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<div class="timeug">T/U: 3.0 hours</div>
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<div class="tripdate" id="2025-07-09b">2025-07-09</div>
<div class="trippeople"><u>Buck</u>, Ash, Hannah UG</div>
<div class="triptitle">KH - Bolt-Climbing Technical Underwear</div>
I want to begin this account with a disclaimer. The misery herein does not originate from the trips themselves, nor those that accompanied me during them, but from the unrelenting downpour unleashed upon the plateau over the course of these three days, and the bone-chilling cold that lurked behind it.
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Ash came to this expo to drink Weissbier and push KH, and topcamp doesn't stock Weissbier. Luckily, Hannah and I were looking for a trip, so off we went to assist him with his bolt climb in Where the Wind Blows, becoming increasingly soggy in the rain en route. We ran into half the camping group (Lara, Russell, and Charlotte) at the entrance, all looking a bit bedraggled (especially Lara's pantin, this expo's first casualty). After a bit of yap we headed into the cave to get changed.
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Now, don't get me wrong, I'm incredibly grateful to the KH entrance for the shelter it provides from the rain. It would be far, far worse getting changed without it. And in the sun I'm sure it's an incredibly refreshing respite.
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However. It drips. The icy chill of a water droplet hitting your bare skin as you change into your thermals is truly one of the worst things I've experienced this expo.
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Complaints aside, we headed down the entrance series (about 70m descent of a lovely but rather drippy shaft) before entering the horizontal sections. After the first tyrolean, Hannah pointed out our blatant disregard of cave safety, so the two of us clipped into each other for the next few sections of cave to improve stability (the following short climbs thus required a little more communication than usual).
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Once at Gotham City Junction, Ash informed us that he was taking us to Where the Women Blow, so onwards we went with haste, turning right to Catwoman's Claws (where we unclipped to avoid any accidents involving the pretties, which are really quite impressive for the SMK!). After appreciating the pretties a little, we continued on to Where the Wind Blows, where Hannah belayed Ash as he began his bolt climb, the Wonderboom blasting tunes as usual. Given that it was up the wall of an inclined rift passage, Ash didn't bother bolting anything until he was several meters up, so for the first few minutes the belay was really just there for moral support.
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The next three or so hours consisted of the distant sounds of drilling, the Wonderboom, and non-stop group shelter yap. Eventually, Ash reappeared to report that the lead had unfortunately crapped out. Seeing as it was around 6 by now, we decided to leave surveying it for another day, so out the cave we headed.
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The walk back to topcamp was unfortunately even wetter than the morning's walk, its only redeeming feature being my incredibly light bag (we'd all left our kit behind at KH). It was a quiet night at top camp that night, and after a quick meal and a hot chocolate, everyone headed to bed. With Alice camping in Balcony, I had the double sleeping bag to myself, which in the cold of the night was now looking rather thin to me. I put on as many layers as I had to hand (clothes, jacket, down jacket, sleeping bag liner, and a bivy bag over the sleeping bag) and was only just warm enough to be comfortable if I pulled the sleeping bag fully over my face. It also didn't help that around 1:30am, I got a faceful of cold water from the edge of the tarp, which prompted me to swiftly relocate myself to another, better-sheltered camp bed.
<div class="timeug">T/U: 6.0 hours</div>
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<div class="tripdate" id="2025-07-10a">2025-07-10</div>
<div class="trippeople"><u>Dyl</u>, Dan g, Joel s</div>
<div class="triptitle">Rainbow bargains hohle - Rainbow Bargains Hohle 2 electric boogaloo</div>