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<div class="tripdate" id="2025-07-10c">2025-07-10</div>
<div class="trippeople"><u>Buck</u>, Ash, Hamish</div>
<div class="triptitle">KH - Surveying Technical Underwear</div>
(Read Ash's writeup of this trip for a more concise and technical account)
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Today began much as yesterday ended: chucking it down. With the weather bad and hype a little low, the faff that morning was impressive. Joel and I spent probably almost an hour singing and playing the flute together, which to be honest might be the best thing I did during that entire top camp stint. Eventually, Russell and Charlotte arrived and we sort of started getting it together, much to Ash's relief.
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I hopped on Ash's trip again, this time with Hamish, the plan being to survey Technical Underwear, the bolt climb Ash had done the previous day, then ferry ropes and metalwork towards Repton. We headed towards KH through the drizzle, and after a little faff at the entrance we were on our way down and towards Technical Underwear. Once there, Ash cracked out the surveying gear. I was on book, Ash on instruments, and Hamish with the nail polish. We identified what we were relatively sure was a survey station on an overhanging wall pendant, which was marked with carbide stains.
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Once we started surveying up the climb, I quickly realised that this was a little more complicated than the small holes I'd surveyed whilst prospecting earlier this expo, and with Ash churning out splays, I had to admit that I might need to slow down and take advantage of his surveying wisdom a bit. He graciously obliged and talked me through each of his splays, making sure I knew what was what as the data arrived on my phone. Once the last station was marked, Hamish passed us and headed down as we finished up surveying. Feeling quite chilly now, I also headed down, regretting not putting on my extra layers before surveying, and was very glad to join Hamish in the group shelter whilst Ash de-rigged. I think the combination of the cold and also the general wetness that had pervaded the past couple days had gotten to me a bit by this point, because I found myself utterly incapable of yap. So instead, there I sat, shivering in silence, and dreaming longingly of warm basecamp showers and tasty basecamp chips.
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Once Ash was done, I finally admitted to myself I was really quite cold and miserable and should probably actually do something about it, so I summoned the will to strip the top of my oversuit down and put on a down vest. Once we got moving again, I began returning to a more reasonable temperature.
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After de-rigging the pitch bypassing No Utility Belt Required (which took much longer than you might expect due to a very seized-up fig 8) we continued on to Triassic Park, and eventually reached the pitch down into the impenetrably black void of Knossos. Once down, we took a little while to appreciate the scale of what we were in. My fenix on full beam couldn't touch the far walls. Boulders the size of small houses littered the path down onwards. I couldn't help thinking what it would be like to be stood within that chamber when one of them fell.
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We passed through Knossos, but the cave still felt huge, soaring canyons and plunging shafts all around us as we scrambled over boulders, gratefully following the reflectors the camping group had put in place.
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Eventually the passages began to shrink back to a normal size, and after a few short climbs and traverses, we reached the bottom of Staircase 36. Here we had a short snack before depositing our load of tackle (Ash taking a quick inventory of what we were leaving there). Then we turned around and headed out.
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The return journey was relatively uneventful, the main difference being our blessedly lighter load, which I especially appreciated on the way up the entrance pitches. Having had quite a cold and wet few days already, I decided I wasn't confident enough about my desire to return tomorrow to leave my kit behind at the entrance, so it was a slow and steady walk back up and over the plateau for me that night. By the time we reached topcamp, my bag was soaked through despite its rain cover. I did however add my caving down vest (which was still miraculously dry!) to the many layers I wore to bed that night, meaning I had a marginally warmer sleep than the one before.
<div class="timeug">T/U: 6.0 hours</div>
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<div class="tripdate" id="2025-07-11a">2025-07-11</div>
<div class="trippeople"><u>Joel</u>, Hamish</div>
<div class="triptitle">1623-245 - It's a long way to 204g</div>