From aa58496cbd48577f648eb5e2215f7ed82d587fd3 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: becka__at_potatohut_expo_ Date: Wed, 16 Jul 2025 11:13:23 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] Online edit of logbookentry 2025-07-13a --- years/2025/logbook.html | 8 ++++---- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) diff --git a/years/2025/logbook.html b/years/2025/logbook.html index ab808b2a4..0f4c9ea74 100755 --- a/years/2025/logbook.html +++ b/years/2025/logbook.html @@ -591,7 +591,7 @@ The rest of the return journey went pretty quickly, and soon we were heading bac
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With over 100m rope plus rigging gear between the 2 of us we staggered off via the Fishface path. En route we checked out two nearby holes that Joel and Hamish had previously found.

Lucky Crowbar was at 33T 411074 5282956. Joel free-climbed down 5m to a snow plug with no way off horizontally. No Draught. @@ -599,11 +599,11 @@ Lucky Crowbar was at 33T 411074 5282956. Joel free-climbed down 5m to a snow plu 2025-js-06 at 33T 411092 5282971 had a weak draught out. Joel descended 5m on Petzl Pulses to a boulder blockage over a p15. The boulders would need a crowbar or capping to pass.

We then reached Gruffalo where I was *most* impressed by the absolutely arctic draught blasting out of it. Joel and Hamish had already had a trip to the top of the second pitch but Joel wanted to do some rerigging so I basked in the sun until that was done and I could start the survey. I'd failed to bring any nail varnish so Joel obligingly partly drilled holes to mark stations. He rigged our first 2 ropes and I went out to fetch the third and thaw out my hands. He rigged the second pitch beyond two unpleasant thrutches over wedged boulders then threw rocks at a massive icicle until it was felled to make the pitch a bit safer. He continued down, next to a huge ice floe. We finished our rope and hangers and the survey at the start of a catchy rift, 1m high x 0.5m wide with an absolute gale howling out. I headed out but, oh no, it was now raining. We waited until it stopped then I insisted on a different route back, following the easy, obvious, steadily ascending bunde-free cleft NNE for ~250m until it intersected the usual path SE up to the Tunnocks col (again, easy, bunde-free and steadily ascending) then back to Top Camp on the usual Balkon path. -

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T/U: 5.0 hours

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