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Sorry about all the crap that surrounds the image tags which has been imported along with the content
when UK Caving blogs have been parsed.
Exported on 2023-09-01 16:09 using either the control panel webpage or when editing a logbook entry online
Exported on 2023-09-01 17:09 using either the control panel webpage or when editing a logbook entry online
See troggle/code/views/other.py and core.models/logbooks.py writelogbook(year, filename)
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<div class="tripdate" id="2023-06-22a">2023-06-22</div>
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<div class="triptitle"><a href="/logbookedit/2023-06-22a"><a href="/logbookedit/2023-06-22a">Expo - UK Caving Blog post 1</a></a></div>
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Blog Author: ILoveCaves<div class="bbWrapper"><div style="text-align: center"><span style="font-size: 22px"><b><span style="color: rgb(26, 188, 156)">CUCC 2023 EXPO BLOG</span></b></span></div><br>
<b><span style="color: rgb(84, 172, 210)">The Beginning Bit:</span></b><br>
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<div class="tripdate" id="2023-06-23a">2023-06-23</div>
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<div class="triptitle"><a href="/logbookedit/2023-06-23a"><a href="/logbookedit/2023-06-23a">Expo - UK Caving Blog post 2</a></a></div>
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Blog Author: currywuss<div class="bbWrapper">Will be with you in spirit (or should that be in Gösser <img class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" alt="" title="Thinking face :thinking:" src="/years/2023/./ukcavingblog_files/1f914.png" data-shortname=":thinking:"><img class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" alt=" " title="Face with tears of joy :joy:" src="/years/2023/./ukcavingblog_files/1f602.png" data-shortname=":joy:">) Hope you find tonnes of cave, and don't burn down the bier tent <img class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" alt=" " title="Rolling on the floor laughing :rofl:" src="/years/2023/./ukcavingblog_files/1f923.png" data-shortname=":rofl:"></div>
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<div class="tripdate" id="2023-06-25a">2023-06-25</div>
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<div class="triptitle"><a href="/logbookedit/2023-06-25a"><a href="/logbookedit/2023-06-25a">Expo - UK Caving Blog post 3</a></a></div>
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Blog Author: Adam 63<div class="bbWrapper">A little something on preparing for my first expedition,<br>
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<div class="tripdate" id="2023-07-02a">2023-07-02</div>
<div class="trippeople"><u>Honorata Bogusz</u>, </div>
<div class="triptitle"><a href="/logbookedit/2023-07-02a"><a href="/logbookedit/2023-07-02a">plateau - water collection</a></a></div>
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<br /><br />12 people went to top camp.
We hauled most stuff out of the storage cave (had to rig some out of the snow)
and set up one water collection tarp.
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<div class="tripdate" id="2023-07-03a">2023-07-03</div>
<div class="trippeople">Martin Green, <u>Philip Sargent</u>, </div>
<div class="triptitle"><a href="/logbookedit/2023-07-03a"><a href="/logbookedit/2023-07-03a">basecamp - nerding</a></a></div>
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<br /><br />Philip arrived by train at lunchtime. Joined Martin for
serious nerding to get WiFi internet working in potato hut.
<br /><br />Attempted to get network potatohut working, Joel (?) had already done all the wiring (correctly).
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<div class="tripdate" id="2023-07-03b">2023-07-03</div>
<div class="trippeople">Mike Butcher, Will Kay, Radost Waszkiewicz, Jana Podbelsek, <u>Honorata Bogusz</u>, </div>
<div class="triptitle"><a href="/logbookedit/2023-07-03b"><a href="/logbookedit/2023-07-03b">plateau - second water collection tarp</a></a></div>
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<br /><br />Me, Radost, Mike, Jana and Will went to top camp to set up
main tarp and the second water collection tarp (which was a success).
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<div class="tripdate" id="2023-07-03c">2023-07-03</div>
<div class="trippeople">Christian Kuhlmann, Emma Caspers, Charlotte Payne, Janis Huns, <u>Harry Kettle</u>, </div>
<div class="triptitle"><a href="/logbookedit/2023-07-03c"><a href="/logbookedit/2023-07-03c">Balkon - Rescuing Balcony ropes</a></a></div>
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<br /><br />A crack team of expo's hardest cavers was assembled to take a rope out of balcony that was left there last year.
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Harry rigged the entrance handline off two bunda. Then continued rigging the rest of the entrance series. ROute finding was fine and we soon arrived at a very large quantity of rope. Chi, Janis, Emma headed out with the bags.
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<div class="tripdate" id="2023-07-03d">2023-07-03</div>
<div class="trippeople">Emily Mabbett, Jonty Pine, <u>Amelia Oliver</u>, </div>
<div class="triptitle"><a href="/logbookedit/2023-07-03d"><a href="/logbookedit/2023-07-03d">Fishface - Digging the snow out of Fishface entrance</a></a></div>
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<br /><br />After a carrying day on the 2nd, we suspected ff would be snowed in. A faff morning of acquiring shovel. We got to ff with shovels, discovering it
did need digging. Jonty got particularly into this, producing quit the snow trench.
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<div class="tripdate" id="2023-07-04a">2023-07-04</div>
<div class="trippeople"><u>Philip Sargent</u>, </div>
<div class="triptitle"><a href="/logbookedit/2023-07-04a"><a href="/logbookedit/2023-07-04a">basecamp - nerding again</a></a></div>
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<br /><br />Everyone due to come down from plateau due to bad weather forecast.
Much shopping for food being done.[Netgear router seems to have got into an IP6-only state. RETIRED
pending further investigation.
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<div class="tripdate" id="2023-07-04b">2023-07-04</div>
<div class="trippeople">Merryn Matthews, Philip Balister, Ashley Gregg, Amelia Oliver, Sarah Parker, <u>Wassil Janssen</u>, </div>
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<br /><br />Ash, Merryn, Amelia in [com?] Philip B., Sarah and me
went up to the plateau in the morning. We carried own gear up,
helped with some top camp tasks (tarp, electrical system,carrying rope around) and
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<div class="tripdate" id="2023-07-04c">2023-07-04</div>
<div class="trippeople">Alice Kirby, Will Kay, Charlotte Payne, Christian Kuhlmann, <u>Harry Kettle</u>, </div>
<div class="triptitle"><a href="/logbookedit/2023-07-04c"><a href="/logbookedit/2023-07-04c">Surface - Rope carry to Homecoming + Trial walk from Garlic Cave to Car Park on painted track</a></a></div>
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<br /><br />After more faff from Chi, we set off about 10AM to carry gear and check out the route to Homecoming. Fishface to Homecoming was well cairned and fairly straightforward to follow.
<br /><br />Gear ledt at Homecoming entrance:
<br /><br />Ropes: 73m, 95m, 80m, 14m, 9m, 26m, 90m, 21m (handline only, old), ~70m, @20m (~500m total!)
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<div class="tripdate" id="2023-07-04d">2023-07-04</div>
<div class="trippeople"><u>Honorata Bogusz</u>, </div>
<div class="triptitle"><a href="/logbookedit/2023-07-04d"><a href="/logbookedit/2023-07-04d">Expo - UK Caving Blog post 4</a></a></div>
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Blog Author: honorata<div class="bbWrapper"><b>Progress after the first 3 days of expo</b><br>
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<div class="tripdate" id="2023-07-04e">2023-07-04</div>
<div class="trippeople"><u>Rob Watson</u>, </div>
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<div class="tripdate" id="2023-07-05a">2023-07-05</div>
<div class="trippeople">Lizzie Caisley, Maddie Kirby, Philip Balister, Joel Stobbart, <u>Sarah Parker</u>, </div>
<div class="triptitle"><a href="/logbookedit/2023-07-05a"><a href="/logbookedit/2023-07-05a">Surface - Reflecting the Homecoming -> Fishface route, scoping out a Homecoming to col route</a></a></div>
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<br /><br />Joel, Lizzie and Philip fettled the tarp (where some water had pooled overnight) whilst I had a go at attaching the big Daren drum (filled with the
solar panels and cables) to my rucksack, ready to carry from top camp to Garlic Cave.
<br /><br />After minimal faff, we set off west. We reached Fishface in ~40 minutes and Joel dropped off some metalwork ready for rigging. We continued to
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<div class="tripdate" id="2023-07-06a">2023-07-06</div>
<div class="trippeople">Maddie Kirby, <u>Janis Huns</u>, </div>
<div class="triptitle"><a href="/logbookedit/2023-07-06a"><a href="/logbookedit/2023-07-06a">Plateau - scoping out a route from col to Garlic Cave</a></a></div>
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<br /><br />We set out to improve the direct route from the start of the plateau to Homecoming. The way down the wall after the second pole was suprisingly nice. This was followed by an easy flat section until the bunde and tiny cliffs obscured all the alternative paths we tried. Most of the way was already cairned, but we did find some nice fresh transitions through the bunde walls separating the easy-to-walk-on slabs. At Homecoming, we met Harry, Christian, Alice, Merryn getting ready to rig the cave. Then we visited Garlic cave - a massive above ground hole that leads to a bridge below which are the entrances to the cave itself. There was loads of snow - just as in every entrance - but there was a nice campable bit , plenty of water dripping. I sensed some garlic smell, remembering the story that this smell gave the name of the cave, but was still mysterious. Then Maddie realised we were surrounded by chives! Mystery solved.
<br /><br />On the way back we met Jono, Evelyn, and Oakem who were on the way to Garlic. At Homecoming, Honorata and Radost told us they had found 3 intriguing holes while prospecting. We found a baloon with a sweet note on it and read it to them.
<br /><br /> Just after, we found a loose wellie which now acts as another cairn [reflectoring trip on 11th noticed that this is "size 9", so therefore a UK wellie]. The final pathwe made is quite nice except for one climb over a ravine tha t seems to be unavoidable without drastic changes to the route. It was a nice day. On the way back, we saw the Dachstein for the first time , complemented by all the numerous kinds of mountain flowers.
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<div class="tripdate" id="2023-07-06b">2023-07-06</div>
<div class="trippeople">Buck Blake, Jonty Pine, <u>Joel Stobbart</u>, </div>
<div class="triptitle"><a href="/logbookedit/2023-07-06b"><a href="/logbookedit/2023-07-06b">Fishface - Rigging and pitch-measuring trip</a></a></div>
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<br /><br />An ambitious day which slowly went increasingly wrong. The group departed base camp at a stunning 8.20AM, blitzed up the plateau and promtly became mired in several hours of faff which soon descended into more festering. The plan had been to rig the entrance series of Fishface down to the bottom of Blitzen Boulevard (4th pitch), from where we expected everything to be left rigged. However, confusion about rope lengths and metalwork and some impressively long grike trips meant that the two shallow pushing groups planning to explore from Blitzen and Liquid Luck caught us up at Top Camp. Uncle Mike was not amused. We swiftly bombed down to FF in 25 mins and started rigging. Joel was left to do everything as Jonty's light 'broke'.
<br /><br />The entrance pitch/spiral traverse thing was completed on a 40m rope. Tasteful noods (2nd pitch) didn't quite go on a 27m due to rerigging around the top rebelay to avoid rub, so Joel initially reached the bottom on a knot pass and Jonty rerigged to the bottom on a 32m. The traverse at the bottom of Tasteful Noods (2A) and pitch 3 both had rope left from last year but not rigged - some of the knots didn't line up and required rerigging but the lengths were fine. Pendulum pitch needs some more bolts at the bottom, possibly as a traverse, to make getting on and off the pitch less deathy. Uncle Mike rigged Blitzen for us as we got too scared, he insisted the step over the huge rift with no traverse was fine, so we left him to it. There may or may not be a bolt there now
<br /><br />past Blitzen, everything remained rigged in situ from last year. We checked everything to the traverse at the bottom of Liquid Luck (pitch 6) and apart from some loose bolts all ropes were fine and hangers non-corroded. On the way back, we measured pitch lengths using the ULSA disto and Jonty drew up a definitive rigging topo that takes into account the route changes last year. The pitch lengths will be entered into the box below when Jonty reappears at Base Camp.
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<div class="tripdate" id="2023-07-06c">2023-07-06</div>
<div class="trippeople">Charlotte Payne, Emma Caspers, Lizzie Caisley, Mike Butcher, <u>Emily Mabbett</u>, </div>
<div class="triptitle"><a href="/logbookedit/2023-07-06c"><a href="/logbookedit/2023-07-06c">Fishface - Surveying around Benign Bubble Baby Bypass</a></a></div>
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<br /><br />After hiking up to plateau to arrive for midday, we discovered the advanced rigging party still above ground... In order to leave them time to start rigging the first 4 pitches of Fishface, an ungodly amount of faff began. We finally arrived at the cave at 3pm, thinking we'd left plenty of time for the riggers, we quickly changed and headed underground. Alas, our hopes were crushed as we came to the bottom of the first pitch to discover the other pushing party sat freezing their tits off at the top of the second pitch as the riggers rigged just below them. Needless to say, it took some time to descent to the bottom of Blitzen Boulevard with Mike taking over the rigging of the 4th pitch after a debate over placing another bolt at the pitch head. Once arrived at Benign Bubble Baby Bypass, we conducted a quick something time to refresh our surveying technique before splitting into 2 groups. Me and Mike went ahead through the tube leading on through the bottom of the climb heading towards the liquid luck ptch head to bolt the small pitch at the end of the traverse whilst the others began surveying from said turn off. As me and Mike arrived at the pitch head, I asked if I could begin my bolting lesson before a big scary hole. I was refused. Instead I was told to tie the rope around a small head sized bolder wedged in the rift, which were currently both stood on. I thought this was a silly idea but obliged. The actual bolting of the pitch went well (I think?), however comments about placing bolts higher were made which was somewhat impossible given my height. The final bolting and rigging became passable so I decended the large (4m...) hole.
<br /><br />As we finished bolting, the survey team emerged behind us. At the bottom of the pitch, 3 leads emerged, a large passage with a traverse sloping down in front of us, a small drafty tube to the right, and a hole heading into the ceiling behind us. With the rigging team and pushing team 2 in the near vicintity of the cave around us, me and Mike were a bit naughty and scooped the large passage in front of us, as we reached the end, we could hear voices in the rift above us, thinking it was the other pushing team we called up. It was not. It was Buck from the rigging team stood near the base of Blitzen Boulevard essentially where we started. Discovering we'd done a large circle , we returned to the base of the pitch where the survey team were. As we arrived, Zac from the team 2 appeared in the hole above us, they had also done an circle.
<br /><br />Once regrouped, it was approaching 9:30PM so we decided to leave the small drafty tubeand started to make our way out of the cave eventually making it back to top camp just before midnight.
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<div class="tripdate" id="2023-07-06d">2023-07-06</div>
<div class="trippeople">Radost Waszkiewicz, <u>Honorata Bogusz</u>, </div>
<div class="triptitle"><a href="/logbookedit/2023-07-06d"><a href="/logbookedit/2023-07-06d">Prospecting</a></a></div>
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<br /><br />We prospected between Fischgesicht and Heimkehr entrances. We found 5 caves, which I will refer to here using the temporary number and names entered in expo.survex.com. Small drain (2023-hbrw-01) and medium drain (2023-hbrw-02) were surveyed completely and they both strecth for about 20-30m, a small stream passing through each of them.
<br /><br />We also found 3 new caves which seem to continue but we couldn't survey them since they all begin with large pitches:
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<div class="tripdate" id="2023-07-06e">2023-07-06</div>
<div class="trippeople">Amelia Oliver, Emma Caspers, Ashley Gregg, <u>Zac Woodford</u>, </div>
<div class="triptitle"><a href="/logbookedit/2023-07-06e"><a href="/logbookedit/2023-07-06e">Fishface - Surveying the top of liquid luck</a></a></div>
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<br /><br />Gave the rigging team ~3hr headstart but we still caught up with them at the bottom of first pitch. Emma and Zac then sat around while Ash and Mealy calibrated the disto. We were waiting so long that Uncle Mike's surveying group caught up. We waited in a a bothy for them to pass us before slowly, one-by-one, following on. We then caught up with them again at the top of Blitzen pitch and had to bothy again (after Mealy led us on too low in the rift).
<br /><br />At the beginning of BBBB (Benign Babble Baby Bypass) we talked with Mike's group pushing the other lead and descending some small pitches to push ours. We faffed around a while trying to find it, but when we did, we found it just looped back around to Mike's group's lead. We surveyed it anyway.
<br /><br />Zac and Mealy surveyed the top of the rift and the pitch (Mealy on notes, Zac on disto) while Ash and Emma bolted and rigged the pitch. Once surveyed and linked to Mike's group's stuff, we packed up and headed out. Ash raced ahead while Mealy and Emma got stuck behind Zac who was very tired and slow and sweary. Eventually, they exited. Trip started at ~15.30 and ended at ~00.30. A very tiresome dark hike to top camp.
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<div class="tripdate" id="2023-07-07a">2023-07-07</div>
<div class="trippeople">Wassil Janssen, <u>Christian Kuhlmann</u>, </div>
<div class="triptitle"><a href="/logbookedit/2023-07-07a"><a href="/logbookedit/2023-07-07a">Homecoming - Foray into the Second Coming</a></a></div>
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Ropes used:
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<li>95m (new)</li>
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<div class="tripdate" id="2023-07-07b">2023-07-07</div>
<div class="trippeople">Nadia Raeburn, Jonty Pine, Janis Huns, <u>Philip Sargent</u>, </div>
<div class="triptitle"><a href="/logbookedit/2023-07-07b"><a href="/logbookedit/2023-07-07b">Plateau - Hiking to Garlic Cave</a></a></div>
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<br /><br />Jonty's car: Jonty/Nads/Janis up to Garlic and return this evening. Taking new reflectors made this morning.
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<div class="tripdate" id="2023-07-07c">2023-07-07</div>
<div class="trippeople">Mike Butcher, Radost Waszkiewicz, <u>Honorata Bogusz</u>, </div>
<div class="triptitle"><a href="/logbookedit/2023-07-07c"><a href="/logbookedit/2023-07-07c">Fishface - pushing deep Fishgesicht</a></a></div>
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<br /><br />We pushed 60m at the top of "Clap My Pitch Up". Pushing required bolting ~20m of a traverse (<u> Mike adds: 20m ish of the traverse was new passage surveyed this year but there was about 30m of traverse bolted this year which was naughtily pushed by me - Mike - and Luke last year in the Red Light Spells Danger trip so the traverse is about 50ish m long</u>). The final few metres of the traverse go above a sizeable pitch (30m?). We names the bolted traverse, "European Federalists". At the end of the traverse, we continued walking for another ~40m until arriving at the top of a massive pitch - further pushing would require bolting. The distance from where we were standing to the furthest point down the pitch measured with the disto was ~40m. We kicked rocks down the pitch and the sound continued for 10s, giving rise to a presumption that the pitch may be very deep. If it connects to "Clap My Pitch Up", it's at least 100m deep. IMPORTANT: the traverse passage and the walkable continuation are muddy and slippery; posing a hazard of falling down the pitch. Ash, Jonty, Mealy and Janis want to push the lead further on Saturday 8th July.
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<div class="tripdate" id="2023-07-07d">2023-07-07</div>
<div class="trippeople">Harry Kettle, Charlotte Payne, <u>Emily Mabbett</u>, </div>
<div class="triptitle"><a href="/logbookedit/2023-07-07d"><a href="/logbookedit/2023-07-07d">Rigging towards Watershed in Homecoming</a></a></div>
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<br /><br />We wandered down to the cave around 10am, making it to the entrance around 12pm. The entrance series went pretty fast ... at least it did for me as Harry and Charlotte were carrying the heavy bags. On the way we made a quick stop to rerig a knot pass. As we reached the bottom of Wallace and Grommit where they had finished rigging the previous day both me and Harry experienced fizzling as we glazed the dry rope on the final 55m. I did not enjoy this part. We then made our way up the climb and Harry began rigging the small pitches before the long pitch series. The most notable part of this was when Harry appeared the wrong side of a pitch head after following the description and getting lost. It was highly amusing. As Charlotte began rigging the final pitch series me and Harry huddled in a shelter and watched Mathilda the musical. As it came to replacing a bolt Harry left to go help Charlotte and I was left along ... until it was discovered the drill battery was dead and I had to come down with a back up. As 8pm approached we made our way out leaving rope to finish the final part of rigging. On the way out we made a noodle stop at the top of Wallace and Grommit but with no fork a knife had to suffice. The walk back was miserable as we started following new reflectors towards the col and had to turn around and start again. We finally made it back to top camp at 1 am.
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<div class="tripdate" id="2023-07-07e">2023-07-07</div>
<div class="trippeople">Will Kay, Amelia Oliver, Alice Kirby, <u>Ashley Gregg</u>, </div>
<div class="triptitle"><a href="/logbookedit/2023-07-07e"><a href="/logbookedit/2023-07-07e">Fishface – Surveying Stalagtite Loop to the top of Liquid Luck</a></a></div>
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<br /><br />Following our previous shallow trip into Fishface we set out to continue the previous combined
leads from the day before. The journey across the plateau and into the cave was uneventful, aside from
the other group catching up with us. Dropping down into Blitzen Boulevard we continued along the rift
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<div class="tripdate" id="2023-07-08a">2023-07-08</div>
<div class="trippeople">Martin Green, <u>Philip Sargent</u>, </div>
<div class="triptitle"><a href="/logbookedit/2023-07-08a"><a href="/logbookedit/2023-07-08a">Basecamp - Nerd faff</a></a></div>
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<br /><br />Another frustrating day with network. WiFi router refused to allow connections - rebooted at ~0830. Ok.
<br /><br />Rebooted network for a reason I can't remember - failed to re-establish routing to router. Much faff standing on chairs trying [illegible] as cables all duct taped to the wall with it in [illegible] operating position up by ceiling. Found [illegible], edited into [illegible]. Redocumented everything in handbook.
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<div class="tripdate" id="2023-07-08b">2023-07-08</div>
<div class="trippeople">Amelia Oliver, Jonty Pine, <u>Janis Huns</u>, Ashley Gregg, </div>
<div class="triptitle"><a href="/logbookedit/2023-07-08b"><a href="/logbookedit/2023-07-08b">Pushing deep Fishface</a></a></div>
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<br /><br />We went to where the group - Honorata, Radost and Mike - had left off the previous day. European Federalists was a very tough traverse that required the use of ascenders. We bolted and rigged (my first bolt!) the pitch at the end of the muddy passage about 10m down to a choke of boulders. At the bottom of it we saw that there is a large, smooth crack continuing east leading to a large, deep chamber that seems to be the same one we saw on the right. If it is it would be elongated roughly in a north east to south west direction. Ash and Mealy also explored some C leads which did not go far.
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<div class="tripdate" id="2023-07-08c">2023-07-08</div>
<div class="trippeople">Mike Butcher, Emma Caspers, <u>Will Kay</u>, </div>
<div class="triptitle"><a href="/logbookedit/2023-07-08c"><a href="/logbookedit/2023-07-08c">Following up on Radost and Honorata's prospecting leads (Unlucky Gemse cave and Amphitheatre cave)</a></a></div>
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<br /><br />Radost and Honorata had found a few promising entrances that they could explore with just a hand line on Thursday so me, Mike and Emma set out with caving kit, bolting kit and a few ropes to investigate further (ropes were slightly out of date ones - ropes were very hard to come by at Top Camp so we pinched two 20m ropes from the stash at Fishface entrance).
Having grabbed our kit from Fishface we looked at Radost's GPS coordinates, got a bearing towards them and headed in that direction. Plateau walking is always challenging, we came across a coupe of gaps? in the plateau, none of which went.
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<div class="tripdate" id="2023-07-08d">2023-07-08</div>
<div class="trippeople">Harry Kettle, Charlotte Payne, <u>Sarah Parker</u>, </div>
<div class="triptitle"><a href="/logbookedit/2023-07-08d"><a href="/logbookedit/2023-07-08d">Beyond Watershed in Homecoming - Flowstone Canyon</a></a></div>
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<br /><br />I carried my caving and bivvy gear from Top Camp to Homecoming whilst Harry and Charlotte carried Top Camp's second shovel and a camp bed (surprisingliy heavy) to be picked up by the Garlic Cave people.
After a bit of faff at the surface we got underground and to the bottom of Wallace and Grommit without any problems. We headed up to the little pitch to Propane Nightmares, down a series of little pitches, past the "deathy" sump, reaching the top of the "Strained by Gravity" pitch. We layered up and Harry set off to finish rigging it. Charlotte and I came down. I didn't enjoy the second deviation (it was quite rubby) although apparently I went round the wrong side of a boulder. I think a rebelay should be added here for people (like myself) who don't look down too much when abseiling.
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<div class="tripdate" id="2023-07-09a">2023-07-09</div>
<div class="trippeople"><u>Bier Tent</u>, </div>
<div class="triptitle"><a href="/logbookedit/2023-07-09a"><a href="/logbookedit/2023-07-09a">basecamp - Nothing happened today at all</a></a></div>
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<div class="tripdate" id="2023-07-10a">2023-07-10</div>
<div class="trippeople">Amelia Oliver, Janis Huns, Joel Stobbart, Jonty Pine, Ashley Gregg, <u>Buck Blake</u>, </div>
<div class="triptitle"><a href="/logbookedit/2023-07-10a"><a href="/logbookedit/2023-07-10a">Fishface - Carrying rope to Fishface and failing to rig entrance</a></a></div>
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<br /><br />After the complicated operation of handling the solar panels out of the storage cave, the six of us packed kit, rope and a rescue bag and set off
for Fishface. It was a hot but pleasant walk and the route was well marked. We arrivced and stashed bags under a nearby overhang then entered through
the hole dug through the snow the previous day. Janis and Ash did not go down the cave, instead heading back to top camp, but were a great help hauling
@ -605,7 +635,8 @@ the rope underground, by the head of the first pitch and left our caving kit und
<div class="tripdate" id="2023-07-10b">2023-07-10</div>
<div class="trippeople">Harry Kettle, Alice Kirby, Christian Kuhlmann, Merryn Matthews, <u>Wassil Janssen</u>, </div>
<div class="triptitle"><a href="/logbookedit/2023-07-10b"><a href="/logbookedit/2023-07-10b">Homecoming - Rig faff</a></a></div>
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<br /><br />This was a long day that started at Base Camp with the intent of rigging the entrance series of Homecoming cave. We set off only slightly later than the planned 8:00 [illegible] some faff. Quite surprising since Will was not part of the team.
<br /><br />The walk up to Top Camp took almost 2 hours, just as expected. We were also carrying drills, string, food, and other Top Camp equipment. We followed the reflectors to Fishface. They were white on both sides, which could make it frustrating if you are someone who is lost on their way to Top Camp. Instead, it should be red that leads to Top Camp, while white leads to caves and the car park.
<br /><br />From Fishface, it was only a short walk to Homecoming. Wassil rigged the first few ropes of the cave. . The first rope is a 14m on which we descend the entrance pitch. Then Wassil used a ~70m rope which was used to rig the next few pitches. After the entrance pitch, [illegible] come 2-3 small pitches rigged without rebelays. This makes it easier to climb on the way out. Wassil rigged everything up to Radagast.
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<div class="tripdate" id="2023-07-10c">2023-07-10</div>
<div class="trippeople">Becka Lawson, <u>Philip Sargent</u>, </div>
<div class="triptitle"><a href="/logbookedit/2023-07-10c"><a href="/logbookedit/2023-07-10c">basecamp - Becka arriving</a></a></div>
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<br /><br />She is arriving at 0941 at the station, would like lift.
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<div class="tripdate" id="2023-07-10d">2023-07-10</div>
<div class="trippeople">Harry Kettle, Ashley Gregg, Radost Waszkiewicz, Christian Kuhlmann, <u>Honorata Bogusz</u>, </div>
<div class="triptitle"><a href="/logbookedit/2023-07-10d"><a href="/logbookedit/2023-07-10d">festering - Canyoning Strubklamm</a></a></div>
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We went canyoning on a rest day. The "Strubklamm" canyon is located near Saltzburg, approximately 1h of driving from Bad Aussee. The canyon is graded V1A3 (vertical 1, aquatic 3). It's very aquatic, with many small jumps available and a 300m swimming passage. There are 2 bigger jumps: approx. 8m and 10m, both can be abseiled (topo can be found online).
<br /><br />The canyon is very easy to do without ropes if jumps up to 10m are acceptable. We did not use ropes and generally seemed over-prepared. There was another group in the canyon: a family of 5 (mom, dad, and 3 children aged below 10). They didn't have any equipment other than wetsuits and helmets, which seemed unreasonable in case the small children didn't want to do the big jumps.
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<div class="tripdate" id="2023-07-10e">2023-07-10</div>
<div class="trippeople"><u>James Waite</u>, </div>
<div class="triptitle"><a href="/logbookedit/2023-07-10e">UK Caving Blog posr: Cardiff Canon Ball Run</a></div>
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<div class="tripdate" id="2023-07-11a">2023-07-11</div>
<div class="trippeople">Ashley Gregg, James Waite, Honorata Bogusz, Will Kay, Ely Brookes, Thomas Phillips, Radost Waszkiewicz, <u>Philip Sargent</u>, </div>
<div class="triptitle"><a href="/logbookedit/2023-07-11a"><a href="/logbookedit/2023-07-11a">plateau - walk in</a></a></div>
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<br /><br />Will and Phil went up as part of the 2-car lift to the carpark. Others all going to topcamp. Cardiff contingent (Ely, James, Thomas) arrived the previous day (at last)
<br /><br />Dep. carpark 10:06 we walked to the col but got spread out, 2 Cardiffians particularly heavily loaded so Ash dropped back to accompany them while James headed on with Radost and Honorata.
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<div class="tripdate" id="2023-07-11b">2023-07-11</div>
<div class="trippeople">Will Kay, <u>Philip Sargent</u>, </div>
<div class="triptitle"><a href="/logbookedit/2023-07-11b"><a href="/logbookedit/2023-07-11b">plateau - Garlic and reflectors</a></a></div>
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<br /><br />At the col, Will, Philip and ? followed Philip B's col-to-garlic GPS track. Somebody else was with us (memory hazy, is this true? [correct later
editorially]). All OK until we hit the hill in the middle where we followed cairns instead of the GPS track, and got in a bit of a mess leaving the
hill and getting to HC. (Found an isolated reflector which seemed to just be confusing.) And getting away from HC towards Garlic, but once on the
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<div class="tripdate" id="2023-07-11c">2023-07-11</div>
<div class="trippeople">Oakem Kyne, <u>Wassil Janssen</u>, </div>
<div class="triptitle"><a href="/logbookedit/2023-07-11c"><a href="/logbookedit/2023-07-11c">Homecoming - Five and Flying</a></a></div>
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I managed to steal Oakem away from Harry, Charlotte and Becka just as they were preparing to depart from Top Camp. After a quick breakfast
comprised of the previous day's couscous curry, Oakem's watery müsli and promising to take Becka caving sometime we were on our way to the cave.
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<div class="tripdate" id="2023-07-11d">2023-07-11</div>
<div class="trippeople">Ashley Gregg, Radost Waszkiewicz, <u>Honorata Bogusz</u>, </div>
<div class="triptitle"><a href="/logbookedit/2023-07-11d"><a href="/logbookedit/2023-07-11d">2023-hbrw-03 - Dropping Amphitheater Hoehle</a></a></div>
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The Amphitheater Hoehle is named after its entrance which resembles an amphitheather. There are a couple of meters of an easy climb from the very top to the boulder where we started rigging. Rigging starts with an approx. 5-6m down climb, where we put a handline. It's followed by a traverse (10m ?) above the entrance to the first pitch. We rigged a Y-hang at the end of the traverse.
<br /><br />The first pitch is at least 20m deep and ends on a wide ledge filled with snow. The pitch goes a bit across, resulting in us putting 2 deviations on the way down. Beyond the ledge, there is a short (5m ?) traverse which leads to the second pitch.
@ -765,7 +803,8 @@ The Amphitheater Hoehle is named after its entrance which resembles an amphithea
<div class="tripdate" id="2023-07-12a">2023-07-12</div>
<div class="trippeople">Lizzie Caisley, Thomas Phillips, Joel Stobbart, Emily Mabbett, <u>Merryn Matthews</u>, </div>
<div class="triptitle"><a href="/logbookedit/2023-07-12a"><a href="/logbookedit/2023-07-12a">plateau - Prospecting between Homecoming and Fishface</a></a></div>
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<br /><br />We started by walking to Unlucky Gamse Cave, mostly following the path to homecoming, as Radost and
Honorata had told us there was an exciting looking entrance around 50m North of it - Rose Blumen Hoehle (2023-hbrw-05). We dismissed their cave as
choked by snow, however it may be worth someone looking again at it later in the expedition when plug has melted. Instead, we pushed a rift a few
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<div class="tripdate" id="2023-07-12b">2023-07-12</div>
<div class="trippeople">Janis Huns, <u>Ashley Gregg</u>, </div>
<div class="triptitle"><a href="/logbookedit/2023-07-12b"><a href="/logbookedit/2023-07-12b">Amphitheatre – Surveying Frozen Unknown</a></a></div>
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<br /><br />We went back to continue exploring Amphitheatre. Since we were now pushing decently underground, we kitted
up and then headed in. Adjusted the initial traverse line rigging slightly.
<br /><br />I started bolting the second pitch, hugging the left-hand wall to avoid the steadily dripping water
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<div class="tripdate" id="2023-07-13a">2023-07-13</div>
<div class="trippeople">Harry Kettle, Oakem Kyne, Radost Waszkiewicz, Charlotte Payne, Jonty Pine, <u>Honorata Bogusz</u>, </div>
<div class="triptitle"><a href="/logbookedit/2023-07-13a"><a href="/logbookedit/2023-07-13a">festering - Via Ferrata "Panorama Kletterstieg Sisi"</a></a></div>
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We went on a via ferrata located close to the Loseralm parking lot. The via ferrata route is graded D. Car is best parked on the side of the toll road, below the parking lot, next to a big pile of rocks. Getting to the start of the via ferrata requires a short (200m ?) hike up on steep terrain with many small loose boulders, which make the hike anoying.
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<div class="tripdate" id="2023-07-13b">2023-07-13</div>
<div class="trippeople"><u>Honorata Bogusz</u>, </div>
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<div class="tripdate" id="2023-07-14a">2023-07-14</div>
<div class="trippeople">Charlotte Payne, Harry Kettle, <u>James Waite</u>, </div>
<div class="triptitle"><a href="/logbookedit/2023-07-14a"><a href="/logbookedit/2023-07-14a">Homecoming - pushing down homecoming from flowstone canyon, into alpine showers</a></a></div>
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after a heavy afternoon at the tatty hut, Harry asked if i fancied coming to
help push his lead with him. an offer i couldn't refuse. so i yomped up to top
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<div class="tripdate" id="2023-07-14b">2023-07-14</div>
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<div class="tripdate" id="2023-07-15a">2023-07-15</div>
<div class="trippeople">Janis Huns, Ely Brookes, <u>Ashley Gregg</u>, </div>
<div class="triptitle"><a href="/logbookedit/2023-07-15a"><a href="/logbookedit/2023-07-15a">Prospecting - Up to Homecoming from the Col</a></a></div>
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<br /><br />Deciding I needed to get into this prospecting lark and find some new caves we kept an eye out for
undocumented potential on our walk up to top camp. The intention was to walk up from the Col to Homecoming
and then Garlic cave (also dropping off supplies). Janis GPS trailed the route (being vaguely sure of it
@ -1002,7 +1047,8 @@ drops approx. 5m with snow at bottom, can't clearly see bottom from top.</li>
<div class="tripdate" id="2023-07-15b">2023-07-15</div>
<div class="trippeople">Philip Balister, Ely Brookes, <u>Ashley Gregg</u>, </div>
<div class="triptitle"><a href="/logbookedit/2023-07-15b"><a href="/logbookedit/2023-07-15b">2018-DM-04 – Prospecting, exploring, surveying</a></a></div>
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<br /><br />The plan was to do some prospecting in the relatively uncovered area around Garlic cave.
We met up with Philip at Garlic cave and had some noodles for lunch. Philip had already done some
looking around the area and suggested we go look at 2018-DM-04 and 2018-DM-05.
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<div class="tripdate" id="2023-07-15c">2023-07-15</div>
<div class="trippeople">Merryn Matthews, Wassil Janssen, <u>Christian Kuhlmann</u>, </div>
<div class="triptitle"><a href="/logbookedit/2023-07-15c"><a href="/logbookedit/2023-07-15c">In Search Of Salamanders</a></a></div>
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<br /><br />Following an impromptu pre-expo-dinner dinner the night before, we all arose with a tinge of hangover. Rapidly consuming breakfast and packing kit, we set off at 8:30am, only 30 minutes after we said we would which in all fairness is very good going for us.
After a smooth ferry to the Loser car park by our wonderful chauffer Alice, we set off up the mountain. Almost immediately after we left the car park a navigational faux pas was made and we found ourselves on the wrong path, and with a small section of off-roading, we headed up to top camp with no other further obstructions.
<br /><br />Upon reaching top camp we were greeted by our fellow plateau dwellers and began the ceremonial scrannage of noodles. Spirits lifted and full of noodles I repaired some of the drill batteries, apparently broken from over-excited handling; followed by a brief faff session and subsequent departure from Stoney Bridge. En-route, I found that bringing my 35-litre rucksack was a mistake. The 100 litres I normally brought was a far more suitable size and the choice to go light for this trip would not be repeated. The resulting journey was incredibly tedious and required a camera in one hand and a sleeping bag in the other. This would become a recurring theme.
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<div class="tripdate" id="2023-07-16a">2023-07-16</div>
<div class="trippeople">Evelyn Surman, <u>Ashley Gregg</u>, </div>
<div class="triptitle"><a href="/logbookedit/2023-07-16a"><a href="/logbookedit/2023-07-16a">Prospecting - Much prospecting near Balcony</a></a></div>
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<br /><br />Deciding I wanted to go prospecting but didn’t particularly want to walk back over to garlic cave,
so recruited Evelyn, our resident non-caver to go wander around near balcony. Armed with known cave
entrances on OSMand plus the cave/plateau overlay developed by Martin, we set off. The path to Balcony
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<div class="tripdate" id="2023-07-17a">2023-07-17</div>
<div class="trippeople"><u>Jono Lester</u>, </div>
<div class="triptitle"><a href="/logbookedit/2023-07-17a"><a href="/logbookedit/2023-07-17a">I Drank Beer</a></a></div>
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<br /><br />Today was a good day, i nerded and drank beer. Why should i cave anymore? Maybe i am a armchair caver after all.
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<div class="tripdate" id="2023-07-17b">2023-07-17</div>
<div class="trippeople">Oakem Kyne, Emma Caspers, <u>Ashley Gregg</u>, </div>
<div class="triptitle"><a href="/logbookedit/2023-07-17b"><a href="/logbookedit/2023-07-17b">Fishface – Kresh connection confusion</a></a></div>
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<br /><br />Joel had discovered an exciting new cave, unfortunately this left us with rope and a lead down in
the Fish face – happy butterfly connection which no-one was going to. I was naively convinced to go and
look at this lead which needed another y-hang to drop into potential new stuff. Looking at the survey
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<div class="tripdate" id="2023-07-17c">2023-07-17</div>
<div class="trippeople"><u>Harry Kettle</u>, </div>
<div class="triptitle"><a href="/logbookedit/2023-07-17c"><a href="/logbookedit/2023-07-17c">Expo - UK Caving Blog post 10</a></a></div>
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<div class="tripdate" id="2023-07-18a">2023-07-18</div>
<div class="trippeople">Merryn Matthews, Zac Woodford, <u>Ashley Gregg</u>, </div>
<div class="triptitle"><a href="/logbookedit/2023-07-18a"><a href="/logbookedit/2023-07-18a">Tempest – Touch of Death</a></a></div>
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<br /><br />Excited to go and see (and kill) this new cave, two groups set off to push the two ‘A’ leads at the
extent of Tempest. Arriving at the cave we prepared the bags and realised we’d forgotten a hammer, so
I went over to Fishface to fetch one that would hopefully still be there, allowing the other team some
@ -1239,7 +1291,8 @@ which we’d left lying around. Once out we packed up and headed back to Top Cam
<div class="tripdate" id="2023-07-18b">2023-07-18</div>
<div class="trippeople"><u>Amelia Oliver</u>, </div>
<div class="triptitle"><a href="/logbookedit/2023-07-18b"><a href="/logbookedit/2023-07-18b">Expo - UK Caving Blog post 11</a></a></div>
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<div class="tripdate" id="2023-07-18c">2023-07-18</div>
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<div class="tripdate" id="2023-07-19a">2023-07-19</div>
<div class="trippeople">Jono Lester, <u>James Waite</u>, </div>
<div class="triptitle"><a href="/logbookedit/2023-07-19a"><a href="/logbookedit/2023-07-19a">Homecoming - pushing beyond death sump and the heifer</a></a></div>
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jono and i had spotted an A lead bolt climb off the edge of propane nightmares over the death sump. armed with bolts and mikes drill we set off from garlic cave and after much faff we finally enteretd into homecoming. we got our kit into two bags of very heavy nature and set off down the cave. the entrance pitches went easily and eventually we got to the traverse . this was a interesting with large blokes and large bags stuck in the rift. after a large amount of swearing we got down to wallace. this went easily, and we got onto grommit. this was rather "fun" as the rope was looking interesting, and you had to go very slowly to avoid sizzling. at the bottom of grommit we gathered some bolts and hangers from the bag down there and set off into propane nightmares.
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<div class="tripdate" id="2023-07-19b">2023-07-19</div>
<div class="trippeople">Will Kay, Zac Woodford, <u>Ashley Gregg</u>, </div>
<div class="triptitle"><a href="/logbookedit/2023-07-19b"><a href="/logbookedit/2023-07-19b">Prospecting – dropping Boring Hole and Dead on Arrival</a></a></div>
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<br /><br />Took Zac to bolt a cave he had previously found not too far of the path to Fishface. Slight delay as
we’d forgotten something important (bolts maybe?), which Will went back to get.
<br /><br />One bolt wonder dropped over a tackle-sack rope protector 5m to a snow slope. Cave then crapped out.
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<div class="tripdate" id="2023-07-19c">2023-07-19</div>
<div class="trippeople">Will Kay, <u>Ashley Gregg</u>, </div>
<div class="triptitle"><a href="/logbookedit/2023-07-19c"><a href="/logbookedit/2023-07-19c">Plateau - Surveying Little Tent and Gollum Grotto</a></a></div>
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<br /><br />Deciding we weren’t done for the day yet an afternoon evening trip was decided upon to survey some
of the caves Evelyn and I had found a few days ago. Will and I gathered the necessary gear and set off
towards Balcony.
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<div class="tripdate" id="2023-07-20a">2023-07-20</div>
<div class="trippeople"><u>Jono Lester</u>, </div>
<div class="triptitle"><a href="/logbookedit/2023-07-20a"><a href="/logbookedit/2023-07-20a">I Drank More Beer</a></a></div>
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<br /><br />Today was a diffrent day. I walked down the Plat and was supose to enter all my 3D data and Nerd but i drank more beer instead.
<div class="timeug">T/U: 5.0 hours</div>
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<div class="tripdate" id="2023-07-20b">2023-07-20</div>
<div class="trippeople">Thomas Phillips, <u>Ashley Gregg</u>, </div>
<div class="triptitle"><a href="/logbookedit/2023-07-20b"><a href="/logbookedit/2023-07-20b">Plateau - Surveying Top Camp Band and Bat versus Rat</a></a></div>
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<br /><br />Decided to go and survey/kill a couple more caves before heading down off the plateau for the year.
Aware that I would have a lot of data to sort out and vague plans to go canyoning Friday before the
dinner, this needed to be an efficient trip. Las as is always the case with caving we didn’t get down
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<div class="tripdate" id="2023-07-23a">2023-07-23</div>
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<div class="triptitle"><a href="/logbookedit/2023-07-23a"><a href="/logbookedit/2023-07-23a">Nothing happened today at all</a></a></div>
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<br /><br />Nowt, apparently. Again. On a Sunday, again.
<div class="timeug">T/U: 0.0 hours</div>
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<div class="tripdate" id="2023-07-23b">2023-07-23</div>
<div class="trippeople">Harry Kettle, Martin Green, <u>Philip Sargent</u>, Emma Caspers, </div>
<div class="triptitle"><a href="/logbookedit/2023-07-23b"><a href="/logbookedit/2023-07-23b">TESTINGTESTING</a></a></div>
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We had a lot of fun...We had a lot of fun...We had a lot of fun...We had a lot of fun...
<div class="timeug">T/U: 0.0 hours</div>
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<div class="tripdate" id="2023-07-23c">2023-07-23</div>
<div class="trippeople">Harry Kettle, Martin Green, <u>Philip Sargent</u>, Emma Caspers, </div>
<div class="triptitle"><a href="/logbookedit/2023-07-23c"><a href="/logbookedit/2023-07-23c">TESTING TESTING</a></a></div>
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We had a lot of fun...
Ah yes. Mr Bernard knows his stuff. Planting more trees when you have the chance is generally a good thing, especially if you just freed up loads of land due to cutting down on the excessive production of high-carbon cows and sheep. But they do have to be the right sorts in the right places, with a plan to look after them for at least a decade othwise most will die and you just wasted a lot of time/effort/money. But it's no substitue for actual emissions reductions.
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<div class="tripdate" id="2023-07-24a">2023-07-24</div>
<div class="trippeople">Kai Trusson, <u>Joe Stell</u>, </div>
<div class="triptitle"><a href="/logbookedit/2023-07-24a"><a href="/logbookedit/2023-07-24a">Fishface - Tourist Trip to Pisspot</a></a></div>
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<br></br>Tourist trip down Fishface to Pisspot. Already more SRT than Joe has done in his entire lifetime combined, hopefully not holding up Kai too much.
<br /><br />Turned around and headed back out after 2 hours or so as felt we had done enough SRT practice
<div class="timeug">T/U: 0.0 hours</div>
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<div class="tripdate" id="2023-07-24b">2023-07-24</div>
<div class="trippeople">Kai Trusson, <u>Joe Stell</u>, </div>
<div class="triptitle"><a href="/logbookedit/2023-07-24b"><a href="/logbookedit/2023-07-24b">Surface - surveying/prospecting small leads found yesterday by Luke, Becca and Max</a></a></div>
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<br></br> Following the trip down fishface, Kai and Joe instructed to survey a tight lead from the surface, at GPS location <b>47.6916192, 13.8128410,</b> to the right of the bottom of a snowy chossy slope.
<br /><br />Cave starts with a short, loose downwards slope, continuing on for about a metre before being ending, filled with frost-shatter. To the left, a short, again loose, upwards slope leads to a vertically upwards shaft of about 4 or 5 metres in height, and around 1.5m in diameter. The lower 3m or so of the shaft was easily free-climbable, but potentially loose rocks made climbing the rest of the shaft difficult. However, from the highest point reached, it looks to be very narrow carrying on, so was considered dead.
<br /><br />Upon leaving this lead, Kai looked to the left of this lead to find another tight lead, floored with frost shattered, starting with hand and knee crawling, but progressing to belly crawling. A small branch off to the right, looking quite tight, was found, followed by a standing chamber filled with soil, again to the right, before daylight was seen ahead, up a muddy slope. Upon some minor digging by Kai, he was able to reach daylight, finding himself at the bottom of a snow filled hole unable to reach the surface. Joe was not entirely excited at the idea of returning through the belly crawling on sharp frost shatter but had to.
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<div class="tripdate" id="2023-07-27a">2023-07-27</div>
<div class="trippeople">Frank Tully, <u>Joe Stell</u>, </div>
<div class="triptitle"><a href="/logbookedit/2023-07-27a"><a href="/logbookedit/2023-07-27a">Surface - Check your bits</a></a></div>
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<br /><br />Hearing of an exciting new lead, "Mahlstromhöhle", from Frank, Max and Flo, Frank and I embarked on a walk westward out of Fishface gear dump. Upon finding the entrance (which took considerably longer than anticipated) we quickly started kitting up, only to find an absence of any drill bits in the drill bag, contrary to what Frank believed to be the case. Frank then left for fishface gear dump in search of drill bits, whilst I waited patiently, in kit.
<br /><br />After maybe 45 minutes, Frank returned, unable to find fishface, pointing that he had in fact walked in the wrong direction. Upon directing him in the right direction, he again disappeared for around 45 minutes, returning with no drill bits. Giving up, we headed back to fishface to dump our gear, and started the walk back to topcamp.
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<div class="tripdate" id="2023-07-28a">2023-07-28</div>
<div class="trippeople">Frank Tully, <u>Joe Stell</u>, </div>
<div class="triptitle"><a href="/logbookedit/2023-07-28a"><a href="/logbookedit/2023-07-28a">Maelstrom - Finally Underground</a></a></div>
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<br /><br />After the brilliant success of yesterday's failed pushing trip, Frank and I returned to Mahlstromhöhle to actually go underground and push. After the entrance pitch, there is a small hole in the floor, from which several small-ish pitches follow.
<br /><br />The cave begins to follow a canyon, starting with a lovely tight climb up to a ledge at the pitch head, with some other equally fun freeclimbs on which we decided to bolt a handline on the way back.
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<div class="tripdate" id="2023-07-29a">2023-07-29</div>
<div class="trippeople">Nadia Raeburn, Frank Tully, <u>Joe Stell</u>, </div>
<div class="triptitle"><a href="/logbookedit/2023-07-29a"><a href="/logbookedit/2023-07-29a">Maelstrom - "Undersold"</a></a></div>
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<br /><br /> Hearing of our great success with this shallow lead, Nadia, having returned from a fishface camping trip the day before, decided she would join us for a nice easy surface trip.
<br /><br />Heading back to the pushing front, we decided that the previous handline climb should in fact be a pitch with a horizontal crawling entry above a rift as this was easier and safer.
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<div class="tripdate" id="2023-07-30a">2023-07-30</div>
<div class="trippeople"><u>Bier Tent</u>, </div>
<div class="triptitle"><a href="/logbookedit/2023-07-30a"><a href="/logbookedit/2023-07-30a">basecamp - Nothing happened today at all</a></a></div>
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<br /><br />Nowt, apparently. Again. On a Sunday, again.
<div class="timeug">T/U: 0.0 hours</div>
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<div class="tripdate" id="2023-07-30b">2023-07-30</div>
<div class="trippeople"><u>Sarah Parker</u>, </div>
<div class="triptitle"><a href="/logbookedit/2023-07-30b"><a href="/logbookedit/2023-07-30b">Expo - UK Caving Blog post 14</a></a></div>
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<div class="tripdate" id="2023-07-31a">2023-07-31</div>
<div class="trippeople">Ruairidh MacLeod, <u>Joe Stell</u>, </div>
<div class="triptitle"><a href="/logbookedit/2023-07-31a"><a href="/logbookedit/2023-07-31a">Surface - Prospecting alternative entrances for Maelstrom</a></a></div>
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<br /><br />After a leisurely (not quite for Ruairidh, carrying far too much) walk up to topcamp with Frank and Nadia following a leisurely morning start from me, Ruairidh and I decided that we could attempt to find an easier, quicker entrance to Maelstrom by following the rift from the surface whilst the other two and Sam were actually in the cave derigging. First we found a large basin, containing what appeared to be a large cave entrance, but upon further inspection, choked out towards the back of the cave. Ruairidh did find a nice complete Gaemse skull though, which he seemed quite happy about. Another potential entrance found further along the rift with a steady flow of water disappearing into the ground which could explain some of the bigger drippy pitches after the lovely squeeze. The rift splits into two further on, with some promising, but inaccessible, looking gorges on the right fork as you follow it. The left seemed less promising from memory but this area is definitely worth another look with bolting kit to make sure. Realising we'd actually got quite close to the col, we decided to simply hike towards the slabs and rejoin the carpark-topcamp path and head back.
<div class="timeug">T/U: 0.0 hours</div>
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<div class="tripdate" id="2023-07-31b">2023-07-31</div>
<div class="trippeople">Adam Erskine, Charlie Crossley, <u>Ben Chaddock</u>, </div>
<div class="triptitle"><a href="/logbookedit/2023-07-31b"><a href="/logbookedit/2023-07-31b">Fishface - Cocoa Channel Bolting Mission</a></a></div>
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[Adam E = Adam Erskine-Jones]
<br /><br />On the morning of my first pushing trip deep within Fishgesicht (5 minutes from camp) the nervous energy carried me up and away through the bountiful faff. After triple checking that we had all the equipment for bolting and surveying a rift that apparently continued but was too sketchy without a traverse line, Charlie, Adam EJ and I traipsed across the plateau for even more faff outside the entrance. After a prompt descent we met the camping team who showed us the way to silverback scoop including a stop at the tap and going down a wrong branch. Squeezing through a pitch head to descend 7m into a dusty tight canyon with a tackle sack full of heavy gear, I did wonder what I was doing, but once the drill was out that fell away completely.
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<div class="tripdate" id="2023-08-01a">2023-08-01</div>
<div class="trippeople">Nathan Walker, Adam Aldridge, Manfred Wuits, <u>Joe Stell</u>, </div>
<div class="triptitle"><a href="/logbookedit/2023-08-01a"><a href="/logbookedit/2023-08-01a">Surface - Hike to Garlic</a></a></div>
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<br /><br />Woke up to see a sub-optimal forecast. Somehow I was convinced that hiking to Garlic Cave Camp was of course the best course of action to take, so we set off. It was actually dry for the first third or so to fishface gear dump to collect our caving gear, but this did not last. The path is a little treacherous in the wet, so it was a little slow going and slightly miserable and wet but we made it. Adam started shovelling snow, Nathan joined in, then I did. I believe Adam had some grand design in mind but I think we ruined it. We then decided to rig a third tarp up to stop the horrible drip right next to the kitchen, but we rigged a drippy tarp and so the situation wasn't drastically improved. We all went to sleep pretty early without anything else to do.
<div class="timeug">T/U: 0.0 hours</div>
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<div class="tripdate" id="2023-08-02a">2023-08-02</div>
<div class="trippeople">Nathan Walker, Adam Aldridge, Manfred Wuits, <u>Joe Stell</u>, </div>
<div class="triptitle"><a href="/logbookedit/2023-08-02a"><a href="/logbookedit/2023-08-02a">Surface - dropping Buzzard Hole on the northerly Kleiner Wildkogel ridge</a></a></div>
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<br /><br />After our lovely sleep, we woke up to dry weather, and set off to the top of the ridge above Garlic. Carrying the thick, wet 90m up the mountain was not conducive to good balance so I did fall over in the bunde and struggle to get back up. We reached Buzzard, Adam rigged it, first to the bunde, then hand bolting whilst we waited patiently. The improvement in weather did give a lovely backdrop of the Braeuningzinken for photos. Nathan went down next, followed by Manfred whilst I stayed outside enjoying the view. Upon Adam's return, I swiftly fell asleep, and awoke to find Nathan and Manfred had finished their survey and were finalising some sketches. Adam spotted some interesting holes beneath us on the plateau, so wet set off to prospect (see next entry).
<div class="timeug">T/U: 3.0 hours</div>
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<div class="tripdate" id="2023-08-02b">2023-08-02</div>
<div class="trippeople">Nathan Walker, Adam Aldridge, Manfred Wuits, <u>Joe Stell</u>, </div>
<div class="triptitle"><a href="/logbookedit/2023-08-02b"><a href="/logbookedit/2023-08-02b">Surface - Prospecting east and south of Kleiner Wildkogel</a></a></div>
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<br /><br />After dropping Buzzard, the fours of us decided to drop down the north face of the ridge, heading east at first, then split to form two prospecting
groups, Adam and I heading further east to wrap around to the south face of the ridge, and Nathan and Manfred following the north face westwards to
prospect the large, unknown valley beneath us.
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<div class="tripdate" id="2023-08-02c">2023-08-02</div>
<div class="trippeople">Nadia Raeburn, <u>Hannah Collings</u>, </div>
<div class="triptitle"><a href="/logbookedit/2023-08-02c"><a href="/logbookedit/2023-08-02c">Fishface Camp - Pushing Theophilus Goon</a></a></div>
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<br /><br />Tuesday was another wet day so a day of top camp fettling was had whilst plans were made for a fish face camp the following day. We had a (fairly) efficient morning, departing top camp shortly after 10 having received a debrief from the previous camp group, who had returned in the early hours, on the state of the latest leads.
<br /><br />Having been promised a dry day after the downpour of the previous day, Nadia and I were greatly unimpressed when it started raining as we kitted up at the fish face entrance. With several grumblings about the weather we got underground and had an uneventful and efficient descent to camp. We dropped off our camp things and enjoyed the luxury of an underground noodle lunch before heading off for leads beyond the traverse above clap my pitch up. Nadia and Kai had previously found a descent length of phreas beyond the traverse, named Theophlius boon, which we were hoping to continue.
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<div class="tripdate" id="2023-08-03a">2023-08-03</div>
<div class="trippeople">Adam Aldridge, David Botcherby, Nathan Walker, Becka Lawson, <u>Joe Stell</u>, </div>
<div class="triptitle"><a href="/logbookedit/2023-08-03a"><a href="/logbookedit/2023-08-03a">Garlic - Fettling</a></a></div>
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<br /><br />Woke up. 10am. It was rainy :(
<br /><br />Nathan ran off to homecoming to try and catch Becca and Botch before they went underground - Adam Aldridge ran after him to take him to the pushing
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<div class="tripdate" id="2023-08-04a">2023-08-04</div>
<div class="trippeople">Hannah Collings, <u>Joe Stell</u>, </div>
<div class="triptitle"><a href="/logbookedit/2023-08-04a"><a href="/logbookedit/2023-08-04a">Basecamp - Garlic Guide</a></a></div>
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<br /><br />Following a swift departure from Garlic in the morning, and an even swifter (and sweaty) hike across the plateau carrying the thick 90m rope with
all my other kit, I partially completed the garlic camp guide. Only the badly taken photos and badly drawn diagrams to add. I think I'll redraw the
diagram before I add it to the website as I can't face the embarassment of such a poor product. My head hurt afterwards but I'm glad I got all the
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<div class="tripdate" id="2023-08-05a">2023-08-05</div>
<div class="trippeople"><u>Philip Sargent</u>, </div>
<div class="triptitle"><a href="/logbookedit/2023-08-05a"><a href="/logbookedit/2023-08-05a">Expo - UK Caving Blog post 15</a></a></div>
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Blog Author: PhilipSargent<div class="bbWrapper">Survey writeups continue, today we passed 4km of surveyed passage this expo (we don't count splays).<br>
The website currently on shows 3,233.2 m <a href="https://expo.survex.com/wallets/year/2023" target="_blank" class="link link--external" rel="nofollow ugc noopener">https://expo.survex.com/wallets/year/2023</a> but the new data update later this evening will show over 4km.</div>
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<div class="tripdate" id="2023-08-06a">2023-08-06</div>
<div class="trippeople"><u>Nadia Raeburn</u>, </div>
<div class="triptitle"><a href="/logbookedit/2023-08-06a"><a href="/logbookedit/2023-08-06a">Expo - UK Caving Blog post 16</a></a></div>
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<div class="tripdate" id="2023-08-10a">2023-08-10</div>
<div class="trippeople"><u>Rob Watson</u>, </div>
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Blog Author: nobrotson<div class="bbWrapper"><b>Connecting FF to SMK - a step further</b><br>
Two weeks really isn't long enough to spend on a caving expedition. You really have no chance to think, it's all just go. Well, that was certainly Stangroom's approach to driving anyway, reaching giddying speeds on the Autobahn as we pressed on towards Bad Aussee. We had chosen a poor weekend to depart, the first of the school holidays, and so despite arriving in Dover two hours early we had to settle for a ferry two hours later than planned, which also stank of fish, in a bad way. One absolutely mad woman chose to embrace the stench and tucked into fish and chips at 2:30 am! This experience caused us to want to move away from Dunkirk at great speed, with only a brief stop en route in the Frankenjura to go for a swim in a very fast flowing river.<br>
@ -1887,7 +1969,8 @@ And that was it for my exploration in FF. Lea continued the trend of french name
<div class="tripdate" id="2023-08-29a">2023-08-29</div>
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Blog Author: El Stobbarto<div class="bbWrapper"><b><span style="font-size: 18px">The Tempest Diaries*</span></b><br>
<div style="text-align: right"><span style="font-size: 10px">*(Posted over a month after the actual events, mostly because I forgot I’d written this)</span>​</div><br>