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+<head><title>2004 Expo Logbook</title></head>
+<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="../../css/main2.css" />
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+<h1>Expo 2004</h1>
+
+<!-- <d> = date; <w> = who; <t> = trip title; <g> = time underGround. -->
+
+<d>5/7/04</d>	<w><u>Mark S</u>, Olly M et al</w>	<t>In Cambridge</t>
+
+<p>And so it was that at 12.41 on Monday 5th July did the weighbridge at Madingley Mulch pronounce one white Citro&euml;n C15D van, by the
+registration mark of L852 MFL, to be 400kg overweight &ndash; weighing in at nearly two tonnes. Mark and Olly were not best pleased, the
+previous days and morning having been spent cramming Expo goods into every nook and cranny about the van.</p>
+
+<p>It was a combination of the appaling handling and the measly &lt; 1cm of suspension clearance at the rubber stop which persuaded us to
+have the van weighed. It was cearly far more overweight than in previous years &ndash; so much so that it was more than 200kg over the
+total maximum load on the tyres!</p>
+
+<p>We returned to the Tackle Store having summoned Martin and Dave, and soon began the tedious task of emptying about 300kg of shit out of
+the van &ndash; each item being monotonously weighed on Martin's bathroom scales. Many, many phone calls ensued and after various silly
+plans (including driving to Expo and then coming back the next day for a second load, utilising a cheap day return on the ferry from
+Calais!) we settled on a haulier who would transport it to Munich for 300 quid. Not too bad in fact, given it would cost well over 200
+quid to do the two-drives plan. (In fact, subsequently a cheaper company were found.) We declined one company's quote of three thousand
+pounds, refilled the van with lighter items and set off for Milton Tesco's, to collect journey food. At about 5.40pm all was ready (minus
+the various tasks which we hadn't had time to do due to the massive hiatus). We set off for Earl's place and arrived without mishaps,
+planning to leave for Dover at 4am. Expo had begun.</p>
+
+<d>6/7/04</d>	<w><u>Mark S</u>, Olly M</w>	<t>Driving to Austria</t>
+
+<p>Arose at 3.30pm and left Earl's place just after five past four on Tuesday morning. The ferry was at 6am and we arrived just at the
+right time after a stop for fuel. (Got to the port around 5.20am.)</p>
+
+<p>The ferry was on time and we set off about 8.20am French time onto the motorway. Driving in shifts, there were no mishaps until Mark's
+shift around N&uuml;rnburg.</p>
+
+<p><i>[The N&uuml;rnburg incident, which apparently involved a high-speed emergency stop with inadequate brakes, never got written up in
+the enormous space left for it on the page.]</i></p>
+
+<d>6/7/04</d>	<w><u>Dave</u></w>	<t>Dave's trip out</t>
+
+<p>All went v. smoothly; up at 3am (ouch!), coach to Stansted, Ryanair to Salzburg, tram, train etc to arrive at Bad Aussee at around 3pm.
+Bus timetable appears to be beyond the comprehension of mere mortals, so I walked. Then fell asleep, woke up and spent four hours watching
+German TV. (Something important has happened to the state governor of Steiermark, but I have no idea what.)</p>
+
+<d>7/7/04</d>	<w>Olly M, Mark and <u>Dave</u></w>
+
+<p>Walked up hill. Snow level very high. Had considerable fun hauling gear out of Traungold (caving gear + some digging were needed).</p>
+
+<g>T/U: Dave 1hr</g>
+
+<d>8/7/04</d>	<w>Olly M, Mark and <u>Dave</u></w>
+
+<p>More getting stuff out of snow-choked holes.</p>
+
+<g>T/U: Olly M 1hr</g>
+
+<d>10/7/04</d>	<w><u>Dave</u>, Olly M</w>	<t>204A rigging</t>
+
+<p>Rigged down to bottom of A ent pitch. Owing to lack of rope we didn't get any further than that + ran out of excuses for walking
+downhill in the rain.</p>
+
+<g>T/U: Dave 1.25hrs Olly 0.75hrs</g>
+
+<d>??</d>	<w><u>Julia</u> and Anthony...</w>	<t>..are here</t>
+
+<p>Det er veldig variskelig &acirc; snakke [illegible]. Men jeg m&acirc; pr&oslash;ve. We left Anthony's office at 3.00pm on Friday (I
+remembered the guitar). Getting out of Norge not easy, but achieved eventually. 6 hours Oslo to G&oslash;teborg. Then lots more hours
+through Sweden, Denmark and Germany. Sweden + Germany go on far too long especially. Our stereo died, but it only cost 20 NOK so it's fair
+enough. No traffic jams once outside Sweden. It took ages, Dour ate lots of chocolate, I didn't fall asleep too much, Expo is great + so
+is G&ouml;sser.</p>
+
+<p><i>[In different pen and Dour's handwriting]</i>I say chaps, it's a dashed long way from Oslo to expo, what?</p>
+
+<d>13/7/04</d>	<w><u>Julia</u></w>
+
+<p>Oh, so caving songs get written in the rain, right. Well, plenty of rain here, so let's have some inspiration. There's Duncan's first
+bit:</p>
+
+<blockquote>
+When I first came to Cambridge I was only 18<br />
+With a fiver in my pocket and my old dangly bag<br />
+So I went down the Panton to check out the scene<br />
+But I soon ended up as a beardy old lag.
+</blockquote>
+
+<p>Still Duncan:</p>
+
+<blockquote>
+When the Mornflake + the Tunnocks bars were stacked in great piles<br />
+With the old Expo trailer we would drag them for miles
+</blockquote>
+
+<p>Then me:</p>
+
+<blockquote>
+To the arse-end of Austria we carted our load<br />
+Knowing free schapps awaited at the end of the road
+</blockquote>
+
+<p><strong>INSPIRATION NEEDED HERE</strong></p>
+
+<p>Last verse:</p>
+
+<blockquote>
+And now I am lying here, I ain't had no booze<br />
+I've been pushing and caving, and I'm all sore and bruised<br />
+I feel like I'm dying, and I wish I could beg<br />
+For a stretcher to carry me to old base camp.
+</blockquote>
+
+<d>12/7/04</d>	<w><u>Jenny</u> + Olly B</w>
+
+<p>We set off for our 3<sup>rd</sup> carry to Top Camp, and for the first time it wasn't raining. As we got to TC it got much darker, and
+just as we started pitching the big expo tent it started to hail horizontally which was really quite grim... Eventually we got the tent up
+and went to look for Eislufth&ouml;hle (76), Olly knew where it was, but couldn't remember quite how to get there so we walked around a
+lot in the erratic boulders just below where 76 turned out to be.</p>
+
+<d>13/7/04	<w><u>Jenny</u> + Olly B</w>
+
+<p>Carried up our final load to TC, noticed that the tent had lots of big puddles. Perhaps optimistically, I assumed it had come into the
+tent whilst we erected it in the hail storm, so I bailed out the water + we set off for 76, armed with a GPS. We got the [illegible] the
+GPS point and wandered around and found 97 which still had paint marking it. This gave us an idea of where 76 was which we then found.
+About 50m from 76, towards the ridge, was a very very good potential bivvy site &ndash; a big arched entrance maybe 15m across and 1.5m
+high with a snow patchand a skylight. Probably room for ~6 people without too much rock moving + more people with more work, quite
+sheltered as well as it opens out into a small sheltered valley (with room for a small tent). We walked back to TC laying cairns as we
+went.</p>
+
+<d>14/7/04</d>	<w><u>Jenny</u> + Olly B</w>
+
+<p>Woke up to find just how un-waterproof the tent was &ndash; lots of leaks through the ceiling and 3 puddles a couple of inches deep,
+wet sleeping bags and other wet stuff which wasn't nice at all. Eventually got going after a short delay to dry out the lighter before we
+could make breakfast. We walked back to 76 carrying lots of gear to relook at the bivvy with a view to actually using it &ndash; and it
+looked a whole better <i>[sic]</i> than the tent. We carreid another load from TC adding more cairns as we went.</p>
+
+<p>Olly taught me how to bolt by demonstrating to drill a tag spit for 97, then I put ones in for tags for 76 and 76b (76a was already
+tagged). Then I went underground in the 76a entrance, it goes approximately horizontally for about 15m over a step on the way, there was
+quite a lot of soft snow on the floor but no ice visible till near the pitch, where there was a small ice-shell. The pitch continues down
+below where the 76 ent shaft comes in (but this looked too loose to be worth using). I placed my first two underground bolts, then looked
+round the corner and saw an old spit which suggested that in the 70s the snow level was higher. I carried on down the sloping gully with
+snow on the floor, the gully flattened out to a ledge with loose rocks. Just round the corner was a nice looking 10-20m pitch which looked
+to land on a big snow ledge. Time was running out so I came back up and added a bolt to the top to make the rope hang in a nicer place.
+Then we got changed and walked back to the car via TC to collect our wet sleeping bags to dry them. On the way back we realised that
+Olly's GPS was still getting a fix by the bivvy... Oh, whilst I was caving Olly cairned a path from the bivvy to the 204 path.</p>
+
+<g>T/U Jenny 3.5hrs</g>
+
+<p>3rd verse</p>
+
+<blockquote>
+Oh, the chill winds at night through the bivvy would blow<br />
+But there were boys at the stone bridge to guide you below<br />
+If you didn't fancy caving you could go and get drunk<br />
+There was always lots of festering down at old base camp
+</blockquote>
+
+<d>14/7/04</d>	<w><u>Dave</u>, Olly M, Stuart, Dour</w>	<t>Ariston rigging</t>
+
+<p>Wandered in down 204A re-rigging on Dave Brindle's rope. Dour put in a bolt enabling me to get close enough to the 2nd pitch to see
+that it was open, which was a pleasant surprise seeing how much snow was around generally. At this point Dour returned to the surface
+while Olly, Stuart and I wandered down Ariston. Ran out of rope at Steel Toecap and headed out.</p>
+
+<g>T/U Dave, Olly, Stuart 6.5hrs, Dour 1hr</g>
+
+<d>15/7/04</d>	<w><u>Olly M</u>, Stuart, Peter</w>	<t>204E rigging</t>
+
+<p>Had much difficulty finding the entrance, it was further than I remembered. Took ages to rig the pitch, then went out.</p>
+
+<g>T/U Olly, Stuart, Pete 2.5hours</g>
+
+<d>15/7/04</d>	<w><u>Dave</u>, Mark D, Nial</w>	<t>Kiwi Suit rigging</t>
+
+<p>Continued rig down bottom pitch of Ariston (which is shite) and 54m pitch in Kiwi Suit. Realising we had only three hangers left, we
+put in the next 8m pitch but didn't descend, + buggered off out. Nial + Mark apparently got lost in the crawls at the bottom of
+Wolpertinger Way and were out an hour after I was; I really ought to have hung around to point out the route &ndash; sorry guys, but I was
+cold + knackered + wanted to go downhill.</p>
+
+<p><i>[Mark D's handwriting]</i> Scientific note: air temp measured at Pot-U-Like 2&deg;C.</p>
+
+<g>T/U Dave 5.5hrs, Nial, MarkD 6.5</g>
+
+<d>18/7/04</d>	<w>Dour, <u>Mark D</u></w>	<t>Razor Dance rigging</t>
+
+<p>Early start &ndash; underground by 10:00! Speedy descent to Kiwi Suit, where we picked up the bag of rope left on the 15th. We now had
+3 1/2 bags of rope between us, which was considered A LOT. Mark rigged the bottom 2 pitches of Kiwi Suit, then Dour took up the cudgels
+and proceeded to rig Razor Dance down to the 2002 limit &ndash; the Steady Now pitch. Left the rest of the rope at that point and turned
+round at 16:00. Uneventful ascent, Mark D out at 19:45, Dour 21:15. Dour must buy a magic foot jammer!</p>
+
+<p>Scientific note: the gravel in the crawl between Ariston + Kiwi Suit is very interesting and is in different sizes in different
+passages, which gives some indication of the water flow during phreas. This should be (a) recorded and (b) taped off to avoid damage.
+MSD.</p>
+
+<g>TU Mark 10hrs Dour 11.25hrs</g>
+
+<d>16/7/04</d>	<w>Jenny, <u>Olly B</u></w>
+
+<p>We bolted on down from the head of Draught Bitter (where the draught was so fierce it made my eyes water while drilling a hole for a
+bolt). A deviation off a 70s spit got us to a little rock bridge, and a rebelay off another unusually well preserved and flush 70s spit to
+the "rock bridge lead". Rebelay off a natural spike (shape enhanced with a bolt hammer), and we're at our first lead. I poked out the
+looser rocks, and peered down into a serpentine rift below. I put in a spit, gardened more, and squeezed in, Jenny feeding rope from above
+(the bag was too fat). Along the rift, an aven intersects, and goes down a shaft. Another spit, and another awkward squeeze, and I dropped
+the pitch, but it was blind. Back up, and the rift seems to form a U, both ends look like the end at snow slopes, presumably out on the
+pitch (though we're yet to confirm this). We ascend to the rock bridge, and head on down. I can see a ledge which will keep us away from
+falling snow &amp; rocks, but after two spits I'm still not there and my legs are losing feeling. Jenny is cold too so we exit.</p>
+
+<d>17/7/04</d> <w>Olly + <u>Jenny</u></w>
+
+<p>Back down 76 again, this time it's my turn to bolt. I get down to the bolts Olly put in yesterday (after adding a spit for a deviation
+on the way down to stop the rope cutting through the big snow plug), and spend quite a while swinging around trying to work out what is
+attached to what (tacklesack, hangers, deviation...). Eventually I sorted it all out and follow Olly's advice to rig the deviation as a
+rebelay temporarily to enable me to swing onto the ledge more easily. The rebelay was all exciting and wide and free-hanging, but I
+managed to cope, then just as I start to swing I noticed the rope would rub, so had to go back up, pass the rebelay, add an extra maillon,
+pass the rebelay and start swinging.</p>
+
+<p><i>[Diagram of a stick-Jenny attempting to swing onto a ledge]</i></p>
+
+<p>I landed on the ledge and did some gardening of rocks, which boomed lots and made the ledge feel really rather exposed. Olly was
+complaining about the cold so I put in a bolt rather too quickly and he came down to the ledge. Olly took over the bolting so he could
+warm up, and started a traverse along from the ledge, passing a small lead up a tube on the left. Down and across a bit I think (I
+couldn't really see from where I was). After warming up outside + drinking some hot chocolate, we returned to survey from the A entrance
+to the pitches (draft bitter). Then returned to BC, racing darkness + an electrical storm.</p>
+
+<g>Total TU 6.5hrs</g>
+
+<d>5/7/04</d>	<w><u>Martin</u></w>
+
+<p>I was phoned, "There is a problem", "Please bring your bathroom scales", "400kg overweight", "bollocks" (thought Martin).
+Solutions ...another car ... too crap .. another trailer ... too long ... DSL ... too expensive ...</p>
+
+<p>After some time trying to find someone to fit a tow bar to Mark's van for a non-existent trailer, a haulier was found to transport from
+Newton Hall to Munich. This required me to find cardboard boxes, twenty minutes after the bloke came to collect them.</p>
+
+<p>The next day Fast Freight hauliers gave a better quote. If I measured the height, width and girth of the pallet. So on Tuesday, I
+stacked a fine tower of boxes in the tacklestore. I got a quote, and on Wednesday I stacked a slightly dodgy pile of boxes. The van turned
+up to collect it, wiht his hydraulic tail gate and his pump hand truck. The pump truck did not fit under the pallet, leaving the truck
+driver and I to lift the 390kg pallet on to another pallet. After much grunting and straining we lifted the boxes on to a "decent" pallet.
+On Friday I received a message saying the cheque I sent on Thursday had not arrived. So I ignored it, and it all turned up in Bad Aussee
+on Monday.</p>
+
+<d>19/7/04</d>	<w><u>Martin</u>, Nial</w>
+
+<p>Went in E, noticed rubs (Olly says it wasn't his (threatened with hammer)). Rigged Taking the Piss, with PPE green string. Rigged Wot
+No Bolts, from first hole using two bolts! (Deviation needed). 03-67B pushed to conclusion, 03-68B, 03-69B pushed to beginning of Faith
+traverse. Pencil broke, so took some photos.</p>
+
+<d>18/7/04</d>	<w>Olly B + <u>Jenny</u></w>
+
+<p>Walked back up to the bivvy, and sat around for a while feeling too hot. Eventually got underground with a plan of finishing surveying
+what we have found. We started at Draught Bitter, and surveyed downwards. I realised how crap surveying pitches was, especially really
+draughty pitches that twist around lots meaning you can't easily do plumbs. Only once did we both need to be hanging from the same rope
+for a little while. Got down to the higher rock bridge (the one with the rebelay) before we got cold and unenthused. Olly went out whilst
+I swung around looking at possible leads and so I could draw things better. The big snow plug appears to be partly resting on another rock
+bridge, with an alternative smaller route down behind it. There were also two smallish (~1 or 2m in diameter) aven tube type things going
+up from behind. I then checked out the small aven with ice near the top of Draught Bitter - this didn't appear to go too far. Once out we
+surveyed in the 76b entrance. This was less nice as the rocks are very sharp, the roof is a bit loose and there is a little climb in the
+middle. Definitely not worth using as an entrance when 76a is so much nicer.</p>
+
+<g>T/U 3hrs</g>
+
+