diff --git a/handbook/rope_history.html b/handbook/rope_history.html index 322eaf273..83469d4fe 100644 --- a/handbook/rope_history.html +++ b/handbook/rope_history.html @@ -18,7 +18,7 @@ General notice green with 3 black strips To be tested 2021 -Post expo 2028 +Post expo 2028 2018 @@ -27,7 +27,7 @@ General notice blue orange (UK Caving Donation) To be tested 2021 -Post expo 2028 +Post expo 2028 2017 @@ -36,7 +36,7 @@ General notice blue black blue (UK Caving Donation) To be tested 2020 -Post expo 2027 +Post expo 2027 2016 @@ -45,7 +45,7 @@ General notice black green black To be tested 2019 -Post expo 2026 +Post expo 2026 2016 @@ -54,7 +54,7 @@ General notice black green To be tested 2019 -Post expo 2026 +Post expo 2026 2016 @@ -63,7 +63,7 @@ General notice alternating black green To be tested 2019 -Post expo 2026 +Post expo 2026 2015 @@ -72,7 +72,7 @@ General notice black green black To be tested 2018 -Post expo 2025 +Post expo 2025 2015 @@ -81,7 +81,7 @@ General notice black green To be tested 2018 -Post expo 2025 +Post expo 2025 2014 @@ -90,7 +90,7 @@ None black green Section with heavy glazing to be tested 2015 -Post expo 2020 +Post expo 2020 2014 @@ -99,7 +99,25 @@ None black green black Section with mild glazing to be tested 2015 -Post expo 2020 +Post expo 2020 + + +2012 +Mammut +10.5mm Pro static +Spec +yellow with 2 black strips, or two red strips + +Post expo 2022 + + +2012 +Beal +Antipodies +Lifetime info +Thin Red and Black strips + +Post expo 2022 diff --git a/years/2018/basecamplist.html b/years/2018/basecamplist.html index 0ab8a864c..b1afb70cc 100644 --- a/years/2018/basecamplist.html +++ b/years/2018/basecamplist.html @@ -39,6 +39,11 @@
  • dark-green, many eyelets ~8 sq.m.good condition
  • blue, ~9 sq.m. very worn +Sleeping bags: +
  • 2x Bosch drills
  • 3x Bosch drill batteries
  • 1x Bosch drill mains charger and bits in small red plastic tub @@ -48,9 +53,10 @@
  • 2x small daysacks
  • 2-man grey tent (poles, pegs, everything) - geartape purple +
  • 2-man grey/green tent (poles, pegs, everything) - Radost's responsibility as it came to Austria in his kit.
  • 3x blue foam karrimats - purple tape
  • 3x thin emergency orange polythene bivvy bags - no breathing holes - muddy & dusty - in a polybag with bits of karrimat, tarp.
  • 3x thick emergency orange polythene bivvy bags - no breathing holes - clean and unused - geartape purple @@ -134,5 +140,7 @@ They are loaned to expo and belong to Wookey and Philip Sargent. +
    +Back to 2018 year organisation.
    diff --git a/years/2018/index.html b/years/2018/index.html index 44c481705..8258614dd 100644 --- a/years/2018/index.html +++ b/years/2018/index.html @@ -25,13 +25,13 @@

    Post-Expo Completion

    These files being created over the de-rigging weekend...

    Mission Statement

    @@ -69,4 +69,4 @@ We are more than a little curious about the hydrology of this deep area of the c

    Back to Expo Planning Guide. - \ No newline at end of file + diff --git a/years/2018/logbook.html b/years/2018/logbook.html index 8c15c0d15..bfcc1c365 100644 --- a/years/2018/logbook.html +++ b/years/2018/logbook.html @@ -803,7 +803,247 @@ The decision to leave all the tackle sacks at the entrance was endorsed unanimou

    Robert Seebacher
    "Receipt for expo members of VfHO for 2018"
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    2018-08-08
    +
    Natalie Uomini, Paul Fox
    +
    Top Camp - Surface Prospecting - Old & New Caves - 8.5 hours
    +
    T/U 25 mins
    + +
    +Bunda filling the plateau + +

    + +New cave 2018-NTU-01 +
    +Paul had prepared a list of some caves found in 2004 which were within 300m of Top Camp. +In the blazing heat of morning, Nat and Paul set off with packs full of SRT kits, +50m rope, hangers, drill, bolting kit, oversuits, helmets and lights. +First we went the wrong way and ended up meandering through bunda above top camp. +Finally we set a bearing towards one of the caves in question, and this took us on +a scramble parallel to (east of, uphill from) the path to Tunnocks. +We bumbled onto a small cave entrance which we named 2018-NTU-01 located in a +gully filled with wild chives. +The entrance is below a large fixed boulder with the tag on its SW side +. I (Nat) squeezed down through some +dodgy loose boulders at the entrance, but could not get further down safely. +I could see beyond the boulder choke that there was a vertical shaft, +smooth-sided, which we measured by Disto as 2.7m deep, probably landing +onto a gravel floor as judged by the sound of throwing rocks down. +This vertical shaft appears to turn a corner into a rift heading South-West +(downslope). +No noticeable draft, but it was hard to get my head right in. +The shaft is definitely big enough for a person to stand in comfortably. +With a bit of tidying up the big loose boulders inside the entrance, +one could get into the shaft and see where the rift goes. +

    +Data from Nat's GPS (Garmin Oregon 650):
    +1834m, N47°41.518, E13°49.298
    +UTM UPS: 33T 0411579, 5282737
    +GPS accuracy not noted for this point, but the other points this day had 3m accuracy. +
    +This cave was tagged by Nat & Neil a few days later on Aug. 13. +
    +To reach this cave easily from Top Camp, just follow the Tunnocks path until +the cave marked on GPS as "1623.p2001-02", then turn right (uphill) and go up +a small chive & boulder-filled gully until you see the big boulder with the tag on it. +

    + +Rift hole to descend +
    +Several meters downhill from 2018-NTU-01, in passing we waypointed on the +GPS a "rift hole to descend", which looked like a promising hole that is +nowhere near any already-catalogued waypoints. +1846m, UTM: 33T 0411511, 5282847. (no photo) + +

    +We finally rejoined the path to Tunnocks (which we should have used +all along) and after a while, we waypointed on the GPS another hole +that's most likely the same as catalogued 1623.p2002-07. +

    + +2018-PF-01,02,03 +
    +Arriving at the Big Cairn (GPS coords UTM: 33T 0411542, 5282881) +which is on the Tunnocks path, we followed the 2005 instructions +and veered left on an alleged heading towards the fabled caves +2004-18, 17, and 16 (unfortunately the instructions proved +impossible to follow; see our updated writeup for the best +approach to 2004-18). Directly off the Tunnocks path we got +distracted as we came upon 3 shafts which were not on the GPS +catalogue: we named them 2018-PF-01 (which we tagged; see our +survey of the same day), 2018-PF-02 (which we tagged the next +day with Wookey; undescended), and 2018-PF-03 +(which Paul tagged some days later). +

    +2018-PF-01 Tag: 1857m, UTM: 33T 0411526, 5282885
    +2018-PF-02: 1859m, UTM: 33T 0411540, 5282900
    +2018-PF-03: 1858m, UTM: 33T 0411530, 5282893
    +GPS with 3m accuracy for all.
    + +

    +2018-PF-01 is a 2m-diameter shaft with an easy climb down +to a mossy slope. We surveyed it [see Paul's excellent digital +survey]. + +

    +2018-PF-02 is an impressive, open surface shaft about 3.5m +diameter and 11.5m deep (as measured by Disto). It looks like it +continues horizontally into a rift heading upslope. There is a +good spot to drill bolts for rigging where we installed the tag. +

    +2018-PF-03 is an open rift between PF-01 and PF-02 about +5.6m deep, 1.75m wide, 4.6m long (as measured by Disto). +Paul climbed down PF-03 and found it was choked at the end +nearest (heading towards) the big shaft PF-02. Thus, it +dashed all our hopes of finding a free-climbable access to the big shaft. +
    + +

    +2018-NTU-02 +
    +Afterwards we circled painfully through obstacles of +larch and cliffs until we stumbled across another interesting +hole, which we named 2018-NTU-02. +
    +1861m, UTM: 33T 0411522, 5282905, GPS with 3m accuracy.
    +It is a window in the side of a surface shaft filled with +grass. Nat climbed down into it using a handline tied with +loops, which proved essential. The small shaft is vertical +and has a depth of 4.6m (as measured by Disto) and a +diameter of about 2 to 3m. A passage extends about 2m +horizontally at the base of this small shaft, ending in a +rubble choke which is the underside of the large surface +shaft. [See scanned sketch in our survey notes.] + +
    +We drilled and installed a Hilti, but did not have any tags, +and we were unable to return to put the tag in later. +The tag has been made and is sitting in the Tags tub +at top camp. + +

    +A big opening in the side of the mountain +
    +Next we headed again for the mythical 2004-18, and reached the +south-eastern edge of a huge steep-sided valley: Cubic Valley. + +(Note: the next day we found a much easier way with Wookey, by +going from the Tunnocks path round the northern edge of the valley, +as recorded in our uploaded GPS track and described in the updated +Approach to 2004-18.) Following the southern edge of the cliff, +we found a way to climb down into the valley. From the eastern edge +of this valley is visible a large opening in the opposite (north side) +cliff, which I waypointed from my position. The opening should be +investigated, as it seems to be below Tunnocks. + +

    + +Freezer Hole +
    +In the lowest point of the eastern bowl of Cubic Valley is a small +hole in the rubble which emits freezing cold air. +We measured the temperature just inside the hole as 9°C, +compared to 18°C just outside the hole (in the shade) +(- and the temperature in the sun on the plateau that day +was about 30°C). This hole is choked with rubble, but it would +certainly be an interesting digging project for future Expos. +

    + +2004-18 and Mystery Shafts +
    +Finally, heading westward down Cubic Valley towards the +Cube-Shaped Boulder, we reached the fabled cave. The whole +section of valley is full of tantalising deep shafts which +must be explored! Just beside 2004-18 we found another shaft +with a tag marked "AA 1 2017" but there is no recorded +survey, no database entry, no information anywhere about it . +, +
    Beside this shaft is another shaft with a snow plug +and 2 spits well positioned for rigging, but no visible +tag nor informations recorded. + +Who could have been there? +

    + +2004-16 and 2004-17 and Maybe Hole +
    +As it was getting late and our water bottles were empty and +it was very hot, we left our heavy caving gear in a hole and +tried to head back to top camp. On the way out of the valley +we found the other 2 caves 2004-16 and 2004-17, which we +waypointed on the GPS (1878m, N47° 41.594' E13° 49.150' and +1881m, N47° 41.608' E13° 49.150', respectively). +Then we struggled on through thick larch and sheer cliffs, + passing by a potential hole to explore (UTM: 33T 0411410, +5282786), in our dehydrated and grumpy state, until we saw someone +walking on the Fischgesicht path in the distance, which we could +eventually reach and thankfully followed back to Top Camp, arriving +just 20 minutes before our callout time! + +

    + + + +

    2018-08-09
    +
    Natalie Uomini, Paul Fox, Wookey
    +
    Revisiting 2004-18
    +
    T/U 2.5 hours
    + +Surveying 2004-18 Eiskeller +
    +The day after our eventful prospecting trip, Nat, Paul, and Wookey +returned to 2004-18 to survey it. We recovered our gear left in a hole, +and Paul rigged. Feeling hot, I went down in my t-shirt and trousers. +But during rigging and surveying I got so cold that I had to ask Wookey +to send my bag of layers down the rope. We landed on the snow plug which +had blocked further exploration in 2005, and rigged a rebelay from which +to climb down the snow plug. Our first ice climbing experience! At the +base of the snow plug is a chamber with a side aven and a rubble floor and +possibly a tiny gap round the western back end of the snowplug but we did +not fancy squeezing into it [see photos]. We decided to name it Eiskeller +(Ice House) as it looks just like + one. +

    +We surveyed back up the pitch [see our survey and notes] and emerged +gratefully into the blazing sunshine, where Wookey had been sunbathing +the whole time. Then we took the easy hike back to Top Camp, which we'd +found on the way in [see our description in Approach and our GPS track]. +

    + +Twin Caves +
    +Along the northern edge of the valley approaching 2004-18 we waypointed +two shafts with snow inside. UTM: 33T 0411527, 5282982. + +

    +Summary: go back to Cubic Valley!! +
    +Given the number of deep shafts in this valley, it's the most exciting +place to return to. The Cube-shaped boulder sitting above 2004-18 is +an easy landmark to find [see our photos]. The hike to/from Top Camp +is so quick & easy that it makes a perfect few days of rigging and +surveying for Expo novices or for people who don't want to go deep. +According to our GPS track, the hike is 670m and takes 23 minutes. +Be sure to wear an oversuit and layers! + +

    + + + + + +

    2018-08-13
    +
    Natalie Uomini, Neil Smith
    +
    Top Camp - Tagging 2018-NTU-01
    + +Neil and Nat practiced hand-bolting and installed the tag for the +cave Paul & Nat found previously. + + +

    diff --git a/years/2018/ropes.html b/years/2018/ropes.html new file mode 100644 index 000000000..6505853b1 --- /dev/null +++ b/years/2018/ropes.html @@ -0,0 +1,73 @@ + + +Ropes list + + + +

    Rope inventory

    +

    List of rope at end of expo 2018.08.18

    +
    +  2018-28 58m  9mm   Orng+Blue (20-18 Teufelberger Patron)
+  2018-28 77m  9mm   Orng+Blue
+  2018-28 50m  9mm   Orng+Blue
+  2018-28 77m  9mm   Orng+Blue
+  2018    58m  9mm   Green, Blk+blk+blk (Cordes Courant Equirial)
+  2018-28 57m  9mm   BGB (Cordes Courant Equirial)
+  2018-28 73m  9mm   Green, Blk+blk+blk 
+  2018-?  58m  9mm   Green, Blk+blk+blk
+  2017    15m  9mm   BGB
+  2017-27 66m  9mm   BGB
+  2017-27 12m  9mm   BGB
+  2017-27 68m  9mm   BGB
+  2017-27 42m  10mm  BG
+  2017-27 65m  10mm  BG
+  2017-27 70m  10mm  BG
+  2017-27 54m  9mm   Blue+blk+blue (2017 Teufelberger Patron)
+  2017    90m  9mm   Blue+blk+blue
+  2017    75m  9mm   Blue+blk+blue
+  2017    37m  9mm   Blue+blk+blue
+  2016-26 29m  9mm   BGB
+  2016-26 90m  9mm   BGB
+  2016-26 11m  10mm  BG
+  2016-26 50m  10mm  BG
+  2016-26 81m  10mm  BG
+  2016-26 28m  10mm  BG
+  2016-25 11m  10mm  BG
+  2015-25 43m  10mm  BG
+  2015-25 24m  10mm  BG
+  2015-25 17m  10mm  BG
+  2015-25 19m  10mm  BG
+  2015-25 21m  9mm   BGB
+  2015-25 17m  9mm   BGB
+  2015-25 15m  9mm   BGB
+  2015-?  34m  10mm  blk+red
+  2014-24 14m  10mm  BG
+  2014-24 99m  10mm  BG
+  2014-24 6m   9mm   BGB
+  2014-24 25m  9mm   BGB
+  2014-24 18m  9mm   BGB
+  2014-24 11m  9mm   BGB
+  2014-24 65m  10.5? BG-thin
+  2014-24 25m  10.5? BG-thin
+  2014-24 98m  10.5? BG-thin
+  2014    37m  9mm   BGB
+  2014    6m   9mm   BGB
+  2014    50m  11mm  BGthin
+  2013    50m  10mm  R+R 'ULSA' (Mammut Static)
+  2013    48m  10mm  Yellow, Blk+Blk (Mammut Static) 
+  2013    8m   10mm  BG
+  2013    37m  9mm   BGB
+  2012    14m  9mm   BGB
+  2012    17m  10mm  R+R 'expo'
+  2012    13m  10mm  R+R
+  2012    27m  10mm  R+R
+  2012    12m  10mm  R+R
+  2012    33m  9mm   Blk+Red Thin
+  2011    11m  9mm   Blk+Red Thin (Beal Antipodes)
+  2011    27m  10mm  blk+red
+  2010    34m  10mm  Yellow, Blk+Blk (Mammut Static)
+  2010    80m  10mm  R+R 'ULSA'
+  2009    35m  10mm  Yellow, Blk+Blk
+
    +

    See /handbook/rope_history.html for specs

    + diff --git a/years/2018/topcamplist.html b/years/2018/topcamplist.html new file mode 100644 index 000000000..2e8be74cd --- /dev/null +++ b/years/2018/topcamplist.html @@ -0,0 +1,42 @@ + + +CUCC Austria Expeditions: 2018 Stuff left at top camp + + + +

    Stuff left at top camp 2018

    + +

    This inventory done Saturday 18th August 2018 + +

    Food

    + +..more to be copied from photographs of pages of notes +
    +Back to 2018 year organisation.
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