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@@ -307,21 +307,10 @@ phreatic passage remains to be attemped by a bold caver who still has the energy
 <p>2. Attach to ends of rope,</p>
 <p>3. Haul up into ceiling such the panels remain level and secure.</p>
 <p>4. Tie off the ropes on the bolt, on the left wall. (the attached Mallion is a knackered one so try not to remove it).</p>
-p>The battery has been wrapped in polythene bags and the b<p>The dropped battery</p>
-<ags have been partially holed on the sharp limestone, basically lots of the acid has leaked out and some of it is contaminating the polythene bags. Moving the battery causes the acid to splash. </p>
-<p>The battery has been moved from the centre of the chamber to against the wall.</p>
-<p>It is very important that the battery is not carried off the plateau in this state. </p>
-<p>It will be very difficult to seal the acid inside any wrapping, leaving a high likely hood that the acid will leak onto someone. Battery acid is very strong sulphuric acid and will cause serious injury if it gets onto skin, and is not immediately washed off with lots of water. </p>
-<p>If battery acid gets into your eyes it will cause damage before it can be washed out. </p>
-<p>The battery itself is too heavy to be handled safely of easily, especially over the plateau.</p>
-<p>Be careful, I am recommending the battery is carried off the plateau in the same way it was delivered, by constructing a two man carrying frame. It will be necessary to empty and flush the leaking cells before this is started. The current contaminated polythene will need to be double wrapped in thick polythene and transported off the plateau with the battery.</p>
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-<p>Neutralising the acid, (happy to be corrected here if there are any chemists.) The sulphuric acid reacts with limestone to form calcium sulphate, or gypsum and carbon dioxide. There is some lead sulphate which will contaminate the residue. Basically there is not that much acid and we need to make it safe before transport. Scan for pictures!!!.</p>
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 <div class="tripdate" id="t2022-08-04f">2022-08-04</div>
-<div class="trippeople"><u>Lucy</u>, Mike, keiran</div>
+<div class="trippeople"><u>Lucy</u>, Mike, Keiran</div>
 <div class="triptitle">Happy Butteryfly cave (GSH)</div> 
 
 <p>Set off late after midday due to faff with 200m of new white shiny rope walked to the entrance. Some snow, skull from a few years back still there. Mike had derigged GSH in 2019(?). Keiran and Mike started to rig down the 1st pitch. Mike later returned to this and changed it to a traverse instead. Keiran taught Lucy to rig on the second pitch which she did. The third pitch was a bit confusing with too many bolts for what was needed. Lucy too start to rig.</p>
@@ -413,7 +402,7 @@ out, abandoned the Jape to worship the candles, left him the drum, which he proc
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 <div class="tripdate" id="t2022-08-07b">2022-08-07</div>
 <div class="trippeople"><u>Frank</u></div>
-<div class="triptitle">WHichCave - God knows what I was up to</div>
+<div class="triptitle">WhichCave - God knows what I was up to</div>
 
 <p>God knows what I was up to, probably caving down Bat country....</p>
 
@@ -605,9 +594,9 @@ The ‘Suffolk by the sea’ survey went up the bed from the bottom of the ‘le
 T/U Fri ?7, Sat 24, Sun 15
 <p>(also Wookey + Andreas on camp)</p>
 <p><u> Fri </u></p>
-<p>I food-panicked and insisted on us taking down infeasible numbers of curries etc. We each had a heavy bag down, taking a lot extra rope. Camp disappointed Nat - dirty cups + very damp pits. Also very muddy hangers. Drip for water <u> very </u> slow.</p>
+<p>I food-panicked and insisted on us taking down unfeasible numbers of curries etc. We each had a heavy bag down, taking a lot extra rope. Camp disappointed Nat - dirty cups + very damp pits. Also very muddy hangers. Drip for water <u> very </u> slow.</p>
 <p><u> Sat </u></p>
-<p>We all headed to the 70m pitch (is this Tartarus) at the end of Nothern Pitstop + Medusa's Maze. Wookey + Andreas then continued the horizontal lead that Harry + Johnno had left on the previous camping trip whilst Nat + I went down the muddy slope along a deep stream canyon. The angle needed a rope as the mud was thick + treacherous. At the end of their rope Nat bolted + naturaled down a short pitch. We had great hopes of horizontal but just round the corner the ledges returned (not before we passed a <u> gorgeous </u> wall of white crystal/helictite balls). I had been following behind Nat with the survey but I got to rig a short traverse along the muddy ledge (3 bolts, last one particularly poor - there were two hammers at camp but we had failed to bring either so we were using rocks which weren't very effective). The ledge ended + we'd have had to rig a pitch down to continue so we decided to derig all of our rope plus what Harry + Johnno put in. I started on this whilst Nat checked out dropping directly into the stream canyon. He decided this was too depp (>30m?) to do so we plodded on with the derig. I properly ran out of steam fighting to move in the dsigusting thick mud with the ropes + bags + our gear coated thickly in it. Met Andreas + Wookey at the top of the slope + divided out the gear so we all dragged one heavy bag back to camp. 12 hours caving. (Woke 7am, left camp 9am, back 9pm).</p>
+<p>We all headed to the 70m pitch (Tartarus) at the end of Nothern Pitstop + Medusa's Maze. Wookey + Andreas then continued the horizontal lead that Harry + Johnno had left on the previous camping trip whilst Nat + I went down the muddy slope along a deep stream canyon. The angle meant that it needed a rope as the mud was thick + treacherous. At the end of their rope Nat bolted + naturaled down a short pitch. We had great hopes of horizontal but just round the corner the ledges returned (not before we passed a <u> gorgeous </u> wall of white crystal/helictite balls). I had been following behind Nat with the survey but I got to rig a short traverse along the muddy ledge (3 bolts, last one particularly poor - there were two hammers at camp but we had failed to bring either so we were using rocks which weren't very effective). The ledge ended + we'd have had to rig a pitch down to continue so we decided to derig all of our rope plus what Harry + Johnno put in. I started on this whilst Nat checked out dropping directly into the stream canyon. He decided this was too deep (>30m?) to do so we plodded on with the derig. I properly ran out of steam, fighting to move in the disgusting thick mud with the ropes + bags + our gear coated thickly in it. Met Andreas + Wookey at the top of the slope + divided out the gear so we all dragged one heavy bag back to camp. 12 hours caving. (Woke 7am, left camp 9am, back 9pm).</p>
 <p><u> Sun </u></p>
 <p>Up at 7, packed up, left 9.30, out 2.30 to 3pm. Slow steady plod as we all had big bags, taking out excess rigging gear + the 4th pit from camp. Met Gwen, Kristian, Dinny + Chris Holt at the entrance.</p>
 <div class="timeug">T/U 46 hours </div>
@@ -678,7 +667,7 @@ been pre-bolted, and I joined him to confirm we were,as I had suspected the day
 <div class="trippeople"><u>Wookey</u>, Andreas Klocker, Becka, Nat </div>
 <div class="triptitle"> Balkonh&ouml;le - Camping in Pitstop. N. Powerhouse leads </div>
 
-<p>Trip written up by Becka. (Becka and Nat also on trip). This is an addition on our finds. Backa + Nat took the inviting muddy ramp lead whilst we went to check out the 'P4' at end of side passage. We got drill first, but a short inspection showed that the "P4' was a very easy C6 with no need for bolting. Took drill back to others, then spent some time looking for survey stations. Couldn't find end points so went back till we found 3 in a row to sync to. Also checked out upper canyon not on survey. Shit with gear, but blowing. Left for water.</p>
+<p>Main trip already written up by Becka. (Becka and Nat also on the trip). This is an addition on our finds. Becka + Nat took the inviting, muddy ramp lead whilst we went to check out the 'P4' at end of side passage. We got drill first, but a short inspection showed that the "P4' was a very easy C6 with no need for bolting. Took drill back to others, then spent some time looking for survey stations. Couldn't find end points so went back till we found 3 in a row to sync to. Also checked out upper canyon not on survey. Shit with gear, but blowing. Left for water.</p>
 
 <p>Main passage is nice 3m (illegible), windy, with deep (~5m) trench in floor. Down the c6 we ended up in awkward trench and surveyed about 6 legs with the 90kg Andreas getting increasingly unimpressed, until Wook realised a slightly wide bit allowed him to climb up back into main passage, which was dramatically wider. Worked out how to bypass the shit bit, and continued surveying for another ~50m to a large cross-rift. Pitch to left (~15m) with strong wind blowing out and very dodgy false floor. Realised whole floor here may be false. Very hard to tell if there was any solid floor. Crossed assorted dodgy boulders over a couple of ~10m climbs, probably until the bottom of the same rift (needs rope).</p> 
 
@@ -709,7 +698,7 @@ We wore Andreas out on the way out (not least due to slipping croll). Nice to ge
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 <div class="tripdate" id="t2022-08-15a">2022-08-15</div>
 <div class="trippeople"><u>Hannah Collings</u>, Charlotte Payne, Jono Lester</div>
-<div class="triptitle"> Balkon - Camping trip at pitstop pushuing southern &amp; northern pitstop</div>
+<div class="triptitle"> Balkon - Camping trip at Pitstop pushing Southern &amp; Northern Pitstop</div>
 
 <p>After a long morning persuading Nat that I was capable of caving despite the covid and establisling that no covid free person was keen to take my place, we were allowed to go caving. But only after Dinny and Nat repacked my bag as they took great issue with the tackle bag swinging off the back - they were so proud of their handy work they got a picture with the finished result. We finally got underground at around midday and Jono promptly disturbed the peace of the cave by descending the entrance series with his speaker! It was Charlotte's first trip down to Pitstop, so I pointed out the sites along the way.</p>
 
@@ -787,15 +776,15 @@ We wore Andreas out on the way out (not least due to slipping croll). Nice to ge
 <div class="trippeople"><u>Becka Lawson</u>, Alex Hannam, Nathan Walker</div>
 <div class="triptitle"> Balcony - Derig</div>
 
-<p>We'd had no peep from the Balkon cavelink so we weren't sure when the campers would have left so we headed off leisurely but no sign of life at the top of Honeycomb so Nathan + I dragged Alex on a trip down memory lane to Lock aven. The ice is in a sorry state with rotten, melting ice lumps melted from the avents littering the floor. I wanted to check out the snow ramp but it was so melted that there wasn't enough left to climb up. </p>
+<p>We'd had no peep from the Balkonhoehle cavelink so we weren't sure when the campers would have left so we headed off leisurely but there was no sign of life at the top of Honeycomb so Nathan + I dragged Alex on a trip down memory lane to Icecock aven. The ice is in a sorry state with rotten, melting ice lumps melted from the avens littering the floor. I wanted to check out the snow ramp but it was so melted that there wasn't enough left to climb up. </p>
 
-<p>That jaunt flittered away an hour + we headed on down + met the campers exiting at the top of Mongol Rally. They hadn't managed to empty camp so I went down + collected the final 2 bags then I derigged the swing in at the bottom of Pitstop. As I tried to gently swing from the Pitstop ledge to the main pitch I realised I may have screwed up by having 2 heavy bags hanging off me.</p>
+<p>That jaunt frittered away an hour + we headed on down + met the campers exiting at the top of Mongol Rally. They hadn't managed to empty camp so I went down + collected the final 2 bags then I derigged the swing in at the bottom of Pitstop. As I tried to gently swing from the Pitstop ledge to the main pitch I realised I may have screwed up by having 2 heavy bags hanging off me.</p>
 
-  <p>Scrabble, flail and I was swinging free in space, hurrah, success. I got ready to prusik + realised in the kerfuffle I'd lost my pantin. "I've dropped my pantin", I wailed up at Nathan...then looked up more carefully - shit, shit, shit, the rope had caught round a sharp flake + I was now swinging in space. Sod the pantin, I'm gonna slice my rope + freefall of 50 meters. I spun + saw a small spike that I managed to grab. I gingerly unloaded the rope, picked it off the flake + swung back on then gently prusiked up to the rebelay, checking the rope - it loked fine, I'd got away with it.</p>
+  <p>Scrabble, flail and I was swinging free in space, hurrah, success. I got ready to prusik + realised in the kerfuffle I'd lost my pantin. "I've dropped my pantin", I wailed up at Nathan...then looked up more carefully - shit, shit, shit, the rope had caught round a sharp flake + I was now swinging in space. Sod the pantin, I'm gonna slice my rope + freefall 50 metres. I spun + saw a small spike that I managed to grab. I gingerly unloaded the rope, flicked it off the flake + swung back on then gently prusiked up to the rebelay, checking the rope - it loked fine, I'd got away with it.</p>
 
-  <p>At the rebelay I waited for Nathan to come down so he could continue the derig + glanced down and - there was my pantin! I'd put it on the outside of my left foot -doh!</p>
+  <p>At the rebelay I waited for Nathan to come down so he could continue the derig + glanced down and - there was my pantin! I'd put it on the outside of my left foot - doh!</p>
 
-  <p>After that I plodded out whilst Nathan derigged &amp; Alex + he took out the Mongol Rally rope then Nat continued the derig. We got the rope to the water pool at the start of the 2nd traverse. Kristian was noodle-wallah, cooking endless cups whilst we got rope out, stripped the metalwork + undid some very tight knots.</p>
+  <p>After that I plodded out whilst Nathan derigged &amp; Alex + he took out the Mongol Rally rope then Nat continued the derig. We got the rope to the water pool at the start of the 2nd traverse. Kristian was noodle-wallah, cooking endless cups whilst we got the rope unpacked, stripped the metalwork + undid some very tight knots.</p>
 
 <p>I went back to help Nat with his 2nd bag then us two + Kristian finished sorting the rope out so it could be left to soak. We three were the last out of the cave at 9pm.<.p>
 <div class="timeug">T/U 11 hours </div>