Added three trips into first gap.

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 <p>Back to fat cat to set the last hilti & drop down. Dropped pitch to near survey stn 14 of fat cat survey. Saw window on way down that Holly managed to rig rope to -> Just a pocket at horizontal level but climb up with QMA above.</p>
 
-<p>Also dropped pitch below window -> led to scrotty passage which opened upa bit QMB at end & QMA with V. good draft & possible pitch on left. Nice dry on way out today :-) </p>
+<p>Also dropped pitch below window -> led to scrotty passage which opened upa bit QMB at end & QMA with V. good draft & possible pitch on left. Nice and dry on way out today :-) </p>
 
 <div class="timeug">T/U: 12hrs</div>
 
@@ -161,7 +161,7 @@ leave. Exited the cave in v. exciting wet conditions as there was a monster stor
 <p>Dour could not be swayed by the temptation of a piss-up in town, he was tempted by the dark side, and by Emma-the-keen. So the alarm went off at 6.30am. He jumped out of his pit and stuck his head back into the tent shortly later to say goodbye. Fair enough I suppose, going caving on a caving expedition...</p>
 <p>I meanwhile slept off two consecutive seshes and crawled out of my pit at 10:50. To find Dunks, Noel and Frank standing around the cars having a giggle. The giggling increased significantly when I tried the van door. Dour-the-organised, having borrowed my van key first thing, and meaning to give it back when he came over to say goodbye. Instead got a lift up the road and walked all the way to top camp before realising he still had the key in his pocket. DOH.</p>
 
-<p>Not being able to drive the van for a day or so probably wouldn't be the end of the world (after all, this is only the second expo I've been on with my own driving licence). but I gradually worked out that the ever-lengthening list of things left in the van included pills, wallet, walkingboots, maps, day rucksack, walking pole etc. Crap. Dour found the van key <u>after</u> Holly and Stuart had set off walking so couldn't send it down the hill with them. Several phone calls later, as I sat trying to plan my day (baring in mind the street party tonight and subsequently written-off tomorrow), remembering more and more useful shit that was locked in our van, a solution was found. But there was much grumbling in certain quarters.</p>
+<p>Not being able to drive the van for a day or so probably wouldn't be the end of the world (after all, this is only the second expo I've been on with my own driving licence), but I gradually worked out that the ever-lengthening list of things left in the van included pills, wallet, walkingboots, maps, day rucksack, walking pole etc. Crap. Dour found the van key <u>after</u> Holly and Stuart had set off walking so couldn't send it down the hill with them. Several phone calls later, as I sat trying to plan my day (baring in mind the street party tonight and subsequently written-off tomorrow), remembering more and more useful shit that was locked in our van, a solution was found. But there was much grumbling in certain quarters.</p>
 
 <div class="tripdate" id="t2012-08-02">2012-08-02</div>
 <div class="trippeople"><u>Duncan</u>, Dour, Emma, Jess, Frank</div>
@@ -178,6 +178,72 @@ leave. Exited the cave in v. exciting wet conditions as there was a monster stor
 <div class="trippeople"><u>Anthony</u>, Wookey</div>
 <div class="triptitle">Pushing near Fat Cat</div>
 
+<p>A 06.30 start from Base Camp saw Emma and I yomping up to the bivi to go caving (thereby cunningly avoiding the thunderstorm of the previous evening). I paired up with Wookey and we went underground in early afternoon.</p>
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+<p>The first job was to redo the centreline survey on Brian's Phat Shaft, since the original vintage[?] had rather too many suspicious plumbs for the terrain. The DistoX proved to be a bit tedious, regularly resetting itself into various modes that did not give us the answer we wanted, but it was sorted eventually.</p>
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+<p>The next job was to look at a traverse at the top of a climb reached the previous day by Holly and Wookey after swinging off part way down Fat Cat. I put in a couple of bolts and got to the other side, which smelt disgustingly of piss. Shortly afterwards Ollie's light was seen shining down the aven at the far end, confirming that we were below one of the holes near the end of the On The Prowl traverse. Later, Ollie shone his light down a different hole and we saw it coming form above the start of the traverse - so it looks like there is not much to be found here.</p>
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+<p>While this had been going on, we heard excited shouts from Emma and Jen requesting our presence with the drill. We headed down to their lead, via a most entertaining deviation. The passage they had followed was impressively grotty but draughting, eventually opening out into a small bouldery chamber. Wookey's cave radara detected the hole with the draught coming out of it and one bolt later we were into a continuation. This was initially a sandy crawl, but quickly opened out into something of more impressive dimensions, all draughting strongly. Wookey and I surveyed into this while Emma and Jess finished off the survey of the way in, then leapfrogged us and started surveying the new stuff. By the time we had finished our bit they had surveyed around a fairly substantial chamber, full of boulders with black spaces between them. At the north end is a substantial pitch with water coming down that the survey data indicates is probably the final pitch in Kiwi Suit. There is also a pitch lead at the southern end of the chamber, nearest to KH and at a similar altitude. There is a very strong draught in this area, blowing from north to south. There is evidence that the chamber is in part developed along a hading rift with a similar orientation to Razor Dance which is directly below, so I suspect that they may be related to the same feature. Overall, a most promising find.</p>
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+<p>At this point Emma and Jess headed out whilst Wookey and I tidied up by surveying a side passage to a pitch lead. During this exercise we saw Emma and Jess's lights and realised that we were standing in a window ~8m from the bottom of Fat Cat. This would avoid the need to go through the scrofulous initial access route.</p>
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+<p>Our final act was to derig the ropes on the climb and traverse from earlier on in the day to complete a most satisfying and effective day's caving. An excellent trip.</p>
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+<div class="timeug">T/U: 14hrs</div>
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+<div class="tripdate" id="t2012-08-07c">2012-08-07</div>
+<div class="triptitle">Pushing Fat Cat -&gt; Pussy Riot -&gt; Cirque du Soleil</div>
+<div class="trippeople"><u>Jess</u>, Emma</div>
+
+<p>Went to investigate a scrothole that Holly had squidged into and pronounced an "A" lead. So, having already been passed by Rob and Olaf we thought we'd have a look...</p>
+
+<p>Sadly some of the rather spectacular popcorn protrubences died a death as we wriggled through the hole, having just scrotted down the previous bit of passage, after christening the perched boulder "Boris". Don't ask why...</p>
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+<p>Well, a short section of small, popcorn encrusted phreatic pocketing led to a larger phreatic passage ~1.5x2m, with a hole in the floor (<u>QMA</u>), a window and climb down to the right which ended in a mud choke (<u>QMD</u>) and a ceiling inlet with a small stream which dropped down the pitch. A higher cavity could be seen ~3m up this ... <u>QMB</u>.</p>
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+<p>We carried on along the phreatic passage, which developed a floor trench and ceiling pockets, before dropping down a 2m climb. Howling draft and V.cold.</p>
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+<p>Mud choked chamber at foor of climb, pitch on R <u>(QMA)</u>. Climbed up 3m opposite original passage, above the pitch, into a BIG phreatic chamber (<u>Pussy Riot</u>) with boulders, pitches (<u>(QMA)</u>,<u>QMB</u>,<u>QMB</u>,<u>QMB</u>,<u>QMB</u>) some further phreas entering ~8m up the wall (QMA).</p>
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+<p>At this point we decided we needed the wisdom of greater experience to choose our next move, so I ran back to the bottom of Fat Cat, clambering over Boris, and hollered for those well known cave sniffers, Dour and Wookey.</p>
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+<p>20 mins later, after a pause durig which they finished blting a traverse and me and Emma sang and cackled and chatted, we headed back to the chamber.</p>
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+<p>Wookey immediately walked over the boulders (ignoring the black spaces beneath which we'd found so offputting) straight into a horizontal continuation on hte left of the chamber. A 2m climb down, requiring one bolt and a natural was reached. Me and Emma surveyed while this was bolted, and Wookey had a quick scsoop ahead (tut tut!).</p>
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+<p>Small, mud floored, mostly hands and knees or stoping phreatic passage was reached, which after a couple of minutes opened out into a large chamber - <u>Cirque du Soleil</u>.</p> 
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+<p>Me and Emma leapfrogged Dour and Wookey (who were now surveying) and started surveyng the chamber. Its V.V. big... amd a big draft... Large pillar in centre, a big drippy pitch to the south (<u>(QMA)</u>), some holes upslope between the pitch and entrance which we thought we could see the others' lights throughh (<u>(QMA)</u>,<u>QMA</u>), and four more pitches, 2 on each side of the chamber (4x<u>QMB</u>).</p>
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+Carried on to far side of chamber past pillar to a steep chossy slope with perched death down into big stomping trunk passage which, as Dour put in, was "Blowing a hooley". This went ~10m to another massive drippy pitch.</p>
+
+<p>Having reached a natural break, we decided to head out, nattering and chattering. Out at 1 am.</p>
+
+<div class="timeug">T/U: 13hrs</div>
+<div>
+<pre>
+Cat Gut: QMB - Inlet in ceiling. ~3m climb to cavity
+         QMA - Pitch in floor under 2 boulders, takes a stream
+         QMD - Mud choked downclimb - small stream sinks
+Pussy Riot: QMA - Down pitch on R of climb up into chamber ~15m? ~20m? hard to tell...
+            QMB - Hole on left under boulders at top of climb into chamber ~2m to a floor
+            QMB - Pitch on R of chamber, ~20m ?
+            QMB - Pitch on R of exit of chamber
+            QMX - Possible phreatic passage ~8m up wall opposite climb up into chamber
+Cirque du Soleil: QMB - Pitch on L as enter chamber
+                  QMA - Hole in wall up slope on R as enter chamber
+                  QMA: hole in wall up slope on R as enter chamber
+                  QMA: Big drippy pitch in south side of chamber, drafts strngly in (down pitch)
+                  QMB: Pitch on R by wall just before slope down into trunk passage
+                  QMB: Pitch on L by slope down into trunk passage
+                  QMA: Big drippy pitch at end of trunk passage <u>POSSIBLY FINAL PITCH OF KIWI SUIT</u></p>
+
+<p>Have we found the legendary phreas at the top of Razordance ????</p>
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