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CUCC Logbook 2016
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2016-06-22
-Ashley Gregg, Elliott Smith, Nat Dalton,
+Nat Dalton, Ashley Gregg, Elliott Smith
Balcony - to rig the entrance shaft
After day of topcamp fettling we set off to Balcony to rig the entrance shaft, after
initially intending to do only a carry. We reflected en-route, so as to be able to find out way
@@ -33,11 +34,10 @@ wanted me to do. Elliott took over & we eventually got to the bottom with so
lack of inspiration we headed back out & back to top camp, getting there ~midnight.
T/U: 0.0 hours
-
2016-06-22
-Olly Betts, Jenny Black,
+Jenny Black, Olly Betts
2007-71 Ngauruhoe
Got sufficient gear up the hill to go caving ish (failed to remember sunscreen my safety
cord and a few other things).
@@ -51,11 +51,10 @@ cord and a few other things).
Checked 15-01B - it is too small to get in to sadly. It might be possible (but not trivial) to move the rock.
T/U: 3.5 hours
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2016-06-23
-Ashley Gregg, Nat Dalton,
+Nat Dalton, Ashley Gregg
Tunnocks - rig entrance shaft
Feeling Keen we set off to rig Tunnocks entrance shaft, optimistically we took ropes /hangers
to get to the bottom of ducks on ice. Burdened by 2 bags & equipped with me skyhook I set off;
@@ -65,11 +64,10 @@ looked up to see the other hilti for a u-hang out of reach. At this point I got
acrobatics & we went home despite the end of the entrance being in sight.
T/U: 4.0 hours
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2016-06-23
-Andrew Atkinson, Sioned Haughton, Becka Lawson,
+Becka Lawson, Andrew Atkinson, Sioned Haughton
Walk over Grimming from Niederstuttern via Grimminghutte, Multerek + Grimmingsgipfel+ending at Kulm
Left my bike at Kulm then drove to Neiderstuttern (this is definitely the better route for
the bike->car shuttle as all downhill!). Set off 8:45 but already hot + near heat stroke on the
@@ -81,11 +79,10 @@ manner - impressive there's a route over at all. A very fine day out though sadl
get to hang-glide over us though we collected him from his field in Bad Mittendorf.
T/U: 0.0 hours
-
2016-06-23
-Ashley Gregg, Nat Dalton,
+Nat Dalton, Ashley Gregg
Tunnocks - Feeling Keen
Feeling Keen we set off to rig Tunnocks entrance shaft, optimistically we took ropes /hangers
to get to the bottom of ducks on ice. Burdened by 2 bags & equipped with me skyhook I set off;
@@ -95,11 +92,10 @@ looked up to see the other hilti for a u-hang out of reach. At this point I got
acrobatics & we went home despite the end of the entrance being in sight.
T/U: 4.0 hours
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2016-06-24
-Elliott Smith, Nat Dalton,
+Nat Dalton, Elliott Smith
Balcony rigging - guide (start of 2016)
After a disgustingly warm carry up the hill with Anthony, Ash & Elliott, Elliott & I decided
we still wanted to go caving. We headed over to Balcony with 100m of 11mm snake rope, bolting &
@@ -118,11 +114,10 @@ for a little bimble & found the natural highs had been derigged. See below f
22:00
T/U: 6.0 hours
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2016-06-25
-Anthony Day, Sioned Haughton, Becka Lawson,
+Sioned Haughton, Anthony Day, Becka Lawson
Tunnocks - Rigging to start of String Theory
I found the end of Nat's rigging on the swing over above the final snow slope and rigged down with 3m less rope than
would have been ideal. Some fine ice columns at the bottom of the pitch. I then rigged Caramel Catharsis on 70m of the unloved
@@ -135,21 +130,19 @@ be taken up. Walked down the hill just missing the storm.
22:00
T/U: 7.0 hours
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2016-06-26
-Ashley Gregg, Elliott Smith,
+Ashley Gregg, Elliott Smith
BalkonH - Gosser Wager
Callout book entry
22:00
T/U: 0.0 hours
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2016-06-26
-Nat Dalton, Anthony Day,
+Nat Dalton, Anthony Day
Tunnocks - Procrastination
Rigging trip down Tunnocks, Anthony continued rigging down string Theory whilst I sat &
refrigerated. String Theory rigged we consolidated rigging Kit and Anthony continued rigging
@@ -158,11 +151,10 @@ maillons, 9 hangers (N of Beast, magic glue (dev))
22:00
T/U: 0.0 hours
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2016-06-26
-Jenny Black, Olly Betts,
+Jenny Black, Olly Betts
101 survey practice
Got a lift up the hill in the morning and learnt to use the distoX
and topodroid in the bivi cave. Learnt enough to go and do something
@@ -179,11 +171,10 @@ surveying out the skylight entrance as we went.
20:00
T/U: 2.0 hours
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2016-06-27
-Jenny Black, Olly Betts,
+Jenny Black, Olly Betts
2007-71 Ngauruhoe survey
Down to the Ngauruhoe snowcone and surveyed out. On the way we lost the nail polish back down
the pitch (I looked for a while, but gave up in the end). I swung across into the parallel shaft
@@ -196,11 +187,10 @@ new entrances.
20:00
T/U: 0.0 hours
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2016-06-27
-Nat Dalton, Wookey,
+Nat Dalton, Wookey
Tunnocks
Set off to continue rigging down Tunnocks (aiming to carry 2 bags to camp). On the way the
one bolt wonder handline before usual suspects was converted (more or less) into a bonafide
@@ -221,11 +211,10 @@ that", on a spike, bags were left just below magic glue, with a long plod out.
07:00 +1
T/U: 0.0 hours
-
2016-06-27
-Becka Lawson, Sioned Haughton, Andrew Atkinson,
+Sioned Haughton, Andrew Atkinson, Becka Lawson
Balkonhöhle - Andrew's first trip down Balkonhöhle
Went for an explore with a few 30m lengths of rope. Was mine & Andrew's first trip down &
Becka hadn't been down since 2014. Andrew was initially considering dropping down one of the
@@ -240,21 +229,19 @@ from the right & a squeeze over a 4m drop at the bottom but we had no rope l
22:00
T/U: 6.5 hours
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2016-06-27
-George Breley, Luke Stangroom, Nathan Walker,
+Luke Stangroom, George Breley, Nathan Walker
Balkonhöhle - Bipedal
Callout book entry
22:00
T/U: 0.0 hours
-
2016-06-28
-Jenny Black, Olly Betts,
+Jenny Black, Olly Betts
2007-71, 15-02B
Olly rigged down 15-02B. Sadly it ended about where the final disto leg of 2015
landed. Derigged out and removed all of our gear from the cave. I was very sad it had
@@ -270,11 +257,10 @@ off it, but not really an actual cave.
20:00
T/U: 2.5 hours
-
2016-06-28
-Jenny Black, Olly Betts,
+Jenny Black, Olly Betts
76 - rigging
Took the first rope in to 76 to make a start on the rigging. I've barely rigged in years,
and not been to 76 since 2007, and was using the stop that Julian kindly lent me, having only
@@ -291,11 +277,10 @@ in German the next day!
20:00
T/U: 1.5 hours
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2016-06-28
-Sioned Haughton, Andrew Atkinson, Becka Lawson,
+Sioned Haughton, Andrew Atkinson, Becka Lawson
Balkon - Pitch of Bipedal
We went back to investigate the lead with some more short pieces of rope & 100m of
9mm. Having received a 13m piece of rope that had been dropped at Natural High. We rerigged the
@@ -315,11 +300,10 @@ only up to 50m (the one we used the day before was 100m) so we de-rigged and cam
22:00
T/U: 6.0 hours
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2016-06-28
-Luke Stangroom, Nat Dalton,
+Nat Dalton, Luke Stangroom
Tunnocks - entrance rerig
Fettled Tunnocks entrance:
- Replaced all slings in deviations with tat
@@ -331,20 +315,18 @@ only up to 50m (the one we used the day before was 100m) so we de-rigged and cam
21:00
T/U: 4.0 hours
-
2016-06-28
-George Breley, Nathan Walker,
+George Breley, Nathan Walker
Balkonhöhle - Bipedal
Callout book entry
T/U: 0.0 hours
-
2016-06-29
-Chris Densham, Anthony Day, Nathan Walker,
+Chris Densham, Anthony Day, Nathan Walker
Tunnocks - Set up Camp and Living the Dream
Weds 29th
I had spent a year dreaming of where the 5m diameter phreatic tunnel "Octopussy" led,
@@ -393,21 +375,19 @@ the same order.
09:00 +2days
T/U: 36.0 hours
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2016-06-29
-George Breley, Frank Tully, Luke Stangroom,
+Frank Tully, George Breley, Luke Stangroom
Balkonhöhle - Dig Dug Pitch
Callout book entry
21:00
T/U: 0.0 hours
-
2016-06-29
-Anthony Day,
+Anthony Day
Balcony - The Kraken Wakes
[This blog is dated 4 August 2016. /the-kraken-wakes/]
@@ -423,11 +403,10 @@ the same order.
T/U: 0.0 hours
-
2016-06-30
-Andrew Atkinson, Nat Dalton, Becka Lawson, Sioned Haughton,
+Becka Lawson, Andrew Atkinson, Nat Dalton, Sioned Haughton
Tunnocks (258)- Champagne on Ice (rigging)
Nat and I had good memories of the leads down Champagne on Ice so we packed four
tacklesacks and ~260 rope and started rigging. Missed the 1st two pitches by (something) Tom
@@ -445,11 +424,10 @@ the short traverse beyond.
23:00
T/U: 9.5 hours
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2016-07-01
-Julian Todd, Andrew Atkinson, Becka Lawson,
+Becka Lawson, Andrew Atkinson, Julian Todd
Balkonhöhle 264 - Frozen North
Had a good orientation session trying to spot good QMs in 264. Went up Turtlehead and
looked for QM92A and concluded it probably didn't exist (it was just the p6). Then looked
@@ -463,11 +441,10 @@ out of a new entrance were dashed so we headed back via Cock Aven.
22:00
T/U: 8.0 hours
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2016-07-01
-George Breley, Nat Dalton,
+George Breley, Nat Dalton
Tunnocks - Champagne on Ice
Nat promised me an “adventure” and so led me down Tunnocks after excessive faff to push a
lead he’d last visited in 2014. We descended relatively efficiently and route finding was not
@@ -490,11 +467,10 @@ corner (backed up with by a spike).
08:00 +1
T/U: 0.0 hours
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2016-07-01
-Jenny Black, Olly Betts,
+Jenny Black, Olly Betts
76 - Rigging Plugged Shaft
Back into 76 to continue rigging. Olly continued where I left off starting the 65m rope at
The Ledge. This year we rigged along the ledge side, with a deviation on the Test Tubes
@@ -511,11 +487,10 @@ in a trade route rig. So we headed out to rethink.
20:00
T/U: 3.5 hours
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2016-07-02
-Roshni Gohil, Mark Dougherty, David Walker,
+Roshni Gohil, David Walker, Mark Dougherty
264 Balcony - Cathedral Chasm
First 7 hours of the trip went relatively smoothly, despite David forgetting to bring a pencil
for surveying. We made our way to Cathedral Chasm, which included getting past a particularly awkward
@@ -553,11 +528,10 @@ Thirdly, you don't need to take drugs to experience altered states of consciousn
the end of the day, it was an experience, albeit not a fun one. We live to cave again.
T/U: 18.0 hours
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2016-07-02
-Nat Dalton, George Breley, Mark Dougherty, Haydon Saunders,
+Haydon Saunders, George Breley, Mark Dougherty, Nat Dalton
Balkonhöhle Rescue
At 22:00 David and Roshni's callout went live. We scanned the hill for lights, but saw
nothing. So we prepared for a rescue and departed for the entrance. We had the response bag and
@@ -590,11 +564,10 @@ Haydon 2 hours (extra reinforcement at the surface)
T/U: 0.0 hours
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2016-07-02
-Jenny Black,
+Jenny Black
76 - Plugged Shaft ropework
We came up with a plan of starting with our one remaining thick rope (29m) and shift
everything else down accordingly. Olly needed a day to rest his knees, so I spent the day
@@ -605,11 +578,10 @@ Shaft. I tweaked some of the lengths on my way out. Today the weather Gods smile
got my gear dry before the heavy rain started.
T/U: 4.5 hours
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2016-07-02
-Mark Dougherty, Ashley Gregg, Haydon Saunders, Sioned Haughton,
+Haydon Saunders, Ashley Gregg, Mark Dougherty, Sioned Haughton
Balkonhöhle
Went down to Long Drop after Haydons desire to do some f**king caving after ecoli.
First tried to approach pitch from wrong direction after Marks misguided directions from last year and Haydon hanging
@@ -627,11 +599,10 @@ the arse, we continued to freeze our tits off at the top of the pitch. Eventuall
we were able to leave this stupid pitch that will be the end of me.
T/U: 8.0 hours
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2016-07-02
-Andrew Atkinson, Luke Stangroom, Becka Lawson,
+Becka Lawson, Andrew Atkinson, Luke Stangroom
Tunnocks - Champagne on Ice - Rigging Daft Choice beyond Straight Choice Exposed
A slick trip with the drill back to the Straight Choice Exposed bold bolted climb that Andrew had climbed whilst I belayed
back in 2010. The ankle-high traverse wasn't too bad once you realised where the holds were but definetely non-standard SRT. Luke
@@ -649,21 +620,19 @@ George and Luke didn't connect when they rigged a parallel shaft in Champagne on
T/U: 12.0 hours
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2016-07-03
-Sioned Haughton, Ashley Gregg,
+Sioned Haughton, Ashley Gregg
Balcony - Fetching Drills
Callout book entry
17:00
T/U: 0.0 hours
-
2016-07-03
-Becka Lawson, Andrew Atkinson, Luke Stangroom, George Breley,
+Becka Lawson, Andrew Atkinson, George Breley, Luke Stangroom
Looking for 2nd Balkonhöhle entrance (dropping 2010-04)
Dropped 2010-04 using naturals to get to snow slope. Andrew and I used the shovel to dig at the base and the side in 3 spots.
Soft snow initially and some gaps but no draft. Gave up after less than an hour. Survey in folder #8 (2016-08).
@@ -673,21 +642,19 @@ Soft snow initially and some gaps but no draft. Gave up after less than an hour.
20:00
T/U: 0.0 hours
-
2016-07-03
-Haydon Saunders, Nat Dalton,
+Haydon Saunders, Nat Dalton
Balcony - Haydon's pitch near gear dump
Callout book entry
22:00
T/U: 0.0 hours
-
2016-07-03
-Jenny Black, Olly Betts,
+Jenny Black, Olly Betts
76 - Keg Series
Much wetter in Plugged Shaft today, but totally passable. Got to Boulder Chamber and Olly
started to rig Keg Series. We were last here in 2004, despite me remembering which rope we
@@ -706,11 +673,10 @@ Advance was dry, so we left the drill and survey kit there and headed out. When
it took just over 2 hrs out.
T/U: 8.25 hours
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2016-07-04
-Alice Smith, Ian Peachey, Nathan Walker, Rob Watson, Frank Tully, Katey Bender, Elliott Smith,
+Rob Watson, Alice Smith, Elliott Smith, Frank Tully, Ian Peachey, Katey Bender, Nathan Walker
Balcony Tourists on Independence Day
There was no cock to crow for the momentous day of Independence for the
country served by K Bender, but fortunately Densham did arise at Dawn to faff
@@ -727,11 +693,10 @@ it took just over 2 hrs out.
22:00
T/U: 0.0 hours
-
2016-07-04
-Chris Densham, Nat Dalton, Wookey,
+Nat Dalton, Chris Densham, Wookey
Tunnocks, 2-night camp
Callout book entry
07:00 +3
@@ -755,11 +720,10 @@ Luke who’d been down Champagne on Ice. [Nats boots developed large holes acros
this tip, kicking walls hurts with no foot protection]
T/U: 0.0 hours
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2016-07-05
-Sioned Haughton, Andrew Atkinson,
+Sioned Haughton, Andrew Atkinson
Balcony - Frozen North
After finding a promising looking snow slope on a previous trip with Becka and Julian, and an unsuccessful prospecting trip
to identify the entrance from the surface, Andrew convinced me to accompany him on a trip to dig our way out from the inside.
@@ -769,11 +733,10 @@ from a rock ledge into a passage in the ceiling but that closed down and the rop
22:00
T/U: 0.0 hours
-
2016-07-05
-Frank Tully, Katey Bender, Becka Lawson, Ian Peachey,
+Becka Lawson, Frank Tully, Ian Peachey, Katey Bender
Tunnocks - Champagne on Ice - Daft Choice 2
Only I had been to Champagne on Ice before and Peachey hadn't been to Tunnocks so we touristed to the head of String Theory
on the way in and Peachey took a few photos on the way down. We all went up the Straight Choice Exposed climb but decided to
@@ -784,21 +747,19 @@ simplify the route (which needs a rigging guide, Nat!).
22:00
T/U: 0.0 hours
-
2016-07-05
-Jenny Black, Olly Betts,
+Jenny Black, Olly Betts
76
Callout book entry
07:00 +1
T/U: 0.0 hours
-
2016-07-05
-Elliott Smith, Nathan Walker, Rob Watson,
+Rob Watson, Elliott Smith, Nathan Walker
Balcony - Batteries! finishing off and bag retrieval
A day of tidying up loose ends and transporting equipment. Went and rigged Batteries! and surveyed it to a conclusion.
About 50m in the book. Ended in a too tight tube heading down. In common with other passages taking water in Balcony there
@@ -807,11 +768,10 @@ two naturals (thread and big column) with spike deviation. Another immature clea
Batteries! rope at Hilti-a-Plenty for rigging that. Bipedal traverse still rigged! Out quickly with drill and bolting kit.
T/U: 6.0 hours
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2016-07-06
-Becka Lawson, Julian Todd, David Walker,
+David Walker, Becka Lawson, Julian Todd
Tunnocks - Kracken
We got to the entrance at 10:45am and started the long descent leaving behind a plateau
asleep under a blanket of clag. Down we went, accompanied by a backing track of grumbling from
@@ -856,11 +816,10 @@ dinner (~4pm). A long prusik followed.
07:00 +1
T/U: 0.0 hours
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2016-07-06
-Nathan Walker, Elliott Smith, Ian Peachey,
+Elliott Smith, Ian Peachey, Nathan Walker
Balcony - The pitch formally known as "Haydon's pitch" -> "Long Drop"
Sorry for the write-up delay!
After Haydon had headed down the hill, Nathan, Peachey and I took over the 'project'. Haydon
@@ -881,11 +840,10 @@ the RHW (looking from the ICU), pulling you away from the initial, pretty loose
NB This actually occurred over two days!
T/U: 17.5 hours
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2016-07-06
-Alice Smith, Katey Bender, Rob Watson,
+Rob Watson, Alice Smith, Katey Bender
Hilti-a-Plenty exploration - rigging trip
Underground by 11am. It being Alice's first expo, we wanted to give her some experience of rigging in
Austria and this seemed a good choice being close to the entrance, quite deep but not too deep and promising
@@ -900,11 +858,10 @@ bottom of the Hilti-a-Plenty pitch and turning right to the large bouldery chamb
pushing for another day, we then headed out.
T/U: 6.0 hours
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2016-07-06
-Alice Smith, Katey Bender, Rob Watson,
+Alice Smith, Katey Bender, Rob Watson
Balkonhöhle - Hilti-a-Plenty, surveying Northen Straight
My (Alice) first surveying trip. We started at where myself, Katey and Rob had had a nose around the day
before. George and I started surveying while Rob went ahead to rig a traverse further ahead. across a pitch ~6m.
@@ -923,20 +880,18 @@ the right, finishing in an aven (Rob said this has now crapped out).
T/U: 0.0 hours
-
2016-07-07
-Sioned Haughton, Becka Lawson, Andrew Atkinson,
+Becka Lawson, Andrew Atkinson, Sioned Haughton
Balcony - Callout book entry
Callout book entry
T/U: 0.0 hours
-
2016-07-07
-Anthony Day, Luke Stangroom, Mark Dougherty,
+Mark Dougherty, Anthony Day, Luke Stangroom
Tunnocks Camp
Day 1
Descended lunchtime and sent down at a steady pace. Met up with David, Julian and Becka at
@@ -981,11 +936,10 @@ out and everybody was back on the surface by 17:00.
Many thanks to all the EXPO members who organised a very efficient rescue!
T/U: 0.0 hours
-
2016-07-07
-Olly Betts, Jenny Black,
+Jenny Black, Olly Betts
76 - Keg Series
Headed into Razor Advance with drill, rope and survey kit to see what happened next. On the
way in we had switched the rope in Adventures in Time and Space for the 72m - a few m longer
@@ -1005,11 +959,10 @@ calibrated (we discovered this quickly thanks to Andrew's advice to take three r
leg in different directions every so often). Gave up and exited.
T/U: 10.5 hours
-
2016-07-08
-Olly Betts, Jenny Black,
+Jenny Black, Olly Betts
171 survey
I'd noticed that 171 was a moderately sized cave on the plateau that was unsurveyed, so
decided it was a nice job for a rest day. To make life easier just took helmets, clothing and
@@ -1019,11 +972,10 @@ low bit in the middle. Continued a bit beyond the "b" entrances, but decided to
finish with oversuits.
T/U: 2.5 hours
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2016-07-08
-George Breley, Frank Tully, Rob Watson,
+Rob Watson, Frank Tully, George Breley
Dropping pitches and finding more
Frank brought his spade/shovel along in case of digging potential, but unfortunately his
illness prevented him from achieving this. Then me and George went to the pitch down the sandy
@@ -1039,12 +991,11 @@ then out.
T/U: 9.0 hours
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2016-07-09
-Olly Betts, Jenny Black,
-16-JB-01 Hohle der guten Hoffnung
+Jenny Black, Olly Betts
+2016-JB-01 - 16-JB-01 Hohle der guten Hoffnung
Intended to go back and finish surveying 171, so took ovesuits, kneepads as well as helmets
and survey kit. Olly wanted to try a different route to walk there so headed past 2006-70 and
up from there. I saw a few shafts and had to have a peer down each one. Near the local high
@@ -1061,11 +1012,10 @@ undescended. Surveyed out. Cave drops a surprising 40m (over 80m of survey) all
without gear.
T/U: 3.0 hours
-
2016-07-09
-George Breley, Rob Watson,
+Rob Watson, George Breley
Annoying resurvey and no Cashback (Pitch is now called Young Love)
After discovering lots of easy horizontal passage the day before, we returned to get that
sorted. After 11 long legs. we popped out in the big bouldery chamber. We later found out that
@@ -1076,11 +1026,10 @@ then bolted the pitch below the Cock Piss Partridge, which also crapped out imme
Still lots to go at!
T/U: 6.0 hours
-
2016-07-09
-Anthony Day,
+Anthony Day
Balcony - The Kraken Wakes 2
[This blog is dated 4 August 2016. /the-kraken-wakes/]
@@ -1092,11 +1041,10 @@ Still lots to go at!
It turned out that one of the leads at the bottom of Indian Rope Trick was very important indeed. A later camping party went to look at it, and romped off into a master cave with a substantial stream in places. It eventually choked, but not before reaching 903m depth – by some distance the deepest we have ever been in Austria.
T/U: 0.0 hours
-
2016-07-10
-Jenny Black, Olly Betts,
+Jenny Black, Olly Betts
171, near old top camp - surveying
Headed to 171 with oversuits and kneepads to finish the survey. On phoning basecamp
discovered that the camping team were overdue, but that things were in hand, and there was
@@ -1118,11 +1066,10 @@ down to our camp to check we were safe - thank you!
20:00
T/U: 0.0 hours
-
2016-07-10
-Rob Watson, Nat Dalton,
+Rob Watson, Nat Dalton
The Non Rescue - 1st Response Team
Team were overdue in Tunnocks so me and Nat headed down to camp with the grab bag and first aid
kit. Underground by 8.45. Arrived at Kraken for 11.45 to find rope caught up beneath the overhang
@@ -1131,31 +1078,28 @@ a large boulder - be aware of the rope catching on the boulder when you ascend t
reasonably sufficiently after waiting to see that Mark D could untangle the rope from Magic Glue.
T/U: 7.0 hours
-
2016-07-11
-Luke Stangroom, Alice Smith, Ashley Gregg,
+Alice Smith, Ashley Gregg, Luke Stangroom
Balcony - Long Drop
Callout book entry.
19:00
T/U: 0.0 hours
-
2016-07-11
-Elliott Smith, Andrew Atkinson, Sioned Haughton,
+Andrew Atkinson, Elliott Smith, Sioned Haughton
Balcony - Gosser, Wager
Callout book entry.
20:00
T/U: 0.0 hours
-
2016-07-11
-Rob Watson, Ian Peachey, Chris Densham, Katey Bender,
+Rob Watson, Chris Densham, Ian Peachey, Katey Bender
Camp - Tunnocks master cave and unprecedented depth potential!
A most amazing trip, which despite being shortened by the rescue of the previous day, managed to provide
much new cave and a lot of new prospects. We arrived at camp for 1.15pm and ate some noodles and soup. Off
@@ -1201,11 +1145,10 @@ series. Overall a truly memorable and excellent trip, one of my best ever and on
09:00 +2
T/U: 48.0 hours
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2016-07-11
-Nathan Walker, Pete Talling, Fleur Loveridge, Andrew Atkinson,
+Pete Talling, Andrew Atkinson, Fleur Loveridge, Nathan Walker
Balcony - Hilti-a-Plenty "Roundabout.svx"
Pete and Fleur's first caving trip of 2016 expo - to a lead in Hilti-a-Plenty following a tip from Rob Watson et al. We
rather enjoyed the Hilti pitches, where we met Andy Atkinson. Nicely sculpt firatic shaft action, top notch. Then we went
@@ -1222,21 +1165,19 @@ a choke, with the others following to survey. Then back to the ranch for tea and
23:00
T/U: 0.0 hours
-
2016-07-11
-Becka Lawson, George Breley, Nat Dalton,
+George Breley, Becka Lawson, Nat Dalton
Prospecting North of Balcony
Callout book entry.
22:00
T/U: 0.0 hours
-
2016-07-11
-Olly, Jenny Black,
+Jenny Black, Olly
76 - Atomic
Olly's knees were recovered enough to cope with prussicking, so we returned to Keg Series
with the now happily calibrated distox2. Started surveying in to get the pitch done, in case it
@@ -1260,11 +1201,10 @@ us. Then the rumbling got louder, and louder and it became apparent it was raini
we were past the Tap Room and Keg Series, so had an uneventful exit.
T/U: 12.0 hours
-
2016-07-12
-Becka Lawson, George Breley, Nat Dalton,
+George Breley, Becka Lawson, Nat Dalton
Tunnocks - Derigging and pushing Champagne on Ice
Set off with the intention of derigging traverse beyond Arctic Angle and pushing Nat's lead ("What would your Mother say")
before finally derigging the Champagne on Ice pitch series and derig traverse beyond Arctic Angle and WWYMS. Off to a flying
@@ -1295,21 +1235,19 @@ with some hangers.
09:00 +1
T/U: 0.0 hours
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2016-07-12
-Alice Smith, Elliott Smith, Nathan Walker, Luke Stangroom,
+Luke Stangroom, Alice Smith, Elliott Smith, Nathan Walker
Balkon - Gosser Wager
Callout book entry.
22:00
T/U: 0.0 hours
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2016-07-12
-Fleur Loveridge, Aidan Marks, Pete Talling,
+Aidan Marks, Fleur Loveridge, Pete Talling
Balkon - end of Dark Arts via Bipedal
The first aim was to derig Bipedal traverse; which was soon dispatched by Fleur. The 40m rope was then taken to the end of
Dark Arts. There was some climbs and traverses along Dark Arts, including final climb that stopped Fleur and Pete two years ago.
@@ -1328,32 +1266,29 @@ draft, but needs dry and settled weather!
21:00
T/U: 0.0 hours
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2016-07-12
-Haydon Saunders,
+Haydon Saunders
Via Ferata: Intersport - Klettersteig
Callout book entry.
[Probably not Haydon, but anonymous.]
23:00
T/U: 0.0 hours
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2016-07-16
-Pete Talling, Fleur Loveridge, Luke Stangroom, Elaine Oliver, Martin Green,
+Elaine Oliver, Fleur Loveridge, Luke Stangroom, Martin Green, Pete Talling
Tunnocks - Champagne on Ice
Callout book entry.
22:00
T/U: 0.0 hours
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2016-07-16
-Nathan Walker, George Breley, Elliott Smith, Michael Sargent,
+Michael Sargent, Elliott Smith, George Breley, Nathan Walker
Kraken Camp - pushing Song of the Earth (258)
Down to camp
Being the 6th? camping trip to Kraken, we supposedly had a lot of leads to choose from. Getting to camp was easy enough,
@@ -1393,11 +1328,10 @@ hadn't come underground, and indeed lower Procrastination had been a bit drippie
09:00 +2
T/U: 33.0 hours
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2016-07-16
-Jenny Black, Olly Betts,
+Jenny Black, Olly Betts
2016-JB-01 Hopeless
Walked up in the morning, having had a tooth extracted the previous day - I promised the dentist that I would avoid
strenuous activities for a few days and also not cave if it was raining (he was very concerned that we might underestimate
@@ -1412,42 +1346,38 @@ another lead for the next trip.
20:00
T/U: 4.0 hours
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2016-07-16
-Ian Peachey, Martin Green, Rob Watson,
+Martin Green, Ian Peachey, Rob Watson
Balcony - Hilti-a-Plenty
Callout book entry.
22:00
T/U: 0.0 hours
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2016-07-16
-Pete Talling, Fleur Loveridge, Luke Stangroom, Elaine Oliver, Martin Green,
+Elaine Oliver, Fleur Loveridge, Luke Stangroom, Martin Green, Pete Talling
Tunnocks - Champagne on Ice derig
Callout book entry.
22:00
T/U: 0.0 hours
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2016-07-17
-Jenny Black,
+Jenny Black
269, 2006-07, 267 - Tagging Jobs
It rained and rained some more, so enthusiasm was low for going underground and getting wet. It brightend up
in the afternoon (ie was claggy not actually raining) so Olly made up some cave tags and we changed the Bivi
cave (2004-01) to 269, then I walked to Cairn Cave and tagged it (2006-70) and finally retagged 1987-02 as 267.
T/U: 0.0 hours
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2016-07-17
-Luke Stangroom, Rob Watson,
+Rob Watson, Luke Stangroom
Hilti a Plenty - Pushing and Evening Breakthrough
After a morning of grim rain delayed the campers from camping, myself and Luke became bored of shit-talking and card games
and headed to off into Balcony in the mist to see what could be found. In quickly and soon I was bolting one of the three pots
@@ -1465,11 +1395,10 @@ of water could be heard. Exciting stuff, and judging by the survey heading off i
prospect for next year!
T/U: 6.0 hours
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2016-07-18
-Ashley Gregg, Rob Watson, Anthony Day,
+Rob Watson, Anthony Day, Ashley Gregg
Balcony - Long Drop final push, survey & Derig
After a rather late start to say the least (Anthony & I seem to have a way of starting
far to late when we cave with the other), I arrived at balcony Gear Dump (Having shown the
@@ -1490,11 +1419,10 @@ out while the others sorted things out. Back at Top Camp for 11:25, our midnight
Great success!
T/U: 11.5 hours
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2016-07-18
-Katey Bender, Fleur Loveridge, Ian Peachey, Elaine Oliver,
+Katey Bender, Elaine Oliver, Fleur Loveridge, Ian Peachey
Tunnocks - Camp Kraken, Song of the Earth + Derig (Downstream)
To be read in conjunction with Fleur's report...
While Fleur and Peachey headed to the uphill lead, Elaine and I went down to the lead advertised as being
@@ -1508,11 +1436,10 @@ The climb up will also need bolting for any handline/rope. That done, and slight
meet Fleur and Peachey.
T/U: 0.0 hours
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2016-07-18
-Fleur Loveridge, Elaine Oliver, Ian Peachey, Katey Bender,
+Fleur Loveridge, Elaine Oliver, Ian Peachey, Katey Bender
Tunnocks - Song of the Earth and Camp Derig
It was supposed to be a 2 night camp starting on Sunday. But on Sunday we woke up and it had been raining in the
night and continued to rain. So we deferred to avoid starting off cold and wet. Instead an "alpine start" was called
@@ -1545,11 +1472,10 @@ last section together and exited around 11pm.
Ian and Katey returned to Steinbrucken about one hour after us.
T/U: 39.0 hours
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2016-07-18
-Olly Betts, Jenny Black,
+Jenny Black, Olly Betts
16-JB-01 Dirty Snow
Weather wasn't great, so we had quite a slow start. Headed back to 16-JB-01 to look at Olly's new lead. Again we
started the rope at the ledge, but went down further along, then Olly went to the northen end of the cheesey chamber
@@ -1561,11 +1487,10 @@ rocks and up a climb. Although there were a lot of boulders and collapse it felt
get further without gear. Surveyed out.
T/U: 4.0 hours
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2016-07-18
-Fleur Loveridge, Katey Bender, Elaine Oliver, Ian Peachey,
+Elaine Oliver, Fleur Loveridge, Ian Peachey, Katey Bender
Tunnocks - Camping in Tunnocksschacht - CHECC Grand Prize entry
It was decided that this year, the CUCC expo would establish an underground camp in Kraken Chamber,
@@ -1617,11 +1542,10 @@ the camp, but give it time - I'm sure that by next summer I'll be ready to break
again.
T/U: 0.0 hours
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2016-07-19
-David Walker, Ashley Gregg, Mark Dougherty,
+Mark Dougherty, Ashley Gregg, David Walker
Balcony - Cathedral Chasm
Went down to limit of exploration. David rigged a couple of 10m pitches but both were
choked. Walls covered with some nice "flapjack" crystalline calcite.
@@ -1633,11 +1557,10 @@ more conveniently done via the crawl, rather than going all the way round, which
slightly dodgy pitch and a couple of traverses.
T/U: 0.0 hours
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2016-07-19
-Elliott Smith, Aidan Marks, Pete Talling, Rob Watson, Martin Green,
+Pete Talling, Aidan Marks, Elliott Smith, Martin Green, Rob Watson
"Just Keeps Giving" and "Water Torture" (Below Hilti-a-Plenty)
The team kept pushing the lead below Hilti-a-Plenty rigged by Rob and Luke on 17/7/2016 (Evening Breakthrough). Rob
kindly showed the rest of the team to the right place. Aidan and Pete surveyed upwards from T-junction up a steeping
@@ -1656,11 +1579,10 @@ down with good draft.
Overall, these are A leads with a draft.
T/U: 0.0 hours
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2016-07-19
-Olly Betts, Jenny Black,
+Jenny Black, Olly Betts
76 Derig
Decided to derig 76 whilst it wasn't raining, and to free up rope for 16-JB-01. Last year I masterminded a very efficient
derig of 107 with 3 people and 6 bags of gear. This year we had 2 people for 76, 4 bags, and 6 bags worth of gear. I went down to
@@ -1670,11 +1592,10 @@ and everything derigged to the Ledge Below the Ledge.
Went back in for another 2 hours of derigging (Olly) and bag shuttling (me). Now we never need return!
T/U: 0.0 hours
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2016-07-20
-Jenny Black, Olly Betts,
+Olly Betts, Jenny Black
16-JB-01: Hohle der Guten Hoffnung
Continuing to push the same route as 18th, we (re)rigged on the way in, then dropped the down-climb we'd called
it a day at, then down a short pitch with a rebelay to reach some large boulders with a view out into a void beyond.
@@ -1683,11 +1604,10 @@ the previous survey, briefly hampered by Jenny taking out a survey station which
to the boulder it was on than it appeared to be.
T/U: 0.0 hours
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2016-07-20
-David Walker, Elliott Smith, Anthony Day, Rob Watson, Mark Dougherty,
+Anthony Day, David Walker, Elliott Smith, Mark Dougherty, Rob Watson
Tunnocks derig, Upper Kraken to String Theory
The objective of this trip was to derig at least as far as the top of the flood-prone Procrastination pitch. The
intention was to use the PAELLA (Pull An Extremely Long Length Altogether) technique which, a practice run in Long Drop
@@ -1713,11 +1633,10 @@ go down and retrieve it. This news was greeted by sympathetic laughter at the to
T/U: 14.0 hours
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2016-07-20
-Anthony Day,
+Anthony Day
Balcony - The Kraken Wakes 3
[This blog is dated 4 August 2016. /the-kraken-wakes/]
@@ -1729,11 +1648,10 @@ go down and retrieve it. This news was greeted by sympathetic laughter at the to
PS: My camera didn’t make it underground this year – so thanks go to Chris Densham, Becka Lawson and Fleur Loveridge for permission to use their photos.
T/U: 0.0 hours
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2016-07-21
-Olly Betts, Jenny Black,
+Jenny Black, Olly Betts
16-JB-01: Nervous Breakdown
This had to be our final trip, so we could carry gear down the next day. Managed to get underground at 9:05am
to maximise our chances.
@@ -1756,20 +1674,18 @@ later while pcking the bivi. Noticed that the entrance is incredibly close to th
in all-with-tracks).
T/U: 0.0 hours
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2016-07-23
-Mark D,
+Mark D
surface - placeholder to show up wallet
[Wallet does not appear on expedition page list if there is not a logbook entry or a survey with the same date]
T/U: 0.0 hours
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2016-07-24
-Martin Green, Ashley Gregg,
+Ashley Gregg, Martin Green
Balcony - Hilti-a-Plenty - Galactica
Went to explore Hilti-a-Plenty and push a pitch discovered by Rob and co. This pitch was eventually
named Deep Space 9 - suggested by Rob on a later trip. Martin bolted and rigged, before we descended to
@@ -1784,11 +1700,10 @@ year.
surveyed not including mahoosive Galactica. Of course it was the last day of pushing.
T/U: 0.0 hours
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2016-07-25
-Martin Green, Rob Watson, Ashley Gregg,
+Ashley Gregg, Martin Green, Rob Watson
Balcony Derigging - Hilti-a-Plenty
Went to show Rob Galactica before then the big derigging began. Derigged Deep Space 9 then the traverse
of Om? then Can't Stop Now this is Bat Country. Also finished an odd bit of surveying left behind by Rob
@@ -1799,7 +1714,6 @@ before Martin and I, dissappearing down the hill rather quickly. We were a bit s
lots of gear. And after today all of Balcony was finally derigged and the derig was completed for this year.
T/U: 0.0 hours
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