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 Top 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.
 <div class="timeug">T/U: 2.0 hours</div>
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+<div class="tripdate" id="2025-07-24c">2025-07-24</div>
+<div class="trippeople"><u>Luke</u>, Alice, Buck, Hannah UG, Lara</div>
+<div class="triptitle">KH 161 - Pushing beyond Enniskillen Toad Series</div>
+KH – Pushing beyond Enniskillen Toad Series 
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+*the trip was so long that I’ve forgotten the exact timings. 
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+After much excitement surrounding the last trip into to the far end of KH, with talk of large walking  A leads, lots of people were keen to go and explore the delights of KH.  We settled on a team of 5 which would split in to 2 teams once we got to the pushing front. With warnings of a long journey in and out we packed our bags and had a briefing from Lara the night before, we would attempt to leave at 9am. 
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+We left the top camp at respectable time and got into the cave around 10:30am. With varying degrees of knowledge of the route we stuck as one group. After lots of walking, some crawling and plenty of acrobatic. I was in awe of the tenacity of the previous explores who managed to stay consistently in the horizontal level by bolt climbing, traversing and jumping across massive gaps. Hearing the rain start at around 2pm while in the Natural ways. 
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+We got to the top of Enniskillen Toad around 3:30pm but got delayed bolting some rub (fluffy 11m)  out of the top y-hang.  After a slow descent owing to the 11mm we finally made it into the Meat Sofa chamber and could appreciate why the last group of explores got excited. 
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+Alice bolted a traverse round into Hobsons Conduit while Luke watched. 
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+Lara, Hannah UG and Buck went to kill off an A-lead.  
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+Everyone reconvened just as Alice finished bolting the traverse.
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+Alice. Hannah UG and Buck went into to survey Hobsons Conduit.
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+Luke and Lara went off to bolt an exposed climb that the previous explores had free climbed too access the 1am shower. Quickly bolted a Y hang and then went off to explore noting additional leads that been missed in the previous early hours of morning surveying trip. Set off down the nearest A-Lead to the pitch which was surveyed to a boulder choke coming in under Meat Sofa. A B-Lead down a plug hole remains but appears to follow the rift below the floor. 
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+Everyone reconvened in Hobsons Conduit where another traverse blocked the way. It was getting late but everyone agreed to continue for another hour. Luke bolted the traverse with 3 bolts and 3 bits off deviation tat forgetting how to tie a double fishermans half way across. While the others split into 2 teams too survey some loose ends. We finally started to head out at ~9:30pm*.
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+The trip out was slow. Staying as a group of 5 , to avoid anyone getting lost, we worked our way back through all the obstacles. Getting to the bottom of the drippy entrance pitch. Lara lead us out the tight (dry) crawling entrance which was not particularly enjoyable for the larger or bruised members of the team. Lara did a great job of navigating back up to the top entrance in the dark, having only done it once before in the early hours of morning after her previous epic trip. Back at the entrance just before 3am*, we found Big Tom having a nap in the entrance after an equally long trip in KH. 
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+Together we all walked slow back getting to top camp around 4am* for a quick curry and noodles and in bed for 4:30am.
+<div class="timeug">T/U: 18.0 hours</div>
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