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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 2024-02-05 22:02 using either the control panel webpage or when editing a logbook entry online
Exported on 2024-02-06 00:02 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)
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at the end, it is needed.
ALSO people should come BEFORE title
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<div class="tripdate" id="2023-07-11e">2023-07-11</div>
<div class="trippeople">Charlotte, Harry, <u>Becka</u>, </div>
<div class="triptitle">Homecoming - Homecoming - Watershed</div>
Slogged down from Top Camp to Homecoming and headed down the entrance series. Wassil had snagged the rope on the longish pitch near the entrance (just after snow ends, beyond short crawl). It was so tight that Charlotte had to downprussik to free it. Steady progress to the pushing front in ~2.5 hours. Charlotte rigged a traverse down and across 2m so Harry and I could survey a side passage that quickly reached a pitch whilst Charlotte remained to finish rigging the pitch. We all descended the pitch to 2 routes. Right quickly led to another pitch so Charlotte continued rigging the same rope down this pitch whilst Harry and I surveyed left to a drop down to a canyon with a stream in it. We all descended Charlotte’s second pitch which dropped in a canyon streamway, and we surveyed a couple of legs each direction to check they went. Right upstream headed to short splashy climbs up. Downstream was tightish canyon. We exited in ~4 hours with a disturbing find on Gromit (the 50m at the base of the entrance series) – I saw a lump of mud on the rope, tried to flick it off but argh, the sheath had gone from a chunk of rope. I cautiously jammered above it, shouted down to warn the others, and tied it out in a butterfly. It was ~5m below the rebelay and many metres from any of the walls so hard to know what caused it – sharp jammers? Rockfall? Previous damage? Out 11pm and then a disappointingly long slog up to Garlic Cave to enjoy the new facilities.
<div class="timeug">T/U: 13.0 hours</div>
<div class="editentry"><br /><a href="/logbookedit/2023-07-11e">Edit this entry</a><br /></div>
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<div class="tripdate" id="2023-07-03a">2023-07-03</div>
<div class="trippeople">Martin Green, <u>Philip Sargent</u>, </div>
<div class="trippeople"><u>Philip Sargent</u>, Martin Green, </div>
<div class="triptitle">basecamp - nerding</div>
Philip arrived by train at lunchtime. Joined Martin for
serious nerding to get WiFi internet working in potato hut.
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<div class="tripdate" id="2023-07-03b">2023-07-03</div>
<div class="trippeople"><u>Honorata Bogusz</u>, Radost Waszkiewicz, Mike Butcher, Jana Podbelsek, Will Kay, </div>
<div class="trippeople">Will Kay, Radost Waszkiewicz, Jana Podbelsek, <u>Honorata Bogusz</u>, Mike Butcher, </div>
<div class="triptitle">plateau - second water collection tarp</div>
<br /><br />Me, Radost, Mike, Jana and Will went to top camp to set up
main tarp and the second water collection tarp (which was a success).
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<div class="tripdate" id="2023-07-03c">2023-07-03</div>
<div class="trippeople"><u>Harry Kettle</u>, Charlotte Payne, Christian Kuhlmann, Janis Huns, Emma Caspers, </div>
<div class="trippeople">Emma Caspers, Charlotte Payne, Janis Huns, <u>Harry Kettle</u>, Christian Kuhlmann, </div>
<div class="triptitle">Balkon - Rescuing Balcony ropes</div>
<br /><br />A crack team of expo's hardest cavers was assembled to take a rope out of balcony that was left there last year.
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<div class="tripdate" id="2023-07-03d">2023-07-03</div>
<div class="trippeople">Emily Mabbett, <u>Amelia Oliver</u>, Jonty Pine, </div>
<div class="trippeople"><u>Amelia Oliver</u>, Emily Mabbett, Jonty Pine, </div>
<div class="triptitle">Fishface - Digging the snow out of Fishface entrance</div>
<br /><br />After a carrying day on the 2nd, we suspected ff would be snowed in. A faff morning of acquiring shovel. We got to ff with shovels, discovering it
did need digging. Jonty got particularly into this, producing quit the snow trench.
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<div class="tripdate" id="2023-07-04b">2023-07-04</div>
<div class="trippeople">Ashley Gregg, Amelia Oliver, Sarah Parker, <u>Wassil Janssen</u>, Philip Balister, Merryn Matthews, </div>
<div class="trippeople">Philip Balister, Amelia Oliver, <u>Wassil Janssen</u>, Merryn Matthews, Ashley Gregg, Sarah Parker, </div>
<div class="triptitle">topcamp - Carry and set-up</div>
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Ash, Merryn, Amelia in [com?] Philip B., Sarah and me
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<div class="tripdate" id="2023-07-04c">2023-07-04</div>
<div class="trippeople"><u>Harry Kettle</u>, Charlotte Payne, Alice Kirby, Christian Kuhlmann, Will Kay, </div>
<div class="trippeople">Will Kay, Charlotte Payne, Christian Kuhlmann, <u>Harry Kettle</u>, Alice Kirby, </div>
<div class="triptitle">Surface - Rope carry to Homecoming + Trial walk from Garlic Cave to Car Park on painted track</div>
<br /><br />After more faff from Chi, we set off about 10AM to carry gear and check out the route to Homecoming. Fishface to Homecoming was well cairned and fairly straightforward to follow.
<br /><br />Gear ledt at Homecoming entrance:
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<div class="tripdate" id="2023-07-05a">2023-07-05</div>
<div class="trippeople"><u>Sarah Parker</u>, Philip Balister, Lizzie Caisley, Joel Stobbart, Maddie Kirby, </div>
<div class="trippeople">Maddie Kirby, Philip Balister, Joel Stobbart, <u>Sarah Parker</u>, Lizzie Caisley, </div>
<div class="triptitle">Surface - Reflecting the Homecoming -> Fishface route, scoping out a Homecoming to col route</div>
<br /><br />Joel, Lizzie and Philip fettled the tarp (where some water had pooled overnight) whilst I had a go at attaching the big Daren drum (filled with the
solar panels and cables) to my rucksack, ready to carry from top camp to Garlic Cave.
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<div class="tripdate" id="2023-07-06a">2023-07-06</div>
<div class="trippeople">Maddie Kirby, <u>Janis Huns</u>, </div>
<div class="trippeople"><u>Janis Huns</u>, Maddie Kirby, </div>
<div class="triptitle">Plateau - scoping out a route from col to Garlic Cave</div>
<br /><br />We set out to improve the direct route from the start of the plateau to Homecoming. The way down the wall after the second pole was suprisingly nice. This was followed by an easy flat section until the bunde and tiny cliffs obscured all the alternative paths we tried. Most of the way was already cairned, but we did find some nice fresh transitions through the bunde walls separating the easy-to-walk-on slabs. At Homecoming, we met Harry, Christian, Alice, Merryn getting ready to rig the cave. Then we visited Garlic cave - a massive above ground hole that leads to a bridge below which are the entrances to the cave itself. There was loads of snow - just as in every entrance - but there was a nice campable bit , plenty of water dripping. I sensed some garlic smell, remembering the story that this smell gave the name of the cave, but was still mysterious. Then Maddie realised we were surrounded by chives! Mystery solved.
<br /><br />On the way back we met Jono, Evelyn, and Oakem who were on the way to Garlic. At Homecoming, Honorata and Radost told us they had found 3 intriguing holes while prospecting. We found a baloon with a sweet note on it and read it to them.
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<div class="tripdate" id="2023-07-06b">2023-07-06</div>
<div class="trippeople">Buck Blake, <u>Joel Stobbart</u>, Jonty Pine, </div>
<div class="trippeople"><u>Joel Stobbart</u>, Buck Blake, Jonty Pine, </div>
<div class="triptitle">Fishface - Rigging and pitch-measuring trip</div>
<br /><br />An ambitious day which slowly went increasingly wrong. The group departed base camp at a stunning 8.20AM, blitzed up the plateau and promtly became mired in several hours of faff which soon descended into more festering. The plan had been to rig the entrance series of Fishface down to the bottom of Blitzen Boulevard (4th pitch), from where we expected everything to be left rigged. However, confusion about rope lengths and metalwork and some impressively long grike trips meant that the two shallow pushing groups planning to explore from Blitzen and Liquid Luck caught us up at Top Camp. Uncle Mike was not amused. We swiftly bombed down to FF in 25 mins and started rigging. Joel was left to do everything as Jonty's light 'broke'.
<br /><br />The entrance pitch/spiral traverse thing was completed on a 40m rope. Tasteful noods (2nd pitch) didn't quite go on a 27m due to rerigging around the top rebelay to avoid rub, so Joel initially reached the bottom on a knot pass and Jonty rerigged to the bottom on a 32m. The traverse at the bottom of Tasteful Noods (2A) and pitch 3 both had rope left from last year but not rigged - some of the knots didn't line up and required rerigging but the lengths were fine. Pendulum pitch needs some more bolts at the bottom, possibly as a traverse, to make getting on and off the pitch less deathy. Uncle Mike rigged Blitzen for us as we got too scared, he insisted the step over the huge rift with no traverse was fine, so we left him to it. There may or may not be a bolt there now
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<div class="tripdate" id="2023-07-06c">2023-07-06</div>
<div class="trippeople"><u>Emily Mabbett</u>, Lizzie Caisley, Charlotte Payne, Mike Butcher, Emma Caspers, </div>
<div class="trippeople">Emma Caspers, Lizzie Caisley, Mike Butcher, <u>Emily Mabbett</u>, Charlotte Payne, </div>
<div class="triptitle">Fishface - Surveying around Benign Bubble Baby Bypass</div>
<br /><br />After hiking up to plateau to arrive for midday, we discovered the advanced rigging party still above ground... In order to leave them time to start rigging the first 4 pitches of Fishface, an ungodly amount of faff began. We finally arrived at the cave at 3pm, thinking we'd left plenty of time for the riggers, we quickly changed and headed underground. Alas, our hopes were crushed as we came to the bottom of the first pitch to discover the other pushing party sat freezing their tits off at the top of the second pitch as the riggers rigged just below them. Needless to say, it took some time to descent to the bottom of Blitzen Boulevard with Mike taking over the rigging of the 4th pitch after a debate over placing another bolt at the pitch head. Once arrived at Benign Bubble Baby Bypass, we conducted a quick something time to refresh our surveying technique before splitting into 2 groups. Me and Mike went ahead through the tube leading on through the bottom of the climb heading towards the liquid luck ptch head to bolt the small pitch at the end of the traverse whilst the others began surveying from said turn off. As me and Mike arrived at the pitch head, I asked if I could begin my bolting lesson before a big scary hole. I was refused. Instead I was told to tie the rope around a small head sized bolder wedged in the rift, which were currently both stood on. I thought this was a silly idea but obliged. The actual bolting of the pitch went well (I think?), however comments about placing bolts higher were made which was somewhat impossible given my height. The final bolting and rigging became passable so I decended the large (4m...) hole.
<br /><br />As we finished bolting, the survey team emerged behind us. At the bottom of the pitch, 3 leads emerged, a large passage with a traverse sloping down in front of us, a small drafty tube to the right, and a hole heading into the ceiling behind us. With the rigging team and pushing team 2 in the near vicintity of the cave around us, me and Mike were a bit naughty and scooped the large passage in front of us, as we reached the end, we could hear voices in the rift above us, thinking it was the other pushing team we called up. It was not. It was Buck from the rigging team stood near the base of Blitzen Boulevard essentially where we started. Discovering we'd done a large circle , we returned to the base of the pitch where the survey team were. As we arrived, Zac from the team 2 appeared in the hole above us, they had also done an circle.
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<div class="tripdate" id="2023-07-06d">2023-07-06</div>
<div class="trippeople">Radost Waszkiewicz, <u>Honorata Bogusz</u>, </div>
<div class="trippeople"><u>Honorata Bogusz</u>, Radost Waszkiewicz, </div>
<div class="triptitle">Prospecting</div>
<br /><br />We prospected between Fischgesicht and Heimkehr entrances. We found 5 caves, which I will refer to here using the temporary number and names entered in expo.survex.com. Small drain (2023-hbrw-01) and medium drain (2023-hbrw-02) were surveyed completely and they both strecth for about 20-30m, a small stream passing through each of them.
<br /><br />We also found 3 new caves which seem to continue but we couldn't survey them since they all begin with large pitches:
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<div class="tripdate" id="2023-07-06e">2023-07-06</div>
<div class="trippeople">Emma Caspers, Ashley Gregg, Amelia Oliver, <u>Zac Woodford</u>, </div>
<div class="trippeople">Ashley Gregg, <u>Zac Woodford</u>, Emma Caspers, Amelia Oliver, </div>
<div class="triptitle">Fishface - Surveying the top of liquid luck</div>
<br /><br />Gave the rigging team ~3hr headstart but we still caught up with them at the bottom of first pitch. Emma and Zac then sat around while Ash and Mealy calibrated the disto. We were waiting so long that Uncle Mike's surveying group caught up. We waited in a a bothy for them to pass us before slowly, one-by-one, following on. We then caught up with them again at the top of Blitzen pitch and had to bothy again (after Mealy led us on too low in the rift).
<br /><br />At the beginning of BBBB (Benign Babble Baby Bypass) we talked with Mike's group pushing the other lead and descending some small pitches to push ours. We faffed around a while trying to find it, but when we did, we found it just looped back around to Mike's group's lead. We surveyed it anyway.
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<div class="tripdate" id="2023-07-07a">2023-07-07</div>
<div class="trippeople">Wassil Janssen, <u>Christian Kuhlmann</u>, </div>
<div class="trippeople"><u>Christian Kuhlmann</u>, Wassil Janssen, </div>
<div class="triptitle">Homecoming - Foray into the Second Coming</div>
Ropes used:
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<div class="tripdate" id="2023-07-07b">2023-07-07</div>
<div class="trippeople">Jonty Pine, Janis Huns, Nadia Raeburn, <u>Philip Sargent</u>, </div>
<div class="trippeople">Janis Huns, <u>Philip Sargent</u>, Jonty Pine, Nadia Raeburn, </div>
<div class="triptitle">Hiking to Garlic Cave</div>
<br /><br />Jonty's car: Jonty/Nads/Janis up to Garlic and return this evening. Taking new reflectors made this morning.
<div class="timeug">T/U: 0.0 hours</div>
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<div class="tripdate" id="2023-07-07c">2023-07-07</div>
<div class="trippeople">Mike Butcher, <u>Honorata Bogusz</u>, Radost Waszkiewicz, </div>
<div class="trippeople"><u>Honorata Bogusz</u>, Mike Butcher, Radost Waszkiewicz, </div>
<div class="triptitle">1623-290 - pushing deep Fishgesicht</div>
<br /><br />We pushed 60m at the top of "Clap My Pitch Up". Pushing required bolting ~20m of a traverse (<u> Mike adds: 20m ish of the traverse was new passage surveyed this year but there was about 30m of traverse bolted this year which was naughtily pushed by me - Mike - and Luke last year in the Red Light Spells Danger trip so the traverse is about 50ish m long</u>). The final few metres of the traverse go above a sizeable pitch (30m?). We names the bolted traverse, "European Federalists". At the end of the traverse, we continued walking for another ~40m until arriving at the top of a massive pitch - further pushing would require bolting. The distance from where we were standing to the furthest point down the pitch measured with the disto was ~40m. We kicked rocks down the pitch and the sound continued for 10s, giving rise to a presumption that the pitch may be very deep. If it connects to "Clap My Pitch Up", it's at least 100m deep. IMPORTANT: the traverse passage and the walkable continuation are muddy and slippery; posing a hazard of falling down the pitch. Ash, Jonty, Mealy and Janis want to push the lead further on Saturday 8th July.
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<div class="tripdate" id="2023-07-07d">2023-07-07</div>
<div class="trippeople">Harry Kettle, <u>Emily Mabbett</u>, Charlotte Payne, </div>
<div class="trippeople"><u>Emily Mabbett</u>, Harry Kettle, Charlotte Payne, </div>
<div class="triptitle">Homecoming - Rigging towards Watershed in Homecoming</div>
<br /><br />We wandered down to the cave around 10am, making it to the entrance around 12pm. The entrance series went pretty fast ... at least it did for me as Harry and Charlotte were carrying the heavy bags. On the way we made a quick stop to rerig a knot pass. As we reached the bottom of Wallace and Grommit where they had finished rigging the previous day both me and Harry experienced fizzling as we glazed the dry rope on the final 55m. I did not enjoy this part. We then made our way up the climb and Harry began rigging the small pitches before the long pitch series. The most notable part of this was when Harry appeared the wrong side of a pitch head after following the description and getting lost. It was highly amusing. As Charlotte began rigging the final pitch series me and Harry huddled in a shelter and watched Mathilda the musical. As it came to replacing a bolt Harry left to go help Charlotte and I was left along ... until it was discovered the drill battery was dead and I had to come down with a back up. As 8pm approached we made our way out leaving rope to finish the final part of rigging. On the way out we made a noodle stop at the top of Wallace and Grommit but with no fork a knife had to suffice. The walk back was miserable as we started following new reflectors towards the col and had to turn around and start again. We finally made it back to top camp at 1 am.
<div class="timeug">T/U: 0.0 hours</div>
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<div class="tripdate" id="2023-07-07e">2023-07-07</div>
<div class="trippeople">Amelia Oliver, Alice Kirby, Will Kay, <u>Ashley Gregg</u>, </div>
<div class="trippeople">Alice Kirby, <u>Ashley Gregg</u>, Amelia Oliver, Will Kay, </div>
<div class="triptitle">Fishface – Surveying Stalagtite Loop to the top of Liquid Luck</div>
<br /><br />Following our previous shallow trip into Fishface we set out to continue the previous combined
leads from the day before. The journey across the plateau and into the cave was uneventful, aside from
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<div class="tripdate" id="2023-07-08a">2023-07-08</div>
<div class="trippeople">Martin Green, <u>Philip Sargent</u>, </div>
<div class="trippeople"><u>Philip Sargent</u>, Martin Green, </div>
<div class="triptitle">Basecamp - Nerd faff</div>
<br /><br />Another frustrating day with network. WiFi router refused to allow connections - rebooted at ~0830. Ok.
<br /><br />Rebooted network for a reason I can't remember - failed to re-establish routing to router. Much faff standing on chairs trying [illegible] as cables all duct taped to the wall with it in [illegible] operating position up by ceiling. Found [illegible], edited into [illegible]. Redocumented everything in handbook.
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<div class="tripdate" id="2023-07-08b">2023-07-08</div>
<div class="trippeople">Jonty Pine, <u>Janis Huns</u>, Amelia Oliver, Ashley Gregg, </div>
<div class="trippeople"><u>Janis Huns</u>, Ashley Gregg, Jonty Pine, Amelia Oliver, </div>
<div class="triptitle">Fishface - Pushing deep Fishface</div>
<br /><br />We went to where the group - Honorata, Radost and Mike - had left off the previous day. European Federalists was a very tough traverse that required the use of ascenders. We bolted and rigged (my first bolt!) the pitch at the end of the muddy passage about 10m down to a choke of boulders. At the bottom of it we saw that there is a large, smooth crack continuing east leading to a large, deep chamber that seems to be the same one we saw on the right. If it is it would be elongated roughly in a north east to south west direction. Ash and Mealy also explored some C leads which did not go far.
<div class="timeug">T/U: 0.0 hours</div>
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<div class="tripdate" id="2023-07-08c">2023-07-08</div>
<div class="trippeople">Mike Butcher, <u>Will Kay</u>, Emma Caspers, </div>
<div class="trippeople"><u>Will Kay</u>, Mike Butcher, Emma Caspers, </div>
<div class="triptitle">Following up on Radost and Honorata's prospecting leads (Unlucky Gemse cave and Amphitheatre cave)</div>
<br /><br />Radost and Honorata had found a few promising entrances that they could explore with just a hand line on Thursday so me, Mike and Emma set out with caving kit, bolting kit and a few ropes to investigate further (ropes were slightly out of date ones - ropes were very hard to come by at Top Camp so we pinched two 20m ropes from the stash at Fishface entrance).
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<div class="tripdate" id="2023-07-08d">2023-07-08</div>
<div class="trippeople">Harry Kettle, <u>Sarah Parker</u>, Charlotte Payne, </div>
<div class="trippeople"><u>Sarah Parker</u>, Harry Kettle, Charlotte Payne, </div>
<div class="triptitle">Beyond Watershed in Homecoming - Flowstone Canyon</div>
<br /><br />I carried my caving and bivvy gear from Top Camp to Homecoming whilst Harry and Charlotte carried Top Camp's second shovel and a camp bed (surprisingliy heavy) to be picked up by the Garlic Cave people.
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<div class="tripdate" id="2023-07-10a">2023-07-10</div>
<div class="trippeople">Joel Stobbart, Jonty Pine, Ashley Gregg, <u>Buck Blake</u>, Janis Huns, Amelia Oliver, </div>
<div class="trippeople">Janis Huns, Jonty Pine, <u>Buck Blake</u>, Amelia Oliver, Joel Stobbart, Ashley Gregg, </div>
<div class="triptitle">Fishface - Carrying rope to Fishface and failing to rig entrance</div>
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After the complicated operation of handling the solar panels out of the storage cave, the six of us packed kit, rope and a rescue bag and set
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<div class="tripdate" id="2023-07-10b">2023-07-10</div>
<div class="trippeople"><u>Wassil Janssen</u>, Christian Kuhlmann, Harry Kettle, Merryn Matthews, Alice Kirby, </div>
<div class="trippeople">Alice Kirby, Christian Kuhlmann, Merryn Matthews, <u>Wassil Janssen</u>, Harry Kettle, </div>
<div class="triptitle">Homecoming - Rig faff</div>
<br /><br />This was a long day that started at Base Camp with the intent of rigging the entrance series of Homecoming cave. We set off only slightly later than the planned 8:00 [illegible] some faff. Quite surprising since Will was not part of the team.
<br /><br />The walk up to Top Camp took almost 2 hours, just as expected. We were also carrying drills, string, food, and other Top Camp equipment. We followed the reflectors to Fishface. They were white on both sides, which could make it frustrating if you are someone who is lost on their way to Top Camp. Instead, it should be red that leads to Top Camp, while white leads to caves and the car park.
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<div class="tripdate" id="2023-07-10c">2023-07-10</div>
<div class="trippeople">Becka Lawson, <u>Philip Sargent</u>, </div>
<div class="trippeople"><u>Philip Sargent</u>, Becka Lawson, </div>
<div class="triptitle">basecamp - Becka arriving</div>
<br /><br />She is arriving at 0941 at the station, would like lift.
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<div class="tripdate" id="2023-07-10d">2023-07-10</div>
<div class="trippeople"><u>Honorata Bogusz</u>, Radost Waszkiewicz, Harry Kettle, Christian Kuhlmann, Ashley Gregg, </div>
<div class="trippeople">Ashley Gregg, Radost Waszkiewicz, Christian Kuhlmann, <u>Honorata Bogusz</u>, Harry Kettle, </div>
<div class="triptitle">festering - Canyoning Strubklamm</div>
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We went canyoning on a rest day. The "Strubklamm" canyon is located near Saltzburg, approximately 1h of driving from Bad Aussee. The canyon is graded V1A3 (vertical 1, aquatic 3). It's very aquatic, with many small jumps available and a 300m swimming passage. There are 2 bigger jumps: approx. 8m and 10m, both can be abseiled (topo can be found online).
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<div class="tripdate" id="2023-07-11a">2023-07-11</div>
<div class="trippeople">Thomas Phillips, Ely Brookes, Will Kay, Honorata Bogusz, Radost Waszkiewicz, Ashley Gregg, James Waite, <u>Philip Sargent</u>, </div>
<div class="trippeople">Radost Waszkiewicz, James Waite, Ely Brookes, Honorata Bogusz, Ashley Gregg, <u>Philip Sargent</u>, Thomas Phillips, Will Kay, </div>
<div class="triptitle">plateau - walk in</div>
<br /><br />Will and Phil went up as part of the 2-car lift to the carpark. Others all going to topcamp. Cardiff contingent (Ely, James, Thomas) arrived the previous day (at last)
<br /><br />Dep. carpark 10:06 we walked to the col but got spread out, 2 Cardiffians particularly heavily loaded so Ash dropped back to accompany them while James headed on with Radost and Honorata.
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<div class="tripdate" id="2023-07-11b">2023-07-11</div>
<div class="trippeople">Will Kay, <u>Philip Sargent</u>, </div>
<div class="trippeople"><u>Philip Sargent</u>, Will Kay, </div>
<div class="triptitle">plateau - Garlic and reflectors</div>
<br /><br />At the col, Will, Philip and ? followed Philip B's col-to-garlic GPS track. Somebody else was with us (memory hazy, is this true?
[correct later editorially]). All OK until we hit the hill in the middle where we followed cairns instead of the GPS track, and got in a bit of
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<div class="tripdate" id="2023-07-11c">2023-07-11</div>
<div class="trippeople">Oakem Kyne, <u>Wassil Janssen</u>, </div>
<div class="trippeople"><u>Wassil Janssen</u>, Oakem Kyne, </div>
<div class="triptitle">Homecoming - Five and Flying</div>
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I managed to steal Oakem away from Harry, Charlotte and Becka just as they were preparing to depart from Top Camp. After a quick breakfast
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<div class="tripdate" id="2023-07-11d">2023-07-11</div>
<div class="trippeople">Ashley Gregg, <u>Honorata Bogusz</u>, Radost Waszkiewicz, </div>
<div class="trippeople"><u>Honorata Bogusz</u>, Ashley Gregg, Radost Waszkiewicz, </div>
<div class="triptitle">2023-hbrw-03 - Dropping Amphitheater Hoehle</div>
<br /><br />
The Amphitheater Hoehle is named after its entrance which resembles an amphitheather. There are a couple of meters of an easy climb from the very top to the boulder where we started rigging. Rigging starts with an approx. 5-6m down climb, where we put a handline. It's followed by a traverse (10m ?) above the entrance to the first pitch. We rigged a Y-hang at the end of the traverse.
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<div class="tripdate" id="2023-07-12a">2023-07-12</div>
<div class="trippeople"><u>Merryn Matthews</u>, Joel Stobbart, Lizzie Caisley, Emily Mabbett, Thomas Phillips, </div>
<div class="trippeople">Thomas Phillips, Joel Stobbart, Emily Mabbett, <u>Merryn Matthews</u>, Lizzie Caisley, </div>
<div class="triptitle">plateau - Prospecting between Homecoming and Fishface</div>
<br /><br />We started by walking to Unlucky Gamse Cave, mostly following the path to homecoming, as Radost and Honorata had told us there was
an exciting looking entrance around 50m North of it - Rose Blumen Hoehle (2023-hbrw-05). We dismissed their cave as choked by snow, however it
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<div class="tripdate" id="2023-07-12b">2023-07-12</div>
<div class="trippeople">Janis Huns, <u>Ashley Gregg</u>, </div>
<div class="trippeople"><u>Ashley Gregg</u>, Janis Huns, </div>
<div class="triptitle">Amphitheatre – Surveying Frozen Unknown</div>
<br /><br />We went back to continue exploring Amphitheatre. Since we were now pushing decently underground, we kitted
up and then headed in. Adjusted the initial traverse line rigging slightly.
@ -803,7 +809,7 @@ was no evidence of a draft at the bottom so not particularly promising.
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<div class="tripdate" id="2023-07-13a">2023-07-13</div>
<div class="trippeople">Radost Waszkiewicz, Charlotte Payne, Jonty Pine, <u>Honorata Bogusz</u>, Oakem Kyne, Harry Kettle, </div>
<div class="trippeople">Oakem Kyne, Charlotte Payne, <u>Honorata Bogusz</u>, Harry Kettle, Radost Waszkiewicz, Jonty Pine, </div>
<div class="triptitle">festering - Via Ferrata "Panorama Kletterstieg Sisi"</div>
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@ -871,7 +877,7 @@ Pic: Oakem Kyne (L) and Jonty Pine (R) on <b>Panorama Kletterstieg Sisi</b>.<br
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<div class="tripdate" id="2023-07-14a">2023-07-14</div>
<div class="trippeople">Charlotte Payne, <u>James Waite</u>, Harry Kettle, </div>
<div class="trippeople"><u>James Waite</u>, Charlotte Payne, Harry Kettle, </div>
<div class="triptitle">Homecoming - pushing down homecoming from flowstone canyon, into alpine showers</div>
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after a heavy afternoon at the tatty hut, Harry asked if i fancied coming to
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<div class="tripdate" id="2023-07-15a">2023-07-15</div>
<div class="trippeople">Janis Huns, <u>Ashley Gregg</u>, Ely Brookes, </div>
<div class="trippeople"><u>Ashley Gregg</u>, Janis Huns, Ely Brookes, </div>
<div class="triptitle">Prospecting - Up to Homecoming from the Col</div>
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<div class="tripdate" id="2023-07-15b">2023-07-15</div>
<div class="trippeople">Philip Balister, <u>Ashley Gregg</u>, Ely Brookes, </div>
<div class="trippeople"><u>Ashley Gregg</u>, Philip Balister, Ely Brookes, </div>
<div class="triptitle">2018-DM-04 – Prospecting, exploring, surveying</div>
<br /><br />The plan was to do some prospecting in the relatively uncovered area around Garlic cave.
We met up with Philip at Garlic cave and had some noodles for lunch. Philip had already done some
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<div class="tripdate" id="2023-07-15c">2023-07-15</div>
<div class="trippeople">Merryn Matthews, <u>Christian Kuhlmann</u>, Wassil Janssen, </div>
<div class="trippeople"><u>Christian Kuhlmann</u>, Merryn Matthews, Wassil Janssen, </div>
<div class="triptitle">In Search Of Salamanders</div>
<br /><br />Following an impromptu pre-expo-dinner dinner the night before, we all arose with a tinge of hangover. Rapidly consuming breakfast and packing kit, we set off at 8:30am, only 30 minutes after we said we would which in all fairness is very good going for us.
After a smooth ferry to the Loser car park by our wonderful chauffer Alice, we set off up the mountain. Almost immediately after we left the car park a navigational faux pas was made and we found ourselves on the wrong path, and with a small section of off-roading, we headed up to top camp with no other further obstructions.
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<div class="tripdate" id="2023-07-16a">2023-07-16</div>
<div class="trippeople">Evelyn Surman, <u>Ashley Gregg</u>, </div>
<div class="trippeople"><u>Ashley Gregg</u>, Evelyn Surman, </div>
<div class="triptitle">Prospecting - Much prospecting near Balcony</div>
<br /><br />Deciding I wanted to go prospecting but didn’t particularly want to walk back over to garlic cave,
so recruited Evelyn, our resident non-caver to go wander around near balcony. Armed with known cave
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<div class="tripdate" id="2023-07-16b">2023-07-16</div>
<div class="trippeople">James Waite, <u>Mark Shinwell</u>, </div>
<div class="trippeople"><u>Mark Shinwell</u>, James Waite, </div>
<div class="triptitle">surface - Walk from Gschwandt Alm</div>
Walk from Gschwandt Alm below the western edge of the plateau.
[note taken from gps23.svx]
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<div class="tripdate" id="2023-07-17b">2023-07-17</div>
<div class="trippeople">Oakem Kyne, <u>Ashley Gregg</u>, Emma Caspers, </div>
<div class="trippeople"><u>Ashley Gregg</u>, Oakem Kyne, Emma Caspers, </div>
<div class="triptitle">Fishface – Kresh connection confusion</div>
<br /><br />Joel had discovered an exciting new cave, unfortunately this left us with rope and a lead down in
the Fish face – happy butterfly connection which no-one was going to. I was naively convinced to go and
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<div class="tripdate" id="2023-07-18a">2023-07-18</div>
<div class="trippeople">Merryn Matthews, <u>Ashley Gregg</u>, Zac Woodford, </div>
<div class="trippeople"><u>Ashley Gregg</u>, Merryn Matthews, Zac Woodford, </div>
<div class="triptitle">Tempest – Touch of Death</div>
<br /><br />Excited to go and see (and kill) this new cave, two groups set off to push the two ‘A’ leads at the
extent of Tempest. Arriving at the cave we prepared the bags and realised we’d forgotten a hammer, so
@ -1312,7 +1318,7 @@ tldr: Camp: Effort does not equal success.</div>
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<div class="tripdate" id="2023-07-19a">2023-07-19</div>
<div class="trippeople">Jono Lester, <u>James Waite</u>, </div>
<div class="trippeople"><u>James Waite</u>, Jono Lester, </div>
<div class="triptitle">Homecoming - pushing beyond death sump and the heifer</div>
jono and i had spotted an A lead bolt climb off the edge of propane nightmares over the death sump. armed with bolts and mikes drill we set off from garlic cave and after much faff we finally enteretd into homecoming. we got our kit into two bags of very heavy nature and set off down the cave. the entrance pitches went easily and eventually we got to the traverse . this was a interesting with large blokes and large bags stuck in the rift. after a large amount of swearing we got down to wallace. this went easily, and we got onto grommit. this was rather "fun" as the rope was looking interesting, and you had to go very slowly to avoid sizzling. at the bottom of grommit we gathered some bolts and hangers from the bag down there and set off into propane nightmares.
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@ -1329,7 +1335,7 @@ we regrouped at the base of the heifer after adding a bolt to make the pitch hea
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<div class="tripdate" id="2023-07-19b">2023-07-19</div>
<div class="trippeople">Will Kay, <u>Ashley Gregg</u>, Zac Woodford, </div>
<div class="trippeople"><u>Ashley Gregg</u>, Will Kay, Zac Woodford, </div>
<div class="triptitle">Prospecting – dropping Boring Hole and Dead on Arrival</div>
<br /><br />Took Zac to bolt a cave he had previously found not too far of the path to Fishface. Slight delay as
we’d forgotten something important (bolts maybe?), which Will went back to get.
@ -1345,7 +1351,7 @@ rift the were no continuations. Will named it Dead on Arrival (2023-ASH-15). Sur
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<div class="tripdate" id="2023-07-19c">2023-07-19</div>
<div class="trippeople">Will Kay, <u>Ashley Gregg</u>, </div>
<div class="trippeople"><u>Ashley Gregg</u>, Will Kay, </div>
<div class="triptitle">Plateau - Surveying Little Tent and Gollum Grotto</div>
<br /><br />Deciding we weren’t done for the day yet an afternoon evening trip was decided upon to survey some
of the caves Evelyn and I had found a few days ago. Will and I gathered the necessary gear and set off
@ -1374,7 +1380,7 @@ off on the edges of the plateau. Plus curry for dinner.
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<div class="tripdate" id="2023-07-20b">2023-07-20</div>
<div class="trippeople">Thomas Phillips, <u>Ashley Gregg</u>, </div>
<div class="trippeople"><u>Ashley Gregg</u>, Thomas Phillips, </div>
<div class="triptitle">Plateau - Surveying Top Camp Band and Bat versus Rat</div>
<br /><br />Decided to go and survey/kill a couple more caves before heading down off the plateau for the year.
Aware that I would have a lot of data to sort out and vague plans to go canyoning Friday before the
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<div class="tripdate" id="2023-07-24a">2023-07-24</div>
<div class="trippeople">Kai Trusson, <u>Joe Stell</u>, </div>
<div class="trippeople"><u>Joe Stell</u>, Kai Trusson, </div>
<div class="triptitle">Fishface - Tourist Trip to Pisspot</div>
<br></br>Tourist trip down Fishface to Pisspot. Already more SRT than Joe has done in his entire lifetime combined, hopefully not holding up Kai too much.
<br /><br />Turned around and headed back out after 2 hours or so as felt we had done enough SRT practice
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<div class="tripdate" id="2023-07-24b">2023-07-24</div>
<div class="trippeople">Kai Trusson, <u>Joe Stell</u>, </div>
<div class="trippeople"><u>Joe Stell</u>, Kai Trusson, </div>
<div class="triptitle">Surface - surveying/prospecting small leads found yesterday by Luke, Becca and Max</div>
<br></br><b> Becka checked with Joe Stell and Kai Trusson to clarify this write-up. It does describe Mendip Man albeit confusingly. The paragraph starting "upon leaving" is the main, left route after the entrance. The initial write-up refers the shorter, right route. This was surveyed on this trip but there was a problem with the data collected and so the data wasn't added to the database. It also isn't clear where the GPS location referred to below was taken. </b><br></br>
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<div class="tripdate" id="2023-07-27a">2023-07-27</div>
<div class="trippeople">Frank Tully, <u>Joe Stell</u>, </div>
<div class="trippeople"><u>Joe Stell</u>, Frank Tully, </div>
<div class="triptitle">Surface - Check your bits</div>
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<br /><br />Hearing of an exciting new lead, "Mahlstromhöhle", from Frank, Max and Flo, Frank and I embarked on a walk westward out of Fishface gear dump. Upon finding the entrance (which took considerably longer than anticipated) we quickly started kitting up, only to find an absence of any drill bits in the drill bag, contrary to what Frank believed to be the case. Frank then left for fishface gear dump in search of drill bits, whilst I waited patiently, in kit.
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<div class="tripdate" id="2023-07-28a">2023-07-28</div>
<div class="trippeople">Frank Tully, <u>Joe Stell</u>, </div>
<div class="trippeople"><u>Joe Stell</u>, Frank Tully, </div>
<div class="triptitle">Maelstrom - Finally Underground</div>
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<br /><br />After the brilliant success of yesterday's failed pushing trip, Frank and I returned to Mahlstromhöhle to actually go underground and push. After the entrance pitch, there is a small hole in the floor, from which several small-ish pitches follow.
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<div class="tripdate" id="2023-07-29a">2023-07-29</div>
<div class="trippeople">Nadia Raeburn, <u>Joe Stell</u>, Frank Tully, </div>
<div class="trippeople"><u>Joe Stell</u>, Nadia Raeburn, Frank Tully, </div>
<div class="triptitle">Maelstrom - "Undersold"</div>
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<br /><br /> Hearing of our great success with this shallow lead, Nadia, having returned from a fishface camping trip the day before, decided she would join us for a nice easy surface trip.
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<div class="tripdate" id="2023-07-31a">2023-07-31</div>
<div class="trippeople">Ruairidh MacLeod, <u>Joe Stell</u>, </div>
<div class="trippeople"><u>Joe Stell</u>, Ruairidh MacLeod, </div>
<div class="triptitle">Surface - Prospecting alternative entrances for Maelstrom</div>
<br /><br />After a leisurely (not quite for Ruairidh, carrying far too much) walk up to topcamp with Frank and Nadia following a leisurely morning start from me, Ruairidh and I decided that we could attempt to find an easier, quicker entrance to Maelstrom by following the rift from the surface whilst the other two and Sam were actually in the cave derigging. First we found a large basin, containing what appeared to be a large cave entrance, but upon further inspection, choked out towards the back of the cave. Ruairidh did find a nice complete Gaemse skull though, which he seemed quite happy about. Another potential entrance found further along the rift with a steady flow of water disappearing into the ground which could explain some of the bigger drippy pitches after the lovely squeeze. The rift splits into two further on, with some promising, but inaccessible, looking gorges on the right fork as you follow it. The left seemed less promising from memory but this area is definitely worth another look with bolting kit to make sure. Realising we'd actually got quite close to the col, we decided to simply hike towards the slabs and rejoin the carpark-topcamp path and head back.
<div class="timeug">T/U: 0.0 hours</div>
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<div class="tripdate" id="2023-07-31b">2023-07-31</div>
<div class="trippeople">Adam Erskine, <u>Ben Chaddock</u>, Charlie Crossley, </div>
<div class="trippeople"><u>Ben Chaddock</u>, Adam Erskine, Charlie Crossley, </div>
<div class="triptitle">Fishface - Cocoa Channel Bolting Mission</div>
[Adam E = Adam Erskine-Jones]
<br /><br />On the morning of my first pushing trip deep within Fishgesicht (5 minutes from camp) the nervous energy carried me up and away through the bountiful faff. After triple checking that we had all the equipment for bolting and surveying a rift that apparently continued but was too sketchy without a traverse line, Charlie, Adam EJ and I traipsed across the plateau for even more faff outside the entrance. After a prompt descent we met the camping team who showed us the way to silverback scoop including a stop at the tap and going down a wrong branch. Squeezing through a pitch head to descend 7m into a dusty tight canyon with a tackle sack full of heavy gear, I did wonder what I was doing, but once the drill was out that fell away completely.
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<div class="tripdate" id="2023-08-01a">2023-08-01</div>
<div class="trippeople">Adam Aldridge, Manfred Wuits, Nathan Walker, <u>Joe Stell</u>, </div>
<div class="trippeople">Manfred Wuits, <u>Joe Stell</u>, Adam Aldridge, Nathan Walker, </div>
<div class="triptitle">Surface - Hike to Garlic</div>
<br /><br />Woke up to see a sub-optimal forecast. Somehow I was convinced that hiking to Garlic Cave Camp was of course the best course of action to take, so we set off. It was actually dry for the first third or so to fishface gear dump to collect our caving gear, but this did not last.
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<div class="tripdate" id="2023-08-02a">2023-08-02</div>
<div class="trippeople">Adam Aldridge, Manfred Wuits, Nathan Walker, <u>Joe Stell</u>, </div>
<div class="trippeople">Manfred Wuits, <u>Joe Stell</u>, Adam Aldridge, Nathan Walker, </div>
<div class="triptitle">Surface - dropping Buzzard Hole on the northerly Kleiner Wildkogel ridge</div>
<br /><br />After our lovely sleep, we woke up to dry weather, and set off to the top of the ridge above Garlic. Carrying the thick, wet 90m up the mountain was not conducive to good balance so I did fall over in the bunde and struggle to get back up. We reached Buzzard, Adam rigged it, first to the bunde, then hand bolting whilst we waited patiently. The improvement in weather did give a lovely backdrop of the Braeuningzinken for photos. Nathan went down next, followed by Manfred whilst I stayed outside enjoying the view. Upon Adam's return, I swiftly fell asleep, and awoke to find Nathan and Manfred had finished their survey and were finalising some sketches. Adam spotted some interesting holes beneath us on the plateau, so wet set off to prospect (see next entry).
<div class="timeug">T/U: 3.0 hours</div>
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<div class="tripdate" id="2023-08-02b">2023-08-02</div>
<div class="trippeople">Adam Aldridge, Manfred Wuits, Nathan Walker, <u>Joe Stell</u>, </div>
<div class="trippeople">Manfred Wuits, <u>Joe Stell</u>, Adam Aldridge, Nathan Walker, </div>
<div class="triptitle">Surface - Prospecting east and south of Kleiner Wildkogel</div>
<br /><br />After dropping Buzzard, the fours of us decided to drop down the north face of the ridge, heading east at first, then split to form two prospecting
groups, Adam and I heading further east to wrap around to the south face of the ridge, and Nathan and Manfred following the north face westwards to
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<div class="tripdate" id="2023-08-02c">2023-08-02</div>
<div class="trippeople">Nadia Raeburn, <u>Hannah Collings</u>, </div>
<div class="trippeople"><u>Hannah Collings</u>, Nadia Raeburn, </div>
<div class="triptitle">Fishface Camp - Pushing Theophilus Goon</div>
<br /><br />Tuesday was another wet day so a day of top camp fettling was had whilst plans were made for a fish face camp the following day. We had a (fairly) efficient morning, departing top camp shortly after 10 having received a debrief from the previous camp group, who had returned in the early hours, on the state of the latest leads.
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<div class="tripdate" id="2023-08-03a">2023-08-03</div>
<div class="trippeople"><u>Joe Stell</u>, Nathan Walker, Adam Aldridge, Becka Lawson, David Botcherby, </div>
<div class="trippeople">David Botcherby, Nathan Walker, Becka Lawson, <u>Joe Stell</u>, Adam Aldridge, </div>
<div class="triptitle">Garlic - Fettling</div>
<br /><br />Woke up. 10am. It was rainy :(
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<div class="tripdate" id="2023-08-04a">2023-08-04</div>
<div class="trippeople">Hannah Collings, <u>Joe Stell</u>, </div>
<div class="trippeople"><u>Joe Stell</u>, Hannah Collings, </div>
<div class="triptitle">Basecamp - Garlic Guide</div>
<br /><br />Following a swift departure from Garlic in the morning, and an even swifter (and sweaty) hike across the plateau carrying the thick 90m rope with
all my other kit, I partially completed the garlic camp guide. Only the badly taken photos and badly drawn diagrams to add. I think I'll redraw the
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<div class="triptitle">basecamp - Survey progress</div>
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<br />Survey writeups continue, today we passed 4km of surveyed passage this expo (we don't count splays).<br />
The website currently on shows 3,233.2 m <a href="https://expo.survex.com/wallets/year/2023">expo.survex.com/wallets/year/2023</a> but the new data update later this evening will show over 4km.</div>
<div class="timeug">T/U: 0.0 hours</div>
@ -1683,7 +1690,7 @@ After about 20 legs Rob had finished his rigging and came and collected Botch to
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<div class="tripdate" id="2023-08-06b">2023-08-06</div>
<div class="trippeople"><u>Hannah Collings</u>, Nadia Raeburn, </div>
<div class="trippeople">Nadia Raeburn, <u>Hannah Collings</u>, </div>
<div class="triptitle">Fishface - Camp: Muddy Goons</div>
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<div class="tripdate" id="2023-08-10a">2023-08-10</div>
<div class="trippeople">Nadia Raeburn, David Botcherby, <u>Rob Watson</u>, Kai Trusson, </div>
<div class="trippeople">David Botcherby, Kai Trusson, Nadia Raeburn, <u>Rob Watson</u>, </div>
<div class="triptitle">fishface - Connecting FF to SMK: a step further</div>
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<div class="tripdate" id="2023-07-11e">2023-07-11</div>
<div class="trippeople">Charlotte, Harry, <u>Becka</u>, </div>
<div class="triptitle">Homecoming - Homecoming - Watershed</div>
Slogged down from Top Camp to Homecoming and headed down the entrance series. Wassil had snagged the rope on the longish pitch near the entrance (just after snow ends, beyond short crawl). It was so tight that Charlotte had to downprussik to free it. Steady progress to the pushing front in ~2.5 hours. Charlotte rigged a traverse down and across 2m so Harry and I could survey a side passage that quickly reached a pitch whilst Charlotte remained to finish rigging the pitch. We all descended the pitch to 2 routes. Right quickly led to another pitch so Charlotte continued rigging the same rope down this pitch whilst Harry and I surveyed left to a drop down to a canyon with a stream in it. We all descended Charlotte’s second pitch which dropped in a canyon streamway, and we surveyed a couple of legs each direction to check they went. Right upstream headed to short splashy climbs up. Downstream was tightish canyon. We exited in ~4 hours with a disturbing find on Gromit (the 50m at the base of the entrance series) – I saw a lump of mud on the rope, tried to flick it off but argh, the sheath had gone from a chunk of rope. I cautiously jammered above it, shouted down to warn the others, and tied it out in a butterfly. It was ~5m below the rebelay and many metres from any of the walls so hard to know what caused it – sharp jammers? Rockfall? Previous damage? Out 11pm and then a disappointingly long slog up to Garlic Cave to enjoy the new facilities.
<div class="timeug">T/U: 13.0 hours</div>
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