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<h1>Expo 2004</h1>
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<d>5/7/04</d> <w><u>Mark S</u>, Olly M et al</w> <t>In Cambridge</t>
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<d>5/7/04</d> <t>In Cambridge</t> <w><u>Mark S</u>, Olly M et al</w>
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<p>And so it was that at 12.41 on Monday 5th July did the weighbridge at Madingley Mulch pronounce one white Citroën C15D van, by the
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registration mark of L852 MFL, to be 400kg overweight – weighing in at nearly two tonnes. Mark and Olly were not best pleased, the
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@ -26,7 +30,9 @@ pounds, refilled the van with lighter items and set off for Milton Tesco's, to c
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the various tasks which we hadn't had time to do due to the massive hiatus). We set off for Earl's place and arrived without mishaps,
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planning to leave for Dover at 4am. Expo had begun.</p>
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<d>6/7/04</d> <w><u>Mark S</u>, Olly M</w> <t>Driving to Austria</t>
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<d>6/7/04</d> <t>Driving to Austria</t> <w><u>Mark S</u>, Olly M</w>
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<p>Arose at 3.30pm and left Earl's place just after five past four on Tuesday morning. The ferry was at 6am and we arrived just at the
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right time after a stop for fuel. (Got to the port around 5.20am.)</p>
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<p><i>[The Nürnburg incident, which apparently involved a high-speed emergency stop with inadequate brakes, never got written up in
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the enormous space left for it on the page.]</i></p>
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<d>6/7/04</d> <w><u>Dave</u></w> <t>Dave's trip out</t>
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<d>6/7/04</d> <t>Dave's trip out</t> <w><u>Dave</u></w>
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<p>All went v. smoothly; up at 3am (ouch!), coach to Stansted, Ryanair to Salzburg, tram, train etc to arrive at Bad Aussee at around 3pm.
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Bus timetable appears to be beyond the comprehension of mere mortals, so I walked. Then fell asleep, woke up and spent four hours watching
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German TV. (Something important has happened to the state governor of Steiermark, but I have no idea what.)</p>
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<d>7/7/04</d> <w>Olly M, Mark and <u>Dave</u></w>
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<p>Walked up hill. Snow level very high. Had considerable fun hauling gear out of Traungold (caving gear + some digging were needed).</p>
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<g>T/U: Dave 1hr</g>
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<d>8/7/04</d> <w>Olly M, Mark and <u>Dave</u></w>
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<p>More getting stuff out of snow-choked holes.</p>
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<g>T/U: Olly M 1hr</g>
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<d>10/7/04</d> <w><u>Dave</u>, Olly M</w> <t>204A rigging</t>
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<d>10/7/04</d> <t>204A rigging</t> <w><u>Dave</u>, Olly M</w>
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<p>Rigged down to bottom of A ent pitch. Owing to lack of rope we didn't get any further than that + ran out of excuses for walking
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downhill in the rain.</p>
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<g>T/U: Dave 1.25hrs Olly 0.75hrs</g>
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<d>??</d> <w><u>Julia</u> and Anthony...</w> <t>..are here</t>
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<p>Det er veldig variskelig â snakke [illegible]. Men jeg mâ prøve. We left Anthony's office at 3.00pm on Friday (I
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remembered the guitar). Getting out of Norge not easy, but achieved eventually. 6 hours Oslo to Gøteborg. Then lots more hours
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through Sweden, Denmark and Germany. Sweden + Germany go on far too long especially. Our stereo died, but it only cost 20 NOK so it's fair
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enough. No traffic jams once outside Sweden. It took ages, Dour ate lots of chocolate, I didn't fall asleep too much, Expo is great + so
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is Gösser.</p>
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<d>11/7/04</d> <w><u>Julia</u> and Anthony...</w>
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<p><i>[In different pen and Dour's handwriting]</i>I say chaps, it's a dashed long way from Oslo to expo, what?</p>
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<p>.. are here. Det er veldig variskelig å snakke <i>[illegible]</i>. Men jeg må prøve. We left Anthony's office at
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3.00pm on Friday (I remembered the guitar). Getting out of Norge not easy, but achieved eventually. 6 hours Oslo to Gøteborg. Then
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lots more hours through Sweden, Denmark and Germany. Sweden + Germany go on far too long especially. Our stereo died, but it only cost 20
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NOK so it's fair enough. No traffic jams once outside Sweden. It took ages, Dour ate lots of chocolate, I didn't fall asleep too much,
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Expo is great + so is Gösser.</p>
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<p><i>[In different pen and Dour's handwriting]</i> I say chaps, it's a dashed long way from Oslo to expo, what?</p>
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<d>13/7/04</d> <w><u>Julia</u></w>
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@ -109,6 +127,8 @@ I feel like I'm dying, and I wish I could beg<br />
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For a stretcher to carry me to old base camp.
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<d>12/7/04</d> <w><u>Jenny</u> + Olly B</w>
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<p>We set off for our 3<sup>rd</sup> carry to Top Camp, and for the first time it wasn't raining. As we got to TC it got much darker, and
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@ -116,6 +136,8 @@ just as we started pitching the big expo tent it started to hail horizontally wh
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and went to look for Eislufthöhle (76), Olly knew where it was, but couldn't remember quite how to get there so we walked around a
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lot in the erratic boulders just below where 76 turned out to be.</p>
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<d>13/7/04 <w><u>Jenny</u> + Olly B</w>
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<p>Carried up our final load to TC, noticed that the tent had lots of big puddles. Perhaps optimistically, I assumed it had come into the
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@ -126,6 +148,8 @@ high with a snow patchand a skylight. Probably room for ~6 people without too mu
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sheltered as well as it opens out into a small sheltered valley (with room for a small tent). We walked back to TC laying cairns as we
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went.</p>
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<d>14/7/04</d> <w><u>Jenny</u> + Olly B</w>
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<p>Woke up to find just how un-waterproof the tent was – lots of leaks through the ceiling and 3 puddles a couple of inches deep,
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There was always lots of festering down at old base camp
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<d>14/7/04</d> <w><u>Dave</u>, Olly M, Stuart, Dour</w> <t>Ariston rigging</t>
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<d>14/7/04</d> <t>Ariston rigging</t> <w><u>Dave</u>, Olly M, Stuart, Dour</w>
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<p>Wandered in down 204A re-rigging on Dave Brindle's rope. Dour put in a bolt enabling me to get close enough to the 2nd pitch to see
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that it was open, which was a pleasant surprise seeing how much snow was around generally. At this point Dour returned to the surface
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@ -162,13 +188,17 @@ while Olly, Stuart and I wandered down Ariston. Ran out of rope at Steel Toecap
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<g>T/U Dave, Olly, Stuart 6.5hrs, Dour 1hr</g>
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<d>15/7/04</d> <w><u>Olly M</u>, Stuart, Peter</w> <t>204E rigging</t>
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<d>15/7/04</d> <t>204E rigging</t> <w><u>Olly M</u>, Stuart, Peter</w>
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<p>Had much difficulty finding the entrance, it was further than I remembered. Took ages to rig the pitch, then went out.</p>
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<g>T/U Olly, Stuart, Pete 2.5hours</g>
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<d>15/7/04</d> <w><u>Dave</u>, Mark D, Nial</w> <t>Kiwi Suit rigging</t>
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<d>15/7/04</d> <t>Kiwi Suit rigging</t> <w><u>Dave</u>, Mark D, Nial</w>
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<p>Continued rig down bottom pitch of Ariston (which is shite) and 54m pitch in Kiwi Suit. Realising we had only three hangers left, we
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put in the next 8m pitch but didn't descend, + buggered off out. Nial + Mark apparently got lost in the crawls at the bottom of
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<g>T/U Dave 5.5hrs, Nial, MarkD 6.5</g>
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<d>18/7/04</d> <w>Dour, <u>Mark D</u></w> <t>Razor Dance rigging</t>
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<d>18/7/04</d> <t>Razor Dance rigging</t> <w>Dour, <u>Mark D</u></w>
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<p>Early start – underground by 10:00! Speedy descent to Kiwi Suit, where we picked up the bag of rope left on the 15th. We now had
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3 1/2 bags of rope between us, which was considered A LOT. Mark rigged the bottom 2 pitches of Kiwi Suit, then Dour took up the cudgels
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<g>TU Mark 10hrs Dour 11.25hrs</g>
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<d>16/7/04</d> <w>Jenny, <u>Olly B</u></w>
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<p>We bolted on down from the head of Draught Bitter (where the draught was so fierce it made my eyes water while drilling a hole for a
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pitch (though we're yet to confirm this). We ascend to the rock bridge, and head on down. I can see a ledge which will keep us away from
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falling snow & rocks, but after two spits I'm still not there and my legs are losing feeling. Jenny is cold too so we exit.</p>
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<d>17/7/04</d> <w>Olly + <u>Jenny</u></w>
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<p>Back down 76 again, this time it's my turn to bolt. I get down to the bolts Olly put in yesterday (after adding a spit for a deviation
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<g>Total TU 6.5hrs</g>
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<d>5/7/04</d> <w><u>Martin</u></w>
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<p>I was phoned, "There is a problem", "Please bring your bathroom scales", "400kg overweight", "bollocks" (thought Martin).
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On Friday I received a message saying the cheque I sent on Thursday had not arrived. So I ignored it, and it all turned up in Bad Aussee
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<d>19/7/04</d> <w><u>Martin</u>, Nial</w>
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<p>Went in E, noticed rubs (Olly says it wasn't his (threatened with hammer)). Rigged Taking the Piss, with PPE green string. Rigged Wot
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No Bolts, from first hole using two bolts! (Deviation needed). 03-67B pushed to conclusion, 03-68B, 03-69B pushed to beginning of Faith
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<d>18/7/04</d> <w>Olly B + <u>Jenny</u></w>
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<g>T/U 3hrs</g>
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<p>Went back down 76 with bolting gear with a view to ticking off Olly's lead on the ledge and then rigging on down. I lined Olly up the
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short but exposed climb, then couldn't see what was happening for ages. Olly got to the end of the rope and assured me it was safe to
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<g>T/U 8hrs</g>
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<d>18/7/04</d> <w><u>Dave</u>, Becka, Nial</w> <t>Gaffered rig + tourist</t>
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<d>18/7/04</d> <t>Gaffered rig + tourist</t> <w><u>Dave</u>, Becka, Nial</w>
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<p>Wandered down Gaffered, while Nial + Becka touristed up Swings and aparently pushed a QM somewhere. (Becka: where was it?) (<i>[Becka's
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<d>19/7/04</d> <w>Olly M, <u>Dave</u></w> <t>Razor Dance</t>
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<d>19/7/04</d> <t>Razor Dance</t> <w>Olly M, <u>Dave</u></w>
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<p>Carried in the pushing rope, and rigged the pitches beyond Steady Now. Ran out of hangers at the top of Yeast. Also placed a hand bolt
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<g>T/U 12hrs</g>
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<d>21/7/04</d> <t>Razor Dance</t> <w><u>Mark D</u>, Dour</w>
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<g>T/U Mark D 10.75hrs Dour 13.25hrs</g>
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<d>19/7/04</d> <t>Gaffered rig to Underworld</t> <w><u>Becka</u> + Earl</w>
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<p>Earl put in a Y-hang about 40% down from the top of Gaffered to help speed up using it + take us a bit further from the spray. Becka
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<p>Finally ready to roll pushing: looked at <b>03-29A</b> rigged handline to edge of large chamber – no rope so leave that, plus
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<b>03-30B</b> which needs a high-level traverse. (See our 22nd July trip.)</p>
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<p><i>[Extensively annotated copy of 2003 Underworld survey with ticked-off leads noted.]</i></p>
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<d>21/7/04</d> <t>Surface Prospect</t> <w><u>Becka</u> + Nial</w>
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<p>Wandered over col beyond 204 towards Grie&eszet; Kogel then back round on plateau side. Put in two tags on new caves:</p>
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<p>Dave wanted to learn how to drill bolts so down to Earl's drill in the Underworld ... but first we surveyed + derigged Eeyore. Then
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Dave derigged the 26m that Earl + Stuart had started to rig along the traverse in Sirens yesterday (they'd hoped to get to 03-18B). Took
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<p>We went down 76 to push the pitch lead near the start of the "Test Tubes". It was unclear if the pitchhead was perched rocks or solid,
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<d>22/7/04</d> <t>Random German</t> <w><u>Olly</u>, Peter</w>
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<p>Pete and I had failed to walk up the previous evening so an 8am rising and a run to the bus stop was in order. Waiting in Bad Aussee
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Peter on his 35mm film...</p>
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<d>22/7/04</d> <w><u>Olly</u>, Peter</w> <t>Hauchhöhle</t>
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<d>22/7/04</d> <t>Hauchhöhle</t> <w><u>Olly</u>, Peter</w>
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<p>Julia had asked people to look at Hauchhöhle so Pete and I decided to have a poke. A survey was produced showing the main way on
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to be to the left at the bottom of the (first) pitch. Pete rigged the pitch and followed my bad advice of rethreading the rope around the
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@ -452,7 +520,9 @@ and miles of cave passage to whoever would listen.</p>
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<g>T/U 6hrs</g>
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<d>23/7/04</d> <w><u>Dave</u>, Pete, Olly M</w> <t>Hauchhöhle surveying</t>
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<d>23/7/04</d> <t>Hauchhöhle surveying</t> <w><u>Dave</u>, Pete, Olly M</w>
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<p>Pete + Olly had returned to camp the previous day with tales of caverns measureless to man, and nothing surveyed. So I jumped at the
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chance to go and practice my survey note-taking, hoping to go on to bolt down the pitches (or rather show Olly how).</p>
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@ -463,7 +533,9 @@ surveying as well.)</p>
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<g>T/U Pete + Dave 11h, Olly 10h</g>
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<d>24/7/04</d> <w><u>Dave</u>, Becka, Pete, Olly M, Earl</w> <t>Hauchhöhle again</t>
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<d>24/7/04</d> <t>Hauchhöhle again</t> <w><u>Dave</u>, Becka, Pete, Olly M, Earl</w>
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<p>A complex plan emerged over breakfast. Team keen (Dave + Becka) would go in and do some more surveying; team fester (Olly + Earl) would
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bolt the pitch; and team artistic (Pete) would take some photos. At 11.30 team science (Dour) would shout dow surface hole 2002-02 so we
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@ -483,7 +555,9 @@ thrutch into an aven with water coming in and a too tight rift off. Out + home.<
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<g>T/U Dave 6.5h; Olly 4h; Pete 4h; Earl 7h; Becka 9.5h</g>
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<d>24/7/04</d> <w><u>Jenny</u> + Olly B</w> <t>Eislufthöhle - rigging down 70's route to Keg Series</t>
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<d>24/7/04</d> <t>Eislufthöhle - rigging down 70's route to Keg Series</t> <w><u>Jenny</u> + Olly B</w>
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<p>We decided that today we would continue down the 70s route and see how far we could get with the rope + hangers we had. I wanted to
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play with the drill, so set off down to the current end of the rigging (the next ledge on from the Test Tube passage) and put in a nice
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@ -510,7 +584,9 @@ rigging, and went back to teh base of Saved Shaft. We surveyed back till it conn
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<g>T/U 10 hours</g>
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<d>25/7/04</d> <w>Olly + <u>Jenny</u></w> <t>76 - Brave New World</t>
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<d>25/7/04</d> <t>76 - Brave New World</t> <w>Olly + <u>Jenny</u></w>
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<p>Olly fettled the rigging in the entrance to add a tight guide line above the rock bridge, and we went into the Test Tube, and onto
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Brave New World, this time turning right to the pitch, traversing round it (which I found scary as it was loose) and itno the oxbow on the
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@ -525,7 +601,9 @@ survey.</p>
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<p>Walked up to 204 in the evening to see where it was and say "hi" to Earl + Becka. 204 bivvy is ~45mins from our bivvy, but I don't walk
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very fast.</p>
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<d>26/7/04</d> <w>Olly + <u>Jenny</u></w> <t>76 - Brave New World</t>
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<d>26/7/04</d> <t>76 - Brave New World</t> <w>Olly + <u>Jenny</u></w>
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<p>Decided to carry the drill through the Test Tube to bolt stuff in Brave New World. We decided it would be better to carry SRT kits
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rather than wearing them too. Carrying tackle made the Test Tube seem much smaller and more arduous... Turned right into BNW, and Olly got
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@ -540,7 +618,9 @@ then left the cave.</p>
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<g>T/U 11hrs</g>
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<d>27/7/04</d> <w>Olly + <u>Jenny</u></w> <t>76 - Brave New World</t>
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<hr />
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<d>27/7/04</d> <t>76 - Brave New World</t> <w>Olly + <u>Jenny</u></w>
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<p>Didn't feel like carrying tackle through the Test Tube again, so took survey gear to tick off some leads (hopefully). The first lead we
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looked at was the tube on the right around halfway along, near the probable 99 connection. It got progressively narrower, and then there
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@ -555,7 +635,9 @@ size to an aven - this is still to be surveyed.</p>
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<g>T/U 4.75hrs</g>
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<d>25/7/04</d> <w><u>Becka</u> + Earl</w> <t>Gardeners' World -> Subsoil</t>
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<hr />
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<d>25/7/04</d> <t>Gardeners' World -> Subsoil</t> <w><u>Becka</u> + Earl</w>
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<p>Down Gaffered Series <strong>aargh</strong>, this rope is way too fast, welly-brake-tastic... To Gardeners' World + I went over my
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"Generation Game" traverse to check that it really did go nowhere (sigh) then derigged it (not <em>too</em> exciting bar one
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@ -572,7 +654,9 @@ Earl Teflon-Jammers Merson was, of course, fine + blamed it all on my poor techn
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<g>T/U 10hrs</g>
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<d>26/7/04</d> <w><u>Becka</u> + Earl</w> <t>Rerigging Gaffered + Gardeners' World</t>
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<hr />
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<d>26/7/04</d> <t>Rerigging Gaffered + Gardeners' World</t> <w><u>Becka</u> + Earl</w>
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<p>Earl was all for going straight back down to push Subsoil but I'd promised myself not to go down there again until there was fresh rope
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on it so we carried in a 100m and a 65m and rerigged from Tape Worm all the way down (I replaced the top 91m - again - whilst
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@ -596,6 +680,8 @@ spanking new rope unless you're pristine. Thanks to Tony for cleaning + checking
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<g>T/U 10 hours</g>
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<hr />
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<d>27/7/04</d> <t>Surveying Subsoil</t> <w><u>Becka</u> + Earl</w>
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<p>The Razordance team was all off for a long trip so we decided to join them since it's the dinner tomorrow. <u>Bloody</u> cold at camp +
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@ -621,6 +707,8 @@ takes ~ 1 1/2 hours to get to the bottom of Subsoil and ~ 2 1/2 hours to get out
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<p><i>[Sketch: "Rigging guide below Underworld"]</i></p>
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<hr />
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<d>21/7/04</d> <t>Gaffered</t> <w><u>Earl</u> + Stuart</w>
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<p>Descended to Eeyore to continue rigging Kanga pitch. Bolts had been placed on the previous trip, so adding a deviation enabled us to
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@ -644,6 +732,8 @@ grades by removing one of the footholds. This makes getting out for whoever surv
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<p>Swings QM is a climb up on the right, where a gallery looks through several holes to Swings below. Hurrah for excessively bright +
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pointy lights in finding such delights.</p>
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<hr />
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<d>27/7/04</d> <t>Razor Dance</t> <w>Martin, Dave, <u>Dour</u></w>
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<p>My drill was at the bottom of Razor Dance, and since I was about to go home I needed to fish it out. Since there was a shortage of
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@ -679,6 +769,8 @@ there are enough (i.e. more than 4) moderately hard (but not necessarily bionic)
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<g>T/U Martin 15hrs, Dave 16hrs, Dour 17.5hrs</g>
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<hr />
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<d>22/7/04</d> <t>2004-11 - "In Your Face"</t> <w>Martin, Nial, and <u>Stuart</u></w>
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<p>"Come and look at our great new cave" they said. "Could be a new 204 entrance" they said. "DON'T YOU DARE FIND THE END OF IT" they
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@ -702,6 +794,8 @@ etc. caused the general consensus to be "jack". Also, the probability of our onl
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<g>T/U 7.5hrs</g>
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<hr />
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<d>23/7/04</d> <t>In Your Face + 204 scrotting</t> <w>Martin and <u>Stuart</u></w>
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<p>Somehow I had ended up in 2004-11 again. Martin completed the traverse in record time and declared, "It's huge stomping passage, looks
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