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Frank has put in a heroic effort, here seen adding grommets to a new tarp for the bier tent. <br>
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The weather has been treating us nicely, possibly too nicely. This has made water collection on top of the mountain a bit problematic, but means we get the tans that are otherwise sorely lacking in the caving community.<br>
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Gear from last year has been systematically inspected and repaired. Anthony went through all the dry bags, noting that a lot of them seemed to have more than the one hole you would expect, and patched them up accordingly. He claimed that in order to truly repair a dry bag you have to become one with the bag, and demonstrated how to do so. <br>
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This year, we have to take two large solar panels and accompanying batteries up the hill. Haydon stepped up to over-engineer cases that would protect these from any nuclear attacks that may be encountered on the way up. Several of us sat around providing some much needed moral support and criticism.<br>
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When it comes to over-engineering, one must of course never forget UX testing:<br>
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As always, the CUCC expedition is blessed with a great supply of nerds. Phillip Sargent spent an hour trying to convince me that the 4-step version control system couldn?t possibly be easier to use. Today, Mark Shinwell stepped up when the printer was malfunctioning, and solved this by pushing in the paper tray. Some people just aren?t made for the nerding I guess.<br>
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Up on top of the mountain the tarps are set up, and curries, noodles, flapjack, gear, soup, more curries, and the all important bog roll.<br>
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Leads are already being pushed, with the first few surveys already coming out. Our first major surface find of the year, Homecoming Hole (Heimkommen H?hle) has been pushed down 7 pitches so far, and is still going strong. While this cave was named in anticipation of football coming home, it seems like we?ll have to settle for caving coming home this time around.<br>
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The nights end with plenty of drinks and cheer, and continued nerding to slot in the new leads in the database. It's looking like it'll be an exciting year in Austria!<br>
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The new cave of the year has been a smashing success. Found early in the expedition, Homecoming has been an excellent training ground for many of our expedition newbies. Over time the cave has been pushed below 200m which includes a 60m pitch, no easy feat for a tired caver. Up steam is a large rift traverse being pursued by Haydon and Jon primarily. Down stream there are many tight rifts left to be explored. <br>
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Last year a lead was found that had been walked past for 5 years! A small crawl leads to an open chamber which was being pushed at the end of last year. Becka and George (with a rotating cast of helpers) have been putting in the hours this year to extend this further. First ones to leave in the morning and the last ones back. They dropped a pitch, Hangman, through a tight squeeze and into surveyed passage. A quick trip down the hill showed that they had connected in to Tunnocks! Dropping further down Hangman lead to a 200m pitch series, Mongol Rally. 50m from the floor is a swing into a window, The Pit Stop. From The Pit Stop horizontal blowing phreatic passage slopes down pushed ~500m and still going. At the floor of the Mongol Rally more phreatic tubes where found ~20m in diameter! Becka and George managed a whole kilometre of surveying in a day! They popped out on a window to a large camber, climbed down and found that it had been surveyed. Another connection. Putting the data in to survex showed that they were just above camp Kraken. A potential new way into camp. Many exciting things going on in Balcony. <br>
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None of the 3 of us had ever ?paella?ed rope before but we knew we were not going to be able to prussik it all out, easily. We sent Luke up first with the rope tied to him and all the metalwork, ~35 handers+malloins and the emergency kit. Nadia and I derided the traverse to the big 120m pitch. With each bolt ~5m apart and no handholds to speak of, we questioned our sanity, but pushed through. Luke was much faster than our derigging effort and pulled our rope chain up 80m to the ledge, prussiked the tackle sack up 40m and came back down to meet Nadia on the ledge again. After a bit of discussion as to how to pull rope up two pitches at the same time they figured it out. Luke prussiked up the 40 and created a new pile as Nadia pulled the ropes I was derigging up. Very smooth.<br>
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At the top of the 40m our chain was over 300m long and we were entering rift passage. Luckily the timing was right and we were met by Ruairidh, Jacob and Alex, who supported the transportation through a climbing rift, by acting as human-deviations getting the chain ~60m through twists and turns to the next pitch head. The rest of the trip was smooth sailing with only a few rocks being dropped and one hanger escaping out of a hole in the bottom of the tackle sack. The final length that lay piled outside the cave entrance was over 500m and bigger than the average caver. An estimated 70 hangers and maillons plus deviation crabs were also brought out. Cavers returned to camp for 2am.<br>
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<b>Man hours: 66</b><br>
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@ -2915,7 +2915,7 @@ An arduous (for me) and increasingly muddy commute later, we reached the pushing
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To our surprise and elation, the muddy gryke of a lead dropped into a dry spacious expanse with multiple ways on. We began surveying down a railway tunnel passage sloping slightly down. This, to our bewilderment, led to a gentle meandering river banked by sloped volumes of mud. All of a sudden, Becka became exited, George and I rushed over, she had found a sprout in the mud! A surreal occurrence at ~700m below. The sapling drank in our light deeply as we admired it's lone perseverance.<br>
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@ -2924,7 +2924,7 @@ Half an hour or so up this lead, much to my relief, we stopped on a muddy bank f
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The pool in question was like something out of a sci fi film, Its colour and complexity was preternatural. I could explain it to you by a picture able to convey more than words.<br>
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@ -2934,7 +2934,7 @@ Waking up for the second time in absence of sunlight, the task for the 'day' was
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The camp was packed up and raised to the top of Kraken in five caries up the pitch (one by me two each by George and Becka). George competed a particularly obscene carry: a huge orange survival bag tied at the top with cord, he looked like a surreal speleo version of Santa Claus.<br>
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<img src="/years/2018/./ukcavingblog_files/WG3_2671.JPG" data-url="http://expo.survex.com/expofiles/photos/2018/BlogPostPhotos/WG3_2671.JPG" class="bbImage" data-zoom-target="1" style="" alt="WG3_2671.JPG" title="" width="" height="" loading="lazy">
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A strikingly colourful lake near the sump in Tunnockschacht<br>
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<img src="/years/2018/./blogimages/WG3_2640.JPG" data-url="http://expo.survex.com/expofiles/photos/2018/BlogPostPhotos/WG3_2640.JPG" class="bbImage" data-zoom-target="1" style="" alt="WG3_2640.JPG" title="" width="" height="" loading="lazy">
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What's this? Surely not life on the banks of a starless river?<br>
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<img src="/years/2018/./blogimages/WG3_2634.JPG" data-url="http://expo.survex.com/expofiles/photos/2018/BlogPostPhotos/WG3_2634.JPG" class="bbImage" data-zoom-target="1" style="" alt="WG3_2634.JPG" title="" width="" height="" loading="lazy">
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Yes: a pallid sprout growing in a huge mud bank just before the sump<br>
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<img src="/years/2018/./ukcavingblog_files/WG3_2642.JPG" data-url="http://expo.survex.com/expofiles/photos/2018/BlogPostPhotos/WG3_2642.JPG" class="bbImage" data-zoom-target="1" style="" alt="WG3_2642.JPG" title="" width="" height="" loading="lazy">
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The sump at -720m at the end of Scum of the Earth in Octopus Garden<br>
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