Typed up my remaining logbook entires from 2015.

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<div class="tripdate" id="t2015-08-01d">2015-08-01</div>
<div class="trippeople">Olly, <u>Jenny</u></div>
<div class="triptitle">107-Old Route</div>
<p>[<b>Missing writeup here:</b>]</p>
<div class="timeug">T/U:</div>
<p>I headed to Coldest to grab the drill then down the Old Route to join Olly who was re-rigging down. Got to where we ran out of rope last time. Decided to stay low this time (bottom of the rift), which wasn't as tight as it looked. Olly put in a few bolts to get to what we think is the head of the p14. By this point Olly was very cold and wet, so we decided to survey the extra bit then derig out. Warmed up bag carrying and derigging. Olly managed to slip in the rift and bash his knee just before we got to the base of the p67. Fortunately it wasn't too awful, so we had a look at the upstream bit. It was possible to climb up further, bridging to avoid the chossy rocks. Round the corner was more chossy climbing, so we called it a day and derigged to the top of the p67 and carried lots of gear out.</p>
<div class="timeug">T/U:10 hrs Jenny</div>
<div class="timeug">T/U:9 3/4 hrs Olly</div>
<div class="tripdate" id="t2015-08-02b">2015-08-02</div>
<div class="trippeople">Olly, <u>Jenny</u></div>
<div class="trippeople">Wookey, <u>Jenny</u></div>
<div class="triptitle">107-161 Runnelstone</div>
<p>[<b>Missing writeup here:</b>]</p>
<div class="timeug">T/U:</div>
<p>It had rained all night and was still raining, but not too heavy, so we were optimistic that it might be dry enough to get to 161. Due to a lack of gear, we derigged some non-essential hangers on the way in and made quicker time to the Runnelstone (2 hrs 40) despite spending a while in China looking for the Smooth Sandy Bottom rope.</p>
<p>This time didn't go far down the pitch from station 56, but Wookey rigged across into Wellypopper. Lots of possibilities for going up (where Wookey thought the draft went). Noticed that the easiest way was to climb up the Wellypopper climb then traverse back across towards the Runnelstone. Wookey worked his way across this quickly using a mixture of bolts and quality naturals while trying to avoid the worst of the loose choss. This is called <u>Quality Belays</u>. Happily all the belays survived despite me crossing several times to get gear and to check that we weren't just going to reappear in the Runnelstone. At the top of the traverse was a short bit of passage, then some big space. Wookey started to bolt down this while I went to derig the rope from Fastest Bolt in the West. I left 1 hanger and a short bit of thick blue dynamic rope to make a revisit easier. Got back up to discover my handjammer was no longer attached to my safety cord, fortunately I didn't drop it. Went back to the top of the rope and derigged back to leave only the little traverse rope to Wellypopper. Caught up Wookey who had bolted down one pitch to get to a rock ledge looking out over a big rift that was deeper than we had rope for, so he traversed across the ledge to drop down (via a couple of belays, including another quality natural).</p.>
<p> Guessed that we were near to the bit of 161 we were aiming for, but it would be wet to go further down from here</p>
<p>Surveyed out, left everything rigged and headed out. It was much nicer (and faster) not carrying the drill out, though Wookey still caught me up on the entrance pitch. Was thankfully much drier at Too Bold on the way out.</p>
<div class="timeug">T/U: 14 hrs</div>
<div class="tripdate" id="t2015-08-03d">2015-08-03</div>
<div class="trippeople">Olly, George, <u>Jenny</u></div>
<div class="triptitle">107-Old Route</div>
<p>[<b>Missing writeup here:</b>]</p>
<div class="timeug">T/U:</div>
<p>Decided on a short trip to tie up some loose ends in the old Route. Olly started rigging alon he rift between the p67 and p100 beyond where we got on 19yh July. Meanwhile I showed George the scrotty leads at the end of tubular Bells. Sadly he declared the draftier way too tight to evn get in to. We got a little further down the 'main' passage before reaching a wider bit, then this got way too small. Surveyed ou, and went round the Old Rift route to see if we could hear/see Olly. He had a few bolts still to go, so we took some photos while we waited. Surveyed across to Olly - sadly teh rift did't continue over the pitch. Then Georgeand I went round to Olly's side of teh rift to connect the survey while Olly deriggd behind us. Oly wanted to look at going left from the window between ropeless and Oldroute. i realised this was a 2 person job, so I took a bag out and left them to it. Unfortunately they misscommunicated where to wait, so ended up following me out.</p>
<div class="timeug">T/U: 4 3/4 hrs Jenny</div>
<div class="timeug">T/U: 5 1/4 hrs Olly, George</div>
<div class="tripdate" id="t2015-08-04b">2015-08-04</div>
<div class="trippeople">Olly, <u>Jenny</u></div>
<div class="triptitle">2007-71</div>
<p>[<b>Missing writeup here:</b>]</p>
<div class="timeug">T/U:</div>
<p>Olly was keen to finish looking at 2007-71, to see if it provided a useful back-door to 97. I could remember very little from 8 years ago. So we headed over for a reccy with no rope, drill, etc (though I did accidentally carry over our SRT kits).</p>
<p>Cave was better than I had remembered. Low entrance led to walking passage, shortly on the right was a 1m climb down a rifty pitch continuing back (currently undescended). Next to this was another way on, which also leads to a pitch with a passage also continuing beyond (both unvisited). Above here is a small skylight entrance, which I later climbed out of (2007-71b). On leads to a small chamber. We'd looked right in 2007, and it chokes. This time I headed left, mostly crawling with some tighter bits. After a while I could see daylight, so carried on. Sadly i looked a bit tight and I was worried I'd pop out in the wall of a shake hole. So I reversed back and walked round on the surface. turns out that 2007-71c pops out on a ledge part way down the next shake hole SW of 97. In the S corner of the shake hole is a small rift with a voice connection with 97. Surveyed this passage, and i made the through trip</p>
<p>Finally looked at the straight on passage. This is bigger and soon gets to a drop which can be traversed over and the first bit climbed down. Pitch continues (undescended) and passage continues (unvisited, crawling sized). Surveyed out.</p>
<div class="timeug">T/U: 3 hrs</div>
<div class="tripdate" id="t2015-08-05e">2015-08-05</div>
<div class="trippeople">Olly, <u>Jenny</u></div>
<div class="triptitle">107-Old Route window, Wonderland</div>
<p>[<b>Missing writeup here:</b>]</p>
<div class="timeug">T/U:</div>
<p>This was to be our final trip before tomorrows derig. We set off first to the Ropeless/old Route window and turned right (like in 2013), but this time rather than dropping the pitch we dropped down slightly then traversed along 13-OR-3C. I placed another bolt and dropped down into a rift. Following left led to the inlet above the way the 1987 Route dropped the p67. Turning right we followed up and along to eventually reach a loose 45 degree slope down to a pitch. Couldn't safely reach the pitch head but rocks seemed to go a long way. There are a lot of different rifts in this bit of the cave, turnout this pitch is above the bouldery climb we were below on the 3rd. Surveyed and derigged this. Called <u>Antigravity</u>. Realised we didn't have all that long before our callout, so decided to head to Wonderland without the drill or rope.</p>
<p>Went down to the end first. Olly had noticed that if you poked your head to the right of the roof tube, a small passage headed off. After an awkward corner it was bigger - a mixture of crawling, walking and sideways wriggling. After a bit the route split, both looked small but probably doable. I encouraged Olly to follow and we surveyed it. Called this <u>Effective team</u>. Headed out with lots of gear, meeting Wookey and George at the entrance.</p>
<div class="timeug">T/U: 9 1/2 hrs</div>
<div class="tripdate" id="t2015-08-06c">2015-08-06</div>