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<div class="tripdate" id="2023">2023-07-08</div>
<div class="trippeople">Jana, <u>Nadia</u>, Jono, Oakem, , Phillip ballister</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.
<div class="tripdate" id="2023">2023-07-23</div>
<div class="trippeople">Lizzy, Joel, <u>Emily</u>, Merryn, , Tom</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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Philip set up the solar panels the day before(hopefully he writes that up) and we started with bolting practice to prevent the solar panels from blowing away in the wind. We used 4 bolts and tied them on with blue string. Meanwhile Jono was digging steps into the entrance of the bivy.
Yet another Bundah battle later we emerged to 2 rucksacks on the plateau and realized we were at amphitheater. It was here that Joel and Lizzy discovered that radasts prized hole was in fact when they and Sarah had prospected the week before... They were NOT happy. Whilst here Joel and Tom dropped into some smaller surrounding holes and after a miscommunication for the Latin of sewage pipe, Grivel hole and Grivel pot were born.
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Our next priority was the water tarp. Sarah and Janis had previously filled our water tub with snow and left it out in the sun. This melt water was our source for the initial camp. We added two bolts to the back of the cave for the back points. One bolt to the right side (looking in) and used a small thread for the 4th corner. we didn't get to test it in a storm but drips were collecting overnight. The current plan is to just home the bucket under and scoop water out.
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Ground was leveled for 5 bed spaced 'comfortably'. Sarah arrived at 2am and slept on the plateau. Good thing because we didn't have space for her. A few drips in the night but no problem in the bivy bags.
<p>
We did a little prospecting the next day (but i'll let someone else write about that) but not before leveling out the outdoor kitchen area, Jono improving the stairs and contemplating a new way into the big hole. We worked on making the climb down on the far side less sketchy by filling in the floor under the climb and raising the level to make the climb shorter. Currently the way around the snow plug needs filling in before visiting it and crossing the swiftly depleting snow plug is easier. The way around the back include waking close to a 12m cliff which we feel will eventually cause an accident by a sleepy caver. Also the climb down the back is not ideal.
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We then started on the tarp setup (after being delivered a generous supply of currys, food and metal work by Maddie and Evelyn). We dragged a big block to the right side of the cave and Jono placed a bolt high in the right wall. We noticed big holes in the ceiling so we chose to do a tent sloping in 2 directions so that the majority of the water does not drip into the sleeping area. We rigged a rope across from the front water tarp bolt to the new bolt for the peak of the tent. We then inserted a choke stone and a natural for the lower corners & the sleeping area. We tied the back to the right back water tarp bolt and we put a new bolt low on the left wall under the water tarp. We added an X of rope under the tarp on the sleeping side we put a parallel rope down the middle held to the top rope and a block in the floor. Currently we are only using the tarp in a half folded position.
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Sleeping was good but needs to be tested in a storm. Felt damp from condensation. Much colder in the cave than outside.
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Jana and Oaken worked hard on steps into the outdoor kitchen area. The ground was grassy so the frequent trips were making it muddy and slippery.
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Still need to find a grike.
From here we began to circle back towards FishFace, on the way we found a large flat expanse of limestone with one semi hopeful prospect but after a large amount of gardening and some dodgy free climbing down from Joel it was decided it was far too chossy to look into any further. Finally we found our one true promising prospect - a hole temporarily name crucifix as it's buried in a bundah patch next to a cross. After putting one bolt in and preparing to start more bolting / rigging we looked up to see a large thunderstorm approaching. We left our bolt and rope we started to leg it up the hill. Tom did not enjoy this part. Finally we arrived, drenched in sweat and wheezing for oxygen, but not burnt to the bone by lightning, we arrived at top camp as the storm hit. We spent the next part of the night cowering in the one only corner of the buivvy as the predicted rain poured. 5 of us sheltered in the animal shelter and watched Matilda the musical - a good storm pass time!
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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">Martin Green, <u>Philip Sargent</u>, </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">Jana Podbelsek, <u>Honorata Bogusz</u>, Mike Butcher, Will Kay, Radost Waszkiewicz, </div>
<div class="trippeople">Mike Butcher, Radost Waszkiewicz, <u>Honorata Bogusz</u>, 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">Janis Huns, <u>Harry Kettle</u>, Christian Kuhlmann, Emma Caspers, Charlotte Payne, </div>
<div class="trippeople">Christian Kuhlmann, Charlotte Payne, <u>Harry Kettle</u>, 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>, Emily Mabbett, Jonty Pine, </div>
<div class="trippeople">Jonty Pine, Emily Mabbett, <u>Amelia Oliver</u>, </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">Philip Balister, Amelia Oliver, Sarah Parker, Merryn Matthews, Ashley Gregg, <u>Wassil Janssen</u>, </div>
<div class="trippeople">Sarah Parker, Ashley Gregg, Amelia Oliver, Merryn Matthews, <u>Wassil Janssen</u>, Philip Balister, </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">Christian Kuhlmann, <u>Harry Kettle</u>, Alice Kirby, Will Kay, Charlotte Payne, </div>
<div class="trippeople">Alice Kirby, Charlotte Payne, <u>Harry Kettle</u>, 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">Joel Stobbart, <u>Sarah Parker</u>, Lizzie Caisley, Maddie Kirby, Philip Balister, </div>
<div class="trippeople">Lizzie Caisley, Philip Balister, <u>Sarah Parker</u>, 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">Maddie Kirby, <u>Janis Huns</u>, </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>, Buck Blake, Jonty Pine, </div>
<div class="trippeople">Jonty Pine, Buck Blake, <u>Joel Stobbart</u>, </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">Mike Butcher, <u>Emily Mabbett</u>, Charlotte Payne, Emma Caspers, Lizzie Caisley, </div>
<div class="trippeople">Charlotte Payne, Lizzie Caisley, <u>Emily Mabbett</u>, 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">Radost Waszkiewicz, <u>Honorata Bogusz</u>, </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">Amelia Oliver, Emma Caspers, Ashley Gregg, <u>Zac Woodford</u>, </div>
<div class="trippeople">Ashley Gregg, Emma Caspers, <u>Zac Woodford</u>, 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">Wassil Janssen, <u>Christian Kuhlmann</u>, </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">Nadia Raeburn, <u>Philip Sargent</u>, Jonty Pine, Janis Huns, </div>
<div class="trippeople">Jonty Pine, <u>Philip Sargent</u>, Janis Huns, 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>, Mike Butcher, Radost Waszkiewicz, </div>
<div class="trippeople">Radost Waszkiewicz, Mike Butcher, <u>Honorata Bogusz</u>, </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>, Harry Kettle, Charlotte Payne, </div>
<div class="trippeople">Charlotte Payne, Harry Kettle, <u>Emily Mabbett</u>, </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">Will Kay, Amelia Oliver, Alice Kirby, <u>Ashley Gregg</u>, </div>
<div class="trippeople">Alice Kirby, Amelia Oliver, <u>Ashley Gregg</u>, 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">Martin Green, <u>Philip Sargent</u>, </div>
<div class="trippeople">Jono, <u>Nadia</u>, Oakem, Jana, , Phillip ballister</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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Philip set up the solar panels the day before(hopefully he writes that up) and we started with bolting practice to prevent the solar panels from blowing away in the wind. We used 4 bolts and tied them on with blue string. Meanwhile Jono was digging steps into the entrance of the bivy.
<p>
Our next priority was the water tarp. Sarah and Janis had previously filled our water tub with snow and left it out in the sun. This melt water was our source for the initial camp. We added two bolts to the back of the cave for the back points. One bolt to the right side (looking in) and used a small thread for the 4th corner. we didn't get to test it in a storm but drips were collecting overnight. The current plan is to just home the bucket under and scoop water out.
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Ground was leveled for 5 bed spaced 'comfortably'. Sarah arrived at 2am and slept on the plateau. Good thing because we didn't have space for her. A few drips in the night but no problem in the bivy bags.
<p>
We did a little prospecting the next day (but i'll let someone else write about that) but not before leveling out the outdoor kitchen area, Jono improving the stairs and contemplating a new way into the big hole. We worked on making the climb down on the far side less sketchy by filling in the floor under the climb and raising the level to make the climb shorter. Currently the way around the snow plug needs filling in before visiting it and crossing the swiftly depleting snow plug is easier. The way around the back include waking close to a 12m cliff which we feel will eventually cause an accident by a sleepy caver. Also the climb down the back is not ideal.
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We then started on the tarp setup (after being delivered a generous supply of currys, food and metal work by Maddie and Evelyn). We dragged a big block to the right side of the cave and Jono placed a bolt high in the right wall. We noticed big holes in the ceiling so we chose to do a tent sloping in 2 directions so that the majority of the water does not drip into the sleeping area. We rigged a rope across from the front water tarp bolt to the new bolt for the peak of the tent. We then inserted a choke stone and a natural for the lower corners & the sleeping area. We tied the back to the right back water tarp bolt and we put a new bolt low on the left wall under the water tarp. We added an X of rope under the tarp on the sleeping side we put a parallel rope down the middle held to the top rope and a block in the floor. Currently we are only using the tarp in a half folded position.
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Sleeping was good but needs to be tested in a storm. Felt damp from condensation. Much colder in the cave than outside.
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Jana and Oaken worked hard on steps into the outdoor kitchen area. The ground was grassy so the frequent trips were making it muddy and slippery.
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Still need to find a grike.
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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="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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Afternoon: added lots of expoers to folk.csv and adding lots of mugshots. Particularly good one of Merryn.
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<div class="tripdate" id="2023-07-08b">2023-07-08</div>
<div class="trippeople">Amelia Oliver, Jonty Pine, <u>Janis Huns</u>, Ashley Gregg, </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="2023-07-08c">2023-07-08</div>
<div class="trippeople"><u>Will Kay</u>, Mike Butcher, Emma Caspers, </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">Emma Caspers, Mike Butcher, <u>Will Kay</u>, </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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We then walked back, attempting but failing to find Garlic Cave. On the way back we did find a nice looking camp spot (flat, grass, ????, would be good for a tne) at 47.6925722 13.8087777
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<div class="tripdate" id="2023-07-08d">2023-07-08</div>
<div class="trippeople"><u>Sarah Parker</u>, Harry Kettle, Charlotte Payne, </div>
<div class="tripdate" id="2023-07-08e">2023-07-08</div>
<div class="trippeople">Charlotte Payne, Harry Kettle, <u>Sarah Parker</u>, </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">Janis Huns, Jonty Pine, Ashley Gregg, Amelia Oliver, Joel Stobbart, <u>Buck Blake</u>, </div>
<div class="trippeople">Ashley Gregg, Joel Stobbart, Jonty Pine, Amelia Oliver, <u>Buck Blake</u>, Janis Huns, </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">Merryn Matthews, <u>Wassil Janssen</u>, Harry Kettle, Alice Kirby, Christian Kuhlmann, </div>
<div class="trippeople">Harry Kettle, Christian Kuhlmann, <u>Wassil Janssen</u>, 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">Becka Lawson, <u>Philip Sargent</u>, </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">Christian Kuhlmann, <u>Honorata Bogusz</u>, Harry Kettle, Ashley Gregg, Radost Waszkiewicz, </div>
<div class="trippeople">Harry Kettle, Radost Waszkiewicz, <u>Honorata Bogusz</u>, 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">Thomas Phillips, Honorata Bogusz, Radost Waszkiewicz, James Waite, Ashley Gregg, Ely Brookes, Will Kay, <u>Philip Sargent</u>, </div>
<div class="trippeople">Radost Waszkiewicz, Ashley Gregg, Will Kay, Honorata Bogusz, James Waite, Ely Brookes, <u>Philip Sargent</u>, Thomas Phillips, </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">Will Kay, <u>Philip Sargent</u>, </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">Oakem Kyne, <u>Wassil Janssen</u>, </div>
<div class="triptitle">Homecoming - Five and Flying</div>
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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
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<div class="tripdate" id="2023-07-11d">2023-07-11</div>
<div class="trippeople">Radost Waszkiewicz, <u>Honorata Bogusz</u>, Ashley Gregg, </div>
<div class="trippeople">Ashley Gregg, <u>Honorata Bogusz</u>, Radost Waszkiewicz, </div>
<div class="triptitle">1623-323 - Dropping Amphitheater Hoehle</div>
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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.
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<div class="tripdate" id="2023-07-11e">2023-07-11</div>
<div class="trippeople">Harry, Charlotte, <u>Becka</u>, </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.
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<div class="tripdate" id="2023-07-11f">2023-07-11</div>
<div class="trippeople">Harry, Charlotte, <u>Emily</u>, </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.
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<div class="tripdate" id="2023-07-12a">2023-07-12</div>
<div class="trippeople">Emily Mabbett, <u>Merryn Matthews</u>, Lizzie Caisley, Thomas Phillips, Joel Stobbart, </div>
<div class="trippeople">Lizzie Caisley, Joel Stobbart, <u>Merryn Matthews</u>, 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="2023-07-12b">2023-07-12</div>
<div class="trippeople"><u>Ashley Gregg</u>, Janis Huns, </div>
<div class="trippeople">Janis Huns, <u>Ashley Gregg</u>, </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.
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<div class="tripdate" id="2023-07-13a">2023-07-13</div>
<div class="trippeople">Oakem Kyne, Charlotte Payne, Jonty Pine, Harry Kettle, Radost Waszkiewicz, <u>Honorata Bogusz</u>, </div>
<div class="trippeople">Jonty Pine, Radost Waszkiewicz, Charlotte Payne, Harry Kettle, <u>Honorata Bogusz</u>, Oakem Kyne, </div>
<div class="triptitle">festering - Via Ferrata "Panorama Kletterstieg Sisi"</div>
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@ -930,7 +943,7 @@ 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">Harry Kettle, Charlotte Payne, <u>James Waite</u>, </div>
<div class="triptitle">Homecoming - pushing down homecoming from flowstone canyon, into alpine showers</div>
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after a heavy afternoon at the tatty hut, Harry asked if i fancied coming to
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<div class="tripdate" id="2023-07-15a">2023-07-15</div>
<div class="trippeople"><u>Ashley Gregg</u>, Janis Huns, Ely Brookes, </div>
<div class="trippeople">Ely Brookes, Janis Huns, <u>Ashley Gregg</u>, </div>
<div class="triptitle">Prospecting - Up to Homecoming from the Col</div>
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<div class="tripdate" id="2023-07-15b">2023-07-15</div>
<div class="trippeople"><u>Ashley Gregg</u>, Philip Balister, Ely Brookes, </div>
<div class="trippeople">Ely Brookes, Philip Balister, <u>Ashley Gregg</u>, </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
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<div class="tripdate" id="2023-07-15c">2023-07-15</div>
<div class="trippeople">Merryn Matthews, <u>Christian Kuhlmann</u>, Wassil Janssen, </div>
<div class="trippeople">Wassil Janssen, <u>Christian Kuhlmann</u>, Merryn Matthews, </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.
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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">Evelyn Surman, <u>Ashley Gregg</u>, </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
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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">James Waite, <u>Mark Shinwell</u>, </div>
<div class="triptitle">surface - Walk from Gschwandt Alm</div>
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>, Oakem Kyne, Emma Caspers, </div>
<div class="trippeople">Emma Caspers, Oakem Kyne, <u>Ashley Gregg</u>, </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
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<div class="tripdate" id="2023-07-18a">2023-07-18</div>
<div class="trippeople"><u>Ashley Gregg</u>, Merryn Matthews, Zac Woodford, </div>
<div class="trippeople">Zac Woodford, Merryn Matthews, <u>Ashley Gregg</u>, </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
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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">Jono Lester, <u>James Waite</u>, </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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<div class="tripdate" id="2023-07-19b">2023-07-19</div>
<div class="trippeople">Will Kay, <u>Ashley Gregg</u>, Zac Woodford, </div>
<div class="trippeople">Zac Woodford, <u>Ashley Gregg</u>, Will Kay, </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.
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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">Will Kay, <u>Ashley Gregg</u>, </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
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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">Thomas Phillips, <u>Ashley Gregg</u>, </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
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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">Kai Trusson, <u>Joe Stell</u>, </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
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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">Kai Trusson, <u>Joe Stell</u>, </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">Frank Tully, <u>Joe Stell</u>, </div>
<div class="triptitle">Surface - Check your bits</div>
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<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.
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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">Frank Tully, <u>Joe Stell</u>, </div>
<div class="triptitle">Maelstrom - Finally Underground</div>
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<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.
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<div class="tripdate" id="2023-07-29a">2023-07-29</div>
<div class="trippeople"><u>Joe Stell</u>, Nadia Raeburn, Frank Tully, </div>
<div class="trippeople">Frank Tully, Nadia Raeburn, <u>Joe Stell</u>, </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.
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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">Ruairidh MacLeod, <u>Joe Stell</u>, </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>
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<div class="tripdate" id="2023-07-31b">2023-07-31</div>
<div class="trippeople"><u>Ben Chaddock</u>, Adam Erskine, Charlie Crossley, </div>
<div class="trippeople">Charlie Crossley, Adam Erskine, <u>Ben Chaddock</u>, </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.
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<div class="tripdate" id="2023-08-01a">2023-08-01</div>
<div class="trippeople">Nathan Walker, Adam Aldridge, Manfred Wuits, <u>Joe Stell</u>, </div>
<div class="trippeople">Manfred Wuits, Adam Aldridge, <u>Joe Stell</u>, 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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<div class="tripdate" id="2023-08-02a">2023-08-02</div>
<div class="trippeople">Manfred Wuits, Nathan Walker, Adam Aldridge, <u>Joe Stell</u>, </div>
<div class="trippeople">Adam Aldridge, Nathan Walker, <u>Joe Stell</u>, 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>
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<div class="tripdate" id="2023-08-02b">2023-08-02</div>
<div class="trippeople">Nathan Walker, Adam Aldridge, Manfred Wuits, <u>Joe Stell</u>, </div>
<div class="trippeople">Manfred Wuits, Adam Aldridge, <u>Joe Stell</u>, 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
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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">Nadia Raeburn, <u>Hannah Collings</u>, </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.
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<div class="tripdate" id="2023-08-03a">2023-08-03</div>
<div class="trippeople">Becka Lawson, <u>Joe Stell</u>, Adam Aldridge, Nathan Walker, David Botcherby, </div>
<div class="trippeople">Adam Aldridge, David Botcherby, <u>Joe Stell</u>, Nathan Walker, Becka Lawson, </div>
<div class="triptitle">Garlic - Fettling</div>
<br /><br />Woke up. 10am. It was rainy :(
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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">Hannah Collings, <u>Joe Stell</u>, </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
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<div class="tripdate" id="2023-08-06b">2023-08-06</div>
<div class="trippeople">Nadia Raeburn, <u>Hannah Collings</u>, </div>
<div class="trippeople"><u>Hannah Collings</u>, Nadia Raeburn, </div>
<div class="triptitle">Fishface - Camp: Muddy Goons</div>
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<div class="tripdate" id="2023-08-10a">2023-08-10</div>
<div class="trippeople"><u>Rob Watson</u>, Nadia Raeburn, David Botcherby, Kai Trusson, </div>
<div class="trippeople">David Botcherby, Nadia Raeburn, Kai Trusson, <u>Rob Watson</u>, </div>
<div class="triptitle">fishface - Connecting FF to SMK: a step further</div>
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