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Add writeup of not-finding-wk4 trip.
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<div class="tripdate" id="t2015-08-09a">2015-08-09</div>
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<div class="trippeople"><u>Wookey</u>, Philip Balister, Sandy</div>
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<div class="trippeople"><u>Wookey</u>, Philip Balister, Sandy Knapp</div>
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<div class="triptitle">Document remaining wook-caves (wk12, wk11)</div>
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<p>Wook foolishly recorded some entrances whilst wandering in the 1990s, before realising that it's
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<p>Still, objective of making wk11 katasterable achieved, and thinks muchly to Phil for helping carry the crap.</p>
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<div class="timeug">T/U: Wook: 30mins</div>
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<div class="tripdate" id="t2015-08-11a">2015-08-11</div>
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<div class="trippeople"><u>Wookey</u>, Sam Wenham</div>
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<div class="triptitle">Search for remaining wook-cave (wk4)</div>
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<p>Only one cave from the 1995/6 wanderings left:wk4, found when attempting to walk down from 161d to
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the Stogerweg in 1995 to see if it was a better route than back over the col (it wasn't).</p>
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<p>Wook and Sam set off at an unheard-of early 7am partly to get Luke up the hill in time to do
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something before derigging, and to avoid the worst of the heat of the day, at least to start
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with. As we walked past the Bla-Alm turnoff we were ahiled from up the hill, by ChrisD, Anthony,
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Elliot and Michael who wanted to leave rope in our car. Key arrangments were made, updates given and
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we carried on our way.</p>
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<p>Not hard to follow the Eishöhle path, passing numerous caches of ARGE gear along the way (142,
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the nipple, Eishöhle 40a). 216 has more cold air than I remember and 40h is transformed. The crawl
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is now a 4-5m-high passage with the old bolts stranded in the ceiling - soon you won't need any ice
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gear at all to get in. It was very nice to sit in the fridge as huge amounts of cold air spilled out
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of the entrance, but soon enough we had to get on with the task at hand.</p>
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<p>Found it remarkably easy to get down the hill about 100m back from 216, where there is a path
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down past 40d. The tag on this entrance is a rather long way from the cave now, presumably due to
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shrinking snowfield at the entrance. Carrying on down here got us to a nice traverse level below the
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main cliff here, into a large grassy amphitheatre - very nice spot. This was only 50m from pwk4, but
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this GPS point was before Selective Availabilty was turned off, so somewhat unreliable, potentially
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compounded by the steep hilside. The actual point was at the edge of the grassy area, which wasn't
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right, as it was on a shelf, with bunde either side, and a notable rectangular hole, hard to
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traverse past, and directly above the hochlapf sattel.</p>
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<p>The terrain South of the grassy amphitheatre seemed about right, but it's quite heavily
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bunded. The cave should be on a nice easy route, as it was found when taking the easiest route down
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the hill, but 3 hours of wandering round, bashing a lot of bunde, and trying to find every possible
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traverse level, found no sign of the bloody hole. It just made us both very hot, scratched, and
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tired. I now have a tracklog of a large number of places that this cave is not.</p>
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<p>Surprised to find a red-paint marked path here (which leads to the stogerweg), and an arrow on
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the stogerweg pointing to a slightly higher path in the same area. Aparently more people come this
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way than you might think (hunters?).</p>
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<p>Eventually we gave up, having given it our best shot, and trogged back along the stogerweg (which
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is actually very easy to get to from this area using the paths. Took best part of 2hours to walk back to the carpark. We were really quite tired.</p>
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<p>Reading the logbook entry for the original discovery, I wonder if it is perhaps lower down?</p>
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<p>So, that was a very frustrating day. We can move this cave to the 'mostly lost' pile.</p>
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<div class="timeug">T/U: 2 mins in 216</div>
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