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@ -133,43 +133,43 @@ rigging Therefore our rerigging plans turned into an enjoyable tourist trip and
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Blog Author: Luke<div class="bbWrapper">In our 2 year absence, some wasps had conveniently weaved a hat for the expedition Mascot but everything else seemed to be in order.<br>
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<div class="bbImageWrapper js-lbImage" title="295335958_889163795773384_3088018304755480087_n.jpg" data-src="https://ukcaving.com/board/index.php?attachments/295335958_889163795773384_3088018304755480087_n-jpg.13684/" data-lb-sidebar-href="" data-lb-caption-extra-html="" data-single-image="1" data-fancybox="lb-post-363182" data-caption="<h4>295335958_889163795773384_3088018304755480087_n.jpg</h4><p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;ukcaving.com&#x2F;board&#x2F;index.php?threads&#x2F;cucc-austria-expedition-2022-blog.29712&#x2F;#post-363182" class="js-lightboxCloser">Luke · Jul 30, 2022 at 8:17 PM</a></p>" style="cursor: pointer;">
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<span style="font-size: 12px"><i>Photo Credit: Julia Day</i></span><br>
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<span style="font-size: 15px">With a well-manned first week, many hands made light work and base camp was rigged before the expedition had officially started. <br>
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</div><div class="bbImageWrapper js-lbImage" title="295660771_768463894199915_1321044264559624243_n.jpg" data-src="https://ukcaving.com/board/index.php?attachments/295660771_768463894199915_1321044264559624243_n-jpg.13686/" data-lb-sidebar-href="" data-lb-caption-extra-html="" data-single-image="1" data-fancybox="lb-post-363182" data-caption="<h4>295660771_768463894199915_1321044264559624243_n.jpg</h4><p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;ukcaving.com&#x2F;board&#x2F;index.php?threads&#x2F;cucc-austria-expedition-2022-blog.29712&#x2F;#post-363182" class="js-lightboxCloser">Luke · Jul 30, 2022 at 8:17 PM</a></p>" style="cursor: pointer;">
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<i><span style="font-size: 12px">Photo Credit: Julia Day</span></i><br>
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This meant by Monday we were already on our way up to the top camp looking to set up the all-important water collection tarp to catch the forecasted rain. The lack of snow was noted in comparison to 2019 when the bivy site and one of the caves we were meant to be pushing were completely snowed over. Once again with a strong team, we managed to set up top camp in a day despite the temperature soaring into the 30's. Now, all we had to do was wait for the promised rain and the place would be habitable. <br>
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<span style="font-size: 12px"><i>The Bivy Site disguised as a snow drift and inside Photo Credit: Jonty Pine</i></span><br>
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<span style="font-size: 15px">With the water buts full we could finally make a start at rigging the caves to the pushing front. This involved carrying a load of gear up the hill and over some treacherous limestone plateau. This has been fondly named the plateau monster, fortunately, it hasn't caused any serious injuries this year but it has been known to break and twist legs in previous years.<br>
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<i><span style="font-size: 12px">The Plateau Monster with its toothy grin....... Photo Credit: Jonty</span></i><br>
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Although we don't have helicopters or even donkeys we do have a very atmospheric walk up.<br>
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Here you can see a negotiation in progress to determine how heavy everyone's bags should be taking in consideration the approaching thunderstorm and sunsets at 20:40.....<br>
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</div><i><span style="font-size: 12px">Spotted by Julia Day</span></i> <br>
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Also thanks to the recent UKCaving website update it has been possible for me to post this from top camp on my phone with relative ease</div>
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I arrived in Bad Aussee in week 2 after a very fun week at the UIS conference in Chambery, with the cave already rigged to the pushing front and with several hundred metres of new passage having already been found on the monster horizontal level around 250 m deep (at an altitude of ~1400 m asl). Having been involved in the initial exploration of Fish Face in 2017, I had then spent some time away from the expedition, meaning that this trip was my first beyond the third pitch which I had bolted on my last visit. After a good but long trip into Balkon after only 4 hours sleep, exploring alphanuepsilonupsilonepsilonrhosigmaeta (see Harry’s report above), I made my return to Fish Face with Alice to supervise her bolting a few naughty climbs that had remained unrigged but were now apparently quite slippery with mud [Trip 3rd August]. After hearing Luke and Mike’s gushing praise for the new passage they had explored the day before (big, clean sandy, lots of cool formations), eight punters wished to descend FF that day, of whom only Luke knew the way to the leads. He therefore decided to extend the system of reflectors (used to guide us on the surface to Top Camp and the caves) to underground, again quite naughty but extremely effective (although Becka of course still got lost). Alice and I soon arrived at the climbs just below the 4th pitch, but drill battery failure curtailed our mission after only one and a half bolts [Trip 3rd August] . Not to be deterred, we decided to head to the pushing front in the hope of pilfering a battery or two from Luke, who was supervising Joel and Jonty (collectively referred to as ‘the Japes’ – see glossary above) while they bolted a short traverse to horizontal passage beyond. We would then head to the surface and complete the job en route.<br>
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<i>Beautiful helictites, impressive amounts of speleothems (for Austria) and big clean phreas... MIke and Luke strike good in FF. Photos: Luke Stangroom.</i><br>
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With the climbs now bolted and some extra rebelays added to the big pitch to speed things up, I was back again the next day with Amelia, Becka and Hannah. The aim was to push some leads at the southern end of the horizontal level, and Amelia wanted to have a go at doing ‘book’ (making notes of the survey data and drawing the passage), which I was more than happy to supervise (and thus avoid having to do myself). Surveying in Austria is a chilly affair: my usual layering system was to do ‘active’ caving to the pushing front in just a furry suit, and then on arrival to strip down the top half and add a t-shirt and grid baselayer underneath along with a buff and headband, then furry back on (dry layers beneath dry out any sweat accumulated, although the aim is not to sweat) and then a pac-a-mac on underneath my oversuit (to keep the wind off – extremely effective). After starting off pushing down an easy passage full of sediment which ended in a dig, we turned our attention to another horizontal lead heading further south. After a few legs along a clearly joint-controlled passage progress was stopped by a ~10m pitch; having no rope, we set off towards the area where Luke was supervising the japes, with a view to snaffling some. We headed across the ‘Nicholas Cage’ traverse toward the pitch which Jonty was rigging, named ‘Keanu Breeze’ (these names really sum up what the creche is all about – nonsense and japery). Sadly it appeared that Jonty (and by extension Keanu) could not spare any rope, so Amelia and I decided to head out after writing off a couple of other leads (left by Luke and the Japes) simply by looking at them (though Amelia seemed to really want to grot around pointlessly in a sediment bank).<br>
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Chris rose early the next day, unsuccessfully persuading Nat and I to join him with his early start. Eventually we surfaced from our pits and after a leisurely start we headed off down Northern Pitstop to the pushing front. On the previous two pushing trips we had explored two areas off Medusa’s Maze each of which had yielded ongoing leads. We decided to head to the most promising of these, a large, open pitch approximately 50m deep, at the end of Erechtheion. I hadn’t yet rigged any new pitches and was strongly encouraged by Nat and Chris to have a go; I was very nervous and only coaxed into it by the promise that I could do the first couple of bolts and then let someone else take over. This was a good tactic as more confidence was gained with each bolt and, a few hours later, I had rigged the whole pitch. At the bottom of the pitch we landed on a boulder floor, with a further drop to our left, a passage on our right and a climb down straight ahead. We headed straight on, and Nat rigged a short drop down onto a boulder slope. Here there was a lead off to the right with a cathedral echo and various bottomless holes further down the passage potentially lead to the same place. We carried on down the passage and reached an intersection with a passage heading up and down with a wet trench at the bottom, and a lead off to the right just before this. As we needed to survey the new pitch on the way back up, we set off on our return to camp and after a long day got to bed around 3am. The new pitch was later named Tartarus, continuing with the Greek mythology theme of the previous areas.<br>
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It turned out to be big. A small pitch had been dropped and then a short section of meandering passage led to an apparently huge largening of the rift ahead, which would eat all of our pushing rope. Luke was still questing downwards when Mike and I arrived, with Jonty worshipping a tiny flame from a tea light in the group shelter in a nice alcove. We backtracked and began to survey from the end of Elizabeth Line, reaching the pitch head just as Luke bellowed ‘ROPE FREEEEEEE’. Mike set off into the blackness wielding the disto, while I scribbled notes and drew frantically behind. Luke had rigged the pitch very nicely with lots of y-hang rebelays, making the SRT very easy. We soon arrived at the end of the ropes on a drippy ledge, where delicate scuttling around the edge of a big hole led to a further continuation of the rift. Luke flicked a small rock over the edge and we waited around 4 seconds till it hit a ledge and then a further second until it clattered to the floor. We would need to return with more rigging gear, but we wanted to save the nice 8.5mm pushing rope, so Mike stripped that out leaving the metal in place.<br>
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By now I had been on book for over 60 survey legs (spread across the two days) and around 300m of passage, so I requested a change of role. Luke said he had just the thing for me: a naughty traverse over the top of a huge hanging flake/block in Keanu Breeze, where the Japes claimed they had seen a horizontal continuation on the far side of the shaft (the bottom turned into a miserable dripfest). Jonty and Mike made preparations to drop an unexplored pitch heading down towards the streamway in the rift (a little downstream of the Tap) while Luke and I headed to Keanu Breeze with Mike’s drill. The aim was to kill off this lead today so that the rope left there could be repurposed at the earlier find. Keanu Breeze is located in a huge fault and thus the rock on the shaft walls was often poor, meaning I needed to be a bit creative with the rigging (but also not wanting to use too many bolts on what we assumed would be a no-hoper). After plenty of skyhook japery on the traverse and subsequent rebelays I was hanging in space trying to kick across into quite a substantial window on the far side of the passage. This eventually done I shouted to Luke to come and join me with the survey gear and drill bag as the meandering passage beyond clearly continued. I bolted the next small drop in the rift while Luke came to join me, muttering about ‘japery’ and ‘not a trade route’ as he did so (I never said the rigging would be beautiful…). A quick scamper along the rift led to a further small drop which I rigged to land in a continuation of the meander, now heading northwest, which had descended into a slippery shredpiece which reminded me of the cave we had explored in Albania in 2017: you want it to end, but you know it won’t for a very long time.<br>
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After waiting out the rain at base camp on Friday afternoon with activities such as: ‘group reading of “Hiroshima” by John Hersey’; ‘who can stand on one leg with their eyes shut the longest’; and ‘who does the best headstand’; it was eventually time to return to Top Camp. The walk across the plateau in the evening sun was beautiful and we arrived just after dark around 10pm. Much of the gear was in the cave already from the last trip so packing the night before was reasonably swift. The rain in the valley frustratingly had not graced the shoulders of the plateau, meaning water supplies were again a concern.<br>
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After scuttling gingerly under a pile of teetering boulders and shimmying down some muddy drops in the rift, we reached an impasse: a 3 m drop down a completely smooth, belled out shaft with no chance of free climbing it without getting fully soaked (and even then it would have been an ask). We really didn’t want to chop the nice 8.5mm rope just for this tiny drop, so I ran back to the bag with the rigging gear and scavenged all the slings and extra bits that I could find. A convenient chockstone was found and I lashed a length of dyneema around it, then attached various slings to the bottom of that, hoping we would be able to use them like etriers to negotiate the drop. The way down was simple enough (just arms really), but all was in vain as just around the corner out of sight was a further 10 m pitch with no chance of another episode of japery. So Nathan and I re-ascended to get the drill and sadly chop the 25 m of 8.5mm that was still in the bag. The ascent of the pretend etriers proved far more taxing due to the slippiness of the dyneema but we managed to avoid the water almost entirely, very good.<br>
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<div class="bbWrapper">And here are some more general concoctions from the hand of Jonty, mostly relating to one of the stronger characters present on the expedition who I'm sure will be well known to many UKCaving users for her commitment both to environmental justice and thorough cave surveying...<br>
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After spending a couple days doing cave trips, myself (Paul W), Aaron C, Philip B, and Andreas K visited a few holes previously marked as "interesting". Typically these holes are either filled in with small rocks or ice plugs, with proper cave entrances having a horizontal entrance that's more protected. We did not find any going passage (aside from a small entrance pitch) but did manage to cross a couple of these holes off our todo list!<br>
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<i>Philip and Aaron debating whether or not this pitch is even worth surveying</i><br>
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A week later we tried this prospecting thing out again, but this time with the help of Wookey who had a bit more experience than us. We visited a few slightly larger holes in the ground in the Balkonhöhle area, but once again these were ice-plugged. One of the 3 small holes had a small side passage that unfortunately choked out after about 8m. Wookey had a great time learning to use SexyTopo and we crossed a few more holes off our todo list!<br>
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After an impressive amount of faff we finally got underground around 5pm. Jono and I headed straight to camp, with a brief stop halfway down to swap the rope on a small pitch. Reaching camp around 9pm we set up the cavelink and made dinner. I was not particularly looking forward to camping; my only prior experience was in Daren Cilau at the Hard Rock Cafe, during which the camp flooded at 3am leaving us huddled on a ledge for 10 hours waiting for the water levels to drop. The Balkonhöhle camp was remarkably civilised, however. We had plenty of food and water, the sleeping bags were very warm and it didn't flood!<br>
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Eventually Alice and Anthony arrived, having done some rerigging on the way down. We exchanged some messages with camp kresh in Fischgesicht over cavelink and shared some questionable alcohol Jono had carried down before heading to bed.<br>
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As Anthony had the rope and drill for adjusting Tartarus, Jono and I were unable to push the main leads so started surveying down a small side passage above a rift. The passage was remarkably decorated by SMK standards with lots of popcorn, stalacmites and tiny helictite formations. We also found a very impressive fossil of five vertebrae, about 40cm long (pictured below). We are yet to work out what it's from but guess some kind of Triassic fish or shark. After about 150m we hit a short pitch, so without a drill or rope turned round to find the others. On the way back Jono 3d scanned the passage with his phone, producing a much quicker and more complete survey than our initial one with notebook and Disto. An exciting glimpse at the future of surveying.<br>
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On return Alice and Anthony were rather unhappy with us. Whilst Jono and I were surveying they had managed to get themselves stranded on a mud slope above a 20m deep rift, and had been shouting and whistling at us to come and rescue them for over an hour (we hadn't heard anything!). Once back to safety Alice hid in the bothy, having gotten very cold and Anthony began bolting and rigging a rope down the slope they had previously stranded themselves on trying to free climb. After eating some food Jono and I took over from Anthony, who headed back to camp with a now very cold Alice. We continued down the slope but annoyingly soon ran out of rope, leaving the pushing front at three huge drafting tunnels.<br>
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Tired from the long day of pushing we all slept well and after a slow morning the next day headed back to the surface. Not keen on another dinner of couscous and curry Alice and I headed down the mountain to base camp, and were treated to a stunning sunset on the walk down.<br>
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<div class="bbImageWrapper js-lbImage" title="surveying covid corner.JPG" data-src="https://ukcaving.com/board/index.php?attachments/surveying-covid-corner-jpg.14107/" data-lb-sidebar-href="" data-lb-caption-extra-html="" data-single-image="1" data-fancybox="lb-post-364148" data-caption="<h4>surveying covid corner.JPG</h4><p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;ukcaving.com&#x2F;board&#x2F;index.php?threads&#x2F;cucc-austria-expedition-2022-blog.29712&#x2F;page-2#post-364148" class="js-lightboxCloser">h_collings · Aug 30, 2022 at 3:25 PM</a></p>" style="cursor: pointer;">
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<div class="bbWrapper">Just to pass my time while we wait at customs at Calais, here are a few more snapshots of expedition japery, this time mostly concerning our in-house man of the world, nuclear power specialist and comms connoisseur Mr Tully. The focus on bolting is in reference to an entire team forgetting their spanners and trying to set thru bolts by other means... the trip was unsuccessful<br>
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<br> The passage was intersected by a trench with a large passage above off to the right; this would be a potentially challenging traverse to pursue so we continued straight ahead, following the draught. Further on we reached a junction with lower and higher passages both leading into the same rift, and with a good draught this presented a promising way on. However, aware that we had to derig Tartarus on our way out, we ended our day here and returned to camp, leaving this as a promising lead for next year. This new passage above the up pitch was named Cerberus, once again continuing the Greek theme. On our way back Jono fettled his earlier rigging after some constructive criticism from the group.<br>
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<div class="bbImageWrapper js-lbImage" title="Cerberus formations.JPG" data-src="https://ukcaving.com/board/index.php?attachments/cerberus-formations-jpg.14108/" data-lb-sidebar-href="" data-lb-caption-extra-html="" data-single-image="1" data-fancybox="lb-post-364148" data-caption="<h4>Cerberus formations.JPG</h4><p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;ukcaving.com&#x2F;board&#x2F;index.php?threads&#x2F;cucc-austria-expedition-2022-blog.29712&#x2F;page-2#post-364148" class="js-lightboxCloser">h_collings · Aug 30, 2022 at 3:25 PM</a></p>" style="cursor: pointer;">
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</div> <div class="bbImageWrapper js-lbImage" title="cerberus bolting lesson.JPG" data-src="https://ukcaving.com/board/index.php?attachments/cerberus-bolting-lesson-jpg.14109/" data-lb-sidebar-href="" data-lb-caption-extra-html="" data-single-image="1" data-fancybox="lb-post-364148" data-caption="<h4>cerberus bolting lesson.JPG</h4><p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;ukcaving.com&#x2F;board&#x2F;index.php?threads&#x2F;cucc-austria-expedition-2022-blog.29712&#x2F;page-2#post-364148" class="js-lightboxCloser">h_collings · Aug 30, 2022 at 3:25 PM</a></p>" style="cursor: pointer;">
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<i>Left: Area of formations at beginning of Cerberus. Right: Bolting lesson<i> at bottom of bolt climb.</i></i><br>
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Expo was winding down when the long-awaited rain hit. We left it 24 hours, but by then time was running out, so the final few cavers had to head up the hill from Base Camp for derigging. <br>
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<div class="bbImageWrapper js-lbImage" title="photo_2022-09-01_17-18-35.jpg" data-src="https://ukcaving.com/board/index.php?attachments/photo_2022-09-01_17-18-35-jpg.14132/" data-lb-sidebar-href="" data-lb-caption-extra-html="" data-single-image="1" data-fancybox="lb-post-364232" data-caption="<h4>photo_2022-09-01_17-18-35.jpg</h4><p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;ukcaving.com&#x2F;board&#x2F;index.php?threads&#x2F;cucc-austria-expedition-2022-blog.29712&#x2F;page-2#post-364232" class="js-lightboxCloser">Becka · Sep 1, 2022 at 6:36 PM</a></p>" style="cursor: pointer;">
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<i>Base Camp entertainment in the rain: Emily lost in TunnelVR, Julian's 3D cave drawing software<br>
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Unfortunately, this meant that we were now behind schedule and there'd need to be another Fishgesicht trip the next day. Expo energy was waning and, far from fighting over who'd go on this plum exploration-then-derig trip, there was little enthusiasm from the four remaining cavers. Nat said that, if necessary, he'd suck on a wet teabag and force himself to go. Hannah, likewise, was prepared to do it if there was no alternative. In the end, Jono and I volunteered, leaving them to pack up Top Camp. <br>
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<div class="bbImageWrapper js-lbImage" title="photo_2022-09-01_17-18-49.jpg" data-src="https://ukcaving.com/board/index.php?attachments/photo_2022-09-01_17-18-49-jpg.14131/" data-lb-sidebar-href="" data-lb-caption-extra-html="" data-single-image="1" data-fancybox="lb-post-364232" data-caption="<h4>photo_2022-09-01_17-18-49.jpg</h4><p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;ukcaving.com&#x2F;board&#x2F;index.php?threads&#x2F;cucc-austria-expedition-2022-blog.29712&#x2F;page-2#post-364232" class="js-lightboxCloser">Becka · Sep 1, 2022 at 6:36 PM</a></p>" style="cursor: pointer;">
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Currently, we do not have any further information on the species or if it is a fish... However, some nicer renders from the point cloud data I collected are here. Being an Indiana Jones wannabe archaeologist, I'm not interested in fossils. But after waiting what felt like 15 hours for Harry to draw a single line in his sketching book, it seemed rather more interesting; that and the feelings in my hands had left me, the Disto laser wasn't warming my hands up when I pointed it at them.<br>
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<h3>3D Data</h3>Once I have finished processing the rest of the data, I will make part two of this post, going over the types of data collected this year and how this will start feeding into the CUCC expo. Alongside why this new way of surveying is indeed the future of underground surveying (Further info here), <a href="https://3dcavesurveys.com/" target="_blank" class="link link--external" rel="nofollow ugc noopener"><b><u>Cave Surveying</u></b></a><br>
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<h3><b>Memes</b></h3><b><u><div class="bbImageWrapper js-lbImage" title="One wonders what that fishyzzz last meal was" data-src="https://ukcaving.com/board/index.php?attachments/6rew53-jpg.14086/" data-lb-sidebar-href="" data-lb-caption-extra-html="" data-single-image="1">
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