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Andy W

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 <div class="tripdate" id="t2015-07-08a">2015-07-08</div>
 <div class="trippeople"><u>Luke</u>, Joe</div>
 <div class="triptitle">Gemsehöhle - 107</div>
-<p>A return with the rope required and drill to sort out the sketchy rigging resulted in the arrival at the top at 12:00 after a more relaxed start. The first task was to destroy the ever melting snow which was achieved in 30 mins. The down trip involved sorting out multiple rigging issues and everything was made much safer. Water flow had increased dramatically since yesterday. Making it to Too Bold For This Spit, we halted, rigged it but had to turn round because of lack of hangers and quantity of water flowing down. Exitting the cave was much more pleasant without the loominh iceberg.</p>
+<p>A return with the rope required and drill to sort out the sketchy rigging resulted in the arrival at the top at 12:00 after a more relaxed start. The first task was to destroy the ever melting snow which was achieved in 30 mins. The down trip involved sorting out multiple rigging issues and everything was made much safer. Water flow had increased dramatically since yesterday. Making it to Too Bold For This Spit, we halted, rigged it but had to turn round because of lack of hangers and quantity of water flowing down. Exitting the cave was much more pleasant without the looming iceberg.</p>
 <p>Much rerigging was had.</p>
 <div class="timeug">T/U: 6 hr</div>
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 <p>Got down into Old Rift via the 1978 route (climb doesn't need a bolt / rope etc.) Started surveying from the big boulder that all the surveys in the area seem to connect to. Then tied into the end of yesterday's tubular survey and then the start of yesterdsay's p18 survey (at the Y-hang bolt) then up to the 2015 station on the Ropeless window. Not sure how that took a whole trip, but it did somehow.</p>
 <div class="timeug">T/U: 6½ hrs</div>
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-<div class="tripdate" id="t2015-07-18a">2015-07-18</div>
+<div class="tripdate" id="t2015-07-18b">2015-07-18</div>
 <div class="trippeople">Olly + <u>Jenny</u></div>
 <div class="triptitle">Surface stuff around 107/83/laser05</div>
 <p>Decided on a morning of surface work + afternoon of gear fettling ready for an early start tomorrow to avoid being on a wet pitch at thunderstorm time.</p>
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 <p>Headed over to laser05 for Olly to GPS - we suspect the old Austrian version of laser05 in the dataset is closer to reality than Nil's fix. Noticed that 1987-02 has a tag bolt but no tag - will try and fix that later on. Walked back via above 107.direstraits to look for entrances above the avens. Only found one possibility (not far above our tent) - plan to return with rope another day.</p>
 <div class="timeug">T/U: 0</div>
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+<div class="tripdate" id="t2015-07-19b">2015-07-19</div>
+<div class="trippeople">Olly + <u>Jenny</u></div>
+<div class="triptitle"><u>107 - Old Route</u></div>
+<p>Got underground nice and early - 9:10 am! Whizzed down to where the two old routes diverge and headed towards the p67. Turns out you traverse over the p67 to get to the p5. We did this using 1978 spits just to have a look. There is a trickle of water down the back wall, and a rift heading west. We traversed along this, it was the sort of rift with no visible floor and of unknown depth. After a short while the rift got wider, and I became incredibly scared and refused to continue. We surveyed back to the head of the p67. On typing in the data, it seems that my pitch detecting radar knew we were about to traverse over the p100, and hence made me stop. Olly rigged down the p67 directly (ie. not via the p5) and got a Y-hang that made a lovely free hang, despite a complex pitch head. Sadly it got wet and the rope was fast so Olly had it wrapped round his leg. This gave him 2 options, abseil [illegible], or torniquet his leg. He took the first option.</p>
+<p>Olly shouts up "I'm down, the pitch is wet". I wonder how wet, is he telling me that he will come back up and add some rigging, or that I should come down but make sure the survey box is closed first. After a few iterations of Olly shouting 'the hang is wet' and me shouting 'can I descend?', Olly eventually shouts that he is coming up.</p>
+<p>This would be the perfect time to sit in my lovely new bothy bag, except that I am the wrong side of the pitch wedged in a rift. After a while I see Olly putting in a bolt, and I can follow down. We end up in a side rift via a couple of rebelays and a comedy deviation. We survey up this and down to the bottom of the main hang. Then have a quick wander down to the next short pitch.</p>
+<p>We survey back out derigging up to the Y-hang so the rig can be made drier for next time. Uneventful exit, to get out just as the thunderstorm started.</p>
+<p>PS. They were pretty hard core in 1978. 67m pitch on ladders !</p>
+<div class="timeug">T/U: 10 hrs</div>
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+<div class="tripdate" id="t2015-07-20a">2015-07-20</div>
+<div class="trippeople"><u>David</u> & Luke</div>
+<div class="triptitle">Balcony</div>
+<p>We went in Balcony to push 94a and 95a. The passage continued under a boulder which could be climbed up from the far side to reach 95a by an easy 4m free climb. 95a is nice straight walking passage which led to a 3m climb into a chamber with numerous leads. A small pitch may lead to horizontal passage - or it could be another alcove. Traversing around the pitch would provide 2 further leads.</p>
+<p>To the left of the climb a large rift can be followed until a climb down requiring a rope is encountered. Before this, a crawling passage was found to the right leading to a 4m pitch. It seems likely that severalof these leads are connected.</p>
+<p>94a was pushed for about 10m where it turns a corner at a rocky slope. We left this as a walking lead.</p>
+<div class="timeug">T/U: [not mentioned]</div>
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