diff --git a/years/2018/logbook.html b/years/2018/logbook.html index 3c9519450..1856fc488 100644 --- a/years/2018/logbook.html +++ b/years/2018/logbook.html @@ -835,7 +835,12 @@ The decision to leave all the tackle sacks at the entrance was endorsed unanimou
T/U 25 mins

-Bunda filling the plateau +
+ +Bunda filling the plateau +
Bunda filling the plateau - click for bigger picture + +

@@ -848,19 +853,39 @@ First we went the wrong way and ended up meandering through bunda above top camp Finally we set a bearing towards one of the caves in question, and this took us on 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. -The entrance is below a large fixed boulder with the tag on its SW side -. I (Nat) squeezed down through some +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 + +
+I (Nat) squeezed down through some dodgy loose boulders at the entrance, but could not get further down safely. I could see beyond the boulder choke that there was a vertical shaft, smooth-sided, which we measured by Disto as 2.7m deep, probably landing onto a gravel floor as judged by the sound of throwing rocks down. This vertical shaft appears to turn a corner into a rift heading South-West -(downslope). +(downslope). +

No noticeable draft, but it was hard to get my head right in. 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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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
@@ -889,6 +914,12 @@ that's most likely the same as catalogued 1623.p2002-07. 2018-PF-01,02,03
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2018-pf-01 paul drilling tag: view northeast
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Arriving at the Big Cairn (GPS coords UTM: 33T 0411542, 5282881) which is on the Tunnocks path, we followed the 2005 instructions and veered left on an alleged heading towards the fabled caves @@ -901,18 +932,28 @@ survey of the same day), 2018-PF-02 (which we tagged the next day with Wookey; undescended), and 2018-PF-03 (which Paul tagged some days later).

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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
GPS with 3m accuracy for all.
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2018-PF-01 is a 2m-diameter shaft with an easy climb down to a mossy slope. We surveyed it [see Paul's excellent digital -survey]. - +survey].

-2018-PF-02 is an impressive, open surface shaft about 3.5m + +

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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 diameter and 11.5m deep (as measured by Disto). It looks like it continues horizontally into a rift heading upslope. There is a good spot to drill bolts for rigging where we installed the tag. @@ -922,46 +963,67 @@ 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. -

2018-NTU-02 -
+ Afterwards we circled painfully through obstacles of larch and cliffs until we stumbled across another interesting -hole, which we named 2018-NTU-02. -
+hole, which we named 2018-NTU-02. 1861m, UTM: 33T 0411522, 5282905, GPS with 3m accuracy.
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. The small shaft is vertical +loops, which proved essential. +

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2018-ntu-02 entrance pitch 4.6m
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+The small shaft is vertical and has a depth of 4.6m (as measured by Disto) and a 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.] - -
+shaft. [See scanned sketch in our survey notes.] + +
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2018-ntu-02_drilled-hole_view-south
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We drilled and installed a Hilti, but did not have any tags, and we were unable to return to put the tag in later. The tag has been made and is sitting in the Tags tub -at top camp. +at top camp. +










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A big opening in the side of the mountain

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-A big opening in the side of the mountain -
Next we headed again for the mythical 2004-18, and reached the south-eastern edge of a huge steep-sided valley: Cubic Valley. - -(Note: the next day we found a much easier way with Wookey, by +

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2004-18_valley_cubic_boulder_afar_view_west
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cubic_valley_east-end_cave-view-north
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+(Note: the next day we found a much easier way with Wookey, by going from the Tunnocks path round the northern edge of the valley, as recorded in our uploaded GPS track and described in the updated -Approach to 2004-18.) Following the southern edge of the cliff, +Approach to 2004-18.) Following the southern edge of the cliff, we found a way to climb down into the valley. From the eastern edge 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. - +

Freezer Hole @@ -983,11 +1045,26 @@ section of valley is full of tantalising deep shafts which must be explored! Just beside 2004-18 we found another shaft with a tag marked "AA 1 2017" but there is no recorded survey, no database entry, no information anywhere about it . -, +

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aa-1-2017_with-tag
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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. - + +
2004-18_valley_cubic_boulder_afar_view_west
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@@ -1063,9 +1140,10 @@ Be sure to wear an oversuit and layers!

Natalie Uomini, Neil Smith
Top Camp - Tagging 2018-NTU-01
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Neil and Nat practiced hand-bolting and installed the tag for the cave Paul & Nat found previously. - +