +logbook | ++ |
+ |
| 2005-07-23 | +Nial, Tony, Wookey | +204: Cresta Run (High Hopes) | +5.5 | +logbook | +2005#01 + |
+
| Jenny, Olly B | +76 | +5.5 | +logbook | ++ |
+ |
| Stuart, Emma, Olly M | +Surface work (?) | +0.5 | +[Not +written up] | ++ |
+ |
| 2005-07-24 | +Olly B, Jenny + |
+ 99 | +Olly 3.5, Jenny 3 + |
+ logbook | ++ |
+
| Nial, Earl | +204: Gaffered (? Apocalypse Now ?) + |
+ 10 | +[Not +written up] | +2005#24 + |
+ |
| 2005-07-25 | +Frank, Becka, Dave | +Journey out | +0 | +logbook | ++ |
+
| 2005-07-26 | +Jenny, Dave, Olly B | +Surface work near 76 | +Jenny 0.75, Dave 0.5, Olly 0 | +logbook | +2005#05 + |
+
| Wookey, Nial, Becka | +204: Gaffered (Someware) | +9.5 | +logbook | +2005#04 + |
+ |
| Earl, Tony, Frank | +204: Cresta Run | +8 | +[Not +written up] | +2005#12 + |
+ |
| 2005-07-27 | +Jenny, Olly B, Dave | +76: 70's Route/Keg Series connection (Adventures in Time + +Space) | +O+J 12, D 11.5 | +logbook | +2005#08 + |
+
| Nial, Tony, Becka | +204: Cresta Run | +5 | +logbook | +2005#03 + |
+ |
| Wookey, Earl, Frank | +Beyond Belief (1) + |
+ 8 | +[Not +written up] | +2005#09 + |
+ |
| Mark, Emma | +"Mysteryville" | +0.5 | +[Not +written up] | ++ |
+ |
| 2005-07-28 | +Becka, Earl, Wookey | +204: Gaffered (Software/Firmware/Night Soil) | +10.5 | +logbook | +2005#10 + |
+
| Olly B, Jenny | +99 | +2 | +[Not +written up] | +2005#06 + |
+ |
| Olly B, Jenny, Dave | +Documentation + tagging work | +0 | +logbook | ++ |
+ |
| Stuart, Emma, Olly M, Peter | +234: (?Foolish Plan + blasting in Pie Series?) + |
+ 7 | +[Not +written up] | +2005#14 + |
+ |
| 2005-07-29 | +Wookey, Becka, Andrew | +204: Beyond Belief (2) + |
+ 5 | +logbook | +2005#11 + |
+
| Dave, Nial, Frank, Mark | +Dachstein climbing | +0 | +logbook | ++ |
+ |
| Martin, Peter | +204: Twiglets QMs in Treeumphant + |
+ 5 | +[Not +written up] | +2005#07 + |
+ |
| Emma, Olly M | +Surface work 800m East | +0.5 | +[Not +written up] | ++ |
+ |
| 2005-07-30 | +Andrew, Becka | +204: Gaffered / Heavily Soiled (Hippocratic Oath 1) + |
+ 8 | +logbook | +2005#15 + |
+
| Olly B, Jenny | +76: 70's Route, rebelay failure + surface work | +2 | +logbook | +2005#21 + |
+ |
| Nial, Martin | +204: 4 Pitches of the Apocalypse | +12 | +[Not +written up] | +2005#18 + |
+ |
| 2005-07-31 | +Olly B, Jenny, Dave | +76: 70's Route | +11 | +logbook | +2005#13 + |
+
| Andrew, Becka, Wookey | +204: Heavily Soiled / Earthenware (Hippocratic Oath 2) + |
+ 10 | +logbook | +2005#17 + |
+ |
| Martin, Nial | +204: 4 Pitches of the Apocalypse | +13 | +[Not +written up] | +2005#19 + |
+ |
| Frank, Earl | +204: Cresta Run / Faith (??) + |
+ 7 | +[Not +written up] | ++ |
+ |
| 2005-08-01 | +Dave, Wookey | +Surface documentation work | +0 | +logbook | ++ |
+
| Becka, Andrew | +204: Beyond Belief (3) | +5 | +logbook | +2005#16 + |
+ |
| Jenny, Olly B | +Surface wander | +0.5 | +logbook | +2005#30 + |
+ |
| Earl, Frank | +"Gone to find 204G" (surface survey 204d -> 2004-18) + |
+ 0 | +[Not +written up] | +2005#20 + |
+ |
| 2005-08-02 | +Olly M, Mark | +2004-18 | +0.5 | +[Not +written up] | ++ |
+
| 2005-08-03 | +Andrew, Becka, Martin + 6 ARGE | +145 | +Andrew 7.5, Becka + Martin 6 | +logbook | +2005#22 +2005#23 + |
+
| Dave, Mark | +2004-18 + prospecting | +5 | +logbook | ++ |
+ |
| Sarah, Olly M, Phil | +204: Treeumphant + Ermintrude + |
+ 8 | +logbook | +2005#29 + |
+ |
| Emma, Stuart | +234: ?? + |
+ 7 | +[Not +written up] | ++ |
+ |
| 2005-08-04 | +Dour, Dave, Nial | +204: 4 Pitches of the Apocalypse + |
+ 13 | +logbook | ++ |
+
| Jenny, Olly B | +Surface shaft | +0 | +logbook | ++ |
+ |
| 2005-08-05 | +Dave, Stuart, Sarah | +204: G/H/I ents + |
+ 5 | +logbook | +2005#27 + |
+
| Olly B, Jenny | +76: BNW - Pleasant but Pointless + |
+ 9.5 | +logbook | +2005#31 + |
+ |
| Dour, Julia | +161g/h | +0 | +logbook | ++ |
+ |
| Nial, Becka | +204: Photo trip | +4.5 | +logbook | ++ |
+ |
| 2005-08-06 | +Dave, Andrew | +204: High Hopes -> G/H | +4 | +logbook | +2005#25 + |
+
| Nial, Becka | +204: Subway (2) + |
+ 12.5 | +logbook | +2005#34 + |
+ |
| Olly M, Emma | +234: Wowoland + |
+ 7 | +[Not +written up] | +2005#26 + |
+ |
| Stuart, Sarah | +204: G/H/I ents + |
+ 2 | +[Not +written up] | +2005#27(b) + |
+ |
| 2005-08-07 | +Jenny, Olly B | +76: BNW (Batman + Pancake Chips) + |
+ 11 | +logbook | +2005#32 2005#33 + |
+
| Andrew, Nial, Becka | +204: Hanging Onto Faith (1) + |
+ 4.5 | +logbook | ++ |
+ |
| 2005-08-08 | +Jenny, Olly B | +Walking back | +0 | +logbook | ++ |
+
| Andrew, Becka, Nial | +204: Subway (3) + |
+ 14 | +logbook | +2005#35 + |
+ |
| 2005-08-09 | +Dave, Phil | +234: Pie R Squared + |
+ 8.5 | +logbook | +2005#39 + |
+
| Andrew, Becka | +204: Hanging Onto Faith (2) + |
+ 5 | +logbook | ++ |
+ |
| Dour, Frank | +204: G ent + |
+ 2 | +logbook | +2005#41 2005#42 + |
+ |
| Jenny, Olly B | +Surface stuff | +0 | +logbook | ++ |
+ |
| 2005-08-10 | +Peter, Phil | +Surface wander | +Peter 0.5, Phil 0 | +logbook | +2005#28 + |
+
| Frank, Dave | +234: Wowoland / Monster Munch + |
+ 8 | +logbook | +2005#40 + |
+ |
| Dour, Julia | +More useful surface stuff | +0 | +logbook | +2005#43 + |
+ |
| Becka, Nial, Andrew | +204: Subway (4) + |
+ Becka + Nial 15.5, Andrew 14 | +logbook | +2005#36 + |
+ |
| Jenny, Olly B | +76: BNW - Loopy | +12.5 | +logbook | +2005#45 + |
+ |
| 2005-08-11 | +Andrew, Becka | +204: Hanging Onto Faith (3) + |
+ 6.5 | +logbook | +2005#37 + |
+
| Frank, Dour, Nial | +204: Derigging 204G + through trip to E + |
+ Frank + Dour 5, Nial 0.5 | +logbook | +2005#44 + |
+ |
| Olly B, Jenny | +76: Keg Series derig | +6.5 | +logbook | ++ |
+ |
| 2005-08-12 | +Olly B, Jenny | +76: 70's Route push + derig | +10 | +logbook | +2005#46 + |
+
| 2005-08-13 | +Olly B, Jenny | +76: Derigging Plugged Shaft + |
+ 3.75 | +logbook | ++ |
+
| Nial, Andrew | +204: 4 Pitches of the Apocalypse - Mornington Crescent + |
+ 15.5 | +[Not +written up] | +2005#47 + |
+ |
| 2005-08-14 | +Andrew, Dave | +234: photo trip + |
+ 3.5 | +logbook | ++ |
+
| Dour, Phil | +204: Gaffered derig | +5 | +[Not +written up] | ++ |
+ |
| 2005-08-15 | +Dave | +234: derigging | +6.5 | +logbook | ++ |
+
| Phil, Andrew | +204: Gaffered derig | +5 | +logbook | ++ |
+ |