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 The previous evening we had aborted our trip due to biblical thunder, lightning and 27mm of rain in an hour. We hoped today would be slightly nicer, which to our surprise it was! No gleaming sunshine or warmth, but at least the rain had cleared up.
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 We set off after a bit of faff, which wasn’t helped by the large number of people staying at top camp (everyone from basecamp bar a couple!). We suited up at the entrance, raced to the bottom of the two entrance pitches and headed to the horizontal passage leading on from Vertigo View. The plan of action was to split into 2 groups, Me, Tom B and Ella would survey the horizontal section whilst Ned bolted a traverse line to investigate a window in the far wall of the pitch which lead off the same horizontal section. We sprang into action, and like clockwork steady progress was made, shouting commands at each other like some sort of military drill,
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 <b>“Ready to move?”</b>
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 <b>“Next station please”</b>
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 and so on. The passage continued, sloping up, sloping down and even featuring some fine popcorn wall formations and stals. Eventually we clambered into a small bouldery chamber with a passage leading left and a climb down into a wider chamber on the right. We followed right, and to our horror the wider chamber was in fact the same chamber we had dumped our bags before setting off surveying. Ah well, at least we could see how inaccurate our surveying had been by doing a loop closure, which unexpectedly was only about 0.4m, not bad for such a large loop!
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 We ate some chokolade, flapjacks, and we were soon off surveying again. This time we followed the left passage in the previous chamber. More horizontal crawling passage, which unfortunately choked out with little QMs, apart from a squeeze at some point on the way in located on the right hand side which ended in a grim and tight looking pitch.
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 Rejoining Ned, he had practically finished the traverse line around the pitch and was in the middle of trying to garden the entrance to the window. One huge deliberate boulder fall and a couple more bolts later and he was in, soon after proclaiming “There is a stonking draught! It’s practically bowing my hair”. In the surveying group’s excitement, we hastily popped a station on the traverse line, one at the bottom of the pitch and at the window, continuing from there. We were immediately greeted by another popcorn stalactite, which we carefully avoided and continued to shoot legs down the passage. Ned at this point had buggered off to find more passage, leaving us to survey, which we did until the ceiling lowered to a belly crawl, so we decided to give up (cave phone dying was also a factor) so we could explore ourselves. Preceding the crawl the passage opened up, leading into wider stoopinf passage with funky black dots on the ground, which lead to the fitting name of “a bug’s life”. At the end of this passage we were faced with a calcited climb on the left and a rocky crawl straight on. Taking the straight path, it ended in a rather large pitch, taking a rock 6s to reach the bottom (pinging off the sides), bingo! We needed to slash some height to have any chance of connecting to KH, so this was extremely promising!
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 Shortly after we swiftly headed out, leaving Ned to replace the pulses with through bolts on the popper pitch series, and soon enough we were all back at topcamp in time for a curry.
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