Logbook edited 2018-08-08c

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 <div class="trippeople"><u>Natalie Uomini</u>, Paul Fox</div>
 <div class="triptitle">plateau - Top Camp - Surface Prospecting - Old & New Caves - 8.5 hours</div>
 <div class="timeug">T/U: 25 mins</div>
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 <b>New cave 2018-NTU-01</b>
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 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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 <br /><em><small>2018-ntu-01 neil_view_west  - click for bigger picture</small></em>
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 The entrance is below a large fixed boulder with the tag on its SW side.
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@@ -2628,14 +2622,12 @@ The shaft is definitely big enough for a person to stand in comfortably.
 With a bit of tidying up the big loose boulders inside the entrance, 
 one could get into the shaft and see where the rift goes. 
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 <br /><em><small>2018-ntu-01 looking down shaft and rift  <br />click for bigger picture</small></em>
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 Data from Nat's GPS (Garmin Oregon 650): <br />
 1834m, N47&deg;41.518, E13&deg;49.298  <br />
 UTM UPS: 33T 0411579, 5282737 <br />
@@ -2647,9 +2639,7 @@ To reach this cave easily from Top Camp, just follow the Tunnocks path until
 the cave marked on GPS as "1623.p2001-02", then turn right (uphill) and go up 
 a small chive & boulder-filled gully until you see the big boulder with the tag on it.  
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-<b>Rift hole to descend</b>
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 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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 <b>2018-PF-01,02,03</b>
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 <br /><em><small>2018-pf-01 paul drilling tag: view northeast  <br />click for bigger picture</small></em>
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@@ -2684,26 +2672,22 @@ day with Wookey; undescended), and 2018-PF-03
 (which Paul tagged some days later).
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 <br /><em><small>2018-pf-03 and pf-02 arrows  <br />click for bigger picture</small></em>
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 2018-PF-01 Tag: 1857m, UTM: 33T 0411526, 5282885 <br />
 2018-PF-02: 1859m, UTM: 33T 0411540, 5282900 <br />
 2018-PF-03: 1858m, UTM: 33T 0411530, 5282893 <br />
-GPS with 3m accuracy for all. <br />
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 <b>2018-PF-01</b> is a 2m-diameter shaft with an easy climb down 
 to a mossy slope. We surveyed it [see Paul's excellent digital 
 survey]. 
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 <br /><em><small>2018-ntu-02 view west <br />click for bigger picture</small></em>
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 </div><b>2018-PF-02</b> 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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 <b>2018-NTU-02</b>
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+<p>Afterwards we circled painfully through obstacles of 
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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. <br />
@@ -2730,8 +2710,8 @@ It is a window in the side of a surface shaft filled with
 grass. Nat climbed down into it using a handline tied with 
 loops, which proved essential.  
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 <br /><em><small>2018-ntu-02 entrance pitch 4.6m<br />click for bigger picture</small></em>
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@@ -2741,11 +2721,9 @@ diameter of about 2 to 3m. A passage extends about 2m
 horizontally at the base of this small shaft, ending in a 
 rubble choke which is the underside of the large surface 
 shaft.  [See scanned sketch in our survey notes.] 
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 at top camp. 
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 <h4>A big opening in the side of the mountain</h4>
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+<p>Next we headed again for the mythical 2004-18, and reached the 
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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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 <br /><em><small>2004-18_valley_cubic_boulder_afar_view_west<br />click for bigger picture</small></em>
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 of this valley is visible a large opening in the opposite (north side) 
 cliff, which I waypointed from my position. The opening should be 
 investigated, as it seems to be below Tunnocks. 
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 <b>Freezer Hole</b>
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 In the lowest point of the eastern bowl of Cubic Valley is a small 
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 (- 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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 <br /><em><small>aa-1-2017_looking-down<br />click for bigger picture</small></em>
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 survey, no database entry, no information anywhere about it . 
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 <br[Ed. This is presumably Adam Aldridge who lost all his notes of a prospecting trip on 7th Aug.2017 (which was nowhere near here: see 2017-AMS-01) and tagged this on another prospecting trip before the 7th. and lost all those notes too.]
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-<br />Beside this shaft is another <b>shaft with a snow plug 
 and 2 spits</b> well positioned for rigging, but no visible 
 tag nor informations recorded.  
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 <img  src=/years/2018/i/bolted-untagged-cave_beside_aa-1-2017_view-northwest.jpg> 
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 Who could have been there?
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 <b>2004-16 and 2004-17 and Maybe Hole</b>
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 As it was getting late and our water bottles were empty and 
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 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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