Logbook edited 2023-07-08d

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 <div class="tripdate" id="2023-07-03b">2023-07-03</div>
-<div class="trippeople">Will Kay, Mike Butcher, <u>Honorata Bogusz</u>, Jana Podbelsek, Radost Waszkiewicz, </div>
+<div class="trippeople">Mike Butcher, <u>Honorata Bogusz</u>, Jana Podbelsek, Radost Waszkiewicz, Will Kay, </div>
 <div class="triptitle">plateau - second water collection tarp</div>
 <br /><br />Me, Radost, Mike, Jana and Will went to top camp to set up
 main tarp and the second water collection tarp (which was a success).
@@ -210,7 +210,7 @@ main tarp and the second water collection tarp (which was a success).
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 <div class="tripdate" id="2023-07-03c">2023-07-03</div>
-<div class="trippeople">Emma Caspers, Christian Kuhlmann, <u>Harry Kettle</u>, Janis Huns, Charlotte Payne, </div>
+<div class="trippeople">Christian Kuhlmann, <u>Harry Kettle</u>, Janis Huns, Charlotte Payne, Emma Caspers, </div>
 <div class="triptitle">Balkon - Rescuing Balcony ropes</div>
 <br /><br />A crack team of expo's hardest cavers was assembled to take a rope out of balcony that was left there last year.
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@@ -272,7 +272,7 @@ non-working internal wifi on netbook causing config problems even though it was
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 <div class="tripdate" id="2023-07-04b">2023-07-04</div>
-<div class="trippeople">Amelia Oliver, Merryn Matthews, <u>Wassil Janssen</u>, Philip Balister, Ashley Gregg, Sarah Parker, </div>
+<div class="trippeople"><u>Wassil Janssen</u>, Philip Balister, Ashley Gregg, Sarah Parker, Amelia Oliver, Merryn Matthews, </div>
 <div class="triptitle">topcamp - Carry and set-up</div>
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 Ash, Merryn, Amelia in [com?] Philip B., Sarah and me
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 <div class="tripdate" id="2023-07-04c">2023-07-04</div>
-<div class="trippeople">Will Kay, Alice Kirby, <u>Harry Kettle</u>, Christian Kuhlmann, Charlotte Payne, </div>
+<div class="trippeople">Alice Kirby, <u>Harry Kettle</u>, Christian Kuhlmann, Charlotte Payne, Will Kay, </div>
 <div class="triptitle">Surface - Rope carry to Homecoming + Trial walk from Garlic Cave to Car Park on painted track</div>
 <br /><br />After more faff from Chi, we set off about 10AM to carry gear and check out the route to Homecoming. Fishface to Homecoming was well cairned and fairly straightforward to follow. 
 <br /><br />Gear ledt at Homecoming entrance:
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 <div class="tripdate" id="2023-07-05a">2023-07-05</div>
-<div class="trippeople">Maddie Kirby, Lizzie Caisley, <u>Sarah Parker</u>, Joel Stobbart, Philip Balister, </div>
+<div class="trippeople">Lizzie Caisley, <u>Sarah Parker</u>, Joel Stobbart, Philip Balister, Maddie Kirby, </div>
 <div class="triptitle">Surface - Reflecting the Homecoming -> Fishface route, scoping out a Homecoming to col route</div>
 <br /><br />Joel, Lizzie and Philip fettled the tarp (where some water had pooled overnight) whilst I had a go at attaching the big Daren drum (filled with the 
 solar panels and cables) to my rucksack, ready to carry from top camp to Garlic Cave.
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 <div class="tripdate" id="2023-07-06c">2023-07-06</div>
-<div class="trippeople">Emma Caspers, Charlotte Payne, <u>Emily Mabbett</u>, Mike Butcher, Lizzie Caisley, </div>
+<div class="trippeople">Charlotte Payne, <u>Emily Mabbett</u>, Mike Butcher, Lizzie Caisley, Emma Caspers, </div>
 <div class="triptitle">Fishface - Surveying around Benign Bubble Baby Bypass</div>
 <br /><br />After hiking up to plateau to arrive for midday, we discovered the advanced rigging party still above ground... In order to leave them time to start rigging the first 4 pitches of Fishface, an ungodly amount of faff began. We finally arrived at the cave at 3pm, thinking we'd left plenty of time for the riggers, we quickly changed and headed underground. Alas, our hopes were crushed as we came to the bottom of the first pitch to discover the other pushing party sat freezing their tits off at the top of the second pitch as the riggers rigged just below them. Needless to say, it took some time to descent to the bottom of Blitzen Boulevard with Mike taking over the rigging of the 4th pitch after a debate over placing another bolt at the pitch head. Once arrived at Benign Bubble Baby Bypass, we conducted a quick something time to refresh our surveying technique before splitting into 2 groups. Me and Mike went ahead through the tube leading on through the bottom of the climb heading towards the liquid luck ptch head to bolt the small pitch at the end of the traverse whilst the others began surveying from said turn off. As me and Mike arrived at the pitch head, I asked if I could begin my bolting lesson before a big scary hole. I was refused. Instead I was told to tie the rope around a small head sized bolder wedged in the rift, which were currently both stood on. I thought this was a silly idea but obliged. The actual bolting of the pitch went well (I think?), however comments about placing bolts higher were made which was somewhat impossible given my height. The final bolting and rigging became passable so I decended the large (4m...) hole. 
 <br /><br />As we finished bolting, the survey team emerged behind us. At the bottom of the pitch, 3 leads emerged, a large passage with a traverse sloping down in front of us, a small drafty tube to the right, and a hole heading into the ceiling behind us. With the rigging team and pushing team 2 in the near vicintity of the cave around us, me and Mike were a bit naughty and scooped the large passage in front of us, as we reached the end, we could hear voices in the rift above us, thinking it was the other pushing team we called up. It was not. It was Buck from the rigging team stood near the base of Blitzen Boulevard essentially where we started. Discovering we'd done a large circle , we returned to the base of the pitch where the survey team were. As we arrived, Zac from the team 2 appeared in the hole above us, they had also done an circle. 
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 <div class="tripdate" id="2023-07-06e">2023-07-06</div>
-<div class="trippeople">Emma Caspers, <u>Zac Woodford</u>, Ashley Gregg, Amelia Oliver, </div>
+<div class="trippeople"><u>Zac Woodford</u>, Ashley Gregg, Amelia Oliver, Emma Caspers, </div>
 <div class="triptitle">Fishface - Surveying the top of liquid luck</div>
 <br /><br />Gave the rigging team ~3hr headstart but we still caught up with them at the bottom of first pitch. Emma and Zac then sat around while Ash and Mealy calibrated the disto. We were waiting so long that Uncle Mike's surveying group caught up. We waited in a a bothy for them to pass us before slowly, one-by-one, following on. We then caught up with them again at the top of Blitzen pitch and had to bothy again (after Mealy led us on too low in the rift). 
 <br /><br />At the beginning of BBBB  (Benign Babble Baby Bypass) we talked with Mike's group pushing the other lead and descending some small pitches to push ours. We faffed around a while trying to find it, but when we did, we found it just looped back around to Mike's group's lead. We surveyed it anyway. 
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 <div class="tripdate" id="2023-07-07b">2023-07-07</div>
-<div class="trippeople"><u>Philip Sargent</u>, Janis Huns, Jonty Pine, Nadia Raeburn, </div>
+<div class="trippeople">Janis Huns, Jonty Pine, Nadia Raeburn, <u>Philip Sargent</u>, </div>
 <div class="triptitle">Garlic - Hiking to Garlic Cave</div>
 <br /><br />Jonty's car: Jonty/Nads/Janis up to Garlic and return this evening. Taking new reflectors made this morning.
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 <div class="tripdate" id="2023-07-07e">2023-07-07</div>
-<div class="trippeople">Amelia Oliver, <u>Ashley Gregg</u>, Alice Kirby, Will Kay, </div>
+<div class="trippeople"><u>Ashley Gregg</u>, Alice Kirby, Will Kay, Amelia Oliver, </div>
 <div class="triptitle">Fishface – Surveying Stalagtite Loop to the top of Liquid Luck</div>
 <br /><br />Following our previous shallow trip into Fishface we set out to continue the previous combined 
 leads from the day before. The journey across the plateau and into the cave was uneventful, aside from 
@@ -515,7 +515,7 @@ Afternoon: added lots of expoers to folk.csv and adding lots of mugshots. Partic
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 <div class="tripdate" id="2023-07-08b">2023-07-08</div>
-<div class="trippeople">Jonty Pine, Ashley Gregg, <u>Janis Huns</u>, Amelia Oliver, </div>
+<div class="trippeople">Ashley Gregg, <u>Janis Huns</u>, Amelia Oliver, Jonty Pine, </div>
 <div class="triptitle">Fishface - Pushing deep Fishface</div>
 <br /><br />We went to where the group - Honorata, Radost and Mike - had left off the previous day. European Federalists was a very tough traverse that required the use of ascenders. We bolted and rigged (my first bolt!) the pitch at the end of the muddy passage about 10m down to a choke of boulders. At the bottom of it we saw that there is a large, smooth crack continuing east leading to a large, deep chamber that seems to be the same one we saw on the right. If it is it would be elongated roughly in a north east to south west direction. Ash and Mealy also explored some C leads which did not go far.
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 <div class="tripdate" id="2023-07-08d">2023-07-08</div>
 <div class="trippeople">Charlotte Payne, <u>Sarah Parker</u>, Harry Kettle, </div>
-<div class="triptitle">Beyond Watershed in Homecoming - Flowstone Canyon</div>
+<div class="triptitle">Homecoming - Beyond Watershed in Homecoming Flowstone Canyon</div>
 <br /><br />I carried my caving and bivvy gear from Top Camp to Homecoming whilst Harry and Charlotte carried Top Camp's second shovel and a camp bed (surprisingliy heavy) to be picked up by the Garlic Cave people.
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 After a bit of faff at the surface we got underground and to the bottom of Wallace and Grommit without any problems. We headed up to the little pitch to Propane Nightmares, down a series of little pitches, past the "deathy" sump, reaching the top of the "Strained by Gravity" pitch. We layered up and Harry set off to finish rigging it. Charlotte and I came down. I didn't enjoy the second deviation (it was quite rubby) although apparently I went round the wrong side of a boulder. I think a rebelay should be added here for people (like myself) who don't look down too much when abseiling.
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 <div class="tripdate" id="2023-07-10a">2023-07-10</div>
-<div class="trippeople">Jonty Pine, Amelia Oliver, <u>Buck Blake</u>, Janis Huns, Joel Stobbart, Ashley Gregg, </div>
+<div class="trippeople"><u>Buck Blake</u>, Janis Huns, Joel Stobbart, Ashley Gregg, Jonty Pine, Amelia Oliver, </div>
 <div class="triptitle">Fishface - Carrying rope to Fishface and failing to rig entrance</div>
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 After the complicated operation of handling the solar panels out of the storage cave, the six of us packed kit, rope and a rescue bag and set 
@@ -591,7 +591,7 @@ left our caving kit under the small overhand near the entrance, then headed back
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 <div class="tripdate" id="2023-07-10b">2023-07-10</div>
-<div class="trippeople">Alice Kirby, Harry Kettle, <u>Wassil Janssen</u>, Merryn Matthews, Christian Kuhlmann, </div>
+<div class="trippeople">Harry Kettle, <u>Wassil Janssen</u>, Merryn Matthews, Christian Kuhlmann, Alice Kirby, </div>
 <div class="triptitle">Homecoming - Rig faff</div>
 <br /><br />This was a long day that started at Base Camp with the intent of rigging the entrance series of Homecoming cave. We set off only slightly later than the planned 8:00 [illegible] some faff. Quite surprising since Will was not part of the team. 
 <br /><br />The walk up to Top Camp took almost 2 hours, just as expected. We were also carrying drills, string, food, and other Top Camp equipment. We followed the reflectors to Fishface. They were white on both sides, which could make it frustrating if you are someone who is lost on their way to Top Camp. Instead, it should be red that leads to Top Camp, while white leads to caves and the car park. 
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 <div class="tripdate" id="2023-07-10d">2023-07-10</div>
-<div class="trippeople">Ashley Gregg, Harry Kettle, <u>Honorata Bogusz</u>, Christian Kuhlmann, Radost Waszkiewicz, </div>
+<div class="trippeople">Harry Kettle, <u>Honorata Bogusz</u>, Christian Kuhlmann, Radost Waszkiewicz, Ashley Gregg, </div>
 <div class="triptitle">festering - Canyoning Strubklamm</div>
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 We went canyoning on a rest day. The "Strubklamm" canyon is located near Saltzburg, approximately 1h of driving from Bad Aussee. The canyon is graded V1A3 (vertical 1, aquatic 3). It's very aquatic, with many small jumps available and a 300m swimming passage. There are 2 bigger jumps: approx. 8m and 10m, both can be abseiled (topo can be found online). 
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 <div class="tripdate" id="2023-07-11a">2023-07-11</div>
-<div class="trippeople">Ashley Gregg, Radost Waszkiewicz, Thomas Phillips, <u>Philip Sargent</u>, Ely Brookes, Honorata Bogusz, James Waite, Will Kay, </div>
+<div class="trippeople">Thomas Phillips, <u>Philip Sargent</u>, Ely Brookes, Honorata Bogusz, James Waite, Will Kay, Ashley Gregg, Radost Waszkiewicz, </div>
 <div class="triptitle">plateau - walk in</div>
 <br /><br />Will and Phil went up as part of the 2-car lift to the carpark. Others all going to topcamp. Cardiff contingent (Ely, James, Thomas) arrived the previous day (at last) 
 <br /><br />Dep. carpark 10:06 we walked to the col but got spread out, 2 Cardiffians particularly heavily loaded so Ash dropped back to accompany them while James headed on with Radost and Honorata.
@@ -783,7 +783,7 @@ For the rest of the trip we actually ended up dropping to the bottom of the seco
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 <div class="tripdate" id="2023-07-12a">2023-07-12</div>
-<div class="trippeople">Thomas Phillips, Lizzie Caisley, <u>Merryn Matthews</u>, Emily Mabbett, Joel Stobbart, </div>
+<div class="trippeople">Lizzie Caisley, <u>Merryn Matthews</u>, Emily Mabbett, Joel Stobbart, Thomas Phillips, </div>
 <div class="triptitle">plateau - Prospecting between Homecoming and Fishface</div>
 <br /><br />We started by walking to Unlucky Gamse Cave, mostly following the path to homecoming, as Radost and Honorata had told us there was 
 an exciting looking entrance around 50m North of it - Rose Blumen Hoehle (2023-hbrw-05). We dismissed their cave as choked by snow, however it 
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 <div class="tripdate" id="2023-07-13a">2023-07-13</div>
-<div class="trippeople">Charlotte Payne, Harry Kettle, <u>Honorata Bogusz</u>, Oakem Kyne, Radost Waszkiewicz, Jonty Pine, </div>
+<div class="trippeople"><u>Honorata Bogusz</u>, Oakem Kyne, Radost Waszkiewicz, Jonty Pine, Charlotte Payne, Harry Kettle, </div>
 <div class="triptitle">festering - Via Ferrata "Panorama Kletterstieg Sisi"</div>
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 <div class="tripdate" id="2023-08-01a">2023-08-01</div>
-<div class="trippeople">Adam Aldridge, <u>Joe Stell</u>, Manfred Wuits, Nathan Walker, </div>
+<div class="trippeople"><u>Joe Stell</u>, Manfred Wuits, Nathan Walker, Adam Aldridge, </div>
 <div class="triptitle">Surface - Hike to Garlic</div>
 <br /><br />Woke up to see a sub-optimal forecast. Somehow I was convinced that hiking to Garlic Cave Camp was of course the best course of action to take, so we set off. It was actually dry for the first third or so to fishface gear dump to collect our caving gear, but this did not last. 
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 <div class="tripdate" id="2023-08-02a">2023-08-02</div>
-<div class="trippeople">Nathan Walker, <u>Joe Stell</u>, Adam Aldridge, Manfred Wuits, </div>
+<div class="trippeople"><u>Joe Stell</u>, Adam Aldridge, Manfred Wuits, Nathan Walker, </div>
 <div class="triptitle">Buzzard - dropping Buzzard Hole on the northerly Kleiner Wildkogel ridge</div>
 <br /><br />After our lovely sleep, we woke up to dry weather, and set off to the top of the ridge above Garlic. Carrying the thick, wet 90m up the mountain was not conducive to good balance so I did fall over in the bunde and struggle to get back up. We reached Buzzard, Adam rigged it, first to the bunde, then hand bolting whilst we waited patiently. The improvement in weather did give a lovely backdrop of the Braeuningzinken for photos. Nathan went down next, followed by Manfred whilst I stayed outside enjoying the view. Upon Adam's return, I swiftly fell asleep, and awoke to find Nathan and Manfred had finished their survey and were finalising some sketches. Adam spotted some interesting holes beneath us on the plateau, so wet set off to prospect (see next entry).
 <div class="timeug">T/U: 3.0 hours</div>
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 <div class="tripdate" id="2023-08-02b">2023-08-02</div>
-<div class="trippeople">Adam Aldridge, <u>Joe Stell</u>, Manfred Wuits, Nathan Walker, </div>
+<div class="trippeople"><u>Joe Stell</u>, Manfred Wuits, Nathan Walker, Adam Aldridge, </div>
 <div class="triptitle">Surface - Prospecting east and south of Kleiner Wildkogel</div>
 <br /><br />After dropping Buzzard, the fours of us decided to drop down the north face of the ridge, heading east at first, then split to form two prospecting 
 groups, Adam and I heading further east to wrap around to the south face of the ridge, and Nathan and Manfred following the north face westwards to 
@@ -1645,7 +1645,7 @@ that seem to follow a rift along the base of Wildkogel, then back to Garlic camp
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 <div class="tripdate" id="2023-08-03a">2023-08-03</div>
-<div class="trippeople">David Botcherby, Adam Aldridge, <u>Joe Stell</u>, Becka Lawson, Nathan Walker, </div>
+<div class="trippeople">Adam Aldridge, <u>Joe Stell</u>, Becka Lawson, Nathan Walker, David Botcherby, </div>
 <div class="triptitle">Garlic - Fettling</div>
 <br /><br />Woke up. 10am. It was rainy :(
 
@@ -1758,7 +1758,7 @@ The pitches back to camp were painful, despite their shortness, due to our mud c
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 <div class="tripdate" id="2023-08-10a">2023-08-10</div>
-<div class="trippeople">Nadia Raeburn, Kai Trusson, David Botcherby, <u>Rob Watson</u>, </div>
+<div class="trippeople">Kai Trusson, David Botcherby, <u>Rob Watson</u>, Nadia Raeburn, </div>
 <div class="triptitle">fishface - Connecting FF to SMK: a step further</div>
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