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+<div class="tripdate" id="t2023-07-11z">2023-07-11</div>
+<div class="trippeople"><u>Phil S</u>,Will, Ash, Ely, James, Thomas, Honorata, Radost</div>
+<div class="triptitle">plateau - Garlic and reflectors </div>
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+<p>Will and Phil went up as part of the 2-car lift to the carpark. Others all going to topcamp. Cardiff contingent (Ely, James, Thomas) arrived the previous day (at last) 
+<p>Dep. carpark 10:06 we walked to the col but got spread out, 2 Cardiffians particularly heavily loaded so Ash dropped back to accompany them while James headed on with Radost and Honorata. At the col, Will, Philip and R+H followed Philip B's col-to-garlic GPS track. R+H stopped at Amphitheater to rig it (memory hazy, is this true? [correct later editorially]). All OK until we hit the hill in the middle where we followed cairns instead of the GPS track, and got in a bit of a mess leaving the hill and getting to HC. (Found an isolated reflector which seemed to just be confusing.) And getting away from HC towards Garlic, but once on the hunter's track it was easy to follow the green paint all the way to Garlic cave.
+<p>At Garlic, Will and I were disturbed to find a complete abscence of teabags or intant coffee so we made a pot of instant custard which we shared with great enjoyment while we appreciatedthe marvelleous ambiance of the bivvy. Will's ankles were troubling him (he had carried a big pack up to (Garlic) whereas I was still a bit sprightly (having carried nothing at all - but this would chnage later).
+<p>Leaving Will to recover a bit before his return to TopCamp (see another logbook entry for the consequences of this), I returned back to HC, the col and the carpark leaving garlic at ~16:00 and arriving col ~19:00 and carpark ~20:00 where Jana very kindly collected me in her car.
+<p>The trip back was meant to be a re-cairning and reflectoring trip, the main purpose of me going up there. But the late start, and general slowness and multiple failures at route-finding meant that time for re-cairning and building intermediate cairns was strictly limited. Following a GPS track is really very difficult, if not impossible. My GPS was OsmAnd running on a Pixel2 and this was totally inadequate: losing signal, stopping track recording, jumping and general uselessness. It seemed fine at base, but the cliffs and uncertain track-following effectively killed it. (Yes we had essentials.gpx too, and a Silva compass).
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