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@ -14,7 +14,7 @@ maintain half a dozen parser functions.
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 2024-07-29 21:07 using either the control panel webpage or when editing a logbook entry online
Exported on 2024-07-30 10:07 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>,Jacob C,philips,Charlotte,</div>
<div class="trippeople"><u>waite</u>,philips,Jacob C,Charlotte,</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>
@ -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>,Waite,Jacob,Charlotte,</div>
<div class="trippeople"><u>PhilipS</u>,Jacob,Waite,Charlotte,</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>,sieds,wassil,Julia,</div>
<div class="trippeople"><u>PhilipS</u>,wassil,sieds,Julia,</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>
@ -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>,Sieds,Wookey,</div>
<div class="trippeople"><u>Philip S</u>,Wookey,Sieds,</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>,issac,charlotte,jacob,</div>
<div class="trippeople"><u>waite</u>,charlotte,issac,jacob,</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>,philip s,jacob,charlotte,waite,</div>
<div class="trippeople"><u>Isaac</u>,jacob,philip s,waite,charlotte,</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>,Lara,Sieds,Marie,</div>
<div class="trippeople"><u>Wassil</u>,Sieds,Lara,Marie,</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>,Becka,Marie,Jono,</div>
<div class="trippeople"><u>Wassil</u>,Marie,Becka,Jono,</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>,lara,charlotte,wook,</div>
<div class="trippeople"><u>waite</u>,charlotte,lara,wook,</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>,Sieds,Ruairidh,</div>
<div class="trippeople"><u>Anthony</u>,Ruairidh,Sieds,</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>,lara,charlotte,</div>
<div class="trippeople"><u>jw</u>,charlotte,lara,</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>,Marie,RM,</div>
<div class="trippeople"><u>Becka</u>,RM,Marie,</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>,charlotte,lara,</div>
<div class="trippeople"><u>waite</u>,lara,charlotte,</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>,Jono,Isaac,</div>
<div class="trippeople"><u>pb</u>,Isaac,Jono,</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>,Marie,Wassil,</div>
<div class="trippeople"><u>Jacob C</u>,Wassil,Marie,</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>,Jacob,Wookey,Marie,</div>
<div class="trippeople"><u>ps</u>,Wookey,Jacob,Marie,</div>
<div class="triptitle">basecamp - Heute ist Domstag</div>
Delayed Onset Muscle Stiffness my walk up to StoneBridge a couple of days ago.
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@ -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>,JL,Marie,RM,Isaac,JC,PB,Sieds,</div>
<div class="trippeople"><u>PS</u>,Marie,JL,Sieds,PB,JC,Isaac,RM,</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>,Issac,Charlotte,James W,</div>
<div class="trippeople"><u>Lara</u>,Charlotte,Issac,James W,</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).
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<div class="tripdate" id="2024-07-16b">2024-07-16</div>
<div class="trippeople"><u>PS</u>,JW,AD,Lara,</div>
<div class="trippeople"><u>PS</u>,AD,JW,Lara,</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.
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@ -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.
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@ -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>,Jacob,Waite,Lara,Jono,Marie,Charlotte,Ruairidh,</div>
<div class="trippeople"><u>Isaac</u>,Waite,Jacob,Ruairidh,Charlotte,Marie,Jono,Lara,</div>
<div class="triptitle">Lake - Marie Hates Swimming</div>
See title.
<div class="timeug">T/U: 0.01 hours</div>
@ -646,7 +646,7 @@ Created new folder as expofiles/datalogger/ where I have put the data, exported
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<div class="tripdate" id="2024-07-17b">2024-07-17</div>
<div class="trippeople"><u>ps</u>, *everyone</div>
<div class="trippeople"><u>ps</u>,, *everyone</div>
<div class="triptitle">basecamp - Lots of basecamping</div>
Tess arrived, and cooked the evening slop + rice (with Lara) for the canyoning [Strubklamm] team. A fine evening with much conviviality. ABout a dozen people down at base.
<div class="timeug">T/U: 0.0 hours</div>
@ -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>,James W,Jacob,Charlotte,</div>
<div class="trippeople"><u>Lara</u>,Jacob,James W,Charlotte,</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.
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@ -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>,Colin,Christian,Harry,</div>
<div class="trippeople"><u>PS</u>,Christian,Colin,Harry,</div>
<div class="triptitle">Bascamp - New arrivals</div>
Christian, Harry and Colin arrived.
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@ -764,7 +764,7 @@ Signed: The people of the plateau.
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<div class="tripdate" id="2024-07-20c">2024-07-20</div>
<div class="trippeople"><u>Marie</u>,Wookey,Anthony,</div>
<div class="trippeople"><u>Marie</u>,Anthony,Wookey,</div>
<div class="triptitle">Balcony - Balcony Camp Set up and the Pushing Begins</div>
I love camping in unusual places and so I was excited, if not a little apprehensive for an underground camp. This would be my first surveying trip and my first trip after becoming quite in ill in Homecoming and so the fear of everything that could go wrong so deep underground for so long was quite high but luckily the thrill of adventure triumphed in the end. I was in good hands with two very experienced expo goers and offered great advice whilst packing for the trip - a special shout out to the raisins and seeds that Anthony packed which made our morning porridge significantly more palatable. I was worried we would be stuck at top camp in the pouring rain but it turns out I never fully understood the meaning of caving faff until I helped pack for an underground camp. We were only just about ready when the rain lessened up around 4pm and so we took advantage of the weather window and scampered across the plateau through a thick mist, hopes high that nothing too important had been forgotten. <p> We were already commenting on the ridiculous amount of gear we had to lug through the entrance series but a couple more parcels of tackle sack joy awaited us on the way since Mongol Rally still hadn't finished being rigged. An epic train of tackle sacks had to be ferried through the crawl at the top of Mongol Rally. I was tasked with scurrying up the muddy slope so that Wookey could hook his foot around the straps. The largest bag only just barely fit through. Anthony and I gave Wookey a head start to rig and rebolt and as I heard his woohoos as he abseiled into the abyss, I tried to absorb his gleeful energy and not think about the fourth tackle bag waiting for me at one of the rebelays. I started off a bit shaky but soon I was on my way, my efficiency improving with each rebelay until one of the hanging ones towards the end when I could not physically unweight my cowstails there was so much weight tugging at my harness. Once again, my despair was lightened by a cry of glee from Wookey as he had just finished rigging the final swing to the pit stop after much swinging about although mainly because I heard the word bag. Sure enough, Wookey once again came to my rescue and soon we were all down, Anthony not having the same problems I did but probably carrying more weight. (to be continued, I'm off to the lake)
<div class="timeug">T/U: 48.0 hours</div>
@ -773,7 +773,7 @@ I love camping in unusual places and so I was excited, if not a little apprehens
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<div class="tripdate" id="2024-07-21a">2024-07-21</div>
<div class="trippeople"><u>Philip S</u>,Aidan,Rosa,Tom,Dickon,</div>
<div class="trippeople"><u>Philip S</u>,Rosa,Aidan,Dickon,Tom,</div>
<div class="triptitle">basecamp - New arrivals today</div>
One car arrived:
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@ -785,7 +785,7 @@ 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>,harry,lara,Charlotte,chi,</div>
<div class="trippeople"><u>Philip S</u>,lara,harry,chi,Charlotte,</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>
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<div class="tripdate" id="2024-07-21c">2024-07-21</div>
<div class="trippeople"><u>Lara</u>,Chi,Charlotte,Harry,</div>
<div class="trippeople"><u>Lara</u>,Charlotte,Chi,Harry,</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*
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@ -863,7 +863,7 @@ We got out of the cave at midnight and Sieds walked to Garlic camp and I walked
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<div class="tripdate" id="2024-07-22a">2024-07-22</div>
<div class="trippeople"><u>Colin</u>,waite,Becka,</div>
<div class="trippeople"><u>Colin</u>,Becka,waite,</div>
<div class="triptitle">Balkonhoehle - Rack Vs Rally</div>
This is my first logbook entry so may need fettling.
<p>
@ -897,7 +897,7 @@ Mark Shinwell arrived in an electric van (hired) and in the early evening Jono's
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<div class="tripdate" id="2024-07-22c">2024-07-22</div>
<div class="trippeople"><u>Jacob</u>,Isaac,Phil S,</div>
<div class="trippeople"><u>Jacob</u>,Phil S,Isaac,</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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@ -912,7 +912,7 @@ 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>,Jono L,Jacob C,Aidan K,</div>
<div class="trippeople"><u>Rosa B</u>,Jacob C,Jono L,Aidan K,</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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@ -923,7 +923,7 @@ 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>,Tom P,Rosa B,</div>
<div class="trippeople"><u>Aidan K</u>,Rosa B,Tom P,</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!
<div class="timeug">T/U: 0.0 hours</div>
@ -932,7 +932,7 @@ It's Rosa and I's first expo and it was Tom's first time up to Garlic camp. We h
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<div class="tripdate" id="2024-07-23a">2024-07-23</div>
<div class="trippeople"><u>Philip S</u>,Jacob,Isaac,</div>
<div class="trippeople"><u>Philip S</u>,Isaac,Jacob,</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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@ -950,7 +950,7 @@ Nope: the duplication problem is still happening on the server (but not on the d
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<div class="tripdate" id="2024-07-23b">2024-07-23</div>
<div class="trippeople"><u>Philip S</u>,Jono,Jacob,</div>
<div class="trippeople"><u>Philip S</u>,Jacob,Jono,</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>,Lara B,Tom Phillips,Rosa B,</div>
<div class="trippeople"><u>Aidan K</u>,Tom Phillips,Lara B,Rosa 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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@ -998,7 +998,7 @@ Following yesterdays bolting trip myself and Aidan headed back down to explore a
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<div class="tripdate" id="2024-07-24b">2024-07-24</div>
<div class="trippeople"><u>Isaac</u>,Lara,Chi,Harry,</div>
<div class="trippeople"><u>Isaac</u>,Chi,Lara,Harry,</div>
<div class="triptitle">Homecoming - The Aborted Camping Trip</div>
Before this entry begins I'd like to make it clear that I feel truly ashamed of my performance (or lack of one) on this trip. I failed to meet the standard expected of one signing onto a trip of this nature, and by this failure I caused a lot of negative attention to be bought onto the trip and my companions.
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<div class="tripdate" id="2024-07-25b">2024-07-25</div>
<div class="trippeople"><u>ZW</u>,Sarah,Nat,</div>
<div class="trippeople"><u>ZW</u>,Nat,Sarah,</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>,Zac,PB,Becka,Nat,Sarah, *Sandy</div>
<div class="trippeople"><u>Philip S</u>,PB,Zac,Sarah,Nat,Becka,, *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="2024-07-25f">2024-07-25</div>
<div class="trippeople"><u>ZW</u>,Nat,Colin,Sarah,Philip S,James w,</div>
<div class="trippeople"><u>ZW</u>,Colin,Nat,James w,Philip S,Sarah,</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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<div class="tripdate" id="2024-07-25g">2024-07-25</div>
<div class="trippeople"><u>Dickon Morris</u>,Marie,Wassil,Chi,</div>
<div class="trippeople"><u>Dickon Morris</u>,Wassil,Marie,Chi,</div>
<div class="triptitle">basecamp - Grabenbach Canyon</div>
<p>Ar ddiwrnod cinio'r expo ymgasglodd grŵp tag rag o ogofa o dan darp y cwt tatty. Roedd yr ogofwyr hyn i gyd yma am y rhesymau anghywir i gyd. Yn gyntaf, roedd y goruchaf arweinydd a'r cynllunydd teithiau Marie wedi mechnïo ar ogofa yn hytrach na golchi ei danwisg. Nesaf mae gennym Wassil a oedd yn gohirio ei draethawd meistr ac yn teimlo trueni drosto'i hun am ladd ei dennyn ei hun. Yn olaf mae gennym Dickon a benderfynodd fynd ar alldaith ogofa er ei fod yn casáu ogofa, ac o ganlyniad yn cael ei ethol yn mynd canyoning. Wrth fwrw ymlaen â ffurfio'r triawd gogoneddus hwn, penderfynodd Chi ddangos ei wyneb yn dilyn taith wersylla anghysbell na arweiniodd at wersyll yn digwydd ac a oedd ar ben colled. Mae'n debyg bod Marie, Wassil, a Dickon yn edrych fel grŵp addas i fynd â'r ceunant gyda nhw a rhywsut fe benderfynon nhw y byddai Chi yn gyd-chwaraewr addas.</p>
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<div class="tripdate" id="2024-07-25h">2024-07-25</div>
<div class="trippeople"><u>R Brew</u>,Thomas P,Aidan K,</div>
<div class="trippeople"><u>R Brew</u>,Aidan K,Thomas P,</div>
<div class="triptitle">Plateau - Crossing for expo dinner</div>
After our first stay up on the plateau we made a crossing back across the plateau after some breakfast. Got a bit disorientated and lost trying to follow the markers and Gaia on the way back but eventually got back en route. Our bodies were in pain from the vast change of physical exercise they had endured. We met an adder which started heading towards Aidan. Aidan hopped onto a rock and tried to keep track of it for me. I was not a fan at all and took a very roundabout way around. It started raining towards the end and we made a dash to the car. My Achilles heel is playing up which is quite hard on the plateau! We got back in time for a swim and a wash before a lovely dinner.
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<div class="tripdate" id="2024-07-26a">2024-07-26</div>
<div class="trippeople"><u>Isaac</u>,Jono,Marie,</div>
<div class="trippeople"><u>Isaac</u>,Marie,Jono,</div>
<div class="triptitle">basecamp - Bread making part 2</div>
After a great deal of consideration (7 beers) I decided to give bread making a second crack. This time I followed the "Numpty Dumpty bakes a loaf of expo bread 2016 version" by Antony Day, and I will confidently say they are by far the best version of the instructions present at the hut!
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<div class="tripdate" id="2024-07-26b">2024-07-26</div>
<div class="trippeople"><u>R Brew</u>,James M,Aidan K,</div>
<div class="trippeople"><u>R Brew</u>,Aidan K,James M,</div>
<div class="triptitle">Plateau - Return to Garlic Camp</div>
We waited until the evening due to the hot weather to go up to Garlic camp. This was James' first crossing of the plateau and he got very sweaty but had a really good pace. Mine and Aidan's bags were heavy carrying across ropes and bolts. Having got very drunk the evening previous our bodies were feeling a bit sluggish. The weather was hot but lovely weather and clear views. I enjoyed introducing James to the camp and plateau life. We prepared for our trip the following morning.
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<div class="tripdate" id="2024-07-26c">2024-07-26</div>
<div class="trippeople"><u>Todd Rye</u>,Aila Taylor,Harry Kettle,</div>
<div class="trippeople"><u>Todd Rye</u>,Harry Kettle,Aila Taylor,</div>
<div class="triptitle">Eishoehle - Cooling off on a hot day</div>
We weren't going to have time to go properly caving, and we had heard good things about the ice cave. So, armed with Shinwell and Wookeys expert guidance, we set off to find what we were hoping was going to be an impressive chamber.
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<div class="tripdate" id="2024-07-27a">2024-07-27</div>
<div class="trippeople"><u>Rosa B</u>,James M,Aidan K,</div>
<div class="trippeople"><u>Rosa B</u>,Aidan K,James M,</div>
<div class="triptitle">Homecoming - Bolting and descending pitch</div>
Myself and Aidan wanted to return to homecoming to explore our leads above Radagast further.Our main aim was to descend a pitch we have named 'tiered gherkin' into the stream way we could see below. The pitch was drippy with a few re-belays required. Unsure of how passable pitch will be in wet weather. Some 'fuck no's from Aidan when bolting as the wall made some dull noises when hit with a hammer. Whilst Aidan was bolting myself and James M tried out our opera singing skills with a range of languages. We initially descended down the left side of the pitch as it was drier but there was not an obvious way down to the streamway so Aidan went to bolt in the other direction. Whilst he was doing this I tried to climb down via a few routes however overcommitted and got myself jammed in a rift for a good while. Lengths of pitches were recorded and a couple of extra bits of survey data was collected to solidly connect our surveying from a few days ago to the main data. Aidan is to explore Banana Boat Stream way with James M and Colin on Monday.
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<div class="tripdate" id="2024-07-27b">2024-07-27</div>
<div class="trippeople"><u>Todd Rye</u>,Harry Kettle,Aila Taylor, Christian</div>
<div class="trippeople"><u>Todd Rye</u>,Aila Taylor,Harry Kettle,Christian,</div>
<div class="triptitle">Homecoming - Watershed Murder Camp</div>
I was so excited to go back into Homecoming after six years, and Harry promised caverns measureless down Watershed. A camp was needed to make it more pleasant, so off we went with sleeping bags and mats. Faff ensued, with Aila breaking her toe at Garlic, and us having picked the wrong sleeping bag up, We got underground at middayish in the end.
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<div class="tripdate" id="2024-07-28e">2024-07-28</div>
<div class="tripdate" id="2024-07-28d">2024-07-28</div>
<div class="trippeople"><u>R Brew</u>,James W,</div>
<div class="triptitle">Garlic Camp - Failed prospecting</div>
I woke up excited for a day of prospecting for the first time but instead had a very disheartened day with pretty low morale as the plateau was full of mist and it being determined unsafe to go off exploring the plateau as well as making the task more challenging. Colin decided we may do some prospecting but we'd find the caves earlier than expected by falling down the holes.
Got permission to descend to base camp that evening due to a large number of blisters on my hands and low morale. Due to James W becoming unwell he joined me on the journey to be collected by Jono and Christopher.
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<div class="tripdate" id="2024-07-28e">2024-07-28</div>
<div class="trippeople"><u>lucy h</u>,lara,nat,sarah p,jacob,zac,</div>
<div class="triptitle">balcony - bloody balcony</div>
26th - 28th
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Turning up at expo on the night of The Dinner, I had expected a few days of festering, fettling, and carrying, but found myself agreeing to a 4 day camp with Nat D after he spotted me inspecting the Balcony map.
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The next day we faffed and faffed some more, then set off well after noon in Sarah's car. The day was hot. I soaked myself in the waterfall to start the walk,carrying all of my camping and caving kit with trepidation. I loudly announced to the group that heat gives me diarrhoea- already feeling quite unsettled in the tummy. My previous walks in 2022 had left me dreading the length of the plateau walk. Fortunately the dread made the reality feel shorter than remembered. A breeze kept us cool as me Nat Sarah and Zak slowly trundled to top camp, nattering with Nat about all sorts of gossip.
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We faffed some more at top camp, waiting for Jacob and Lara to join us from garlic camp, and I sat on the gryke hoping to shit as much as possible pre cave.
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We set off for balcony in the early evening, and struggled under the heavy loads. We split into 2 teams: Nat Lara and I, Zac Jacob and Sarah (SEE ZAC'S REPORT OF HIS TRIP - FEATURING HAND JAMMERS AT HIGH VELOCITY). I said farewell to the light and was VERY happy to find the big balcony pitch rope thinner than 2022's - the Stop cramp only had to be relived every 40 seconds!
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Then began the wiggling, sliding, slipping, and thrutching, descending and changing, clipping and crawling.
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I had a mixed relationship with my 2 tackle bags, which I named The Toddler (small red) and The Teeneger (Becka's massive bag that matched my oversuit and apparently looked just like me - CAN I ADD A PICTURE HERE?). We had many disagreements in the crawls, and they enjoyed resting upsidedown on every ledge. NAt's 'purple juice' (meths) was resting at the very top of the teenager, and I've no idea what miracle kept it flying out onto Lara below. It defied gravity until it finally slipped out at rest at the very bottom of Mongol Rally.
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We reached the camp sometime around midnight. I was shattered and provided very little help to Nat's attempt to bolt in 2 hammocks. The wind steamed down the passage and stole any remaining heat. By the time the other 3 turned up I was shivering strongly.
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Then the first 'accident' was discovered. I had been putting off my urgent need for a poo for all evening. We looked around for the poo drum... kept looking... kept looking. And no one had it. We looked at our supplies. Resealable freezdried meal bags: perfect for shitting in. Porridge sashes: sort of papery. Deciding they made a decent 'glove' for wiping, we emptied all the porridge bags. Only after walking 10m up the passage did I discover the pile of biobags left there! Still the porridge sashes were required. I would not review them highly: more plastic than paper, but desperate times....
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I woke in the night even more uncomforatble than before, with a feeling of dread. I visited the 'toilet' and found blood every where. O dear. I hadn't been due my period for 2 weeks but life has its ways of punishing you. Explains how awful I felt the day before, and then. 4am wasn't the time to deal with this fact, so I returned to me sleeping bag, shattered, and restless for everyone to get up.
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Get up they did, and I brought up my inconvenient fact. I felt mixed feelings to learn that Nat, Sarah and the first aid kit had a handful of tampons between them. I had never used a tampon. I did not think I would learn to use them in a grubby cold cave 100s of meters under ground. It did not go very well.
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Feeling exhausted, sick, pained and cramping, I dragged myself through the day. I followed Nat and Lara to push an A lead in the north of Southern Pitstop
(SEE ZAC'S REPORT FOR THE OTHER TEAM'S DAY OF PUSHING). My attempt to do my bit was far more of a burden than a help, and I had tampon related disasters through the day, as well as the dreaded period poos, greatly exceeding the quota of 1.5 porridge sashes a day.
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I did however bolt properly for the first time. I should probably have said no when Nat asked me to bolt a descent but I said alright. I suspended awkwardly over a large drop, struggling to find the arm strength to hold the drill out and install 3 bolts. I'm sure the others were very cold by the time I got to the bottom but it was, at least, a good learning experience.
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I got changed for a piss by the waterfall - this would come back to haunt me later, then we ascended up the other side.
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More slipping an thrutching. I was ready to turn around, but held on to the pushing front. We had some noddles and began to survey.
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Despite sometimes hating caving, I do in fact love surveying. Although I probably failed to give the impression that day, I was very happy to take part in the surveying of 'Tampon turnaround' - aptly named for events there - with the honour of painting the red splodges. We turned an A lead into lots of Bs and Cs, but it kept going. I was very very close to my limit, and kept saying I would head back soon. After point 23 I pushed ahead a little bit, and a little bit more, and found the high passage narrowing to a puddle, and over the puddle to a toddler sized crawl. This final push ripped my PVC oversuit :,( and I was definitely beyond my limit, and decided to head out.
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A rest at the snake stop, then I plodded back, struggling up the slopes under the weight of the drill. It crossed my mind that I normally find it hard to move with my stop on my D ring. I looked down. My stop was not on my D ring. Ah shit.
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I trudged back to the snack stop - no sign yet of Lara and Nat, looked through all the bags. No stop. I headed back through the rifts, up the slopes. No stop. I looked again through the drill bag. No stop.
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Ah well. Strongly suspecting (hoping) what had happened, there was nothing for it but to head to the rope and down prussick. Down prussicking was NOT fun. The rope was thick with mud, and every movement took an age to free my jammers. I had a small private cry halfway, for my period pain, but made it down. There was my stop, thanks be, at the point I had changed earlier.
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Onwards, up the rope: stand, yank through the chest ascender, sit, repeat, with jammers refusing to grip. By this point Nat and Lara had caught up, so I waited and incredibly kindly they offered to take my bag.
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I headed on as they derigged. This was my next mistake. 'Don't get lost' Nat said. I got lost. After the white aven there were many ways on. I follwed the muddy footsteps across and up, but grew suspicous. I decided it was safest to turn around. I turned around but did not find myslef back at the white aven. Two more tries and I was at a slope that looked familiar, so I headed up and reached two ways. I followed the muddy footsteps up, but grew suspicous. On your own it is very hard to trust yourself. I turned around, shattered, concerned. And, thank goodness, met Lara and Nat. I took back a tackle bag and we headed up the other junction, which we soon realised was wrong and returned up my way. Trudge, sigh, plod.
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We reached the camp. The others were there already. Dinner. Jacob kindly said that, if no one else was willing, he would be happy to go out with me a day early. I was so grateful as there was no way I could stay longer. Shivering. Bed. (waking for toilet visits :,( )
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Rising at 9:40, the plan was revised: Zac would also leave too, using a microtraction as a jammer (having lost both hand jammer and pantin). Porridge. Noodles. Packing. Washing our gear in the muddy puddle. We headed off. I somehow managed to get lost finding the bottom of mongol rally, but eventually did. I heard zac calling from above, in pain. It took an age to dig out the ibruprofen, and I was shocked how slow I could prussick. It was misreable. Pantin uterly useless. Rope refusing to feed. Stand. Drag thtough chest asecnder. Sit. Ascenders slip. Ascenders grip. Repeat. I haven't prussicked this slowly since my first time. My tackle bag tangled itself in the down rope at a rebelay and I had to down prussick, to some strong words. A shocking anount of time later I reached zac on his ledge and got him the ibruprofen. And he taught me how to properly frog, and drag the rope through with your feet. I'm an idiot for never having learnt to do that before. Mongol Rally was slighlty improved.
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We headed up, and up, and up, and finally huddled in the bivvy at the top. Hangman's was impressive (and cold). Honeycomb was much longer than I remember. Debating the way, succesfully, I was rather shocked to realise we were at the junction with hilti a plenti. I hadn't thought to imagine reaching the end.
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Sarah's weather report had predicted a thunder storm that evening. We were fully prepared to huddle at the bottom of the entrance. But, to happy suprise, the drips were slow. I went last (regretting this offer, and desperately uncomfortable). But I had lot of time to sing as Jacob and Zac ascended. The happiest feeling of all, to see the shadow of light from the penultimate pitch, to haul off the final rope, to crawl out into a blue sky.
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The evening was utterly beautiful. The forecast was wrong. Pink light filled the horizon, silhouetting mountains. The evening air still warm. Why would you go underground from this? To appreciate it more I suppose.
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I was dizzy trudging back, Jacob kindly, patiently accompanying my stumbling. We reached Stoney Bridge as the light faded and stars brightened. Big Tom and Becka in residence, and Tom a saint making us food. Unbelievably happy to bin the tampon I had been using for far too long (I will never use one again - awful things!), have some proper toilet paper, shits, and finally change to a sanitary pad.
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We slept out under the shooting stars and milky way. Every time I woke, relieved, to have escaped bloody balcony, and see brightness in the night's dark, under starlight.
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