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