diff --git a/years/2024/logbook.html b/years/2024/logbook.html index dff61b94c..c4808eeed 100644 --- a/years/2024/logbook.html +++ b/years/2024/logbook.html @@ -14,7 +14,7 @@ maintain half a dozen parser functions. Sorry about all the crap that surrounds the image tags which has been imported along with the content when UK Caving blogs have been parsed. -Exported on 2024-07-22 17:07 using either the control panel webpage or when editing a logbook entry online +Exported on 2024-07-22 18:07 using either the control panel webpage or when editing a logbook entry online See troggle/code/views/other.py and core.models/logbooks.py writelogbook(year, filename) --> @@ -24,7 +24,7 @@ See troggle/code/views/other.py and core.models/logbooks.py writelogbook(year, f
2024-07-06
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waite,Charlotte,Jacob C,,philips,
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waite,,philips,Charlotte,Jacob C,
Basecamp - Setup day 1
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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@@ -33,7 +33,7 @@ Arrived in the afternoon and got keys from gasthof. Fridge full of other people'
2024-07-06
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Philip Sargent,Charlotte,,
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Philip Sargent,,Charlotte,
Bad Aussee - Shopping trip
I was walking into town from the station (from Vienna this morning) when I was intercepted by Charlotte and taken shopping at the big Billa, thence to [otato hut, nerding etc. Hot day, sunny,not rain.
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@@ -42,7 +42,7 @@ I was walking into town from the station (from Vienna this morning) when I was i
2024-07-07
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PhilipS,Charlotte,Waite,,Jacob,
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PhilipS,,Jacob,Charlotte,Waite,
topcamp - First visit to top camp
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.

@@ -65,7 +65,7 @@ Tarp is partly up at side of hut as there was a caravan parked there ye


2024-07-08
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PhilipS,Julia,sieds,,wassil,
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PhilipS,,wassil,Julia,sieds,
basecamp - Who went where
Everyone went up to the plateau except for Julia and Philip S. Wassil and Sieds arrived during the day.
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@@ -74,7 +74,7 @@ Everyone went up to the plateau except for Julia and Philip S. Wassil and Sieds
2024-07-08
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Waite,charlotte,,
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Waite,,charlotte,
Top camp - Carrying
Carried the new tarp up to top camp today (25KG bag) rigged the tarp reasonably well. Water collection is started but needs rain. Storage cave emptied and some bits dried out.
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@@ -95,7 +95,7 @@ Isaac
2024-07-09
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Philip S,Wookey,,Sieds,
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Philip S,,Sieds,Wookey,
Basecamp - Nerd *
Sieds has graduated (demoted?) to supernerd. Wookey spent a couple of hours last night failing to get the scanner working with Debian, and Philip was tearing his hair trying it with Ubuntu and Windows @@ -108,7 +108,7 @@ Sieds calmly checked the online documentation, did the three-fingered salute to
2024-07-09
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waite,jacob,issac,,charlotte,
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waite,,charlotte,jacob,issac,
fishface - collecting rope
no reflectors left on spits.
@@ -148,7 +148,7 @@ on things and tried to kill me multiple times).
2024-07-10
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Isaac,charlotte,philip s,waite,,jacob,
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Isaac,,jacob,charlotte,philip s,waite,
basecamp - Bread Making

With an afternoon of festering well on the way after arriving back from our FF rope @@ -210,7 +210,7 @@ Isaac.


2024-07-10
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Wassil,Marie,Lara,,Sieds,
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Wassil,,Sieds,Marie,Lara,
balcony - Rigging balcony entrance series

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).

@@ -236,7 +236,7 @@ rapidly approaching. Luckily we made it back to camp 5 minutes before it started
2024-07-11
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Wassil,Jono,Becka,,Marie,
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Wassil,,Marie,Jono,Becka,
garlic - Setting up Garlic Cave Camp

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.

@@ -295,7 +295,7 @@ Walked back to Bad Aussee. Had coffee having missed last bus.
2024-07-11
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waite,wook,lara,,charlotte,
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waite,,charlotte,wook,lara,
homecoming - more naughty rope
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.

@@ -318,7 +318,7 @@ charlotte was the bull and this was the red rag!


2024-07-12
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jw,charlotte,,lara,
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jw,,lara,charlotte,
garlic camp - thunderstruck
we walked to garlic from top and fettled the tarps and kit. then thunder, lightning and lotsa of rain struck. we dealt with this by laying down and trying to sleep under the tarp. we ended up using a bivi bag as a duvet and had a book reading session until the rain had passed. was very warm and lovely.
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@@ -327,7 +327,7 @@ we walked to garlic from top and fettled the tarps and kit. then thunder, light
2024-07-12
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Becka,RM,,Marie,
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Becka,,Marie,RM,
Balkonhoehle - Rigging Honeycomb
Zero stoke for this trip and a crack of 11am start saw us heading down with the 2 bags of rope to rig Mongol Rally plus associated hardware and some kit to keep us warm, safe and happy. The 2024 rig of @@ -372,7 +372,7 @@ walk back to an empty Top Camp.
2024-07-12
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waite,lara,,charlotte,
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waite,,charlotte,lara,
homecoming - silly james gets grumpy
i left my pantin on the surface and then got my feet wet going into the A lead at heifer. cue some grumpy rigging by myself and an early turnaround partway down strained by gravity. @@ -383,7 +383,7 @@ on exit we had a a large traffic jam on wallace with people going down to second
2024-07-13
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pb,Isaac,,Jono,
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pb,,Jono,Isaac,
Garlic - Dropped gear at garlic and setup meshtastic
I set out to drop my gear at Garlic and setup some fixed nodes to test the meshtastic radios. We dropped the first radio at the Col, up the slope to the left as use enter the plateau. It was @@ -406,7 +406,7 @@ Jono and Isaac mode it back a little while later.
2024-07-13
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Jacob C,Wassil,,Marie,
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Jacob C,,Marie,Wassil,
homecoming - Homechundering
Wassil and I wandered over to top camp to meet Marie in the early hours of the Saturday morning. The weather was unassuming and I felt brimming with eagerness to get underground having spent one day too many days festering at base camp.

@@ -448,7 +448,7 @@ Jacob


2024-07-14
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ps,Marie,Jacob,,Wookey,
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ps,,Wookey,Marie,Jacob,
basecamp - Heute ist Domstag
Delayed Onset Muscle Stiffness my walk up to StoneBridge a couple of days ago.

@@ -459,7 +459,7 @@ A bit of a disturbance last night as Marie was a bit ill after coming out of a c


2024-07-14
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Jono,balister,,
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Jono,,balister,
basecamp - A stroll from afar
Today, I got to sit on my seat, relaxing outside, munching on chips, and sipping a Gösser, while Balister hiked up the Tressensteinwarte to see if we could get a signal on our new Meshtastic systems. @@ -472,7 +472,7 @@ Let's see if he gets a parking ticket as he sprints back down the hill...
2024-07-14
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PS,PB,JL,RM,JC,Sieds,Marie,,Isaac,
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PS,Sieds,Marie,,Isaac,PB,JL,RM,JC,
Basecamp - Who came down, and went up
Jacob, Marie came down (Phil B got them?) and Marie went to bed in the attic. @@ -483,7 +483,7 @@ Jacob, Marie came down (Phil B got them?) and Marie went to bed in the attic.
2024-07-15
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Lara,James W,Issac,,Charlotte,
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Lara,,Charlotte,James W,Issac,
homecoming - Failed pushing but excellent sidequests
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 very excited for a big trip (read: scared to be beasted by Charlotte and James).

@@ -536,7 +536,7 @@ Anyway I parked the bike at the "No Cycling" notice at the bottom of the track u


2024-07-15
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Anthony,Ruairidh,,
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Anthony,,Ruairidh,
Surface - Entrance hunting towards Griesskogel

The objective for today was to head over towards the Griesskogel camp used by ARGE some years ago to find a few of their caves that are in interesting places given what we have recently found in deep Balkonhöhle. We also planned to swing by a few caves that were lacking entrance photos to rectify the shortfall. Ruairidh was also keen to drop an undescended pitch in 2012-ns-07 (aka 2016#01), so we took drill, rope SRT kit etc.

@@ -572,7 +572,7 @@ Anyway I parked the bike at the "No Cycling" notice at the bottom of the track u
2024-07-16
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Isaac,Waite,,
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Isaac,,Waite,
basecamp - My pants
Due to circumstances I would love to describe as 'out of my control', but alas cannot, I ended up wearing the same pair of underwear for a walk up to the plateau, for a night at garlic, down homecoming the next day, another night in garlic, and a walk back down to base camp. Unsurprisingly to some (and by "some" I here mean "everyone but student cavers") they ended up carrying a rather pungent odour into the following day. In the absence of someone inventing a way to send scents through the medium of text, I'll leave you with James Waite's thoughts on the smell as 'ohh that's rather like a strong camembert'.

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2024-07-16
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PS,Lara,JW,,AD,
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PS,,AD,Lara,JW,
basecamp - More chundering
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.

@@ -599,7 +599,7 @@ James was shown how to scan survey notes, put them in a plastic wallet, and crea


2024-07-16
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Philip Balister,Jono Lester,,, Phil Benchoff
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Philip Balister,,Jono Lester,, Phil Benchoff
topcamp - Trip to top camp
We had a lot of fun, walking up to Top Camp to deliver some supplies, including two Tofu Paneer curries intended for my consumption. Once at Top Camp, I reviewed the behavior of meshtastic nodes about the plateau. Chat performance is good, but some units are not updating positions consistently This needs more study. Jono ran the Stone Bridge fixed node to the top of Niederes augst-eck. This gives the mesh good coverage over Balkon area and much, much further,Jono was giggling like a radio amateur after working Scarborough Reef. I setup mqtt access to a node and packets where sighted in Virginia on a server operated by Phil Benchoff.

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2024-07-16
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Isaac,Waite,Lara,Jono,Marie,Charlotte,,Jacob,, Ruaidaih
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Isaac,Charlotte,,Jacob,Waite,Lara,Jono,Marie,, Ruaidaih
Lake - Marie Hates Swimming
See title.
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2024-07-17
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philip s,wookey,,
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philip s,,wookey,
basecamp - Elitech datalogger
The data logger had been extracted from Traungold where it had been all winter. Minimum temp -4.9 C which then went up to 0.1 C and was very stable for months when it was presumably buried in snow.

@@ -644,7 +644,7 @@ Tess arrived, and cooked the evening slop + rice (with Lara) for the canyoning t


2024-07-18
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Lara,Charlotte,James W,,Jacob,
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Lara,,Jacob,Charlotte,James W,
homecoming - There and there and there and back again
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.

@@ -685,7 +685,7 @@ It now being 1am we were a bit delirious. Jacob went the wrong way and took a de


2024-07-19
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Philip S,Sieds,,
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Philip S,,Sieds,
basecamp - Laser printer
Sieds has sorted out the printer properly. We have new Cyan, Magenta, Yellow and Black cartridges in today. The Blue cartridge is at 10% and there is a new Blue cartridge in an OPENED box and bag under the bench which should be used to replace it at the end of Expo 2024.

@@ -698,7 +698,7 @@ There is also a completely new OPENED Black cartridge under the bench in a box.


2024-07-19
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PhilipBalister,IsaacNeale,,
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PhilipBalister,,IsaacNeale,
2024-pb-01 - Descend a shaft by dm-04 #2
In 2023, I was poking around the area around dm-04 while Ash surveyed it with possibly Eli from Cardiff. There are several interesting shafts in the area, including the one I dropped today. This shaft was under a fissure with a few boulders in the roof. Rocks dropped in create an impressive BOOM.

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2024-07-20
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PS,Colin,,Christian,, Harry
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PS,,Christian,Colin,, Harry
Bascamp - New arrivals
Christian, Harry and Colin arrived.
@@ -753,7 +753,7 @@ Signed: The people of the plateau.
2024-07-21
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Philip S,Tom,Aidan,Dickon,,Rosa,
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Philip S,,Rosa,Tom,Aidan,Dickon,
basecamp - New arrivals today
One car arrived:
@@ -806,6 +806,26 @@ Track online at 2024-07-21 +
Philip S,Charlotte,,
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plateau - Surface walk from col to Geschwantalm
+Got a paynefully early start up the hill with Charlotte and team, then she set a blistering pace for a payneful trog up to the col, arriving at 09:25, where I thankfully left the party and headed off leftwards behind the Braüning wall at a more reasonable pace. +

+My aim was to explore the possibilities of the Geschwandalm area as a potential forward base for bringing gear up to the plateau in case the new cable car system proves difficult, and longer term as a possible partial replacement for the Gasthof campsite when property values eventually force our squalid encampment further away from the gentile tourist areas. +

+There is no roadhead at Geschwandalm, but the meadow above it on the path just below the lip of the edge of the plateau would make a fine campsite. (We would need to bring our own electric fence though, the cows were friendly enough but one of them was very big and I wouldn't fancy getting stepped on while in my pit.) No flies to speak of and no horseflies. +

+The path along the bottom of the Braüning wall is not well marked at all at the col end, but mostly is well cairned and the cuts through the pine scrub are well maintained. It could be a useful route for a stretcher party if that was needed in this area. I lost the path again around the Geshwandalm huts (alt. ~1540m) in the multitude of cow tracks but found it again at the stream just below the main grassy area. The path from there to where it intersects the driveable track is narrow and not motorable (unless on a scrambler bike). It is an easy gradient and was a 50 minute easy amble to the track. +

+At the track there is a wider area a hundred metres or so away (southwards) which could be a gear trans-shipment area and campsite if necessary (alt. ~1380m). There is a busy stream (~ 0.5 litres a second) a couple of hundred metres away. It is clearly a forestry road (blocked by cut trunks in places) and we would need to talk to the forestry people. The track joins the ski-lift tracks below the Löser Hütte and then into the toll road. The other way along the track connects to Bla Alm (signposted, and confirmed by Mark Shinwell) so could be an alternative if we can't use the toll road. +

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+Track online at /expofiles/gpslogs/2024/PhilipSargent/2024-07-21_geschwandalm.gpx. +

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2024-07-22
Philip S,,, Shinwell
basecamp - Arrival and rain