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<div class="tripdate" id="t2015-07-11a">2015-07-11</div>
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<div class="tripdate" id="t2015-07-11a">2015-07-11</div>
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<div class="trippeople">Anthony & <u>Mark D</u></div>
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<div class="trippeople">Anthony & <u>Mark D</u></div>
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<div class="triptitle">Tunnocks Entrance De-ice</div>
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<div class="triptitle">Tunnocks - Entrance De-ice</div>
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<p>At Ducks on Ice we had discovered an enormous ice stal. While not blocking the way on physically, it was judged to be a serious hazard. The first job of the day was therefore de-icing. Something that two blokes who live in Scandinavia ought to be well qualified for, right ?</p>
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<p>At Ducks on Ice we had discovered an enormous ice stal. While not blocking the way on physically, it was judged to be a serious hazard. The first job of the day was therefore de-icing. Something that two blokes who live in Scandinavia ought to be well qualified for, right ?</p>
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<p><img src="logbkimg02.jpeg" alt="6:1 mechanical advantage system and specially designed ice lassoo brought from Scandanavia and normally used to catch reindeer, set up to pull down humongous ice stal">
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<p><img src="logbkimg02.jpeg" alt="6:1 mechanical advantage system and specially designed ice lassoo brought from Scandanavia and normally used to catch reindeer, set up to pull down humongous ice stal">
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<div class="tripdate" id="t2015-07-11b">2015-07-11</div>
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<div class="tripdate" id="t2015-07-11b">2015-07-11</div>
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<div class="trippeople"><u>Luke</u>, Joe, Matt</div>
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<div class="trippeople"><u>Luke</u>, Joe, Matt</div>
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<div class="triptitle">107</div>
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<div class="triptitle">107 - 107</div>
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<p>[there is an arrow captioned "more info" but no clue as to where it is pointing...]</p>
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<p>[there is an arrow captioned "more info" but no clue as to where it is pointing...]</p>
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<p>Returned to C lead in China with Matt, to survey the pitch that we dropped the previous trip. Unfortunately only compass/clino so a depressingly small amount of passage was surveyed despite 4½ hours spent surveying. We didn't get cold and "much fun" was had.</p>
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<p>Returned to C lead in China with Matt, to survey the pitch that we dropped the previous trip. Unfortunately only compass/clino so a depressingly small amount of passage was surveyed despite 4½ hours spent surveying. We didn't get cold and "much fun" was had.</p>
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<div class="tripdate" id="t2015-07-12a">2015-07-12</div>
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<div class="tripdate" id="t2015-07-12a">2015-07-12</div>
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<div class="trippeople"><u>Joe</u>, Luke, Jenny & <u>Olly</u></div>
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<div class="trippeople"><u>Joe</u>, Luke, Jenny & <u>Olly</u></div>
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<div class="triptitle">107/161</div>
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<div class="triptitle">107 - 107/161</div>
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<p>"We found the bag!"</p>
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<p>"We found the bag!"</p>
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<p>Having looked for the bag of rope for over a year, I was happily surprised to find it ...... ! It is now residing at (in a tackle sack) "Too Bold For This Spit". The technical and intellectual info for this trip will now be supplied by Olly (or perhaps Jenny) [continued]</p>
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<p>Having looked for the bag of rope for over a year, I was happily surprised to find it ...... ! It is now residing at (in a tackle sack) "Too Bold For This Spit". The technical and intellectual info for this trip will now be supplied by Olly (or perhaps Jenny) [continued]</p>
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<p>We went through the connection from China into Blown Away / Out and round to Bundestrasse, finding (as Joe said) the errant tackle sack at the junction into the Runnelstone. A small rift on from the last survey station in Bundestrasse had clearly been explored already (by Anthony, Rob + Rob, it seems) but they hadn't realised the big pitch at the end was Korea. Jenny & Joe were able to lean out enough to recognise the pitch head at the end of Land of Confusion, and Disto an approx connection.</p>
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<p>We went through the connection from China into Blown Away / Out and round to Bundestrasse, finding (as Joe said) the errant tackle sack at the junction into the Runnelstone. A small rift on from the last survey station in Bundestrasse had clearly been explored already (by Anthony, Rob + Rob, it seems) but they hadn't realised the big pitch at the end was Korea. Jenny & Joe were able to lean out enough to recognise the pitch head at the end of Land of Confusion, and Disto an approx connection.</p>
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<div class="tripdate" id="t2015-07-11d">2015-07-11</div>
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<div class="tripdate" id="t2015-07-11d">2015-07-11</div>
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<div class="trippeople">Joe, Luke, <u>Matt</u></div>
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<div class="trippeople">Joe, Luke, <u>Matt</u></div>
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<div class="triptitle">107 Pushing</div>
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<div class="triptitle">107 - Pushing</div>
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<p>By this point Joe had rigged to China so decided to join them for a trip to survey a lead we had poked our head in last year.</p>
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<p>By this point Joe had rigged to China so decided to join them for a trip to survey a lead we had poked our head in last year.</p>
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<p>A short pitch with 2 Y-hangs drops down the side wall through the boulders onto a sand and rubble slope.</p>
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<p>A short pitch with 2 Y-hangs drops down the side wall through the boulders onto a sand and rubble slope.</p>
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<p>There is a scary looking climb down to the left QMC and a small passage going off to the right QMC.</p>
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<p>There is a scary looking climb down to the left QMC and a small passage going off to the right QMC.</p>
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<div class="tripdate" id="t2015-07-14a">2015-07-14</div>
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<div class="tripdate" id="t2015-07-14a">2015-07-14</div>
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<div class="trippeople">Mark, Dan, <u>Anthony</u></div>
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<div class="trippeople">Mark, Dan, <u>Anthony</u></div>
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<div class="triptitle">Tunnocks Rigging ctd.</div>
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<div class="triptitle">Tunnocks - Rigging ctd.</div>
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<p>A wet night at the bivi meant that plans for a long rigging trip were put on hold in favour of a shorter trip that would allow us to bolt down the hill. Ferried Big Bertha Mk II containing 200m of 10mm (intended for Procrastination and Number of the Beast) as far as the top of String Theory. Mark and Dan put in some bolts to protect the chossy traverse round the 80m deep wet hole on the approach to String Theory. I completed the String Theory rig. With that we headed out.</p>
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<p>A wet night at the bivi meant that plans for a long rigging trip were put on hold in favour of a shorter trip that would allow us to bolt down the hill. Ferried Big Bertha Mk II containing 200m of 10mm (intended for Procrastination and Number of the Beast) as far as the top of String Theory. Mark and Dan put in some bolts to protect the chossy traverse round the 80m deep wet hole on the approach to String Theory. I completed the String Theory rig. With that we headed out.</p>
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<div class="tripdate" id="t2015-07-16a">2015-07-16</div>
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<div class="tripdate" id="t2015-07-16a">2015-07-16</div>
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<div class="trippeople">Dan, Matt, <u>Anthony</u></div>
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<div class="trippeople">Dan, Matt, <u>Anthony</u></div>
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<div class="triptitle">Team Fiasco go surface prospecting</div>
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<div class="triptitle">surface - Team Fiasco go surface prospecting</div>
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<p>The plan was to go and find Organhöhle (located by Wookey and Olaf in 2012) plus swing by some of the holes Duncan and I found in the same area in the same year. Since expo was quite sparsely populated, we decided to take advantage of drill availability to drop some of the short pitches we had found. We decided to take two oversuits, two helmets and one SRT kit between us and also some surveying gear to give ourselves the option of verifying that we really had found Organhöhle.</p>
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<p>The plan was to go and find Organhöhle (located by Wookey and Olaf in 2012) plus swing by some of the holes Duncan and I found in the same area in the same year. Since expo was quite sparsely populated, we decided to take advantage of drill availability to drop some of the short pitches we had found. We decided to take two oversuits, two helmets and one SRT kit between us and also some surveying gear to give ourselves the option of verifying that we really had found Organhöhle.</p>
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<p>Things did not go entirely according to plan.</p>
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<p>Things did not go entirely according to plan.</p>
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<p>We first swung by Tunnocks to pick up an SRT kit. It was at this point that I realised that I hadn't seen any rope being packed. It was hot and fairly late so we pressed on to Balkonhöhle from where we took a somewhat roundabout route towards Organhöhle via a subsidiary summit of the Hohes Augsteck. Coming off the back of this, Dan spotted a cave. There is a hole in the side of the cliff leading onto a rift pitch, with another couple of surface shafts above that go to the same place - definitely worth a tag. Since we had a drill, this should have been a quick job. However, a lack of drill bits was going to make it a lot harder. Fortunately, we had a hand bolting kit, so I made up a tag (2015-DL-01) and Dan set about placing a hand bolt for it.</p>
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<p>We first swung by Tunnocks to pick up an SRT kit. It was at this point that I realised that I hadn't seen any rope being packed. It was hot and fairly late so we pressed on to Balkonhöhle from where we took a somewhat roundabout route towards Organhöhle via a subsidiary summit of the Hohes Augsteck. Coming off the back of this, Dan spotted a cave. There is a hole in the side of the cliff leading onto a rift pitch, with another couple of surface shafts above that go to the same place - definitely worth a tag. Since we had a drill, this should have been a quick job. However, a lack of drill bits was going to make it a lot harder. Fortunately, we had a hand bolting kit, so I made up a tag (2015-DL-01) and Dan set about placing a hand bolt for it.</p>
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<div class="trippeople">Mark, <u>Anthony</u></div>
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<div class="triptitle">Tunnocks - More Tunnocks rigging</div>
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<p>Headed into Tunnocks to rig the 200m of rope we had carted in earlier. Mark sorted out the rebelay at the bottom of String Theory, making it less of a twat to pass. I made a start on Procrastination. Unfortunately I didn't find the right bolts for the Y-hang, so there is a rub - needs fixing on the next trip. I rigged down using Chris' 2013 thrubolts for the first hang to (hopefully) avoid the worst of the water. Discovered that the traverse and shitty little pitch at the bottom had been derigged, so Mark rigged these using the 200 of 9mm kindly ferried in by Dan and David. Up Bring on the Clowns, then I rigged Number of the Beast with remainder of the 10mm. Out in 3 hrs - a pretty efficient trip.</p>
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<p>Headed into Tunnocks to rig the 200m of rope we had carted in earlier. Mark sorted out the rebelay at the bottom of String Theory, making it less of a twat to pass. I made a start on Procrastination. Unfortunately I didn't find the right bolts for the Y-hang, so there is a rub - needs fixing on the next trip. I rigged down using Chris' 2013 thrubolts for the first hang to (hopefully) avoid the worst of the water. Discovered that the traverse and shitty little pitch at the bottom had been derigged, so Mark rigged these using the 200 of 9mm kindly ferried in by Dan and David. Up Bring on the Clowns, then I rigged Number of the Beast with remainder of the 10mm. Out in 3 hrs - a pretty efficient trip.</p>
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<div class="tripdate" id="t2015-07-18b">2015-07-18</div>
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<div class="trippeople">Olly + <u>Jenny</u></div>
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<div class="triptitle">Surface stuff around 107/83/laser05</div>
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<div class="triptitle">surface - Surface stuff around 107/83/laser05</div>
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<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>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>Walked up past 83 to look above Thunder Road. It is quite chossy and bouldery here. Found a few (not drafting) piles of rocks I could climb into, but nothing that went or was worth tagging sadly.</p>
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<p>Walked up past 83 to look above Thunder Road. It is quite chossy and bouldery here. Found a few (not drafting) piles of rocks I could climb into, but nothing that went or was worth tagging sadly.</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>
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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>
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<p>Keen and inspired, we took some slings back to Luke's risky climb and followed it up to a chimney climb. Frank followed him up and suddenly backed off exclaiming "fuck me". Luke's opinion on what is free-climbable apparently needs some tuning. Bolts were placed and a path around the pitch to 86A was surveyed. This led to two leads, a right-hand route which finally led to a boulder choke.</p>
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<p>Keen and inspired, we took some slings back to Luke's risky climb and followed it up to a chimney climb. Frank followed him up and suddenly backed off exclaiming "fuck me". Luke's opinion on what is free-climbable apparently needs some tuning. Bolts were placed and a path around the pitch to 86A was surveyed. This led to two leads, a right-hand route which finally led to a boulder choke.</p>
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<p>After showing Rob the sights in Balcony, we continued on the left hand side. It continued much further than we expected, leading to a ~25m chamber containing a 15m pitch and two leads on the far wall.</p>
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<p>After showing Rob the sights in Balcony, we continued on the left hand side. It continued much further than we expected, leading to a ~25m chamber containing a 15m pitch and two leads on the far wall.</p>
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<p>The lead on the left connected round to 85A, while the right led on up a loose, steep rift. Here a couple of small pitches were found and what seems to be a moraine left by an ice flow. From here, it would get a bit wet and bolting was required, so we upped and left.</p>
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<p>Frank and I returned to continue surveying and kill off a few leads that led off horizontally. There is a huge draught acting [a wide blank - something intended to be added here?], and further exploration is required. Said draught made it too cold to continue after several hours, so we set off to look for the many other groups down Balcony. After dismissing a muddy climb which looked uninviting, we left the search for Julian's group. We followed Turtlehead to warm ourselves up, and ultimately left, considering the small hole Frank had begun digging at the bottom of the entrance series.</p>
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<p>Frank and I returned to continue surveying and kill off a few leads that led off horizontally. There is a huge draught acting [a wide blank - something intended to be added here?], and further exploration is required. Said draught made it too cold to continue after several hours, so we set off to look for the many other groups down Balcony. After dismissing a muddy climb which looked uninviting, we left the search for Julian's group. We followed Turtlehead to warm ourselves up, and ultimately left, considering the small hole Frank had begun digging at the bottom of the entrance series.</p>
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<p>A human-sized hole was visible, with a steep tube leading downwards for a few metres. We left our SRT kits and descended, myself somewhat unenthusiastic, making comments like "typical Mendip caver" and "Grrr". However, it soon opened up into a T-junction, with 5m high ceilings, and shattered boulders. We followed the route to the left, a rift leading to a 10m pitch (QM A), with a further QMA climb up a small hole on the left hand wall. It was V. cold down here and seemingly solid boulders were actually fragmented, held together with wishful thinking.</p>
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<p>A human-sized hole was visible, with a steep tube leading downwards for a few metres. We left our SRT kits and descended, myself somewhat unenthusiastic, making comments like "typical Mendip caver" and "Grrr". However, it soon opened up into a T-junction, with 5m high ceilings, and shattered boulders. We followed the route to the left, a rift leading to a 10m pitch (QM A), with a further QMA climb up a small hole on the left hand wall. It was V. cold down here and seemingly solid boulders were actually fragmented, held together with wishful thinking.</p>
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<p>Whilst Frank drew up the survey, I had a gander down the right hand passage, sticking to the right and ignoring further leads off. I followed the sound of running water and finally found the connection with "Room With A View". Frank followed and pointed out a somehwat frisky looking boulder on a left-hand lead that I had passed, a few metres across and held a couple of metres up by two points crumbling away. I obediently stood under said boulder for Frank to take a photo.</p>
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<p>Showed a new team (who?) into Balcony, showing them the leads and rope. Left them to survey, returning from the end of Turtle Head to the entrance pitch in 25 mins to meet up with a team which was exitting early for a trip down the hill.</p>
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<p>Headed down with very little gear since it had all been taken in previously. Dumped some flapjack. Sorted out the Procrastination rig. Also dumped some flapjack at the top and established an emergency dump at the bottom (in the sandy bit between the poxy pitch below Procrastination and Bring on the Clowns) in case of flooding.</p>
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<p>Descended Number of the Beast, which needed some work since the rebelay loops were ridiculously tight. After the Tunnocks entrance pitch I am not used to pitches where you can't see the previous rebelay bolt, so had failed to leave enough slack. Rachel sorted out the rig whilst I carried on down. Such was her diligence that she ended up abseiling the pitch three times to make sure everything was tickety-boo - which served the purpose of keeping her warm but entailed lots of extra prussiking.</p>
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<p>Descended Number of the Beast, which needed some work since the rebelay loops were ridiculously tight. After the Tunnocks entrance pitch I am not used to pitches where you can't see the previous rebelay bolt, so had failed to leave enough slack. Rachel sorted out the rig whilst I carried on down. Such was her diligence that she ended up abseiling the pitch three times to make sure everything was tickety-boo - which served the purpose of keeping her warm but entailed lots of extra prussiking.</p>
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<p>Meanwhile I continued rigging the scrappy pitches towards the pushing front. The second of these was particularly dire and clearly in need of remedial work - what SRT illiterate put this rig in ? (*) Arriving at the 2015 pushing front, I was pleasantly surprised to find a rigged rope heading down the next two drops and along the (rather airy) traverse to the head of the final pitch - all I had to do was install a couple of deviations. By the time I had done this, Rachel had joined me so I rigged the final pitch and we both descended.</p>
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<p>Meanwhile I continued rigging the scrappy pitches towards the pushing front. The second of these was particularly dire and clearly in need of remedial work - what SRT illiterate put this rig in ? (*) Arriving at the 2015 pushing front, I was pleasantly surprised to find a rigged rope heading down the next two drops and along the (rather airy) traverse to the head of the final pitch - all I had to do was install a couple of deviations. By the time I had done this, Rachel had joined me so I rigged the final pitch and we both descended.</p>
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<div class="tripdate" id="t2015-07-22b">2015-07-22</div>
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<div class="trippeople">Olly + <u>Jenny</u></div>
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<div class="trippeople">Olly + <u>Jenny</u></div>
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<div class="triptitle">85 (and 82) Blind as a Bat</div>
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<div class="triptitle">85 - (and 82) Blind as a Bat</div>
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<p>Olly had an unhappy tummy, so something near the surface seemed wise. Decided to look at the lead in 85 that we'd spotted in 2007 and noted in 1977. Got to the entrance to find Ol only had his prescription sunglasses, so he had to cave blind. Due to not wanting to carry too much stuff, I was only wearing thermals and my oversuit which was cold.</p>
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<p>Olly had an unhappy tummy, so something near the surface seemed wise. Decided to look at the lead in 85 that we'd spotted in 2007 and noted in 1977. Got to the entrance to find Ol only had his prescription sunglasses, so he had to cave blind. Due to not wanting to carry too much stuff, I was only wearing thermals and my oversuit which was cold.</p>
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<p>Followed the obvious way in 85 ignoring the passage to 82. Followed down a couple of lovely little climbs, then doubled back to appear 2/3 of the way down an ice slope. I noticed an enticing looking passage opposite us on the other side of the ice slope. Decided that the best way to access that and the drop below was to enter from above, so I waited while Olly headed out to confirm that the slope did come from the 82-85 passage. It did, so we got SRT + bolting gear and I rigged (badly) down to get into the passage. This passage headed off very straight, sometimes crawling, sometimes walking, with various solution pockets/avens on the left. Eventually ended at a muddy/gravelly dig. Surveyed out to the bottom of the rope where Olly went down to the bottom before heading out. Saw an unhappy bat frozen on the ice which I photographed. I hoped it was having a little sleep, but Olly assured me it was dead and frozen in place.</p>
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<p>Followed the obvious way in 85 ignoring the passage to 82. Followed down a couple of lovely little climbs, then doubled back to appear 2/3 of the way down an ice slope. I noticed an enticing looking passage opposite us on the other side of the ice slope. Decided that the best way to access that and the drop below was to enter from above, so I waited while Olly headed out to confirm that the slope did come from the 82-85 passage. It did, so we got SRT + bolting gear and I rigged (badly) down to get into the passage. This passage headed off very straight, sometimes crawling, sometimes walking, with various solution pockets/avens on the left. Eventually ended at a muddy/gravelly dig. Surveyed out to the bottom of the rope where Olly went down to the bottom before heading out. Saw an unhappy bat frozen on the ice which I photographed. I hoped it was having a little sleep, but Olly assured me it was dead and frozen in place.</p>
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<p>Finished surveying this route and the climbs route down.</p>
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<p>Finished surveying this route and the climbs route down.</p>
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<div class="tripdate" id="t2015-07-27b">2015-07-27</div>
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<div class="tripdate" id="t2015-07-27b">2015-07-27</div>
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<div class="trippeople"><u>Pete Talling</u>, Fleur Loveridge</div>
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<div class="trippeople"><u>Pete Talling</u>, Fleur Loveridge</div>
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<div class="triptitle">BALCONY HöHLE<br/>Exploring North beyond Icecock Chamber into the Frozen North</div>
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<div class="triptitle">BALCONY - HöHLE<br/>Exploring North beyond Icecock Chamber into the Frozen North</div>
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<div class="tripdate" id="t2015-07-28b">2015-07-28</div>
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<div class="tripdate" id="t2015-07-28b">2015-07-28</div>
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<div class="trippeople"><u>Pete Talling</u>, Sarah, Ben Whetton, Matt</div>
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<div class="trippeople"><u>Pete Talling</u>, Sarah, Ben Whetton, Matt</div>
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<div class="triptitle">Balcony Höhle Frozen North</div>
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<div class="triptitle">Balcony -Balkonhöhle Frozen North</div>
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<img src="logbkimg10.jpeg" alt="Plan of far frozen North area">
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<div class="tripdate" id="t2015-07-29d">2015-07-29</div>
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<div class="tripdate" id="t2015-07-29d">2015-07-29</div>
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<div class="trippeople"><u>Elaine</u> & Ben Wright</div>
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<div class="trippeople"><u>Elaine</u> & Ben Wright</div>
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<div class="triptitle">Prospecting east of Balcony</div>
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<div class="triptitle">plateau - Prospecting east of Balcony</div>
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<p>With beautiful (or at least decent) weather predicted, Elaine & Ben decided a surface
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<p>With beautiful (or at least decent) weather predicted, Elaine & Ben decided a surface
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trip was the way to go. Mike Futrell pointed out where he hadn't been /planned to go if he
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trip was the way to go. Mike Futrell pointed out where he hadn't been /planned to go if he
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@ -706,7 +706,7 @@ seen, preparing to slip'n'slide our way back to top camp.</p>
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<div class="tripdate" id="t2015-08-01a">2015-08-01</div>
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<div class="tripdate" id="t2015-08-01a">2015-08-01</div>
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<div class="trippeople"><u>Elaine</u> & Elliott</div>
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<div class="trippeople"><u>Elaine</u> & Elliott</div>
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<div class="triptitle">Dropping CUCC 2002 AD 03</div>
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<div class="triptitle">2002-ad-03 - Dropping CUCC 2002 AD 03</div>
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<p>Having confirmed with Anthony that CUCC AD 03 had not been dropped, the first post-Expo Dinner
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<p>Having confirmed with Anthony that CUCC AD 03 had not been dropped, the first post-Expo Dinner
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task for Elaine & Elliott was to take a look at it. It was Elliott's first ever bolting trip. The
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task for Elaine & Elliott was to take a look at it. It was Elliott's first ever bolting trip. The
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<div class="tripdate" id="t2015-08-03a">2015-08-03</div>
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<div class="tripdate" id="t2015-08-03a">2015-08-03</div>
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<div class="trippeople">Michael S, Elaine & <u>Elliott</u></div>
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<div class="trippeople">Michael S, Elaine & <u>Elliott</u></div>
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<div class="triptitle">Purple Lupin Shaft</div>
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<div class="triptitle">2015-mf-06 - Purple Lupin Shaft</div>
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<p>After being pressured to start pulling gear out of various places, we decided to polish off the
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<p>After being pressured to start pulling gear out of various places, we decided to polish off the
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Futrell Shaft. Over a dozen hangers and 200m+ of rope was left in there. With Michael bolting, and
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Futrell Shaft. Over a dozen hangers and 200m+ of rope was left in there. With Michael bolting, and
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<div class="tripdate" id="t2015-08-01c">2015-08-01</div>
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<div class="tripdate" id="t2015-08-01c">2015-08-01</div>
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<div class="trippeople"><u>Wookey</u>, Matt</div>
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<div class="trippeople"><u>Wookey</u>, Matt</div>
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<div class="triptitle">107, Smooth Sandy Bottom</div>
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<div class="triptitle">107 - Smooth Sandy Bottom</div>
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Down 107 so Matt could fulfill his promise to Joe to find out where SSB (Smooth Sandy Bottom)
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Down 107 so Matt could fulfill his promise to Joe to find out where SSB (Smooth Sandy Bottom)
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@ -928,7 +928,7 @@ Sarah and I surveyed what was done and headed out.</p>
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<div class="tripdate" id="t2015-08-04a">2015-08-04</div>
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<div class="tripdate" id="t2015-08-04a">2015-08-04</div>
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<div class="trippeople"><u>Wookey</u>, George</div>
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<div class="trippeople"><u>Wookey</u>, George</div>
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<div class="triptitle">KH/KH connection Back to the future</div>
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<div class="triptitle">161 - KH/KH connection Back to the future</div>
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<p>Underground by 10am. George's 1st proper 107 trip so he gets to see the delights of Pushing The
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<p>Underground by 10am. George's 1st proper 107 trip so he gets to see the delights of Pushing The
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Envelope, lots of rifty shinning and traversing, China and the comedy connection pitch, then more
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Envelope, lots of rifty shinning and traversing, China and the comedy connection pitch, then more
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<div class="tripdate" id="t2015-08-05d">2015-08-05</div>
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<div class="tripdate" id="t2015-08-05d">2015-08-05</div>
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<div class="trippeople"><u>Wookey</u>, George</div>
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<div class="trippeople"><u>Wookey</u>, George</div>
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<div class="triptitle">107, Notwindow into Heat Recovery Ventilation</div>
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<div class="triptitle">107 - Notwindow into Heat Recovery Ventilation</div>
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Very slow start after yesterdays epic. But too hot to fester all day so forced to go
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Very slow start after yesterdays epic. But too hot to fester all day so forced to go
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@ -1012,7 +1012,7 @@ noticed our SMS anyway so no need to worry much about missing callouts...</p>
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<div class="tripdate" id="t2015-08-06b">2015-08-06</div>
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<div class="tripdate" id="t2015-08-06b">2015-08-06</div>
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<div class="trippeople">Jenny, <u>Wookey</u>, George</div>
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<div class="trippeople">Jenny, <u>Wookey</u>, George</div>
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<div class="triptitle">107 Derig</div>
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<div class="triptitle">107 - Derig</div>
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<p>We weren't quite sure how many tacklesacks derigging 107 would take, but almost certainly more
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<p>We weren't quite sure how many tacklesacks derigging 107 would take, but almost certainly more
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than the number of deriggers available (3). So this might turn into a bit of a mission. Jenny set
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than the number of deriggers available (3). So this might turn into a bit of a mission. Jenny set
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<div class="tripdate" id="t2015-08-01d">2015-08-01</div>
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<div class="tripdate" id="t2015-08-01d">2015-08-01</div>
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<div class="trippeople">Olly, <u>Jenny</u></div>
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<div class="trippeople">Olly, <u>Jenny</u></div>
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<div class="triptitle">107-Old Route</div>
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<div class="triptitle">107 - Old Route</div>
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<p>I headed to Coldest to grab the drill then down the Old Route to join Olly who was re-rigging down. Got to where we ran out of rope last time. Decided to stay low this time (bottom of the rift), which wasn't as tight as it looked. Olly put in a few bolts to get to what we think is the head of the p14. By this point Olly was very cold and wet, so we decided to survey the extra bit then derig out. Warmed up bag carrying and derigging. Olly managed to slip in the rift and bash his knee just before we got to the base of the p67. Fortunately it wasn't too awful, so we had a look at the upstream bit. It was possible to climb up further, bridging to avoid the chossy rocks. Round the corner was more chossy climbing, so we called it a day and derigged to the top of the p67 and carried lots of gear out.</p>
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<p>I headed to Coldest to grab the drill then down the Old Route to join Olly who was re-rigging down. Got to where we ran out of rope last time. Decided to stay low this time (bottom of the rift), which wasn't as tight as it looked. Olly put in a few bolts to get to what we think is the head of the p14. By this point Olly was very cold and wet, so we decided to survey the extra bit then derig out. Warmed up bag carrying and derigging. Olly managed to slip in the rift and bash his knee just before we got to the base of the p67. Fortunately it wasn't too awful, so we had a look at the upstream bit. It was possible to climb up further, bridging to avoid the chossy rocks. Round the corner was more chossy climbing, so we called it a day and derigged to the top of the p67 and carried lots of gear out.</p>
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<div class="timeug">T/U:10 hrs Jenny</div>
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<div class="timeug">T/U:10 hrs Jenny</div>
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<div class="timeug">T/U:9 3/4 hrs Olly</div>
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<div class="timeug">T/U:9 3/4 hrs Olly</div>
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<div class="tripdate" id="t2015-08-02b">2015-08-02</div>
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<div class="tripdate" id="t2015-08-02b">2015-08-02</div>
|
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<div class="trippeople">Wookey, <u>Jenny</u></div>
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<div class="trippeople">Wookey, <u>Jenny</u></div>
|
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<div class="triptitle">107-161 Runnelstone</div>
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<div class="triptitle">107 - 107-161 Runnelstone</div>
|
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<p>It had rained all night and was still raining, but not too heavy, so we were optimistic that it might be dry enough to get to 161. Due to a lack of gear, we derigged some non-essential hangers on the way in and made quicker time to the Runnelstone (2 hrs 40) despite spending a while in China looking for the Smooth Sandy Bottom rope.</p>
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<p>It had rained all night and was still raining, but not too heavy, so we were optimistic that it might be dry enough to get to 161. Due to a lack of gear, we derigged some non-essential hangers on the way in and made quicker time to the Runnelstone (2 hrs 40) despite spending a while in China looking for the Smooth Sandy Bottom rope.</p>
|
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<p>This time didn't go far down the pitch from station 56, but Wookey rigged across into Wellypopper. Lots of possibilities for going up (where Wookey thought the draft went). Noticed that the easiest way was to climb up the Wellypopper climb then traverse back across towards the Runnelstone. Wookey worked his way across this quickly using a mixture of bolts and quality naturals while trying to avoid the worst of the loose choss. This is called <u>Quality Belays</u>. Happily all the belays survived despite me crossing several times to get gear and to check that we weren't just going to reappear in the Runnelstone. At the top of the traverse was a short bit of passage, then some big space. Wookey started to bolt down this while I went to derig the rope from Fastest Bolt in the West. I left 1 hanger and a short bit of thick blue dynamic rope to make a revisit easier. Got back up to discover my handjammer was no longer attached to my safety cord, fortunately I didn't drop it. Went back to the top of the rope and derigged back to leave only the little traverse rope to Wellypopper. Caught up Wookey who had bolted down one pitch to get to a rock ledge looking out over a big rift that was deeper than we had rope for, so he traversed across the ledge to drop down (via a couple of belays, including another quality natural).</p.>
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<p>This time didn't go far down the pitch from station 56, but Wookey rigged across into Wellypopper. Lots of possibilities for going up (where Wookey thought the draft went). Noticed that the easiest way was to climb up the Wellypopper climb then traverse back across towards the Runnelstone. Wookey worked his way across this quickly using a mixture of bolts and quality naturals while trying to avoid the worst of the loose choss. This is called <u>Quality Belays</u>. Happily all the belays survived despite me crossing several times to get gear and to check that we weren't just going to reappear in the Runnelstone. At the top of the traverse was a short bit of passage, then some big space. Wookey started to bolt down this while I went to derig the rope from Fastest Bolt in the West. I left 1 hanger and a short bit of thick blue dynamic rope to make a revisit easier. Got back up to discover my handjammer was no longer attached to my safety cord, fortunately I didn't drop it. Went back to the top of the rope and derigged back to leave only the little traverse rope to Wellypopper. Caught up Wookey who had bolted down one pitch to get to a rock ledge looking out over a big rift that was deeper than we had rope for, so he traversed across the ledge to drop down (via a couple of belays, including another quality natural).</p.>
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<p> Guessed that we were near to the bit of 161 we were aiming for, but it would be wet to go further down from here</p>
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<p> Guessed that we were near to the bit of 161 we were aiming for, but it would be wet to go further down from here</p>
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<div class="tripdate" id="t2015-08-03d">2015-08-03</div>
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<div class="tripdate" id="t2015-08-03d">2015-08-03</div>
|
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<div class="trippeople">Olly, George, <u>Jenny</u></div>
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<div class="trippeople">Olly, George, <u>Jenny</u></div>
|
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<div class="triptitle">107-Old Route</div>
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<div class="triptitle">107 - Old Route</div>
|
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<p>Decided on a short trip to tie up some loose ends in the old Route. Olly started rigging alon he rift between the p67 and p100 beyond where we got on 19yh July. Meanwhile I showed George the scrotty leads at the end of tubular Bells. Sadly he declared the draftier way too tight to evn get in to. We got a little further down the 'main' passage before reaching a wider bit, then this got way too small. Surveyed ou, and went round the Old Rift route to see if we could hear/see Olly. He had a few bolts still to go, so we took some photos while we waited. Surveyed across to Olly - sadly teh rift did't continue over the pitch. Then Georgeand I went round to Olly's side of teh rift to connect the survey while Olly deriggd behind us. Oly wanted to look at going left from the window between ropeless and Oldroute. i realised this was a 2 person job, so I took a bag out and left them to it. Unfortunately they misscommunicated where to wait, so ended up following me out.</p>
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<p>Decided on a short trip to tie up some loose ends in the old Route. Olly started rigging alon he rift between the p67 and p100 beyond where we got on 19yh July. Meanwhile I showed George the scrotty leads at the end of tubular Bells. Sadly he declared the draftier way too tight to evn get in to. We got a little further down the 'main' passage before reaching a wider bit, then this got way too small. Surveyed ou, and went round the Old Rift route to see if we could hear/see Olly. He had a few bolts still to go, so we took some photos while we waited. Surveyed across to Olly - sadly teh rift did't continue over the pitch. Then Georgeand I went round to Olly's side of teh rift to connect the survey while Olly deriggd behind us. Oly wanted to look at going left from the window between ropeless and Oldroute. i realised this was a 2 person job, so I took a bag out and left them to it. Unfortunately they misscommunicated where to wait, so ended up following me out.</p>
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<div class="timeug">T/U: 4 3/4 hrs Jenny</div>
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<div class="timeug">T/U: 4 3/4 hrs Jenny</div>
|
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<div class="timeug">T/U: 5 1/4 hrs Olly, George</div>
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<div class="timeug">T/U: 5 1/4 hrs Olly, George</div>
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<div class="tripdate" id="t2015-08-04b">2015-08-04</div>
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<div class="tripdate" id="t2015-08-04b">2015-08-04</div>
|
||||||
<div class="trippeople">Olly, <u>Jenny</u></div>
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<div class="trippeople">Olly, <u>Jenny</u></div>
|
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<div class="triptitle">2007-71</div>
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<div class="triptitle">2007-71 - backdoor?</div>
|
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<p>Olly was keen to finish looking at 2007-71, to see if it provided a useful back-door to 97. I could remember very little from 8 years ago. So we headed over for a reccy with no rope, drill, etc (though I did accidentally carry over our SRT kits).</p>
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<p>Olly was keen to finish looking at 2007-71, to see if it provided a useful back-door to 97. I could remember very little from 8 years ago. So we headed over for a reccy with no rope, drill, etc (though I did accidentally carry over our SRT kits).</p>
|
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<p>Cave was better than I had remembered. Low entrance led to walking passage, shortly on the right was a 1m climb down a rifty pitch continuing back (currently undescended). Next to this was another way on, which also leads to a pitch with a passage also continuing beyond (both unvisited). Above here is a small skylight entrance, which I later climbed out of (2007-71b). On leads to a small chamber. We'd looked right in 2007, and it chokes. This time I headed left, mostly crawling with some tighter bits. After a while I could see daylight, so carried on. Sadly i looked a bit tight and I was worried I'd pop out in the wall of a shake hole. So I reversed back and walked round on the surface. turns out that 2007-71c pops out on a ledge part way down the next shake hole SW of 97. In the S corner of the shake hole is a small rift with a voice connection with 97. Surveyed this passage, and i made the through trip</p>
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<p>Cave was better than I had remembered. Low entrance led to walking passage, shortly on the right was a 1m climb down a rifty pitch continuing back (currently undescended). Next to this was another way on, which also leads to a pitch with a passage also continuing beyond (both unvisited). Above here is a small skylight entrance, which I later climbed out of (2007-71b). On leads to a small chamber. We'd looked right in 2007, and it chokes. This time I headed left, mostly crawling with some tighter bits. After a while I could see daylight, so carried on. Sadly i looked a bit tight and I was worried I'd pop out in the wall of a shake hole. So I reversed back and walked round on the surface. turns out that 2007-71c pops out on a ledge part way down the next shake hole SW of 97. In the S corner of the shake hole is a small rift with a voice connection with 97. Surveyed this passage, and i made the through trip</p>
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<p>Finally looked at the straight on passage. This is bigger and soon gets to a drop which can be traversed over and the first bit climbed down. Pitch continues (undescended) and passage continues (unvisited, crawling sized). Surveyed out.</p>
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<p>Finally looked at the straight on passage. This is bigger and soon gets to a drop which can be traversed over and the first bit climbed down. Pitch continues (undescended) and passage continues (unvisited, crawling sized). Surveyed out.</p>
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<div class="tripdate" id="t2015-08-05e">2015-08-05</div>
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<div class="trippeople">Olly, <u>Jenny</u></div>
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<div class="triptitle">107-Old Route window, Wonderland</div>
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<div class="triptitle">107 - Old Route window, Wonderland</div>
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<p>This was to be our final trip before tomorrows derig. We set off first to the Ropeless/old Route window and turned right (like in 2013), but this time rather than dropping the pitch we dropped down slightly then traversed along 13-OR-3C. I placed another bolt and dropped down into a rift. Following left led to the inlet above the way the 1987 Route dropped the p67. Turning right we followed up and along to eventually reach a loose 45 degree slope down to a pitch. Couldn't safely reach the pitch head but rocks seemed to go a long way. There are a lot of different rifts in this bit of the cave, turnout this pitch is above the bouldery climb we were below on the 3rd. Surveyed and derigged this. Called <u>Antigravity</u>. Realised we didn't have all that long before our callout, so decided to head to Wonderland without the drill or rope.</p>
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<p>This was to be our final trip before tomorrows derig. We set off first to the Ropeless/old Route window and turned right (like in 2013), but this time rather than dropping the pitch we dropped down slightly then traversed along 13-OR-3C. I placed another bolt and dropped down into a rift. Following left led to the inlet above the way the 1987 Route dropped the p67. Turning right we followed up and along to eventually reach a loose 45 degree slope down to a pitch. Couldn't safely reach the pitch head but rocks seemed to go a long way. There are a lot of different rifts in this bit of the cave, turnout this pitch is above the bouldery climb we were below on the 3rd. Surveyed and derigged this. Called <u>Antigravity</u>. Realised we didn't have all that long before our callout, so decided to head to Wonderland without the drill or rope.</p>
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<p>Went down to the end first. Olly had noticed that if you poked your head to the right of the roof tube, a small passage headed off. After an awkward corner it was bigger - a mixture of crawling, walking and sideways wriggling. After a bit the route split, both looked small but probably doable. I encouraged Olly to follow and we surveyed it. Called this <u>Effective team</u>. Headed out with lots of gear, meeting Wookey and George at the entrance.</p>
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<p>Went down to the end first. Olly had noticed that if you poked your head to the right of the roof tube, a small passage headed off. After an awkward corner it was bigger - a mixture of crawling, walking and sideways wriggling. After a bit the route split, both looked small but probably doable. I encouraged Olly to follow and we surveyed it. Called this <u>Effective team</u>. Headed out with lots of gear, meeting Wookey and George at the entrance.</p>
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<div class="trippeople"><u>Elliott</u>, Elaine</div>
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<div class="trippeople"><u>Elliott</u>, Elaine</div>
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<div class="triptitle">258, beyond Ben's pitch beyond bipedal passage</div>
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<div class="triptitle">258 - beyond Ben's pitch beyond bipedal passage</div>
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<p>[<b>Missing writeup here:</b>]</p>
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<p>[<b>Missing writeup here:</b>]</p>
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<p><img src="logbkimg25.jpeg" alt="Topos for 107 Old Route"></p>
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<p><img src="logbkimg25.jpeg" alt="Topos for 107 Old Route"></p>
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<div class="tripdate" id="t2015-08-08a">2015-08-08</div>
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<div class="tripdate" id="t2015-08-08a">2015-08-08</div>
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<div class="trippeople">Olly, <u>Jenny</u></div>
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<div class="trippeople">Olly, <u>Jenny</u></div>
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<div class="triptitle">Surface, 2007-71</div>
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<div class="triptitle">Surface - 2007-71</div>
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<p>Spent the day packing up the bivi and carrying a stupidly heavy pack down the hill. For a break placed tags on 2007-71 b and c (The 'a' entrance was tagged in 2007)</p>
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<p>Spent the day packing up the bivi and carrying a stupidly heavy pack down the hill. For a break placed tags on 2007-71 b and c (The 'a' entrance was tagged in 2007)</p>
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<div class="tripdate" id="t2015-08-10a">2015-08-10</div>
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<div class="tripdate" id="t2015-08-10a">2015-08-10</div>
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<div class="trippeople"><u>Elliott</u>, Nathan, George</div>
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<div class="trippeople"><u>Elliott</u>, Nathan, George</div>
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<div class="triptitle">Balkonhöhle, Lost Surveyor(?) pitches</div>
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<div class="triptitle">Balkonhöhle - Lost Surveyor(?) pitches</div>
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<p>[<b>Missing writeup here:</b>]</p>
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<p>[<b>Missing writeup here:</b>]</p>
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<p><img src="logbkimg26.jpeg" alt="Topos for Lost Surveyor pitches"></p>
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<p><img src="logbkimg26.jpeg" alt="Topos for Lost Surveyor pitches"></p>
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<div class="tripdate" id="t2015-08-09a">2015-08-09</div>
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<div class="tripdate" id="t2015-08-09a">2015-08-09</div>
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<div class="trippeople"><u>Chris</u>, Brendan, Sarah</div>
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<div class="trippeople"><u>Chris</u>, Brendan, Sarah</div>
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<div class="triptitle">258, Clayton's cockup,Flash Hard</div>
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<div class="triptitle">258 - Clayton's cockup,Flash Hard</div>
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<p>[<b>Missing writeup here:</b>]</p>
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<p>[<b>Missing writeup here:</b>]</p>
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<div class="timeug">T/U: 13 hrs</div>
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<div class="timeug">T/U: 13 hrs</div>
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<div class="tripdate" id="t2015-08-09b">2015-08-09</div>
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<div class="tripdate" id="t2015-08-09b">2015-08-09</div>
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<div class="trippeople"><u>Wookey</u>, Philip Balister, Sandy Knapp</div>
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<div class="trippeople"><u>Wookey</u>, Philip Balister, Sandy Knapp</div>
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<div class="triptitle">Document remaining wook-caves (wk12, wk11)</div>
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<div class="triptitle">plateau - Document remaining wook-caves (wk12, wk11)</div>
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<p>Wook foolishly recorded some entrances whilst wandering in the 1990s, before realising
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<p>Wook foolishly recorded some entrances whilst wandering in the 1990s, before realising
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that it's actually rather unhelpful to just note entrances. Most of those have long been
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that it's actually rather unhelpful to just note entrances. Most of those have long been
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@ -1197,7 +1197,7 @@ prooved too hard, so that shot was done downwards on the exit.</p>
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<div class="tripdate" id="t2015-08-11a">2015-08-11</div>
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<div class="tripdate" id="t2015-08-11a">2015-08-11</div>
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<div class="trippeople"><u>Wookey</u>, Sam Wenham</div>
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<div class="trippeople"><u>Wookey</u>, Sam Wenham</div>
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<div class="triptitle">Search for remaining wook-cave (wk4)</div>
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<div class="triptitle">plateau - Search for remaining wook-cave (wk4)</div>
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<p>Only one cave from the 1995/6 wanderings left:wk4, found when attempting to walk down from 161d to
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<p>Only one cave from the 1995/6 wanderings left:wk4, found when attempting to walk down from 161d to
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the Stogerweg in 1995 to see if it was a better route than back over the col (it wasn't).</p>
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the Stogerweg in 1995 to see if it was a better route than back over the col (it wasn't).</p>
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