Some more 2014 logbook entries (jenny)

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 <div class="triptitle">2005-05</div>
  <p>After prospecting with Becka, Mike + Andrea a couple of days before, Nat and I decided to revisit 2005-05 to carry on dropping the pitches there. Rob bailed, leading to a rather late start, but we set off with a ~40m and 2 x 11m ropes, plus the bosch drill older than either one of us. We re-rigged the first pitch that Nat had dropped earlier and landed on a stone bridge between two pitches. Nat decided to drop the western pitch since it seemed to look more promising, so bolted a rebelay and carried on downwards. After dropping through a slightly narrow gap we landed on a loose, rocky slope with a ledge to one side. Nat bolted another rebelay and started on one of the 11m ropes but rapidly came back since there was a pitch that was too big for us to drop with the kit we had - exciting times! I went down to take a look then we went off to the ledge to commiserate. We reckoned the pitch had about a 2-second drop, making it somewhere between 20 and 30 metres. As we were cold and out of gear, we decided to return the next day with more rope (and our oversuits!).</p>
  <div class="timeug">T/U: 3 hrs </div>
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+<div class="tripdate" id="t2014-08-02c">2014-07-02</div>
+<div class="trippeople"><u>Katey</u>, Nathanael</div>
+<div class="triptitle">2005-05</div>
+<p>We returned with a 100m rope and the same drill (well, the same battery). Unfortunately, the drill was shit (read: the battery was very low) and we only managed to put in 1 1/4 bolts. This was especially frustrating as Nat had converted a dingle bolt rebelay to a Y-hang, so the 1/4 hole was right above the big pitch! Even more frustrating, we'd neglected to bring a spit driver due to inexperience and general incompetence. We headed back to camp promising that the next day we'd finally drop that pitch!</p>
+ <div class="timeug">T/U: 2 hrs </div>
  
+<div class="tripdate" id="t2014-08-03c">2014-07-03</div>
+<div class="trippeople"><u>Katey</u>, Nathanael</div>
+<div class="triptitle">2005-05</div>
+<p>We returned to the cave with a lighter drill and brighter spirits, and with surprisingly minimal faffing dropped the pitch. A nice long abseil down a clean-washed shaft landed on a rocky ledge with one more short drop before the cave opened into a chamber. I bolted the small pitch, which turned out to be more challenging than anticipated, and we were in the chamber! Finally a use for the compass/clino we'd brought! Unfortunately, in our trying not to be overly optimistic and scare the cave off we were very low on extra layers, meaning we couldn't survey for very long. On the plus side, the cave was nice and drafty! Despite cold and surveying inexperience we got about 60m surveyed with plenty more to go. We also finally settled on a name for the cave - Balcony H&ouml;hle - based on the truly excellent entrance.</p>
+ <div class="timeug">T/U: 3.5 hrs </div>
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+<div class="tripdate" id="t2014-08-04a">2014-07-04</div>
+<div class="trippeople"><u>Katey</u>, Nathanael, Noel</div>
+<div class="triptitle">2005-05 Balcony H&ouml;hle</div>
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+<p>Since the cave was now going beyond the pitch series, we thought it would be a good idea to ask someone with more surveying experience for help, so along came Noel. With his help (and the use of a Disto) we got a lot more surveyed - nearly 200m in 3 hours - with several ?As and a very solid ?B. We also put up cairns and reflectors on the route to the cave.</p>
+<p>*Worth noting: the long (34m) pitch gets drippy after rainstorms, even after the rain has passed. It was only a bit unpleasant, not dangerous, but trips should take a bothy on rainy days incase the pitch gets more than unpleasant!<p>
+<div class="timeug">T/U: 5.5 hrs </div>
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+<div class="tripdate" id="t2014-08-05a">2014-07-05</div>
+<div class="trippeople"><u>Katey</u>, Holly, Noel, Mike, Andrea</div>
+<div class="triptitle">2005-05 Balcony H&ouml;hle</div>
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+<p>Noel, Mike and Andrea had set off nice and early to go look at some of our leads from the day before, including a traverse that wanted bolting. Using a drill tends to go more easily when the drill has a bit, though, so when Noel came back to get one Holly and I came along to the cave. Noel added a backup bolt to the top Y-hang then I descended first to fettle the rigging. After lots of waiting for people to descend to avoid bouldery death we set off to rig the traverse. While Noel was discovering a chasm too wide to traverse across Holly and I were looking at the parallel shaft we'd found, and we made a sound connection between the two (unsurprising, as Noel described around the corner of the pitch as a rift). We decided to leave that traverse alone for the time being and as Noel derigged I took everyone else to Liar's bakery, the ?B, for Mike and Andrea to poke around in. Holly, Noel, and I then went to traverse the parallel shaft Holly and I had visited instead. Traversing over one pitch led to a second hole in the floor, giving the area the name Pit Pot. Traversing over the second pit landed on a rubble-covered ledge with a small window leading to a nice big pitch! Rocks fell for ~3 sec, so we estimated the depth of the shaft at 60m. We surveyed to the window -a whopping 13m - and headed out. Mike and Andrea had had rather more success, surveying 109.13m ending in a (dry) ~40m pitch. There are still plenty of leads to go back to, not too bad!</p>
+<div class="timeug">T/U: 6 hrs </div>
+<UL><i>Drawing of rigging guide (Balcony H&ouml;hle Rigging Topo - Entrance Series (05/08/2014))</i></UL>
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+<div class="tripdate" id="t2014-08-01e">2014-07-01</div>
+<div class="trippeople"><u>Becka</u>, RobA</div>
+<div class="triptitle">Tunnocks - Ducks on Ice / Tacklesack retrieval</div>
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+<p>After a walk up + a prospecting trip I polished off the day with an evening saunter down Tunnocks to try to fetch the tacklesack that Rob had dropped down the ice slope whilst trying to rig the entrance. Rob hefted the mighty Bosch drill whilst I did a solo survey down the ice slope to a small pit + an ice slot (where, presumably, the tacklesack has gone, though we did manage to retrieve a sling), a good-looking horizontal lead past a short traverse around the small pit (which turned out to be part of stone monkey on the next trip on 4/8/14) + a possible lead in a chamber beyond the ice slot. Called time around midnight to be fresh for the next day.</p>
+<div class="timeug">T/U: 4 1/2 hrs </div>
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+<div class="tripdate" id="t2014-08-02d">2014-07-02</div>
+<div class="trippeople"><u>Becka</u>, Andrew, Neil</div>
+<div class="triptitle">Tunnocks - Champagne on Ice</div>
+<p>Down to continue from Neil, Andrew + Aled's trip yesterday. Andrew continued from Neil's bolts + rigged ~ 3 more pitches, two of which looked like they could get wet. We surveyed on the way out, we'd dropped 55m vertically + left it still open + looking bang on course for Neil + Andrew's G&ouml;sser-fuelled inspiration of trying to get to the Straight Choice/Arctic Angle area by dropping in from the north end of Tunnocks.</p>
+<div class="timeug">T/U: 8 1/2 hrs </div>
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+<div class="tripdate" id="t2014-08-02d">2014-07-02</div>
+<div class="trippeople"><u>Becka</u>, Neil, RobA</div>
+<div class="triptitle">Tunnocks - Ducks on Ice rigging + connecting</div>
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+<p>Off to finish the Ducks on Ice survey. As soon as I stopped into the horizontal tube I cold see people had been here before so we romped off to see where we were - + soon arrived right above the top bolt of Caramel Catharsis, bingo! Decided this would make a far superior entrance, avoiding two tacklesack mauling crawls, a poxy short pitch, a traverse + some caving... but it needed a little work. Neil rigged a handline down Caramel Catharsis then helped me with some gardening then headed off to help Rob trying to improve the rig down lower Tunnocks entrance (Ducks on Ice) whilst I spend a merry 3 hours trundling boulders to garden the route. I did a single leg (99cm) survey to do the connection + headed out whilst Neil valiantly stood by until Rob finished the rigging (tricky given the ice/crap rock/danger of rockfall/sharp corners several hours later.
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+<div class="timeug">T/U: Becka 6 hrs , N+R 9 hrs</div>
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