Fixing bad names for people in logbook entries

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@ -35,7 +35,7 @@ George Breley,Breley,1,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,1,1,1,1,,
Michael Brigham,Brigham,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,1,
Dave Brindle,Brindle,,,l/daveb.htm,,,,,,1,1,1,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,
Ian Brindle,Brindle,1,,,,,,,,,1,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,
Kristian Brooke,Brooke,1,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,1,,,
Kristian Brooke,Brooke,1,,i/kristian.jpg,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,1,,,
Aileen Brown,Brown,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,1,
Jane Brown,Brown,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,-1,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,
Vic Brown,Brown,,,i/vicb.jpg,1,1,1,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,
@ -189,7 +189,7 @@ Amy Matthews,Matthews,1,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,1,,,,,,,,,
Sandeep Mavadia (Deep),Mavadia,1,,l/sandeep.htm,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,1,,,,,,,,,,,,,,
Heather McAdam,McAdam,1,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,1,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,
Mick McHale,McHale,1,,,,,,,,1,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,
Ruairidh Macleod,McLeod,,,l/rmacl.html,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,1,1,1,
Ruairidh MacLeod,MacLeod,,,l/rmacl.html,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,1,1,1,
Mark McLean,McLean,,,i/markm.jpg,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,1,1,,,,1,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,
Earl Merson,Merson,,,i/earl.jpg,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,
Ian Millar,Millar,,,i/ianm.jpg,,,,,,,,,,,,1,1,1,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,
@ -231,7 +231,7 @@ Justin Powell,Powell,1,,i/justin_powell.jpg,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,-1,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,
Nick Procter,Procter,,,i/nick_proctor.jpg,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,1,,1,1,,,1,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,
Jacob Pulaho-Smith,Pulaho-Smith,1,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,1,,
Claire Purnell,Purnell,,,i/claire_purnell.jpg,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,-1,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,
Nadia Raeburn-Cherradi,Raeburn-Cherradi,1,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,1,1,-1,
Nadia Raeburn-Cherradi,Raeburn-Cherradi,1,,i/nadia.jpg,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,1,1,-1,
Roxanne Ramsay (Roxy),Ramsay,1,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,1,,,,,
Nick Reckert,Reckert,,,,,1,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,
Simon Redhead,Redhead,,,i/simonr.jpg,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,1,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,
@ -269,6 +269,7 @@ Elliott Smith,Smith,1,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,1,1,1,,,
Gail Smith,Smith,,,i/gails.jpg,,,,,,,,1,,,,,,-1,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,
Lisa Smith,Smith,1,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,1,,
Paul Smith,Smith,,,i/pauls.jpg,,,,,,,,,,,,,,1,1,1,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,
Neil Smith,Smith,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,1,,
Noel Snape,Snape,1,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,1,,1,1,,1,,,,,,
Luke Stangroom,Stangroom,1,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,1,1,1,1,,
Thom Starnes,Starnes,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,1,,,
@ -290,7 +291,7 @@ Julian Todd,Todd,,,l/jtodd.htm,,,,,,,,,,,,,,1,1,1,,1,,,1,,,1,1,,,1,1,,,1,1,1,1,1
Jon Arne Toft,Toft,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,1,1,
Phil Townsend,Townsend,,,l/philt.htm,,,,,,1,1,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,
Frank Tully,Tully,1,,i/frankt.jpg,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,1,1,1,1,,1,1,1,1,,1,,,1,1,,1,,
Rachel Turnbull,Turnbull,1,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,1,,1,1,,
Rachel Turnbull,Turnbull,1,,i/rachel.jpg,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,1,,1,1,,
Francis Turner,Turner,,,i/francis_turner.jpg,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,1,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,
Helen Twelftree,Twelftree,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,1,,1,,,1,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,
Phil Underwood,Underwood,1,,i/phil_underwood.jpg,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,,,1,1,1,,,,,,,,,,,1,,

1 Name Lastname Guest VfHO member Mugshot 1976 1977 1978 1979 1980 1981 1982 1983 1984 1985 1986 1987 1988 1989 1990 1991 1992 1993 1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020
35 Michael Brigham Brigham 1
36 Dave Brindle Brindle l/daveb.htm 1 1 1
37 Ian Brindle Brindle 1 1
38 Kristian Brooke Brooke 1 i/kristian.jpg 1
39 Aileen Brown Brown 1
40 Jane Brown Brown -1
41 Vic Brown Brown i/vicb.jpg 1 1 1
189 Sandeep Mavadia (Deep) Mavadia 1 l/sandeep.htm 1
190 Heather McAdam McAdam 1 1
191 Mick McHale McHale 1 1
192 Ruairidh Macleod Ruairidh MacLeod McLeod MacLeod l/rmacl.html 1 1 1
193 Mark McLean McLean i/markm.jpg 1 1 1
194 Earl Merson Merson i/earl.jpg 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1
195 Ian Millar Millar i/ianm.jpg 1 1 1
231 Nick Procter Procter i/nick_proctor.jpg 1 1 1 1
232 Jacob Pulaho-Smith Pulaho-Smith 1 1
233 Claire Purnell Purnell i/claire_purnell.jpg -1
234 Nadia Raeburn-Cherradi Raeburn-Cherradi 1 i/nadia.jpg 1 1 -1
235 Roxanne Ramsay (Roxy) Ramsay 1 1
236 Nick Reckert Reckert 1
237 Simon Redhead Redhead i/simonr.jpg 1
269 Gail Smith Smith i/gails.jpg 1 -1
270 Lisa Smith Smith 1 1
271 Paul Smith Smith i/pauls.jpg 1 1 1
272 Neil Smith Smith 1
273 Noel Snape Snape 1 1 1 1 1
274 Luke Stangroom Stangroom 1 1 1 1 1
275 Thom Starnes Starnes 1
291 Jon Arne Toft Toft 1 1
292 Phil Townsend Townsend l/philt.htm 1 1
293 Frank Tully Tully 1 i/frankt.jpg 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1
294 Rachel Turnbull Turnbull 1 i/rachel.jpg 1 1 1
295 Francis Turner Turner i/francis_turner.jpg 1
296 Helen Twelftree Twelftree 1 1 1
297 Phil Underwood Underwood 1 i/phil_underwood.jpg 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1

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@ -1202,7 +1202,7 @@ SRT, and upon reflection, the author realises that he freeclimbed in and out
of the entrance himself in 1977, when the cave had the 1976 number "B9"!]</i>
<hr /><a id="id1995-161-28">1995-07-30</a> | 161 - RH route de-rig + semi-detached survey | <u>Wook</u> &amp; Andy
<hr /><a id="id1995-161-28">1995-07-30</a> | 161 - RH route de-rig + semi-detached survey | <u>Wook</u> &amp; AndyW
<p><center><h3>Logbook Supplement</h3></center>

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@ -297,14 +297,13 @@ Cirque du Soleil: QMB - Pitch on L as enter chamber
<p><div class="timeug">T/U: 6 hrs</div></p>
<p>We faffed an unspeakably long time until we finally reached 258 entrance some time after 2 pm. The rigging was deemed not to be up to the exacting CUCC standards (and my lack of height). So Frank spent about 2 hours with the aim of making it idiot proof. SUCCESS! Frank showed me around until we reached Stirfish junction. We turned back and then it was my time to navigate out. SUCCESS. All in all a lovely day =)</p>
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<img src="logbkimg5.png" alt="New Rigging Topo for Fat Cat (2012-08-08)" />
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<div class="tripdate" id="t2012-08-09b">9/8/12</div>
<div class="trippeople"><u>Becka</u>, Rob, Andrew + Olly Madge</div>
<div class="trippeople"><u>Becka</u>, Rob, Andrew, Olly Madge</div>
<div class="triptitle">204 - Cirque de Soleil<br/>CONNECTION! 161-204</div>
<p><div class="timeug">T/U: 10&frac12;</div></p>
@ -369,7 +368,7 @@ Cirque du Soleil: QMB - Pitch on L as enter chamber
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<div class="tripdate" id="t2012-08-03c">2012-08-03</div>
<div class="trippeople">Olly Betts + <u>Jenny</u></div>
<div class="trippeople">Olly Betts, <u>Jenny</u></div>
<div class="triptitle">101</div>
<p>
Decided to have a quick look in 101 to see what it did. Much as described in 1977, pitches all free climbable. Just after 101 and 101a join there is a tight pitch lead to the right into a canyon - we didn't descend. Followed to near the end in 1977 - gets quite small, but continues. Another small tube leads off to right - Olly went for a short way down this and it continues.</p>
@ -469,9 +468,11 @@ Olly did a great job bolting over the pitch and on. I took a few photos and even
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<div class="tripdate" id="t2012-08-12b">2012-08-12</div>
<div class="trippeople">Uwe Kalmbach, <u>Olaf</u>, Wookey, Thomas Holder (ARGE), Ulid Aike</div>
<div class="trippeople"><u>Olaf</u>, Wookey</div>
<div class="triptitle">Hochdruckblasi (Woising)</div>
<p>[Accompanied by non-expo Uwe Kalmbach, Thomas Holder (ARGE), Ulid Aike]]
<p>We had to walk to some "Woising Camp" from Appelhaus, which took about 2 hours. Then we got changed and walked another 8 minutes to a little entrance shaft. Following a series of pitches (very steep passages mostly) we eventually reached a horizontal level at 1640m above sea level. We explored that for a while, then went to another pitch going down some more steep passages to the current pushing front of the cave. A strong wind was blowing up this, and probably another horizontal level can be reached with little effort. Given the information from other caves in the area, this horizontal level is expected at 1550m, but as this was mostly a touristy trip, we soon turned around and left the cave. The exit, different from the entrance, was rather spectacular high up in the cliffs at the northern edge of the Totes Gebirge with an impressive view and a nice little via ferrata to get back to the Woising Camp and Appelhaus. Overall the system is a lot smaller than SMK, but appears to be very interesting and it probably has exactly the same development history.</p>
<div class="timeug">T/U: 5&frac12; hours</div>
@ -707,7 +708,7 @@ The pitch heads are nasty and tight, but things look better deeper down. Got out
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<div class="tripdate" id="t2012-08-18a">2012-08-18</div>
<div class="trippeople">Olly + <u>Jenny</u></div>
<div class="trippeople">OllyB + <u>Jenny</u></div>
<div class="triptitle">2012-70 Doppel Gemseh&ouml;hle</div>
<p>Olly's Dad was arriving today, so we planned a short trip, then go down the hill. Did some more survey in 2012-70, but still a little bit left. Walked to Loser Hutte, hitched to Alaussee, Bus to Bad Aussee, walked to base camp. Realised it is easier not to go down the hill!</p>
@ -717,11 +718,13 @@ The pitch heads are nasty and tight, but things look better deeper down. Got out
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<div class="tripdate" id="t2012-08-18b">2012-08-18</div>
<div class="trippeople">Olly M, Serena, Wook, Tess, Dave Loeffler, Sarah, Martin G, Stuart, Frank, <u>Julian</u></div>
<div class="trippeople">Olly M, Serena, Wook, Tess, Dave Loeffler, Sarah, Martin G, Stuart W, Frank, <u>Julian</u></div>
<div class="triptitle">Strubklamm</div>
<p>The efficient 9 am early start deteriorated to an 11am sit in Bad Aussee bridge traffic jam. We were so late that Dave and Sarah had time to meet Becka on their mid morning shop, hear that we were canyoning, go back and get their wetsuits and catch us up at the start. The finest canyon in the area. Water all the way. Everything can be jumped unless you are a wuss. Filmed most of it by shakey helmet cam until the "waterproof" box steamed up. People with crap wetsuits that are about 30 years old and as stiff and ill fitting as car tyres (Wook + Tess) got cold. 3 cars went out, and 2 came back (Martin and Olly left expo).</p>
<p>[This might have been Stuart Bennet not Stuart Walker?.]
<div class="timeug">Time in canyon: 4hrs</div>
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@ -956,9 +959,10 @@ Had an explore, realised the 1978 survey has the wrong angle for the side passag
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<div class="tripdate" id="t2012-08-22b">2012-08-22</div>
<div class="trippeople">Olly, <u>Jenny</u>, Stuart B, Terry, Annette</div>
<div class="trippeople">OllyB, <u>Jenny</u>, Stuart B</div>
<div class="triptitle">Eish&ouml;hle Tourist Trip</div>
<p>[Accompanied by non-expo Terry & Annette.]
<p>Walked down from our bivi to meet the others at the Stogerweg junction. Walked (slowly) to Eish&ouml;hle. It was very hot and took hours, eventually got to the Ice Tunnel entrance which had less ice than Olly remembered. The bolts were almost out of reach! All got down and admired the ice.</p>
<p>On the way back removed the deviation hangs from the old 40A bivi. It took a long time, and we got back to the car as it got dark. Stuart kindly took Terry + Annette back to basecamp, while we walked back to our bivi. Got caught in a big thunderstorm - hail stones nearly 1 cm &Oslash; - fortunately we had helmets on!</p>
@ -968,7 +972,7 @@ Had an explore, realised the 1978 survey has the wrong angle for the side passag
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<div class="tripdate" id="t2012-08-23a">2012-08-23</div>
<div class="trippeople">Olly + <u>Jenny</u></div>
<div class="trippeople">OllyB, <u>Jenny</u></div>
<div class="triptitle">2012-70 (Doppel Gemse)</div>
<p>Went back to 2012-70 to do some more survey of the shaft near the 204 path. The final 3 leads all got too small sadly. Finished the survey. Huge evening thunderstorm.</p>
@ -978,7 +982,7 @@ Had an explore, realised the 1978 survey has the wrong angle for the side passag
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<div class="tripdate" id="t2012-08-25b">2012-08-25</div>
<div class="trippeople">Olly + <u>Jenny</u></div>
<div class="trippeople">OllyB + <u>Jenny</u></div>
<div class="triptitle">107 - south of entrance</div>
<p>Too wet to go to derig 148, so headed back to 107. Surveyed north to a pitch down, then surveyed south, looked at several tubes including one over the pitch. Towards the southern end Olly found a crawl on the left - Sysyphus. I wriggled up it - it was body sized so I had to roll rocks up in front of me to fit through. It widened after a bit but then choked. Back at the main passage Olly spotted a climb + traverse that got us up to the 83 connection so we could connect the surveys. Surveyed out up the pitch.</p>
@ -988,7 +992,7 @@ Had an explore, realised the 1978 survey has the wrong angle for the side passag
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<div class="tripdate" id="t2012-08-26a">2012-08-26</div>
<div class="trippeople">Olly + <u>Jenny</u></div>
<div class="trippeople">OllyB + <u>Jenny</u></div>
<div class="triptitle">107 - north of entrance</div>
<p>Still too wet to derig 148, so back in 107 with drill and our remaining rope (17, 12, 11 and 5m long). Started at the short loose drop north of the entrance pitch. Olly rigged down to the stream, upstream led to a boulder choke and downstream led to the 2nd pitch. Went back up the pitch and Olly climbed up the ramp opposite (left permanently rigged). This led to some phreatic stuff, mostly in a fault plane. Rigged down another short drop, then a climb. Short section of horizontal led to another short pitch, so we surveyed out.</p>
@ -998,7 +1002,7 @@ Had an explore, realised the 1978 survey has the wrong angle for the side passag
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<div class="tripdate" id="t2012-08-27b">2012-08-27</div>
<div class="trippeople">Olly + <u>Jenny</u></div>
<div class="trippeople">OllyB + <u>Jenny</u></div>
<div class="triptitle">107 - Ropeless</div>
<p>Still too wet to derig 148 so back to 107 to look at yesterday's lead and to derig. Olly rigged the 12m rope down the drop. Part way down was a window across into a pitch, presumably the main way on (you could hear water). Scrambled down a bit further until things got a bit steep. Olly rigged the 11 down and across, then the 5m rope. This got us to no gear left, but on a ledge. I traversed across (~ north) until the ledge ran out, fortunately the floor was now close (only 4m away) and I could traverse back underneath and down to the floor. I checked out whether the passage went (it did) and helped Olly down too. Continued along in the same direction we had been traversing, got to a short drop, climbed that then another short one. Ended up in a ~25m high aven with drips coming in. Aven quite big, but pitch on was quite small - couldn't realy get to it without gear, so left it for now and surveyed back to near the end of the traverse. Looked down the lead on the right (heading out) and it led to loads of rifty passage. A few little climbs down got us to a junction, we went left first, got to an aven where up looked to the start of the traverse (from the survey data). Rift continued until it hit a cross rift which we think is higher in the rift of the route used in 1978 to get to the big pitch.</p>
@ -1012,7 +1016,7 @@ Had an explore, realised the 1978 survey has the wrong angle for the side passag
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<div class="tripdate" id="t2012-08-28b">2012-08-28</div>
<div class="trippeople">Olly + <u>Jenny</u></div>
<div class="trippeople">OllyB + <u>Jenny</u></div>
<div class="triptitle">148 derig</div>
<p>Finally the weather was dry enough to go in 148 to retrieve our 350m of rope that was there. Hoped we could do it in one trip, but weren't sure how long it would take. Got down to the asteroid belt quickly, and did the survey leg down the big pitch on the way in (Super Nova) in case it would need 2 or 3 legs. The disto + pony managed it in 1 56m leg. Carried on down, and surveyed out while derigging. Things went well except for having more rope than tackle sacks and more tackle sacks than people. Was much quicker than I expected.</p>
@ -1022,7 +1026,7 @@ Had an explore, realised the 1978 survey has the wrong angle for the side passag
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<div class="tripdate" id="t2012-08-29a">2012-08-29</div>
<div class="trippeople">Olly + <u>Jenny</u></div>
<div class="trippeople">OllyB + <u>Jenny</u></div>
<div class="triptitle">157</div>
<p>Very quick down 157 to see if the snow plug had melted more - especially given the location in 107 we found on the 27th (also, 2 hrs of caving would get us to our magic 100hrs of caving!)</p>

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@ -108,7 +108,7 @@ is always written as Michael
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<div class="tripdate" id="t2014-07-26a">2014-07-26</div>
<div class="trippeople"><u>Wookey</u> &amp; Joe, Andrew, Jess</div>
<div class="trippeople"><u>Wookey</u> &amp; Joe, Andrew A, Jess</div>
<div class="triptitle">3rd Rigging in Trip (107)</div>
<p>Back again looking for ways on. Conncetion to R looks unlikely - everything goes L.</p>
@ -128,7 +128,7 @@ is always written as Michael
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<div class="tripdate" id="t2014-07-27a">2014-07-27</div>
<div class="trippeople"><u>Jess</u>, Andrew, Sam, &amp; David</div>
<div class="trippeople"><u>Jess</u>, Andrew A, Sam, &amp; David</div>
<div class="triptitle">107: Alcove pop + Nipped down</div>
<p>Returned to the "Too bold for this spit" traverse. Andrew climbed up above the traverse to the lead spotted the previous day and put some bolts in so Jess could climb up and survey the small passage found - "Alcove pop", which split after a few meters with both ways ending in mud. Small roof tube ran back into the main rift split into many tiny holes. Meanwhile Sam + David retrieved the rope from Korea.</p>
@ -294,7 +294,7 @@ Route finding through Knossos/Star Wars/Tower Blocks proved to be a bit more tri
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<div class="tripdate" id="t2014-07-31a">2014-07-31</div>
<div class="trippeople">Andrew, <u>Aled</u></div>
<div class="trippeople">Andrew A, <u>Aled</u></div>
<div class="triptitle">107: Aled wants to drop a pitch, take 2</div>
<p>Heavy rain in the morning meant Andrew's proposed walk up the hill at 6:30am was postponed enough for Aled to wake up and decide he also wanted to go caving. An early start on the Plateau walk was hampered by shitty weather (lots of rain) and traffic in the form of cows and sheep. Upon reaching 107, Aled was happy to find his SRT kit had helpfully been brought down from the bunde-hill from the day before by Matt &amp; co, so caving could commence!</p>
@ -357,7 +357,7 @@ Route finding through Knossos/Star Wars/Tower Blocks proved to be a bit more tri
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<div class="tripdate" id="t2014-08-03a">2014-08-03</div>
<div class="trippeople"><u>Michael</u>, Neil, Mike &amp; Andrea</div>
<div class="trippeople"><u>Michael</u>, Neil, Mike Futrell &amp; Andrea</div>
<div class="triptitle">2014-888 and MF - unmarked pit</div>
<p>Follow up on 2014-888, a drafting hole blocked mostly by choss. Took crowbar &amp; bolting kit to prise all the precarious large rocks away from the entrance and rig the pitch that could be seen just beyond them.<p>
<p>Spend ~ 1 hour trying to clear the entrance, removed most of the small to medium rocks but there was 1 large boulder which wobbled but wouldn't move down the hole. In the end it was wedged to one side so it was passable.</p>
@ -375,7 +375,7 @@ Route finding through Knossos/Star Wars/Tower Blocks proved to be a bit more tri
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<div class="tripdate" id="t2014-08-03b">2014-08-03</div>
<div class="trippeople">Becka, Andrew, RobA, <u>RobW</u></div>
<div class="trippeople">Becka, Andrew A, RobA, <u>RobW</u></div>
<div class="triptitle">107 - KH connection made / KH derig</div>
<p>I was awoken early by Becka who was very excited about the previous days trip. Survey data was examined &amp; quizzing began. However, being not properly awake I did not provide any useful information at all, so we arranged to go back into 107 with lots of tackle sacks to examine the lead: if it was, as could have been the case, a connection into Korea, we would derig 107. If not, then who knew what was going to happen! After some inevitable faff (I dropped my wellies on the walk over) we got underground around half 11. We were in China by 1pm, and after some flapkjack split into two twos: Rob &amp; I went through the rift &amp; down the pitch, &amp; Andrew &amp; Becka went into Korea &amp; we would shout at each other to see if it connected. On dropping down the pitch, I showed Rob what we had done the day before and we headed up the sandy ramp to the slit. At this point, Rob proclaimed "I bet you &pound;500 that we're in Blown Out." On looking at the traverse I half attempted the previous day, we rescinded the bet until further evidence arose. He found a way to climb down which bypassed this obstacle, and we poked around a bit at the bottom until we heard Becka &amp; Andrew Whooping with surprise: we were indeed in Blown Out! Apparently my failure to mention how sandy the other side of the connection was or that we had found survey station 4 on the other side of the slit. In hindsight, it did look rather like the other leads in KH that I had looked at (Chicken Flied Nice). We decided that we would do the through trip out of KH, derigging as we went. After Becka had done one last survey leg to link mine &amp; Davids data into China (using our station 8 &amp; station 4 (?) off the top of the large boulder opposite Wookeys death climb) &amp; me and Andrew had gardened the death climb until there was only half a ledge left to rig off, we set off through Blown Out, Rob rigged the 5m traverse, and we continued, derigging en route. Mordor was derigged (and would need rebolting if it is ever descended again), along with Sudetenland, Strange Downfall, Knossos &amp; the Entrance. Strange Upfall, Staircase 36 &amp; Repton were left rigged. We were out by 9, &amp; a lightning storm ensured a hasty walk to Top Camp.</p>
<p>27 min walk to beat the thunderstorm - a fine trip!</p>
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<div class="tripdate" id="t2014-08-02d">2014-08-02</div>
<div class="trippeople"><u>Becka</u>, Andrew, Neil</div>
<div class="trippeople"><u>Becka</u>, Andrew A, Neil</div>
<div class="triptitle">Tunnocks - Champagne on Ice</div>
<p>Down to continue from Neil, Andrew + Aled's trip yesterday. Andrew continued from Neil's bolts + rigged ~ 3 more pitches, two of which looked like they could get wet. We surveyed on the way out, we'd dropped 55m vertically + left it still open + looking bang on course for Neil + Andrew's G&ouml;sser-fuelled inspiration of trying to get to the Straight Choice/Arctic Angle area by dropping in from the north end of Tunnocks.</p>
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<div class="trippeople"><u>Holly</u> &amp; Callum, Joe</div>
<div class="triptitle">107 - Land of Confusion</div>
<p>[Logbook clearly says "Callum" but there is no one of that name registered. ]
<p>The weather was rubbish - rain, rain, rain. It was understood that the large pitch into China would be too wet to descend, so we went in to try &amp; find a new way in, in the Land of Confusion. We headed over the big pitch &amp; into LoC. Here one drops a short pitch (~6m or so), then climbs up the same height to on-going passage on the other side.</p>
<p><u>Note:</u> at the bottom of this pitch is another pitch - dry (13-LC-16A). Perfect for someone who wants bolting practice. On the main passage, Joe ran ahead to scope out the leads (pitches) that are understood to also lead to China. Joe found lead 13-LC-2C to be dry, so we attempted to rig here. Unfortunately all the rock was cheese. Eventually, after a lot of trying, we decided that it would be a project that needed more work &amp; wouldn't be worth it. So we headed out, but rigged a traverse on the rift somewhere between 'Coldest Place on Earth' and 'Restless' as follows:</p>
<p><img src="./logbkimg14.png" alt="Rigging sketch for rift somewhere between 'Coldest Place on Earth' and 'Restless'"></p>
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<div class="tripdate" id="t2014-08-05e">2014-08-05</div>
<div class="trippeople"><u>Fleur</u>, Pete &amp; Uncle Joe</div>
<div class="trippeople"><u>Fleur</u>, Pete &amp; Joe</div>
<div class="triptitle">go down Champagne on Ice / Coldfinger in Tunnocks</div>
<p>Arrived in Austria delighted to see our lead from last year being pushed &amp; going so well. Arrived at the rigging front in slightly drippy shaft series. Joe went down from Anthony &amp; CJD's last rebelay, but this left a wet final hang to the floor. So I persuaded Joe to come back up fro a re-rig. He dismantled Anthony's rebelay, but instead of heading for a window as I had hoped, he continued to the floor. Still the cave went on, Joe kept rigging, Pete &amp; I following surveying. It was all looking great, but after two more pitches it died. The stream went into a tiny rift and sumped. I said I would de rig as I wanted a look in the window 2 pitches up. I swung in and it looked like a different floor. So Joe went for a quick bolt to see it it went. It did! And also interrupted a horizontal passage which turned out the next day to connect to Arctic Angle. Satisfied we were leaving a good leave, we could now exit without derigging.</p>
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<div class="tripdate" id="t2014-08-11b">2014-08-11</div>
<div class="trippeople"> <u>Noel</u>, Julian, RobW, DaveW</div>
<div class="trippeople"> <u>Noel</u>, Julian, RobW, David W</div>
<div class="triptitle">Tunnocks - Arctic Angle - "The wrong choice"</div>
<p>Julian had made a rare appearance &amp; wanted to go to the leads at the bottom of Tunnocks - we got a sketch of Neil, Becka &amp; Mike's survey from Fleur to find their A++ lead beyond the traverse at the end. A nice trip to the end &amp; we soon found said traverse. Whilst I set up and started the traverse, the others set off exploring &amp; surveying some small passages nearby (to ensure there was no easy way around the traverse this time).</p>
<p>9 bolts crossed on an ascending ledge with a couple of exposed airy stances. TAKE CARE stepping over the balanced boulder - I could not push it off the edge but you never know what falls off here (as per my "incident" a few years ago. Once on the other side the strong draft resumed &amp; a junction was reached after a few meters.</p>
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<div class="tripdate" id="t2014-08-12a">2014-08-12</div>
<div class="trippeople"> <u>Chris</u>, Andy</div>
<div class="trippeople"> <u>Chris</u>, Andy C</div>
<div class="triptitle">Overflying 'Ducks on Ice'</div>
<p>Discovered that neither the 'new' rope - rigging Ducks on Ice - nor the old one rigging the trad way in was long enough for a new overpass, but we put one in anyway &amp; used both ropes after going up &amp; down several times. At least it kept us out of the rain &amp; gets the rigging up to the required standard... Sketch added to [something] rigging topo.</p>
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<div class="tripdate" id="t2014-08-13a">2014-08-13</div>
<div class="trippeople"> <u>Chris</u>, Andy</div>
<div class="trippeople"> <u>Chris</u>, Andy C</div>
<div class="triptitle">Tunnocks - The number of the Beast pt II</div>
<p>Put a few extra bolts on way in as previous year's bolt scarcity was evident. At limit of exploration, at bottom of steeply sloping rift landing in large chocked floor, climbed up &amp; descended 10m to another false floor, using an immense [something] boulder for a deviation. At N. end of false floor was young &amp; drippy at S. end was unstable &amp; aged, but offered the draft &amp; depth. I started gardening enthusiastically sending increasingly large masonry down the shaft. Andy pointed at another hole which I started chucking stuff down but decided it was no safer so let it be. After I climbed back out a large piece spontaneously threw itself down the shaft. Crumbs.
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<div class="tripdate" id="t2014-08-14a">2014-08-14</div>
<div class="trippeople"> <u>Nat</u>, Rob, Holly, Noel</div>
<div class="trippeople"> <u>Nat</u>, RobW, Holly, Noel</div>
<div class="triptitle">Tunnocks - Number of the Beast </div>
<p>(Times are mainly estimates)</p>
<p>After waiting for the rain to dissipate most of the morning we seized a window of clear weather to walk to Tunnocks; minimal faff saw us underground by half twelve; reasonably fast caving saw us at String Theory by about 2 &amp; Number of the Beast by about half five. Reaching this point Rob &amp; Holly sat at the top of bottom of Number of the Beast in a toasty warm bothy whilst Noel &amp; Bat went down the 2 10m pitches (very carefully as the walls weren't particularly solid). (N.B. in places the floor wasn't very solid either)!</p>
@ -737,7 +738,7 @@ After this we headed to No Choice at All; over Noel's traverse. Ipon arrival Rob
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<div class="tripdate" id="t2014-08-17a">2014-08-17</div>
<div class="trippeople"> <u>Noel</u>, Holly, Andy</div>
<div class="trippeople"> <u>Noel</u>, Holly, Andy C</div>
<div class="triptitle">Balcony - The Far Side </div>
<p>Enthusiasm for caving was apparently waning as no-one had been underground for days. A respite in the weather meant we could head to Balcony with dry kit/clothes. We took 2 drills to attempt a "double pronged" attack on the 2 main leads at the end of Leeds bypass.</p>

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<div class="tripdate" id="t2015-07-21b">2015-07-21</div>
<div class="trippeople"><u>Luke</u> + multiple teams</div>
<div class="trippeople"><u>Luke</u></div>
<div class="triptitle">Balconyhöhle</div>
<p>Showed a new team into Balcony, showing them the leads and rope. Left them to survey, returning from the end of Turtle Head to the entrance pitch in 25 mins to meet up with a team which was exitting early for a trip down the hill.</p>
<p>Showed a new team (who?) into Balcony, showing them the leads and rope. Left them to survey, returning from the end of Turtle Head to the entrance pitch in 25 mins to meet up with a team which was exitting early for a trip down the hill.</p>
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<div class="tripdate" id="t2015-07-28b">2015-07-28</div>
<div class="trippeople"><u>Pete Talling</u>, Sarah, Ben W (and then Matt helped survey)</div>
<div class="trippeople"><u>Pete Talling</u>, Sarah, Ben Whetton, Matt</div>
<div class="triptitle">Balcony Höhle Frozen North</div>
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<div class="tripdate" id="t2015-07-29c">2015-07-29</div>
<div class="trippeople">Andy &amp; <u>Anthony</u></div>
<div class="trippeople">Andy K, <u>Anthony</u></div>
<div class="triptitle">Tunnocks - Pushing Kraken (again)</div>
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<div class="tripdate" id="t2016-07-02a">2016-07-02</div>
<div class="trippeople">David, <u>Roshni</u>, Mark D(rescuer)</div>
<div class="trippeople">David, <u>Roshni</u>, Mark D</div>
<div class="triptitle">264 Balcony - Cathedral Chasm</div>
<p>First 7 hours of the trip went relatively smoothly, despite David forgetting to bring a pencil
for surveying. We made our way to Cathedral Chasm, which included getting past a particularly awkward
@ -525,7 +524,7 @@ got my gear dry before the heavy rain started.</p>
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<div class="tripdate" id="t2016-07-02d">2016-07-02</div>
<div class="trippeople"><u>Haydon (Twat)</u>, Ash, Mark, Sioned</div>
<div class="trippeople"><u>Haydon (Twat)</u>, Ash, Mark D, Sioned</div>
<div class="triptitle">Balkonhöhle</div>
<p>Went down to Long Drop after Haydons desire to do some f**king caving after ecoli.</p>
@ -1148,9 +1147,10 @@ draft, but needs dry and settled weather!</p>
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<div class="tripdate" id="t2016-07-12d">2016-07-12</div>
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<div class="trippeople">Haydon</div>
<div class="triptitle">Via Ferata: Intersport - Klettersteig</div>
<p>Callout book entry.</p>
<p>[Probably not Haydon, but anonymous.]
<div class="callout">23:00</div>
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<div class="tripdate" id="t2016-07-19a">2016-07-19</div>
<div class="trippeople"><u>Mark</u>, David, Ashley</div>
<div class="trippeople"><u>Mark D</u>, David, Ashley</div>
<div class="triptitle">Balcony - Cathedral Chasm</div>
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efficient surveying technique. We surveyed a total of 79 metres!.. In about 2
hours&hellip; By the end of this we'd found 1 C lead and 2 B leads, one of which
resulted in a grim mendip crawl that only Ash ended up doing and surveying.
Michael thinks that the other B lead could connect to Tunnocks&hellip; Will see.</p>
Michael thinks that the other B lead could connect to Tunnocks&hellip; We'll see.</p>
<p><i>NB: Ashs alternative account</i></p>
<p>After the rain
prevented caving the day before, the four of us set off to Balcony at
@ -220,7 +220,7 @@ exited the cave. Entrance pitch was a bit drippy and quite cold.</p>
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<div class="tripdate" id="t2017-07-18c">2017-07-18</div>
<div class="trippeople"><u>Brendan</u>, Luke, Phil</div>
<div class="trippeople"><u>Brendan</u>, Luke, Phil W</div>
<div class="triptitle">Balcony - photos, tourists</div>
<p>Went down Balcony
for a quick refresher trip in order to familiarise myself with the
@ -398,7 +398,7 @@ underground; a new personal best for myself.</p>
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<div class="tripdate" id="t2017-07-24a">2017-07-24</div>
<div class="trippeople"><u>Phil W</u>, everyone else</div>
<div class="trippeople"><u>Phil W</u></div>
<div class="triptitle">Pathetic festering</div>
<p>Everyone in Top
Camp festered because they were scared of the high water levels.
@ -1173,7 +1173,7 @@ for 30 minutes 5 hours previously.
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<div class="tripdate" id="t2017-08-01d">2017-08-01</div>
<div class="trippeople"><u>Mike</u>, Kristian, Adam</div>
<div class="trippeople"><u>Mike Butcher</u>, Kristian, Adam</div>
<div class="triptitle">Balcony - Nothing To See</div>
<p>My first trip on
the hill having arrived and walked up the day before. Good
@ -1229,7 +1229,7 @@ Becka.
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<div class="tripdate" id="t2017-08-02e">2017-08-02</div>
<div class="trippeople"><u>Mike</u>, Nathan</div>
<div class="trippeople"><u>Mike Butcher</u>, Nathan</div>
<div class="triptitle">CUCC-2017-28 aka Fisch Gesicht Höhle (FGH)</div>
<p>Went to drop the
pitch reached by Nathan the day before, having rigged a traverse
@ -1589,7 +1589,7 @@ frustrated, we braved the not-very-wet entrance.
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<div class="tripdate" id="t2017-08-07g">2017-08-07</div>
<div class="trippeople"><u>Rachel</u>, George, Mike</div>
<div class="trippeople"><u>Rachel</u>, George, Mike Butcher</div>
<div class="triptitle">Tunnocks - Camp Kraken: killing Grike of the Earth</div>
<p>From camp, we
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<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="triptitle">Balkonhoehle/264 - 1st rig</div>
<div class="timeug">T/U: 4 hours</div>
<p>
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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.
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<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%>
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<div class="timeug">T/U: 4 hours</div>
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<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>
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<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>
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<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>
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<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>
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<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>
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<div class="timeug">T/U 0 hours</div>
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<div class="tripdate" id="t2018-07-17rg2">2018-07-17</div>
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<p>Hangmans's Traverse is not here: redrawn later. See 20/7/2018.
<img src="logbook6.jpg" width=100%>
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<div class="timeug">T/U 0 hours</div>
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<div class="tripdate" id="t2018-07-17rg3">2018-07-17</div>
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<div class="tripdate" id="t2018-07-18b">2018-07-18</div>
<div class="trippeople"><u>Philip Sargent</u></div>
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<p>[See <a href="#t2018-07-26h">continuing Mongol Rally rigging guide</a>]</p>
<div class="timeug">T/U: 11.5 hours</div>
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<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>
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<div class="timeug">T/U: 6 hours</div>
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<div class="tripdate" id="t2018-07-19a">2018-07-19</div>
<div class="trippeople"><u>Anthony</u>, Luke</div>
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<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
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<p>
PLEASE RETURN ALL 3 SETS TO CHRIS DENSHAM, OXFORD. ALSO PLEASE RETURN THE 3
ALPINEXES.
<br>[anonymous but presumably Chris D.]]
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<div class="tripdate" id="t2018-07-19c">2018-07-19</div>
<div class="trippeople"><u>Anthony</u>, Luke, Frank</div>
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<div class="tripdate" id="t2018-07-20b">2018-07-20</div>
<div class="trippeople"><u>Anthony</u>, Lydia, Phil W</div>
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<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>
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<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>
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<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.
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@ -1047,14 +1029,12 @@ to test actual useable bandwidth.
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<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
<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
@ -1291,7 +1271,7 @@ Philip
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<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>
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<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.
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@ -1433,7 +1410,6 @@ Met Luke and Becka at Pitstop for the journey out.
<div class="timeug">T/U: 10.5 hours</div>
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<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>
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<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).
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<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.
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<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
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<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
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<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>
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<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>
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<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
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<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.
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<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>
@ -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 »
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<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.
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<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...
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@ -2007,7 +2023,6 @@ from the other side of the hill...
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<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...
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<div class="tripdate" id="t2018-08-13a">2018-08-13</div>
<div class="trippeople"><u>Philip Sargent</u></div>
@ -2033,8 +2047,9 @@ me a lift to the potato hut and I showed him the posters and aven. (He also has
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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>
@ -2042,10 +2057,10 @@ me a lift to the potato hut and I showed him the posters and aven. (He also has
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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.
@ -2066,9 +2080,8 @@ me a lift to the potato hut and I showed him the posters and aven. (He also has
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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!
@ -2076,21 +2089,13 @@ me a lift to the potato hut and I showed him the posters and aven. (He also has
<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>
<img src="vfho-receipt.jpg" width=400px><br><br><br>
<img src="vfho-receipt.jpg" width=400px><br><br><br> from Robert Seebacher
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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>
@ -2133,16 +2138,51 @@ It was slow progress up the rest of the cave, barely keeping ahead of the derigg
The decision to leave all the tackle sacks at the entrance was endorsed unanimously. I poured myself a large Schnapps and followed everyone in double-curry dinner and falling asleep immediately.</pre>
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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>
<p>
[from <a href="https://ukcaving.com/board/index.php?topic=23424.msg299639#msg299639">https://ukcaving.com/board/index.php?topic=23424.msg299639#msg299639</a>]
<p>
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.
<p>
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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Becka
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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>
@ -2314,7 +2354,6 @@ at top camp.
<br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br>
<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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@ -2351,7 +2390,6 @@ was about 30°C). This hole is choked with rubble, but it would
certainly be an interesting digging project for future Expos.
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<a href="../../../expofiles/photos/2018/NatalieUomini/aa-1-2017_with-tag.jpg">
<img src=i/aa-1-2017_with-tag.jpg>,
@ -2373,7 +2411,6 @@ must be explored! Just beside 2004-18 we found another shaft
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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<div class="tripdate" id="t2019-07-07">2019-07-07</div>
<div class="trippeople"><u>Philip</u>, Andrew, Tom, Corin, Michael Holliday, Reuben, Becka, Dickon, Dan, Michael, Harry</div>
<div class="trippeople"><u>Philip</u>, Andrew, Tom, Corin, Michael Holliday, Reuben, Becka, Dickon, Dan, Michael S, Harry</div>
<div class="triptitle">Discovery of Snow-filled Steinbruckhohle</div>
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Plentiful snow.
@ -50,6 +50,7 @@ Other nearby holes choked rapidly.
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<div class="tripdate" id="t2019-07-10a">2019-07-10</div>
<div class="trippeople"><u>Tom</u></div>
<div class="triptitle">Homecoming via stonebridge</div>
<p>
Plan
@ -90,7 +91,7 @@ Things going to top 10/07/19 ... muesli; smash; 5x drinking choc; top camp surve
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<div class="tripdate" id="t2019-07-10b">2019-07-10</div>
<div class="trippeople"><u>Becka</u>, Andrew, Ruairidh</div>
<div class="trippeople"><u>Becka</u>, Andrew Atkinson, Ruairidh MacLeod</div>
<div class="triptitle">Balkonhoehle - Rig entrance and push Myopia</div>
<p>
Andrew and Ruairidh had ferried 2 tacklesacks to the entrance and reflected the route
@ -146,7 +147,7 @@ choked within 15m. 3 tagged caves (tags: CUCC-2019; CD-01; RH-03; MH-02) with a
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<div class="tripdate" id="t2019-07-11b">2019-07-11</div>
<div class="trippeople"><u>Tom</u>, everyone</div>
<div class="trippeople"><u>Tom</u>, Andrew, Tom, Corin, Michael Holliday, Reuben, Becka, Dickon, Dan, Michael S, Harry</div>
<div class="triptitle">CUCC Austria Expedition 2019 Blog</div>
<a href="https://ukcaving.com/board/index.php?topic=25249.msg311372#msg311372">blog post</a>
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@ -324,7 +325,7 @@ Dickon and I went down Homecoming to the start of the Second Coming (after the a
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<div class="tripdate" id="t2019-07-16b">2019-07-16</div>
<div class="trippeople"><u>Dan</u> Tom Crossley, Harry</div>
<div class="trippeople"><u>Dan</u>,Tom Crossley, Harry</div>
<div class="triptitle">Blog Post bit - Homecoming</div>
<p><b>
Tuesday Jul 16:</b>
@ -335,7 +336,7 @@ Crossley, Harry, and I went and added some additional rigging on the entrance se
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<div class="tripdate" id="t2019-07-17">2019-07-17</div>
<div class="trippeople"><u>Dan</u> Tom Crossley, Sarah, Harry, Michael H</div>
<div class="trippeople"><u>Dan</u>, Tom Crossley, Sarah, Harry, Michael H</div>
<div class="triptitle">Blog Post bit - Homecoming</div>
<p><b>
Wednesday Jul 17:</b>