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<h1>Expo 2024</h1>
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<div class="tripdate" id="2024-07-19z">2024-07-19</div>
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<div class="trippeople"><u>Wookey</u>, Jono</div>
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<div class="triptitle">Balconhoehle - Rigging Mongol Rally</div>
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<p>Walked up to top camp in the evening ready for trip down
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Balkonhoehle to get Mongol Raly rigged with Jono. I was somewhat
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perplexed to find no sign of Jono, and still not as it went dark. He
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eventually turned up about 10am the next morning. We had our gear to
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carry over so it wasn't a particularly early start.</p>
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<p>I had forgotten a load of the upper passages, but did at least
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remember the obscure left turn for Honeycomb/Mongol Rally. Soon enough
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we arrived at the end of the rigging part-way down hangmans, complete
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with a rigging diag, some rope and a drill. Jono did this one,
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complaining at the bottom that the bolts didn't match the diagram,
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rigging a 2-bolt rebelay as a rather peculiar deviation. We realised
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that we were starting part-way down the rigging diagram, not the top,
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so he went back up to put it right whilst I continued to start Mongol
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Rally. Dragging the gear through was the usual faff (someone should
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just take a spade and make that crawl bigger).</p>
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<p>So now it was my turn and I suited up with Anthony's nice new drill
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and 125m of rope. The 25m didn't quite reach across the traverse with
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a big thread round a boulder, so I put a bolt in the roof to improve
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the rigging (another one just over the hole in the floor would make
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the traverse line a lot more useful, I later realised). The rock was
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impressively cheesy, with about 20mm of goo to remove before getting
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to actual rock.</p>
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<p>The rigging diagram suggested another bolt near the top so I added
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one about 6m down on a nose to the right, only to realise that one had
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probably already been done some previous year. I also realised at this
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point that the tape on Anthony's drill bit was set rather too short
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for reliable bolt-setting so adjusted it to give an extra 10mm of
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hole. I then added another bolt on the left, replacing one in the
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maximum rub-spot just under a lip (very odd placement). This finally
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removed all the rubs on this top slope and actually made the
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changeovers nicer, so I think it's an improvement. </p>
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<p>Next dilemma was whether to use the bolt on a nose (with hanger
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left behind) or the reflectored bolt on the well-used muddy route. The
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nose was harder to get to but gave a nicer hang (and was suggested on
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the rigging diagram). With a sling to help the changeover it actually
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worked quite well, although maybe the obvious route would also work
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fine - there is no way of knowing without trying both and I had faffed
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enough by now. Continued down for another hour or so rigging
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rebelays. The rigging guide is accurate. Hummed and hawed some more at
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the odder bits of rigging trying to work out what 'better' might look
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like. Left one bit (with a nearly horizontal deviation) some extra
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rope to come back to and add a bolt if time allowed but pressed on
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until the rope ran out, just on the same ledge that had had a knot
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pass in 2022. Looks like that is where 100m gets you to.</p>
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<p>We were out of time so called it a day and headed off out, only
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realising on the way out that the rope bag we had left contained a
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note 'top of mongol rally' in it so we had used the wrong one (misled
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by the '25m' rope in the top matching the '25m' rope marked on the
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topo for the traverse. Oh well.</p>
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<p>Got out around 11:30, having had a very satisfying trip, Jono had
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finally got underground and enjoyed himself. It was a chill trip with
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almost zero stress, and we'd done enough to make a camping trip
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feasible next time.</p>
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<div class="timeug">T/U: 10.5 hours</div>
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<div class="editentry"><br /><a href="/logbookedit/2024-07-19c">Edit this entry</a><br /></div>
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<div class="tripdate" id="2024-07-25z">2024-07-25</div>
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<div class="trippeople"><u>Wookey</u>,Anthony Day, Jacob Chuck</div>
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<div class="triptitle">Surface - Fixing Guten Morgen Höhle</div>
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<p>My adopt-a-cave for this year was GMH (Guten Morgon Höhle), having
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failed to sort it out last time I was here in 2022. And this was the
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last day available to get it done, so research was done down at base
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to make sure I had the necessary info - email threads, purported
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locations, cave descriptions, lobbook entries, GPX tracks, and
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Martin's 'mappapp' local copy (ish) of the website. And I went
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shopping for stainless screws and HSS bits so we could put in tags,
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and had drills, and instruments. We tried hard not to forget anything
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important so this would actually work.</p>
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<p>The weather was a rare case of a bit overcast, but not actually
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raining, which is perfect for this work. It warmed up later in the day
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but was relatively gentle on us, which is good because we walked for
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bloody miles!</p>
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<p>Tromped past Balkony following vague line of cairns, checking the
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points on our map. Checkout 2023-ASH-10 and 2023-ASH-11 which defo
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look worth investigating. Then got
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to <a href="../../1623/2012-OK-01/2012-OK-01.html">2012-OK-01</a> which
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is of course one of mine, from the fabled 'Wook and Olaf walk to
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Appelhaus' trip of 2012. There were a couple of obvious shafts which
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we photoed, but they didn't fit my recollection of OK-01 which was a
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smaller shaft under an alcove. Soon we found the right hole just 6m
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away, but not obvious due to being 'tucked under' a small cliff.</p>
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<p>We put in a new concrete-screw tag for "2012 OK 01", only to find
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it already tagged just round the corner as
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<a href="../../1623/2017-NR-02/2017-NR-02.html">2017-NR-02</a>. So in fact
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it has been explored, tagged, located, photoed and sketch-surveyed for
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7 years, so we can kataster this one.</p>
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<p>Next we passed 2012-OK-02 which still needs descending so far as we
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can tell. Easy job. We put our cave-blinkers back on in an attempt to
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actually get the job we intended to do done. Wook had carefully put
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the alleged GPS of GMH on his phone (neither it nor shagged-spit was
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in the 2024 entrances list). The back-up plan was that Anthony had
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been there before a mere decade ago so could hopefully re-find
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them. Fortunately the GPS was spot-on for the GMH entrance, which had
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a nice tag saying <a href="../../1623/2015-DL-02/2015-DL-02.html">"2015
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DL 02"</a> so one wonders quite how "Chossy Death Slope Höhle" got
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renamed and no-record of this correspondence made it into a logbook. A
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short wander up-cliff found the
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also-tagged <a href="../../1623/2015-DL-01/2015-DL-01.html">2015 DL
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01</a> (Shagged Spit Höhle). We GPSed (GPS on the eponymous shagged
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spit for about 40 mins) and photoed that location whilst also doing a
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'from-the-surface' SAP6 survey.</p>
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<p>So now both 2015-DL-01 and 2015-DL-02 are explored, located,
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photoed, tagged and surveyed sufficiently to get
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katastered. Result. Job done.</p>
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<p>Time was moving on and we had a dinner to get back to this evg so
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we headed back, looking
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for <a href="../../1623/2012-dd-04/2012-dd-04.html">2012-dd-04</a> on the
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way back. Despite our best efforts we stumbled onto an entrance too
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fine to ignore and so spent 40 mins GPSing, tagging and surveying
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(from the surface) 2024-JC-01. (See how the wiley old lags carefully
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made this one Jacob's responsibility :-) It's quite a big
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hading shaft entrance about 12m x 2m with a 4m cliff behind and at
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least 17m deep. There was a nice boulder for a survey station but it
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looked a bit dodgy and shove sent it crashing down the hole so we were
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wise not to use that one. Tag is to LH end of the hole. GPS point and
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intermediate point are red nail-varnish marked.</p>
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<p>dd-04 was a tiny bit elusive, although Anthony's GPS took him
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nearly straight there whilst Wookey's took him 20m away jus tthe
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wrong side of a ridge and then he was marooned by bunde for a while,
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but eventually re-found the others. jacob had shoved himself into the
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hole but it was about 1.5 cavers long and thus not big enough to be
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katasterable. We tagged it anyway.</p>
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<p>Now it really was time to hot-foot it home so we headed back,
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passing the (tagged) caves 277, 272 and 2012-FT-02. There really are
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quite a lot of holes round here.</p>
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<p>Anthony and I collected the rest of our shit and we all headed
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briskly down the hill for the final time this year, which was good
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because I really did have quite sore feet by the end of the day after
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more than 7km of that ridiculous pointy terrain. We even arrived in
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good time for Tess to rescue us and take us to a fine dinner</p>
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<div class="timeug">T/U: Jacob: 2mins</div>
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<div class="editentry"><br /><a href="/logbookedit/2024-07-25i">Edit this entry</a><br /></div>
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<div class="tripdate" id="2024-07-17z">2024-07-17</div>
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<div class="trippeople"><u>Wookey</u>, Jono, Marie, Isaac, Charlotte, Phil Balister</div>
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<div class="triptitle">Canyonning - Strubklamm</div>
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<p>A canyonning trip was suggested, and as I'd done it a couple of
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times before and thus knew where it was, and what to look out for, it
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was easy to blag my way on. We had this idea a bit later in the day
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than was ideal, because Strubklamm is miles away (most of the way back
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to Salzburg), but it also meant that I was able to collect Tess from
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the station before buggering off like a very naughty husband. I had
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brought my new wetsuit and was eager to find out if it made Strubklamm
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into a much less cold-and-miserable experience than previous
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attempts. I was also able to borrow a (kayaking) helmet and neoprene
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booties from Julia, which, combined with some sandals and spare caving
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gloves, was enough kit to canyon (as this one doesn't actually need a
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harness if you can manage an 8m jump).</p>
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<p>We were going to take my van and Charlotte's car but Tess wanted
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the Van, and it's a long way to take two cars, so when PhilB appeared
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we pounced on him and made him drive all 5 of us there (Charlote in
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the boot). This was very kind as it's about 1hr40 mins each way, and
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he doesn't even get to do the canyon. Having a driver avoids all the
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shuttle-faff too, which is great, especialy as it turned out the
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huttle-road was closed for works, so there was quite a long
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drive-around which would have made us even later.</p>
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<p>This was Isaac and Charlotte's 1st ever canyonning trip, and
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Marie's 2nd (after the disastrously cold 'Haute Borne' in the
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Ardeche), but we were a crack team of potholers with two harnesses
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between us so what could possibly go wrong?</p>
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<p>In fact the descent was very smooth with everyone having fun, at
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least to start with. The water was quite a pleasant temperature,
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although every inlet was much colder so we got a chilly bit every so
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often as they came in. However it is longer than I remember and there
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is a _lot_ of swimming, with a long section in the middle starting
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with a canyon, and then a couple more long swims. Clearly the local
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canyonning school uses it a lot so there were lots of in-situ ropes
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for getting to good takeoffs and dealing with any slippery bits, or
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just abseiling if you didn't like the bigger jumps. (Marie skipped the
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biggest one).</p>
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<p>Much jumping fun was had, with Charlotte of course taking to the
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game with gusto, although neither of us was any good at keeping the
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water out of our noses on impact, and I managed to bite my tongue on
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one jump, which was dim. Everyone avoided broken ankles or being
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impaled on trees, just some coughing and spluttering.</p>
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<p>I hardly recognised any of the 2nd half as obviously my brain had
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shut down with the chilly misery on the previous two attempts after
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the 1st long swim. This time it was all rather lovely - it is a _very_
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pretty canyon. Marie found herself a bit short of stoke after the 1st
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half, partly due to the baggy 2mm wetsuit and partly not having
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evtirely recovered from the great chunder trip. 1.4km of canyonning
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(with ~400m of swimming) over 3 hours feels like quite a long
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way, and it was a relief to swim round a corner and finally see a
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slackline being rigged and a footbridge with a beach which marks the
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escape.</p>
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<p>Phil was even there to rescue us, so that all worked out
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nicely. Good trip, and it's a lot nicer with 5 than 10 but still takes
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a solid 3 hours. We got back about 7pm.</p>
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<div class="tripdate" id="2024-07-19z">2024-07-19</div>
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<div class="trippeople"><u>Wookey</u>, Jono</div>
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<div class="triptitle">Balconhoehle - Rigging Mongol Rally</div>
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<p>Walked up to top camp in the evening ready for trip down
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Balkonhoehle to get Mongol Raly rigged with Jono. I was somewhat
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perplexed to find no sign of Jono, and still not as it went dark. He
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eventually turned up about 10am the next morning. We had our gear to
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carry over so it wasn't a particularly early start.</p>
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<p>I had forgotten a load of the upper passages, but did at least
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remember the obscure left turn for Honeycomb/Mongol Rally. Soon enough
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we arrived at the end of the rigging part-way down hangmans, complete
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with a rigging diag, some rope and a drill. Jono did this one,
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complaining at the bottom that the bolts didn't match the diagram,
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rigging a 2-bolt rebelay as a rather peculiar deviation. We realised
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that we were starting part-way down the rigging diagram, not the top,
|
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so he went back up to put it right whilst I continued to start Mongol
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Rally. Dragging the gear through was the usual faff (someone should
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just take a spade and make that crawl bigger).</p>
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<p>So now it was my turn and I suited up with Anthony's nice new drill
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and 125m of rope. The 25m didn't quite reach across the traverse with
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a big thread round a boulder, so I put a bolt in the roof to improve
|
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the rigging (another one just over the hole in the floor would make
|
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the traverse line a lot more useful, I later realised). The rock was
|
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impressively cheesy, with about 20mm of goo to remove before getting
|
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to actual rock.</p>
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<p>The rigging diagram suggested another bolt near the top so I added
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one about 6m down on a nose to the right, only to realise that one had
|
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probably already been done some previous year. I also realised at this
|
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point that the tape on Anthony's drill bit was set rather too short
|
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for reliable bolt-setting so adjusted it to give an extra 10mm of
|
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hole. I then added another bolt on the left, replacing one in the
|
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maximum rub-spot just under a lip (very odd placement). This finally
|
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removed all the rubs on this top slope and actually made the
|
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changeovers nicer, so I think it's an improvement. </p>
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<p>Next dilemma was whether to use the bolt on a nose (with hanger
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left behind) or the reflectored bolt on the well-used muddy route. The
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nose was harder to get to but gave a nicer hang (and was suggested on
|
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the rigging diagram). With a sling to help the changeover it actually
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worked quite well, although maybe the obvious route would also work
|
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fine - there is no way of knowing without trying both and I had faffed
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enough by now. Continued down for another hour or so rigging
|
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rebelays. The rigging guide is accurate. Hummed and hawed some more at
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the odder bits of rigging trying to work out what 'better' might look
|
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like. Left one bit (with a nearly horizontal deviation) some extra
|
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rope to come back to and add a bolt if time allowed but pressed on
|
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until the rope ran out, just on the same ledge that had had a knot
|
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pass in 2022. Looks like that is where 100m gets you to.</p>
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<p>We were out of time so called it a day and headed off out, only
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realising on the way out that the rope bag we had left contained a
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note 'top of mongol rally' in it so we had used the wrong one (misled
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by the '25m' rope in the top matching the '25m' rope marked on the
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topo for the traverse. Oh well.</p>
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<p>Got out around 11:30, having had a very satisfying trip, Jono had
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finally got underground and enjoyed himself. It was a chill trip with
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almost zero stress, and we'd done enough to make a camping trip
|
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feasible next time.</p>
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<div class="timeug">T/U: 10.5 hours</div>
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<div class="editentry"><br /><a href="/logbookedit/2024-07-19c">Edit this entry</a><br /></div>
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<hr />
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<div class="tripdate" id="2024-07-25z">2024-07-25</div>
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<div class="trippeople"><u>Wookey</u>,Anthony Day, Jacob Chuck</div>
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<div class="triptitle">Surface - Fixing Guten Morgen Höhle</div>
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<p>My adopt-a-cave for this year was GMH (Guten Morgon Höhle), having
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failed to sort it out last time I was here in 2022. And this was the
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last day available to get it done, so research was done down at base
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to make sure I had the necessary info - email threads, purported
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locations, cave descriptions, lobbook entries, GPX tracks, and
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Martin's 'mappapp' local copy (ish) of the website. And I went
|
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shopping for stainless screws and HSS bits so we could put in tags,
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and had drills, and instruments. We tried hard not to forget anything
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important so this would actually work.</p>
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<p>The weather was a rare case of a bit overcast, but not actually
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raining, which is perfect for this work. It warmed up later in the day
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but was relatively gentle on us, which is good because we walked for
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bloody miles!</p>
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<p>Tromped past Balkony following vague line of cairns, checking the
|
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points on our map. Checkout 2023-ASH-10 and 2023-ASH-11 which defo
|
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look worth investigating. Then got
|
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to <a href="../../1623/2012-OK-01/2012-OK-01.html">2012-OK-01</a> which
|
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is of course one of mine, from the fabled 'Wook and Olaf walk to
|
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Appelhaus' trip of 2012. There were a couple of obvious shafts which
|
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we photoed, but they didn't fit my recollection of OK-01 which was a
|
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smaller shaft under an alcove. Soon we found the right hole just 6m
|
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away, but not obvious due to being 'tucked under' a small cliff.</p>
|
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<p>We put in a new concrete-screw tag for "2012 OK 01", only to find
|
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it already tagged just round the corner as
|
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<a href="../../1623/2017-NR-02/2017-NR-02.html">2017-NR-02</a>. So in fact
|
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it has been explored, tagged, located, photoed and sketch-surveyed for
|
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7 years, so we can kataster this one.</p>
|
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<p>Next we passed 2012-OK-02 which still needs descending so far as we
|
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can tell. Easy job. We put our cave-blinkers back on in an attempt to
|
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actually get the job we intended to do done. Wook had carefully put
|
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the alleged GPS of GMH on his phone (neither it nor shagged-spit was
|
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in the 2024 entrances list). The back-up plan was that Anthony had
|
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been there before a mere decade ago so could hopefully re-find
|
||||
them. Fortunately the GPS was spot-on for the GMH entrance, which had
|
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a nice tag saying <a href="../../1623/2015-DL-02/2015-DL-02.html">"2015
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DL 02"</a> so one wonders quite how "Chossy Death Slope Höhle" got
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renamed and no-record of this correspondence made it into a logbook. A
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short wander up-cliff found the
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also-tagged <a href="../../1623/2015-DL-01/2015-DL-01.html">2015 DL
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01</a> (Shagged Spit Höhle). We GPSed (GPS on the eponymous shagged
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spit for about 40 mins) and photoed that location whilst also doing a
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'from-the-surface' SAP6 survey.</p>
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<p>So now both 2015-DL-01 and 2015-DL-02 are explored, located,
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photoed, tagged and surveyed sufficiently to get
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katastered. Result. Job done.</p>
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<p>Time was moving on and we had a dinner to get back to this evg so
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we headed back, looking
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for <a href="../../1623/2012-dd-04/2012-dd-04.html">2012-dd-04</a> on the
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way back. Despite our best efforts we stumbled onto an entrance too
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fine to ignore and so spent 40 mins GPSing, tagging and surveying
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(from the surface) 2024-JC-01. (See how the wiley old lags carefully
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made this one Jacob's responsibility :-) It's quite a big
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hading shaft entrance about 12m x 2m with a 4m cliff behind and at
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least 17m deep. There was a nice boulder for a survey station but it
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looked a bit dodgy and shove sent it crashing down the hole so we were
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wise not to use that one. Tag is to LH end of the hole. GPS point and
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intermediate point are red nail-varnish marked.</p>
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<p>dd-04 was a tiny bit elusive, although Anthony's GPS took him
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nearly straight there whilst Wookey's took him 20m away jus tthe
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wrong side of a ridge and then he was marooned by bunde for a while,
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but eventually re-found the others. jacob had shoved himself into the
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hole but it was about 1.5 cavers long and thus not big enough to be
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katasterable. We tagged it anyway.</p>
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<p>Now it really was time to hot-foot it home so we headed back,
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passing the (tagged) caves 277, 272 and 2012-FT-02. There really are
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quite a lot of holes round here.</p>
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<p>Anthony and I collected the rest of our shit and we all headed
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briskly down the hill for the final time this year, which was good
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because I really did have quite sore feet by the end of the day after
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more than 7km of that ridiculous pointy terrain. We even arrived in
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good time for Tess to rescue us and take us to a fine dinner</p>
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<div class="tripdate" id="2024-07-17z">2024-07-17</div>
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<div class="trippeople"><u>Wookey</u>, Jono, Marie, Isaac, Charlotte, Phil Balister</div>
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<div class="triptitle">Canyonning - Strubklamm</div>
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<p>A canyonning trip was suggested, and as I'd done it a couple of
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times before and thus knew where it was, and what to look out for, it
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was easy to blag my way on. We had this idea a bit later in the day
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than was ideal, because Strubklamm is miles away (most of the way back
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to Salzburg), but it also meant that I was able to collect Tess from
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the station before buggering off like a very naughty husband. I had
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brought my new wetsuit and was eager to find out if it made Strubklamm
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into a much less cold-and-miserable experience than previous
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attempts. I was also able to borrow a (kayaking) helmet and neoprene
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booties from Julia, which, combined with some sandals and spare caving
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gloves, was enough kit to canyon (as this one doesn't actually need a
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harness if you can manage an 8m jump).</p>
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<p>We were going to take my van and Charlotte's car but Tess wanted
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the Van, and it's a long way to take two cars, so when PhilB appeared
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we pounced on him and made him drive all 5 of us there (Charlote in
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the boot). This was very kind as it's about 1hr40 mins each way, and
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he doesn't even get to do the canyon. Having a driver avoids all the
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shuttle-faff too, which is great, especialy as it turned out the
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huttle-road was closed for works, so there was quite a long
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drive-around which would have made us even later.</p>
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<p>This was Isaac and Charlotte's 1st ever canyonning trip, and
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Marie's 2nd (after the disastrously cold 'Haute Borne' in the
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Ardeche), but we were a crack team of potholers with two harnesses
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between us so what could possibly go wrong?</p>
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<p>In fact the descent was very smooth with everyone having fun, at
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least to start with. The water was quite a pleasant temperature,
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although every inlet was much colder so we got a chilly bit every so
|
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often as they came in. However it is longer than I remember and there
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is a _lot_ of swimming, with a long section in the middle starting
|
||||
with a canyon, and then a couple more long swims. Clearly the local
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canyonning school uses it a lot so there were lots of in-situ ropes
|
||||
for getting to good takeoffs and dealing with any slippery bits, or
|
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just abseiling if you didn't like the bigger jumps. (Marie skipped the
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biggest one).</p>
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<p>Much jumping fun was had, with Charlotte of course taking to the
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game with gusto, although neither of us was any good at keeping the
|
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water out of our noses on impact, and I managed to bite my tongue on
|
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one jump, which was dim. Everyone avoided broken ankles or being
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impaled on trees, just some coughing and spluttering.</p>
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<p>I hardly recognised any of the 2nd half as obviously my brain had
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shut down with the chilly misery on the previous two attempts after
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the 1st long swim. This time it was all rather lovely - it is a _very_
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pretty canyon. Marie found herself a bit short of stoke after the 1st
|
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half, partly due to the baggy 2mm wetsuit and partly not having
|
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evtirely recovered from the great chunder trip. 1.4km of canyonning
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(with ~400m of swimming) over 3 hours feels like quite a long
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way, and it was a relief to swim round a corner and finally see a
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slackline being rigged and a footbridge with a beach which marks the
|
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escape.</p>
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<p>Phil was even there to rescue us, so that all worked out
|
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nicely. Good trip, and it's a lot nicer with 5 than 10 but still takes
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a solid 3 hours. We got back about 7pm.</p>
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