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<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.
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<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.
<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
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<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>
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<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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