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<div class="tripdate" id="2025-06-28a">2025-06-28</div>
<div class="trippeople"><u>Buck Blake</u>, Alice Kirby, Hamish Weir, Jonty Pine</div>
<div class="triptitle">Basecamp - Basecamp begins</div>
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Evening came, accompanied by some splashing around in the river and much packing of top camp bags. Jonty got the tatty hut wifi working shortly before Dan and Dylan arrived by train. No Ella in sight, however, as she became separated from them during a particularly faffy train changeover, and is now due in an hour later. Lara and Hannah UG due by car past midnight.
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<div class="tripdate" id="2025-06-28b">2025-06-28</div>
<div class="trippeople"><u>Ella marcovitch</u>, Dan gorst, Dylan wase</div>
<div class="triptitle">Base camp - Arrival!</div>
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Thankfully, all worked out, with us arriving in two groups after 18hrs and 19hrs. This was followed by some unsuccessful putting up of tents in what felt like a car park, but a good night’s sleep despite the tent looking like an old man’s ball bag.
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<div class="tripdate" id="2025-06-29a">2025-06-29</div>
<div class="trippeople"><u>Buck Blake</u>, Alice Kirby, Charlotte Payne, Chris Densham, Hamish Weir, Hannah Collings, Harry Kettle, Joel Stobbart, Russell Woodger</div>
<div class="triptitle">Topcamp - The most efficient topcamp setup you ever did see</div>
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At the ungodly hour of about 7:15am, we set off from basecamp, yawning and tollroad-bound. The weather was absolutely sweltering, and we made sure to lather ourselves with suncream and stock up on water. Chris, Harry, and Hannah were first on the trail to the col, whilst the rest of us faffed a bit. And then up the hill we went! We soon reached Stoneybridge, having made sure to reflector the plateau monster on the way (red eyes to instil appropriate levels of deference). Due to an incredibly efficient chain of hands, the storage cave was emptied within an hour of our arrival, and focus shifted to setup beneath the bridge. Chris oversaw rigging of the first water tarp, and the tarp support was set up during a lengthy process which consisted of many dismissed ideas and scrutinisation of several old topcamp photos, before the decision was made to just wing it and lattice stuff to death. This resulted in a lovely, 'novel' setup which we decided would be sufficient, partially because it looked super cool and partially because it was getting late and we were craving basecamp chips. After setting up the second water tarp, we headed down the hill, partially reflectoring the route on the way. I say partially because it turns out the reflectors left at basecamp (which we'd assumed were the reflectors taken off the col-topcamp walk at the end of last expo, and had taken up with us) did not in fact exist in sufficient quantity to reflector the route, and also a fair chunk of them were white on both sides. It's likely these were spares, rather than ones taken off the plateau last year.
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<div class="tripdate" id="2025-06-30a">2025-06-30</div>
<div class="trippeople"><u>Dan</u>, Ella, Hannah C, Harry</div>
<div class="triptitle">Plateau - Plateau and Homecoming - Tiring 1st expo plateau walk</div>
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A very fun but tiring first experience of the plateau. It is hard to imagine what the plateau is like to someone who has never been before, but it is far sharper than I imagined. It felt a bit like what I imagine the surface of the moon would be like, just with more gravity and less spacesuits :( Same lack of aliens though, unless we find them down the promising holes we saw on our walk.
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<div class="tripdate" id="2025-06-30b">2025-06-30</div>
<div class="trippeople"><u>Dyl</u>, Mark D</div>
<div class="triptitle">Plateau - All roads lead to KH</div>
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<div class="tripdate" id="2025-06-30c">2025-06-30</div>
<div class="trippeople"><u>Jonty</u>, Joel, Julia K</div>
<div class="triptitle">Reflectorist - Finding Reflectorist</div>
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<p>Having cunningly packed bolting gear, including the new-to-expo Petzl Pulses, the top of the entrance pitch was soon bolted (following some scrutiny of the bolts' documentation booklet). The entrance proceeded down a shallow rift encircled by bunde before plummeting into a 10m shaft which could be traversed to a flatter patch of plateau beyond. Rigging was initiated from the far side of the hole i.e. the bunde direction, before a y-hang allowed descent of the pitch. Both Boel and Bonty bravely bottomed the beast, discovering a further pitch scores of meters deep which resonated with every rock despatched into its depths. With excitement building but time running short, it was decided to draw things to a close and return another day with sufficient equipment and people power to properly survey the passage and install further rigging. The B-team wrapped up and headed back via Balcony to convey the good news to the others at top camp.
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<div class="tripdate" id="2025-07-01a">2025-07-01</div>
<div class="trippeople"><u>Buck Blake</u>, Alice Kirby, Becka, Joel Stobbart, Jonty Pine, Julia Kikel</div>
<div class="triptitle">Plateau - Rope ferrying - Homecoming to Topcamp</div>
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The walk down went smoothly, but was incredibly hot. We passed Becka on the way back, who had managed to take the last of the rope back from Homecoming, leaving only the drum of metalwork there. After sweating through the rest of the walk, we finally returned to the carpark, did a quick shop, then headed to the lake via Basecamp for a very lovely and refreshing evening.
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<div class="tripdate" id="2025-07-01b">2025-07-01</div>
<div class="trippeople"><u>Lara</u>, Chris Densham, Hannah U</div>
<div class="triptitle">Balkonhohle - How many cavers does it take to find Mongol Rally?</div>
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Written with additions from Hannah.
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<div class="tripdate" id="2025-07-02a">2025-07-02</div>
<div class="trippeople"><u>Ella</u>, Alice</div>
<div class="triptitle">Balkonhohle - A tackle of bags</div>
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The bags where left at the end of the tight crawl before Mongal Rally, and a good riddance to the extra weight and seamless ascent followed.
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<div class="trippeople"><u>Ella</u>, Alice</div>
<div class="triptitle">Balkonhohle - A Tackle with Bags</div>
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The bags where left at the end of the tight crawl before Mongal Rally, and a good riddance to the extra weight and seamless ascent followed.
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<div class="trippeople"><u>Jonty</u>, Becka, Buck, Joel</div>
<div class="triptitle">Reflectorist - Revisiting Reflectorist</div>
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<div class="tripdate" id="2025-07-03a">2025-07-03</div>
<div class="trippeople"><u>balister</u></div>
<div class="triptitle">plateau - My Day 1</div>
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<div class="tripdate" id="2025-07-03b">2025-07-04</div>
<div class="trippeople"><u>Becka</u>, Charlotte, Russell</div>
<div class="triptitle">KH - Rigging Knossos and reaching Staircase 36</div>
We got to Knossos in short order and Russell bolted the traverse line along the left wall to access the pitch head (3 bolts?) then Charlotte bolted the pitch itself (single bolt then Y-hang at the top then a Y-hang about half way down, around the corner?). There is an area of horribly loose rock at the start of the pitch. We then had a surprisingly straightforward stomp to Staircase 36, with Becka rigging the bad step down to the base of the Staircase 36 pitch (natural then 2 bolts) and Charlotte putting in a bolt for the awkward climb shortly before this step (one bolt; on July 9th Harry adding a second bolt immediately before to make a traverse line to protect the teeter around on crumbling stones). We again ran out of time as we wanted to get back to Base Camp that evening so we left rope to rerig Staircase 36 and headed out.
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<div class="tripdate" id="2025-07-04a">2025-07-04</div>
<div class="trippeople"><u>Dyl</u>, Mark D</div>
<div class="triptitle">KH - All roads lead to KH</div>
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<div class="trippeople"><u>balister</u></div>
<div class="triptitle">basecamp - Nerding with drone photos</div>
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After some hard nerding, I packed up and headed to top camp with the drone for some more drone flights.
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<div class="trippeople"><u>balister</u></div>
<div class="triptitle">plateau - Placing Meshtastic nodes</div>
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At this point I transitioned into drone pilot.
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<div class="trippeople"><u>balister</u></div>
<div class="triptitle">plateau - Droning on ...</div>
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I tried descending to the prospecting party, but ended up cliffed out in bunda. I returned to top camp via the way I came.
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<div class="tripdate" id="2025-07-05c">2025-07-05</div>
<div class="trippeople"><u>Ash</u>, Mark D</div>
<div class="triptitle">161 - KH to Staircase 36</div>
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Mark and I (Ash) set off for a productive trip in KH with the intention of learning the route and progressing the rigging at the end of the cave. GPX’ed the route to the entrance, having finally finessed the cairns and reflector-ed route to the entrance (161h). At the cave around 10am , perhaps the most efficient start yet. Progress through Iceland and onwards was efficient up to Amyl nitrate. At this point we somehow managed to confuse ourselves and think we’d reached Triassic park (when we hadn’t!). Ensue half an hour of wandering uo and down the southern branch of Triassic Pak being confused , before working out we wouldn’t find Knossos junction here!. We eventually figured it out, passed through the northern section of Triassic and onto to Knossos. The pitch rig was not great -perhaps more work needed here. But den into the massive chamber. Well worth visiting, 1000 lumens ais not sufficient to see the opposite wall. From here was straight forward to YAPATE and on to the bottom of staircase 36. From here Mark settled into the bothy whilst I cautiously climbed the staircase rope. Rebolted and roped, still not a great rig, a rubby beached whale rebelay at the top. Mark removed old rope, leaving in a foot loop. I began rigging a traverse at top to bridge between runnel leads pitch, still more work required here. Turned around and managed to get lost in tower blocks (massive passage wandering in circles). Rest of exit was efficient. 7 hours underground and dry exit. Slow walk back across plateau.
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<div class="tripdate" id="2025-07-05d">2025-07-05</div>
<div class="trippeople"><u>Ella</u>, Buck, Hamish, Joel, Lara</div>
<div class="triptitle">plateau - How short can shorts get</div>
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<div class="tripdate" id="2025-07-05e">2025-07-05</div>
<div class="trippeople"><u>Jonty</u>, Alice, Chris D, Musky Hannah</div>
<div class="triptitle">Balkon - Bolting (some of) Mongol Rally</div>
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<p>Alice and Jonty started their ascent, Chris and Hannah having both disappeared about 15 minutes previously. Alice kindly offered to carry the drill bag for the first stint, after which Jonty picked it up at a rebelay a few pitches up. Just after passing Honeycomb, Jonty's left contact lense began quite badly misbehaving. He managed to make it up another couple of small pitches with some discomfort, after which point it became untenable and he had to unglove a hand and remove it entirely - leaving him with a good right eye and a quite blurry left eye. The caused a bit of bother with seeing things. To great relief the pair soon reached the watering hole, where Jonty made the freeclimb traverse across, with Alice worriedly holding the back of his harness - some quite wacky depth perception making things quite tricky. Alice took the lead for the rest of the way up, pointing out every little and big hole to Jonty, who was stumbling around a bit like a fresher. They emerged from the cave at about midnight to find Chris and Hannah waiting on the balcony, having just finished getting changed. Chris started off ahead, eager to get his hands on a curry, while Jonty got changed and packed his kit for the walk back - which was a somewhat similar exercise of relying on Alice and Hannah to point out holes and footholds. They arrived back at top camp at 1am, where Chris had the curries ready, and tried to be very quiet as most everyone else had already gone to bed.
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<div class="trippeople"><u>balister</u></div>
<div class="triptitle">plateau - Meshtastic notes</div>
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The final problem is working out why people say leaving their phones on kills their battery. I am hopeful using airplane mode with only bluetooth on resolves this issue.
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<div class="trippeople"><u>Dyl</u>, Dan G</div>
<div class="triptitle">Plateau - Stormy prospecting session in Rainbowbargainshohle</div>
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<div class="trippeople"><u>Becka</u>, Charlotte, Hannah Collings, Harry, Lara, Russell</div>
<div class="triptitle">KH - 161g Camp gear shuttle</div>
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On the way back to Top Camp the rain started and then, shortly after, lightening bolts rapidly followed by deafening thunder. Becka abandoned her walking poles in case they acted as conductors and we scarpered as fast as we could, getting to Top Camp in 25 minutes, not too wet.
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<div class="tripdate" id="2025-07-07a">2025-07-07</div>
<div class="trippeople"><u>Lara</u>, Becka, Charlotte, Hannah Collings, Harry, Russell</div>
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<div class="tripdate" id="2025-07-09a">2025-07-09</div>
<div class="trippeople"><u>Joel</u>, Dyl, Hamish</div>
<div class="triptitle">plateau, Gruffalo - No such thing as bad weather (just idiots who go out in it)</div>
The first day of the 2°C prospecting hellfest! Having decided to set off Wednesday morning to enable a night of drinking and roistering in the tatty hut loft on Tuesday night, an intrepid gang of cavers set off for top camp with various missions in mind. Keeping to my self-designated role of Prospecting Princess, I corralled a crack team of Hamish and Dylan to revisit one of the promising entrances which Buck and I had discovered on the plateau-bashing bonanza the previous Saturday. Following the inevitable pre-departure faff we set off on the Balcony route at about 11am, turning off at the Tunnocks Col (around 47.694787,13.821477) to head west roughly following the route previously taken. It was cold and overcast, with low cloud constantly threatening rain. The entrance proved far more difficult to find than we’d anticipated, requiring several spates of bunde assault and downclimbing vertical cliffs. However, Dylan eventually managed to track the entrance down and we began assessing our options.
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<img width="80%" alt="Entrance to Gruffalo" src="https://expo.survex.com/expofiles/photos/2025/JoelStobbart/pigs_in_there_with_utm.jpg">
[the entrance to the entrance now known as Gruffalo, previously called Pigs... In There?]
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The draught had decreased compared to Saturday, possibly due to the far lower air temperature outside, and the snow outcrop around 8 metres in was smaller. Undeterred, we began bolting a Y-hang over the entrance to allow access down the vertical shaft. Once this was complete I went down for a poke while Dylan faffed with surveying equipment and Hamish fell asleep in a bothy. The weather was truly horrific now and I felt mildly bad for abandoning them at the entrance – there wasn’t really anywhere inside the shaft to provide better accommodation, however, so I pressed on down to ascertain if this lead went anywhere.
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A couple of deviations later and following a good bash at the menacing snow outcrop with a crowbar, slightly reducing its potential to squash anyone entering the continuing shaft below, I could see that the vertical passage carried on into the hillside. I began descending down a mildly terrifying frozen waterfall, complete with twigs, rocks and potentially small animals held in suspended animation within its depths, for another 10 metres. At the base of this was a lot of mud and choss, and a small hole continuing at floor level on the right-hand side. Lacking faith in the floor’s stability but with no other option due to having reached the end of the rope, I unclipped and wedged myself into the hole, which comprised a small chamber with an annoyingly-placed pointy boulder which had to be straddled to enable access below. After traversing this, I was faced with a further horizontal crack in the right-hand wall, roughly 2m by 0.5m, surrounded by choss and hard to see through from a safe position, but seemingly with a long drop beneath. I managed to clear the majority of the offending rocks but one irritating boulder stubbornly remained, which will require dislodging to make this pitch safe. There was an absolutely stonking outwards draught at this point, and some of the boulders I cleared down through this hole went a fair distance down, though contact with various walls made it hard to ascertain the depth. The echo of their falling also made this sound like a much larger chamber.
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Having run out of rope and feeling slightly underqualified to continue pushing this unsettling cave, I decided to return to the surface to reassure the others that I hadn’t died. Once I had reached the surface, Dylan decided to take a look. Wearing only a grey wizard poncho and a pair of shorts he went down as far as the snow outcrop, before declaring it was “drippy as fuck” and popping back out again. We began surveying from the entrance, with me brandishing the SAP at various points on the way down and relaying data to Dylan who was poised over the entrance like a large and threatening bird. We got as far as the deviation above the ice wall before deciding we had had enough, and, firing some splays down to the hole at the bottom, we made our cold and soggy retreat (this will need rebolting as a rebelay to allow people to better survey from this point on). As the cave hadn’t yet dealt us any serious injury we settled on Gruffalo as a provisional name, to reflect its large and scary but ultimately benign nature. After having packed up our gear and retrieved Hamish from his bag, we set a course for the Fishface path, which makes a far better approach to this end of the Tunnocks valley than cutting down from the Balcony path. On the ridge behind the Gruffalo entrance (i.e. south in the Fishface path direction), Hamish and his lucky crowbar discovered an unprospected area of several promising holes which may drop into the same passage as is reached through Gruffalo. Lacking time to explore, we gathered GPS data and entrance photos before lurching towards the Fishface path, and then slowly and painfully back up to Top Camp. Upon later reflection, I decided that Gruffalo was probably not as scary as I’d initially thought, and therefore demands further viewing (perhaps with a spare pair of pants handy).
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<div class="trippeople"><u>Dyl</u>, Dan g, Joel s</div>
<div class="triptitle">Rainbow bargains hohle - Rainbow Bargains Hohle 2 electric boogaloo</div>
@@ -434,5 +430,10 @@ Joel reappeared, removed the last of the Petzl Pulses and derigged the rope. We
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