-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.
-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.
-
-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.
-
-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.
-
-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.
-
-Sleeping was good but needs to be tested in a storm. Felt damp from condensation. Much colder in the cave than outside.
-
-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.
-
-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!
Surface - Rope carry to Homecoming + Trial walk from Garlic Cave to Car Park on painted track
Surface - Reflecting the Homecoming -> Fishface route, scoping out a Homecoming to col route
@@ -470,7 +458,7 @@ Bolts used:
2023-07-07
-Nadia Raeburn, Philip Sargent, Jonty Pine, Janis Huns,
+Jonty Pine, Philip Sargent, Janis Huns, Nadia Raeburn,
Garlic - Hiking to Garlic Cave
Jonty's car: Jonty/Nads/Janis up to Garlic and return this evening. Taking new reflectors made this morning.
T/U: 0.0 hours
@@ -479,7 +467,7 @@ Bolts used:
2023-07-07
-Honorata Bogusz, Mike Butcher, Radost Waszkiewicz,
+Radost Waszkiewicz, Mike Butcher, Honorata Bogusz,
1623-290 - pushing deep Fishgesicht
We pushed 60m at the top of "Clap My Pitch Up". Pushing required bolting ~20m of a traverse ( 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). 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.
T/U: 0.0 hours
@@ -488,7 +476,7 @@ Bolts used:
2023-07-07
-Emily Mabbett, Harry Kettle, Charlotte Payne,
+Charlotte Payne, Harry Kettle, Emily Mabbett,
Homecoming - Rigging towards Watershed in Homecoming
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.
T/U: 0.0 hours
@@ -497,7 +485,7 @@ Bolts used:
2023-07-07
-Will Kay, Amelia Oliver, Alice Kirby, Ashley Gregg,
+Alice Kirby, Amelia Oliver, Ashley Gregg, Will Kay,
Fishface – Surveying Stalagtite Loop to the top of Liquid Luck
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
@@ -526,7 +514,32 @@ camp for curry.
2023-07-08
-Martin Green, Philip Sargent,
+Jono, Nadia, Oakem, Jana, , Phillip ballister
+Garlic - Garlic Cave Set up + First Nights
+After doing a big bounce carry yesterday, we now had sufficient supplies to spend the night and begin the proper set up of camp.
+
+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.
+
+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.
+
+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.
+
+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.
+
+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.
+
+Sleeping was good but needs to be tested in a storm. Felt damp from condensation. Much colder in the cave than outside.
+
+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.
+
+Still need to find a grike.
+
T/U: 0.0 hours
+
+
+
+
+2023-07-08
+Philip Sargent, Martin Green,
Basecamp - Nerd faff
Another frustrating day with network. WiFi router refused to allow connections - rebooted at ~0830. Ok.
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.
@@ -535,21 +548,21 @@ Looked at printer again. No clue as to why printer is not showing up on network
Afternoon: added lots of expoers to folk.csv and adding lots of mugshots. Particularly good one of Merryn.
T/U: 0.0 hours
-
-
-
-
-2023-07-08
-Amelia Oliver, Jonty Pine, Janis Huns, Ashley Gregg,
-Fishface - Pushing deep Fishface
-
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.
-T/U: 0.0 hours
2023-07-08
-Will Kay, Mike Butcher, Emma Caspers,
+Janis Huns, Jonty Pine, Ashley Gregg, Amelia Oliver,
+Fishface - Pushing deep Fishface
+
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.
+T/U: 0.0 hours
+
+
+
+
+2023-07-08
+Emma Caspers, Mike Butcher, Will Kay,
Amphitheatre - Following up on Radost and Honorata's prospecting leads (Unlucky Gemse cave and Amphitheatre cave)
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).
@@ -565,12 +578,12 @@ The next lead was Radost and Honorata's. Amphitheatre cave, which Nadia and some
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
T/U: 0.0 hours
-
+
-2023-07-08
-Sarah Parker, Harry Kettle, Charlotte Payne,
+2023-07-08
+Charlotte Payne, Harry Kettle, Sarah Parker,
Homecoming - Beyond Watershed in Homecoming Flowstone Canyon
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.
@@ -582,7 +595,7 @@ We surveyed for about 100m through sandy rifts, down a few climbs (that were muc
Slow, tired progress out saw us leave the cave at about 1am. I stumbled to Garlic Cave to sleep on the slabs outside the camp whilst Charlotte and Harry bivvied in a group shelter at the entrance.
T/U: 0.0 hours
-
+
@@ -596,7 +609,7 @@ Slow, tired progress out saw us leave the cave at about 1am. I stumbled to Garli
2023-07-10
-Janis Huns, Jonty Pine, Ashley Gregg, Amelia Oliver, Joel Stobbart, Buck Blake,
+Ashley Gregg, Joel Stobbart, Jonty Pine, Amelia Oliver, Buck Blake, Janis Huns,
Fishface - Carrying rope to Fishface and failing to rig entrance
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
@@ -616,7 +629,7 @@ left our caving kit under the small overhand near the entrance, then headed back
2023-07-10
-Merryn Matthews, Wassil Janssen, Harry Kettle, Alice Kirby, Christian Kuhlmann,
+Harry Kettle, Christian Kuhlmann, Wassil Janssen, Alice Kirby, Merryn Matthews,
Homecoming - Rig faff
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.
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.
@@ -629,7 +642,7 @@ left our caving kit under the small overhand near the entrance, then headed back
2023-07-10
-Philip Sargent, Becka Lawson,
+Becka Lawson, Philip Sargent,
basecamp - Becka arriving
She is arriving at 0941 at the station, would like lift.
T/U: 0.0 hours
@@ -638,7 +651,7 @@ left our caving kit under the small overhand near the entrance, then headed back
2023-07-10
-Christian Kuhlmann, Honorata Bogusz, Harry Kettle, Ashley Gregg, Radost Waszkiewicz,
+Harry Kettle, Radost Waszkiewicz, Honorata Bogusz, Ashley Gregg, Christian Kuhlmann,
festering - Canyoning Strubklamm
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).
@@ -674,7 +687,7 @@ Yet again a black bmw slowly moved in front of us with their sign flashing. Anot
2023-07-11
-Thomas Phillips, Honorata Bogusz, Radost Waszkiewicz, James Waite, Ashley Gregg, Ely Brookes, Will Kay, Philip Sargent,
+Radost Waszkiewicz, Ashley Gregg, Will Kay, Honorata Bogusz, James Waite, Ely Brookes, Philip Sargent, Thomas Phillips,
plateau - walk in
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)
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.
@@ -684,7 +697,7 @@ Yet again a black bmw slowly moved in front of us with their sign flashing. Anot
2023-07-11
-Philip Sargent, Will Kay,
+Will Kay, Philip Sargent,
plateau - Garlic and reflectors
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
@@ -719,7 +732,7 @@ hours of walking.
2023-07-11
-Wassil Janssen, Oakem Kyne,
+Oakem Kyne, Wassil Janssen,
Homecoming - Five and Flying
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 +785,7 @@ his own logbook entry.
2023-07-11
-Radost Waszkiewicz, Honorata Bogusz, Ashley Gregg,
+Ashley Gregg, Honorata Bogusz, Radost Waszkiewicz,
1623-323 - Dropping Amphitheater Hoehle
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 +797,7 @@ The Amphitheater Hoehle is named after its entrance which resembles an amphithea
2023-07-11
-Harry, Charlotte, Becka,
+Becka, Charlotte, Harry,
Homecoming - Watershed
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.
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 +810,7 @@ Slogged down from Top Camp to Homecoming and headed down the entrance series. Wa
2023-07-11
-Harry, Charlotte, Emily,
+Emily, Charlotte, Harry,
Fishface - Kresh Konnection exploring and rerigging
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 +821,7 @@ For the rest of the trip we actually ended up dropping to the bottom of the seco
2023-07-12
-Emily Mabbett, Merryn Matthews, Lizzie Caisley, Thomas Phillips, Joel Stobbart,
+Lizzie Caisley, Joel Stobbart, Merryn Matthews, Thomas Phillips, Emily Mabbett,
plateau - Prospecting between Homecoming and Fishface
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
@@ -839,7 +852,7 @@ Caves found:
2023-07-12
-Ashley Gregg, Janis Huns,
+Janis Huns, Ashley Gregg,
Amphitheatre – Surveying Frozen Unknown
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.
@@ -862,7 +875,7 @@ was no evidence of a draft at the bottom so not particularly promising.
2023-07-13
-Oakem Kyne, Charlotte Payne, Jonty Pine, Harry Kettle, Radost Waszkiewicz, Honorata Bogusz,
+Jonty Pine, Radost Waszkiewicz, Charlotte Payne, Harry Kettle, Honorata Bogusz, Oakem Kyne,
festering - Via Ferrata "Panorama Kletterstieg Sisi"
@@ -930,7 +943,7 @@ Pic: Oakem Kyne (L) and Jonty Pine (R) on Panorama Kletterstieg Sisi.
2023-07-14
-James Waite, Charlotte Payne, Harry Kettle,
+Harry Kettle, Charlotte Payne, James Waite,
Homecoming - pushing down homecoming from flowstone canyon, into alpine showers
after a heavy afternoon at the tatty hut, Harry asked if i fancied coming to
@@ -1034,7 +1047,7 @@ Full details at
2023-07-15
-Ashley Gregg, Janis Huns, Ely Brookes,
+Ely Brookes, Janis Huns, Ashley Gregg,
Prospecting - Up to Homecoming from the Col
Edit this entry
@@ -1058,7 +1071,7 @@ drops approx. 5m with snow at bottom, can't clearly see bottom from top.
2023-07-15
-Ashley Gregg, Philip Balister, Ely Brookes,
+Ely Brookes, Philip Balister, Ashley Gregg,
2018-DM-04 – Prospecting, exploring, surveying
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
@@ -1082,7 +1095,7 @@ Top Camp.
2023-07-15
-Merryn Matthews, Christian Kuhlmann, Wassil Janssen,
+Wassil Janssen, Christian Kuhlmann, Merryn Matthews,
Homecoming - In Search Of Salamanders
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.
@@ -1116,7 +1129,7 @@ Overall, a great trip with over ~294m surveyed and more promising leads found. C
2023-07-16
-Ashley Gregg, Evelyn Surman,
+Evelyn Surman, Ashley Gregg,
Prospecting - Much prospecting near Balcony
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
@@ -1150,7 +1163,7 @@ yield any new caves.
2023-07-16
-Mark Shinwell, James Waite,
+James Waite, Mark Shinwell,
surface - Walk from Gschwandt Alm
Walk from Gschwandt Alm below the western edge of the plateau.
[note taken from gps23.svx]
@@ -1175,7 +1188,7 @@ Walk from Gschwandt Alm below the western edge of the plateau.
2023-07-17
-Ashley Gregg, Oakem Kyne, Emma Caspers,
+Emma Caspers, Oakem Kyne, Ashley Gregg,
Fishface – Kresh connection confusion
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
@@ -1287,7 +1300,7 @@ Despite ~300m of passage being surveyed minimal progress was made in getting clo
2023-07-18
-Ashley Gregg, Merryn Matthews, Zac Woodford,
+Zac Woodford, Merryn Matthews, Ashley Gregg,
Tempest – Touch of Death
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
@@ -1371,7 +1384,7 @@ tldr: Camp: Effort does not equal success.
2023-07-19
-James Waite, Jono Lester,
+Jono Lester, James Waite,
Homecoming - pushing beyond death sump and the heifer
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.
@@ -1388,7 +1401,7 @@ we regrouped at the base of the heifer after adding a bolt to make the pitch hea
2023-07-19
-Will Kay, Ashley Gregg, Zac Woodford,
+Zac Woodford, Ashley Gregg, Will Kay,
2023-ASH-15, 2023-ASH-16 - Prospecting – dropping Boring Hole and Dead on Arrival
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.
@@ -1404,7 +1417,7 @@ rift the were no continuations. Will named it Dead on Arrival (2023-ASH-15). Sur
2023-07-19
-Ashley Gregg, Will Kay,
+Will Kay, Ashley Gregg,
Plateau - Surveying Little Tent and Gollum Grotto
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
@@ -1433,7 +1446,7 @@ off on the edges of the plateau. Plus curry for dinner.
2023-07-20
-Ashley Gregg, Thomas Phillips,
+Thomas Phillips, Ashley Gregg,
Plateau - Surveying Top Camp Band and Bat versus Rat
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
@@ -1485,7 +1498,7 @@ Test of the logbook entry editing system.
2023-07-24
-Joe Stell, Kai Trusson,
+Kai Trusson, Joe Stell,
Fishface - Tourist Trip to Pisspot
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.
Turned around and headed back out after 2 hours or so as felt we had done enough SRT practice
@@ -1495,7 +1508,7 @@ Test of the logbook entry editing system.
2023-07-24
-Joe Stell, Kai Trusson,
+Kai Trusson, Joe Stell,
Surface - surveying/prospecting small leads found yesterday by Luke, Becca and Max
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.
@@ -1509,7 +1522,7 @@ Test of the logbook entry editing system.
2023-07-27
-Joe Stell, Frank Tully,
+Frank Tully, Joe Stell,
Surface - Check your bits
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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2023-07-28
-Joe Stell, Frank Tully,
+Frank Tully, Joe Stell,
Maelstrom - Finally Underground
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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2023-07-29
-Joe Stell, Nadia Raeburn, Frank Tully,
+Frank Tully, Nadia Raeburn, Joe Stell,
Maelstrom - "Undersold"
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.
@@ -1585,7 +1598,7 @@ Also, it is now our closest cave passage to the neighbouring Schönberg system (
2023-07-31
-Joe Stell, Ruairidh MacLeod,
+Ruairidh MacLeod, Joe Stell,
Surface - Prospecting alternative entrances for Maelstrom
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.
T/U: 0.0 hours
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2023-07-31
-Ben Chaddock, Adam Erskine, Charlie Crossley,
+Charlie Crossley, Adam Erskine, Ben Chaddock,
Fishface - Cocoa Channel Bolting Mission
[Adam E = Adam Erskine-Jones]
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.
@@ -1608,7 +1621,7 @@ Also, it is now our closest cave passage to the neighbouring Schönberg system (
2023-08-01
-Nathan Walker, Adam Aldridge, Manfred Wuits, Joe Stell,
+Manfred Wuits, Adam Aldridge, Joe Stell, Nathan Walker,
Surface - Hike to Garlic
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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2023-08-02
-Manfred Wuits, Nathan Walker, Adam Aldridge, Joe Stell,
+Adam Aldridge, Nathan Walker, Joe Stell, Manfred Wuits,
Buzzard - dropping Buzzard Hole on the northerly Kleiner Wildkogel ridge
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).
T/U: 3.0 hours
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2023-08-02
-Nathan Walker, Adam Aldridge, Manfred Wuits, Joe Stell,
+Manfred Wuits, Adam Aldridge, Joe Stell, Nathan Walker,
Surface - Prospecting east and south of Kleiner Wildkogel
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
@@ -1649,7 +1662,7 @@ that seem to follow a rift along the base of Wildkogel, then back to Garlic camp
2023-08-02
-Hannah Collings, Nadia Raeburn,
+Nadia Raeburn, Hannah Collings,
Fishface Camp - Pushing Theophilus Goon
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.
@@ -1670,7 +1683,7 @@ that seem to follow a rift along the base of Wildkogel, then back to Garlic camp
2023-08-03
-Becka Lawson, Joe Stell, Adam Aldridge, Nathan Walker, David Botcherby,
+Adam Aldridge, David Botcherby, Joe Stell, Nathan Walker, Becka Lawson,
Garlic - Fettling
Woke up. 10am. It was rainy :(
@@ -1687,7 +1700,7 @@ did also later. I took some photos and made some shoddy diagrams of the tarps. G
2023-08-04
-Joe Stell, Hannah Collings,
+Hannah Collings, Joe Stell,
Basecamp - Garlic Guide
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
@@ -1743,7 +1756,7 @@ After about 20 legs Rob had finished his rigging and came and collected Botch to
2023-08-06
-Nadia Raeburn, Hannah Collings,
+Hannah Collings, Nadia Raeburn,
Fishface - Camp: Muddy Goons
Blog Author: h_collingsFishface Camp - Muddy Goons
@@ -1783,7 +1796,7 @@ The pitches back to camp were painful, despite their shortness, due to our mud c
2023-08-10
-
Rob Watson, Nadia Raeburn, David Botcherby, Kai Trusson,
+
David Botcherby, Nadia Raeburn, Kai Trusson, Rob Watson,
fishface - Connecting FF to SMK: a step further
Blog Author: nobrotson
Connecting FF to SMK - a step further