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 <p>After a late start we headed out, fettling various bits of rigging on the way out. (out 23:30). Bolted crappy pitch before Mongol Rally.</p>
 <div class="timeug">T/U: 59 hours</div>
 
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+<div class="tripdate" id="t2022-08-07">7-9/8/22</div>
+<div class="triptitle">Kamp Kresh - Fishface</div>
+<div class="trippeople"><u>Rob</u>, Luke, Mike, Jape</div>
+<p>Awoke restless after terrible dream that I had spilt all the coffee and had no time to make more before venturing underground. Up the hill in reasonable time, however in just 15 minutes into the walk to Top Camp Mike managed to topple over and cut himself badly on his hand. We were very poorly equipped to deal with this but cleaned it as best we could with hand sanitiser and soldiered on to the Stone Bridge. Once we had begun packing in earnest Mike decided he was committed and rolled his karrimat in a big red AV bag. Packed the shiny nice 8.5mm, Mike's drill, bunch of hangers etc. Down the cave in reasonable time, discovered an excellent kitchen counter in the main passage towards Miracle Maze so began to decant food there. Then went to have a look at the leads in Coconut Chamber while waiting for the Jape to show up. Once he arrived, it transpired that his entire supply of food for the camp was three chocolates and 3 curries, the first jape of many. After setting up the cave link and failing to send/recieve anything we had a curry. Then Mike and I headed off to survey Balcony's arse while Luke and the Jape fettled the Cave Link. Got very muddy in the Arse only to break out at a junction, where we elected to look at the meander rather than the small tube higher up. Left a QMC pissing off upstream then back to camp for noodles. Schnapps and bed. Awoke around 8am for an enormous shit then off to survey Balcony's Nostril, just off the start of the Elizabeth line. That ended in a dig, then we tied up the phreatic tubes in the Arse whilst Luke and the Jape bolted at the end of Red Light. Quick noodle stop at camp then back to the front and down to the bootom of the pitch, heading east along a very big rift with phreatic development on the other side (big traverse needed from pitch head). Around 70m deep to ledges leading to a further 4s drop, very promising. Stripped the nice 8.5mm out leaving metalwork in (so that the light rope could be used for pushing). Then inserted noodles into the Japebefore commencing to kill Keanu Breeze by shuffling and scuttling across the big jammed flakey block. This done (after having to place a rebelay bolt above my head) I surveyed into a downstream meander and realised that the shrapnel in my eye was more persistant than I initially realised. Two more small pitches then the measnder continued as an utter shreadpiece and it was time to stop japing for the day. Surveyed back to an unlabelled Jape station then curries, candle worship and the last of the Schnapps. Tried to sleep the eye off but it didn't happen. Coffee grinding was a less involved process as Luke and Mike decided they couldn't risk it given the volume of shit in the Jape Drum. A final visit to admire the tarp and penultimate jape to surface via cave link then we headed out, abandoned the Jape to worship the candles, left him the drum, which he proceeded to empty into the Grike, sandwhich bags and all. </p>
+<div class="timeug">T/U: 44 hours</div>
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+<div class="tripdate" id="t2022-08-07">7/8/22</div>
+<div class="triptitle">Unknown</div>
+<div class="trippeople"><u>Frank</u></div>
+<p>God knows what I was up to, probably caving down Bat country....</p>
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+<div class="tripdate" id="t2022-08-08a">8/8/22</div>
+<div class="triptitle">Fishface Shallow trip looking for HB connection</div>
+<div class="trippeople"><u>Mealy</u>, Joel, Lucy and Andreas</div>
+<p>Lucy and Joel wento to link Tasteful Noods to entrance survey. Mealy and Andreas went to Captain Crunch to bolt the pitch left previsouly. Swapped ropes around in Captain Crunch. Joel and Lucy then joined us to survey Captain Crunch. Mealy dropped a pitch and found a survey station suspecting she was in Happy Butterfly she was pleased. Dropped antoher pitch 'flying cottage' found more survey points. Surveyed and left.</p>
+<div class="timeug">T/U: 6 hours</div>
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+<div class="tripdate" id="t2022-08-08b">7/8/22</div>
+<div class="triptitle">Balcon, derig of the Unnamed traverse above start of Sloppy Seconds pitches</div>
+<div class="trippeople"><u>Frank</u></div>
+<p>Popped down to derig Martin’s traverse in ‘Bat Country’ pulled the rope to the bottom of the balcony pitch in bat country.</p>
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+<div class="tripdate" id="t2022-08-09a">9/8/22</div>
+<div class="triptitle">Fishface - Happy Butterfly connection</div>
+<div class="trippeople"><u>Mealy</u>, Joel, Erik</div>
+<p>Back to flying cottage. Suspecting HB was near, a team had gone that way to make noise. Unsure which was to explore the rift, we went one way until we had to chissle Joel out of a boulder choke and we could go no further. A small water hole was found. We went back to flying cottage. The day before we had found some hilti bolts making a Y hang over a large rift. Using these, Mealy descended. Kresh connection was found. </p>
+<p>Visual/ Audio connection was made withthe HB team. However due to a lack of rope Mealy was levitating about 30m above/diagonal from Emily. We turned around with plans to bring more rope. Insert scanned rigging guide!!!</p>
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+<div class="tripdate" id="t2022-08-09b">9/8/22</div>
+<div class="triptitle">Happy Butterfly make that connection</div>
+<div class="trippeople"><u>Frank</u></div>
+<p>Tourist trip for me :¬)Went down to the top of the defying gravity pitch and surveyed back across the traverse. As we completed the survey Amelia appeared high up in a parallel rift and much shouting and celebrating occurred, it was very loud. Not enough rope to make the connection.</p>
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+<div class="tripdate" id="t2022-08-10a">10/8/22</div>
+<div class="triptitle">Fishface</div>
+<div class="trippeople"><u>Gwen</u>, Erik, Tobias</div>
+<p>The creche had made the connection between Fischgesicht and Happy Buttery on the previous day, so the plan today was for a group to go into Fishface to do the through trip and survey the connection, while another team followed to survey some unsurveyed passages in Fishface and derig behind the other team once we knew they were through to Happy Butterfly. Amelia, Joel, Charlotte and Rachel were on the 'throughtrip' team. Despite giving them a head start we caught up with them at the entrance. Tobias and I [] got dressed, not knowing what awaited us as it was our first ever expo trip. I was surpirsed by how cold the entrance was compared to the boiling temperatures outside. I was even more surprised when I bumped into the other team who had dropped their drill down the first pitch. After [] the bag, Amelia realised the drill was not working, so her  and Joel left to get a reserve. </p>
+<p>Out team continued with the original plan, so we dropped down to the pitch above the 50m above the connection. We were dismayed to see survey points here, meaning someone had done the job before but the data was missing. We completed the survey quickly and caught up with Rachel and Charlotte who were rerigging the 50m pitch above the connection.</p>
+<p>Erik, Tobias and I then went up a couple of pitches to a passage Erik had explored on a previsou trip. This passage ended quickly in a boulder choke so the survey didn't go as long as expected. After completing the survey we went back down to the 50m pitch to see if we should be derigging on our way out. By this time, Joel and Amelia had returned and were bolting the traverse in Happy Butterfly. It sounded like they had a long way to go, so we decided to leave without derigging in case they couldn't get down Happy Butterfly. </p>
+<div class="timeug">T/U: 5 hours</div>
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+<p>Insert scan for 290 clap my pitch up rigging guide</p>
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+<div class="tripdate" id="t2022-08-10b">10/8/22</div>
+<div class="triptitle">Fishface to Coconut Chamber, surveying Coconut Sky</div>
+<div class="trippeople"><u>Becka</u>, Chris Holt, Nathan</div>
+<p>Covid crew + Nathan headed tothe bottom of Fishface and had noodle lunch at the waterpool before checking out the Coconut Chamber leads. We started to survey at old station 11 (of Coconut Chamber 3) then, 3 stations later, tied into Coconut Chamber 3.14... oh well, at least it confirmed our tie-in. The rest of the survey trip was confusing - we surveyed back under ourselves to a deep canyon which is the same one in Coconut Chamber. However the two C leads above this seem to be sepereate and are still not pushed. We then headed in the opposite direction (N), up the canyon. This soon lead to a low but wide chamber with many rock pillars. The canyon continued N but it is deep with slippy, muddy, sloped sides which would need rigging to explore safely. The only other lead was a QMB in the top left of the chamber. We exited with a very pleasent curry, couscous and 2nd noodle tea before prossicking out in about 2.5 hours. </p>
+<div class="timeug">T/U: 9.5 hours</div>
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+<div class="tripdate" id="t2022-08-10c">10/8/22</div>
+<div class="triptitle">Balkonh&ouml;hle - Nothing to See (resurveying 2017's Shite)</div>
+<div class="trippeople"><u>Kristian Brook</u>,Lucy Hyde, Emily Mabbet, Frank Tully</div>
+<p>It was time for my penance. Adam Aldridge and I did such a shit job of surveying in 2017 that no survey was written up for half of Nothing to See. The purpose of this trip was to show this series to someone more competant to ensure it is further explored. It is heading to Bat Country - a T junction is encountered shortly before the pitchhead for tBat Country. Turn right at this T junction and a pit is encountered (left takes you to Bat Country). Traverse over the pit and drop a small pitch. Way on is true right. True left is a view of a lower passage that conencts to Bat Country; there is a hole in the floor that has potential to be dropped. Way on leads to GalactiRamp. GalactiRamp was dropped in 2017, and links to GalactiShaft. Exposed traverse around GalactiRamp leads to a 4 way junction. levft is an exposed traverse to GalactiShaft MAze. Right is a passage that soon ends with a too tight rift in the right. Straight on drops into a chamber with a pit in the floor (unknown if this has been dropped). Beyond chamber, a passage leads on and a passage to the left leads to Galacti-cock, a 200m (estimate) shaft dropping to Galactica. Carry on the passage to a T Junction. Right leads to Dead Battery Run a blind pit that has two leads from the top, a QMB and QMC. Left goes down into a Fucking Maze with leads A-Fucking-Galore and will be a treat to survey on a future trip. </p>
+<p>Back to the entrance pitch there is a [] in the left of the high level which leads tothe GalactiShaft to maze series. I'm gonna have to survey that.</p>
+<p>There is a load fo work still to do in this area so revisit will be done. Notable events of the trips were that K Brook's rigging is amazing and Rebelays are NOT TOO TIGHT. If you weigh less than 7 stone, you C rig, and the double stop method is optimal. Insert scan of rigging guide !!!</p>
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+<div class="tripdate" id="t2022-08-10d">10/8/22</div>
+<div class="triptitle">Fishface to Happy Butterfly Connection via Kreshconnection</div>
+<div class="trippeople"><u>Rachel</u>, Charlotte, Mealy and Joel</div>
+<p>2 Teams descended Fishface. I'd never been so was relieved of the pressure of knowing anything remotely navigational. Mealy led the way through the entrance, immediately tossing her tackle sack with the drill and batteries down the entrance pitch and onto the traverse line. After an enormous thud, she went to retrieve it and hid in the sandy crawl. This entrance pitch is still a bit loose and we descended one at a time. I abbed to the the sound of her sad 'Oh's. Mealy called up the pitch, 'is it allowed to ooze?'. Unsure whether she was talking about the drill or batteries, I shouted to her to keep her hands clear. Ooze was something I was fairly sure was not good. Thankfully, the batteries were not oozing, just the drill. Everyone else descended, we faffed and discussed what to do. Erik's team had caught up with us by this point and it was decided he could show Charlotte and I to the lead, whilst Mealy and Joel went to investigate if there was a spare drill at the Stone Bridge. They removed the drill and batteries and lef tthe rest of the bolting gear at the bottom of the entrance pitch.</p>
+<p>Erik showed us the way. We were baffled to see our route had been previsouly bolted on hiltis and survyed, and wondered why we were back there. To kill time, I rerigged the 50m pitch above the connection to a long, thicker rope. Charlotte dropped it as a sub-optimal free hang, noting the reblays we didn't have the bolting gear to utilise. Unable to get safely off the rope, she ascended and we survyed the top of the pitch area and waited for Mealy and Joel.</p>
+<p>They reappeared, and Joel rigged the remainder of the pitch and bolted a traverse below that headed along the rift to a stone bridge. Down and across the traverse, we passed under the Bridge and formally into Happy Butterfly. Wuheyy. Found HB survey points to tie into. Erik's group were due to derig behind us, but due to us being 4 hours behind schedule, they'd left, leaving the traverse and pitch into Fishface rigged. There was a climbing traverse into HB that Mealy was hesitant to derig and despite lots fo tickling, that got left. Down the hill, we found out there might be potential leads there anyway.</p>
+<p>Left via Happy Butterfly, myself derigging and Mealy derigging a pitch where the bolts weren't a meter above her head.</p>
+<p>Expected time underground - 6 hours. Actual time underground - 11 hours. A warm welcome to the creche. Insert Kreshconnection rigging topo below.</p>
+<p>In Mealy's defense account: The donkey's dick failed me, it was very sad. Braking drills is sad</p>
+<div class="timeug">T/U: 11 hours</div>
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+<div class="tripdate" id="t2022-08-10e">10/8/22</div>
+<div class="triptitle">Balkonh&ouml;hle NOTHING TO SEE</div>
+<div class="trippeople"><u>Frank</u>, Kristian, Emily,</div>
+<p>Quick trip into Bakcon HiltiAPlenty, nowhere,
+Headed in and lifted the rigging kit from ‘top of ‘bat country’ to ‘lets be appalling’, so that we could rig across the traverse into nowhere. Rigging down the small pitch is a bit rubby an it hooks under a flake, it might be easier to rig it as a traverse towards the maze traverse.</p>
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+<p>Surveyed from the large boulder overlooking the pitch to the sandy climb down – dead battery run, so named because Christian tried to drop the pitch only to find the drill battery was flat, so went out to the Stone Bridge to get another battery and that was flat too… a 2018 story.</p>
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+<p>The rigging gear is stored at the top of the 40m pitch between ‘lets be appalling’ and ‘bat country’</p>
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+<p>Notes on leads left around here: (Before I head home)
+The ‘Suffolk by the sea’ survey went up the bed from the bottom of the ‘lets be appalling’ and ‘bat country’ 40m pitch. It stopped where a shaft came in probably from the QMA above, see survex.</p>
+<p>The passage is very windy with the draft blowing down the bed. The upper ‘lets be appalling’ is believed choked? So the draught must be coming in from across the pitchy area. </p>
+<p>Down from lower ‘Suffolk by the sea’ there is a traverse across a pitch which appears to already be on survex, however it appears the passage continues. Probably requires a few bolts.</p>
+<p>The ‘bat country’ (martin’s traverse) has been de-rigged and the rope is at the bottom of the balcony pitch in bat country. We could cut the bottom of the rope and rig the pitch down into the unnamed passage which connects the top of ‘sloppy seconds’ and ‘Galactica’.</p>
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+<div class="tripdate" id="t2022-08-10e">10/8/22</div>
+<div class="triptitle">Glossary of Expo terms</div>
+<div class="trippeople"><u>Rob</u></div>
+<p>Japers - any crechling whose name begins with J</p>
+<p>Crechling - member of the creche</p>
+<p>Creche - group of new expo goers who enjoy japing, wittering and giggling</p>
+<p>Jarry Crechle - Red Bull Athlete and vlogger</p>
+<p>Plague pit - Potato hut in 2022</p>
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+<div class="tripdate" id="t2022-08-13">13/8/22</div>
+<div class="triptitle">Apris Medicus - below Clap my Pitch Up</div>
+<div class="trippeople"><u>Rob</u>, Nathan, Max</div>
+<p>Trip beganvery efficiently due to Captain Chris and I deciding not to part take the evening prior and due to pre-trip packing the evening prior. Underground by 10am after arelaxed breakfast. Quickly down pitches and arrive at the Forte, show Chris and Eric the start of the survey at the Mourne of the Moths then headed off to continue bolting down 'Clap my Pitch up'. Chose to name</p>
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