diff --git a/years/2018/logbook.html b/years/2018/logbook.html index f03c4739f..bb35537e0 100644 --- a/years/2018/logbook.html +++ b/years/2018/logbook.html @@ -14,7 +14,7 @@ maintain half a dozen parser functions. Sorry about all the crap that surrounds the image tags which has been imported along with the content when UK Caving blogs have been parsed. -Exported on 2023-10-16 08:10 using either the control panel webpage or when editing a logbook entry online +Exported on 2023-10-22 23:10 using either the control panel webpage or when editing a logbook entry online See troggle/code/views/other.py and core.models/logbooks.py writelogbook(year, filename) --> @@ -2629,7 +2629,8 @@ Finally staggered out, including the [squiggle][squiggle][squiggle] by 2am.
Paul Fox, Natalie Uomini,
plateau - Top Camp - Surface Prospecting - Old & New Caves - 8.5 hours
T/U: 25 mins
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Bunda filling the plateau - click for bigger picture
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New cave 2018-NTU-01
Paul had prepared a list of some caves found in 2004 which were within 300m of Top Camp. @@ -2681,7 +2684,8 @@ one could get into the shaft and see where the rift goes.
2018-ntu-01 looking down shaft and rift
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Data from Nat's GPS (Garmin Oregon 650):
1834m, N47°41.518, E13°49.298
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Rift hole to descend
Several meters downhill from 2018-NTU-01, in passing we waypointed on the @@ -2707,7 +2712,8 @@ We finally rejoined the path to Tunnocks (which we should have used all along) and after a while, we waypointed on the GPS another hole that's most likely the same as catalogued 1623.p2002-07.

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2018-PF-01,02,03
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2018-PF-03: 1858m, UTM: 33T 0411530, 5282893
GPS with 3m accuracy for all.
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2018-PF-01 is a 2m-diameter shaft with an easy climb down to a mossy slope. We surveyed it [see Paul's excellent digital survey].

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Afterwards we circled painfully through obstacles of larch and cliffs until we stumbled across another interesting hole, which we named 2018-NTU-02. @@ -2782,7 +2792,8 @@ diameter of about 2 to 3m. A passage extends about 2m horizontally at the base of this small shaft, ending in a rubble choke which is the underside of the large surface shaft. [See scanned sketch in our survey notes.] - +
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A big opening in the side of the mountain

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Next we headed again for the mythical 2004-18, and reached the south-eastern edge of a huge steep-sided valley: Cubic Valley.
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Freezer Hole
In the lowest point of the eastern bowl of Cubic Valley is a small @@ -2831,7 +2845,8 @@ compared to 18°C just outside the hole (in the shade) was about 30°C). This hole is choked with rubble, but it would certainly be an interesting digging project for future Expos.

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, @@ -2852,7 +2867,10 @@ section of valley is full of tantalising deep shafts which must be explored! Just beside 2004-18 we found another shaft with a tag marked "AA 1 2017" but there is no recorded survey, no database entry, no information anywhere about it . - +
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Beside this shaft is another shaft with a snow plug and 2 spits well positioned for rigging, but no visible tag nor informations recorded. @@ -2864,7 +2882,8 @@ tag nor informations recorded.
Who could have been there?

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2004-16 and 2004-17 and Maybe Hole
As it was getting late and our water bottles were empty and @@ -2879,9 +2898,11 @@ Then we struggled on through thick larch and sheer cliffs, walking on the Fischgesicht path in the distance, which we could eventually reach and thankfully followed back to Top Camp, arriving just 20 minutes before our callout time! - +
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T/U: 0.0 hours

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