From fca31271f3b5a4cd43610dc354db9048ed9d9bc4 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Philip Sargent Date: Sun, 3 Aug 2025 09:21:50 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] Online edit of logbookentry 2025-06-29a --- years/2025/logbook.html | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/years/2025/logbook.html b/years/2025/logbook.html index baf2215b4..fd9cc295d 100755 --- a/years/2025/logbook.html +++ b/years/2025/logbook.html @@ -61,7 +61,7 @@ Thankfully, all worked out, with us arriving in two groups after 18hrs and 19hrs At the ungodly hour of about 7:15am, we set off from basecamp, yawning and tollroad-bound. The weather was absolutely sweltering, and we made sure to lather ourselves with suncream and stock up on water. Chris, Harry, and Hannah were first on the trail to the col, whilst the rest of us faffed a bit. And then up the hill we went! We soon reached Stoneybridge, having made sure to reflector the plateau monster on the way (red eyes to instil appropriate levels of deference).

Due to an incredibly efficient chain of hands, the storage cave was emptied within an hour of our arrival, and focus shifted to setup beneath the bridge. Chris oversaw rigging of the first water tarp, and the tarp support was set up during a lengthy process which consisted of many dismissed ideas and scrutinisation of several old topcamp photos, before the decision was made to just wing it and lattice stuff to death. This resulted in a lovely, 'novel' setup which we decided would be sufficient, partially because it looked super cool and partially because it was getting late and we were craving basecamp chips.
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Novel tarp rigging

After setting up the second water tarp, we headed down the hill, partially reflectoring the route on the way. I say partially because it turns out the reflectors left at basecamp (which we'd assumed were the reflectors taken off the col-topcamp walk at the end of last expo, and had taken up with us) did not in fact exist in sufficient quantity to reflector the route, and also a fair chunk of them were white on both sides. It's likely these were spares, rather than ones taken off the plateau last year.