Log now about 80% done. Hope to finish before I have to leave for the Tour de France ;-)

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@@ -301,7 +301,7 @@ Cirque du Soleil: QMB - Pitch on L as enter chamber
 
 <div class="triptitle">204 - Cirque de Soleil<br/>CONNECTION! 161-204</div>
 <div class="tripdate" id="t2012-08-09a">9/8/12</div>
-<div class="trippeople"><u>Becka</u>, Rob, Andrew + Ollie</div><div class="timeug">T/U: 10&frac12;</div>
+<div class="trippeople"><u>Becka</u>, Rob, Andrew + Ollie</div><div class="timeug">T/U: 10&frac12;</div><br clear="all">
 
 <p>Original plan was me, Andrew + Ollie finishing yesterday's traverse while Rob + Holly pushed leads in Cirque de Soleil but Holly discovered a hole in the bottom bobbin of her Stop at the top of Brian's Phat Shaft so she gave up and went out + Rob joined us. Ollie + I started my first ever PDA + DistoX survey - not a great location to practise on, a teetery traverse with Andrew bolting the next traverse, only just in earshot as I bawled out endless questions "How do I calibrate the screen?", "Why are some splays in dotted lines?" etc. There was only one point where I got a "Not now" which was shortly before a huge lump of rock fell off the traverse leaving a brown smear down the rock face. The survey caught up to Andrew just as he got finished and ..... da-narrr..... found the final survey stastion from last year's KH trip - whoo-hoo, made the connection. Rob then caught up with us + Andrew &amp; I were going to look up the passage but he'd forgotten about the up pitch so I did the bad step traverse withut protection for no reason + then was stuck there until Rob got some gear to give me a sling to get back. Then Rob + Andrew rigged a traverse to avoid the up pitch whilst Ollie + I went to the top of Fat Cat + surveyed the traverse - Dog Days - he'd done with Serena + then up the climb that Andrew had shinned up on the way down + left a skanky rope on it. This led to horizontal drafting passage, yippee + a chamber with several A-leads off ... having already had a very fine trip making the connection we decided to leave them for another day. Met Andrew + Rob on return. On Brian's Phat Shaft, Andrew went up first then as Ollie got about halfway a rock came whistling past me. "What was that from?" "Don't think it was me" says Ollie ... then another came down "Shit, the rebelays breaking up". Rob + I cowered as best we could + Ollie said there was only an inch of rock left on the nose the rebelay was on so we decided it was best if he took it out (the one at the bottom of the first long hang). Rob + I then teetered up past some razor sharp edges + the knot pass + the crab got wedged on Rob so the rope got incredibly tight but, hey, we survived.</p>
 
@@ -450,7 +450,7 @@ Olly did a great job bolting over the pitch and on. I took a few photos and even
 
 <div class="tripdate" id="t2012-08-11b">11-08-12</div>
 <div class="triptitle">Prospecting and walking to Appelhaus</div>
-<div class="trippeople"><u>Olaf</u>, Wookey</div>
+<div class="trippeople"><u>Olaf</u>, Wookey</div><br clear="all">
 
 <p>We had a trip booked in the Appelhaus area to visit some of our neighbouring cave systems. So first we had to contour hit across form Top camp. And as I didn't like the idea of walking back to the St&ouml;ger-Steig, I came up with a plan to go around northwards from Topcamp. We followed the path to Tunnocks for a start and then headed off into inknown territory north from there. We crossed some large bowl following a ridge on its western rim. After crossing some snowfields the ridge eventually ended and we got to a large depression with a hole in its northwestern corner (UTM 33T 0411876 528324). Appears to be a reltively deep shaft of approx 25m, but with little to no draught. Anyway, its a cave either on its own right and also its very close to March of the Penguins and Bulleth&ouml;hle (exploration started [illegible]). We tried to look down the shaft, but some bolting and rope seem to be necessary to get anywhere.</p>
 
@@ -462,7 +462,7 @@ Olly did a great job bolting over the pitch and on. I took a few photos and even
 
 <div class="tripdate" id="t2012-08-12b">12-08-12</div>
 <div class="triptitle">Hochdruckblasi (Woising)</div>
-<div class="trippeople">Uure Kalmback, <u>Olaf</u>, Wookey, Thomas Holder (ARGE), Ulid Aike</div>
+<div class="trippeople">Uure Kalmback, <u>Olaf</u>, Wookey, Thomas Holder (ARGE), Ulid Aike</div><br clear="all">
 
 <p>We had to walk to some "Woising Camp" from Appelhaus, which took about 2 hours. Then we got changd and walked another 8 minutes to a little entrance shaft. Following a series of pitches (very steep passages mostly) we eventually reached a horizontal level at 1640m above sea level. We explored that for a while, then went to another pitch going down some more steep passages to the currnet pushing front of the cave. A strong wind was blowing up this, and probably another horizontal level can be reached with little effort. Given the informatsion from other caves in the area, this horizontal level is expected at 1550m, but as this was mostly a touristy trip, we soon turned around and left the cave. The exit, different from the entrance, was rather spectacular high up in the cliffs at the northern edge of the Totes Gebirge with an impressive view and a nice little via ferrata to get back to the Wising Camp and Appelhaus. Overall the system is a lot smaller than SMK, but appears to be very interesting and it probably has exactly the same development history.</p>
 
@@ -596,7 +596,7 @@ LIST OF ROPES LEFT - Far From Support double traverse
 <div class="tripdate" id="t2012-08-xx">2012-08-</div>
 <div class="trippeople">Duncan, <u>Andrew</u></div>
 <div class="timeug">T/U: 5hrs</div>
-<div class="triptitle">1319 Rock'n'Roll H&ouml;hle</div>
+<div class="triptitle">139 Rock'n'Roll H&ouml;hle</div>
 
 <p>Over the pitch at the north end of the cave was an A lead. So for a more relaxing day, thought we would have a look and possibly add some length to the system if we could connect it on. Interesting start to the cave with a flat out crawl where every time you moved forward the rocks pushed you into the ceiling. Traverse first pit and got to end where Duncan traversed over and put in a hand-spit. Lead was so good it had already been scooped, but did our duty and surveyed it adding about 40m on to what had been scooped. Although it had not been scooped, nail varnish was found on wall, but looks like the data was lost.....</p>
 
@@ -645,17 +645,38 @@ LIST OF ROPES LEFT - Far From Support double traverse
 <p>All these caves are at a similar altitude to each other and (most likely) Organh&ouml;hle, so there appears to be something interesting going on here - well worth a return.</p>
 
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+<div class="tripdate" id="t2012-08-15c">2012-08-15</div>
+<div class="triptitle">Pushing leads in the north of Tunnocks</div>
+<div class="trippeople">Holly, Rob, <u>Anthony</u></div>
+<div class="timeug">T/U: 10hrs</div>
 
+<p>I tagged onto Holly and Rob's trip to Tunnocks - the first time I've been in this cave. The shallow levels are certanly most civilized. Followed Holly and Rob's heels to the pushing front at the Inner Flap (or whichever part of the vulva it is named after). Rob went on ahead and declared that the rift was passable for sufficiently far to warrant a survey. Since this was clearly a two-man job, I was dispatched to a pitch level in 39 steps. Navigated there without much difficulty, apart from one moderately tricky climb that I had to do twice after kicking the tacklesack down on the first attempt. I spent a while convincing myself that I was in the right place, and thought I had been sold a dud since the pitch didn't look all that promising from the top. There are two holes here that go to the same place, so I dropped the first one on a couple of naturals to find a black space ~4m down that was quite breezy, at which point I felt much happier. It looked like the continuing pitch would be hard to rig from here, so I put in a couple of handbolts to descend the other hole. By this point I had pretty much run out of gear, so Holly and Rob's reappearance was timely. Apparently they had surveyed ~40m of rift passage leading to a pitch. With that, I followed Holly and Rob's heels out again.</p>
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+<hr />
+<div class="tripdate" id="t2012-08-16a">2012-08-16</div>
+<div class="triptitle">204 -&gt; 161 -&gt; pitch level of March of the Ents ("No sign of Sauron")</div>
+<div class="trippeople">Rob &amp; <u>Anthony</u></div>
+<div class="timeug">T/U: 13hrs</div>
+
+<p>Headed down 204 and into 161 via the new connection - a fine piece of work by Andrew. Our target was a pitch lead heading west from March of the Ents with a howling draught coming out of it. Rob wielded the drill with occasional helpful advice from yours truly. It took a while to find some decent rock so by the time Rob had rigged the pitch head I was freezing, so went for a quick tourist to Mordor - all very impressive. When I returned, Rob was rigging a rebelay from where he descended to the floor. The pitch is a fine circulara shaft, about 5m round, but unfortunately the way on at the bottom is rather uninspiring immature rift. We surveyed into this for a bit until we got to an arbitrary point where the rift got a bit narrower and packed it in. The rift continues but there is no draught - QMB. With that we surveyed out and derigged. There is a possible continuation across the pitch head that could be reached by an easy traverse (2-3 bolts) but it is not obvious if there really is any passage there (QMB). It appears that the considerable draught comes down some aven above the pitch.</p>
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+<p>At this point we packed up the drill and most of the gear that had been stashed at this relatively inaccessible location to make a tacklebag each to lug out. I made exceptionally heavy weather of the prussik out, not helped by having left my foot jammer behind at hte top of the new pitch.</p>
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+<hr />
 
 <div class="tripdate" id="t2012-08-15d">2012-08-15</div>
 <div class="trippeople">OllyB, <u>Jenny</u></div>
 <div class="triptitle">83 - derig and survey</div>
-<p>
-Went back to 83 for the actual final trip. I retrieved the rigging gear while Olly sketched the entrance chamber. I derigged and swung across to look at side tubes. One near the top generated another ~15m of passage.
-</p><p>
-Finished de-rigging. [rigging diagram in original]
-</p>
-<div class="timeug">T/U: 2.5hrs</div>
+
+<p>Went back to 83 for the actual final trip. I retrieved the rigging gear while Olly sketched the entrance chamber. I derigged and swung across to look at side tubes. One near the top generated another ~15m of passage.</p>
+
+<p>Finished de-rigging.</p>
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+<p><img src="logbkimg16.png" /> <img src="logbkimg17.png" /></p>
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+<div class="timeug">T/U: 2&gfrac12;hrs</div>
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+<hr />
 
 <div class="tripdate" id="t2012-08-15e">2012-08-15</div>
 <div class="trippeople">OllyB, <u>Jenny</u></div>
@@ -663,17 +684,181 @@ Finished de-rigging. [rigging diagram in original]
 <p>
 Went to 148 and rigged in the first 4 pitches (i.e. to just before deep space). I'd forgotten how cold and drafty 148 is.
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-<div class="timeug">T/U: 2.5hrs</div>
+<div class="timeug">T/U: 2&frac12;hrs</div>
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+<hr />
 
 <div class="tripdate" id="t2012-08-17b">2012-08-17</div>
 <div class="trippeople">OllyB, <u>Jenny</u></div>
 <div class="triptitle">148 rigging</div>
 <p>
-Went to 148 with 100+m of rope, hangers and a drill. Tweaked the rigging on the way in to add a bolt on pitch 2 -> clowns are a poor hanger choice for free hanging rebelays! Also changed natural backups and things. Olly rigged down deep space (and hated using a stop more than hating using a rack) After much swinging about with too much gear he gave up looking for the deviation and came back up. I had a go and managed to find it eventually - a sling on a nose of rick behind you. Must be more than 5 years since I last rigged but I mostly remembered what to do. Except I was slow and failed to find the next few bolts. Safely got to the asteroid belt and found more bolts. Olly came down too and we rigged on to the pushing front. Olly found the missing bolts on the way out.
+Went to 148 with 100+m of rope, hangers and a drill. Tweaked the rigging on the way in to add a bolt on pitch 2 -&gt; clowns are a poor hanger choice for free hanging rebelays! Also changed natural backups and things. Olly rigged down deep space (and hated using a stop more than hating using a rack). After much swinging about with too much gear he gave up looking for the deviation and came back up. I had a go and managed to find it eventually - a sling on a nose of rock behind you. Must be more than 5 years since I last rigged but I mostly remembered what to do. Except I was slow and failed to find the next few bolts. Safely got to the asteroid belt and found more bolts. Olly came down too and we rigged on to the pushing front. Olly found the missing bolts on the way out.
 </p><p>
 The pitch heads are nasty and tight, but things look better deeper down. Got out surprisingly fast (1hr 40) despite bimbling.
 </p>
-<div class="timeug">T/U: 6.5hrs</div>
+<div class="timeug">T/U: 6&frac12;hrs</div>
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+<hr />
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+<div class="tripdate" id="t2012-08-18a">18th August</div>
+<div class="triptitle">2012-70 Doppel Gemseh&ouml;hle</div>
+<div class="trippeople">Olly + <u>Jenny</u></div><br clear="all">
+
+<p>Olly's Dad was arriving today, so we planned a short trip, then go down the hill. Did some more survey in 2012-70, but still a little bit left. Walked to Loser Hutte, hitched to Alaussee, Bus to Bad Aussee, walked to base camp. Realised it is easier not to go down the hill!</p>
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+<div class="timeug">T/U: [left blank]</div>
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+<hr />
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+<div class="tripdate" id="t2012-08-18b">18&middot;8&middot;12</div>
+<div class="triptitle">Strubklamm</div>
+<div class="trippeople">Olly M, Serena, Wook, Tess, Dave Loeffler, Sarah, Martin G, Stuart, Frank, <u>Julian</u></div><br clear="all">
+
+<p>The efficient 9 am early start deteriorated to an 11am sit in Bad Aussee bridge traffic jam. We were so late that Dave and Sarah had time to meet Becka on their mid morning shop, hear that we were canyoning, go back and get their wetsuits and catch us up at the start. The finest canyon in the area. Water all the way. Everything can be jumped unless you are a wuss. Filmed most of it by shakey helmet cam until the "waterproof" box steamed up. People with crap wetsuits that are about 30 years old and as stiff and ill fitting as car tyres (Wook + Tess) got cold. 3 cars went out, and 2 came back (Martin and Olly left expo).</p>
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+<div class="timeug">Time in canyon: 4hrs</div>
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+<hr />
+
+<div class="tripdate" id="t2012-08-19a">19&middot;8&middot;12</div>
+<div class="triptitle">204a - Runnel Stone</div>
+<div class="trippeople">Becka + <u>Julian</u> + Holly + Noel</div><br clear="all">
+
+<p>After having taken a day off caving and run out of caves, Becka ordered me to follow her up to top camp, denying me my post canyon relaxing beer and chips. At least I had chips. It was total blackout when we arrived at empty top camp. Faffed and squabbled for long enough in the morning for Noel + Holly to arrive, which proved we could have walked up in the morning. We talked them into following us down to the same pushing front for camping, though Noel is one of the Tunnocks warriors and has never been in 204 or 161 and isn't interested. We gave them the maps[?]. My god it's a long way down. Reminded me of that insane trip down Razor dance I once did in 2007. The Pussy Prance area is all traverses and holes. Team Zeus seemed to have no trouble exploring here day after day when it was being pushed. I am used to being outdone by girlies. After doing what has been disclosed to is known as a 'Julian', we went down some slimy pitches in Dog Days to check out a B-lead before pulling up the rope. I left my warm things in the tacklesack at the top and terminated the surveying when I got too cold in the drafty passages. Back at Pussy Prance, H and N had turned up. Fat Cat head to airy traverses and finally the connection to KH. Romped all the way down to the end, pointing out leads left and right, to the end statsion 30m away from Chicken Flied Nice. It didn't look appealing (bolt up boulders up to passage above) when there were so many other leads to do. Noel + H took the first B-lead on the left going out, and Becka and I took the two A-leads on the right of the Runnel Stone, which joined and headed on North and in several different ways. Decided to move out as a group at 7 pm. Although the route in is in many ways more direct than going all the way through 161H and all that, it doesn't feel easier. Out at 2 am.</p>
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+<div class="timeug">T/U 15hrs</div>
+
+<hr />
+
+<div class="tripdate" id="t2012-08-20a"><!-- deduced that this is the 20th --></div>
+<div class="triptitle">Surface prospecting above March of the Penguins</div>
+<div class="trippeople">Noel + <u>Julian</u></div><br clear="all">
+
+<p>It was too hot to make my escape to base camp in the morning, so somehow it seemed like the agreed idea to explore on the surface and give people a rest so they could take Becka caving the next day. Maybe we could find a cave entrance and sit in it. MotP is in an isolated mound of limestone higher than the entrance, and there must be a way into it from the surface. This area is paydirt. I quickly found a cave entrance on the edge, whcih drafted on account of the hole it came out of 12m away. I still have the cuts and scratches from the through trip no one will ever do again because it is now tagged to show the next person who finds it that they did not discover it. Poked around a snow plug. Found some deeper holes that rattle a long time to the east of hte area, encouraged Noel to check out another hole with SRT rigged from the hole drilled for the tag, and then surveyed Bat Slot [?] Cave (all 4 legs). A lot of holes here. Very tantalising.</p>
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+<div class="timeug">T/U 20 min</div>
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+<hr />
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+<div class="tripdate" id="t2012-08-15f">2012-08-15</div>
+<div class="triptitle">Inner Flap - Tunnocks</div>
+<div class="trippeople"><u>Holly</u>, Rob &amp; Antony</div><br clear="all">
+
+<p>Antony has already written a short piece regarding this trip, but going to add some additional detail regarding the Inner Flap push. After Antony had a peak at hte lead, he declared that this was a two-man survey job &amp; headed off to the 39 steps to rig the pitch there. After ~3-4 hours of surveyng winding narrow rift - we eventually reached what I was hoping would happen ~&gt; the rift opens out and a void below can be seen. Sending Rob ahead with his bright light, he lit up hte pitch below - where we could see a puddle at the bottom. Rob also thought he could see a window part way down the pitch. Lowering the tape measure down, the bottom of the pitch was not reached after 20m! Poop !</p>
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+<p>Now what letter lead is this ? If it was me I would label this as a QMA! I believe there's a faint draft, although Rob wasn't convinced (maybe it was wishful thinking on my part). However, having seen some piccies of the Razor Dance pitches, it seems quite likely that there will be another rift at the bottom - so lets go for a QMB lead (and don't forget the potential window!)</p>
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+<hr />
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+<div class="tripdate" id="t2012-08-16b">2012-08-16</div>
+<div class="triptitle">258 - Pitch at 39 steps</div>
+<div class="trippeople"><u>Holly</u> &amp; Andrew</div><br clear="all">
+
+<p>After realising that there wasn't enough gear to go around, I abandoned my trip to the pitch at the end of Inner Flap &amp; joined Andrew on his pushing trip to the pitch at 39 Steps (Antony's previous trip). At the pushing front I handed Andrew the drill, as I would be having drilling fun when I would drop the pitch in I.F. (although sadly this was not to be the case - but there's always next year!) I was very happy at this decision as the pitch turned out to be chossy &amp; what rock there was, was cracked. After much hammering of rock, Andrew managed to rig the pitch with a free-hanging rebelay. As Andrew progressed to the ledge (~15-20m down?) I would hear shocked exclamations followed by loud bangs as Andrew gardened the pitch. At the ledge Andrew realised that we were a few metres short of rope! AGH! (My 42m rope was actually 32m - my fantastic maths!) Fortunatey I knew of a short bt of rope that had been placed on the way in for a traverse line that wasn't entirely necessaary, so as I went to retriene it, Andrew placed some more bolts &amp; rigging.</p>
+
+<p>When I returned, we began surveying &amp; headed to the bottom of the pitch. At the ledge there is an aven in which water trickles in. Here Andrew had placed a rebelay Y-hang and we added the extra rope - so a fn hanging knot by-pass had been added ~4m from the floor! So including Antony's rigging from previous trip, rigging topo as follows:</p>
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+<p><img src="logbkimg18.png" /></p>
+
+<p>At the bottom a narrow passage that soon opened into a large chamber was found &amp; surveyed. This contained a rather steep boulder slope, of various sized boulders. I opted to go first - my attempt at being brave, but was followed by girlie squeals as I tried very daintily to climb the slope. I was followed quickly by Andrew, who stomped up, throwing bouldefrs down vigourously. I need more practice! The large chamber contained 2 high avens, of which water came in from one of them, and two windows higher up in the chamber. One, in the northern part of the chamber, looked rather promising given that it looked relatively easy to climb. However, we were out of rope, so Andrew looked longingly at the climb for a couple of minutes &amp; then we headed out.</p>
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+<div class="timeug">T/U: 10hrs</div>
+
+<hr />
+
+<div class="tripdate" id="t2012-08-17c">2012-08-17</div>
+<div class="triptitle">258 - Pitch at 39 steps</div>
+<div class="trippeople"><u>Holly</u> Noel &amp; Rob</div><br clear="all">
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+<p>It was Rob's last caving trip, so off we headed to the chamber that Andrew &amp; I had surveyed the previous day. The aim was to climb up the 'easy' climb to the window up the northern end of the chamber. The climb ened up not being as easy as expected &amp; an hour pater Noel was finally at the top, with two very cold cavers at the bottom. Noel rigged a pitch down &amp; Rob &amp; I went up to have a peak. As this was to be a short caving trip (as we were to walk down the hill that evening) we had a very quick look. I declared it a death trapped - another slope of death boulders. Rob had a quick peak up slope - which he stated was choked - hurrah. A small tube at the head of the pitch lead to a spil-filled tube-dig. With limited time we abandoned surveying &amp; the derig for another time.</p>
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+<div class="timeug">T/U: ~6hrs</div>
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+<hr />
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+<div class="tripdate" id="t2012-08-22a">2012-08-22</div>
+<div class="triptitle">258 - Suicidal Vampire</div>
+<div class="trippeople"><u>Noel</u>, Holly  &amp; Becka</div><br clear="all">
+
+<p>As all three of us needed to head down the hill, we opted for a quick de-rig of all the leads in the North end of Tunnocks. Holly's Inner Flap &amp; the climb/pitch at the end of Penguin Acrobatics - now called Suicidal Vampire as we are close to the surface here &amp; are looking for daylight. This name soon turned out to be doubly-apt!!!</p>
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+<p>To save time &amp; be efficient we decided to detackle on two fronts, with Holly heading to der-rig Inner Flap, &amp; Becka &amp; myself heading to pull-through derig the S.V. bolt climb, after surveying it. Up the climb, all the leads were surveyed in 4 legs, with neither of us opting to head further up the horribly loose boulder slope above towards what appeared to be the underside of a massive choke.</p>
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+<p>Once surveyed, we pulled through, Becka abseiling on the single ring hanger first (slightly nervous moment).</p>
+
+<p>After this, we could hear Holly on the P.A. pitch having finished her own de-rig. Becka headed down the terrible boulder sope to the foot of the pitch where a dislodged stone fell &amp; hit her arm. Fortunately this turned out to be none too serious and the exit continued. After Becka's call of "rope free" I started to head down the slope to the pitch. And here is where disaster struck.</p>
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+<p>Walking carefully down the slope, a small stone rolled past me. This seemed okay until more stones started rolling, &amp; then the slope under my feet started sliding. This was one of those "million thoughsts in one secnd" moments where time seems to slow down. I first tried to brace against the wall of the rift the boulder slope runs into, in order to stop the movement under my feet, but it soon became apparent that large things were becoming undercut &amp; starting to move above me. Then the whole slope seemed to turn fluid. I managed to step off the moving part onto a single boulder that wasn't moving yet. The point I had just been stood on went roaring down the slope with lots of giant boulders following. I ran as quickly up the remaining still boulders as possible, as these too started moving. The whole slope had now turned into a giant un-stable overhang of death, with me at the top. The crashing &amp; booming ended &amp; the others were shouting down to see if I was OK. Okay, but not safe yet as a further collapse took a large part of the floor in a side passage where I again narrowly avided getgting pulled in as everything around started sliding.</p>
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+<p>It took a while for the massive adrenaline rush to subside, where I shakily returned to what used to be the slope to see how I could escape. The slope was now an overhanging loose wall, with small bits constantly dropping out. A new problem was that if I didn't get out soon, any further collapse would block the way out, so I grit my teetch &amp; quickly scampered down an edge of the "wall", ran to the rift &amp; jumped/thrutched high up the rift to escape further collapse. Phew. Then a shaky exit leaving me feeling rather exhausted after the adrenaline come down.</p>
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+<p><img src="logbkimg19.png" /></p>
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+<p>DO NOT RETURN HERE. The boulders are now incredibly dangerous, &amp; we ticked all the leads.</p>
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+<hr />
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+<div class="tripdate" id="t2012-08-21a">2012-08-21</div>
+<div class="triptitle">234 - Hauchh&ouml;le - Slapper Pink</div>
+<div class="trippeople">Serena, Stuart B, <u>Stu W</u></div><br clear="all">
+
+<p>Uneventful descent down to wee-wee land with some difficulty experienced with the drill in tackle sack blues. Found station 10 on the previous survey and tied in. Stuart B bolted / descended the pitch while Serena / Stuart W surveying behind. Pitch crapped out with C lead near the bottom which Serena could squeeze into. An aven was found above the pitch. Serena spilt half our pot of "Slapper Pink" named nail varnish onto hte bottom of the itch hence the name. Trip out was uneventful.</p>
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+<hr />
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+<div class="tripdate" id="t2012-08-24a">2012-08-24</div>
+<div class="triptitle">234 - Hauchh&ouml;le - 'Mercurial suppository'</div>
+<div class="trippeople">Serena, Stuart B, <u>Stu W</u></div><br clear="all">
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+<p>Uneventful and relatively quick descent to woo woo land, taking sandy passage on right to [blank left to fill in]. Found several leads in boulder choke not on survey and explored one of them. Encountered tight Mendip style muddy/scrotty passage (to Serena's delight) while Stuart B dropped / bolted a nearby pitch with the drill. The passage ended in a 5m(ish) pitch choked with boulders but draughting and a C lead which was half filled with water. Not wanting to get wet due to the temperature we rejoined Stuart B down his pitch (which crapped out) and surveyedit. Stu W went ahead with the drill while StuB / Serena derigged. Stu W got out of the cave just as a storm was starting and ended up ditching the drill (in waterproof bag) half way back to top camp. Stuart B and Serena reported being met with a torrent of water at the last pitch or two and could hear thunder. Stuart B ran back to top camp leaving the rope in the cave entrance. Serena tried to wait out the storm but then decided to move back to camp. Storm was the worst anyone had seen but bivy held up well.</p>
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+<div class="tripdate" id="t2012-08-08c">2012-08-08</div>
+<div class="trippeople">Frank, Serena, <u>Stu W</u></div>
+<div class="triptitle">Tunnocksch&auml;fte - climb of the penguins</div>
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+<p>Proceeded down Tunnocks to March of the Penguins and surveyed a small B lead which crapped out after 3 legs, ending in a stream. Serena spotted a climb opposite hte lead which was promptly gardened and led to a T unction. Left was choked with rocks and unstable. Right continued and end up being a new lead (or two) QMA/B and a bypass for the boulder choke (next to which we tied hte survey back to close our loop). This pasage was named Climb of the Penguins. Trip out was uneventful.</p>
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+<div class="tripdate" id="t2012-08-xxb">2012-08-</div>
+<div class="trippeople">Frank, Jess, <u>Stu W</u></div>
+<div class="triptitle">D&ouml;ppelgemzeh&ouml;le - 2012-JS1</div>
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+<p>We initially proceeded to explore some QMs in 204 using the d entrance but failed to locate this successfully as we could not find a tag (we later found the entrance we suspected was 204d in fact was). After a detour to 2003-9 where we took a few photos lighting up the impressive water ice with a [?scirion?]. After exiting we stumbled across a new undescended shaft which was drafting slightly and had a small entrance which rattled for several seconds when a stone was thrown down. Frank taught StuW how to hand bolt to put the tag on and then descended 2012-JS1 while handbolting. Rob joined us after recovering from his late night trip the day before and StuW, Jess went and did some prospecting, splitting up after a short while. StuW found some interesting areas to return to later and marked on GPS. Jess was injured while climbing across the plateau and blacked out for afew seconds after hurting her head and middle finger (and hands) when a hand hold failed. She made it back to Rob, was walked back to top camp and attended to by first aiders before being walked to hospital by Martin. She had a broken middle finger but was otherwise OK. Meanwhile StuW returned to the top of 2012-JS1, gave Rob the GPS to look at the interesting area and was offered a chance to go down into the cave but declined after hearing it crapped out promptly and was rather wet. Cave was derigged and surveyed using rope lengths afterwards.</p>
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+<div class="tripdate" id="t2012-08-xxc">2012-08-</div>
+<div class="trippeople"><u>Stu W</u>, Frank</div>
+<div class="triptitle">"Bullets second h&ouml;le" 2011-01</div>
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+<p>Following a prospecting report, Frank, StuW took 70 ish metres of rope and a hand bolting kit to 2011-01 using a GPS borrowed from Rob. The cave was found after taking a long winded route and had some evidence of bolting of unknown origin (Emma and Martin et al who found the cave couldn't remember it being there). The bolts were in odd locations but found to be fairly solid. The cave was descended and two/three more hand bolts were added by Frank before we reached turnaround time and left, leaving the cave rigged and finding an easier route back to tpo camp. This cave appears to be quite high up, serves as the drainage area for a large area (so can get very wet very quickly) draughts lots and appears to go down quite a long way. Is currently quite far off but could potentially extend Tunnocks further north and the system higher due to the entrance being high (QMA).</p>
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+<div class="tripdate" id="t2012-08-xxd">2012-08-</div>
+<div class="trippeople">Frank, Martin, <u>Stu W</u></div>
+<div class="triptitle">"Bullets second h&ouml;le" 2011-01</div>
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+<p>After promising rsults last time we returned with an extra bag of rope (70ish meters again) a drill (together a heavy carry) and an extra person. Martin descended the pitch and began drilling. Frank bolted several more entrances in hte surrounding area as there is lots of promising cave in hte region. StuW waited at the top and then descended. The drill ran out of power after two holes (it was the rubbish heavy hilti bivy setting one) and we decided to retreat and derig for now due to the weather and feeling cold. We decided that it would be easy to return to as it was not deep and could be done after derigging the deeper cave. A brief shower caused a lot of water to run down hte cave while we were in it. On the way back we found a shaft (untagged) on the Tunnocksshaft path which was noted in StuWs GPS</p>
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+<div class="tripdate" id="t2012-08-xxe">2012-08-</div>
+<div class="trippeople"><u>Stu W</u></div>
+<div class="triptitle">Prospecting (2012-SWOX)</div>
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+<p>A day's prospecting and tagging in previously noted areas yielded 3 tagged caves. First the shaft on the way to Tunnocks was visited, labeled 20120SW01 with a handbolting kit and found to be 8-10m deep and chossed up at the bottom. It wasn't descended due to lack of rope but this could be done in hte future and will only need to be done once, so was worth tagging for this reason. Returning to anoher point on my GPS and bolted it with the tag 2012-SW02. It was then descended via a slippery free climb and eventually ended with a rift and an ice sheet (ice sump?) On the way back I stumbled acaross a third cave - a shaft with a two second drop from a tennis ball sized/shaped piece of rock. The shaft was (about) wide enough to fit a small car into and I could not see the bottom as it was deep / steep sided. It is likely to be chossed up but remains undescended and is labelled with tag 2012-SW03.</p>
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 <div class="tripdate" id="t2012-08-20b">2012-08-20</div>
 <div class="trippeople">OllyB, <u>Jenny</u></div>