+Ruairidh Macleod, (college, club positons.. dates, joint expo leader 2018?)+Expos 2017, 18, 19. +
+Ruairidh Macleod, (college, club positons.. dates, joint expo leader 2018?)
+Expos 2017, 18, 19.
+
+The photo is the excuse for jacking from the expo prep weekend in Feb.2020.
+ + +Photo © Ruairidh Macleod, 2020.02.20
+ +Oh no, I'm getting keen on caving ! Due to rain, no one except me got up (except Mark S who just made a paella breakfast and went back to bed). Then @@ -329,7 +329,7 @@ Juliette and John surveyed into the cave. Next trip
@@ -349,7 +349,7 @@ Shell Pitch (3rd pitch). A shaft continues down after a short distance. Next trip
@@ -362,7 +362,7 @@ pitches. It was boring, cold, crap. Never mind. Next trip
@@ -383,7 +383,7 @@ around leaving a rigged but undescended pitch !
. @@ -509,7 +509,7 @@ manage to avoid it happening again ! Next trip
Had a luverly time scrambling around in a maze of passageways leading off diff --git a/years/1995/log.htm b/years/1995/log.htm index 208042fda..77ace3138 100644 --- a/years/1995/log.htm +++ b/years/1995/log.htm @@ -712,7 +712,7 @@ Next trips: Piss Pot /
Pretty straightforward journey. Got 6pm ferry on Saturday ie not 4.30 in the morning as usual. This means you get empty roads all the way till next @@ -896,7 +896,7 @@ scrotty connection to an adjacent wettish shaft bottom. Next trips: Regurgitation / Stairway to Hell & Triassic Park -
23/7/96 | 161 - France | Andy A, Steve +
23/7/96 | 161 - France | Andrew Atkinson, Steve
We surveyed the passage which Kate & Dunc found earlier. A nice passage which looks like it ought to go a long way but unfortunately doesn't. @@ -1041,9 +1041,8 @@ caving. Hooray!
Previous trip / Next trip - in 1999 ? -
Kate was slack again! She farmed off some of her surveying to the "mugs" prepared to do it for her. Abseiled to Mississippi, Anthony forgot the rope for the pitch into regurgitation & so prussiked to Algeria. Spent diff --git a/years/2003/logbook.html b/years/2003/logbook.html index fb8c2501c..9ac751f61 100644 --- a/years/2003/logbook.html +++ b/years/2003/logbook.html @@ -1,8 +1,7 @@ - - - + +
+10/7/2003 -- Journey , Packing and Journey to Austria -- Mark S, Earl (driving), -Olly M, Martin, et al. (packing)
+Olly Madge, Martin +[et al. - others not listed above]
(to 12/7/2003) In fact it's not the 12th July at all, it's Wednesday 16th but we've only just gotten around to buying a log book. It appears that I have the pleasure of inscribing the first of what will
@@ -82,7 +82,7 @@ through when it was safe to go. The three of us arrived; five minutes later Tony arrived chauffered from the station by Hilde. We sat and festered for a bit, then got round to putting the bier tent up. Not long afterwards, when the frame was up but far from stable -the heavens opened, and we all lokked a bit silly, stood there +the heavens opened, and we all looked a bit silly, stood there getting drenched whilst supporting a massive metal structure. We got bored after a while and went over the road. Karin: "It is funny. You are here ... and it is raining." diff --git a/years/2012/logbook.html b/years/2012/logbook.html index 89ab33e9c..8dc910afa 100644 --- a/years/2012/logbook.html +++ b/years/2012/logbook.html @@ -1,8 +1,7 @@ - - + - +
@@ -305,12 +304,12 @@ Cirque du Soleil: QMB - Pitch on L as enter chamber
Original plan was me, Andrew + Ollie finishing yesterday's traverse while Rob + Holly pushed leads in Cirque de Soleil but Holly discovered a hole in the bottom bobbin of her Stop at the top of Brian's Phat Shaft so she gave up and went out + Rob joined us. Ollie + I started my first ever PDA + DistoX survey - not a great location to practise on, a teetery traverse with Andrew bolting the next traverse, only just in earshot as I bawled out endless questions "How do I calibrate the screen?", "Why are some splays in dotted lines?" etc. There was only one point where I got a "Not now" which was shortly before a huge lump of rock fell off the traverse leaving a brown smear down the rock face. The survey caught up to Andrew just as he got finished and ..... da-narrr..... found the final survey station from last year's KH trip - whoo-hoo, made the connection. Rob then caught up with us + Andrew & I were going to look up the passage but he'd forgotten about the up pitch so I did the bad step traverse without protection for no reason + then was stuck there until Rob got some gear to give me a sling to get back. Then Rob + Andrew rigged a traverse to avoid the up pitch whilst Ollie + I went to the top of Fat Cat + surveyed the traverse - Dog Days - he'd done with Serena + then up the climb that Andrew had shinned up on the way down + left a skanky rope on it. This led to horizontal drafting passage, yippee + a chamber with several A-leads off ... having already had a very fine trip making the connection we decided to leave them for another day. Met Andrew + Rob on return. On Brian's Phat Shaft, Andrew went up first then as Ollie got about halfway a rock came whistling past me. "What was that from?" "Don't think it was me" says Ollie ... then another came down "Shit, the rebelays breaking up". Rob + I cowered as best we could + Ollie said there was only an inch of rock left on the nose the rebelay was on so we decided it was best if he took it out (the one at the bottom of the first long hang). Rob + I then teetered up past some razor sharp edges + the knot pass + the crab got wedged on Rob so the rope got incredibly tight but, hey, we survived.
- +[Confirmed as Olly Modge not Olly Bets from looking at the Callout Book scan]Decided to have a quick look in 101 to see what it did. Much as described in 1977, pitches all free climbable. Just after 101 and 101a join there is a tight pitch lead to the right into a canyon - we didn't descend. Followed to near the end in 1977 - gets quite small, but continues. Another small tube leads off to right - Olly went for a short way down this and it continues.