diff --git a/years/2024/logbook.html b/years/2024/logbook.html index bb91b4c4b..84bb4c54a 100644 --- a/years/2024/logbook.html +++ b/years/2024/logbook.html @@ -32,7 +32,7 @@ Becka went to the dentist (temporary filling) and then up the hill.
2024-07-06
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waite,Charlotte,Jacob C,philips,
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waite,Jacob C,philips,Charlotte,
Basecamp - Setup day 1
Arrived in the afternoon and got keys from gasthof. Fridge full of other people's beer sadly. Picked up Philip S from the station and set up outside tarp and bier tent. Bier tent missing it's door ATM with a tarp rigged instead??????? Where has it gone ? Who knows?????? Gas hose fell off burner whilst cooking dinner, large plume of flame in bier tent but crisis averted
T/U: 0.0 hours
@@ -50,7 +50,7 @@ I was walking into town from the station (from Vienna this morning) when I was i
2024-07-07
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PhilipS,Charlotte,Waite,Jacob,
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PhilipS,Waite,Jacob,Charlotte,
topcamp - First visit to top camp
Charlotte, James W and Jacob C going for a first carry to top camp to look at amount of snow etc., departed Gasthof at 11:00 expected back about 20:00. They are not taking the new top camp tarp up this time - it weighs 21 kg.

@@ -73,7 +73,7 @@ Tarp is partly up at side of hut as there was a caravan parked there ye


2024-07-08
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PhilipS,Julia,sieds,wassil,
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PhilipS,sieds,wassil,Julia,
basecamp - Who went where
Everyone went up to the plateau except for Julia and Philip S. Wassil and Sieds arrived during the day.
T/U: 0.0 hours
@@ -129,7 +129,7 @@ Sieds calmly checked the online documentation, did the three-fingered salute to
2024-07-09
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waite,jacob,issac,charlotte,
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waite,issac,charlotte,jacob,
fishface - collecting rope
no reflectors left on spits.
@@ -187,7 +187,7 @@ Philip B should have been arriving today but has caught covid from NSS in USA, s
2024-07-10
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Isaac,charlotte,waite,philip s,jacob,
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Isaac,philip s,jacob,charlotte,waite,
basecamp - Bread Making

With an afternoon of festering well on the way after arriving back from our FF rope @@ -249,7 +249,7 @@ Isaac.


2024-07-10
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Wassil,Marie,Lara,Sieds,
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Wassil,Lara,Sieds,Marie,
balcony - Rigging balcony entrance series

We were tasked by Antony to rig the entrance series of Balkonhöhle so that he could go and rig Mongol Rally (presumably a more interesting rig).

@@ -286,7 +286,7 @@ Becka went to the dentist (temporary filling) and then up the hill.
2024-07-11
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Wassil,Jono,Becka,Marie,
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Wassil,Becka,Marie,Jono,
garlic - Setting up Garlic Cave Camp

It turns out that Garlic Camp is a really good idea. 1h58 from the car park, under 20 minutes from Homecoming, so I'll be spending more time there.

@@ -345,7 +345,7 @@ Walked back to Bad Aussee. Had coffee having missed last bus.
2024-07-11
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waite,wook,lara,charlotte,
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waite,lara,charlotte,wook,
homecoming - more naughty rope
We rigged the entrance to Homecoming and rigged ropes down to the up pitch. ropes after this were left insitu. wookey dissapeared behind us to play with his new toy (Sap6) he measured some pitches as far as the 4 bolt traverse at the bottom of radagast. We found the pile of rope at the bottom of the uprope to Propane Nightmares.

@@ -379,7 +379,7 @@ TU is a guess - two hours less for me


2024-07-11
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Wookey,Charlotte Payne,Lara Bartleet,James Waite,
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Wookey,Lara Bartleet,James Waite,Charlotte Payne,
Homecoming (359) - Rigging in

[Main write-up above - This is Wook's writeup of his somewhat separate trip]

@@ -553,7 +553,7 @@ Jacob
2024-07-14
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ps,Marie,Jacob,Wookey,
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ps,Jacob,Wookey,Marie,
basecamp - Heute ist Domstag
Delayed Onset Muscle Stiffness my walk up to StoneBridge a couple of days ago.

@@ -577,7 +577,7 @@ Let's see if he gets a parking ticket as he sprints back down the hill...


2024-07-14
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PS,JL,Marie,RM,Isaac,JC,PB,Sieds,
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PS,PB,Sieds,JL,Marie,RM,Isaac,JC,
Basecamp - Who came down, and went up
Jacob, Marie came down (Phil B got them?) and Marie went to bed in the attic. @@ -588,7 +588,7 @@ Jacob, Marie came down (Phil B got them?) and Marie went to bed in the attic.
2024-07-15
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Lara,James W,Issac,Charlotte,
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Lara,Issac,Charlotte,James W,
homecoming - Failed pushing but excellent sidequests
We set off from Garlic Camp to homecoming vaguely early in the morning which was a very welcome change, 20 minutes downhill walking which was lovely as long as you didn't think about the walk back up. Isaac had joined our motley crew the night before and was very excited for a big trip (read: scared to be beasted by Charlotte and James).

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2024-07-16
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PS,Lara,JW,AD,
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PS,JW,AD,Lara,
basecamp - More chundering
Anthony had a very bad night last night at Stone Bridge a couple of hours after eating, but got down today feeling a bit weak.

@@ -813,7 +813,7 @@ The tofu curries were consumed when a prospecting trip returned. I was sad.


2024-07-16
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Isaac,Jacob,Waite,Lara,Jono,Marie,Charlotte,Ruairidh,
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Isaac,Charlotte,Ruairidh,Jacob,Waite,Lara,Jono,Marie,
Lake - Marie Hates Swimming
See title.
T/U: 0.01 hours
@@ -844,7 +844,7 @@ Tess arrived, and cooked the evening slop + rice (with Lara) for the canyoning [
2024-07-17
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Wookey,Jono,Phil Balister,Charlotte,Isaac,Marie,
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Wookey,Isaac,Marie,Jono,Phil Balister,Charlotte,
Canyonning - Strubklamm

A canyonning trip was suggested, and as I'd done it a couple of times before and thus knew where it was, and what to look out for, it @@ -910,7 +910,7 @@ a solid 3 hours. We got back about 7pm.


2024-07-18
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Lara,Charlotte,James W,Jacob,
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Lara,James W,Jacob,Charlotte,
homecoming - There and there and there and back again
When I emerged from homecoming and realised the stars were only just still visible because it was dawn I seriously considered if I'd left some of my sanity down by the pushing front. We had finished faffing and started descending around midday the day before, a solid 16 and a half hours ago.

@@ -1054,7 +1054,7 @@ feasible next time.


2024-07-20
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PS,Harry,Colin,Christian,
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PS,Colin,Christian,Harry,
Bascamp - New arrivals
Christian, Harry and Colin arrived.
@@ -1117,7 +1117,7 @@ We were greeted by a few rays of sunshine when we finally exited around 5pm befo
2024-07-21
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Philip S,Tom,Dickon,Aidan,Rosa,
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Philip S,Aidan,Rosa,Tom,Dickon,
basecamp - New arrivals today
One car arrived:
@@ -1129,7 +1129,7 @@ Aidan came by train and Dickon drove here.
2024-07-21
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Philip S,Charlotte,chi,harry,lara,
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Philip S,harry,lara,Charlotte,chi,
plateau - Surface walk from col to Geschwantalm
@@ -1167,7 +1167,7 @@ ADDENDUM 26th July:
2024-07-21
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Lara,Harry,Chi,Charlotte,
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Lara,Chi,Charlotte,Harry,
Homecoming - A satisfying but not very useful result
Slavedriver Payne woke us up early and we got up the hill vaguely fast (despite Chi's moderate faff). Unfortunately further faff then occurred at the entrance to Homecoming. This included further effort towards the Gordian Knot from the first Homecoming trip, which concluded in Chi doing an Alexander the Great. We ended up with two ropes. Chi also spent some time reconstructing a pantin from two broken ones (it didn't work). Clearly one person was the issue here. *editorial note: it would transpire that Lara concluded faffing a good 20 mins after the futile pantin was birthed*

@@ -1256,7 +1256,7 @@ I need to go caving.


2024-07-22
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Rosa B,Aidan K,Jono L,Jacob C,
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Rosa B,Jono L,Jacob C,Aidan K,
Menstrual Tunnel - My first underground trip abroad
I asked Jono for him to teach me to survey and which he enthusiastically agreed. The next morning he came up with a grin telling me to grab my helmet and my swimming costume????? and get in the landy. We arrived in a car park with Jono keeping the plan quiet and walked us alo0ng the river opposite a chinese. Across the river under the chinese was a small tunnel. It was a battle to get into the tunnel with the strong torrent of water trying to push us down. I mistakenly volunteered to go in to mark the survey point with my finger and was instantly hit by slime underfoot and a grotesque smell. I concealed my disgust and headed in. The others took their time learning about the survey device and choosing their spot. Then they entered with much dramatica, Jono gagging and threatening to throw up, Aidan doing his best to avoid the slime and Jacob quietly disgusted. At this point we noticed the used menstrual products next to me and the strong scent of fecal matter. We sped up the process with Aidan valiantly fighting the cobwebs. Much surveying was learnt and ready to try in an actual trip. We made a quick escape all taking time to wash thoroughly in the river.

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2024-07-23
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Aidan K,Rosa B,Lara B,Tom Phillips,
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Aidan K,Lara B,Tom Phillips,Rosa B,
Homecoming - Swinging into the Tube
Following the walk across the plateau with everyone and Isaac (who watched us go in before heading off to Garlic), and a lot of faff, we went down the entrance series. Lara lead the way, followed by Rosa, Tom, and then I. Tom had a battle with the entrance pitch - unaided by the 5om of rope I had given him to take down - which required teamwork and feeding him chocolate role like it's an apple to free him.

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2024-07-24
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Isaac,Harry,Lara,Chi,
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Isaac,Lara,Chi,Harry,
Homecoming - The Aborted Camping Trip
Before this entry begins I'd like to make it clear that I feel truly ashamed of my performance (or lack of one) on this trip. I failed to meet the standard expected of one signing onto a trip of this nature, and by this failure I caused a lot of negative attention to be bought onto the trip and my companions.
@@ -1437,7 +1437,7 @@ Zac did break the log book, while waiting around. But Phil got very grumpy about
2024-07-25
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Philip S,PB,Becka,Nat,Sarah,Zac,, *Sandy
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Philip S,Sarah,Zac,PB,Becka,Nat,, *Sandy
plateau - Entrance spotting
Lift up with Nat, Sarah and Zac, they went off to topcamp and from the col I wandered down and around the near plateau photographing whatever entrances and tags I could find.
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2024-07-25
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ZW,Colin,Sarah,Philip S,James w,Nat,
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ZW,James w,Nat,Colin,Sarah,Philip S,
topcamp - Top camp bounce
Sarah, Nat, Zac and Phil drove up the loser. We then hiked up to the Col. It being Sarah, Nat and Zac's first time up since the installation of the new cable car, we were quite taken unawares by the new path from the car park. From there it was plain hiking up to the col. Once at the Col, Phil s parted ways and headed off on his own adventures. Sarah, Nat and Zac, meanwhile hiked on to top camp. Once there we caught Becka as she was leaving and James W and Colin as they were thinking about leaving. After a little faffing and some noodles, we rang down to base camp to ask what kit we should carry down. We were told only some some roll mats and camp beds for Garlic. Packing these, alongside some tackle sacks from a recent Balkon trip (See report), we began to head down. Zac Lagged behind a lot of the way as his new shoes were wearing on his feet. But eventually we reached the loser car park where we all packed, tightly, into Sarah's car and drove down the hill.
T/U: 0.0 hours
@@ -1500,7 +1500,7 @@ Sarah, Nat, Zac and Phil drove up the loser. We then hiked up to the Col. It bei
2024-07-25
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Wassil,Marie,Chi,Dickon,
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Wassil,Chi,Dickon,Marie,
basecamp - Grabenbach Canyon

On the day of expo dinner a rag-tag group of cavers gathered under the tatty hut tarp. These cavers were all here for all the wrong reasons. Firstly, supreme leader and trip planner Marie had bailed on caving in preference of washing her undersuit. Next we have Wassil who was both procrastinating his masters thesis and feeling sorry for himself about killing his own lead. Finally we have Dickon who decied to go on a caving expedition despite hating caving, and as a result elected do go canyoning. Proceeding the formation of this glorious trio, Chi decided to show his face following a disasterous camping trip which did not result in a camp occurring and was at a lost end. Apparently Marie, Wassil, and Dickon looked like a suitable group to go canyoning with and somehow they decided Chi would be a suitable accomplice.

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2024-07-25
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Dickon Morris,Marie,Wassil,Chi,
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Dickon Morris,Wassil,Chi,Marie,
basecamp - Grabenbach Canyon #2

Ar ddiwrnod cinio'r expo ymgasglodd grŵp tag rag o ogofa o dan darp y cwt tatty. Roedd yr ogofwyr hyn i gyd yma am y rhesymau anghywir i gyd. Yn gyntaf, roedd y goruchaf arweinydd a'r cynllunydd teithiau Marie wedi mechnïo ar ogofa yn hytrach na golchi ei danwisg. Nesaf mae gennym Wassil a oedd yn gohirio ei draethawd meistr ac yn teimlo trueni drosto'i hun am ladd ei dennyn ei hun. Yn olaf mae gennym Dickon a benderfynodd fynd ar alldaith ogofa er ei fod yn casáu ogofa, ac o ganlyniad yn cael ei ethol yn mynd canyoning. Wrth fwrw ymlaen â ffurfio'r triawd gogoneddus hwn, penderfynodd Chi ddangos ei wyneb yn dilyn taith wersylla anghysbell na arweiniodd at wersyll yn digwydd ac a oedd ar ben colled. Mae'n debyg bod Marie, Wassil, a Dickon yn edrych fel grŵp addas i fynd â'r ceunant gyda nhw a rhywsut fe benderfynon nhw y byddai Chi yn gyd-chwaraewr addas.

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2024-07-27
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Todd Rye,Christian,Harry Kettle,Aila Taylor,
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Todd Rye,Harry Kettle,Aila Taylor,Christian,
Homecoming - Watershed Murder Camp
I was so excited to go back into Homecoming after six years, and Harry promised caverns measureless down Watershed. A camp was needed to make it more pleasant, so off we went with sleeping bags and mats. Faff ensued, with Aila breaking her toe at Garlic, and us having picked the wrong sleeping bag up, We got underground at middayish in the end.

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2024-07-28
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lucy h,jacob,sarah p,nat,lara,zac,
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lucy h,nat,lara,zac,jacob,sarah p,
balcony - 26th-28th bloody balcony
26th - 28th

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2024-07-28
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ZW,Sarah,Lara,Jacob,Lucy h,Nat,
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ZW,Lucy h,Nat,Sarah,Lara,Jacob,
Balkonhoehle - Who needs ascenders anyway?

Lucy having already covered much of the trip in I will only fill in the gaps alluded to

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2024-07-28
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Aidan K,Colin Foord,Dickon,James W,Rosa B,James M,
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Aidan K,Rosa B,James M,Colin Foord,Dickon,James W,
Garlic - Landscaping and Festering
We woke up to some pretty miserable clag that around 10am developed into rain - Colin had fortunately arrived about 40 minutes prior from SB so stayed dry, Dickon and James on the other hand weren't so lucky! They both got fairly wet on their walk over.

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2024-07-29
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Sam Tittensor,Jono,Chris H,Becka,Ellie D,
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Sam Tittensor,Becka,Ellie D,Jono,Chris H,
Balkonhoehle - Happy Campers (eventually!)
After 2 hot trips ferrying kit up the plateau, a late start, and a great deal of faff, motivation to get underground was low. This resulted in a (very necessary!) talking-to from the drill sergeant (Becka), before we bucked our ideas up, and kit was assembled for inspection on the rocks at top camp and packed into bags. @@ -2047,7 +2047,7 @@ What. A. Day.
2024-07-30
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Adam,Aidan,Fiona,Colin,
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Adam,Fiona,Colin,Aidan,
Homecoming - Homecoming Round Trip
Colin and Aidan arrived in Garlic camp at around midnight, exhausted from their own day of caving prior. Upon all of us waking Fiona and I solidified our plans for the day, deciding to help the pair survey the rest of their new entrance series down into Homecoming. It'd get us into the swing of surveying again after a long break and it would also be a good introduction to the Homecoming cave, which I hadn't been in for a year and Fiona hadn't been in before.

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2024-07-30
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Colin,Adam,Aidan,Fiona,
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Colin,Aidan,Fiona,Adam,
Homecoming - what a way to spend a Tuesday
Having scoped our lead the day before having failed to survey it, sorry Becka we dragged Adam and Fiona down with us to help. the SAP however couldn't do long enough legs so was a mainly pointless exercise. I blasted down to the bottom to re-rig Dickon's traverse so we could exit out of the entrance series for a bit of variety and compare routes. We pointed Adam and Fiona in the directions of the good leads I'd seen while waiting for them to join me at the bottom.

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2024-08-01
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Lara,Chi,Colin,Liam,
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Lara,Colin,Liam,Chi,
Homecoming - The First Rule of Alpine Caving
I'm not sure exactly why I decided to end my expo with a trip that was specifically designed to be a derigging sufferfest but it seemed like a good idea a few Gossers deep at basecamp. It did indeed turn out to be an epic but very much not in the way we expected.

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2024-08-01
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Jacob,Lucy,Tom P,Zac,
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Jacob,Tom P,Zac,Lucy,
plateau - Digging and Thunderstorms
What had planned to be a cool, early walk up to the plateau invetably became a more middle and hottest part of the day sort of deal. Drenched in sweat we made our way to base camp where we stopped for a quick lunch then headed off in the Tunnocks direction.

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2024-08-01
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colin,liam,chi,Lara,
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colin,Lara,chi,liam,
Homecoming - Alpine Torrent
Originally I was meant to be doing a shallow lead to rescue Isaac's descender. Hence I walked up in the morning from base with Todd Aila and Isaac. At the entrance the watershed de-rigging team were down a harry who was feeling very sorry for himself due to not being very well. So I asked to come with the de-rigging team wanting to be beasted at least once and see what all the fuss of a homecoming bounce trip was like.

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2024-08-02
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Lara,Colin,Chi,Liam,
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Lara,Chi,Liam,Colin,
Homecoming - The First Rule of Alpine Caving
I'm not sure exactly why I decided to end my expo with a trip that was specifically designed to be a derigging sufferfest but it seemed like a good idea a few Gossers deep at basecamp. It did indeed turn out to be an epic but very much not in the way we expected.

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2024-08-03
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Dickon,Colin,Harry,Becka,
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Dickon,Harry,Becka,Colin,
Homecoming - Second Coming Derig
While the second coming of Christ will probably be quite exciting and very much not inevitable as far as your average atheist is concerned, the same cannot be said for the derigging of the Second Coming.

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2024-08-03
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Lucy,Tom P,Rosa B,James W,James M,Zac,
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Lucy,James M,Zac,Tom P,Rosa B,James W,
below promised land - Promises undelivered
It appears that James' logbook entry for our prospect day has gone walkabouts, so I am writing again.

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2024-08-05
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ZW,James W,Tom P,Harry K,Dickon,Rosa,
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ZW,Dickon,Rosa,James W,Tom P,Harry K,
saltmine - We go to the gulag

The Plan

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2024-08-05
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Becka,Chris,Nat,Sam,Ellie,
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Becka,Sam,Ellie,Chris,Nat,
Plateau - Prospecting north of deep Balkon
We waited until the rain mostly cleared then headed off in low visibility. The day gradually cleared. See Becka's GPS for locations. Our only significant find was a 15m deep rift that Ellie bolted and said there was no way on ... only for Christopher to find a nearby horizontal entrance that connected in to it ... and then a further horizontal entrance. Our 3 entrance cave was, though, only ~45m long. This was 33T 411543 5284219 Elev ~1888m. Finished and can be katastered, photos on Becka's phone.

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2024-08-06
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Becka,Chris,Liam,Nat,
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Becka,Liam,Nat,Chris,
Plateau - Circumnavigating the Greisskogel
On our second day of prospecting we returned to yesterday's area (see Becka's GPS track). Liam hunted us down later in the day from Garlic (we were based at Top Camp), chasing us down using the Meshtastic device.

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2024-08-07
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Harry,Christopher,Liam,Becka,James W,
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Harry,Liam,Becka,James W,Christopher,
Homecoming - Derigging Watershed
Myself and Becka went in first and derigged from My Favourite things to the top of Flowstone canyon. This timed well with meeting James, Liam and Christopher to help carry bags along the traverses. Becka and I headed out with bags, while the others continued derigging to the start of Propane Nightmares, replacing old ropes on the handline climb and up pitch.