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years/2007/logbook/2007logbook.txt

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-===2007-07-10|Rigging Entrance to 204-E| Nial, Edvin, Kathryn, Ollie S, Richard
+===2007-07-10|Rigging Entrance to 204-E| Nial, Edvin, Kathryn, Ollie S, Richard===
 Nial put some extra bolts (3) into the entrance pitch then showed us some of the high level horizontal stuff and the top of the main Gaffered pitch.
 T/U: 5 hours
 
-===2007-07-10|Djuke's Bedtime Story| Djuke
+===2007-07-10|Djuke's Bedtime Story| Djuke===
 Snow greeted us on a snowy cold, misty damp bivy morning. Most of us (except Aaron - who kept emphasising how great his sleeping bag was) had spent the night shivering away and Nial in his £20 argos sleeping bag was up at 6.30am preparing the stove and everyone slowly emerged. As was I, unfortunately discovered (after mustering all the courage in me - and counter my instinct - crawling out of my sleeping bag) that I didn't have my furry. Great! :( had left it at base camp in the tent where I'd used it as a pillow. So Aaron and I spent a cold day taking turns rigging the tarps (intermittantly taking turns to rewarm our fingers). I was soooo annoyed <u>not</u> to be caving and having to spend my time in the cold bivy - am glad to be back at basecamp - am glad to be back at basecamp in warm hut after having shower :)
 
-===2007-07-12|It's raining - again|Djuke, Nial, Edvin, Kathryn, Ollie S
+===2007-07-12|It's raining - again|Djuke, Nial, Edvin, Kathryn, Ollie S===
 It's raining... AGAIN! We are about to walk up the hill
 
-===2007-07-10|Germknodel
+===2007-07-10|Germknodel===
 Makes 8 large/12 small or 4 superlarge plate sized
 500g flour
 1 packet germ/heffe - yeast
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 ===2007-07-17|148 (Maralin Munroe)| Olly and Jenny===
 
+Went back to 148 witha drill and mroe rope. Went to the previous pitch and traversed over it to what was 'the pitch' in 1987 nice big aven & pitch Olly found a nice rig down and into a little rift -> thus avoiding the loose choss at the top. Looked at the Ice Castle foute first, this roughtly goes back under the higher shaft past some very cool ice formations (big icicles) and very old snow plugs -> one section the snow plug essentially filled the entire passage except for a small crawl underneath it which I found a bit unnerving. More ice & snow, including a snow plug with clear Summer / Winter layering, I saw at least 30 layers (and it continued high up as well, so the oldest snow was older than me!). This passage ended at an up pitch maybe 15m high. Surveyed back along this (noting that the hanging death in the ceiling was quite varied -- rocks, snow and ice. Back at the 20ish m pitch we took the continuation passage, initially promising -- a huge rift heading for 107, but soon turns a corner and chokes (as noted in 1987). I climbed up before the choke and over the top and sadly no continuation visable. Olly poked under the choke and you could see into the blackness inside...
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+Surveyed this and left the cave.
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+T/U 8.5h
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 ===2007-07-18|Bath pot (2007-72)| Olly and Jenny===
 
 ===2007-07-15|Continuation of Razordance rig| Dave and Andreas===
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 ===2007-07-20|Convenience Series| Kathryn Hopkins, Edvin Deadman, Nial Peters===
 
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 ===2007-07-22|More Useful Walkies| Julia===
 
 
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 ===2007-07-25|Random leads in Insig|Dave, Djuke, Frank===
 
+We felt like a short trip so went to try & tick off some annoying QMs in the Insignificant area.
 
+01-3C is clearly too tight
 
+01-7C went to a short crawl & climb up into a tall passage. This went maybe 10m to a big pitch (probably Pleasuredome). Side passages high & low on the right led to the same pitch.
 
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+A window just before the pitch was some more crawls & a steep ramp down to a complex loopy junction. On the right is a nother big drop (Pleasuredomee again?). On the left various tubes lead off. ?C.
 
+New passage is 'Swiss Cheese'.
 
+At this point I gave up in disgust realising that my goal of making the survey easier to draw was clearly hopeless, & we exited via No Pain No Gain (modulo getting lost after turning left instead of right on hitting 110 A Day).
 
+T/U: 6 Hours 45 Min
 
 ===2007-07-25|Trisselwand – the Ivth|2007-08-05 <u>Wookey</u>, Nial Peters, Andrew Atkinson===
 
 
 
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 ===2007-08-03|'Quest to BS17'|Richard M===
 
+The previous night I had been down to 'God Loves A Drunk' with George North. On the 3rd I therefore hurt and my caving gear was thoroughly soaked through. Given no sun to dry it, a day of top camp festering ensued. I erased the memories of prussiking through 2 deg C Razordance waterfalls ('the wettest I have ever seen it - Mark D') by going on a mission for Dave L; a quest to BS17.
 
+BS17 is about a 1h10 walk away, with no heavy pack in ordinary clothes. One travels over the ridge behind the bivvy and over two subsequent hills, before coming scross a fairly low ridge, perhaps 500m long and running E-W. On the far (North) side of the ridge, the limestone takes the form of a series of 5m cliffs up the slope.
 
+Organhoehle, BS17, is likely to be one of the many holes in these cliffs. The GPS point did not correspond to one exactly, but there were half a dozen possibilities within 50m. The area around the ridge appears very promising for caves. Ther limestone is not very broken-up and there are holes, big & small, everywhere. The side of the ridge is particularily nice in that it offers many horizontal entrances.
 
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+I took my photographs using Ollie S's camera before stumbling back in thick fog, hoping the GPS did not pack-up.
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 ===2007-08-04|'Lead 03-75A'|Ollie S., Aaron C., Richard M.===
 
+My caving gear still wet & cold, we set off to the 'Wot no Butcombe' end of the 'Rhino Rift' area of 204. We rigged pitch 03-79A; a phreatic pitch wead [sic] tackled nicely with a single backed-up bolt. The fortuitous bolt placement occurred purely by chance.
 
+03-76B leads out from the opposite side of the pitch head, but would require a handful of bolts to access.
 
+Aaron took some time rigging, at one point succeeding in incorporating his chest tape into the rig accidentally.
 
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+We descended the pitch, now named 'Hollow Sausage.' It is phreatic in character, with a shelf around halfway down before the shaft balloons out, then contracts again.
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+At the bottom of this 9m pitch, one finds one's body in a smll widening of a tall, narrow, and windy rift. This had a small stream at the bottom and had been named 'Dover's Last Stand.' The crawl to the pitchhead is likewise rocky.
 
+A boulder choke prevents one travelling far downhill the rift. Uphill there are find mud formations on the left wall. A 4m climb leads to a narrowing of the rift. It gets too tight, but there seems to be a route above of B/C QM calibre. This is tough and may qualify as being a pitch. Would be better explored downhill.
 
 ===2007-08-05|'Chocolate Salty Balls'|Ollie S., Aaron C., Richard M.===