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Sorry about all the crap that surrounds the image tags which has been imported along with the content
when UK Caving blogs have been parsed.
Exported on 2025-02-07 20:02 using either the control panel webpage or when editing a logbook entry online
Exported on 2025-02-07 21:02 using either the control panel webpage or when editing a logbook entry online
See troggle/code/views/other.py and core.models/logbooks.py writelogbook(year, filename)
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<div class="tripdate" id="2014-07-23b">2014-07-23</div>
<div class="trippeople"><u>Anthony</u>, Jess</div>
<div class="triptitle">Rebolt/Rig Tunnocks Entrance Pitch</div>
<div class="triptitle">Tunnocks - Rebolt/Rig Tunnocks Entrance Pitch</div>
<br /><br />Headed off to Tunnocks with 200m of 11mm, a substantial pile of hangers, slings, krabs, Hiltis, drill, drill battery... so it took a while. I headed down with the intention of fettling the rig so that we could have more than one person on the pitch at a time without kicking rubble on each others heads.
<br /><br />Jess sat on the surface and sunbathed for a bit (apart from when it was hailing). I put in a new rebelay that neatly avoided the passing hailstones, then spent ages trying to work out where I was going to put bolts in for the next bit since it was clearly going to be scary and hard. Eventually found a way to put in a particularly airy rebelay (that Jess later enjoyed). Managed to wrap myself round the rope multiple times in the process, so spent 40 minutes untangling myself, then descended landing on the lower end of the first boulder slope as intended.
<br /><br />Jess joined me and I proceeded to rig a traverse to the head of the next drop, making use of a pre-drilled Hilti hole and an existing Hilti. By this time we were running out of time so headed out.
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<div class="tripdate" id="2014-07-24a">2014-07-24</div>
<div class="trippeople"><u>Wookey</u>, Joe</div>
<div class="triptitle">More rigging in 107</div>
<div class="triptitle">107 - More rigging in 107</div>
<br /><br />Came down hill after last trip as Joe needed to fettle phones. Wook kept getting asked nerding questions so didn't leave till 11ish. So underground by 2pm.
<br /><br />Lovely trip, partly as I had thick fleece furry instead of thin one so much warmer, but also done almost as 2 independent trips, with Joe rigging ahead &amp; Wook following, sorting the 'economical' rigging to add backups to one-bolt-wonders &amp; swap 51m rope on ropeless traverse for 39m one.
<br /><br />Joe came back to report squeeze then ran off again to keep warm. Wook followed to be confused by implausibly tight cave for Austria. Threw bag through squeeze only to note lack of traffic &amp; get second thoughts, so backed out &amp;, looked around. Dind't seem to go, to L or higher up. (He somehow failed to spot 51m rope left on route). Back through bottom squeeze to find confirmatory rope beyond. After a bit more confusion at wrong level in sleepless, whizzed on down to find very happy Joe at 'easy traverse'. Time to go home after great trip.
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<div class="tripdate" id="2014-07-25a">2014-07-25</div>
<div class="trippeople"><u>Anthony</u>, Jess</div>
<div class="triptitle">Continue Rebolt/Rig Tunnocks Entrance</div>
<div class="triptitle">Tunnocks - Continue Rebolt/Rig Tunnocks Entrance</div>
<br /><br />Two days after our previous effort, the same team returned to continue the attempted re-rig of the Tunnocks entrance pitch. I swung around in the shaft putting in an airy-fairy rig to avoid the loose choss while Jess sat on a rubble slope providing moral support. One deviation and two y-hangs later, team 2 arrived with the intention of putting in a quick `n' dirty rig to the bottom so they could start rigging the rest of the cave. After a few hours sitting with six of us strung out along the pitch with much shuffling of gear, it became clear that this plan was not going to work, so team 1 exited.
<div class="timeug">T/U: 7.0 hours</div>
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<div class="tripdate" id="2014-07-25b">2014-07-25</div>
<div class="trippeople"><u>Michael S</u>, Becka, Neil, Rob A</div>
<div class="triptitle">Team 2 into Tunnocks</div>
<div class="triptitle">Tunnocks - Team 2 into Tunnocks</div>
<br /><br />Turned up hoping that Team 1 would have finished rigging the entrance series, found to be far from the truth. After a bit of umming and ah-ing on the surface, decided to rig past Team 1 to get to the bottom. Ice plug at the bottom was found to be significantly lower than previous years so existing bolts could not be used exclusively in quick &amp; dirty rig. Inherited drill &amp; bolting kit from Team 1 to rig the bottom, a traverse across the ice slope. From here split in two:
<p>
<ul>
<li>- Rob stayed on the entrance series, to use the bolting kit to continue the re-bolting of the entrance to avoid the loose floor.</li>
<li>- Becka, Neil, and I continued on carrying rope to deeper parts of the cave. Handline found in place at Ribs with Knoedel. Caramel Catharsis rigged then continued through Y KeyKey Beach &amp; Max Pleasure. Back through Dubious Pleasure, where all 3 traverse lines were found in place. Reached String Theory top &amp; deposited 100m rope &amp; brew kit, then buggered off out again, picking up Rob on the way.</li>
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<div class="tripdate" id="2014-07-25c">2014-07-25</div>
<div class="trippeople"><u>Wookey</u>, Aled, AndrewA, Joe</div>
<div class="triptitle">3rd Rigging in Trip (107)</div>
<div class="triptitle">107 - 3rd Rigging in Trip (107)</div>
<br /><br />Underground by 11 this time, with 3 batts &amp; plenty of keenness. Joes headed for point again, whilst Wookey &amp; AndyA came along as rigging faeries to fix up the dodgy Olly-rigging, particularly his propensity for kneee-high pitch head bolts. Fixed up entrance stuff that we had left for Aled the day before, as he'd gone down the hill. Then on to add back-up bolts, and often new pitch head bolts too. Caught up with Joe at 'Too Bold For This Spit', where he had managed to scare himself rigging due to having to fish out sling halfway across with a big leg-trembler. He was pleased to see some company. Wook went over &amp; rigged back about 2m higher to turn a horror into a nice traverse. (Fine bit of traversing by Ol/J).
<br /><br />Aled turned up at this point having come up from base &amp; solo-caved to find us.
<br /><br />4-some now continued to big Korea pitch, where we had 59 of the recommended 64m. Andrew rigged it tight and added 2 bolts and skipped two, to just reach the floor, whilst the rest checked out land of confusion QMs. Wook ticked off 13-LC-9C, 13-LC-7C, 13-LC-8X. 13-LC-6C is a c15(!) down to a fairly short pitch into China. Joe &amp; Aled decided 13-LC-16A was worth a look.
<br /><br />We all went down to be impressed by China. 13-LC-10B across the Korea pitch-head, really is a 20-30m blank wall bolting project - too epic. 13-CH-4B at the bottom is not inspiring. It probably doesn't go, but hard to be sure. Needs a bolt or two to climb in. 13-CH-2C goes through to china in tinyt window.
<br /><br />At big end 13-CH-1B looks like an alcove but hard to be sure. Could be climbed to with a bit of pro without too much trouble. Best lead is in ceiling, 20-30m up. Probably an aven. Could be where all the wind is coming from.
<br /><br />Wandered along to southern end whilst Joe &amp; Aled set off out. Climbed down at end into new ground to find pitch about 10m further on. Could well be the bottom of 'Too Bold...'. Needs surveying, &amp; may well continue across. Good wind.
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<br /><br />Out from bottom in ~2hrs
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<div class="timeug">T/U: 8 hrs (Wook/Andrew/Joe)</div>
<div class="timeug">T/U: 5.0 hours</div>
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<div class="tripdate" id="2014-07-26a">2014-07-26</div>
<div class="trippeople"><u>Wookey</u>, Andrew A, Jess, Joe</div>
<div class="triptitle">3rd Rigging in Trip (107)</div>
<div class="triptitle">1623-107 - 3rd Rigging in Trip (107)</div>
<br /><br />Back again looking for ways on. Conncetion to R looks unlikely - everything goes L.
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<br /><br />Had a good look at roof on the way down. Various roof tube possibilities. Only promising one (Needs one bolt for pro) well back in sleepless.
<br /><br />13-RS-2B doesn't exist. 'Too bold' was too wet to go down but window off about 7m down looked promising. Wook put in (crummy) bolt in only bit of decent rock with good hang. But hanger cranked it out a bit. Getting wet so decided it would have to do &amp; descended. Passage! Windy too. Traverse in the way, but quite easy to do with slings, so got across whilst A + J surveyed.
<br /><br />Beyond was pitch, only about 20m to floor. Got down quickly (after going back for rope left above) but found only a ledge above bigger pitch - 25-30m. Awkward bolt then time to go home. Descended quickly to find that it came in roof of China, just 'upwind' of the rock bridge. Nice pitch though &amp; not prone to rockfall like korea.
<br /><br />On way out shit bolt at top popped out of hole whilst Andrew was going up, giving him a hell of a shock (and breaking PDA screen when he got bashed on wall). Fortunately even 9mm is good gear, so he was able to re-rig from traverse &amp; Wookey 'quality bolts' was able to get out with a bit of tackle-sack padding.
<br /><br />So bolts really do fall out if not properly set. It took 4 descents + 2 ascents before popping on 3rd ascent.
<br /><br />Whizzed out with lots of caving in 1hr 15 from there. (We are getting quicker)
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<div class="timeug">T/U: 9 hrs</div>
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<br /><br />P.S. A+J went to stone bridge. Wook went down to carpark but realised too late that he had got a lift up so car not there, and no transport arranged. And of course phone flat so no calls, and no spare batt to charge it, and no money. Hmmmm.
<br /><br />Fortunately Austrian couple in posh camper in car park were able to provide beer, the gasthof phone number &amp; a phone to call for rescue. Julian came &amp; saved me.
<br /><br />Doh. That really was quite dim!
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<div class="tripdate" id="2014-07-27d">2014-07-27</div>
<div class="trippeople"><u>Aled</u>, Matt</div>
<div class="triptitle">107: Aled wants to drop a pitch, take 1</div>
<div class="triptitle">107 - 107: Aled wants to drop a pitch, take 1</div>
<br /><br />Mucho faffos today! Helped not in the least by Aled needing to collect gear from Top Camp first. Underground by 4:30pm!!
<br /><br />Matt - "No time to rig, just gimme a tour"
<br /><br />Gave him a tour , I did.
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<div class="tripdate" id="2014-07-29d">2014-07-29</div>
<div class="trippeople"><u>Neil Pacey</u>, Rob Adams</div>
<div class="triptitle">Within The Above</div>
<div class="triptitle">Tunnocks - Within The Above</div>
<br /><br />Another trip into the areas surrounding the Beast in Tunnocks. We got slightly delayed on the way due to a slight accident with a slippery tacklesack. Luckily the bag was recovered without incident. Arrived at the top of String Theory just as team efficient 'Becka', Nat &amp; Katey were replacing the handline on the Balcony climb. Straight forward descent of String Theory and up the climb to Pidgeon's In Flight. From here it is easy caving to the big chamber 'Above &amp; Beyond'. This is one of the largest chambers in Tunnocks and is very complicated due to the number of deep shafts in this vicinity. Decided to drop the shaft directly below 'Bob On'. This was the original way we found the chamber back in 2011. we chose this shaft as it is opposite The Beast and is dry and has a solid wall.
<br /><br />Rob rigged the first pitch dropping 40m. huge boulders at the top and also a loose hole with a stone shoot made the descent interesting! Rob managed a free hanging rebelay before dropping to the floor landing on a steep bouldery slope. Rob rigged out on the right wall away from the boulders and a direct pitch down another 40 m shaft. Base of the shaft confusing as there are many windows and passages coming in at different levels.
<br /><br />
From the base Rob climbed up a 5 m climb directly above a huge drop. We also noted two survey stations and pink nail varnish on the walls and on a small boulder. At the time we weren't sure which trip had done the survey but I was 90% certain it was a trip with Andy Chapman, myself and Thomas a German caver back in 2010. Decided to derig as it would be better to approach this area from the pitch at the bottom of 'Sandy Balls', directly below Pidgeons in Flight. Surveyed out after Rob heroically prussicked back up to get the survey instruments I had left at the top of the pitches. Derigged and left tackle back in Pidgeon Droppings. Maybe worth another visit via Sandy Balls but I suspect the next shaft will be wet!
<div class="timeug">T/U: 12 hrs </div>
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<br /><br />CHAMPAGNE ON ICE RIGGING GUIDE<br/>
<img src="/years/2014/logbkimg25.png" alt="CHAMPAGNE ON ICE RIGGING GUIDE - pitches 1-5"><br/>
<img src="/years/2014/logbkimg26.png" alt="CHAMPAGNE ON ICE RIGGING GUIDE - pitch 6">
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<div class="tripdate" id="2014-07-31a">2014-07-31</div>
<div class="trippeople"><u>Aled</u>, Andrew A</div>
<div class="triptitle">107: Aled wants to drop a pitch, take 2</div>
<div class="triptitle">107 - 107: Aled wants to drop a pitch, take 2</div>
<br /><br />Heavy rain in the morning meant Andrew's proposed walk up the hill at 6:30am was postponed enough for Aled to wake up and decide he also wanted to go caving. An early start on the Plateau walk was hampered by shitty weather (lots of rain) and traffic in the form of cows and sheep. Upon reaching 107, Aled was happy to find his SRT kit had helpfully been brought down from the bunde-hill from the day before by Matt &amp; co, so caving could commence!
<br /><br />Ominous sounds of water echo through the cave, but waterfalls confined to predicted places, most notably the "Easy Traverse", but Andrew's previous fettling of the rope to make it tighter kept us out of the worst of the water - phew!
<br /><br />An hour and a half into the cave saw us reach the far end of "Too Bold for This Spit", where the new route into China was mostly hidden by torrential water. Aled's proposed lead drop was quickly found (it is an A lead, after all), and would be great if it dropped into China as it was <u>BONE DRY</u>. Unfortunately, the rigging gear Aled &amp; Matt dropped off the previous day had been unhelpfully moved to the bottom of "Nipped Down" so basically out of practical reach.
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<div class="tripdate" id="2014-08-01c">2014-08-01</div>
<div class="trippeople"><u>Michael S</u>, Becka, Rob W</div>
<div class="triptitle">prospecting - Surface prospecting, NW of Tunnocks</div>
<div class="triptitle">2014-777 - Surface prospecting, NW of Tunnocks</div>
<br /><br />From Tunnocks entrance walked for ~15 min NW down the large gully before prospecting started, following the cairned route. Took a large loop by heading up the lower slopes of the Grei&amp;#223;kogel, then following the bedding plane NE and upward. After a few hours found only one good lead (2014-777) and decided to turn for home, travelled S back to the end of the cairned route but found a more promising hole (2014-888) which was partly blocked by choss but had a very strong draft coming out.
<br /><br />777 was tagged &amp; GPS logged, but 888 was only GPS logged for lack of time.
<div class="timeug">T/U: 0.0 hours</div>
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<div class="tripdate" id="2014-08-01d">2014-08-01</div>
<div class="trippeople"><u>Katey</u>, Nathaniel</div>
<div class="triptitle">2005-05</div>
<br /><br />After prospecting with Becka, Mike + Andrea a couple of days before, Nat and I decided to revisit 2005-05 to carry on dropping the pitches there. Rob bailed, leading to a rather late start, but we set off with a ~40m and 2 x 11m ropes, plus the bosch drill older than either one of us. We re-rigged the first pitch that Nat had dropped earlier and landed on a stone bridge between two pitches. <br /><br />Nat decided to drop the western pitch since it seemed to look more promising, so bolted a rebelay and carried on downwards. After dropping through a slightly narrow gap we landed on a loose, rocky slope with a ledge to one side. Nat bolted another rebelay and started on one of the 11m ropes but rapidly came back since there was a pitch that was too big for us to drop with the kit we had - exciting times! I went down to take a look then we went off to the ledge to commiserate. We reckoned the pitch had about a 2-second drop, making it somewhere between 20 and 30 metres. As we were cold and out of gear, we decided to return the next day with more rope (and our oversuits!).
<div class="triptitle">2005-05 - 2005-05</div>
After prospecting with Becka, Mike + Andrea a couple of days before, Nat and I decided to revisit 2005-05 to carry on dropping the pitches there. Rob bailed, leading to a rather late start, but we set off with a ~40m and 2 x 11m ropes, plus the bosch drill older than either one of us.
<p>
We re-rigged the first pitch that Nat had dropped earlier and landed on a stone bridge between two pitches.
<p>
Nat decided to drop the western pitch since it seemed to look more promising, so bolted a rebelay and carried on downwards. After dropping through a slightly narrow gap we landed on a loose, rocky slope with a ledge to one side.
<p>
Nat bolted another rebelay and started on one of the 11m ropes but rapidly came back since there was a pitch that was too big for us to drop with the kit we had - exciting times! I went down to take a look then we went off to the ledge to commiserate.
<p>
We reckoned the pitch had about a 2-second drop, making it somewhere between 20 and 30 metres. As we were cold and out of gear, we decided to return the next day with more rope (and our oversuits!).
<div class="timeug">T/U: 3.0 hours</div>
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<div class="tripdate" id="2014-08-02c">2014-08-02</div>
<div class="trippeople"><u>Katey</u>, Nathaniel</div>
<div class="triptitle">2005-05</div>
<div class="triptitle">2005-05 - return 2005-05</div>
<br /><br />We returned with a 100m rope and the same drill (well, the same battery). Unfortunately, the drill was shit (read: the battery was very low) and we only managed to put in 1 &frac14; bolts. This was especially frustrating as Nat had converted a dingle bolt rebelay to a Y-hang, so the 1/4 hole was right above the big pitch! Even more frustrating, we'd neglected to bring a spit driver due to inexperience and general incompetence. We headed back to camp promising that the next day we'd finally drop that pitch!
<div class="timeug">T/U: 2.0 hours</div>
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<div class="tripdate" id="2014-08-03e">2014-08-03</div>
<div class="trippeople"><u>Sophie D</u>, Aled, David, Elaine, Matt, Sam</div>
<div class="triptitle">Prospecting opposite Clownh&ouml;hle (Elaine's write-up of 2014-NEO-01 continued)</div>
<div class="triptitle">surface - Prospecting opposite Clownh&ouml;hle (Elaine's write-up of 2014-NEO-01 continued)</div>
<br /><br />While Aled was watching Sam bolt his pitch and David was helping Elaine survey her horizontal hole in the overhang, Sophie and Matt headed to the end of the cliff and up the gully behind. The area they wandered round above was dotted with lots of big holes. One could be walked into and was found to crap out, with a ceiling that came away if you touched it. Some gear would be required to investigate the others, so Sophie and Matt headed back to fetch stuff and anyone they could interest.
<br /><br />As they picked their way down the chossy gully they noticed Elaine on the bunde covered hillside excitedly "discovering" what Matt recognised as Clownh&ouml;hle. Sam and Elaine were left to bash their way round the hill, while Aled and David were successfully enticed to Sophie and Matt's area. Matt, Sophie then David free-climbed into a pit
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<div class="tripdate" id="2014-08-06a">2014-08-06</div>
<div class="trippeople"><u>Becka</u>, Mike Futrell, Neil</div>
<div class="triptitle">258 Tunnocks - Champagne on Ice - connection trip to Arctic Angle</div>
<br /><br />Back on down to continue our previous survey down the pitches that Joe, Fleur + Pete had rigged yesterday. The horizontal passage looked an excellent lead with a good draft (+ a single pair of footsteps in + out - bad boy, Joe!). We soon surveyed to a traverse which Neil rigged over a big drop + ... footsteps the other side ... so we only got ~4m of unsurveyed passage to get the connection! We tied in the survey then ran off to work out where we were (luckily I'd packed Julian's mini-survey of the Straight Choice area). Mike took a few shots of pretties + then we checked out the leads, admiring the scary traverse + climb that Andrew had done on the only trip that had been there before, when we'd done a long rig - survey - derig trip at the end of Expo. There were no horizontal leads to do + we were nearly out of rigging gear so we decided to go for the QMA at the S end of Arctic Angle with a p6. Neil soon rigged this + excitedly reported that it looked good... + we'd already noticed the strong draft so we whooped our way down to discover a maze of attractive walking passage - lots of phreatic, some formations, really lovely - looking passage, whoo hoo!
<br /><br />Neil + I tried to break Mike with speed surveying with a DistoX. We romped around, surveying to a large pitch from two different directions + several other pitches. We also left a couple of easy, strongly drafting 'digs' (needing 30 seconds to scoop away the sand to enter) + some slightly harder to enter horizontal leads as well as all the vertical leads for others to enjoy. Headed out after wrapping up a 69 leg, ~450m survey. I deriged the pitch + traverse + entrance rigging above Caramel Catharsis as Ducks on Ice is now the standard route whilst Neil added two more bolts on Ducks on ice to try to alleviate the rubs. Fine trip!
<div class="timeug">T/U: 13 hrs </div>
<div class="triptitle">Tunnocks - Champagne on Ice - connection trip to Arctic Angle</div>
Back on down to continue our previous survey down the pitches that Joe, Fleur + Pete had rigged yesterday. The horizontal passage looked an excellent lead with a good draft (+ a single pair of footsteps in + out - bad boy, Joe!). We soon surveyed to a traverse which Neil rigged over a big drop + ... footsteps the other side ... so we only got ~4m of unsurveyed passage to get the connection!
<p>
We tied in the survey then ran off to work out where we were (luckily I'd packed Julian's mini-survey of the Straight Choice area). Mike took a few shots of pretties + then we checked out the leads, admiring the scary traverse + climb that Andrew had done on the only trip that had been there before, when we'd done a long rig - survey - derig trip at the end of Expo.
<p>
There were no horizontal leads to do + we were nearly out of rigging gear so we decided to go for the QMA at the S end of Arctic Angle with a p6. Neil soon rigged this + excitedly reported that it looked good... + we'd already noticed the strong draft so we whooped our way down to discover a maze of attractive walking passage - lots of phreatic, some formations, really lovely - looking passage, whoo hoo!
<p>
<br /><br />Rigging Topo for Tibet (pitch connecting 107 to 161, provisionally named by David):<br/>
Neil + I tried to break Mike with speed surveying with a DistoX. We romped around, surveying to a large pitch from two different directions + several other pitches. We also left a couple of easy, strongly drafting 'digs' (needing 30 seconds to scoop away the sand to enter) + some slightly harder to enter horizontal leads as well as all the vertical leads for others to enjoy.
<p>
Headed out after wrapping up a 69 leg, ~450m survey. I deriged the pitch + traverse + entrance rigging above Caramel Catharsis as Ducks on Ice is now the standard route whilst Neil added two more bolts on Ducks on ice to try to alleviate the rubs. Fine trip!
<p>
<div class="timeug">T/U: 13 hrs </div>
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Rigging Topo for Tibet (pitch connecting 107 to 161, provisionally named by David):<br/>
<img src="/years/2014/logbkimg12.png" alt="Rigging Topo for Tibet (pitch connecting 107 to 161, provisionally named by David)">
<div class="timeug">T/U: 0.0 hours</div>
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<div class="tripdate" id="2014-08-06b">2014-08-06</div>
<div class="trippeople"><u>Chris</u>, RobA</div>
<div class="triptitle">The Number of the Beast</div>
<div class="triptitle">Tunnocks - The Number of the Beast</div>
<br /><br />Picked up pile of gear at bottom of String Theory, augmented by a few more pieces of rope, &amp; rigged down to pushing front at bottom of The Number of the Beast. Out in 4 hrs.
<div class="timeug">T/U: 12.0 hours</div>
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<div class="tripdate" id="2014-08-06c">2014-08-06</div>
<div class="trippeople"><u>Fleur</u>, Aled, David</div>
<div class="triptitle">Balcony H&ouml;hle: Room with a View</div>
<div class="triptitle">Balcony - Balcony H&ouml;hle: Room with a View</div>
<br /><br />Apparently the entrance pitch needed a little tweaking, and a lot of gardening.
<br /><br />Job 1. Rig climb down cliff to entrance &#10004;
<br /><br />Job 2. De rig pitch pre gardening &#10004;
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<div class="tripdate" id="2014-08-07c">2014-08-07</div>
<div class="trippeople"><u>Noel</u>, Holly</div>
<div class="triptitle">Balcony H&ouml;hle: Traversing + dropping Pit Pot</div>
<div class="triptitle">Balcony - Balcony H&ouml;hle: Traversing + dropping Pit Pot</div>
<br /><br />I had my eye on an exciting traverse/bridge over a rift with large passage continuing beyond. We set up &amp; just as I abseiled over the edge, and got ready to make the great leap across I could hear Chris's voice from the passage ahead. Shouting made contact &amp; he came round the corner on the far side of the traverse. Doh! hence the Leeds by-pass name.
<br /><br />After crossing Pit Pot traverse earlier (see Katey's entry) we headed back to drop the first of the pits which looked promising &amp; reasonably simple. Holly started from some bolts she had previously placed in the traverse, descending around 20m to a boulder slope. With a bit of gardening, the slope was followed down to the edge of another pit, with solid walls for bolting in.
<br /><br />Noel continued to descend, hoping for a good lead after having the last one bypassed by Chris &amp; co. Bolting in from the right wall saw fairly simple rigging with 1 re-belay &amp; deviation to the floor of the pit. Looking up at the top of this second pitch, it is obvious you are just (~20 - 30m) below the ledge at the traverse above (Leeds by-pass).
<br /><br />At the bottom, a small rift led off with a bit of draft. We surveyed along for a while before reaching the time we had agreed to prussik out. Maybe worth returning but still plenty of better leads here.
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<br /><br /><img src="/years/2014/logbkimg16.png" alt="Sketch of area and rigging">
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<div class="tripdate" id="2014-08-07d">2014-08-07</div>
<div class="trippeople"><u>Fleur</u>, ChrisD, Pete</div>
<div class="triptitle">Balcony H&ouml;hle</div>
<div class="triptitle">Balcony - Balcony H&ouml;hle</div>
<br /><br />See Chris' main write up. but first Fleur continued jobs:<br /><br />
<br /><br />Job 7. Finish bolted deviation &#10004;
<br /><br />Job 8. Y hang for main hang &#10004;
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<div class="tripdate" id="2014-08-08a">2014-08-08</div>
<div class="trippeople"><u>Pete</u></div>
<div class="triptitle">Car Park Cave</div>
<div class="triptitle">surface - Car Park Cave</div>
<br /><br />Found at bottom of path, after water trough. Contains large chamber with apfel strudel, beer and ice cream. Mmmmmmmmmm.
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<div class="tripdate" id="2014-08-10a">2014-08-10</div>
<div class="trippeople"><u>Holly</u>, Nathaniel</div>
<div class="triptitle">Balcony H&ouml;hle</div>
<div class="triptitle">Balcony - Balcony H&ouml;hle</div>
<br /><br />Back to Pit Pot. We derigged the deviation &amp; pulled up the rope from the previous trip and swung on to the boulder bridge. I was drilling -> put in a couple of bolts on the rock bridge &amp; abseiled down a very short pitch ~3m. Landed on a boulder + mud slope. This was rather treacherous, particularly near the edge of the slope where there was a vertical section. I put in a couple more bolts on the left hand side of the passage to attempt to keep us away from these boulders. Was OK but not great. Landed on a boulder floor, then called Nat down. We had been surveying at each stage of the rigging, so Nat had been sat on a boulder on the boulder slope whilst I rigged (and generally made unhappy sounds at the boulders). In this time, Nat had managed to sit on his nail varnish - breaking the neck &amp; pour nail varnish all over himself &amp; the boulder. :(
<br /><br />Anyway Nat joined me on the boulder floor. I had thought that this pitch was blind, but turned out there was a rift heading off. This was a short pitch, which Nat rigged. It wasn't easy as there was limited choice due to crap rock. But rig it he did &amp; down he went - making unhappy noises at the boulders. I joined Nat at the bottom (~7m) and we were in the rift, surrounded by boulders wedged in the rift. It wasn't my favourite place in the world. The rift continued, which would mean climbing down, under the boulders. It is drafting.
<br /><br />We have decided this should be a QMB. It's a good sized lead &amp; is drafting. However the boulder slope before isn't very nice &amp; it's likely that the boulders will get worse. If this was to be pushed the rigging would need further thought. As there were other leads, we derigged this for this year.
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<div class="tripdate" id="2014-08-10b">2014-08-10</div>
<div class="trippeople"><u>Pete Talling</u>, Andy Chapman, Fleur Loveridge</div>
<div class="triptitle">Room with a View Cave ~300m surveyed</div>
<div class="triptitle">264 - Room with a View Cave ~300m surveyed</div>
<br /><br />An unholy trinity of a team was carefully assembled for this daring mission, fuelled by tea, oatso and currys (phaart). We bumbled down the (now safer) entrance pitches to the junction at the base of climb up to Leeds Bypass / end of Pete's traverse rope.<br /><br />
<br /><br /><u>A</u> We started with the sandy phreatic tube on the left that was a strongly drafting A lead. This carried on for a short but very drafty phreatic stomping to a big pitch with 8-10 second rattle. VERY GOOD A LEAD - WITH A LEAD ACROSS TRAVERSE AT THE SAME HEIGHT. <u>CONSOLIDATION PITCH</u>
<br /><br /><u>B</u> We then went back to a small side lead that involved a short u-tube and up into walking passage that went to the far side of Gardener's Question Time (Chris' Pitch), across which we shot a leg to his top bolt.
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<div class="tripdate" id="2014-08-11a">2014-08-11</div>
<div class="trippeople"><u>Pete Talling</u>, Fleur Loveridge, Holly Bradley</div>
<div class="triptitle">Room with a View Cave - Leeds Bypass + Dark Arts</div>
<div class="triptitle">264 - Room with a View Cave, Leeds Bypass + Dark Arts</div>
<br /><br /><img src="/years/2014/logbkimg20.png" alt="Sketch plan">
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<br /><br />As the other hoards went down Tunnocks/Champagne on Ice - this crack posse headed into RWAV cave.
<br /><br /><u>ENTRANCE SERIES / RAIN</u> Pete had just arrived at bottom when Fleur heard a rumble which was followed by incredible water flow. Holly got wet from drips. BUT pitch was OK on way out after a day of pretty heavy rain.
<br /><br /><u>NICER PIT</u> finished the last few meters of rigging across Chris' traverse at the far end of Leeds Bypass. We then merrily surveyed down lovely big phreatic tube downhill to a junction. Straight ahead led shortly to a pitch that would be OK to rig. From lip a 15/20m hang arrives on a clean washed ledge, followed by another big hang. This is an A lead.
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<div class="tripdate" id="2014-08-12a">2014-08-12</div>
<div class="trippeople"><u>Chris</u>, Andy C</div>
<div class="triptitle">Overflying 'Ducks on Ice'</div>
<div class="triptitle">258 - Overflying 'Ducks on Ice'</div>
<br /><br />Discovered that neither the 'new' rope - rigging Ducks on Ice - nor the old one rigging the trad way in was long enough for a new overpass, but we put one in anyway &amp; used both ropes after going up &amp; down several times. At least it kept us out of the rain &amp; gets the rigging up to the required standard... Sketch added to [something] rigging topo.
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<div class="tripdate" id="2014-08-12b">2014-08-12</div>
<div class="trippeople"><u>RobW</u>, Martin</div>
<div class="triptitle">Balcony H&ouml;hle, Dead Bat pitch</div>
<div class="triptitle">Balcony - Balcony H&ouml;hle, Dead Bat pitch</div>
<br /><br />After a reasonably long trip the day before, Balcony was an ideal place to head to for some easy pushing. Weather was shit, so the entrance pitch was not too pleasant. We didn't really know where we were going, but we soon learnt which ways definitely weren't the right way. At around 6 we found the pitch we were intending to drop, after 4 hours of exploring already explored bits. I bolted it, only to find that it went nowhere. We surveyed it, then headed out, Martin got a bti chilly. We cut midnight callout a bit fine, after reaching the surface at 10pm.
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<div class="tripdate" id="2014-08-13b">2014-08-13</div>
<div class="trippeople"><u>Holly</u>, Noel, RobW</div>
<div class="triptitle">Balcony H&ouml;hle Pushing minor leads near entrance pitch</div>
<div class="triptitle">Balcony - Balcony H&ouml;hle Pushing minor leads near entrance pitch</div>
<br /><br />Noel and I walked up the hill, collected Rob &amp; some surveying gear and headed to Balcony H&ouml;hle to clear up the leads near the entrance as below
<br /><br />Plan 'survey' - Hand drawn NTS<br/>
<img src="/years/2014/logbkimg24.png" alt="Sketch plan">
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<br /><br /><u>1</u> - We first went to this C lead. This went surprisingly well. What started as a hands and knees crawl quickly opened up and a junction was reached. We firstly took the left hand passage, which was walking passage which quickly took a right hand bend (heading north?) to a pitch. Beyond the pitch was more horizontal passage. Two good QMAs. Not sure how big the pitch is, but it is dry.
<br /><br />With no survey gear we turned back to the junction &amp; surveyed up the right hand passage. This quickly got smaller, dividing into two small passages which quickly closed down.
<br /><br /><u>2</u> - Next we headed to this B lead, which was surveyed to connect with the 'Not Labelled' lead. A small passage on the right (starting @ the B side the passage takes a sharp left hand bend - here the small passage is on the corner on the right) was followed, but became small + filled with boulders - probably connects with main passage.