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<p>Callout book entry</p>
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<div class="callout">07:00 +1</div>
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<div class="tripdate" id="t2016-07-06">2016-07-06-07</div>
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<div class="trippeople">David, Becka, Julian</div>
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<div class="triptitle">Tunnocks - Kracken</div>
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<p>We got to the entrance at 10:45am and started the long descent leaving behind a plateau asleep under a blanket of clag.
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Down we went, accompanied by a backing track of grumbling from Julian. He was clearly enjoying himself. </p>
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<p>Kraken was as big as promised and we made it to the camp at about 4:30pm just as the previous team were coming up Octopussy.
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Nat bubbled with excitement as he described what lay below. Wookey sketched out a plan of the leads they had found - our survey
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missing some 800m of passages. The only bad news was a shortage of bog roll having been promised there was plenty! Fortunately we
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were able to separate Nat from his emergency supply. </p>
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<p> After some soup we descended Octopussy; a fantastic 5m wide steeply sloping tube. We then headed to our first A lead - a
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large phreatic tube heading up a muddy slope. We followed this for at least 100m before it ended at the bottom of a downward slope
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where the mud filled the passage. This passage had some pristine white formations and excellent mud floors. A fine start to our surveying. </p>
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<p>We proceeded to explore the remaining known passages. Discover the upstream sump from which a small stream emerged. Julian spotted
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a large collection of dead 'cave lobsters' in the passage leading to the sump (washed into a muddy crawl during a flood).</p>
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<p>This ended our first day of exploration and we made the tough ascent of Octopussy. The mud makes the climb slippery and impeded jammer
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operation. On return to camp we set about making dinner and getting ready for bed.</p>
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<p>After a relatively comfortable and very warm night(compared with the night I spent underground a few days prior) we arose. Julian
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and I were moaned at for our lack of enthusiasm for leaving our nice warm pits until after breakfast. However we were soon once again doing
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battle with Octopussy.</p>
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<p>We set off down our next A lead- relatively horizontal 5m diameter tube heading north. This passage had 2 smaller passages off the
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left which we connected back into known passage. The large passage reached a fault in the rock where a short pitch of ~20m would no doubt
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resulted in more cave. Having made good progress (survey legs typically exceeding 20m) we started on another nearby A lead where Chris's team
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had turned around. We followed more massive passage before reaching a chamber around a stone pillar some 10m across, Five ways lead off from here.
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One passage slopped down to the sound of water requiring a rope another 2 tubes (only 2m in diameter) lead off upwards while the 6m passage took
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a downward direction after meeting another large passage from above.</p>
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<p>First we set off down, the passage meandered before reaching a pitch roughly 30m deep, it couldn't be approached safely without a rope.
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However the real highlight of this passage was a living cave lobster! Whilst sat at a survey station I noticed it climbing up the wall, no idea
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where it thought it was going, or what it could be eating, but it could certainly move. My comrades took photos and video. To finish our survey we
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ascended the aforementioned slope leading to a large rift. The two up sloping tubes connected and lead to a 4m free climb which we left for the
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next party. We met the team in question at the camp whilst eating our pre exit dinner (~4pm). A long prusik followed.</p>
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<div class="callout">07:00 +1</div>
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<div class="tripdate" id="t2016-07-07a">2016-07-07</div>
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<div class="trippeople">Andrew, Sioned, Becka</div>
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<div class="triptitle">Balcony</div>
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