Logbook edited 2023-07-30c

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+<div class="tripdate" id="2023-07-30c">2023-07-30</div>
+<div class="trippeople"><u>Rob</u>,Botch,Luke,Lea,,Becka,</div>
+<div class="triptitle">Fishface - Pushing The bottom of fish Face - camp #2 - part 1</div>
+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.
+<P>
+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
+<P>
+thru bolts used 16
+<div class="timeug">T/U: 48.0 hours</div>
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 <div class="tripdate" id="2023-07-31a">2023-07-31</div>
 <div class="trippeople"><u>Joe Stell</u>,,Ruairidh MacLeod,</div>
 <div class="triptitle">Surface - Prospecting alternative entrances for Maelstrom</div>