[svn r8134] rename images for consistency. remove images 13 and 14 as they are
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<p>Woke up planning to go into Brave New World and begin ticking off QMs, but there was a message on the phone asking Ol to phone home or check mail; we didn't know how urgent it was, so he SMS'ed home + we surface surveyed whilst waiting for a reply. We discovered that the disto isn't worth using above ground on a sunny day. We surveyed from laser 6 to 2005-<i>[blank]</i> to 2004-02 and 2004-01. The phone message turned out to be about our house alarm and therefore not urgent, but Olly wasn't feeling so enthused about 76 any more and time was pressing on. So we re-explored 99 instead. Olly rigged down using the original spits + naturals (rigging shown over the page); there was more cave than last year (because there was almost no ice) but still a fair amount of snow and one hell of a draught. Just as the the 39m rope ran out we got to what had been described in the 1970's as an "impenetrable rift", it was still impenetrable (obviously...) but we could see ~2m away the cairn Ol had built in the Test Tubes in 76 last year, so it had connected, and pretty much where we expected. This is where most of the draught was coming from. Ol continued down, the cave was now much smaller, but less draughty and much less snow. We got to the limit of 1970s exploration, at an undescended ~20m pitch. We had no slings left, or the drill, but found two reasonable threads + Ol went down. The pitch turned out to only be 7m deep, and there the cave ends - may be a good thing as 99 is cold + snowy + nasty! We set off back up, surveying as we went. Olly was very cold as he had to wait at the 76 connection for a while whilst I got the tacklesack + me up the bottom bit. So we postponed surveying the top half of the cave, and left the 39m rope in place. I gave Olly the tacklesack to take out as I had brought it in and some way out, and I thought carrying it would help him warm up. I regretted this most of the way out as I hadn't realised Ol was ill - he kept saying he might be sick and I was lower down the cave. Ol managed to get both himself + the bag out of the cave without being sick, which was nice. We sat around eating mashed potato trying to warm up enough to go back + finish surveying. In the end we gave up + walked down the hill, still wearing our furry suits.</p>
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<p><i>[DIAGRAM OF 99 RIGGING]</i></p>
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<div class="timeug">T/U: Olly 3hrs 30; Jenny 3hrs</div>
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<p><i>[DIAGRAM OF PLUGGED SHAFT RIGGING]</i></p>
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<p>We all slogged down to the Taproom with a tacklesack each, and Ol began rigging across the shaft to <b>QM 77-04 A</b>. An interesting pendule/traverse ensued: </p>
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<p>Eventually Ol reached the other side and Jenny and I surveyed across, derigging the middle anchors of the traverse en route to leave a classic pendule. Meanwhile Olly had wandered along the rift to the next pitch. We elected to rig down this, rather than descending the shaft with the pendule, as it wasn't drippy.</p>
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<p>[<i>rigging sketch</i>]</p>
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<p>Oddly enough, the second pitch landed in Keg Series (at the ledge just before the 2004 limit). Olly was feeling a bit tired and ill, so I took over the drill to bolt up to the window in the wall (<b>04-47 A</b>). This led to 20m or so of pleasant passage with a slot in the floor. Jenny thrutched into Razor Prance and we established that RP was the bottom of the aforementioned slot. The new passage (<b>Razor Advance</b>) continues until the floor runs out (where the slot widens to the whole width of the passage), at which point a rope is needed to descend to the floor. This lines up pretty neatly with the undescended pitch at the end of Razor Prance below, and will be much easier to get to.</p>
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<li><b>209</b>: found it was not tagged, contrary to what the list said, so added a tag and took a photo.</li>
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<li><b>136</b>: sorted out by decree the confusion over which of b, c + d entrances is which, and took photos of them. </li>
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<p>[<i>Sketch of entrances, labelled</i>]</p>
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<li><b>135</b>: tagged</li>
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<div class="timeug">T/U 0.5h</div>
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<p>Rigging guide for 76 - Saved Shaft to the Tap Room</p>
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<div class="timeug">T/U perhaps 5h</div>
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<p>[Diagram of 2005-04 rigging]</p>
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<p>The Spit Driver: I was using Olly's driver, and it knackered itself very tediously, the screw thread getting stick in a spit. So to use the spit marked "X" in the diagram, screw a broken driver into it + tie the rope to that!</p>
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<p>And then we went back to 204e and prusiked out. Unfortunately, Sarah forgot to unclip her cowstails after passing the re-belay, and got severely strung-up at the following deviation (see diagram). Cue more screaming + ranting. And so I prusiked up to the rebelay and put my weight on that (rather than the rope) allowing Sarah another 4" of slack, allowing her to escape. What a hero, eh! Emerged to find Earl off on a solo mission to Cresta Run to get his gear.</p>
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<p>Sketch</p>
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<div class="timeug">T/U 8h</div>
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<p>Actually not too grim, except for the muddy wallow bit. Very rough sketch below. No really, it's very rough. Gösser's great. Surveyed the wiggly passage - now Pi R Squared, or possibly Pie Arse Scared. Then we surveyed out to the known bits of survey. Never did find that 6-second drop.</p>
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<p>Sketch</p>
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<div class="timeug">T/U 8.5h</div>
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<p>Having decided that I would have a slack day, I got "persuaded" into finding + tagging some caves. We originally set off for 2002-X11, so we set off from 204 on a NE bearing and walked for a bit. Stopping to check on GPS, we found that our target was a long way away across a big valley of bunde + choss. So we re-aimed for 2002-X18. This also seemed to be across a big valley full of bunde + choss. So we compromised and went for 2002-X14.</p>
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<p>Elevation for 2005-05 / 2002-X14</p>
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<p><b>2002-X14 (2005-05)</b> Big hole in a cliff. Has been photoed and drawn up by Pete - two routes, which both lead to pitches (probably the same pitch). Due to tagging cock-up tagged as 2005-05.</p>
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<p>Plan - Grade 0-1 for 2005-05 / 2002-X14</p>
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<p><b>2002-X13 (2005-06)</b> Found by Dave's GPS. Tag placed. Looks like it goes down a bit. Needs a ladder / rope. Photos taken - tagged.</p>
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<p>Went into BNW with the drill battery to climb the final good up-lead (<b>04-30</b>) then look at some of the down pitches. Olly climbed up to a ledge and put in a bolt, and traversed across placing 2 bolts on the way. The climb/traverse wasn't too epic, except the only rock good enough for bolts was at foot level.</p>
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<p>[<i>Diagram</i>]</p>
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<p>Olly successfully reached the passage without falling off. And we decided that the best way to retrieve the hangers was for me to second the climb climbing-style, which was quite exciting as Olly had placed a bolt to protect him stepping across the exciting bit, but I had to remove it first. Anyway, we walked along a short way to the top of <b>04-29V</b> as expected, and scrambled down (still attached to the rope) onto the fairly stable boulder slope and walked up it. The main way on choked, but a walking passage led off on the left. This shortly split with the right-hand passage choking (though quite possibly diggable on the left, but that seemed to reconnect). The two left-hand passages soon connected, with the second being the easier route, another passage led off on the right which we looked at later. We headed down the main passage, initially crawling then walking in the roof tube of a rift passage. I predicted it would reconnect near where we started the climb and Ol predicted it would join the Oxbows. We reached a junction, where left continued in similar fashion to arrive near where we started (<b>04-31C</b>) and I hated being right... Straight on got small, right went for 25m to a choke. We headed out, surveying it as we went. When we got near the start of the rift, Olly looked at the last lead, which very soon connected with the Oxbows (ticking off <b>04-43B</b> in the process, so for the first time for me at least, our first and last stations were the same and we connected to two stations from last year, and ticked off 4 QM's!).</p>
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<p>Went down to the Tap Room to push the 1970s route as far as possible, survey + derig. Got to the ledge we got to last time (which is now called <b>Spent Ledge</b> because of all the carbide there and some reference to popular culture that Olly thought of that I didn't get). Olly bolted down like this:</p>
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<p>[<i>Rigging diagram</i>]</p>
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<p>to land on a ledge with a ~11m pitch below. We turned round here + surveyed back, and derigged to the bottom of Saved Shaft, getting the 4 bags there, 2 of which we took out.</p>
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