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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 2024-08-10 10:08 using either the control panel webpage or when editing a logbook entry online
Exported on 2024-08-10 20:08 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>,Charlotte,Jacob C,philips,</div>
<div class="trippeople"><u>waite</u>,Jacob C,philips,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>
@ -50,7 +50,7 @@ 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>,Charlotte,Waite,Jacob,</div>
<div class="trippeople"><u>PhilipS</u>,Waite,Jacob,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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@ -73,7 +73,7 @@ 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>,Julia,sieds,wassil,</div>
<div class="trippeople"><u>PhilipS</u>,sieds,wassil,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.
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@ -129,7 +129,7 @@ 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>,jacob,issac,charlotte,</div>
<div class="trippeople"><u>waite</u>,issac,charlotte,jacob,</div>
<div class="triptitle">fishface - collecting rope</div>
no reflectors left on spits.
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@ -187,7 +187,7 @@ Philip B should have been arriving today but has caught covid from NSS in USA, s
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<div class="tripdate" id="2024-07-10a">2024-07-10</div>
<div class="trippeople"><u>Isaac</u>,charlotte,waite,philip s,jacob,</div>
<div class="trippeople"><u>Isaac</u>,philip s,jacob,charlotte,waite,</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
@ -249,7 +249,7 @@ Isaac.
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<div class="tripdate" id="2024-07-10b">2024-07-10</div>
<div class="trippeople"><u>Wassil</u>,Marie,Lara,Sieds,</div>
<div class="trippeople"><u>Wassil</u>,Lara,Sieds,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>
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<div class="tripdate" id="2024-07-11a">2024-07-11</div>
<div class="trippeople"><u>Wassil</u>,Jono,Becka,Marie,</div>
<div class="trippeople"><u>Wassil</u>,Becka,Marie,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>
@ -345,7 +345,7 @@ 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>,wook,lara,charlotte,</div>
<div class="trippeople"><u>waite</u>,lara,charlotte,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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@ -379,7 +379,7 @@ TU is a guess - two hours less for me
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<div class="tripdate" id="2024-07-11e">2024-07-11</div>
<div class="trippeople"><u>Wookey</u>,Charlotte Payne,Lara Bartleet,James Waite,</div>
<div class="trippeople"><u>Wookey</u>,Lara Bartleet,James Waite,Charlotte Payne,</div>
<div class="triptitle">Homecoming (359) - Rigging in</div>
<p>[Main write-up above - This is Wook's writeup of his somewhat separate trip]</p>
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<div class="tripdate" id="2024-07-14a">2024-07-14</div>
<div class="trippeople"><u>ps</u>,Marie,Jacob,Wookey,</div>
<div class="trippeople"><u>ps</u>,Jacob,Wookey,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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@ -577,7 +577,7 @@ 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>,PB,Sieds,JL,Marie,RM,Isaac,JC,</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.
@ -588,7 +588,7 @@ 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>,James W,Issac,Charlotte,</div>
<div class="trippeople"><u>Lara</u>,Issac,Charlotte,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>,Lara,JW,AD,</div>
<div class="trippeople"><u>PS</u>,JW,AD,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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@ -813,7 +813,7 @@ 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>,Charlotte,Ruairidh,Jacob,Waite,Lara,Jono,Marie,</div>
<div class="triptitle">Lake - Marie Hates Swimming</div>
See title.
<div class="timeug">T/U: 0.01 hours</div>
@ -844,7 +844,7 @@ Tess arrived, and cooked the evening slop + rice (with Lara) for the canyoning [
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<div class="tripdate" id="2024-07-17c">2024-07-17</div>
<div class="trippeople"><u>Wookey</u>,Jono,Phil Balister,Charlotte,Isaac,Marie,</div>
<div class="trippeople"><u>Wookey</u>,Isaac,Marie,Jono,Phil Balister,Charlotte,</div>
<div class="triptitle">Canyonning - Strubklamm</div>
<p>A canyonning trip was suggested, and as I'd done it a couple of
times before and thus knew where it was, and what to look out for, it
@ -910,7 +910,7 @@ a solid 3 hours. We got back about 7pm.</p>
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<div class="tripdate" id="2024-07-18a">2024-07-18</div>
<div class="trippeople"><u>Lara</u>,Charlotte,James W,Jacob,</div>
<div class="trippeople"><u>Lara</u>,James W,Jacob,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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@ -1054,7 +1054,7 @@ feasible next time.</p>
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<div class="tripdate" id="2024-07-20a">2024-07-20</div>
<div class="trippeople"><u>PS</u>,Harry,Colin,Christian,</div>
<div class="trippeople"><u>PS</u>,Colin,Christian,Harry,</div>
<div class="triptitle">Bascamp - New arrivals</div>
Christian, Harry and Colin arrived.
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@ -1117,7 +1117,7 @@ We were greeted by a few rays of sunshine when we finally exited around 5pm befo
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<div class="tripdate" id="2024-07-21a">2024-07-21</div>
<div class="trippeople"><u>Philip S</u>,Tom,Dickon,Aidan,Rosa,</div>
<div class="trippeople"><u>Philip S</u>,Aidan,Rosa,Tom,Dickon,</div>
<div class="triptitle">basecamp - New arrivals today</div>
One car arrived:
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@ -1129,7 +1129,7 @@ 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>,Charlotte,chi,harry,lara,</div>
<div class="trippeople"><u>Philip S</u>,harry,lara,Charlotte,chi,</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>,Harry,Chi,Charlotte,</div>
<div class="trippeople"><u>Lara</u>,Chi,Charlotte,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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<div class="tripdate" id="2024-07-22d">2024-07-22</div>
<div class="trippeople"><u>Rosa B</u>,Aidan K,Jono L,Jacob C,</div>
<div class="trippeople"><u>Rosa B</u>,Jono L,Jacob C,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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<div class="tripdate" id="2024-07-23c">2024-07-23</div>
<div class="trippeople"><u>Aidan K</u>,Rosa B,Lara B,Tom Phillips,</div>
<div class="trippeople"><u>Aidan K</u>,Lara B,Tom Phillips,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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@ -1348,7 +1348,7 @@ Aidan's Note: Unfortunately there was a loop closure error of 13%. :( A week and
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<div class="tripdate" id="2024-07-24b">2024-07-24</div>
<div class="trippeople"><u>Isaac</u>,Harry,Lara,Chi,</div>
<div class="trippeople"><u>Isaac</u>,Lara,Chi,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="2024-07-25d">2024-07-25</div>
<div class="trippeople"><u>Philip S</u>,PB,Becka,Nat,Sarah,Zac,, *Sandy</div>
<div class="trippeople"><u>Philip S</u>,Sarah,Zac,PB,Becka,Nat,, *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>
<img src="/years/2024/images/2024-07-26-philipwalk.jpg" width=60% >
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<div class="tripdate" id="2024-07-25f">2024-07-25</div>
<div class="trippeople"><u>ZW</u>,Colin,Sarah,Philip S,James w,Nat,</div>
<div class="trippeople"><u>ZW</u>,James w,Nat,Colin,Sarah,Philip S,</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.
<div class="timeug">T/U: 0.0 hours</div>
@ -1500,7 +1500,7 @@ Sarah, Nat, Zac and Phil drove up the loser. We then hiked up to the Col. It bei
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<div class="tripdate" id="2024-07-25g">2024-07-25</div>
<div class="trippeople"><u>Wassil</u>,Marie,Chi,Dickon,</div>
<div class="trippeople"><u>Wassil</u>,Chi,Dickon,Marie,</div>
<div class="triptitle">basecamp - Grabenbach Canyon</div>
<p>On the day of expo dinner a rag-tag group of cavers gathered under the tatty hut tarp. These cavers were all here for all the wrong reasons. Firstly, supreme leader and trip planner Marie had bailed on caving in preference of washing her undersuit. Next we have Wassil who was both procrastinating his masters thesis and feeling sorry for himself about killing his own lead. Finally we have Dickon who decied to go on a caving expedition despite hating caving, and as a result elected do go canyoning. Proceeding the formation of this glorious trio, Chi decided to show his face following a disasterous camping trip which did not result in a camp occurring and was at a lost end. Apparently Marie, Wassil, and Dickon looked like a suitable group to go canyoning with and somehow they decided Chi would be a suitable accomplice.</p>
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@ -1618,7 +1618,7 @@ good time for Tess to rescue us and take us to a fine dinner</p>
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<div class="tripdate" id="2024-07-25j">2024-07-25</div>
<div class="trippeople"><u>Dickon Morris</u>,Marie,Wassil,Chi,</div>
<div class="trippeople"><u>Dickon Morris</u>,Wassil,Chi,Marie,</div>
<div class="triptitle">basecamp - Grabenbach Canyon #2</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="2024-07-27b">2024-07-27</div>
<div class="trippeople"><u>Todd Rye</u>,Christian,Harry Kettle,Aila Taylor,</div>
<div class="trippeople"><u>Todd Rye</u>,Harry Kettle,Aila Taylor,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="trippeople"><u>lucy h</u>,zac,lara,nat,sarah p,jacob,</div>
<div class="trippeople"><u>lucy h</u>,sarah p,jacob,zac,lara,nat,</div>
<div class="triptitle">balcony - bloody balcony</div>
26th - 28th
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@ -1885,7 +1885,7 @@ We slept out under the shooting stars and milky way. Every time I woke, relieved
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<div class="tripdate" id="2024-07-28f">2024-07-28</div>
<div class="trippeople"><u>ZW</u>,Sarah,Lara,Jacob,Lucy h,Nat,</div>
<div class="trippeople"><u>ZW</u>,Lucy h,Nat,Sarah,Lara,Jacob,</div>
<div class="triptitle">Balkonhoehle - Who needs ascenders anyway?</div>
<p><i>Lucy having already covered much of the trip in <a href="logbookentry/2024-07-28/2024-07-28e#"></a> I will only fill in the gaps alluded to</i></p>
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@ -1909,7 +1909,7 @@ I was so happy to find that we had made it out in time to catch the sun and spen
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<div class="tripdate" id="2024-07-28g">2024-07-28</div>
<div class="trippeople"><u>Aidan K</u>,Colin Foord,Dickon,James W,Rosa B,James M,</div>
<div class="trippeople"><u>Aidan K</u>,Rosa B,James M,Colin Foord,Dickon,James W,</div>
<div class="triptitle">Garlic - Landscaping and Festering</div>
We woke up to some pretty miserable clag that around 10am developed into rain - Colin had fortunately arrived about 40 minutes prior from SB so stayed dry, Dickon and James on the other hand weren't so lucky! They both got fairly wet on their walk over.
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@ -1922,7 +1922,7 @@ In the evening, when it finally brightened up a bit, James, Dickon and I summitt
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<div class="tripdate" id="2024-07-29a">2024-07-29</div>
<div class="trippeople"><u>Sam Tittensor</u>,Jono,Chris H,Becka,Ellie D,</div>
<div class="trippeople"><u>Sam Tittensor</u>,Becka,Ellie D,Jono,Chris H,</div>
<div class="triptitle">Balkonhoehle - Happy Campers (eventually!)</div>
After 2 hot trips ferrying kit up the plateau, a late start, and a great deal of faff, motivation to get underground was low.
This resulted in a (very necessary!) talking-to from the drill sergeant (Becka), before we bucked our ideas up, and kit was assembled for inspection on the rocks at top camp and packed into bags.
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<div class="tripdate" id="2024-07-30a">2024-07-30</div>
<div class="trippeople"><u>Adam</u>,Aidan,Fiona,Colin,</div>
<div class="trippeople"><u>Adam</u>,Fiona,Colin,Aidan,</div>
<div class="triptitle">Homecoming - Homecoming Round Trip</div>
Colin and Aidan arrived in Garlic camp at around midnight, exhausted from their own day of caving prior. Upon all of us waking Fiona and I solidified our plans for the day, deciding to help the pair survey the rest of their new entrance series down into Homecoming. It'd get us into the swing of surveying again after a long break and it would also be a good introduction to the Homecoming cave, which I hadn't been in for a year and Fiona hadn't been in before.
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<div class="tripdate" id="2024-07-30b">2024-07-30</div>
<div class="trippeople"><u>Colin</u>,Adam,Aidan,Fiona,</div>
<div class="trippeople"><u>Colin</u>,Aidan,Fiona,Adam,</div>
<div class="triptitle">Homecoming - what a way to spend a Tuesday</div>
Having scoped our lead the day before having failed to survey it, sorry Becka we dragged Adam and Fiona down with us to help. the SAP however couldn't do long enough legs so was a mainly pointless exercise. I blasted down to the bottom to re-rig Dickon's traverse so we could exit out of the entrance series for a bit of variety and compare routes. We pointed Adam and Fiona in the directions of the good leads I'd seen while waiting for them to join me at the bottom.
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@ -2137,7 +2137,7 @@ A good trip, we'd made progress though not nearly as much as I wanted to make, m
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<div class="tripdate" id="2024-08-01b">2024-08-01</div>
<div class="trippeople"><u>Lara</u>,Chi,Colin,Liam,</div>
<div class="trippeople"><u>Lara</u>,Colin,Liam,Chi,</div>
<div class="triptitle">Homecoming - The First Rule of Alpine Caving</div>
I'm not sure exactly why I decided to end my expo with a trip that was specifically designed to be a derigging sufferfest but it seemed like a good idea a few Gossers deep at basecamp. It did indeed turn out to be an epic but very much not in the way we expected.
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<div class="tripdate" id="2024-08-01e">2024-08-01</div>
<div class="trippeople"><u>Jacob</u>,Lucy,Tom P,Zac,</div>
<div class="trippeople"><u>Jacob</u>,Tom P,Zac,Lucy,</div>
<div class="triptitle">plateau - Digging and Thunderstorms</div>
What had planned to be a cool, early walk up to the plateau invetably became a more middle and hottest part of the day sort of deal. Drenched in sweat we made our way to base camp where we stopped for a quick lunch then headed off in the Tunnocks direction.
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<div class="tripdate" id="2024-08-02a">2024-08-02</div>
<div class="trippeople"><u>Lara</u>,Colin,Chi,Liam,</div>
<div class="trippeople"><u>Lara</u>,Chi,Liam,Colin,</div>
<div class="triptitle">Homecoming - The First Rule of Alpine Caving</div>
I'm not sure exactly why I decided to end my expo with a trip that was specifically designed to be a derigging sufferfest but it seemed like a good idea a few Gossers deep at basecamp. It did indeed turn out to be an epic but very much not in the way we expected.
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<div class="tripdate" id="2024-08-03a">2024-08-03</div>
<div class="trippeople"><u>Dickon</u>,Colin,Harry,Becka,</div>
<div class="trippeople"><u>Dickon</u>,Harry,Becka,Colin,</div>
<div class="triptitle">Homecoming - Second Coming Derig</div>
While the second coming of Christ will probably be quite exciting and very much not inevitable as far as your average atheist is concerned, the same cannot be said for the derigging of the Second Coming.
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<div class="tripdate" id="2024-08-03b">2024-08-03</div>
<div class="trippeople"><u>Lucy</u>,Tom P,Rosa B,James W,James M,Zac,</div>
<div class="trippeople"><u>Lucy</u>,James M,Zac,Tom P,Rosa B,James W,</div>
<div class="triptitle">below promised land - Promises undelivered</div>
It appears that James' logbook entry for our prospect day has gone walkabouts, so I am writing again.
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<div class="tripdate" id="2024-08-05a">2024-08-05</div>
<div class="trippeople"><u>ZW</u>,James W,Tom P,Harry K,Dickon,Rosa,</div>
<div class="trippeople"><u>ZW</u>,Dickon,Rosa,James W,Tom P,Harry K,</div>
<div class="triptitle">saltmine - We go to the gulag</div>
<h3>The Plan</h3>
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<div class="tripdate" id="2024-08-05b">2024-08-05</div>
<div class="trippeople"><u>Becka</u>,Chris,Nat,Sam,Ellie,</div>
<div class="trippeople"><u>Becka</u>,Sam,Ellie,Chris,Nat,</div>
<div class="triptitle">Plateau - Prospecting north of deep Balkon</div>
We waited until the rain mostly cleared then headed off in low visibility. The day gradually cleared. See Becka's GPS for locations. Our only significant find was a 15m deep rift that Ellie bolted and said there was no way on ... only for Christopher to find a nearby horizontal entrance that connected in to it ... and then a further horizontal entrance. Our 3 entrance cave was, though, only ~45m long. This was 33T 411543 5284219 Elev ~1888m. Finished and can be katastered, photos on Becka's phone.
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<div class="tripdate" id="2024-08-05c">2024-08-05</div>
<div class="trippeople"><u>Adam</u>,Liam,Fiona,</div>
<div class="triptitle">Homecoming - 'Twas a simple pleasure</div>
Today we were finally going to survey Brandywine Overpass!... right?
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Well, when Fiona and I woke up at Garlic camp we saw the clouds low in the sky. This, as well as the rain that had accompanied the past week, did not give us hope for our little section of cave. Welsh Engineering, at the time of typing, having a wet reputation. Liam was down at basecamp and was hoping to join us, though the night prior we told him that midday may be best to join us on account of how not pleasant the weather was looking for this morning. Not god-awful, just not pleasant.
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Fiona and I arrived at Homecoming at noon, the walk to the cave entrance being quite damn on account of the low hanging clouds covering the flora in dew, meeting Dickon, Harry and Liam. Dickon tried to convince us that Simple Pleasures was both a more practical push for the day and a better push in general, commenting that our Brandywine Overpass was probably already surveyed at a different level. The latter was something I was indeed worried about whilst first bolting the route, but I saw zero indication of prior surveying. I was quite stubborn about our push, especially since we hadn't even surveyed it yet and we wanted to avoid a scoop.
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We put on our gear, after many a cave covered in muck and not exactly the driest. With the general wetness of the area, putting on gear was not a neat affair. Indeed, bags got muddy and things were untidy inside and outside the bags, despite our attempts to control the messiness.
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We got underground at 1pm, going down the regular entrance series route in order to collect rope from the junction, as well as just pick up and take out tackle sacks to aid with the eventual derig of Homecoming. I did not like the regular route. Well, scratch the past tense. Even at time of righting, I do not like it. The awkwardness of the horizontal sections annoyed me, with the bum-shuffling across a traverse and the uncomfortable manoeuvring of tackle sacks. I much preferred Welsh Engineering, with its straightforward downs and then ups. We eventually reached the junction, pointed out to us by Liam, who'd been there before. The lead up to it was such a breezy section of cave! Even as Liam was explaining the different passages to us, I could feel my temperature dropping. Fortunately, we moved on quickly to get to the actual junction. There, we found two things: a collection of food and a single tackle sack of rope. It had previously been told to us that there would be two tackle sacks, so we were a tad confused on that, but what could we do? I noticed that the bag of flapjacks had the word "vegan" on them and I started eating with glee. Though to call them singular flapjacks would be a stretch, more like if you took flapjacks, dried them out a bit and crushed them to the texture of granola. Tasty nonetheless and very welcome!
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We continued on our way to Rivendell; using the survey it was an easy find. Near the end all I needed to do anyway was to follow the sound of the water! We got to the traverse and the noise was far greater than I'd ever heard, though the actual wetness of the area below Rivendell was pretty much the same as it had been when it was dry. I persisted, but the others were understandably hesitant, given the roar of the water. I continued on my way down from Rivendell, Liam following. With each descent, I grew more and more anxious. The water was simply too loud to be comfortable. When I reached the bottom, I looked around. Our section of cave was the same at it'd ever been, but opposite the waterfall was more full, the streamway far below us flowing with greater power. None of this at the time was enough to make things any worse for a push. But if there were the situation that the weather changed above, would we hear it? Would we be given that small warning beforehand? With the water making communication difficult, I didn't think so. It was simply too risky and I cursed myself for descending down to this point. When Liam was low enough, I yelled as loudly as I could for us to go back up and pursue Simple Pleasures, as had been suggested to us outside Homecoming.
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When we came up to the breezy passage near the junction, we headed up a pitch to the left, which Liam had previously said led to Propane Nightmares. We eventually reached a traverse over a rift that led to a Y-hang on the ceiling which led directly to the Simple Pleasures push. We were about to head down, but Fiona noticed that one of the bolts on the Y-hang moved when we put weight on it. That wasn't a fun sight. So, we took our time to bolt a new one! I did the drilling for this, which certainly was an interesting experience. I leaned back on my cowstails and tried my best to keep the drill level with the ceiling. Keeping the rock-dust (or cave-coke) out of my face was fun, but I managed. The most difficult part proved to be actually hammering a bolt into the damned thing! The awkward angle made it a challenging task, with each of us trying shifts at it, trying different hammering techniques too! Eventually we got there too, but it was an exhausting affair, by far the longest single bolting I'd ever accomplished. We switched the arm of the Y-hang onto our bolt and I descended down. We got to a chamber named, I believe, Cubid Chamber, for the love-heart patterns seen on the path. As the prophecy foretold, they were there. We left some of our bags by the pitch and moved forwards to see what we could find. We'd eventually turn back and return for surveying. My favourite part of this lead was a section where the rift was partially covered in flaky rock with a pattern to it reminding me of crocodile skin, or at least something crocodilian. There was a flake that seemed to have the sides of it broken away but persisted by some rocky stubbornness. In keeping with its reptilian pattern, it was long and looked like a crocodile, wading with only the top of its head out of the water. We took care to not tread on it or any of the flake near it. There was an oxbow that went over a false floor, which we took extra care not to tread on so we wouldn't, well, fall through and die. To my regret I accidentally knocked the tip off a stalactite, knocking it just as Liam's warnings reached my ears. I kept extra low for the rest of the day. Eventually we came to a narrow rift and headed back for our survey gear. Liam would act as dog, I as instrument, Fiona as book.
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After we reached our initial stopping point, we continued further to find a climb down into a new rift. At first I was sceptical if after climbing down we could climb back out, but with three of us plus a sling, we would make it. Life... uh... finds a way. The rift after the climb down did not side well with Liam, with few nice footholds to support oneself upon. A lot of leaning and counter pressure was require, though this was something I quite liked, friction willing. The walls were covered in a brown layer, easily scraped away, revealing a white layer underneath. Reminds me of an oreo, actually. Anyway, we got to a point where even leaning and counter pressure wasn't a sure thing. We saw that it clearly required bolting or would just be way too risky. We finished our surveying and started to leave. We derigged the Simple Pleasures pitches, as they wouldn't be needed any more on this expedition. We returned via the regular route, rather than Welsh Engineering, with the bags we'd promised to take. However, we left some rope for the next day. We'd survey and push Brandywine if it killed us (not really, of course, we're all safe here).
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It was a long journey back, with me just being the most tired I'd been in a cave for a very long time. I'm not sure if it was mental or physical, but to get myself up and running again I had some Kendal Mintcake for the first time in the expo. Another thing that helped was taking mini-naps whilst waiting for people to prussik out of the longer pitches. I'd never be full asleep, but even lying with eyes shut does wonders.
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We got out of the cave at half past midnight, getting back to camp at 1:30am. A very tiring day, ending with curry and noodles. I grew worried about potential derigs of Welsh Engineering that would thwart (or at least slow) our attempts at Brandywine, but that was a worry for another day. Or at least, the same day but after some much needed sleep.
<div class="timeug">T/U: 11.5 hours</div>
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<div class="tripdate" id="2024-08-06a">2024-08-06</div>
<div class="trippeople"><u>Becka</u>,Chris,Liam,Nat,</div>
<div class="trippeople"><u>Becka</u>,Liam,Nat,Chris,</div>
<div class="triptitle">Plateau - Circumnavigating the Greisskogel</div>
On our second day of prospecting we returned to yesterday's area (see Becka's GPS track). Liam hunted us down later in the day from Garlic (we were based at Top Camp), chasing us down using the Meshtastic device.
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