It was a bit cloudy so decided that surface shaft might be feasible. Went to look at an entrance Olly spotted in 2005 roughly above Pancake @@ -1852,7 +1852,7 @@ thunderstorm.
Down 10am. Wookey + I fetched the tackle sack of rope from Mystery Wind + derigged the two pitches. By the time we were back at the bottom @@ -2008,7 +2008,7 @@ we surveyed was mostly walking passage and quite pleasant.
Our hopes of an early start were sabotaged by the realisation that the drill battery was (a) flat and (b) broken. Several hours of charging @@ -2119,7 +2119,7 @@ on shitty rock. Finished at 6:10pm.
The previous night I had been down to 'God Loves A Drunk' with George North. On the 3rd I therefore hurt and my caving gear was thoroughly @@ -2148,7 +2148,7 @@ thick fog, hoping the GPS did not pack-up.
My caving gear still wet & cold, we set off to the 'Wot no Butcombe' end of the 'Rhino Rift' area of 204. We rigged pitch 03-79A; a phreatic @@ -2177,7 +2177,7 @@ Would be better explored downhill.
Ollie, Aaron and I went for a 2.5 hour jaunt down 204e. The main purpose was to place some thermistors in Chocolate Salty Balls for @@ -2216,7 +2216,7 @@ animal will thus prove hard to defeat.
Needed an easy trip in order to walk down hill for Trisselwand, so picked a QM on the survey which was interestingly above the huge aven in @@ -2427,7 +2427,7 @@ Ollie out 12pm.
With one datalogger installed in Germkndel's Revenge already (upcoming writeup), we set off to install 3 more: 2 in chocolate salty @@ -2465,7 +2465,7 @@ until a later date, in the UK or on Expo08.
Down to tick off some leads & start the derig. Nial rigged his "worst ever pitch" - for his sake, I hope it is true - rope slung round a @@ -2490,7 +2490,7 @@ combination.
My first ever cave in Austria, descended down very loose boulder slopes to large pile of snow at bottom of pitches, fun sledging down. @@ -2526,7 +2526,7 @@ after few hrs.
Basically I'm working in Scotland so on the Friday I drove from Glasgow to Bristol. However, it was very very wet.
@@ -2566,7 +2566,7 @@ Dover hour late - no problem. Drove to Austria in 12 hours. MCE.Went to surface shaft Frank & I found a few days ago - a phreatic tube ending in a big bowl of choss, above quarries uphill of bivvy site. @@ -2580,7 +2580,7 @@ worth looking at after looking at all the other entrances.
Went to 81 for an easy day to tick off the crap lead near the RH route from 81b. To me it looked like a tight, loose & awkward route @@ -2605,7 +2605,7 @@ out (checking that the outer lead didn't do anything interesting)..
Walked up to Laser 0/5 and had a look for 1987-02. Scrambled up the hill for a way and didn't see any horizontal entrances. Got fairly near @@ -2629,7 +2629,7 @@ is 2007-7[MISSING] GPS[MISSING]
Olly looked down the surface shaft near 148 first - down to the snow plug then the ledge to where a narrow rift heads down presumably into @@ -2677,7 +2677,7 @@ clag - reflective markers are ace.
Went to survey & explore 1987-02. Headed to the RH pitch first. It had a bolt which, combined with a couple of naturals & fending off from @@ -2704,7 +2704,7 @@ think.
Another trip involving ping-ponging to and fro from the North & South of Tunnocks. Went North to derig traverse past scree slope & commandeer @@ -2728,7 +2728,7 @@ rift floor & climb up again shortly. Blows a gale in there though.
Pootled to the Wares & headed off for a QM I'd been hankering after checking. QM 04-49A. We'd left it as a steep ramp needing a handline in @@ -2752,7 +2752,7 @@ Gaffered pitch so a pretty good job.
I got to the lowest rebelay on Gaffered & hauled up the tacklesack tied to the bottom then derigged & Martin & I took out a tacklesack each @@ -2764,7 +2764,7 @@ whilst Aaron switched his data loggers.
Second trip of the day: our reward for finishing the Gaffered derig. Hadn't much time (set off from camp at 4pm) so we headed for a nearby @@ -2782,7 +2782,7 @@ ongoing passage.
Off down to the MP/Flying High junction and surveyed the walking passage on the right (after ticking off a QM just before Dubious @@ -2807,7 +2807,7 @@ face more so we headed out.
A fine, sunny morning so we hung around until all our gear was dry in an attempt to have a warmish survey trip in Tunnockschacht. We started @@ -2835,7 +2835,7 @@ too-tight ceiling tubes.
We were feeling a bit tired so put off the 148 trip by another day and went to tie up some loose ends in the 81/82 area. Started with a @@ -2866,7 +2866,7 @@ for the similarly big phreas in 1987-02 and less than 200m away.
Decided to derig 76 so we at least only had one cave left rigged. Didn't take the drill in to conserve battery power for 148 so couldn't @@ -2912,9 +2912,10 @@ but currently would be more unpleasant than suicidal.
Hauled datalogger and thermistor out of CSB, along with a tackle sack +
Hauled datalogger and thermistor out of CSB +[Chocolate Salty Balls], along with a tackle sack of rope left from earlier derig. Aaron reprogrammed CSB logger to log for coming year (recording once per hour, memory fills in 387 days). Plunged back down E, replaced the CSB logger and Pete derigged E on the @@ -2926,7 +2927,7 @@ way out.
Pete, Aaron and Dunks had already done a monster carry yesterday, leaving the 7 of us a mere double carry today - we got everything down @@ -2937,7 +2938,7 @@ time at 8 pm with the final rays of sunset pinkening the slabs.
Tony and Djuke had back to collect spit so gave us a hand and Jenny and Olly came down the hill with their rope so, thankfully, there were @@ -2948,7 +2949,7 @@ labeling + assorted scrubbing.
I started drawing up surveys at 7am. Around 10 people were starting to emerge after last nights deep fat fried glove extravaganza. The