Add logbook entries for Wook's train journey and KH pushing trip in 'Are we there yet'

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@@ -1355,8 +1355,51 @@ Complicated arrangements made to collect Wookey tomorrow evening.
 <div class="tripdate" id="2025-07-21a">2025-07-21</div>
 <div class="trippeople"><u>Philip S.</u>, Frank, James W., Wookey</div>
 <div class="triptitle">Basecamp - Wookey train horrendosity</div>
-Wookey had an appalling trip thanks to Deutsche Bahn. Arriving at the Bad Aussee bahnhof at 23:06, Frank & James came down after derigging Gruffalo (cold!) and Frank has gone to collect Wookey.
+<p>Wookey's train journey from Calais to expo didn't go to plan due mostly to Deutsche Bahn being rubbish: 4 out of 6 segments were late or missing.
-<div class="timeug">T/U: 0.0 hours</div>
+<p>Plan was:
+ <pre> 
+  Calais     6:34   Paris Nord 09:32  ICE SNCF
+  Paris Est 10:54   Stuttgart  14:04  ICE DB
+  Stuttgart 14:51   Muenchen   16:49  ICE DB
+  Muenchen  17:29   Salzburg   18:58  REX DB
+  Salzburg  19:45   Bad Ischel 20:59  Bus 150
+  Bad Ischl 21:04   Bad Aussee 21:40  Local train
+ </pre>
+<p>As everyone was up the hill Frank had left car at the stn and PhilS was going to deliver keys by bike</p>
+
+<p>First Calais train set off 20 mins late, setting the tone for the
+day. I had left plenty of time for connections, knowing that DB are
+useless, so caught Paris to Stuttgart easily, but that one ended up 40
+mins late. 54 mins for connection meant it should still have been OK,
+but the Stuttgart to Muenchen train was cancelled completely, (and
+clearly other trains had gone wrong) so the station was total chaos
+with hundreds of stranded and confused passengers milling about.</p>
+
+<p>Next train to Munich now had two trains-worth of people on it, but
+I managed to get on. Spent the whole time online recalculating
+possibilities. As well as starting 30 mins later than original plan,
+this train ended up being a few more mins late, so I missed train to Salzburg
+by 4 minutes (grr!). Got next one, however that was Austrian (not DB)
+so didn't honour DB tickets, leaving me paying another 35 euro (the
+kind conductor let me pretend I started at a later station than
+Muenchen so at least it wasn't 50 euro!</p>
+
+  <p> All this meant I actually got to Salzburg back on schedule,
+arriving at 150 bus stop with 10 mins to spare. Result!  But then the
+150 bus just drove past without stopping (so annoying!), so I had to
+get next one. This bus stopped for 15 mins en-route for the driver to
+talk to a couple of police offers for some mysterious reason,
+guaranteeing that I missed the agreed train to Bad Aussee. At least
+there _are_ later trains to BA these days. Eventually made it to BA
+about 1.5 hours late at 23:06. By this time Frank & James had come
+down after derigging gruffalo, so the complicated bike-assissted
+recovery was not needed, and Frank kindly came to pick me up.</p>
+
+<p>All a bit of a faff really. Even leaving sensible 40-min+
+connection gaps is not enough to save one from DB's cockups if trains
+just disappear, and buses ignore you.</p>
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 <div class="tripdate" id="2025-07-23a">2025-07-23</div>
@@ -1401,9 +1444,86 @@ Stayed up at top camp to watch the lightening storms forcast for 20:00, we had s
 <div class="tripdate" id="2025-07-24a">2025-07-24</div>
 <div class="trippeople"><u>philip s</u>, alice, ash, buck, frank, hamish, musky, james h, james w., lara, luke, ned, bigtom, wookey, janis</div>
 <div class="triptitle">basecamp - rainy day</div>
-lots of people down and a rainy day, very fine curry. A bit hot fopr wookey.
+lots of people down and a rainy day, very fine curry. A bit hot for wookey.
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+<div class="tripdate" id="2025-07-23c">2025-07-23</div>
+<div class="trippeople"><u>Wookey</u>, Ash, Luke</div>
+<div class="triptitle">KH - Horizontal leads in the far end of KH</div>
+<p>Wook was keen to see what they'd found at the far end of KH, and as
+everyone was complaining about what a long way it was, there were
+still leads going. Prompt start leaving SB by 8:30 saw us underground
+at 9:20. Got to the far end (bottom of new pitch in Natural Way down
+to Enniskillen Toad) in 3 hours. Had a look round at the various leads
+in Meat Sofa before heading to the current pushing front to see what
+we could knock off without gear (leaving Buck and Alice to do the
+drilling/rigging stuff). Looked along walking A-lead but decided to
+start with the B-lead at the end next to the final pitch
+(eniskillentoad.50) to see if it would bypass the pitch without
+rigging. It did indeed rapidly get us round the other side (or at
+least one other side - there may well be a '3rd side' - it's hard to
+tell without rope or falling down the hole. Then it dropped with a
+slightly dubious c5 down and back up the other side of a clean-washed
+bit. Luke demonstrated that it was doable so we all followed. Now in a
+small chamber, ahead looked down about 5m into some space, to the
+right through a hole looked down 3m into a nice passage but was rather
+overhanging, and to the left was yet another overlook. This time
+unclimable due to height and being a very dodgy dirt ledge. We
+suspected all 3 led to the same passage.</p>
+
+  <p>Wook found he could shin down the overhang by sliding through behind
+some fretwork to climb down in acceptable safety. Ash followed. Luke
+went back to get a rope so we could get out again. We were back in
+walking passage, now with a fine draught. Surveying along we soon
+found ourselves back at the original A-lead. So we could have got here
+a lot more easily!</p>
+
+  <p>Wook shinned back up the overhanging mantelshelf
+and retrieved the rope. We then surveyed southwards, again in
+mostly-walking passage. Got to a sediment shelf 3m up with another
+across an inconvenient gap of a couple of metres. Wook decided a
+dynamic leap across was plausible, and indeed it worked. This passage
+is 'Leap of Faith'.</p>
+
+  <p>So we all crossed, leaving getting back for 'future us'. We passed a
+very clean (and gloriously echoey) inlet. From here there was a deep
+T-slot and the copious dirt fell into the wet bottom. We traversed and
+shinned until reaching a ~6m pitch at a cross-rift. Climbing up the
+rift to the right one could see that the passage continued about 5m
+above the old level (A-lead), but a rope would be sensible to get into it
+without undue risk. There may be a climb up the end of the rift
+possible too (B-lead).</p>
+
+  <p>We returned (getting back turned out to be fine). And headed off
+northwards following the main wind. More very nice walking passage to
+a T-junction. We went right (uphill, leaving A-lead downhill), and
+soon reached an unusual 2x3m pool pool in an S-bend. It was very
+clear, but also had unusual floating 'mats/scumlines/dirt' floating on
+the surface. The water had no pobvious feed, but there must be enough
+replenishment to coutner evaporation from the wind. Unsure if the mats
+are bacterial or chemical. Ash tried to take a few photos. We tiptoed
+around it to a convenient place to stop (an another
+junction/cross-rift) and called that a day with about 285m in the
+book. A-lead left, B-lead up to right.</p>
+
+  <p>Went back to complete a loop in a lower passage where we started, met
+up with Buck and Alice to compare notes (they planned to stay a few
+more hours as last trip) and headed out, aiming to get back before
+midnight for a civilised kip. Back to the entrance in about 3hr45m,
+then the rather tedious slog back up the hill for curry.</p>
+
+  <p>Wook logged a GPS track at the entrance for 12 hours, which strongly
+suggests that the current entrance location is about 12m off to the
+SSW.</p>
+<p>
+An excellent trip, with more leads at the end than the start. This is
+a really interesting area of cave. And despite it being quite a lot of
+caving, it is only '3-4' hours travel each way once you know the
+route, so quite do-able.</p>
+
+<div class="timeug">T/U: 12.0 hours</div>
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