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Natalie Uomini, Paul Fox
plateau - Top Camp - Surface Prospecting - Old & New Caves - 8.5 hours
T/U: 25 mins
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Bunda filling the plateau - click for bigger picture
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New cave 2018-NTU-01
Paul had prepared a list of some caves found in 2004 which were within 300m of Top Camp. @@ -2603,15 +2597,15 @@ a scramble parallel to (east of, uphill from) the path to Tunnocks. We bumbled onto a small cave entrance which we named 2018-NTU-01 located in a gully filled with wild chives.

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2018-ntu-01 neil_view_west - click for bigger picture
The entrance is below a large fixed boulder with the tag on its SW side.
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2018-ntu-01 tag arrows - click for bigger picture
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2018-ntu-01 looking down shaft and rift
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Data from Nat's GPS (Garmin Oregon 650):
1834m, N47°41.518, E13°49.298
UTM UPS: 33T 0411579, 5282737
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Rift hole to descend
Several meters downhill from 2018-NTU-01, in passing we waypointed on the GPS a "rift hole to descend", which looked like a promising hole that is @@ -2660,14 +2650,12 @@ nowhere near any already-catalogued waypoints. We finally rejoined the path to Tunnocks (which we should have used all along) and after a while, we waypointed on the GPS another hole that's most likely the same as catalogued 1623.p2002-07. -

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2018-PF-01,02,03

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2018-pf-01 paul drilling tag: view northeast
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2018-pf-03 and pf-02 arrows
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2018-PF-01 Tag: 1857m, UTM: 33T 0411526, 5282885
2018-PF-02: 1859m, UTM: 33T 0411540, 5282900
2018-PF-03: 1858m, UTM: 33T 0411530, 5282893
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2018-ntu-02 view west
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2018-PF-02 is an impressive, open surface shaft about 3.5m @@ -2716,13 +2700,9 @@ good spot to drill bolts for rigging where we installed the tag. Paul climbed down PF-03 and found it was choked at the end nearest (heading towards) the big shaft PF-02. Thus, it dashed all our hopes of finding a free-climbable access to the big shaft. -
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Afterwards we circled painfully through obstacles of larch and cliffs until we stumbled across another interesting hole, which we named 2018-NTU-02. 1861m, UTM: 33T 0411522, 5282905, GPS with 3m accuracy.
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2018-ntu-02 entrance pitch 4.6m
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2018-ntu-02_drilled-hole_view-south
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A big opening in the side of the mountain

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Next we headed again for the mythical 2004-18, and reached the south-eastern edge of a huge steep-sided valley: Cubic Valley.

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2004-18_valley_cubic_boulder_afar_view_west
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Freezer Hole
In the lowest point of the eastern bowl of Cubic Valley is a small @@ -2793,18 +2765,16 @@ compared to 18°C just outside the hole (in the shade) (- and the temperature in the sun on the plateau that day was about 30°C). This hole is choked with rubble, but it would certainly be an interesting digging project for future Expos. -

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aa-1-2017_looking-down
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Beside this shaft is another shaft with a snow plug and 2 spits well positioned for rigging, but no visible tag nor informations recorded.

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bolted-untagged-cave_beside_aa-1-2017_view-northwest
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2004-16 and 2004-17 and Maybe Hole
As it was getting late and our water bottles were empty and @@ -2847,11 +2813,7 @@ Then we struggled on through thick larch and sheer cliffs, walking on the Fischgesicht path in the distance, which we could eventually reach and thankfully followed back to Top Camp, arriving just 20 minutes before our callout time! -
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T/U: 0.0 hours

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