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<p style="text-align:center"><em>Frontispiece</em>
<br>
<br>
<br>
<hr />
<div class="log-entry">
<div class="tripdate" id="t2018-07-10a">2018-07-10</div>
<div class="trippeople"><u>Tom Crossley</u>, Dickon Morris</div>
<div class="triptitle">Balkonhoehle/264 - 1<sup>st</sup> rig</div>
<div class="timeug">T/U: 4 hours</div>
<div class="tripdate" id="t2018-07-10a">2018-07-10</div>
<div class="trippeople"><u>Tom Crossley</u>, Dickon Morris</div>
<div class="triptitle">Balkonhoehle/264 - 1st rig</div>
<div class="timeug">T/U: 4 hours</div>
<p>
Rigged entrance pitch as far as second deviation but found deviation tat (meant to be in-situe)
had been removed along with hanger. Dickon spent 10+ minutes swinging to find bolt but it could not be found.
Returned to surface leaving rope and rigging gear at last rigged Y-hang.
</p>
</div>
<p>
Rigged entrance pitch as far as second deviation but found deviation tat (meant to be in-situe)
had been removed along with hanger. Dickon spent 10+ minutes swinging to find bolt but it could not be found.
Returned to surface leaving rope and rigging gear at last rigged Y-hang.
</p>
<hr />
<div class="tripdate" id="t2018-07-10b">2018-07-10</div>
@@ -85,7 +81,7 @@ Photo: Mark's phone at 17:00
<img src="logbook1.jpg" width=100%>
<!-- <div class="timeug">T/U: 4 hours</div> -->
<div class="timeug">T/U: 4 hours</div>
<hr />
<div class="tripdate" id="t2018-07-12a">2018-07-12</div>
@@ -117,8 +113,6 @@ shafts for most of the day, but promising end of the day with two good leads. Co
claimed to have discovered one of the better finds 2 hours before we found it. This is heavily disputed and questionable.
</p>
<p><b>CUCC 2018 DM01 +</b><br />
Jon's phone DD 47.69781N 13.81647E<br />
4m climb to cobble floor. Crawl under arch leads to 2m deep hading rift. Choked.</p>
@@ -149,8 +143,7 @@ Small passage in roof above pitch ledge to left continues 30m through narrow cra
<p><b>CUCC2018 DM07 -</b><br />
Jon's phone DD 47.69429N 13.80534E<br />
Large open shaft. In, down over snow plug 30m. 2 consecutive pitches. First 5m, 2nd unknown.</p>
<div class="timeug">T/U: 0 hours</div>
<hr />
<div class="tripdate" id="t2018-07-13a">2018-07-13</div>
@@ -270,7 +263,7 @@ which landed perfectly on a boulderabove an estimated 50m-100m drop, named Gromm
Out of rope so we surveyed out.
<p>
<div class="timeug">T/U: ?? hours</div>
<div class="timeug">T/U: 0 hours</div>
<hr />
<div class="tripdate" id="t2018-07-18a">2018-07-13</div>
@@ -281,7 +274,6 @@ Out of rope so we surveyed out.
<img src="logbook4.jpg" width=100%>
<div class="timeug">T/U: 0 hours</div>
<hr />
@@ -327,6 +319,7 @@ and headed out.
<div class="tripdate" id="t2018-07-09">2018-07-09</div>
<div class="trippeople"><u>Lydia Clare Leather</u>, Mike Butcher, Michael Holliday</div>
<div class="triptitle">Fisch Gesicht</div>
<p>
Rerigged the cave entrance, to pendulum pitch and all the way to blitzen boulavard.
<div class="timeug">T/U 8 hours</div>
@@ -334,6 +327,7 @@ Rerigged the cave entrance, to pendulum pitch and all the way to blitzen boulava
<div class="tripdate" id="t2018-07-10">2018-07-10</div>
<div class="trippeople"><u>Lydia Clare Leather</u>, Mike Butcher, Michael Holliday</div>
<div class="triptitle">Fisch Gesicht, pushing to liquid luck</div>
<p>
Pushed past survey station 14C, found the phreatic tube lead to a small chamber (pissing pot) then continued left to a big pitch. Bolted, Rigged. Michael nearly killed Lydia --> called liquid luck.
<div class="timeug">T/U 10 hours</div>
@@ -341,6 +335,7 @@ Pushed past survey station 14C, found the phreatic tube lead to a small chamber
<div class="tripdate" id="t2018-07-13d">2018-07-13</div>
<div class="trippeople"><u>Lydia Clare Leather</u>, Mike Butcher, Michael Holliday</div>
<div class="triptitle">Fisch Gesicht, pushing phreatic flies and surveying liquid luck</div>
<p>
Surveyed from 14C to 22. Michael bolts, lydia and Mike survey. Mike made a dry stone wall. Mike found Toto chamber.
<div class="timeug">T/U 14 hours</div>
@@ -348,6 +343,7 @@ Surveyed from 14C to 22. Michael bolts, lydia and Mike survey. Mike made a dry s
<div class="tripdate" id="t2018-07-14">2018-07-14</div>
<div class="trippeople"><u>Lydia Clare Leather</u>, Mike Butcher, Michael Holliday</div>
<div class="triptitle">Fisch Gesicht, Pushing Urinal and fettling rope/rigging</div>
<p>
Mike and Michael did more dry stone walling. More gardening. Followed the free attic opposite liquid luck ledge ti findthe Urinal. Bolted and rigged to an awkward body sized squeezing, thatr smelt of pee, having pissed down B. Boulavard. But possible free attic continuation.
<div class="timeug">T/U 7 hours</div>
@@ -406,6 +402,7 @@ Tom joined Mike and Lydia, surveyed free attic frys and Urinal, found thgat Urin
<img src="logbook5.jpg" width=100%>
<br>
<div class="timeug">T/U 0 hours</div>
<hr />
<div class="tripdate" id="t2018-07-17rg2">2018-07-17</div>
@@ -415,7 +412,7 @@ Tom joined Mike and Lydia, surveyed free attic frys and Urinal, found thgat Urin
<p>Hangmans's Traverse is not here: redrawn later. See 20/7/2018.
<img src="logbook6.jpg" width=100%>
<br>
<div class="timeug">T/U 0 hours</div>
<hr />
<div class="tripdate" id="t2018-07-17rg3">2018-07-17</div>
@@ -439,7 +436,6 @@ Tom joined Mike and Lydia, surveyed free attic frys and Urinal, found thgat Urin
<img src="logbook10.jpg" width=100%>
<br>
<hr />
<div class="tripdate" id="t2018-07-18b">2018-07-18</div>
<div class="trippeople"><u>Philip Sargent</u></div>
@@ -585,11 +581,8 @@ and Snail Trail Traverse (20m after Snail Trail climb)<br>
<p>[See <a href="#t2018-07-26h">continuing Mongol Rally rigging guide</a>]</p>
<div class="timeug">T/U: 11.5 hours</div>
<hr />
<hr />
<div class="tripdate" id="t2018-07-20a">2018-07-20</div>
<div class="trippeople"><u>Nadia</u>, Adam A</div>
<div class="triptitle">Snagged and Shagged (shallow levels) & Rigging Guide</div>
@@ -617,7 +610,6 @@ top of big block with a sling.
<div class="timeug">T/U: 6 hours</div>
<hr />
<div class="tripdate" id="t2018-07-19a">2018-07-19</div>
<div class="trippeople"><u>Anthony</u>, Luke</div>
@@ -692,7 +684,7 @@ and left the other labelled as a QMB. Reason being: it's clean washed, and it lo
<hr />
<div class="tripdate" id="t2018-07-19b">2018-07-19</div>
<div class="trippeople"><u>Chris Densham ?</u></div>
<div class="trippeople"><u>Chris Densham</u></div>
<div class="triptitle">Notes on Cave Radio 'Systeme Nicola'</div>
<p>
The top camp (Steinbrucken) set transmits perfectly with the antenna
@@ -710,10 +702,9 @@ with the set.
<p>
PLEASE RETURN ALL 3 SETS TO CHRIS DENSHAM, OXFORD. ALSO PLEASE RETURN THE 3
ALPINEXES.
<br>[anonymous but presumably Chris D.]]
<div class="timeug">T/U: 0 hours</div>
<hr />
<div class="tripdate" id="t2018-07-19c">2018-07-19</div>
<div class="trippeople"><u>Anthony</u>, Luke, Frank</div>
@@ -746,7 +737,6 @@ as a less-than-successful short-cut.
<div class="timeug">T/U: 3.5 hours</div>
<hr />
<div class="tripdate" id="t2018-07-20b">2018-07-20</div>
<div class="trippeople"><u>Anthony</u>, Lydia, Phil W</div>
@@ -782,7 +772,7 @@ procured from Blackpool Pleasure Beach,or some suitable Photoshop wizardry.
<hr />
<div class="tripdate" id="t2018-07-24">2018-07-24 to 26</div>
<div class="trippeople"><u>Anthony</u>, Lydia, Chris</div>
<div class="trippeople"><u>Anthony</u>, Lydia, Chris D</div>
<div class="triptitle">Tunnocks Camping Trip</div>
<p><b>Day 1</b></p>
@@ -791,14 +781,14 @@ A leisurely start saw the intrepid team heading in with rather more gear than
had been anticipated. Dumped one of the new brew kits into the dry bit below
Procrastination, then picked up a pit at the top of Inferno which necessitated
some re-packing. Arrived at camp where Chris proceeded to set up the radio, placing
one end of the antenna in therwater hole and the other end in a
one end of the antenna in the water hole and the other end in a
convenient mud bank at the downhill end of Kraken chamber.
Meanwhile, I completed the rig of Tentacle Traverse and Octopussy.
<p>
Reunited, we headed on towards Beckoning Silence.Teekering(?) up the parallel ramp from the
bottom of Octopussy was entertaining due to some over-enthusiastic derigging
that had left it ropeless - we had a spare length of rope that was installed.
Arriving at the climbup into Beckoning SIlence, we found the same rig as had been
Arriving at the climbup into Beckoning Silence, we found the same rig as had been
put on two years ago when an equipment location error had rendered putting bolts in impossible.
On this occasion we had a drill, three batteries, plenty of hangers..
and no drill bits, so the problem remained unsolved.
@@ -909,8 +899,6 @@ in redecoration. On the market for 3 packs of noodles, a bottle of port
and a jerrycan of water.
<p>Typhon named it Garlic Cave because the entrance smelled of garlic.
<p>[Editorial addition from GPS positions in survey data]
2018-ad-02 is
<pre>
@@ -979,12 +967,8 @@ h&ouml;hle is necessary. Waypoint in prospecting GPX file.
Photos uploaded to expofiles/photos/PhilipWithnall.
} </p>
<div class="timeug">T/U: 0 hours</div>
<hr />
<div class="tripdate" id="t2018-07-25a">2018-07-25</div>
<div class="trippeople"><u>Philip Withnall</u>, Typhon King, Frank Tully, Max Weiser</div>
@@ -1012,7 +996,6 @@ Frank dropped 2018-pw-02 (see previous page) and killed it off. Survey:<br>
<div class="timeug">T/U: 0 hours</div>
<hr />
<div class="tripdate" id="t2018-07-26">2018-07-26 to 28</div>
<div class="trippeople"><u>Philip Withnall</u></div>
@@ -1029,7 +1012,6 @@ and took a look at 2010#04's snow levels. Didn't drop it,
but put some photos in expofiles/photos/PhilipWithnall/ for
comparison for someone who knows that hole.
<div class="timeug">T/U: 0 hours</div>
<hr />
@@ -1047,15 +1029,13 @@ to test actual useable bandwidth.
<div class="timeug">T/U: 0 hours</div>
<hr />
<div class="tripdate" id="t2018-07-24a">2018-07-24</div>
<div class="trippeople"><u>Max</u>, Frank, Nadia</div>
<div class="triptitle">Homecoming Hobnob Hallway</div>
<p>We walked to Homecoming through Fishface cairning the route with Haydon,Jon, Ruairidh, Phil and Typhon
filling in the gaps.Making it a fully cairned route.
<p>We walked to Homecoming through Fishface cairning the route with Haydon, Jon, Ruairidh, Phil (U or W) and Typhon
filling in the gaps. Making it a fully cairned route.
Went down the hobnob hallway added a handline over the false floor using a thread.
Should be made into a traverse
with a bolt on the other side of the false floor.
@@ -1291,7 +1271,7 @@ Philip
<hr />
<div class="tripdate" id="t2018-07-24x">2018-07-24</div>
<div class="trippeople"><u>Becka</u>, Adam, George, Olly</div>
<div class="trippeople"><u>Becka</u>, Adam A, George, Olly</div>
<div class="triptitle">Balkon->Hangman's->Hangngman + Window in Hangman's -> Myopia</div>
No free drills at top camp but Adam and I managed to snaffle the only hand bolting
@@ -1359,7 +1339,6 @@ being flooded in Balkon.
<img src="logbook23.jpg" width=100%><br>
<p>[moved from later in logbook:]</p><br>
<p id="mr-rig3"><b>MONGOL RALLY - rigging guide - Part 2</b></p>
<p>[15] Suction cup pitch in Grand Prix,beyond Littleboy pitch rigged on 3/8/18</p>
@@ -1378,7 +1357,6 @@ muddy passage to corkscrewing around,to obvious pitch head.<br>
<p>[NB rigging moved back here from later in logbook as it belongs here]</p>
<hr />
<div class="tripdate" id="t2018-07-27">2018-07-27</div>
<div class="trippeople"><u>Becka</u>, George</div>
@@ -1405,7 +1383,6 @@ On the way out we drank at the pool on Piystop as I was losing it with dehydrati
- it's dry, dry, dry in Floodland (of course). It took 2.5h out and we
were on the surface at 01.30 to a full moon.
<div class="timeug">T/U: 15.5 hours</div>
<hr />
@@ -1433,7 +1410,6 @@ Met Luke and Becka at Pitstop for the journey out.
<div class="timeug">T/U: 10.5 hours</div>
<hr />
<div class="tripdate" id="t2018-08-01b">2018-08-01</div>
<div class="trippeople"><u>Philip Sargent</u></div>
@@ -1494,10 +1470,9 @@ contributing to the survey error in that branch(?).
<div class="timeug">T/U: 10 hours</div>
<hr />
<div class="tripdate" id="t2018-08-03w">2018-08-03</div>
<div class="trippeople"><u>Wookey</u>, Rory, Ryan</div>
<div class="trippeople"><u>Wookey</u>, Ruairidh MacLeod, Ryan</div>
<div class="triptitle">Testing Tunnocks to Balkonh&ouml;hle Connection - Part Two</div>
<p>
Having been confused by the pitch that required to be raversed rather than descended,
@@ -1512,15 +1487,12 @@ Future trips should attempt to generate such notes for the interest of future tr
Once again wew ran out of time, and this timerope. However the trip still provided
additional survey results with accompanying elevations (sections).
<p>
On the return journey Rory rigged the traverse line with 5 slings hooked one to another
On the return journey Ruairidh rigged the traverse line with 5 slings hooked one to another
(in the interest of speed), however it was debated if this was in fact quicker.
<p>A future trip would require more rope (greater than a 13m and 22m).
<div class="timeug">T/U: 10 hours</div>
<hr />
<div class="tripdate" id="t2018-07-28">2018-07-28</div>
<div class="trippeople"><u>Adelaide</u>, Typhon</div>
@@ -1557,11 +1529,9 @@ PS we didn't survey because we forgot the notebook up the pitch OK bye.
<div class="timeug">T/U: ? hours</div>
<hr />
<div class="tripdate" id="t2018-08-01c">2018-08-01</div>
<div class="trippeople"><u>Adelaide</u>, Michael Sargent, Cat, Adam, Paul Fox</div>
<div class="trippeople"><u>Adelaide</u>, Michael Sargent, Cat, Adam H, Paul Fox</div>
<div class="triptitle">FGH Liquid Luck onwards</div>
<p>
We started the trip to Fischgesicht with 3 other people (Cat, Cat's Husband, Paul), but they decided to turn back before Liquid Luck because Paul was being slow.
@@ -1579,7 +1549,6 @@ We had a little time before out turn-around time, so Michael started to bolt the
<div class="timeug">T/U: 8 hours</div>
<hr />
<div class="tripdate" id="t2018-08-02a">2018-08-02</div>
<div class="trippeople"><u>Adelaide</u>, Typhon, Manfred</div>
@@ -1589,7 +1558,6 @@ Followed the lead after Rubble Rumble, surveyed for 6 hours, 60+ survey legs tot
<div class="timeug">T/U: ? hours</div>
<hr />
<div class="tripdate" id="t2018-08-03a">2018-08-03</div>
<div class="trippeople"><u>Philip Sargent</u></div>
@@ -1618,7 +1586,6 @@ Needs surveying and tagging.
<div class="timeug">T/U: 0.1 hours</div>
<hr />
<div class="tripdate" id="t2018-08-02b">2018-08-02</div>
<div class="trippeople"><u>Jon Arne Toft</u>, Haydon</div>
<div class="triptitle">Homecoming Lizard King</div>
@@ -1663,7 +1630,6 @@ The high phreas would be accessible with a traverse line for a climb up that is
<div class="timeug">T/U: 5 hours</div>
<hr />
<div class="tripdate" id="t2018-08-02g">2018-08-04</div>
<div class="trippeople"><u>Philip Sargent</u></div>
<div class="triptitle">Expo T-shirts arrived at Gasthof</div>
@@ -1692,7 +1658,6 @@ Time in 10:40, time out 20:40
<div class="timeug">T/U: 10 hours</div>
<div class="tripdate" id="t2018-08-02e">2018-08-02</div>
<div class="trippeople"><u>Becka</u>, Nadia</div>
<div class="triptitle">Balkon -> Pitstop (off Mongol Rally)</div>
@@ -1715,7 +1680,7 @@ far side of Pitstop whilst Nadia set off out.
<hr />
<div class="tripdate" id="t2018-08-04">2018-08-04</div>
<div class="trippeople"><u>Becka</u>, Adam, George</div>
<div class="trippeople"><u>Becka</u>, Adam A, George</div>
<div class="triptitle">Balkon -> Grand Prix -> Camp Kraken -> Radio Silence + Scum of the Earth + Octopus Garden ->derig)</div>
<p>
@@ -1728,10 +1693,10 @@ setting off from top of Kraken ~15:00 after ferrying camp to the top of it in 5
<p><b>Day 1</b></p>
in Balkon, George finished off the traverse opposite Pitstop, disappointing Luke who'd bombed down to do it. We then
continued to the bottom of Mongol Rally + George put a couple more bolts in the Floodland pitch
that he, Jacob+ Olly had started int he previous tripbut it looked like amajor job so he
that he, Jacob+ Olly had started int he previous tripbut it looked like a major job so he
derigged and we went down Grand Prix past Littleboy to the "&agrave; cheval" ridge
and dropped Suction Cup pitch (rigging topo on <a href="#mr-rig3">previous page</a>).
This ledto a rather confusing slopy area which we clambered up steeply until it ended in an aven.
This led to a rather confusing slopy area which we clambered up steeply until it ended in an aven.
We lost George for some stressful minutes - he'd dropped down a steep, muddy phreatic tube +
struggled to return. We then packed up + left the 53m rope + some hangers as own own bags
@@ -1799,9 +1764,59 @@ we slogged out.I gave the bag to Adam on the entrance pitch then was nearly hum
he powered up + nearly caught me up. George was sunbathing on the surface + led us on a forced march
back to camp which was ... deserted.
[This trip also desribed in UK Caving blog <a href="https://ukcaving.com/board/index.php?topic=23424.msg299287#msg299287">https://ukcaving.com/board/index.php?topic=23424.msg299287#msg299287</a>] text below by Adam Aldridge:
This will be a summary of the last Kraken camp of 2018, and maybe ever.
<p>
The trip was partaken by George, Becka, and myself (Adam). We went underground in Balcony on Friday the 3rd of August around mid day and surfaced from Tunnocks around 8pm on Sunday.
<p>
Following a generous helping of faff resulting in an irate Becka we set of towards Balcony with optimism. This would be my first ever underground camp trip, so there was a pinch of excited apprehension in my mood.
<p>
After the necessary commute in balcony we made it to the Mongol Rally, this 200m shaft, sloping slightly from the vertical, was by far the biggest i've ever seen. The decent, seemingly endless, is mostly experienced with blackness above and below.
After a short journey from the base of The Mongol Rally feeling suitably far from home, we started work at the pushing front.
Day one was finished with around 250m surveyed; George had dropped a pitch which led into large airy passages. Throughout the day George had been commenting on invasive smells. Most of these instances were a result of Becka taking out her pet mouldy cheese. I quietly found this rather amusing.
<p>
George and I awoke after a night at camp to find Becka doing lots of productive things, she had checked the radio (unfortunately without success) and was well on the way to making breakfast. Led by Becka's enthusiasm, day two was begun with less faff than the previous. We set of along Tentacle Traverse and down Octo Pussy towards the front.
I was feeling remarkably weary on this second day. There was point, as George and Becka shot off, where I was nearly defeated by a section of upward sloping mud.
<p>
An arduous (for me) and increasingly muddy commute later, we reached the pushing front: a muddy wet pitch, great! Feeling a touch despondent at this point, we pushed on; George started bolting the pitch while Becka and I waited at the top. Waiting very quickly got cold so in an attempt to alleviate this situation we started jumping about. The nature of this was quite comical, it was a fusion between a Zumba class routine and the irregular movements of telly tubies who have just been exited by the sun baby.
To our surprise and elation, the muddy gryke of a lead dropped into a dry spacious expanse with multiple ways on. We began surveying down a railway tunnel passage sloping slightly down. This, to our bewilderment, led to a gentle meandering river banked by sloped volumes of mud. All of a sudden, Becka became exited, George and I rushed over, she had found a sprout in the mud! A surreal occurrence at ~700m below. The sapling drank in our light deeply as we admired it's lone perseverance.
<p>
A few pictures later, we moved on, only to find a sump. This would have been annoying if not for the alternative upstream continuation.
<p>
Half an hour or so up this lead, much to my relief, we stopped on a muddy bank for a lunch break. The only way on was a 3m climb into a relic inlet. Becka argued that we should turn back as it was getting late (a sensible idea to be fair). Despite Becka's standpoint, George and I were up for going on. With Irate protest from Becka, George began the climb. Out of sight, George began talking in awe of an interesting blue lake. With more protesting from Becka, I climbed up as well.
The pool in question was like something out of a sci fi film, Its colour and complexity was preternatural. I could explain it to you by a picture able to convey more than words.
<p>
With rekindled enthusiasm for exploration we continued deeper into a truly surreal environment, the vast relic stream passage was littered with artefacts of its past; here and there, pools of immaculate water lay undisturbed for presumably quite a while; marbled fractal mud formations encrusted the lower surfaces; bizarre spiky rock formations en-habited the walls, formed by a vigorous torrent, long forgotten.
<p>
With over 400m on the PDA, we returned to camp. The commute seemed friendlier, for me at least, with a sense of accomplishment under the belt.
<p>
Waking up for the second time in absence of sunlight, the task for the 'day' was to de-rig and prusik out.
The camp was packed up and raised to the top of Kraken in five caries up the pitch (one by me two each by George and Becka). George competed a particularly obscene carry: a huge orange survival bag tied at the top with cord, he looked like a surreal speleo version of Santa Claus.
<p>
Once camp was sorted, we began the long ascent to the surface. Becka and I set of with some bags of rope while the machine that is George began to de-rig the pitches.
<p>
This was my first trip to Kraken camp, but it might also be the last. However as one good thing comes to an end, the next is on the horizon: with the persistent efforts of this year (especially by George and Becka) a new region of Balkony has proved promising, and so, the camp will be reformed there with new opportunities awaiting.
<p>
« Last Edit: August 09, 2018, 08:58:29 am by adam74aldridge »
<div class="timeug">T/U: 55 hours</div>
<hr />
<div class="tripdate" id="t2018-08-08a">2018-08-08</div>
<div class="trippeople"><u>Max</u>, Wookey, Ryan</div>
<div class="triptitle">Resurvey trip down Tunnocks - 1</div>
@@ -1858,7 +1873,7 @@ Finally staggered out, including the [squiggle][squiggle][squiggle] by 2am.
<hr />
<div class="tripdate" id="t2018-08-07">2018-08-07</div>
<div class="trippeople"><u>Wookey</u>, Adam, Ryan</div>
<div class="trippeople"><u>Wookey</u>, Adam A, Ryan</div>
<div class="triptitle">FGH try to connect to HB</div>
<p>
[Wook:] Went over to Fishface to see if we could connect it to Happy Butterfly.
@@ -1993,7 +2008,8 @@ End of my caving for Expo 2018 -221h underground for me :-) Off
to Plonkermira [??] with VHO tomorrow to see how things look
from the other side of the hill...
<img src="undergroundcamplist.jpg" width=400px><br>
This has been transcsribed into <a href="ugcamplist.html">ugcamplist.html</a><br><br>
<div class="timeug">T/U: 49 hours</div>
<br>
@@ -2007,7 +2023,6 @@ from the other side of the hill...
<div class="timeug">T/U X mins</div>
<hr />
<div class="tripdate" id="t2018-08-03">2018-08-03</div>
<div class="trippeople"><u>Jacob</u>, Luke, Max</div>
<div class="triptitle">Pitstop Balkon</div>
@@ -2015,7 +2030,6 @@ from the other side of the hill...
<div class="timeug">T/U ? mins</div>
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<div class="tripdate" id="t2018-08-13a">2018-08-13</div>
<div class="trippeople"><u>Philip Sargent</u></div>
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<div class="tripdate" id="t2018-08-13b">2018-08-13</div>
<div class="trippeople"><u>Ryan</u>, Alex, Jacob, Pi and Andt (two German cavers)</div>
<div class="trippeople"><u>Ryan</u>, Alex, Jacob</div>
<div class="triptitle">Finishing Fish Face beyond Gardening School, discovering Private Pineapple Pitch</div>
<p>Accompanied by Pi and Andt (two German cavers).
<p>The trip was to push Fish Face further following a low-level lead in Gardening School. An exchange was agreed with German cavers whereby they would offer us a trip if we offered them a trip (an agreement arranged by Alex and Jacob during the bottom base camp BBQ). The trip also allowed the German's to experience top camp, both who were incredibly impressed by the arrangement, declaring, "You English are mad!" The international caving group encounted a language barrier in the especilly crumbly and loose passages of the Fish Face entrance pitch and traverse. WHile descending Alex had one of the Germans (Pi) shout "stein!", somewhat confussed he looked up to find the German caver was not offering him a beer, insted a number of rocks had been kicked down. A system was then proposed by the Germans to overcome the language barrier. The sylable count of words would indicate the cave command, therefore the language used would be rendered pointless.</p>
<img src="2018-08-13-table.jpg"><br>Image of the syllable system table</img>
<p>It was also agreed during the trip that signiifciant space woudl be left berween cavers on th epitch/traverse series leading on from another due to the daners of very loose rock and the potential of injury. The gardening school passage was pushed beyond the unnamed and unknown pitch that offered a lead. Originally we believed that a shaft 3/4m down would be best for a rebelay, however on investigation this appeared to be a large boulder wedged between a large rift. Furthermore, the placement of the boulder, nicknamed 'coffin lid', appeared to be only secured by small boulders. The decision was made to drop the Y hang down through a squeezy pitch, although tight, the pitch is easily accessible. The newly found Pirate Pineapple Pitch (PPP) ~50m and decends down further into the rift. Multiple passages can be seen coming of this pitch which may be worth future exploration. The pitch bottoms out in a small chamber ~10m^3. A smaller interesting chamber is to the right, nicknamed 'mud hole', here a variety of interesting geological features are found. ALso at this point a small pool of water has forned. Directly in front of the dropped pitch after a smooth step the rift can be seen to bottom out. However, at this point, we had ran out of rope. An additional 15/20m (unreadble word) have allowed us to reach the bottom. We assume this amy be the bottom as its the collection point for many of the smaller dropped rocks. The rift appears to curve around the corner offering a potential easy lead for those who are willing to push this further.</p>
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<div class="tripdate" id="t2018-08-13c">2018-08-13</div>
<div class="trippeople"><u>Jacob</u>, Andt, Pi</div>
<div class="trippeople"><u>Jacob</u></div>
<div class="triptitle">Schneevulkanhalle Tourist Trip</div>
<p>Accompanied by Pi and Andt (two German cavers).
<p>While drunk and making friends with some Germans, one of them, Andt, gave me a proposition: "You take me caving and I'll take you caving in an ice cave... with a snow volcano." I liked this idea! Despite the cave being less than 1k from top camp, due to Losser's 'I'm going to kill you with every steo you take' nature we had to walk accross the plateau toward Applehaus and then take that path. After negotiating some traverse, beating some bunde and safely avoiding the caver grinding we arrive at some dead larch... and a misty cave entrance! THis was to be our exit point. Pi headed up the hill to start rigging the top entrance while Andt gave me a quick lesson on how to walk with crampons. When crampon school was over, we too head to the top entrance. An oblong entrance of 10m-ish by 4m wide entrance pitch to the top of the snow volcano was probably 40/50m. When on top of volcano, daylight can still be seen. 'Tis quite impressive. When on top of volcano the size of the chamber starts to become apparent. In the distance ice stalls can be seen glistening through the mist. We continue the descent, this time down the side of the snow volcano for ~3-m until we reach the bottom.
<p>Ice is hit.
<p>Rope free.
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<div class="tripdate" id="t2018-08-13d">2018-08-13</div>
<div class="trippeople"><u>Nat</u>, Neil</div>
<div class="triptitle">Tagging Surface Trip and Lighting Storm descent</div>
<div class="trippeople"><u>Natalie</u>, Neil Smith</div>
<div class="triptitle">Tagging Surface Trip and Lightning Storm descent</div>
<p>Went 100m NW of top camp to put a tag on a possible cave (located previously on 8-9/08 by Nat and Paul) numbered 2018-NTU-01. We practiced hand bolting to install the tag and picked wild chives.
<p>As water was needed at camp, snow was collected for the bivy. While Ryan efficiently poured 5 tackle sacks of snow into the rain tarp, Nat and Alex and Ruairidh proceeded to practice drilling a Z-rig to try to haul an overfilled bag of snow vertically (see separate write up). While taking 2 ropes each down the mountain, we successfully crosses the plateau in fabulous perfect weather, only to be hit by a sudden bad storm at the col. An hour of super heavy rain and lightening was upon us. We were forced to emergency shelter in our double-bivy baf near a rock.
<p>Several very close lightening strikes (with 0 second gaps) reminded us how quickly the weather can turn against you on the mountain.
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<div class="tripdate" id="t2018-07-11z">2018-07-011</div>
<div class="trippeople"><u>Nat</u>, Paul, Wookey (on Day 2)</div>
<div class="trippeople"><u>Natalie</u>, Paul, Wookey (on Day 2)</div>
<div class="triptitle">Eiskelle - Surface Prospecting</div>
<p>We aimed to re-locate several caves that had been recored in 2004/5/6 and were within 300m of Top Camp. How hard can it be???
<p>Well, 8 hours later, lost and dehydrated, we managed to get back to Top Camp just 20 minutes before our callout!
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<p>Finally we located it and 2004-16 and -17. <p>The next day we returned to 2004-18 with Wookey and descended it. Luckily the spits were in place so we just had to chuck a rope down and a rope protector. A huge snow cone met us half way down on a ledge we could walk around. Paul drilled two holes and installed 2 hiltis and rigged the way down. We climbed down the ice slope (with rope) and landed on the boulder floor at the base of the snow cone. My first ice climbing experience - and I hope my last! We got hypotherimc while rigging the cave (Eiskeller - Ice House) and we got heat exhaustion while on the plateau. Lovely day at expo! Wookey was very helpful while we located 2004-18 (on an easy path not far from Top Camp) and again while rigging the cave - always great to have an experienced oldie on the team!</p>
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<div class="tripdate" id="t2018-07-30z">2018-07-30</div>
<div class="trippeople"><u>Robert Seebacher</u></div>
<div class="trippeople"><u>Philip Sargent</u></div>
<div class="triptitle">"Receipt for expo members of VfHO for 2018"</div>
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<div class="tripdate" id="t2018-08-15">2018-08-15</div>
<div class="trippeople"><u>Chris Holt</u>, Radost, Luke, Max</div>
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<div class="tripdate" id="t2018-08-19">2018-08-19</div>
<div class="trippeople">Philip Sargent, Chris Holt</div>
<div class="triptitle">115/Schnellzugh&ouml;hle</div>
<p>On the way back from KH entrance, Chris and I detoured to 115 to get 6 litres of water as we were very thirsty. Also took out the museli and flapjack. Left ~4 litres of water and a orange polythene swirl (sp?) bag.</p>
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<div class="tripdate" id="t2018-08-09">2018-08-09</div>
<div class="trippeople"><u>Becka</u></div>
<div class="triptitle">Expo recap - A mature view of Expo</div>
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[from <a href="https://ukcaving.com/board/index.php?topic=23424.msg299639#msg299639">https://ukcaving.com/board/index.php?topic=23424.msg299639#msg299639</a>]
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We've already had posts from first timers so, to balance that out, here's my old-timer's perspective on this year's Expo. This summer I did a lot of my caving with George because, at the start of Expo, it was clear that he was lacking direction and, whilst not green (this was his third time out) that he'd benefit from my experience, constructive advice and tactful supervision.
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For the avoidance of doubt, and for those of you don't know us, that's utter bollocks. George is a far better caver than me at SRT, rigging, finding and sticking with a project, navigation (not hard), climbing, carrying heavy bags, derigging, patience, surveying, conservation and scooping (yup, it's out there, sue me for defamation if you dare!). Don't be running away with the idea that list is comprehensive though: I have the edge on him at squeezes (despite him being willing to try harder, sleep deprivation (my, don't young people sleep a lot?), I'm far bossier and, though I haven't tested this properly, I reckon I've a greater bloody-minded capacity for enduring misery (I suspect it would take around a week of 10 hour trips in small, cold, wet, muddy, boring caves to break him and you just wouldn't believe how full my diary is right now so that'll have to wait).
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Anyway, we (us two, Luke, Olly, Adam, Rachel, Nadia, Jacob, Philip, Wookey and Max) had a series of fine trips including finding what we think is the deepest shaft in the SMK system (Mongol Rally at 200m deep), two connections between Balkonhöhle and Tunnockschact, a sprout and a sump at -720m, many, many bat bones and over 5km of passage including the monster Grand Prix (incidentally, I agree, what's with the names? My carefully crafted puns were all flat-out rejected so we're stuck with a notable chamber called Big Lad - it should have been Raisin' Hell - and both Hangryman Pitch and Hangeryman Pitch are still up for grabs). Also, after 5 weeks of training I've mastered an alternative way to the tie a stopper knot and learnt the industry standard way to tie knots in the end of a rope (thanks, guys, for that fine use of my strictly limited long term memory).
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After 220 hours underground this summer with CUCC I've skipped derigging (obviously I'd have loved to have helped out but unfortunately the timing was against me) and I've decamped to spend a week with the local Austrian club (VHO http://vho-caving-news.blogspot.com/) on their Plankamira expedition. This made for quite a culture change - there's only 5 of us and we're all around a half century old. Now, at last, my rigging suggestions are listened to attentively (rather than being firmly squashed) and nobody passes comment about the volume of food I get through (George eats like a grasshopper). I've also escaped the unending put-downs - "if you're going to rig that pitch don't do a half-arsed job of it"; "that wouldn't have happened if you hadn't placed it in a flake"; "you and your slopy shoulders"; and "no, you can't lead us out, you're so bad it's just not funny" and so on. Also, it's relaxing not having to tell everyone what to do :-) Best of all, I'm now the fastest prussiker (yeah, yeah, of course it's not a competition).
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On the down side VHO are agonisingly slow to get going (how can anyone spend more than 9 hours in a sleeping bag? It's mental torture when you're camping underground and you're too polite to start loudly crinkling plastic bags and accidentally shining your light in people's eyes. Not that that worked anyway, you idle sods). And then, once they're up, there's the coffee to drink then the second coffee then breakfast then herbal tea and a second herbal tea before anything might happen. Hmm, thinking about it, George would have done better here instead of me (his favourite thing: sleeping; his next most favourite thing: sitting around doing nothing).
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I did struggle on skills transfer ... this summer I heard someone claim that thru-bolts (as VHO use) have fewer modes of failure than Hiltis (that CUCC uses). Well, not in my hands, I can tell you. Of my dozen none went in easily (I must have been given the wrong diameter drill bit, goddammit) and there was horrible flaking with several, whilst one cracked out altogether with the rock it was in (I blame the Petzl hammer they gave me, it made all the rock sound shit so, since the good-looking rock made the same sound I deduced that all the rock was good. Then it fell apart). Most distressingly, on three of them the sleeve thing split and refused to go into the hole, just rucking up on the outside. Please, can I give up and go home? VHO rigging is typically spare, no Y-hangs unless there's a big swing and no deviations (there wasn't a single sling on the expedition). However, I was so worried about my lousy thru-bolts that my section was backups and Y-hangs all the way.
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On the first day we got out in the dark from a new cave with over an hour's walk back to camp and big bags. The other half of the team set off confidently but then, 30 minutes later, he pointed at least 90 degrees off when I asked him to show where he thought camp was. Foolishly I'd not saved it as a waypoint on my phone and he was struggling with a new app on his phone so all we had to go on was the outline of the peaks around us. I persuaded him I knew which one to aim for and, 15 minutes later, hurrah, someone at camp saw us and left their light on so we slogged towards it. But then the light went out and we were reduced to navigating towards the sound of the generator reverberating in the huge rock bowl we were lost in before it was switched off. Then my companion, dressed in the shortest of hip-hugging racing shorts, refused to follow me through some prickly dwarf pine. I'll go round and meet you, he says, then disappeared. So now I'm by myself, three hours walk from anyone bar us few cavers so I shout his name. Eventually he shouts back "Don't cry unless it's an emergency". Then silence. Grrrr. So I hang around looking for his light and eventually spot him beetling off towards camp without a backward glance. I'll be damned if he gets there first so I stumble off and we arrive together. Two hours on Karren karst on a moonless night and I barely glanced up once so I caught just the one shooting star on the best night of the year for the Perseid shower.
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Now I'm back down the hill in time to fix my broken tooth (note to self: don't eat rock at underground camp). We (well, the Cambridge University Caring Club, which tickled me) have just been awarded a certificate for our 35 years of service by the Mayor of Bad Aussee, Hilde made us delicious doughnuts to celebrate and I'm signed up for a final top camp carry tomorrow so all's right with the world.
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<div class="tripdate" id="t2018-08-08">2018-08-08</div>
<div class="trippeople"><u>Natalie Uomini</u>, Paul Fox</div>
<div class="triptitle">Top Camp - Surface Prospecting - Old & New Caves - 8.5 hours</div>
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<h4>A big opening in the side of the mountain</h4>
Next we headed again for the mythical 2004-18, and reached the
south-eastern edge of a huge steep-sided valley: Cubic Valley.
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with a tag marked <b>"AA 1 2017"</b> but there is no recorded
survey, no database entry, no information anywhere about it .
<br>Beside this shaft is another <b>shaft with a snow plug
and 2 spits</b> well positioned for rigging, but no visible
tag nor informations recorded.
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