diff --git a/years/2024/logbook.html b/years/2024/logbook.html index 5349c2f39..e85b47b2b 100644 --- a/years/2024/logbook.html +++ b/years/2024/logbook.html @@ -23,57 +23,21 @@ See troggle/code/views/other.py and core.models/logbooks.py writelogbook(year, f
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2024-07-26
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bier tent,,, everyone... who stayed up this late
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basecamp - Expo Dinner
-It seems best that an article about expo dinner should be written during the expo dinner celebrations itself and so I task myself with the task of doing such a job. Yes I jacob chuck choose to take time out nof the celebrations to write this article(many of people have gone to bed I will igrnore that aside from : sorry i hope you can sleep wel;l my heartfelt condolences go out to you) -

-well what to say. A very eventful night. Expo leaded read a speech, Expo leader got thrown in the river, What else copuld have happened???? +

2024-01-01
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Colin,Becka,,, James.W
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Balkonhoehle - Rack Vs Rally
+This is my first logbook entry so may need fettling.

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-We're now sat in the tatty hut listening to the rolling stones. -

-IMPORTANT TO REMBER -
-broken bottles cut hands -
-dont drink too much -
-drink water.... that reminds me -
-dont drink too much +After a rather eventful walk up the plateau summiting a mountain on my travels. I arrived to a concerned Becka and James about to come looking for me. On a side note would not recommend carrying caving kit and camping kit in one go it sucks. The next few hours were spent waiting for the previous trip to exit the cave so we knew what to take and do once underground. The other group arrived at top camp at around 18:30 where we discussed their progress. Apparently it involved lots of swearing at far to many tackle bags on the way down the various pitches. Opting to eat dinner at top camp we continued to faff getting underground for 20:00. This would be our last daylight for 65 hours.

+Due to James and I not knowing the way to camp we had a guided tour of Balkonholle by Becka which slightly slowed progress taking 4hrs to reach camp. I was using my rack much to James's entertainment. I proceeded to drink half a litre of very cold water causing me to shiver, this would be the coldest I was all trip. when in our sleeping bags I apparently fell asleep far to quickly in comparison to a jealous Becka who was still cold. I was very warm and had a great nights sleep.

-well as I speak big tom himself has given up -he has collapsed on the floor, absolute scenes, he had to be lifted up be Chi -

-he is back on the floor. Isaac begins to fight him. -"ill break your knee caps" says big TOm -"its comfy" he adds. -isaac gives up and returns to his seat. -

-now. Bon Jovi begins to play. May I(bier tent) add that this song fucking sucks. Ok well big Tom is up and dancing with Isaac(I know the development). -'we gotta hold on to what we got' -

-the music cuts. -

-the music continues. -

-Isaac and big tom are fighting. -

-now they are sat down... very civil. -

-the river is being discussed. -

-pink floyd came on for about 1.5 seconds. -philip S was happy about that. -

-ok about time that I (bier tent) joined in with this great party(went to sleep). -

-Just a reminder:expo is over, we found all the cave. -
-Expo is now more of a holiday really, just going down all these already discovered leads... -

-anyway -

-bier tent out! o7 -

T/U: -3.2 hours
+The tour of Balkonholle continued on the first day after a slow start. We found a couple of draughty A leads near camp which would be good for another team to look at if they're down for a short day. Once at Northern powerhouse we dropped the big chamber as someone had to do it resulting in a lovely 50m pitch which went nowhere. Becka nearly had a big rock land in her head when it fell out the wall luckily the big rock went nowhere and only a little one went down. This would become a trend of our trip. having used up all our bolts to actually push anything and being a little late we decided to scope our leads for the next day. This involved digging a boulder choke to bypass a pitch once we realised it was going we left and James squashed his knee behind a rock. Becka was very concerned thinking James had seriously either squashed or trapped his arm. I rammed myself into a very tight, horizontal, sharp and rifty squeeze where I bailed out of due to rescue being impossible. We then looked at some other leads which needed killing. We went Back to camp for an early night in preparation for a big pushing day the next day. The gas stove required much love to actually work at cooking our dinner. On another side note the gas stove could do with being replaced with a stove with a prewarming gas loop other wise you have no chance of cooking anything quickly. +

+An earlier start than the previous day left us with plenty of time to kill many leads. We set of to our dig to put in the pitch, now we have bolts to bypass the sketchy boulder choke. Here I learnt to bolt under observation from James. 2 more pitches were found and bolted. At the bottom of the second pitch I had to return to the top, while James and Becka surveyed our new found shafts, I was sent to collect the 50m rope for the 3rd pitch and some more flapjack. on the way back to the others 2 false floors collapsed underneath me while on a traverse line resulting in a disgruntled Becka, appropriately so. The 3rd pitch had some slightly more inventive rigging due to a low amount of bolts left. Here I had a conversation while bolting which was not a good idea, resulting in unset bolts which I had to be reminded to set. The 3rd pitch was a muddy tube which ended rather depressingly at the end. After having de-rigged we had no bolts to rig anything we pushed a couple of ramps on the way to Tartrus which all connected into themselves quite entertainingly. there seems to be a big wet boulder choke where all the leads crap out. We then headed further in to a QMB? which was lovely wide chamber until it again died while on top of a boulder false floor on top of a big drop. We all got very scared and ran away. On the way back to camp we removed an old rope from northern powerhouse and added a new one and also surveyed a short side passage. I ran away to camp to make a start on dinner while the surveying was done. An inventory was taken and an early night was had. +

+A very early morning and a relatively faff-less start was achieved. Mongol rally was started, quickly passed by Becka. I tried to make my life easier by abseiling out of the window on an Italian hitch with my jammers on the up rope. the plan failed when the carabinier failed to open resulting in untying the natural to feed it through my carabinier to then try again. much to James's horror, he made sure to hold onto the rope. once the first obstacle was passed I was off being chased by James and trying to keep up with Becka which didn't happen. My pantin and croll weren't being helpful making my life very unpleasant. much suffering was gone through trying to exit much to everyone else's entertainment. The exhaustion caught up at the bottom of the entrance series much flapjack was consumed giving me a second wind. I exited to a Becka going we're behind schedule cracking the whip. +

T/U: 65.0 hours

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