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@ -58,7 +58,7 @@ being dodgy, but we have no real indication of why.</p>
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<p>Expo (and indeed, the kataster) has now moved over to using the same system as
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the rest of the world, ie. UTM based on the WGS84 datum. So it is unfortunate that
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the points in the table below haven't been translated (and neitehr, it seems have
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the points in the table below haven't been translated (and neither, it seems have
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the ones in the survex files). Various people at various times have located the points
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with GPS, and those fixes I've found are also included here in UTM zone 33T form.</p>
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@ -532,7 +532,7 @@ Manchester Caving Club. So exit was made.
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the passage went a short way then a shaft (daylight) was seen, the passage
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continued but not explored. Straight ahead the passage went about 50 foot to
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a 30 foot pitch. This was bolted and descended into a large chamber. To the
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left was another pitch about 30 foot deep, undescended. To the rifht was a
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left was another pitch about 30 foot deep, undescended. To the right was a
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rift, further to the right was another rift with an ice-covered stone floor.
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There was also another passage next to this which is passed just before you
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get to the entrance passage - this also looked like it continued. A number
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@ -551,7 +551,7 @@ believed to be completely disinformational, Ed.]
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<p></p> (Juliette was there by 'voice connection')
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<p>Had found entrance previous day while looking for another cave. Donned
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oversuit over shorts and free climbed entrance shaft. Found amzingly small
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oversuit over shorts and free climbed entrance shaft. Found amazingly small
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'letter-box' slit and squeezed through to find pitch which seemed at least
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15m, placed bolt and handed over to Chris and Becka who had changed into
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full gear.
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@ -651,13 +651,13 @@ up to. Left first 2 pitches tackled.
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it was raining. With great reluctance, people were persuaded to go down holes
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rather than the bar at the first lull in the rainstorm. Andy led us to the
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cave which we descended at 4pm. Jared went down pitch first, trying not to
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dislodge the pecarious boulders (especially the one providing the backup
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dislodge the precarious boulders (especially the one providing the backup
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belay). Pitch only 15 ft - rift led off but not far before it choked, blocked
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off according to Jared. Jenny found a drafting slot which she dug out, until
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rocks started falling on her head. Probably carries on, but too suicidal.
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Chris found a 1985 vintage Mars Bar wrapper under a rock. Detackled, got a
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little lost on the way back, & got to the Loser Hut to meet the others,
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about to start rescuing us (again) at 9. Bar closed, so everyine scoffed
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about to start rescuing us (again) at 9. Bar closed, so everyone scoffed
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Chris' gluhwein in the tent instead, just to annoy the German couple in the
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caravan next door.
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@ -698,7 +698,7 @@ went down first & traversed across, about 30m down, to look at a pitch
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(nearly filled with ice). Then carried on 10m down to bottom of snow slope,
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where the rift was - yes, you've guessed it - boulder choked. Becka came down
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& tried pulling rocks out since rift did carry on, but one rock was
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jammed making it to tight, & there was no sign of a draught. Becka fouhgt
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jammed making it to tight, & there was no sign of a draught. Becka fought
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her way up the snow slope first, while Chris had a poke at the pitch at the
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30m level. He descended 10 ft down the 30ft hole beside the vertical
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ice/snow, but the rope was slicing like a cheesewire through a large chunk
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@ -731,7 +731,7 @@ boulders in shaft."
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<p>"On the plateau discovered by its draught, but not really
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pushed", the guidebook says. and then the hole was lost for two years,
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redicovered yesterday by MM etc... Awkward crawl over boulders 5m to a
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rediscovered yesterday by MM etc... Awkward crawl over boulders 5m to a
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freeclimbable little pitch after a boulder squeeze. Reaches a phreatic tube:
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right silts up in boulders; left goes slowly along + down over snow & big
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big rocks to reach a huge chamber (is it perhaps 82 ?) + pitch of, say, 20m.
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@ -835,7 +835,7 @@ saucepan for the survey trip.
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below Big Bertha, then surveyed back up to surface, getting very cold. Rest
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of us started bolted down ledges. Many rebelays later, got to the bttom of a
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big chamber (or continuation of other chamber) with a boulder-choked floor.
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Mike had a good nose round, could find no snesible way on, though seems to
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Mike had a good nose round, could find no sensible way on, though seems to
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continue further down, and drafts (q.strongly in places) through boulder
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chokes - could chuck stones down, but too tight and all v. loose. Chris
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& Becka descended the final small (~4m) pitch to small pool of water.
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@ -896,7 +896,7 @@ bandage - burn hands, arms, neck and face !
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<p>Several beers were consumed and the following items of note were made:
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<p>1) Someone in the Austrian club is aquiring our journals before they reach
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<p>1) Someone in the Austrian club is acquiring our journals before they reach
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the appropriate person. In future copies should be sent to either:
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<p>Sepp Steinberger or Alfred Auer
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