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2023-07-30
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Rob,Botch,Luke,Lea,,Becka,
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Fishface - Pushing The bottom of fish Face - camp #2 - part 1
+Headed underground at~10pm on 30/07, arrived at camp around half 11. +Good nigts sleep, unike the following night. +Packed rope, bolts etc before facilitating a quick start. +Fixed up the rigging on [Apis medians>] on thee way down, arrived at thee first pitch which was left in the canyon by myself, Nathan & Max last year. +Much wetter than last time so decided we needed and additional rebelay bolt way out to the left. +Next [trap?] rigged then we were into new territory. +Scuttled along the top of the traveres after trying to force a lower route and deciding it was too shit. +revealed a big pitch, decided the scuttle needed to have a rope so began bolting along while Luke and Lea surveyed, luke returning to the [?] hang to get additional rope in the meantime. +Popped down the pitch toward a ledge, wung out to avoid the spray of the pitch with a skyhook on a small lip. +PING it was of and I swung across the shaft, stopped myself hitting the wall with my hand which then became unusable for the rest of the trip. +

+We then landed on a big ledge in a huge fault zone: massie piles of choss where everywhere [and?] tje wayer fucked off down into a small gap betwween some large boulders. +We wandered around the space for a bit deliberating the best way to progress. +There was a big aven dropping in again caryying water(over 5 active iinlets had been passed by now) and the possibility of a big traverse into space between the choss. +In the end I decided we should follow the water and I shuffled along some boulders above the noisey streamway and below the hanging death. +Placed some traverese bolts feeling quite tired after adrenaline from the hand had worn off. +Used an ARSE hanger([big tick symbol]) then dropped down right into the flow ooof the water. +Rigged a deviation while being pissed on then reached the floor of the drop where the inlet from the aven dropped in. +Walked across the chamber feeling very cold, saw that there was another ~5m drop down to a flat floored streamway below. +Much more noise from water behind us then in front which would imply that things got easier ahead, but I couldn't make the [?] get that wet ( even thoguh Lea was well equipped in her fluorescent jacket, looking like [crew?] at a festival). +We [derigged?] back to camp (apart from the short pitches to get to the new traverse) and the next day did some surveying across the traverese(now named 'Delicate Steve'/I did Naat' [?] Nadia assumed I had stooped when I would not [intercept?] that I had). +Later after inputting data saw that we were well on course to connect, <100m horizontal and <10m vertical from Razordance. +Another year, hopefully [closer?]. +Called it 'Deutelle de Caca' after Lea said that the flaky calcite precipitates on the wall looked like the lace on a wedding dress +

+thru bolts used 16 +

T/U: 48.0 hours
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2023-07-31
Joe Stell,,Ruairidh MacLeod,
Surface - Prospecting alternative entrances for Maelstrom