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@@ -464,6 +464,39 @@ I went another 10m but it got awkward in the same vein.</p>
<p>Wookey continued the next day with Phil + Dinny.</p>
<div class="timeug">T/U 1 hour </div>
<hr />
<div class="tripdate" id="t2022-08-08d">2022-08-08</div>
<div class="trippeople"><u>Eric C. Landgraf</u>, Paul Walko</div>
<div class="triptitle">Fischgesicht Höhle - "Red Fish Blue Fish" entrance resurvey</div>
<p>Becka had been demanding a resurvey of the entrance series (as the notes
were allegedly lost, original survey was of poor quality and in too many small
sections, etc. etc. Don't argue with the cartographer). I wanted to warm up my
sketching in metric, and warm up my caving after spending a week drinking at
base camp with COVID; I was dying to get underground, and had hiked up that
day. Paul wanted to play with SexyTopo. Armed with 2 distox2s (his and mine),
we hiked down to Fishface, dumpped gear, and proceded to faff about for half an
hour before getting into the cave. In this process, we determined SexyTopo
would not allow 2-disto frontsight and backsight survey (if we were going to
resurvey, there'd better not be a question of accuracy!), so we just did paper
survey.</p>
<p>It's worth noting that Paul and I do way more resurvey than we should in the
States, so this was a bit of a gag trip for us; we were on vacation and trying
to enjoy it. We set a surface station, got a good GPS fix (that I still haven't
gotten off Paul's phone), and then proceeded to use the existing stations to
the top of the first pitch. From there, we were setting new stations all the
way down to the jumping-off point on the 3rd pitch: this included following the
new 2nd pitch route and noting all the silly unmarked leads in the entrance.
Much of the survey was Paul reminding me "you've got to sketch faster, or you'll
freeze the Brits! You're the only one here sketching to scale in the cave".</p>
<p>Survey length was approximately 145m, Only about 30m should be new length
added to the cave. We entered at 16:00 and hiked back to the Stone Bridge in
the dark.</p>
<div class="timeug">T/U 5 hour </div>
<hr />
<div class="tripdate" id="t2022-08-09a">2022-08-09</div>
<div class="trippeople"><u>Mealy</u>, Joel, Eric</div>
@@ -472,10 +505,13 @@ I went another 10m but it got awkward in the same vein.</p>
<p>Back to flying cottage. Suspecting HB was near, a team had gone that way to make noise. Unsure which was to explore the rift, we went one way until we had to chissle Joel out of a boulder choke and we could go no further. A small water hole was found. We went back to flying cottage. The day before we had found some hilti bolts making a Y hang over a large rift. Using these, Mealy descended. Kresh connection was found. </p>
<p>Visual/ Audio connection was made withthe HB team. However due to a lack of rope Mealy was levitating about 30m above/diagonal from Emily. We turned around with plans to bring more rope. Insert scanned rigging guide!!!</p>
<p>Eric says: survey where we followed existing stations from our crawlway to the flying cottage has now been surveyed 3 times: 12 monkeys, gardening school, and us!</p>
<div class="timeug">T/U 6 hour </div>
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<div class="tripdate" id="t2022-08-09b">2022-08-09</div>
<div class="trippeople"><u>Frank</u></div>
<div class="trippeople"><u>Frank</u></div> <!-- this trip should have included Charlotte, Andreas, others? -->
<div class="triptitle">Happy Butterfly - make that connection</div>
<p>Tourist trip for me :¬)Went down to the top of the defying gravity pitch and surveyed back across the traverse. As we completed the survey Amelia appeared high up in a parallel rift and much shouting and celebrating occurred, it was very loud. Not enough rope to make the connection.</p>
@@ -513,17 +549,20 @@ Small hole in [illegible] (~3m) shows a bit of cave passage not actually [illegi
<p>The creche had made the connection between Fischgesicht and Happy Butterfly on the previous day, so the plan today was for a group to go into Fishface to do the
through trip and survey the connection, while another team followed to survey some unsurveyed passages in Fishface and derig behind the other team once we knew they
were through to Happy Butterfly. Amelia, Joel, Charlotte and Rachel were on the 'throughtrip' team. Despite giving them a head start we caught up with them at the
entrance. Tobias and I [] got dressed, not knowing what awaited us as it was our first ever expo trip. I was surpirsed by how cold the entrance was compared to the
boiling temperatures outside. I was even more surprised when I bumped into the other team who had dropped their drill down the first pitch. After [] the bag, Amelia
realised the drill was not working, so her and Joel left to get a reserve. </p>
<p>Out team continued with the original plan, so we dropped down to the pitch above the 50m above the connection. We were dismayed to see survey points here, meaning
entrance. Tobias and I got dressed, not knowing what awaited us as it was our first ever expo trip. I was surpirsed by how cold the entrance was compared to the
boiling temperatures outside. I was even more surprised when I bumped into the other team who had dropped their drill down the first pitch. After dropping the bag, Amelia
realised the drill was not working, so her and Joel left to get a reserve. </p>
<p>Our team continued with the original plan, so we dropped down to the pitch above the 50m above the connection. We were dismayed to see survey points here, meaning
someone had done the job before but the data was missing. We completed the survey quickly and caught up with Rachel and Charlotte who were rerigging the 50m pitch
above the connection.</p>
<p>Eric, Tobias and I then went up a couple of pitches to a passage Erik had explored on a previsou trip. This passage ended quickly in a boulder choke so the survey
<p>Eric, Tobias and I then went up a couple of pitches to a passage Eric had explored on a previsou trip. This passage ended quickly in a boulder choke so the survey
didn't go as long as expected. After completing the survey we went back down to the 50m pitch to see if we should be derigging on our way out. By this time, Joel and
Amelia had returned and were bolting the traverse in Happy Butterfly. It sounded like they had a long way to go, so we decided to leave without derigging in case they
couldn't get down Happy Butterfly. </p>
<div class="timeug">T/U: 5 hours</div>
couldn't get down Happy Butterfly.</p>
<div class="timeug">T/U: 6 hours</div> <!-- nb: TU should be 6 hours from ECL's personal notes -->
<p>Insert scan for 290 clap my pitch up rigging guide</p>
@@ -603,26 +642,49 @@ T/U Fri ?7, Sat 24, Sun 15
<hr />
<div class="tripdate" id="t2022-08-13a">2022-08-13</div>
<div class="trippeople"><u>Rob Watson</u>, Nathan Walker, Max, Chris, Eric</div>
<div class="trippeople"><u>Rob Watson</u>, Nathan Walker, Max</div>
<div class="triptitle"> Apis Medicus- Below Clap My Pitch Up </div>
<p>[Missing logbook entry for Cpt Chris & Eric trip ?]</p>
<p>Trip began very efficiently due to Captain Chris and I deciding not to partake the evening prior &amp; due to pre-trip packing the evening prior.</p> <p>Underground
by 10am after a relaxed breakfast. Quickly down pitches &amp; arrive at the (illegible). Show Chris &amp; Eric the start of the survey at Mourning The Moths then
headed off to continue bolting down 'Clap my pitch up'. Chose to name the passage 'Bee Doctor' [Apis Medicus] (in latin) after Keiran's antics on Wednesday where he
attempted (succesfully) to save a drowned be (and was then stung by a different bee). Hopped down a traverse then down a very impressive 50-60m shaft to a very
bouldery collapse chamber from which a muddy meander passage was heading nearly due south. We surveyed dilligently along this until we reached a watery impasse (3m
drop, (illegible) without getting soaked) just beyond a drippy inlet (suspect this passage is not ideal in wetter conditions, considering we are in a drought it would
appear this is probably wet often especially as we expereinced much drippier conditions in 'clap my pitch up' during its exploration eariler in the week which we
disliked). However it was only just 6pm at this point &amp; we felt it premature to leave, so I lashed some dyneema around a thread then attached some slings to that
&amp; we made a highly japist descent, only to discover that just around the corner the water plunged down a further 10m pitch.</p> <p>Back to the big pitch for the
drill then Nathan had his first go on the bolts to drop the climb of pitch on the last of the nice 8.8mm rope which we cut from the base of the big pitch (felt bad).
This done we rounded another courner, with the passage becoming ever more meandery &amp; shit, only to discover that a further ~10m pitch lay just ahead. With no
further drill batteries, rope or enthusiasm we decided it was time to head out, derigging the lead as we went. <p>After a stint in my group shelter, I took the full
rope bag &amp; Nathan took over derigging from Max while we headed off to make noodles. This done we began to head out. Nathan &amp; I arriving at the surface shortly
after Eric &amp; Chris at 2am. After waiting till 3am for Max we then began a slow plod back, only to see his light emerge when we had just arrived at the convenient
viewing point. Happy days! Curry &amp; cous cous were very welcome. Then Chris, Max &amp; I partook in a very fine moon &amp; stars before turning in at 8am.</p>
<p>Trip began very efficiently due to Captain Chris and I deciding not to
partake the evening prior &amp; due to pre-trip packing the evening prior.</p>
<p>Underground by 10am after a relaxed breakfast. Quickly down pitches &amp;
arrive at the (illegible). Show Chris &amp; Eric the start of the survey at
Mourning The Moths then headed off to continue bolting down 'Clap my pitch up'.
Chose to name the passage 'Bee Doctor' [Apis Medicus] (in latin) after Keiran's
antics on Wednesday where he attempted (succesfully) to save a drowned be (and
was then stung by a different bee). Hopped down a traverse then down a very
impressive 50-60m shaft to a very bouldery collapse chamber from which a muddy
meander passage was heading nearly due south. We surveyed dilligently along
this until we reached a watery impasse (3m drop, (illegible) without getting
soaked) just beyond a drippy inlet (suspect this passage is not ideal in wetter
conditions, considering we are in a drought it would appear this is probably
wet often especially as we expereinced much drippier conditions in 'clap my
pitch up' during its exploration eariler in the week which we disliked).
However it was only just 6pm at this point &amp; we felt it premature to leave,
so I lashed some dyneema around a thread then attached some slings to that
&amp; we made a highly japist descent, only to discover that just around the
corner the water plunged down a further 10m pitch.</p>
<p>Back to the big pitch for the drill then Nathan had his first go on the
bolts to drop the climb of pitch on the last of the nice 8.8mm rope which we
cut from the base of the big pitch (felt bad). This done we rounded another
courner, with the passage becoming ever more meandery &amp; shit, only to
discover that a further ~10m pitch lay just ahead. With no further drill
batteries, rope or enthusiasm we decided it was time to head out, derigging the
lead as we went.</p>
<p>After a stint in my group shelter, I took the full rope bag &amp; Nathan
took over derigging from Max while we headed off to make noodles. This done we
began to head out. Nathan &amp; I arriving at the surface shortly after Eric
&amp; Chris at 2am. After waiting till 3am for Max we then began a slow plod
back, only to see his light emerge when we had just arrived at the convenient
viewing point. Happy days! Curry &amp; cous cous were very welcome. Then
Chris, Max &amp; I partook in a very fine moon &amp; stars before turning in at
8am.</p>
<div class="timeug">T/U 16 hours </div>
<hr />
@@ -634,6 +696,43 @@ viewing point. Happy days! Curry &amp; cous cous were very welcome. Then Chris,
<p>After ruling out any other leads we turned to de-rigging. Rachel head out first with a couple of bags while I assisted Keiran with derigging the lower pitches. I then derigged the last pitches with Dinny's assistance.</p>
<div class="timeug">T/U 5 hours </div>
<hr />
<div class="tripdate" id="t2022-08-13c">2022-08-13</div>
<div class="trippeople"><u>Eric C. Landgraf</u>, Chris Holt</div>
<div class="triptitle">Fischgesicht Höhle - Find Wookey's lost data in Horrorbank and extend Mourning the Moths</div>
<p>Chris and I entered the cave with Rob, Max, and Nathan; the group stayed
mostly togehter all the way down to Rob et al's camp from earlier in the week.
There, we picked up the spare bolting kit and drill and made a beeline to the
end of Mourning the Moths, where Chris and I were to start our survey. Then
Rob, Max, and Nathan peeled off to their lead.</p>
<p>The pitches for Horrorbank were still rigged; it was an easy task to
oversurvey and tie-in Wookey's survey for which he lost the first 2 shots. From
there, we continued down the rope, to determine that hangers going further down
had been pulled, and it was not where we wanted to go. So I got back on the
rope on ascenders, and used the 1 skyhook we had to superman up a crack to the
saddle seperating 2 adjacent wells, with a drill and bolts, and set a large
"deviation" so I could pull Chris over.</p>
<p>We proceded to rig very stupidly down the next pitch (45 degree climb up the
wall), surveying as we went. In the process, Chris asked me to teach him to bolt,
so I walked through what good and bad rock sounds like, how wedge bolts work,
etc. And had him bolt the next 5m pitch. At the bottom, the passage turned into
a keyhole-shaped mud-filled tube of awfulness. And kept going and going. Continuing
indefinitely was a possibility, but at about 1m x 1m in the upper part of the
keyhole, and past our rough turnaround time (I had to hike back down the mountain
in the morning, pack, and catch a train), we called it quits after 90m of
survey.</p>
<p>On the way back out, we stopped briefly to bolt a sketchy traverse, to discover
the drill bit had fallen out of Chris' rather perforated pocket on our way. Oh well.
We stopped at the camp for some noodles, then grabbed all the steel (and the drill)
and made a rather slow 4-hour exit. The other team got out of the cave just as we
finished changing on the surface</p>
<div class="timeug">T/U 15 hours</div>
<hr />
<div class="tripdate" id="t2022-08-14a">2022-08-14</div>
<div class="trippeople"><u>Rachel Turnbull</u>, Nathan Walker</div>