Logbook edited 2024-01-01a

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 <div class="tripdate" id="2024-07-06a">2024-07-06</div>
-<div class="trippeople"><u>waite</u>,philips,Jacob C,Charlotte,</div>
+<div class="trippeople"><u>waite</u>,Charlotte,philips,Jacob C,</div>
 <div class="triptitle">Basecamp - Setup day 1</div>
 Arrived in the afternoon and got keys from gasthof. Fridge full of other people's beer sadly. Picked up Philip S from the station and set up outside tarp and bier tent. Bier tent missing it's door ATM with a tarp rigged instead??????? Where has it gone ? Who knows?????? Gas hose fell off burner whilst cooking dinner, large plume of flame in bier tent but crisis averted
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 <div class="tripdate" id="2024-07-07a">2024-07-07</div>
-<div class="trippeople"><u>PhilipS</u>,Jacob,Waite,Charlotte,</div>
+<div class="trippeople"><u>PhilipS</u>,Charlotte,Jacob,Waite,</div>
 <div class="triptitle">topcamp - First visit to top camp</div>
 Charlotte, James W and Jacob C going for a first carry to top camp to look at amount of snow etc., departed Gasthof at 11:00 expected back about 20:00. They are not taking the new top camp tarp up this time - it weighs 21 kg.
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 <div class="tripdate" id="2024-07-08a">2024-07-08</div>
-<div class="trippeople"><u>PhilipS</u>,wassil,sieds,Julia,</div>
+<div class="trippeople"><u>PhilipS</u>,Julia,wassil,sieds,</div>
 <div class="triptitle">basecamp - Who went where</div>
 Everyone went up to the plateau except for Julia and Philip S. Wassil and Sieds arrived during the day.
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 <div class="tripdate" id="2024-07-09b">2024-07-09</div>
-<div class="trippeople"><u>waite</u>,charlotte,issac,jacob,</div>
+<div class="trippeople"><u>waite</u>,jacob,charlotte,issac,</div>
 <div class="triptitle">fishface - collecting rope</div>
 no reflectors left on spits.
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@@ -157,7 +157,7 @@ on things and tried to kill me multiple times).
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 <div class="tripdate" id="2024-07-10a">2024-07-10</div>
-<div class="trippeople"><u>Isaac</u>,jacob,philip s,waite,charlotte,</div>
+<div class="trippeople"><u>Isaac</u>,waite,charlotte,jacob,philip s,</div>
 <div class="triptitle">basecamp - Bread Making</div>
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 With an afternoon of festering well on the way after arriving back from our FF rope 
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 <div class="tripdate" id="2024-07-10b">2024-07-10</div>
-<div class="trippeople"><u>Wassil</u>,Sieds,Lara,Marie,</div>
+<div class="trippeople"><u>Wassil</u>,Marie,Sieds,Lara,</div>
 <div class="triptitle">balcony - Rigging balcony entrance series</div>
 <p>We were tasked by Antony to rig the entrance series of Balkonhöhle so that he could go and rig 
 Mongol Rally (presumably a more interesting rig).</p>
@@ -245,7 +245,7 @@ rapidly approaching. Luckily we made it back to camp 5 minutes before it started
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 <div class="tripdate" id="2024-07-11a">2024-07-11</div>
-<div class="trippeople"><u>Wassil</u>,Marie,Becka,Jono,</div>
+<div class="trippeople"><u>Wassil</u>,Jono,Marie,Becka,</div>
 <div class="triptitle">garlic - Setting up Garlic Cave Camp</div>
 <p>It turns out that Garlic Camp is a really good idea. 1h58 from the car park, under 20 minutes from 
 Homecoming, so I'll be spending more time there.</p>
@@ -304,7 +304,7 @@ Walked back to Bad Aussee. Had coffee having missed last bus.
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 <div class="tripdate" id="2024-07-11c">2024-07-11</div>
-<div class="trippeople"><u>waite</u>,charlotte,lara,wook,</div>
+<div class="trippeople"><u>waite</u>,wook,charlotte,lara,</div>
 <div class="triptitle">homecoming - more naughty rope</div>
 We rigged the entrance to Homecoming and rigged ropes down to the up pitch. ropes after this were left insitu. wookey dissapeared behind us to play with his new toy (Sap6) he measured some pitches as far as the 4 bolt traverse at the bottom of radagast. We found the pile of rope at the bottom of the uprope to Propane Nightmares. 
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 <div class="tripdate" id="2024-07-14a">2024-07-14</div>
-<div class="trippeople"><u>ps</u>,Wookey,Jacob,Marie,</div>
+<div class="trippeople"><u>ps</u>,Marie,Wookey,Jacob,</div>
 <div class="triptitle">basecamp - Heute ist Domstag</div>
 Delayed Onset Muscle Stiffness my walk up to StoneBridge a couple of days ago.
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@@ -492,7 +492,7 @@ Let's see if he gets a parking ticket as he sprints back down the hill...
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 <div class="tripdate" id="2024-07-14c">2024-07-14</div>
-<div class="trippeople"><u>PS</u>,Marie,JL,Sieds,PB,JC,Isaac,RM,</div>
+<div class="trippeople"><u>PS</u>,Sieds,PB,JC,Isaac,RM,Marie,JL,</div>
 <div class="triptitle">Basecamp - Who came down, and went up</div>
 Jacob, Marie  came down (Phil B got them?) and Marie went to bed in the attic.
 
@@ -503,7 +503,7 @@ Jacob, Marie  came down (Phil B got them?) and Marie went to bed in the attic.
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 <div class="tripdate" id="2024-07-15a">2024-07-15</div>
-<div class="trippeople"><u>Lara</u>,Charlotte,Issac,James W,</div>
+<div class="trippeople"><u>Lara</u>,James W,Charlotte,Issac,</div>
 <div class="triptitle">homecoming - Failed pushing but excellent sidequests</div>
 We set off from Garlic Camp to homecoming vaguely early in the morning which was a very welcome change, 20 minutes downhill walking which was lovely as long as you didn't think about the walk back up. Isaac had joined our motley crew the night before and was <em>very</em> excited for a big trip (read: scared to be beasted by Charlotte and James).
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@@ -607,7 +607,7 @@ Isaac
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 <div class="tripdate" id="2024-07-16b">2024-07-16</div>
-<div class="trippeople"><u>PS</u>,AD,JW,Lara,</div>
+<div class="trippeople"><u>PS</u>,Lara,AD,JW,</div>
 <div class="triptitle">basecamp - More chundering</div>
 Anthony had a very bad night last night at Stone Bridge a couple of hours after eating, but got down today feeling a bit weak.
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@@ -633,7 +633,7 @@ The tofu curries were consumed when a prospecting trip returned. I was sad.
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 <div class="tripdate" id="2024-07-16d">2024-07-16</div>
-<div class="trippeople"><u>Isaac</u>,Waite,Jacob,Ruairidh,Charlotte,Marie,Jono,Lara,</div>
+<div class="trippeople"><u>Isaac</u>,Ruairidh,Charlotte,Marie,Jono,Lara,Waite,Jacob,</div>
 <div class="triptitle">Lake - Marie Hates Swimming</div>
 See title.
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@@ -664,7 +664,7 @@ Tess arrived, and cooked the evening slop + rice (with Lara) for the canyoning [
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 <div class="tripdate" id="2024-07-18a">2024-07-18</div>
-<div class="trippeople"><u>Lara</u>,Jacob,James W,Charlotte,</div>
+<div class="trippeople"><u>Lara</u>,Charlotte,Jacob,James W,</div>
 <div class="triptitle">homecoming - There and there and there and back again</div>
 When I emerged from homecoming and realised the stars were only just still visible because it was dawn I seriously considered if I'd left some of my sanity down by the pushing front. We had finished faffing and started descending around midday the day before, a solid 16 and a half hours ago. 
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@@ -739,7 +739,7 @@ Isaac went to drop the drill and rope back at Garlic while I did a quick survey
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 <div class="tripdate" id="2024-07-20a">2024-07-20</div>
-<div class="trippeople"><u>PS</u>,Christian,Colin,Harry,</div>
+<div class="trippeople"><u>PS</u>,Harry,Christian,Colin,</div>
 <div class="triptitle">Bascamp - New arrivals</div>
 Christian, Harry and Colin arrived.
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@@ -773,7 +773,7 @@ Signed:  The people of the plateau.
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 <div class="tripdate" id="2024-07-20c">2024-07-20</div>
-<div class="trippeople"><u>Marie</u>,Wookey,Anthony,</div>
+<div class="trippeople"><u>Marie</u>,Anthony,Wookey,</div>
 <div class="triptitle">Balcony - Balcony Camp Set up and the Pushing Begins</div>
 I love camping in unusual places and so I was excited, if not a little apprehensive for an underground camp. This would be my first surveying trip and my first trip after becoming quite in ill in Homecoming and so the fear of everything that could go wrong so deep underground for so long was quite high but luckily the thrill of adventure triumphed in the end. I was in good hands with two very experienced expo goers and offered great advice whilst packing for the trip - a special shout out to the raisins and seeds that Anthony packed which made our morning porridge significantly more palatable. I was worried we would be stuck at top camp in the pouring rain but it turns out I never fully understood the meaning of caving faff until I helped pack for an underground camp. We were only just about ready when the rain lessened up around 4pm and so we took advantage of the weather window and scampered across the plateau through a thick mist, hopes high that nothing too important had been forgotten. <p> We were already commenting on the ridiculous amount of gear we had to lug through the entrance series but a couple more parcels of tackle sack joy awaited us on the way since Mongol Rally still hadn't finished being rigged. An epic train of tackle sacks had to be ferried through the crawl at the top of Mongol Rally. I was tasked with scurrying up the muddy slope so that Wookey could hook his foot around the straps. The largest bag only just barely fit through. Anthony and I gave Wookey a head start to rig and rebolt and as I heard his woohoos as he abseiled into the abyss, I tried to absorb his gleeful energy and not think about the fourth tackle bag waiting for me at one of the rebelays. I started off a bit shaky but soon I was on my way, my efficiency improving with each rebelay until one of the hanging ones towards the end when I could not physically unweight my cowstails there was so much weight tugging at my harness. Once again, my despair was lightened by a cry of glee from Wookey as he had just finished rigging the final swing to the pit stop after much swinging about although mainly because I heard the word bag. Sure enough, Wookey once again came to my rescue and soon we were all down, Anthony not having the same problems I did but probably carrying more weight. (to be continued, I'm off to the lake)
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 <div class="tripdate" id="2024-07-21a">2024-07-21</div>
-<div class="trippeople"><u>Philip S</u>,Rosa,Aidan,Dickon,Tom,</div>
+<div class="trippeople"><u>Philip S</u>,Dickon,Tom,Rosa,Aidan,</div>
 <div class="triptitle">basecamp - New arrivals today</div>
 One car arrived:
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 <div class="tripdate" id="2024-07-21b">2024-07-21</div>
-<div class="trippeople"><u>Philip S</u>,lara,harry,chi,Charlotte,</div>
+<div class="trippeople"><u>Philip S</u>,chi,Charlotte,lara,harry,</div>
 <div class="triptitle">plateau - Surface walk from col to Geschwantalm</div>
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 <div class="tripdate" id="2024-07-21c">2024-07-21</div>
-<div class="trippeople"><u>Lara</u>,Charlotte,Chi,Harry,</div>
+<div class="trippeople"><u>Lara</u>,Harry,Charlotte,Chi,</div>
 <div class="triptitle">Homecoming - A satisfying but not very useful result</div>
 Slavedriver Payne woke us up early and we got up the hill vaguely fast (despite Chi's moderate faff). Unfortunately further faff then occurred at the entrance to Homecoming. This included further effort towards the Gordian Knot from the first Homecoming trip, which concluded in Chi doing an Alexander the Great. We ended up with two ropes. Chi also spent <em> some </em> time reconstructing a pantin from two broken ones (it didn't work). Clearly one person was the issue here. *editorial note: it would transpire that Lara concluded faffing a good 20 mins after the futile pantin was birthed*
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 <div class="tripdate" id="2024-07-22d">2024-07-22</div>
-<div class="trippeople"><u>Rosa B</u>,Jacob C,Jono L,Aidan K,</div>
+<div class="trippeople"><u>Rosa B</u>,Aidan K,Jacob C,Jono L,</div>
 <div class="triptitle">Menstrual Tunnel - My first underground trip abroad</div>
 I asked Jono for him to teach me to survey and which he enthusiastically agreed. The next morning he came up with a grin telling me to grab my helmet and my swimming costume????? and get in the landy. We arrived in a car park with Jono keeping the plan quiet and walked us alo0ng the river opposite a chinese. Across the river under the chinese was a small tunnel. It was a battle to get into the tunnel with the strong torrent of water trying to push us down. I mistakenly volunteered to go in to mark the survey point with my finger and was instantly hit by slime underfoot and a grotesque smell. I concealed my disgust and headed in. The others took their time learning about the survey device and choosing their spot. Then they entered with much dramatica, Jono gagging and threatening to throw up, Aidan doing his best to avoid the slime and Jacob quietly disgusted. At this point we noticed the used menstrual products next to me and the strong scent of fecal matter. We sped up the process with Aidan valiantly fighting the cobwebs. Much surveying was learnt and ready to try in an actual trip. We made a quick escape all taking time to wash thoroughly in the river. 
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 <div class="tripdate" id="2024-07-23c">2024-07-23</div>
-<div class="trippeople"><u>Aidan K</u>,Rosa B,Tom Phillips,Lara B,</div>
+<div class="trippeople"><u>Aidan K</u>,Lara B,Rosa B,Tom Phillips,</div>
 <div class="triptitle">Homecoming - Swinging into the Tube</div>
 Following the walk across the plateau with everyone and Isaac (who watched us go in before heading off to Garlic), and a lot of faff, we went down the entrance series. Lara lead the way, followed by Rosa, Tom, and then I. Tom had a battle with the entrance pitch - unaided by the 5om of rope I had given him to take down - which required teamwork and feeding him chocolate role like it's an apple to free him.
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 <div class="tripdate" id="2024-07-24b">2024-07-24</div>
-<div class="trippeople"><u>Isaac</u>,Harry,Chi,Lara,</div>
+<div class="trippeople"><u>Isaac</u>,Lara,Harry,Chi,</div>
 <div class="triptitle">Homecoming - The Aborted Camping Trip</div>
 Before this entry begins I'd like to make it clear that I feel truly ashamed of my performance (or lack of one) on this trip.  I failed to meet the standard expected of one signing onto a trip of this nature, and by this failure I caused a lot of negative attention to be bought onto the trip and my companions. 
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@@ -1100,7 +1100,7 @@ Zac did break the log book, while waiting around. But Phil got very grumpy about
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 <div class="tripdate" id="2024-07-25d">2024-07-25</div>
-<div class="trippeople"><u>Philip S</u>,PB,Zac,Sarah,Nat,Becka,, *Sandy</div>
+<div class="trippeople"><u>Philip S</u>,Sarah,Nat,Becka,PB,Zac,, *Sandy</div>
 <div class="triptitle">plateau - Entrance spotting</div>
 Lift up with Nat, Sarah and Zac, they went off to topcamp and from the col I wandered down and around the near plateau photographing whatever entrances and tags I could find.<br>
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 <div class="tripdate" id="2024-07-25f">2024-07-25</div>
-<div class="trippeople"><u>ZW</u>,Colin,Nat,James w,Philip S,Sarah,</div>
+<div class="trippeople"><u>ZW</u>,James w,Philip S,Sarah,Colin,Nat,</div>
 <div class="triptitle">topcamp - Top camp bounce</div>
 Sarah, Nat, Zac and Phil drove up the loser. We then hiked up to the Col. It being Sarah, Nat and Zac's first time up since the installation of the new cable car, we were quite taken unawares by the new path from the car park. From there it was plain hiking up to the col. Once at the Col, Phil s parted ways and headed off on his own adventures. Sarah, Nat and Zac, meanwhile hiked on to top camp. Once there we caught Becka as she was leaving and James W and Colin as they were thinking about leaving. After a little faffing and some noodles, we rang down to base camp to ask what kit we should carry down. We were told only some some roll mats and camp beds for Garlic. Packing these, alongside some tackle sacks from a recent Balkon trip (See report), we began to head down. Zac Lagged behind a lot of the way as his new shoes were wearing on his feet. But eventually we reached the loser car park where we all packed, tightly, into Sarah's car and drove down the hill.
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@@ -1163,7 +1163,7 @@ Sarah, Nat, Zac and Phil drove up the loser. We then hiked up to the Col. It bei
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 <div class="tripdate" id="2024-07-25g">2024-07-25</div>
-<div class="trippeople"><u>Dickon Morris</u>,Marie,Wassil,Chi,</div>
+<div class="trippeople"><u>Dickon Morris</u>,Chi,Marie,Wassil,</div>
 <div class="triptitle">basecamp - Grabenbach Canyon</div>
 <p>Ar ddiwrnod cinio'r expo ymgasglodd grŵp tag rag o ogofa o dan darp y cwt tatty. Roedd yr ogofwyr hyn i gyd yma am y rhesymau anghywir i gyd. Yn gyntaf, roedd y goruchaf arweinydd a'r cynllunydd teithiau Marie wedi mechnïo ar ogofa yn hytrach na golchi ei danwisg. Nesaf mae gennym Wassil a oedd yn gohirio ei draethawd meistr ac yn teimlo trueni drosto'i hun am ladd ei dennyn ei hun. Yn olaf mae gennym Dickon a benderfynodd fynd ar alldaith ogofa er ei fod yn casáu ogofa, ac o ganlyniad yn cael ei ethol yn mynd canyoning. Wrth fwrw ymlaen â ffurfio'r triawd gogoneddus hwn, penderfynodd Chi ddangos ei wyneb yn dilyn taith wersylla anghysbell na arweiniodd at wersyll yn digwydd ac a oedd ar ben colled. Mae'n debyg bod Marie, Wassil, a Dickon yn edrych fel grŵp addas i fynd â'r ceunant gyda nhw a rhywsut fe benderfynon nhw y byddai Chi yn gyd-chwaraewr addas.</p>
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 <div class="tripdate" id="2024-07-27b">2024-07-27</div>
-<div class="trippeople"><u>Todd Rye</u>,Aila Taylor,Harry Kettle,Christian,</div>
+<div class="trippeople"><u>Todd Rye</u>,Christian,Aila Taylor,Harry Kettle,</div>
 <div class="triptitle">Homecoming - Watershed Murder Camp</div>
 I was so excited to go back into Homecoming after six years, and Harry promised caverns measureless down Watershed. A camp was needed to make it more pleasant, so off we went with sleeping bags and mats. Faff ensued, with Aila breaking her toe at Garlic, and us having picked the wrong sleeping bag up, We got underground at middayish in the end.
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 <div class="tripdate" id="2024-07-28e">2024-07-28</div>
-<div class="trippeople"><u>lucy h</u>,lara,zac,jacob,sarah p,nat,</div>
+<div class="trippeople"><u>lucy h</u>,jacob,sarah p,nat,lara,zac,</div>
 <div class="triptitle">balcony - bloody balcony</div>
 26th - 28th
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@@ -1378,7 +1378,7 @@ We slept out under the shooting stars and milky way. Every time I woke, relieved
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 <div class="tripdate" id="2024-07-28f">2024-07-28</div>
-<div class="trippeople"><u>ZW</u>,Lara,Sarah,Nat,Lucy h,Jacob,</div>
+<div class="trippeople"><u>ZW</u>,Nat,Lucy h,Jacob,Lara,Sarah,</div>
 <div class="triptitle">Balkonhoehle - Who needs ascenders anyway?</div>
 <p><i>Lucy having already covered much of the trip in <a href="logbookentry/2024-07-28/2024-07-28e#"></a> I will only fill in the gaps alluded to</i></p>
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 <div class="tripdate" id="2024-07-29b">2024-07-29</div>
-<div class="trippeople"><u>Colin</u>,JamesM,Aidan,</div>
+<div class="trippeople"><u>Colin</u>,Aidan,JamesM,</div>
 <div class="triptitle">homecoming - Welsh Engineering</div>
 I was sold a nice easy surveying trip with a short pootle down a stream way. little did I know how wrong we were. we packed a single drill battery some short ropes and a few hangers just in case a few short drops were encountered. Once underground I was given the guided tour of what was known as the below Radagast series. James and I surveyed what we thought was the final pitch while Aidan added a deviation. I complained greatly while surveying much to Aidan's entertainment who had bolted it. Once in the stream way bolting kit was packed up as we prepared for an easy surveying waltz down a stream way. Aidan found another pitch where I asked if I could bolt. Of I went expecting a short pitch nice and easy. I got to a re-belay and started yelling it keeps going as there was another hole below me little did we know how big it actually was. I got to the ledge and started to prepare to abseil into a rift bolted the pitch head and then went why am I doing this walked over to the edge of the ledge to set up a much nicer hang, very scary. I shouted at James and Aidan that its huge and keeps going and we don't have enough rope. Neither quite realised how big. I kept asking if Aidan wanted a look and he seemed uninterested until I pestered him enough where he promptly looked over the edge where he told us that we didn't realise how cool our find was as we had found a 80m hypo-genic tube. Our 30m rope got  barely a 1/3 of the way down. I was sent out of the cave to tell people of our find and collect food, water bolts, batteries and rope. With eguipment acquired I ran back to homecoming to see the others exiting. Bags were packed flapjack was eaten, cooling down was required and once everything was ready to go I had to try and get a call out. After much hair pulling and phoning round I got a call-out so we were good to go. James had decided he wanted to go back to base which was probably a sensible decision so me and Aidan pushed on. Aidan added an extra bolt to the top of the eye of Sauron where he handed me all the heavy bolting kit in case he needed to prussik out. Our 40m rope which was now down the pitch was still very short so a 30m rope was taken down by Aidan. Much bullying was required to get Aidan to go down the pitch as he was being a wus his words not mine he thanked me alter so its all good. Once the rope was free it was my turn where I was equally terrified but couldn't back down after bullying Aidan down. Descending was relatively straightforward until the knot pass. Doing a knot pass 40m below a pitch head and 20m above the floor makes a simple manoeuvrer terrifying. At the bottom of the pitch Aidan asked me to swing over a boulder where I was like, what do you mean, as I'm hanging in free space. I descended onto solid floor which was a relief where we clambered onto the boulder to make another pitch down into another big chamber with a false floor. The new pitch head was bolted with a combination of me and Aidan resulting in lightning bolting. This is where we decided to call the series Welsh Engineering due to all the people bar James, sorry James, were from a Welsh university. At the next pitch another deep hole opens out into nothing where we has high hopes of going deeper than the rest of the cave which was not to be. midway down the next pitch as I was looking for a re-belay. I spied a bolt in front of my face to much confusion and annoyance. I quickly realised I had been here before as I was at the bolt traverse I had pushed with Dickon 2 days before. I proceeded to have a 5 minute tantrum that our lead did a big loop collected myself and dropped to the bottom of the pitch to say I was at the bottom. This bottom bit was bolted badly due to my frustration although it is still safe. We promptly called it a day and ran out of the cave trying to conserve energy. Exiting at 11:30. The eye of Sauron is pleasantly easy on the way out even with the knot pass. Resulting in an exit in less than 45 minutes. Once at garlic we clattered around trying to get to bed as quickly as possible waking Adam and disturbing Fiona sorry guys.
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