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<a href="/expofiles/writeups/2022/GPF2022a-008 - Expedition Summary Report.pdf">GPF Summary Report (PDF)</a><br />
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<a href="/expofiles/writeups/2022/GPF2022a-008 - Expedition Full Report.pdf">GPF Full Report (PDF)</a><br />
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<a href="https://ukcaving.com/board/index.php?threads/cucc-austria-expedition-2022-blog.29712/">CUCC
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Expedition Blog (UK Cavers Forum)</a>
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(<a href="/years/2022/logbook.html#2022_s03_blog">incorporated</a> into logbook)<br>
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<a href="/years/2022/logbook.html"> 2022 Logbook</a> which incorporates the UK Caving blog(s)<br>
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<a href="/years/2022/training-weekends.html">Training Weekends Logbook</a></p>
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href="years/2019/" name="pubs2019">Austria 2019</a></h4>
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<a href="/expofiles/writeups/2019/GPF2019a-011 - Expedition Full Report.pdf">GPF Full Report (PDF)</a>><br />
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<a href="/expofiles/writeups/2019/GPF2019a-011 - Expedition Full Report.pdf">GPF Full Report (PDF)</a><br />
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<a href="/expofiles/presentations/HiddenEarth/2019/HE 2019 Becka then Crossley CUCC Talk - ok.pdf">Hidden Earth Presentation (PDF)</a>
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<a href="/years/2019/logbook.html"> 2019 Logbook</a> which incorporates the UK Caving blog(s)<br>
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<a href="https://ukcaving.com/board/index.php?topic=25249.0">CUCC
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Expedition Blog (UK Cavers Forum)</a> (incorporated into logbook)
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<a href="years/2019/">page of all other documents</a> relating to this year's expo</p>
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<a href="/expofiles/writeups/2018/GPF2018a-009 - Expedition Full Report.pdf">GPF Full Report (PDF)</a><br />
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<a href="https://ukcaving.com/board/index.php?topic=23424.0">UK Cavers Forum blog</a> (incorporated into logbook)<br>
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<a href="years/2018/GPFreport.html">GPF Report</a>
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<a href="years/2018/GPFreport.html">GPF Report</a> <br>
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<a href="/years/2018/logbook.html"> 2018 Logbook</a> which incorporates the UK Caving blog(s)
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<p>
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<a href="years/2018/">page of all other documents</a> relating to this year's expo</p>
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<h4>Pre-Expo statements and Post-Expo reports of CUCC <a id="pubs2017"
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href="years/2017/" name="pubs2017">Austria 2017</a></h4>
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<a href="http://ukcaving.com/board/index.php?topic=22020.0">Rope Sponsorship Reports/Updates (UK Cavers Forum)</a> (incorporated into logbook)
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<a href="/years/2017/logbook.html"> 2017 Logbook</a> which incorporates the UK Caving blog(s)<br>
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<p>
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<a href="years/2017/">page of all other documents</a> relating to this year's expo</p>
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<h4>Pre-Expo statements and Post-Expo reports of CUCC <a id="pubs2016"
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href="years/2016/" name="pubs2016">Austria 2016</a></h4>
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<a href="/years/2016/logbook.html"> 2016 Logbook</a> which incorporates Anthony Day's personal blog<br>
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<a href="https://daysyearoff.wordpress.com/2016/08/04/the-kraken-wakes/">Anthony Day's personal blog</a><br />
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<a href="http://caverescue.eu/caving-team-got-off-lightly-besides-heavy-alarm-time-overflow-austria/">European rescue report</a>
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<div class="bbWrapper">Drills batteries and computers have been fettled, Cambridge Sainsbury's has been bought out of couscous, milk powder and packet soups (apart from the mushroom flavour, yuk), and the CUCC expedition vanguard is now crossing the Alps. Unlike Hannibal, we are not furnished with elephants, although rumours abound of (inflatable) orcas and flamingos that may also have seen active service on a certain Irish caving expedition this year. <br>
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<i>Really, everything but the mushroom.</i><br>
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Somewhere in between the flurry of emails about exactly which type of custard we should or should not buy, the training weekend and briefing session took place alongside the BCA party weekend up in Castleton. We discovered that drilling holes too close together does indeed result in bits of rock shearing off, prusiking when you lose or break a jammer is very hard work, and that the event bar was an excellent source of sustenance while waiting for "the rescuer" to figure out which ropes should go where! Main takeaway: try not to need rescuing... Many thanks to Andrew Atkinson for his survey training, bolting and rescue workshops - and an incredibly welcome strawberry cake!<br>
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<i>Teaching teenagers to use power tools</i><br>
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<i>Prusiking with only a chest jammer and no tape: hard work. Even harder work: getting back down again.</i><br>
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<i>A short lull in hauling proceedings</i><br>
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The UKCaving rope will be picked up from Badlad and Pegasus this week, and will be in Austria by the weekend where it will join the stocks we already have out there for a good soaking session in the weir by our base camp. With newly discovered shafts each year close to and even exceeding 200m (Purple Lupin in 2015 was over 180m top to bottom; Long Drop last year could not be fully measured due to a lack of resources but certainly surpassed 300m), this 300m length of rope will certainly be in high demand! Perhaps this year we will be able to keep the free-hanging knot passes to a minimum... Stay tuned to hear how our campaign unfolds as the first wave set up top camp and begin rigging!<br>
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<i>The top camp gear stash appears to survived the winter</i><br>
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<i>Soon this mere rock bridge will be transformed into a veritable palace of bivouacking delight (for certain values of "palace" and "delight")</i></div>
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Gender stereotypes aside, eating enough is a hugely important consideration for any sport, and caving expeditions are certainly no exception. When you could be expending upwards of 6000 calories a day, you need to consume as much food as you can force down, and preferably in a form that?s incredibly simple to prepare. Haute cuisine is the last thing on your mind when you?re feeling absolutely shagged after a 16-hour surveying mission, but in a bivouac two hours? hike from the nearest roadhead (or an underground camp several hours? journey further on from that), chips with everything just isn't an option ? lightweight and compact is very much the order of the day. Throw into the mix the fact that as a student expedition, we're on a budget as tight as a hipster's trousers ? what's a hard-up undergrad to do?<br>
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Plenty of carbohydrate in your Top Camp diet is essential to replenish glycogen stores and stave off the onset of fatigue after a hard day?s surveying ? porridge, couscous, noodles, tortellini and instant mashed potato are our Top Camp staples. For the past couple of years, we?ve received pesto as a sponsorship item, which provides easy calories and makes pretty much anything it?s added to hugely more exciting. A lot of our calories come from boil-in-the-bag curries ? although not the lightest thing to cart up a mountainside, these are quick to cook, cheap, and there?s a nice wide range of them to stave off food boredom. They also provide some fat and protein, which can otherwise be slightly more difficult to come by at Top Camp (apart, of course, from in the ubiquitous flapjack). We tend to take the approach of ?buy all vegetarian, then if you want meat/cheese you can add that yourself? ? so you'll often see dried sausages and hard cheese being fiercely guarded by their owners.<br>
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Unless we?re being super keen and getting in a cheeky Alpine start, I like to make like a hobbit and treat myself to second breakfast. Usually noodles. Often turns into a game of ?guess the contents of the package? since the ingredient lists tend to all be in Asian languages I can't read. Instant mashed potato with sponsorship pesto and/or wild chives growing round the bivi is another solid choice.<br>
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Flapjack, chocolate, then more flapjack. Some people are made of superhero material and are able to complete 600 m of prusiking without a snack stop. I am not one of those people. Chocolate bars are great for a boost of energy to get up the final pitch series, but I sometimes feel even worse after the glucose high. Flapjack contains much more in the way of complex carbohydrates, keeping you caving for longer ? hence the industrial quantities we bake to bring out each year!<br>
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The highlight of any evening at Top Camp is surely a steaming curry! Each year brings a new roulette as we ascertain which of the latest batch are burn-your-ears-off spicy and which have the most interestingly textured chunks. Paneer butter masala (which somehow contrives to be vegan) with many scoops of couscous is my fave. If you?re feeling adventurous, Penny Market tortellini offers a cheesier and/or meatier option ? pair with sponsorship pesto for maximum Italian vibes.<br>
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Of course, when we head down for some R&R at Base Camp, all bets are off! The excitingly gas-powered deep-fat fryer is Expo?s most popular appliance for good reason (last year, deep fried Mars Bars and Bakewell tarts featured alongside the more traditional chipped potatoes), while the kitchens at the Gasthof across the road do a roaring trade in sp?tzle and schnitzel for those feeling flash and in need of a protein hit. And there?s truly nothing finer than washing off the layers of cave grime in the river with a chilled G?sser beer.<br>
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[NOTE: on 3rd August 2017 - Julia Day<br>Just for the record, that's a trifle ;) An excuse to get rid of THE WRONG CUSTARD (and some very alcoholic cherries, at least for trifle #1) and boast about the length of the system in one sugary package. I forget if that was trifle #2 or #3, but we definitely did one to celebrate the year the 100km mark was reached :beer: ]
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||||
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||||
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||||
@ -864,7 +864,7 @@ Blog Author: nobrotson
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||||
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||||
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||||
@ -877,7 +877,7 @@ Whilst all this excitement was occurring, Balkony was also progressing steadily.
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||||
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||||
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||||
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||||
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||||
@ -889,14 +889,14 @@ Aside from established classics, there has been some serious development of the
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||||
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||||
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||||
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||||
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||||
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||||
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|
||||
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||||
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||||
@ -908,14 +908,14 @@ The other main source of excitement at Top Camp was the Mousetrap. No, not the 7
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||||
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||||
|
||||
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||||
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||||
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||||
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|
||||
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||||
|
||||
@ -1120,8 +1120,8 @@ I was very glad to be able to get onto the plateau at all. When I had last been
|
||||
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|
||||
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|
||||
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|
||||
><a href="./ukcavingblog_files/dpGtHEa.jpg" target="_blank" class="link link--external" rel="nofollow ugc noopener">
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||||
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||||
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||||
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||||
|
||||
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|
||||
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|
||||
@ -1129,8 +1129,8 @@ I was very glad to be able to get onto the plateau at all. When I had last been
|
||||
|
||||
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|
||||
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|
||||
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||||
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||||
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||||
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|
||||
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|
||||
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|
||||
@ -1144,8 +1144,8 @@ While in Bad Aussee we discovered that new14.4V Makita packs could only be bough
|
||||
|
||||
</div><br>
|
||||
<div style="text-align: center"><br>
|
||||
<a href="./ukcavingblog_files/dzdVq7B.jpg" target="_blank" class="link link--external" rel="nofollow ugc noopener">
|
||||
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||||
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||||
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||||
|
||||
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|
||||
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|
||||
@ -1168,7 +1168,7 @@ The Top Camp whiteboard in context:<br>
|
||||
|
||||
|
||||
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||||
<img src="/years/2017/./ukcavingblog_files/36547911551_35bbf3d0bf_c.jpg" data-url="https://c1.staticflickr.com/5/4344/36547911551_35bbf3d0bf_c.jpg" class="bbImage" data-zoom-target="1" style="" alt="36547911551_35bbf3d0bf_c.jpg" title="" width="" height="" loading="lazy">
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||||
<img src="/years/2017/./blogimages/36547911551_35bbf3d0bf_c.jpg" data-url="https://c1.staticflickr.com/5/4344/36547911551_35bbf3d0bf_c.jpg" class="bbImage" data-zoom-target="1" style="" alt="36547911551_35bbf3d0bf_c.jpg" title="" width="" height="" loading="lazy">
|
||||
</div>
|
||||
|
||||
|
||||
@ -1179,7 +1179,7 @@ And here's a selection of daily shots:<br>
|
||||
August 5th
|
||||
|
||||
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||||
<img src="/years/2017/./ukcavingblog_files/35851201074_dc19fa8056_c.jpg" data-url="https://c1.staticflickr.com/5/4362/35851201074_dc19fa8056_c.jpg" class="bbImage" data-zoom-target="1" style="" alt="35851201074_dc19fa8056_c.jpg" title="" width="" height="" loading="lazy">
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||||
<img src="/years/2017/./blogimages/35851201074_dc19fa8056_c.jpg" data-url="https://c1.staticflickr.com/5/4362/35851201074_dc19fa8056_c.jpg" class="bbImage" data-zoom-target="1" style="" alt="35851201074_dc19fa8056_c.jpg" title="" width="" height="" loading="lazy">
|
||||
</div>
|
||||
|
||||
|
||||
@ -1188,7 +1188,7 @@ August 5th
|
||||
August 6th
|
||||
|
||||
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||||
<img src="/years/2017/./ukcavingblog_files/36686091835_c55f375cfb_c.jpg" data-url="https://c1.staticflickr.com/5/4399/36686091835_c55f375cfb_c.jpg" class="bbImage" data-zoom-target="1" style="" alt="36686091835_c55f375cfb_c.jpg" title="" width="" height="" loading="lazy">
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||||
<img src="/years/2017/./blogimages/36686091835_c55f375cfb_c.jpg" data-url="https://c1.staticflickr.com/5/4399/36686091835_c55f375cfb_c.jpg" class="bbImage" data-zoom-target="1" style="" alt="36686091835_c55f375cfb_c.jpg" title="" width="" height="" loading="lazy">
|
||||
</div>
|
||||
|
||||
|
||||
@ -1197,7 +1197,7 @@ August 6th
|
||||
August 7th
|
||||
|
||||
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|
||||
<img src="/years/2017/./ukcavingblog_files/36639939166_80ed7eab31_c.jpg" data-url="https://c1.staticflickr.com/5/4353/36639939166_80ed7eab31_c.jpg" class="bbImage" data-zoom-target="1" style="" alt="36639939166_80ed7eab31_c.jpg" title="" width="" height="" loading="lazy">
|
||||
<img src="/years/2017/./blogimages/36639939166_80ed7eab31_c.jpg" data-url="https://c1.staticflickr.com/5/4353/36639939166_80ed7eab31_c.jpg" class="bbImage" data-zoom-target="1" style="" alt="36639939166_80ed7eab31_c.jpg" title="" width="" height="" loading="lazy">
|
||||
</div>
|
||||
|
||||
|
||||
@ -1206,7 +1206,7 @@ August 7th
|
||||
August 8th
|
||||
|
||||
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|
||||
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||||
<img src="/years/2017/blogimages/2017-08-08.jpg" data-url="https://c1.staticflickr.com/5/4369/35851195704_3994160f66_c.jpg/" class="bbImage" data-zoom-target="1" style="" alt="35851195704_3994160f66_c.jpg" title="" width="" height="" loading="lazy">
|
||||
</div>
|
||||
|
||||
|
||||
@ -1215,7 +1215,7 @@ August 8th
|
||||
August 9th
|
||||
|
||||
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||||
<img src="/years/2017/./ukcavingblog_files/36290486200_c6d43d35c9_c.jpg" data-url="https://c1.staticflickr.com/5/4432/36290486200_c6d43d35c9_c.jpg" class="bbImage" data-zoom-target="1" style="" alt="36290486200_c6d43d35c9_c.jpg" title="" width="" height="" loading="lazy">
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It's been six hours since we left the quiet, calm space of the fossil level and started dropping down hundreds of metres of spray-lashed pitches. Six hours fighting hypothermia with not one alcove or sheltered ledge to escape the unremitting, icy gale. We're at the head of another 50m pitch with anchors going in for the final bag of rope but I can't wait any longer. I strip half naked to piss in the churning pool at the base of a waterfall then battle for ten minutes to get dressed again, my useless, numb fingers refusing to grip my central MR tight enough to turn it. Over 800m above me the sun is baking the limestone pavement. What am I doing here, struggling to hold it together? <br>
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<div style="text-align: center">Setting off for the two hour walk up from the valley to the surface camp at Plankamira.</div><div style="text-align: center"><div class="bbImageWrapper js-lbImage" title="36290975140_6a29e903ac_z.jpg" data-src="https://c1.staticflickr.com/5/4394/36290975140_6a29e903ac_z.jpg" data-lb-sidebar-href="" data-lb-caption-extra-html="" data-single-image="1">
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<div style="text-align: center">And in the drizzle on the way up, with Glitzi kitted out in wellies and an umbrella.</div><div style="text-align: center"><div class="bbImageWrapper js-lbImage" title="36516372792_5bf087ffd0_z.jpg" data-src="https://c1.staticflickr.com/5/4355/36516372792_5bf087ffd0_z.jpg" data-lb-sidebar-href="" data-lb-caption-extra-html="" data-single-image="1">
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Having been on the CUCC Expo since week one I took a few days out in the final week to join the local Austrian club, VHO, for their annual week of expedition to the Plankamira area, a few kilometres east of CUCC's patch in the Totes Gebirge. After five weeks of expedition caving I wasn't expecting anything too stressful and I thought I knew what to expect as I'd joined them twice before to cave in the same area. With my flaky German I only realised we were heading on a multi-day underground camping trip the night before we set off. We were going to Wildbader H?hle, which was explored to -874m in 1982 by a team of tough French speleos from the Soci?t? des Amateurs de Cavernes de Rioz (SAC). Since 2013 VHO has been systematically resurveying and extending the cave. However, bad weather in the past two years meant that they hadn't yet reached the deepest horizontal level because the only route down is via a wet shaft series. <br>
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I set off to the underground camp with two tacklesacks - my own, laughably small by Austrian standards, plus another I was lent that was over twice the size. En route three of the five of us diverted off to take rope to start re-rigging the deep, wet pitch series. However, after a couple of short pitches, we reached a big shaft where the overnight rain meant that a powerful waterfall was shooting across it to hit the far wall, filling it with spray. With the cave at 2 degrees and us sleeping in our caving undersuits we weren't willing to get soaked so we left the gear and headed back up.<br>
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Five hours later I was at last away from the water. My arms were sodden and I was still chilled through but I'd thrashed myself and my bigger-cross-section-than-me tacklesack up through some tight pitch heads that vied with the most awkward that Yorkshire has to offer. We made it back to camp before 3am after fifteen hours of effort. The other two woke and cooked for us whilst Robert and Glitzi peeled off their wetsuits and changed into their dry furries with shudders of pleasure. No such instant relief for me. However, from now on in it was just a waiting game. I pulled off my wettest layer and tucked up in my pit to gradually warm up and then to start to dry off. Finally back within my comfort zone ....<br>
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Here's some photos (all by me, Becka Lawson) from the second half of expo and derigging and packing up at the end, written as I'm trying to distract myself from a scarily fast drive back to the UK on the German Autobahn. <br>
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<div style="text-align: center">Admiring a spectacular sunset from Top Camp.</div><div style="text-align: center"><div class="bbImageWrapper js-lbImage" title="35876070473_34d0552613_z.jpg" data-src="https://c1.staticflickr.com/5/4354/35876070473_34d0552613_z.jpg" data-lb-sidebar-href="" data-lb-caption-extra-html="" data-single-image="1">
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Adam Aldridge (AKA the Hoofed Animal) holding his "mended" hand-bolting driver after he unaccountably managed to shear the head off it. My favourite Adam story: late, after a drunken session at Base Camp, he swayed his way into the Tatie Hut and asked whether anybody knew if the Hilti SDS drill-bit grease was toxic because in the dark he'd mistaken the tube for toothpaste and it'd taken him a while to realise his mistake. <div style="text-align: center"><br>
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<div style="text-align: center">Adam's hand after an accumulation of mishaps.</div><div style="text-align: center"><div class="bbImageWrapper js-lbImage" title="35850686984_65b08d7166_z.jpg" data-src="https://c1.staticflickr.com/5/4408/35850686984_65b08d7166_z.jpg" data-lb-sidebar-href="" data-lb-caption-extra-html="" data-single-image="1">
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<div style="text-align: center">Rob and Jacob having just got out from our last underground camp of 2017 with the first of the rope and gear from the derig. We're hydrating at Top Camp before the two hour walk off the Plateau.</div><div style="text-align: center"><br>
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The rest of the underground derig went smoothly at the start of this week and the weather was mostly kind for packing up the Top Camp and Organhoehle Camp on the Plateau, for bringing gear down the hill and for washing and drying.<br>
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<div style="text-align: center">Sitting at base camp with piles of freshly river-washed rope, checking for damage like rubs and glazing before measuring and relabelling.</div><div style="text-align: center"><div class="bbImageWrapper js-lbImage" title="36516102662_fbf0ebb9b7_c.jpg" data-src="https://c1.staticflickr.com/5/4338/36516102662_fbf0ebb9b7_c.jpg" data-lb-sidebar-href="" data-lb-caption-extra-html="" data-single-image="1">
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Hilde Wilpernig, from the Gasthaus Staud'n'wirt, where she and her family have hosted our base camp for over thirty years now. When we said we'd got an excess of eggs and milk Hilde offered to make us Kaiserschmarren (Emperor's pancakes) and homemade apple sauce. She even braved our mess tent to cook it. <br>
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</div></div><div style="text-align: center">and then everyone eating Kaiserschmarren</div><div style="text-align: center"><div class="bbImageWrapper js-lbImage" title="36516116432_5b533a8138_z.jpg" data-src="https://c1.staticflickr.com/5/4408/36516116432_5b533a8138_z.jpg" data-lb-sidebar-href="" data-lb-caption-extra-html="" data-single-image="1">
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<div style="text-align: center">Kristian Brook in fine form, about to drive back to Leeds. In amongst many distinctive characters on Expo, this man still effortlessly stood out from the crowd.</div><div style="text-align: center"><div class="bbImageWrapper js-lbImage" title="36516109202_032344eb39_z.jpg" data-src="https://c1.staticflickr.com/5/4368/36516109202_032344eb39_z.jpg" data-lb-sidebar-href="" data-lb-caption-extra-html="" data-single-image="1">
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<div style="text-align: center"><div style="text-align: left">Spectator sport as Rob Watson attempts to bring my SRT kit into the 21st century. This led to stressfully slippy knots whilst I was deep in Wildbader Hoehle, with my long cowstail creeping to what, to my alarm, seemed like two metres long as I dangled way beneath it.</div></div><div style="text-align: center"><div class="bbImageWrapper js-lbImage" title="36685604275_e2988925b8_z.jpg" data-src="https://c1.staticflickr.com/5/4420/36685604275_e2988925b8_z.jpg" data-lb-sidebar-href="" data-lb-caption-extra-html="" data-single-image="1">
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<div style="text-align: center">Typical Tatie Hut scene with, oh, at least one person hard at work on the survey (interim print-outs of the survey on the wall).</div><div style="text-align: center"><div class="bbImageWrapper js-lbImage" title="36685601265_efd486bbd2_c.jpg" data-src="https://c1.staticflickr.com/5/4394/36685601265_efd486bbd2_c.jpg" data-lb-sidebar-href="" data-lb-caption-extra-html="" data-single-image="1">
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I spent my last day on Expo cracking the whip for data entry, drawing up surveys and scanning and uploading data. We've ended up with two floating surveys, arghhhhhh. Survey pocket 24, labelled "SHIT", was the low point - appropriately it was in passage called "Nothing to See". Jacob and Mike both did five hour shifts on the scanner - please can we upgrade to one that takes less than a minute to scan a single sheet of A4 for next year? <br>
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<div style="text-align: center">Here's a shot of one of four cover sheets logging progress along the ten steps towards survey perfection (as yet only Phil Withnall has achieved enlightenment; whilst only Adam has contributed to more than one survey officially categorised as "shit").<br></div><div style="text-align: center"><div class="bbImageWrapper js-lbImage" title="35850724184_76934ae45b_c.jpg" data-src="https://c1.staticflickr.com/5/4398/35850724184_76934ae45b_c.jpg" data-lb-sidebar-href="" data-lb-caption-extra-html="" data-single-image="1">
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