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<div class="tripdate">5/7/04</div>
<div class="trippeople"><u>Mark S</u>, Olly M, *et al</div>
<div class="triptitle">In Cambridge</div>
<div class="triptitle">Journey - In Cambridge</div>
<p>And so it was that at 12.41 on Monday 5th July did the weighbridge at Madingley Mulch pronounce one white Citro&euml;n C15D van, by the
registration mark of L852 MFL, to be 400kg overweight &ndash; weighing in at nearly two tonnes. Mark and Olly were not best pleased, the
@@ -41,7 +41,7 @@ planning to leave for Dover at 4am. Expo had begun.</p>
<div class="tripdate">5/7/04</div>
<div class="trippeople"><u>Martin</u></div>
<div class="triptitle">In Cambridge</div>
<div class="triptitle">Journey - In Cambridge</div>
<p>I was phoned, "There is a problem", "Please bring your bathroom scales", "400kg overweight", "bollocks" (thought Martin).
Solutions ...another car ... too crap .. another trailer ... too long ... DSL ... too expensive ...</p>
@@ -60,7 +60,7 @@ on Monday.</p>
<div class="tripdate">6/7/04</div>
<div class="trippeople"><u>Dave</u></div>
<div class="triptitle">Dave's trip out</div>
<div class="triptitle">Journey - Dave's trip out</div>
<p>All went v. smoothly; up at 3am (ouch!), coach to Stansted, Ryanair to Salzburg, tram, train etc to arrive at Bad Aussee at around 3pm.
Bus timetable appears to be beyond the comprehension of mere mortals, so I walked. Then fell asleep, woke up and spent four hours watching
@@ -70,7 +70,7 @@ German TV. (Something important has happened to the state governor of Steiermark
<div class="tripdate">6/7/04</div>
<div class="trippeople"><u>Mark S</u>, Olly M</div>
<div class="triptitle">Driving to Austria</div>
<div class="triptitle">Journey - Driving to Austria</div>
<p>Arose at 3.30pm and left Earl's place just after five past four on Tuesday morning. The ferry was at 6am and we arrived just at the
right time after a stop for fuel. (Got to the port around 5.20am.)</p>
@@ -85,7 +85,7 @@ the enormous space left for it on the page.]</i></p>
<div class="tripdate">7/7/04</div>
<div class="trippeople">Olly M, Mark S and <u>Dave</u></div>
<div class="triptitle">Walk up</div>
<div class="triptitle">Loser Plateau - Walk up</div>
<p>Walked up hill. Snow level very high. Had considerable fun hauling gear out of Traungold (caving gear + some digging were needed).</p>
@@ -95,7 +95,7 @@ the enormous space left for it on the page.]</i></p>
<div class="tripdate">8/7/04</div>
<div class="trippeople">Olly M, Mark S and <u>Dave</u></div>
<div class="triptitle">Set up</div>
<div class="triptitle">Loser Plateau - Set up</div>
<p>More getting stuff out of snow-choked holes.</p>
@@ -105,7 +105,7 @@ the enormous space left for it on the page.]</i></p>
<div class="tripdate">10/7/04</div>
<div class="trippeople"><u>Dave</u>, Olly M</div>
<div class="triptitle">204A rigging</div>
<div class="triptitle">204 - 204A rigging</div>
<p>Rigged down to bottom of A entrance pitch. Owing to lack of rope we didn't get any further than that + ran out of excuses for walking
downhill in the rain.</p>
@@ -116,7 +116,7 @@ downhill in the rain.</p>
<div class="tripdate">11/7/04</div>
<div class="trippeople"><u>Julia</u> and Anthony</div>
<div class="triptitle">Drive to expo</div>
<div class="triptitle">Journey - Drive to expo</div>
<p>.. are here. Det er veldig variskelig &aring; snakke <i>[illegible]</i>. Men jeg m&aring; pr&oslash;ve. We left Anthony's office at
3.00pm on Friday (I remembered the guitar). Getting out of Norge not easy, but achieved eventually. 6 hours Oslo to G&oslash;teborg. Then
@@ -130,7 +130,7 @@ Expo is great + so is G&ouml;sser.</p>
<div class="tripdate">12/7/04</div>
<div class="trippeople"><u>Jenny</u> + Olly B</div>
<div class="triptitle">Carry up</div>
<div class="triptitle">Loser Plateau - Carry up</div>
<p>We set off for our 3<sup>rd</sup> carry to Top Camp, and for the first time it wasn't raining. As we got to TC it got much darker, and
just as we started pitching the big expo tent it started to hail horizontally which was really quite grim... Eventually we got the tent up
@@ -141,7 +141,7 @@ lot in the erratic boulders just below where 76 turned out to be.</p>
<div class="tripdate">13/7/04</div>
<div class="trippeople"><u>Jenny</u> + Olly B</div>
<div class="triptitle">Set up</div>
<div class="triptitle">Loser Plateau - Set up</div>
<p>Carried up our final load to TC, noticed that the tent had lots of big puddles. Perhaps optimistically, I assumed it had come into the
tent whilst we erected it in the hail storm, so I bailed out the water + we set off for 76, armed with a GPS. We got to near the GPS point
@@ -154,7 +154,7 @@ as it opens out into a small sheltered valley (with room for a small tent). We w
<div class="tripdate">13/7/04</div>
<div class="trippeople"><u>Julia</u></div>
<div class="triptitle">Caving song</div>
<div class="triptitle">Base Camp - Caving song</div>
<p>Oh, so caving songs get written in the rain, right. Well, plenty of rain here, so let's have some inspiration. There's Duncan's first
bit:</p>
@@ -209,7 +209,7 @@ For a stretcher to carry me to old base camp.
<a id="t2004-07-14A" />
<div class="tripdate">14/7/04</div>
<div class="trippeople"><u>Dave</u>, Olly M, Stuart, Dour</div>
<div class="triptitle">Ariston rigging</div>
<div class="triptitle">204 - Ariston rigging</div>
<p>Wandered in down 204A re-rigging on Dave Brindle's rope. Dour put in a bolt enabling me to get close enough to the 2nd pitch to see
that it was open, which was a pleasant surprise seeing how much snow was around generally. At this point Dour returned to the surface
@@ -222,7 +222,7 @@ while Olly, Stuart and I wandered down Ariston. Ran out of rope at Steel Toecap
<a id="t2004-07-14B" />
<div class="tripdate">14/7/04</div>
<div class="trippeople"><u>Jenny</u> + Olly B</div>
<div class="triptitle">76</div>
<div class="triptitle">76 - 76</div>
<p>Woke up to find just how un-waterproof the tent was &ndash; lots of leaks through the ceiling and 3 puddles a couple of inches deep,
wet sleeping bags and other wet stuff which wasn't nice at all. Eventually got going after a short delay to dry out the lighter before we
@@ -250,7 +250,7 @@ cairned a path from the bivvy to the 204 path.</p>
<a id="t2004-07-15A" />
<div class="tripdate">15/7/04</div>
<div class="trippeople"><u>Dave</u>, Mark D, Nial</div>
<div class="triptitle">Kiwi Suit rigging</div>
<div class="triptitle">204 - Kiwi Suit rigging</div>
<p>Continued rig down bottom pitch of Ariston (which is shite) and 54m pitch in Kiwi Suit. Realising we had only three hangers left, we
put in the next 8m pitch but didn't descend, + buggered off out. Nial + Mark apparently got lost in the crawls at the bottom of
@@ -265,7 +265,7 @@ cold + knackered + wanted to go downhill.</p>
<a id="t2004-07-15B" />
<div class="tripdate">15/7/04</div>
<div class="trippeople"><u>Olly M</u>, Stuart, Pete</div>
<div class="triptitle">204E rigging</div>
<div class="triptitle">204 - 204E rigging</div>
<p>Had much difficulty finding the entrance, it was further than I remembered. Took ages to rig the pitch, then went out.</p>
@@ -275,7 +275,7 @@ cold + knackered + wanted to go downhill.</p>
<a id="t2004-07-16A" />
<div class="tripdate">16/7/04</div>
<div class="trippeople">Jenny, <u>Olly B</u></div>
<div class="triptitle">76</div>
<div class="triptitle">76 - 76</div>
<p>We bolted on down from the head of Draught Bitter (where the draught was so fierce it made my eyes water while drilling a hole for a
bolt). A deviation off a 70s spit got us to a little rock bridge, and a rebelay off another unusually well preserved and flush 70s spit to
@@ -290,7 +290,7 @@ falling snow &amp; rocks, but after two spits I'm still not there and my legs ar
<a id="t2004-07-17A" />
<div class="tripdate">17/7/04</div>
<div class="trippeople">Olly B + <u>Jenny</u></div>
<div class="triptitle">76</div>
<div class="triptitle">76 - 76</div>
<p>Back down 76 again, this time it's my turn to bolt. I get down to the bolts Olly put in yesterday (after adding a spit for a deviation
on the way down to stop the rope cutting through the big snow plug), and spend quite a while swinging around trying to work out what is
@@ -313,7 +313,7 @@ to the pitches (draft bitter). Then returned to BC, racing darkness + an electri
<a id="t2004-07-18A" />
<div class="tripdate">18/7/04</div>
<div class="trippeople"><u>Dave</u>, Becka, Nial</div>
<div class="triptitle">Gaffered rig + tourist</div>
<div class="triptitle">204 - Gaffered rig + tourist</div>
<p>Wandered down Gaffered, while Nial + Becka touristed up Swings and apparently pushed a QM somewhere. (Becka: where was it?) (<i>[Becka's
handwriting]</i> By station 12 on RH wall, wasn't down as QM. Didn't go. Surveyed 2/8/04. Also looked at QMs on Colonnades, nothing
@@ -332,7 +332,7 @@ two bolts, but all the rock is awful.</p>
<a id="t2004-07-18B" />
<div class="tripdate">18/7/04</div>
<div class="trippeople">Dour, <u>Mark D</u></div>
<div class="triptitle">Razor Dance rigging</div>
<div class="triptitle">204 - Razor Dance rigging</div>
<p>Early start &ndash; underground by 10:00! Speedy descent to Kiwi Suit, where we picked up the bag of rope left on the 15th. We now had
3 1/2 bags of rope between us, which was considered A LOT. Mark rigged the bottom 2 pitches of Kiwi Suit, then Dour took up the cudgels
@@ -350,7 +350,7 @@ MSD.</p>
<div class="tripdate">18/7/04</div>
<div class="trippeople">Olly B + <u>Jenny</u></div>
<div class="triptitle">76</div>
<div class="triptitle">76 - 76</div>
<p>Walked back up to the bivvy, and sat around for a while feeling too hot. Eventually got underground with a plan of finishing surveying
what we have found. We started at Draught Bitter, and surveyed downwards. I realised how crap surveying pitches was, especially really
@@ -369,7 +369,7 @@ middle. Definitely not worth using as an entrance when 76a is so much nicer.</p>
<a id="t2004-07-19A" />
<div class="tripdate">19/7/04</div>
<div class="trippeople"><u>Becka</u> + Earl</div>
<div class="triptitle">Gaffered rig to Underworld</div>
<div class="triptitle">204 - Gaffered rig to Underworld</div>
<p>Earl put in a Y-hang about 40% down from the top of Gaffered to help speed up using it + take us a bit further from the spray. Becka
replaced the two ropes Dave rigged yesterday with a 9mm (bit too skinny) 91m then Earl continued to rig down Gaffered, adding a backup
@@ -382,7 +382,7 @@ Takes ~2hrs from bottom.</p>
<a id="t2004-07-19B" />
<div class="tripdate">19/7/04</div>
<div class="trippeople"><u>Brian</u></div>
<div class="triptitle">2003-02 (Blaudrachenschact)</div>
<div class="triptitle">Cave 2003-02 - (Blaudrachenschact)</div>
<p>Went in 2003-02 with Earl's drill and rigged to the bottom of the pitch. Abbed off pitch-head bolt put in 2003 down 6m to rebelay then 2
rebelays on far wall to main drop. Dropped a few stones to find best hang through a narrow rift 13m below; didn't quite judge it right so
@@ -395,7 +395,7 @@ short climb up the side of the shaft and another hole. But no more rope, so I we
<a id="t2004-07-19C" />
<div class="tripdate">19/7/04</div>
<div class="trippeople"><u>Martin</u>, Nial</div>
<div class="triptitle">204</div>
<div class="triptitle">204 - 204</div>
<p>Went in E, noticed rubs (Olly says it wasn't his (threatened with hammer)). Rigged Taking the Piss, with PPE green string. Rigged Wot
No Bolts, from first hole using two bolts! (Deviation needed). 03-67B pushed to conclusion, 03-68B, 03-69B pushed to beginning of Faith
@@ -405,7 +405,7 @@ traverse. Pencil broke, so took some photos.</p>
<a id="t2004-07-19D" />
<div class="tripdate">19/7/04</div>
<div class="trippeople">Olly B + <u>Jenny</u></div>
<div class="triptitle">76: Brave New World</div>
<div class="triptitle">76 - Brave New World</div>
<p>Went back down 76 with bolting gear with a view to ticking off Olly's lead on the ledge and then rigging on down. I lined Olly up the
short but exposed climb, then couldn't see what was happening for ages. Olly got to the end of the rope and assured me it was safe to
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<a id="t2004-07-19E" />
<div class="tripdate">19/7/04</div>
<div class="trippeople">Olly M, <u>Dave</u></div>
<div class="triptitle">Razor Dance</div>
<div class="triptitle">204 - Razor Dance</div>
<p>Carried in the pushing rope, and rigged the pitches beyond Steady Now. Ran out of hangers at the top of Yeast. Also placed a hand bolt
at the top of Mystery Wind, so as to replace existing dodgy thread, but didn't have a hanger for it. Headed out without a great deal of
@@ -448,7 +448,7 @@ dive out of it which could have been very nasty. Fortunately I succeeded in land
<a id="t2004-07-20A" />
<div class="tripdate">20/7/04</div>
<div class="trippeople"><u>Becka</u>, Nial + Earl</div>
<div class="triptitle">Underworld / Sirens push + survey</div>
<div class="triptitle">204 - Underworld / Sirens push + survey</div>
<p>Finally ready to roll pushing: looked at <b>03-29A</b> rigged handline to edge of large chamber &ndash; no rope so leave that, plus
<b>03-30B</b> which needs a high-level traverse. (See our 22nd July trip.)</p>
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<a id="t2004-07-21A" />
<div class="tripdate">21/7/04</div>
<div class="trippeople"><u>Becka</u> + Nial</div>
<div class="triptitle">Surface Prospect</div>
<div class="triptitle">Loser Plateau - Surface Prospect</div>
</a>
<p>Wandered over col beyond 204 towards Grie&szlig; Kogel then back round on plateau side. Put in two tags on new caves:</p>
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<a id="t2004-07-21B" />
<div class="tripdate">21/7/04</div>
<div class="trippeople"><u>Earl</u> + Stuart</div>
<div class="triptitle">Gaffered</div>
<div class="triptitle">204 - Gaffered</div>
<p>Descended to Eeyore to continue rigging Kanga pitch. Bolts had been placed on the previous trip, so adding a deviation enabled us to
descend. Tony and Brian had won the only available instrument set, so we escaped without surveying. Explored around the bottom; only way
@@ -531,7 +531,7 @@ pointy lights in finding such delights.</p>
<a id="t2004-07-21C" />
<div class="tripdate">21/7/04</div>
<div class="trippeople"><u>Jenny</u> + Olly B</div>
<div class="triptitle">99</div>
<div class="triptitle">99 - 99</div>
<p>Walked back up to our bivvy in the sun; when we got there, Olly wasn't feeling too well, so we decided that I'd explore 99 whilst Olly
sat on the surface and patched his oversuit. I went down rigged off the v.dubious tag bolt and a spike. It went down an inclined rift with
@@ -550,7 +550,7 @@ leaving the ice squeeze for either a day later on in expo with less ice, or a da
<a id="t2004-07-21D" />
<div class="tripdate">21/7/04</div>
<div class="trippeople"><u>Mark D</u>, Dour</div>
<div class="triptitle">Razor Dance</div>
<div class="triptitle">204 - Razor Dance</div>
<p>An exceptionally early start (9.30 am!) and a quick trip down to the start of Razor Dance. Reached the pushing front at about 13:30
after rigging Yeast pitch. Dour bolted the traverse while Mark quickly dropped the pitch on naturals. The continuation at stream level was
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<a id="t2004-07-21E" />
<div class="tripdate">21/7/04</div>
<div class="trippeople">Tony + <u>Brian</u></div>
<div class="triptitle">2003-02 (Blaudrachenschact)</div>
<div class="triptitle">Cave 2003-02 - (Blaudrachenschact)</div>
<p>Surveyed to bottom with short rope to investigate rifty hole at base of shaft: it closed down after a 5m climb down through boulders.
Went home.</p>
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<a id="t2004-07-22A" />
<div class="tripdate">22/7/04</div>
<div class="trippeople">Tony + <u>Brian</u></div>
<div class="triptitle">Surface bash</div>
<div class="triptitle">Loser Plateau - Surface bash</div>
<p>Started out walking to the NE of 204 area until we met the big change in slope overlooking the valley with the Stogerweg at the bottom.
Then walked along side of valley until we found two entrances of note: GPSsed, tagged and photographed them.</p>
@@ -594,7 +594,7 @@ Then walked along side of valley until we found two entrances of note: GPSsed, t
<a id="t2004-07-22B" />
<div class="tripdate">22/7/04</div>
<div class="trippeople"><u>Becka</u>, Earl + Dave</div>
<div class="triptitle">Underworld Push</div>
<div class="triptitle">204 - Underworld Push</div>
<p>Dave wanted to learn how to drill bolts so down to Earl's drill in the Underworld ... but first we surveyed + derigged Eeyore. Then
Dave derigged the 26m that Earl + Stuart had started to rig along the traverse in Sirens yesterday (they'd hoped to get to 03-18B). Took
@@ -618,7 +618,7 @@ calming tongue. <i>[I think my jammers are knackered &ndash; the teeth don't bit
<a id="t2004-07-22C" />
<div class="tripdate">22/7/04</div>
<div class="trippeople"><u>Olly M</u>, Pete</div>
<div class="triptitle">Hauchh&ouml;hle</div>
<div class="triptitle">234 - Hauchh&ouml;hle</div>
<p>Julia had asked people to look at Hauchh&ouml;hle so Pete and I decided to have a poke. A survey was produced showing the main way on
to be to the left at the bottom of the (first) pitch. Pete rigged the pitch and followed my bad advice of rethreading the rope around the
@@ -639,7 +639,7 @@ and miles of cave passage to whoever would listen.</p>
<div class="tripdate">22/7/04</div>
<div class="trippeople"><u>Olly M</u>, Pete</div>
<div class="triptitle">Random German</div>
<div class="triptitle">Loser Plateau - Random German</div>
<p>Pete and I had failed to walk up the previous evening so an 8am rising and a run to the bus stop was in order. Waiting in Bad Aussee
allowed a random German bloke to approach and ask us if we could "show him the caves". Julia's powers of dissuasion are clearly lacking
@@ -654,7 +654,7 @@ Peter on his 35mm film...</p>
<a id="t2004-07-22D" />
<div class="tripdate">22/7/04</div>
<div class="trippeople">Jenny, <u>Olly B</u></div>
<div class="triptitle">76</div>
<div class="triptitle">76 - 76</div>
<p>We went down 76 to push the pitch lead near the start of the "Test Tubes". It was unclear if the pitch-head was perched rocks or solid,
so I used a mostly convincing thread as a backup, and put in a traverse spit, then a Y hang out in the rift. The rift was a good 1.5m
@@ -671,7 +671,7 @@ New World survey and went home. Jenny put in a better placed spit for the ledge
<a id="t2004-07-22E" />
<div class="tripdate">22/7/04</div>
<div class="trippeople">Martin, Nial, and <u>Stuart</u></div>
<div class="triptitle">2004-11 &ndash; "In Your Face"</div>
<div class="triptitle">Cave 2004-11 - In Your Face</div>
<p>"Come and look at our great new cave" they said. "Could be a new 204 entrance" they said. "DON'T YOU DARE FIND THE END OF IT" they
(Becka) said.</p>
@@ -698,7 +698,7 @@ etc. caused the general consensus to be "jack". Also, the probability of our onl
<a id="t2004-07-23A" />
<div class="tripdate">23/7/04</div>
<div class="trippeople"><u>Dave</u>, Pete, Olly M</div>
<div class="triptitle">Hauchh&ouml;hle surveying</div>
<div class="triptitle">234 - Hauchh&ouml;hle surveying</div>
<p>Pete + Olly had returned to camp the previous day with tales of caverns measureless to man, and nothing surveyed. So I jumped at the
chance to go and practice my survey note-taking, hoping to go on to bolt down the pitches (or rather show Olly how).</p>
@@ -713,7 +713,7 @@ surveying as well.)</p>
<a id="t2004-07-23B" />
<div class="tripdate">23/7/04</div>
<div class="trippeople">Martin and <u>Stuart</u></div>
<div class="triptitle">In Your Face + 204 scrotting</div>
<div class="triptitle">Cave 2004-11 - 204 - In Your Face + 204 scrotting</div>
<p>Somehow I had ended up in 2004-11 again. Martin completed the traverse in record time and declared, "It's huge stomping passage, looks
good". This was unfortunate, since we had ventured out that morning without instruments. And so it was that I chastised Martin, "You
@@ -746,7 +746,7 @@ cave and tackle bag, and trying to turn round in the passage at the same time, i
<a id="t2004-07-24A" />
<div class="tripdate">24/7/04</div>
<div class="trippeople"><u>Dave</u>, Becka, Pete, Olly M, Earl</div>
<div class="triptitle">Hauchh&ouml;hle again</div>
<div class="triptitle">234 - Hauchh&ouml;hle again</div>
<p>A complex plan emerged over breakfast. Team keen (Dave + Becka) would go in and do some more surveying; team fester (Olly + Earl) would
bolt the pitch; and team artistic (Pete) would take some photos. At 11.30 team science (Dour) would shout down surface hole 2002-02 so we
@@ -770,7 +770,7 @@ thrutch into an aven with water coming in and a too tight rift off. Out + home.<
<a id="t2004-07-24B" />
<div class="tripdate">24/7/04</div>
<div class="trippeople"><u>Jenny</u> + Olly B</div>
<div class="triptitle">Eislufth&ouml;hle &ndash; rigging down 70's route to Keg Series</div>
<div class="triptitle">76 - Eislufth&ouml;hle - rigging down 70's route to Keg Series</div>
<p>We decided that today we would continue down the 70s route and see how far we could get with the rope + hangers we had. I wanted to
play with the drill, so set off down to the current end of the rigging (the next ledge on from the Test Tube passage) and put in a nice
@@ -801,7 +801,7 @@ Shaft. We surveyed back till it connected at The Ledge and went home.</p>
<a id="t2004-07-25A" />
<div class="tripdate">25/7/04</div>
<div class="trippeople"><u>Becka</u> + Earl</div>
<div class="triptitle">Gardeners' World -&gt; Subsoil</div>
<div class="triptitle">204 - Gardeners' World -&gt; Subsoil</div>
<p>Down Gaffered Series <strong>aargh</strong>, this rope is way too fast, welly-brake-tastic... To Gardeners' World + I went over my
"Generation Game" traverse to check that it really did go nowhere (sigh) then derigged it (not <em>too</em> exciting bar one
@@ -822,7 +822,7 @@ Earl Teflon-Jammers Merson was, of course, fine + blamed it all on my poor techn
<a id="t2004-07-25B" />
<div class="tripdate">25/7/04</div>
<div class="trippeople">Olly B + <u>Jenny</u></div>
<div class="triptitle">76 &ndash; Brave New World</div>
<div class="triptitle">76 - Brave New World</div>
<p>Olly fettled the rigging in the entrance to add a tight guide line above the rock bridge, and we went into the Test Tube, and onto
Brave New World, this time turning right to the pitch, traversing round it (which I found scary as it was loose) and into the oxbow on the
@@ -841,7 +841,7 @@ very fast.</p>
<a id="t2004-07-26A" />
<div class="tripdate">26/7/04</div>
<div class="trippeople"><u>Becka</u> + Earl</div>
<div class="triptitle">Re-rigging Gaffered + Gardeners' World</div>
<div class="triptitle">204 - Re-rigging Gaffered + Gardeners' World</div>
<p>Earl was all for going straight back down to push Subsoil but I'd promised myself not to go down there again until there was fresh rope
on it so we carried in a 100m and a 65m and re-rigged from Tape Worm all the way down (I replaced the top 91m &ndash; again &ndash; whilst
@@ -869,7 +869,7 @@ spanking new rope unless you're pristine. Thanks to Tony for cleaning + checking
<a id="t2004-07-26B" />
<div class="tripdate">26/7/04</div>
<div class="trippeople">Olly B + <u>Jenny</u></div>
<div class="triptitle">76 &ndash; Brave New World</div>
<div class="triptitle">76 - Brave New World</div>
<p>Decided to carry the drill through the Test Tube to bolt stuff in Brave New World. We decided it would be better to carry SRT kits
rather than wearing them too. Carrying tackle made the Test Tube seem much smaller and more arduous... Turned right into BNW, and Olly got
@@ -888,7 +888,7 @@ then left the cave.</p>
<a id="t2004-07-27A" />
<div class="tripdate">27/7/04</div>
<div class="trippeople"><u>Becka</u> + Earl</div>
<div class="triptitle">Surveying Subsoil</div>
<div class="triptitle">204 - Surveying Subsoil</div>
<p>The Razor Dance team was all off for a long trip so we decided to join them since it's the dinner tomorrow. <u>Bloody</u> cold at camp +
not feeling enthused with a damp furry but a lovely controlled descent on the clean rope cheered me up. Before that, on the first main
@@ -916,7 +916,7 @@ takes ~ 1 1/2 hours to get to the bottom of Subsoil and ~ 2 1/2 hours to get out
<div class="tripdate">27/7/04</div>
<div class="trippeople"><u>Pete</u>, Olly M</div>
<div class="triptitle">Plateau walk + Hauchh&ouml;hle</div>
<div class="triptitle">Loser Plateau - 234 - Plateau walk + Hauchh&ouml;hle</div>
<p>Finally set off up the hill to fetch the remainder of my caving gear at 3.50pm, intending to make a quick return in daylight with the
gear. Olly M kindly came along for the walk and to help me carry. (Perhaps also the best way to ensure that I didn't get lost on the
@@ -967,7 +967,7 @@ one later on was similarly dealt with.</p>
<a id="t2004-07-27B" />
<div class="tripdate">27/7/04</div>
<div class="trippeople">Martin, Dave, <u>Dour</u></div>
<div class="triptitle">Razor Dance</div>
<div class="triptitle">204 - Razor Dance</div>
<p>My drill was at the bottom of Razor Dance, and since I was about to go home I needed to fish it out. Since there was a shortage of
people wanting to push the thing further, we decided to do one more push-survey-derig trip. Four days of attempting to dry out my fleecy
@@ -1006,7 +1006,7 @@ there are enough (i.e. more than 4) moderately hard (but not necessarily bionic)
<a id="t2004-07-27C" />
<div class="tripdate">27/7/04</div>
<div class="trippeople">Olly B + <u>Jenny</u></div>
<div class="triptitle">76 &ndash; Brave New World</div>
<div class="triptitle">76 - Brave New World</div>
<p>Didn't feel like carrying tackle through the Test Tube again, so took survey gear to tick off some leads (hopefully). The first lead we
looked at was the tube on the right around halfway along, near the probable 99 connection. It got progressively narrower, and then there
@@ -1025,7 +1025,7 @@ size to an aven &ndash; this is still to be surveyed.</p>
<a id="t2004-07-29A" />
<div class="tripdate">29/7/04</div>
<div class="trippeople"><u>Jenny</u> + Olly B</div>
<div class="triptitle">76 + surface shaft</div>
<div class="triptitle">76 - 76 and surface shaft</div>
<p>Olly wasn't feeling too well, so he did some surface stuff whilst I went into Brave New World to retrieve the hangers, skyhook, slings
etc, and to carry a bag of rope down to The Ledge ready for the next day.</p>
@@ -1036,7 +1036,7 @@ etc, and to carry a bag of rope down to The Ledge ready for the next day.</p>
<a id="t2004-07-30A" />
<div class="tripdate">30/7/04</div>
<div class="trippeople"><u>Becka</u>, Earl, Nial + Julian</div>
<div class="triptitle">Subsoil &ndash; Fat Worm Blows a Sparky</div>
<div class="triptitle">204 - Subsoil &ndash; Fat Worm Blows a Sparky</div>
<p>Off to rig + survey leads at the end of Hippo Hollows in Subsoil. Nial + Becka surveyed two tubes on the left at the end of Hippo
Hollows. First just popped out to look over the rift that the main passage ended on. Further back, the tube went steeply up to a small
@@ -1057,7 +1057,7 @@ some weird white formations like plastic in a passage at the end of the survey,
<a id="t2004-07-30B" />
<div class="tripdate">30/7/04</div>
<div class="trippeople"><u>Dave</u>, Stuart</div>
<div class="triptitle">Hauchh&ouml;hle: How to knacker yourself in the least interesting way possible</div>
<div class="triptitle">234 - Hauchh&ouml;hle: How to knacker yourself in the least interesting way possible</div>
<p>Plan was to do a quick Hauch trip then a surface wander. Proceeded to bottom of pitch rigged by Earl on a previous trip, where there
was a half-drilled Hilti hole. Drilled this fully, + placed a Y-hang (plus one duff spit that sank too deep).</p>
@@ -1083,7 +1083,7 @@ since. Buggeration.</p>
<a id="t2004-07-30C" />
<div class="tripdate">30/7/04</div>
<div class="trippeople"><u>Jenny</u> + Olly B</div>
<div class="triptitle">76 &ndash; Keg Series</div>
<div class="triptitle">76 - Keg Series</div>
<p>Went down to the top of Keg Series with lots of rigging gear + drill. Olly did some more gardening (but there is still lots of loose
stuff around) and went down; rather than heading straight down the pitch like last time, he swung across into the passage ~ 1/3 of the way
@@ -1119,7 +1119,7 @@ uneventfully.</p>
<a id="t2004-07-30D" />
<div class="tripdate">30/7/04</div>
<div class="trippeople">Tony + <u>Brian</u></div>
<div class="triptitle">2003-02 bolting</div>
<div class="triptitle">Cave 2003-02 - bolting</div>
<p>Using club drill + blue dynamic rope, bolted around corner from pitch head bolt (2003-02-01 survey station #8) and up wall on right
side of chamber to small window. Squeezed through to small chamber (~5m) with no way on. Derigged + exit.</p>
@@ -1128,7 +1128,7 @@ side of chamber to small window. Squeezed through to small chamber (~5m) with no
<a id="t2004-07-31A" />
<div class="tripdate">31/7/04</div>
<div class="trippeople"><u>Becka</u>, Julian, Earl, Frank, Nial</div>
<div class="triptitle">Subsoil</div>
<div class="triptitle">204 - Subsoil</div>
<p>Becka + Julian set off an hour ahead of the crowd + did some virtuous QM ticking by surveying up the sandy tube at the top of the
Subsoil chamber where Gardeners' World / U. C. pitch comes in. The right tube closed down. The left one was small but straightforward and
@@ -1157,7 +1157,7 @@ on.</p>
<a id="t2004-07-31B" />
<div class="tripdate">31/7/04</div>
<div class="trippeople"><u>Jenny</u> + Olly B</div>
<div class="triptitle">Surface stuff</div>
<div class="triptitle">Loser Plateau - Surface stuff</div>
<p>Walked towards the high point approximately west of 76 and the bivvy. Just below (on the east side) of the high point we found a series
of 3 entrances along a fault/joint; we called this 2004-05. They were 10m to a ledge, then seemed to go deeper, but we didn't have tackle
@@ -1191,7 +1191,7 @@ them next year.</p>
<a id="t2004-07-31C" />
<div class="tripdate">31/7/04</div>
<div class="trippeople">Tony + <u>Brian</u></div>
<div class="triptitle">Skinny Festerers</div>
<div class="triptitle">Cave - Skinny Festerers</div>
<p>Rigged in to base of pitch. Tony put in 2 bolts to climb A lead in right wall of chamber. Revealed short passage to corner; left way on
blocked by boulders &ndash; persuaded downwards &ndash; revealing a climbable rift to a tube again blocked by removable boulders, to narrow low
@@ -1201,7 +1201,7 @@ awkward passage to pitch head blocked by large boulder. Needed persuaders. Went
<a id="t2004-08-01A" />
<div class="tripdate">1/8/04</div>
<div class="trippeople"><u>Becka</u>, Martin + Julian</div>
<div class="triptitle">Earthenware</div>
<div class="triptitle">204 - Earthenware</div>
<p>Martin was keen to see Gaffered. Julian and I were feeling a bit worn but went for it. Down to where Frank and I had finished our
survey yesterday. We connected our survey in to an earlier point along Earthenware where Frank and I had made a vocal connection yesterday
@@ -1221,7 +1221,7 @@ the main choke at the west end of the big passage. Out.</p>
<a id="t2004-08-01B" />
<div class="tripdate">1/8/04</div>
<div class="trippeople"><u>Jenny</u> + Olly B</div>
<div class="triptitle">76 &ndash; to the Tap Room</div>
<div class="triptitle">76 - to the Tap Room</div>
<p>Went back down to the top of Keg Series, but this time continued down the 70s route, down a short climb to a small chamber. The route
continued down the rift; we used a chockstone (a big one) as a backup and Olly suggested a good place for a spit. I climbed round and
@@ -1242,7 +1242,7 @@ far too much to carry already.</p>
<a id="t2004-08-01C" />
<div class="tripdate">1/8/04</div>
<div class="trippeople"><u>Stuart</u>, Olly M, Mark S</div>
<div class="triptitle">Surface prospecting near Hauchh&ouml;hle</div>
<div class="triptitle">Loser Plateau - Surface prospecting near Hauchh&ouml;hle</div>
<p>Mark arrives at the stone bridge previous night, claiming thousands of new <u>really good</u> caves near Hauchh&ouml;hle, maybe doing
important link of 204-&gt;161/elsewhere. Much amazement ensues.</p>
@@ -1266,7 +1266,7 @@ and crawl gets too tight).</p>
<a id="t2004-08-01D" />
<div class="tripdate">1/8/04</div>
<div class="trippeople">Tony + <u>Brian</u></div>
<div class="triptitle">Skinny Festerers</div>
<div class="triptitle">Cave - Skinny Festerers</div>
<p>Came back with lump hammer and crowbar and persuaded boulder to reduce in size. Tony forced a way through to place a pitch head bolt
and descend to small chamber with a squeeze through a rift in the floor. Descended to rifty chamber with no way on. Went home.</p>
@@ -1275,7 +1275,7 @@ and descend to small chamber with a squeeze through a rift in the floor. Descend
<a id="t2004-08-02A" />
<div class="tripdate">2/8/04</div>
<div class="trippeople"><u>Becka</u>, Nial, Stuart, Earl + Martin</div>
<div class="triptitle">Loop closures + Cresta Run</div>
<div class="triptitle">204 - Loop closures + Cresta Run</div>
<p>Becka + Nial in early to take some BDH + Peli case sponsorship photos, and to derig the pitches into Rhino Rift and take the rope to
the end of Swings + Roundabouts. Martin (with Earl as a backup rigger) then went up the rope which Martin had put in the bolts for earlier
@@ -1303,7 +1303,7 @@ trip!</p>
<a id="t2004-08-03A" />
<div class="tripdate">3/8/04</div>
<div class="trippeople"><u>Becka</u>, Nial + Earl</div>
<div class="triptitle">Push Subsoil + start to derig Gaffered</div>
<div class="triptitle">204 - Push Subsoil + start to derig Gaffered</div>
<p>I thought it would be a bit weedy to just derig on the trip so I arm-twisted Nial into some QM-ticking + surveying and Earl into some
rigging. We started by going to Fat Worm Blows a Sparky and I put conservation tape round the freshly (quite) dead bat in Bat Chamber and
@@ -1339,7 +1339,7 @@ and two failed spits at the top of Gaffered to improve the traverse at the head
<a id="t2004-08-03B" />
<div class="tripdate">3/8/04</div>
<div class="trippeople"><u>Jenny</u> + Olly B</div>
<div class="triptitle">76 &ndash; Brave New World</div>
<div class="triptitle">76 - Brave New World</div>
<p>Went to Brave New World to look at the pitch lead, had too much gear to carry through the Test Tube, so whilst Olly started to bolt I
went back for a second carry. I returned to find that Olly had traversed a short way across from the pitch head and stepped right into a
@@ -1359,7 +1359,7 @@ looked like 1 or 2 passages led off at maybe 6m high. Finished surveying and hea
<a id="t2004-08-03C" />
<div class="tripdate">3/8/04</div>
<div class="trippeople"><u>Stuart</u>, Olly M</div>
<div class="triptitle">Razor Dance Derig</div>
<div class="triptitle">204 - Razor Dance Derig</div>
<p>In the absence of anybody else willing to do it, Olly and I derigged Razor. Delightful.</p>
@@ -1372,7 +1372,7 @@ Kiwi Suit, where Olly and I jacked.</p>
<a id="t2004-08-04A" />
<div class="tripdate">4/8/04</div>
<div class="trippeople"><u>Becka</u>, Earl + Nial</div>
<div class="triptitle">Finish derigging Gaffered</div>
<div class="triptitle">204 - Finish derigging Gaffered</div>
<p>A finely honed plan worked slickly: Nial down at 11am to pick up the pre-packed tacklesack I'd derigged yesterday. Earl in at 11.30 and
derigged the 90m on the rest of Gaffered. Becka in at 12.15. Earl + I bickered over who got to prusik out of Gaffered with the tacklesack
@@ -1385,7 +1385,7 @@ cave.</p>
<a id="t2004-08-04B" />
<div class="tripdate">4/8/04</div>
<div class="trippeople"><u>Dave</u>, Martin, Frank</div>
<div class="triptitle">204 derigging continued</div>
<div class="triptitle">204 - derigging continued</div>
<p>After the sterling efforts of Olly, Stuart, Martin + Frank the previous day all the rope had made it to the bottom of Pot-U-Like. Newly
recovered from a knackered back I was raring to go, but nobody else was very keen. Demonstrating keenness and stupidity in equal measure I
@@ -1403,7 +1403,7 @@ rejoined at the bottom of Thread Pitch, hauled up that + derigged it.</p>
<a id="t2004-08-04C" />
<div class="tripdate">4/8/04</div>
<div class="trippeople"><u>Jenny</u> + Olly B</div>
<div class="triptitle">76 &ndash; Brave New World pitch series</div>
<div class="triptitle">76 - Brave New World pitch series</div>
<p>Went back to the pitch carrying on below Forward to the Past. Olly rigged down to the rock bridge down to to a ledge where a passage
doubled back and dropped a small pitch which was choked at the bottom. The main pitch continued down the same fault plane (N.B. Fault has
@@ -1426,7 +1426,7 @@ then went back to retrieve the bag.</p>
<a id="t2004-08-04D" />
<div class="tripdate">4/8/04</div>
<div class="trippeople"><u>Stuart</u>, Olly M</div>
<div class="triptitle">Surface work near Hauchh&ouml;hle part 2</div>
<div class="triptitle">Loser Plateau - Surface work near Hauchh&ouml;hle part 2</div>
<p>Photographed and tagged 2004-15.</p>
@@ -1434,7 +1434,7 @@ then went back to retrieve the bag.</p>
<a id="t2004-08-04E" />
<div class="tripdate">4/8/04</div>
<div class="trippeople">Tony, Julian, <u>Brian</u></div>
<div class="triptitle">Finish 2004-12</div>
<div class="triptitle">Cave 2004-12 - Finish 2004-12</div>
<p>Followed draft into the cave, and investigated all obvious + easy leads. Draft was emerging from tight tube at floor level. This was
squeezed to a small chamber. Still drafting. Rocks were removed and the way was squeezed to a second small chamber. Still drafting. Brian
@@ -1448,7 +1448,7 @@ pitch in floor. Tony exited. We went home. Cave tagged <b>2004-19</b>.</p>
<a id="t2004-08-05A" />
<div class="tripdate">5/8/04</div>
<div class="trippeople">Jenny + <u>Olly B</u></div>
<div class="triptitle">Descending "108" and 2004-02</div>
<div class="triptitle">Cave 108 - Cave 2004-02 - Descending "108" and 2004-02</div>
<p>We found a cave marked 108 near 76, but it doesn't match the description on the website (vertical entrance rather than horizontal) so
we checked it out. It's marked with paint "108" and has a spit in the centre of the "0". The spit isn't great, but there's a good chunky
@@ -1468,7 +1468,7 @@ definitely wider beyond the rift.</p>
<a id="t2004-08-05B" />
<div class="tripdate">5/8/04</div>
<div class="trippeople">Tony, <u>Brian</u></div>
<div class="triptitle">2004-19 &ndash; pushing</div>
<div class="triptitle">Cave 2004-19 - pushing</div>
<p>Very arduous and contorted route to cave. GPS essential. Surveyed in. Surveyed 2 entrances, one horizontal, one upslope vertical.
Surveyed into cave via phreatic tube to crossroads: straight on, choked; right to choked chamber. Left through nice phreas with pitch
@@ -1481,7 +1481,7 @@ and contorted route back to stone bridge.</p>
<a id="t2004-08-06A" />
<div class="tripdate">6/8/04</div>
<div class="trippeople"><u>Dave</u>, Nial</div>
<div class="triptitle">Miscellaneous 204 stuff</div>
<div class="triptitle">204 - Miscellaneous 204 stuff</div>
<p>Descended 204a ent pitches and wandered up Near End Series as far as the supposed end of the Colonnade connection. Didn't look at all
promising &ndash; clearing some cobbles revealed two passages heading in the right directions but both were far too tight. Derigged out of
@@ -1502,7 +1502,7 @@ of survey (I don't know, I left the notes up the hill &ndash; doh!) <i>[Not a ba
<a id="t2004-08-06B" />
<div class="tripdate">6/8/04</div>
<div class="trippeople"><u>Stuart</u>, Martin, Mark S</div>
<div class="triptitle">Grabenbach Canyon</div>
<div class="triptitle">Base Camp - Grabenbach Canyon</div>
<p>What an ace place. Really good. And that's only the walk-in. Probably required less rope than we took. Lots of silly jumping into deep
pools, and sliding down dodgy waterfalls on one's arse. (But only if you are called Stuart or Martin. Mark was sensible and used ropes. How
@@ -1515,7 +1515,7 @@ a thing is possible).</p>
<a id="t2004-08-07A" />
<div class="tripdate">7/8/04</div>
<div class="trippeople"><u>Dave</u>, Nial</div>
<div class="triptitle">Hauchh&ouml;hle</div>
<div class="triptitle">234 - Hauchh&ouml;hle</div>
<p>Woke up to the realisation that as nobody had appeared from base camp with a drill battery, and the club drill was not inspiring in
its rotational speed, we had nothing better to do than re-rig Hauchh&ouml;hle, catch up on the survey backlog and derig the thing
@@ -1534,7 +1534,7 @@ beginning of Underhand &ndash; explored but not surveyed by Pete]</i>.</p>
<a id="t2004-08-08A" />
<div class="tripdate">8/8/04</div>
<div class="trippeople">Olly M, <u>Dave</u> + *various spectators</div>
<div class="triptitle">Shaft bashing</div>
<div class="triptitle">Loser Plateau - Shaft bashing</div>
<p>Rigged and descended a slot at the edge of a choss bowl near 2000-08. It didn't go.</p>