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<div class="tripdate" id="2023-07-03b">2023-07-03</div>
<div class="trippeople"><u>Honorata Bogusz</u>,Will Kay,Radost Waszkiewicz,Jana Podbelsek,Mike Butcher,,</div>
<div class="trippeople"><u>Honorata Bogusz</u>,Radost Waszkiewicz,Jana Podbelsek,Mike Butcher,,Will Kay,</div>
<div class="triptitle">plateau - second water collection tarp</div>
<br /><br />Me, Radost, Mike, Jana and Will went to top camp to set up
main tarp and the second water collection tarp (which was a success).
@ -209,7 +209,7 @@ main tarp and the second water collection tarp (which was a success).
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<div class="tripdate" id="2023-07-03c">2023-07-03</div>
<div class="trippeople"><u>Harry Kettle</u>,Emma Caspers,Charlotte Payne,Janis Huns,Christian Kuhlmann,,</div>
<div class="trippeople"><u>Harry Kettle</u>,Charlotte Payne,Janis Huns,Christian Kuhlmann,,Emma Caspers,</div>
<div class="triptitle">Balkon - Rescuing Balcony ropes</div>
<br /><br />A crack team of expo's hardest cavers was assembled to take a rope out of balcony that was left there last year.
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<div class="tripdate" id="2023-07-03d">2023-07-03</div>
<div class="trippeople"><u>Amelia Oliver</u>,Jonty Pine,Emily Mabbett,,</div>
<div class="trippeople"><u>Amelia Oliver</u>,Emily Mabbett,,Jonty Pine,</div>
<div class="triptitle">Fishface - Digging the snow out of Fishface entrance</div>
<br /><br />After a carrying day on the 2nd, we suspected ff would be snowed in. A faff morning of acquiring shovel. We got to ff with shovels, discovering it
did need digging. Jonty got particularly into this, producing quit the snow trench.
@ -271,7 +271,7 @@ non-working internal wifi on netbook causing config problems even though it was
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<div class="tripdate" id="2023-07-04b">2023-07-04</div>
<div class="trippeople"><u>Wassil Janssen</u>,Sarah Parker,Merryn Matthews,Amelia Oliver,Philip Balister,Ashley Gregg,,</div>
<div class="trippeople"><u>Wassil Janssen</u>,Merryn Matthews,Amelia Oliver,Philip Balister,Ashley Gregg,,Sarah Parker,</div>
<div class="triptitle">topcamp - Carry and set-up</div>
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Ash, Merryn, Amelia in [com?] Philip B., Sarah and me
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<div class="tripdate" id="2023-07-04c">2023-07-04</div>
<div class="trippeople"><u>Harry Kettle</u>,Will Kay,Charlotte Payne,Christian Kuhlmann,Alice Kirby,,</div>
<div class="trippeople"><u>Harry Kettle</u>,Charlotte Payne,Christian Kuhlmann,Alice Kirby,,Will Kay,</div>
<div class="triptitle">Surface - Rope carry to Homecoming + Trial walk from Garlic Cave to Car Park on painted track</div>
<br /><br />After more faff from Chi, we set off about 10AM to carry gear and check out the route to Homecoming. Fishface to Homecoming was well cairned and fairly straightforward to follow.
<br /><br />Gear ledt at Homecoming entrance:
@ -325,7 +325,7 @@ Nice write up [re Honorata's 3-day update]. The rope there now is stuff we bough
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<div class="tripdate" id="2023-07-04f">2023-07-04</div>
<div class="trippeople"><u>Buck Blake</u>,Ashley Gregg,Amelia Oliver,Jonty Pine,Janis Huns,Joel Stobbart,,</div>
<div class="trippeople"><u>Buck Blake</u>,Amelia Oliver,Jonty Pine,Janis Huns,Joel Stobbart,,Ashley Gregg,</div>
<div class="triptitle">Fishface - Carrying rope to Fishface and failing to rig entrance</div>
After the complicated operation of handling the solar panels out of the storage cave, the six of us packed kit, rope and a rescue bag and set off for Fishface. It was a hot but pleasant walk and the route was well marked. We arrivced and stashed bags under a nearby overhang then
entered through the hole dug through the snow the previous day.
@ -345,7 +345,7 @@ left our caving kit under the small overhand near the entrance, then headed back
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<div class="tripdate" id="2023-07-05a">2023-07-05</div>
<div class="trippeople"><u>Sarah Parker</u>,Maddie Kirby,Philip Balister,Joel Stobbart,Lizzie Caisley,,</div>
<div class="trippeople"><u>Sarah Parker</u>,Philip Balister,Joel Stobbart,Lizzie Caisley,,Maddie Kirby,</div>
<div class="triptitle">Surface - Reflecting the Homecoming -> Fishface route, scoping out a Homecoming to col route</div>
<br /><br />Joel, Lizzie and Philip fettled the tarp (where some water had pooled overnight) whilst I had a go at attaching the big Daren drum (filled with the
solar panels and cables) to my rucksack, ready to carry from top camp to Garlic Cave.
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<div class="tripdate" id="2023-07-06b">2023-07-06</div>
<div class="trippeople"><u>Joel Stobbart</u>,Jonty Pine,Buck Blake,,</div>
<div class="trippeople"><u>Joel Stobbart</u>,Buck Blake,,Jonty Pine,</div>
<div class="triptitle">Fishface - Rigging and pitch-measuring trip</div>
<br /><br />An ambitious day which slowly went increasingly wrong. The group departed base camp at a stunning 8.20AM, blitzed up the plateau and promtly became mired in several hours of faff which soon descended into more festering. The plan had been to rig the entrance series of Fishface down to the bottom of Blitzen Boulevard (4th pitch), from where we expected everything to be left rigged. However, confusion about rope lengths and metalwork and some impressively long grike trips meant that the two shallow pushing groups planning to explore from Blitzen and Liquid Luck caught us up at Top Camp. Uncle Mike was not amused. We swiftly bombed down to FF in 25 mins and started rigging. Joel was left to do everything as Jonty's light 'broke'.
<br /><br />The entrance pitch/spiral traverse thing was completed on a 40m rope. Tasteful noods (2nd pitch) didn't quite go on a 27m due to rerigging around the top rebelay to avoid rub, so Joel initially reached the bottom on a knot pass and Jonty rerigged to the bottom on a 32m. The traverse at the bottom of Tasteful Noods (2A) and pitch 3 both had rope left from last year but not rigged - some of the knots didn't line up and required rerigging but the lengths were fine. Pendulum pitch needs some more bolts at the bottom, possibly as a traverse, to make getting on and off the pitch less deathy. Uncle Mike rigged Blitzen for us as we got too scared, he insisted the step over the huge rift with no traverse was fine, so we left him to it. There may or may not be a bolt there now
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<div class="tripdate" id="2023-07-06c">2023-07-06</div>
<div class="trippeople"><u>Emily Mabbett</u>,Emma Caspers,Lizzie Caisley,Mike Butcher,Charlotte Payne,,</div>
<div class="trippeople"><u>Emily Mabbett</u>,Lizzie Caisley,Mike Butcher,Charlotte Payne,,Emma Caspers,</div>
<div class="triptitle">Fishface - Surveying around Benign Bubble Baby Bypass</div>
<br /><br />After hiking up to plateau to arrive for midday, we discovered the advanced rigging party still above ground... In order to leave them time to start rigging the first 4 pitches of Fishface, an ungodly amount of faff began. We finally arrived at the cave at 3pm, thinking we'd left plenty of time for the riggers, we quickly changed and headed underground. Alas, our hopes were crushed as we came to the bottom of the first pitch to discover the other pushing party sat freezing their tits off at the top of the second pitch as the riggers rigged just below them. Needless to say, it took some time to descent to the bottom of Blitzen Boulevard with Mike taking over the rigging of the 4th pitch after a debate over placing another bolt at the pitch head. Once arrived at Benign Bubble Baby Bypass, we conducted a quick something time to refresh our surveying technique before splitting into 2 groups. Me and Mike went ahead through the tube leading on through the bottom of the climb heading towards the liquid luck ptch head to bolt the small pitch at the end of the traverse whilst the others began surveying from said turn off. As me and Mike arrived at the pitch head, I asked if I could begin my bolting lesson before a big scary hole. I was refused. Instead I was told to tie the rope around a small head sized bolder wedged in the rift, which were currently both stood on. I thought this was a silly idea but obliged. The actual bolting of the pitch went well (I think?), however comments about placing bolts higher were made which was somewhat impossible given my height. The final bolting and rigging became passable so I decended the large (4m...) hole.
<br /><br />As we finished bolting, the survey team emerged behind us. At the bottom of the pitch, 3 leads emerged, a large passage with a traverse sloping down in front of us, a small drafty tube to the right, and a hole heading into the ceiling behind us. With the rigging team and pushing team 2 in the near vicintity of the cave around us, me and Mike were a bit naughty and scooped the large passage in front of us, as we reached the end, we could hear voices in the rift above us, thinking it was the other pushing team we called up. It was not. It was Buck from the rigging team stood near the base of Blitzen Boulevard essentially where we started. Discovering we'd done a large circle , we returned to the base of the pitch where the survey team were. As we arrived, Zac from the team 2 appeared in the hole above us, they had also done an circle.
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<div class="tripdate" id="2023-07-06e">2023-07-06</div>
<div class="trippeople"><u>Zac Woodford</u>,Ashley Gregg,Amelia Oliver,Emma Caspers,,</div>
<div class="trippeople"><u>Zac Woodford</u>,Amelia Oliver,Emma Caspers,,Ashley Gregg,</div>
<div class="triptitle">Fishface - Surveying the top of liquid luck</div>
<br /><br />Gave the rigging team ~3hr headstart but we still caught up with them at the bottom of first pitch. Emma and Zac then sat around while Ash and Mealy calibrated the disto. We were waiting so long that Uncle Mike's surveying group caught up. We waited in a a bothy for them to pass us before slowly, one-by-one, following on. We then caught up with them again at the top of Blitzen pitch and had to bothy again (after Mealy led us on too low in the rift).
<br /><br />At the beginning of BBBB (Benign Babble Baby Bypass) we talked with Mike's group pushing the other lead and descending some small pitches to push ours. We faffed around a while trying to find it, but when we did, we found it just looped back around to Mike's group's lead. We surveyed it anyway.
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<div class="tripdate" id="2023-07-06f">2023-07-06</div>
<div class="trippeople"><u>Wassil Janssen</u>,Alice Kirby,Christian Kuhlmann,Merryn Matthews,Harry Kettle,,</div>
<div class="trippeople"><u>Wassil Janssen</u>,Christian Kuhlmann,Merryn Matthews,Harry Kettle,,Alice Kirby,</div>
<div class="triptitle">Homecoming - Rig faff</div>
<br /><br />This was a long day that started at Base Camp with the intent of rigging the entrance series of Homecoming cave. We set off only slightly later than the planned 8:00 [illegible] some faff. Quite surprising since Will was not part of the team.
<br /><br />The walk up to Top Camp took almost 2 hours, just as expected. We were also carrying drills, string, food, and other Top Camp equipment. We followed the reflectors to Fishface. They were white on both sides, which could make it frustrating if you are someone who is lost on their way to Top Camp. Instead, it should be red that leads to Top Camp, while white leads to caves and the car park.
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<div class="tripdate" id="2023-07-07b">2023-07-07</div>
<div class="trippeople"><u>Philip Sargent</u>,Jonty Pine,Nadia Raeburn,Janis Huns,,</div>
<div class="trippeople"><u>Philip Sargent</u>,Nadia Raeburn,Janis Huns,,Jonty Pine,</div>
<div class="triptitle">Garlic - Hiking to Garlic Cave</div>
<br /><br />Jonty's car: Jonty/Nads/Janis up to Garlic and return this evening. Taking new reflectors made this morning.
<div class="timeug">T/U: 0.0 hours</div>
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<div class="tripdate" id="2023-07-07c">2023-07-07</div>
<div class="trippeople"><u>Honorata Bogusz</u>,Radost Waszkiewicz,Mike Butcher,,</div>
<div class="trippeople"><u>Honorata Bogusz</u>,Mike Butcher,,Radost Waszkiewicz,</div>
<div class="triptitle">1623-290 - pushing deep Fishgesicht</div>
<br /><br />We pushed 60m at the top of "Clap My Pitch Up". Pushing required bolting ~20m of a traverse (<u> Mike adds: 20m ish of the traverse was new passage surveyed this year but there was about 30m of traverse bolted this year which was naughtily pushed by me - Mike - and Luke last year in the Red Light Spells Danger trip so the traverse is about 50ish m long</u>). The final few metres of the traverse go above a sizeable pitch (30m?). We names the bolted traverse, "European Federalists". At the end of the traverse, we continued walking for another ~40m until arriving at the top of a massive pitch - further pushing would require bolting. The distance from where we were standing to the furthest point down the pitch measured with the disto was ~40m. We kicked rocks down the pitch and the sound continued for 10s, giving rise to a presumption that the pitch may be very deep. If it connects to "Clap My Pitch Up", it's at least 100m deep. IMPORTANT: the traverse passage and the walkable continuation are muddy and slippery; posing a hazard of falling down the pitch. Ash, Jonty, Mealy and Janis want to push the lead further on Saturday 8th July.
<div class="timeug">T/U: 0.0 hours</div>
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<div class="tripdate" id="2023-07-07d">2023-07-07</div>
<div class="trippeople"><u>Emily Mabbett</u>,Charlotte Payne,Harry Kettle,,</div>
<div class="trippeople"><u>Emily Mabbett</u>,Harry Kettle,,Charlotte Payne,</div>
<div class="triptitle">Homecoming - Rigging towards Watershed in Homecoming</div>
<br /><br />We wandered down to the cave around 10am, making it to the entrance around 12pm. The entrance series went pretty fast ... at least it did for me as Harry and Charlotte were carrying the heavy bags. On the way we made a quick stop to rerig a knot pass. As we reached the bottom of Wallace and Grommit where they had finished rigging the previous day both me and Harry experienced fizzling as we glazed the dry rope on the final 55m. I did not enjoy this part. We then made our way up the climb and Harry began rigging the small pitches before the long pitch series. The most notable part of this was when Harry appeared the wrong side of a pitch head after following the description and getting lost. It was highly amusing. As Charlotte began rigging the final pitch series me and Harry huddled in a shelter and watched Mathilda the musical. As it came to replacing a bolt Harry left to go help Charlotte and I was left along ... until it was discovered the drill battery was dead and I had to come down with a back up. As 8pm approached we made our way out leaving rope to finish the final part of rigging. On the way out we made a noodle stop at the top of Wallace and Grommit but with no fork a knife had to suffice. The walk back was miserable as we started following new reflectors towards the col and had to turn around and start again. We finally made it back to top camp at 1 am.
<div class="timeug">T/U: 0.0 hours</div>
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<div class="tripdate" id="2023-07-07e">2023-07-07</div>
<div class="trippeople"><u>Ashley Gregg</u>,Alice Kirby,Will Kay,Amelia Oliver,,</div>
<div class="trippeople"><u>Ashley Gregg</u>,Will Kay,Amelia Oliver,,Alice Kirby,</div>
<div class="triptitle">Fishface – Surveying Stalagtite Loop to the top of Liquid Luck</div>
<br /><br />Following our previous shallow trip into Fishface we set out to continue the previous combined
leads from the day before. The journey across the plateau and into the cave was uneventful, aside from
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<div class="tripdate" id="2023-07-08a">2023-07-08</div>
<div class="trippeople"><u>Nadia</u>,Philip B,Jana,Jono,Oakem,,</div>
<div class="trippeople"><u>Nadia</u>,Jana,Jono,Oakem,,Philip B,</div>
<div class="triptitle">Garlic - Garlic Cave Set up + First Nights</div>
After doing a big bounce carry yesterday, we now had sufficient supplies to spend the night and begin the proper set up of camp.
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@ -574,7 +574,7 @@ Afternoon: added lots of expoers to folk.csv and adding lots of mugshots. Partic
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<div class="tripdate" id="2023-07-08c">2023-07-08</div>
<div class="trippeople"><u>Janis Huns</u>,Ashley Gregg,Amelia Oliver,Jonty Pine,,</div>
<div class="trippeople"><u>Janis Huns</u>,Amelia Oliver,Jonty Pine,,Ashley Gregg,</div>
<div class="triptitle">Fishface - Pushing deep Fishface</div>
<br /><br />We went to where the group - Honorata, Radost and Mike - had left off the previous day. European Federalists was a very tough traverse that required the use of ascenders. We bolted and rigged (my first bolt!) the pitch at the end of the muddy passage about 10m down to a choke of boulders. At the bottom of it we saw that there is a large, smooth crack continuing east leading to a large, deep chamber that seems to be the same one we saw on the right. If it is it would be elongated roughly in a north east to south west direction. Ash and Mealy also explored some C leads which did not go far.
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@ -583,7 +583,7 @@ Afternoon: added lots of expoers to folk.csv and adding lots of mugshots. Partic
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<div class="tripdate" id="2023-07-08d">2023-07-08</div>
<div class="trippeople"><u>Will Kay</u>,Emma Caspers,Mike Butcher,,</div>
<div class="trippeople"><u>Will Kay</u>,Mike Butcher,,Emma Caspers,</div>
<div class="triptitle">Amphitheatre - Following up on Radost and Honorata's prospecting leads (Unlucky Gemse cave and Amphitheatre cave)</div>
<br /><br />Radost and Honorata had found a few promising entrances that they could explore with just a hand line on Thursday so me, Mike and Emma set out with caving kit, bolting kit and a few ropes to investigate further (ropes were slightly out of date ones - ropes were very hard to come by at Top Camp so we pinched two 20m ropes from the stash at Fishface entrance).
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<div class="tripdate" id="2023-07-08e">2023-07-08</div>
<div class="trippeople"><u>Sarah Parker</u>,Charlotte Payne,Harry Kettle,,</div>
<div class="trippeople"><u>Sarah Parker</u>,Harry Kettle,,Charlotte Payne,</div>
<div class="triptitle">Homecoming - Beyond Watershed in Homecoming Flowstone Canyon</div>
<br /><br />I carried my caving and bivvy gear from Top Camp to Homecoming whilst Harry and Charlotte carried Top Camp's second shovel and a camp bed (surprisingliy heavy) to be picked up by the Garlic Cave people.
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@ -639,7 +639,7 @@ Slow, tired progress out saw us leave the cave at about 1am. I stumbled to Garli
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<div class="tripdate" id="2023-07-10b">2023-07-10</div>
<div class="trippeople"><u>Honorata Bogusz</u>,Ashley Gregg,Radost Waszkiewicz,Christian Kuhlmann,Harry Kettle,,</div>
<div class="trippeople"><u>Honorata Bogusz</u>,Radost Waszkiewicz,Christian Kuhlmann,Harry Kettle,,Ashley Gregg,</div>
<div class="triptitle">festering - Canyoning Strubklamm</div>
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We went canyoning on a rest day. The "Strubklamm" canyon is located near Saltzburg, approximately 1h of driving from Bad Aussee. The canyon is graded V1A3 (vertical 1, aquatic 3). It's very aquatic, with many small jumps available and a 300m swimming passage. There are 2 bigger jumps: approx. 8m and 10m, both can be abseiled (topo can be found online).
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<div class="tripdate" id="2023-07-11a">2023-07-11</div>
<div class="trippeople"><u>Philip Sargent</u>,Thomas Phillips,Will Kay,Ashley Gregg,Ely Brookes,Radost Waszkiewicz,James Waite,Honorata Bogusz,,</div>
<div class="trippeople"><u>Philip Sargent</u>,Will Kay,Ashley Gregg,Ely Brookes,Radost Waszkiewicz,James Waite,Honorata Bogusz,,Thomas Phillips,</div>
<div class="triptitle">plateau - walk in</div>
<br /><br />Will and Phil went up as part of the 2-car lift to the carpark. Others all going to topcamp. Cardiff contingent (Ely, James, Thomas) arrived the previous day (at last)
<br /><br />Dep. carpark 10:06 we walked to the col but got spread out, 2 Cardiffians particularly heavily loaded so Ash dropped back to accompany them while James headed on with Radost and Honorata.
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<div class="tripdate" id="2023-07-11d">2023-07-11</div>
<div class="trippeople"><u>Honorata Bogusz</u>,Ashley Gregg,Radost Waszkiewicz,,</div>
<div class="trippeople"><u>Honorata Bogusz</u>,Radost Waszkiewicz,,Ashley Gregg,</div>
<div class="triptitle">1623-323 - Dropping Amphitheater Hoehle</div>
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The Amphitheater Hoehle is named after its entrance which resembles an amphitheather. There are a couple of meters of an easy climb from the very top to the boulder where we started rigging. Rigging starts with an approx. 5-6m down climb, where we put a handline. It's followed by a traverse (10m ?) above the entrance to the first pitch. We rigged a Y-hang at the end of the traverse.
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<div class="tripdate" id="2023-07-11e">2023-07-11</div>
<div class="trippeople"><u>Becka</u>,Harry,Charlotte,,</div>
<div class="trippeople"><u>Becka</u>,Charlotte,,Harry,</div>
<div class="triptitle">Homecoming - Watershed</div>
Slogged down from Top Camp to Homecoming and headed down the entrance series. Wassil had snagged the rope on the longish pitch near the entrance (just after snow ends, beyond short crawl). It was so tight that Charlotte had to downprussik to free it. Steady progress to the pushing front in ~2.5 hours.
<p>Charlotte rigged a traverse down and across 2m so Harry and I could survey a side passage that quickly reached a pitch whilst Charlotte remained to finish rigging the pitch. We all descended the pitch to 2 routes.
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<div class="tripdate" id="2023-07-11f">2023-07-11</div>
<div class="trippeople"><u>Emily</u>,Harry,Charlotte,,</div>
<div class="trippeople"><u>Emily</u>,Charlotte,,Harry,</div>
<div class="triptitle">Fishface - Kresh Konnection exploring and rerigging</div>
The day started fairly quick and we arrived at the Fishface entrance at 10:30am, making our way underground by 11. Joel and Lizzy went around to re-bolt the first pitch in the connection with me and Merryn following after to measure and record rigging diagrams. Due to an odd mixture of rope the first 9m pitch ended up being rigged with a rope from 1999… As we went on Joel and Merryn rerigged P4 and P5 with separate ropes to free up the 50m currently being used so we could bring the 50m down to where we were planning to push. During this time Joel rearranged the ropes and went back to remove the 1999 rope and replace it with an in-date rope. Essentially a good few hours were spent rearranging ropes, during which time me and Lizzy took a nap in a shelter at the bottom of P5.
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<div class="tripdate" id="2023-07-12a">2023-07-12</div>
<div class="trippeople"><u>Emma</u>,Mike B,Mealy,Jonty,,</div>
<div class="trippeople"><u>Emma</u>,Mealy,Jonty,,Mike B,</div>
<div class="triptitle">Fishface - Camp in Fishface - pushing Redlight & Persied Showers</div>
10-07-23 - We wake up early-ish with the goal of leaving at 9/10 but quickly decide MUCH more faff is needed. A stop is made at the shops to buy biodegradable bags and a magazine, eventually Jonty, Mealy and I made it to the car park. It is very very warm and we worried about dehydration. We get waking, faffing more by running into many groups coming off the plateau, and Mike catches up quickly. Once on the plateau the weather seems more pleasant - a cool breeze is present now - when I see the cause - a huge could of rain hanging over the Dachstein. "Nah, that's just mist" says uncle Mike. We make our merry way, not forgetting to bow to the plateau monster (Mike doesn't bow) until we hear a rumble of thunder, "Nah, just a plane" says uncle Mike, soon, to vertical rains start, which we are not dressed nor prepared for, so we hide by crouching against a wall in the plateau. Then, wind turns and we get very soaked so we huddle under Jonty's 1-man emergency bothy. Anyway sun returns, much more faff is had, I take a fall... we don't make it into Fishface until 20:45, carrying LUDICROUSLY large bags! Mealy and I lead the way in, made a little clumsy by our heavy loads - though not as heavy as jonty's, and not at all as bad as mike's whose "side bag" is a full-sized tackle sack containing lots of rope. The first pitch was not my Friend and I dropped a plastic bottle - after that I enjoyed myself - esp. impressed by TK Maxx, a super cool pitch!! Mealy & I get down just after 23.00, followed soon by Jonty and a little later by Mike who had stopped to get even more Rope. Mealy goes of to faff with Cavelink, Jonty & I head over to help and we send the important message "camp creche want more peanut" - it sends. Mealy & I share warmth & noodles. Jonty & mike eat curry, we whip out the mini-Jagermeister, all take a little sip and head to sleep. I apparently caused some disturbance by snoring (sorry) and we all sleep intermittently.
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<div class="tripdate" id="2023-07-12b">2023-07-12</div>
<div class="trippeople"><u>Merryn Matthews</u>,Thomas Phillips,Joel Stobbart,Emily Mabbett,Lizzie Caisley,,</div>
<div class="trippeople"><u>Merryn Matthews</u>,Joel Stobbart,Emily Mabbett,Lizzie Caisley,,Thomas Phillips,</div>
<div class="triptitle">plateau - Prospecting between Homecoming and Fishface</div>
<br /><br />We started by walking to Unlucky Gamse Cave, mostly following the path to homecoming, as Radost and Honorata had told us there was
an exciting looking entrance around 50m North of it - Rose Blumen Hoehle (2023-hbrw-05). We dismissed their cave as choked by snow, however it
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<div class="tripdate" id="2023-07-12e">2023-07-12</div>
<div class="trippeople"><u>Emily</u>,Thom,Lizzy,Joel,Merryn,,</div>
<div class="trippeople"><u>Emily</u>,Lizzy,Joel,Merryn,,Thom,</div>
<div class="triptitle">Plateau - Prospecting near Fishface</div>
After consulting the weather forecast in the morning and seeing 50mnm of rain forecast from 8pm onward we decided the best use of our day would be to prospect. Our first port of call was a previously scoped hole of the path between Fishcace and Homecoming. With no photo and only a rough location we looked in a few holes climbing to the bottom of a couple that looked possible but to no avail. After marking the holes we decided to continue in a vaguely North direction following a passage in homecoming below us. After some impressive Bundah walking we found another prospect in which Joel eagerly descended only to find it also choked out - it was therefore nicknamed Joel's disappointment , which later changed to sunglasses disappointment after he figured out he lost his sunglasses somewhere into the hole.
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<div class="tripdate" id="2023-07-13a">2023-07-13</div>
<div class="trippeople"><u>Honorata Bogusz</u>,Jonty Pine,Harry Kettle,Charlotte Payne,Oakem Kyne,Radost Waszkiewicz,,</div>
<div class="trippeople"><u>Honorata Bogusz</u>,Harry Kettle,Charlotte Payne,Oakem Kyne,Radost Waszkiewicz,,Jonty Pine,</div>
<div class="triptitle">festering - Via Ferrata "Panorama Kletterstieg Sisi"</div>
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<div class="tripdate" id="2023-07-13c">2023-07-13</div>
<div class="trippeople"><u>Zac</u>,Will,Jono,Sarah,,</div>
<div class="trippeople"><u>Zac</u>,Jono,Sarah,,Will,</div>
<div class="triptitle">Homecoming - Investingating around Radogast</div>
The day started out bleak with the plateau overcast and still soaked from the night before. Zac and Sarah set out from top camp while will and Jono came from base. We all bumped into each other at homecoming which was excellent timing. We proceeded to garlic cave for some lunch where Zac and Sarah got very cold. Phillip joined us there also. we waited for the rain to die away then headed over to homecoming. Sarah followed by Zac, then Will then Jono. The plan was to re-rig the small pitch and traverse after Radogast as well as investigate a phreatic tube 5m bellow the Radogast pitch head. each of these were to be done in pairs but the plan was scrapped when Jono needed the longer rope from Sarah (exploring Radogast) to re rig the pitch and the traverse. In the end Zac re-rigged it under Jono's supervision while the other 2 stood around.
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<div class="tripdate" id="2023-07-14a">2023-07-14</div>
<div class="trippeople"><u>James Waite</u>,Charlotte Payne,Harry Kettle,,</div>
<div class="trippeople"><u>James Waite</u>,Harry Kettle,,Charlotte Payne,</div>
<div class="triptitle">Homecoming - pushing down homecoming from flowstone canyon, into alpine showers</div>
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after a heavy afternoon at the tatty hut, Harry asked if i fancied coming to
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<div class="tripdate" id="2023-07-14c">2023-07-14</div>
<div class="trippeople"><u>Honorata</u>,Radost,Merryn,Wassil,Oakem,Chi,,</div>
<div class="trippeople"><u>Honorata</u>,Merryn,Wassil,Oakem,Chi,,Radost,</div>
<div class="triptitle">Basecamp - Floating down the river to Bad Aussee</div>
Floating down the river to Bad Aussee. Me and Radost are leaving today so we wanted to do a fun rest day activity on our last full day. Chi, Wassil, and Oakem agreed to go canyoning to Grabenback (VZVZ)(?) with us. We decided that we wanted to be in the canyon in the hottest moment of the day. We were ready to leave at noon but chi realised he'd lost his car keys. 2 hours of searching for them around the potato hut yielded no results. Disappointed, we decided to float down the river to Bad Aussee where we later had ice cream. Floating down the river has been definitely the most dangerous and stupid thing I've done on expo. Don't do it and if you have to - wear a helmet, gloves and shoes unlike us. I stated rolling on one waterfall and was really afraid I'd hurt my head. Then, I hit my lip really hard on a rock. I'm not gonna do it again. Ice cream was nice though.
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@ -1109,7 +1109,7 @@ Floating down the river to Bad Aussee. Me and Radost are leaving today so we wa
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<div class="tripdate" id="2023-07-14d">2023-07-14</div>
<div class="trippeople"><u>Will</u>,Sarah,Nadia,Mike,,</div>
<div class="trippeople"><u>Will</u>,Nadia,Mike,,Sarah,</div>
<div class="triptitle">homecoming - Shallow Homecoming and pushing beyond Hobknob Hallway & Dead Flied Passage</div>
Having seen 2 A-leads at the end of dead flies passage on the big survey we headed down to investigate & push. Arriving at the end of the survey, we reached a small 3x1.5m chamber with a streamway passage (?2018-26A) back to the left and a more rifty passage straight ahead (?2018-25A).
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@ -1128,7 +1128,7 @@ Speaking of, towards the end of Dead Flies Passage we found a tacklesack presuma
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<div class="tripdate" id="2023-07-14e">2023-07-14</div>
<div class="trippeople"><u>Becka</u>,Jono,Charlotte,James,Harry,,</div>
<div class="trippeople"><u>Becka</u>,Charlotte,James,Harry,,Jono,</div>
<div class="triptitle">1626-359 - Homecoming . Watershed . Alpine Showers</div>
Walked from Top Camp to Homecoming + headed down quite efficiently, split to 2 groups at the previous survey limit, below CHarlotte's 2nd pitch, Harry, Charlotte + James started surveying downstream. Jono + I surveyed upstream for a mighty 3 legs ("Alpine Waterfall") to where the stream spouted down from on high.
We went up the pitch with the rope + drill aiming to bolt a vertical lead but Harry caught us up to say they needed it so he took the drill + rope + they bolted downstream until they ran out of rope to leave a splashy A-lead continuing downstream.
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<div class="tripdate" id="2023-07-15a">2023-07-15</div>
<div class="trippeople"><u>Ashley Gregg</u>,Ely Brookes,Janis Huns,,</div>
<div class="trippeople"><u>Ashley Gregg</u>,Janis Huns,,Ely Brookes,</div>
<div class="triptitle">Prospecting - Up to Homecoming from the Col</div>
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<div class="tripdate" id="2023-07-15b">2023-07-15</div>
<div class="trippeople"><u>Ashley Gregg</u>,Ely Brookes,Philip Balister,,</div>
<div class="trippeople"><u>Ashley Gregg</u>,Philip Balister,,Ely Brookes,</div>
<div class="triptitle">2018-DM-04 – Prospecting, exploring, surveying</div>
<br /><br />The plan was to do some prospecting in the relatively uncovered area around Garlic cave.
We met up with Philip at Garlic cave and had some noodles for lunch. Philip had already done some
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<div class="tripdate" id="2023-07-15c">2023-07-15</div>
<div class="trippeople"><u>Christian Kuhlmann</u>,Wassil Janssen,Merryn Matthews,,</div>
<div class="trippeople"><u>Christian Kuhlmann</u>,Merryn Matthews,,Wassil Janssen,</div>
<div class="triptitle">Homecoming - In Search Of Salamanders</div>
<br /><br />Following an impromptu pre-expo-dinner dinner the night before, we all arose with a tinge of hangover. Rapidly consuming breakfast and packing kit, we set off at 8:30am, only 30 minutes after we said we would which in all fairness is very good going for us.
After a smooth ferry to the Loser car park by our wonderful chauffer Alice, we set off up the mountain. Almost immediately after we left the car park a navigational faux pas was made and we found ourselves on the wrong path, and with a small section of off-roading, we headed up to top camp with no other further obstructions.
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<div class="tripdate" id="2023-07-17b">2023-07-17</div>
<div class="trippeople"><u>Ashley Gregg</u>,Emma Caspers,Oakem Kyne,,</div>
<div class="trippeople"><u>Ashley Gregg</u>,Oakem Kyne,,Emma Caspers,</div>
<div class="triptitle">Fishface – Kresh connection confusion</div>
<br /><br />Joel had discovered an exciting new cave, unfortunately this left us with rope and a lead down in
the Fish face – happy butterfly connection which no-one was going to. I was naively convinced to go and
@ -1435,7 +1435,7 @@ Rearing to go and with many promising leads to explore we raced down to Tempest
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<div class="tripdate" id="2023-07-18a">2023-07-18</div>
<div class="trippeople"><u>Ashley Gregg</u>,Zac Woodford,Merryn Matthews,,</div>
<div class="trippeople"><u>Ashley Gregg</u>,Merryn Matthews,,Zac Woodford,</div>
<div class="triptitle">Tempest – Touch of Death</div>
<br /><br />Excited to go and see (and kill) this new cave, two groups set off to push the two ‘A’ leads at the
extent of Tempest. Arriving at the cave we prepared the bags and realised we’d forgotten a hammer, so
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<div class="tripdate" id="2023-07-19b">2023-07-19</div>
<div class="trippeople"><u>Ashley Gregg</u>,Zac Woodford,Will Kay,,</div>
<div class="trippeople"><u>Ashley Gregg</u>,Will Kay,,Zac Woodford,</div>
<div class="triptitle">2023-ASH-15, 2023-ASH-16 - Prospecting – dropping Boring Hole and Dead on Arrival</div>
<br /><br />Took Zac to bolt a cave he had previously found not too far of the path to Fishface. Slight delay as
we’d forgotten something important (bolts maybe?), which Will went back to get.
@ -1581,7 +1581,7 @@ off on the edges of the plateau. Plus curry for dinner.
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<div class="tripdate" id="2023-07-19d">2023-07-19</div>
<div class="trippeople"><u>Joel</u>,Merryn,Lizzie,,Ely,, Tom</div>
<div class="trippeople"><u>Joel</u>,Lizzie,,Ely,Merryn,, Tom</div>
<div class="triptitle">Tempest - The Tempest Diaries</div>
On what would really turn out to be our last day in Tempest, two groups went down once more - an intense pushing group and some tourists, me, Lizzie, and Ely attempted to bash a bigger hole to get into the rift at the bottom of Tomb Raider, achieving virtually nothing after an hour of work and deciding once again to drop in without SRT kits, we were joined by Merryn and the skeleton team squeezed in to survey the rift. This sadly crapped out ion chokes at both ends of the rift and along a continuation to the right, but we surveyed and got some good photos before returning out the hole to discover mildly hypothermic Tom waiting for us in his gimp poncho like some frozen wizard. Concluding that despite our best efforts the cave was going nowhere. We de-rigged the cave in stages and left all the rope at fishface. Defeated but content, we retreated to Top Camp.
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<div class="tripdate" id="2023-07-19e">2023-07-19</div>
<div class="trippeople"><u>Nadia</u>,Max,Kai,,Flo,</div>
<div class="trippeople"><u>Nadia</u>,Kai,,Flo,Max,</div>
<div class="triptitle">surface - Prospecting near Fishface</div>
We found a cave with 2 entries that linked together in several places. We dropped the first one and it didn't go anywhere so we dropped the second pitch which had loads of ice features which some of which had to be destroyed to stop them squishing people. The second part of the cave sent straight down then opened up slightly with a low flat chamber.
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<div class="tripdate" id="2023-07-23c">2023-07-23</div>
<div class="trippeople"><u>Emily</u>,Joel,Lizzy,Merryn,,, Tom</div>
<div class="trippeople"><u>Emily</u>,Lizzy,Merryn,,Joel,, Tom</div>
<div class="triptitle">Plateau - Prospecting near Fishface</div>
After consulting the weather forecast in the morning and seeing 50mnm of rain forecast from 8pm onward we decided the best use of our day would be to prospect. Our first port of call was a previously scoped hole of the path between Fishcace and Homecoming. With no photo and only a rough location we looked in a few holes climbing to the bottom of a couple that looked possible but to no avail. After marking the holes we decided to continue in a vaguely North direction following a passage in homecoming below us. After some impressive Bundah walking we found another prospect in which Joel eagerly descended only to find it also choked out - it was therefore nicknamed Joel's disappointment , which later changed to sunglasses disappointment after he figured out he lost his sunglasses somewhere into the hole.
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<div class="tripdate" id="2023-07-24d">2023-07-24</div>
<div class="trippeople"><u>Luke</u>,,Botch,Becka,</div>
<div class="trippeople"><u>Luke</u>,Botch,Becka,,</div>
<div class="triptitle">surface - Wombling around tidying up the mess</div>
After Becka was finally ready we set off to FF, underground before 11am. Got to camp in 1hr making note of all the equipment abandoned in the cave. 2x ropes, 1xbrew kit, 2x tackle bags. Went to de-rig morning the moths it was dry, no water insight, con-try to previous explorers reports. Both derigged removing the nuts (take note for returning explorers no nuts. After much discussion we decided to go to coconut shy to rejig our memory on the way and jokingly sent Botch down a rat hole, Unfortunately it went and he disappeared for too long and I realised I would have to regrettably follow him to survey it. We started to survey as the passage got progressively smaller and muddier before a final letter box which shot you out into a rift. Well Botch and Becka surveyed. I desperately looked for a way to get back to known passage without going back through the letter box, I succeeded by climbing up through the rift but would need bolting if people return. Went back to see that Botch and Becka had survey to a point that would need rope. I sent them back through the letter box (gerbialhole.sux) and did the dodgy climb one more time. Little scuttle around coconut shy. Then it was time to go home. Fettled the cave link, went out of the cage removing excess and dirty rope above ground before sunset.
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<div class="tripdate" id="2023-07-27d">2023-07-27</div>
<div class="trippeople"><u>Rob</u>,Botch,Nadia,,Becka,</div>
<div class="trippeople"><u>Rob</u>,Nadia,,Botch,Becka,</div>
<div class="triptitle">Fishface - Camping without utensils</div>
TO BE TYPED UP from the <a href="/expofiles/writeups/2023/logbook.pdf">Scanned PDF</a>
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Did a bit of packing the night before but it was too chilly to want to really to the past. So that had to be done on the following morning, when it was equally cold. Which made us all a bit grumpy. Plan for day 1was for Kai and i to visit the European Federalists area to see if we could work out what was going on there while Like was also there rigging CMPU.
After an uneventful commute we arrived at the traverse above red light. This was very much the return of Balcony's Arse. Disgusting sticky mud everywhere and they had used the 8.5mm rope to rig it. Thus making the rope really nasty. One part of the traverse was pretty strenuous and muddy, no one needed that. I feel bad for whoever had to wait while it got bolted. Anyway, got to the end and it was a total minger. Super chossy pitch combined with a mud festival. No thanks. Got a voice connection with Becka at the top of CMPU but couldn't see her light. Decided to fuck off as it was almost certainly just the top of Apis Medicus. Left it rigged for now. A visual connection can be made later. Then we headed back along the traverse to the head of CMPU to try and traverse across the 'free arse' that Luke and I had spotted the year previously. It quickly became apparent that traversing at the level of the 'free arse' would be very difficult, so I decided instead to traverse above and then drop in from the top. Some very muddy and naughty traversing ensured with a handy dose of choss. But a short while later and I was bolting at a rather nice phreatic passage with two junctions visible immediately. Very promising!
Kai came over and we begun the survey. Not wanting to steal all the thunder I asked Kai if he would like to be on book. He enthusiastically said YES. (when has Kai not been enthusiastically??)So we headed back across the traverse above the ~ 70m drop surveying as we went.
[NB: after getting down the hill and going to put the data into the computer I realised I had forgotten that Kai is very dyslexic and had managed to write a lot of the numbers the wrong way round ie a clino reading of 07 instead of 70. And no reward of numbers was retained in the disto. So it will have to be resurveyed].
Then back to camp where we discovered the lack of utensils. Ate some gnocchi/curry soup with a spanner. The fairy lights made the situation far nicer though. Kai proceeded to throw Botch's spanner down the rift after I washed it and the bowl at the tap.
Next day we struggled to find motivation to leave sleeping bags but eventuallu made it back towards CMPU and the 'free arse'. Nadia, Botch and Kai began surveying the nice horizontal passage across the traverse while I rigged Apis Medicus. Remembered how poorly/quickly I rigged the traverse last year, resolved to fix it later. Pitch rigged to bottom, I looked at water levels quickly, seemed the same as last year in the rift. Looked at what the others were up to at the top, Really nice horizontal passage outgoing. On the way down earlier rocks were rained on me by the traversers alone so I hid and in the process noticed a canyon passage just before the top of Apis Medicus. So stole Botch and went to survey this. A nice passage that ended at a window onto Apis Medicus. Then Botch headed out while I improved the rigging of the traverse between CMPU and Apis. Much better now, headed out in a big trail of cavers, gettinbg out just before 10pm
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<div class="tripdate" id="2023-07-28c">2023-07-28</div>
<div class="trippeople"><u>Becka</u>,Adam E,Adam A,Ben,,</div>
<div class="trippeople"><u>Becka</u>,Adam A,Ben,,Adam E,</div>
<div class="triptitle">Fishface - Claw_crane off coconut shy</div>
steady abseil down the entrance series.
Ben + Adam EJ decided to head out from there so we had a quick tourist up Elizabeth line then they headed out.
@ -1882,7 +1887,7 @@ For some reason Adam dawdled at camp + ended up exiting last + was late back to
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<div class="tripdate" id="2023-07-28d">2023-07-28</div>
<div class="trippeople"><u>Nadia</u>,Kai,Botch,,</div>
<div class="trippeople"><u>Nadia</u>,Botch,,Kai,</div>
<div class="triptitle">Fishface - Theopillus Goon, above CMPU</div>
After Rob and Kai travered over the top of CMPU the day before, finding a phrease window, Botch, Kai and I got to reap the Horizontal rewards.
Starting at the window we took the small phreatic tube on the left of the window.
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<div class="tripdate" id="2023-07-29a">2023-07-29</div>
<div class="trippeople"><u>Joe Stell</u>,Frank Tully,Nadia Raeburn,,</div>
<div class="trippeople"><u>Joe Stell</u>,Nadia Raeburn,,Frank Tully,</div>
<div class="triptitle">Maelstrom - "Undersold"</div>
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<br /><br /> Hearing of our great success with this shallow lead, Nadia, having returned from a fishface camping trip the day before, decided she would join us for a nice easy surface trip.
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<div class="tripdate" id="2023-07-29b">2023-07-29</div>
<div class="trippeople"><u>Kai</u>,Luke,Becka,,</div>
<div class="trippeople"><u>Kai</u>,Becka,,Luke,</div>
<div class="triptitle">Mendip man - Mendip man - Surveying trip</div>
We headed out early ish and headed down to fish face gear store to find becka almost ready complaining about the quality of Distos lasers in the [day?] even tho she didn't [not?] to bring hers.
After some above ground ffaffing we headed to the entrance where Becka rigorously ran through propa[sic] surveying techniques with me.
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<div class="tripdate" id="2023-07-30c">2023-07-30</div>
<div class="trippeople"><u>Rob</u>,Luke,Becka,Botch,Lea,,</div>
<div class="trippeople"><u>Rob</u>,Becka,Botch,Lea,,Luke,</div>
<div class="triptitle">Fishface - Pushing The bottom of fish Face - camp #2 - part 1</div>
Headed underground at~10pm on 30/07, arrived at camp around half 11.
Good nigts sleep, unike the following night.
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<div class="tripdate" id="2023-07-30d">2023-07-30</div>
<div class="trippeople"><u>Rob</u>,Lea,,Botch,Becka,Luke,</div>
<div class="trippeople"><u>Rob</u>,,Botch,Becka,Luke,Lea,</div>
<div class="triptitle">Fishface - Pushing the bottom of Fishface Camp#2</div>
Headed underground at ~10pm on 30/07, arrived at camp around half 11. Good nights sleep, unlike the following night. Packed rope, bolts etc before facilitating a quick start. Fixed up the rigging on Apis Mediary on the way down, arrived at the first pitch which was left in the canyon by myself, Nathan and Max last year. Much wetter than last time so decided we needed an additional rebelay bolt way out to the left. Next drop rigged then we were into new territory. Scuttled along the top of the traverse after trying to force a lower route & deciding it was too shit. Reached a big pitch, decided the scuttle needed to have rope so began bolting along while Luke and Lea surveyed, Luke returning to the hang to get additional rope in the meantime . Dropped down the pitch towards a ledge, swung out to avoid the sprat of the pitch with a skyhook. PING! It was off, I swung across the shaft, stopping myself from hitting the wall with my hand which was unusable for the rest of the trip.
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<div class="tripdate" id="2023-07-31b">2023-07-31</div>
<div class="trippeople"><u>Ben Chaddock</u>,Charlie Crossley,Adam E,,</div>
<div class="trippeople"><u>Ben Chaddock</u>,Adam E,,Charlie Crossley,</div>
<div class="triptitle">Fishface - Cocoa Channel Bolting Mission</div>
[Adam E = Adam Erskine-Jones]
<br /><br />On the morning of my first pushing trip deep within Fishgesicht (5 minutes from camp) the nervous energy carried me up and away through the bountiful faff. After triple checking that we had all the equipment for bolting and surveying a rift that apparently continued but was too sketchy without a traverse line, Charlie, Adam EJ and I traipsed across the plateau for even more faff outside the entrance. After a prompt descent we met the camping team who showed us the way to silverback scoop including a stop at the tap and going down a wrong branch. Squeezing through a pitch head to descend 7m into a dusty tight canyon with a tackle sack full of heavy gear, I did wonder what I was doing, but once the drill was out that fell away completely.
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<div class="tripdate" id="2023-08-01a">2023-08-01</div>
<div class="trippeople"><u>Joe Stell</u>,Manfred Wuits,Nathan Walker,Adam Aldridge,,</div>
<div class="trippeople"><u>Joe Stell</u>,Nathan Walker,Adam Aldridge,,Manfred Wuits,</div>
<div class="triptitle">Surface - Hike to Garlic</div>
<br /><br />Woke up to see a sub-optimal forecast. Somehow I was convinced that hiking to Garlic Cave Camp was of course the best course of action to take, so we set off. It was actually dry for the first third or so to fishface gear dump to collect our caving gear, but this did not last.
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@ -2127,7 +2132,7 @@ Very nice caving day. Went back to top camp after 2 nights in underground camp.
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<div class="tripdate" id="2023-08-01c">2023-08-01</div>
<div class="trippeople"><u>Becka</u>,Rob,Luke,,</div>
<div class="trippeople"><u>Becka</u>,Luke,,Rob,</div>
<div class="triptitle">Fishface - Pushing the bottom of FishFace - camp #2 - part 2</div>
After a slowish start we surveyed [?] Delicate steve
Rob's traverese into a phreatic window opposite the [clap?] my pich up pitch [ahead?], reapeating the Rob and Kai survey that had been deemed inadequate.
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<div class="tripdate" id="2023-08-02a">2023-08-02</div>
<div class="trippeople"><u>Joe Stell</u>,Adam Aldridge,Manfred Wuits,Nathan Walker,,</div>
<div class="trippeople"><u>Joe Stell</u>,Manfred Wuits,Nathan Walker,,Adam Aldridge,</div>
<div class="triptitle">Buzzard - dropping Buzzard Hole on the northerly Kleiner Wildkogel ridge</div>
<br /><br />After our lovely sleep, we woke up to dry weather, and set off to the top of the ridge above Garlic. Carrying the thick, wet 90m up the mountain was not conducive to good balance so I did fall over in the bunde and struggle to get back up. We reached Buzzard, Adam rigged it, first to the bunde, then hand bolting whilst we waited patiently. The improvement in weather did give a lovely backdrop of the Braeuningzinken for photos. Nathan went down next, followed by Manfred whilst I stayed outside enjoying the view. Upon Adam's return, I swiftly fell asleep, and awoke to find Nathan and Manfred had finished their survey and were finalising some sketches. Adam spotted some interesting holes beneath us on the plateau, so wet set off to prospect (see next entry).
<div class="timeug">T/U: 3.0 hours</div>
@ -2151,7 +2156,7 @@ I got all the rope back to camp + sorted it to prusik out (beasing bags) + some
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<div class="tripdate" id="2023-08-02b">2023-08-02</div>
<div class="trippeople"><u>Joe Stell</u>,Manfred Wuits,Nathan Walker,Adam Aldridge,,</div>
<div class="trippeople"><u>Joe Stell</u>,Nathan Walker,Adam Aldridge,,Manfred Wuits,</div>
<div class="triptitle">Surface - Prospecting east and south of Kleiner Wildkogel</div>
<br /><br />After dropping Buzzard, the fours of us decided to drop down the north face of the ridge, heading east at first, then split to form two prospecting
groups, Adam and I heading further east to wrap around to the south face of the ridge, and Nathan and Manfred following the north face westwards to
@ -2192,7 +2197,7 @@ that seem to follow a rift along the base of Wildkogel, then back to Garlic camp
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<div class="tripdate" id="2023-08-02d">2023-08-02</div>
<div class="trippeople"><u>Becka</u>,Lea,Luke,Adam E,,</div>
<div class="trippeople"><u>Becka</u>,Luke,Adam E,,Lea,</div>
<div class="triptitle">Plateau - Prospecting around FishFace</div>
A mellow, pleasant wander in the sunshine, we found + sechecked 2019-CUCC-RH-01 (GPS 47.69156 13.81210 alt 1659) - this was (still) a p4 to a ramp fown to a choke.
We then [found?] 2023-BL-10 Lea + Adam EK dropped a p5 to a 5*5m loose chamber with a crwal to the N to a 2*4m chamber 4m high with no way on.
@ -2227,7 +2232,7 @@ They showed us a promising potential bivvy site too.
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<div class="tripdate" id="2023-08-03a">2023-08-03</div>
<div class="trippeople"><u>Joe Stell</u>,Nathan Walker,David Botcherby,Becka Lawson,Adam Aldridge,,</div>
<div class="trippeople"><u>Joe Stell</u>,David Botcherby,Becka Lawson,Adam Aldridge,,Nathan Walker,</div>
<div class="triptitle">Garlic - Fettling</div>
<br /><br />Woke up. 10am. It was rainy :(
@ -2244,7 +2249,7 @@ did also later. I took some photos and made some shoddy diagrams of the tarps. G
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<div class="tripdate" id="2023-08-03b">2023-08-03</div>
<div class="trippeople"><u>Lea</u>,Manfred,Ben C,Adam E,,</div>
<div class="trippeople"><u>Lea</u>,Ben C,Adam E,,Manfred,</div>
<div class="triptitle">FishFace - Channel number 2 (continuing Cocoa_channel)</div>
Descended fishface antrance series with tourist trip (adam B, Sam Lee, Kai). Had a snack in the kitchen and went to the end of cocoa_channel.
Ben bolted new travers lines, adam EJ was on nail polish duty, manfred had Wookey's disto and I was doing the notes (for the first time).
@ -2261,7 +2266,7 @@ Adam EJ derigged and we came back to top camp.
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<div class="tripdate" id="2023-08-03c">2023-08-03</div>
<div class="trippeople"><u>Nathan</u>,Botch,Becka,,</div>
<div class="trippeople"><u>Nathan</u>,Becka,,Botch,</div>
<div class="triptitle">Homecoming - Pushing/derigging trip down Homecoming - Goosebox - Sticky trigger</div>
Having no plans to cave at Garlic camp I set off for homecoming with no plans, a bag full og gear of hope.
I met becka as they were descending the entrance and joined their pushing/derigging trip to their evident relief.
@ -2282,7 +2287,7 @@ We surfaced near 10 and I returned to Garlic with becka.
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<div class="tripdate" id="2023-08-03d">2023-08-03</div>
<div class="trippeople"><u>Rob</u>,Luke,Chi,,</div>
<div class="trippeople"><u>Rob</u>,Chi,,Luke,</div>
<div class="triptitle">Homecoming - Homecoming - second coming shitshow</div>
Chi had come up to top camp hoping to continue pushing 2nd comng with some people who might help him carry the gear out after, unlike some.
So we set off in the drizzle for Homecoming entrance, making use of part of the shortcut to the [?] that we scouted when dropping off our gear at the entrance the day before.
@ -2357,7 +2362,7 @@ The website currently on shows 3,233.2 m <a href="https://expo.survex.com/wallet
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<div class="tripdate" id="2023-08-06a">2023-08-06</div>
<div class="trippeople"><u>Charlie</u>,Adam E,Ben C,Adam B,Nathan W,,</div>
<div class="trippeople"><u>Charlie</u>,Ben C,Adam B,Nathan W,,Adam E,</div>
<div class="triptitle">Fishface - The Three-Day Bound for The Four-Day Week-End</div>
-It all begins in the tatty hut, several gossers short of a brewery. "let's go up in the weather window!" charlie had not done enough caving and wanted to camp in FF. "We'll call it the three-day bounce"."then we'll have a four-day weekend!" "We go to find the four day weekend!"
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@ -2481,7 +2486,7 @@ The pitches back to camp were painful, despite their shortness, due to our mud c
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<div class="tripdate" id="2023-08-08a">2023-08-08</div>
<div class="trippeople"><u>Sam</u>,Adam A,Becka,Hannah,,</div>
<div class="trippeople"><u>Sam</u>,Becka,Hannah,,Adam A,</div>
<div class="triptitle">Homecoming - Homecoming push Derig - Watershed</div>
After a big (double noodle) breakfast we packed all three of our through-bolts ... and headed down from garlic to Homecoming. Our mission was simple, push a lead in watershed, then derig Waterershed and the top of the entrace series. Our lack of through-bolts did not deter us.
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@ -2695,7 +2700,7 @@ expo suggestion - double sized both container bags 6 no. [?] (current bags don't
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<div class="tripdate" id="2023-08-10a">2023-08-10</div>
<div class="trippeople"><u>Rob Watson</u>,David Botcherby,Nadia Raeburn,Kai Trusson,,</div>
<div class="trippeople"><u>Rob Watson</u>,Nadia Raeburn,Kai Trusson,,David Botcherby,</div>
<div class="triptitle">fishface - Connecting FF to SMK: a step further</div>
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