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"date": "2025-06-28",
"expedition": 50,
"title": "Basecamp - Basecamp begins",
"cave": null,
"place": "Basecamp",
"other_people": "",
"text": "Arrived at basecamp ~4:15am and promptly set up tents and went to sleep. Retrieved tatty hut key from the gasthof first thing in the morning, where it was confirmed that taped-off area along the East side of the basecamp field/parking lot has been set aside for camping, rather than parking, meaning we have more space this year!\n<p>\n\nAlice and Jonty then went for a mega shop whilst Hamish and I began unpacking the loft.\n<p>\n\nCharlotte, Harry, Hannah C, and Chris arrived, shortly followed by the return of Alice and Jonty, finally getting us up to the eight people apparently required to successfully set up the bier tent. \n<p>\n\nAlice and I (successfully) tested the Blue Box's number plate on the toll road, then returned to basecamp to admire the now completed bier tent, which shortly thereafter facilitated the frying of 2025's first batches of basecamp chips, shortly before Russell and Joel. \n<p>\nEvening came, accompanied by some splashing around in the river and much packing of top camp bags. Jonty got the tatty hut wifi working shortly before Dan and Dylan arrived by train. No Ella in sight, however, as she became separated from them during a particularly faffy train changeover, and is now due in an hour later. Lara and Hannah UG due by car past midnight.",
"slug": "2025-06-28a",
"time_underground": 0.0,
"author": {
"id": 34,
"slug": "buck-blake"
},
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"id": 183,
"slug": "alice-kirby"
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"id": 385,
"slug": "hamish-weir"
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"id": 280,
"slug": "jonty-pine"
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"date": "2025-06-28",
"expedition": 50,
"title": "Base camp - Arrival!",
"cave": null,
"place": "Base",
"other_people": "",
"text": "A nice late morning start of 5.10am to St Pancras International allowed a wonderful night\u2019s sleep (3 hrs). This was followed by Eurostar to Brussels, a train to Frankfurt, and a train to Linz, with all going well.\n<p>\n Then we arrived at Linz, with dan and Dylan exiting the train. Ella however, was hit with the most egregious faff ever seen. And then suddenly, the beep of the train, the rising of the step, the closing of the doors\u2026and the train rolled away with Ella onboard. RIP.\n<p>\nAfter, a slightly mad panic and laughs at the nightmare of a situation, it was worked out that Ella could get the LAST train to Bad Aussee.\nThankfully, all worked out, with us arriving in two groups after 18hrs and 19hrs. This was followed by some unsuccessful putting up of tents in what felt like a car park, but a good night\u2019s sleep despite the tent looking like an old man\u2019s ball bag.",
"slug": "2025-06-28b",
"time_underground": 0.0,
"author": {
"id": 224,
"slug": "ella-marcovitch"
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"id": 122,
"slug": "daniel-gorst"
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"id": 381,
"slug": "dylan-wase"
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"date": "2025-06-29",
"expedition": 50,
"title": "Topcamp - The most efficient topcamp setup you ever did see",
"cave": null,
"place": "Topcamp",
"other_people": "",
"text": "[Written about a week later as the original version of this report was lost to the depths of the website]\n<p>\nAt the ungodly hour of about 7:15am, we set off from basecamp, yawning and tollroad-bound. The weather was absolutely sweltering, and we made sure to lather ourselves with suncream and stock up on water. Chris, Harry, and Hannah were first on the trail to the col, whilst the rest of us faffed a bit. And then up the hill we went! We soon reached Stoneybridge, having made sure to reflector the plateau monster on the way (red eyes to instil appropriate levels of deference). \n<p>\nDue to an incredibly efficient chain of hands, the storage cave was emptied within an hour of our arrival, and focus shifted to setup beneath the bridge. Chris oversaw rigging of the first water tarp, and the tarp support was set up during a lengthy process which consisted of many dismissed ideas and scrutinisation of several old topcamp photos, before the decision was made to just wing it and lattice stuff to death. This resulted in a lovely, 'novel' setup which we decided would be sufficient, partially because it looked super cool and partially because it was getting late and we were craving basecamp chips. <br />\n<img src=\"/years/2025/topcamp-rigging.jpg\" width=40%><br />\n<em>Novel tarp rigging</em>\n<p>\nAfter setting up the second water tarp, we headed down the hill, partially reflectoring the route on the way. I say partially because it turns out the reflectors left at basecamp (which we'd assumed were the reflectors taken off the col-topcamp walk at the end of last expo, and had taken up with us) did not in fact exist in sufficient quantity to reflector the route, and also a fair chunk of them were white on both sides. It's likely these were spares, rather than ones taken off the plateau last year.",
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"author": {
"id": 34,
"slug": "buck-blake"
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"slug": "charlotte-payne"
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"slug": "chris-densham"
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"slug": "hannah-collings"
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"slug": "harry-kettle"
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"slug": "joel-stobbart"
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"date": "2025-06-30",
"expedition": 50,
"title": "Plateau - Plateau and Homecoming - Tiring 1st expo plateau walk",
"cave": null,
"place": "Plateau",
"other_people": "",
"text": "A nice early start of 7am allowed us to make it to the car park in good time, with some expert rally driving up the toll road by Alice. The views from the plateau are beautiful, and as the morning sun awoke, we made our way up to Homecoming for our day's plans.\n<p>\nDuring the walk up to Homecoming, we found a few promising holes that we thought would be worth prospecting further in a few days. Once at Homecoming, we donned our caving gear, and Ella rigged the first 3 pitches. This then allowed us to haul the ~1.2 km of rope out of Homecoming, which was left in a nice pile under a tarp to be transported to top camp the following day. \n<p>\nA rather tiring walk from Homecoming to Top Camp with caving gear and some rope was then done - rather exhausting in the heat of the day. The cool offered from the top camp tarp was enjoyed by the party, and noodles and a yap to the other groups offered a nice break from the long day's walk.\n<p>\nFinally, a nice stroll down from top camp - 18 kilos lighter this time - allowed us to get back to the car park and bottom camp in good time to enjoy Becka's delicious risotto.\n<p>\nA very fun but tiring first experience of the plateau. It is hard to imagine what the plateau is like to someone who has never been before, but it is far sharper than I imagined. It felt a bit like what I imagine the surface of the moon would be like, just with more gravity and less spacesuits :( Same lack of aliens though, unless we find them down the promising holes we saw on our walk.",
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"time_underground": 3.0,
"author": {
"id": 122,
"slug": "daniel-gorst"
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"slug": "ella-marcovitch"
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"id": 69,
"slug": "hannah-collings"
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"id": 180,
"slug": "harry-kettle"
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"date": "2025-06-30",
"expedition": 50,
"title": "KH - All roads lead to KH",
"cave": 257,
"place": "KH",
"other_people": "",
"text": "<p>\nGiven the option of either bimbling up the plataeu to help setup top camp or the gruelling task of pulling up hundreds of metres of old rope out of homecoming, I decided to choose the former option as a nice introduction to expo. Once we arrived at top camp, I dumped all my kit in my Bivi in a (hopefully) non drippy area and looked out for tasks to help out with. \n<p>\nMike suggested preemptively scouting out the route to KH as a group would be returning the next day, so I happily agreed to help out. Heading south east we plodded along, missing the Grike (as we were instructed to follow), arriving at a bunda forest. With no obvious way around we plowed though, popping out and carrying on following a path along the right edge of the plateau. After a considerable amount of time we realised we had messed up and headed far too south east. To remedy we turned sharply and followed straight in the direction of KH, which caused us to wade though a sea of bunda, do a fair amount of scrambling and scale the side of a cliff like mountain goats. To our annoyance the GPS coordinates were about 10m off the actual location of the cave, which cost us a lot of time waking and climbing in all directions trying to find the damn entrance. I found a window into the main entrance which allowed me to clap like a mad person whilst Mark searched for the actual entrance. \n<p>\nEventually it was found, and we headed back with more or less the same difficulties that we had on the way here.",
"slug": "2025-06-30b",
"time_underground": 0.0,
"author": {
"id": 381,
"slug": "dylan-wase"
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"slug": "mark-dougherty"
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"date": "2025-06-30",
"expedition": 50,
"title": "Reflectorist - Finding Reflectorist",
"cave": 89,
"place": "Reflectorist",
"other_people": "",
"text": "<p>After spending the morning walking up to top camp and tarp-fettling, we set off after lunch with the task of reflecting the route to Balcony within an inch of its life. We aimed to search for pastures new after completing this task. Due to our extreme diligence, however, the search manifested less chronologically favourably than planned. Unperturbed, the B-team of Bonty, Bulia and Boel set off from Balcony with expectations of great cave.\n<p>\n<p>Much like Columbus, the B-team took to naming parts of the plateau that had already been discovered, such as Japanese Garden and New Stoney Bridge. They soon found themselves looking across a vast expanse of bunde, which according to the entrances map had not been explored. From the viewpoint we had, there were some promising looking holes in sight across the valley. Unfortunately, due the unrelenting march of time and the distance in question, we had not time to investigate further. Instead we agreed to loop back around towards Balcony in order to make our way back. During a routine pincer manoeuver through some bunde, Boel stumbled across a hole in the ground - much to the excitement of the group. Given the proximity of the hole, it was decided that the B-team would drop it immediately as it was probably the next big thing.\n<p>\n<p>Having cunningly packed bolting gear, including the new-to-expo Petzl Pulses, the top of the entrance pitch was soon bolted (following some scrutiny of the bolts' documentation booklet). The entrance proceeded down a shallow rift encircled by bunde before plummeting into a 10m shaft which could be traversed to a flatter patch of plateau beyond. Rigging was initiated from the far side of the hole i.e. the bunde direction, before a y-hang allowed descent of the pitch. Both Boel and Bonty bravely bottomed the beast, discovering a further pitch scores of meters deep which resonated with every rock despatched into its depths. With excitement building but time running short, it was decided to draw things to a close and return another day with sufficient equipment and people power to properly survey the passage and install further rigging. The B-team wrapped up and headed back via Balcony to convey the good news to the others at top camp.",
"slug": "2025-06-30c",
"time_underground": 1.0,
"author": {
"id": 280,
"slug": "jonty-pine"
},
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"id": 335,
"slug": "joel-stobbart"
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"id": 181,
"slug": "julia-kikel"
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"date": "2025-06-30",
"expedition": 50,
"title": "Plateau - A song for the way home",
"cave": null,
"place": "Plateau",
"other_people": "",
"text": "<i>Oh the expo time is coming\n<p>\nAnd the snowplugs are quickly melting\n<p>\nAnd the wild plateau chives\n<p>\nGrow around the blooming bunde\n<p>\nWill you go, Wookey, go?\n<p>\n<p>\nAnd we'll all go together\n<p>\nTo pull wild plateau chives\n<p>\nAll around the blooming bunde\n<p>\nWill you go, Wookey, go?</i>",
"slug": "2025-06-30d",
"time_underground": 0.0,
"author": {
"id": 34,
"slug": "buck-blake"
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"slug": "alice-kirby"
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"id": 385,
"slug": "hamish-weir"
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"id": 401,
"slug": "russell-woodger"
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"date": "2025-06-30",
"expedition": 50,
"title": "Balkon - Rigging the Entrance Series",
"cave": 86,
"place": "Balkon",
"other_people": "",
"text": "A quick afternoon trip. Russell rigged and the rest of us chatted and sunbathed on the balcony. We all went down to the bottom of the entrance series to clock some actual caving time, and then almost immediately turned around and headed back out.",
"slug": "2025-06-30e",
"time_underground": 3.0,
"author": {
"id": 183,
"slug": "alice-kirby"
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"slug": "buck-blake"
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"slug": "hamish-weir"
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{
"date": "2025-07-01",
"expedition": 50,
"title": "Plateau - Rope ferrying - Homecoming to Topcamp",
"cave": null,
"place": "Plateau",
"other_people": "",
"text": "The mission: ferry over 1km of rope (plus some other gear) between Homecoming and Topcamp.\n<p>\nThe hope: to be done with this early enough to go and push Joel, Jonty, and Julia's newly discovered cave SE of Balkon: 'Reflectorists'.\n<p>\n<p>\nWe set off up the hill along with Harry, Hannah, Ella, and Hamish, with Becka and Chris a little ways ahead. At the col we parted, with the latter two walking to Topcamp and the rest of us heading straight towards Homecoming. On the way we passed many very enticing holes, most of which had been logged in 2023 but not dropped. The plateau along that walk is practically swiss cheese!\n<p>\n<p>\nUpon arrival at Homecoming, we had a break and some flapjack before packing rope (and a few bolt hammers and through bolts) whilst Harry, Hannah, Ella, and Hamish headed up to Garlic Camp to collect useful gear. We managed to take the majority of it, but there was still a considerable amount left. \n<p>\n<p>\nWe then set out across the plateau towards Topcamp, the sun absolutely sweltering hot, but very fortunately obscured intermittently by clouds.\n<p>\nWe had a break at Fishface, spending awhile enjoying the cold breeze in the entrance. After saying hi to Becka, who was on her way to Homecoming to pick up more rope, we started back on the path. \n<p>\n<p>\nThis section of the walk felt like it went much quicker, since most of it was taken up by Joel and Jonty trying to remember all the many sections of the path they'd named on previous expos.\n<p>\n<p>\nIt wasn't until we got to the top of Mount Densham that Joel realised he'd lost his phone. We feebly attempted to locate it on google maps, but all this told us was that he was as Basecamp 13 hours ago, and we determined it had no signal by attempting to send it whatsapp messages. After a little discussion, we determined it had most likely been lost around Fishface, since it was the last place we'd stopped. Joel and I dumped our bags and headed back to Fishface whilst the others continued on towards Topcamp.\n<p>\nOh my god, walking across the plateau is SO much nicer without a bag. You can jump!!! It was a lovely walk back, and we found Joel's phone almost instantly in the entrance to Fishface, propped against a wall. I refilled my now emptied waterbottle with some snow from the meagre snowplug at the entrance, then we headed back to our bags and onwards to Topcamp. Once we got back, we dumped rope and had some food. The Garlic Camp group arrived, having also taken some rope back from Homecoming.\n<p>\n<p>\nGiven that it was already around 2, and Julia needed to be down the hill for her train at 8, and Jonty had injured his ankle, we decided to head down the hill early, unfortunately abandoning our hopes of pushing Reflectorists for another day. We substituted Joel for Ella, as Joel was planning on sleeping at Topcamp, and started on our way.\n<p>\n<p>\nThe walk down went smoothly, but was incredibly hot. We passed Becka on the way back, who had managed to take the last of the rope back from Homecoming, leaving only the drum of metalwork there. After sweating through the rest of the walk, we finally returned to the carpark, did a quick shop, then headed to the lake via Basecamp for a very lovely and refreshing evening.",
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"time_underground": 0.0,
"author": {
"id": 34,
"slug": "buck-blake"
},
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"slug": "alice-kirby"
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"id": 197,
"slug": "becka-lawson"
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"id": 335,
"slug": "joel-stobbart"
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"slug": "jonty-pine"
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"date": "2025-07-01",
"expedition": 50,
"title": "Balkonhohle - How many cavers does it take to find Mongol Rally?",
"cave": 86,
"place": "Balkonhohle",
"other_people": "",
"text": "Chris, Hannah and I set off at the horrible hours of the morning that the toll road requires with the task of rebolting and rigging Mongol Rally. After a long walk to Top Camp and a lot of faff we finally got going at 12:15. The walk to Balcony is definitely not half an hour (despite what Jono says) and so we got underground around 1:30 keen to get out of the heat.\n<p>\nWe did some fettling of the entrance series to prevent rub. One deviation still needs adding - a spit is already there a third of the way down the big pitch on the true left. Hannah did what she called \u2018back seat rigging\u2019 shouting up suggestions of what to edit. \n<p>\nWe set off with confidence at the bottom of the pitch and immediately got lost. Luckily Chris\u2019 memory and Hannah\u2019s vibes ensured we didn\u2019t go down any wrong passage for too long. I had unhelpfully fuzzy memories of every passage. This pattern continued, taking up quite a lot of time until the rope washing station.\n<p>\n<p>\nHere it was packing more packing and trying to avoid mud unsuccessfully. Armed with three disgustingly heavy bags on top of our own we continued, and Chris regaled us with tales of expos past until we eventually found Honeycomb. I did my best to fall down a big hole by going straight at the last tuning but thankfully failed.\n<p>\nWe zoomed down some very slippy ropes and Hannah nearly died on her simple multiple times (her words). And got to the crawl before Mongol Rally around 6:30\n<p>\nHere my true motivations became apparent: I had stuffed my tackle sack with a crowbar , a few spoons and a mess tin with the goal to win a fight with the crawl. Unfortunately by this point psych was low and we were all worried about how long the way in had taken us. Deciding we\u2019d still been helpful in carrying the bags, we left them at the top of Mongol Rally for others to rig. In order of closest to the pitch to furthest they were: blue (three small ropes), green (two big ropes, one thick) and blue (one spare very big rope). There\u2019s also a drill, hangers and maillons. \n<p>\nWanting to at least have a token dig I spent 5 minutes whacking the crawl to surprising progress! It\u2019s wider and was easy to dig. For the good of the collective others are required to give at least three whacks with the crowbar as they pass by.\n<p>\nAnnoyingly the way out took no time at all. Some lovely prussiking and good caving and we were at the bottom of the pitch series in a few hours. We left some cairns in the hope others won\u2019t struggle with nav as much as we did. Hannah blasted some music on a very fucked (although new) cave speaker for motivation for the last prussik and we emerged around 10.\n<p>\nOn the walk back an ominous voice shouted to us over the plateau and we managed to ask Joel to put the kettle on from 15 minutes walk away. A lovely day out.\n<p>\nWritten with additions from Hannah.",
"slug": "2025-07-01b",
"time_underground": 8.5,
"author": {
"id": 19,
"slug": "lara-bartleet"
},
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"slug": "chris-densham"
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"id": 364,
"slug": "hannah-urquhart-greaves"
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"date": "2025-07-01",
"expedition": 50,
"title": "KH - KH entrance (161g) rig",
"cave": 257,
"place": "KH",
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"text": "We walked up to the plateau (my first carry up of all my gear). Top camp had already been very efficiently set up, so it was on to KH ad begin the caving. Took about an hour to walk to the entrance, route needs more fettling! but Dylan had already sepnt some time on the route so was a useful guide across the plateau.\nThe entrance is very nice, a horizontal Balkon like tube in teh side of the cliff leads to a series of holes, the middle being the pitch. We got changed and I began bolting. This was a very slow process and the others enjoyed? the sunshine waiting. Due to the angle of entry to the pitch a rebelay was immediately required once in the shaft. Then dropped down shortly to rig the main Y-hang, this drops maybe 25m to another rebelay, a slight faff to rig, with small swing over to bulge in centre of shaft. From here the rope drops from the Y-hang 30m to the boulder floor. The rope runs close to an underhang here so will need a deviation in hindsight.\nCalled down the others, however there is another unexpected 10m pitch before you get to Iceland. Russell rigged this. A pretty amount of ice waterfall in Iceland once down in the chamber.\nWe decided to wander aimlessly, having a quick look at the survey. Found the way to h entrance, a tight crawl out. I decided to walk back on th eoutside, scrambling up the cliff, whilst the others prussicked back up the pitch. Pitch needs slightly more work.\nReturned to Top camp then back down the hill to base camp since no water at Top camp (and I had not broght my sleeping stuff up yet).",
"slug": "2025-07-01c",
"time_underground": 4.0,
"author": {
"id": 126,
"slug": "ashley-gregg"
},
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"id": 381,
"slug": "dylan-wase"
},
{
"id": 270,
"slug": "charlotte-payne"
},
{
"id": 401,
"slug": "russell-woodger"
}
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{
"date": "2025-07-01",
"expedition": 50,
"title": "Homecoming - Homecoming and Garlic Camp Gear Collection",
"cave": 670,
"place": "Homecoming",
"other_people": "",
"text": "We walked back to homecoming again after removing all the rope yesterday. We had a big team to help shift all the rope and some gear from garlic camp. The first half of the team collected rope and headed off for top camp, whilst the four of us headed on to garlic camp. We packed our bags and headed back to homecoming to add rope onto our already heavy packs. Once repacked again at homecoming we began a rather unbalanced stumble across the plateau up to top camp. We soon passed Becka who was coming down from top camp and managed to collect up the rest of the rope and tackle sacks we hadn\u2019t been able to manage. This just left the \u2018daren drum of doom\u2019 which is a large daren drum full to the brim with hangers and maillons, some stainless, some with spits on. The stainless hangers aren\u2019t urgently needed but if supplies run low at top camp a walk to homecoming will be required to retrieve this. \n<p>\nWe took the following kit from garlic camp:\n- 7 camp beds\n- All the curries \n- All the oatso",
"slug": "2025-07-01d",
"time_underground": 0.0,
"author": {
"id": 69,
"slug": "hannah-collings"
},
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"id": 224,
"slug": "ella-marcovitch"
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"id": 385,
"slug": "hamish-weir"
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{
"id": 180,
"slug": "harry-kettle"
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{
"date": "2025-07-02",
"expedition": 50,
"title": "Balkonhohle - A Tackle with Bags",
"cave": 86,
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"text": "After about 6 of us deciding to go up to the plateau on a probably needed rest day, a wobbly struggle up to top camp ensued. The aim for today was for Me and Alice to take down as much communal camping gear to the top of Mongal Rally as we could fit, while Joel, Jonty, Duck and Becka went to their newly found cave, Reflectorists. \n<p>\nWe managed to pack three sleeping bags, four mats and a tent between us. A comical tug of war between moving forward, and being dragged down by our massive bags proceeded on the way up to balcony. At the balcony, me and Alice reveled at the coolness of the draughty shade, after a very sweaty walk, and finally regained the energy to cave.\n<p>\nFollowing closely in the footsteps of Lara Hannah and Chris from the previous day, we made sure to get a tad lost on the way to Honeycomb pitch from the bottom of the entrance series. Alice's memory led us most of the way, apart from one sneeky left turn which missed, leading to a lot of fun snooping around incorrect passages and dumping bags in inconvenient places. After a very exited sighting of the promised three dead bats (which looked more like boney spiders), we were finally sure to be enroute. \nThe bags where left at the end of the tight crawl before Mongal Rally, and a good riddance to the extra weight and seamless ascent followed.",
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"date": "2025-07-02",
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"title": "2025-HK-00 - Hahaha Hohle - A Hopeful Day",
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"text": "We came up the hill from base camp with the plan to drop some of the holes we walked past on the way to homecoming the previous two days. However we didn\u2019t even make it to the holes we had in mind, as we passed a shaft just 10minutes from the col that we hadn\u2019t previously paid much attention to. \n<p>\nHamish had his first go at bolting with Harry showing him the ropes and it was the first time for all of us using pulses, which are excellent but slightly scary with how easy they are to put in. Having dropped the initial entrance shaft, we were surprised to find that the cave kept going, leading into a further pitch which landed on a snowy slope. Descending the snowy slope we hit horizontal passage with an impressive ice column and stal. The passage headed off in two directions, we started with the obvious passage which led to a scramble up boulders into a chamber which didn\u2019t go. Harry and I started surveying from here back towards the entrance whilst Hamish had a look down the other passage. We had forgotten nail varnish so resorted to scratching crosses in the walls as survey points. The other direction ended in a draughting sharp squeeze which Harry and I were unconvinced by as we weren\u2019t in oversuits but Hamishes youthful enthusiasm was excellent as he cracked on in just a short sleeve tshirt and found it kept going. \n<p>\nThere was a pitch after the squeeze and the rest of our rope was still on the surface which made a good excuse for going out for lunch with a chance to warm up in the sunshine. After lunch we headed back in and hamish rigged the pitch after the squeeze which led to more horizontal passage with a couple of dead bats in. We came to a boulder floored chamber which choked at the top end of the slope and a pitch at the bottom end. Hamish started rigging this pitch whilst Harry and I surveyed back towards the entrance. Hamish dropped down to a ledge and having run out of bolts we decided to finish surveying out and come back another day with more kit. Our new find was named Hahaha Hohle due to us all having names starting in \u2018Ha\u2019. We walked back down the hill, somehow getting a free beer off the barman at the Loseralm on our way down which was a great end to the day.",
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"date": "2025-07-02",
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"title": "2025-HK-00 - Hahaha Hole - Lucky First Find",
"cave": 451,
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"text": "Waking up at the toll-road standard 6am to a shagged loaf of bread we ascended the hill with the goal of prospecting the path from the col to garlic camp.\n<p>\nMy sleep deprived mind deciding it would be a good idea to get in the car wearing croccs, Hannah C very kindly lends me her trainers.\n<p>\n<p>\nWithin 10 minutes of leaving the col, we come across a not-too promising rift and decided to descend it.\n<p>\nGeared up in a Helmet, SRT Kit, t-shirt and trousers I get my first ever experience of bolting and expo caving at the same time.\n<p>\nDescending onto the small snow plug at the bottom of the rift there was a hole on my right that went further down, so we decided to continue. On a single hang pulse bolt on the ceiling we descend onto a further snow plug, noting the cave going further down to the left with some ice pillars and a rocky alcove on the right.\n<p>\nI wait in the rocky alcove for the others to descend then continue bolting.\n<p>\nIn the chamber with the ice pillars there is a rift going down to the left and a bolder slope going up to the right. We decide to check out the bolder slope that leads to a large chamber, where the far end of the chamber chokes out and to the left is a 3-4m crawl into a small avon that gets too tight at the top.\n<p>\nAt this point we decide to start surveying from the little chamber outwards while i go back to bolt the rift.\n<p>\nAfter further inspection, choosing to free climb down instead the rift seems to end.\nI stuck my head in and decided that there might be something on the other side and might be able to fit throught and therefore worth checking out.\n<p>\nHarry and Hannah make the point that this is austria and that there is much more cave to discover, but i stick my head in anyway.\n<p>\nAfter getting mostly through the squeeze there was a drop and what i would call an A Lead.\n<p>\nI would have needed to step out onto a sketchy looking ledge and so, we pop out to the surface to have lunch before tackling this problem since people are starting to get cold.\n<p>\nAfter lunch we start bolting the pitch after the squeeze by sticking a bolt and handline in on the other side of the squeeze so I can step out onto the ledge safely.\n<p>\nUsing the handline as a zipline harry slides the d rill, rope and hammer to me followed up by me having to find the single bit of non-shit rock near my precarious step to stick a bolt in.\n<p>\nAfter Ha and Ha are through the squeeze, we check out the lead which heads directly down into a tall fossil passage chamber with a sandy floor.\n<p>\nAfter i get over my excitement of the cave still going we go down a sandy slope crawl to the left entering a passage with muddy floor then into a short crawl over bolders into an chamber with a bolder slope up with a dead bat in the center.\n<p>\nAt the top of the slope is another bolder slope in a large rift heading up to the left, and down to a pitch on the right.\n<p>\nThe top of the bolder slope choked out, however there may have been a QM in the roof/above one of the larger bolders but would require an simple-ish bolt climb.\n<p>\nThe pitch to the right was scary to approach due to the sketchy bolder slope.\n<p>\nHa and Ha started surveying while I went back to get some rope, which was inconveniently left on the other side of the squeeze.\n<p>\nCutting the rope at the bottom of the squeeze pitch i grab the rest of the rope and go back to begin bolting the next pitch below the sketchy bolder slope.\n<p>\nAfter gardening and getting 2 bolts in, Ha and Ha come back to me humming and haring where to put my last bolt to descend the pitch.\n<p>\nNoting that its getting late, we decide to drop the pitch now so we can either get it finished surveying or come back tomorrow.\n<p>\nHarry picks a wall to put a bolt in, and i drop the pitch. At the bottom is a little tunnle that heads to a water swept avon that connects to the top of the pitch but doesnt go.\n<p>\nOn the other side is a little stream going around to the right. At this point i shout that it still goes, and prosuc out, coiling that pitch rope so it isnt crushed by any bolders should any fall.\n<p>\nSqueezing back out, which is surprisingly scrapy in a tshirt we ascend the entrance pitch, Ha and Ha getting it surveyed while i swap out the pulses for thru bolts.",
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"date": "2025-07-03",
"expedition": 50,
"title": "plateau - My Day 1",
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"place": "plateau",
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"text": "I drive in on July 2, and immediately tinkered with meshtastic nodes so they could start going up the hill. Weather looked good for Thursday early, so I packed a bag to take the drone and the Meshtastic node for the Col up the hill.\n<p>\nAfter placing the Col fixed node and poking around I realized the remote admin key I used was for a node at home. I fixed this in the Col node and it needs fixing in all the nodes up the hill :( Another observation is I am not seeing position reports. So a few mesh things to do around base camp.\n<p>\nNext I flew the drone. The shitty closed source DJI control program made me login before it would let me fly. This was a bit awkward finding a place on the plateau I had enough data to actually create an account and login. Once I completed these tedious sets I launched the drone. I flew around quite a bit trying to take overlapping photos to examine at the tatty hut over beer. It is hard to see details on the phone used to control the drone. Then I took some photos of the team that came down the hill with Harry to go caving.\n<p>\nAfter recovering the drone I went to say the cave Harry found, just off the track to Garlic Cave. Yep, I've looked down it also. After they started down, I flew the drone around and took some more downward looking photos. The wind was building and storm clouds were building, so I recovered the drone and headed down the hill.\n<p>\nDuring all this I ran across 1976, 1623/198 (Maybe t198 in QField). The position in QField seemed a bit off, but I haven't worked out distance measuring in QField yet. The cave description https://expo.survex.com/1623/198/198.html suggests they found rock choke, so no hope of melting snow leading to new discoveries.\n<p>\nAt this point, I hurried off the plateau and just beat the rain back to the car park. When I neared the car park the cable car wasn't running, but it was running again by the time I made it down.\n<p>\nFinally, I can complete my tedious basecamp paperwork!",
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"expedition": 50,
"title": "KH - Entrance fettling and initial exploring",
"cave": 257,
"place": "KH",
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"text": "Following the limited exploration and rig from yesterday, 6 of us returned to KH. Our group of three spent some time fettling the entrance and adding deviations etc whilst the others headed on to Knossos. After a while our group caught up with the others after the tyrolean.\nWe went and had a look up Where the wind blows and a potential bolt climb there. On route this involved bolting a new up pitch (no utility belt required) which spent some time. Looked at the aven and decided to return some time in the near future.\nHeaded out the cave at a sociable time back to top camp for curry.",
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"date": "2025-07-03",
"expedition": 50,
"title": "2025-HK-00 - Hahaha Hohle - A Less Hopeful Day",
"cave": 451,
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"text": "Planning for another day pushing Hahaha Hohle, we walked up to top camp in the morning to get our caving kit as we weren\u2019t keen for the squeeze again without oversuits and we needed more bolts. Once kit was acquired we headed back down to the col and on to Hahaha Hohle, passing Philip with his drone on the way. We kitted up in the blazing sunshine but with a forecast of rain in the evening so we planned to turn around in good time. \n<p>\nWe headed down to the pitch we had got up to the day before, and Hannah took over the rigging with guidance from Harry. Hamish, Lara and I followed on behind surveying. The pitch came down to a small stream and another short section of horizontal. There was a scary boulder slope of hanging death which the survey showed was directly below the boulder floored chamber above that we had just come from, which felt slightly unnerving. The way on led to another pitch series, which after dropping down a couple of small drops ended in a larger 20m hang. Hannah did some impressive splits getting a deviation bolt in on this. \n<p>\nAt the bottom of this pitch, hopes were quickly dashed as we hit a 10m pitch into a sump. We had now hit our turn around time to avoid the rain, but now we were here we wanted to drop the pitch to the sump to confirm there were no ways on\u2026 this was sadly confirmed. We quickly finished the survey and turned around, aware that we may have pushed our luck with the weather. We derigged the final pitch but left the rest of the ropes in as there was one last hope of a traverse above the final pitch that we wanted to return to. \n<p>\nIt turns out we had indeed pushed our luck and the final three of us up the entrance pitch got a good soaking and came out to heavy rain which made for soggy changing. We headed back down the hill once again.",
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"slug": "hannah-collings"
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"date": "2025-07-04",
"expedition": 50,
"title": "KH - Rigging Knossos and reaching Staircase 36",
"cave": 257,
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"text": "We got to Knossos in short order and Russell bolted the traverse line along the left wall to access the pitch head (3 bolts?) then Charlotte bolted the pitch itself (single bolt then Y-hang at the top then a Y-hang about half way down, around the corner?). There is an area of horribly loose rock at the start of the pitch. We then had a surprisingly straightforward stomp to Staircase 36, with Becka rigging the bad step down to the base of the Staircase 36 pitch (natural then 2 bolts) and Charlotte putting in a bolt for the awkward climb shortly before this step (one bolt; on July 9th Harry adding a second bolt immediately before to make a traverse line to protect the teeter around on crumbling stones). We again ran out of time as we wanted to get back to Base Camp that evening so we left rope to rerig Staircase 36 and headed out.",
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"expedition": 50,
"title": "basecamp - Nerding with drone photos",
"cave": null,
"place": "basecamp",
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"text": "After collecting some drone photos the day before, the question was wtf to do with them. So, I start googling. After a bit I found <a href=\"https://opendronemap.org/\">Open Drone Map</a>. After a bit of hacking (the docker line on the website didn't work) I managed to created some geotiffs that stitched together the photos I made with the drone. This was much better than flipping though individual photos and trying to work out the context. The results were very exciting! I will try to remember to upload to the expo website!\n<p>\nAfter some hard nerding, I packed up and headed to top camp with the drone for some more drone flights.",
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"date": "2025-07-04",
"expedition": 50,
"title": "plateau - Prospecting off KH track",
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"text": "A planned slightly easier day prospecting on the route to KH. We set off to an area I'd identified as being roughly above the far north leads in KH, about halfway along the route. On the way we reflectored and added further cairns to the path.\nFirst stop was a large hole that could be scrambled down into. A poke into the boulders at the bottom revealed a very short (2m ish) crawl before choking.\nSecond stop was a pitch, Dylan rigged with Mark supervising. Meanwhile Dyl and I calibrated the disto. Didnt go very far, small snow pile and zero leads on through boulders.\nThird stop was a clean washed shaft, Dan bolted. This is 2025-ash-01. A second climbable entrance was found which pops out pretty much directly on the KH path. Some small horizontal development at the bottom (10m or so), this all choked. Surveyed and then called it a day.",
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"id": 126,
"slug": "ashley-gregg"
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"date": "2025-07-04",
"expedition": 50,
"title": "2025-HK-00 - Hahaha Hohle - Definitely run out of hope...",
"cave": 451,
"place": "2025-HK-00",
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"text": "For the 6th day in a row we walked up the hill, heading back to Hahaha Hohle for the one final hope of a lead. We kitted up and quickly made our way to a traverse going over the top of the final pitch we dropped yesterday. This has to be the quickest I\u2019ve ever killed a lead; I put in one pulse for protection over the traverse and where we were hoping the passage bended round to the left we found a wall\u2026 Hahaha Hohle was now officially dead. We derigged everything and headed back to the surface with the intention of continuing prospecting along the col-homecoming path. \n<p>\nWe headed on to a large shaft we had passed on previous walks (p2023-ash-03 [Ed. This can't be right: 2025-ash-03 was discovered on 22nd July and this entry is on the 4th]) and I chucked my oversuit on over my clothes before starting to rig [Ed., presumably rigging 2025-hh-01 not ash-03], very glad that I did as it ended up being a very drippy prospect. \n<p>\nThe shaft dropped onto an ice plug with a hole at one end which we descended through, once below the ice the meltwater coming off it was rather unpleasant. We hit a very drippy ledge below and the cave was still descending; we were hoping it would crap out as it was so unpleasantly wet. I continued below the ledge as far as I could get on the rope we had and could see the passage continued heading down, this is technically a lead but very unappealing. We headed back out doing the hastiest survey possible and continued prospecting further along the path. \n<p>\nWe saw a couple of snakes on the way which we identified as European black vipers after a later google. Harry dropped a 10m shaft which was choked at the bottom, the coordinates on this were 47.69079 N, 13.80601 E - named p2025-hh-01. We then came to a very promising and draughty hole which Harry got very excited about. Harry started rigging and I came following after, feeling rather bad crushing Harry\u2019s hopes when I noticed some thru bolts on the opposite wall part way down. This turned out to be P323, we later checked the logbook and it is named Amphitheatre. We headed back out and decided to call it for the day and head back down the hill.",
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"time_underground": 4.0,
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"slug": "hannah-collings"
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"date": "2025-07-05",
"expedition": 50,
"title": "plateau - Placing Meshtastic nodes",
"cave": null,
"place": "plateau",
"other_people": "",
"text": "After arriving at top camp the evening before and having a lovely curry meal. I slept and woke refreshed and ready to go. I had an OK but not glorious trip to the grike, I headed toward KH to drop a meshtastic node to provide coverage over the back of the plateau so KH trips have good meshtastic coverage. A suitable location was located and the node placed. (insert photo later).\n<p>\nI returned to top camp and picked up the final surface node and the drone and headed toward Balkon. On the high points between Stone Bridge and Balkon, after some faffing around contemplating line of sight an things, the last node was placed by the path.\n<p>\nAt this point I transitioned into drone pilot.",
"slug": "2025-07-05a",
"time_underground": 0.0,
"author": {
"id": 16,
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"date": "2025-07-05",
"expedition": 50,
"title": "plateau - Droning on ...",
"cave": null,
"place": "plateau",
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"text": "After setting the meshtastic node to bridge Balkon to Stone Bridge, I turned left into a valley full of short shafts that did not look promising. I flew the drones a couple of times to collect sets of photos to build larger maps. At the third site, I found a lovely shaft leading to an offset drop and that had a draft in the entrance. I became very excited. I failed to attract the nearby prospectors, likely since they could see the cliff of bunda between them and I. At this point I flew the drone with more focus on hunting the plateau party (and failing), some sight seeing, and an attempt at mapping. After the drone landed, I found a tag 2004-10. (Originally reported as 2014) My US based assistants found this: <a href\"https://expo.survex.com/1623/2004-10/2004-10.html>2004-10</a>\n<p>\nI tried descending to the prospecting party, but ended up cliffed out in bunda. I returned to top camp via the way I came.",
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"id": 16,
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"date": "2025-07-05",
"expedition": 50,
"title": "161 - KH to Staircase 36",
"cave": 257,
"place": "161",
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"text": "KH to staircase 36\nMark and I (Ash) set off for a productive trip in KH with the intention of learning the route and progressing the rigging at the end of the cave. GPX\u2019ed the route to the entrance, having finally finessed the cairns and reflector-ed route to the entrance (161h). At the cave around 10am , perhaps the most efficient start yet. Progress through Iceland and onwards was efficient up to Amyl nitrate. At this point we somehow managed to confuse ourselves and think we\u2019d reached Triassic park (when we hadn\u2019t!). Ensue half an hour of wandering uo and down the southern branch of Triassic Pak being confused , before working out we wouldn\u2019t find Knossos junction here!. We eventually figured it out, passed through the northern section of Triassic and onto to Knossos. The pitch rig was not great -perhaps more work needed here. But den into the massive chamber. Well worth visiting, 1000 lumens ais not sufficient to see the opposite wall. From here was straight forward to YAPATE and on to the bottom of staircase 36. From here Mark settled into the bothy whilst I cautiously climbed the staircase rope. Rebolted and roped, still not a great rig, a rubby beached whale rebelay at the top. Mark removed old rope, leaving in a foot loop. I began rigging a traverse at top to bridge between runnel leads pitch, still more work required here. Turned around and managed to get lost in tower blocks (massive passage wandering in circles). Rest of exit was efficient. 7 hours underground and dry exit. Slow walk back across plateau.",
"slug": "2025-07-05c",
"time_underground": 7.0,
"author": {
"id": 126,
"slug": "ashley-gregg"
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"date": "2025-07-05",
"expedition": 50,
"title": "plateau - How short can shorts get",
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"text": "After parting ways with a Balcony group, the prospecting team headed west, into what was christened the \u2018Valley of Death\u2019. Only a few minutes in, holes galore appeared around us. Noting down various dead ended shafts, including three bomb shaped holes in a line named \u2018Bombordino Crocodino\u2019 at [33T 411503 5283163], Lara pointed to a more promising looking entrance, \u2018Oregano Hohle\u2019 [33T 411480 5283183]\n<p>\nA slightly ungraceful survey performed by Buck and Ella followed; including a minor mishap involving a rock, Ella above a loose climb, and Buck\u2019s poor knee. The cave started off as a 5m walk, and then a 3 meter climb down into a crawl going back on itself for another 3 meters before it chokes.\n<p>\nMeanwhile, Lara and Joel began an abseil into a more exciting looking hole nearby [33T 411454 5283151] \u2018Ghast Hohle\u2019, another wide hole with a promising looking section after the obvious bottom. Great frustration followed after Joel sighted evidence of previous bolting, yet no evidence has yet been found referencing this online. \n<p>\nAnd so our journey continued. A \u2018pincer\u2019 approach was adopted for dropping into the next valley, where the team of Joel and Buck followed the left, and Ella, Lara, Hamish traversed towards the right. We met in a valley below, exchanging many tales of immensely draughty holes that lead nowhere found en route. Three came of note. A snow plugged shaft of about 2 by 2 meters, with an obvious natural above [HW-00, 33T 411166 5283242]. Another Joel found: a strongly outwards drafting shaft with an overhang above, at least 5m deep but snow plug obscures continuation, but does not block the whole shaft [JS-04, 33T 411160 5283056, later named Gruffalo]. \u2018Ella\u2019s draughty hole\u2019 [EM-01, 33T 411159 5283234], a small almost human sized hole with a howling draught, with notable depth determined by dropping rocks.\n<p>\nNow reassembled, the prospecting prophets continued up sweltering hot terrain. Formidably, the plateau didn\u2019t have much mercy on either Ella nor Joel\u2019s shorts. After much-a Bunda bashing, Ella\u2019s resembled something more of denim thongs. Joel\u2019s had also developed a tear, which for-sighted a similar trajectory. \n<p>\nThankfully, the materialisation of holes returned to being in rock, when we stumbled upon yet another possible cave, \u2018Clockwork Orange\u2019 [JS-02, 33T 410756 5282937]. This one had 4 different entrances, congregating in a 6 meter shaft which was dropped but choked. \n<p>\nWith an ominous overlooking of dark cloud, the final prospect of the day was prompt. We arrived at a long and thin slice, 1m wide and 6 across. This had been found previously but not dropped, named Blitz Baum Schacht [33T 410634 5283186]. Ella descended to the bottom of a 20m rope, another 5m is yet to be dropped with promising draught and possible continuation at the bottom. \n<p>\nThe delightful promise of gnocci with custard powder powered our plateau plod back to top camp. The end.\n<p>[Debut Cave, now renumbered as 2025-LB-01, was discovered on this trip. But it has coordinmates (from New Cave Sheet) of <br>\n47\u00b0 41' 47.80\" N 13\u00b0 48' 58.80\" E <br>\ni.e. 33T 411187.93 5283259.24 or 47.696611 N 13.816333 EPhilipS.]\n<p>\n<img width=60% alt=\"Lara's drawing\" src=\"/years/2025/lara%20drawing.jpg\">\n<p>\n<img width=60% alt =\"Hamish taking photo of Ella's arse\" src=\"/years/2025/ella-arse.jpg\">\n<br />\n[Photo showing hamish taking a photo of ellas arse through her ripped shorts while lara looks on in bemusement]\n<p>\n<!-- photos reduced in resolution and moved into expoweb repo as that is where images in logbooks belong. Philip S. -->\n<p>\n<img width=60% alt=\"obi wan kenobi goes to expo\" src=\"/expofiles/photos/2025/CreshPhotos/prospecting-meme.jpg\">\n<p>\nFrom the <a href=\"/years/2025/mission.html\">2025 Mission</a> page:\n<img width=60% alt=\"archive ents\" src=\"/years/2025/ents.jpg\">\n<p>\n[FOOTNOTE:<br />\nThese UTM coordinates can be converted to lat/long using <a href=\"/expofiles/tools/index.html\">\nhttps://expo.survex.com/expofiles/tools/index.html</a> ]",
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"text": "I deployed fixed nodes at the Col, on the path to KH and to Balkon. So far we seem to have good messaging capability around the plateau. Ash messaged from the KH entrance and Chris from the Balkon entrance. Both messaging were received at top camp. The larger issue is getting people to pay attention to the app to see when people are asking questions.\n<p>\nI have set the basecamp fixed node to connect to an mqtt server run by a friend in America. While on the plateau, I set my node to proxy mqtt via my phone and showed we could bridge meshes at top camp, base camp and America. More work is needed for a reliable plateau connection. Base camp uses a fixed node with wifi capability. Anthony Day has proposed a cellular internet solution for top camp, this should be investigated harder now. Bridging the plateau mesh to base camp would be brilliant!\n<p>\nOperationally, the text part of meshtastic works nicely, covering all parts of the plateau to date. (Or at least what people have tried) Position mapping seems a bit wonkey. More study is needed here. Is this phone related, app settings etc . Iphone app is crashing, apparently due to gps polling settings.\n<p>\nThe final problem is working out why people say leaving their phones on kills their battery. I am hopeful using airplane mode with only bluetooth on resolves this issue.",
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"title": "Plateau - Stormy prospecting session in Rainbowbargainshohle",
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"text": "<p>Having woken up, eaten and checked the coming forecast at topcamp, Dan and I decided on an afternoon of prospecting. \n<p>\nSetting off at midday after a fair bit of faff, we headed along the path to KH towards a cave with a QM which I have been pestering people about. Along the way we passed a fat hole which Russel and I had dropped a rock down, taking 8 seconds to reach the bottom. Since we only had 60 odd meters of rope, we decided to sack off dropping the hole, opting to look around the same area for any other holes to drop, saving the other one for a different day.\n<p>\nNearby, a (smaller) promising hole was found by Dan. I started rigging it, first, around a couple naturals to a bolt, then a Y hang. Looking for a place to pop the Y-hang proved difficult as anything suitable ended up with a significant amount of rope rub, so I decided to tackle it form a different angle. This time from 2 naturals, 2 rebelays down to a Y-hang which dropped straight into the shaft. \n<p>\nDescending the cave, I encountered a fair amount of rock-littered snow, which I had to kick through so as to have a drippy-free descent to the bottom. I ended up on a ledge, which I bolted with another rebelay as the shaft had transformed into a spiral shape, and to avoid a boulder which I had failed to jiggle out of place. After descending down snow slopes, I had reached the end, which had unfortunately bottomed out. \n<p>\nAfter I had ascended out, it was Dan\u2019s turn to drop the cave whilst I fiddled with my SAP to calibrate it. Soon after he had descended the Y-hang, the tell-tale fog rolled over and it started chucking it down, to which I promptly packed away my belongings. I was content sitting at the top donned with my full waterproofs, until the sound of thunder and the crack of a (concerningly) nearby bolt of lightning knocked me off my feet. I scuttled into a nearby hole, as standing next to a pile of metalwork was probably not the smartest idea, waiting for the storm to pass.\n<p>\nOnce Dan had emerged from the cave, it had cleared up significantly and we took a surface survey once my SAP was calibrated (I told you I would Becka ;)). Noticing the dark-coloured clouds overhead, I ushered Dan to start moving quickly as I did NOT want to endure another storm. Walking away from the newly-named</p> <p class=\"rainbow-text\">RainbowBargainsH\u00f6hle</p><p>, we could see the twilight fog starting to roll in, so we started bolting it back. Alas, we hadn\u2019t escaped it fast enough as we were soon in the middle of the storm, which made us scamper back faster, in the process causing Dan to fall and injure his shin. \n<p>\nEventually we made it to topcamp! Arriving to the sounds of clapping and cheering as the group dropping kit off at KH had already made the round trip and were eagerly awaiting our return (we hadn\u2019t died yay!).</p>\n<p>\n<style>\n.rainbow-text {\n font-weight: bold;\n background-image: linear-gradient(to left, violet, indigo, blue, green, yellow, orange, red); -webkit-background-clip: text;\n color: transparent;\n}\n</style>",
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"title": "KH - 161g Camp gear shuttle",
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"text": "We'd planned to beat the rain by an early stomp up the hill and then scooting into Kaninchenhoehle for a 2 day impromptu camping trip using personal pits as the Expo camping gear was heading down Balkonhoehle.\n</p>\nHowever, once we'd got to Top Camp we realised that packing for camp and getting underground before the predicted rain hit likely wouldn't work plus we had to much gear to carry to do it in a single run. We therefore packed monster bags and shuttled them down to 161G.\n</p>\nOn the way back to Top Camp the rain started and then, shortly after, lightening bolts rapidly followed by deafening thunder. Becka abandoned her walking poles in case they acted as conductors and we scarpered as fast as we could, getting to Top Camp in 25 minutes, not too wet.",
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"text": "The dire weather forecast led us to an innovative solution: camping in KH and pushing whilst the deluges occurred. We shuttled some kit the previous day then on the day descended with two bags each. We hadn't got a camp site set but saw a flattish, muddy area right at the bottom of the two 161G entrance pitches at the start of the passage to 161H. Given we were using personal kit for the camp we decided the ease of access made up for the slightly lumpy floor.\n<p>\nThe site was draughty so we built two walls either end of the sleeping area and put a tarp against one which blocked some of the wind. Water was easily collected from nearby drips (steady streams once the rain started). \n<p>\nAfter setting up camp it was too late for a full pushing trip beyond Staircase 36 so we went on a tour of KH entrances. Having entered by G we exited briefly at D (still sunny) then F (checking out the leads marked on the survey ... several of which seemed to be fantasy or at least requiring downgrading but a few seemed worth pursuing - the Tunnel survey has now been updated) and E (which only Charlotte managed to exit ... she managed to squeeze over an unstable boulder which, if it moved, would block you in. Russell failed to wrestle it away and the rest of us decided the risk wasn't worth it for the full exit tick. Finally we went out of H by which time it had started to rain so 4 entrances for us and 5 for Charlotte. Time for curries and bed.\n<p>\n<img src = \"/expofiles/photos/2025/LaraBartleet/KHriggingTopoLara1.jpg\"\nwidth = \"600\"/>\n<p>\n<img src = \"/expofiles/photos/2025/LaraBartleet/muddlestonetopolara.jpg\"\nwidth = \"400\"/>",
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"text": "After killing several \u2018A\u2019 leads the day before near entrance F (they were all C leads at best), we hoped the next day\u2019s caving would show more promise. Wookey told us there was an A lead in Dehydration, above Staircase 36, but couldn\u2019t remember what the lead was and he hadn\u2019t drawn up the survey for it. Apparently it would be obvious, so we set off to try and find it. From the bottom of Staircase 36, there was an insitu up pitch which we replaced the rope and a couple of bolts on, then continued to a horrible and very wet traverse over a big hole. Hannah drew the short straw and replaced the rope on this one, getting very wet in the process. One more up pitch afterwards which we again rerigged and added a couple of bolts in for and we got to where the lead should be. Walking over a huge and quite scary looking boulder false floor with a large drop below, we saw a large phreatic tube in the roof - the A lead? It was an easy bolt climb up and we were pleased to find it was virgin passage. A bit of walking passage soon lowered into a drafting crawl then opened up again to walking height and the top of a ~20m pitch into a huge chamber. I rigged a Y hang but sadly ran out of bolts to get to the floor. \nBack at the scary boulder floor we descended a previously explored pitch to have a look. Becka bodged a survey leg, firing the SAP at Hannah\u2019s croll as the survey point was behind a rock, then we spent quite a long time working out if a short leg to correct the bodge should go up or down. There was a drafting traverse at the bottom we guessed went to the Runnel Stone but looked quite unpleasant. Time was getting on and we returned to camp.\n<p>\nWe returned the next day with more rope and bolts and continued descending the pitch above the big chamber. Eventually reaching the floor it was obvious it had already been explored. We wandered around with the survey and soon worked out we\u2019d dropped into the Runnel Stone. A shame to kill the lead so quickly but it was a nicer way in than the unpleasant traverse we\u2019d seen at the end of the previous day. We had a wander around Runnel Stone, which is a lovely chamber with fantastic shaped rock. Eventually we found a lead that looked interesting, a drafting 6m climb. Narrow rift below the climb led to a ~20m pitch. The bottom continued to another pitch but without more bolts we called it a day and headed out.",
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"date": "2025-07-08",
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"title": "Eisriesenwelt - Tourist trips in the rain",
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"text": "On the third day of consecutive rain, boredom was high and only so much nerding/festering can be done. Mark suggested a trip to the (relatively) nearby ice show cave which I hastily jumped on.\nEnroute we stopped to charge the car, then stock up on lunch snacks. Stopped to look at a couple of resurgences near Hallstatt which come off the Dachstein. One was flowing relatively fiercely. However this was nothing compared to the waterfall resurgence we stopped to look at at Gollinger. This had a nice rock bridge across before heading up two tiers to the water leaving the cave.\nUpon arriving at Eisriesenwelt a large sign announced fully sold out, however we drove up to attempt to get in anyway. Mark sweet-talked the sales person, informing them of out nearby caving activities and somehow managed to get us 50% off the ticket price. Then we wandered up to the cable car which (after queueing) goes up to more walking up the cave. A series of paths and tunnels lead to the impressively large entrance hole in the side of the mountain.\nMore waiting then we were taken with a large group, sharing carbide lamps, and a guide lighting magnesium strips to guide the way. The cave was very impressive, with large ice flows and many ice bosses, waves and other intresting formations. We followed the many metal stairs into the depths of the cave, perhaps looking at 1km of what is a much larger system. At the end was an impressive ice lake and pillar. Mark did some photography. It was then back out and return to Base camp.",
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"date": "2025-07-09",
"expedition": 50,
"title": "KH - Bolt-Climbing Technical Underwear",
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"text": "Ash came to this expo to drink Weissbier and push KH, and topcamp doesn't stock Weissbier. Luckily, Hannah and I were looking for a trip, so off we went to assist him with his bolt climb in Where the Wind Blows, becoming increasingly soggy in the rain en route. We ran into half the camping group (Lara, Russell, and Charlotte) at the entrance, all looking a bit bedraggled (especially Lara's pantin, this expo's first casualty). After a bit of yap we headed into the cave to get changed.\n<p>\nNow, don't get me wrong, I'm incredibly grateful to the KH entrance for the shelter it provides from the rain. It would be far, far worse getting changed without it. And in the sun I'm sure it's an incredibly refreshing respite.\n<p>\nHowever. It drips. The icy chill of a water droplet hitting your bare skin as you change into your thermals is truly one of the worst things I've experienced this expo.\n<p>\nComplaints aside, we headed down the entrance series (about 70m descent of a lovely but rather drippy shaft) before entering the horizontal sections. After the first tyrolean, Hannah pointed out our blatant disregard of cave safety, so the two of us clipped into each other for the next few sections of cave to improve stability (the following short climbs thus required a little more communication than usual).\n<p>\nOnce at Gotham City Junction, Ash informed us that he was taking us to Where the Women Blow, so onwards we went with haste, turning right to Catwoman's Claws (where we unclipped to avoid any accidents involving the pretties, which are really quite impressive for the SMK!). After appreciating the pretties a little, we continued on to Where the Wind Blows, where Hannah belayed Ash as he began his bolt climb, the Wonderboom blasting tunes as usual. Given that it was up the wall of an inclined rift passage, Ash didn't bother bolting anything until he was several meters up, so for the first few minutes the belay was really just there for moral support.\n<p>\nThe next three or so hours consisted of the distant sounds of drilling, the Wonderboom, and non-stop group shelter yap. Eventually, Ash reappeared to report that the lead had unfortunately crapped out. Seeing as it was around 6 by now, we decided to leave surveying it for another day, so out the cave we headed.\n<p>\nThe walk back to topcamp was unfortunately even wetter than the morning's walk, its only redeeming feature being my incredibly light bag (we'd all left our kit behind at KH). It was a quiet night at top camp that night, and after a quick meal and a hot chocolate, everyone headed to bed. With Alice camping in Balcony, I had the double sleeping bag to myself, which in the cold of the night was now looking rather thin to me. I put on as many layers as I had to hand (clothes, jacket, down jacket, sleeping bag liner, and a bivy bag over the sleeping bag) and was only just warm enough to be comfortable if I pulled the sleeping bag fully over my face. It also didn't help that around 1:30am, I got a faceful of cold water from the edge of the tarp, which prompted me to swiftly relocate myself to another, better-sheltered camp bed.",
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"date": "2025-07-09",
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"title": "balkonhohle - Big C Scam!",
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"text": "After three days besieged by the unyielding forces of the weather at bottom camp, it was finally \u2018a bit less awful\u2019 enough to walk up the hill. While waiting for a rainless window to stroll over to the entrance, three of us huddled in the cold under a sleeping bag, a portent of the cave camp tableau to come. Once finally there, Ella and Chris had a head start down, while Alice and Joahnhtey prepared for some re rigging of the sections before Mongol Rally. \n<p>\nElla and Chris formed the re bolting duo for second half of Mongol Rally; in which Ella held the vital task of sitting in the emergency shelter for 5 hours... and Chris later revelled in retelling his tale of encountering a figure of 8 knot half way down the 100m rope while rigging.\n<p> \nFinally, our work was done, seamlessly timed with Alice and Jointy\u2019s appearance from their escapade too. Deliriously, camp was established. Chris provided the impeccable culinary experience of curry and couscous as head camp chef. \n<p>\nUp at 1pm, Our plan for the day was to push leads below Tartarus. At the pitch head, the deterring sound of unpleasant water echoed. The executive decision by captain Jornty to turn back was sealed at the sight of the rigging rope - that seemed to be more mud than rope. \n<p>\nInstead, these good citizens carried the rope shaped mud back for a good wash at camp. Alice and Jononoty bolt climbed a potential lead, a nice chamber was found but no other ways on. Chris also poked around interesting holes below, one of which even connected with the bolt climb! Ella was also there. \n<p>\nReturned from the frontier, the cave link set-up was attempted back at the trenches (camp). Despite mud being everywhere from in the tent to in our curry somehow, there was none where we needed it to be for the cave link antenna. A scene reminiscent of playing in a sand pit, as mud was put into piles and poked and poured with water over the antenna, ensued. Thankfully, Alice and Jorn did some serious fettling, and an hour or two later, the antenna resistance went from \u201cvery bad\u201d to \u201cpoor\u201d. Though, contact with top camp was still out of reach.\n<p>\nDespite Alice falling into \u201ca hole the size of Tatarus\u201d in the corner of the tent relentlessly the whole night, and Junty experiencing a second night in a sleeping bag \u201cideal for warm summer nights\u201d, the team awoke early (ish) for a day of prussiking. Though the biggest challenge of the day for Ella and Alice, was finishing their breakfast-couscous-soup .\n<p>\nFumbling with the challenge of differentiating Pantins from Spathas in their mud clogged state, the ascent began. Manually opening and closing at least one jammer with each prussik is an interesting sport. Ella and Chris chose the leisurely option, and arrived at top camp 3 hours after Malice and Jonny. Mmmmm couscous.",
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"date": "2025-07-10",
"expedition": 50,
"title": "2025-DG-02 - Rainbow Bargains Hohle 2 electric boogaloo",
"cave": 193,
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"text": "Glimpsing over the weather the day before brought much excitement as my phone assured that it would only rain a little in the early morning and after around 1800. However, the next morning I woke to the sound of a torrential downpour, which made me want to hunker back down into my sleeping bag. After much deliberation, I was up, dressed and eating chorrage whilst being serenaded by Joel and Buck playing tunes on a flute.\n<p>\nMuch criminal faff had ensued before Dan, Joel and I were finally ready by midday, which at this point the rain had mostly settled. An uneventful walk along the GPX route between top camp and KH lead us back to Rainbow Bargains H\u00f6hle (33T 411668 5282235), which was still pre-rigged from the time Dan and I had to scuttle back from a storm.\n<p>\nJoel volunteered as the Dog so he was first to face my abhorrent rigging. He popped down to the Y hang and marked the wall, to which Dan used the SAP to mark the next station, whilst I jotted down the plan sketch. This cycle repeated until we were down to the bottom, in the process causing all of our hands to turn into ice blocks due to the snow and drips of water from the ceiling.\n<p>\nWhen I initially descended into the cave I commented how nice the weather was as the sun was shining for once (had been a rarity in the last few days). Prussiking out, I was expecting the same, but alas I could feel the raindrops on my face and was greeted with dark clouds when nearing the top of the pitch. Once everyone was out, we recuperated in the emergency shelter, helped by gummy worms and flapjacks. Once the rain had subsided, Joel made the descent again, this time to investigate the QM in the back corner mid-way down the cave. 1 failed skyhook placement and 2 bolts later, Joel confirmed the QM was a dud. \n<p>\nJoel reappeared, removed the last of the Petzl Pulses and derigged the rope. We all strolled back just as the rain had started again.",
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"text": "After the somewhat faffy trip the day before, we returned, having recruited Hamish, to survey the Technical Underwear bolt climb. A fairly efficient start saw us through to Where the Wind Blows in little time.\nBuck was keen to do book so Hamish headed up the rope with the nail polish and I distoxed along the bottom of the rift. Linked to a couple of black marks likely to be existing stations, then up we went. The Aven splits and recombines in several places, halfway up (15m) a small muddy tube goes off to the side but immediately chokes. Water also enters on both sides, so was careful to avoid. At the midpoint I went past, up to the top, and we slowly finished the survey up to the too tight top.\nI then de-rigged by adjusting the rope to enable a two-stage pullthrough to recover the rope, only had to sacrifice a couple of rings. Meanwhile Buck tidied up the survey keeping warm in the group shelter with Hamish.\nFollowing the derig we still had some time so moved the rope and metalwork to staircase 36, allowing Buck and Hamish to enjoy the delights of Triassic Park and Knossos for the first time. Then it was out the cave at reasonable time (entrance only slightly drippy) and back to top camp for curry.",
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"text": "(Read Ash's writeup of this trip for a more concise and technical account)\n<p>\nToday began much as yesterday ended: chucking it down. With the weather bad and hype a little low, the faff that morning was impressive. Joel and I spent probably almost an hour singing and playing the flute together, which to be honest might be the best thing I did during that entire top camp stint. Eventually, Russell and Charlotte arrived and we sort of started getting it together, much to Ash's relief. \n<p>\nI hopped on Ash's trip again, this time with Hamish, the plan being to survey Technical Underwear, the bolt climb Ash had done the previous day, then ferry ropes and metalwork towards Repton. We headed towards KH through the drizzle, and after a little faff at the entrance we were on our way down and towards Technical Underwear. Once there, Ash cracked out the surveying gear. I was on book, Ash on instruments, and Hamish with the nail polish. We identified what we were relatively sure was a survey station on an overhanging wall pendant, which was marked with carbide stains. \n<p>\nOnce we started surveying up the climb, I quickly realised that this was a little more complicated than the small holes I'd surveyed whilst prospecting earlier this expo, and with Ash churning out splays, I had to admit that I might need to slow down and take advantage of his surveying wisdom a bit. He graciously obliged and talked me through each of his splays, making sure I knew what was what as the data arrived on my phone. Once the last station was marked, Hamish passed us and headed down as we finished up surveying. Feeling quite chilly now, I also headed down, regretting not putting on my extra layers before surveying, and was very glad to join Hamish in the group shelter whilst Ash de-rigged. I think the combination of the cold and also the general wetness that had pervaded the past couple days had gotten to me a bit by this point, because I found myself utterly incapable of yap. So instead, there I sat, shivering in silence, and dreaming longingly of warm basecamp showers and tasty basecamp chips. \n<p>\nOnce Ash was done, I finally admitted to myself I was really quite cold and miserable and should probably actually do something about it, so I summoned the will to strip the top of my oversuit down and put on a down vest. Once we got moving again, I began returning to a more reasonable temperature.\n<p>\nAfter de-rigging the pitch bypassing No Utility Belt Required (which took much longer than you might expect due to a very seized-up fig 8) we continued on to Triassic Park, and eventually reached the pitch down into the impenetrably black void of Knossos. Once down, we took a little while to appreciate the scale of what we were in. My fenix on full beam couldn't touch the far walls. Boulders the size of small houses littered the path down onwards. I couldn't help thinking what it would be like to be stood within that chamber when one of them fell.\n<p>\nWe passed through Knossos, but the cave still felt huge, soaring canyons and plunging shafts all around us as we scrambled over boulders, gratefully following the reflectors the camping group had put in place.\n<p>\nEventually the passages began to shrink back to a normal size, and after a few short climbs and traverses, we reached the bottom of Staircase 36. Here we had a short snack before depositing our load of tackle (Ash taking a quick inventory of what we were leaving there). Then we turned around and headed out.\n<p>\nThe return journey was relatively uneventful, the main difference being our blessedly lighter load, which I especially appreciated on the way up the entrance pitches. Having had quite a cold and wet few days already, I decided I wasn't confident enough about my desire to return tomorrow to leave my kit behind at the entrance, so it was a slow and steady walk back up and over the plateau for me that night. By the time we reached topcamp, my bag was soaked through despite its rain cover. I did however add my caving down vest (which was still miraculously dry!) to the many layers I wore to bed that night, meaning I had a marginally warmer sleep than the one before.",
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"date": "2025-07-11",
"expedition": 50,
"title": "1623-245 - It's a long way to 204g",
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"text": "Our third day up the mountain in Baltic conditions saw most people go to KH, leaving Hamish and myself the unenviable task of killing off more leads in the Valley of Death vicinity (west of Tunnocks). With our plan being to rendezvous with Shinwell for a lift down from the Loseralm at 5ish (this was changed several times through the day), we planned for a relatively short mission \u2013 namely exploring a lead a short distance into 204g, a Steinbruckenh\u00f6hle entrance a little way off the Balcony path. This proved to be more difficult than we had thought.\n<p>\nWe soon discovered that both of our navigational facilities were leaving much to be required on this particular day \u2013 as Hamish gleefully reminded me about 15 times, \u201cthere\u2019s no such thing as a shortcut to 204g\u201d. After two hours of bunde bashing, climbing up and down limestone escarpments and generally suffering, we had not managed to get any closer than 100 metres to 204g despite attacking it from several directions. After a final valiant effort which was met with yet another sheer cliff of rock and bunde, we decided to cut our losses and try something else. The weather was predictably miserable \u2013 the wind had dropped a bit, but we were frequently assailed by heavy downpours of rain, sleet and hail and the temperature can\u2019t have risen much above 4 degrees. After a sizeable cloud decided to snuggle onto the plateau, presumably for warmth, visibility dropped to around 20 metres and remained there until late afternoon. After extensive sampling, I can confirm that being repeatedly slapped in the face and balls by large truncheons of recalcitrant bunde does little to endear one to the joys of prospecting!\n<p>\nDuring our navigational circumlocutions, we stumbled across another entrance which didn\u2019t appear to have a GPS blob directly associated with it. Our initial explorations were very exciting, an excitement which was swiftly extinguished when we discovered a fat survey station pasted onto the wall. It turned out that we had rediscovered p245, a short cave first explored in 2003. The website entry suggested that there may be leads left to explore, so after abandoning 204g we suited up and went for a poke. Sadly no further passage was found, though the ice seemed to have receded considerably since the first entry was written. After a comprehensive sweep we retreated to decide on our next move.\n<p>\nWith time ticking on we thought it best to begin our return journey, especially given the lengthy duration of our outwards voyage. However, before too long Hamish had discovered another promising entrance, this time definitively lacking any associated GPS blob. We whacked some bolts in and Hamish started off down the 45 degree snow slope which formed the passage floor. By the time he had confirmed its termination a short 10 metres later he was approaching hypothermia, so once he was out I fired some splays down for a rough survey and then we made our escape. (Frosty Bear was consequently born). After a remarkably short bunde bash we popped out onto the Fishface path just above Nadia\u2019s Demise, reconfirming that this is the superior route for exploring the southern flank of the Valley of Death. Following some swift noodlage at top camp we scampered back to the car park, as the weather pulled an uno reverse and switched to 20 degrees blinding heat. A frustrating day which offered far fewer returns than we would have liked, but more achieved than had we not set out at all (just).",
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"title": "plateau - In which I escape the potato hut",
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"text": "During nearly a week of biblical rain, I taught myself how to use open drone map to stitch my drone photos from July 5 into geo referenced images that can be loaded into Nat's qgis project. This led to much research into preparing flight plans for the drone to perform efficient photo collection for more aerial image processing.\n<p>\nKey links:\n<p>\n<a href=\"https://ancient.land/\">https://ancient.land/</a>\n<p>\n<a href=\"https://flylitchi.com/\">https://flylitchi.com/</a>\n<p>\nStudying the weather for July 11, it looked like there would be a short weather window to fly the drone in the morning. I made it up to the col and setup the drone and took off. Then realized I didn't know how to turn on the automated flight plan. I landed the drone quickly and went back toward the car park to get enough cell phone signal to read the documentation. A short rain shower led to a weather delay, I restarted the flight and let the drone go to work collecting imagery. I ran two flight, one collecting images looking straight down and another collecting photos looking down 45 degrees. Allegedly these help with 3d terrain models. During one of the flights, there was a brief period of sleet.\n<p>\nAfter recovering the drone I scurried back down the hill and returned to the potato hut to process the images.",
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"date": "2025-07-11",
"expedition": 50,
"title": "KH - Rigging Satan\u2019s Sitting Room and Reaching East Anglia",
"cave": 257,
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"text": "Following on from our camping trip with Lara where we ran out of bolts and time to get further towards the \u2018horizontal drafting A lead\u2019 promised to us at the end of Natural Way, we returned yet again for more rebolting and route finding. \n<p>\nRussell and I packed rope, a drill and 25 hangers, bolts and maillons (no plans to run out again!) After a cold but relatively efficient morning we all got underground about 11:30, starting off with Ash and Buck to show them the way through the cave to our furthest point. The journey through the cave was uneventful, and it was fun to show Ash beyond Staircase 36 after he\u2019d done so much of the research beforehand. My rebolting of Strange Upfall was enjoyed by no one, but also lacked in any suggestions for how to actually improve the awkward pitch head (which is best done by using the Y hang like a ladder to get onto the traverse). We eventually returned to our previous point at the start of the Three Wise Men traverse and said goodbye to Ash and Buck as they headed off to look at leads in No Country for Old Men. \n<p>\nThis was my first look at the traverse Russell had described from the previous trip - trending upwards across a sheer wall with a 5 second drop. To make crossing easier/possible, footloops had been added to the traverse bolts, and it was clear this was going to be the best approach rather than adding in a \u2018tightrope\u2019 to get across the traverse that we had been considering. Russell was super keen to rebolt this scary traverse and cracked on efficiently, getting the job done in just over an hour. I followed after, derigging the old traverse rope (2003) but leaving the old footloops as they were. The last move up out of the traverse is the most awkward, but doable once you find the right footholds to swing up onto the ledge. I then leapfrogged Russell to continue with bolting, which we expected to be another tyrolean based on the description but had actually been left as a J hang. Deciding we agreed that this was a better option anyway, I added a bolt to make the top a Y hang then went across to do the same on the other side. When Russell followed across this it had some rub, so he added an extra bolt lower down which had the added advantage of making it passable on the way up without needing a descender. Finally, it was the last couple of bolts on the traverse and we reached the end of the fiddly SRT. \n<p>\nNext up was the climbs up towards Tinkle Rift, where I initially missed the second climb and ended up overlooking a very large rift which looked nothing like the p5 described. Backtracking slightly, we found the muddy climb up the wall and drafting passage leading into Tinkle Rift. With the high level Welsh style traverse sounding very unappealing, Russell quickly bolted a back up and Y hang here, and we dropped down into the rift. Slightly awkward crawling and climbing followed until the rift opened up and we could see ascending passage ahead and above us (Black Velvet). This was reached via an awkward climb and slightly scary step back over the route up which needs bolting next time but excitement to reach the end was too high for such things on this trip after so much faff. \n<p>\nWe continued up the very pleasant Black Velvet passage, then turned into Far too Far and eventually reached the climb up into East Anglia at a lovely echoing aven. East Anglia turned out to be much more pleasant than the \u2018flat and boring\u2019 description had led us to believe, and includes one apparent dead end where the way on is to climb up to the right. At the end of this we reached another pitch not marked on the survey or description, at the start of the Natural Way section on the survey. \n<p>\nWith it already being 11pm and feeling a long way from home, we decided to call it a day and turn around, leaving bolts and rope ready for our return. The way out was uneventful, although the walk back up through Knossos and Triassic Park does eventually start feeling quite old. We\u2019d also both forgotten to double check the other had a water bottle so ended up rather dehydrated by the time we were at the bottom of the entrance pitch. Prussiking while tired and thirsty seemed very unappealing so we chose to crawl out of 161h instead and meandered our way back up the cliff, feeling very happy when we finally caught sight of the reflectors leading us to the entrance. After a slow walk back, we got back to top camp around 02:45.",
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"date": "2025-07-12",
"expedition": 50,
"title": "plateau - There and back again",
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"text": "I joined Mark Shinwell and his friend David to walk to the edge of the plateau and look at various features along the way. We also stopped to collect drone images from the area around Pepper Pot. After the drone flight, we diverged from the Homecoming track and blundered through the bunde cutting the corner to find the Hunters Path where it comes onto the plateau. Much of this is a blur, but we noted a few existing points in the survex and a few new ones. Hopefully Mark has them. Aw we approached the gully coming from the Homecoming area, travel slowed and the terrain became a series of tricky climbdowns. Finally, we reached the Hunters path. By this time, dreams of approaching the edge and flying the drone were gone as we arrived later than we hoped. Instead we found a flat spot to launch the drone from and flew it over the edge collecting photos showing the larch trees that are past the edge.\n<p>\nA walk up the Hunters path toward Homecoming revealed many interesting holes, but there was no time to take notes. This area deserves a better look with gear and rope.\n<p>\nWe made it off the plateau too late for dinner across the street, but the basecamp food was excellent!\n<p>\nI did find a draughting hole in the gully just before we found the Hunters path. A short climb down led to a 5m pitch. Here are a couple of photos of 2025-pb-02. The location is N 47.6924787 E 13.8011285.\n<p>\n<img width=80% src=\"/expofiles/photos/2025/PhilipBalister/2025-pb-02-entrance.jpg\">\n<img width=80% src=\"/expofiles/photos/2025/PhilipBalister/2025-pb-02-entrance.jpg\">",
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"title": "plateau - A Mere Hole",
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"text": "The two members of the party met, the short one coming from base camp, and the tall one from top camp, faffing about to arrange their gear into their bags for the carry. Several other cavers were seen, though they seemed to be doing what was known in the local dialect as a \"Tourist Trip\". Why one would want to do that when there is glorious surveying to be done we can only ponder over a Radler. \n<p>\nA quick tramp across the beautiful alpine-esque meadows, being ogled by the local ovine livestock, past a large shakehole, until finally the entrance rift was reached. Changing in the blazing sun was a real torture, and the sweet relief of the cool cave air couldn't come quickly enough. The pre-rigged ropes seemed to be mostly in good nick, and the anchor placements excellent. The Canyon pitch was soon reached and passed, and the next pitch with the tensioned abseil to avoid the water also descended. The rope coiled at the base of this pitch was a bit worse for wear thanks to the water flow dragging it against the rock, but not in a dangerous place for abseil. \n<p>\nFinally the bottom was reached, and the streamway followed to the first hit of the day, a promising B lead up a climb in the side of the streamway. This was surveyed going in, with a bedding plane connection seen to the previous streamway. It continued as crawling with some mud and formations, until reaching a cobble choke which the short one thought may be passable with effort. The tall one thought it was a D lead at best. \n<p>\nBack in the main passage, the streamway was followed until the water went to the right, and we continued into a dry oxbow to push a possible lead at the end. A small sump was crawled past along a cobbled crawl to another pool. The tall one floundered around in it, regretting his choices of survey project, before coming back through the short duck after confirming it was in fact a sump pool.\n<p>\nThe final hit for the day was to follow the water, but the tall one quickly got to the point where it got too low and decided that it was time to go and enjoy a beverage in the sun. \n<p>\nUpon return to the base of the pitches, it turned out that the Dour one had followed us down from topcamp for a jolly trip. We sat and ate some cheese, banana chips and dried mango, before heading back up the pitches slowly following the queue of \"Tourist Cavers\". A dash back to the vehicles, and soon we were enjoying an alcoholic beverage outside the establishment named for the local transportation feature, relishing the views of the mountains around us. A good day out, and definitely in Austria!",
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"title": "Plateau - Sun at last! Time for prospecting.",
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"text": "After three days of dampness and caving, I was just about ready to head down the hill, but the sun was out and the plateau was looking beautiful, so I decided to tag along on a prospecting trip instead, planning to carry stuff and sunbathe while the others did the interesting stuff. We wandered towards Kindergartenh\u00f6hle and checked out leads there, then poked around that area of the plateau a bit more for interesting holes.\n<p>\nAfter dropping both pitches in Kindergartenh\u00f6hle (both of which crapped out) and digging through a bit of rubble up the slope to the right of the end of the phreatic tube at the entrance (which just continued upwards until we decided the boulders were of too dubious stability to continue), we pronounced the cave killed. \n<p>\nThe draughting pitch marked on the survey turned out to only be windy because it was between 2 entrances, the pitch itself had no draught and was shallow.\n<p>\nWe then basked in the sun for a little while before wandering in the vague direction of top camp, poking at various holes on the way. We found very little, other than a small cave Lara and Charlotte surveyed (Sisyphus Cave). \n<p>\nBecka walked to 2005-02 and found that it should be deleted from the database - it's a short pitch that can be entered from the bottom and is blind. \n<p>\nWe also found a small, horizontal cave that Lara and Charlotte surveyed (Sisyphus Cave) for approximately 15m located at 33T 411933 5282517.\n<p>\nFinally Buck found a 5m pitch into a sizeable chamber with, sadly, no way on. Becka descended it using the Petzl pulses. This was at 33T 411873 5282624. [2025-BB-04]\n<p>\nAs I was heading down the hill that evening, I parted ways with the group around this point, making my way back to top camp with only some minor bunde bashing.\n \n<p>[Ed.: two variant versions of this entry combined.]",
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"date": "2025-07-13",
"expedition": 50,
"title": "Gruffalo 2025-js-04 - Descent of Turbine Hall",
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"text": "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. \n<p>\nLucky Crowbar was at 33T 411074 5282956. Joel free-climbed down 5m to a snow plug with no way off horizontally. No Draught.\n<p>\n2025-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.\n<p>\nWe 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.\n<p><b>\nRigging topo for first 3 pitches in Gruffalo \n(as far as the rift below Turbine Hall)\n</b><p>\n<img src = \"/expofiles/photos/2025/rigging-topo-entrance-gruffalo.jpg\"\nwidth = \"600\"/>",
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"text": "Due to a late change of plans I was traveling out on my own... I have a full car traveling back\nDrove down from Glasgow stopping on Thursday night at my parents in Lancashire. Lots of problems with traffic on the M6 and M5 leading to me arriving with 30 minutes to pack the car, so I moved my ferry later.\nPacked in a hurry and left, just made the 00:30 ferry.\nDrove for an hour into France and bedded down for a few hours. Continued to Louven and needed another rest so found a large supermarket had a meal and did some shopping before resting.\nArrived at basecamp 23:00 somewhat tired.",
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"text": "Having received a report that 'my' water system at top camp was leaking and had lost the last week of rain, I resigned myself to jacking on my first trip into KH for 18 years and instead went shopping for plumber's sealant. I then received a personal message that there had been a fire at Top Camp and my bivvi spot had not fared well. A gondola ride and walk up the hill allowed me to inspect the situation. Dylan and Dan, on a break from Popper pot, explained how Dylan had escaped a near death experience the night before. A stack of 3 campbeds had had 24 nightlights placed directly upon it in the hope that the combustion of the hydrocarbon (generating CO2 and, er, H2O), might somehow dispel the dampness in a furry suit hanging from the tarpaulin support ropes above. Photographic evidence, apparently, exists. Dylan, sleeping in the tier above, was woken by the smell of thick black smoke and observed a conflagration of the camp bed stack below. It seems that burning liquid wax soaking into a dry and absorbent cloth made an excellent wick. Who could have predicted such a mechanism? Dan made a rapid exit from his pit and led the swift discharge of the camp's remaining water supply on the fire, putting it out and minimising the collateral damage. The final toll was 3 camp beds, my 1st aid kit, 2 batteries, a pair of gloves and a new 2 ft diameter hole in the tarp. Fortunately those pesky EU bureaucrats had mandated a fire retardant to be incorporated in the tarpaulin meaning that the entire sleeping top camp party were not burnt to a crisp in their beds.\n<p>\nAs for the leaking water system, the connector for the new large green water butt (gifted to expo by a few old lags) appeared to have been loosened by someone or something unknown. The absent top camp team appeared to have valved this off, but not before all the water was gone. This was retightened before the next shower, and the water butts were half full before a return to base was called for.\nNB: Please don't unscrew/undo any of the water barrel fittings.\nNB2: When all 4 barrels are reasonably full, valve off all but the furthest barrel (which is filled by the colleaction tarp) at the 4-way manifold. That way, if some rodent has worked out how to loosen one of the butt fittings only one barrel of water will be lost at a time.\nNB3: Please get into the habit of checking the water system for leaks/ unexpected drops in water level before heading down the hill",
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"title": "2025-dw-01 - Anf\u00e4ngergl\u00fcckh\u00f6hle (popperh\u00f6hle) CUCCCing in Anf\u00e4ngergl\u00fcckh\u00f6hle",
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"text": "Over the past couple days, Dan and I have been back and forth between Anf\u00e4ngergl\u00fcckh\u00f6hle (AGH), bringing in more rope, bolting gear and surveying equipment. I had a crack at rigging the Mama\u2019s Kabab pitch series previously and ended up with a bodged J hang and an interesting traverse line, so today I let Dan undo my mess whilst I cracked on with where I left off with the surveying.\n<p>\n! Just a bit of a warning. There is a microwave sized boulder loose on the platform next to the traverse line (white on the left). Please try and avoid using the platform, and this section should be ideally rerigged as to avoid people standing here. Plus some more gardening needs to be done !\n<p>\nTurns out doing the job of Instrument, notes and dog whilst on large free hanging pitches is quite the task. However, after many mid-rope changeovers and swearing later, I had surveyed the popper pitch series, ending at station number 12 on a large boulder at the base of the shaft. By this time Dan had finished undoing all my mistakes and had bolted the next series. We dropped down the newly bolted section and was greeted by another huge chamber, which included a gently sloping horizontal section. We walked over to this section, clambered over a boulder and we were placed in a huge aven, with a hole straight down, horizontal passage to the left and another passage up a chossy slope to the right.\n<p>\nSuddenly, we heard voices which we thought were from the group in KH. Alas, it was part of the CUCCC lot (Ned, Tom B) coming down to siege us. Shortly after, Ned noticed the boulder that Dan and I had previously clambered over was in fact wobbly, so he promptly kicked it down, followed by Ned shouting \u2018Oh fuck\u2019. Turns out he had kicked the boulder on his trad gear and the 60m rope Dan had brought down. \n<p>\nI left the 3 of them to dig out their stuff, whilst I headed out to grab a charged battery, a spare light and some food. Festering at topcamp I was greeted by Dan, then Chris not long after. I ate some noodles, whilst watching Chris rummage through his burnt belongings after Harry tried to burn down top camp. Later, we headed back and I began surveying again, this time with Dan as the dog. We reached the bottom of the final pitch, where I was left by myself to survey to the large aven (station 23) as the ropes and gear had been freed so Dan went off, then I surveyed into the beginning of the crawly horizontal passage.",
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"expedition": 50,
"title": "Gruffalo - Abortive attempt to replace the Petzl Pulses",
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"text": "Got up at the crack of dawn and headed up the hill. \nFirst carry up the hill, whilst packing I discovered I'd left my under suit in the tumble dryer - in Bristol - bugger. \nToday was intended to be a surface prospecting day so I left my wellies and over suit at basecamp. \nArrived to find top it in disarray, Had a look at the aftermath of the fire and set up my pit in the animal hole.\n<p>\nHeaded off with Lara, Joel and Big Tom to Gruffalo hole.\nFollowed Joel on a shortcut sown the fault valley below Tunnocks, degenerated into a fight through bunder and over cliffs. In fine Scooby Doo style we split up and Lara found the cave 45 minutes before we did. \n<p>\nArrived at the cave with the intention of re-rigging the first two pitches, only to find neither of us has a spanner.\nHeaded back by walking 200m up the valley and turning right and continuing up the slabs to meet the Balcony path just after the Tunnock's col. No bunder bashing at all, there are some acquard climb downs but a much easier route.\nReturned to the Stone bridge then headed down the hill.",
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"title": "plateau - Droning on!",
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"text": "After a failed rest day, I planned to revisit the area I flew on July 12 to collect more imagery to hopefully load onto phones to demonstrate qfield + drone aerial photo prospecting. The images from July 12 looked great in qgis and were very helpful finding drone launch sites. The weather looked OK, but chances of rain. I found a place to launch the drone and let it set off to collect. The practice of the past few days led to a quick launch and I let the drone collect photos while having a snack and checking it was following the flight plan properly. Then I wandered a bit and found an interesting hole with a 2 second drop to a pile of snow. The bottom looked like it is worth visiting, I named this 2025-pb-03 (N 47.6886989 E 13.8070508). Note the pole in the photo, this is the last known location. I accidentally left it between this point and the last drone flight.\n<p>\n<img width=80% src=\"/expofiles/photos/2025/PhilipBalister/2025-pb-03-entrance.jpg\">\n<img width=80% src=\"/expofiles/photos/2025/PhilipBalister/2025-pb-03-area.jpg\">\n<p>\nOn to the next drone launch. I used qfield to navigate to a point close to the square I had a flight plan for. Qfield assisted navigation through the bunde was great. Along the way I found 2025-pb-04 (N 47.6869550 E 13.8076613)\n<img width=80% src=\"/expofiles/photos/2025/PhilipBalister/2025-pb-04-entrance.jpg\">\n<img width=80% src=\"/expofiles/photos/2025/PhilipBalister/2025-pb-04-area.jpg\">\n<p>\nAnd 2025-pb-05 (N47.6873988 E 13.8092042)\n<img width=80% src=\"/expofiles/photos/2025/PhilipBalister/2025-pb-05-area.jpg\">\n<img width=80% src=\"/expofiles/photos/2025/PhilipBalister/2025-pb-05-entrance.jpg\">\n<p>\nFinally I headed back done the hill, without my trusty pole. Only got rained on a little at the end. After a strudel and a cappuccino at the Loser Alm I headed back to the potato hut.",
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"text": "Following a walk up the plateau to meet with Becka, we packed for a long trip to push the A lead at the end of Natural Way. I joined last minute following Chris needing to spend time fixing the water system. After a quick lunch we wandered across the plateau to the cave and were on our way.\nA relatively efficient journey in through Knossos, up Staircase 36, through to Repton and on to Satan's Sitting Room. This was as far as I'd previously been, so the new experience of the Wise Men traverse of footloops was entertaining. A bit more rope and we were into Tinkle Rift, crawling along the bottom.\nWe then stopped as Russell bolted a handline and traverse at Black Velvet to protect a bold step. Then onwards with another short handline further along. We corkscrewed up near a very large hole and the passage became very crawly as we entered East Anglia. Another short climb, following a contorted passage and we eventually reached the pitch that Charlotte and Russell had reached on their previous trip. Finally, we could walk into the open leads!\n<p>\nNot so fast!\n<p>\nBecka rigged the short pitch down but by then we'd spotted the rope for an up pitch on the far side of the chamber. Charlotte rigged this, muttering about rope rub and dodgy naturals on her ascent whilst we shivered in the group shelter. Surely we were there now?\n<p>\nNope. Next came the Natural Way traverse, left rigged on a rambly route around various fins of rock and ledges. Ash rigged most of this then Russell took over to finish it using the last of the many ropes that we had brought along. We derigged the old rope as we went along and took out any that we didn't reuse for handlines. \n<p>\nAt last we were into the horizontal passages at the end of Natural Way. We had already decided it was well past time to go home but since we were here it would be mad not to have a look around (though our 2 sets of survey gear would clearly not be needed). We scampered around but failed to find the walking A lead that we expected at the far end. Instead there was a so-so narrow, muddy pitch down and nothing horizontal on the far side. And the B leads looked suspiciously like C leads or nothing at all. Slightly deflated we girded our loins for the long trog back, taking all the rope and rigging gear that wasn't in the rig back to Staircase 36.\n<p>\nWe eventually emerged at 1am to a clear evening after a long and splendidly varied trip but it would have been still better to have been rewarded with an exciting lead at the end of it (six trips and counting for Charlotte and Russell). \n<p>\n<p><b>\nRigging topo for ropework required from the end of the Three Wise Men traverse to the end of Natural Way\n</b><p>\n<img src = \"/expofiles/photos/2025/161-beyond-3wisemen-riggingtopo.jpg\"\nwidth = \"600\"/>",
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"expedition": 50,
"title": "basecamp - Expo Dinner",
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"place": "basecamp",
"other_people": "*everyone",
"text": "Dinner was eaten and nothing else happened.",
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"text": "A rare day with hardly any rain. Much nerding. New expo laptop \"Pulsifer\" configured in tatty hut.",
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"expedition": 50,
"title": "basecamp - It is still raining",
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"text": "Pissing down rain still. Bier tent has boards on the floor to keep your feet dry while making chips. Feels like a WW1 trench.",
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"expedition": 50,
"title": "Basecamp - Luke arrived, Eishohle party returned",
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"text": "The Loser Alm restaurant was closed, so the Eishohle party (H, H & H) came down for some hot food and to warm up, before going back up the hill - taking Luke with them. Luke had been collected earlier from the station by Philip B.\n<p>\nStrange big yellow thing in sky seen as tehy were leaving. Peculiar absence of vertical wetness. Most strange.",
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"slug": "philip-sargent"
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"date": "2025-07-16",
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"title": "Gruffalo - Replacing Pulses and Dropping Jaberwocky",
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"text": "The day after expo dinner I wasn\u2019t convinced I\u2019d find anyone keen enough to be dragged out of bed at 6:30 and walk up the hill for more caving. However, Gruffalo was looking so promising that keenness for caving won out and we committed to a slightly more sensible bed time. So it was with minimal encouragement that we got up in time to make it up the toll road and said goodbye to Alice who was debating coming up the hill before sobering up from the night before, but eventually went back to bed instead. \n<p>\nWe walked to Gruffalo via the Fishface route, turning off into Three Larch Valley and across a few Bunde heavy climbs until we reached the bottom of the Valley of Death and scrambled up to the entrance. The plan was for Joel and Jonty to go ahead and start bolting the big pitch Jaberwocky while Russell and I followed - swapping out the Pulses for through bolts and replacing slings with deviation tat. We also brought survey gear ready to survey the pitch and whatever lay beyond. \n<p>\nIt was my first time to Gruffalo and the draught was as strong (and cold) as had been promised, looking very good for finding a new entrance with more accessible leads. I swapped out the first few pulses, then changed with Russell for him to do the rest and we worked our way down to meet the others, listening to the increasingly loud thunder of gardening as we got nearer. When we reached the others, Jonty was just starting to place bolts at the top of the pitch. Thorough, enthusiastic gardening had lowered the floor level by about a metre so the traverse line was now above head height but things were looking better for dropping the pitch. \n<p>\nI was very cold by this point so insisted on getting the shelter out and huddling inside, listening to Jonty get further away as he continued to make his way down the pitch, avoiding the obvious hang which also looked very likely to get wet. After a brief nap I woke up to see that the time was 6:30pm and with heavy storms forecast from 8pm, and a call-out at 9pm I felt that all of us dropping and surveying the pitch that evening was sadly getting out of reach. Russell and I turned around regretfully from the inviting draughty pitch at 7pm to head out. Our initial frustration at finding blue sky from the entrance was quickly corrected by rain starting before we\u2019d managed to finish getting changed. This rain rapidly set in to a downpour within 10 minutes and I thoroughly regretted not paying more attention to the route as we navigated it in reverse through sheeting rain. The rain finally abated just as we approached top camp to find the masses had descended and beds had come into high demand. \n<p>\nJonty and Joel continued to the bottom of Jaberwocky to find two horizontal leads heading off from the large chamber, to be returned to soon with survey equipment! They managed to dodge the rain entirely and hadn\u2019t even realised that we got a drenching on our walk back, the entrance pitches had only been slightly drippy for their exit and they got out after the rain had stopped.",
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"expedition": 50,
"title": "Balcony - Gorgons Lair SW A Lead",
"cave": 86,
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"text": "We had a lot of fun in the rain...Quick trip into Balcony to tick off an 'A' lead out of Gorgons Lair...\n<p>\nHeaded up the hill the evening after the dinner with the remains of a hangover rattling around in my head. Early nights sleep and a quick get-up in the morning, the intention was to head down Balcony visit the camp then go for an afternoon push into the witching hours.\n<p>\nBalcony has a lot of string and some bold climbs/traverses on the way down, hats of to whoever put these in. \n<p>\nArrived at the camp just after lunch and had lunch, life is exciting. Met Becca and James W as we were leaving for caverns measureless.\n<p>\nThe trip to our pushing front was uneventful if you exclude climbing up the rope into Northern Powerhouse with a heavy tackle bag on my back as uneventful, it wasn't.\n<p>\nThe lead was indicated by a station 12 in red nail varnish on the LHS Wall. The lead is the pitch down, and identified later an inclined aven up... Chris rigged the pitch and Frank started surveying it. The pitch edge is a nice wall of pebbly fill, which makes the edge less than stable. Two re-belays and a deviation off an upside down spike. Arrived at the bottom to find the rope 3m too short and a long length of deviation tat double fisherman'd on. Swung off to a ledge and started surveying the chamber, after a few legs out of the chamber we found a bolt with a red survey dot, bugger, An A lead killed.\n<p>\nOn exit the critical deviation pinged off and had to be replaced. \nInterestingly the draught at station 12 was not present either on the pitch or at the bottom of the pitch. The general thought was that the draught is going up the pitch.\nHad a look at climbing up the incoming aven but it was getting late. The aven is relatively clean washed and water from it has incises through the brown and ancient looking pebbles in the pheratic rift.\nRealistically it is a qmb\n<p>\nReturned to camp really late and ate dinner quietly because Becca and James had gone to bed early. Crawled into my pit and got the end space which was particularly lumpy for a side sleeper and had lots of unconscious slide and cuddle potential. \nGot up late and headed out, this took ages because I'm particularly slow for some reasons, potentially related to age and unfitness.\n<p>",
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"id": 355,
"slug": "frank-tully"
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"date": "2025-07-17",
"expedition": 50,
"title": "Vdr SMK path - Relocating entrances",
"cave": null,
"place": "Vdr",
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"text": "Lift up with Phil B., car park at 0830. I left PB playing and swearing at his distoX trying to calibrate it and walked up to the col (assaulted by about 30 sheep) then up to Vdr SMK peak. \n<p>\nI found 201 and 156 with tags, and probably 199 (but failed to find tag). Also two more big holes which should be katastered even though they probably don't go anywhere. One is walk/clamber in and about 3x3m and more than 10m into the hill.\n<p>\nSaw a young gemse near 156: so young it was still fluffy and with spots. No sign of mother though.\n<p>\nBack in the hut I find that 156 was always previously choked with snow but there is none visible anywhere today. So perhaps these big holes were previously just snow-plugs ? And maybe 156 needs revisiting.\n<p>\nLift back down with exiting KH team.",
"slug": "2025-07-17b",
"time_underground": 0.0,
"author": {
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"slug": "philip-sargent"
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"title": "2025-dw-01 - Anf\u00e4ngergl\u00fcckh\u00f6hle A bug\u2019s life",
"cave": 531,
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"text": "The previous evening we had aborted our trip due to biblical thunder, lightning and 27mm of rain in an hour. We hoped today would be slightly nicer, which to our surprise it was! No gleaming sunshine or warmth, but at least the rain had cleared up.\n<p>\nWe set off after a bit of faff, which wasn\u2019t helped by the large number of people staying at top camp (everyone from basecamp bar a couple!). We suited up at the entrance, raced to the bottom of the two entrance pitches and headed to the horizontal passage leading on from Vertigo View. The plan of action was to split into 2 groups, Me, Tom B and Ella would survey the horizontal section whilst Ned bolted a traverse line to investigate a window in the far wall of the pitch which lead off the same horizontal section. We sprang into action, and like clockwork steady progress was made, shouting commands at each other like some sort of military drill,\n<p>\n<br>\n<b>\u201cReady to move?\u201d</b>\n<br>\n<b>\u201cLRUDS and splays please!\u201d</b>\n<br>\n<b>\u201cNext station please\u201d</b>\n<br>\n<p>\nand so on. The passage continued, sloping up, sloping down and even featuring some fine popcorn wall formations and stals. Eventually we clambered into a small bouldery chamber with a passage leading left and a climb down into a wider chamber on the right. We followed right, and to our horror the wider chamber was in fact the same chamber we had dumped our bags before setting off surveying. Ah well, at least we could see how inaccurate our surveying had been by doing a loop closure, which unexpectedly was only about 0.4m, not bad for such a large loop!\n<p>\nWe ate some chokolade, flapjacks, and we were soon off surveying again. This time we followed the left passage in the previous chamber. More horizontal crawling passage, which unfortunately choked out with little QMs, apart from a squeeze at some point on the way in located on the right hand side which ended in a grim and tight looking pitch.\n<p>\nRejoining Ned, he had practically finished the traverse line around the pitch and was in the middle of trying to garden the entrance to the window. One huge deliberate boulder fall and a couple more bolts later and he was in, soon after proclaiming \u201cThere is a stonking draught! It\u2019s practically bowing my hair\u201d. In the surveying group\u2019s excitement, we hastily popped a station on the traverse line, one at the bottom of the pitch and at the window, continuing from there. We were immediately greeted by another popcorn stalactite, which we carefully avoided and continued to shoot legs down the passage. Ned at this point had buggered off to find more passage, leaving us to survey, which we did until the ceiling lowered to a belly crawl, so we decided to give up (cave phone dying was also a factor) so we could explore ourselves. Preceding the crawl the passage opened up, leading into wider stoopinf passage with funky black dots on the ground, which lead to the fitting name of \u201ca bug\u2019s life\u201d. At the end of this passage we were faced with a calcited climb on the left and a rocky crawl straight on. Taking the straight path, it ended in a rather large pitch, taking a rock 6s to reach the bottom (pinging off the sides), bingo! We needed to slash some height to have any chance of connecting to KH, so this was extremely promising!\n<p>\nShortly after we swiftly headed out, leaving Ned to replace the pulses with through bolts on the popper pitch series, and soon enough we were all back at topcamp in time for a curry.",
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"text": "Arriving at top-camp, we are greeted by more ventilation in the tarp, 24 less tea lights and a distinct lack of Harry Kettle.\n<p>\nWith copious amounts of people going to Popper hole and Gruffalo, and James W abandoning me to go camping so I cant go to Bread Recipe Hole. So i decide to tag along with Ash to go to his drafty A lead in KH - Country for Old Men.\n<p>\nAfter arriving at KH, walking half way back to top camp in the rain to find my dropped wellies, then back to KH, we descend the entrance series around 2pm.\n<p>\nWe followed closely behind the other KH group (Lara, Charlot and Russell) to rapton, where our paths diverge. \n<p>\nContinuing further on into Country for Old Men, Ash finishies bolting a muddy slope/pitch while I be useless waiting at the top. After faffing with rope lengths so we are able to return, we eventually move on.\n<p>\nJust before the lead and the Rift of Doom we discover a climb that a hand line is needed to get back up, commence more faffing, we get it rigged.\n<p>\nImmediately after is our drafty hands and knees crawl on the right, which is our A lead.\n<p>\nA few meters in is a pitch that ash gets to rigging, while I have a nosey down the passage towards the rift of doom only noting that there may be a bolt climb a 10-20m further on from our lead, behind you on the left.\n<p>\nDown our lead's 10-15 pitch we get to a muddy slope, where I de-SRT kit and we start surveying.\n<p>\nDown another muddy slope, we find a C-Lead squeeze (killed), a B lead drafting crouching passage (killed -> Drafting (out) Dig (<1/2m, other side visable, probably doable with hands)) and continued along our drafting out A lead up another muddy slope, turn right, then down another muddy slope. A short flat out crawl into lots of upwards crouching passage.\n<p>\nNear the end of our trip we get to a 6 way junction (2 ways connect to 2 other ways so 4 way junction) leaving us with 3 promising ways on (1. Up slope, walking passage, getting bigger, drafting out. 2. Down slope, walking passage, drafting in. And 3. Crawl into a chamber, drafting in.)\n<p>\nSo we tidy up a little and head back for the day, eager to head back tomorrow.\n<p>\nArrival back at top camp at 2am.",
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"text": "After a good stint at basecamp around expo dinner, I was keen to get back underground, especially given the news: Gruffalo, the drafting cave Joel found during our prospecting trip a couple weeks ago, was still going strong, and the last group that went (Joel, Jonty, Charlotte, and Russell) had just dropped a huge pitch (Jabberwocky) to find several good leads at the bottom. The goal for today was to survey it, do a bit of rebolting, and push the leads at the bottom.\n<p>\nThe four of us set off, taking the track towards Fishface as far as Nadia's Demise, then turning right and down three larch valley, over a few rises and valleys, and finally into the Valley of Death, and up the short slope to the entrance to Gruffalo. It was a cold day for the plateau, with intermittently spitting rain, so the drafting was less strong than it had been last I was there, but it was still noticeable. We kitted up outside the entrance, doing our best to shelter our bags in some bunde bushes, then headed down. Joel was first to enter, on nail polish duty, followed by Alice with the disto. I was on book, so headed down just behind her, with Jonty taking up the rear, ready to begin rebolting once the rest of us descended Jabberwocky.\n<p>\nSurveying Jabberwocky was chilly business, given the combination of draft and drips (it really is quite a cold pitch in wet weather). This was NOT helped by the fact that my stylus was definitely not suited to cave surveying (the button on the end was getting clogged and causing me to draw stuff without even touching the screen). Nor the fact that the disto appeared to be struggling to take long legs (vapour in the air maybe? Really not sure was it was quite so fussy today). Nor the fact that, partway down the pitch, I realised I hadn't saved SexyTopo frequently enough, and station 4 had been entirely deleted, so I had to prussik back up and redo it >:(((((. Sorry to everyone else in my group for how cold you all got waiting for me!\n<p>\nEventually we reached the bottom, where I sat in the group shelter with a very cold Alice and drew up notes whilst Joel began taking legs down a draftees, popcorn-covered side passage at the base of the pitch (Purple Prickle Passage). Once Jonty finished rebolting and reached us at the bottom, I joined Joel in surveying the rest of Purple Prickle Passage. The first leg of this passage was walking height, and had a small trickling stream at its base (which came in from the left wall shortly after the passage entrance). There was a muddy tube leading off to the right, which looked a little too tight to be passable (QM1 D in the gruffalo-purplepricklepassage survex file), before the passage turned sharply right, continuing as a dry crawl. About halfway down was another muddy tube leading off to the right, which may be passable (QM2 C). The passage then met a perpendicular rift leading off to the right. Traversing over some wedged boulders and along this rift, it eventually becomes too tight to continue. A small chimney can be seen in the roof (QM3 C). Whilst I was finishing off surveying this part, I heard the crashing sound of falling rocks. After heading back to the base of Jabberwocky, I learned that Joel had gone back to the main chamber and poked his head around the corner of QM2 A to the east at the base of Jabberwocky (from the gruffalo-jabberwocky survex file) and knocked some boulders down a hole, inadvertently finding a voice connection. Good to know I suppose.\n<p>\nJoel also poked his head around the corner of the lead to the South of Jabberwocky (QM3 B gruffalo-jabberwocky.svx), finding an up climb.\n<p>\nSeeing as by this point Alice and Jonty had already headed back up the pitch, we likewise made our way out the cave. As we made our way up Jabberwocky, Joel noticed a large window about 20m above the pitch's base, potentially leading into a parallel shaft (QM4 B on gruffly-jabberwocky.svx). This would require either a bolt climb or a traverse across from partway down the pitch to push, but looks quite promising once you get to it.\n<p>\nI swear there are more pitches on the way out than on the way in! Eventually we made it out back past all the frozen waterfalls to rejoin the others. We got changed, Joel sustained a minor injury, and we all headed back to topcamp through the light but ever-persistent drizzle.",
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"text": "Quick trip into Balcony to tick off an 'A' lead out of Gorgons Lair...\n<p>\nHeaded up the hill the evening after the dinner with the remains of a hangover rattling around in my head. Early nights sleep at the stone bridge and a quick get-up in the morning, the intention was to head down Balcony visit the camp then go for an afternoon push into the witching hours, which realistically is what happened.\n<p>\nBalcony has a lot more string than I imagined and some bold climbs/traverses on the way down, hats of to whoever put these in. \n<p>\nArrived at the camp just after lunch and had lunch, life is that exciting sometimes. Met Becca and James W as we were leaving for caverns so far measureless to man.\n<p>\nThe trip to our pushing front was uneventful, if you exclude climbing up the rope into Northern Powerhouse with a heavy tackle bag on my back as uneventful, it wasn't, rookie mistake.\n<p>\nArrived in the Gorgons Lair chamber and the lead was indicated by a station 12 in red nail varnish on the LHS Wall. The lead is the pitch down, however we noticed an inclined aven up... \n<p>\nChris rigged the pitch and Frank started surveying it. The pitch edge is a nice wall of pebbly fill, which makes the edge less than solid. \nTwo re-belays and a deviation off an upside down spike preceded arrival at the bottom - Only to find the rope 3m too short and a long length of deviation tat tied onto the bottom. Swung off onto a ledge and started surveying the chamber. After a few legs out of the chamber we found a bolt with a red survey dot next to it. bugger, A lead killed off.\nThe tie-in appears to be 2manpower.9\n<p>\nOn exit the critical deviation pinged off and had to be replaced, which took a while. \n<p>\nInterestingly the draught at station 12 was not present either on the pitch or at the bottom of the pitch, or at the constriction at the top of the continuation pitch down. The general thought was that the draught is going up the inclined aven above the pitch.\n<p>\nHad a look at climbing up the inclined aven but it was getting late. The aven is relatively clean washed and water from it has incised through the brown and ancient looking pebbles in the pheratic rift. \n<p>\nReturned to camp really late and ate dinner quietly because Becca and James had gone to bed early, which was in the plan because they were getting up early. Crawled into my pit and chose the end space against the wall. Which was particularly lumpy for a side sleeper and had lots of unconscious slide, cuddle and spoon potential. \n<p>\nGot up late and headed out, this took ages because I'm particularly slow for some reason, potentially related to age and unfitness, but I\u2019m blaming the sore throat and sneeze.",
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"text": "Screwed up GPS on phones yesterday now worked around. Entrances from yesterday all prove to be a single cave with 3 entrances, including a 20m tunnel 3x4m across with no drips (and no draft - boo) but potentially useful as refuge/bivvy. Presumably full of snow in previous years.\n<p>\n2025#30 2025-PS-01a,b,c\n<p>Walked onto the plateau and visited 83 and 2006-70. Attempted to find 107 (G&auml;msehohle) but completely failed: near to N-facing cliff, thick scrub, poor sight lines. GPS inadequate without clear sketches of location: text is insufficient.",
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"text": "After waking up and going for a piss, I bumped into Mr Kettle who asked what my plans were. My reply of \u201cno idea\u201d was met with \u201cwell, if you\u2019re ready in ten minutes, you can come to KH with the Hannahs and I\u201d so I quickly rushed over and got ready. Ten minutes later I left with Hannah Hannah and Charlotte who had left Harry on the grike planning to meet me as they didn\u2019t expect me to be ready so quickly. \n<p>\nWe departed and met with Russell and Lara on their return from an epic exploration in KH and left Charlotte with them as we continued on our own. Surprisingly quickly we were kitted up and descending the KH entrance pitches to find much less ice and the base than Harry and Hannah C remembered. We progressed towards Harry and Hannah\u2019s \u201cgrotty lead with not much prospect\u201d rather uneventfully (besides me wishing I had more tread on my wellies). We ascended Staircase 36 and re-descended in to The Runnel Stone, got dressed and pushed on to the pushing front. We climbed down and began surveying the pitch under Harry\u2019s instruction while Hannah C bolted the pitch. \n<p>\nAt the base of the pitch we got the shelter out while Hannah bolted a traverse towards the pitch we found. After Harry requested a stone to be thrown we listened out for the crash. A first thought of \u201cthat\u2019s pretty cool\u201d after a three second drop was followed three seconds or so later with an \u201coh fuck\u201d as the rock finally exploded at the bottom. \n<p>\nHarry and Hannah C went to bolt the pitch leaving Muscy Hannah and I to try and stay warm in the shelter. We lost track of time but after half an hour or so Hannah and I finished surveying to the pitch head, looked down the shaft in awe, turned around and prussiked to our fluff in The Runnel Stone. Not too long later Harry and Hannah arrived to tell us how they used 80 metres of rope and couldn\u2019t see the bottom. Recovering from the shock, we headed out to warm up. \n<p>\nThe return trip was punctuated with me annoying Muscy Hannah by removing more and more layers, eventually ending up with nothing on my top half besides the thin MTDE oversuit. Waiting to ascend the Nossus pitch, my stomach rumbling and Harry checking his watch reminded me that it had been 24hours since I\u2019d had a meal so I quickly inhaled a flapjack and we continued uneventfully out eventually reaching surface to catch the sun setting over the Alps \u2013 a pleasant sight after many days of rain.",
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"text": "So there is a bit to this entry and I am not finishing it tonight. I met Jonty and Tom on the plateau just after descending from the col and we hung out while the drone worked hard.\n<p>\nAfter this we set off looking for my hiking pole and found out near something I may have marked as 2025-pb-03 (check). We ended up sneding Jonty done one I hadn't marked that ended at about 25 m. Jonty did an amazing job rigging with random ropes, puleses, and some threads.\n<p>\nAfterwards we investigated 2025-pb-04. At this point, out main concern was a farewell dinner at the gasthof, so we flew the drone in and tried to confirm it was dead. Sadly, the photos suggested it didn't go, but we really need a torch on the drone.\n<p>\nOn the way back down the hill, I investigated another hole buy climbing into it. Apparently Big Tom averted his eyes, but I didn't think it was that bad. Popped through a small hall of the bottom into a passage that popped through a crawl into a chamber with a shaft above from the surface and the ay on was a snow and ice floored passage.",
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"text": "I HATE 8MM ROPE. it cannot be called rope as it stretches far too much with a big person with 2 tackle bags. \nanyways. me and becka went camping in balkon and on the first day we went down the cave and excavated the mongal rally crawl and then went to camp. we then went to jono's lead from last year which was tight and interesting. it goes and we surveyed it and derigged, it probably goes to floodland and the bottom of mongal rally. the next day Luke made it to camp and we left to go down on grendals mother. getting to Tartarus (torturous) was easy and we soon were on the slopes to charon (muddy) we then got to the 8mm which i found very sad. after this we hit the pushing front which was a WET chamber. from here i bolted along the rift and then went down the pitch which lead to a bouldery chamberish thing. through the loose boulders we got to another pitch down to a sandy floor. walking along this lead to another big pitch (payne train( she had tricked me and becka into coming on the trip))\n#\n<p>\nat the bottom of this pitch we had a conflab and agreed that we were the only people stupid enough to come back here to derig. the end was a tight scrotty thing but the leads contiued partway down the pitch. \nso we derigged the lead and grendals mother. (I HATE 8MM ITS SO SHIT) the muddy slopes were very \"interesting\" with big bags . it's rigged as far as the 10m pitch at the end of the muddy slopes where the good \"B\" leads are. eventully we reached Tartarus (torturous)and then began some interesting srt.\nsrt with no working jammers is fun. pantins were so useless that becka didn't even put hers on. and eventually i got to the top with no working velco (this made me sad as my cuffs kept opening). the mud was extensive and made any action painful especially removing ones foot from ones footloop. (I HATE MUD). (i hate tartarus). \n<p>\n<p>\nwe got back to the horizontal stuff and spent a slightly entertaining hour getting back to camp. dinner was GOOD.\nleaving camp the next day was interesting. i spent 4 hours leaving the cave and once on honeycomb my croll decided to wear through the top of the front plate . the sharp edge was shaving some rope so careful srt was required. the rerigging on mongol rally was interesting and the additional deviations seemed a tad excessive. as i was caving on my own the only words that exited my mouth were swearwords on many pitches. eventually i hit sunlight and got back to topcamp and met becka who was very keen to get down the hill. luke had not appeared and i had a large fear i had managed to leave him stranded somewhere. fortunately he had spent 40 mins cleaning his jammers at the bottom of mongol rally.",
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"text": "Another day at top camp meant another trip into Anf\u00e4ngergl\u00fcckh\u00f6hle (formerly known as Popperh\u00f6hle). Mercifully, we went underground today much earlier at a sprightly time of 11am. The plan of action today was to explore some of the pitches along the horizontal high-level tube above the pitch Ned spent most of his energy yesterday bolting. There were three pitches of varying prospects, we decided we would first descend the pitch at the end of the horizontal passage. As Ned first spent a while improving the traverse, me and Ella began surveying with Dylan's SAP, which he had left in Austria for us. \n<p>\nIncidentally, this trip was a true changing of the guard, as the original explorers had now left expo and it was over to me, Ned and Ella to make the fabled connection to KH. I had never surveyed in a cave before, and everything was going very well until the second leg, at which point the SAP announced \"MAGNETIC ANOMALY - IRON NEAR\". After various discussions about how magnetic Austrian caves were, we decided to solve the problem by turning off the warning altogether, and blissfully surveyed away. Hopefully next time we are back I can resurvey this section with a recalibrated SAP.\n<p>\nNext, we proceeded to bolt the continuing pitch, and as Ella hadn't bolted in a cave yet she was deemed the prefect candidate, being taught by Ned who by then had a solid two days of underground bolting to his name. The first pitch was tight, but eventually widened out to a large chamber with huge boulders on the floor acting as a landing pad. Going down the slope, great excitement was felt when a further huge pitch was discovered. We decided the cut the previous rope so we'd have just enough to rig this pitch. Finally, at the bottom we were treated to some magnificent fossilized remains in the avens walls, and Ned even spotted a completely whole ammonite shell. At the bottom of this aven, there was a meandering streamway which went upstream a shortway, however the way on was clearly down the vadose section beneath the phreatic passage. With no rope and limited time, we headed out confident that at this point this cave had to somehow connect to KH, which was later found to be only 24m away horizontally!",
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"text": "From topcamp we have a late morning due to our late return last night, and arrive at KH and are kitted up at around 12pm.\n<p>\nAfter a short walk we reach the start of Young Men at roughly 2:30pm, and decide to begin by killing leads, \n<p>\nC - Lead, side squeeze -> craps out after 5/8m.\n<p>\nB - Lead, out drafting stooping/crawling passage -> 30/50m to a drafty dig (probably only need hands, i want to try this when we de-rig).\n<p>\nThen moved on to our junction with 3 A/B leads (after some tidying up)\n<p>\nWe started with the B - Lead, drafting crawl into a chamber\n<p>\nThe chamber had 3 passages off and a rifty aven that may go. Two of these passages converged after a few meters \nand had the sound of running water coming from them, and the last was sloped downwards to a muddy crawling \npassage. We went in the direction of water first.\n<p>\nThis passage reached a wet down climb (C - Lead?), a wet up climb (C - Lead?) and a muddy squeeze (C - Lead (Ash \nmay have put it as a dig but that is wrong as i have already dug it enough to get through)) after a few 10s of \nmeters.\n<p>\nGoing back to the chamber we head in the other direction, after a while of muddy crawling and a dead end or two \nwe reach a wet pitch with not great rock, (A-Lead?). I believe Ash wants to go back to drop this one.\n<p>\nFinally, we go back to the original junction.\nAsh is getting a bit cold and so he decides to rush back down CfYM to warm up and get a bite of flapjack, while I scoop a bit of the less promising A - Lead (downwards walking passage, drafting in)\n<p>\nIts 20-30m and ends in a wet washed 8m down pitch and a traverse around to the side (both killed on our next trip).\n<p>\nAsh then gets back, we survey it and head out.\n<p>\nOn our walk to top camp from KH, we seem to spot one of those orange tents \u26fa\ufe0f lit up on the hill over on the plateau and think its strange.\n<p>\n5 minutes later i realise how stupid we are and that it is the moon.\n<p>\nArriving back at top camp at 1am",
"slug": "2025-07-18f",
"time_underground": 11.0,
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"id": 385,
"slug": "hamish-weir"
},
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"date": "2025-07-19",
"expedition": 50,
"title": "Basecamp - Glorious Chippage Salvation",
"cave": null,
"place": "Basecamp",
"other_people": "",
"text": "The electrical deep fat fryer broke causing great sadness and general chiplessness based misery at basecamp (except the vintage ones we made in the scary old pan - nice but slow). \nFrank's arrival down the hill was eagerly awaited. He arrived and fixed it in 10 minutes. \n<p>\nUseful information on fixing it from Frank: \nUN-PLUG THE DEEP FAT FRYER (This is important, the electrical contacts are surprisingly close to the reset button, fucking this up may cause a short circuit which will damage the deep fat fryer, AND POTENTIALLY KILL YOU, this usually hurts a lot too), \nBasically the deep fat fryer has a manually resettable thermal overload.\nUnplug the deep fat fryer,\nThere is a hole in the back of the fryer marked 'RESET', insert a thin screwdriver and feel for the button in the \nback of the unit, it is directly behind the hole and 50mm, when you press it you will feel a 'light click'. \nIf you don't get it on the third attempt get a No.1 cross head screwdriver and remove the back of the fryer (7 \nsmall screws), the overload is the 15mm round thing with two wires attached, and in the middle a little black \nbutton, press it and you will feel it click.\nClean the grease off everything, because it won't happen otherwise.\nPut everything back together and plug the unit back in.\nTurn the temperature knob, you should feel the 'control thermostat' click (It's a different thermostat), and the red light should come on.\nIf you have survived, everyone can now have more chips, if you have not survived everyone else can have chips.",
"slug": "2025-07-19a",
"time_underground": 0.0,
"author": {
"id": 19,
"slug": "lara-bartleet"
},
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"date": "2025-07-19",
"expedition": 50,
"title": "plateau - Farewell",
"cave": null,
"place": "plateau",
"other_people": "",
"text": "It is time to go. I am sad, but leaving while I am ahead is good.\n<p>\nOn the way to Top Camp to get my camping gear I saw a gamsa. I took that as a good bye from the plateau, especially after I saw one on the way up earlier.",
"slug": "2025-07-19b",
"time_underground": 0.0,
"author": {
"id": 16,
"slug": "philip-balister"
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"date": "2025-07-19",
"expedition": 50,
"title": "Balkon - Pitstop Camp - Pitstop Camp Inventory",
"cave": 86,
"place": "Balkon",
"other_people": "",
"text": "<ul>\n<li>0.5kg of muesli\n<li>0.3kg of couscous\n<li>Too much milk powder \n<li>6 tea bags\n<li>Too much sugar\n<li>12 oatso\n<li>1 kg of flapjack\n<li>2 soup\n<li>NO HOT CHOCOLATE \n<li>NO NODDLES\n<li>3 packets custard \n<li>4 u/g meals\n<li>3 bars of chocolate \n<li>4 bags of sweets \n<li>1 toilet rolls\n<li>2 part used gas\n<li>4 useless lighters - switch to better ones\n<li>2 sad stoves\n<li>1 roll of poo bags \n<li>1 group shelter\n<li>21 hangers, mailions and thrubolts\n<li>3 Hangers and mailions\n<li>1 hammer \n<li>2 blow tubes\n<li>Some deviation tat\n<p>\n<p>\n@ Water station \n<li>24 hangers and mailions \n<li>16 hangers, mailions and old hilti bolts\n<li>3 deviation tat\n<li>200m of 8mm green\n<li>40m + 60m of orange 9mm ends need tapping.\n<li>8 x shorter length of rope 8m -25m~ \n<p>\n<p>\nLeft @ the top of Charon \n<li>70m of 9mm green\n<li>3 Hangers and mailions\n<p>",
"slug": "2025-07-19c",
"time_underground": 0.0,
"author": {
"id": 328,
"slug": "luke-stangroom"
},
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{
"id": 197,
"slug": "becka-lawson"
},
{
"id": 370,
"slug": "james-waite"
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"date": "2025-07-19",
"expedition": 50,
"title": "Basecamp - 5G Signal Test",
"cave": null,
"place": "Basecamp",
"other_people": "",
"text": "Quick test of the 5G mobile phone download speed,\nAt the tree next to the road of base camp.\nNetwork Cell Info Lite, Android, running on Samsung Note 2021\n5G(NSA) Network, Operator A1, UK Operator EE, Signal strength -85db (-98db is the boundary between amber and green, so 85db is good)\nDownload speed 28.8Mb/s, Upload speed 27.1 Mb/s, Ping 165ms, Jitter 19ms\n<p>\nIn the tatty hut the signal strength is -93db (Green so OK)",
"slug": "2025-07-19d",
"time_underground": 0.0,
"author": {
"id": 355,
"slug": "frank-tully"
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"date": "2025-07-19",
"expedition": 50,
"title": "Basecamp - Busy day, then not.",
"cave": null,
"place": "Basecamp",
"other_people": "",
"text": "Hot day, lots and lots of people at base. Then everyone left leaving me on my own. Several hours of work later basecamp is almost tidy and the washing up almost done.\n<p>\nComplicated arrangements made to collect Wookey tomorrow evening.",
"slug": "2025-07-19e",
"time_underground": 0.0,
"author": {
"id": 306,
"slug": "philip-sargent"
},
"participants_data": []
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"date": "2025-07-21",
"expedition": 50,
"title": "gruffalo - siily old joel, doesn't he know, there's no such thing as a gruffalo",
"cave": 588,
"place": "gruffalo",
"other_people": "",
"text": "Derigging the gruffalo\n<p>\nme and frank went to gruffalo to derig \ngruffalo is a shit yorkshire blackbook cave with squuezy pitch heads an a tight rift to wriggle in.\njabberwocky was nice and big!\nEntire cave derigged , one nut dropped down jabberwocky from the small 3 bolt traverse",
"slug": "2025-07-21a",
"time_underground": 3.0,
"author": {
"id": 370,
"slug": "james-waite"
},
"participants_data": [
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"id": 355,
"slug": "frank-tully"
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"date": "2025-07-21",
"expedition": 50,
"title": "2025-dw-01 - AngfangergluckHohle Pushing towards KH - Trip number 4",
"cave": 531,
"place": "2025-dw-01",
"other_people": "",
"text": "Our fourth trip in this delightful hole was in hope of connecting it with KH. On every hour we had agreed to scream at whatever point we\u2019d made it to in attempts to hear each other through the \u2018Bad \nAussee sex shop\u2019 connection- aptly named as neither turned out to exist. \n<p>\nWe dropped the first four pitches/ traverses without incident and while bolting the fifth I felt a whoosh of air and the sound of water and did an extremely quick changeover of my descender and my pants.\nLuckily it turned out to be pouring down the aven opposite so I sat in the emergency shelter for 45 minutes checking whether it would start pouring down mine. It didn\u2019t. \n<p>\nWe arrived at the bottom of \nthat section and found a lovely bat skeleton through a window to the side of the floor rift. The next pitch was down a tight rift and led into a 25 metre hang into a large aven. This unfortunately \ntightened down to a wiggling rift that we shouted down extensively but turned out to be too tight for people. Some chemical or percussive persuasion could perhaps make this bigger. Interest in this \nlikely depending on its proximity to KH leads. \n<p>\nLittle Tom and I dropped the pitch next to the muddy traverse that appears after the enrichment Aven traverse and Fordo fault. This was a 30m impressive \npitch, however it did not lead anywhere apart from to another bat skeleton. There are arguably three more leads in the cave. One at the bat skeleton window which goes through an extremely tight rift \nin the floor but looks like it opens up underneath by the head of the 5th pitch. The other is a drippy Aven which you go up into from the wind tunnel before bug world. \n<p>\nThere is a hole on the opposite \nside of the drips that goes down around 10m, undescended. The final lead is the Aven on the far right as you come into vertigo view chamber. Unsure if this goes anywhere as it is likely the upstream \nbeginning of the rift that ends up being Fordo Fault. Probably worth dropping though.",
"slug": "2025-07-21b",
"time_underground": 11.0,
"author": {
"id": 155,
"slug": "ned-hopes"
},
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"slug": "ella-marcovitch"
},
{
"id": 132,
"slug": "james-hallihan"
},
{
"id": 22,
"slug": "tom-beech"
}
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"date": "2025-07-21",
"expedition": 50,
"title": "Basecamp - Wookey train horrendosity",
"cave": null,
"place": "Basecamp",
"other_people": "",
"text": "<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.\n<p>Plan was:\n <pre> \n Calais 6:34 Paris Nord 09:32 ICE SNCF\n Paris Est 10:54 Stuttgart 14:04 ICE DB\n Stuttgart 14:51 Muenchen 16:49 ICE DB\n Muenchen 17:29 Salzburg 18:58 REX DB\n Salzburg 19:45 Bad Ischel 20:59 Bus 150\n Bad Ischl 21:04 Bad Aussee 21:40 Local train\n </pre>\n<p>As everyone was up the hill Frank had left car at the stn and PhilS was going to deliver keys by bike</p>\n<p>\n<p>First Calais train set off 20 mins late, setting the tone for the\nday. I had left plenty of time for connections, knowing that DB are\nuseless, so caught Paris to Stuttgart easily, but that one ended up 40\nmins late. 54 mins for connection meant it should still have been OK,\nbut the Stuttgart to Muenchen train was cancelled completely, (and\nclearly other trains had gone wrong) so the station was total chaos\nwith hundreds of stranded and confused passengers milling about.</p>\n<p>\n<p>Next train to Munich now had two trains-worth of people on it, but\nI managed to get on. Spent the whole time online recalculating\npossibilities. As well as starting 30 mins later than original plan,\nthis train ended up being a few more mins late, so I missed train to Salzburg\nby 4 minutes (grr!). Got next one, however that was Austrian (not DB)\nso didn't honour DB tickets, leaving me paying another 35 euro (the\nkind conductor let me pretend I started at a later station than\nMuenchen so at least it wasn't 50 euro!</p>\n<p>\n <p> All this meant I actually got to Salzburg back on schedule,\narriving at 150 bus stop with 10 mins to spare. Result! But then the\n150 bus just drove past without stopping (so annoying!), so I had to\nget next one. This bus stopped for 15 mins en-route for the driver to\ntalk to a couple of police offers for some mysterious reason,\nguaranteeing that I missed the agreed train to Bad Aussee. At least\nthere _are_ later trains to BA these days. Eventually made it to BA\nabout 1.5 hours late at 23:06. By this time Frank & James had come\ndown after derigging gruffalo, so the complicated bike-assissted\nrecovery was not needed, and Frank kindly came to pick me up.</p>\n<p>\n<p>All a bit of a faff really. Even leaving sensible 40-min+\nconnection gaps is not enough to save one from DB's cockups if trains\njust disappear, and buses ignore you.</p>\n<p>\n<p>Lots of people up the hill leaving wet washing strewn about the site. Sunshine meant that this could be dried and folded.\n<br>\n<img src=\"/years/2025/before.jpg\" width=40%> &nbsp; <img src=\"/years/2025/after.jpg\" width=40%>",
"slug": "2025-07-21c",
"time_underground": 0.0,
"author": {
"id": 306,
"slug": "philip-sargent"
},
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{
"id": 355,
"slug": "frank-tully"
},
{
"id": 370,
"slug": "james-waite"
},
{
"id": 1,
"slug": "wookey"
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"date": "2025-07-21",
"expedition": 50,
"title": "KH - KH 161 - Pushing beyond Enniskillen Toad Series",
"cave": 257,
"place": "KH",
"other_people": "",
"text": "KH \u2013 Pushing beyond Enniskillen Toad Series \n<p>\n*the trip was so long that I\u2019ve forgotten the exact timings. \n<p>\nAfter much excitement surrounding the last trip into to the far end of KH, with talk of large walking A leads, \nlots of people were keen to go and explore the delights of KH. We settled on a team of 5 which would split in to \n2 teams once we got to the pushing front. With warnings of a long journey in and out we packed our bags and had a \nbriefing from Lara the night before, we would attempt to leave at 9am. \n<p>\nWe left the top camp at respectable time and got into the cave around 10:30am. With varying degrees of knowledge \nof the route we stuck as one group. After lots of walking, some crawling and plenty of acrobatic. I was in awe of \nthe tenacity of the previous explores who managed to stay consistently in the horizontal level by bolt climbing, \ntraversing and jumping across massive gaps. Hearing the rain start at around 2pm while in the Natural ways. \n<p>\nWe got to the top of Enniskillen Toad around 3:30pm but got delayed bolting some rub (fluffy 11m) out of the top \ny-hang. After a slow descent owing to the 11mm we finally made it into the Meat Sofa chamber and could \nappreciate why the last group of explores got excited. \n<p>\nAlice bolted a traverse round into Hobsons Conduit while Luke watched. \n<p>\nLara, Hannah UG and Buck went to kill off an A-lead. \n<p>\nEveryone reconvened just as Alice finished bolting the traverse.\n<p>\nAlice. Hannah UG and Buck went into to survey Hobsons Conduit.\n<p>\nLuke and Lara went off to bolt an exposed climb that the previous explores had free climbed too access the 1am \nshower. Quickly bolted a Y hang and then went off to explore noting additional leads that been missed in the \nprevious early hours of morning surveying trip. Set off down the nearest A-Lead to the pitch which was surveyed \nto a boulder choke coming in under Meat Sofa. A B-Lead down a plug hole remains but appears to follow the rift \nbelow the floor. \n<p>\nEveryone reconvened in Hobsons Conduit where another traverse blocked the way. It was getting late but everyone \nagreed to continue for another hour. Luke bolted the traverse with 3 bolts and 3 bits off deviation tat \nforgetting how to tie a double fishermans half way across. While the others split into 2 teams too survey some \nloose ends. We finally started to head out at ~9:30pm*.\n<p>\nThe trip out was slow. Staying as a group of 5 , to avoid anyone getting lost, we worked our way back through all \nthe obstacles. Getting to the bottom of the drippy entrance pitch. Lara lead us out the tight (dry) crawling \nentrance which was not particularly enjoyable for the larger or bruised members of the team. Lara did a great job \nof navigating back up to the top entrance in the dark, having only done it once before in the early hours of \nmorning after her previous epic trip. Back at the entrance just before 3am*, we found Big Tom having a nap in the \nentrance after an equally long trip in KH. \n<p>\nTogether we all walked steadily back, getting to top camp around 4am* for a quick curry and noodles and in bed for 4:30am.\n<p>\n[recovered after being obliterated from the logbook by another caver; who has initials JW..]",
"slug": "2025-07-21d",
"time_underground": 18.0,
"author": {
"id": 328,
"slug": "luke-stangroom"
},
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"id": 183,
"slug": "alice-kirby"
},
{
"id": 34,
"slug": "buck-blake"
},
{
"id": 364,
"slug": "hannah-urquhart-greaves"
},
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"id": 19,
"slug": "lara-bartleet"
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"date": "2025-07-22",
"expedition": 50,
"title": "Plateau around Popperhoehle - Prospecting above KH",
"cave": null,
"place": "Plateau",
"other_people": "",
"text": "Tired from caving, and having exhausted most of the leads in Popperhoehle, we set off to prospect for more caves in the area. After some searching around, Ned found a large hole in the plateau (2025-TB-02- Regenmacherhoehle) which he dropped with petzl pulses, and quickly found it choked. The most interesting thing about this cave was that it only rained for the duration that Ned was underground. Afterwards, Ash looked down another crater, initially looking at a large obvious entrance. This choked almost immediately, however on the exit Ash noticed another, less obvious entrance (2025-ASH-03 Zweiteranlaufhoehle). I initially explored it, finding two pitches before it choked. The bottom pitch had a small ice plug, but then choked with no ways on. \n<p>\nExhausted with an (almost) full day of prospecting, we headed back for some curry.",
"slug": "2025-07-22a",
"time_underground": 0.0,
"author": {
"id": 22,
"slug": "tom-beech"
},
"participants_data": [
{
"id": 126,
"slug": "ashley-gregg"
},
{
"id": 328,
"slug": "luke-stangroom"
},
{
"id": 155,
"slug": "ned-hopes"
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"date": "2025-07-23",
"expedition": 50,
"title": "2025-tb-01 - Kaninchen jaeger - Pushing in shorts",
"cave": 226,
"place": "2025-tb-01",
"other_people": "",
"text": "Prospected a new cave and tried to hunt the rabbit. Dropped a big entrance pitch and then via some creative rigging and damp pitches got to about 100m deep. Cave keeps going and is in a nice place. Shorts make bolting and surveying fun and then we left the cabe",
"slug": "2025-07-23a",
"time_underground": 3.0,
"author": {
"id": 370,
"slug": "james-waite"
},
"participants_data": [
{
"id": 355,
"slug": "frank-tully"
},
{
"id": 163,
"slug": "janis-huns"
},
{
"id": 155,
"slug": "ned-hopes"
},
{
"id": 22,
"slug": "tom-beech"
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"date": "2025-07-23",
"expedition": 50,
"title": "2025-PS-02 - Mostly plateau photographing and checking entrances",
"cave": 529,
"place": "2025-PS-02",
"other_people": "",
"text": "Cycled up to the bottom of the cable car and took it up (with bike) to the car park. \n<div align=center>\n<img src=\"/years/2025/bike-on-seilbahn.jpg\" width=40%>&nbsp;\n<img src=\"/years/2025/view-from-seilbahn.jpg\" width=40%>\n</div>\nIn retrospect this was a bit of a mistake as I realised that I had used up a days-worth of legs before I had even \nstarted walking. Also the amount of faff and pre-preparing GPX files for prospecting meant that I might as well \nhave taken the first 955 bus which gets to the cable car at about 0930. I re-fuelled with apfel strudl.<br />\n<div align=center>\n<img src=\"/years/2025/breakfast-at-loseralm.jpg\" width=40%><br />\n</div>\n<p>\nIt did all work out, and having the bike up there meant that I could start coming down at 17:00 instead of 16:30, and without any stress for missing the last car. Though the berg restaurant was shut of course so no last-minute apfelstrudl for me.\n<p>\nI photographed and location-checked several entrances on or near the col-SB path, and found an recorded shaft \n\"Promising Pit\" 2025-PS-02 which is about 20m deep with a small pile of snow just visible at the bottom. . But \nthe reason it is promising is that (a) it is close-ish to the path, (b) it is very close (just over the ridge \nbehind) to a large gully/open area which is filled with rocks but clearly takes a lot of water. (d) Wishful \nthinking may make it the link between Kaninchenh&ouml;hle and <a href=\"/1623/107/107.html\">G&auml;mseh&ouml;hle \n(107)</a> (107 does extend in a direction towards this shaft). \n<p>\nLessons of the day:<ul>\n<li>more sugary snacks required\n<li>don't use up legs getting to the walking area\n<li>entrance GPS locations post-2006 are pretty good\n</ul>\n<p>\nThe ride down was chilly about the knees, and somewhat uncomfortable as you don't change position for 20 minutes. It would be exhilarating were it not for the constant concern that you are about to become nothing but a red smear on the tarmac. The amount of potential energy involved is frightening.",
"slug": "2025-07-23b",
"time_underground": 0.0,
"author": {
"id": 306,
"slug": "philip-sargent"
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"date": "2025-07-23",
"expedition": 50,
"title": "2025-ft-01 - 2025-ft-01 2025-ft-02 - Prospecting 2025-ft-01 2025-ft-02",
"cave": 368,
"place": "2025-ft-01",
"other_people": "",
"text": "Sunny day with every weather forecast predicting biblical rain in the evening.\nWalked over to the area below popper hohle, (likely to be called beginners luck).\nBasically to the North East or Kanichenhohle\n<p>\n2025-ft-01 Rundwuhlmaus Hohle \nRound Vole Hole, named after the cute mouse in the stone bridge\n<p>\nThomas Beech found a likely hole first and started rigging it with Petzl pulses. Frank Tully surveyed it and \nphotoed it. Basically it went down two pitches and crapped out in a chamber floored in frost shatter and ice, no \ndraught.\n<p>\n2025-ft-02 Splor Hohle\nNamed because the first part was explored using the light on a mobile phone.\n<p>\nJames Waite and Ned Hope ventured off further down the benches to find their own shaft(s). Following completion \nof 2025-ft-01 we joined them and it was a big one, big enough for four, which was good because James forgot his \nhelmet and borrowed mine.\n<p> \nAfter some festering I noticed a phreatic tube in the side of a bench 20025-ft-02. dropped into a small chamber \nand through a squeeze to another small chamber. Janis Huns had a helmet so explored it to a conclusion, frank \nsurveyed it. This cave ends with no obvious draught. \n<p>\nWent for a walk and there are lots more shafts in this area which need dropping.\n<p>\nStayed up at top camp to watch the lightening storms forcast for 20:00, we had some drizzle after midnight",
"slug": "2025-07-23c",
"time_underground": 1.0,
"author": {
"id": 355,
"slug": "frank-tully"
},
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"slug": "ned-hopes"
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"slug": "tom-beech"
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"date": "2025-07-23",
"expedition": 50,
"title": "KH - Horizontal leads in the far end of KH",
"cave": 257,
"place": "KH",
"other_people": "",
"text": "<p>Wook was keen to see what they'd found at the far end of KH, and as\neveryone was complaining about what a long way it was, there were\nstill leads going. Prompt start leaving SB by 8:30 saw us underground\nat 9:20. Got to the far end (bottom of new pitch in Natural Way down\nto Enniskillen Toad) in 3 hours. Had a look round at the various leads\nin Meat Sofa before heading to the current pushing front to see what\nwe could knock off without gear (leaving Buck and Alice to do the\ndrilling/rigging stuff). Looked along walking A-lead but decided to\nstart with the B-lead at the end next to the final pitch\n(eniskillentoad.50) to see if it would bypass the pitch without\nrigging. It did indeed rapidly get us round the other side (or at\nleast one other side - there may well be a '3rd side' - it's hard to\ntell without rope or falling down the hole. Then it dropped with a\nslightly dubious c5 down and back up the other side of a clean-washed\nbit. Luke demonstrated that it was doable so we all followed. Now in a\nsmall chamber, ahead looked down about 5m into some space, to the\nright through a hole looked down 3m into a nice passage but was rather\noverhanging, and to the left was yet another overlook. This time\nunclimable due to height and being a very dodgy dirt ledge. We\nsuspected all 3 led to the same passage.</p>\n\n <p>Wook found he could shin down the overhang by sliding through behind\nsome fretwork to climb down in acceptable safety. Ash followed. Luke\nwent back to get a rope so we could get out again. We were back in\nwalking passage, now with a fine draught. Surveying along we soon\nfound ourselves back at the original A-lead. So we could have got here\na lot more easily!</p>\n\n <p>Wook shinned back up the overhanging mantelshelf\nand retrieved the rope. We then surveyed southwards, again in\nmostly-walking passage. Got to a sediment shelf 3m up with another\nacross an inconvenient gap of a couple of metres. Wook decided a\ndynamic leap across was plausible, and indeed it worked. This passage\nis 'Leap of Faith'.</p>\n\n <p>So we all crossed, leaving getting back for 'future us'. We passed a\nvery clean (and gloriously echoey) inlet. From here there was a deep\nT-slot and the copious dirt fell into the wet bottom. We traversed and\nshinned until reaching a ~6m pitch at a cross-rift. Climbing up the\nrift to the right one could see that the passage continued about 5m\nabove the old level (A-lead), but a rope would be sensible to get into it\nwithout undue risk. There may be a climb up the end of the rift\npossible too (B-lead).</p>\n\n <p>We returned (getting back turned out to be fine). And headed off\nnorthwards following the main wind. More very nice walking passage to\na T-junction. We went right (uphill, leaving A-lead downhill), and\nsoon reached an unusual 2x3m pool pool in an S-bend. It was very\nclear, but also had unusual floating 'mats/scumlines/dirt' floating on\nthe surface. The water had no pobvious feed, but there must be enough\nreplenishment to coutner evaporation from the wind. Unsure if the mats\nare bacterial or chemical. Ash tried to take a few photos. We tiptoed\naround it to a convenient place to stop (an another\njunction/cross-rift) and called that a day with about 285m in the\nbook. A-lead left, B-lead up to right.</p>\n\n <p>Went back to complete a loop in a lower passage where we started, met\nup with Buck and Alice to compare notes (they planned to stay a few\nmore hours as last trip) and headed out, aiming to get back before\nmidnight for a civilised kip. Back to the entrance in about 3hr45m,\nthen the rather tedious slog back up the hill for curry.</p>\n\n <p>Wook logged a GPS track at the entrance for 12 hours, which strongly\nsuggests that the current entrance location is about 12m off to the\nSSW.</p>\n<p>\nAn excellent trip, with more leads at the end than the start. This is\na really interesting area of cave. And despite it being quite a lot of\ncaving, it is only '3-4' hours travel each way once you know the\nroute, so quite do-able.</p>",
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"time_underground": 12.0,
"author": {
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"slug": "wookey"
},
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"slug": "ashley-gregg"
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"id": 328,
"slug": "luke-stangroom"
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"date": "2025-07-24",
"expedition": 50,
"title": "basecamp - rainy day",
"cave": null,
"place": "basecamp",
"other_people": "",
"text": "Lots of people came down and a rainy day.\n<p>\nLuke and Ash had to wait for a lift at the car park.<br />\n<img src=\"/years/2025/ash-beer.jpg\" width=40%><br>\n<em>Ash waiting for a lift after a wet walk down</em>\n<p>\nVery fine chili in the evening. A bit hot for wookey.",
"slug": "2025-07-24a",
"time_underground": 0.0,
"author": {
"id": 306,
"slug": "philip-sargent"
},
"participants_data": [
{
"id": 183,
"slug": "alice-kirby"
},
{
"id": 126,
"slug": "ashley-gregg"
},
{
"id": 278,
"slug": "thomas-phillips"
},
{
"id": 34,
"slug": "buck-blake"
},
{
"id": 355,
"slug": "frank-tully"
},
{
"id": 385,
"slug": "hamish-weir"
},
{
"id": 132,
"slug": "james-hallihan"
},
{
"id": 370,
"slug": "james-waite"
},
{
"id": 163,
"slug": "janis-huns"
},
{
"id": 19,
"slug": "lara-bartleet"
},
{
"id": 328,
"slug": "luke-stangroom"
},
{
"id": 364,
"slug": "hannah-urquhart-greaves"
},
{
"id": 155,
"slug": "ned-hopes"
},
{
"id": 1,
"slug": "wookey"
}
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"date": "2025-07-24",
"expedition": 50,
"title": "Gruffalo - Derigging Gruffalo",
"cave": 588,
"place": "Gruffalo",
"other_people": "",
"text": "We had a lot of fun in the rain... \nThe rain was forecast in the afternoon so we festered all morning then went caving.\n<p>\nWalked over to Gruffalo via the Tunnocks col, go over the col and follow the bunder free strip down until it intersects the huge fault which has closely cropped grass, take a right and continue down \nuntil you find the large doline again with close cropped grass. We found a Gemza skeleton in the bottom, which was nice. \nThe general consensus is that this is an easier path than going via Fish Face and Happy Butterfly. It needs more cairns and some reflectors if it becomes a trade route.\n<p>\nGruffalo is 15m up on the East flank of the depression above the tall larch tree. \n<p>\nThe draught is really impressive, clouds billowing out. More impressively the first 50m of the shaft are lines with ice.\n<p>\nFollowed the string down past two squeezey bits to where the shaft enlarges. Luckily James went to the bottom, because he found a bag with rope and a bunch of unused studs. \nPaella'ed the kit out of the hole in good time, James had to take his harness off to return the second squeeze bit.\n<p>\nThe heavens opened whilst we were down there, there was a roaring in a parallel shaft and behind the ice. The general shaft stayed dry. \n<p>\nThe rain was torrential by the time we got to the surface and everything got soaked. started walking back with oversuit on and all the wet rope. I was too knackered to make it back to the Tunnock's \ncol with all my load and dumped half the rope on the way back. This still needs collecting 25 July 2025. James obviously was fine carrying his overload up the hill.\n<p>\nArrived back to top camp around 17:00 \nTop camp needs gas and is out of Cous Cous, and the stoves need fettling, so we went down the hill to get this sorted. It stopped raining as we arrived at base camp.",
"slug": "2025-07-24b",
"time_underground": 2.0,
"author": {
"id": 355,
"slug": "frank-tully"
},
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{
"id": 370,
"slug": "james-waite"
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"date": "2025-07-25",
"expedition": 50,
"title": "Garlic cave - Removing gear from Garlic camp and inventory of remaining kit there",
"cave": 202,
"place": "Garlic",
"other_people": "",
"text": "We walked from Top Camp to Homecoming where Hamish took the absurdly heavy daren drum full of metalware. We continued to Garlic cave and took what we could manage back to Top Camp. The inventory or list of the remaining gear left at Garlic cave is:\n<p>\n[ ] 6 solar panels\n<p>\n[ ] Large green water barrel\n<p>\n[ ] 2 rucksacks worth of dead rope\n<p>\n[ ] 4 or so medium tarps\n<p>\n[ ] Large, heavy black pelicase with electronics assume for solar panels \n<p>\n[ ] Gas stove for use with Top Camp size gas bottles\n<p>\nProbably 4-6 person loads to clear it all\n<p>\nNEEDS A SPANNER to remove 5 or so hangers and maillons",
"slug": "2025-07-25a",
"time_underground": 0.0,
"author": {
"id": 197,
"slug": "becka-lawson"
},
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{
"id": 126,
"slug": "ashley-gregg"
},
{
"id": 385,
"slug": "hamish-weir"
},
{
"id": 132,
"slug": "james-hallihan"
},
{
"id": 19,
"slug": "lara-bartleet"
},
{
"id": 328,
"slug": "luke-stangroom"
}
]
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"date": "2025-07-26",
"expedition": 50,
"title": "basecamp - Warm and dry in my pit",
"cave": null,
"place": "basecamp",
"other_people": "",
"text": "Woken by the sound of watch alarms going off. Dash to the loo ahead of the rush and get back into bed. Various sounds of disgust and despair at the state of the weather, eventually all is peaceful.\n<p>\nIt is warm and dry in my pit. I go back to sleep to the sound of steady [8mm/3hr] rain.\n<p>\n[Time exposed to the weather: ~ 6 seconds]",
"slug": "2025-07-26a",
"time_underground": 0.0,
"author": {
"id": 306,
"slug": "philip-sargent"
},
"participants_data": []
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"date": "2025-07-26",
"expedition": 50,
"title": "basecamp - Temperature Recording Results",
"cave": null,
"place": "basecamp",
"other_people": "",
"text": "Temperature logger results \n<p>\nI installed a temperature logger in the roof of the Tatty hut in August 2023. Basically it recorded the temperature every 20 minutes.\n<p>\nQuick overview of the temperature throughout the year <p>\nThe peaks over 10degC appear to be when we took the logger and the kit out of the tatty hut roof.<p>\nTemperature from August to October 2023 was 4 to 5 degC\nIt then cooled down to go below freezing 8 November 2023, minimum temperature -4.9 degC.<p>\nIn Janurary the temperature then warmed up to between 0 and 1 degC until the start of June. <p>\nThe temperature was still less than 2.1 degC until we took the kit of the roof on the 8 July at 14:07.<p>\nBasically, Austria is cold on average, and the tatty hut roof is well insulated.\n<p><p>\nThe logger will be in the document Peli Case in Troungold this year. It has had a new battery and is already recording.\n<p><p>\nSomething has gone wrong with the downloads and I need an UberNerd to fix it :\u00ac)\n<p>\nThe results for 2023-24 are here, \n<a download href=\"expofiles/documents/Temperature-logs/TattyHutRoof-2023.08-2024-07_EFI225104820.pdf\"> download .pdf file<a>\n<p>\nThe .xls file has special characters and does not work with Libra Office... <a download href=\"expofiles/documents/Temperature-logs/TattyHutRoof-2023.08-2024-07_EFI225104820_20250720152249.xls\"> download .xml file<a>\n<p>\nThe .csv file does work :) <a download href=\"expofiles/documents/Temperature-logs/TattyHutRoof-2023.csv\"> download .csv file<a>",
"slug": "2025-07-26b",
"time_underground": 0.0,
"author": {
"id": 355,
"slug": "frank-tully"
},
"participants_data": []
}

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"date": "2025-07-27",
"expedition": 50,
"title": "Kaninchenhoehle - Natural Way to leads in Enniskill",
"cave": null,
"place": "Kaninchenhoehle",
"other_people": "",
"text": "The 6am start failed to materialise as the rain kept going. Eventually we hauled ourselves up and tried to muster some stoke. Becka fashioned a survival bag over-kagoule cape which was quite effective, whilst Lara went for a bin bag over-trousers skirt which, with an indecent slit, also kept the worst off. We fought over less drippy patches in the changing area then descended the entrance pitch with kags, double hoods and no gloves (to keep them dry for the rest of the trip). Entrance shaft was wet but safe. 3.5 hours to the start of this year's finds. Luke gave me a tour of the chamber - both impressive in scale and some lovely features. Then off to a series of leads that we rapidly dispatched. The first ended in 3 legs, the next, up a 3m free climb, in about a dozen legs down phreatic crawling. Wookey was keen to be completist and descend the small, wet, modern pitch there but Luke and I vetoed him given its low prospects and our paltry 5 thru bolts (50% of the available supply at Top Camp ... though many more turned up the next day during the massive sort out). We then went to the leads that Lara and Ash had taken and found them just starting one. We set off on the other lead, past Loch Gosser. This led down a steep, muddy phreatic ramp and was looking promising until, in a few short legs I spotted a flash of light ahead. Darn, we'd connected in to the others. We backtracked on our lead to tick off a QMB and QMC we'd left, neither went. We then caught up with the others and caused mayhem as we milled around them in crawly passage. This shortly led to a canyon and, next to it, a short pitch. We went back to fetch our drill etc. On returning Lara and Ash, cold from draughty surveying, headed out, having not taken up Luke's offer of slithering down the pitch then having him bolt their exit. Wookey rigged the muddy p4 down to larger, attractive walking phreas. By now we were also cold and it was gone 6pm but it did look good so we fired off a few legs until we got to another short pitch, under 10m. We still had 2 thru bolts but our remaining rope was too short. We headed home in 4.5 hours including derigging the disgustingly muddy Strange Downfall rope. Out up a dryish entrance pitch at 23.30 to a dry night, hoorah.",
"slug": "2025-07-27a",
"time_underground": 13.0,
"author": {
"id": 197,
"slug": "becka-lawson"
},
"participants_data": [
{
"id": 328,
"slug": "luke-stangroom"
},
{
"id": 1,
"slug": "wookey"
}
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{
"date": "2025-07-27",
"expedition": 50,
"title": "basecamp - Is this heavy drizzle or light rain?",
"cave": null,
"place": "basecamp",
"other_people": "",
"text": "Probably 'medium rain'.\n<p>\nHmm.<br />\n0730 - everyone still in bed. Despite Becka's exhortations yesterday (and her not-encouraging request for more dry clothes to be brought up).\n<p>\nNat and Sarah had some horrid coffee and are leaving expo. They arrived a day or so ago for a brief visit.\n<p>[much later]\n<br>Frank drove nearly everyone up for a mid-afternoon break in the rain, leaving just Ned and Philip S. at base for the evening. Ned cooked a fine peppery pasta meal. Philip troggled.",
"slug": "2025-07-27b",
"time_underground": 0.0,
"author": {
"id": 306,
"slug": "philip-sargent"
},
"participants_data": [
{
"id": 355,
"slug": "frank-tully"
},
{
"id": 370,
"slug": "james-waite"
},
{
"id": 163,
"slug": "janis-huns"
},
{
"id": 155,
"slug": "ned-hopes"
},
{
"id": 22,
"slug": "tom-beech"
}
]
}

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{
"date": "2025-07-27",
"expedition": 50,
"title": "Basecamp - The cold tap",
"cave": null,
"place": "Basecamp",
"other_people": "",
"text": "The cold tap in the hut has failed: in the ON position, full blast. Frank has turned off the water at the stopcock under the sink, but this also turns off the water to the outside tap too.\nThe toilet tap and flush still work.\n<p>\nIt's Sunday.\n<p>\nFortunately, it's Frank and he's on it:<br>\n<img src=\"/years/2025/frank-tap.jpg\" width=40%>",
"slug": "2025-07-27c",
"time_underground": 0.0,
"author": {
"id": 306,
"slug": "philip-sargent"
},
"participants_data": [
{
"id": 355,
"slug": "frank-tully"
}
]
}

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