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@ -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 2024-07-14 16:07 using either the control panel webpage or when editing a logbook entry online
Exported on 2024-07-20 09:07 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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@ -104,7 +104,7 @@ the enormous space left for it on the page.]</i>
<hr />
<div class="tripdate" id="2004-07-07a">2004-07-07</div>
<div class="trippeople">Mark S, Olly M, <u>Dave</u>, </div>
<div class="trippeople">Mark S, <u>Dave</u>, Olly M, </div>
<div class="triptitle">Loser Plateau - Walk up</div>
<br /><br />Walked up hill. Snow level very high. Had considerable fun hauling gear out of Traungold (caving gear + some digging were needed).
<div class="timeug">T/U: 0.0 hours</div>
@ -113,7 +113,7 @@ the enormous space left for it on the page.]</i>
<hr />
<div class="tripdate" id="2004-07-08a">2004-07-08</div>
<div class="trippeople">Mark S, Olly M, <u>Dave</u>, </div>
<div class="trippeople">Mark S, <u>Dave</u>, Olly M, </div>
<div class="triptitle">Loser Plateau - Set up</div>
<br /><br />More getting stuff out of snow-choked holes.
<div class="timeug">T/U: 0.0 hours</div>
@ -228,7 +228,7 @@ For a stretcher to carry me to old base camp.
<hr />
<div class="tripdate" id="2004-07-14a">2004-07-14</div>
<div class="trippeople">Olly M, Dour, <u>Dave</u>, Stuart, </div>
<div class="trippeople">Olly M, <u>Dave</u>, Dour, Stuart, </div>
<div class="triptitle">204 - Ariston rigging</div>
<br /><br />Wandered in down 204A re-rigging on Dave Brindle's rope. Dour put in a bolt enabling me to get close enough to the 2nd pitch to see
that it was open, which was a pleasant surprise seeing how much snow was around generally. At this point Dour returned to the surface
@ -265,7 +265,7 @@ cairned a path from the bivvy to the 204 path.
<hr />
<div class="tripdate" id="2004-07-15a">2004-07-15</div>
<div class="trippeople">Mark D, <u>Dave</u>, Nial, </div>
<div class="trippeople">Mark D, Nial, <u>Dave</u>, </div>
<div class="triptitle">204 - Kiwi Suit rigging</div>
<br /><br />Continued rig down bottom pitch of Ariston (which is shite) and 54m pitch in Kiwi Suit. Realising we had only three hangers left, we
put in the next 8m pitch but didn't descend, + buggered off out. Nial + Mark apparently got lost in the crawls at the bottom of
@ -279,7 +279,7 @@ cold + knackered + wanted to go downhill.
<hr />
<div class="tripdate" id="2004-07-15b">2004-07-15</div>
<div class="trippeople">Stuart, <u>Olly M</u>, Pete, </div>
<div class="trippeople">Stuart, Pete, <u>Olly M</u>, </div>
<div class="triptitle">204 - 204E rigging</div>
<br /><br />Had much difficulty finding the entrance, it was further than I remembered. Took ages to rig the pitch, then went out.
<div class="timeug">T/U: 0.0 hours</div>
@ -326,7 +326,7 @@ to the pitches (draft bitter). Then returned to BC, racing darkness + an electri
<hr />
<div class="tripdate" id="2004-07-18a">2004-07-18</div>
<div class="trippeople">Becka, <u>Dave</u>, Nial, </div>
<div class="trippeople">Becka, Nial, <u>Dave</u>, </div>
<div class="triptitle">204 - Gaffered rig + tourist</div>
<br /><br />Wandered down Gaffered, while Nial + Becka touristed up Swings and apparently pushed a QM somewhere. (Becka: where was it?) (<i>[Becka's
handwriting]</i> By station 12 on RH wall, wasn't down as QM. Didn't go. Surveyed 2/8/04. Also looked at QMs on Colonnades, nothing
@ -456,7 +456,7 @@ dive out of it which could have been very nasty. Fortunately I succeeded in land
<hr />
<div class="tripdate" id="2004-07-20a">2004-07-20</div>
<div class="trippeople">Nial, <u>Becka</u>, Earl, </div>
<div class="trippeople">Nial, Earl, <u>Becka</u>, </div>
<div class="triptitle">204 - Underworld / Sirens push + survey</div>
<br /><br />Finally ready to roll pushing: looked at <b>03-29A</b> rigged handline to edge of large chamber &ndash; no rope so leave that, plus
<b>03-30B</b> which needs a high-level traverse. (See our 22nd July trip.)
@ -606,7 +606,7 @@ Then walked along side of valley until we found two entrances of note: GPSsed, t
<hr />
<div class="tripdate" id="2004-07-22b">2004-07-22</div>
<div class="trippeople">Earl, <u>Becka</u>, Dave, </div>
<div class="trippeople">Earl, Dave, <u>Becka</u>, </div>
<div class="triptitle">204 - Underworld Push</div>
<br /><br />Dave wanted to learn how to drill bolts so down to Earl's drill in the Underworld ... but first we surveyed + derigged Eeyore. Then
Dave derigged the 26m that Earl + Stuart had started to rig along the traverse in Sirens yesterday (they'd hoped to get to 03-18B). Took
@ -681,7 +681,7 @@ New World survey and went home. Jenny put in a better placed spit for the ledge
<hr />
<div class="tripdate" id="2004-07-22f">2004-07-22</div>
<div class="trippeople">Martin, Nial, <u>Stuart</u>, </div>
<div class="trippeople">Martin, <u>Stuart</u>, Nial, </div>
<div class="triptitle">2004-11 - In Your Face</div>
<br /><br />"Come and look at our great new cave" they said. "Could be a new 204 entrance" they said. "DON'T YOU DARE FIND THE END OF IT" they
(Becka) said.
@ -707,7 +707,7 @@ etc. caused the general consensus to be "jack". Also, the probability of our onl
<hr />
<div class="tripdate" id="2004-07-23a">2004-07-23</div>
<div class="trippeople">Pete, <u>Dave</u>, Olly M, </div>
<div class="trippeople">Pete, Olly M, <u>Dave</u>, </div>
<div class="triptitle">234 - Hauchh&ouml;hle surveying</div>
<br /><br />Pete + Olly had returned to camp the previous day with tales of caverns measureless to man, and nothing surveyed. So I jumped at the
chance to go and practice my survey note-taking, hoping to go on to bolt down the pitches (or rather show Olly how).
@ -753,7 +753,7 @@ cave and tackle bag, and trying to turn round in the passage at the same time, i
<hr />
<div class="tripdate" id="2004-07-24a">2004-07-24</div>
<div class="trippeople">Earl, Becka, Olly M, <u>Dave</u>, Pete, </div>
<div class="trippeople">Earl, Olly M, Pete, Becka, <u>Dave</u>, </div>
<div class="triptitle">234 - Hauchh&ouml;hle again</div>
<br /><br />A complex plan emerged over breakfast. Team keen (Dave + Becka) would go in and do some more surveying; team fester (Olly + Earl) would
bolt the pitch; and team artistic (Pete) would take some photos. At 11.30 team science (Dour) would shout down surface hole 2002-02 so we
@ -971,7 +971,7 @@ one later on was similarly dealt with.
<hr />
<div class="tripdate" id="2004-07-27c">2004-07-27</div>
<div class="trippeople">Dave, Martin, <u>Dour</u>, </div>
<div class="trippeople">Dave, <u>Dour</u>, Martin, </div>
<div class="triptitle">204 - Razor Dance</div>
<br /><br />My drill was at the bottom of Razor Dance, and since I was about to go home I needed to fish it out. Since there was a shortage of
people wanting to push the thing further, we decided to do one more push-survey-derig trip. Four days of attempting to dry out my fleecy
@ -1037,7 +1037,7 @@ etc, and to carry a bag of rope down to The Ledge ready for the next day.
<hr />
<div class="tripdate" id="2004-07-30a">2004-07-30</div>
<div class="trippeople">Earl, Julian, <u>Becka</u>, Nial, </div>
<div class="trippeople">Earl, <u>Becka</u>, Julian, Nial, </div>
<div class="triptitle">204 - Subsoil &ndash; Fat Worm Blows a Sparky</div>
<br /><br />Off to rig + survey leads at the end of Hippo Hollows in Subsoil. Nial + Becka surveyed two tubes on the left at the end of Hippo
Hollows. First just popped out to look over the rift that the main passage ended on. Further back, the tube went steeply up to a small
@ -1127,7 +1127,7 @@ side of chamber to small window. Squeezed through to small chamber (~5m) with no
<hr />
<div class="tripdate" id="2004-07-31a">2004-07-31</div>
<div class="trippeople">Nial, Julian, Frank, <u>Becka</u>, Earl, </div>
<div class="trippeople">Nial, Frank, Earl, Julian, <u>Becka</u>, </div>
<div class="triptitle">204 - Subsoil</div>
<br /><br />Becka + Julian set off an hour ahead of the crowd + did some virtuous QM ticking by surveying up the sandy tube at the top of the
Subsoil chamber where Gardeners' World / U. C. pitch comes in. The right tube closed down. The left one was small but straightforward and
@ -1201,7 +1201,7 @@ awkward passage to pitch head blocked by large boulder. Needed persuaders. Went
<hr />
<div class="tripdate" id="2004-08-01a">2004-08-01</div>
<div class="trippeople">Martin, <u>Becka</u>, Julian, </div>
<div class="trippeople">Martin, Julian, <u>Becka</u>, </div>
<div class="triptitle">204 - Earthenware</div>
<br /><br />Martin was keen to see Gaffered. Julian and I were feeling a bit worn but went for it. Down to where Frank and I had finished our
survey yesterday. We connected our survey in to an earlier point along Earthenware where Frank and I had made a vocal connection yesterday
@ -1240,7 +1240,7 @@ far too much to carry already.
<hr />
<div class="tripdate" id="2004-08-01c">2004-08-01</div>
<div class="trippeople">Olly M, <u>Stuart</u>, Mark S, </div>
<div class="trippeople">Olly M, Mark S, <u>Stuart</u>, </div>
<div class="triptitle">Loser Plateau - Surface prospecting near Hauchh&ouml;hle</div>
<br /><br />Mark arrives at the stone bridge previous night, claiming thousands of new <u>really good</u> caves near Hauchh&ouml;hle, maybe doing
important link of 204-&gt;161/elsewhere. Much amazement ensues.
@ -1273,7 +1273,7 @@ and descend to small chamber with a squeeze through a rift in the floor. Descend
<hr />
<div class="tripdate" id="2004-08-02a">2004-08-02</div>
<div class="trippeople">Martin, Nial, Earl, <u>Becka</u>, Stuart, </div>
<div class="trippeople">Martin, Earl, Stuart, Nial, <u>Becka</u>, </div>
<div class="triptitle">204 - Loop closures + Cresta Run</div>
<br /><br />Becka + Nial in early to take some BDH + Peli case sponsorship photos, and to derig the pitches into Rhino Rift and take the rope to
the end of Swings + Roundabouts. Martin (with Earl as a backup rigger) then went up the rope which Martin had put in the bolts for earlier
@ -1300,7 +1300,7 @@ trip!
<hr />
<div class="tripdate" id="2004-08-03a">2004-08-03</div>
<div class="trippeople">Nial, <u>Becka</u>, Earl, </div>
<div class="trippeople">Nial, Earl, <u>Becka</u>, </div>
<div class="triptitle">204 - Push Subsoil + start to derig Gaffered</div>
<br /><br />I thought it would be a bit weedy to just derig on the trip so I arm-twisted Nial into some QM-ticking + surveying and Earl into some
rigging. We started by going to Fat Worm Blows a Sparky and I put conservation tape round the freshly (quite) dead bat in Bat Chamber and
@ -1366,7 +1366,7 @@ Kiwi Suit, where Olly and I jacked.
<hr />
<div class="tripdate" id="2004-08-04a">2004-08-04</div>
<div class="trippeople">Earl, <u>Becka</u>, Nial, </div>
<div class="trippeople">Earl, Nial, <u>Becka</u>, </div>
<div class="triptitle">204 - Finish derigging Gaffered</div>
<br /><br />A finely honed plan worked slickly: Nial down at 11am to pick up the pre-packed tacklesack I'd derigged yesterday. Earl in at 11.30 and
derigged the 90m on the rest of Gaffered. Becka in at 12.15. Earl + I bickered over who got to prusik out of Gaffered with the tacklesack
@ -1378,7 +1378,7 @@ cave.
<hr />
<div class="tripdate" id="2004-08-04b">2004-08-04</div>
<div class="trippeople">Martin, <u>Dave</u>, Frank, </div>
<div class="trippeople">Martin, Frank, <u>Dave</u>, </div>
<div class="triptitle">204 - derigging continued</div>
<br /><br />After the sterling efforts of Olly, Stuart, Martin + Frank the previous day all the rope had made it to the bottom of Pot-U-Like. Newly
recovered from a knackered back I was raring to go, but nobody else was very keen. Demonstrating keenness and stupidity in equal measure I
@ -1426,13 +1426,15 @@ then went back to retrieve the bag.
<hr />
<div class="tripdate" id="2004-08-04e">2004-08-04</div>
<div class="trippeople">Julian, Tony, <u>Brian</u>, </div>
<div class="triptitle">2004-12 - Finish 2004-12</div>
<div class="trippeople">Julian, <u>Brian</u>, Tony, </div>
<div class="triptitle">2004-19 - Finish 2004-12</div>
<br /><br />Followed draft into the cave, and investigated all obvious + easy leads. Draft was emerging from tight tube at floor level. This was
squeezed to a small chamber. Still drafting. Rocks were removed and the way was squeezed to a second small chamber. Still drafting. Brian
removed rocks outwards then Julian kicked rocks in to pass another squeeze into a roomier boulder slope. Downslope emerged into
walking/stooping sized passage which was quickly by recognised by Julian as Iceland of KH. Found a red paint survey spot from 2003 G
entrance resurvey and surveyed out from this. Exited cave and walked back to 204 via cliff. En route back Tony found a horizontal entrance
entrance resurvey and surveyed out from this. Exited cave and walked back to 204 via cliff.
<p>[Ed: So 2004-12 is actually just another entrance to 1623-161.]
<p>En route back Tony found a horizontal entrance
that he investigated: horizontal phreas to T-junction, upslope to choked chamber entrance, downslope to more horizontal phreas bypassing
pitch in floor. Tony exited. We went home. Cave tagged <b>2004-19</b>.
<div class="timeug">T/U: 0.0 hours</div>
@ -1497,7 +1499,7 @@ of survey (I don't know, I left the notes up the hill &ndash; doh!) <i>[Not a ba
<hr />
<div class="tripdate" id="2004-08-06b">2004-08-06</div>
<div class="trippeople">Martin, <u>Stuart</u>, Mark S, </div>
<div class="trippeople">Martin, Mark S, <u>Stuart</u>, </div>
<div class="triptitle">Base Camp - Grabenbach Canyon</div>
<br /><br />What an ace place. Really good. And that's only the walk-in. Probably required less rope than we took. Lots of silly jumping into deep
pools, and sliding down dodgy waterfalls on one's arse. (But only if you are called Stuart or Martin. Mark was sensible and used ropes. How