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@ -2530,7 +2530,7 @@ We reached the top at 8:45, finally having surveyed Brandywine Overpass! I emerg
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<div class="tripdate" id="2024-08-06c">2024-08-06</div>
<div class="trippeople"><u>wob rotsonw</u>,Colin Foord,Sarah Parker,</div>
<div class="trippeople"><u>wob rotsonw</u>,Sarah Parker,Colin Foord,</div>
<div class="triptitle">264 Balkon - Final Balkon Camp of 2024</div>
I was not expecting to be here, however climbing plans fell through and I was shoehorned into a 3 night camp by Becka with a bunch of expo youngers. Good opportunity to see some new cave and get some fitness ahead of the VHO trip, so I was easily convinced.
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Next day was the big pushing day down Tartarus. Set off from camp around 11 with the aim of pushing Nat and Becka's A lead at the end of Charon. Tartarus was very nicely bolted by Hannah and we arrived at an unappetising looking muddy traverse shortly after Colin decided to try and prematurely end the trip by throwing himself down the final drop, fortunately the jape is still at the age where you bounce instead of break. Sarah then wallowed in the squalour for a while trying to find a rebelay bolt, she failed and I took over, managing to avoid getting quite as clarted as she had after watching how this particular flavour of mud behaved. Down at the bottom, the streamway we had traversed above headed off in the opposite direction to the lead to which we were headed, so I used the other two as a firemans belay and dropped down to have a quick look. Not promising, so we headed out along the continuing muddy traverse to the head of an annoying little pitch, following which the mud continued to the head of a rift which apparently was bolted with a rock...
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Again no one else seemed especially keen to rig so I quested out along the terribly muddy rift above a huge drop. Began to drop down the rift past some initial cheese rock and into nice clean rock in the rift out towards the sound of water and into a vast black space. I was at the bottom a few rebelays later after getting over a bit of fear of my descender falling apart (I had to change the lower bobbin on my descender at camp the day before after a faster than hoped descent was had in Mongol Rally). An impressive place, around 60 - 70 m lower than where I had started and following a streamway to the north with a huge draught rushing out at us, very enticing. Drew a rigging topo in the paper logbook.
Again no one else seemed especially keen to rig so I quested out along the terribly muddy rift above a huge drop. Began to drop down the rift past some initial cheese rock and into nice clean rock in the rift out towards the sound of water and into a vast black space. I was at the bottom a few rebelays later after getting over a bit of fear of my descender falling apart (I had to change the lower bobbin on my descender at camp the day before after a faster than hoped descent was had in Mongol Rally). An impressive place, around 60 - 70 m lower than where I had started and following a streamway to the north with a huge draught rushing out at us, very enticing. Drew a rigging topo in the paper logbook. My advice for continuing this lead would be to climb up a couple of metres to a wider section of rift above the next drop and then traverse along above the streamway, a confident rigger shouldn't need to place too many bolts at least for the part i could see.
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Sarah and Colin surveyed on behind me and after the inevitable faff that comes with surveying a very vertical passage we reached the limit of exploration for the day and set off back out, derigging as we went. This was very tiring in the dense, clingey mud that surrounds this area, however future explorers should persevere as we left the pushing front at a much more sociable level of mud than that which is above. Left rope coiled at the top of Tartarus with knots still in.
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