diff --git a/years/1992/log.htm b/years/1992/log.htm index 5998a098d..19158d5c7 100644 --- a/years/1992/log.htm +++ b/years/1992/log.htm @@ -8,7 +8,7 @@
-29-6-92 Puffball Mark M, Julian H, Matt, Alistair
+ 29/6/92 | Puffball | Mark M, Julian H, Matt, Alistair Caving at last !! The first problem that was presented to us was how to get in. The winter snow fall had not fully melted and the entrance appeared @@ -41,9 +41,9 @@ next trip we'll get there. Mark, Julian, Ali - 9 hours Previous trip (last year) / -Next trip +Next trip -2-7-92 Puffball Mark M, Julian H, Alistair + 2/7/92 | Puffball | Mark M, Julian H, Alistair Re-rigged Shell Pitch, placed a hand line over a large hole before Piezo, also spit placed for exploration. Carried on pushing to Dark Room @@ -59,9 +59,9 @@ cave and we didn't notice at all. T.U. = 9½ hours. +Next trip -3-7-92 Puffball Mark M, Julian H, Alistair + 3/7/92 | Puffball | Mark M, Julian H, Alistair Piezo goes through to the Darkroom ! The hole named Crow's Nest led via 4/5 rebelays (2/3 hanging) to a 34m free-hang into the darkroom. This free @@ -76,10 +76,9 @@ the way out. Previous trip / Brute Force discovery trip (same day)/ -Next Darkroom trip +Next Darkroom trip -4/7/92 Puffball 4/7/92 | Puffball | Glen, Mark M Carried about 200m of rope through the Darkroom to the rigging front. Re-rigged the Chimney on a longer rope and used the excess to rig a traverse @@ -93,7 +92,7 @@ and placed a deviation on the second part of the pitch. Brute Force trip (same day)/ Next trip -3/7/92 Puffball Matt, Glen, Julian S +3/7/92 | Puffball | Matt, Glen, Julian S Went down to inspect a hole near the top of Piezo. Found a ~10m pitch - called Brute Force, and a 35m pitch, called Ignorance. Ignorance is a dead @@ -105,7 +104,7 @@ end, but has a hole about halfway up, which may go. Piezo trip (same day)/ Next Brute Force trip -4/7/92 Puffball Matt, Julian S +4/7/92 | Puffball | Matt, Julian S Tried to rig hole ½ way up Ignorance. Eventually leads into main route, probably at top of Dot-to-dot. Left rigged until it can be surveyed. @@ -117,7 +116,7 @@ WARNING - do not prussik up bottom section - freeclimb instead. Darkroom trip (same day)/ Next Brute Force trip -7.7.92 Puffball Mark S, Clive +7/7/92 | Puffball | Mark S, Clive After everybody else jacked for various reasons, we went caving. We touristed to the top of Natural Redundancy and then left, having admired @@ -129,9 +128,7 @@ were tourists & we don't care. - -8/7/92 Puffball Olly, Julian S, Glen + 8/7/92 | Puffball | Olly, Julian S, Glen Pottering about trip. If you follow the roof in the entrance rift, you eventually come out over the top of Shell Pitch. Ignorance comes down by the @@ -145,7 +142,7 @@ Came out. Last Ignorance trip / Push trip (same day) -7th July Kaninchenhöle Mark M +7/7/92 | Kaninchenhöle | Mark M Went down to get as much as possible of the co-ax out. Rigged in as far as the third pitch, but unfortunately I didn't know where the rebelays etc. @@ -155,12 +152,12 @@ was wearing dry grots and Julian's gear so I got cold and wet and thoroughly pissed off. Eventually got about 200m of co-ax out and prussik out just after my 2 hour call out had expired ! - T/U 2 hrs + T/U 2 hrs Previous trip (1991 derig) / Next trip -8th July Puffball Matt, Julian H, Alistair, Mark M + 8/7/92 | Puffball | Matt, Julian H, Alistair, Mark M We rigged in to the Navigational Limit and pushed the end. Abseiled past the last of Dokertee's ladder bolts and via a deviation to avoid water to @@ -186,7 +183,7 @@ now definitely unsafe and I will not be going down it until it changes. T/U Pottering trip (same day)/ Next trip -Friday 1992.07.10 Puffball Olly +10/7/92 | Puffball | Olly I decided that far too much ill-informed bullshit was flying regarding the Puffball "Rolling Stone", so went prospecting with Glen and @@ -205,7 +202,7 @@ Glen fell down thru' a snow plug and dislocated his shoulder. -Friday 07/10/92 KH Andy, Jerry +10/07/92 | 161 | Andrew, Jerry Went to rig upto Knossos, we rigged top pitch. Jerry left tackle sack of rope at top so had to go back, I needed the practice. Went to Big @@ -223,8 +220,9 @@ Next trips: Gnome / -Friday 1992/07/10 Puffball Dave & Andrew -and everyone else +10/7/92 | Puffball | David F & Andrew + + ...and everyone else After Olly's trip saying Puffball was alright <-- "I never said it was alright - I said I was willing to go and get the drill if it would @@ -247,7 +245,7 @@ rocks on your head. -Saturday 11/7/92 Puffball Julian H, Richard, Aggy +11/7/92 | Puffball | Julian H, Richie, Aggy Having sorted out the dodgy boulder slope with Dave and Andy previously, it was time to go caving again. As we got to the cave cloud rolled in @@ -268,7 +266,7 @@ finding way across plateau in darkness and poor visibility. Next trip -14th July 1992 Kaninchenhöhle Tina + MikeTA +14/7/92 | Kaninchenhöhle | Tina + Mike TA After two years wondering about whether it went, we returned to the boulder choke at the end of Gnome Passage off Dreamtime. In the interim it @@ -292,7 +290,7 @@ This bit is called "Deep Sleep" (ask Tina). -Tuesday 14th July 1992 Puffball Richie & Jerry +14/7/92 | Puffball | Richie & Jerry After finding a complete set of borrowed gear for Jerry having spent several fruitless hours looking for Kaninchenhöhle & Jerry's gear, @@ -306,10 +304,9 @@ distress to wedding tackle. Previous trip / Bottoming trip (same day)/ -Next trip +Next trip -Tuesday 14th July 1992 -90/13 aka 183 Julian H, Aggy & Matt + 14/7/92 | 90/13 aka 183 | Julian H, Aggy & Matt Didn't get underground until 4 ! God we were crap. Entrance is a 'tight' (well, for Julian at any rate) squeeze past a boulder and into a hands & @@ -337,8 +334,7 @@ Olly can't get his warped imagination out of here. T/U 8 hrs (all at less than 50m, what a bunch of light weights) -Puffball Tuesday 14th July 1992 - Alistair, Clive, Fran, Mark M +14/7/92 | Puffball | Alistair, Clive, Fran, Mark M A couple of days before 600m of cable for radios had been laid down the cave. Then Julian carried 200m of rope to the pushing front. Only one thing @@ -360,7 +356,7 @@ down there. Tourist trip (same day)/ Next trip -14.7.92 Puffball Olly, Julian S +14/7/92 | Puffball | Olly, Julian S Didn't get underground until 22.15 (beat that Matt). Resurveyed entrance
then went into cave proper and surveyed from ladder to just before 1st rope
@@ -389,9 +385,9 @@ to BA and sat in the potato hut.
crapper in the pissing rain and mist at 8 am carrying umbrellas ? +it happened we were far too knackered to think of it. -Thursday 16/7/92 Hen, And, Ton, Dav + 16/7/92 | 161 | Henri, Andrew, Tony, David F Once upon a time in the west four intrepid cavers went a cavering. One by one they assembled around a hole in some limestone. The 3rd born donned his @@ -417,7 +413,7 @@ T/U 10 -Thursday 16-7-92 Richie, Ali M +16/7/92 | Puffball - Brute Force + Ignorance | Richie, Alistair M The intension of our trip was to go down Brute Force + Ignorance - push the (?) and survey it all. What happens was that we went down Strike 2 @@ -432,7 +428,7 @@ Dot to push (?) and came out - sorry survey/derig trip (same day)/ Next trip -Thur 16-7-92 Puffball Julian H, Wookey, Gill +16/7/92 | Puffball | Julian H, Wookey, Gill Intention to get to bottom and survey out, checking leads on the way and hopefully finding they don't go. Wooks + Gill much impressed with the new @@ -463,20 +459,20 @@ end. Wooks threw up 3 times on return due to de-hydration. It was shit. Strike 2 trip (same day)/ Next trip -Thurs 16/7/92 Aggy, Glen, Clive, Matt +16/7/92 | Puffball - Moose Trap | Aggy, Glen, Clive, Matt Rigged 2 more pitches in Moose Trap, one goes through a tight hole in a boulder slope. T/U 7hrs -Fri 17/7/92 Fran, MarkM, Matt +17/7/92 | Puffball - Moose Trap - Surveying | Fran, MarkM, Matt Surveyed all 5 pitches of Moose Trap T/U 5½ hrs -Fri 17/7/92 Olly, JulianS +17/7/92 | Puffball | Olly, JulianS Went down, came out. Joined up surveys of QS&C and below. Also grade 1ed the bit off Del Thunder. @@ -486,24 +482,25 @@ Fri 17/7/92 Fran, MarkM, Matt -Fri 17/7/92 AndA & Wook +17/7/92 | Puffball - Surface survey | Andrew & Wook Surface survey Puffball (182) to 183 & 184 -14/7/92 Gill & Wook +14/7/92 | Surface survey | Gill & Wook Surface survey from top camp -> col -Mon 20 Aggy, Richie - - T/U 6hrs +20/7/1992 | Puffball - Moose Trap | Aggy, Richie Went up to Moose Trap. Rigged down to rift (can't remember no. of pitches). Found cut in rope just where we were to rig at top of pitch. Rigged one other small pitch, which promptly collapsed to a climb. P9. Rift, -tight and horrible. +tight and horrible. -17th July 1992 Mike TA goes solo caving + T/U 6hrs + + +17/7/1992 | 161 - Deep Sleep | Mike TA Nobody else wanted to go down 161 so I was forced to go alone into the depths of 161, to see if Deep Sleep went anywhere. Well, after 4 bolts it @@ -518,7 +515,7 @@ has a 2 second drop at the end. Came out to loadsa sunshine. -18th July 1992 Mike TA goes caving with Wookey +18/7/1992 | 161 - Deep Sleep | Mike TA, Wookey "Want to go down 161" says Wookey, so "OK" I says. (a) Went and surveyed Deep Sleep (b) Went and looked at Gnome passage; @@ -534,7 +531,7 @@ Next trips: Garden Party / -18th July 1992 Julian H, Andy, Tony, Mark M Puffball +18/7/1992 | Puffball | Julian H, Andrew, Tony, Mark M Combined photo and derig trip. @@ -561,7 +558,7 @@ above. Have fun on the rebelays ! -14?/7/92 KH pipeless Andrew, Dave +14/7/92 | 161 - pipeless | Andrew, David F Finished rigging to Repton. Going up other side of HG discovered some fool (Wookey) had not put the handline on so there was an epic get off. This @@ -576,7 +573,7 @@ Satan's Sitting Room. No rope so gave up and came home. -23/7/92 Puffball Julian S +23/7/92 | Puffball | Julian S Went to fetch my gear back from Puffball for the great Eishohle extravaganza. As me Aggy Clive leave top camp Andy shouts "You could @@ -598,7 +595,7 @@ one piece tee-hee-hee -24/7/92 KH-France Tony +24/7/92 | 161 - France | Tony Rigged in to bottom of Roll of the Dice, but could not [find] last rebelay and could not be bothered to put in a new spit so left all the gear @@ -618,8 +615,7 @@ and Gill who saw me thought there must have been an accident. -Wed 1992.07.22 -Andy, Dave, Wooks (Repton) Garden Party +22/7/1992 | 161 - (Repton) Garden Party | Andrew, David F, Wookey Boogied on up to KH efficiently early with drill and gear with intent to finish off Garden Party and way down to Pipeless to sump and push. @@ -639,7 +635,7 @@ cave is ridiculous (again) -Thu 1992.07.23 Jerry Wookey Pipeless push/survey +23/7/1992 | 161 - Pipeless push/survey | Jerry, Wookey Got up later & then only underground by 2.20. Gave Jerry a good tourist trip on the way down - he was stunned by the sheer size of KH. @@ -660,8 +656,7 @@ Mike's rope. Satisfying, efficient trip. Jesus what a lot of cave. - Sat 1992.07.25 Sonnenleitenschacht (Sun-ladder shaft) 25/7/1992 | Sonnenleitenschacht (Sun-ladder shaft) | Aggy, Jerry, Wook, *Robert TWC Up at an unreasonable hour (5.30) to meet Austrians at 06.30. Long, hot, fast walkin. We were shagged. Fortunately caving was much easier & we @@ -673,12 +668,14 @@ surveying but bottom pitch was too wet so had a look at rest of cave, ending at a big shaft (surprise surprise) got a rope to enable Rob to do traverse round pitch-head to find miles more cave- prob nearly 300m to a big rift pitch & shaft down to streamway. Fucking brill - and we didn't even have -to survey it. +to survey it. -Sat 25.7.92 GRUBSTEN WEST-WANDHÖHLE 1625/351 -Olly, JulianS, Richie, Fran, Clive -An Eishöhle near Bad Mitterndorf -+Hans, H's son(Manfred), another one + Günther (Austrians) + T/U 7½hrs + + +25/7/92 | GRUBSTEN WEST-WANDHÖHLE 1625/351 - An Eishöhle near Bad Mitterndorf | Olly, JulianS, Richie, Fran, Clive + + +Hans, H's son(Manfred), another one + Günther (Austrians) Preparation started early for this one : packing rucksacks the afternoon before!?! What, CUCC getting organised? Fortunately we were able to disprove @@ -765,47 +762,45 @@ thought this was funny. There seemed no point in nicking Wook's shorts tho. P.P.S. Guess whose light failed despite it being a club FX2 and whose replacement carbide was shit also? -Mon 1992.07.27 - - Wook & Ol Derig Puffball T/U 6hrs 20 mins +27/7/1992 | Puffball - Derig | Wook & Ol Wook checked out QM's down Chimney : Just extensions of rift. Had a jolly time de-rigging, especially Crow's Nest which was epic. Ol tried a couple of bits & ticked off a QM leaving one crap one. Decided to head out with 3 baggies as 6 would be stupid. + T/U 6hrs 20 mins + -Tue 1992.07. Wook and Ol carry on derigging Puffball T/U 6hrs 50
+28/7/1992 | Puffball - derig | Wook and Ol
Went down BFI. Got very cold surveying it & Ol rigged down to Strike
2 to force 'too tight'. Little pitch and some stuff. Derigged most of it but
had to give up to get back to camp in time for slideshow - only 2 baggies
this time.
+ T/U 6hrs 50
+
FRAN/JERRY/MIKETA go to France T/U 6 hours
+28/7/92 | 161 - France | Fran, Jerry, Mike TA
Zippo down to where Tony and Andy jacked out. Fast descent aided by
several french bolts until (with only just enough rope) we dropped into a
huge (well, pretty huge) chamber. Poked around, found several ways on (one
bolted), and left, 'cos Fran/Jerry wanted to go to the slide show.
+ T/U 6 hours
+
Went down with Andy and Wookey to HGS where we left them to rig a
tyrolean (inadvertantly stealing the bag of gear they needed). Missed
@@ -815,15 +810,18 @@ passage and another pitch. Surveyed out. I was knacked.
Wook & Andy - discovered Wook's filled-in Q.M. going to Pipeless -
ticked off 2 QM's !
+ SAM/MIKETA go somewhere else T/U 11 hours
+
+ T/U 9 hrs
+
Dungeon +
Someone finally rigs Dungeon ! Get down, find Dungeon (not that simple, once we went down 2nd pitch). Spend such a long time trying to put a spit @@ -838,25 +836,27 @@ Gill has been strung up for 1½ hrs. Ends up with Sam undoing the rebelay so she can get past. After this, nobody feels like much more caving, so exit all. + T/U 5½ hrs + Previous trip (initial rig) / Next trip -Tue 28th July T/U 6 hrs -Sam Julian S +28/7/1992 | 161 - Dungeon | Sam, Julian S Go down to survey Dungeon. Descend pitch into second chamber on yesterday's rigging (note, take a rope 'tector). Survey. Find the way on, and a Zoom which must have fallen down the entrance. + T/U 6 hrs -Thu 1992.07.30 -Wook, Henri go & survey France T/U 9 hrs +30/7/1992 | 161 - France | Wook, Henri Faffed measuring Puffball ropes & eventualy went once it was too hot. Nice 1st trip down France, if a bit drippy. Faffed somewhat surveying down @@ -875,12 +875,15 @@ eating tea at 2 am. it should go like a train. [grade I sketch of chamber] + + T/U 9 hrs + -Fri 31 July Tony, Gill, Rachel, Sam, Tina, Mike TA T/U 5 hrs +31/7/1992 | 161 - Dungeon | Tony, Gill, Rachel, Sam, Tina, Mike TA Photo trip/pottering. Some photos of 2nd pitch from Big Sainsbury's, showing eyehole from entrance and boulder slope down to S'not. Sponsorship @@ -902,14 +905,15 @@ high rift. window under a big boulder. 7m pitch at bottom too tight at bottom and choked. + T/U 5 hrs + Previous Dungeon trip / Previous LHR trip / Next trip (final derig) - - /~TU 1hr~\ /~ TU ½hr ~\ -Fri 31 July Aggy, Fran, Jerry, Clive+31/7/1992 | Surface | Aggy, Fran, Jerry, Clive + /~TU 1hr~\ /~ TU ½hr ~\ Quote "Small depression near 164" in logbook. @@ -922,9 +926,9 @@ so large kick from side is needed to land on snow. Took loads of pics. Still bloody cold. Came out to heat shock. Best part is it is 10 mins from Top Camp. - No. is 189, name GLITTERSTOMPF. + No. is 189, name GLITTERSTOMPF.
-Prospecting (sometime in the middle) Prospecting (sometime in the middle) -Thurs 30 July. -Aggy, Jerry, Andy, Sep, Robert +30/7/1992 | 161 - Repton | Aggy, Jerry, Andrew, *Sep, *Robert Jerry & Austrians arrived @ Top Camp 8:15. After waking up, got down cave by 10:00. Went down to Repton, Pipeless & to top of Satan's Sitting @@ -960,7 +963,7 @@ changed Robert & Jerry. -27 July France Andrew, Tony +27/7/1992 | 161 - France | Andrew, Tony Tony (the hard caver) had been down a few days before to rig this, the most superior of pushing fronts. Sat in the entrance waiting until our @@ -984,9 +987,7 @@ put one bolt in using 3 spits, got psyched so left. -24 - - Garden Party Finish & Survey & derig Andrew, Dave +24/7/1992 | 161 - Garden Party Finish - Survey & derig | Andrew, David F I can't remember what happened, so I shall make something up. The battery was heavy. It was heavy on the way to the cave. It was heavy in conjunction @@ -1010,7 +1011,9 @@ we lugged heaved hauled and surveyed. Laugh. -Bladerunner Hole below pitch below squeeze. Dave +29/7/1992| 161 - Bladerunner - Hole below pitch below squeeze | David F + + [missing date -- JGT] Our lonely intrepid explorer made his way to the cave. He entered thinking of the absence of annoying friends. He came upon a drop with badly @@ -1033,7 +1036,9 @@ squeezesque* lovely. Then rift, then maze, then pitch. Yawn bolts. -Thu 30 July 183, Puffball, Clive (has no friends, sob) +30/7/1992 | Puffball | Clive + + (has no friends, sob) Joined the ever increasing gang of solo cavers to look at crawly bit at bottom of 183. Yes, it goes, but it's shit ! Very Mendip crawly (eastwater @@ -1053,8 +1058,7 @@ scary sometimes. Previous trip / Next trip (the final one) -Mon 3rd Aug. Trisselwand. Christine, Jeremy, Jane, -Mark +3/8/1992 | Trisselwand | *Christine, *Jeremy, *Jane, Mark M Got up ridiculously early (7 AM !) to beautiful blue skies, sunshine etc. Drove to Sattel & immediately set off on the wrong path. Having realised @@ -1117,7 +1121,7 @@ call out the rescue. Mark T/E (Time epic) 9hrs -1992.08.02 Wook, Andy, Jerry, Aggy Push the end +2/8/1992 | 161 - Arrow Chamber | Wook, Andrew, Jerry, Aggy All trailed to end, very efficient - taking only an hour to get to the end of Yapate where we took some photos - Andy being impressed by alertness @@ -1163,7 +1167,7 @@ buggered off out. -Wook & Andy: 1992.08.04 +4/8/1992 | 161- Knossus | Wook & Andrew Having failed to find a new entrance on previous day (and narrowly avoided the thunderstorm mentioned elsewhere), we had to go in the usual way @@ -1184,8 +1188,7 @@ staircase 36 one as it has been used for 3 years. -More De-rigging: DaveH, DaveF, Wook, Andy, -Henri & Clive 1992.08.05 +5/8/1992 | 161 - More De-rigging | DavidH, DavidF, Wook, Andrew, Henri & Clive Uncle Tom Cobbly & all go to fish all the gear out of KH. @@ -1230,8 +1233,7 @@ T/U: Dave H: 1-10.30: 9½ -1992.08.01-02 Puffball - solo - survey - push - derig -- overnight - mega-hero-trip Olly +2/8/1992 | Puffball - solo, survey, push, deri, overnight - mega-hero-trip | Olly Arrived at Top Camp just as everyone left (I can take a hint) so after sitting in a tent making pancakes in a thunderstorm for the first night I @@ -1254,9 +1256,10 @@ dawn as intended. -1992.08.01 Various holes: Prospecting, (re)numbering and mobile festering -Olly --> 1992.08.05 +1/8/1992 | Surface - Various holes: Prospecting, (re)numbering and mobile festering | Olly + + + to 1992.08.05 Found various caves which were already numbered, renumbered 90/1 = 1623/171. Found & numbered 171b (entrance approx 50m away which connects @@ -1279,7 +1282,7 @@ draw another map when I find the call-out book (it's sketched on the back). [better grade 1 sketch] -1992.08.02 Elchfalle attempted survey & derig Clive & Olly +2/8/1992 | Elchfalle attempted survey & derig | Clive & Olly After waiting for Clive to appear so I could go surveying with someone to hold the other end of the tape, we finally got down 183 late in the evening. @@ -1302,8 +1305,7 @@ worrying where he's got to, but he's sensibly taking it slowly. Ho hum. T/U: 4 hours -1992.08.03 France push - survey - derig. Dave H, -Julian S, Olly +3/8/1992 | 161 - France - push, survey, derig | David H, Julian S, Olly Foregoing the chance of the long walk to Repton and beyond, Dave "I'll carry that tacklesack" Howes, Julian "I'm shit at @@ -1334,7 +1336,7 @@ derig. God it was fun. Dave & I emerge to find JulianS has fallen off a -4/8/92 Elchfalle derig. Clive +4/8/92 | Elchfalle - derig | Clive derigged it. Carbide does burn thro' rope quickly: 1 minute ! @@ -1343,7 +1345,6 @@ derig. God it was fun. Dave & I emerge to find JulianS has fallen off a 1st trip was aborted due to rain, so Clive went back. God this pen is crap. Olly -
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