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<div class="tripdate">28-29/7/02</div>
<div class="tripdate">28/07/2002</div>
<div class="trippeople"><u>Earl</u> + Mark + 1/2 Ton of Expo gear go to Austria in a van</div>
<div class="triptitle"></div>
<p>Departed Cavendish Labs at 4.10pm, having finally got (nearly) all the necessary gear together an dpacked into Earl's van and the
Wookmobile (Ol having taken a good amount of gear out already). Mark had passed his driving test a week before, and so I was wondering
what the drive woudl be like. I'm pleased to report that it was entirely fine. Mark drove to Dover and we took the 8.15pm Sea France
ferry to Calais. Needing some fuel we tried to find the Calais ELF station. As we ended up in a Carrefour carpoark where the 24hr pums
didn't take English credit cards, herewith some directions: from the ferry terminal, take the main road out following signs to Dunkirk and
Calais centre. At the turnoff for Calais centre, <u>don't go to Calais centre</u> (which is the first exit on the roundabout). Instead,
carry on round the roundabout 3/4 to where the ELF station is visible.</p>
<p>Anyway, Mark drove on to just after Brussels. Slightly oddy, we were stuck in a traffic jam at 1:30am getting into Brussels. Quite why
was uncertain, but tailbacks several miles at this time of night seemed odd. I drove on from Brussels to within 50km of Frankfurt. By this
time it was 6.30am and we decided that some sleep was in order. We pulled off the motorway (leaving he early morning rush hour traffic
behind) and found a random layby and deployed carrymats and sleeping bags in the early morning sun. I managed to grab a few hours' sleep
before being roasted out of my pit by the sun, but unfortunately Mark was kept awake by a surprising quantity of traffic on this rural
road. After a brief breakfast we continued along the A3; I drove to near Regensburg, where Mark took over to complete the journey.</p>
<p>As we were good and paid up for an Austrian vignette for the motorways, we thought we would try the new motorway from Wles to Liezen
rather than the more usual Ried-Volklabruck-Gmunden-Bad Ischl route. This would have been a reasonable choice, not much faster, but
somewhat simpler. However, the motorway was still under construction so we got to go round mountains, admiring the new but unused tunnels
that will one day carry the motorway through them. As a finale, the 5km road tunnel under the Pyhrnpa&szlig; is two-way without any
central reservation and only minimal lighting... Anyway, continued on to Liezen and Bad Mitterndorf and so to Bad Aussee, arriving on time
for a bier at Hilde's.</p>
<div class="timeug">T/U 15mins in various road tunnels.</div>
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<div class="tripdate">28-29/07/2002</div>
<div class="trippeople"><u>Wook</u> &amp; Alex</div>
<div class="triptitle">The Lardmobile's first big trip</div>
@ -35,7 +65,7 @@ make it back to the UK.</p>
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<div class="tripdate">30/07/02</div>
<div class="tripdate">30/07/2002</div>
<div class="trippeople"><u>Wook</u> + Ol</div>
<div class="triptitle">Gear carrying</div>
@ -45,7 +75,7 @@ make it back to the UK.</p>
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<div class="tripdate">31/7/02</div>
<div class="tripdate">31/07/2002</div>
<div class="trippeople"><u>Wook</u> + Ol</div>
<div class="triptitle"></div>
<p>Moved gear to cave. Tried to follow portal row beyond 40e. Thrashed through bunde for a bit but found nothing so came back higher up
@ -55,7 +85,14 @@ finding a copule of promising holes, see next write-up. </p>
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<div class="tripdate">01/8/02</div>
<div class="tripdate">01/08/2002</div>
<div class="trippeople"><u>Duncan</u> flies to expo</div>
<div class="triptitle"></div>
<p>...well, most of the time was spent in cars, buses or trains, but bang on 12 hours from my bed to the fridge in the tatty hut.</p>
<hr />
<div class="tripdate">01/08/2002</div>
<div class="trippeople"><u>Wook</u> + Ol</div>
<div class="triptitle">Surface work near portal row</div>
@ -79,7 +116,20 @@ boulders. Very easy dig with a crowbar to get in. GPS: UTM 33T 0411445 5281039 (
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<div class="tripdate">02/8/02</div>
<div class="tripdate">2/08/2002</div>
<div class="trippeople"><u>Dunks</u> + Mark</div>
<div class="triptitle">Artischockeh&ouml;hle (2002-01) + Hauchh&ouml;hle (2001-09)</div>
<p>First off popped some bolts into 204a for an improved descent of the cave. Then went + surveyed the newly found Artischockeh&ouml;hle. Fine
3m walking passage ends in a boulder choke with a couple of chambers separated by crawls. Dunks the daft managed to entomb himself in the
choke for half an hour, eventually digging himself out. Then went to survey Hauchh&ouml;hle, but instead spent about 3 hours digging, finding
some crawls and a new ~20m draughting pitch</p>
<div class="timeug">T/U 1 hr in 2002-01, 3 hrs in 2001-09</div>
<hr />
<div class="tripdate">02/08/2002</div>
<div class="trippeople"><u>Wook</u> + Ol</div>
<div class="triptitle">Eish&ouml;hle, Mission Impossible</div>
@ -92,7 +142,7 @@ ramps as far as bottom of "for down". Time to go home in order to get down hill
<hr />
<div class="tripdate">04/8/02</div>
<div class="tripdate">04/08/2002</div>
<div class="trippeople"><u>Wook</u> + Ol</div>
<div class="triptitle">Eish&ouml;hle, Mission Impossible</div>
@ -114,14 +164,7 @@ dropped ~10cm in 7hrs.</p>
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<div class="tripdate">01/8/02 </div>
<div class="trippeople"><u>Duncan</u> flies to expo</div>
<div class="triptitle"></div>
<p>...well, most of the time was spent in cars, buses or trains, but bang on 12 hours from my bed to the fridge in the tatty hut.</p>
<hr />
<div class="tripdate">05/8/02</div>
<div class="tripdate">05/08/2002</div>
<div class="trippeople"><u>Wook</u> + Ol</div>
<div class="triptitle">Surface investigations in Eish&ouml;hle area</div>
@ -179,7 +222,7 @@ snow + found continuation through small hole into space at bottom. Very miserabl
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<div class="tripdate">06/8/02</div>
<div class="tripdate">06/08/2002</div>
<div class="trippeople"><u>Wook</u> + Ol</div>
<div class="triptitle">Back on surface</div>
@ -200,37 +243,36 @@ hill.</p>
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<div class="tripdate">28/7/02</div>
<div class="trippeople"><u>Earl</u> + Mark + 1/2 Ton of Expo gear go to Austria in a van</div>
<div class="triptitle"></div>
<div class="tripdate">8/08/2002</div>
<div class="trippeople"><u>Duncan</u>, Steve</div>
<div class="triptitle">204: Rigging down Ariston</div>
<p>Departed Cavendish Labs at 4.10pm, having finally got (nearly) all the necessary gear together an dpacked into Earl's van and the
Wookmobile (Ol having taken a good amount of gear out already). Mark had passed his driving test a week before, and so I was wondering
what the drive woudl be like. I'm pleased to report that it was entirely fine. Mark drove to Dover and we took the 8.15pm Sea France
ferry to Calais. Needing some fuel we tried to find the Calais ELF station. As we ended up in a Carrefour carpoark where the 24hr pums
didn't take English credit cards, herewith some directions: from the ferry terminal, take the main road out following signs to Dunkirk and
Calais centre. At the turnoff for Calais centre, <u>don't go to Calais centre</u> (which is the first exit on the roundabout). Instead,
carry on round the roundabout 3/4 to where the ELF station is visible.</p>
<p>Rigged down Ariston series with Steve + a big bag of rope. Snow levels on 2nd pitch of the entrance series very low, so went via Thread
Pitch rather than Stitch This.</p>
<p>Anyway, Mark drove on to just after Brussels. Slightly oddy, we were stuck in a traffic jam at 1:30am getting into Brussels. Quite why
was uncertain, but tailbacks several miles at this time of night seemed odd. I drove on from Brussels to within 50km of Frankfurt. By this
time it was 6.30am and we decided that some sleep was in order. We pulled off the motorway (leaving he early morning rush hour traffic
behind) and found a random layby and deployed carrymats and sleeping bags in the early morning sun. I managed to grab a few hours' sleep
before being roasted out of my pit by the sun, but unfortunately Mark was kept awake by a surprising quantity of traffic on this rural
road. After a brief breakfast we continued along the A3; I drove to near Regensburg, where Mark took over to complete the journey.</p>
<p>As we were good and paid up for an Austrian vignette for the motorways, we thought we would try the new motorway from Wles to Liezen
rather than the more usual Ried-Volklabruck-Gmunden-Bad Ischl route. This would have been a reasonable choice, not much faster, but
somewhat simpler. However, the motorway was still under construction so we got to go round mountains, admiring the new but unused tunnels
that will one day carry the motorway through them. As a finale, the 5km road tunnel under the Pyhrnpa&szlig; is two-way without any
central reservation and only minimal lighting... Anyway, continued on to Liezen and Bad Mitterndorf and so to Bad Aussee, arriving on time
for a bier at Hilde's.</p>
<div class="timeug">T/U 15mins in various road tunnels.</div>
<div class="timeug">T/U 5hrs</div>
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<div class="tripdate">9/8/02</div>
<div class="tripdate">8/08/2002</div>
<div class="trippeople">Wook, <u>Olly</u></div>
<div class="triptitle">Eish&ouml;hle</div>
<p>Back to the top of MI to look at the continuation of the rift which Wook found last time. Siphon still siphoning the duck - still not
empty. Realised that the pushing front we'd forgotten the drill bit (but had carried the drill + battery). Rigged off naturals with the
36m dynamic rope. Looks like the rift is continuing up at much the same angle, but is now somewhat wider - at least at higher levels.
Pushed up to waterfall (i.e. floor of rift has risen to our level) and also traversed back to bypass our rigging and return to last ramp
of 2001 series. Scaling rift looks hard. Might be possible to regain top by entering from higher window up ramp, but hard to be
enthusiastic about yet more bolting up when we're already 100m above our target. Surveyed and derigged to ramp after pendule. Tried to
take some photos of MI with Expo camera and also with Wook's digital. Only one digital one worked - hopefully film worked better! Emerged
at 5.20am to glorious dawn.</p>
<div class="timeug">T/U 10 hours (?)</div>
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<div class="tripdate">9/08/2002</div>
<div class="trippeople">Tony, Alex, <u>Earl</u></div>
<div class="triptitle">Steinbr&uuml;cken</div>
@ -256,37 +298,13 @@ the conclusion we came to is that for some reason Duncs has pulled the rope up a
<p>So we return through No Pain No Gain and ehad out to 204d via Swings and Roundabouts. The rubble slope up to Suspended Solution is still
really loose and if anything there are more threatening Big Boulders which could be dislodged by the careless/unwary. We pulled-through on
the climb donw into Living Daylight Cavern and free-climbed out through 204d. Returned to Steinbrucken bivvy, Tony cursing the "route"
the climb donw into Living Daylight Cavern and free-climbed out through 204d. Returned to Steinbr&uuml;cken bivvy, Tony cursing the "route"
which had been mainly chosen for surveying (taking in all high points) and not really for ease of progress... A reasonable trip, combining
new exploration work with a (rather longer than expected) tourist around the main horizontal development in Steinbrucken.</p>
new exploration work with a (rather longer than expected) tourist around the main horizontal development in Steinbr&uuml;cken.</p>
<hr />
<div class="tripdate">2/8/02</div>
<div class="trippeople"><u>Dunks</u> + Mark</div>
<div class="triptitle">Artischockehohle (2002-01) + Hauchhohle (2001-09)</div>
<p>First off popped some bolts into 204a for an improved descent of the cave. Then went + surveyed the newly found Artischockehohle. Fine
3m walking passage ends in a boulder choke with a couple of chambers separated by crawls. Dunks the daft managed to entomb himself in the
choke for half an hour, eventually digging himself out. Then went to survey Hauchhohle, but instead spent about 3 hours digging, finding
some crawls and a new ~20m draughting pitch</p>
<div class="timeug">T/U 1 hr in 2002-01, 3 hrs in 2001-09</div>
<hr />
<div class="tripdate">8/8/02</div>
<div class="trippeople"><u>Duncan</u>, Steve</div>
<div class="triptitle">204: Rigging down Ariston</div>
<p>Rigged down Ariston series with Steve + a big bag of rope. Snow levels on 2nd pitch of the entrance series very low, so went via Thread
Pitch rather than Stitch This.</p>
<div class="timeug">T/U 5hrs</div>
<hr />
<div class="tripdate">??/8/02</div>
<div class="tripdate">??/08/2002</div>
<div class="trippeople"><u>Ben</u>, Duncan, Frank, Anthony</div>
<div class="triptitle">204</div>
@ -311,24 +329,7 @@ off out, emerging at 5.30am.</p>
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<div class="tripdate">8/8/2002</div>
<div class="trippeople">Wook, <u>Olly</u></div>
<div class="triptitle">Eishohle</div>
<p>Back to the top of MI to look at the continuation of the rift which Wook found last time. Siphon still siphoning the duck - still not
empty. Realised that the pushing front we'd forgotten the drill bit (but had carried the drill + battery). Rigged off naturals with the
36m dynamic rope. Looks like the rift is continuing up at much the same angle, but is now somewhat wider - at least at higher levels.
Pushed up to waterfall (i.e. floor of rift has risen to our level) and also traversed back to bypass our rigging and return to last ramp
of 2001 series. Scaling rift looks hard. Might be possible to regain top by entering from higher window up ramp, but hard to be
enthusiastic about yet more bolting up when we're already 100m above our target. Surveyed and derigged to ramp after pendule. Tried to
take some photos of MI with Expo camera and also with Wook's digital. Only one digital one worked - hopefully film worked better! Emerged
at 5.20am to glorious dawn.</p>
<div class="timeug">T/U 10 hours (?)</div>
<hr />
<div class="tripdate">10/8/02</div>
<div class="tripdate">10/08/2002</div>
<div class="trippeople">Wook, Tess, Alex, Ol's Mum and Dad, <u>Ol</u></div>
<div class="triptitle">SVH tourist</div>
@ -342,7 +343,47 @@ at the car just as darkness fell.</p>
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<div class="tripdate">17/8/02</div>
<div class="tripdate">14(15?)/08/2002</div>
<div class="trippeople">Mark, <u>Ol</u></div>
<div class="triptitle">Surface work near Eish&ouml;hle</div>
<p>Walked up, investigated 2 holes on left of 40a-&gt; Portal Row route, just past the hole we're fairly sure is 40b. Both descend tot he
entrance Thilo says is 40d, emerging high on the right wall. Sketch map:</p>
<p>[Image]</p>
<p>Trogged down to 40D to check thaey did indeed connect. Looked around 40D area a bit:</p>
<p>[Image]</p>
<p>Mark suggested the flattish sandy area could be fettled for use as a bivvy - it does appear to be inside the dripline, so might not
need a tarp - 40a can get very drippy after prolonged rain.</p>
<div class="timeug">T/U 2 hours</div>
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<div class="tripdate">16/08/2002</div>
<div class="trippeople"><u>Ol</u></div>
<div class="triptitle">Surface work near Eish&ouml;hle</div>
<p>Walk up from car park to Appelhaus junction with Mark. He heads to 204 to collect gear while I head to Eish&ouml;hle area. Fettle bivvy tarp
back up (it blew down in the bad weather) the over to meet Mark and Steve, doing some tagging of 2001-XX caves. Tagged "Bootlace"
(<b>2001-11</b>) and decided that in fact it's free-climbable. Descended. Doesn't go.</p>
<p>Next up to Big Job (<b>2001-10</b>). Tagged. Had another look, but had not light so couldn't reach a better conclusion than last
year.</p>
<p>On to Funkberaterschacht (<b>2001-09</b>). Tagged.</p>
<p>On to "3-entrance choke". Attached two tags left before (ran out of bolts!) Then over to meet Mark and Steve. Got back to Bivvy in
deepening twilight.</p>
<div class="timeug">T/U Ol 15mins</div>
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<div class="tripdate">17/08/2002</div>
<div class="trippeople">Steve, Mark, <u>Ol</u></div>
<div class="triptitle">Eish&ouml;hle, checking out passages behind 40A bivvy</div>
@ -367,12 +408,11 @@ entrance pitch, we notice a few possible windows in the walls which might make i
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<div class="tripdate">17/8/02</div>
<div class="tripdate">17/08/2002</div>
<div class="trippeople">Steve, Mark, <u>Ol</u></div>
<div class="triptitle">Surface work</div>
<p>Earlier that same day <i>[Editor's comment: this trip was written up immediately after <a href="#">this trip</a>, despite occurring
immediately before it]</i>... looked at shaft in corner, close to awkward climb, just before 40A on route from Bunter's Bulge. Chokes at
<p>Earlier that same day ... looked at shaft in corner, close to awkward climb, just before 40A on route from Bunter's Bulge. Chokes at
bottom, but tube off shelf just below entrance could be pushed with a small amount of digging - good for a lazy afternoon. </p>
<p>Mark spotted a shaft close by, even nearer the path. Rigged a Y-hang off 2 naturals and descended. Chokes at -16m. Also found very small
@ -383,29 +423,27 @@ bivvy. Hole could probably be enlarged as it seems to be surrounded by soil.</p>
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<div class="tripdate">14(15?)/8/02</div>
<div class="trippeople">Mark, <u>Ol</u></div>
<div class="triptitle">Surface work near Eishohle</div>
<div class="tripdate">17/08/2002</div>
<div class="trippeople"><u>Martin</u>, Simon</div>
<div class="triptitle">Tour of Steinbr&uuml;cken</div>
<p>Walked up, investigated 2 holes on left of 40a-&gt; Portal Row route, just past the hole we're fairly sure is 40b. Both descend tot he
entrance Thilo says is 40d, emerging high on the right wall. Sketch map:</p>
<p>We went in A, and went to the bottom of Wolpertinger Way, to try to remeasure a dodgy leg, which turned out to be OK. So I do not know
what is going on here. </p>
<p>[Image]</p>
<p>We did a 3m climb down with difficulty, rather than traversing over the top of You're So Veined. We then explored "Up at 35&deg;"
[<i>this is described as "Up at 45&deg;" on the survey and the guidebook]</i> (which is off 110 Bidet). This was some phreatic passage
leading to a wet chamber, with a too tight passage. A turning off the main way led to a chamber with a pitch, which I free climbed via a
crawl which led back to the chamber, which turned out to have three rifts going off which were all very tight. We then surveyed a passage
between Treeumphant and Crowning Glory, which was explored but not surveyed last year, mutter. Simon got cold so I had to finish the
survey myself. We then exited through E.</p>
<p>Trogged down to 40D to check thaey did indeed connect. Looked around 40D area a bit:</p>
<p>[Image]</p>
<p>Mark suggested the flattish sandy area could be fettled for use as a bivvy - it does appear to be inside the dripline, so might not
need a tarp - 40a can get very drippy after prolonged rain.</p>
<div class="timeug">T/U 2 hours</div>
<div class="timeug">T/U 8 hours</div>
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<div class="tripdate">18/8/02</div>
<div class="tripdate">18/08/2002</div>
<div class="trippeople">Steve <u>Ol</u></div>
<div class="triptitle">Surface work near Eishohle</div>
<div class="triptitle">Surface work near Eish&ouml;hle</div>
<p>Gloriously sunny, so we opt for staying mostly above ground. I seem slightly keener, so got to take caving gear, while Steve gets to
sit in the sunshine. First jot - survey a leg from the remains of a cairn (on the 2000 surface survey from near portal row to 40a) ot the
@ -435,27 +473,20 @@ drill away while I set the spit and spanner the tag. Then we run for 3-entrance
<hr />
<div class="tripdate">16/8/2002</div>
<div class="trippeople"><u>Ol</u></div>
<div class="triptitle">Surface work near Eishohle</div>
<div class="tripdate">18/08/2002</div>
<div class="trippeople"><u>Martin</u>, Brian</div>
<div class="triptitle">Merry "Fucking" Go Round</div>
<p>Walk up from car park to Appelhaus junction with Mark. He heads to 204 to collect gear while I head to Eishohle area. Fettle bivvy tarp
back up (it blew down in the bad weather) the over to meet Mark and Steve, doing some tagging of 2001-XX caves. Tagged "Bootlace"
(<b>2001-11</b>) and decided that in fact it's free-climbable. Descended. Doesn't go.</p>
<p>Went in 204E with Earl and Dave as well. We went to Brian's Merry Go Round, and went down the 1st and 2nd pitch which were pre-rigged. I
then waited as Brian rigged the 3rd pitch, with a traverse line, Y hang and two deviations. Water was heard down the pitch from above, but
the pitches above were OK. Earl came and checked we were OK before he went out. Then Brian returned, had an underground brew, and we
surveyed 1st and 2nd pitches.</p>
<p>Next up to Big Job (<b>2001-10</b>). Tagged. Had another look, but had not light so couldn't reach a better conclusion than last
year.</p>
<p>On to Funkberaterschacht (<b>2001-09</b>). Tagged.</p>
<p>On to "3-entrance choke". Attached two tags left before (ran out of bolts!) Then over to meet Mark and Steve. Got back to Bivvy in
deepening twilight.</p>
<div class="timeug">T/U Ol 15mins</div>
<div class="timeug">T/U 8hrs</div>
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<div class="tripdate">21/8/02</div>
<div class="tripdate">21/08/2002</div>
<div class="trippeople">Steve, <u>Ol</u></div>
<div class="triptitle">Try to reach "Window of Opportunity" + derig Mission Impossible</div>
@ -473,56 +504,13 @@ the old rope on the pendule, and lugged out the dynamic which is now even heavie
<hr />
<div class="tripdate">29/8/02</div>
<div class="trippeople"><u>Duncan</u>, Ben</div>
<div class="triptitle">TROUBLE</div>
<p>Had a few quiet beers last night, followed by lots of very noisy ones. A few tins of Wei&szlig; Bohnen, Rote Bohnen, Tomaten, etc, etc
were exploded on the stove, a few pans were rattled a bit and some very raucous singing was done. Turns out that the man over the road
mistook the exploding cans for gunshots and was very close to calling the plod out. Ruffled feathers required soothing, so this afternoon
a diplomatic mission was sent bearing a gift of Jagertee and an apology cobbled together in very dodgy German. This seems to have done the
trick, we were told to "have a good fart" and that Alice was in ordnung.</p>
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<div class="tripdate">17/8/2002</div>
<div class="trippeople"><u>Martin</u>, Simon</div>
<div class="triptitle">Tour of Steinbrucken</div>
<p>We went in A, and went to the bottom of Wolpertinger Way, to try to remeasure a dodgy leg, which turned out to be OK. So I do not know
what is going on here. </p>
<p>We did a 3m climb down with difficulty, rather than traversing over the top of You're So Veined. We then explored "Up at 35&deg;"
[<i>this is described as "Up at 45&deg;" on the survey and the guidebook]</i> (which is off 110 Bidet). This was some phreatic passage
leading to a wet chamber, with a too tight passage. A turning off the main way led to a chamber with a pitch, which I free climbed via a
crawl which led back to the chamber, which turned out to have three rifts going off which were all very tight. We then surveyed a passage
between Treeumphant and Crowning Glory, which was explored but not surveyed last year, mutter. Simon got cold so I had to finish the
survey myself. We then exited through E.</p>
<div class="timeug">T/U 8 hours</div>
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<div class="tripdate">18/8/02</div>
<div class="trippeople"><u>Martin</u>, Brian</div>
<div class="triptitle">Merry "Fucking" Go Round</div>
<p>Went in 204E with Earl and Dave as well. We went to Brian's Merry Go Round, and went down the 1st and 2nd pitch which were pre-rigged. I
then waited as Brian rigged the 3rd pitch, with a traverse line, Y hang and two deviations. Water was heard down the pitch from above, but
the pitches above were OK. Earl came and checked we were OK before he went out. Then Brian returned, had an underground brew, and we
surveyed 1st and 2nd pitches.</p>
<div class="timeug">T/U 8hrs</div>
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<div class="tripdate">22/8/02</div>
<div class="tripdate">22/08/2002</div>
<div class="trippeople"><u>Martin</u>, Dave L</div>
<div class="triptitle">Plan Not Interesting</div>
<p>I woke up at base camp at 8am, to find by 10am that the plan to get up the hill early turned into a sesh. So I grabbed Dave L, to get a
bus into Bad Aussee, with the plan to get the bus up the hill. But the morning bus had already gone. So we hitched, our first lift was
after 3km of walking but the next two lifts came quickly. We then walked to Steinbrucken. We went in E, and went down Plan Not
after 3km of walking but the next two lifts came quickly. We then walked to Steinbr&uuml;cken. We went in E, and went down Plan Not
Interesting. The drill I took wiht me turned out not to work so I rigged off naturals. I then got Dave to do notes of a survey, to much
complaining. "Why should I draw a plan [<i>for this particular station</i>], it is not interesting" "But, knowing that the plan is not
interesting is useful information". So Dave wrote "Plan not interesting" in the notes.</p>
@ -531,7 +519,22 @@ interesting is useful information". So Dave wrote "Plan not interesting" in the
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<div class="tripdate">23/8/02</div>
<div class="tripdate">22/08/2002</div>
<div class="trippeople">Steve, <u>Ol</u></div>
<div class="triptitle">Eish&ouml;hle, Window of Opportunity</div>
<p>Back to bolting across the top of Altausseerhalle. Made better progress with the skyhook. Again Steve waited in the bivvy for a
while.</p>
<p>I was hanging in space when Steve started shouting. He just heard on the phone that ArGE had made the connection! Suddenly my antics
seemed rather pointless, so I finished off the spit I was working on, and then headed out. We had a brew then headed down the hill to hear
the full story from the Germans in the car park.</p>
<div class="timeug">T/U ?? hours</div>
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<div class="tripdate">23/08/2002</div>
<div class="trippeople"><u>Martin</u>, Earl</div>
<div class="triptitle">204 Merry-Go-Round</div>
@ -553,7 +556,33 @@ left, leaving the drill and various gear at South Circular.</p>
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<div class="tripdate">24/8/02</div>
<div class="tripdate">23/08/2002</div>
<div class="trippeople">Martin Sluka, <u>Ol</u></div>
<div class="triptitle">Prospecting on walk up to Eish&ouml;hle + SVH tourist trip</div>
<p>Martin Sluka arrived the previous evening but could only stay for the weekend (today was Friday) so we headed up to the Eish&ouml;hle
bivvy. Martin got distracted by every single hole on the path up, and I got to look at several holes I'd not looked at before. We took the
route variant which bypasses the climb by the double arrow - turn left rather than dropping down at the lightninged tree. Not far along,
near a fault intersection, we investigated several holes.</p>
<p>[Blank box presumably meant to contain a sketch survey]</p>
<p>Further along the path, after rejoining the usual route, we looked at two holes on the right of the path</p>
<p>[Diagram, showing two holes labelled respectively "Obvious horizontal slot entrance, slanting flat ceiling" and "On 26th: GPS 33
410468E 5280126N 1652m (WGS 84). Had to move rocks to allow entry. ~8m deep. Choked."]</p>
<p>Beyond Bunter's Bulge, to the right of the usual (paint marked) route to 40a:</p>
<p>[Diagram, with an entrance labelled "Cave marked (squiggle) in white, by awkward climb down in path"]</p>
<p>Finally we reached the 40A bivi and had a snack, then over to Eistunnel for a SVH tourist trip. Martin noticed an odd slanting hole
near the base of the 50m snow cone, next to the first of 3 major drip holes. Hypothesize that this is formed by warmer air seeping through
floor and so there is perhaps a passage beneath. Passage through ice slopes, for about 12m at 30-40&deg;.
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<div class="tripdate">24/08/2002</div>
<div class="trippeople"><u>Martin</u>, Earl</div>
<div class="triptitle">204 Merry-Go-Round</div>
@ -563,7 +592,7 @@ stash to Magic Roundabout. I then left out E derigging as I went. </p>
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<div class="tripdate">25/8/02</div>
<div class="tripdate">25/08/2002</div>
<div class="trippeople"><u>Martin</u>, Earl</div>
<div class="triptitle">204 Plan Not Interesting</div>
@ -582,47 +611,19 @@ was a short distance away, but we had run out of rope, so we surveyed and derigg
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<div class="tripdate">22/8/02</div>
<div class="trippeople">Steve, <u>Ol</u></div>
<div class="triptitle">Eishohle, Window of Opportunity</div>
<div class="tripdate">29/08/2002</div>
<div class="trippeople"><u>Duncan</u>, Ben</div>
<div class="triptitle">TROUBLE</div>
<p>Back to bolting across the top of Altausseerhalle. Made better progress with the skyhook. Again Steve waited in the bivvy for a
while.</p>
<p>I was hanging in space when Steve started shouting. He just heard on the phone that ArGE had made the connection! Suddenly my antics
seemed rather pointless, so I finished off the spit I was working on, and then headed out. We had a brew then headed down the hill to hear
the full story from the Germans in the car park.</p>
<div class="timeug">T/U ?? hours</div>
<hr />
<div class="tripdate">23/8/02</div>
<div class="trippeople">Martin Sluka, <u>Ol</u></div>
<div class="triptitle">Prospecting on walk up to Eishohle + SVH tourist trip</div>
<p>Martin Sluka arrived the previous evening but could only stay for the weekend (today was Friday) so we headed up to the Eishohle bivvy.
Martin got distracted by every single hole on the path up, and I got to look at several holes I'd not looked at before. We took the route
variant which bypasses the climb by the double arrow - turn left rather than dropping down at the lightninged tree. Not far along, near a
fault intersection, we investigated several holes.</p>
<p>[Blank box presumably meant to contain a sketch survey]</p>
<p>Further along the path, after rejoining the usual route, we looked at two holes on the right of the path</p>
<p>[Diagram, showing two holes labelled respectively "Obvious horizontal slot entrance, slanting flat ceiling" and "On 26th: GPS 33
410468E 5280126N 1652m (WGS 84). Had to move rocks to allow entry. ~8m deep. Choked."]</p>
<p>Beyond Bunter's Bulge, to the right of the usual (paint marked) route to 40a:</p>
<p>[Diagram, with an entrance labelled "Cave marked (squiggle) in white, by awkward climb down in path"]</p>
<p>Finally we reached the 40A bivi and had a snack, then over to Eistunnel for a SVH tourist trip. Martin noticed an odd slanting hole
near the base of the 50m snow cone, next to the first of 3 major drip holes. Hypothesize that this is formed by warmer air seeping through
floor and so there is perhaps a passage beneath. Passage through ice slopes, for about 12m at 30-40&deg;.
<p>Had a few quiet beers last night, followed by lots of very noisy ones. A few tins of Wei&szlig; Bohnen, Rote Bohnen, Tomaten, etc, etc
were exploded on the stove, a few pans were rattled a bit and some very raucous singing was done. Turns out that the man over the road
mistook the exploding cans for gunshots and was very close to calling the plod out. Ruffled feathers required soothing, so this afternoon
a diplomatic mission was sent bearing a gift of Jagertee and an apology cobbled together in very dodgy German. This seems to have done the
trick, we were told to "have a good fart" and that Alice was in ordnung.</p>
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