From b7ac101abc280138d480ae5cb97aa860a5d2f5bf Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Expo on server Date: Sun, 30 Jul 2023 10:22:59 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] logbook update - online edit of years/2023/logbook.html --- years/2023/logbook.html | 12 ++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 12 insertions(+) diff --git a/years/2023/logbook.html b/years/2023/logbook.html index aec31da71..d42c579d0 100644 --- a/years/2023/logbook.html +++ b/years/2023/logbook.html @@ -632,5 +632,17 @@ Wassil later joined us and we all finished off the noodles. This marked the stra Overall, a great trip with over ~294m surveyed and more promising leads found. Couldn’t recommend camping in the second coming more!
T/U: 32 hours
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2023-07-26
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Joe Stell, Frank Tully
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Surface - Check your bits
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Hearing of an exciting new lead, now named "Mahlstromhöhle", Frank and I embarked on a walk westward out of Fishface gear dump. Upon finding the entrance (which took considerably longer than anticipated) we quickly started kitting up, only to find an absence of any drill bits in the drill bag, contrary to what Frank believed to be the case. Frank then left for fishface gear dump in search of drill bits, whilst I waited patiently, in kit. +

After maybe 45 minutes, Frank returned, unable to find fishface, pointing that he had in fact walked in the wrong direction. Upon directing him in the right direction, he again disappeared for around 45 minutes, returning with no drill bits. Giving up, we headed back to fishface to dump our gear, and started the walk back to topcamp. +

At some point during our travels, Frank had decided we should attempt to pioneer a new, shorter, easier path between topcamp and fishface, leaving the path halfway to embark on this endeavour. After much time scrambling, bunder-bashing and pathfinding, we finally refound the path, having created a path that was not easier, nor shorter. Frank then got bored and created a new gear rack at topcamp whilst we waited for the garlic cave prospecting group to arrive. + +

T/U: 0.0hrs