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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 2024-07-26 16:07 using either the control panel webpage or when editing a logbook entry online
Exported on 2024-07-26 19:07 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="2024-07-06a">2024-07-06</div>
<div class="trippeople"><u>waite</u>,Charlotte,philips,,Jacob C,</div>
<div class="trippeople"><u>waite</u>,,philips,Charlotte,Jacob C,</div>
<div class="triptitle">Basecamp - Setup day 1</div>
Arrived in the afternoon and got keys from gasthof. Fridge full of other people's beer sadly. Picked up Philip S from the station and set up outside tarp and bier tent. Bier tent missing it's door ATM with a tarp rigged instead??????? Where has it gone ? Who knows?????? Gas hose fell off burner whilst cooking dinner, large plume of flame in bier tent but crisis averted
<div class="timeug">T/U: 0.0 hours</div>
@ -33,7 +33,7 @@ Arrived in the afternoon and got keys from gasthof. Fridge full of other people'
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<div class="tripdate" id="2024-07-06b">2024-07-06</div>
<div class="trippeople"><u>Philip Sargent</u>,Charlotte,,</div>
<div class="trippeople"><u>Philip Sargent</u>,,Charlotte,</div>
<div class="triptitle">Bad Aussee - Shopping trip</div>
I was walking into town from the station (from Vienna this morning) when I was intercepted by Charlotte and taken shopping at the big Billa, thence to [otato hut, nerding etc. Hot day, sunny,not rain.
<div class="timeug">T/U: 0.0 hours</div>
@ -42,7 +42,7 @@ I was walking into town from the station (from Vienna this morning) when I was i
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<div class="tripdate" id="2024-07-07a">2024-07-07</div>
<div class="trippeople"><u>PhilipS</u>,Charlotte,Jacob,,Waite,</div>
<div class="trippeople"><u>PhilipS</u>,,Jacob,Charlotte,Waite,</div>
<div class="triptitle">topcamp - First visit to top camp</div>
Charlotte, James W and Jacob C going for a first carry to top camp to look at amount of snow etc., departed Gasthof at 11:00 expected back about 20:00. They are not taking the new top camp tarp up this time - it weighs 21 kg.
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@ -65,7 +65,7 @@ Tarp is partly up at <em>side</em> of hut as there was a caravan parked there ye
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<div class="tripdate" id="2024-07-08a">2024-07-08</div>
<div class="trippeople"><u>PhilipS</u>,Julia,wassil,,sieds,</div>
<div class="trippeople"><u>PhilipS</u>,,wassil,Julia,sieds,</div>
<div class="triptitle">basecamp - Who went where</div>
Everyone went up to the plateau except for Julia and Philip S. Wassil and Sieds arrived during the day.
<div class="timeug">T/U: 0.0 hours</div>
@ -74,7 +74,7 @@ Everyone went up to the plateau except for Julia and Philip S. Wassil and Sieds
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<div class="tripdate" id="2024-07-08b">2024-07-08</div>
<div class="trippeople"><u>Waite</u>,charlotte,,</div>
<div class="trippeople"><u>Waite</u>,,charlotte,</div>
<div class="triptitle">Top camp - Carrying</div>
Carried the new tarp up to top camp today (25KG bag) rigged the tarp reasonably well. Water collection is started but needs rain. Storage cave emptied and some bits dried out.
<div class="timeug">T/U: 0.0 hours</div>
@ -95,7 +95,7 @@ Isaac
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<div class="tripdate" id="2024-07-09a">2024-07-09</div>
<div class="trippeople"><u>Philip S</u>,Wookey,,Sieds,</div>
<div class="trippeople"><u>Philip S</u>,,Sieds,Wookey,</div>
<div class="triptitle">Basecamp - Nerd *</div>
Sieds has graduated (demoted?) to supernerd. Wookey spent a couple of hours last night failing to get
the scanner working with Debian, and Philip was tearing his hair trying it with Ubuntu and Windows
@ -108,7 +108,7 @@ Sieds calmly checked the online documentation, did the three-fingered salute to
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<div class="tripdate" id="2024-07-09b">2024-07-09</div>
<div class="trippeople"><u>waite</u>,jacob,charlotte,,issac,</div>
<div class="trippeople"><u>waite</u>,,charlotte,jacob,issac,</div>
<div class="triptitle">fishface - collecting rope</div>
no reflectors left on spits.
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@ -148,7 +148,7 @@ on things and tried to kill me multiple times).
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<div class="tripdate" id="2024-07-10a">2024-07-10</div>
<div class="trippeople"><u>Isaac</u>,jacob,waite,,philip s,charlotte,</div>
<div class="trippeople"><u>Isaac</u>,,waite,charlotte,jacob,philip s,</div>
<div class="triptitle">basecamp - Bread Making</div>
<p>
With an afternoon of festering well on the way after arriving back from our FF rope
@ -210,7 +210,7 @@ Isaac.
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<div class="tripdate" id="2024-07-10b">2024-07-10</div>
<div class="trippeople"><u>Wassil</u>,Marie,Sieds,,Lara,</div>
<div class="trippeople"><u>Wassil</u>,,Sieds,Marie,Lara,</div>
<div class="triptitle">balcony - Rigging balcony entrance series</div>
<p>We were tasked by Antony to rig the entrance series of Balkonhöhle so that he could go and rig
Mongol Rally (presumably a more interesting rig).</p>
@ -236,7 +236,7 @@ rapidly approaching. Luckily we made it back to camp 5 minutes before it started
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<div class="tripdate" id="2024-07-11a">2024-07-11</div>
<div class="trippeople"><u>Wassil</u>,Jono,Marie,,Becka,</div>
<div class="trippeople"><u>Wassil</u>,,Marie,Jono,Becka,</div>
<div class="triptitle">garlic - Setting up Garlic Cave Camp</div>
<p>It turns out that Garlic Camp is a really good idea. 1h58 from the car park, under 20 minutes from
Homecoming, so I'll be spending more time there.</p>
@ -295,7 +295,7 @@ Walked back to Bad Aussee. Had coffee having missed last bus.
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<div class="tripdate" id="2024-07-11c">2024-07-11</div>
<div class="trippeople"><u>waite</u>,wook,charlotte,,lara,</div>
<div class="trippeople"><u>waite</u>,,charlotte,wook,lara,</div>
<div class="triptitle">homecoming - more naughty rope</div>
We rigged the entrance to Homecoming and rigged ropes down to the up pitch. ropes after this were left insitu. wookey dissapeared behind us to play with his new toy (Sap6) he measured some pitches as far as the 4 bolt traverse at the bottom of radagast. We found the pile of rope at the bottom of the uprope to Propane Nightmares.
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@ -318,7 +318,7 @@ charlotte was the bull and this was the red rag!
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<div class="tripdate" id="2024-07-11d">2024-07-11</div>
<div class="trippeople"><u>Anthony</u>,Ruairidh,,Sieds,</div>
<div class="trippeople"><u>Anthony</u>,,Sieds,Ruairidh,</div>
<div class="triptitle">Balkon - Rigging</div>
Set off with the intention of rigging as far as Hangmans if time permitted. I felt a bit ropey, and this sensation did not subside once we started caving. Ruairidh attempted to fettle the entrance rig a bit, and we extended the existing handline on the approach to Natural Highs. At the pitch by Natural Highs I was still feeling nauseous, so elected to turn round. This was a good move as I was even slower than usual on the way out, finding myself sitting gazing into space for minutes on end at various points. Ruairidh and Sieds got as far as rigging the traverse to the head of Honeycomb before heading out.
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@ -329,7 +329,7 @@ TU is a guess - two hours less for me
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<div class="tripdate" id="2024-07-12a">2024-07-12</div>
<div class="trippeople"><u>jw</u>,charlotte,,lara,</div>
<div class="trippeople"><u>jw</u>,,lara,charlotte,</div>
<div class="triptitle">garlic camp - thunderstruck</div>
we walked to garlic from top and fettled the tarps and kit. then thunder, lightning and lotsa of rain struck. we dealt with this by laying down and trying to sleep under the tarp. we ended up using a bivi bag as a duvet and had a book reading session until the rain had passed. was very warm and lovely.
<div class="timeug">T/U: 0.0 hours</div>
@ -338,7 +338,7 @@ we walked to garlic from top and fettled the tarps and kit. then thunder, light
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<div class="tripdate" id="2024-07-12b">2024-07-12</div>
<div class="trippeople"><u>Becka</u>,RM,,Marie,</div>
<div class="trippeople"><u>Becka</u>,,Marie,RM,</div>
<div class="triptitle">Balkonhoehle - Rigging Honeycomb</div>
Zero stoke for this trip and a crack of 11am start saw us heading down with the 2 bags of rope to rig
Mongol Rally plus associated hardware and some kit to keep us warm, safe and happy. The 2024 rig of
@ -383,7 +383,7 @@ walk back to an empty Top Camp.
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<div class="tripdate" id="2024-07-12c">2024-07-12</div>
<div class="trippeople"><u>waite</u>,lara,,charlotte,</div>
<div class="trippeople"><u>waite</u>,,charlotte,lara,</div>
<div class="triptitle">homecoming - silly james gets grumpy</div>
i left my pantin on the surface and then got my feet wet going into the A lead at heifer.
cue some grumpy rigging by myself and an early turnaround partway down strained by gravity.
@ -394,7 +394,7 @@ on exit we had a a large traffic jam on wallace with people going down to second
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<div class="tripdate" id="2024-07-13a">2024-07-13</div>
<div class="trippeople"><u>pb</u>,Isaac,,Jono,</div>
<div class="trippeople"><u>pb</u>,,Jono,Isaac,</div>
<div class="triptitle">Garlic - Dropped gear at garlic and setup meshtastic</div>
I set out to drop my gear at Garlic and setup some fixed nodes to test the meshtastic radios. We
dropped the first radio at the Col, up the slope to the left as use enter the plateau. It was
@ -417,7 +417,7 @@ Jono and Isaac mode it back a little while later.
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<div class="tripdate" id="2024-07-13b">2024-07-13</div>
<div class="trippeople"><u>Jacob C</u>,Wassil,,Marie,</div>
<div class="trippeople"><u>Jacob C</u>,,Marie,Wassil,</div>
<div class="triptitle">homecoming - Homechundering</div>
Wassil and I wandered over to top camp to meet Marie in the early hours of the Saturday morning. The weather was unassuming and I felt brimming with eagerness to get underground having spent one day too many days festering at base camp.
<p>
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<div class="tripdate" id="2024-07-14a">2024-07-14</div>
<div class="trippeople"><u>ps</u>,Marie,Wookey,,Jacob,</div>
<div class="trippeople"><u>ps</u>,,Wookey,Marie,Jacob,</div>
<div class="triptitle">basecamp - Heute ist Domstag</div>
Delayed Onset Muscle Stiffness my walk up to StoneBridge a couple of days ago.
<p>
@ -470,7 +470,7 @@ A bit of a disturbance last night as Marie was a bit ill after coming out of a c
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<div class="tripdate" id="2024-07-14b">2024-07-14</div>
<div class="trippeople"><u>Jono</u>,balister,,</div>
<div class="trippeople"><u>Jono</u>,,balister,</div>
<div class="triptitle">basecamp - A stroll from afar</div>
Today, I got to sit on my seat, relaxing outside, munching on chips, and sipping a Gösser, while Balister hiked up the Tressensteinwarte to see if we could get a signal on our new Meshtastic systems.
@ -483,7 +483,7 @@ Let's see if he gets a parking ticket as he sprints back down the hill...
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<div class="tripdate" id="2024-07-14c">2024-07-14</div>
<div class="trippeople"><u>PS</u>,PB,Sieds,JL,Marie,,RM,Isaac,JC,</div>
<div class="trippeople"><u>PS</u>,,Sieds,Marie,Isaac,PB,JL,RM,JC,</div>
<div class="triptitle">Basecamp - Who came down, and went up</div>
Jacob, Marie came down (Phil B got them?) and Marie went to bed in the attic.
@ -494,7 +494,7 @@ Jacob, Marie came down (Phil B got them?) and Marie went to bed in the attic.
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<div class="tripdate" id="2024-07-15a">2024-07-15</div>
<div class="trippeople"><u>Lara</u>,James W,Charlotte,,Issac,</div>
<div class="trippeople"><u>Lara</u>,,Charlotte,James W,Issac,</div>
<div class="triptitle">homecoming - Failed pushing but excellent sidequests</div>
We set off from Garlic Camp to homecoming vaguely early in the morning which was a very welcome change, 20 minutes downhill walking which was lovely as long as you didn't think about the walk back up. Isaac had joined our motley crew the night before and was <em>very</em> excited for a big trip (read: scared to be beasted by Charlotte and James).
<p>
@ -547,7 +547,7 @@ Anyway I parked the bike at the "No Cycling" notice at the bottom of the track u
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<div class="tripdate" id="2024-07-15c">2024-07-15</div>
<div class="trippeople"><u>Anthony</u>,Ruairidh,,</div>
<div class="trippeople"><u>Anthony</u>,,Ruairidh,</div>
<div class="triptitle">Surface - Entrance hunting towards Griesskogel</div>
<p>The objective for today was to head over towards the Griesskogel camp used by ARGE some years ago to find a few of their caves that are in interesting places given what we have recently found in deep Balkonh&ouml;hle. We also planned to swing by a few caves that were lacking entrance photos to rectify the shortfall. Ruairidh was also keen to drop an undescended pitch in 2012-ns-07 (aka 2016#01), so we took drill, rope SRT kit etc.</p>
@ -583,7 +583,7 @@ Anyway I parked the bike at the "No Cycling" notice at the bottom of the track u
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<div class="tripdate" id="2024-07-16a">2024-07-16</div>
<div class="trippeople"><u>Isaac</u>,Waite,,</div>
<div class="trippeople"><u>Isaac</u>,,Waite,</div>
<div class="triptitle">basecamp - My pants</div>
Due to circumstances I would love to describe as 'out of my control', but alas cannot, I ended up wearing the same pair of underwear for a walk up to the plateau, for a night at garlic, down homecoming the next day, another night in garlic, and a walk back down to base camp. Unsurprisingly to some (and by "some" I here mean "everyone but student cavers") they ended up carrying a rather pungent odour into the following day. In the absence of someone inventing a way to send scents through the medium of text, I'll leave you with James Waite's thoughts on the smell as 'ohh that's rather like a strong camembert'.
<p>
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<div class="tripdate" id="2024-07-16b">2024-07-16</div>
<div class="trippeople"><u>PS</u>,Lara,AD,,JW,</div>
<div class="trippeople"><u>PS</u>,,AD,Lara,JW,</div>
<div class="triptitle">basecamp - More chundering</div>
Anthony had a very bad night last night at Stone Bridge a couple of hours after eating, but got down today feeling a bit weak.
<p>
@ -610,7 +610,7 @@ James was shown how to scan survey notes, put them in a plastic wallet, and crea
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<div class="tripdate" id="2024-07-16c">2024-07-16</div>
<div class="trippeople"><u>Philip Balister</u>,Jono Lester,,, *Phil Benchoff</div>
<div class="trippeople"><u>Philip Balister</u>,,Jono Lester,, *Phil Benchoff</div>
<div class="triptitle">topcamp - Trip to top camp</div>
We had a lot of fun, walking up to Top Camp to deliver some supplies, including two Tofu Paneer curries intended for my consumption. Once at Top Camp, I reviewed the behavior of meshtastic nodes about the plateau. Chat performance is good, but some units are not updating positions consistently This needs more study. Jono ran the Stone Bridge fixed node to the top of Niederes augst-eck. This gives the mesh good coverage over Balkon area and much, much further, Jono was giggling like a radio amateur after working Scarborough Reef. I setup mqtt access to a node and packets where sighted in Virginia on a server operated by Phil Benchoff.
<p>
@ -624,7 +624,7 @@ The tofu curries were consumed when a prospecting trip returned. I was sad.
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<div class="tripdate" id="2024-07-16d">2024-07-16</div>
<div class="trippeople"><u>Isaac</u>,Charlotte,Ruairidh,Jacob,Waite,,Lara,Jono,Marie,</div>
<div class="trippeople"><u>Isaac</u>,,Ruairidh,Waite,Jono,Charlotte,Jacob,Lara,Marie,</div>
<div class="triptitle">Lake - Marie Hates Swimming</div>
See title.
<div class="timeug">T/U: 0.01 hours</div>
@ -633,7 +633,7 @@ See title.
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<div class="tripdate" id="2024-07-17a">2024-07-17</div>
<div class="trippeople"><u>philip s</u>,wookey,,</div>
<div class="trippeople"><u>philip s</u>,,wookey,</div>
<div class="triptitle">basecamp - Elitech datalogger</div>
The data logger had been extracted from Traungold where it had been all winter. Minimum temp -4.9 C which then went up to 0.1 C and was very stable for months when it was presumably buried in snow.
<p>
@ -655,7 +655,7 @@ Tess arrived, and cooked the evening slop + rice (with Lara) for the canyoning [
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<div class="tripdate" id="2024-07-18a">2024-07-18</div>
<div class="trippeople"><u>Lara</u>,Charlotte,Jacob,,James W,</div>
<div class="trippeople"><u>Lara</u>,,Jacob,Charlotte,James W,</div>
<div class="triptitle">homecoming - There and there and there and back again</div>
When I emerged from homecoming and realised the stars were only just still visible because it was dawn I seriously considered if I'd left some of my sanity down by the pushing front. We had finished faffing and started descending around midday the day before, a solid 16 and a half hours ago.
<p>
@ -696,7 +696,7 @@ It now being 1am we were a bit delirious. Jacob went the wrong way and took a de
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<div class="tripdate" id="2024-07-19a">2024-07-19</div>
<div class="trippeople"><u>Philip S</u>,Sieds,,</div>
<div class="trippeople"><u>Philip S</u>,,Sieds,</div>
<div class="triptitle">basecamp - Laser printer</div>
Sieds has sorted out the printer properly. We have new Cyan, Magenta, Yellow and Black cartridges in today. The Blue cartridge is at 10% and there is a new Blue cartridge in an OPENED box and bag under the bench which should be used to replace it at the end of Expo 2024.
<p>
@ -709,7 +709,7 @@ There is also a completely new OPENED Black cartridge under the bench in a box.
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<div class="tripdate" id="2024-07-19b">2024-07-19</div>
<div class="trippeople"><u>PhilipBalister</u>,IsaacNeale,,</div>
<div class="trippeople"><u>PhilipBalister</u>,,IsaacNeale,</div>
<div class="triptitle">2024-pb-01 - Descend a shaft by dm-04 #2</div>
In 2023, I was poking around the area around dm-04 while Ash surveyed it with possibly Eli from Cardiff. There are several interesting shafts in the area, including the one I dropped today. This shaft was under a fissure with a few boulders in the roof. Rocks dropped in create an impressive BOOM.
<p>
@ -730,7 +730,7 @@ Isaac went to drop the drill and rope back at Garlic while I did a quick survey
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<div class="tripdate" id="2024-07-20a">2024-07-20</div>
<div class="trippeople"><u>PS</u>,Harry,Christian,,Colin,</div>
<div class="trippeople"><u>PS</u>,,Christian,Harry,Colin,</div>
<div class="triptitle">Bascamp - New arrivals</div>
Christian, Harry and Colin arrived.
<br>
@ -764,7 +764,7 @@ Signed: The people of the plateau.
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<div class="tripdate" id="2024-07-21a">2024-07-21</div>
<div class="trippeople"><u>Philip S</u>,Rosa,Dickon,,Aidan,Tom,</div>
<div class="trippeople"><u>Philip S</u>,,Dickon,Tom,Rosa,Aidan,</div>
<div class="triptitle">basecamp - New arrivals today</div>
One car arrived:
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@ -776,7 +776,7 @@ Aidan came by train and Dickon drove here.
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<div class="tripdate" id="2024-07-21b">2024-07-21</div>
<div class="trippeople"><u>Philip S</u>,lara,chi,harry,Charlotte,,</div>
<div class="trippeople"><u>Philip S</u>,,chi,Charlotte,lara,harry,</div>
<div class="triptitle">plateau - Surface walk from col to Geschwantalm</div>
<a href="/years/2024/images/col.jpg">
<img width=20% src="/years/2024/images/col.jpg"></a>
@ -814,7 +814,7 @@ ADDENDUM 26th July:
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<div class="tripdate" id="2024-07-21c">2024-07-21</div>
<div class="trippeople"><u>Lara</u>,Harry,Charlotte,,Chi,</div>
<div class="trippeople"><u>Lara</u>,,Charlotte,Harry,Chi,</div>
<div class="triptitle">Homecoming - A satisfying but not very useful result</div>
Slavedriver Payne woke us up early and we got up the hill vaguely fast (despite Chi's moderate faff). Unfortunately further faff then occurred at the entrance to Homecoming. This included further effort towards the Gordian Knot from the first Homecoming trip, which concluded in Chi doing an Alexander the Great. We ended up with two ropes. Chi also spent <em> some </em> time reconstructing a pantin from two broken ones (it didn't work). Clearly one person was the issue here. *editorial note: it would transpire that Lara concluded faffing a good 20 mins after the futile pantin was birthed*
<p>
@ -841,26 +841,32 @@ Harry and Charlotte slowed themselves down by doing some more Wallace fettling.
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<div class="tripdate" id="2024-07-22a">2024-07-22</div>
<div class="trippeople"><u>Colin</u>,Becka,,waite,</div>
<div class="trippeople"><u>Colin</u>,waite,,Becka,</div>
<div class="triptitle">Balkonhoehle - Rack Vs Rally</div>
This is my first logbook entry so may need fettling.
<p>
After a rather eventful walk up the plateau summiting a mountain on my travels. I arrived to a concerned Becka and James about to come looking for me. On a side note would not recommend carrying caving kit and camping kit in one go it sucks. The next few hours were spent waiting for the previous trip to exit the cave so we knew what to take and do once underground. The other group arrived at top camp at around 18:30 where we discussed their progress. Apparently it involved lots of swearing at far to many tackle bags on the way down the various pitches. Opting to eat dinner at top camp we continued to faff getting underground for 20:00. This would be our last daylight for 65 hours.
After a rather eventful walk up the plateau summiting a mountain on my travels. I arrived to a concerned Becka and James about to come looking for me. On a side note would not recommend carrying caving kit and camping kit in one go it sucks. The next few hours were spent waiting for the previous camping trip to exit the cave so we knew what to take and do once underground. The other group - Wookey, Marie and Anthony - arrived at top camp at around 18:30 where we discussed their progress. Apparently it involved lots of swearing at far too many tackle bags on the way down the various pitches. Opting to eat dinner at top camp we continued to faff, getting underground for 20:00. This would be our last daylight for 65 hours.
<p>
Due to James and I not knowing the way to camp we had a guided tour of Balkonholle by Becka which slightly slowed progress taking 4hrs to reach camp. I was using my rack much to James's entertainment. I proceeded to drink half a litre of very cold water causing me to shiver, this would be the coldest I was all trip. when in our sleeping bags I apparently fell asleep far to quickly in comparison to a jealous Becka who was still cold. I was very warm and had a great nights sleep.
Due to James and I not knowing the way to camp we had a guided tour of Balkonhoehle by Becka which slightly slowed progress taking 4hrs to reach camp. I was using my rack much to James's entertainment. I proceeded to drink half a litre of very cold water causing me to shiver. This would be the coldest I was all trip. When in our sleeping bags I apparently fell asleep far too quickly in comparison to a jealous Becka who was still cold. I was very warm and had a great nights sleep.
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The tour of Balkonholle continued on the first day after a slow start. We found a couple of draughty A leads near camp which would be good for another team to look at if they're down for a short day. Once at Northern powerhouse we dropped the big chamber as someone had to do it resulting in a lovely 50m pitch which went nowhere. Becka nearly had a big rock land in her head when it fell out the wall luckily the big rock went nowhere and only a little one went down. This would become a trend of our trip. having used up all our bolts to actually push anything and being a little late we decided to scope our leads for the next day. This involved digging a boulder choke to bypass a pitch once we realised it was going we left and James squashed his knee behind a rock. Becka was very concerned thinking James had seriously either squashed or trapped his arm. I rammed myself into a very tight, horizontal, sharp and rifty squeeze where I bailed out of due to rescue being impossible. We then looked at some other leads which needed killing. We went Back to camp for an early night in preparation for a big pushing day the next day. The gas stove required much love to actually work at cooking our dinner. On another side note the gas stove could do with being replaced with a stove with a prewarming gas loop other wise you have no chance of cooking anything quickly.
The tour of Balkonhoehle continued on the first day after a slow start. We found a couple of draughty A leads near camp which would be good for another team to look at if they're down for a short day. Once at Northern Powerhouse we dropped the big pitch as someone had to do it, resulting in a lovely 50m pitch which went nowhere. Becka nearly had a big rock land on her head when it fell out of the wall when James lent on it. Luckily the big rock went nowhere and only a little one went down. This would become a trend of our trip. Having used up all our thru-bolts to push the pitch and being a little late we decided to scope out our leads for the next day. This involved going to the lead in the chamber surveyed on the previous camping trip and digging a boulder choke to bypass a pitch. Once we realised it was going we left and James squashed his knee behind a rock. Becka was very concerned, thinking James had seriously either squashed or trapped his arm. I rammed myself into a very tight, horizontal, sharp and rifty squeeze where I bailed out due to rescue being impossible. We then looked at some other leads which needed killing. We went back to camp for an early night in preparation for a big pushing day the next day.
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An earlier start than the previous day left us with plenty of time to kill many leads. We set of to our dig to put in the pitch, now we have bolts to bypass the sketchy boulder choke. Here I learnt to bolt under observation from James. 2 more pitches were found and bolted. At the bottom of the second pitch I had to return to the top, while James and Becka surveyed our new found shafts, I was sent to collect the 50m rope for the 3rd pitch and some more flapjack. on the way back to the others 2 false floors collapsed underneath me while on a traverse line resulting in a disgruntled Becka, appropriately so. The 3rd pitch had some slightly more inventive rigging due to a low amount of bolts left. Here I had a conversation while bolting which was not a good idea, resulting in unset bolts which I had to be reminded to set. The 3rd pitch was a muddy tube which ended rather depressingly at the end. After having de-rigged we had no bolts to rig anything we pushed a couple of ramps on the way to Tartrus which all connected into themselves quite entertainingly. there seems to be a big wet boulder choke where all the leads crap out. We then headed further in to a QMB? which was lovely wide chamber until it again died while on top of a boulder false floor on top of a big drop. We all got very scared and ran away. On the way back to camp we removed an old rope from northern powerhouse and added a new one and also surveyed a short side passage. I ran away to camp to make a start on dinner while the surveying was done. An inventory was taken and an early night was had.
The gas stove required much love to actually work at cooking our dinner. On another side note the gas stove could do with being replaced with a stove with a pre-warming gas loop, otherwise you have no chance of cooking anything quickly.
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A very early morning and a relatively faff-less start was achieved. Mongol rally was started, quickly passed by Becka. I tried to make my life easier by abseiling out of the window on an Italian hitch with my jammers on the up rope. the plan failed when the carabinier failed to open resulting in untying the natural to feed it through my carabinier to then try again. much to James's horror, he made sure to hold onto the rope. once the first obstacle was passed I was off being chased by James and trying to keep up with Becka which didn't happen. My pantin and croll weren't being helpful making my life very unpleasant. much suffering was gone through trying to exit much to everyone else's entertainment. The exhaustion caught up at the bottom of the entrance series much flapjack was consumed giving me a second wind. I exited to a Becka going we're behind schedule cracking the whip.
An earlier start than the previous day left us with plenty of time to kill many leads. We set off to yesterday's dig to put in the pitch above as we now had bolts to bypass the sketchy boulder choke. Here I learnt to bolt under observation from James. Two more pitches were found and bolted. At the bottom of the second pitch I had to return to the top, while James and Becka surveyed our new found shafts, I was sent to collect the 50m rope for the 3rd pitch and some more flapjack. On the way back to the others 2 false floors collapsed underneath me while on a traverse line resulting in a disgruntled Becka, appropriately so. The 3rd pitch had some slightly more inventive rigging due to a low amount of bolts left. Here I had a conversation while bolting which was not a good idea, resulting in unset bolts which I had to be reminded to set. The 3rd pitch finished at a muddy tube so it ended rather depressingly.
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After having de-rigged we had no thru-bolts to rig anything so we pushed a couple of horizontal ramps on the way to Tartarus which all connected to themselves quite entertainingly. There seems to be a big, wet boulder choke where all the leads crap out. We then headed further in to a QMB, which was lovely wide passage until it again died while on top of a boulder false floor on top of a big drop. We all got scared and ran away.
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On the way back to camp we replaced the old (2012) rope from the Northern Powerhouse up-pitch and also surveyed a short side passage. I ran away to camp to make a start on dinner while the surveying was done. An inventory was taken and an early night was had.
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A very early morning and a relatively faff-less start was achieved. Mongol Rally was quickly started by Becka. I tried to make my life easier by abseiling out of the window on an Italian hitch with my jammers on the up rope. The plan failed when the carabiner failed to open, resulting in me having to untie the rope from the natural it was secured to in order to feed it through my carabinier to then try again. James was not impressed and made sure to hold onto the rope. Once this first obstacle was passed I was off, being chased by James and trying to keep up with Becka, which didn't happen. My pantin and croll weren't being helpful, making my life very unpleasant. Much suffering was gone through trying to exit, much to everyone else's entertainment. The exhaustion caught up at the bottom of the entrance series. Much flapjack was consumed, giving me a second wind. I exited to Becka going telling me that we were behind schedule and cracking the whip.
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<div class="tripdate" id="2024-07-22b">2024-07-22</div>
<div class="trippeople"><u>Philip S</u>,Shinwell,,</div>
<div class="trippeople"><u>Philip S</u>,,Shinwell,</div>
<div class="triptitle">basecamp - Arrival and rain</div>
Mark Shinwell arrived in an electric van (hired) and in the early evening Jono's new huge tap at the end of the hut (put up yesterday) got tested by a downpour.
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<div class="tripdate" id="2024-07-22c">2024-07-22</div>
<div class="trippeople"><u>Jacob</u>,Phil S,,Isaac,</div>
<div class="trippeople"><u>Jacob</u>,,Isaac,Phil S,</div>
<div class="triptitle">Basecamp - Festering and computers at the end of time</div>
Isaac and I were tasked with writing up 2023's unfinished logbook writeups. After overwhelming Philip with website bugs and general stress we each decided to go on missions of self discovery to stave off a complete mental break.
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@ -884,7 +890,7 @@ I need to go caving.
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<div class="tripdate" id="2024-07-22d">2024-07-22</div>
<div class="trippeople"><u>Rosa B</u>,Aidan K,Jacob C,,Jono L,</div>
<div class="trippeople"><u>Rosa B</u>,,Jacob C,Aidan K,Jono L,</div>
<div class="triptitle">Menstrual Tunnel - My first underground trip abroad</div>
I asked Jono for him to teach me to survey and which he enthusiastically agreed. The next morning he came up with a grin telling me to grab my helmet and my swimming costume????? and get in the landy. We arrived in a car park with Jono keeping the plan quiet and walked us alo0ng the river opposite a chinese. Across the river under the chinese was a small tunnel. It was a battle to get into the tunnel with the strong torrent of water trying to push us down. I mistakenly volunteered to go in to mark the survey point with my finger and was instantly hit by slime underfoot and a grotesque smell. I concealed my disgust and headed in. The others took their time learning about the survey device and choosing their spot. Then they entered with much dramatica, Jono gagging and threatening to throw up, Aidan doing his best to avoid the slime and Jacob quietly disgusted. At this point we noticed the used menstrual products next to me and the strong scent of fecal matter. We sped up the process with Aidan valiantly fighting the cobwebs. Much surveying was learnt and ready to try in an actual trip. We made a quick escape all taking time to wash thoroughly in the river.
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@ -895,7 +901,7 @@ Lesson learnt: Be wary of Jono's ideas. Ask more questions.
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<div class="tripdate" id="2024-07-22e">2024-07-22</div>
<div class="trippeople"><u>Aidan K</u>,Rosa B,,Tom P,</div>
<div class="trippeople"><u>Aidan K</u>,,Tom P,Rosa B,</div>
<div class="triptitle">Plateau - First Plateau Crossing</div>
It's Rosa and I's first expo and it was Tom's first time up to Garlic camp. We had lots of fun navigating our way across, mostly playing join the dots orienteering style. We bumped into Rosa, Lara, Chi, and Harry who had finished prospecting just before the Homecoming junction. It took us about 3.5 hours to get to HC where I left my caving kit and Rosa and Tom left their camping kit. On the return journey we found the autobahn and followed it, but lost the trail around the traverse climb. The route needs more reflectors but we had a good day and I saw a tiny snake that Rosa did not like at all!
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<div class="tripdate" id="2024-07-23a">2024-07-23</div>
<div class="trippeople"><u>Philip S</u>,Isaac,,Jacob,</div>
<div class="trippeople"><u>Philip S</u>,,Jacob,Isaac,</div>
<div class="triptitle">basecamp - Troggle: Seem to have fixed logbook overwriting problem</div>
Yesterday Jacob and Isaac got round a duplication problem with logbook entry by overwriting an existing entry - which meant that a dozen entries from 2023 were typed up, but all overwriting the same entry. (So these now need to be recovered from the git records).
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<div class="tripdate" id="2024-07-23b">2024-07-23</div>
<div class="trippeople"><u>Philip S</u>,Jacob,,Jono,</div>
<div class="trippeople"><u>Philip S</u>,,Jono,Jacob,</div>
<div class="triptitle">Basecamp - They typed up the survey training exercise</div>
Jacob created a wallet and survex file which have since been removed from the system entirely. The survey notes are here:
<img src="/years/2024/images/notes1-menstrualcave.jpg" width=30%>
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<div class="tripdate" id="2024-07-23c">2024-07-23</div>
<div class="trippeople"><u>Aidan K</u>,Rosa B,Tom Phillips,,Lara B,</div>
<div class="trippeople"><u>Aidan K</u>,,Tom Phillips,Rosa B,Lara B,</div>
<div class="triptitle">Homecoming - Swinging into the Tube</div>
Following the walk across the plateau with everyone and Isaac (who watched us go in before heading off to Garlic), and a lot of faff, we went down the entrance series. Lara lead the way, followed by Rosa, Tom, and then I. Tom had a battle with the entrance pitch - unaided by the 5om of rope I had given him to take down - which required teamwork and feeding him chocolate role like it's an apple to free him.
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<div class="tripdate" id="2024-07-24a">2024-07-24</div>
<div class="trippeople"><u>Rosa B</u>,Aidan K,,</div>
<div class="trippeople"><u>Rosa B</u>,,Aidan K,</div>
<div class="triptitle">Homecoming - Exploring leads above Radagast</div>
Following yesterdays bolting trip myself and Aidan headed back down to explore a couple of QMAs. We had a smooth entry with no more than the usual level of faff. A couple of slippery climbs down and we reached a pitch that had been surveyed but obviously by much more ballsy cavers than ourselves so we bolted it and rigged the approx. 13m pitch. I got to place my first bolt ever!!! It was very exciting, and I loved it. We had some flapjack and layered up for some surveying. We began surveying down to two QMAs passed the Oxbow. Down to the left was steep and needed rigging so we opted for the right which was down climbable. It resulted in another pitch below but with a slipppery "Banana skin" like mud just in front so PROCEED WITH CARE. When we looked up the pitch we could see that we could make a loop closure!! and as first time expo novices this is quite fun! (and spoiler, loop closure all meets on the survey). We had a peek down another lead we anticipate to join the stream way below the pitch and the plan is to return on Saturday to descend the pitches and continue surveying.
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<div class="tripdate" id="2024-07-25b">2024-07-25</div>
<div class="trippeople"><u>ZW</u>,Nat,,Sarah,</div>
<div class="trippeople"><u>ZW</u>,,Sarah,Nat,</div>
<div class="triptitle">basecamp - Arrival #2</div>
Nat and Sarah also arrived
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<div class="tripdate" id="2024-07-25d">2024-07-25</div>
<div class="trippeople"><u>Philip S</u>,Sarah,Zac,,PB,Becka,Nat,, *Sandy</div>
<div class="trippeople"><u>Philip S</u>,,Zac,Becka,Sarah,PB,Nat,, *Sandy</div>
<div class="triptitle">plateau - Entrance spotting</div>
Lift up with Nat, Sarah and Zac, they went off to topcamp and from the col I wandered down and around the near plateau photographing whatever entrances and tags I could find.<br>
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<div class="tripdate" id="2024-07-26a">2024-07-26</div>
<div class="trippeople"><u>ZW</u>,Sarah,Philip S,James w,,Nat,Colin,</div>
<div class="trippeople"><u>ZW</u>,,Philip S,Nat,Sarah,James w,Colin,</div>
<div class="triptitle">topcamp - Top camp bounce</div>
Sarah, Nat, Zac and Phil drove up the loser. We then hiked up to the Col. It being Sarah, Nat and Zac's first time up since the installation of the new cable car, we were quite taken unawares by the new path from the car park. From there it was plain hiking up to the col. Once at the Col, Phil s parted ways and headed off on his own adventures. Sarah, Nat and Zac, meanwhile hiked on to top camp. Once there we caught Becka as she was leaving and James W and Colin as they were thinking about leaving. After a little faffing and some noodles, we rang down to base camp to ask what kit we should carry down. We were told only some some roll mats and camp beds for Garlic. Packing these, alongside some tackle sacks from a recent Balkon trip (See report), we began to head down. Zac Lagged behind a lot of the way as his new shoes were wearing on his feet. But eventually we reached the loser car park where we all packed, tightly, into Sarah's car and drove down the hill.
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