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Sorry about all the crap that surrounds the image tags which has been imported along with the content
when UK Caving blogs have been parsed.
Exported on 2024-07-23 09:07 using either the control panel webpage or when editing a logbook entry online
Exported on 2024-07-23 10:07 using either the control panel webpage or when editing a logbook entry online
See troggle/code/views/other.py and core.models/logbooks.py writelogbook(year, filename)
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<div class="tripdate" id="2023-07-03a">2023-07-03</div>
<div class="trippeople"><u>Philip Sargent</u>,Martin Green,,</div>
<div class="trippeople"><u>Philip Sargent</u>,,Martin Green,</div>
<div class="triptitle">basecamp - nerding</div>
Philip arrived by train at lunchtime. Joined Martin for
serious nerding to get WiFi internet working in potato hut.
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<div class="tripdate" id="2023-07-03b">2023-07-03</div>
<div class="trippeople"><u>Honorata Bogusz</u>,Radost Waszkiewicz,Will Kay,Jana Podbelsek,,Mike Butcher,</div>
<div class="trippeople"><u>Honorata Bogusz</u>,,Mike Butcher,Radost Waszkiewicz,Will Kay,Jana Podbelsek,</div>
<div class="triptitle">plateau - second water collection tarp</div>
<br /><br />Me, Radost, Mike, Jana and Will went to top camp to set up
main tarp and the second water collection tarp (which was a success).
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<div class="tripdate" id="2023-07-03c">2023-07-03</div>
<div class="trippeople"><u>Harry Kettle</u>,Charlotte Payne,Emma Caspers,Janis Huns,,Christian Kuhlmann,</div>
<div class="trippeople"><u>Harry Kettle</u>,,Christian Kuhlmann,Charlotte Payne,Emma Caspers,Janis Huns,</div>
<div class="triptitle">Balkon - Rescuing Balcony ropes</div>
<br /><br />A crack team of expo's hardest cavers was assembled to take a rope out of balcony that was left there last year.
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<div class="tripdate" id="2023-07-03d">2023-07-03</div>
<div class="trippeople"><u>Amelia Oliver</u>,Jonty Pine,,Emily Mabbett,</div>
<div class="trippeople"><u>Amelia Oliver</u>,,Emily Mabbett,Jonty Pine,</div>
<div class="triptitle">Fishface - Digging the snow out of Fishface entrance</div>
<br /><br />After a carrying day on the 2nd, we suspected ff would be snowed in. A faff morning of acquiring shovel. We got to ff with shovels, discovering it
did need digging. Jonty got particularly into this, producing quit the snow trench.
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<div class="tripdate" id="2023-07-04b">2023-07-04</div>
<div class="trippeople"><u>Wassil Janssen</u>,Merryn Matthews,Amelia Oliver,Philip Balister,Ashley Gregg,,Sarah Parker,</div>
<div class="trippeople"><u>Wassil Janssen</u>,,Sarah Parker,Merryn Matthews,Amelia Oliver,Philip Balister,Ashley Gregg,</div>
<div class="triptitle">topcamp - Carry and set-up</div>
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Ash, Merryn, Amelia in [com?] Philip B., Sarah and me
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<div class="tripdate" id="2023-07-04c">2023-07-04</div>
<div class="trippeople"><u>Harry Kettle</u>,Charlotte Payne,Will Kay,Christian Kuhlmann,,Alice Kirby,</div>
<div class="trippeople"><u>Harry Kettle</u>,,Alice Kirby,Charlotte Payne,Will Kay,Christian Kuhlmann,</div>
<div class="triptitle">Surface - Rope carry to Homecoming + Trial walk from Garlic Cave to Car Park on painted track</div>
<br /><br />After more faff from Chi, we set off about 10AM to carry gear and check out the route to Homecoming. Fishface to Homecoming was well cairned and fairly straightforward to follow.
<br /><br />Gear ledt at Homecoming entrance:
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<div class="tripdate" id="2023-07-05a">2023-07-05</div>
<div class="trippeople"><u>Sarah Parker</u>,Philip Balister,Maddie Kirby,Joel Stobbart,,Lizzie Caisley,</div>
<div class="trippeople"><u>Sarah Parker</u>,,Lizzie Caisley,Philip Balister,Maddie Kirby,Joel Stobbart,</div>
<div class="triptitle">Surface - Reflecting the Homecoming -> Fishface route, scoping out a Homecoming to col route</div>
<br /><br />Joel, Lizzie and Philip fettled the tarp (where some water had pooled overnight) whilst I had a go at attaching the big Daren drum (filled with the
solar panels and cables) to my rucksack, ready to carry from top camp to Garlic Cave.
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<div class="tripdate" id="2023-07-06a">2023-07-06</div>
<div class="trippeople"><u>Janis Huns</u>,Maddie Kirby,,</div>
<div class="trippeople"><u>Janis Huns</u>,,Maddie Kirby,</div>
<div class="triptitle">Plateau - scoping out a route from col to Garlic Cave</div>
<br /><br />We set out to improve the direct route from the start of the plateau to Homecoming. The way down the wall after the second pole was suprisingly nice. This was followed by an easy flat section until the bunde and tiny cliffs obscured all the alternative paths we tried. Most of the way was already cairned, but we did find some nice fresh transitions through the bunde walls separating the easy-to-walk-on slabs. At Homecoming, we met Harry, Christian, Alice, Merryn getting ready to rig the cave. Then we visited Garlic cave - a massive above ground hole that leads to a bridge below which are the entrances to the cave itself. There was loads of snow - just as in every entrance - but there was a nice campable bit , plenty of water dripping. I sensed some garlic smell, remembering the story that this smell gave the name of the cave, but was still mysterious. Then Maddie realised we were surrounded by chives! Mystery solved.
<br /><br />On the way back we met Jono, Evelyn, and Oakem who were on the way to Garlic. At Homecoming, Honorata and Radost told us they had found 3 intriguing holes while prospecting. We found a baloon with a sweet note on it and read it to them.
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<div class="tripdate" id="2023-07-06b">2023-07-06</div>
<div class="trippeople"><u>Joel Stobbart</u>,Jonty Pine,,Buck Blake,</div>
<div class="trippeople"><u>Joel Stobbart</u>,,Buck Blake,Jonty Pine,</div>
<div class="triptitle">Fishface - Rigging and pitch-measuring trip</div>
<br /><br />An ambitious day which slowly went increasingly wrong. The group departed base camp at a stunning 8.20AM, blitzed up the plateau and promtly became mired in several hours of faff which soon descended into more festering. The plan had been to rig the entrance series of Fishface down to the bottom of Blitzen Boulevard (4th pitch), from where we expected everything to be left rigged. However, confusion about rope lengths and metalwork and some impressively long grike trips meant that the two shallow pushing groups planning to explore from Blitzen and Liquid Luck caught us up at Top Camp. Uncle Mike was not amused. We swiftly bombed down to FF in 25 mins and started rigging. Joel was left to do everything as Jonty's light 'broke'.
<br /><br />The entrance pitch/spiral traverse thing was completed on a 40m rope. Tasteful noods (2nd pitch) didn't quite go on a 27m due to rerigging around the top rebelay to avoid rub, so Joel initially reached the bottom on a knot pass and Jonty rerigged to the bottom on a 32m. The traverse at the bottom of Tasteful Noods (2A) and pitch 3 both had rope left from last year but not rigged - some of the knots didn't line up and required rerigging but the lengths were fine. Pendulum pitch needs some more bolts at the bottom, possibly as a traverse, to make getting on and off the pitch less deathy. Uncle Mike rigged Blitzen for us as we got too scared, he insisted the step over the huge rift with no traverse was fine, so we left him to it. There may or may not be a bolt there now
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<div class="tripdate" id="2023-07-06c">2023-07-06</div>
<div class="trippeople"><u>Emily Mabbett</u>,Lizzie Caisley,Emma Caspers,Mike Butcher,,Charlotte Payne,</div>
<div class="trippeople"><u>Emily Mabbett</u>,,Charlotte Payne,Lizzie Caisley,Emma Caspers,Mike Butcher,</div>
<div class="triptitle">Fishface - Surveying around Benign Bubble Baby Bypass</div>
<br /><br />After hiking up to plateau to arrive for midday, we discovered the advanced rigging party still above ground... In order to leave them time to start rigging the first 4 pitches of Fishface, an ungodly amount of faff began. We finally arrived at the cave at 3pm, thinking we'd left plenty of time for the riggers, we quickly changed and headed underground. Alas, our hopes were crushed as we came to the bottom of the first pitch to discover the other pushing party sat freezing their tits off at the top of the second pitch as the riggers rigged just below them. Needless to say, it took some time to descent to the bottom of Blitzen Boulevard with Mike taking over the rigging of the 4th pitch after a debate over placing another bolt at the pitch head. Once arrived at Benign Bubble Baby Bypass, we conducted a quick something time to refresh our surveying technique before splitting into 2 groups. Me and Mike went ahead through the tube leading on through the bottom of the climb heading towards the liquid luck ptch head to bolt the small pitch at the end of the traverse whilst the others began surveying from said turn off. As me and Mike arrived at the pitch head, I asked if I could begin my bolting lesson before a big scary hole. I was refused. Instead I was told to tie the rope around a small head sized bolder wedged in the rift, which were currently both stood on. I thought this was a silly idea but obliged. The actual bolting of the pitch went well (I think?), however comments about placing bolts higher were made which was somewhat impossible given my height. The final bolting and rigging became passable so I decended the large (4m...) hole.
<br /><br />As we finished bolting, the survey team emerged behind us. At the bottom of the pitch, 3 leads emerged, a large passage with a traverse sloping down in front of us, a small drafty tube to the right, and a hole heading into the ceiling behind us. With the rigging team and pushing team 2 in the near vicintity of the cave around us, me and Mike were a bit naughty and scooped the large passage in front of us, as we reached the end, we could hear voices in the rift above us, thinking it was the other pushing team we called up. It was not. It was Buck from the rigging team stood near the base of Blitzen Boulevard essentially where we started. Discovering we'd done a large circle , we returned to the base of the pitch where the survey team were. As we arrived, Zac from the team 2 appeared in the hole above us, they had also done an circle.
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<div class="tripdate" id="2023-07-06d">2023-07-06</div>
<div class="trippeople"><u>Honorata Bogusz</u>,Radost Waszkiewicz,,</div>
<div class="trippeople"><u>Honorata Bogusz</u>,,Radost Waszkiewicz,</div>
<div class="triptitle">Prospecting</div>
<br /><br />We prospected between Fischgesicht and Heimkehr entrances. We found 5 caves, which I will refer to here using the temporary number and names entered in expo.survex.com. Small drain (2023-hbrw-01) and medium drain (2023-hbrw-02) were surveyed completely and they both strecth for about 20-30m, a small stream passing through each of them.
<br /><br />We also found 3 new caves which seem to continue but we couldn't survey them since they all begin with large pitches:
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<div class="tripdate" id="2023-07-06e">2023-07-06</div>
<div class="trippeople"><u>Zac Woodford</u>,Ashley Gregg,Amelia Oliver,,Emma Caspers,</div>
<div class="trippeople"><u>Zac Woodford</u>,,Emma Caspers,Ashley Gregg,Amelia Oliver,</div>
<div class="triptitle">Fishface - Surveying the top of liquid luck</div>
<br /><br />Gave the rigging team ~3hr headstart but we still caught up with them at the bottom of first pitch. Emma and Zac then sat around while Ash and Mealy calibrated the disto. We were waiting so long that Uncle Mike's surveying group caught up. We waited in a a bothy for them to pass us before slowly, one-by-one, following on. We then caught up with them again at the top of Blitzen pitch and had to bothy again (after Mealy led us on too low in the rift).
<br /><br />At the beginning of BBBB (Benign Babble Baby Bypass) we talked with Mike's group pushing the other lead and descending some small pitches to push ours. We faffed around a while trying to find it, but when we did, we found it just looped back around to Mike's group's lead. We surveyed it anyway.
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<div class="tripdate" id="2023-07-07a">2023-07-07</div>
<div class="trippeople"><u>Christian Kuhlmann</u>,Wassil Janssen,,</div>
<div class="trippeople"><u>Christian Kuhlmann</u>,,Wassil Janssen,</div>
<div class="triptitle">Homecoming - Foray into the Second Coming</div>
Ropes used:
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<div class="tripdate" id="2023-07-07b">2023-07-07</div>
<div class="trippeople"><u>Philip Sargent</u>,Jonty Pine,Nadia Raeburn,,Janis Huns,</div>
<div class="trippeople"><u>Philip Sargent</u>,,Janis Huns,Jonty Pine,Nadia Raeburn,</div>
<div class="triptitle">Garlic - Hiking to Garlic Cave</div>
<br /><br />Jonty's car: Jonty/Nads/Janis up to Garlic and return this evening. Taking new reflectors made this morning.
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<div class="tripdate" id="2023-07-07c">2023-07-07</div>
<div class="trippeople"><u>Honorata Bogusz</u>,Radost Waszkiewicz,,Mike Butcher,</div>
<div class="trippeople"><u>Honorata Bogusz</u>,,Mike Butcher,Radost Waszkiewicz,</div>
<div class="triptitle">1623-290 - pushing deep Fishgesicht</div>
<br /><br />We pushed 60m at the top of "Clap My Pitch Up". Pushing required bolting ~20m of a traverse (<u> Mike adds: 20m ish of the traverse was new passage surveyed this year but there was about 30m of traverse bolted this year which was naughtily pushed by me - Mike - and Luke last year in the Red Light Spells Danger trip so the traverse is about 50ish m long</u>). The final few metres of the traverse go above a sizeable pitch (30m?). We names the bolted traverse, "European Federalists". At the end of the traverse, we continued walking for another ~40m until arriving at the top of a massive pitch - further pushing would require bolting. The distance from where we were standing to the furthest point down the pitch measured with the disto was ~40m. We kicked rocks down the pitch and the sound continued for 10s, giving rise to a presumption that the pitch may be very deep. If it connects to "Clap My Pitch Up", it's at least 100m deep. IMPORTANT: the traverse passage and the walkable continuation are muddy and slippery; posing a hazard of falling down the pitch. Ash, Jonty, Mealy and Janis want to push the lead further on Saturday 8th July.
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<div class="tripdate" id="2023-07-07d">2023-07-07</div>
<div class="trippeople"><u>Emily Mabbett</u>,Charlotte Payne,,Harry Kettle,</div>
<div class="trippeople"><u>Emily Mabbett</u>,,Harry Kettle,Charlotte Payne,</div>
<div class="triptitle">Homecoming - Rigging towards Watershed in Homecoming</div>
<br /><br />We wandered down to the cave around 10am, making it to the entrance around 12pm. The entrance series went pretty fast ... at least it did for me as Harry and Charlotte were carrying the heavy bags. On the way we made a quick stop to rerig a knot pass. As we reached the bottom of Wallace and Grommit where they had finished rigging the previous day both me and Harry experienced fizzling as we glazed the dry rope on the final 55m. I did not enjoy this part. We then made our way up the climb and Harry began rigging the small pitches before the long pitch series. The most notable part of this was when Harry appeared the wrong side of a pitch head after following the description and getting lost. It was highly amusing. As Charlotte began rigging the final pitch series me and Harry huddled in a shelter and watched Mathilda the musical. As it came to replacing a bolt Harry left to go help Charlotte and I was left along ... until it was discovered the drill battery was dead and I had to come down with a back up. As 8pm approached we made our way out leaving rope to finish the final part of rigging. On the way out we made a noodle stop at the top of Wallace and Grommit but with no fork a knife had to suffice. The walk back was miserable as we started following new reflectors towards the col and had to turn around and start again. We finally made it back to top camp at 1 am.
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<div class="tripdate" id="2023-07-07e">2023-07-07</div>
<div class="trippeople"><u>Ashley Gregg</u>,Alice Kirby,Will Kay,,Amelia Oliver,</div>
<div class="trippeople"><u>Ashley Gregg</u>,,Amelia Oliver,Alice Kirby,Will Kay,</div>
<div class="triptitle">Fishface – Surveying Stalagtite Loop to the top of Liquid Luck</div>
<br /><br />Following our previous shallow trip into Fishface we set out to continue the previous combined
leads from the day before. The journey across the plateau and into the cave was uneventful, aside from
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<div class="tripdate" id="2023-07-08a">2023-07-08</div>
<div class="trippeople"><u>Nadia</u>,,Jana,Philip B,Jono,Oakem,</div>
<div class="trippeople"><u>Nadia</u>,Jono,Oakem,,Jana,Philip B,</div>
<div class="triptitle">Garlic - Garlic Cave Set up + First Nights</div>
After doing a big bounce carry yesterday, we now had sufficient supplies to spend the night and begin the proper set up of camp.
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<div class="tripdate" id="2023-07-08b">2023-07-08</div>
<div class="trippeople"><u>Philip Sargent</u>,Martin Green,,</div>
<div class="trippeople"><u>Philip Sargent</u>,,Martin Green,</div>
<div class="triptitle">Basecamp - Nerd faff</div>
<br /><br />Another frustrating day with network. WiFi router refused to allow connections - rebooted at ~0830. Ok.
<br /><br />Rebooted network for a reason I can't remember - failed to re-establish routing to router. Much faff standing on chairs typing at netbook as cables all duct taped to the wall with it in final operating position up by ceiling. Found the missing rune, edited into 'runfakenet'. Redocumented everything in handbook. By which time the morning has gone and no progress achieved.
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<div class="tripdate" id="2023-07-08c">2023-07-08</div>
<div class="trippeople"><u>Janis Huns</u>,Ashley Gregg,Amelia Oliver,,Jonty Pine,</div>
<div class="trippeople"><u>Janis Huns</u>,,Jonty Pine,Ashley Gregg,Amelia Oliver,</div>
<div class="triptitle">Fishface - Pushing deep Fishface</div>
<br /><br />We went to where the group - Honorata, Radost and Mike - had left off the previous day. European Federalists was a very tough traverse that required the use of ascenders. We bolted and rigged (my first bolt!) the pitch at the end of the muddy passage about 10m down to a choke of boulders. At the bottom of it we saw that there is a large, smooth crack continuing east leading to a large, deep chamber that seems to be the same one we saw on the right. If it is it would be elongated roughly in a north east to south west direction. Ash and Mealy also explored some C leads which did not go far.
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<div class="tripdate" id="2023-07-08d">2023-07-08</div>
<div class="trippeople"><u>Will Kay</u>,Emma Caspers,,Mike Butcher,</div>
<div class="trippeople"><u>Will Kay</u>,,Mike Butcher,Emma Caspers,</div>
<div class="triptitle">Amphitheatre - Following up on Radost and Honorata's prospecting leads (Unlucky Gemse cave and Amphitheatre cave)</div>
<br /><br />Radost and Honorata had found a few promising entrances that they could explore with just a hand line on Thursday so me, Mike and Emma set out with caving kit, bolting kit and a few ropes to investigate further (ropes were slightly out of date ones - ropes were very hard to come by at Top Camp so we pinched two 20m ropes from the stash at Fishface entrance).
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<div class="tripdate" id="2023-07-08e">2023-07-08</div>
<div class="trippeople"><u>Sarah Parker</u>,Charlotte Payne,,Harry Kettle,</div>
<div class="trippeople"><u>Sarah Parker</u>,,Harry Kettle,Charlotte Payne,</div>
<div class="triptitle">Homecoming - Beyond Watershed in Homecoming Flowstone Canyon</div>
<br /><br />I carried my caving and bivvy gear from Top Camp to Homecoming whilst Harry and Charlotte carried Top Camp's second shovel and a camp bed (surprisingliy heavy) to be picked up by the Garlic Cave people.
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<div class="tripdate" id="2023-07-10a">2023-07-10</div>
<div class="trippeople"><u>Buck Blake</u>,Amelia Oliver,Jonty Pine,Janis Huns,Joel Stobbart,,Ashley Gregg,</div>
<div class="trippeople"><u>Buck Blake</u>,,Ashley Gregg,Amelia Oliver,Jonty Pine,Janis Huns,Joel Stobbart,</div>
<div class="triptitle">Fishface - Carrying rope to Fishface and failing to rig entrance</div>
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After the complicated operation of handling the solar panels out of the storage cave, the six of us packed kit, rope and a rescue bag and set
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<div class="tripdate" id="2023-07-10b">2023-07-10</div>
<div class="trippeople"><u>Wassil Janssen</u>,Christian Kuhlmann,Alice Kirby,Merryn Matthews,,Harry Kettle,</div>
<div class="trippeople"><u>Wassil Janssen</u>,,Harry Kettle,Christian Kuhlmann,Alice Kirby,Merryn Matthews,</div>
<div class="triptitle">Homecoming - Rig faff</div>
<br /><br />This was a long day that started at Base Camp with the intent of rigging the entrance series of Homecoming cave. We set off only slightly later than the planned 8:00 [illegible] some faff. Quite surprising since Will was not part of the team.
<br /><br />The walk up to Top Camp took almost 2 hours, just as expected. We were also carrying drills, string, food, and other Top Camp equipment. We followed the reflectors to Fishface. They were white on both sides, which could make it frustrating if you are someone who is lost on their way to Top Camp. Instead, it should be red that leads to Top Camp, while white leads to caves and the car park.
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<div class="tripdate" id="2023-07-10c">2023-07-10</div>
<div class="trippeople"><u>Philip Sargent</u>,Becka Lawson,,</div>
<div class="trippeople"><u>Philip Sargent</u>,,Becka Lawson,</div>
<div class="triptitle">basecamp - Becka arriving</div>
<br /><br />She is arriving at 0941 at the station, would like lift.
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<div class="tripdate" id="2023-07-10d">2023-07-10</div>
<div class="trippeople"><u>Honorata Bogusz</u>,Radost Waszkiewicz,Ashley Gregg,Christian Kuhlmann,,Harry Kettle,</div>
<div class="trippeople"><u>Honorata Bogusz</u>,,Harry Kettle,Radost Waszkiewicz,Ashley Gregg,Christian Kuhlmann,</div>
<div class="triptitle">festering - Canyoning Strubklamm</div>
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We went canyoning on a rest day. The "Strubklamm" canyon is located near Saltzburg, approximately 1h of driving from Bad Aussee. The canyon is graded V1A3 (vertical 1, aquatic 3). It's very aquatic, with many small jumps available and a 300m swimming passage. There are 2 bigger jumps: approx. 8m and 10m, both can be abseiled (topo can be found online).
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<div class="tripdate" id="2023-07-11a">2023-07-11</div>
<div class="trippeople"><u>Philip Sargent</u>,Ashley Gregg,Honorata Bogusz,Ely Brookes,Thomas Phillips,Radost Waszkiewicz,Will Kay,,James Waite,</div>
<div class="trippeople"><u>Philip Sargent</u>,,James Waite,Ashley Gregg,Honorata Bogusz,Ely Brookes,Thomas Phillips,Radost Waszkiewicz,Will Kay,</div>
<div class="triptitle">plateau - walk in</div>
<br /><br />Will and Phil went up as part of the 2-car lift to the carpark. Others all going to topcamp. Cardiff contingent (Ely, James, Thomas) arrived the previous day (at last)
<br /><br />Dep. carpark 10:06 we walked to the col but got spread out, 2 Cardiffians particularly heavily loaded so Ash dropped back to accompany them while James headed on with Radost and Honorata.
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<div class="tripdate" id="2023-07-11b">2023-07-11</div>
<div class="trippeople"><u>Philip Sargent</u>,Will Kay,,</div>
<div class="trippeople"><u>Philip Sargent</u>,,Will Kay,</div>
<div class="triptitle">plateau - Garlic and reflectors</div>
<br /><br />At the col, Will, Philip and ? followed Philip B's col-to-garlic GPS track. Somebody else was with us (memory hazy, is this true?
[correct later editorially]). All OK until we hit the hill in the middle where we followed cairns instead of the GPS track, and got in a bit of
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<div class="tripdate" id="2023-07-11c">2023-07-11</div>
<div class="trippeople"><u>Wassil Janssen</u>,Oakem Kyne,,</div>
<div class="trippeople"><u>Wassil Janssen</u>,,Oakem Kyne,</div>
<div class="triptitle">Homecoming - Five and Flying</div>
<br /><br />
I managed to steal Oakem away from Harry, Charlotte and Becka just as they were preparing to depart from Top Camp. After a quick breakfast
@ -772,7 +772,7 @@ his own logbook entry.
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<div class="tripdate" id="2023-07-11d">2023-07-11</div>
<div class="trippeople"><u>Honorata Bogusz</u>,Ashley Gregg,,Radost Waszkiewicz,</div>
<div class="trippeople"><u>Honorata Bogusz</u>,,Radost Waszkiewicz,Ashley Gregg,</div>
<div class="triptitle">1623-323 - Dropping Amphitheater Hoehle</div>
<br /><br />
The Amphitheater Hoehle is named after its entrance which resembles an amphitheather. There are a couple of meters of an easy climb from the very top to the boulder where we started rigging. Rigging starts with an approx. 5-6m down climb, where we put a handline. It's followed by a traverse (10m ?) above the entrance to the first pitch. We rigged a Y-hang at the end of the traverse.
@ -784,7 +784,7 @@ The Amphitheater Hoehle is named after its entrance which resembles an amphithea
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<div class="tripdate" id="2023-07-11e">2023-07-11</div>
<div class="trippeople"><u>Becka</u>,Harry,,Charlotte,</div>
<div class="trippeople"><u>Becka</u>,,Charlotte,Harry,</div>
<div class="triptitle">Homecoming - Watershed</div>
Slogged down from Top Camp to Homecoming and headed down the entrance series. Wassil had snagged the rope on the longish pitch near the entrance (just after snow ends, beyond short crawl). It was so tight that Charlotte had to downprussik to free it. Steady progress to the pushing front in ~2.5 hours.
<p>Charlotte rigged a traverse down and across 2m so Harry and I could survey a side passage that quickly reached a pitch whilst Charlotte remained to finish rigging the pitch. We all descended the pitch to 2 routes.
@ -797,7 +797,7 @@ Slogged down from Top Camp to Homecoming and headed down the entrance series. Wa
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<div class="tripdate" id="2023-07-11f">2023-07-11</div>
<div class="trippeople"><u>Emily</u>,Harry,,Charlotte,</div>
<div class="trippeople"><u>Emily</u>,,Charlotte,Harry,</div>
<div class="triptitle">Fishface - Kresh Konnection exploring and rerigging</div>
The day started fairly quick and we arrived at the Fishface entrance at 10:30am, making our way underground by 11. Joel and Lizzy went around to re-bolt the first pitch in the connection with me and Merryn following after to measure and record rigging diagrams. Due to an odd mixture of rope the first 9m pitch ended up being rigged with a rope from 1999… As we went on Joel and Merryn rerigged P4 and P5 with separate ropes to free up the 50m currently being used so we could bring the 50m down to where we were planning to push. During this time Joel rearranged the ropes and went back to remove the 1999 rope and replace it with an in-date rope. Essentially a good few hours were spent rearranging ropes, during which time me and Lizzy took a nap in a shelter at the bottom of P5.
@ -808,7 +808,7 @@ For the rest of the trip we actually ended up dropping to the bottom of the seco
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<div class="tripdate" id="2023-07-12a">2023-07-12</div>
<div class="trippeople"><u>Emma</u>,Mike B,Mealy,,Jonty,</div>
<div class="trippeople"><u>Emma</u>,,Jonty,Mike B,Mealy,</div>
<div class="triptitle">Fishface - Camp in Fishface - pushing Redlight & Persied Showers</div>
10-07-23 - We wake up early-ish with the goal of leaving at 9/10 but quickly decide MUCH more faff is needed. A stop is made at the shops to buy biodegradable bags and a magazine, eventually Jonty, Mealy and I made it to the car park. It is very very warm and we worried about dehydration. We get waking, faffing more by running into many groups coming off the plateau, and Mike catches up quickly. Once on the plateau the weather seems more pleasant - a cool breeze is present now - when I see the cause - a huge could of rain hanging over the Dachstein. "Nah, that's just mist" says uncle Mike. We make our merry way, not forgetting to bow to the plateau monster (Mike doesn't bow) until we hear a rumble of thunder, "Nah, just a plane" says uncle Mike, soon, to vertical rains start, which we are not dressed nor prepared for, so we hide by crouching against a wall in the plateau. Then, wind turns and we get very soaked so we huddle under Jonty's 1-man emergency bothy. Anyway sun returns, much more faff is had, I take a fall... we don't make it into Fishface until 20:45, carrying LUDICROUSLY large bags! Mealy and I lead the way in, made a little clumsy by our heavy loads - though not as heavy as jonty's, and not at all as bad as mike's whose "side bag" is a full-sized tackle sack containing lots of rope. The first pitch was not my Friend and I dropped a plastic bottle - after that I enjoyed myself - esp. impressed by TK Maxx, a super cool pitch!! Mealy & I get down just after 23.00, followed soon by Jonty and a little later by Mike who had stopped to get even more Rope. Mealy goes of to faff with Cavelink, Jonty & I head over to help and we send the important message "camp creche want more peanut" - it sends. Mealy & I share warmth & noodles. Jonty & mike eat curry, we whip out the mini-Jagermeister, all take a little sip and head to sleep. I apparently caused some disturbance by snoring (sorry) and we all sleep intermittently.
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@ -829,7 +829,7 @@ Transcribers note, 21st July 2024. Whilst I do appreciate the write up and the
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<div class="tripdate" id="2023-07-12b">2023-07-12</div>
<div class="trippeople"><u>Merryn Matthews</u>,Joel Stobbart,Thomas Phillips,Emily Mabbett,,Lizzie Caisley,</div>
<div class="trippeople"><u>Merryn Matthews</u>,,Lizzie Caisley,Joel Stobbart,Thomas Phillips,Emily Mabbett,</div>
<div class="triptitle">plateau - Prospecting between Homecoming and Fishface</div>
<br /><br />We started by walking to Unlucky Gamse Cave, mostly following the path to homecoming, as Radost and Honorata had told us there was
an exciting looking entrance around 50m North of it - Rose Blumen Hoehle (2023-hbrw-05). We dismissed their cave as choked by snow, however it
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<div class="tripdate" id="2023-07-12c">2023-07-12</div>
<div class="trippeople"><u>Ashley Gregg</u>,Janis Huns,,</div>
<div class="trippeople"><u>Ashley Gregg</u>,,Janis Huns,</div>
<div class="triptitle">Amphitheatre – Surveying Frozen Unknown</div>
<br /><br />We went back to continue exploring Amphitheatre. Since we were now pushing decently underground, we kitted
up and then headed in. Adjusted the initial traverse line rigging slightly.
@ -894,7 +894,7 @@ Can't really remember the rigging exactly. Continues for about 200 m of rope to
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<div class="tripdate" id="2023-07-13a">2023-07-13</div>
<div class="trippeople"><u>Honorata Bogusz</u>,Harry Kettle,Charlotte Payne,Oakem Kyne,Radost Waszkiewicz,,Jonty Pine,</div>
<div class="trippeople"><u>Honorata Bogusz</u>,,Jonty Pine,Harry Kettle,Charlotte Payne,Oakem Kyne,Radost Waszkiewicz,</div>
<div class="triptitle">festering - Via Ferrata "Panorama Kletterstieg Sisi"</div>
<br /><br />
@ -962,7 +962,7 @@ Pic: Oakem Kyne (L) and Jonty Pine (R) on <b>Panorama Kletterstieg Sisi</b>.<br
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<div class="tripdate" id="2023-07-14a">2023-07-14</div>
<div class="trippeople"><u>James Waite</u>,Charlotte Payne,,Harry Kettle,</div>
<div class="trippeople"><u>James Waite</u>,,Harry Kettle,Charlotte Payne,</div>
<div class="triptitle">Homecoming - pushing down homecoming from flowstone canyon, into alpine showers</div>
<br /><br />
after a heavy afternoon at the tatty hut, Harry asked if i fancied coming to
@ -1066,7 +1066,7 @@ Full details at <a href="http://expo.survex.com/expedition/2023" target="_blank"
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<div class="tripdate" id="2023-07-15a">2023-07-15</div>
<div class="trippeople"><u>Ashley Gregg</u>,Ely Brookes,,Janis Huns,</div>
<div class="trippeople"><u>Ashley Gregg</u>,,Janis Huns,Ely Brookes,</div>
<div class="triptitle">Prospecting - Up to Homecoming from the Col</div>
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@ -1090,7 +1090,7 @@ drops approx. 5m with snow at bottom, can't clearly see bottom from top.</li>
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<div class="tripdate" id="2023-07-15b">2023-07-15</div>
<div class="trippeople"><u>Ashley Gregg</u>,Ely Brookes,,Philip Balister,</div>
<div class="trippeople"><u>Ashley Gregg</u>,,Philip Balister,Ely Brookes,</div>
<div class="triptitle">2018-DM-04 – Prospecting, exploring, surveying</div>
<br /><br />The plan was to do some prospecting in the relatively uncovered area around Garlic cave.
We met up with Philip at Garlic cave and had some noodles for lunch. Philip had already done some
@ -1114,7 +1114,7 @@ Top Camp.
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<div class="tripdate" id="2023-07-15c">2023-07-15</div>
<div class="trippeople"><u>Christian Kuhlmann</u>,Wassil Janssen,,Merryn Matthews,</div>
<div class="trippeople"><u>Christian Kuhlmann</u>,,Merryn Matthews,Wassil Janssen,</div>
<div class="triptitle">Homecoming - In Search Of Salamanders</div>
<br /><br />Following an impromptu pre-expo-dinner dinner the night before, we all arose with a tinge of hangover. Rapidly consuming breakfast and packing kit, we set off at 8:30am, only 30 minutes after we said we would which in all fairness is very good going for us.
After a smooth ferry to the Loser car park by our wonderful chauffer Alice, we set off up the mountain. Almost immediately after we left the car park a navigational faux pas was made and we found ourselves on the wrong path, and with a small section of off-roading, we headed up to top camp with no other further obstructions.
@ -1148,7 +1148,7 @@ Overall, a great trip with over ~294m surveyed and more promising leads found. C
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<div class="tripdate" id="2023-07-16a">2023-07-16</div>
<div class="trippeople"><u>Ashley Gregg</u>,Evelyn Surman,,</div>
<div class="trippeople"><u>Ashley Gregg</u>,,Evelyn Surman,</div>
<div class="triptitle">Prospecting - Much prospecting near Balcony</div>
<br /><br />Deciding I wanted to go prospecting but didn’t particularly want to walk back over to garlic cave,
so recruited Evelyn, our resident non-caver to go wander around near balcony. Armed with known cave
@ -1182,7 +1182,7 @@ yield any new caves.
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<div class="tripdate" id="2023-07-16b">2023-07-16</div>
<div class="trippeople"><u>Mark Shinwell</u>,James Waite,,</div>
<div class="trippeople"><u>Mark Shinwell</u>,,James Waite,</div>
<div class="triptitle">surface - Walk from Gschwandt Alm</div>
Walk from Gschwandt Alm below the western edge of the plateau.
[note taken from gps23.svx]
@ -1207,7 +1207,7 @@ Walk from Gschwandt Alm below the western edge of the plateau.
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<div class="tripdate" id="2023-07-17b">2023-07-17</div>
<div class="trippeople"><u>Ashley Gregg</u>,Emma Caspers,,Oakem Kyne,</div>
<div class="trippeople"><u>Ashley Gregg</u>,,Oakem Kyne,Emma Caspers,</div>
<div class="triptitle">Fishface – Kresh connection confusion</div>
<br /><br />Joel had discovered an exciting new cave, unfortunately this left us with rope and a lead down in
the Fish face – happy butterfly connection which no-one was going to. I was naively convinced to go and
@ -1319,7 +1319,7 @@ Despite ~300m of passage being surveyed minimal progress was made in getting clo
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<div class="tripdate" id="2023-07-18a">2023-07-18</div>
<div class="trippeople"><u>Ashley Gregg</u>,Zac Woodford,,Merryn Matthews,</div>
<div class="trippeople"><u>Ashley Gregg</u>,,Merryn Matthews,Zac Woodford,</div>
<div class="triptitle">Tempest – Touch of Death</div>
<br /><br />Excited to go and see (and kill) this new cave, two groups set off to push the two ‘A’ leads at the
extent of Tempest. Arriving at the cave we prepared the bags and realised we’d forgotten a hammer, so
@ -1403,7 +1403,7 @@ tldr: Camp: Effort does not equal success.</div>
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<div class="tripdate" id="2023-07-19a">2023-07-19</div>
<div class="trippeople"><u>James Waite</u>,Jono Lester,,</div>
<div class="trippeople"><u>James Waite</u>,,Jono Lester,</div>
<div class="triptitle">Homecoming - pushing beyond death sump and the heifer</div>
jono and i had spotted an A lead bolt climb off the edge of propane nightmares over the death sump. armed with bolts and mikes drill we set off from garlic cave and after much faff we finally enteretd into homecoming. we got our kit into two bags of very heavy nature and set off down the cave. the entrance pitches went easily and eventually we got to the traverse . this was a interesting with large blokes and large bags stuck in the rift. after a large amount of swearing we got down to wallace. this went easily, and we got onto grommit. this was rather "fun" as the rope was looking interesting, and you had to go very slowly to avoid sizzling. at the bottom of grommit we gathered some bolts and hangers from the bag down there and set off into propane nightmares.
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@ -1420,7 +1420,7 @@ we regrouped at the base of the heifer after adding a bolt to make the pitch hea
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<div class="tripdate" id="2023-07-19b">2023-07-19</div>
<div class="trippeople"><u>Ashley Gregg</u>,Zac Woodford,,Will Kay,</div>
<div class="trippeople"><u>Ashley Gregg</u>,,Will Kay,Zac Woodford,</div>
<div class="triptitle">2023-ASH-15, 2023-ASH-16 - Prospecting – dropping Boring Hole and Dead on Arrival</div>
<br /><br />Took Zac to bolt a cave he had previously found not too far of the path to Fishface. Slight delay as
we’d forgotten something important (bolts maybe?), which Will went back to get.
@ -1436,7 +1436,7 @@ rift the were no continuations. Will named it Dead on Arrival (2023-ASH-15). Sur
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<div class="tripdate" id="2023-07-19c">2023-07-19</div>
<div class="trippeople"><u>Ashley Gregg</u>,Will Kay,,</div>
<div class="trippeople"><u>Ashley Gregg</u>,,Will Kay,</div>
<div class="triptitle">Plateau - Surveying Little Tent and Gollum Grotto</div>
<br /><br />Deciding we weren’t done for the day yet an afternoon evening trip was decided upon to survey some
of the caves Evelyn and I had found a few days ago. Will and I gathered the necessary gear and set off
@ -1465,7 +1465,7 @@ off on the edges of the plateau. Plus curry for dinner.
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<div class="tripdate" id="2023-07-20b">2023-07-20</div>
<div class="trippeople"><u>Ashley Gregg</u>,Thomas Phillips,,</div>
<div class="trippeople"><u>Ashley Gregg</u>,,Thomas Phillips,</div>
<div class="triptitle">Plateau - Surveying Top Camp Band and Bat versus Rat</div>
<br /><br />Decided to go and survey/kill a couple more caves before heading down off the plateau for the year.
Aware that I would have a lot of data to sort out and vague plans to go canyoning Friday before the
@ -1499,7 +1499,7 @@ Either way, glad to see it being pushed towards the rest of the system!</div>
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<div class="tripdate" id="2023-07-23a">2023-07-23</div>
<div class="trippeople"><u>Emily</u>,Lizzy,Merryn,,Joel,, Tom</div>
<div class="trippeople"><u>Emily</u>,Joel,Merryn,,Lizzy,Thom,</div>
<div class="triptitle">Plateau - Prospecting near Fishface</div>
After consulting the weather forecast in the morning and seeing 50mnm of rain forecast from 8pm onward we decided the best use of our day would be to prospect. Our first port of call was a previously scoped hole of the path between Fishcace and Homecoming. With no photo and only a rough location we looked in a few holes climbing to the bottom of a couple that looked possible but to no avail. After marking the holes we decided to continue in a vaguely North direction following a passage in homecoming below us. After some impressive Bundah walking we found another prospect in which Joel eagerly descended only to find it also choked out - it was therefore nicknamed Joel's disappointment , which later changed to sunglasses disappointment after he figured out he lost his sunglasses somewhere into the hole.
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@ -1521,7 +1521,7 @@ From here we began to circle back towards FishFace, on the way we found a large
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<div class="tripdate" id="2023-07-24a">2023-07-24</div>
<div class="trippeople"><u>Joe Stell</u>,Kai Trusson,,</div>
<div class="trippeople"><u>Joe Stell</u>,,Kai Trusson,</div>
<div class="triptitle">Fishface - Tourist Trip to Pisspot</div>
<br></br>Tourist trip down Fishface to Pisspot. Already more SRT than Joe has done in his entire lifetime combined, hopefully not holding up Kai too much.
<br /><br />Turned around and headed back out after 2 hours or so as felt we had done enough SRT practice
@ -1531,7 +1531,7 @@ From here we began to circle back towards FishFace, on the way we found a large
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<div class="tripdate" id="2023-07-24b">2023-07-24</div>
<div class="trippeople"><u>Joe Stell</u>,Kai Trusson,,</div>
<div class="trippeople"><u>Joe Stell</u>,,Kai Trusson,</div>
<div class="triptitle">Surface - surveying/prospecting small leads found yesterday by Luke, Becca and Max</div>
<br></br><b> Becka checked with Joe Stell and Kai Trusson to clarify this write-up. It does describe Mendip Man albeit confusingly. The paragraph starting "upon leaving" is the main, left route after the entrance. The initial write-up refers the shorter, right route. This was surveyed on this trip but there was a problem with the data collected and so the data wasn't added to the database. It also isn't clear where the GPS location referred to below was taken. </b><br></br>
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<div class="tripdate" id="2023-07-27a">2023-07-27</div>
<div class="trippeople"><u>Joe Stell</u>,Frank Tully,,</div>
<div class="trippeople"><u>Joe Stell</u>,,Frank Tully,</div>
<div class="triptitle">Surface - Check your bits</div>
<br></br>
<br /><br />Hearing of an exciting new lead, "Mahlstromhöhle", from Frank, Max and Flo, 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.
@ -1557,7 +1557,7 @@ From here we began to circle back towards FishFace, on the way we found a large
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<div class="tripdate" id="2023-07-28a">2023-07-28</div>
<div class="trippeople"><u>Joe Stell</u>,Frank Tully,,</div>
<div class="trippeople"><u>Joe Stell</u>,,Frank Tully,</div>
<div class="triptitle">Maelstrom - Finally Underground</div>
<br></br>
<br /><br />After the brilliant success of yesterday's failed pushing trip, Frank and I returned to Mahlstromhöhle to actually go underground and push. After the entrance pitch, there is a small hole in the floor, from which several small-ish pitches follow.
@ -1569,7 +1569,7 @@ From here we began to circle back towards FishFace, on the way we found a large
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<div class="tripdate" id="2023-07-29a">2023-07-29</div>
<div class="trippeople"><u>Joe Stell</u>,Frank Tully,,Nadia Raeburn,</div>
<div class="trippeople"><u>Joe Stell</u>,,Nadia Raeburn,Frank Tully,</div>
<div class="triptitle">Maelstrom - "Undersold"</div>
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<br /><br /> Hearing of our great success with this shallow lead, Nadia, having returned from a fishface camping trip the day before, decided she would join us for a nice easy surface trip.
@ -1621,7 +1621,7 @@ Also, it is now our closest cave passage to the neighbouring Schönberg system (
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<div class="tripdate" id="2023-07-31a">2023-07-31</div>
<div class="trippeople"><u>Joe Stell</u>,Ruairidh MacLeod,,</div>
<div class="trippeople"><u>Joe Stell</u>,,Ruairidh MacLeod,</div>
<div class="triptitle">Surface - Prospecting alternative entrances for Maelstrom</div>
<br /><br />After a leisurely (not quite for Ruairidh, carrying far too much) walk up to topcamp with Frank and Nadia following a leisurely morning start from me, Ruairidh and I decided that we could attempt to find an easier, quicker entrance to Maelstrom by following the rift from the surface whilst the other two and Sam were actually in the cave derigging. First we found a large basin, containing what appeared to be a large cave entrance, but upon further inspection, choked out towards the back of the cave. Ruairidh did find a nice complete Gaemse skull though, which he seemed quite happy about. Another potential entrance found further along the rift with a steady flow of water disappearing into the ground which could explain some of the bigger drippy pitches after the lovely squeeze. The rift splits into two further on, with some promising, but inaccessible, looking gorges on the right fork as you follow it. The left seemed less promising from memory but this area is definitely worth another look with bolting kit to make sure. Realising we'd actually got quite close to the col, we decided to simply hike towards the slabs and rejoin the carpark-topcamp path and head back.
<div class="timeug">T/U: 0.0 hours</div>
@ -1630,7 +1630,7 @@ Also, it is now our closest cave passage to the neighbouring Schönberg system (
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<div class="tripdate" id="2023-07-31b">2023-07-31</div>
<div class="trippeople"><u>Ben Chaddock</u>,Charlie Crossley,,Adam Erskine,</div>
<div class="trippeople"><u>Ben Chaddock</u>,,Adam Erskine,Charlie Crossley,</div>
<div class="triptitle">Fishface - Cocoa Channel Bolting Mission</div>
[Adam E = Adam Erskine-Jones]
<br /><br />On the morning of my first pushing trip deep within Fishgesicht (5 minutes from camp) the nervous energy carried me up and away through the bountiful faff. After triple checking that we had all the equipment for bolting and surveying a rift that apparently continued but was too sketchy without a traverse line, Charlie, Adam EJ and I traipsed across the plateau for even more faff outside the entrance. After a prompt descent we met the camping team who showed us the way to silverback scoop including a stop at the tap and going down a wrong branch. Squeezing through a pitch head to descend 7m into a dusty tight canyon with a tackle sack full of heavy gear, I did wonder what I was doing, but once the drill was out that fell away completely.
@ -1644,7 +1644,7 @@ Also, it is now our closest cave passage to the neighbouring Schönberg system (
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<div class="tripdate" id="2023-08-01a">2023-08-01</div>
<div class="trippeople"><u>Joe Stell</u>,Manfred Wuits,Nathan Walker,,Adam Aldridge,</div>
<div class="trippeople"><u>Joe Stell</u>,,Adam Aldridge,Manfred Wuits,Nathan Walker,</div>
<div class="triptitle">Surface - Hike to Garlic</div>
<br /><br />Woke up to see a sub-optimal forecast. Somehow I was convinced that hiking to Garlic Cave Camp was of course the best course of action to take, so we set off. It was actually dry for the first third or so to fishface gear dump to collect our caving gear, but this did not last.
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@ -1656,7 +1656,7 @@ The path is a little treacherous in the wet, so it was a little slow going and s
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<div class="tripdate" id="2023-08-02a">2023-08-02</div>
<div class="trippeople"><u>Joe Stell</u>,Adam Aldridge,Manfred Wuits,,Nathan Walker,</div>
<div class="trippeople"><u>Joe Stell</u>,,Nathan Walker,Adam Aldridge,Manfred Wuits,</div>
<div class="triptitle">Buzzard - dropping Buzzard Hole on the northerly Kleiner Wildkogel ridge</div>
<br /><br />After our lovely sleep, we woke up to dry weather, and set off to the top of the ridge above Garlic. Carrying the thick, wet 90m up the mountain was not conducive to good balance so I did fall over in the bunde and struggle to get back up. We reached Buzzard, Adam rigged it, first to the bunde, then hand bolting whilst we waited patiently. The improvement in weather did give a lovely backdrop of the Braeuningzinken for photos. Nathan went down next, followed by Manfred whilst I stayed outside enjoying the view. Upon Adam's return, I swiftly fell asleep, and awoke to find Nathan and Manfred had finished their survey and were finalising some sketches. Adam spotted some interesting holes beneath us on the plateau, so wet set off to prospect (see next entry).
<div class="timeug">T/U: 3.0 hours</div>
@ -1665,7 +1665,7 @@ The path is a little treacherous in the wet, so it was a little slow going and s
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<div class="tripdate" id="2023-08-02b">2023-08-02</div>
<div class="trippeople"><u>Joe Stell</u>,Manfred Wuits,Nathan Walker,,Adam Aldridge,</div>
<div class="trippeople"><u>Joe Stell</u>,,Adam Aldridge,Manfred Wuits,Nathan Walker,</div>
<div class="triptitle">Surface - Prospecting east and south of Kleiner Wildkogel</div>
<br /><br />After dropping Buzzard, the fours of us decided to drop down the north face of the ridge, heading east at first, then split to form two prospecting
groups, Adam and I heading further east to wrap around to the south face of the ridge, and Nathan and Manfred following the north face westwards to
@ -1685,7 +1685,7 @@ that seem to follow a rift along the base of Wildkogel, then back to Garlic camp
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<div class="tripdate" id="2023-08-02c">2023-08-02</div>
<div class="trippeople"><u>Hannah Collings</u>,Nadia Raeburn,,</div>
<div class="trippeople"><u>Hannah Collings</u>,,Nadia Raeburn,</div>
<div class="triptitle">Fishface Camp - Pushing Theophilus Goon</div>
<br /><br />Tuesday was another wet day so a day of top camp fettling was had whilst plans were made for a fish face camp the following day. We had a (fairly) efficient morning, departing top camp shortly after 10 having received a debrief from the previous camp group, who had returned in the early hours, on the state of the latest leads.
@ -1706,7 +1706,7 @@ that seem to follow a rift along the base of Wildkogel, then back to Garlic camp
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<div class="tripdate" id="2023-08-03a">2023-08-03</div>
<div class="trippeople"><u>Joe Stell</u>,David Botcherby,Nathan Walker,Becka Lawson,,Adam Aldridge,</div>
<div class="trippeople"><u>Joe Stell</u>,,Adam Aldridge,David Botcherby,Nathan Walker,Becka Lawson,</div>
<div class="triptitle">Garlic - Fettling</div>
<br /><br />Woke up. 10am. It was rainy :(
@ -1723,7 +1723,7 @@ did also later. I took some photos and made some shoddy diagrams of the tarps. G
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<div class="tripdate" id="2023-08-04a">2023-08-04</div>
<div class="trippeople"><u>Joe Stell</u>,Hannah Collings,,</div>
<div class="trippeople"><u>Joe Stell</u>,,Hannah Collings,</div>
<div class="triptitle">Basecamp - Garlic Guide</div>
<br /><br />Following a swift departure from Garlic in the morning, and an even swifter (and sweaty) hike across the plateau carrying the thick 90m rope with
all my other kit, I partially completed the garlic camp guide. Only the badly taken photos and badly drawn diagrams to add. I think I'll redraw the
@ -1749,7 +1749,7 @@ The website currently on shows 3,233.2 m <a href="https://expo.survex.com/wallet
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<div class="tripdate" id="2023-08-06a">2023-08-06</div>
<div class="trippeople"><u>Charlie</u>,Adam B,,, Ben Ch, Nat W, Adam EJ</div>
<div class="trippeople"><u>Charlie</u>,,Adam B,, Ben Ch, Nat W, Adam EJ</div>
<div class="triptitle">Fishface - The Three-Day Bound for The Four-Day Week-End</div>
-It all begins in the tatty hut, several gossers short of a brewery. "let's go up in the weather window!" charlie had not done enough caving and wanted to camp in FF. "We'll call it the three-day bounce"."then we'll have a four-day weekend!" "We go to find the four day weekend!"
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@ -1833,7 +1833,7 @@ After about 20 legs Rob had finished his rigging and came and collected Botch to
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<div class="tripdate" id="2023-08-06c">2023-08-06</div>
<div class="trippeople"><u>Hannah Collings</u>,Nadia Raeburn,,</div>
<div class="trippeople"><u>Hannah Collings</u>,,Nadia Raeburn,</div>
<div class="triptitle">Fishface - Camp: Muddy Goons</div>
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@ -1979,7 +1979,7 @@ rope left at bottom of 4th pitch
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<div class="tripdate" id="2023-08-10a">2023-08-10</div>
<div class="trippeople"><u>Rob Watson</u>,David Botcherby,Nadia Raeburn,,Kai Trusson,</div>
<div class="trippeople"><u>Rob Watson</u>,,Kai Trusson,David Botcherby,Nadia Raeburn,</div>
<div class="triptitle">fishface - Connecting FF to SMK: a step further</div>
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