From ca93687af4bb7016cb3439ce818d0a0417311179 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Philip Sargent Date: Tue, 30 Aug 2022 17:57:50 +0300 Subject: [PATCH] Many formatting and name fixes --- years/2022/logbook.html | 175 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++------------- 1 file changed, 117 insertions(+), 58 deletions(-) diff --git a/years/2022/logbook.html b/years/2022/logbook.html index 787ac0dcc..c76850f0e 100644 --- a/years/2022/logbook.html +++ b/years/2022/logbook.html @@ -8,24 +8,34 @@

CUCC Expo Logbook 2022

-
2022-07-27
Luke, Hannah
-
Balkonhöhle - Balkonhöhle
+
Balkonhöhle - Entrance rigging

Walked over with Chris, Hannah and Alice.

-

Rigged handline with nice rope (replaced with tatt later). Rigged the entrance, Hannah arrved just as I was finished We went off to see if Natural Highs was rigged, it wasn't, back to the entrance to get the rope. (Needs more than 26m). Then rigged Natural Highs, 2nd traverse and 10m down pitch, all in need of fettling. Went to the top of Honeycomb for an explore and then back to the entrance to find Alice and Chris. Arrived just as Alice was descending. Hannah led everyone back to Honeycomb, we all helped put a bolt in then left Alice and Chris to rig Honeycomb. Me and Hannah left with minor fettling tothe rigging on the way out. I headed down the hill to sort out rope for Fishface. TU 6 hours.

+

Rigged handline with nice rope (replaced with tatt later). Rigged the entrance, Hannah arrved just as I was finished We went off to see if Natural Highs was rigged, +it wasn't, back to the entrance to get the rope. (Needs more than 26m). Then rigged Natural Highs, 2nd traverse and 10m down pitch, all in need of fettling. Went to +the top of Honeycomb for an explore and then back to the entrance to find Alice and Chris. Arrived just as Alice was descending. Hannah led everyone back to Honeycomb, +we all helped put a bolt in then left Alice and Chris to rig Honeycomb. Me and Hannah left with minor fettling to the rigging on the way out. I headed down the hill to +sort out rope for Fishface.

T/U: 6 hours (09:00-15:00)
2022-07-27
-
Chris, Alice
-
Balkonhöhle - Balkonhöhle
-

It was great to be equipped with laminated surveys and a system expert in the form of Luke to show us the way forward, as I hadn't been further in the cave since first rigging natural highs and Leeds Bypass years ago. Luke demonstrated impressive recallby pointing out a tiny pocket in the wall on the far side of Honeycomb as a necesssary deviation thread, then he and Hannah left me and Alice to it. One of the pitch head Hiltis was rusty and sticking outa few mm so I put in a new thru bolt and descended to Luke's thread. Having stuffed string down the hole, I abbed down a metre to look up and see it was indeed a long thread with my string stuffed inthe top. Looking below I couldn't help but notice the floor about 2m below. Hmm. I derigged the string and popped down a neighbouring pit, to so encounter the floor at about 6m. Back up at the pitch head, there was an obvious traverse level with a pit beyond where rocks (all about 50m. Could this be the actual Honeycomb?) I could only spot 1 bolt a yard above my reach and didn't fancy waltzing across without a beteeer grasp of the situation so we headed out to mutter alot about our written and verbal instructions about what must be "Fanny by Gaslight" traverse.

+
Chris D, Alice
+
Balkonhöhle - Balkonhöhle Fanny by Gaslight?
+

It was great to be equipped with laminated surveys and a system expert in the form of Luke to show us the way forward, as I hadn't been further in the cave since +first rigging natural highs and Leeds Bypass years ago. Luke demonstrated impressive recall by pointing out a tiny pocket in the wall on the far side of Honeycomb as a +necesssary deviation thread, then he and Hannah left me and Alice to it. One of the pitch head Hiltis was rusty and sticking outa few mm so I put in a new thru bolt +and descended to Luke's thread. Having stuffed string down the hole, I abbed down a metre to look up and see it was indeed a long thread with my string stuffed in the +top. Looking below I couldn't help but notice the floor about 2m below. Hmm. I derigged the string and popped down a neighbouring pit, to so encounter the floor at +about 6m. Back up at the pitch head, there was an obvious traverse level with a pit beyond where rocks (all about 50m. Could this be the actual Honeycomb?) I could +only spot 1 bolt a yard above my reach and didn't fancy waltzing across without a better grasp of the situation so we headed out to mutter a lot about our written and +verbal instructions about what must be "Fanny by Gaslight" traverse.

2022-07-28
@@ -63,15 +73,17 @@ ALSO title is {place hyphen title} -->
2022-07-30
Lucy, Martin, Frank, Paul Fox
-
Hilti-a-plenty rigging in Balkonhöhle
+
Balkonhöhle - Hilti-a-plenty rigging in Balkonhöhle

Lucy and Martin rigged Hilti a plenty and did a little exploration. Returned to meet Paul and Frank. Went to misidentified pushing front. Redescended some pitches and traverse. Frank explored a tight key hole passage and did a rough survey. Lucy and Paul set out first whilst Frank and Martin found the proper next pitch. Martin got soaked on the entrance pitch by a short 10minute thunderstorm.

T/U: 8 hours (12-20:00)
2022-07-30
Wassil and Alice
-
Balkonhöhle
-

We headed into Balcony withthe intention of rerigging the pitch after Honeycomb but first decided to descend to the bottom of Mongol rally to have an explore. Having somehwta underestimated how long it would take to ascend from Mongol Rally, we found ourselves cutting it too fine with out callout to have time to complete the rigging Therefore our rerigging plans turned into an enjoyable tourist trip and we made it out in time to watch the sunset.

+
Balkonhöhle - enjoyable tourist trip
+

We headed into Balcony with the intention of rerigging the pitch after Honeycomb but first decided to descend to the bottom of Mongol rally to have an explore. +Having somehwta underestimated how long it would take to ascend from Mongol Rally, we found ourselves cutting it too fine with out callout to have time to complete the +rigging Therefore our rerigging plans turned into an enjoyable tourist trip and we made it out in time to watch the sunset.

T/U: 9.5 hours (11:00-20:30)
@@ -107,7 +119,7 @@ ALSO title is {place hyphen title} -->
2022-08-01
Frank, Mealy, Lucy, Oakem
-
Balkonhöhle
+
Balkonhöhle - forgotten spanner

Basically a clusterfuck. I forgot my spanner and lent my survey gear (which contains my spare spanner), everyone else did not realise they needed a spanner - we need to update the expo recommended kit list...

Killed off some qm's in the area, some of which were passaged which were not closed on the mini survey and not actual qm's. The two qmB's above the pitch which links 'Let's be appalling' to 'Can't stop now it's bat country', were mud filled tubes and did not draught, interestingly there is a potential QM'c above the pitch which will require climbing up 4m but I'm not happy doing it. @@ -194,8 +206,8 @@ Large hole, craps out.

2022-08-03
-
Rob and Alice
-
Fishface rebolting
+
Rob, and Alice
+
Fishface - rebolting

Headed into Fishface with the Japers and Becka's survey team not far ahead. Route well reflected by Luke and quick progress made to the climbs at the Bubbly Bypass (Bx4) that neeed to be bolted. Alice commenced rigging but after 1.5 holes, battery 23 stopped working unexpectedly and smelled of electrical fire - deduced to be short circuit. Battery 6 provided no holes so we decided to head down to the Kubla Khan level to inspect the leads there and possibly pinch a battery off the Japes. Flew down to the TK Max which is pretty big, passed Mr Naughty where Luke had left a note instructing us to add some rigging. On arrival at the Nicolas Cage traverse through some excellent howling passage we acquired the necessary gear and it was deceided that I would add 2 extra reblays to the TK MAX then rig Mr Naughty before Alice finished bolting the climbs. Added the necessary rebelays, first was suboptimal as one of the bolts causes some rub (left bolt of the Y hang). Then continued up, rigged Mr Naughty with the others hot on my heels then cracked on to the find Alice and continue her rebolting. this eventually done after more battery issues (no. 20, big tick) we were out and back at camp around 11.

T/U: 10 hours
@@ -214,7 +226,7 @@ Large hole, craps out.

2022-08-03
Luke, Joel, Jonty
-
Fishface
+
Fishface - Nicholas Cage traverse

Return to Fishface after a good rest. Joel and I rigged the Nicholas Cage traverse, which we took great pride in. Rob Watson stole our drill as we were deliberating how to finish the traverse. Alice turned up and decided the Nicholas Cage traverse was in fact the Nicholas Cage handline. After gaining access to the far side of the traverse and having been relieved of our drill we dutifully decided to continue on and survey what we strongly believed to be the best lead of expo. This led to the discovery of Keanu Breeze, so named whilst we were fighting for our lives in the cold winds. After reaching the end of our lead at the top of a large pitch we decided to return the next day to bolt it. Getting out this time was a lot easier thanks to the aforementioned rest day.

T/U: 10 hours (12:00-22:00)
@@ -252,9 +264,19 @@ Followed the unnamed area down the canyon to a undescended small pitch. Dropped
2022-08-04
Luke, Joel, Harry, Jonty
-
Fishface
+
Fishface - bolting
-

Enthusiastically we set out to do justice to the Keanu Breeze pitch. With drill, hammer, and spanner we made our way to the bottom of Fishface and layered up in preparation for the cold bolting job As this was my first pitch bolting job Harry came to help me while Luke and Joel split off for some survey work. After finding a nice natural for the leading line, the first Y hang was easy to install. We had a good discussion about game plan during which Harry kettle's love of deviations became apparent. I descended a short distnce and found a nice ledge witha potential clean hang to the bottom. The obvious place to place the bolt happened to be in a very large boulder that looked like it didn't want to be part of the wall. Harry did not seem concerned about this until we swapped places and he got a look at it himself, at which point we agreed to bolt next to the boulder instead on into it. As we did not have a skyhook this involved a sustained heel hook, during which I nearly lost a welly, as I drilled the first hole. After some time and some strange noises from the bothy I completed the rebelay. We then proceeded proceeded to descend the pitch and Luke soon appeared at the top shouting something about us having left the survey kit behind. As he descended the pitch he made some faces and muttered something about 'nasty water'. Joel and I had faith however and postulated that we may even have discovered the Loser master cave. Being the rigorous caving team that we are, we took our measurements and, having got slightly wet, left hastily despite Harry reckoning he could push the wet passage. The Keanu Breeze pendlum to a nice looking phreatic passage remains to be attemped by a bold caver who still has the energy to go to the bottom of Fishface.

+

Enthusiastically we set out to do justice to the Keanu Breeze pitch. With drill, hammer, and spanner we made our way to the bottom of Fishface and layered up in +preparation for the cold bolting job As this was my first pitch bolting job Harry came to help me while Luke and Joel split off for some survey work. After finding a +nice natural for the leading line, the first Y hang was easy to install. We had a good discussion about game plan during which Harry kettle's love of deviations became +apparent. I descended a short distnce and found a nice ledge witha potential clean hang to the bottom. The obvious place to place the bolt happened to be in a very +large boulder that looked like it didn't want to be part of the wall. Harry did not seem concerned about this until we swapped places and he got a look at it himself, +at which point we agreed to bolt next to the boulder instead on into it. As we did not have a skyhook this involved a sustained heel hook, during which I nearly lost a +welly, as I drilled the first hole. After some time and some strange noises from the bothy I completed the rebelay. We then proceeded proceeded to descend the pitch +and Luke soon appeared at the top shouting something about us having left the survey kit behind. As he descended the pitch he made some faces and muttered something +about 'nasty water'. Joel and I had faith however and postulated that we may even have discovered the Loser master cave. Being the rigorous caving team that we are, we +took our measurements and, having got slightly wet, left hastily despite Harry reckoning he could push the wet passage. The Keanu Breeze pendlum to a nice looking +phreatic passage remains to be attemped by a bold caver who still has the energy to go to the bottom of Fishface.

T/U: 10 hours (12:00-22:00)
@@ -299,7 +321,7 @@ Followed the unnamed area down the canyon to a undescended small pitch. Dropped
2022-08-04
-
Lucy, Mike, Kieron
+
Lucy, Mike, keiran
Happy Butteryfly cave (GSH)

Set off late after midday due to faff with 200m of new white shiny rope walked to the entrance. Some snow, skull from a few years back still there. Mike had derigged GSH in 2019(?). Keiran and Mike started to rig down the 1st pitch. Mike later returned to this and changed it to a traverse instead. Keiran taught Lucy to rig on the second pitch which she did. The third pitch was a bit confusing with too many bolts for what was needed. Lucy too start to rig.

@@ -314,13 +336,13 @@ Followed the unnamed area down the canyon to a undescended small pitch. Dropped
2022-08-05
-
Joel, Andreas and Kieran
+
Joel, Andreas and keiran
Fishface - Hug the plug and tasteful noods

Surveying and psuhing shallow leads (no deeper than top of 3rd pitch)

We went underground planning to survey the new ice plug which me and Wassil dropped last Monday, survey Tasteful Noods and then explore the lead going N at bottom of entrance pitch. First finished bolting and rigging down near ice plug, names "Hig the plug" - Andreas drilling. Put in a second Y hang then dropped to ice - squeezed around but qucikly crapped out. Surveyed (but not to link in - need to redo to close the loop) then got out as very cold.

Insert rigging guide!!!

-

Surveyed tasteful noods (spanking new trade route and 2nd pitch courtesy of me, Kieran and Mike with deviations galore) from station 14 at the top of ice tube, but again didn't bloody link into existing station.

+

Surveyed tasteful noods (spanking new trade route and 2nd pitch courtesy of me, keiran and Mike with deviations galore) from station 14 at the top of ice tube, but again didn't bloody link into existing station.

Once done surveying, we went along the surveyed passage at bottom of entrance pitch to drop the unsurveyed pitch. Passage doubles back underneath with some nasty false floor but after another small pitch continues to glimpse a larger chamber with large boulders - needs another short pitch to get in but we were a bit done by this point. Will go back to survey and push into chamber to see where it links into - have left around 90m of rope.

T/U: 6.5 (12:30-19:00)
@@ -338,8 +360,8 @@ Followed the unnamed area down the canyon to a undescended small pitch. Dropped
2022-08-05
-
Wookey, Mike Butcher, Amelia Oliver, Paul Walko, Aaron Claire
-
Rigging Amelia's Pitch
+
Wookey, Mike Butcher, Amelia Oliver, Paul Walko, Aaron Clair
+
WhichCave -Rigging Amelia's Pitch

Went to bottom for Amelia to rig her 1st pitch. Very windy spot so surveying team (illegible) arses off to about an (illegible) whilst Mealy & Mike started down the pitch. Calibrated disto & fiddled with Topodroid to while away time.

@@ -358,8 +380,8 @@ Very windy spot so surveying team (illegible) arses off to about an (illegible)
2022-08-07
-
Rob, Luke, Mike, Jape
-
Kamp Kresh - Fishface
+
Rob, Luke, Mike, Jonty
+
Fishface - Kamp Kresh

Awoke restless after terrible dream that I had spilt all the coffee and had no time to make more before venturing underground. Up the hill in reasonable time, however in just 15 minutes into the walk to Top Camp Mike managed to topple over and cut himself badly on his hand. We were very poorly equipped to deal with this but @@ -391,7 +413,7 @@ out, abandoned the Jape to worship the candles, left him the drum, which he proc

2022-08-07
Frank
-
Unknown
+
WHichCave - God knows what I was up to

God knows what I was up to, probably caving down Bat country....

@@ -400,7 +422,7 @@ out, abandoned the Jape to worship the candles, left him the drum, which he proc
Wookey, Philip Balister, Arndt Karger
Reutner-Express
-

Went on a trip with ARGE to see their new cave, Reutner-Express, which has the pleasing characteristics of a) being a 20min walk from the car-park & b) only being about 60m deep.

+

Went on a trip with ARGE (Arndt Karger) to see their new cave, Reutner-Express, which has the pleasing characteristics of a) being a 20min walk from the car-park & b) only being about 60m deep.

This sounded short enough that Philip decided he'd come caving (and had his gear at base - I'd carried mine down specifically after a whole one trip at top camp).

@@ -422,23 +444,24 @@ I went another 10m but it got awkward in the same vein.

2022-08-08
-
Mealy, Joel, Lucy and Andreas
-
Fishface Shallow trip looking for HB connection
+
Amelia Oliver, Joel, Lucy, Andreas
+
Fishface - Shallow trip looking for HB connection
+

(Mealy == Amelia Oliver)

Lucy and Joel wento to link Tasteful Noods to entrance survey. Mealy and Andreas went to Captain Crunch to bolt the pitch left previsouly. Swapped ropes around in Captain Crunch. Joel and Lucy then joined us to survey Captain Crunch. Mealy dropped a pitch and found a survey station suspecting she was in Happy Butterfly she was pleased. Dropped antoher pitch 'flying cottage' found more survey points. Surveyed and left.

T/U: 6 hours
2022-08-07
Frank
-
Balcon, derig of the Unnamed traverse above start of Sloppy Seconds pitches
+
Balkon - derig of the Unnamed traverse above start of Sloppy Seconds pitches

Popped down to derig Martin’s traverse in ‘Bat Country’ pulled the rope to the bottom of the balcony pitch in bat country.

2022-08-08
Rachel Turnbull, Wookey, Tobias Turner
-
Finding Orphaned Caves
+
Plateau - Finding Orphaned Caves

2006-06 Boganhölhe

Originally surveyed 2001, but lost.

@@ -454,7 +477,7 @@ I went another 10m but it got awkward in the same vein.

2022-08-09
-
Mealy, Joel, Erik
+
Mealy, Joel, Eric
Fishface - Happy Butterfly connection

Back to flying cottage. Suspecting HB was near, a team had gone that way to make noise. Unsure which was to explore the rift, we went one way until we had to chissle Joel out of a boulder choke and we could go no further. A small water hole was found. We went back to flying cottage. The day before we had found some hilti bolts making a Y hang over a large rift. Using these, Mealy descended. Kresh connection was found.

@@ -464,17 +487,19 @@ I went another 10m but it got awkward in the same vein.

2022-08-09
Frank
-
Happy Butterfly make that connection
+
Happy Butterfly - make that connection

Tourist trip for me :¬)Went down to the top of the defying gravity pitch and surveyed back across the traverse. As we completed the survey Amelia appeared high up in a parallel rift and much shouting and celebrating occurred, it was very loud. Not enough rope to make the connection.

2022-08-09
Wookey, Philip Balister, Paul Walko, Dinny Davies
-
Sorting more caves
+
Plateau - Sorting more caves

Headed Balcony-wards to continue OCD work completing previous finds.

-

2012-NS-15 was first. Tag already present, matching GPS within 10m or so. But leg '20m down' clearly not possible. Rigged off Bunde & sent Dinny down. Did better survey. Cave in a 20m deep [illegible] snow plug. Small hole in [illegible] (~3m) shows a bit of cave passage not actually [illegible] through loose choss, but no draught so not worth returning.

+

2012-NS-15 was first. Tag already present, matching GPS within 10m or so. But leg '20m down' clearly not possible. +Rigged off Bunde & sent Dinny down. Did better survey. Cave in a 20m deep [illegible] snow plug. +Small hole in [illegible] (~3m) shows a bit of cave passage not actually [illegible] through loose choss, but no draught so not worth returning.

Surveyed, Re-GPSed, photoed. Katasterable.

2012-NS-05 & 2012-NS-06

@@ -493,12 +518,22 @@ I went another 10m but it got awkward in the same vein.

2022-08-10
-
Gwen, Erik, Tobias
-
Fishface
+
Gwen, Eric, Tobias
+
Fishface - Through trip
-

The creche had made the connection between Fischgesicht and Happy Buttery on the previous day, so the plan today was for a group to go into Fishface to do the through trip and survey the connection, while another team followed to survey some unsurveyed passages in Fishface and derig behind the other team once we knew they were through to Happy Butterfly. Amelia, Joel, Charlotte and Rachel were on the 'throughtrip' team. Despite giving them a head start we caught up with them at the entrance. Tobias and I [] got dressed, not knowing what awaited us as it was our first ever expo trip. I was surpirsed by how cold the entrance was compared to the boiling temperatures outside. I was even more surprised when I bumped into the other team who had dropped their drill down the first pitch. After [] the bag, Amelia realised the drill was not working, so her and Joel left to get a reserve.

-

Out team continued with the original plan, so we dropped down to the pitch above the 50m above the connection. We were dismayed to see survey points here, meaning someone had done the job before but the data was missing. We completed the survey quickly and caught up with Rachel and Charlotte who were rerigging the 50m pitch above the connection.

-

Erik, Tobias and I then went up a couple of pitches to a passage Erik had explored on a previsou trip. This passage ended quickly in a boulder choke so the survey didn't go as long as expected. After completing the survey we went back down to the 50m pitch to see if we should be derigging on our way out. By this time, Joel and Amelia had returned and were bolting the traverse in Happy Butterfly. It sounded like they had a long way to go, so we decided to leave without derigging in case they couldn't get down Happy Butterfly.

+

The creche had made the connection between Fischgesicht and Happy Butterfly on the previous day, so the plan today was for a group to go into Fishface to do the +through trip and survey the connection, while another team followed to survey some unsurveyed passages in Fishface and derig behind the other team once we knew they +were through to Happy Butterfly. Amelia, Joel, Charlotte and Rachel were on the 'throughtrip' team. Despite giving them a head start we caught up with them at the +entrance. Tobias and I [] got dressed, not knowing what awaited us as it was our first ever expo trip. I was surpirsed by how cold the entrance was compared to the +boiling temperatures outside. I was even more surprised when I bumped into the other team who had dropped their drill down the first pitch. After [] the bag, Amelia +realised the drill was not working, so her and Joel left to get a reserve.

+

Out team continued with the original plan, so we dropped down to the pitch above the 50m above the connection. We were dismayed to see survey points here, meaning +someone had done the job before but the data was missing. We completed the survey quickly and caught up with Rachel and Charlotte who were rerigging the 50m pitch +above the connection.

+

Eric, Tobias and I then went up a couple of pitches to a passage Erik had explored on a previsou trip. This passage ended quickly in a boulder choke so the survey +didn't go as long as expected. After completing the survey we went back down to the 50m pitch to see if we should be derigging on our way out. By this time, Joel and +Amelia had returned and were bolting the traverse in Happy Butterfly. It sounded like they had a long way to go, so we decided to leave without derigging in case they +couldn't get down Happy Butterfly.

T/U: 5 hours

Insert scan for 290 clap my pitch up rigging guide

@@ -506,14 +541,14 @@ I went another 10m but it got awkward in the same vein.

2022-08-10
Becka, Chris Holt, Nathan
-
Fishface to Coconut Chamber, surveying Coconut Sky
+
Fishface - to Coconut Chamber, surveying Coconut Sky
-

Covid crew + Nathan headed tothe bottom of Fishface and had noodle lunch at the waterpool before checking out the Coconut Chamber leads. We started to survey at old station 11 (of Coconut Chamber 3) then, 3 stations later, tied into Coconut Chamber 3.14... oh well, at least it confirmed our tie-in. The rest of the survey trip was confusing - we surveyed back under ourselves to a deep canyon which is the same one in Coconut Chamber. However the two C leads above this seem to be sepereate and are still not pushed. We then headed in the opposite direction (N), up the canyon. This soon lead to a low but wide chamber with many rock pillars. The canyon continued N but it is deep with slippy, muddy, sloped sides which would need rigging to explore safely. The only other lead was a QMB in the top left of the chamber. We exited with a very pleasent curry, couscous and 2nd noodle tea before prossicking out in about 2.5 hours.

+

Covid crew + Nathan headed to the bottom of Fishface and had noodle lunch at the waterpool before checking out the Coconut Chamber leads. We started to survey at old station 11 (of Coconut Chamber 3) then, 3 stations later, tied into Coconut Chamber 3.14... oh well, at least it confirmed our tie-in. The rest of the survey trip was confusing - we surveyed back under ourselves to a deep canyon which is the same one in Coconut Chamber. However the two C leads above this seem to be sepereate and are still not pushed. We then headed in the opposite direction (N), up the canyon. This soon lead to a low but wide chamber with many rock pillars. The canyon continued N but it is deep with slippy, muddy, sloped sides which would need rigging to explore safely. The only other lead was a QMB in the top left of the chamber. We exited with a very pleasent curry, couscous and 2nd noodle tea before prossicking out in about 2.5 hours.

T/U: 9.5 hours
2022-08-10
-
Kristian Brook,Lucy Hyde, Emily Mabbet, Frank Tully
+
Kristian Brook,Lucy Hyde, Emily Mabbett, Frank Tully
Balkonhöhle - Nothing to See (resurveying 2017's Shite)

It was time for my penance. Adam Aldridge and I did such a shit job of surveying in 2017 that no survey was written up for half of Nothing to See. The purpose of this trip was to show this series to someone more competant to ensure it is further explored. It is heading to Bat Country - a T junction is encountered shortly before the pitchhead for tBat Country. Turn right at this T junction and a pit is encountered (left takes you to Bat Country). Traverse over the pit and drop a small pitch. Way on is true right. True left is a view of a lower passage that conencts to Bat Country; there is a hole in the floor that has potential to be dropped. Way on leads to GalactiRamp. GalactiRamp was dropped in 2017, and links to GalactiShaft. Exposed traverse around GalactiRamp leads to a 4 way junction. levft is an exposed traverse to GalactiShaft MAze. Right is a passage that soon ends with a too tight rift in the right. Straight on drops into a chamber with a pit in the floor (unknown if this has been dropped). Beyond chamber, a passage leads on and a passage to the left leads to Galacti-cock, a 200m (estimate) shaft dropping to Galactica. Carry on the passage to a T Junction. Right leads to Dead Battery Run a blind pit that has two leads from the top, a QMB and QMC. Left goes down into a Fucking Maze with leads A-Fucking-Galore and will be a treat to survey on a future trip.

@@ -523,12 +558,12 @@ I went another 10m but it got awkward in the same vein.

2022-08-10
Rachel, Charlotte, Mealy, Joel
-
Fishface to Happy Butterfly Connection via Kreshconnection
+
Fishface - to Happy Butterfly Connection via Kreshconnection
-

2 Teams descended Fishface. I'd never been so was relieved of the pressure of knowing anything remotely navigational. Mealy led the way through the entrance, immediately tossing her tackle sack with the drill and batteries down the entrance pitch and onto the traverse line. After an enormous thud, she went to retrieve it and hid in the sandy crawl. This entrance pitch is still a bit loose and we descended one at a time. I abbed to the the sound of her sad 'Oh's. Mealy called up the pitch, 'is it allowed to ooze?'. Unsure whether she was talking about the drill or batteries, I shouted to her to keep her hands clear. Ooze was something I was fairly sure was not good. Thankfully, the batteries were not oozing, just the drill. Everyone else descended, we faffed and discussed what to do. Erik's team had caught up with us by this point and it was decided he could show Charlotte and I to the lead, whilst Mealy and Joel went to investigate if there was a spare drill at the Stone Bridge. They removed the drill and batteries and left the rest of the bolting gear at the bottom of the entrance pitch.

+

2 Teams descended Fishface. I'd never been so was relieved of the pressure of knowing anything remotely navigational. Mealy led the way through the entrance, immediately tossing her tackle sack with the drill and batteries down the entrance pitch and onto the traverse line. After an enormous thud, she went to retrieve it and hid in the sandy crawl. This entrance pitch is still a bit loose and we descended one at a time. I abbed to the the sound of her sad 'Oh's. Mealy called up the pitch, 'is it allowed to ooze?'. Unsure whether she was talking about the drill or batteries, I shouted to her to keep her hands clear. Ooze was something I was fairly sure was not good. Thankfully, the batteries were not oozing, just the drill. Everyone else descended, we faffed and discussed what to do. Eric's team had caught up with us by this point and it was decided he could show Charlotte and I to the lead, whilst Mealy and Joel went to investigate if there was a spare drill at the Stone Bridge. They removed the drill and batteries and left the rest of the bolting gear at the bottom of the entrance pitch.

Erik showed us the way. We were baffled to see our route had been previsouly bolted on hiltis and survyed, and wondered why we were back there. To kill time, I rerigged the 50m pitch above the connection to a long, thicker rope. Charlotte dropped it as a sub-optimal free hang, noting the rebelays we didn't have the bolting gear to utilise. Unable to get safely off the rope, she ascended and we surveyed the top of the pitch area and waited for Mealy and Joel.

They reappeared, and Joel rigged the remainder of the pitch and bolted a traverse below that headed along the rift to a stone bridge. Down and across the traverse, we passed under the Bridge and formally into Happy Butterfly. Wuheyy. Found HB survey points to tie into. Erik's group were due to derig behind us, but due to us being 4 hours behind schedule, they'd left, leaving the traverse and pitch into Fishface rigged. There was a climbing traverse into HB that Mealy was hesitant to derig and despite lots of tickling, that got left. Down the hill, we found out there might be potential leads there anyway.

-

Left via Happy Butterfly, myself derigging and Mealy derigging a pitch where the bolts weren't a meter above her head.

+

Left via Happy Butterfly, myself derigging and Mealy (Amelia) derigging a pitch where the bolts weren't a meter above her head.

Expected time underground - 6 hours. Actual time underground - 11 hours. A warm welcome to the creche. Insert Kreshconnection rigging topo below.

In Mealy's defense account: The donkey's dick failed me, it was very sad. Braking [sic] drills is sad

T/U: 11 hours
@@ -536,7 +571,7 @@ I went another 10m but it got awkward in the same vein.

2022-08-10
Frank, Kristian, Emily,
-
Balkonhöhle NOTHING TO SEE
+
Balkonhöhle - NOTHING TO SEE

Quick trip into Balkon HiltiAPlenty, nowhere, Headed in and lifted the rigging kit from ‘top of ‘bat country’ to ‘lets be appalling’, so that we could rig across the traverse into nowhere. Rigging down the small pitch is a bit rubby an it hooks under a flake, it might be easier to rig it as a traverse towards the maze traverse.

@@ -554,7 +589,7 @@ The ‘Suffolk by the sea’ survey went up the bed from the bottom of the ‘le
2022-08-10
Rob
-
Glossary of Expo terms
+
Basecamp - Glossary of Expo terms

Japers - any crechling whose name begins with J

Crechling - member of the creche

@@ -564,10 +599,11 @@ The ‘Suffolk by the sea’ survey went up the bed from the bottom of the ‘le
2022-08-12
-
Becka Lawson, Nat Dalton (also Wookey + Andreas on camp)
+
Becka Lawson, Nat Dalton, Wookey, Andreas
Balkon - Charon & Underground Camp
T/U Fri ?7, Sat 24, Sun 15 +

(also Wookey + Andreas on camp)

Fri

I food-panicked and insisted on us taking down infeasible numbers of curries etc. We each had a heavy bag down, taking a lot extra rope. Camp disappointed Nat - dirty cups + very damp pits. Also very muddy hangers. Drip for water very slow.

Sat

@@ -578,10 +614,26 @@ T/U Fri ?7, Sat 24, Sun 15
2022-08-13
-
Rob Watson, Nathan Walker, Max
+
Rob Watson, Nathan Walker, Max, Chris, Eric
Apis Medicus- Below Clap My Pitch Up
-

Trip began very efficiently due to Captain Chris and I deciding not to partake the evening prior & due to pre-trip packing the evening prior.

Underground by 10am after a relaxed breakfast. Quickly down pitches & arrive at the (illegible). Show Chris & Eric the start of the survey at Mourning The Moths then headed off to continue bolting down 'Clap my pitch up'. Chose to name the passage 'Bee Doctor' [Apis Medicus] (in latin) after Keiran's antics on Wednesday where he attempted (succesfully) to save a drowned be (and was then stung by a different bee). Hopped down a traverse then down a very impressive 50-60m shaft to a very bouldery collapse chamber from which a muddy meander passage was heading nearly due south. We surveyed dilligently along this until we reached a watery impasse (3m drop, (illegible) without getting soaked) just beyond a drippy inlet (suspect this passage is not ideal in wetter conditions, considering we are in a drought it would appear this is probably wet often especially as we expereinced much drippier conditions in 'clap my pitch up' during its exploration eariler in the week which we disliked). However it was only just 6pm at this point & we felt it premature to leave, so I lashed some dyneema around a thread then attached some slings to that & we made a highly japist descent, only to discover that just around the corner the water plunged down a further 10m pitch.

Back to the big pitch for the drill then Nathan had his first go on the bolts to drop the climb of pitch on the last of the nice 8.8mm rope which we cut from the base of the big pitch (felt bad). This done we rounded another courner, with the passage becoming ever more meandery & shit, only to discover that a further ~10m pitch lay just ahead. With no further drill batteries, rope or enthusiasm we decided it was time to head out, derigging the lead as we went.

After a stint in my group shelter, I took the full rope bag & Nathan took over derigging from Max while we headed off to make noodles. This done we began to head out. Nathan & I arriving at the surface shortly after Eric & Chris at 2am. After waiting till 3am for Max we then began a slow plod back, only to see his light emerge when we had just arrived at the convenient viewing point. Happy days! Curry & cous cous were very welcome. Then Chris, Max & I partook in a very fine moon & stars before turning in at 8am.

+

[Missing logbook entry for Cpt Chris & Eric trip ?]

+ +

Trip began very efficiently due to Captain Chris and I deciding not to partake the evening prior & due to pre-trip packing the evening prior.

Underground +by 10am after a relaxed breakfast. Quickly down pitches & arrive at the (illegible). Show Chris & Eric the start of the survey at Mourning The Moths then +headed off to continue bolting down 'Clap my pitch up'. Chose to name the passage 'Bee Doctor' [Apis Medicus] (in latin) after Keiran's antics on Wednesday where he +attempted (succesfully) to save a drowned be (and was then stung by a different bee). Hopped down a traverse then down a very impressive 50-60m shaft to a very +bouldery collapse chamber from which a muddy meander passage was heading nearly due south. We surveyed dilligently along this until we reached a watery impasse (3m +drop, (illegible) without getting soaked) just beyond a drippy inlet (suspect this passage is not ideal in wetter conditions, considering we are in a drought it would +appear this is probably wet often especially as we expereinced much drippier conditions in 'clap my pitch up' during its exploration eariler in the week which we +disliked). However it was only just 6pm at this point & we felt it premature to leave, so I lashed some dyneema around a thread then attached some slings to that +& we made a highly japist descent, only to discover that just around the corner the water plunged down a further 10m pitch.

Back to the big pitch for the +drill then Nathan had his first go on the bolts to drop the climb of pitch on the last of the nice 8.8mm rope which we cut from the base of the big pitch (felt bad). +This done we rounded another courner, with the passage becoming ever more meandery & shit, only to discover that a further ~10m pitch lay just ahead. With no +further drill batteries, rope or enthusiasm we decided it was time to head out, derigging the lead as we went.

After a stint in my group shelter, I took the full +rope bag & Nathan took over derigging from Max while we headed off to make noodles. This done we began to head out. Nathan & I arriving at the surface shortly +after Eric & Chris at 2am. After waiting till 3am for Max we then began a slow plod back, only to see his light emerge when we had just arrived at the convenient +viewing point. Happy days! Curry & cous cous were very welcome. Then Chris, Max & I partook in a very fine moon & stars before turning in at 8am.

T/U 16 hours
@@ -595,7 +647,7 @@ T/U Fri ?7, Sat 24, Sun 15
2022-08-14
-
Rachel Turnbull, Nathan Walker + (second day = Cpt Chris)
+
Rachel Turnbull, Nathan Walker
Fischgesicht - Connecting the Kresh Connection

Rob tipped us off to a window ledge opposite the pinnacle on the 3RD pitch of Fischgesicht.

@@ -604,9 +656,16 @@ T/U Fri ?7, Sat 24, Sun 15

The rope was rigged off a very conveniently placed thread off the right hand wall. This passage continues meandering, to a pitch (13/16?m) into a rift I sort of recognised with blocked rock and bridge.

Closer to the thread there was a climb on the right hand wall (total 8m). This circles back into the rift with the main pitch (illegible). - Nathan forgot the drill bit, no fault of his own, so we left. T.U = 5 hrs

+ Nathan forgot the drill bit, no fault of his own, so we left.

+
T/U 5 hours
-

MON We returned for an efficient trip with Cpt. Chris, returned to the pitch where Nathan put in two bolts, and dropped to a ledge then found the cave had been pre-bolted, and I joined him to confirm we were,as I had suspected the day before, in the Kresh Connection.

+
+
2022-08-15
+
Rachel Turnbull, Nathan Walker, Chris Holt
+
Fischgesicht - Connecting the Kresh Connection 2
+ +

MON We returned for an efficient trip with Cpt. Chris, returned to the pitch where Nathan put in two bolts, and dropped to a ledge then found the cave had +been pre-bolted, and I joined him to confirm we were,as I had suspected the day before, in the Kresh Connection.

I welcomed him to Happy Butterfly and we tied in the survey.

On the way out, Becka + Nat napped Chris and we reflected on a well spent day. TU = 3hr

@@ -670,7 +729,7 @@ We wore Andreas out on the way out (not least due to slipping croll). Nice to ge
2022-08-15
Nat Dalton, Becka Lawson, Christopher Holt
-
Perseid (ex - Big Bastard)
+
Fishface - Perseid (ex - Big Bastard)

Becka had disappeared down the hill in the previous day (in need of a wash) so a leisurely start was had with Becka arriving back at Top Camp for second breakfast at ~1100.

@@ -681,8 +740,8 @@ We wore Andreas out on the way out (not least due to slipping croll). Nice to ge
2022-08-15
-
Gwenllian Tawy Dinny Davies, Emily Mabbett
-
Surface Prospecting between Balkonhöle and Griesskogelschacht
+
Gwenllian Tawy, Dinny Davies, Emily Mabbett
+
Plateau - Surface Prospecting between Balkonhöle and Griesskogelschacht

Having had a couple of underground days and one planned for the following day, Dinny and I decided that a day surface prospecting would be sensible. Nat and Becka suggested we scout the area between Balcony and Griesskogelschacht (#232), as there may be a better way into the deeper parts of Balcony between the two entrances.

As we were getting ready to leave, Emily decided she wanted to join as she wasn't feeling well enough for a caving trip.

@@ -703,7 +762,7 @@ We wore Andreas out on the way out (not least due to slipping croll). Nice to ge
2022-08-16
Kristian Brook, Alex Hannam, Tobias Turner
-
Prospecting - NS-01, NS-13, NS-14
+
Plateau - Prospecting - NS-01, NS-13, NS-14

I was fucked and coming down from cave-allergy. Alex had arrived at expo the night before so determined to get me out of my funk. After a quick shop for food and water we set off up the hill, Alex carrying all his gear and me and Tobias carrying a fuck ton of water as top camp was running low on water. I was personally carrying 17 litres. Arriving at camp we found the water situation was not as dire as predicted so that was a waste of single use plastics.

@@ -716,7 +775,7 @@ We wore Andreas out on the way out (not least due to slipping croll). Nice to ge
2022-08-17
Kristian Brook, Nat Dalton, Tobias Turner
-
Balcony Derig
+
Balcony - Derig

Setting off from top camp 2 hours after Becka's group we descended and met the last camp team at the bottom of Honeycomb. Nat continued down to assist the first derig team at Mongol Rally. Tobias and I assisted Charlotte, Jono and Hannah with their bags back to the water that comes in near Natural Highs. @@ -726,7 +785,7 @@ We wore Andreas out on the way out (not least due to slipping croll). Nice to ge

2022-08-17
Becka Lawson, Alex Hannam, Nathan Walker
-
Balcony Derig
+
Balcony - Derig

We'd had no peep from the Balkon cavelink so we weren't sure when the campers would have left so we headed off leisurely but no sign of life at the top of Honeycomb so Nathan + I dragged Alex on a trip down memory lane to Lock aven. The ice is in a sorry state with rotten, melting ice lumps melted from the avents littering the floor. I wanted to check out the snow ramp but it was so melted that there wasn't enough left to climb up.

@@ -744,7 +803,7 @@ We wore Andreas out on the way out (not least due to slipping croll). Nice to ge
2022-08-18
Kristian Brook, Alex Hannam
-
NS-14 Failure
+
NS-14 - Failure

We set off for NS-14 to drop it and investigate this massive hole. Kristian carrying a very heavy survey kit and Alex carrying 100m of rope, metal work and the drill and batteries. Alex was carrying the trip. We got to NS-14 and while looking for suitable bolting locations we found two bolts that suggested the hole had been dropped. Further investigation revealed that this was 288 and useless cunts had not linked it.