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<h2>Available equipment</h2>
<p>Expo maintains a big top camp first aid kit for plateau injuries
and minor caving damage. It is not designed/intended to go
<p>Expo maintains one big top camp first aid kit, which is in a big grey peli case however it is not designed/intended to go
underground. Plateau falls are actually the biggest risk on expo -
the limestone is sharp and sometimes slippery, the rucksacks are
enormous and heavy. Small personal kits for underground use are also a
good idea, as is a bivi bag or bothy in case of getting stuck for any
reason (as it's damn cold).</p>
<p>There is a rescue grab bag containing underground 1st aid stuff and
brew kit/shelter.</p>
<p>There are two mini-rescue first aid kits in a yellow and an orange peli case. One should be kept at the stone bridge bivy site and the other either at base camp or at any secondary camps. </p>
<p>There is a first response grab bag containing a brew kit and a bovy shelter, as well as a hauling bag containing the necessary stuff to haul people</p>
<p>There is also a stretcher, which should contain a neck collar and googles.</p>
<p>At base camp is more first aid stuff for both replenishment and other
injuries.</p>
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<h2>Training</h2>
There is a caving first aid training session help each year before
expo. Here are the <a href="1st_aid_caving_style.pdf">slides from the
current course</a> (written by Cat Hulse) which provide a lot of good info.
expo. Here are the <a href="1st_aid_caving_style.pdf">slides from a recent course</a> (written by Cat Hulse) which provide a lot of good info.
</body>
<h2>First Aid kit contents</h2>
<table>
<theader>
<tr>
<th>Item</th>
<th colspan="2">Camp kits</th>
<th>Mini-rescue kits</th>
<th>Personal kits</th>
</tr>
<tr>
<td></td>
<td>Start of expo</td>
<td>Minimum</td>
<td>Minimum</td>
<td>Minimum</td>
</tr>
</theader>
<tbody>
<tr>
<th colspan="5">PPE, Scissors, Papaer and pencil</th>
</tr>
<tr>
<td class="item">Pairs of nitrile gloves</td>
<td class="camp start">12</td>
<td class="camp min">6</td>
<td class="minirescue min">6</td>
<td class="personal min">1</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td class="item">Small Scissors</td>
<td class="camp start">1</td>
<td class="camp min">1</td>
<td class="minirescue min">1</td>
<td class="personal min">1</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td class="item">Tuffkuts</td>
<td class="camp start">1</td>
<td class="camp min">1</td>
<td class="minirescue min">1</td>
<td class="personal min"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td class="item">Pencil</td>
<td class="camp start">2</td>
<td class="camp min">2</td>
<td class="minirescue min">2</td>
<td class="personal min">1</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td class="item">Paper</td>
<td class="camp start">5</td>
<td class="camp min">3</td>
<td class="minirescue min">3</td>
<td class="personal min">1</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<th colspan="5">Wound cleaning</th>
</tr>
<tr>
<td class="item">5x5cm sterile swabs</td>
<td class="camp start">30</td>
<td class="camp min">20</td>
<td class="minirescue min">4 (one pack)</td>
<td class="personal min">4 (one pack)</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td class="item">25ml eye wash</td>
<td class="camp start">8</td>
<td class="camp min">4</td>
<td class="minirescue min">5</td>
<td class="personal min">1</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td class="item">Alchol free wipes</td>
<td class="camp start">30</td>
<td class="camp min">15</td>
<td class="minirescue min">10</td>
<td class="personal min">3</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<th colspan="5">Wound dressing</th>
</tr>
<tr>
<td class="item">Eye-pad</td>
<td class="camp start">2</td>
<td class="camp min">2</td>
<td class="minirescue min">2</td>
<td class="personal min"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td class="item">Big fabric plasters</td>
<td class="camp start">5</td>
<td class="camp min">2</td>
<td class="minirescue min">2</td>
<td class="personal min">2</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td class="item">Long fabric plasters</td>
<td class="camp start">5</td>
<td class="camp min">2</td>
<td class="minirescue min">2</td>
<td class="personal min">2</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td class="item">Knuckle fabric plasters</td>
<td class="camp start">5</td>
<td class="camp min">2</td>
<td class="minirescue min">2</td>
<td class="personal min">2</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td class="item">Small fabric plasters</td>
<td class="camp start">5</td>
<td class="camp min">2</td>
<td class="minirescue min">2</td>
<td class="personal min">2</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td class="item">~10x10cm adhesive dressing</td>
<td class="camp start">5</td>
<td class="camp min">3</td>
<td class="minirescue min"></td>
<td class="personal min"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td class="item">Medium dressing</td>
<td class="camp start">2</td>
<td class="camp min">2</td>
<td class="minirescue min">1</td>
<td class="personal min">1</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td class="item">Large dressing</td>
<td class="camp start">2</td>
<td class="camp min">2</td>
<td class="minirescue min">1</td>
<td class="personal min"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td class="item">Ambulancce dressing No. 4</td>
<td class="camp start">2</td>
<td class="camp min">2</td>
<td class="minirescue min">2</td>
<td class="personal min"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td class="item">Ambulancce dressing No. 3/2</td>
<td class="camp start">2</td>
<td class="camp min">2</td>
<td class="minirescue min">2</td>
<td class="personal min"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td class="item">Hypo-allergenic tape</td>
<td class="camp start">1</td>
<td class="camp min">1</td>
<td class="minirescue min">1</td>
<td class="personal min"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td class="item">2.5cm zinc oxide tape</td>
<td class="camp start">1</td>
<td class="camp min">1</td>
<td class="minirescue min">1</td>
<td class="personal min">1 (or gaffer tape)</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td class="item">Pack of steri strips</td>
<td class="camp start">3</td>
<td class="camp min">2</td>
<td class="minirescue min">2</td>
<td class="personal min">1</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<th colspan="5">Sprains, strains, breaks and dressing retention</th>
</tr>
<tr>
<td class="item">7cm roller bandage</td>
<td class="camp start">3</td>
<td class="camp min">2</td>
<td class="minirescue min">1</td>
<td class="personal min">1</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td class="item">15cm roller bandage</td>
<td class="camp start">2</td>
<td class="camp min">1</td>
<td class="minirescue min"></td>
<td class="personal min"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td class="item">Ice pack</td>
<td class="camp start">2</td>
<td class="camp min">1</td>
<td class="minirescue min"></td>
<td class="personal min"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td class="item">SAM splint</td>
<td class="camp start"></td>
<td class="camp min"></td>
<td class="minirescue min">2</td>
<td class="personal min"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td class="item">Gaffer tape</td>
<td class="camp start"></td>
<td class="camp min"></td>
<td class="minirescue min">1</td>
<td class="personal min"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td class="item">Safety pins</td>
<td class="camp start">8</td>
<td class="camp min">4</td>
<td class="minirescue min"></td>
<td class="personal min">3</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td class="item">Triangular Bandage</td>
<td class="camp start">2</td>
<td class="camp min">1</td>
<td class="minirescue min"></td>
<td class="personal min"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<th colspan="5">Drugs see Notes on use</th>
</tr>
<tr>
<td class="item">Paracetamol</td>
<td class="camp start">20</td>
<td class="camp min">10</td>
<td class="minirescue min">4</td>
<td class="personal min">4</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td class="item">Diclofenac</td>
<td class="camp start">3</td>
<td class="camp min">3</td>
<td class="minirescue min">3</td>
<td class="personal min">3</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td class="item">Asprin</td>
<td class="camp start">6</td>
<td class="camp min">2</td>
<td class="minirescue min">2</td>
<td class="personal min"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td class="item">Rehydration Salts</td>
<td class="camp start">2</td>
<td class="camp min">2</td>
<td class="minirescue min">2</td>
<td class="personal min"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td class="item">Ibuprofen</td>
<td class="camp start">9</td>
<td class="camp min">3</td>
<td class="minirescue min">3</td>
<td class="personal min"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td class="item">Loperamide</td>
<td class="camp start"></td>
<td class="camp min"></td>
<td class="minirescue min">8</td>
<td class="personal min"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td class="item">Domperidone</td>
<td class="camp start"></td>
<td class="camp min"></td>
<td class="minirescue min">8</td>
<td class="personal min"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td class="item">Dextrose</td>
<td class="camp start"></td>
<td class="camp min"></td>
<td class="minirescue min">2</td>
<td class="personal min"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<th colspan="5">Survival</th>
</tr>
<tr>
<td class="item">Survival bags</td>
<td class="camp start"></td>
<td class="camp min"></td>
<td class="minirescue min">2</td>
<td class="personal min"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td class="item">Backup lights</td>
<td class="camp start"></td>
<td class="camp min"></td>
<td class="minirescue min">2</td>
<td class="personal min"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td class="item">Tea light candle</td>
<td class="camp start"></td>
<td class="camp min"></td>
<td class="minirescue min">6</td>
<td class="personal min">1</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td class="item">Lighters</td>
<td class="camp start"></td>
<td class="camp min"></td>
<td class="minirescue min">2</td>
<td class="personal min">1</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<th colspan="5">Hygene</th>
</tr>
<tr>
<td class="item">Tampons</td>
<td class="camp start">5</td>
<td class="camp min">2</td>
<td class="minirescue min"></td>
<td class="personal min"></td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table></body>
</html>

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<dd>Info on expo first aid kits and caving first aid course.</dd>
<dt><a href="phone.htm">Phones</a></dt>
<dd>How to use and update the mobile phones on expo.</dd>
<dt><a href="rope_history.html">Rope</a></dt>
<dd>History of our ropes and our retirement plans.</dd>
</dl>
<hr />
<h2>Computing stuff</h2>
<dl>
<dt><a href="update.htm">Website and Data</a></dt>
<dd>This tells you how the website and cave data are arranged, accessed and used.</dd>
<dt><a href="uploading.htm">Uploading files to 'expoimages'</a></dt>
<dd>How to upload photos/reports/surveys/documents/scans to the
filestore section of the website. For larger files that are too fat to
be in the website repository (generaly anything bigger than 200KB).</dd>
<dt><a href="tortoise/tortoise-win.htm">Aled's Windows 101</a></dt>
<dd>A brief, straightforward guide (with pictures!) covering how to get Putty and TortoiseHg working on a Windows PC.
<dt><a href="computer.html">Expo Computer</a></dt>

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<html><head><title>Rope History</title></head><body>
<H1>Rope History</H1>
<p>Rope should be labelled at both ends with "CUCC", the year of first use and the rope length. Rope will typically be retired after 5 years and one expo. The exception to this is where we have guidance from the manufacturer that the rope will last longer and drop testing results indicate the rope is OK.</p>
<p>Rope should be chained only when it is washed and checked. Dirty or unchecked rope may be coiled. Rope should be washed, checked and measured at the end of each expo.</p>
<table>
<theader>
<tr>
<th>Year bought</th><th>Manufacturer</th><th>Type</th><th>Manufacturer Documentation</th><th>Description / Photo</th><th>Drop test results</th><th>(Intended) retirement</th>
</tr>
</theader>
<tbody>
<tr>
<td class="year">2015</td>
<td class="manafacturer">A</td>
<td class="type">B</td>
<td class="docs">None</td>
<td class="desc">None</td>
<td class="droptest">To be tested 2018</td>
<td class="retiretment">Post expo 2020</td>
</tr>
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16GB of stuff which you probably don't actually need locally) To sync
the files from the server to local expoimages directory:</p>
<p><tt>rsync -av expo@expo.survex.com:expoimages /home/expo/fromserver</tt></p>
<p><tt>rsync -av expo@expo.survex.com:expoimages /home/expo</tt></p>
<p>To sync the local expoimage directory back to the server:</p>
<p><tt>rsync -av /home/expo/fromserver/expoimages expo@expo.survex.com:</tt></p>
<p><tt>rsync -av /home/expo/expoimages expo@expo.survex.com:</tt></p>
<p>(do be careful not to delete piles of stuff then rsync back - as it'll all get deleted on the server too, and we may not have backups!)</p>
<p>(do be careful not to delete piles of stuff then rsync back - as it'll all get deleted on the server too, and we may not have backups!). Use rsync --dry-run --delete-after -a to check what would be deleted.</p>
<h3><a id="editingthewebsite">Editing the website</a></h3>
<p>To edit the website fully, you need a mercurial client. Some (static text) pages can be edited directly on-line using the 'edit this page link' which you'll see if you are logged into troggle. DYnamically-generated pages can not be edited in this way.</p>
<p>To edit the website fully, you need a mercurial client. Some (static text) pages can be edited directly on-line using the 'edit this page link' which you'll see if you are logged into troggle. In general dynamically-generated pages can not be edited in this way, but forms are provided for some page-types like 'caves'.</p>
<p>Mercurial can be used from the command line, but if you prefer a GUI, tourtoisehg is highly recommended on all OSes (available on Linux from Debian 6 and Ubuntu 11.04 onwards).</p>
<p>Mercurial can be used from the command line, but if you prefer a GUI, tourtoisehg is highly recommended on all OSes.</p>
<p>Linux: Install mercurial and tortoisehg-nautilus from synaptic,
then restart nautilus <tt>nautilus -q</tt>. If it works, you'll be able to see the menus of Tortoise within your Nautilus windows. </p>
@ -164,10 +164,12 @@ then restart nautilus <tt>nautilus -q</tt>. If it works, you'll be able to see t
<p><tt>hg push</tt></p>
<p>If someone else is editing the same bit at the same time you may also need to:</p>
<p>Before pushing, you should do an <tt>hg pull</tt> to sync with upstream first. If someone else has edited the same files you may also need to do:</p>
<p><tt>hg merge</tt></p>
<p>before pushing again</p>
<p>Simple changes to static files will take effect immediately, but changes to dynamically-generated files (cave descriptions, QM lists etc) will not take effect, until the server runs the expoweb-update script.</p>
<h3><a id="mercurialinwindows">Using Mercurial/TortoiseHg in Windows</a></h3>

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<h2 id="tophead">CUCC Expedition Handbook</h2>
<h1>Uploading photos and files</h1>
<p>The expo website supports 2 basic methods of upload:
<p>The expo website has a big section under 'expoimages' that is not part of the repositories. This section describes how to move files into that area. It supports 2 basic methods of upload:
<ol>
<li>Uploading directly to the file store using scp/sftp/rsync</li>
<li>Uploading to a special 'uploads' directory using Webdav</li>
</ol>
</p>
<p>In both cases you need to know the expo password.</p>
<p>In the former case nothing else needs doing. In the second case an
admin has to move the files to the correct final location, so rememebr
admin has to move the files to the correct final location, so remember
to tell someone you've done it.</p>
<p>Note that uploading photos does not automatically update the view
at <a href="http://expo.survex.com/photos/">http://expo.survex.com/photos/</a>. An
update script needs to be run. This should run once/day around
midnight UTC, but may be broken. Prod a web admin.</p>
midnight UTC, but may be broken. Prod a web admin if nothing is
updated by the next morning..</p>
<h2>Installing FireFTP</h2>
<p>Works on Windows, Mac, Linux, Android.</p>
<p>Works on Windows, Mac, Linux, Android. This is a firefox browser plugin that enables FTP/SFTP uploads using just your browser.</p>
<ol>
<li>Install the firefox web browser. You can download it and find
@ -55,19 +57,20 @@ on the centre of the screen.</li>
<h2>Using scp</h2>
<p>Works on Windows (using winscp), Linux (using scp), and no doubt mac and android with other tools.</p>
<p>Works on Windows (using winscp), Linux (using scp), and no doubt
mac and android with other tools.</p>
<p>The above FireFTP is just one example of a tool that does this job</p>
<pre>
directory: /home/expo/expoimages/photos/2013/YourName
directory: /home/expo/expoimages/photos/2015/YourName
server: expo.survex.com
user: expo
with the usual expo password
protocol: sftp or scp
</pre>
<p>Obviously replace 'YourName' with your actual name (no spaces)</p>
<p>Obviously replace 'YourName' with your actual name (no spaces!)</p>
<p>If you don't have winscp installed you can get it from here:
http://winscp.net/eng/index.php</p>
@ -80,9 +83,9 @@ http://winscp.net/eng/docs/screenshots</p>
<h2>Using Webdav</h2>
<p>This method can only upload under one special 'uploads'
directory. Ask someone tomove your uploaded files to the final
location.</p>
<p>This method can only upload to one special 'uploads'
directory. Ask someone to move your uploaded files to the final
location. But you may not need any extra software.</p>
<p> This is the upload dir: <tt><a href="/expoimages/uploads/">http://expo.survex.com/expoimages/uploads/</a></tt>
<p>You can use 'open as webfolder' on IE, or install this:
@ -91,7 +94,7 @@ firefox, you will get a pop-up box asking for authenticaion for
'expo-uploads'. The user is 'expo', the password is the usual
one. Once done you can just copy files in.</p>
<p>Make a directory like photos/2013/YourName so we know what's
<p>Make a directory like photos/2015/YourName so we know what's
been uploaded.
<p>Command-line people can use the 'cadaver' client which is even

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<explorers>CUCC 2014 (Matt Watson, Sophie Draper, David Walker)</explorers>
<underground_description>7m pitch down large shaft onto snow plug, small passage to the south end in a small chamber. Snow slope down northwards results in a tight passage which becomes too tight.</underground_description>
<equipment>SRT kit</equipment>
<equipment>SRT kit. Plus at least a short bit of rope, we presume ?</equipment>
<references></references>
<survey><a href="/1623/2014-sd-01/2014-sd-01-highres.png"><img src="/1623/2014-sd-01/2014-sd-01-lowres.png"/></a></survey>
<kataster_status></kataster_status>

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OK, executive summary is that theshortlist of things that we ought to be able
to feed to Robert is:
B4 Has tag, survey (ol) and photo (crofton)
1996-WK-11 explored, surveyd, tagged, photoed
2002-AD-03 BergKäseHöhle. Descended and surveyed 2015. wallet 2015#55 Tagged
2002-AD-04 PG: needs survey. Seem to have 2012 survey data
2004-01 76 bivi cave - PG: lived in but no survey !! Seem to have svx refer wallet 2006#6 which has a passable plan and elev
2004-03 PG: tagged, no survey. 6 legs of svx, refer wallet 2006#15 which contains something that could be drawn as a plan
@ -12,7 +15,6 @@ to feed to Robert is:
2014-SD-01 2014 SD 01 looks a convincing set of docs
2006-71 not in PG. see wallet 2006#16
and I think Elaine and Michael have done a survey of 2002-AD-02 this year ?
===================================================================================================
@ -46,7 +48,6 @@ LA40 missing, unsurveyed, untagged, but given a lat/long probably from the
1992-X-01 allegedly refindable, but unmarked and undescended
1996-01 needs survey - coords are pre-SA and believed hopelessly wrong
1996-WK-4 unexplored but coords
1996-WK-11 exploration incomplete (probably chokes), needs survey
1996-WK-12 needs survey, needs retag (2005-89 as no letters in tag kit)
1996-X-01 documented as under 3m long - so should not need an Austrian number
1996-05 apparently a non-CUCC discovery but no evidence of exploration - should be done !
@ -75,11 +76,10 @@ LA40 missing, unsurveyed, untagged, but given a lat/long probably from the
2002-10 needs survey and entrance photo
2002-AD-01 needs survey and entrance photo, and tag
2002-AD-02 needs survey and entrance photo, and tag
2002-AD-03 needs survey and entrance photo, unmarked
2002-AD-04 PG: needs survey. Seem to have 2012 survey data
2002-OB-01 needs survey, tag and more push
2002-W-01 PG says needs survey, but location says "see sketch in survey notes"
2002-W-02 PG: needs survey and tag. Seem to have 2002 svx data
2002-W-02 PG: needs survey and tag. Has 2002 svx data and tag
2002-X-09 unmarked and undescended
2002-X-09b unmarked - just a rock shelter, cannot need a kataster number
2002-X-15 unmarked, needs survey and better description if over 10m
@ -206,7 +206,7 @@ Have got Austrian number, but not actually/adequately documented:
137 no survey or coords but near enough a known cave to refind ?
138 surveyed, but drawing lost
139 surveyed, but drawing lost
140 needs survey
140 needs survey and tag.
141 needs pushed and surveyed, probably mislabelled 131
146 missing, but ought to be refindable from 147, though apparently unmarked, probably undescended
149 missing, but ought to be refindable from 145, though unmarked. needs survey
@ -215,7 +215,7 @@ Have got Austrian number, but not actually/adequately documented:
152 surveyed, but drawing lost
153 needs survey
154 needs survey
155 mostly undescended
155 mostly undescended. Orange paint marked. No tag.
156 needs survey, may go further in a low-snow year
157 needs survey in low snow year, and may link to 107 (PG) but seems to be 2012 survey data
158 drawn survey, but data missing

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<html><head><title>Rope History</title></head><body>
<H1>Rope History<H1>
<table>
<theader>
<tr>
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<a id="id1988-161-26">Monday 5th September 88 Photo trip 161</a><br>
Mark F, Kieth, Ian
Mark F, Keith, Ian
<p>Went in at around 6.30 pm in windy weather all the way down the right hand
route into the main chamber. Took about 6 photo in large chamber with about
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I'm writing this afterwards I can say its a pity there's a compass error on
all the figures 'cos I used a metal torch. This was the first female only
trip. It was a really good trip in spite of the cave being a shitty one and
comeing out with everything brown.
coming out with everything brown.
<p>T/U ~ 7 hours I think !</p>
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<div class="timeug">T/U: 6 hr</div>
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<div class="tripdate" id="t2015-07-09a">2015-07-09</div>
<div class="trippeople">Luke & <u>Joe</u> again</div>
<div class="trippeople">Luke &amp; <u>Joe</u> again</div>
<div class="triptitle">107</div>
<p>Start 11:00 End 19:30</p>
<p>Lucky Luke had been persuaded to go down 107 again with the promise of large cave to be seen. Rigging 'Too Bold For This Spit' wasn't so wet but still not nice! Some new bolts were put in and then we set off for China. We went into 161 searching for the mysterious missing rope - didn't find it but enjoyed 161 which has a very different character to 107. Thedre are some lovely "stone mushrooms" down there (take a camera next time). We had a look down a 'C' lead on the west wall of China ..... Will have to go down and survey tomorrow (Luke).</p>
<div class="timeug">T/U: 8½ hrs</div>
<hr>
<div class="tripdate" id="t2015-07-10a">2015-07-10</div>
<div class="trippeople"><u>Anthony</u> & Mark D</div>
<div class="trippeople"><u>Anthony</u> &amp; Mark D</div>
<div class="triptitle">Tunnocks Entrance Rig</div>
<p>Headed up to Tunnocks with enough rope for the entrance pitch and maybe Caramel Catharsis as well, plus drill in case entrance rig fettling was required. I rigged down following the trail of reflectors which made finding the bolts easy, making only minimal changes to the 2014 rig. There was a substantial pile of snow at the first choss slope (completely bare last year as I recall) and also at other points lower down. At the second choss slope, I spent a while swinging around with skyhooks to see if I could find a way to avoid it completely, eventually concluding that it would be very acrobatic for little gain. I put in an extra bolt for the next descent to replace the Y-hang with bolts miles up in the air on the far wall with a Y-hang on the near side of the drop with an immediate deviation off the far wall. Continued down until the trail of reflectors seemed to indicate an airy-fairy route across the wall. I elected to descend directly to the floor which was covered in relatively fresh snow. There is still some very old ice down there which would make the original route very tedious. Ducks on Ice is open, however, albeit with a higher snow level than I recall from last year. Mark descended the snow slope and discovered an enormous ice stal hanging like the Sword of Damocles right above the way on. Something needed to be done about this, so we retreated to plan our next move.</p>
<div class="timeug">T/U: 6 hrs</div>
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<div class="tripdate" id="t2015-07-11a">2015-07-11</div>
<div class="trippeople">Anthony & <u>Mark D</u></div>
<div class="trippeople">Anthony &amp; <u>Mark D</u></div>
<div class="triptitle">Tunnocks Entrance De-ice</div>
<p>At Ducks on Ice we had discovered an enormous ice stal. While not blocking the way on physically, it was judged to be a serious hazard. The first job of the day was therefore de-icing. Something that two blokes who live in Scandinavia ought to be well qualified for, right ?</p>
<p>[illustration to scan and insert]</p>
<p>[caption for illustration:] 6:1 mechanical advantage system<br/>Specially designed ice-lassoo, brought from Scandinavia and usually used to catch reindeer!</p>
<p>Anyway, the ice stal broke into 1 million pieces, leaving the way on clear of danger. Using the formula for the volume of a cone we calculated the volume of ice and hence the weight of the stal.</p>
<p>V = 1/3 pi r<sup>2</sup> h<br/>r ~ 0.3m, h ~ 5m<br/>V ~ 0.5 m<sup>3</sup><br/>density of ice is 0.8 kg/l<br/>=> weight ~ 400kg. Not good if that landed on yhour toe!!!</p>
<p>After the de-ice, we carried on. Rigged traverse & handline down to start of Caramel Catharsis, then the long traverse & pitch itself. Rope was too short but we "borrowed" a small rope from a handline. Then on to String Theory. Mark didn't like the traverse round "Usual Suspects" but we made it to the top of String Theory after Anthony's fine words of encouragement. Most of String Theory was rigged by Anthony and we exitted feeling pleased with ourselves. Just madde it back to the Stone Bridge before a big storm broke.</p>
<p>V = 1/3 pi r<sup>2</sup> h<br/>r ~ 0.3m, h ~ 5m<br/>V ~ 0.5 m<sup>3</sup><br/>density of ice is 0.8 kg/l<br/>=&lt; weight ~ 400kg. Not good if that landed on your toe!!!</p>
<p>After the de-ice, we carried on. Rigged traverse &amp; handline down to start of Caramel Catharsis, then the long traverse &amp; pitch itself. Rope was too short but we "borrowed" a small rope from a handline. Then on to String Theory. Mark didn't like the traverse round "Usual Suspects" but we made it to the top of String Theory after Anthony's fine words of encouragement. Most of String Theory was rigged by Anthony and we exited feeling pleased with ourselves. Just made it back to the Stone Bridge before a big storm broke.</p>
<p>[full page rigging diagram to scan and insert]</p>
<div class="timeug">T/U: 8 hours</div>
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<div class="timeug">T/U: 9 hr</div>
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<div class="tripdate" id="t2015-07-12a">2015-07-12</div>
<div class="trippeople"><u>Joe</u>, Luke, Jenny & <u>Olly</u></div>
<div class="trippeople"><u>Joe</u>, Luke, Jenny &amp; <u>Olly</u></div>
<div class="triptitle">107/161</div>
<p>"We found the bag!"</p>
<p>Having looked for the bag of rope for over a year, I was happily surprised to find it ...... ! It is now residing at (in a tackle sack) "Too Bold For This Spit". The technical and intellectual info for this trip will now be supplied by Olly (or perhaps Jenny) [continued]</p>
<p>We went through the connection from China into Blown Away / Out and round to Bundestrasse, finding (as Joe said) the errant tackle sack at the junction into the Runnelstone. A small rift on from the last survey station in Bundestrasse had clearly been explored already (by Anthony, Rob + Rob, it seems) but they hadn't realised the big pitch at the end was Korea. Jenny & Joe were able to lean out enough to recognise the pitch head at the end of Land of Confusion, and Disto an approx connection.</p>
<div class="timeug">T/U: 11:45 Olly & Jenny<br/>9 Luke & Joe</div>
<p>We went through the connection from China into Blown Away / Out and round to Bundestrasse, finding (as Joe said) the errant tackle sack at the junction into the Runnelstone. A small rift on from the last survey station in Bundestrasse had clearly been explored already (by Anthony, Rob + Rob, it seems) but they hadn't realised the big pitch at the end was Korea. Jenny &amp; Joe were able to lean out enough to recognise the pitch head at the end of Land of Confusion, and Disto an approx connection.</p>
<div class="timeug">T/U: 11:45 Olly &amp; Jenny<br/>9 Luke &amp; Joe</div>
<hr><div class="tripdate" id="t2015-07-09b">2015-07-09</div>
<div class="trippeople"><u>David</u> & Rachel</div>
<div class="trippeople"><u>David</u> &amp; Rachel</div>
<div class="triptitle">Balcony</div>
<p>Started rigging the entrance. Put in a traverse to avoid the boulder. Moved the rebelay above the big Y-hang.</p>
<div class="timeug">T/U: 4 hrs</div>
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<div class="tripdate" id="t2015-07-10b">2015-07-10</div>
<div class="trippeople"><u>David</u> & Frank</div>
<div class="trippeople"><u>David</u> &amp; Frank</div>
<div class="triptitle">Balcony</div>
<p>Continued entrance rigging and showed Frank around the bottom. At the bottom of the big hang there is a traverse to move the last pitch away from potential rock falls</p>
<p>[big diagram of 2015 rigging needs scanning and inserting]
<div class="timeug">T/U: 4 hrs</div>
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<div class="tripdate" id="t2015-07-11c">2015-07-11</div>
<div class="trippeople"><u>David</u>, Frank & Rachel</div>
<div class="trippeople"><u>David</u>, Frank &amp; Rachel</div>
<div class="triptitle">Balcony</div>
<p>Rachel rigged the 'Natural High' traverse. This is getting slippy so a rope should be left in place. We then pushed the A lead at the end of Dark Arts. After ~20m of passage we hit a large shaft. It looked like the phreatic passage continued requiring an easy traverse...</p>
<div class="timeug">T/U: [not mentioned]</div>
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<div class="tripdate" id="t2015-07-12b">2015-07-12</div>
<div class="trippeople"><u>David</u> & Matt</div>
<div class="trippeople"><u>David</u> &amp; Matt</div>
<div class="triptitle">Balcony</div>
<p>We returned to traverse the shaft. It appeared that the shaft intersected some large horizontal passage ~15m down, so we dropped the pitch only to find a deceptive alcove! A small body-sized tube led to another drippy chamber with a deep hole in the floor. After this disappointment I bolted the traverse only to find the phreatic passage became too small with no draft. There is a second, much deeper pitch, which is likely where the howling gale in Dark Arts disappears to. This is worth dropping but is drippy in dry weather and may be deadly in wet weather.</p>
<p>[sketch survey needs scanned and added]</p>
<div class="timeug">T/U: [not mentioned]</div>
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<div class="tripdate" id="t2015-07-13a">2015-07-13</div>
<div class="trippeople"><u>David</u>, Rachel & Luke</div>
<div class="trippeople"><u>David</u>, Rachel &amp; Luke</div>
<div class="triptitle">Balcony</div>
<p>We tied in the surveys from the 2 previous trips in Dark Arts and pulled the gear back to the main passage. Oh, and I retrieved the hanger I dropped.</p>
<div class="timeug">T/U: 4 hrs</div>
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<div class="triptitle">Team Fiasco go surface prospecting</div>
<p>The plan was to go and find Organhöhle (located by Wookey and Olaf in 2012) plus swing by some of the holes Duncan and I found in the same area in the same year. Since expo was quite sparsely populated, we decided to take advantage of drill availability to drop some of the short pitches we had found. We decided to take two oversuits, two helmets and one SRT kit between us and also some surveying gear to give ourselves the option of verifying that we really had found Organhöhle.</p>
<p>Things did not go entirely according to plan.</p>
<p>We first swung by Tunnocks to pick up an SRT kit. It was at this point that I realised that I hadn't seen any rope being packed. It was hot and fairly late so we pressed on to Balconhöhle from where we took a somewhat roundabout route towards Organhöhle via a subsidiary summit of the Hohes Augsteck. Coming off the back of this, Dan spotted a cave. There is a hole in the side of the cliff leading onto a rift pitch, with another couple of surface shafts above that go to the same place - definitely worth a tag. Since we had a drill, this should have been a quick job. However, a lack of drill bits was going to make it a lot harder. Fortunately, we had a hand bolting kit, so I made up a tag (2015-DL-01) and Dan set about placing a hand bolt for it.</p>
<p>We first swung by Tunnocks to pick up an SRT kit. It was at this point that I realised that I hadn't seen any rope being packed. It was hot and fairly late so we pressed on to Balkonhöhle from where we took a somewhat roundabout route towards Organhöhle via a subsidiary summit of the Hohes Augsteck. Coming off the back of this, Dan spotted a cave. There is a hole in the side of the cliff leading onto a rift pitch, with another couple of surface shafts above that go to the same place - definitely worth a tag. Since we had a drill, this should have been a quick job. However, a lack of drill bits was going to make it a lot harder. Fortunately, we had a hand bolting kit, so I made up a tag (2015-DL-01) and Dan set about placing a hand bolt for it.</p>
<p>Whilst Dan was drilling, I set off in the direction where Mark's GPS said Organhöhle was supposed to be. Found a hole in the right place, and headed back to Dan who had by now stopped drilling - not because the bolt was complete but because the head of the bolt driver had sheared off.</p>
<p>We all trooped over to the Organhöhle candidate entrance, where we could have started surveying.... if we had brought a tape measure. I donned oversuit and helmet and set off to verify that we had the right cave. After a bit of walking / crawling I found a decent sized pitch with two spits for a Y-hang at the top (one of which looks good, and one is shagged) - so I'm pretty sure we've got the right cave. It looks a bit like this:</p>
<p>[sketch plan to scan and insert]</p>
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<div class="tripdate" id="t2015-07-18a">2015-07-18</div>
<div class="trippeople">George, David Walker, <u>Julian</u></div>
<div class="triptitle">Balcony - 90b</div>
<p>Trip to look at Frank's hole east of Pitchfork towards 75c, left. Dave to start work while George & me visited other end. (We'd looked at QMs on route, amended maps, posted George into holes that weren't drawn for him to come out 20m back out of another unknown hole). We looked at the boulder choke in a loose passage and spied a slot up. On the way back to Dave I said "How about I give you a leg up?" "Sure", said George. He reported a big chamber up there. I didn't believe him coz there was no echo, but checked it. Yep. Back at Frank's hole, Dave had already knocked a lid over it and couldn't do anything, so took no time to convert to our lead. George & I surveyed while he investigated pitch opposite. We borrowed him briefly to rig a traverse in the northern passage. It being late and with a callout of 8 pm, we had to rush on out and join the queue at the entrance pitch. NB I'd walked up from base camp with George and Rob that morning, so quite a long day. Also recalibrated 8W-poney 3 times underground with no success.</p>
<p>Trip to look at Frank's hole east of Pitchfork towards 75c, left. Dave to start work while George &amp; me visited other end. (We'd looked at QMs on route, amended maps, posted George into holes that weren't drawn for him to come out 20m back out of another unknown hole). We looked at the boulder choke in a loose passage and spied a slot up. On the way back to Dave I said "How about I give you a leg up?" "Sure", said George. He reported a big chamber up there. I didn't believe him coz there was no echo, but checked it. Yep. Back at Frank's hole, Dave had already knocked a lid over it and couldn't do anything, so took no time to convert to our lead. George &amp; I surveyed while he investigated pitch opposite. We borrowed him briefly to rig a traverse in the northern passage. It being late and with a callout of 8 pm, we had to rush on out and join the queue at the entrance pitch. NB I'd walked up from base camp with George and Rob that morning, so quite a long day. Also recalibrated 8W-poney 3 times underground with no success.</p>
<div class="timeug">T/U: 6 hrs</div>
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<div class="tripdate" id="t2015-07-19a">2015-07-19</div>
<div class="trippeople">George, David Walker, <u>Julian</u></div>
<div class="triptitle">Balcony 90b</div>
<p>Same place, same time. Took compass and clino this time and surveyed up south end to a pitch. George went back to chamber and furtled through a passage to a place where he came out of the bottom. Also climbed up the rift through high wet bit. Meanwhile Dave had done his pitch and balcony ledge traverse to big passage. We surveyed into it, plumbed down, then across hole. At this point I got suspicious of how fast George was taking notes. Turned out he had drawn no diagrams at all. I went to sleep while Gorge got coached by David. Down the end under a low bit, David pushed a rock off a sandy slope. Sounded like the whole world was ending. Even George lost his cool. We cowered against the wall for 20 secs. The reverberating echo on the ceiling made it appear from above. Detackled, Luke and Rob joined us, went and trampled the dead bat in the north end, while George & I bodged a survey drawing in this chamber.</p>
<p>Same place, same time. Took compass and clino this time and surveyed up south end to a pitch. George went back to chamber and furtled through a passage to a place where he came out of the bottom. Also climbed up the rift through high wet bit. Meanwhile Dave had done his pitch and balcony ledge traverse to big passage. We surveyed into it, plumbed down, then across hole. At this point I got suspicious of how fast George was taking notes. Turned out he had drawn no diagrams at all. I went to sleep while Gorge got coached by David. Down the end under a low bit, David pushed a rock off a sandy slope. Sounded like the whole world was ending. Even George lost his cool. We cowered against the wall for 20 secs. The reverberating echo on the ceiling made it appear from above. Detackled, Luke and Rob joined us, went and trampled the dead bat in the north end, while George &amp; I bodged a survey drawing in this chamber.</p>
<div class="timeug">T/U: 6 hrs</div>
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<div class="tripdate" id="t2015-07-16b">2015-07-16</div>
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<div class="timeug">T/U: 10 hrs</div>
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<div class="tripdate" id="t2015-07-20a">2015-07-20</div>
<div class="trippeople"><u>David</u> & Luke</div>
<div class="trippeople"><u>David</u> &amp; Luke</div>
<div class="triptitle">Balcony</div>
<p>We went in Balcony to push 94a and 95a. The passage continued under a boulder which could be climbed up from the far side to reach 95a by an easy 4m free climb. 95a is nice straight walking passage which led to a 3m climb into a chamber with numerous leads. A small pitch may lead to horizontal passage - or it could be another alcove. Traversing around the pitch would provide 2 further leads.</p>
<p>To the left of the climb a large rift can be followed until a climb down requiring a rope is encountered. Before this, a crawling passage was found to the right leading to a 4m pitch. It seems likely that several of these leads are connected.</p>
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<div class="timeug">T/U: [not mentioned]</div>
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<div class="tripdate" id="t2015-07-21a">2015-07-21</div>
<div class="trippeople"><u>David</u> & Mark</div>
<div class="trippeople"><u>David</u> &amp; Mark</div>
<div class="triptitle">Tunnocks</div>
<p>After an early start we got underground at 7:45 and continued to make good progress down to Number of the Beast. Mark added some deviations to the pitch below No. of the B. which is now much better. This pitch now called Widow Twanky's Knicker Elastic. A few other sections were also improved by additional bolts. Upon reaching the tensioned traverse around the large boulder, set up camp and selfishly let me push the next pitch. Below the traverse there are two pitches. The draft is coming from the left one so I put two Y-hangs in and dropped down ~20m to another chamber.</p>
<p>The passage continues down another pitch in a popcorn heavy rift. I was less happy with my rigging here and another Y-hang rebelay should be added. After this ~10m pitch another chamber is reached. Again another pitch ~20m must be dropped. I started putting some bolts in before running out of drill battery. This is quite the lead - the dust from the drill was being blown upwards !</p>
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<div class="timeug">T/U: 9½ hrs</div>
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<div class="tripdate" id="t2015-07-16c">2015-07-16</div>
<div class="trippeople"><u>Rachel</u>, Luke & Mark</div>
<div class="trippeople"><u>Rachel</u>, Luke &amp; Mark</div>
<div class="triptitle">Balkonhöhle</div>
<p>After some unexpeced surface prospecting (read: getting lost) at the left hand valley between Tunnocks and Balcony, we made it into the entrance about 12. Since the Dark Arts had pretty much been killed off, we set our sights on a cluster of A/B leads (85, 86, 87) in the Far Side. Luke rigged the traverse by 60C since the mud here was particularly thick and persistent. It seems like someone blocked all the bolts along here with small stones to prevent them being used again ? (Not mentioned in last year's log book as far as we can see). Unperturbed, Luke set about bolting and soon we reached a second traverse rigged by Mark. There seems to be a minor flaw on the survey where stomping passage leads to a sandy chamber, which is actually a fuck-off 63m pitch. Closer inspection of the survey shows the detail hidden under the sand, and perhaps this could be amended to prevent Luke making any more surprised squeaks & giggles.</p>
<p>After some unexpeced surface prospecting (read: getting lost) at the left hand valley between Tunnocks and Balcony, we made it into the entrance about 12. Since the Dark Arts had pretty much been killed off, we set our sights on a cluster of A/B leads (85, 86, 87) in the Far Side. Luke rigged the traverse by 60C since the mud here was particularly thick and persistent. It seems like someone blocked all the bolts along here with small stones to prevent them being used again ? (Not mentioned in last year's log book as far as we can see). Unperturbed, Luke set about bolting and soon we reached a second traverse rigged by Mark. There seems to be a minor flaw on the survey where stomping passage leads to a sandy chamber, which is actually a fuck-off 63m pitch. Closer inspection of the survey shows the detail hidden under the sand, and perhaps this could be amended to prevent Luke making any more surprised squeaks &amp; giggles.</p>
<p>We turned around and took the long route round to the cluster of leads we were after, following the survey since none of us had been in this direction before. I rigged the P10m and we quickly found the F.O. hole from the other (Far Farside?) side. At 85, 86 it was really loose rock and Luke "scampered" up the climb at 87, finding it was a connection without rigging to 85,86.</p>
<p>Here, Mark's nerves were crushed with all the loose slatey rock that followed with every step Luke made over the pitch 20, so we retreated and tied in the two B leads at 35,36. As the Pre-'15 survey suggests, they do connect, and lead on to a sizeable chamber, which was quite wet and led to two (small) pitches and not a lot else.</p>
<p>Cold, we left</p>
<div class="timeug">T/U: ~7 hrs</div>
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<div class="tripdate" id="t2015-07-17c">2015-07-17</div>
<div class="trippeople"><u>Rachel</u>, Luke & Frank</div>
<div class="trippeople"><u>Rachel</u>, Luke &amp; Frank</div>
<div class="triptitle">Balkonhöhle</div>
<p>Keen and inspired, we took some slings back to Luke's risky climb and followed it up to a chimney climb. Frank followed him up and suddenly backed off exclaiming "fuck me". Luke's opinion on what is free-climbable apparently needs some tuning. Bolts were placed and a path around the pitch to 86A was surveyed. This led to two leads, a right-hand route which finally led to a boulder choke.</p>
<p>Deciding the left hand passage was much more inspiring, we returned the next day.</p>
<div class="timeug">T/U: 8 hours</div>
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<div class="tripdate" id="t2015-07-18c">2015-07-18</div>
<div class="trippeople"><u>Rachel</u>, Frank & Rob</div>
<div class="trippeople"><u>Rachel</u>, Frank &amp; Rob</div>
<div class="triptitle">Balkonhöhle</div>
<p>After showing Rob the sights in Balcony, we continued on the left hand side. It continued much further than we expected, leading to a ~25m chamber containing a 15m pitch and two leads on the far wall.</p>
<p>The lead on the left connected round to 85A, while the right led on up a loose, steep rift. Here a couple of small pitches were found and what seems to be a moraine left by an ice flow. From here, it would get a bit wet and bolting was required, so we upped and left.</p>
<div class="timeug">T/U: 7 hours</div>
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<div class="tripdate" id="t2015-07-19c">2015-07-19</div>
<div class="trippeople"><u>Rachel</u> & Frank</div>
<div class="trippeople"><u>Rachel</u> &amp; Frank</div>
<div class="triptitle">Balkonhöhle</div>
<p>Frank and I returned to continue surveying and kill off a few leads that led off horizontally. There is a huge draught acting [a wide blank - something intended to be added here?], and further exploration is required. Said draught made it too cold to continue after several hours, so we set off to look for the many other groups down Balcony. After dismissing a muddy climb which looked uninviting, we left the search for Julian's group. We followed Turtlehead to warm ourselves up, and ultimately left, considering the small hole Frank had begun digging at the bottom of the entrance series.</p>
<p>A human-sized hole was visible, with a steep tube leading downwards for a few metres. We left our SRT kits and descended, myself somewhat unenthusiastic, making comments like "typical Mendip caver" and "Grrr". However, it soon opened up into a T-junction, with 5m high ceilings, and shattered boulders. We followed the route to the left, a rift leading to a 10m pitch (QM A), with a further QMA climb up a small hole on the left hand wall. It was V. cold down here and seemingly solid boulders were actually fragmented, held together with wishful thinking.</p>
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<div class="trippeople"><u>Wookey</u>, Matt, Sarah (+ Luke)</div>
<div class="triptitle">Balconhöhle - Einundzwanzig leads (Ice cock)</div>
<p>1st expo trip for Sarah, 1st trip to BH for Wook.</p>
<p>Carried gear over after sorting survey stuff so only just underground before midday. Luke showed us the route to the far end + gear dump & the various leads.</p>
<p>Carried gear over after sorting survey stuff so only just underground before midday. Luke showed us the route to the far end + gear dump &amp; the various leads.</p>
<p>Friendly cave, but a fair way to the end. Had a look at the near (wet) side of the pitch to consider rigging. Could be done from this side but prob better from the other.</p>
<>Decided to start beyond 94a lead. Surveyed rift off to left: short passage to dead end with scroffing below. Sarah got to drive DistoX2.</p>
<>Next looked at climb at the end. Dubious-looking pile of boulders with hole at top. Wook shinned up & found it was in fact quite solid. Largish rift at top with ice formations ! Big draught through small hole.</p>
<p>Surveyed up & others followed then explored. Matt shinned up to R on ledge - looks like a lead. Sarah went round corner to find [illegible] aven-base with more ice. Very impressive. Called 'Ice cock'.</p>
<p>Surveyed it all till it was 5:30 & time to go home.</p>
<p>W+S got a bit lost on way out, & Matt overtook, so confusion for a few mins. Soon back together, then in familiar territory, so Matt could get us home. 80m of entrance felt quite long. 500m tomorrow is going to be super-long.</p>
<>Next looked at climb at the end. Dubious-looking pile of boulders with hole at top. Wook shinned up &amp; found it was in fact quite solid. Largish rift at top with ice formations ! Big draught through small hole.</p>
<p>Surveyed up &amp; others followed then explored. Matt shinned up to R on ledge - looks like a lead. Sarah went round corner to find [illegible] aven-base with more ice. Very impressive. Called 'Ice cock'.</p>
<p>Surveyed it all till it was 5:30 &amp; time to go home.</p>
<p>W+S got a bit lost on way out, &amp; Matt overtook, so confusion for a few mins. Soon back together, then in familiar territory, so Matt could get us home. 80m of entrance felt quite long. 500m tomorrow is going to be super-long.</p>
<div class="timeug">T/U: 8 hrs</div>
<p>Passage Desc: Passage on L wiggles to 5m traverse reaching sandy dead-end. Sandy dig & small choked inlet slot back joins into bottom of traverse & accesses bottom of scree below climb to Icecock. On main way, c5 reaches small hole above top chockstone. Climbing through reaches high (25m) hading rift with Icefall on far wall. Ledge ascends NE to climb (QM-B). To L (W) c1 then leads to R with roof lowering. Passage off on R (QM-A). Almost immediately break out into large round space which is bottom of ~40m aven. 8m up on west wall is a space, could be bolted to (QM-B). On R is small pitch in wall QM-C (p7). Ahead, part fallen ice & another ice fall coming from smaller aven on L (QM-X). Beyond is short climb down (QM-B). Draught has been lost here - no doubt it is coming down the pitch.</p>
<p>Passage Desc: Passage on L wiggles to 5m traverse reaching sandy dead-end. Sandy dig &amp; small choked inlet slot back joins into bottom of traverse &amp; accesses bottom of scree below climb to Icecock. On main way, c5 reaches small hole above top chockstone. Climbing through reaches high (25m) hading rift with Icefall on far wall. Ledge ascends NE to climb (QM-B). To L (W) c1 then leads to R with roof lowering. Passage off on R (QM-A). Almost immediately break out into large round space which is bottom of ~40m aven. 8m up on west wall is a space, could be bolted to (QM-B). On R is small pitch in wall QM-C (p7). Ahead, part fallen ice &amp; another ice fall coming from smaller aven on L (QM-X). Beyond is short climb down (QM-B). Draught has been lost here - no doubt it is coming down the pitch.</p>
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<div class="tripdate" id="t2015-07-22a">2015-07-22</div>
<div class="trippeople"><u>Anthony</u> & Wookey</div>
<div class="trippeople"><u>Anthony</u> &amp; Wookey</div>
<div class="triptitle">Tunnocks - pushing below Number of the Beast</div>
<p>The objective of this trip was to clear the surveying backlog and continue the pitch from where David left off the day before. Wookey had misplaced his [Parkin - I'm sure this is a misreado], and was thinking this was a particularly bad day to be without this device - so he was delighted to unearth it from the depths of his dangly bag at the watering hole near Caramel Catharsis.</p>
<p>Uneventful trip to the traverse at the last pitch from 2014 (Magic Glue) where we started the survey - Wookey on book, your narrator wielding the distoX and taking some low quality photos with my point-and-press camera. Tried to shoot a leg from the bottom of Magic Glue to the deviation krab which repeatedly failed. Attempts on the exit met a similar lack of success. So a tape measure will be taken on the next trip. The advice from Jenny is that shooting such a leg in the downward direction often meets with more success.</p>
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<div class="tripdate" id="t2015-07-28c">2015-07-28</div>
<div class="trippeople"><u>Fleur</u>, Viz, Roxy</div>
<div class="triptitle">Tunnocks - Clayton's Cockup</div>
<p>Having arrived on expo to calls from Wookey & Anthony to rig to the Clayton's Cockup leads, I duly obliged.</p>
<p>Having arrived on expo to calls from Wookey &amp; Anthony to rig to the Clayton's Cockup leads, I duly obliged.</p>
<p>Managed to persuade Roxy + Viz to join me, despite tales of an even extra acrobatic entrance series to Tunnocks.</p>
<p>Made very steady progress downwards. Was pleased to remember the way to the top of String Theory & into the West Side Story. Climbs were more strenuous than I remembered. C10 in a tube. P3 with Knotted rope should probably be a real pitch.</p>
<p>Arrive at Clayton's Cock up & started rigging down "Boom Boom Pitch". All Tom's bolts still functional but I added another deviation. 60m rope saw me to the 2013 limit.</p>
<p>Made very steady progress downwards. Was pleased to remember the way to the top of String Theory &amp; into the West Side Story. Climbs were more strenuous than I remembered. C10 in a tube. P3 with Knotted rope should probably be a real pitch.</p>
<p>Arrive at Clayton's Cock up &amp; started rigging down "Boom Boom Pitch". All Tom's bolts still functional but I added another deviation. 60m rope saw me to the 2013 limit.</p>
<p>[Rigging diagram to scan and insert here]</p>
<p>Viz was starting to feel the remoteness, so after I placed a bolt + tied the rope, we left.</p>
<p>But, boy did the lead look good.</p>
@ -423,7 +423,7 @@
<div class="timeug">T/U: 15½ hrs</div>
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<div class="tripdate" id="t2015-07-29c">2015-07-29</div>
<div class="trippeople">Andy & <u>Anthony</u></div>
<div class="trippeople">Andy &amp; <u>Anthony</u></div>
<div class="triptitle">Tunnocks - Pushing Kraken (again)</div>
<p>Zipped back down to Kraken to the point where we had left off two days previously. I wielded the drill to try to execute the rigging plan from the previous trip. I put in another intermediate rebelay that got me down to the edge of mud slope. Here I placed a truly awful rebelay bolt - cratered and overdriven such that the anchor went right to the back of the hole when setting t. Fortunately, I had a bollard with me to hide the evidence.</p>
<p>Heading into new territory, I got lucky when I found a nice overhang with some beautiful clean rock - presumably because part of the ceiling has become the floor in the not too distant past. From here I got a beautiful 40+m hang to the floor, so called Andy to join me.</p>
@ -437,57 +437,57 @@
<div class="trippeople"><u>Rob</u> + George</div>
<div class="triptitle">Beyond Dig Dug</div>
<p>After a helpful surveying lesson from the Futrells a day before, I was ready to try bolting and rigging in a cave. After spending far too much time triple checking that we had all the necessary equipment, we set off into Balcony, aiming to continue where Frank left off. (As a matter of pride, not just because the destination was diabolically close to the entrance).</p>
<p>Heading through Dig Dug, I was shocked to find George [???] with memory of the cave, and was forced to guide him through each section of the short passage. Arriving at the ledge, we decided to traverse. I set up the bolting equipment and got to work. This left George sufficiently bored. I offered the drill to him and he declined, opting instead to explore the cave he had already visited.</p>
<p>Heading through Dig Dug, I was shocked to find George had little memory of the cave, and was forced to guide him through each section of the short passage. Arriving at the ledge, we decided to traverse. I set up the bolting equipment and got to work. This left George sufficiently bored. I offered the drill to him and he declined, opting instead to explore the cave he had already visited.</p>
<p>He arrived back after the traverse was rigged, and proceeded to critically critique the traverse, calling it resource intensive and unnecessary. On the other side we found 2 holes, one bearing north to passage and one more easterly is an entrance to a metre by metre tube.</p>
<p>We surveyed the tube first, noting its remarkable length and draft, but [???], it eventually got too tight, so we decided to leave it to those with more malleable bone structures. In the larger passage we found it led to a balcony overlooking the chamber we rigged, and further on it led to another large chamber, complete with another large, stomping passage to survey, which we would proceed to do the next day.</p>
<div class="timeug">T/U: [not mentioned]</div>
<p>We surveyed the tube first, noting its remarkable length and draft, but alas, it eventually got far too tight, so we decided to leave it to those with more malleable bone structures. In the larger passage we found it led to a balcony overlooking the chamber we rigged, and further on it led to another large chamber, complete with another large, stomping passage to survey, which we would proceed to do the next day.</p>
<div class="timeug">T/U: 6 hrs</div>
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<div class="tripdate" id="t2015-07-27d">2015-07-27</div>
<div class="trippeople"><u>Rob</u> + George + Sarah</div>
<div class="triptitle">Beyond Thunderdome</div>
<p>George and I acquired Sarah, who was to see our promising lead and my traverse. On location the [sorry, Rob, I really can't read this...] as George, insulting both the theory and application of the bolting and rigging. I would not let that faze me, due to the large, obviously going, passagae that we had yet to survey.</p>
<p>This did not go to plan. First we had Sarah make a qu.....[?] descent into the pit so we could document the pitch head it leads to. Then we did the existing [???] of the open passage. It quickly ended in a large boulder choke.</p>
<p>After some frustrated, emotional attempts at digging our way through, we realised it was quite futile. We initially crawled through some holes to survey the rifty things that were [???]ing underneath the passagae. The bottom of the rift was accessible by a rather suspect free climb, so we sent Sarah down for a look. She found that the bottom went nowhere in both directions, so for safety reasons George and I abstained the climb, thus ending a rather disappointing day. We derigged the traverse, hoping it would be used for more fruitful endeavours.</p>
<div class="timeug">T/U: [not mentioned]</div>
<p>George and I acquired Sarah, who was keen to see our very promising lead and my traverse. On location she took the same attitude as George, insulting both the theory and application of the bolting and rigging. I would not let that faze me, due to the large, obviously going, passage that we had yet to survey.</p>
<p>This did not go to plan. First we had Sarah make a questionable descent into the pit so we could document the pitchhead it leads to. Then we did the exciting beginning of the open passage. It quickly ended in a large boulder choke.</p>
<p>After some frustrated, emotional attempts at digging our way through, we realised it was futile. We instead crawled through some holes to survey the rifty things that were aluring underneath the passage. The bottom of the rift was accessible by a rather suspect free climb, so we sent Sarah down for a look. She found that the bottom went nowhere in both directions, so for safety reasons George and I abstained the climb, thus ending a rather disappointing day. We derigged the traverse, hoping it would be used for more fruitful endeavours.</p>
<div class="timeug">T/U: 5hrs</div>
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<div class="tripdate" id="t2015-07-28e">2015-07-28</div>
<div class="trippeople"><u>Elaine</u>, Michael, Matt</div>
<div class="triptitle">Balcony Ice Cock area</div>
<p>Previous trips to the Ice Cock area left two A leads, so two teams went down to push the two leads. The first team consisted of Petem, Ben Wright, Sarah & George, while Michael, Matt and Elaine followed a short period of time later. Upon reaching Ice Cock however, the latter team found the former in their lead - it had connected.</p>
<p>Previous trips to the Ice Cock area left two A leads, so two teams went down to push the two leads. The first team consisted of Petem, Ben Wright, Sarah &amp; George, while Michael, Matt and Elaine followed a short period of time later. Upon reaching Ice Cock however, the latter team found the former in their lead - it had connected.</p>
<p>We met the other team at the head of a small pitch. George was busying himself looking at small scrotty crawls and soon popped out halfway up the aven two others were trying to climb.</p>
<p>I and George's task was then to survey these scrotty crawls. We surveyed around 30-35m of tube of varying size - mostly sandy-bottomed, some with loose choss bottom. We discovered further survey stations at the end of our bit of passage - think it is EinUndZwanzig. Followed another bit of passage parallel to what we'd just crawled through and found ourselves straddling the top of the passage where Ben and Michael were just coming down. Gave them a good surprise.</p>
<p>All 7 underground reconvened at the tackle store before heading out. We did an inventory of what was there and wondered when Jacob, Eliott and Martin (freshly arrived) would go caving. At that moment, Jacob, Elliott and Martin walked round the corner.</p>
<p>J,E & M went on to do a bit of surveying while the other 7 headed out. Split into two teams to avoid traffic jams on the pitches - Michael & George ran out at great speed, followed by Matt & Sarah, then Elaine, Pete and Ben broought up the rear.</p>
<p>J,E &amp; M went on to do a bit of surveying while the other 7 headed out. Split into two teams to avoid traffic jams on the pitches - Michael &amp; George ran out at great speed, followed by Matt &amp; Sarah, then Elaine, Pete and Ben broought up the rear.</p>
<p>Others on this trip will hopefully describe their bits of pushing/surveying elsewhere.</p>
<div class="timeug">T/U: around 8 hours</div>
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<div class="tripdate" id="t2015-07-29d">2015-07-29</div>
<div class="trippeople"><u>Elaine</u> & Ben Wright</div>
<div class="trippeople"><u>Elaine</u> &amp; Ben Wright</div>
<div class="triptitle">Prospecting east of Balcony</div>
<p>With beatiful (or at least decent) weather predicted, Elaine & Ben decided a surface trip was the way to go. Mike Futrell pointed out where he hadn't been /planned to go if he didn't have to leave, and off we set! Turned east off the Balcony path & soon came across a promising hole. Elaine applied helmets kneepads & gloves & sscrotted off past some gämse bones until things became too loose to continue. Came back to discover a shiny tag by the entrance - CUCC 2009 03 :-( Nonetheless took details & photos & have since updated website.</p>
<p>With beatiful (or at least decent) weather predicted, Elaine &amp; Ben decided a surface trip was the way to go. Mike Futrell pointed out where he hadn't been /planned to go if he didn't have to leave, and off we set! Turned east off the Balcony path &amp; soon came across a promising hole. Elaine applied helmets kneepads &amp; gloves &amp; sscrotted off past some gämse bones until things became too loose to continue. Came back to discover a shiny tag by the entrance - CUCC 2009 03 :-( Nonetheless took details &amp; photos &amp; have since updated website.</p>
<p>Next found a big arena enclosed by rock with impressive rock arch entrance - just a bit further on that '09/03'. One promising-looking entrnce goes about 3m.</p>
<p>Then looked at two choss bowls east of this - <u>lots</u> of recent frost-shattering. One potential entrance at N47°41.741' E013°44.594'. ~6m pit with v large boulder at the top. Potential lead SSW under overhang but couldn't really see from any angle & would want rope to check (we didn't any). Nothing else in this area went.</p>
<p>Then looked at two choss bowls east of this - <u>lots</u> of recent frost-shattering. One potential entrance at N47°41.741' E013°44.594'. ~6m pit with v large boulder at the top. Potential lead SSW under overhang but couldn't really see from any angle &amp; would want rope to check (we didn't any). Nothing else in this area went.</p>
<p>Continued on to a grassy (in places boggy) depression with a couple of interesting holes. Looked at most promising - had a tag. Tag tucked in a crevice, Hilti almost completely out - prob. frost shattering (but has someone been there since to ensure tag was safe?) -> tag: CUCC 2002 AD 03 looked promising. ~20ft pitch, potenetially went back underneath, also potential way on slightly to R as looking at pitch from entrance.</p>
<p>GPS N47°41.638' E0139.511' (grassy hollow. Entrance is on W wall of this depression).</p>
<p>It then proceeded to piss it down, so we couldn't look at the other promising lead we had seen, preparing to slip'n'slide our way back to top camp.</p>
<div class="timeug">T/U: ½ hr (Elaine)</div>
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<div class="tripdate" id="t2015-08-01a">2015-08-01</div>
<div class="trippeople"><u>Elaine</u> & Elliott</div>
<div class="trippeople"><u>Elaine</u> &amp; Elliott</div>
<div class="triptitle">Dropping CUCC 2002 AD 03</div>
<p>Having confirmed with Anthony that CUCC AD 03 had not been dropped, the first post-Expo Dinner
task for Elaine & Elliott was to take a look at it. It was Elliott's first ever bolting trip. The
first bolt went in like a dream. Howeer, whilse setting the second bolt (in the best rock we could
task for Elaine &amp; Elliott was to take a look at it. It was Elliott's first ever bolting trip. The
first bolt went in like a dream. Howeer, whilst setting the second bolt (in the best rock we could
find), a large crack appeared around the Hilti, and then the whole bit of rock sheared off. We
therefore decided to name the cave <u>Bergkåsehöhle</u> - Mountain cheese cave.</p>
therefore decided to name the cave <u>Bergkäsehöhle</u> - Mountain cheese cave.</p>
<p>Subsequent bolts were more successful and we dropped the small pitch to a boulder-floored
chamber. The way led on over a suspended boulder floor, past a precarious boulder and on to more
boulders. The terminal chamber had a reasonably strong draught, some kind of lacewing-like insect
and a lot of suspended boulders, both above and below, but no person-sized way on. Elliott insisted
that it was merely eau de death, not the parfum. We went back and surveyed a small downclimb around
halfway along our survey. With a suspended boulder ceiling & floor, possibly held up by magic, this
halfway along our survey. With a suspended boulder ceiling &amp; floor, possibly held up by magic, this
was definitely more along the parfum line of things. 2x C leads in this area, but <u>very</u>
deathy, and neither of us fancied pursuing them. We derigged out and decided to do a spot more
prospecting in the area.</p>
@ -502,27 +502,27 @@ that went nowhere.</p>
<div class="timeug">T/U: 4 h</div>
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<div class="tripdate" id="t2015-08-03a">2015-08-03</div>
<div class="trippeople">Michael, Elaine & <u>Elliott</u></div>
<div class="trippeople">Michael, Elaine &amp; <u>Elliott</u></div>
<div class="triptitle">Purple Lupin Shaft</div>
<p>After being pressured to start pulling gear out of various places, we decided to polish off the
Futrell Shaft. Over a dozen hangers and 200m+ of rope was left in there. With Michael bolting, and
E,ain and I surveying, we were underground by 12:00. Mike's shaft of Tremendous girth really does
Elaine and I surveying, we were underground by 12:00. Mike's shaft of Tremendous girth really does
live up to its nickname! After some 150m of rope work, I swapped positions with Michael on a ledge
at the pushing front, some 30+m from the base of the shaft. Michael started drilling and Elaine and
I some cold & awkward SRT surveying. The new pitch consists of a 55m rope, from a good-sized,
I some cold &amp; awkward SRT surveying. The new pitch consists of a 55m rope, from a good-sized,
10m<sup>2</sup> shelf of solid boulders. A Y-hang from a small gully leads to a re-belay, ~10m
below. Another ~15m to another re-belay, single bolt, before 10m to the floor of the shaft.</p>
<p>No obvious leads, except one small &lt; human-sized crawl, no more than a C-lead. Michael had a
look and was haued out by his feet. Loose boulder-strewn floor with clean walls gave nothing else
away. De-rigging took ~2.30 hours, with the difficult narrow entrance making tackle sack
hauling <u>very</u> hard work. Martin & Jacob helped to get gear back to Top Camp, after meeeting
hauling <u>very</u> hard work. Martin &amp; Jacob helped to get gear back to Top Camp, after meeeting
them at Balconhöhle.</p>
<div class="timeug">T/U: 9 hrs</div>
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<div class="tripdate" id="t2015-08-04a">2015-08-01</div>
<div class="tripdate" id="t2015-08-01a">2015-08-01</div>
<div class="trippeople"><u>Wookey</u>, Matt</div>
<div class="triptitle">107, Smooth Sandy Bottom</div>
@ -601,7 +601,7 @@ joe's rope?
<div class="timeug">T/U: 16 hrs</div>
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<div class="tripdate" id="t2015-08-04a">2015-08-05</div>
<div class="tripdate" id="t2015-08-05a">2015-08-05</div>
<div class="trippeople"><u>Wookey</u>, George</div>
<div class="triptitle">107, Notwindow into Heat Recovery Ventilation</div>
@ -630,7 +630,7 @@ joe's rope?
<div class="timeug">T/U: 6.5 hrs</div>
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<div class="tripdate" id="t2015-08-04a">2015-08-05</div>
<div class="tripdate" id="t2015-08-06a">2015-08-06</div>
<div class="trippeople">Jenny, <u>Wookey</u>, George</div>
<div class="triptitle">107 Derig</div>
@ -663,5 +663,95 @@ immediately before Pushing The Envelope squeeze.</p>
<div class="timeug">T/U: George: 3 hrs</div>
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<div class="tripdate" id="t2015-08-09a">2015-08-09</div>
<div class="trippeople"><u>Wookey</u>, Philip Balister, Sandy Knapp</div>
<div class="triptitle">Document remaining wook-caves (wk12, wk11)</div>
<p>Wook foolishly recorded some entrances whilst wandering in the 1990s, before realising that it's
actually rather unhelpful to just note entrances. Most of those have long been explored and
catalogued but 3 remain in the dataset: wk4, wk11 and wk12. One of my objectives for this expo was
to sort them out. Phil Balister (a caver/geek Wookey knows who was holidaying in Bad Aussee)
volunteered to help out as a way of seeing what our area is like. His partner Sandy came along too for a looksee.</p>
<p>
The caves are somewhat scattered. wk12 is on the Schwarzmoos Sattel, wk11 is near the top of the Vord and wk4 is down the back of the vord, below Eishöhle. Also the rope and gear was at 107. THe plan was to try and relocate the caves, taking enough gear to actually look in, hopefully having time to visit Eishöhle too and bring some rope down from 107. And to start nice and early to minimise the time in the boiling heat of midday. Needless to say this plan proved to be hopelessly ambitious. </p>
<p>Some research showed that wk12 had in fact been surveyed, photoed and tagged (2005-89) in 2005 on
a trip with Dave Loeffler. So that was used as a check that the GPS co-ords matched the real world. It was easily found on the col, along with B4. Both were photoed and a quick sketch of B4 done.</p>
<p>Then we headed over to 107 to fish out a suitable shortish (thin, light) rope, SRT kit,
helmet+light, distoX2, hangers, sling. We also had tags, notebook, pencils. We staggered over from
107 with the rest of the rope and a T-sack which didn't strap on anywhere, and left that gear at the
end of the plateau 'crack', for collection on the way back if we had time. Sandy decided she had the general idea now, as as her new hip and knackered knees slow her down significantly, headed back to the car park, whilst we slogged up the Vord. The cave was only 650m away according to phone GPS, but it took a good, sweaty, while to get that down to 170m by reaching the peak of the Vord. We signed the book, noting that Wook was last there in 2005, and most visitors come in Feb and March, and thus must ski there.</p>
<p>
We headed down the shelves on the SE side of the Vord, and soon found a good schacht. This was between 'p140' and 'gps00.140' so seemed very likely to be 140. We could find no sign of a tag, or rigging for descent. Looks a fine hole - really should be properly rigged and documented. Pressing on we soon got to a large hole below, '155' according to the GPS, and indeed it has '155' written on it in orange paint which has stod the test of time well.
</p>
<p>Now we were only 76m from the fabled wk11. Passed a great big rift cave too big to ignore on the left, on shelf below 155, but no sign of tags/paint. Hard to believe given size of it. Pressed on and had to ignore another 12m+ shaft nearby quite hard. Phil couldn't quite cope with the idea of ignoring such good holes, but Wook pointed out that sorting out wk11, but adding another undescended entrance instead would not improve the situation at all. Some more wandering showed no cave at al at the actual GPS location, but the big rift was within 50m, fit the description and was exactly the sort of thing that would be very hard to ignore.</p>
<p>The cave has a steepish slope, mostly snow-covered, going out of sight about 15m down. We GPSed
it, then started survey. Phil put in the handbolt whilst wook belayed off a couple of boulders and
descended. Turned out to go further than expected. 20m-ish rope wasn't quite long enough, but snow
slope leveled out enough to make ginger descent possible. At the bottom it closes down and the open
way on is slightly too small for a person, certainly one in shorts+t-shirt, but there is a decent
ingoing draught. It looks like a few mins moving rocks and some actualy caving gear might make it passsable.</p>
<p>Solo surveying is possible with a distoX, although still a fag as you have to check lines, mark both ends and then survey. Getting a shot out into the very bright sunshine prooved too hard, so that shot was done downwards on the exit.</p>
<p>It was now 4pm and we had to be back at the carpark by 6pm as Phil+Sandy had a restaurant slot
booked. A Tag 'WK11' was hastily prepared (by penknife scratching as we had no stamps) and attached, and we packed up and left ASAP, except of course that we are still lost in the karren, with the nipple visible quite some distance away. (There was clearly no time for a look at Eishöhle or for wk4 - those would have to wait for another day). The going was mostly not too bad but we did get stopped by Bunde and big (15m) drops into holes in a couple of places. Soon saw a couple of rucksacks, which were ARGE ones at 158 (Donner und Blitzen Hohle). This was helpful as we could now track faint bootprints to get ourselves out of there (There was bugger-all cairning). Eventually got to the nipple where the path become a lot easier to follow. Slogged on for some time, eventually getting to the Storgerweg, for a mere 25mins hike back to the carpark. We had 20 mins to spare on deadline, but it was bloody hard work.</p>
<p>Still, objective of making wk11 katasterable achieved, and thinks muchly to Phil for helping carry the crap.</p>
<div class="timeug">T/U: Wook: 30mins</div>
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<div class="tripdate" id="t2015-08-11a">2015-08-11</div>
<div class="trippeople"><u>Wookey</u>, Sam Wenham</div>
<div class="triptitle">Search for remaining wook-cave (wk4)</div>
<p>Only one cave from the 1995/6 wanderings left:wk4, found when attempting to walk down from 161d to
the Stogerweg in 1995 to see if it was a better route than back over the col (it wasn't).</p>
<p>Wook and Sam set off at an unheard-of early 7am partly to get Luke up the hill in time to do
something before derigging, and to avoid the worst of the heat of the day, at least to start
with. As we walked past the Bla-Alm turnoff we were ahiled from up the hill, by ChrisD, Anthony,
Elliot and Michael who wanted to leave rope in our car. Key arrangments were made, updates given and
we carried on our way.</p>
<p>Not hard to follow the Eishöhle path, passing numerous caches of ARGE gear along the way (142,
the nipple, Eishöhle 40a). 216 has more cold air than I remember and 40h is transformed. The crawl
is now a 4-5m-high passage with the old bolts stranded in the ceiling - soon you won't need any ice
gear at all to get in. It was very nice to sit in the fridge as huge amounts of cold air spilled out
of the entrance, but soon enough we had to get on with the task at hand.</p>
<p>Found it remarkably easy to get down the hill about 100m back from 216, where there is a path
down past 40d. The tag on this entrance is a rather long way from the cave now, presumably due to
shrinking snowfield at the entrance. Carrying on down here got us to a nice traverse level below the
main cliff here, into a large grassy amphitheatre - very nice spot. This was only 50m from pwk4, but
this GPS point was before Selective Availabilty was turned off, so somewhat unreliable, potentially
compounded by the steep hilside. The actual point was at the edge of the grassy area, which wasn't
right, as it was on a shelf, with bunde either side, and a notable rectangular hole, hard to
traverse past, and directly above the hochlapf sattel.</p>
<p>The terrain South of the grassy amphitheatre seemed about right, but it's quite heavily
bunded. The cave should be on a nice easy route, as it was found when taking the easiest route down
the hill, but 3 hours of wandering round, bashing a lot of bunde, and trying to find every possible
traverse level, found no sign of the bloody hole. It just made us both very hot, scratched, and
tired. I now have a tracklog of a large number of places that this cave is not.</p>
<p>Surprised to find a red-paint marked path here (which leads to the stogerweg), and an arrow on
the stogerweg pointing to a slightly higher path in the same area. Aparently more people come this
way than you might think (hunters?).</p>
<p>Eventually we gave up, having given it our best shot, and trogged back along the stogerweg (which
is actually very easy to get to from this area using the paths. Took best part of 2hours to walk back to the carpark. We were really quite tired.</p>
<p>Reading the logbook entry for the original discovery, I wonder if it is perhaps lower down?</p>
<p>So, that was a very frustrating day. We can move this cave to the 'mostly lost' pile.</p>
<div class="timeug">T/U: 2 mins in 216</div>
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<H1>Post expo 2015 required first aid items</H1>
<H2>204 camp kit</H2>
<UL>
<li>30 sterile swabs</li>
<li>17 alcohol free wipes</li>
<li>2 large bandages</li>
<li>2 #4 Ambulance dressings</li>
<li>1 hypo-allergenic tape</li>
<li>1 zinc oxide tape</li>
<li>1 15cm crepe bandage</li>
<li>1 lighter</li>
<li>1 candle</li>
</UL>
<H2>Mini rescue kit Yellow (Base camp)</H2>
<UL>
<li>1 survival bag</li>
<li>1 back up light</li>
<li>2 Dextrose</li>
<li>2 large dressing</li>
</ul>
<H2>Mini rescue kit Orange (204)</H2>
<UL>
<li>2 survival bag</li>
<li>2 back up light</li>
<li>2 Dextrose</li>
</ul>
<H2>Personal kit 1</H2>
<UL>
<li>1 Pencil (short)</li>
<li>1 Scissors</li>
<li>1 pack sterile swabs</li>
<li>1 pack of sutures</li>
<li>3 safety pins</li>
<li>1 candle</li>
<li>1 lighter</li>
<li>5 alcohol free wipes</li>
</ul>
<H2>Personal kit 2</H2>
<UL>
<li>1 Pencil (short)</li>
<li>1 Scissors</li>
<li>1 pack sterile swabs</li>
<li>1 pack of sutures</li>
<li>3 safety pins</li>
<li>1 candle</li>
<li>1 lighter</li>
<li>5 alcohol free wipes</li>
</ul>
<H2>Personal kit 3</H2>
<UL>
<li>1 Pencil (short)</li>
<li>1 Scissors</li>
<li>1 pack sterile swabs</li>
<li>1 pack of sutures</li>
<li>3 safety pins</li>
<li>1 candle</li>
<li>1 lighter</li>
<li>5 alcohol free wipes</li>
</ul>
<H2>Personal kit 4</H2>
<UL>
<li>1 Scissors</li>
<li>1 pack sterile swabs</li>
<li>5 alcohol free wipes</li>
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<h1>stuff left at top camp</h1>
<h2>Plastic Chest 1</h2>
<ul>
<li>150 noodles</li>
</ul>
<h2>Plastic Chest 2</h2>
<ul>
<li>2 Cooking Stoves</li>
<li>Cooking stove stand (grille)</li>
<li>Foil heat shield</li>
<li>1.5 bottles of gas</li>
<h2>Food-Drum 1</h2>
<ul>
<li>120 currys</li>
</ul>
<h2>Food-Drum 2</h2>
<ul>
<li>10kg cous cous</li>
<li>2kg sugar</li>
<li>900g powdered mash potato</li>
<li>3kg flapjack</li>
<li>3 bags of sweets</li>
<li>15 packets of chinese sauces</li>
<li>1 1/2 bottles of relish</li>
<li>2 bottles of sweet chilli sauce</li>
<li>19 jars of pesto (mostly tomato)</li>
<li>Half tub of non-instant coffee</li>
<li>400g hot chocolate</li>
</ul>
<h2>Food-Drum 3</h2>
<ul>
<li>173 plain oatso packets</li>
<li>123 golden syrup flavoured oatso packets</li>
<li>7 toilet rolls</li>
<h2>Daren drums-small/medium</h2>
<ul>
<li>muesli</li>
<li>the right custard</li>
<li>conservation tape and marker pen</li>
<li>1kg hot chocolate</li>
<li>500g mash potato</li>
<li>2kg sugar</li>
<li>200 tea bags</li>
<li>Blowtubes and drill bits</li>
<li>500g cous cous</li>
<li>10l soup packets</li>
<li>Expo brew kit</li>
<li>tagging kit (missing 'K' and 'T'</li>
<li>Tagging kit numbers</li>
<li>30 spits and cones</li>
<li>2 grease syringes</li>
<h2>rescue stuff</h2>
<li>vango storm shelter 4 person</li>
<li>first response grab bag</li>
<li>rescue bag with stretcher</li>
<h2>electrical stuff</h2>
<li>NiCd NiMH universal battery charger</li>
<li>multimeter</li>
<li>propeak charger x2</li>
<li>multi usb charger</li>
<li>inverters x2</li>
<li>makita charger</li>
<li>makita battery adapter</li>
<li>solar panel chargers/batteries x2</li>
<li>car batteries x2</li>
<li>solar panels x6</li>
<h2>first aid</h2>
<li>top camp first aid kit in grey peli case</li>
<li>first response first aid kit in orange peli case</li>
<h2>bedding</h2>
<li>roll mats x14</li>
<li>pieces of roll mat x5</li>
<li>shagged air beds x14</li>
<li>camps beds x9</li>
<h2>bivvi stuff</h2>
<li>yellow box of bolts and hangers</li>
<li>inglesport bag of thick bivvi rope</li>
<li>small blue rubble sack of paracord</li>
<li>1 brown tarp</li>
<li>3 green log tarps</li>
<li>white tarp for main bivvi</li>
<li>white tarp for annex</li>
<li>shagged blue tarps x5</li>7
<li>big green tarp</li>
<li>small blue tarps</li>
<h2>surveying gear</h2>
<li>9 tape measures</li>
<li>7 notebooks</li>
<li>20 pencils</li>
<li>7 mostly empty nail varnishes</li>
<li>therion protractors</li>
<h2>pots and pans</h2>
<li>2 kettles</li>
<li>7 mess tins</li>
<li>3 large pans</li>
<li>3 small pans</li>
<li>2 bowls</li>
<li>3 plates</li>
<li>6 cups</li>
<li>1 thermos mug</li>
<li>2 pan handles</li>
<li>1 spork</li>
<li>8 forks</li>
<li>6 spoons</li>
<li>1 tin opener</li>
<li>1 knife</li>
<li>8 tupperware boxes</li>
<h2>other</h2>
<li>30 reflector strips</li>
<li>75 hangers and maillons incl 30 ring hangers</li>
<li>8 snap gates</li>
<li>10 bin bags</li>
<li>3 black water bins</li>
<li>peli case with surveys</li>
<li>miscellaneous items in black dry bag</li>
<li>6 rope protectors in black dry bag</li>
<li>100 hiltis</li>
<li>2 rolls of gaffer tape</li>
<h2>bolting things</h2>
<li>2 crow bars</li>
<li>1 chisel</li>
<li>1 lump hammer</li>
<li>9 setters</li>
<li>3 </li></body></html>