From 34886f2b22db0d8ea6a1df34aad680c97bbd2999 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Philip Sargent Date: Sun, 21 Jul 2019 18:50:59 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] more logbook blog postings edited in --- years/2019/logbook.html | 16 +++++++--------- 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-) diff --git a/years/2019/logbook.html b/years/2019/logbook.html index f741151f4..c65dc9ef5 100644 --- a/years/2019/logbook.html +++ b/years/2019/logbook.html @@ -189,7 +189,7 @@ Tom Crossley (11/07/2019) blog post -
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 For months leading up to the start of the expedition the assault on Fish Face had been discussed, 
 carefully planned and plotted over drinks late into the evenings. The entrance being under several 
 meters of snow has been an unfortunate setback. Michael H spent a part of Tuesday evening kneeling 
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 This wouldn't have been half so painful if we hadn't spent the previous evening with 
 Becka getting excited over the survey from last year, with its numerous continuing passages 
 and undropped pitches.
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 As our cave was inaccessible we decided to find another one. Me, Michael H and Reuben spent the 
 next two days tramping back and forward over the plateau looking hopefully down every crack 
 in the limestone pavement waiting for an entrance that connects through to the caves below. 
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 We found lots of promising horizontal entrances leading a few meters to small, drafting holes or 
 choked continuations. The snow plugs in every depression this year have unfortunately probably 
 hidden some entrances. Our most promising cave was a shaft we climbed down on Wednesday which went 
 horizontal, widened out into a reasonably large rift and continued on above a bold climb. 
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 Reuben's exploration fever carried him flailing up the overhanging climb with impressive determination. 
 Sadly after another aven the cave ended in a pair of choked crawls. Reuben then got an introduction to solo 
 surveying when I passed him up the tackle sack, as I had no intentioned of repeating his feat of strength 
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 which led to a remarkably similar cave to the one we had just discovered, which was *definitely* not 
 the same as the first one, according to the first explorer. Once someone else got down there, 
 it was very clearly the cave we had just surveyed.
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 The forecast for the weekend is poor, and most of us are now back in base camp sheltering from the rain. 
 Yesterday's pushing trip down Homecoming ended up being another slightly embarrassing excursion as 
 the team drove up from base camp and 
 walked across the plateau before realising they had not brought any bolts. 
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 The weather is due to improve after the weekend, and pushing trips are planned into 
 Homecoming, Balcony, and into Happy Butterfly 
 which hasn't been touched since 2017.  Happy Butterfly is likely to connect with Fish Face 
 and allow us to bypass the new snowplug, and reclaim what was lost.
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 Peregrina, SUSS
 
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