From 2cbeabe08a1aecc04f29af2663e4bb5d5af04e35 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Wookey <wookey@wookware.org> Date: Wed, 7 Aug 2024 04:36:34 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] Add Mongol Rally rigging trip --- years/2024/logbook.html | 69 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 69 insertions(+) diff --git a/years/2024/logbook.html b/years/2024/logbook.html index 0d6fe05d3..8f461b44e 100644 --- a/years/2024/logbook.html +++ b/years/2024/logbook.html @@ -731,6 +731,75 @@ The tag for p2018-dm-04 is in the foreground, the tackle sack is near the beginn <hr /> +<div class="tripdate" id="2024-07-19c">2024-07-19</div> +<div class="trippeople"><u>Wookey</u>, Jono</div> +<div class="triptitle">Balconhoehle - Rigging Mongol Rally</div> + +<p>Walked up to top camp in the evening ready for trip down +Balkonhoehle to get Mongol Raly rigged with Jono. I was somewhat +perplexed to find no sign of Jono, and still not as it went dark. He +eventually turned up about 10am the next morning. We had our gear to + carry over so it wasn't a particularly early start.</p> + +<p>I had forgotten a load of the upper passages, but did at least +remember the obscure left turn for Honeycomb/Mongol Rally. Soon enough +we arrived at the end of the rigging part-way down hangmans, complete +with a rigging diag, some rope and a drill. Jono did this one, +complaining at the bottom that the bolts didn't match the diagram, +rigging a 2-bolt rebelay as a rather peculiar deviation. We realised +that we were starting part-way down the rigging diagram, not the top, +so he went back up to put it right whilst I continued to start Mongol +Rally. Dragging the gear through was the usual faff (someone should +just take a spade and make that crawl bigger).</p> + +<p>So now it was my turn and I suited up with Anthony's nice new drill +and 125m of rope. The 25m didn't quite reach across the traverse with +a big thread round a boulder, so I put a bolt in the roof to improve +the rigging (another one just over the hole in the floor would make +the traverse line a lot more useful, I later realised). The rock was +impressively cheesy, with about 20mm of goo to remove before getting +to actual rock.</p> + +<p>The rigging diagram suggested another bolt near the top so I added +one about 6m down on a nose to the right, only to realise that one had +probably already been done some previous year. I also realised at this +point that the tape on Anthony's drill bit was set rather too short +for reliable bolt-setting so adjusted it to give an extra 10mm of +hole. I then added another bolt on the left, replacing one in the +maximum rub-spot just under a lip (very odd placement). This finally +removed all the rubs on this top slope and actually made the +changeovers nicer, so I think it's an improvement. </p> + +<p>Next dilemma was whether to use the bolt on a nose (with hanger +left behind) or the reflectored bolt on the well-used muddy route. The +nose was harder to get to but gave a nicer hang (and was suggested on +the rigging diagram). With a sling to help the changeover it actually +worked quite well, although maybe the obvious route would also work +fine - there is no way of knowing without trying both and I had faffed +enough by now. Continued down for another hour or so rigging +rebelays. The rigging guide is accurate. Hummed and hawed some more at +the odder bits of rigging trying to work out what 'better' might look +like. Left one bit (with a nearly horizontal deviation) some extra +rope to come back to and add a bolt if time allowed but pressed on +until the rope ran out, just on the same ledge that had had a knot +pass in 2022. Looks like that is where 100m gets you to.</p> + +<p>We were out of time so called it a day and headed off out, only +realising on the way out that the rope bag we had left contained a +note 'top of mongol rally' in it so we had used the wrong one (misled +by the '25m' rope in the top matching the '25m' rope marked on the +topo for the traverse. Oh well.</p> + +<p>Got out around 11:30, having had a very satisfying trip, Jono had +finally got underground and enjoyed himself. It was a chill trip with +almost zero stress, and we'd done enough to make a camping trip +feasible next time.</p> + +<div class="timeug">T/U: 10.5 hours</div> +<div class="editentry"><br /><a href="/logbookedit/2024-07-19c">Edit this entry</a><br /></div> + +<hr /> + <div class="tripdate" id="2024-07-20a">2024-07-20</div> <div class="trippeople"><u>PS</u>,Christian,Colin,Harry,</div> <div class="triptitle">Bascamp - New arrivals</div>