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@@ -81,7 +81,7 @@ Things going to top 10/07/19 ... muesli; smash; 5x drinking choc; top camp surve
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<div class="tripdate" id="t2019-07-10b">2019-07-10</div>
<div class="tripdate" id="t2019-07-10a">2019-07-10</div>
<div class="trippeople"><u>Becka</u>, Andrew, Ruairidh</div>
<div class="triptitle">Balkonhoehle - Rig entrance and push Myopia</div>
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@@ -92,7 +92,7 @@ Andrew and Ruairidh had ferried 2 tacklesacks to the entrance and reflected the
<div class="tripdate" id="t2019-07-10b">2019-07-10</div>
<div class="trippeople"><u>Michael H.</u>, Corin, Reuben</div>
<div class="triptitle"></div>
<div class="triptitle">tagging and surface bashing to Fishgesicht</div>
<p>
Setting off bright and early from the stone bridge (11:00), we took tagging and surface bashing kit to Fishgesicht with a firm belief that we would find a second access ot the snowed-in cave.
Whilst Reuben charitably carried some gear to Homecoming (needlessly as they'd taken one of our ropes), me and Corin GPS tagged some likely entrances about the area. We should have written some more information to know which would need rope to access.
@@ -107,7 +107,7 @@ Encouraged by our day, we left out kit near by to return the next day. Much was
<div class="tripdate" id="t2019-07-11a">2019-07-11</div>
<div class="trippeople"><u>Reuben</u>, Corin, Michael H.</div>
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<div class="triptitle">back to Fischgesicht for more prospecting</div>
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We set off back to Fischgesicht for more prospecting in the general area.
Andrew Atkinson joined us as far as Fischgesicht whereupon I escorted him to the path to Homecoming.
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<div class="tripdate" id="t2019-07-11b">2019-07-11</div>
<div class="trippeople"><u>Tom</u>, everyone</div>
<div class="triptitle">CUCC Austria Expedition 2019 Blog</div>
<a href="https://ukcaving.com/board/index.php?topic=25249.msg311372#msg311372">blog post</a>
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At the time of writing, I am sat in the Tatty Hut at Base Camp in Bad Aussee. It is day five of expo and a lot has happened.
We discovered on Sunday (day one - 07/07/2019) that our Top Camp, Steinbrueken, was full of snow:
Meanwhile, Base Camp preparations were well underway:
he beer tent was being hoisted (above) and the new rope (thanks to UK Caving and Spanset for the sponsorship!) was being soaked, coiled, and cut into usable lengths ready for caving.
The next few days consisted of Expo members undertaking multitudes of carrying trips up to top camp,
and a few hardy folk doing their best to fettle the bivvy for habitability. Tuesday (09/07/2019) night
saw the first people sleeping in Steinbrueken. Mostly,
they described the experience as "chilly" but one person went as far as to claim he had been warmer there than at Base Camp.
Also on Tuesday (09/07/2019), a new route was devised and cairned directly from Heimkommen Hoehle to the tourist path on the coll.
The idea being that Homecoming could be close enough to push from Base Camp rather than Steinbrueken. This came with the discovery that Fischgesicht
Hoehle's entrance was under two to three metres of snow:
On Wednesday (10/07/2019), Expo split into three groups. The majority went to Steinbrueken to commence the final push towards habitability
while some went to investigate Balkonhoehle. Three of us (Dickon Morris, Daniel Heins, and myself) went to Heimkommen to rig to the pushing
front (the decision to concentrate
on Heimkommen and Balkon having been made for us by the plateau).
That's all for now,
Tom Crossley (11/07/2019)
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<div class="timeug">T/U: 1 hour</div>
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<div class="tripdate" id="t2019-07-13">2019-07-13</div>
<div class="trippeople"><u>Corin</u>,Michael H., Reuben </div>
<div class="triptitle">Fishface and prospecting</div>
<a href="https://ukcaving.com/board/index.php?topic=25249.msg311443#msg311443">blog post</a>
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For months leading up to the start of the expedition the assault on Fish Face had been discussed,
carefully planned and plotted over drinks late into the evenings. The entrance being under several
meters of snow has been an unfortunate setback. Michael H spent a part of Tuesday evening kneeling
in the snow hopelessly attacking it with a shovel until the handle snapped in half.
This wouldn't have been half so painful if we hadn't spent the previous evening with
Becka getting excited over the survey from last year, with its numerous continuing passages
and undropped pitches.
As our cave was inaccessible we decided to find another one. Me, Michael H and Reuben spent the
next two days tramping back and forward over the plateau looking hopefully down every crack
in the limestone pavement waiting for an entrance that connects through to the caves below.
We found lots of promising horizontal entrances leading a few meters to small, drafting holes or
choked continuations. The snow plugs in every depression this year have unfortunately probably
hidden some entrances. Our most promising cave was a shaft we climbed down on Wednesday which went
horizontal, widened out into a reasonably large rift and continued on above a bold climb.
Reuben's exploration fever carried him flailing up the overhanging climb with impressive determination.
Sadly after another aven the cave ended in a pair of choked crawls. Reuben then got an introduction to solo
surveying when I passed him up the tackle sack, as I had no intentioned of repeating his feat of strength
to see these short crawls. In the end the cave was around 50 m in length. We dropped a nearby shaft,
which led to a remarkably similar cave to the one we had just discovered, which was *definitely* not
the same as the first one, according to the first explorer. Once someone else got down there,
it was very clearly the cave we had just surveyed.
The forecast for the weekend is poor, and most of us are now back in base camp sheltering from the rain.
Yesterday's pushing trip down Homecoming ended up being another slightly embarrassing excursion as
the team drove up from base camp and
walked across the plateau before realising they had not brought any bolts.
The weather is due to improve after the weekend, and pushing trips are planned into
Homecoming, Balcony, and into Happy Butterfly
which hasn't been touched since 2017. Happy Butterfly is likely to connect with Fish Face
and allow us to bypass the new snowplug, and reclaim what was lost.
Peregrina, SUSS
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<div class="timeug">T/U: ?? hour</div>
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<div class="tripdate" id="t2019-07-15">2019-07-15</div>
<div class="trippeople"><u>Philip</u>, Sarah</div>
<div class="triptitle">Shopping trip</div>
@@ -155,6 +235,9 @@ where Radost was</i>.
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Whole cave drafts cold air out slightly - less than last year possibly due to snow choke elsewhere. No snow visible anywhere near it.
<p>The roof of the rift is flat and slopes to the south, about 30 degrees from vertical. This is very similar
to rifts in Schnellzughohle and Stellerweghohle nearby, but in this cave there are no flow scallops.
<p>Tag CUCC-PS-01 2018 left inside entrance on thh right - tied to a thread in jammed rocks with blue string.
<p>Walked back to be collected at the car park by Michael and Sam in the Sargent Meriva.