Online edit of logbookentry 2025-07-31a - on dev machine 'SnowWhite'

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 <div class="tripdate" id="2025-07-31a">2025-07-31</div>
 <div class="trippeople"><u>Becka</u></div>
-<div class="triptitle">Email updates about Expo - Three email updates as Expo progressed</div>
+<div class="triptitle">Email - Email updates about Expo - Three email updates as Expo progressed</div>
 By popular request, here are the three email updates that I wrote for the Expo email list in 2025:
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 From: Rebecca Lawson <beckalawson@gmail.com>
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 Subject: Final Expo uodate Re: Update after the Expo Dinner Re: Start of Expo update - Wed week 1
 To: Expo List <expo@lists.wookware.org>
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 Here’s my final Expo update after yesterday’s mammoth derig.
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 After my last, post-Expo dinner update the KH leads all - finally - started paying out. Charlotte and Russell had a well-deserved bonanza of a trip with Lara, pushing the uninspiring QM at the end of Natural Way. This led down a grotty, muddy pitch then into ~500m of fine, walking horizontal passage, Enniskillen Toad, including a lovely chamber (with an awful name), Meat Sofa. Subsequent trips extended this area substantially, with more walking, stooping and crawling passage and some good QMs remaining. Meanwhile, Ash explored over 400m in one of the 19 leads in Country for Old Men (Country for Young Men) leaving much left to do there. Finally, Shrinking Prospects in the Runnelstone area turned into a substantial and ongoing pitch. This, Knossos and the entrance were derigged.
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 Cheers, Becka
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 On Wed, 16 Jul 2025, 10:55 Rebecca Lawson, <beckalawson@gmail.com> wrote:
 We're now about halfway through the Expo and we had the Expo dinner last night.
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 Finally, many days of prospecting has come up with 2 fine, new caves. Dan and Dylan have pushed Anfanger Gluck Hohle to over 100m deep. It's in a fine position, fairly near Natural Way in KH and is continuing. Meanwhile, Joel has been focused on Gruffalo, which blows out an icy gale and they're there today to rig a 3s drop. Sadly the Reflectorist died, possibly due to over-enthusiastic gardening.
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-Cheers Becka 
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-On Wed, 2 Jul 2025, 10:25 Rebecca Lawson, <beckalawson@gmail.com> wrote:
-Expo has had a cracking start, I can't remember such efficiency. 
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-Since the first 2 cars arrived on Sat
--  base camp has been set up, complete with a fine and huge single tarp
-- all the gear has come out of Traungold 
-- Top Camp has been set up with a novel cargo net tarp design
-- Garlic Camp has been stripped down to minimal kit suitable for a lightweight prospecting team and everything else has been moved to Top Camp
-- over 1km rope has been taken out of Homecoming and walked to Top Camp leaving just the Daren Drum of Doom there
-- Balkon entrance is rigged and the Mongol Rally rope has been taken to the pitch head
-- Kaninchenhoehle 161G entrance has been rebolted 
-- all routes have been reflectors
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-There has even been time for prospecting and today we're returning to a good looking 2025 find, the Reflectorist.
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-The 8am deadline to get through the toll road barrier may be a blessing in disguise ... by 6.30 Base Camp is abuzz, cars leave at 7.15 and we can be walking at 8. Given temperatures have been getting to well into the 30s an early start really helps. 
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-The only fly in the ointment has been the lack of rain so far and almost complete lack of snow, so we've been walking up with 4+ litres of water. This drought should, though, soon be sorted
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-It's all been a fine team effort with everyone pitching in, so it feels wrong to name any individual but I'm going to anyway - here's a shout out to Hamish Weir for singlehandedly running a bread production line. At 6 this morning there were 2 full loaves ready for the hungry hordes.
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-Time to go caving!
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 Cheers Becka
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