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@@ -142,7 +142,7 @@ Charlotte derigged.
 <p>Derigging pair got out about 9.30pm as faff had led to getting into the cave 
 at about 5pm. Charlotte and Harry were both very grumpy walking back with very heavy bags and returned to top camp at 11pm.
 
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 <div class="tripdate" id="t2023-07-04c">2023-07-04</div>
@@ -163,8 +163,8 @@ at about 5pm. Charlotte and Harry were both very grumpy walking back with very h
 <div class="trippeople"><u>Mealy</u>,Jonty, Emily </div>
 <div class="triptitle">Fishface - Digging the snow out of Fishface entrance</div>
 
-<p>After a carrying day on the 2nd, we suspected ff would be snowed in. A faff morning of aquiring shovel. We got to ff with shovels, discovering it 
-did need digging. Jonty got particularly in to this, producing quit the snow trench. 
+<p>After a carrying day on the 2nd, we suspected ff would be snowed in. A faff morning of acquiring shovel. We got to ff with shovels, discovering it 
+did need digging. Jonty got particularly into this, producing quit the snow trench. 
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 <div class="trippeople"><u>Joel</u>,Jonty, Buck </div>
 <div class="triptitle">Fishface - Rigging and pitch-measuring trip </div>
 
-<p>An ambitious day which slowly went increasingly\ wrong. The group departed base camp at a stunning 8.20AM, blitzed up the plateau and promtly became mired in several hours of faff which soon  descended into more festering. The plan had been to rig the entrance series of Fishface down to the bottom of Blitzen Boulevard (4th pitch), from where we expected everything to be left rigged. However, confusion about rope lengths and metalwork and some impressively long grike trips meant that the two shallow pushing groups planning to explore from Blitzen and Liquid Luck caught us up at Top Camp. Uncle Mike was not amused. We swiftly bombed down to FF in 25 mins and started rigging. Joel was left to do everything as Jonty's light 'broke'.
+<p>An ambitious day which slowly went increasingly wrong. The group departed base camp at a stunning 8.20AM, blitzed up the plateau and promtly became mired in several hours of faff which soon  descended into more festering. The plan had been to rig the entrance series of Fishface down to the bottom of Blitzen Boulevard (4th pitch), from where we expected everything to be left rigged. However, confusion about rope lengths and metalwork and some impressively long grike trips meant that the two shallow pushing groups planning to explore from Blitzen and Liquid Luck caught us up at Top Camp. Uncle Mike was not amused. We swiftly bombed down to FF in 25 mins and started rigging. Joel was left to do everything as Jonty's light 'broke'.
 <p>The entrance pitch/spiral traverse thing was completed on a 40m rope. Tasteful noods (2nd pitch) didn't quite go on a 27m due to rerigging around the top rebelay to avoid rub, so Joel initially reached the bottom on a knot pass and Jonty rerigged to the bottom on a 32m. The traverse at the bottom of Tasteful Noods (2A) and pitch 3 both had rope left from last year but not rigged - some of the knots didn't line up and required rerigging but the lengths were fine. Pendulum pitch needs some more bolts at the bottom, possibly as a traverse, to make getting on and off the pitch less deathy. Uncle Mike rigged Blitzen for us as we got too scared, he insisted the step over the huge rift with no traverse was fine, so we left him to it. There may or may not be a bolt there now 
 <p>past Blitzen, everything remained rigged in situ from last year. We checked everything to the traverse at the bottom of Liquid Luck (pitch 6) and apart from some loose bolts all ropes were fine and hangers non-corroded. On the way back, we measured pitch lengths using the ULSA disto and Jonty drew up a definitive rigging topo that takes into account the route changes last year. The pitch lengths will be entered into the box below when Jonty reappears at Base Camp.
-<p>[Ed. Needs finishing here]
 <p>Having decided we'd held eveyone enough, we joyfully skipped back up the Plateau to bed. 
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 <div class="tripdate" id="t2023-07-08a">2023-07-08</div>
 <div class="trippeople"><u>Phil S</u>,Martin </div>
-<div class="triptitle">basecamp - Nerd faff </div>
+<div class="triptitle">Basecamp - Nerd faff </div>
 
-<p>Another frustrating day with network. WiFi [illegible] to allow connectionds - rebooted at ~0830. Ok. 
-<p>Rebooted network for a reason I can't remember - failed to re-establish routing to router. Much faff standing on chairs trying [illegible] as cables all duct taped to the wall with it in [illegible] operating position up by ceiling. Found [illegible], edited into [illegible]. Redocumented everything in Handbook. 
+<p>Another frustrating day with network. WiFi router refused to allow connections - rebooted at ~0830. Ok. 
+<p>Rebooted network for a reason I can't remember - failed to re-establish routing to router. Much faff standing on chairs trying [illegible] as cables all duct taped to the wall with it in [illegible] operating position up by ceiling. Found [illegible], edited into [illegible]. Redocumented everything in handbook. 
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 <div class="trippeople"><u>Honorata</u>, Radost, Mike </div>
 <div class="triptitle">Fishface - pushing deep Fishgesicht </div>
 
-<p>We pushed 60m at the top of "Clap My Pitch Up". Pushing required bolting ~20m of a traverse. The final few metres of the traverse go above a sizeable pitch (30m?). We names the bolted traverse, "European Federalists". At the end of the traverse, we continued walking for another ~40m until arriving at the top of a massive pitch - further pushing would require bolting. The distance from where we were standing to the furthest point down the pitch measured with the disto was ~40m. We kicked rocks down the pitch and the sound continued for 10s, giving rise to a presumption that the pitch may be very deep. If it connects to "Clap My Pitch Up", it's at least 100m deep. IMPORTANT: the traverse passage and the walkable continuation are muddy and slippery; posing a hazard of falling down the pitch. Ash, Jonty, Mealy and Janis want to push the lead further on Saturday 8th July. 
+<p>We pushed 60m at the top of "Clap My Pitch Up". Pushing required bolting ~20m of a traverse (<u> Mike adds: 20m ish of the traverse was new passage surveyed this year but there was about 30m of traverse bolted this year which was naughtily pushed by me - Mike - and Luke last year in the Red Light Spells Danger trip so the traverse is about 50ish m long</u>). The final few metres of the traverse go above a sizeable pitch (30m?). We names the bolted traverse, "European Federalists". At the end of the traverse, we continued walking for another ~40m until arriving at the top of a massive pitch - further pushing would require bolting. The distance from where we were standing to the furthest point down the pitch measured with the disto was ~40m. We kicked rocks down the pitch and the sound continued for 10s, giving rise to a presumption that the pitch may be very deep. If it connects to "Clap My Pitch Up", it's at least 100m deep. IMPORTANT: the traverse passage and the walkable continuation are muddy and slippery; posing a hazard of falling down the pitch. Ash, Jonty, Mealy and Janis want to push the lead further on Saturday 8th July. 
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+<div class="tripdate" id="t2023-07-06f">2023-07-07</div>
+<div class="trippeople"><u>Emily</u>, Charlotte, Harry </div>
+<div class="triptitle">Rigging towards Watershed in Homecoming </div>
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+<p>We wandered down to the cave around 10am, making it to the entrance around 12pm. The entrance series went pretty fast ... at least it did for me as Harry and Charlotte were carrying the heavy bags. On the way we made a quick stop to rerig a knot pass. As we reached the bottom of Wallace and Grommit where they had finished rigging the previous day both me and Harry experienced fizzling as we glazed the dry rope on the final 55m. I did not enjoy this part. We then made our way up the climb and Harry began rigging the small pitches before the long pitch series. The most notable part of this was when Harry appeared the wrong side of a pitch head after following the description and getting lost. It was highly amusing. As Charlotte began rigging the final pitch series me and Harry huddled in a shelter and watched Mathilda the musical. As it came to replacing a bolt Harry left to go help Charlotte and I was left along ... until it was discovered the drill battery was dead and I had to come down with a back up. As 8pm approached we made our way out leaving rope to finish the final part of rigging. On the way out we made a noodle stop at the top of Wallace and Grommit but with no fork a knife had to suffice. The walk back was miserable as we started following new reflectors towards the col and had to turn around and start again. We finally made it back to top camp at 1 am.
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+<div class="tripdate" id="t2023-07-06f">2023-07-08</div>
+<div class="trippeople">Ash, Jonty, Mealy, Janis </div>
+<div class="triptitle">Pushing deep Fishface </div>
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+<p>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="t2023-07-09a">2023-07-08</div>
+<div class="trippeople"><u>Will</u>, Emma, Mike </div>
+<div class="triptitle">Following up on Radost and Honorata's prospecting leads (Unlucky Gemse cave and Amphitheatre cave)</div>
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+<p>Radost and Honorata had found a few promising entrances that they could explore with just a hand line on Thursday so me, Mike and Emma set out with caving kit, bolting kit and a few ropes to investigate further (ropes were slightly out of date ones - ropes were very hard to come by at Top Camp so we pinched two 20m ropes from the stash at Fishface entrance).
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+Having grabbed our kit from Fishface we looked at Radost's GPS coordinates, got a bearing towards them and headed in that direction. Plateau walking is always challenging, we came across a coupe of gaps? in the plateau, none of which went.
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+Eventually, after about 1 km of wandering in the direction of our bearing we came across an entrance that matched the photos Mike had seen that looked like it went a decent distance. Having never bolted before I kitted up and headed into the entrance in a snow-plugged rift with big ~2m boulder wedged in at the end with a significant drop afterwards.
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+We rigged a hand line off a natural near the entrance and I (with heavy instructions and a lot of faff) put a bolt in the ceiling to make a Y hang with the natural and headed down.
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+The pitch was a free hang for 3-4m before hitting a steep (~40 degrees) snow and ice slope, going down our 23m rope missed the bottom by 2-3m so I traversed around the slope, locked off my stop to a large, walkable rocky area to the right (looking down, left, looking up). Bits of this were quite unstable and scary with a large, car-sized boulder wedged up on its long axis, supported just by a few cms of rock, looming over me. This chamber thing had a coop ice fall on one side and no ways on at the bottom down to boulders. Mike came down and concluded that there were no ways on at the bottom. ???Hopping??? up the pitch above the car-sized boulder there was more passage that continued for a while but Mike didn't reckon it went any further. Being quite cold at this point I prussiked up the icy pitch (with difficulty) while Mike did a quick survey of the cave (on paper with the Disto). Mike then derigged and we headed on.
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+The next lead was Radost and Honorata's. Amphitheatre cave, which Nadia and some of the Garlic cave lot had also claimed as theirs. Deciding to tread lightly we free climbed down the large boulders in this very deep, very wide ???? hole. Rigging a hand line off the last boulder near the rift, Mike climbed down about 3m into the riftonto some scree and went on a bit more before arriving at a ~6m drop. We decided to leave further exploration for a day or two to let the people who found it have a go but it looked very promising. We had a fair bit of water in there as well despite little rain recently. 
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+We then walked back, attempting but failing to find Garlic Cave. On the way back we did find a nice looking camp spot (flat, grass, ????, would be good for a tne) at 47.6925722 13.8087777
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+<div class="tripdate" id="t2023-07-09a">2023-07-08</div>
+<div class="trippeople"><u>Sarah</u>, Charlotte, Harry </div>
+<div class="triptitle">Beyond Watershed in Homecoming - Flowstone Canyon</div>
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+<p>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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+The pitch drops into a drippy, bouldery chamber. We found our way through into a rift with surprisingly nice stal and shuffled along to the pushing front (a T junction). Right was an undescended pitch. Left was where we started surveying.
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+We surveyed for about 100m through sandy rifts, down a few climbs (that were much harder on the way up!) and past some pretty flowstone. The passage ended with a ~20m pitch that can also be traversed over to the left and right. Harry and Charlotte havedubbed this passage "Flowstone Canyon". 
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+Slow, tired progress out saw us leave the cave at about 1am. I stumbled to Garlic Cave to sleep on the slabs outside the camp whilst Charlotte and Harry bivvied in a group shelter at the entrance. 
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 <div class="tripdate" id="t2023-07-09a">2023-07-09</div>
 <div class="trippeople"><u>Bier Tent</u> </div>
 <div class="triptitle">basecamp - Nothing happened today at all</div>
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 <div class="tripdate" id="t2023-07-11b">2023-07-11</div>
-<div class="trippeople"><u>Honorata</u>,Radost, Ash</div>
+<div class="trippeople"><u>Honorata</u>,Radost, Ash</div> 
 <div class="triptitle">2023-hbrw-03 - Dropping Amphitheater Hoehle </div>
 
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