+In via usual route to head of String Theory. Found Three ropes (~35m, ~45m, ~60m). Used ~45m and ~35m to rig String Theory (Crossley Rigging). Found ~90m left at head of Procrastination. Used ~20m rope (brought in from top camp) to rig traverse and ~90m to rig pitch of Procrastination. (Densham rigging). +
++Left tub of flapjacks, snickers, 4 curries with bothy bag at base of Procrastination. Also left 90m 9mm rope for Kraken with slings, snap gates, hangers and maillons. +
++Returned to Top Camp ~5 mins before callout - blame my (Crossley's) slow rigging of String Theory. Brought ~60m rope out of cave. +
+ +Prospected along side of Kleine Wiltkogel along South edge heading West. Little but choked shafts for most of the day, but promising end of the day with two good leads. Conveniently, another team claimed to have discovered one of the better finds 2 hours before we found it. This is heavily disputed and questionable.
@@ -105,29 +120,26 @@ Climb down boulder tickle 5m leads to 2m climb. Rift continues to 4m pitch intoCUCC2018 DM07 -
Jon's phone DD 47.69429N 13.80534E
Large open shaft. In, down over snow plug 30m. 2 consecutive pitches. First 5m, 2nd unknown.
-In via usual route to head of String Theory. Found Three ropes (~35m, ~45m, ~60m). Used ~45m and ~35m to rig String Theory (Crossley Rigging). Found ~90m left at head of Procrastination. Used ~20m rope (brought in from top camp) to rig traverse and ~90m to rig pitch of Procrastination. (Densham rigging). -
--Left tub of flapjacks, snickers, 4 curries with bothy bag at base of Procrastination. Also left 90m 9mm rope for Kraken with slings, snap gates, hangers and maillons. -
--Returned to Top Camp ~5 mins before callout - blame my (Crossley's) slow rigging of String Theory. Brought ~60m rope out of cave. -
-Headed off to drop DM07 followed by DM06. Started with DM07 as the closer of the two. First pitch/handline 5m down from surface to large hole in ground. Into hole in wall, 1m down and 2m traverse over a drop of 3m leads to top of snow plug that can be followed down 8m to passage. Crawl for 10m leads to first pitch, 5m, closely followed by longer pitch (10m?) into a rather large chamber. The way leading back against the direction of progress quickly chokes. Way on leads to large boulder. A hole on the left side yields a safe continuation (the rope also leads this way) on to the next pitch of another 10m into yet another chamber. From here, an impressive pitch was observed(8m diameter) which a 27m rope was insufficient to descend. Probably 40m deep. Strong draft, predicted by the majority of CUCC to be larger than Tunnocks [citation needed].
+Headed off to drop DM07 followed by DM06. Started with DM07 as the closer of the two. +First pitch/handline 5m down from surface to large hole in ground. +Into hole in wall, 1m down and 2m traverse over a drop of 3m leads to top of +snow plug that can be followed down 8m to passage. Crawl for 10m leads to +first pitch, 5m, closely followed by longer pitch (10m?) into a rather large chamber. +The way leading back against the direction of progress quickly chokes. +Way on leads to large boulder. A hole on the left side yields a safe continuation +(the rope also leads this way) on to the next pitch of another 10m into yet another chamber. +From here, an impressive pitch was observed(8m diameter) which a 27m rope was insufficient to +descend. Probably 40m deep. Strong draft, predicted by the majority of +CUCC to be larger than Tunnocks [citation needed].
Surveyed out of cave, tag left on small shelf right under surface level. Lack of pencils led to ditching of DM06, though this is an interesting cave. DM06 still unexplored.
@@ -135,7 +147,7 @@ Returned to Top Camp ~5 mins before callout - blame my (Crossley's) slow rigging+Snakebite lands in large rift passage with waterfall entering from LHS. Water drains +down to Lower Snakebite (this starts with an awkward free climb next to water; themore obvious passage on L of this +(as you face downstream) is main Snakebite passage (dry) that connects to Song of the Earth. +
+[many detailed diagrams - see scanned imageswhen done] +
+Lower Snakebite - Pitch series starts 20m beyond the awkward free climb below Snakebite +pitch following water down free climbs. + +
Carried 2x 45m ropes and a 80m rope over to Heimkommen. Dickon rerigged the pitch then ran out of rope on, now named Radagast.
Pushed through a small meander to an up pitch (3m). @@ -193,8 +222,16 @@ which landed perfectly on a boulderabove an estimated 50m-100m drop, named Gromm Out of rope so we surveyed out.
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+[DIAGRAM of tarp rigging in bivvy] + +