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 <div class="timeug">T/U: 13.0 hours</div>
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+<div class="tripdate" id="2025-07-26d">2025-07-26</div>
+<div class="trippeople"><u>Lara</u>, Ash</div>
+<div class="triptitle">161 - Outrageous Behaviour</div>
+I had sworn to myself that a) I wouldn’t go down KH again b) I was done with pushing this expo and yet here I found myself back in Triassic Park, regretting my decisions. 
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+It had been a fine morning (rain of course) and we’d all forced ourself out of nice warm sleeping bags and dragged ourselves across the hill to 161.g. The group was actually two groups, acting independently and heading to two different leads in Enniskillen Toad. Wookey, Becka and Luke had faffed a little less and set off first, Becka looking very amusing with a group shelter over her back like a giant orange snail. Ash was my partner in crime for the day and we had bagsied the walking lead, giving the drill to the others. 
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+We caught up and then lost the other group multiple times on the entrance series and the route to Knossos catching wonderful snippets of Becka’s rage at Wookey’s faffing. First at Top Camp, then the entrance, then Knossos… soon though they disappeared into the distance and it was just the two of us. I’d been strategically avoiding caving with Ash all expo: we’d come close many times and done the same trips but this was the first time we actually had to put up with each other. It was actually a lovely experience and Ash responded tolerantly to my moderate grumpiness. I couldn’t believe I was back here again and there seemed like an unbelievable amount of hours of caving ahead of me. I got with the program though and cheered up around Knossos.
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+We’d all prearranged a signing in and signing out system at the pitches which were to be derigged/pulled up – it worked perfectly and it was amusing to see how long it had been between people. Ash had nominated us for another task that day which put us several hours behind. The up rope at Repton led to Country for Old Men where Ash and Hamish had been pushing a lead that required rope removing. This was a bit of a slog and very muddy, but two hours later we’d finished, left a pile of rope and started on the main route to Enniskillen Toad. Somewhere along the many hours of caving Ash commented that he was paranoid the others had stolen our nice walking lead. I reassured him that they were all respectable expedition-members and nothing of the sort would have happened.
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+Repton, Beehive, Satan’s Sitting Room, scary traverse, East Anglia, gasp, The Natural Way, The Drinks Shelf and <em> finally </em> Enniskillen Toad. It’s a bloody long way and has started to feel like a hellish commute. Enniskillen Toad itself feels a bit like an old friend however, its satisfying to return to places you were the first footprints in. 
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+We had just arrived at the lead, layered up and surveyed 10 metres when I hear voices coming down the passage – one distinctively Becka’s. It turns out that their planned lead had crapped out. So had their back up option and another on the way. Becka was irritated. Our lead was currently looking rather promising – nice and easy walking and a good draft – we felt very jammy. Despite their envy the other group headed off in another direction to push something near us.
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+Much to Ash’s annoyance, after half an hour and 80m passage, I once again heard Becka’s voice – this time coming from the right route at a junction we had just found. Their lead had joined ours. Despite serious grumbling and suggestions their might be another junction soon, Ash persuaded them to push a silly lead somewhere else that no one else had bothered to look into. This peace lasted an hour till they were back. Everything had crapped out except our very promising looking passage. What preceded this led to the passage being called ‘Outrageous Behaviour’. Our group went from having no dogs to three: Becka and Wookey both pushing ahead to ‘just see what the passage did next’. There was some serious squabbling and vigorous discussion. Luke looked embarrassed to my amusement but our peace had been irreparably shattered. At this point we’d met a rift and a small pitch and so they were all sent to get the drill. By the time they had returned Ash and I decided we were a) cold, b) wanted to be out at a reasonable time and c) 5 people was too many to push one lead. We retreated with only mild grumpiness.
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+The way out was rather nice, with smooth speedy caving. Drinks Shelf and Triassic are the exception - both of which are deceptively easy on the way in. Ash and I discussed many thing and it didn’t feel like too long until we were signing out at Strange Downfall, having picked up a muddy pile of rope from Repton. None of our jammers gripped even slightly on Knossos of course and Ash was very patient at the amount I swore at my pantin. After another hour of caving we left through the crawl due to drip - luckily it wasn’t raining on the surface, and we arrived back at Top camp at a respectable 11:30.
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+What’s Rigged in KH: (updated at the end of 2025 expo)
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+Entrance Pitch: Derigged
+Bits inbetween the entrance and Knossos (4) (tyrolean, traverses, e.t.c): Left in
+Knossos: Derigged
+Staircase 36 (and traverses): Left in – 2025 rope
+Runnelstone and Shrinking Prospects (apart from up-pitch): Derigged
+Strange Downfall: Derigged
+Strange Upfall: Left in
+Old Men (apart from the up-pitch – 2025 rope): Derigged
+All ropes to Meat Sofa (scary traverse, three wise men, handlines, the drinks shelf, the natural way, e.t.c): Left in
+Traverses in Hobsons Conduit: Derigged
+MEAT SOFA traverse: Left in
+Ropes to and in Are We Nearly There Yet (up pitch, handline, e.t.c): Left in
+<div class="timeug">T/U: 11.0 hours</div>
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 <div class="tripdate" id="2025-07-27a">2025-07-27</div>
 <div class="trippeople"><u>Philip S.</u>, frank, james w, janis, ned, tom beech</div>
 <div class="triptitle">basecamp - Is this heavy drizzle or light rain?</div>