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+<FONT FACE="Times New Roman"><FONT SIZE=2><U><B>Kaninchenhöhle,
+Steinbrückenhöhle and Tunnockschacht: a brief history</B></U></FONT></FONT></P>
+<P LANG="zxx" CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%">
+<BR>
+</P>
+<P LANG="zxx" CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%">
+<FONT FACE="Times New Roman"><FONT SIZE=2>Kaninchenhöhle was CUCC's
+primary project throughout the 1990s, following its discovery in
+1988, eventually reaching 22km length and 500m depth. In 1999
+Steinbrückenhöhle was discovered a km or so to the North, and (not
+least because it had a really nice bivi site), because the main
+focus. Over the next decade, nearly 17km of passages were explored
+there with a vertical range of over 600m. The cave has several
+levels, lined up with the dip of the limestone plateau, separated
+from one another by pitch series, and has potential to connect to
+both Kaninchenhöhle ('KH') and Tunnockschacht, as it lies between
+them, and by the end of 2010 quite close to both, although the KH
+nearest approach point had been checked carefully and found hopeless
+from both sides. </FONT></FONT>
+</P>
+<P LANG="zxx" CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%">
+<BR>
+</P>
+<P LANG="zxx" CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%">
+<FONT FACE="Times New Roman"><FONT SIZE=2>Tunnocks was first found in
+2005 And over the next few years, provided over 7km of surveyed
+passage with a vertical range of 256m. </FONT></FONT>
+</P>
+<P LANG="zxx" CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%">
+<FONT FACE="Times New Roman"><FONT SIZE=2>During the previous
+expedition, CUCC had descended an impressive 80m pitch ‘String
+Theory’, and had discovered a number of leads at the bottom, one of
+which being a tantalising 20m away from Steinbrückenhöhle. </FONT></FONT>
+</P>
+<P LANG="zxx" CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%">
+<FONT FACE="Times New Roman"><FONT SIZE=2>Hopes for a connection
+between and Tunnocks were high, but we've thought connections were
+'likely' before and been wrong...</FONT></FONT></P>
+<P LANG="zxx" CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%">
+<BR>
+</P>
+<P LANG="zxx" CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%">
+<FONT FACE="Times New Roman"><FONT SIZE=2>2011 saw a relatively large
+and strong team so the decision to work in all three major caves was
+taken, with most of the Steinbrücken work being done from an
+underground camp at -400m. The 1980s tradition of having UBSS members
+along was revived this year, which worked well as they had some
+actual students who were able to come, and supplied the first ever
+expo-leader-not-based-in-Cambridge in the form of Chris Smith. </FONT></FONT>
+</P>
+<P LANG="zxx" CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%">
+<BR>
+</P>
+<P LANG="zxx" CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%">
+<FONT FACE="Times New Roman"><FONT SIZE=2>The character of the 3
+caves is quite different, which keeps things interesting for
+expo-goers. Tunnocks has mostly steep bedding-controlled passages,
+interupted by occaisional large shafts, with a large partly
+snow-filled entrance shaft. Steinbrücken has a tediously tiny
+entrance and a lot of annoying stoopy passage leading to the 300m
+shaft series of Gaffered to The Walls, with extensive horizontal
+soil-filled development at the bottom. KH is largely walking passage,
+some of it enormous, with as much up as down on this year's route. </FONT></FONT>
+</P>
+<P LANG="zxx" CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%">
+<BR>
+</P>
+<P LANG="zxx" CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%">
+<FONT FACE="Times New Roman"><FONT SIZE=2><U><B>Steinbrückenhohle</B></U></FONT></FONT></P>
+<P LANG="zxx" CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%">
+<BR>
+</P>
+<P LANG="zxx" CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%">
+<FONT FACE="Times New Roman"><FONT SIZE=2>This year, members of CUCC
+decided to return to one of the horizontal levels, Subsoil. The team
+had two main goals: to continue pushing new passages into blank
+space, and to search for the potential connection with
+Tunnockschacht, whose closest point was only a few dozen tantalising
+metres away from Steinbrückenhöhle.</FONT></FONT></P>
+<P LANG="zxx" CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%">
+<BR>
+</P>
+<P LANG="zxx" CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%">
+<FONT FACE="Times New Roman"><FONT SIZE=2>To cut down on the amount
+of time spent 'commuting', Edvin Deadman, Niall Peters, Djuke
+Veldhuis, Jess Stirrups and Kathryn Hopkins set up an underground
+camp at about -400m. A few years previously, a large sandy-floored
+chamber with a nearby water supply had been found. This made a
+perfect campsite. After a couple of rigging and carrying trips at the
+beginning of the expedition, the Butlins Holiday Camp was born! With
+only three sleeping bags (and a tent inner, to keep off the draughts)
+they would be caving in shifts and 'hot bedding', in two long trips
+of three or four days at a time. The camping was organised with (very
+unusual) military precision, including laminated time-charts of when
+each shift was caving or in bed, and none of the cavers involved had
+camped underground before. Overall it was deemed a great success in
+enabling a lot of work in the deeper reaches, but the hot-bedding
+proved somewhat miserable for the night shift.</FONT></FONT></P>
+<P LANG="zxx" CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%">
+<BR>
+</P>
+<P LANG="zxx" CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%">
+<FONT FACE="Times New Roman"><FONT SIZE=2>Much of the camper’s time
+was spent in a race against the Tunnockschacht team to find the
+elusive connection between the two caves. They were convinced that a
+strongly draughting pitch series that they found, called 'Bird on a
+Wire', would lead them to glory. However, after running out of both
+time and rope, with the pitches still going, it was decided to turn
+their attention to other more horizontal leads. </FONT></FONT>
+</P>
+<P LANG="zxx" CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%">
+<BR>
+</P>
+<P LANG="zxx" CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%">
+<FONT FACE="Times New Roman"><FONT SIZE=2>The other main find was
+very close to the campsite, where a sketchy climb up the side of a
+chamber led to several hundred metres of large phreatic development:
+'A Grand Day Out', which is heading into blank space.</FONT></FONT></P>
+<P LANG="zxx" CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%">
+<FONT FACE="Times New Roman"><FONT SIZE=2>After two successful
+camping trips, about 1km of new cave was found in Steinbrückenhöhle,
+and it is now 17.7km long. A fair amount of time was spent checking
+out leads in the probable 'connection zone', but they were all ticked
+off without finding a way into Tunnocks. There is no shortage of
+other leads to keep us occupied for many more expeditions; many
+heading off into blank space on the survey. However, the connection
+had still not been found, and the campsite was derigged, so it was
+down to the Tunnocks team to keep pushing.</FONT></FONT></P>
+<P LANG="zxx" CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%">
+<BR>
+</P>
+<P LANG="zxx" CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%">
+<BR>
+</P>
+<P LANG="zxx" CLASS="western" ALIGN=CENTER STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%">
+<BR>
+</P>
+<P LANG="zxx" CLASS="western" ALIGN=CENTER STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%">
+<FONT FACE="Times New Roman"><FONT SIZE=2><U><B>Tunnockschaft</B></U></FONT></FONT></P>
+<P LANG="zxx" CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%">
+<BR>
+</P>
+<P LANG="zxx" CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; font-weight: normal; line-height: 100%; text-decoration: none">
+<FONT FACE="Times New Roman"><FONT SIZE=2>After dropping the 80m
+‘String Theory’ pitch and exploring leads last year, Neil Pacey
+and Andy Chapman had eventually been stopped by a small pitch leading
+upwards into black space and only approximately 20 metres away from
+Steinbrückenhöhle. Plans were made, equipment purchased, and Neil,
+Andy and some newly recruited team members were ready for a rematch.</FONT></FONT></P>
+<P LANG="zxx" CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; font-weight: normal; line-height: 100%; text-decoration: none">
+<BR>
+</P>
+<P LANG="zxx" CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; font-weight: normal; line-height: 100%; text-decoration: none">
+<FONT FACE="Times New Roman"><FONT SIZE=2>However, just getting to
+the current limit proved difficult going. An excessively hot summer
+had caused much of the snow-ramps in the entrance series to melt,
+meaning even the tallest expedition members struggled to reach the
+hanger placements. A period of re-rigging ensued, with extra hangers
+placed within reach of the height challenged and also to avoid some
+newly formed, precarious crevices.</FONT></FONT></P>
+<P LANG="zxx" CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; font-weight: normal; line-height: 100%; text-decoration: none">
+<BR>
+</P>
+<P LANG="zxx" CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; font-weight: normal; line-height: 100%; text-decoration: none">
+<FONT FACE="Times New Roman"><FONT SIZE=2>A team consisting of Andy,
+Noel Snape and Rob Adams continued rigging, narrowly avoiding Noel
+meeting an untimely end after a boulder fell onto a traverse line
+over a large pot, leaving him spreadeagled on a very tight rope over
+a large drop. The now decidedly shaky team carried on to the head of
+String Theory but felt it wise to pass on rigging for that day.</FONT></FONT></P>
+<P LANG="zxx" CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%">
+<BR>
+</P>
+<P LANG="zxx" CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; font-weight: normal; line-height: 100%; text-decoration: none">
+<FONT FACE="Times New Roman"><FONT SIZE=2>Eventually, the rigging was
+completed and the final survey station reached in the newly
+christened Leaky chamber. Andy began aid climbing the small pitch,
+eventually reaching the top. Neil followed and continued to the next
+obstacle, another pitch leading upwards. Neil quickly free climbed
+this and another small pitch afterwards, finishing at a ledge with a
+small, muddy tube going leftwards and a 10m pitch continuing up.</FONT></FONT></P>
+<P LANG="zxx" CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; font-weight: normal; line-height: 100%; text-decoration: none">
+<BR>
+</P>
+<P LANG="zxx" CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; font-weight: normal; line-height: 100%; text-decoration: none">
+<FONT FACE="Times New Roman"><FONT SIZE=2>As all the static rope had
+been used rigging the previous pitches, Neil and Andy thought they’d
+better survey the small tube and head back home. However, the tube
+increased from hands and knees crawling to walking until a large
+window was reached. Dangling out, over the pitch head, we could see
+down into a big chamber with a massive pitch heading down past this
+which was promptly christened ‘The Beast‘. Two excited cavers
+headed out, looking forward to the next pushing trip.</FONT></FONT></P>
+<P LANG="zxx" CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; font-weight: normal; line-height: 100%; text-decoration: none">
+<BR>
+</P>
+<P LANG="zxx" CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; font-weight: normal; line-height: 100%; text-decoration: none">
+<FONT FACE="Times New Roman"><FONT SIZE=2><Somewhere in here we
+should mention the occaision where Becka dropped a small pitch, found
+a survey station and though the connection was made, but turned out
+to be wrong. Adds a bit of tension to the <U>real</U> connection></FONT></FONT></P>
+<P LANG="zxx" CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; font-weight: normal; line-height: 100%; text-decoration: none">
+<BR>
+</P>
+<P LANG="zxx" CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; font-weight: normal; line-height: 100%; text-decoration: none">
+<FONT FACE="Times New Roman"><FONT SIZE=2>A larger team were back the
+next day. Noel rigged down to the chamber and Neil, Rob and Andy
+followed down to check out Above and Beyond chamber. Numerous leads
+led off from the chamber but Noel seemed to think the climb up the
+tottering pile of shale, in the left hand side of the chamber offered
+most potential. Whilst Noel and Neil surveyed the chamber, Andy
+climbed the precarious climb whilst Rob helped haul gear up and
+offered much needed words of support.</FONT></FONT></P>
+<P LANG="zxx" CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; font-weight: normal; line-height: 100%; text-decoration: none">
+<BR>
+</P>
+<P LANG="zxx" CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; font-weight: normal; line-height: 100%; text-decoration: none">
+<FONT FACE="Times New Roman"><FONT SIZE=2>After rigging the climb,
+Andy continued exploration, finding the onwards passage led to the
+enormous pitch seen from the window above. A team consisting of
+Neil, Noel, Emma Wilson and Gareth Phillips surveyed this and Noel
+happened to notice a phreatic tube above the pitch head. Access was
+gained via a bolt and hair-raising climb and the heavily draughting
+tube was gained. This was pushed to a 20 metre pitch (Eh bah Gum)
+which led into the bottom of a rift with numerous leads going off.</FONT></FONT></P>
+<P LANG="zxx" CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; font-weight: normal; line-height: 100%; text-decoration: none">
+<BR>
+</P>
+<P LANG="zxx" CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; font-weight: normal; line-height: 100%; text-decoration: none">
+<FONT FACE="Times New Roman"><FONT SIZE=2>Holly, Noel, Wookey and
+Becka Lawson headed back for a rematch the following day. Noel and
+Wookey decided to go for glory and headed into the unknownm rigging a
+traverse that didn't go, then a pitch found at the bottom of Eh Bah
+Gum whilst Holly and Becka completed the job of surveying down Eh Bah
+Gum. Having done the surveying the team found Noel and Wookey still
+faffing with rigging so they went back to the unexiting job of
+surveying a small rift at the bottom of the pitch. </FONT></FONT>
+</P>
+<P LANG="zxx" CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; font-weight: normal; line-height: 100%; text-decoration: none">
+<FONT FACE="Times New Roman"><FONT SIZE=2>The team started down the
+rift and soon discovered it popped out onto the ‘Beast’ pitch but
+a wide ledge could be climbed onto. Continuing surveying a tube in
+the wall, Becka noticed footprints on a mud bank. </FONT></FONT>
+</P>
+<P LANG="zxx" CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; font-weight: normal; line-height: 100%; text-decoration: none">
+“<FONT FACE="Times New Roman"><FONT SIZE=2>Holly, have you climbed
+on this?”</FONT></FONT></P>
+<P LANG="zxx" CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; font-weight: normal; line-height: 100%; text-decoration: none">
+“<FONT FACE="Times New Roman"><FONT SIZE=2>No. I think I might
+recognise this though...”</FONT></FONT></P>
+<P LANG="zxx" CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; font-weight: normal; line-height: 100%; text-decoration: none">
+“<FONT FACE="Times New Roman"><FONT SIZE=2>Where is it?”</FONT></FONT></P>
+<P LANG="zxx" CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; font-weight: normal; line-height: 100%; text-decoration: none">
+“<FONT FACE="Times New Roman"><FONT SIZE=2>I think it’s the Wares
+in Steinbrücken!”</FONT></FONT></P>
+<P LANG="zxx" CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; font-weight: normal; line-height: 100%; text-decoration: none">
+<FONT FACE="Times New Roman"><FONT SIZE=2>Two happy cavers connected
+to a survey station located on the opposite wall and hurried back to
+tell the good news to the rigging party.</FONT></FONT></P>
+<P LANG="zxx" CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; font-weight: normal; line-height: 100%; text-decoration: none">
+<FONT FACE="Times New Roman"><FONT SIZE=2>Having connected Tunnocks
+to Steinbrücken producing a combined cave length of 27km and
+completing one of the expedition objectives, other leads in Tunnocks
+were also pushed. An upper level passage leading off from Starfish
+junction provided over ……m of passage, ending extremely close to
+the surface.</FONT></FONT></P>
+<P LANG="zxx" CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; font-weight: normal; line-height: 100%; text-decoration: none">
+<BR>
+</P>
+<P LANG="zxx" CLASS="western" ALIGN=CENTER STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%">
+<FONT FACE="Times New Roman"><FONT SIZE=2><U><B>Kaninchenhöhle</B></U></FONT></FONT></P>
+<P LANG="zxx" CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; font-weight: normal; line-height: 100%; text-decoration: none">
+<BR>
+</P>
+<P LANG="zxx" CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; font-weight: normal; line-height: 100%; text-decoration: none">
+<FONT FACE="Times New Roman"><FONT SIZE=2>In 2009 Andrew Atkinson had
+spotted a hole 25m up in the ceiling of Repton II Chamber, and
+reached it via a bolt climb and necky 20m traverse. This was the last
+trip of expo so he and Wookey were only able to explore 100m of very
+windy passage before going home. The small 2010 expo did not go back
+to KH, so this top-class lead ('Irony of Time') remained for team
+'vintage' in the form of Wookey and Anthony Day to head for, assisted
+by Rob Adams on his last trip. </FONT></FONT>
+</P>
+<P LANG="zxx" CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; font-weight: normal; line-height: 100%; text-decoration: none">
+<BR>
+</P>
+<P LANG="zxx" CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; font-weight: normal; line-height: 100%; text-decoration: none">
+<FONT FACE="Times New Roman"><FONT SIZE=2>The nearest entrance to the
+bivi is 161g, which is a technical 1hr walk over and down the back of
+the main ridge under which the system is developed. As with Tunnocks
+snow levels were the lowest ever and a large snowfield that gets down
+several rock steps had completely melted so a new route had to be
+found and cairned. The entrance immediately has a fine 50m pitch,
+then miles of traipsing until the massive trunk phreas of 'Triassic
+Park' is reached, leading to a series of huge collapse chambers, then
+back up dip to 'Strange Downfall/Upfall/Acrossfall'. This is a big
+space passed by a p38 then a p25 back up again or a very airy
+tyrolean.</FONT></FONT></P>
+<P LANG="zxx" CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; font-weight: normal; line-height: 100%; text-decoration: none">
+<BR>
+</P>
+<P LANG="zxx" CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; font-weight: normal; line-height: 100%; text-decoration: none">
+<FONT FACE="Times New Roman"><FONT SIZE=2>At the pushing front the
+surveying was down easy walking passage with a very encouraging wind,
+and after only 50m it broke out into big phreas going both North and
+South and <U>still</U> windy. Following the wind northwards round a
+corner it widened to 15m and huge grins broke out as they realised
+what a top-class find they had sauntered into. Rob was amazed at his
+good luck. 300M of trunk passage was explored before a pitch stopped
+the fun for the day. The find was named 'Country for Old Men' after
+the very easy going. </FONT></FONT>
+</P>
+<P LANG="zxx" CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; font-weight: normal; line-height: 100%; text-decoration: none">
+<BR>
+</P>
+<P LANG="zxx" CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; font-weight: normal; line-height: 100%; text-decoration: none">
+<FONT FACE="Times New Roman"><FONT SIZE=2>The passage was heading
+directly North towards Steinbrücken but whilst the gap had been
+dramatically reduced from 420m to 250m that's still not the sort of
+gap that gets closed in one expo. 3 further trips including some
+international co-operation with the German Group ARGE who sent two
+cavers along found another km (check) of passage and narrowed the gap
+to 170m. The Strange Acrossfall Tyrolean was also rigged, providing
+much entertainment as cavers unused to tyroleans starting at hanging
+rebelays got themselves strung up.</FONT></FONT></P>
+<P LANG="zxx" CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; font-weight: normal; line-height: 100%; text-decoration: none">
+<BR>
+</P>
+<P LANG="zxx" CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; font-weight: normal; line-height: 100%; text-decoration: none">
+<FONT FACE="Times New Roman"><FONT SIZE=2>As the gap to Steinbrücken
+shrank an attempt was made to rig Brian's Phat Shaft, in
+Steinbrücken, the quickest way into the 'Catty Puns' area of the
+cave which was the closest approach at the right level. This is a
+100m shaft, starting 100m deep but not too far from 204e. A large
+pile of gear and students was despatched, who made a valiant attempt
+but the weather had been terrible so the shaft was very wet and
+almost devoid of bolts, so after some hours of scary, damp and
+miserable dangling, a retreat was called, and vows made not to
+return. A more experienced caver was persuaded to take a look, which
+got the pitch re-bolted down to -80m before running out of time and
+derigging, so no progress from this end, but the way prepared for
+2012. </FONT></FONT>
+</P>
+<P LANG="zxx" CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; font-weight: normal; line-height: 100%; text-decoration: none">
+<BR>
+</P>
+<P LANG="zxx" CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; font-weight: normal; line-height: 100%; text-decoration: none">
+<FONT FACE="Times New Roman"><FONT SIZE=2>Back in KH, the Country for
+Old Men trunk passage shrank to a small rifty pitch but with a
+monstrous gale issuing from it. Despite this it was hard to find
+willing potholers as the end of expo was approaching so people were
+going home and there was a party/dinner with the Germans as
+alternative entertainment. Wookey managed to dragoon 2 UBSS students
+(Catherine Hulse and Adam Henry) into a trip. Rigging the pitch
+(christened 'Mordor') was a deeply miserable experience as it was
+absolutely freezing and confusing as to the way on, with wind
+everywhere, and after a while it became clear the conditions were
+about to produce a mutiny, so some '70s rigging' was employed to make
+rapid progress. It dropped into more huge passage heading off again
+so another long night of big grins ensued despite the cold, and two
+more cavers were inducted into 'expedition fever', escaping at 4am to
+an extraordinary view of mist in the valley below, illuminated by the
+moonlight.</FONT></FONT></P>
+<P LANG="zxx" CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; font-weight: normal; line-height: 100%; text-decoration: none">
+<BR>
+</P>
+<P LANG="zxx" CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; font-weight: normal; line-height: 100%; text-decoration: none">
+<FONT FACE="Times New Roman"><FONT SIZE=2>The next trip (Olly Madge
+and Emma Wilson) pushed on over the traverse to find another 150m of
+passage ending at big shaft needing a proper bolt traverse, and
+leaving the gap to Steinbrücken's 'Fat Cat' series at less than 30m.
+In theory this connection could have been pushed further but drill
+logistics, and derigging requirements menat it had to be left for
+2012. Two final trips (Julian Todd, Andrew Atkinson, Cat Hulse)
+looked the other way down one of the many A-leads, found a devious
+way past a big hole and romped into almost 1km of large and varied
+passage, following a massive gale, and ending at a pitch which is
+certain to connect back to the northern end of YAPATE, and should
+provide a much easier route to the far end, avoiding the comedy
+tyrolean.</FONT></FONT></P>
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+<FONT FACE="Times New Roman"><FONT SIZE=2><B>Summary</B></FONT></FONT></P>
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+<FONT FACE="Times New Roman"><FONT SIZE=2>So as is often the case the
+expedition ended on a high, with a monstrous list of leads for next
+year, and what looks like an almost certain connection between the
+62km Schwartzmooskogelhöhlensystem and the 27km of Steinbrücken +
+Tunnockshacht.</FONT></FONT></P>
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