diff --git a/years/2007/logbook.html b/years/2007/logbook.html index 325873902..14c67d67d 100644 --- a/years/2007/logbook.html +++ b/years/2007/logbook.html @@ -15,7 +15,7 @@

Nial put some extra bolts (3) into the entrance pitch then showed us some of the high level horizontal stuff and the top of the main Gaffered -pitch.

+pitch.

T/U 5 hours
@@ -225,7 +225,7 @@ sandy crawl. Left at the previous junction was missing the snow from 1987 and led to a pitch which you could reach either approximately 10m from the bottom of 20m up. Daylight just about comes in from above along with lots of drips presumably a snow plug on the surface above a big -pitch very close to the 204 path.

+pitch very close to the 204 path.

I got really cold cos it drafted a lot and I was only wearing one lot of thermals under my furry. At the base of the pitch left went to loose @@ -251,11 +251,11 @@ put in a tag spit, then used that plus a thread backup and two protectors to descend. The pitch head is awkward, then bells out to land on a rubble floor with a dirty snowplug. A chink of light enters upslope from a nearby shaft, while downslope the roof lowers and chokes. -This is the source of the outward draft noted at the entrance.

+This is the source of the outward draft noted at the entrance.

Then onto 148- I entered in thermals plus oversuit and drilled and set two spits for the pitch which bypasses the squeeze and climb. Then -surface surveyed from 148 to 2006-70.

+surface surveyed from 148 to 2006-70.

T/U 1 hour (total).
@@ -272,7 +272,7 @@ head of Steel Toe Cap. Mark D rigged the last Ariston pitch, I rigged the first Kiwi Suit pitch, then wibbled on the start of the traverse to the second for long enough that Mark D took over again - pausing only to spit in a pot at the head of the fourth Kiwi Suit pitch, i.e. the Brown -Trouser Pitch head. Mission accomplished we headed out.

+Trouser Pitch head. Mission accomplished we headed out.

T/U 7 hours.
@@ -297,7 +297,7 @@ by a later party - so the second wave could use the drill. Dumped the drill at GLAD, and continued rigging through Tun and Copper. Put in a handbolt for a deviation on Yeast which looks to have sorted out the rig a treat. At that pitch we called it a day and headed out, meeting the -second wave at GLAD. Out at 19.30 and bolted down the hill.

+second wave at GLAD. Out at 19.30 and bolted down the hill.

T/U 10.5 hrs.
@@ -327,7 +327,7 @@ with "Uncomformity" ...

a 22.00hr call out. Dave and I cut a deal whereby he carried the tackle sack along the passage and I pulled it up the pitches. The 204e entrance pitch at 21.50 thus left me a sweaty blob. We got back to the -Stone Bridge at 21.59 after an 11 hour trip!

+Stone Bridge at 21.59 after an 11 hour trip!

Leads uncovered by the trip included C at the bottom of pitch descended by Dave and an aven in the roof. This was at the bottom left, @@ -352,7 +352,7 @@ Kaninchenhoehle. Instead, the passage just fizzled out! It rapidly became too tight, although we did find an impressive aven on the left, which didn't lead anywhere. On the way back, we bolted and descended a new pitch. A 20 metre descent led to a squeeze down into a chamber that -looked like it needed a handline.

+looked like it needed a handline.

On the 15th Kathryn and I, went back and went back into this chamber: turned out to be a 6m pitch with a very dodgy squeeze onto the pitch @@ -373,7 +373,7 @@ prophet of some considerable power and cemented the respect of us novice cavers. Rather an easy task compared to the 200m surveying and rigging task of the previous day. A and B leads are thought to extend from the top of a pitch linking "Uncomformity" to the passage linking "Shetland -Incline".

+Incline".

We progressed to explore 03-90A. This involved Dave cutting our old (2003) 11mm rope into lots of teeny bits. We dropped down a very @@ -414,7 +414,7 @@ an area riddled with uncharted cave. We tagged 2007-01 and Ollie sent me down (I was geared up). A vertical climb down opened into a hollow plate a few metres down. A boulder floor made the "C" QM in the floor dangerous. An edge exit was too tight. Many vertical openings existed -in a similar place. We tagged one, 2007-02, but did not descend.

+in a similar place. We tagged one, 2007-02, but did not descend.

T/U 1.5 hrs.
@@ -524,7 +524,7 @@ had one bolting kit between the three of us, and this meant we got quite cold, so Djuke decideded to find Edvin and Nial in the Underworld. Sarah and Kathryn eventually placed 4 bolts of varying quality and rigged the traverse, by which time it was too late to join the others pushing in -the Underworld, and so they headed out.

+the Underworld, and so they headed out.

@@ -561,7 +561,7 @@ a couple of metres).

visitors around Steinbrucken. They all seemed very impressed, especially with the pitches. However, one was overhead to say that there was too much prussiking! Trip took 6hrs. The temperature in Kiwi Suit was -0.4°C.

+0.4°C.

The Hungarians were very keen to see more of the cave so I took Dodo and Gabor on a through trip from 204e to 204d. The snow was low so the @@ -569,7 +569,7 @@ climb out of d was easy. A top trip, I had forgotten how good it was!

We are all invited to go caving in Hungary. If you fancy it then -contact Gabor by email.

+contact Gabor by email.

@@ -671,7 +671,7 @@ return.

Headed in with 2 smallish bags of rope. Met Dour and MSD at God Loves A Drunk, where we heard the grim tales of Mark's loose bowels and Dour's missing hiltis which I had picked up at Kiwi Suit (thanks to Sarah for -spotting the pot lying on a rock).

+spotting the pot lying on a rock).

We decided to ditch the 94m pushing rope and continue in with the drill and rope for known pitches. This was a lovely idea but forgot to @@ -1002,7 +1002,7 @@ bastard.

The inlet is keyhole passage with ~3m round phreatic part elongate along the dip direction, and a trench that is typically 5m deep, -trending upwards at 25¬∞. We surveyed up this for ~70m before running +trending upwards at 25°. We surveyed up this for ~70m before running out of time. Our last survey station is by a junction where the main route continues for ~40m to a climb which may or may not be climbable, and an inlet rift that is passable for some distance. With that we