From 4cf4d3f4233d90a1aeb478dc148cd2db8e19026b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Andy Waddington on washburn 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.
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.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.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.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