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Exported on 2025-07-12 11:07 using either the control panel webpage or when editing a logbook entry online
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<p>The group decided that they would take the 'brave and direct' route back, which they decided would probably exist. There was an early, failed pincer movement, which resulted in a somewhat one-sided pincer when Joel had to solo backtrack his route which the other 3 had decided didn't look as promising. The group then discovered some promising looking holes that, when passed in previous years, had been snow-plugged, and may warrant further investigation. The route finally appeared from above top camp, with a last bit of bunde bashing before they emerged and finally could rest.
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<div class="tripdate" id="2025-07-03b">2025-07-04</div>
<div class="tripdate" id="2025-07-04a">2025-07-04</div>
<div class="trippeople"><u>Becka</u>, Charlotte, Russell</div>
<div class="triptitle">KH - Rigging Knossos and reaching Staircase 36</div>
We got to Knossos in short order and Russell bolted the traverse line along the left wall to access the pitch head (3 bolts?) then Charlotte bolted the pitch itself (single bolt then Y-hang at the top then a Y-hang about half way down, around the corner?). There is an area of horribly loose rock at the start of the pitch. We then had a surprisingly straightforward stomp to Staircase 36, with Becka rigging the bad step down to the base of the Staircase 36 pitch (natural then 2 bolts) and Charlotte putting in a bolt for the awkward climb shortly before this step (one bolt; on July 9th Harry adding a second bolt immediately before to make a traverse line to protect the teeter around on crumbling stones). We again ran out of time as we wanted to get back to Base Camp that evening so we left rope to rerig Staircase 36 and headed out.
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<div class="trippeople"><u>Dyl</u>, Mark D</div>
<div class="triptitle">KH - All roads lead to KH</div>
Given the option of either bimbling up the plataeu to help setup top camp or the gruelling task of pulling up hundreds of metres of old rope out of homecoming, I decided to choose the former option as a nice introduction to expo. Once we arrived at top camp, I dumped all my kit in my Bivi in a (hopefully) non drippy area and looked out for tasks to help out with.
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Eventually it was found, and we headed back with more or less the same difficulties that we had on the way here.
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<div class="trippeople"><u>balister</u></div>
<div class="triptitle">basecamp - Nerding with drone photos</div>
After collecting some drone photos the day before, the question was wtf to do with them. So, I start googling. After a bit I found <a href="https://opendronemap.org/">Open Drone Map</a>. After a bit of hacking (the docker line on the website didn't work) I managed to created some geotiffs that stitched together the photos I made with the drone. This was much better than flipping though individual photos and trying to work out the context. The results were very exciting! I will try to remember to upload to the expo website!
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After some hard nerding, I packed up and headed to top camp with the drone for some more drone flights.
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<div class="trippeople"><u>balister</u></div>
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The first day of the 2°C prospecting hellfest! Having decided to set off Wednesday morning to enable a night of drinking and roistering in the tatty hut loft on Tuesday night, an intrepid gang of cavers set off for top camp with various missions in mind. Keeping to my self-designated role of Prospecting Princess, I corralled a crack team of Hamish and Dylan to revisit one of the promising entrances which Buck and I had discovered on the plateau-bashing bonanza the previous Saturday. Following the inevitable pre-departure faff we set off on the Balcony route at about 11am, turning off at the Tunnocks Col (around 47.694787,13.821477) to head west roughly following the route previously taken. It was cold and overcast, with low cloud constantly threatening rain. The entrance proved far more difficult to find than we’d anticipated, requiring several spates of bunde assault and downclimbing vertical cliffs. However, Dylan eventually managed to track the entrance down and we began assessing our options.
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<i>the entrance to the cave now known as Gruffalo, previously called Pigs... In There?</i>
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Joel reappeared, removed the last of the Petzl Pulses and derigged the rope. We all strolled back just as the rain had started again.
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<div class="trippeople"><u>Joel</u>, Hamish</div>
<div class="triptitle">plateau - It's a long way to 204g</div>
Our third day up the mountain in Baltic conditions saw most people go to KH, leaving Hamish and myself the unenviable task of killing off more leads in the Valley of Death vicinity (west of Tunnocks). With our plan being to rendezvous with Shinwell for a lift down from the Loseralm at 5ish (this was changed several times through the day), we planned for a relatively short mission – namely exploring a lead a short distance into 204g, a Steinbruckenhöhle entrance a little way off the Balcony path. This proved to be more difficult than we had thought.
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We soon discovered that both of our navigational facilities were leaving much to be required on this particular day – as Hamish gleefully reminded me about 15 times, “there’s no such thing as a shortcut to 204g”. After two hours of bunde bashing, climbing up and down limestone escarpments and generally suffering, we had not managed to get any closer than 100 metres to 204g despite attacking it from several directions. After a final valiant effort which was met with yet another sheer cliff of rock and bunde, we decided to cut our losses and try something else. The weather was predictably miserable – the wind had dropped a bit, but we were frequently assailed by heavy downpours of rain, sleet and hail and the temperature can’t have risen much above 4 degrees. After a sizeable cloud decided to snuggle onto the plateau, presumably for warmth, visibility dropped to around 20 metres and remained there until late afternoon. After extensive sampling, I can confirm that being repeatedly slapped in the face and balls by large truncheons of recalcitrant bunde does little to endear one to the joys of prospecting!
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During our navigational circumlocutions, we stumbled across another entrance which didn’t appear to have a GPS blob directly associated with it. Our initial explorations were very exciting, an excitement which was swiftly extinguished when we discovered a fat survey station pasted onto the wall. It turned out that we had rediscovered p245, a short cave first explored in 2003. The website entry suggested that there may be leads left to explore, so after abandoning 204g we suited up and went for a poke. Sadly no further passage was found, though the ice seemed to have receded considerably since the first entry was written. After a comprehensive sweep we retreated to decide on our next move.
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With time ticking on we thought it best to begin our return journey, especially given the lengthy duration of our outwards voyage. However, before too long Hamish had discovered another promising entrance, this time definitively lacking any associated GPS blob. We whacked some bolts in and Hamish started off down the 45 degree snow slope which formed the passage floor. By the time he had confirmed its termination a short 10 metres later he was approaching hypothermia, so once he was out I fired some splays down for a rough survey and then we made our escape. (Frosty Bear was consequently born). After a remarkably short bunde bash we popped out onto the Fishface path just above Nadia’s Demise, reconfirming that this is the superior route for exploring the southern flank of the Valley of Death. Following some swift noodlage at top camp we scampered back to the car park, as the weather pulled an uno reverse and switched to 20 degrees blinding heat. A frustrating day which offered far fewer returns than we would have liked, but more achieved than had we not set out at all (just).
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