diff --git a/years/2001/index.htm b/years/2001/index.htm index 4deda912d..802e952d4 100644 --- a/years/2001/index.htm +++ b/years/2001/index.htm @@ -15,6 +15,8 @@ documentation:<br> 2001 Expedition info:<br> <img alt="--->" src="../../../icons/lists/1.png"> Expo <a href="goals.htm">mission statement</a><br> +<img alt="--->" src="../../../icons/lists/1.png"> +Expo <a href="log.htm">Logbook</a><br> <br> diff --git a/years/2001/log.htm b/years/2001/log.htm new file mode 100644 index 000000000..3bf299d4b --- /dev/null +++ b/years/2001/log.htm @@ -0,0 +1,480 @@ +<HTML> +<HEAD> +<LINK href="styles0.css" rel="stylesheet" style="text/css"> +</HEAD> +<BODY align=left class=psibasic_0><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=3> +<P class=psiint_2><FONT size=+1><B>EXPO 2001</B></FONT></P> + +<P class=psiloc_256><SPAN class=psispan_257>Sun 5th Aug </SPAN><SPAN +class=psispan_258><U>MarkS</U></SPAN><SPAN class=psispan_259> travels +to Austria.</SPAN></P> + +<P class=psiint_1>An uneventful but pleasant journey via Venice (don't +ask!). Flew Stansted -> venice, then bus to Venitia Mestré +station. Train to Bad Aussee, arriving at 8.05pm (on the dot!) after 16 +hours' traveling.</P> + +<P class=psiloc_260><SPAN class=psispan_261>Mon 6th Aug. </SPAN><SPAN +class=psispan_262><U>MarkS</U></SPAN><SPAN class=psispan_263>, Martin, +Earl, Brian, MikeC.</SPAN></P> + +<P class=psiint_1>Carry to 204.</P> + +<P class=psiint_1>Se off from the Bergresttaurant about lunchtime, after +ordering fore Gemknödel in the said restaurant. Cargo was to black +water butts and the equipment to assemble the waterworks at 204. At the +Kratzer junction, there was a delay of 15 mins 'cos Martin's butt had +opened (it was being carried upside-down); thankfullyl no shit fell out. +Eventually arrived atTop Camp nd proceeded to 204. Nearly at 204, Martin +had anothr accident with the again. Earl + Mark took a detour to find a +quicker route from the slabs to 204, but ended up just finding +Gemknödelhöhle [ed.: Germ...?], to the west of 204 by a few +hundred metres. A low entrance leads to a couple of chambers of a climb to +a higher entrance. Eventually Mark + Earl got to 204 (after investigating a +hole with a choke and a skeleton - chamois??). Set up some water-collecting +equipment and then walked back to the car park. Went to Base Camp. Food in +Hilde's. Weissbier. Gösser. Tatty Hut.</P> + +<P class=psiloc_264><SPAN class=psispan_265>Sat 04/Sun 05 +Aug. </SPAN><SPAN class=psispan_266><U>Dunks</U></SPAN><SPAN +class=psispan_267> + Martin go to austria</SPAN></P> + +<P class=psiint_1>Got up 6am and packed. Drove to Cambridge for 11. A bit of +driving around to Collect stuff from various places. Halfway through +extracting shit from the tackle store to pack. I threw a 7 and landed on +community chest:</P> + +<P class=psiloc_268><SPAN class=psispan_269><IMG +SRC="log1.gif"></SPAN></P> + +<P class=psiint_1>So packed the car + then headed north to Chesterfield (130 +miles, 2¼ hours away) to get the rope. 24¼ hours after +leaving Cambridge, 19½ of which were spent driving, arrived at base +camp.</P> + +<P class=psiloc_270><SPAN class=psispan_271><U>Zondas uif +Augustus.</U></SPAN><SPAN class=psispan_272> Tony, Mike & Letty +koen naar Oostenrijk. [this ending appears all over - I can't tell if it is +ijk or ijh or yk or yh]</SPAN></P> + +<P class=psiint_1>Trein had naturlijh zeals gewoonljh weer vertraging. +Eindelijk een ruirn halfuur te latt in Hock van Holland Tony & Mike +tegengehomenl toen hat voor elhaar gehregen om ongeveer een nur rond +Schiedam rond te blijven ryden voordat we de hoofdweg konden vinden.</P> + +<P class=psiint_1>Toen nix - behalve hele kolonnes Amerkaanse soldaten langs +de autobahn in Duitsland - prima, hoe meer hoe beter. En ze reden niet +richting noord-west, dus geen probleem. Nach osten und immer gerade aus, +und bring mir mein fahrrad zurück. En dat soort dingen.</P> + +<P class=psiint_1>Na nog veel meer saais eindelijk Oostenrijk - wahher +geworden toen de weg ineens stopte en grindpad werd, maar dat gebeurde daar +na nog 10 X en is blijkbaar normaal in ditland. Oostenrijkers sijn +blijkbaer vergelijkbaar met Duitsers, Belgen. Rond zonsopgans aangehomen; +paer biertjes en wat te rohen en stapen _ in andere woorden _ de recs +overleefd, zonder dat allerslei illegaals wit onze auto was gejat door de +moffen _ _ En zonder dat we ergens een berg afgereden zijn. +Verbazingwehlend genog _ en ih geloof dat ik niets hatelijx over onze +chauffeur mag zeygen dusdar zalihniet doen maar hijheet tony. Maar we zijn +leverd aangehomen _ [acid-type smiley]</P> + +<P class=psiint_1>You what? You did What? MCT [ed: this line in different +pen]</P> + +<P class=psiint_1>9-Aug. Thur. Martin & Brian Steinbrucken</P> + +<P class=psiint_1>Rig 1st pitch, 2nd pitch, stich this & Thread down to +Wolpertinger*. Go on joll to Cave tree chamber to check out what new stuff +was discovered at end 2000 expo, via 110 bidet, no pain no gain Insig Chmb +etc. on the way out drill new spit for Y hang at top of 2nd (jim'll fix it) +pitch).</P> + +<P class=psiint_1>* Deviate thread Pitch with dodgy natural on left wall +looking SW above 99-06c QM deviating into potential water down pitch but +away from rub point and towards above QM.</P> + +<P class=psiint_1>10 Aug Fri. Martin & Brian.</P> + +<P class=psiint_1>Go down to Insignificant chamber to push lead ( ) climb up +to left TU 5</P> + +<P class=psiint_1>9-10 Aug Phil & Mike T go to Austria</P> + +<P class=psiint_1>Set off Ormskirk 1900h -> Elland to pick up MCT. Tanked +down M1 to cambridge - pick up stuff from Wookey. Drove to dover to watch +our ferry leave. Slept. Ferry. Autobahn. Austria.</P> + +<P class=psiint_1>Speeding cameras activated on 14.</P> + +<P class=psiint_1>Phil U:1 MCT:1 .: draw</P> + +<P class=psiint_1>decider on way home.</P> + +<P class=psiloc_273><SPAN class=psispan_274>11-Aug-01 </SPAN><SPAN +class=psispan_275><U>Becka</U></SPAN><SPAN class=psispan_276> + Martin +Steinbrückenhöhle</SPAN></P> + +<P class=psiint_1>Survey down 24A QM from 2000, midway up on left in +Treeumphant passage. Easy passage heading up for 9 legs up to chamber with +way on continuing (probably) up easy but loose climb - needs a handline? +Then surveyed off lead just back from this climb heading down + south, +initially into small chamber with lots of snow and I thought I could see a +glimmer of daylight alcove. Passage continued on other side of chamber, +initially walking down v. atractive phreatic passage the becoming lower, +stooping. Had to turn back (after 5 hours surveying) to reach call-out +without finishing, so still an open lead. after 40 legs, I was still toasty +warm + hadn't put my balaclava on - regretted the extra furry on the way +out though. Survey called 'Crowning Glory'. T/U 7hrs 30min</P> + +<P class=psiloc_277><SPAN class=psispan_278>12 / Aug / 01 </SPAN><SPAN +class=psispan_279><U>Becka</U></SPAN><SPAN class=psispan_280> + Martin +Steinbruckenhöhle</SPAN></P> + +<P class=psiint_1>		Andy + Wayne from TSG</P> + +<P class=psiloc_281><SPAN class=psispan_282>Survey down </SPAN><SPAN +class=psispan_283><U>41A</U></SPAN><SPAN class=psispan_284> QM from +2000. For Becka + Martin, after showing Andy + Wayne +where </SPAN><SPAN class=psispan_285><U>40A</U></SPAN><SPAN +class=psispan_286> lead was. They put 2 bolts in to put handline / +shunt - needed? on short climb up over pitch. After tootling back to find +us to say their bolts wouldn't set, we eventually realised they'd omitted +the cone. Ah. They went back, got up + into 100m passage, large, sloping up ++ they thought continuing the same direction as Treeumphant passage + +ending in a large aven with a further climb to do, to enter continuation of +passage. Martin + I surveyed up 41A, smallish walking passage heading +North, parallel to Treeumphant passage. Bridged over pitch, only ~5m down +but seemed to be a couple more pitches below from rocks bouncing + the +draft possibly came from it, not very large but fine except for large, +loose boulders at head of it. well worth looking at. We continued surveying +up to aven with mud pile on floor, + then another branch off left, passage +in tightish rift, small chamber to right, passage continued left into near +flat-out-crawl, deteriorating to flat out crawl. Stopped survey at +T-junction, ways L+R about large enough to continue but fortunately our +time was up. 30 stations in 4 hours. Met other two + headed out. (over 350m +surveying in 2 days). [bracket covering 5 lines from 'mud pile on floor' to +'to continue but' saying 'All heading up gently']</SPAN></P> + +<P class=psiint_1>12 AUG / 01 - SAME TRIP AS ABOVE</P> + +<P class=psiint_1> WAYNE + ANDY (FROM TSG)</P> + +<P class=psiint_1>I'M MORE USED TO USING THRU-BOLTS AND A DRILL WHEN +IT COMES TO CLIMBING SO USING A HILTI BOLT WAS CHANGE TO ME. +I THINK THE LAST TIME I USED A CONE ? (WELL I CAN'T REMEMBER) ANYWAY IT +SOON CAME BACK TO ME WHEN I WAS TOLD WHAT TO DO!</P> + +<P class=psiint_1>WE WERE DIRECTED TO CLIMBV THIS SHORT CLIMB BY MARTIN +& BECKA. IF YOU READ THE ABOVE, THEY HAVE FILLED YOU IN ON OUR CLIMBING +ACTIVITIES. AFTER CLIMBING THE CLIMB, USING A SHUNT BECAUSE THEY CAN BE +MOVED EITHER DIRECTION ON A ROPE, SO THERE IS NO NEED TO CHANGE DEVICES; IN +TERMS OF ABSAILING OR PRUSSIKING DEVICES. THE POINT I PUT ACROSS WAS, THAT +USING A SHUNT IN THE [IWTIYI ??] EXPLORATION OF THE CLIMB WAS ESSENTIAL, AS +THAT I COULD HAVE CHANGED MY MIND ON CLIMBING UP AND THE SHUNT CAN EASILY +BE MOVED DOWN THE ROPE TOWWRDS ME IF REQUIRED. I NEVER SAID THAT A SHUNT +WAS REQUIRED, ITS SOMETHING THAT I USE AND SOMETHING/a DEVICE THAT I KNOW +ALOT OF PEOPLE WHO ALSO USE THEM. YOU CAN EASILY USE A COWSTAIL ON IT NOW. +i'LL STILL USE A SHUNT, LIKE I DO ON MOST HANDLINES I DO!</P> + +<P class=psiint_1>ABOUT THIS CLIMB, THERE WAS ABOUT 100 METRES OF SLOPING +PASSAGE ENDING AT A AVEN, WITH PASSAGES CONTINUING BEYOND BUT NOT EXPLORED. +IT GOES IN THE NORTH DIRECTION, BUT IN SEVERAL BENDS (MANY 90°). WE +WILL SURVEY TOMORROW?</P> + +<P class=psiint_1>13 AUG 2001 - WAYNE + ANDY, MICK + DUNCAN</P> + +<P class=psiint_1>WE SURVEYED THE PASSAGE TO THE AVEN (SPEAK TO DUNCAN) MICK ++ ADNY LOOKED AT THE CONTINUATION OF THE PASSAGE, ANOTHER 50 METRES + +PASSAGE, ENDING AT PITCHES. (SPEAK TO MICK T) DUNCAN WILL DRAW UP SURVEY. +[all the E's in previous write-up are indistinguishable from U's]</P> + +<P class=psiint_1>[In even bigger caps, pointing at above writeup] LURN TO +FUCKING WRITU</P> + +<P class=psiint_1>[In another hand:] Is this in hebrew? MCT. [And presumably +in response:]IF YOU LIKE, FUCK OFF</P> + +<P class=psiloc_287><SPAN class=psispan_288><U>Becka</U></SPAN><SPAN +class=psispan_289>, Martin + Earl Surface 13/8/01</SPAN></P> + +<P class=psiint_1>Had entered positions of Cave Tree, Great Oak Chamber + +the snow chamber in crwning glory into Earl's GPS. Walked up to 204 + set +off to find points on surface. Turned out to be q. high up , ~100m above +the points we'd surveyed underground, though GPS aren't so good at height. +Wandered right up to the bunde-covered peak then back down 204. Lots of big +shafts, then Martin found pitch down a thin rift. Put a cairn by it. MarkS, +Animal, et al surface surveyed to it next day (14/8) the next day Animal + +MikeC (15/8) drill-bolted down + got into Cave Tree via a loose entrance +pitch, ~35m down.</P> + +<P class=psiint_1>T,U 10 minutes</P> + +<P class=psiloc_290><SPAN class=psispan_291><U>Becka</U></SPAN><SPAN +class=psispan_292>, Martin + Earl 204 14/8/01</SPAN></P> + +<P class=psiint_1>Down treeumphant + turned left down Crowning Glory +(QM24A). Climbed up free climb at end of main passage where our survey on +11/8/01 down main passage had ended. Put handline (11 metres OK) on + left +Earl to put in 2 bolts for pitch down Martin + + went back passage + down +left, past snow chamber {put carbides out - Definately Daylight up there, +albeit only a glimmer). Down to end of where 11/8/01 survey had ended (down +wallking passage q. steep down). Continued surveying on until something +that looked like a pitch. Kicked rocks down then decided it was +freeclimable, called it Helter Skelter. Ended in a draughting hole with +boulders which looked like it could be squeezed over if you didn't mind +loose stuff or given a bit of crow-bar persuasion. We dug it a bit the +finished off the survey there + headed back to Earl. He'd just finished +rigging a hand-line (needs ~16 metres) + got down to the floor, avoiding +the pitch. He could scramble up a boulder slope the far side of the pitch + +said there was another pitch with passage continuing the other side, +needing bolting around the pith to gte to. We'd run out of rope, so headed +back down main passage (called Bouldercoaster?) + left immediately after +free-climb down to get shortcut back to Treeumphant via the QM28A. Did more +taping, & showed Earl cave tree Chamber, then down to 53A. Earl thought +about putting a bolt in for pitch there but decided against it, poor hang + +not v.exciting pitch whilst Martin + I surveyed. We realised that 42B +joined to 53A, so we surveyed between the two starting at 42B. Finally, +still had a bi of time left so started surveying up 12B, which Mark Byers +had had a quick look up last year. Quickly became pretty low, wide passage +with nice mud on floor + white stals. Stopped surveying at station 7, at +top of small chamber. Out, goood, varied trip.</P> + +<P class=psiint_1>T/U 9hrs</P> + +<P class=psiloc_293><SPAN class=psispan_294><U>Becka</U></SPAN><SPAN +class=psispan_295> + Earl 204 15/8/01</SPAN></P> + +<P class=psiloc_296><SPAN class=psispan_297>Back to where we'd finihde +surveying down 12B yesterday at statio 7. Survey down into chamber (after +putting in a largely superfluous 8m handline). Turned left, free-climbed +down to bottom of chamber, clambered down + over boulders into rift for +~20m, until got to edge of very large pitch. 2+ second free drop + lovely +clean shaft. Surveyed all that. Back to chamber, continued surveying up +passage until popped out into </SPAN><SPAN +class=psispan_298><U>HUGE</U></SPAN><SPAN class=psispan_299> passage. +Ignored right passage + surveyed along passing several QMA's + getting 5 +consecutive legs of over 20 metres. Finally ended in loose boulder slope +leading up to hole in ceiling. Do-able but not great - the passage high +above just before the boulder slope looked better. Back down the massive +phreatic passage + met Martin, Tony + Letty. Sent them to look at the big +stuff, whilt Earl + I surveyed up right where we'd popped out into big +stuff. Didn't go far, right ended in another boulder slope up, straight on +was a good,, draughting walking sie passage. Earl + I went back to the +chamber with Letty to tie up + finish the survey there whilst Tony + Martin +surveyed the first left in the big passage which became a rift + then we +could see their light from our passages near the chamber. Fine trip. +Out.</SPAN></P> + +<P class=psiint_1>T/U 9hrs</P> + +<P class=psiloc_300><SPAN class=psispan_301><U>Martin</U></SPAN><SPAN +class=psispan_302>, Tony and Letty 204 15/8/01</SPAN></P> + +<P class=psiint_1>Pushed leads in No pain no gain 2000-2B was pushed to the +pitch under King Carbide just above pleasure dome. Pushed leads there which +all ended in pitches into pleasure dome, apart from one which was left +unpushed.</P> + +<P class=psiint_1>We then went to look at the stuff of 12B, we surveyed one +of Earl abd Beckas side passages to find a number of white stalactites. We +then met Earl and Becka who showed us the way to Swings and roundabouts. We +had a toursit, then Tony I pushed a lead which looped back to a previous +part of Becka and Earls survey. Meanwhile Letty showed Earl and Becka the +side lead to confirm the connecting survey stations.</P> + +<P class=psiint_1>T/U 9hours</P> + +<P class=psiloc_303><SPAN class=psispan_304><U>Anthony</U></SPAN><SPAN +class=psispan_305> & Julia Surface Survey 14/8/01</SPAN></P> + +<P class=psiint_1>Sat around until 5pm when it was sufficiently cool to walk +more than 5 yards without totally dehydrating. Surface surveyed from 204A +to a hole Becka had spotted earlier in the week via 2 other holes. The firs +is a small downhill crawl at the bottom of a shakehole, looked at by Mike +TA who declared it to be a dig [ now tagged 2001/02]. The second hole is a +short (~5m) downclimb with passage going off [now tagged 2001/03]. Survey +puts this straight over the colonnade in 04 (which boasts a couple of +avens). This hole had what appeared to be a freshly placed spit of unknown +provenance. Neither hole has been tagged yet, thought spits are placed for +this. The final hole was descended by MikeTA and MikeC the folowing +day...</P> + +<P class=psiloc_306><SPAN class=psispan_307><U>Anthony</U></SPAN><SPAN +class=psispan_308>, Duncan, Mick & Brian 204 15/8/01</SPAN></P> + +<P class=psiint_1>Plan was for Mick & Brian to bolt across a pit at the +northern extremity of "Chocolate Salty Balls" while me & +Dunks caught up with the surveying backlog. Got to Cave Tree chamber to +find a rope hanging out of the roof and an Animal stood at the bottom - +hence 204 had its third entrance. We were warned that the pitch head was +"rather loose" but planned to go out that way. Surveying +proceeded at a reasonable pace, and we caught up with Mick & Brian just +as Brian was preparing to place the last traverse bolt. At this point we +notied that there was no draught coming from across the pitch, so it came +as less of a surprise when Brian teetered across to find all of four feet +of cave. While we were there, we thought we might as well drop the pitch. +At the bottom is a short horizontal passage leading to another pitch. This +appears to be mderately deep as a stone rattled for 11 seconds down it +...</P> + +<P class=psiint_1>Steamed on out and got to the bottom of the new entrance +pitch. Pitch was very nice until the last 5m where the rope appeared to +hang out of a "rather loose" boulder choke. Once off the rope, +the fun continues with an uphill squeeze through mobile boulders.</P> + +<P class=psiint_1>If this pitch is to become a trade route, some serious +gardening must be performed because at the moment it is a deathtrap - one +of the loosest pitch heads Dunks or I have seen in Austria *</P> + +<P class=psiint_1>TU 7hrs</P> + +<P class=psiloc_309><SPAN class=psispan_310>* This place is a fucking +death-trap. it is in danger of major collapse. I'd give it a resounding +Ø star reommendation. </SPAN><SPAN +class=psispan_311><U>Duncan</U></SPAN></P> + +<P class=psiloc_312><SPAN class=psispan_313><U>Duncan</U></SPAN><SPAN +class=psispan_314>, Wayne 204 Chocolate Salty Balls 13/9/01</SPAN></P> + +<P class=psiint_3>Survey of stuff pushed by Wayne + Andy on an earlier trip. +About 120m of stomping passage trending mainly north from Cave Tree +Chamber.</P> + +<P class=psiint_3>TU 6hrs.</P> + +<P class=psiint_3>Friday 17th Aug Eishöhle - Mission Impossible</P> + +<P class=psiloc_315><SPAN class=psispan_316>Connection seeking +- </SPAN><SPAN class=psispan_317><U>Hils</U></SPAN><SPAN +class=psispan_318> + Olly</SPAN></P> + +<P class=psiloc_319><SPAN class=psispan_320><IMG +SRC="log2.gif"></SPAN><SPAN class=psispan_321>We heroically dragged +ourselves out of our pits at 7.30 the morning aftr the Expo Dinner + headed +u the hill to Find The Connetion. - a bolt traverse around the head of Over +The Top.</SPAN></P> + +<P class=psiint_1>Olly wants to call this traverse "Too Hard For +CUCC" (I think on the grounds that he couldn't drag anyone else up +here when there was 4k of open passage to be walked into on the other side +of the hill, till an unsuspecting oxford mug came along), but since he +bolted the entire traverse while I fell asleep on a pile of rope, it might +not be as appropiate as he'd hoped :-) [This smiley actually vertical - +Ed]</P> + +<P class=psiint_1>Anyway, we (Olly) bolted the traverse, and found a loose +sand/rocks slope heading up a tunnel on the far side of the pitch chamber. +TBC....</P> + +<P class=psiloc_322><SPAN class=psispan_323><IMG +SRC="log3.gif"></SPAN></P> + +<P class=psiint_1>Heading [Arrow pointing to comment in pencil Not +surveyed'] back from Over The Top, I (when I wasn't asleep) dropped a pitch +(~20m) to a rocky floor, with a slot in the wall at chest height, heading +down a pitch of indeterminate length. *</P> + +<P class=psiint_1>No naturals + I didn't have a bolt kit, so couldn't go any +further. It's heading the wrong way for a connection anyway (both +horizontally + vertically), & Olly thinks it might drop into a known +pitch whose name he isn't sure of ("the Missio Impossible +Pitch"/"Ol's Pitch"??).</P> + +<P class=psiint_1>(* Stone rattle varies beteen ~5s and ~10s )</P> + +<P class=psiint_1>Sat 18th & Sun 19th Aug</P> + +<P class=psiint_1>Eishöhle - Mission Impossible</P> + +<P class=psiint_1>More connection-seeking mit Hils + Olly (....cont'd from +Fri 17th)</P> + +<P class=psiloc_324><SPAN class=psispan_325><IMG +SRC="log4.gif"></SPAN></P> + +<P class=psiint_1>Yesterday (18th - bit confused... ) we bolted/climbed up a +20m 45° slope, beyond the sandy slope ( see writeup of Fri 17th). This +made us very happy, coz apparently the most promising-looking leads in KH +around the Theatre - the nearest part to where we are - are unbolted +up-pitches, so, we wanna get high…</P> + +<P class=psiloc_326><SPAN class=psispan_327><IMG +SRC="log5.gif"></SPAN></P> + +<P class=psiint_1>On the 19th we gained a rift passage at the top of the +45° slope. It changes direction lots, has no roof or floor and is +confusing. It feels like we're heading up an inlet, or possibly we've +intersected one and could follow it up- or downstream. Going to plot +centreline to figure out what's happening…</P> + +<P class=psiint_1>[Olly (while calculatig coordinates so we can figure out +where the hell we're going); "Yay, we're 3mm further North"]</P> + +<P class=psiint_1>Following the rift upstream leads to a climb which I've +temporary-rigged (needs rigging as a pitch really). At the top you can go +left, right or up … TBC …</P> + +<P class=psiloc_328><SPAN class=psispan_329><IMG +SRC="log6.gif"></SPAN></P> + +<P class=psiint_1>Mon 20th am (not a caving trip, just an admin sesh)</P> + +<P class=psiint_1>The currently closest explored EH point to KH is +37m away. Our bolt traverse over Over The Top started 102m away. The first +day we got 32m closer. The second day we got 16m closer again. From this we +conclude that our approach to KH is an exponential decay to a asymptote at +38m separation. FFS. Shall we just go to the pub?</P> + +<P class=psiloc_330><SPAN class=psispan_331>Oh yeah, and we've rejigged the +"bolt traverse" round Over The Top as a pendule - +new </SPAN><SPAN class=psispan_332><U>riging topo</U></SPAN><SPAN +class=psispan_333>:</SPAN></P> + +<P class=psiint_1>[pic]</P> + +<P class=psiint_1>Mon 20th Eishöhle</P> + +<P class=psiint_1>Guess what. Looking for a connection again.</P> + +<P class=psiloc_334><SPAN class=psispan_335>Now we've also rejigged the +upper half of Devil's Chute: new </SPAN><SPAN +class=psispan_336><U>rigging topo </U></SPAN><SPAN +class=psispan_337>:</SPAN></P> + +<P class=psiint_1>[pic]</P> + +<P class=psiloc_338><SPAN class=psispan_339>We also climbed a few metres +higher in yesterday's rift [ rerigged the pitch - new </SPAN><SPAN +class=psispan_340><U>rigging topo:</U></SPAN></P> + +<P class=psiint_4><U>[pic]</U></P> + +<P class=psiint_3>then decided to check out the downstream direction of the +high-level rift, to see if it went anywhere different from downstream rift +at low level (i.e. where we'd come from). It doesn't [appear to], so we +surveyed + derigged it.</P> + +<P class=psiint_3>The remaining lead is to continue climbing + traversing in +the upstream direction. Following upstream at floor level reaches (yet +another) drippy aven but (yet again), a few metres before the aven, it's +possible to climb the rift (which we've now done), and traverse across. +(The rift isn't confusing any more - linear, but hading and winding.)</P> + +<P class=psiint_3>Top cave. Top 4 days. Don't know if I'm going back there, +but somone else should :-} And here's my most important Top Tip: wear +crampons that stay on your feet. Otherwise you end up doing a frighteningly +friendly dance with Olly in order to claw your way out of +Schneevulcanhalle. Euugghh.</P> + +<P class=psiint_4><U>Hilary</U></P> + +<P class=psiint_3>P.S. derigged the bolt traverse (Too Across)* and the +going-the-wrong-direction pitch from Fri 17th.</P> + +<P class=psiloc_341><SPAN class=psispan_342>* (but left the pendule in +place, obviously)</SPAN></P> + +<h1>This logbook is not complete - someone type the rest in....</h1> + +</FONT></BODY> +</HTML> diff --git a/years/2001/log1.gif b/years/2001/log1.gif new file mode 100644 index 000000000..8f58ffc64 Binary files /dev/null and b/years/2001/log1.gif differ diff --git a/years/2001/log2.gif b/years/2001/log2.gif new file mode 100644 index 000000000..b8a06e696 Binary files /dev/null and b/years/2001/log2.gif differ diff --git a/years/2001/log3.gif b/years/2001/log3.gif new file mode 100644 index 000000000..099c69af2 Binary files /dev/null and b/years/2001/log3.gif differ diff --git a/years/2001/log4.gif b/years/2001/log4.gif new file mode 100644 index 000000000..cf4f2db4f Binary files /dev/null and b/years/2001/log4.gif differ diff --git a/years/2001/log5.gif b/years/2001/log5.gif new file mode 100644 index 000000000..af29c15e3 Binary files /dev/null and b/years/2001/log5.gif differ diff --git a/years/2001/log6.gif b/years/2001/log6.gif new file mode 100644 index 000000000..3a32b2c7c Binary files /dev/null and b/years/2001/log6.gif differ