Logbook edited 2024-08-07a

years/2024/logbook.html

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 <div class="tripdate" id="2024-07-06a">2024-07-06</div>
-<div class="trippeople"><u>waite</u>,Charlotte,philips,Jacob C,</div>
+<div class="trippeople"><u>waite</u>,philips,Jacob C,Charlotte,</div>
 <div class="triptitle">Basecamp - Setup day 1</div>
 Arrived in the afternoon and got keys from gasthof. Fridge full of other people's beer sadly. Picked up Philip S from the station and set up outside tarp and bier tent. Bier tent missing it's door ATM with a tarp rigged instead??????? Where has it gone ? Who knows?????? Gas hose fell off burner whilst cooking dinner, large plume of flame in bier tent but crisis averted
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@@ -42,7 +42,7 @@ I was walking into town from the station (from Vienna this morning) when I was i
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 <div class="tripdate" id="2024-07-07a">2024-07-07</div>
-<div class="trippeople"><u>PhilipS</u>,Charlotte,Jacob,Waite,</div>
+<div class="trippeople"><u>PhilipS</u>,Jacob,Waite,Charlotte,</div>
 <div class="triptitle">topcamp - First visit to top camp</div>
 Charlotte, James W and Jacob C going for a first carry to top camp to look at amount of snow etc., departed Gasthof at 11:00 expected back about 20:00. They are not taking the new top camp tarp up this time - it weighs 21 kg.
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 <div class="tripdate" id="2024-07-08a">2024-07-08</div>
-<div class="trippeople"><u>PhilipS</u>,Julia,wassil,sieds,</div>
+<div class="trippeople"><u>PhilipS</u>,wassil,sieds,Julia,</div>
 <div class="triptitle">basecamp - Who went where</div>
 Everyone went up to the plateau except for Julia and Philip S. Wassil and Sieds arrived during the day.
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@@ -108,7 +108,7 @@ Sieds calmly checked the online documentation, did the three-fingered salute to
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 <div class="tripdate" id="2024-07-09b">2024-07-09</div>
-<div class="trippeople"><u>waite</u>,jacob,charlotte,issac,</div>
+<div class="trippeople"><u>waite</u>,charlotte,issac,jacob,</div>
 <div class="triptitle">fishface - collecting rope</div>
 no reflectors left on spits.
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@@ -148,7 +148,7 @@ on things and tried to kill me multiple times).
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 <div class="tripdate" id="2024-07-10a">2024-07-10</div>
-<div class="trippeople"><u>Isaac</u>,waite,charlotte,jacob,philip s,</div>
+<div class="trippeople"><u>Isaac</u>,jacob,philip s,waite,charlotte,</div>
 <div class="triptitle">basecamp - Bread Making</div>
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 With an afternoon of festering well on the way after arriving back from our FF rope 
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 <div class="tripdate" id="2024-07-10b">2024-07-10</div>
-<div class="trippeople"><u>Wassil</u>,Marie,Sieds,Lara,</div>
+<div class="trippeople"><u>Wassil</u>,Sieds,Lara,Marie,</div>
 <div class="triptitle">balcony - Rigging balcony entrance series</div>
 <p>We were tasked by Antony to rig the entrance series of Balkonhöhle so that he could go and rig 
 Mongol Rally (presumably a more interesting rig).</p>
@@ -236,7 +236,7 @@ rapidly approaching. Luckily we made it back to camp 5 minutes before it started
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 <div class="tripdate" id="2024-07-11a">2024-07-11</div>
-<div class="trippeople"><u>Wassil</u>,Jono,Marie,Becka,</div>
+<div class="trippeople"><u>Wassil</u>,Marie,Becka,Jono,</div>
 <div class="triptitle">garlic - Setting up Garlic Cave Camp</div>
 <p>It turns out that Garlic Camp is a really good idea. 1h58 from the car park, under 20 minutes from 
 Homecoming, so I'll be spending more time there.</p>
@@ -295,7 +295,7 @@ Walked back to Bad Aussee. Had coffee having missed last bus.
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 <div class="tripdate" id="2024-07-11c">2024-07-11</div>
-<div class="trippeople"><u>waite</u>,wook,charlotte,lara,</div>
+<div class="trippeople"><u>waite</u>,charlotte,lara,wook,</div>
 <div class="triptitle">homecoming - more naughty rope</div>
 We rigged the entrance to Homecoming and rigged ropes down to the up pitch. ropes after this were left insitu. wookey dissapeared behind us to play with his new toy (Sap6) he measured some pitches as far as the 4 bolt traverse at the bottom of radagast. We found the pile of rope at the bottom of the uprope to Propane Nightmares. 
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 <div class="tripdate" id="2024-07-14a">2024-07-14</div>
-<div class="trippeople"><u>ps</u>,Marie,Wookey,Jacob,</div>
+<div class="trippeople"><u>ps</u>,Wookey,Jacob,Marie,</div>
 <div class="triptitle">basecamp - Heute ist Domstag</div>
 Delayed Onset Muscle Stiffness my walk up to StoneBridge a couple of days ago.
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@@ -483,7 +483,7 @@ Let's see if he gets a parking ticket as he sprints back down the hill...
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 <div class="tripdate" id="2024-07-14c">2024-07-14</div>
-<div class="trippeople"><u>PS</u>,JC,Isaac,RM,Marie,JL,Sieds,PB,</div>
+<div class="trippeople"><u>PS</u>,Marie,JL,Sieds,PB,JC,Isaac,RM,</div>
 <div class="triptitle">Basecamp - Who came down, and went up</div>
 Jacob, Marie  came down (Phil B got them?) and Marie went to bed in the attic.
 
@@ -494,7 +494,7 @@ Jacob, Marie  came down (Phil B got them?) and Marie went to bed in the attic.
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 <div class="tripdate" id="2024-07-15a">2024-07-15</div>
-<div class="trippeople"><u>Lara</u>,James W,Charlotte,Issac,</div>
+<div class="trippeople"><u>Lara</u>,Charlotte,Issac,James W,</div>
 <div class="triptitle">homecoming - Failed pushing but excellent sidequests</div>
 We set off from Garlic Camp to homecoming vaguely early in the morning which was a very welcome change, 20 minutes downhill walking which was lovely as long as you didn't think about the walk back up. Isaac had joined our motley crew the night before and was <em>very</em> excited for a big trip (read: scared to be beasted by Charlotte and James).
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 <div class="tripdate" id="2024-07-16b">2024-07-16</div>
-<div class="trippeople"><u>PS</u>,Lara,AD,JW,</div>
+<div class="trippeople"><u>PS</u>,AD,JW,Lara,</div>
 <div class="triptitle">basecamp - More chundering</div>
 Anthony had a very bad night last night at Stone Bridge a couple of hours after eating, but got down today feeling a bit weak.
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@@ -624,7 +624,7 @@ The tofu curries were consumed when a prospecting trip returned. I was sad.
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 <div class="tripdate" id="2024-07-16d">2024-07-16</div>
-<div class="trippeople"><u>Isaac</u>,Marie,Jono,Lara,Waite,Jacob,Ruairidh,Charlotte,</div>
+<div class="trippeople"><u>Isaac</u>,Waite,Jacob,Ruairidh,Charlotte,Marie,Jono,Lara,</div>
 <div class="triptitle">Lake - Marie Hates Swimming</div>
 See title.
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 <div class="tripdate" id="2024-07-18a">2024-07-18</div>
-<div class="trippeople"><u>Lara</u>,Charlotte,Jacob,James W,</div>
+<div class="trippeople"><u>Lara</u>,Jacob,James W,Charlotte,</div>
 <div class="triptitle">homecoming - There and there and there and back again</div>
 When I emerged from homecoming and realised the stars were only just still visible because it was dawn I seriously considered if I'd left some of my sanity down by the pushing front. We had finished faffing and started descending around midday the day before, a solid 16 and a half hours ago. 
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@@ -732,7 +732,7 @@ The tag for p2018-dm-04 is in the foreground, the tackle sack is near the beginn
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 <div class="tripdate" id="2024-07-20a">2024-07-20</div>
-<div class="trippeople"><u>PS</u>,Harry,Christian,Colin,</div>
+<div class="trippeople"><u>PS</u>,Christian,Colin,Harry,</div>
 <div class="triptitle">Bascamp - New arrivals</div>
 Christian, Harry and Colin arrived.
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@@ -795,7 +795,7 @@ We were greeted by a few rays of sunshine when we finally exited around 5pm befo
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 <div class="tripdate" id="2024-07-21a">2024-07-21</div>
-<div class="trippeople"><u>Philip S</u>,Dickon,Tom,Rosa,Aidan,</div>
+<div class="trippeople"><u>Philip S</u>,Rosa,Aidan,Dickon,Tom,</div>
 <div class="triptitle">basecamp - New arrivals today</div>
 One car arrived:
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@@ -807,7 +807,7 @@ Aidan came by train and Dickon drove here.
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 <div class="tripdate" id="2024-07-21b">2024-07-21</div>
-<div class="trippeople"><u>Philip S</u>,chi,Charlotte,lara,harry,</div>
+<div class="trippeople"><u>Philip S</u>,lara,harry,chi,Charlotte,</div>
 <div class="triptitle">plateau - Surface walk from col to Geschwantalm</div>
 <a  href="/years/2024/images/col.jpg">
 <img width=20% src="/years/2024/images/col.jpg"></a>
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 <div class="tripdate" id="2024-07-21c">2024-07-21</div>
-<div class="trippeople"><u>Lara</u>,Harry,Charlotte,Chi,</div>
+<div class="trippeople"><u>Lara</u>,Charlotte,Chi,Harry,</div>
 <div class="triptitle">Homecoming - A satisfying but not very useful result</div>
 Slavedriver Payne woke us up early and we got up the hill vaguely fast (despite Chi's moderate faff). Unfortunately further faff then occurred at the entrance to Homecoming. This included further effort towards the Gordian Knot from the first Homecoming trip, which concluded in Chi doing an Alexander the Great. We ended up with two ropes. Chi also spent <em> some </em> time reconstructing a pantin from two broken ones (it didn't work). Clearly one person was the issue here. *editorial note: it would transpire that Lara concluded faffing a good 20 mins after the futile pantin was birthed*
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@@ -934,7 +934,7 @@ I need to go caving.
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 <div class="tripdate" id="2024-07-22d">2024-07-22</div>
-<div class="trippeople"><u>Rosa B</u>,Aidan K,Jacob C,Jono L,</div>
+<div class="trippeople"><u>Rosa B</u>,Jacob C,Jono L,Aidan K,</div>
 <div class="triptitle">Menstrual Tunnel - My first underground trip abroad</div>
 I asked Jono for him to teach me to survey and which he enthusiastically agreed. The next morning he came up with a grin telling me to grab my helmet and my swimming costume????? and get in the landy. We arrived in a car park with Jono keeping the plan quiet and walked us alo0ng the river opposite a chinese. Across the river under the chinese was a small tunnel. It was a battle to get into the tunnel with the strong torrent of water trying to push us down. I mistakenly volunteered to go in to mark the survey point with my finger and was instantly hit by slime underfoot and a grotesque smell. I concealed my disgust and headed in. The others took their time learning about the survey device and choosing their spot. Then they entered with much dramatica, Jono gagging and threatening to throw up, Aidan doing his best to avoid the slime and Jacob quietly disgusted. At this point we noticed the used menstrual products next to me and the strong scent of fecal matter. We sped up the process with Aidan valiantly fighting the cobwebs. Much surveying was learnt and ready to try in an actual trip. We made a quick escape all taking time to wash thoroughly in the river. 
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 <div class="tripdate" id="2024-07-23c">2024-07-23</div>
-<div class="trippeople"><u>Aidan K</u>,Rosa B,Tom Phillips,Lara B,</div>
+<div class="trippeople"><u>Aidan K</u>,Tom Phillips,Lara B,Rosa B,</div>
 <div class="triptitle">Homecoming - Swinging into the Tube</div>
 Following the walk across the plateau with everyone and Isaac (who watched us go in before heading off to Garlic), and a lot of faff, we went down the entrance series. Lara lead the way, followed by Rosa, Tom, and then I. Tom had a battle with the entrance pitch - unaided by the 5om of rope I had given him to take down - which required teamwork and feeding him chocolate role like it's an apple to free him.
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 <div class="tripdate" id="2024-07-24b">2024-07-24</div>
-<div class="trippeople"><u>Isaac</u>,Harry,Chi,Lara,</div>
+<div class="trippeople"><u>Isaac</u>,Chi,Lara,Harry,</div>
 <div class="triptitle">Homecoming - The Aborted Camping Trip</div>
 Before this entry begins I'd like to make it clear that I feel truly ashamed of my performance (or lack of one) on this trip.  I failed to meet the standard expected of one signing onto a trip of this nature, and by this failure I caused a lot of negative attention to be bought onto the trip and my companions. 
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 <div class="tripdate" id="2024-07-25d">2024-07-25</div>
-<div class="trippeople"><u>Philip S</u>,Sarah,Nat,Becka,PB,Zac,, *Sandy</div>
+<div class="trippeople"><u>Philip S</u>,PB,Zac,Sarah,Nat,Becka,, *Sandy</div>
 <div class="triptitle">plateau - Entrance spotting</div>
 Lift up with Nat, Sarah and Zac, they went off to topcamp and from the col I wandered down and around the near plateau photographing whatever entrances and tags I could find.<br>
 <img src="/years/2024/images/2024-07-26-philipwalk.jpg" width=60% >
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 <div class="tripdate" id="2024-07-25f">2024-07-25</div>
-<div class="trippeople"><u>ZW</u>,James w,Philip S,Sarah,Colin,Nat,</div>
+<div class="trippeople"><u>ZW</u>,Colin,Nat,James w,Philip S,Sarah,</div>
 <div class="triptitle">topcamp - Top camp bounce</div>
 Sarah, Nat, Zac and Phil drove up the loser. We then hiked up to the Col. It being Sarah, Nat and Zac's first time up since the installation of the new cable car, we were quite taken unawares by the new path from the car park. From there it was plain hiking up to the col. Once at the Col, Phil s parted ways and headed off on his own adventures. Sarah, Nat and Zac, meanwhile hiked on to top camp. Once there we caught Becka as she was leaving and James W and Colin as they were thinking about leaving. After a little faffing and some noodles, we rang down to base camp to ask what kit we should carry down. We were told only some some roll mats and camp beds for Garlic. Packing these, alongside some tackle sacks from a recent Balkon trip (See report), we began to head down. Zac Lagged behind a lot of the way as his new shoes were wearing on his feet. But eventually we reached the loser car park where we all packed, tightly, into Sarah's car and drove down the hill.
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@@ -1178,7 +1178,7 @@ Sarah, Nat, Zac and Phil drove up the loser. We then hiked up to the Col. It bei
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 <div class="tripdate" id="2024-07-25g">2024-07-25</div>
-<div class="trippeople"><u>Wassil</u>,Marie,Dickon,Chi,</div>
+<div class="trippeople"><u>Wassil</u>,Dickon,Chi,Marie,</div>
 <div class="triptitle">basecamp - Grabenbach Canyon</div>
 <p>On the day of expo dinner a rag-tag group of cavers gathered under the tatty hut tarp. These cavers were all here for all the wrong reasons. Firstly,  supreme leader and trip planner Marie had bailed on caving in preference of washing her undersuit. Next we have Wassil who was both procrastinating his masters thesis and feeling sorry for himself about killing his own lead. Finally we have Dickon who decied to go on a caving expedition despite hating caving, and as a result elected do go canyoning. Proceeding the formation of this glorious trio, Chi decided to show his face following a disasterous camping trip which did not result in a camp occurring and was at a lost end. Apparently Marie, Wassil, and Dickon looked like a suitable group to go canyoning with and somehow they decided Chi would be a suitable accomplice.</p>
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 <div class="tripdate" id="2024-07-27b">2024-07-27</div>
-<div class="trippeople"><u>Todd Rye</u>,Christian,Aila Taylor,Harry Kettle,</div>
+<div class="trippeople"><u>Todd Rye</u>,Aila Taylor,Harry Kettle,Christian,</div>
 <div class="triptitle">Homecoming - Watershed Murder Camp</div>
 I was so excited to go back into Homecoming after six years, and Harry promised caverns measureless down Watershed. A camp was needed to make it more pleasant, so off we went with sleeping bags and mats. Faff ensued, with Aila breaking her toe at Garlic, and us having picked the wrong sleeping bag up, We got underground at middayish in the end.
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@@ -1330,7 +1330,7 @@ Got permission to descend to base camp that evening due to a large number of bli
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 <div class="tripdate" id="2024-07-28e">2024-07-28</div>
-<div class="trippeople"><u>lucy h</u>,sarah p,nat,lara,zac,jacob,</div>
+<div class="trippeople"><u>lucy h</u>,zac,jacob,sarah p,nat,lara,</div>
 <div class="triptitle">balcony - bloody balcony</div>
 26th - 28th
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@@ -1394,7 +1394,7 @@ We slept out under the shooting stars and milky way. Every time I woke, relieved
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 <div class="tripdate" id="2024-07-28f">2024-07-28</div>
-<div class="trippeople"><u>ZW</u>,Lucy h,Jacob,Lara,Sarah,Nat,</div>
+<div class="trippeople"><u>ZW</u>,Sarah,Nat,Lucy h,Jacob,Lara,</div>
 <div class="triptitle">Balkonhoehle - Who needs ascenders anyway?</div>
 <p><i>Lucy having already covered much of the trip in <a href="logbookentry/2024-07-28/2024-07-28e#"></a> I will only fill in the gaps alluded to</i></p>
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@@ -1418,7 +1418,7 @@ I was so happy to find that we had made it out in time to catch the sun and spen
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 <div class="tripdate" id="2024-07-28g">2024-07-28</div>
-<div class="trippeople"><u>Aidan K</u>,Rosa B,James W,Dickon,Colin Foord,James M,</div>
+<div class="trippeople"><u>Aidan K</u>,Colin Foord,James M,Rosa B,James W,Dickon,</div>
 <div class="triptitle">Garlic - Landscaping and Festering</div>
 We woke up to some pretty miserable clag that around 10am developed into rain - Colin had fortunately arrived about 40 minutes prior from SB so stayed dry, Dickon and James on the other hand weren't so lucky! They both got fairly wet on their walk over. 
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 <div class="tripdate" id="2024-07-29a">2024-07-29</div>
-<div class="trippeople"><u>Sam Tittensor</u>,Chris H,Jono,Ellie D,Becka,</div>
+<div class="trippeople"><u>Sam Tittensor</u>,Ellie D,Becka,Chris H,Jono,</div>
 <div class="triptitle">Balkonhoehle - Happy Campers (eventually!)</div>
 After 2 hot trips ferrying kit up the plateau, a late start, and a great deal of faff, motivation to get underground was low.
 This resulted in a (very necessary!) talking-to from the drill sergeant (Becka), before we bucked our ideas up, and kit was assembled for inspection on the rocks at top camp and packed into bags.
@@ -1556,7 +1556,7 @@ What. A. Day.
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 <div class="tripdate" id="2024-07-30a">2024-07-30</div>
-<div class="trippeople"><u>Adam</u>,Aidan,Colin,Fiona,</div>
+<div class="trippeople"><u>Adam</u>,Colin,Fiona,Aidan,</div>
 <div class="triptitle">Homecoming - Homecoming Round Trip</div>
 Colin and Aidan arrived in Garlic camp at around midnight, exhausted from their own day of caving prior. Upon all of us waking Fiona and I solidified our plans for the day, deciding to help the pair survey the rest of their new entrance series down into Homecoming. It'd get us into the swing of surveying again after a long break and it would also be a good introduction to the Homecoming cave, which I hadn't been in for a year and Fiona hadn't been in before.
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@@ -1635,7 +1635,7 @@ A good trip, we'd made progress though not nearly as much as I wanted to make, m
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 <div class="tripdate" id="2024-08-01b">2024-08-01</div>
-<div class="trippeople"><u>Lara</u>,Chi,Liam,Colin,</div>
+<div class="trippeople"><u>Lara</u>,Liam,Colin,Chi,</div>
 <div class="triptitle">Homecoming - The First Rule of Alpine Caving</div>
 I'm not sure exactly why I decided to end my expo with a trip that was specifically designed to be a derigging sufferfest but it seemed like a good idea a few Gossers deep at basecamp. It did indeed turn out to be an epic but very much not in the way we expected. 
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@@ -1744,7 +1744,7 @@ Cue a rather exciting plateau walk with sound of thunder encouraging quite a bri
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 <div class="tripdate" id="2024-08-02a">2024-08-02</div>
-<div class="trippeople"><u>Lara</u>,Colin,Liam,Chi,</div>
+<div class="trippeople"><u>Lara</u>,Liam,Chi,Colin,</div>
 <div class="triptitle">Homecoming - The First Rule of Alpine Caving</div>
 I'm not sure exactly why I decided to end my expo with a trip that was specifically designed to be a derigging sufferfest but it seemed like a good idea a few Gossers deep at basecamp. It did indeed turn out to be an epic but very much not in the way we expected. 
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@@ -1815,7 +1815,7 @@ After a bit more wandering and contemplating how long I'd last in any of the icy
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 <div class="tripdate" id="2024-08-03a">2024-08-03</div>
-<div class="trippeople"><u>Dickon</u>,Colin,Becka,Harry,</div>
+<div class="trippeople"><u>Dickon</u>,Becka,Harry,Colin,</div>
 <div class="triptitle">Homecoming - Second Coming Derig</div>
 While the second coming of Christ will probably be quite exciting and very much not inevitable as far as your average atheist is concerned, the same cannot be said for the derigging of the Second Coming.
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@@ -1828,7 +1828,7 @@ The positive outcome of the trip was the realisation that the traverses may well
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 <div class="tripdate" id="2024-08-03b">2024-08-03</div>
-<div class="trippeople"><u>Lucy</u>,James W,Rosa B,Tom P,Zac,James M,</div>
+<div class="trippeople"><u>Lucy</u>,Tom P,Zac,James M,James W,Rosa B,</div>
 <div class="triptitle">below promised land - Promises undelivered</div>
 It appears that James' logbook entry for our prospect day has gone walkabouts, so I am writing again.
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 <div class="tripdate" id="2024-08-05a">2024-08-05</div>
-<div class="trippeople"><u>ZW</u>,Harry K,Tom P,James W,Rosa,Dickon,</div>
+<div class="trippeople"><u>ZW</u>,James W,Rosa,Dickon,Harry K,Tom P,</div>
 <div class="triptitle">saltmine - We go to the gulag</div>
 <h3>The Plan</h3>
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@@ -1898,6 +1898,62 @@ Overall a good afternoon out.
 
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+<div class="tripdate" id="2024-08-07a">2024-08-07</div>
+<div class="trippeople"><u>james m</u>,Lucy,Zac,</div>
+<div class="triptitle">Homecoming - not much deriging or surveying</div>
+not really bier tent but James McAllister
+<p>
+The trip began a bit unorganised at around 11 am. We had the task of re-surveying welsh engineering however we didn't really know where it began or ended or where the survey quality diminished hence we came to the conclusion that we would link our survey back to the top of Radaghast when we exited. 
+<p>
+ At around 4 pm we reached the eye of Sauron and came across the same issue Colin, Aden and I had earlier which was the survey device wouldn't reach the bottom. Regardless we continued down and ignored this slight issue.
+This pitch was my first knot pass and i managed to get myself into a bit of a tangle. Using multiple mystery knots and a foot loop which included my cows tail to get below it .
+<p>
+By the time I got to the bottom it was around 5 pm I was quite damp and not happy. When the others got down the surveying continued and after a short pitch i began a decent on a longer pitch. 
+<p>
+About 5 m down Lucy shouted 'don't risk getting wet'.
+I was confused the pitch was pretty dry and looking down at the bottom there wasn't a stream way.
+I then heard Lucy shout 'the waters coming! 
+CLIMB!!'
+<p>
+I had previously been listening to a relatively quiet cave, but i began to hear the sound of rushing water. It took a second or two from standard cave noise before this sound reached its maximum volume (which was very loud).
+<p>
+Some of the fastest SRT i have ever done got me to the top of the pitch where we then got into the group shelter.
+<p>
+Apparently Lucy's had initially thought the SRT i was doing was just really loud before realised it was water.
+<p>
+The first shelter set up was on a slope where we were all sat ontop of each other; there were a few bags beneath us for insulation. We had 2 shelters the second shelter was used to block the gap in the down hill slope. Other than the shelters i had no other warm gear , I was already wearing all my layers(as well as my under suit I had a skin on). I was also very happy i had been greedy that morning since i had 8 chocolate bars and a bag of sweets on me.
+<p>
+One of the big worries we had was that we didn't know if we were in the way of the flood. But we didn't really discuss this or other water related stories instead our time was taken up by talking about extractor fans.
+<p>
+At 7 pm the water had not died down but Lucy wanted to take a look around: So, she headed down the pitch i had hastily climbed up earlier. She returned 30 minuets later having deriged the pitches, but she was soaked. Supposedly she was regretful that she didn't manage to survey the pitches. 
+<p>
+We then move the shelter to flatter ground, Lucy announced we couldn't miss our call-out so we should all climb up the eye of Sauron and out. The plan consisted of Lucy first, me second, Zac de-rigging at the back, don't stop or you will freeze. Lucy would also be taking the smaller shelter.
+<p>
+At 8 pm Lucy left, the shelter immediately got colder. About 10 m up the pitch she shouted at us 'dont follow me, i will change your call out to 8 am, you may have to wait many hours'.
+<p>
+At about 10 pm Zac announced we should do some engineering so we made a flat platform and got back in the shelter. Initially we were at opposite ends of the shelter. But we did end up spooning :). I was big spoon :( .
+<p>
+At 11 pm the sound of water got quieter on the pitch bellow but above us it was still as loud, we decided to wait longer.
+I'm not sure if i was hearing cave trolls or something but i kept hearing occasional clicking. It also felt like mysterious water tubes were opening above us as the sound of gurgling water changed.
+<p>
+At 1 am I began shivering. Zac had already been shivering for some time and he decided to put another layer on. This was good for him but the communal warmth of the shelter did get lowered. Around this time we decided we would leave at 5 am.
+<p>
+Between 1-3  am we both also managed to get some sleep which surprised me since i thought i was awake the whole time.
+<p>
+At 3 am we decided it was too cold so we headed out. The amount of water coming down the eye of Sauron had not decreased since 11 pm.
+<p>
+The pitch took me about and hour. My hands were numb on the lower section where the rope swap was. My light also went into battery saving mode, and I had forgot to charge my emergency light. A quick battery swap solved this at the top of the pitch.
+<p>
+Near the top of Radaghast i remembered how we had not linked our survey up. 
+<p>
+At 5 am i got to the surface just in time for lighting up, followed shortly by Zac.
+<p>
+We had managed to de-rig 4 pitches, had created an unlinked survey and spent 10 hours in a emergency shelter.
+<div class="timeug">T/U: 20.0 hours</div>
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