Post-Expo Documentation
+On this date, with the exchange of geartape Julia "the bloke" Bradshaw +and Dour "the beardy one" Day were in the sanctity of the tattiehut +joined in Holy Bondage until the day that one or the other fall apart. +
+Registrar: Martin Green
+Witnessed: Jessica Stirrups
+ Emma Wilson
+
+Rope for rigging down to pushing in 204 + +A => 48 (up), 30, +70 (up) [Last item annnoted 'wrong' in pencil] +King Carbide => 50/60 +Brians phat shaft => 82+30 +Painted Lady => ~30m +Puss in bolts + on the prowl traverse => 30+27, rope protector, +deviation +Fat Cat => 80, (or 25,45,12) may need more for swing off -> log book +states "QMA would require swing & prob more rigging to assist swing" + +Actual ropes => A: 41m, 11mm, chop from 92m +King Carbide: chop from 92m 10mm +Brians : 92 + 38 11mm +Painted Lady => 140m 10mm +Puss in bolts => 34 9mm +On the prowl => 29 9mm +Fat Cat => 140 10mm +
+Wook & Serena filled the van with lots of food & gear & set off for +expo. Remarkably traffic-free trip in the UK & across europe. Relised +at dover that we'd failed to bring a map of europe in physical or +digital form, so did a quick download + make plan on cheap UK data. +Worked very well offline so failed to get lost at all. Had 4hrs kip +en-route. +
+Very hot all the way here until thunderstorms from Reid in Imkreis +onwards. _Very_ wet. Got to Bad Aussee having heard that there was a +big concert on but traffic had cleared. Main Rd to Grundlesee was +closed & we were sent the back way, only to find it was totally packed +with drenched pedestrians & vehicles coming the other way. Eventually +got to the main rd to find totally stationary traffic. Went nowhere +for about half an hour before finally inching down to camp site which +was utterly heaving. +
+Left 5:30pm, arrived 9:30pm. +
+ +Martin rigged Fat Cat and explored the wrong way to solution pocket 8m +long & 10m high +
+Dour sat at the top for 3hrs and got quite cold. +
++Rigged the entrance pitch to 204. Found that the snow was quite low. +My spanner made a descent of the 2nd pitch, at which point I went out +
++Popped down the hole to top of Fat Cat. Jess pointed me towards Emmas +alternative hole, using backup of Fat Cat started on a quick pootle +downhill. Realised quite quckly I'd been sandbagged into a hard +bolting nightmare. No slings so cut end off rope to make one and head +down in tight rift. +
+Ended in rift that opened, placed bolt and headed down. Some minor +rubs that probably didn't damage the rope... Found a nice loking +natural and destroyed it one hit. Didn't make the mistake a second +time and cut end off rope to make a sling, arrived at sharp eyehole +looking for deviation - Jess called down from Emmas 'actual' hole +'which was nice'. Lost confidence in rock after dinner-plate fell off. +taking note of natural above. made 'Y' hang but [unreadable] with hand +bolts. Wish I had not lost drill bit at bivvy. +
PS pitch heads back under and appears to connect to Fat Cat pitch. +
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