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Exported on 2025-07-26 18:07 using either the control panel webpage or when editing a logbook entry online
Exported on 2025-07-26 20:07 using either the control panel webpage or when editing a logbook entry online
See troggle/code/views/other.py and core.models/logbooks.py writelogbook(year, filename)
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<div class="timeug">T/U: 5.0 hours</div>
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<div class="tripdate" id="2025-07-17f">2025-07-17</div>
<div class="trippeople"><u>Frank Tully</u>, Chris Densham</div>
<div class="triptitle">264 Balcony - Balcony - Gorgons Lair station 12 A Lead</div>
Quick trip into Balcony to tick off an 'A' lead out of Gorgons Lair...
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Headed up the hill the evening after the dinner with the remains of a hangover rattling around in my head. Early nights sleep at the stone bridge and a quick get-up in the morning, the intention was to head down Balcony visit the camp then go for an afternoon push into the witching hours, which realistically is what happened.
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Balcony has a lot more string than I imagined and some bold climbs/traverses on the way down, hats of to whoever put these in.
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Arrived at the camp just after lunch and had lunch, life is that exciting sometimes. Met Becca and James W as we were leaving for caverns so far measureless to man.
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The trip to our pushing front was uneventful, if you exclude climbing up the rope into Northern Powerhouse with a heavy tackle bag on my back as uneventful, it wasn't, rookie mistake.
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Arrived in the Gorgons Lair chamber and the lead was indicated by a station 12 in red nail varnish on the LHS Wall. The lead is the pitch down, however we noticed an inclined aven up...
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Chris rigged the pitch and Frank started surveying it. The pitch edge is a nice wall of pebbly fill, which makes the edge less than solid.
Two re-belays and a deviation off an upside down spike preceded arrival at the bottom - Only to find the rope 3m too short and a long length of deviation tat tied onto the bottom. Swung off onto a ledge and started surveying the chamber. After a few legs out of the chamber we found a bolt with a red survey dot next to it. bugger, A lead killed off.
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On exit the critical deviation pinged off and had to be replaced, which took a while.
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Interestingly the draught at station 12 was not present either on the pitch or at the bottom of the pitch, or at the constriction at the top of the continuation pitch down. The general thought was that the draught is going up the inclined aven above the pitch.
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Had a look at climbing up the inclined aven but it was getting late. The aven is relatively clean washed and water from it has incised through the brown and ancient looking pebbles in the pheratic rift.
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Returned to camp really late and ate dinner quietly because Becca and James had gone to bed early, which was in the plan because they were getting up early. Crawled into my pit and chose the end space against the wall. Which was particularly lumpy for a side sleeper and had lots of unconscious slide, cuddle and spoon potential.
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Got up late and headed out, this took ages because I'm particularly slow for some reason, potentially related to age and unfitness, but I’m blaming the sore throat and sneeze.
<div class="timeug">T/U: 40.0 hours</div>
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<div class="tripdate" id="2025-07-18a">2025-07-18</div>
<div class="trippeople"><u>Philip S.</u></div>
<div class="triptitle">2025-PS-01 - Only one new cave on Vdr SMK</div>
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<div class="timeug">T/U: 18.0 hours</div>
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<div class="tripdate" id="2025-07-22a">2025-07-22</div>
<div class="tripdate" id="2025-07-22a">2025-07-23</div>
<div class="trippeople"><u>James W</u>, Frank, Janis, Ned H, Tom b</div>
<div class="triptitle">Kaninchen jaeger - Pushing in shorts</div>
<div class="triptitle">Kaninchen - Kaninchen jaeger - Pushing in shorts</div>
Prospected a new cave and tried to hunt the rabbit. Dropped a big entrance pitch and then via some creative rigging and damp pitches got to about 100m deep. Cave keeps going and is in a nice place. Shorts make bolting and surveying fun and then we left the cabe
<div class="timeug">T/U: 3.0 hours</div>
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<div class="tripdate" id="2025-07-23a">2025-07-23</div>
<div class="trippeople"><u>Philip S.</u></div>
<div class="triptitle">2025-PS-02 - Mostly plateau photographing and checking entrances</div>
Cycled up to the bottom of the cable car and took it up (with bike) to the car park.
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In retrospect this was a bit of a mistake as I realised that I had used up a days-worth of legs before I had even started walking. Also the amount of faff and pre-preparing GPX files for prospecting meant that I might as well have taken the first 955 bus which gets to the cable car at about 0930. I re-fuelled with apfel strudl.<br />
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Cycled up to the bottom of the cable car and took it up (with bike) to the car park. In retrospect this was a bit of a mistake as I realised that I had used up a days-worth of legs before I had even started walking. Also the amount of faff and pre-preparing GPX files for prospecting meant that I might as well have taken the first 955 bus which gets to the cable car at about 0930.
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It did all work out, and having the bike up there meant that I could start coming down at 17:00 instead of 16:30, and without any stress for missing the last car. Though the berg restaurant was shut of course so no last-minute apfelstrudl for me.
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