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<div class="tripdate" id="2005-07-16a">2005-07-16</div>
<div class="trippeople">Tony, <u>Wookey</u>, </div>
<div class="trippeople"><u>Wookey</u>, Tony</div>
<div class="triptitle">Journey to Austria - Drive out</div>
<br /><br />Tony collected Wook from house then headed to the T-store where we found Nial &amp; a huge pile of gear. It was clear that it wouldn't all fit, but we got most of it in, just leaving the expo computer monitor and printer plus some of the first aid stuff behind for the people coming out after week 1.
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<br /><br />Uneventful drive over apart from when smoke started coming from the dashboard. Fiddled for a bit but couldn't get dash apart so turned everything off and continued. (Turned out to be fan relay crimp.) No rain all the way. Arrived at about 3pm Sunday 17th.
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<div class="tripdate" id="2005-07-21a">2005-07-21</div>
<div class="trippeople">Earl, <u>Wookey</u>, </div>
<div class="trippeople"><u>Wookey</u>, Earl</div>
<div class="triptitle">204 - Gaffered - Rigging</div>
<br /><br />Mark &amp; Nial had rigged the entrance whilst we fettled tags and generally sorted the bivi somewhat. Finally got underground at 2.50pm weighed down with 300m of rope. Overheated getting to the top of Gaffered, with Earl giving Wook the <i>[illegible]</i> tour on his first 204 trip.
<br /><br />Wook rigged down with 100m rope; Earl added rebelay 40m up that he missed. Did some gardening at the top of Tape Worm then rigged on down. Faffed somewhat rigging traverse up to LX Tape. Got as far as the top of Trihang. Wook too much of a wuss to reach Earl's spits, so rigged off a different one. Good trip. Long way back up Gaffered. Out 10.15.
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<div class="tripdate" id="2005-07-22a">2005-07-22</div>
<div class="trippeople"><u>Jenny</u>, Olly B, </div>
<div class="trippeople"><u>Jenny</u>, Olly B</div>
<div class="triptitle">Loser Plateau - Setting up 76 camp</div>
<br /><br />We carried up a load of gear the night before, but sadly the water butt I'd carried up a few days earlier had only managed to collect a few inches of water. The first job was to get out the gear we left in a cave (to small to have a number or name) at the end of last year. This should have been easy, except what had been dry last year now had enough of a trickle of water to have lots of ice. Some of the gear came out easily (food was fine) but I had to sit in the drips for half an hour hammering out the tarps from the ice; fortunately we had a bolting hammer to use. Next we set up the water tarp and my hands thawed! The water we had left in the bottles in the cave seemed to have survived fine, probably due to being frozen most of the time.
<br /><br />We looked at 76a and noted that there was still a lot of snow and no entrance, though ~30cm had melted in the last 2 days. We walked over to 97 which had more snow than last year but looked open; reexploring this became Plan B. We headed back to 76a and whilst Ol took photos I kicked out snow from the entrance. Finally we had a cave to explore again! We headed back down the hill, me to carry a load I had left at top camp a few days before, and Olly to find a more direct route to the col not via old Top Camp - in the process he re-found some old caves (see below).
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<div class="tripdate" id="2005-07-22b">2005-07-22</div>
<div class="trippeople"><u>Olly B</u>, </div>
<div class="trippeople"><u>Olly B</u></div>
<div class="triptitle">76 - Attempting to Reinvent the "Superdirect" route</div>
<br /><br />The earlier explorers of 76 speak of a "super direct" route from the col to 76. The route we used last year went via top camp (handy for stopping for a drink!) and then swung out onto the plateau, then back to 76 with a few awkward climbs, so there seemed scope for improvement. So I started from the tent pitched near the 76 bivi cave (2004/01), and headed along the break of slope towards the col. The route seems pretty promising, and partly already cairned. At one point I walked across a snowfield which might be harder once the snow melts. Eventually I popped out on the open limestone pavement to the far right of lower top camp as you look out onto the plateau from there. Just by a squat cairn I noticed faded orange-ish paint. Hard to be sure, but it seemed to say "80". Took a few pics. Looking later, this is in the right area to be 80, but 80 has a tag and the paint is/was on the shaft wall, not on pavement by the cairn. Need to go back to look for tags... Backtracked and aimed up and left to catch the start of the 161/204 path, which I succeded in doing. With a bit of fettling and some more cairns this is a very promising route!
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<br /><br /><i>[Annotation in Jenny's handwriting]</i>PS: The Renault garage down the road is very good + cheap + quick.
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<div class="tripdate" id="2005-07-22c">2005-07-22</div>
<div class="trippeople"><u>Wookey</u>, Nial, </div>
<div class="trippeople"><u>Wookey</u>, Nial</div>
<div class="triptitle">204 - More Gaffered rigging</div>
<br /><br />Back to Gaffered to carry on rigging down. Rigging the steep "traverse" up to Cerberus is a right pain. (Bring a skyhook.) It would be best to leave this rigged in future. Got to the bottom of Cerberus to find that the "50m" we were going to cut off the bottom of the 200m rope to rig Gardeners World with was only 12m long, so our plans were a bit buggered. Also we had forgotten the Sirens traverse rope so used a little 7m bit we had. Trundled through the Underworld soily bits and rigged Gardeners World traverse with the 12m bit. Added one extra bolt before the end and then tried rigging down with 33m. It wasn't long enough to get to the bottom. So Wook put in a bolt on the LH wall to try and improvise the rigging. Then we pissed off out from -250m. Out at 9.15.
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<br /><br />Shortage of cave food (flapjack and choccy) staved off by Wook's sausage and sweetie pot.
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<div class="tripdate" id="2005-07-23a">2005-07-23</div>
<div class="trippeople"><u>Wookey</u>, Nial, Tony, </div>
<div class="trippeople"><u>Wookey</u>, Nial, Tony</div>
<div class="triptitle">204 - Cresta Run Push</div>
<br /><br />Relatively short + easy trip as we wanted to go down the hill and had run out of cave food. Went down to Cresta Run (some fun passages) to the chamber [Toothless] at the end containing a wet lead up a dodgy climb and a continuation leading to a pitch.
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<br /><br />Gardened choss above Rhino Rift pitch en-route when Wook tried to shift loose rock & whole pile became unstable, rolling a rock onto Nial whilst he was tring to have a piss. Some very big rocks shoved down pitch.
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<div class="tripdate" id="2005-07-23b">2005-07-23</div>
<div class="trippeople"><u>Jenny</u>, Olly B, </div>
<div class="trippeople"><u>Jenny</u>, Olly B</div>
<div class="triptitle">76 - Rigging</div>
<br /><br />Walked back up to 76 in the afternoon, discovered that the "80" found the previous day was 80, was tagged and is practically on the 204 path. Much sorting out of gear later we got underground about 3.30pm and Olly proceeded to rig the thick 112m down Plugged Shaft. I followed and took the bolting hammer to the ice in the entrance, which was quite satisfying but made ice water go in the holes in my gloves + gave me cold hands for most of the rest of the trip. Olly rigged down, adjusting the rigging a bit from last year (adding a rebelay instead of the guide line that didn't work), he then wanted to add a rebelay, so I prussiked back up to the entrance where I had left the pot of spits + the drill bit - oops... The new bolt definitely improves the rigging, as does one less snow plug (it seems to have alread melted and collapsed). Olly continued rigging down (probably one more bolt needed between rock bridge + epic deviation) past the ledge, down to the ledge below, and so down to the bottom of Plugged Shaft, where the rope ended (without much to spare) and we came back out.
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<div class="tripdate" id="2005-07-24a">2005-07-24</div>
<div class="trippeople"><u>Jenny</u>, Olly B, </div>
<div class="trippeople"><u>Jenny</u>, Olly B</div>
<div class="triptitle">99 - exploration</div>
<br /><br />Woke up planning to go into Brave New World and begin ticking off QMs, but there was a message on the phone asking Ol to phone home or check mail; we didn't know how urgent it was, so he SMS'ed home + we surface surveyed whilst waiting for a reply. We discovered that the disto isn't worth using above ground on a sunny day. We surveyed from laser 6 to 2005-<i>[blank]</i> to 2004-02 and 2004-01. The phone message turned out to be about our house alarm and therefore not urgent, but Olly wasn't feeling so enthused about 76 any more and time was pressing on. So we re-explored 99 instead. Olly rigged down using the original spits + naturals (rigging shown over the page); there was more cave than last year (because there was almost no ice) but still a fair amount of snow and one hell of a draught. Just as the the 39m rope ran out we got to what had been described in the 1970's as an "impenetrable rift", it was still impenetrable (obviously...) but we could see ~2m away the cairn Ol had built in the Test Tubes in 76 last year, so it had connected, and pretty much where we expected. This is where most of the draught was coming from. Ol continued down, the cave was now much smaller, but less draughty and much less snow. We got to the limit of 1970s exploration, at an undescended ~20m pitch. We had no slings left, or the drill, but found two reasonable threads + Ol went down. The pitch turned out to only be 7m deep, and there the cave ends - may be a good thing as 99 is cold + snowy + nasty! We set off back up, surveying as we went. Olly was very cold as he had to wait at the 76 connection for a while whilst I got the tacklesack + me up the bottom bit. So we postponed surveying the top half of the cave, and left the 39m rope in place. I gave Olly the tacklesack to take out as I had brought it in and some way out, and I thought carrying it would help him warm up. I regretted this most of the way out as I hadn't realised Ol was ill - he kept saying he might be sick and I was lower down the cave. Ol managed to get both himself + the bag out of the cave without being sick, which was nice. We sat around eating mashed potato trying to warm up enough to go back + finish surveying. In the end we gave up + walked down the hill, still wearing our furry suits.
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<div class="tripdate" id="2005-07-25a">2005-07-25</div>
<div class="trippeople">Frank, Becka, <u>Dave</u>, </div>
<div class="trippeople"><u>Dave</u>, Becka, Frank</div>
<div class="triptitle">Journey to Austria - out</div>
<br /><br />Mainly uneventful; I spent most of the journey asleep, having only recently returned from a trip to Argentina (14h plane flight back). The only noteworthy incident was an irate German who tried to have us arrested after Frank forgot to turn his lights on before pulling out of a service station (turning them on a second or so later). We sat on the hard shoulder waiting for the police to arrive, but they didn't, so we buggered off.
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<div class="trippeople">Olly B, Jenny, <u>Dave</u>, </div>
<div class="trippeople"><u>Dave</u>, Jenny, Olly B</div>
<div class="triptitle">Loser Plateau - Surface work near Brave New World</div>
<br /><br />Finally woke up at 11.30, having walked up the previous evening in the last of the light, and found myself being talked into looking for caves in the vicinity of No Ways Aven in 76. [<i>Footnote in Jenny's writing:</i> Well if you had woken up earlier we could have all gone caving.]
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<br /><br />In the last of the light, surface surveyed to 104.
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<div class="tripdate" id="2005-07-26b">2005-07-26</div>
<div class="trippeople"><u>Becka</u>, Wookey, Nial, </div>
<div class="trippeople"><u>Becka</u>, Nial, Wookey</div>
<div class="triptitle">204 - Gaffered - Earthenware / Hardware</div>
<br /><br />Scored lots of QM's between Earthenware and Hardware, surveying lots of loops and trying to make sense of the survey. Mostly ticked things off, just leaving a QM down a narrow, rifty passage with a small stream in it. Going to be a pig to draw. Dave had made a blown-up laminated survey just of Subsoil which was the <u>bee's knees</u> for checking off QM's + re-finding survey stations.
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<div class="tripdate" id="2005-07-27a">2005-07-27</div>
<div class="trippeople">Olly B, Jenny, <u>Dave</u>, </div>
<div class="trippeople"><u>Dave</u>, Jenny, Olly B</div>
<div class="triptitle">76 - Lead off Taproom</div>
<br /><br />We all slogged down to the Taproom with a tacklesack each, and Ol began rigging across the shaft to <b>QM 77-04 A</b>. An interesting pendule/traverse ensued:
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<br /><br />Oddly enough, the second pitch landed in Keg Series (at the ledge just before the 2004 limit). Olly was feeling a bit tired and ill, so I took over the drill to bolt up to the window in the wall (<b>04-47 A</b>). This led to 20m or so of pleasant passage with a slot in the floor. Jenny thrutched into Razor Prance and we established that RP was the bottom of the aforementioned slot. The new passage (<b>Razor Advance</b>) continues until the floor runs out (where the slot widens to the whole width of the passage), at which point a rope is needed to descend to the floor. This lines up pretty neatly with the undescended pitch at the end of Razor Prance below, and will be much easier to get to.
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<div class="tripdate" id="2005-07-27b">2005-07-27</div>
<div class="trippeople"><u>Becka</u>, Tony, Nial, </div>
<div class="trippeople"><u>Becka</u>, Nial, Tony</div>
<div class="triptitle">204 - Cresta Run</div>
<br /><br />Surveyed the pretty bits + then steeply up in tight passage until got to a pitch head (p20?) with a possible continuation of the passage on the far side. <u>Very</u> cold and windy so checked out the various QMs on the way back. Went down via Helter Skelter - much better than Swings + Roundabouts.
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<div class="tripdate" id="2005-07-28a">2005-07-28</div>
<div class="trippeople">Wookey, Earl, <u>Becka</u>, </div>
<div class="trippeople"><u>Becka</u>, Earl, Wookey</div>
<div class="triptitle">204 - Gaffered - Earthenware + Heavily Soiled</div>
<br /><br />Earl rigged the slot in Earthenware we step over (<b>04-26B</b>) whilst Wookey + I surveyed <b>04-25B</b> for 30m or so (<b>Software</b>) until got to a a <u>very</u> draughty pitch. (04-27A and 04-24A don't exist). [<i>The survey sketch from this trip suggests that such passages did exist but they connected to Software.</i>] We ticked of <b>04-33A</b> (soon choked) and <b>04-38B</b> (ditto) + double-checked the pitch at the end of Hardware (<b>04-40B</b>, probably downgradable to a C, as is <b>04-39 B</b>) [<i>Footnote</i>: Horrible loose pitch head but strong draught. We checked + this didn't connect to the stuff [<i>Software</i>] we surveyed down 04-35A on 26/5/05.]
<br /><br />Back to Earl and Wookey: went 25m down his pitch (<b>Firmware</b>) to end of a rope + a ledge. Dropping rocks revealed a further 20m pitch + then further rattles - rather damp. Then onto Heavily Soiled + Soiled Passage to end. Surveyed the chamber [<b>Night Soil</b>] just with an 8m handline around the spike and then Earl put a spit in to descend <b>04-55</b> to a <u>fine</u> large, ascending passage with a strong draft - QM A++. Out, leaving three <u>strongly</u> draughting leads (Software, Hippocratic Oath and end of Hardware).
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<div class="trippeople"><u>Dave</u>, Olly B, Jenny, </div>
<div class="trippeople"><u>Dave</u>, Jenny, Olly B</div>
<div class="triptitle">Loser Plateau - Surface work</div>
<br /><br />In the morning, Olly + Jenny went down 99 to complete the survey + derig, while I slogged up to 204 to collect some blank tags. We then indulged in some tagging:
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<br /><br />Jenny tried to find 86 but without luck.
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<div class="trippeople">Wookey, Andrew, <u>Becka</u>, </div>
<div class="trippeople"><u>Becka</u>, Andrew, Wookey</div>
<div class="triptitle">204 - On A Mission - Faith - Beyond Belief</div>
<br /><br />Surveyed for two hours, me moaning + cold, in quite small, awkward passage, with a break in a largish, loose chamber with a pitch, and another through rocks in the floor, still going down pitches but not terribly exciting. One tight, drafting horizontal lead left, just after the drippy small chamber.
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<div class="trippeople"><u>Dave</u>, Nial, Frank, Mark, </div>
<div class="trippeople"><u>Dave</u>, Frank, Mark, Nial</div>
<div class="triptitle">Base Camp - Dachstein</div>
Up insanely early (5.30am!) and Frank drove us to the Dachstein-Sudwandbahn cable car station, arriving just in time for the first cable car at 7.50. A slightly laborious trek over soft snow brought us to the beginning of the via ferrata up to the summit of the Hohe Dachstein. This ferrata was easy but exceedingly airy, at least for a novice like me. We topped out at around 10.30.
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<br /><br />By now it was getting really hot, so we hurried (as best we could on soft snow underfoot) back to the shade of the cable car station, returning via Liezen in absolutely stifling heat. This is definitely the way to do it: get up early and do the walking before it gets seriously sunny.
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<div class="trippeople">Andrew, <u>Becka</u>, </div>
<div class="trippeople"><u>Becka</u>, Andrew</div>
<div class="triptitle">204 - Gaffered - Heavily Soiled</div>
<br /><br />Surveyed from Hippocratic Oath up a very steep ramp in lovely shaped passage. At the top, took the main left, following the draught. A sling is handy to traverse around a small hole, after which the passage got smaller + more wiggly + we ticked off all but one small draughting lead. Efficient trip, given I'd had to start from base camp.
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<div class="trippeople"><u>Jenny</u>, Olly B, </div>
<div class="trippeople"><u>Jenny</u>, Olly B</div>
<div class="triptitle">76 - Rebelay failure + surface stuff</div>
<br /><br />We headed into 76 with a heavy tacklesack each, planning to go down the 1970s route, with Ol bolting on down + me rerigging ropes to free up the 93m rope without needing to cut it. So we entered the cave, with Ol in front. Just as I was starting to abseil down Draught Bitter, I heard a Bad Noise, followed by the sound of Olly swearing. My first thought was that I had knocked rocks down, although I was in a freehanging bit of the pitch. Then Olly shouted up that he was OK, but that something in the rigging had "changed" and that he was going to prusik back up to the rock bridge rebelay. Once Olly was safe, I could abseil down, inspecting the rigging en route. It turned out that the middle rebelay was no longer fully attached - that is, the rope was still attached to the hanger, which was still attached to the spit, which was still attached to the rock, but that ~20cm diameter piece of rock wasn't attached to any other rock on the wall of the cave. We calculated that it was a fall factor 1/2 and the hanger above looked fine, as did the rope, though the bit Olly's stop was on was quite elongated. Most importantly, Olly didn't seem to be hurt. Once I had checked the rope was safe for Olly to ascend, we decided to come out, partly to check that Olly really was OK and partly because we had packed the drill at the bottom of the bag, planning to sort stuff out in the Taproom, not hanging in Plugged Shaft. Having safely exited the cave we had somewhat less enthusiasm for going back underground than normal, so we did some surface wandering instead, hoping to find 2004-04. We did not succeed in this, but we did discover several other interesting holes:
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<div class="tripdate" id="2005-07-31a">2005-07-31</div>
<div class="trippeople"><u>Dave</u>, Olly B, Jenny, </div>
<div class="trippeople"><u>Dave</u>, Jenny, Olly B</div>
<div class="triptitle">76 - Rigging down 70's Route</div>
<br /><br />We wandered down to the Taproom, with interludes while Olly bypassed a dodgy bit of rope in Plugged Shaft and Jenny rerigged the Boulder Chamber stuff with a shorter, thicker rope. In the Taproom, the promised lead at the far left corner didn't seem to exist; rigging down at the far right corner revealed a long, narrow, straight rift with a pleasant traverse level to follow. [<i>Annotation in Jenny's handwriting:</i> In fact the route dropped down on the right, but continued on the left, so the two leads kind of merge.</i>] Around 30m later a short pitch led to a small chamber with a deep hole in the floor.
<br /><br />Olly attempted to right down this, while Jenny and I followed behind surveying. Having put ina rebelay 5m down Olly declared himself too cold and too psyched out to continue. On the way out we went into BNW - the Test Tubes are nowhere near as bad as I had feared - and all of us had a try at the climb in All Ways chamber; soon all of us decided it needed rope and bolts, and finally we came out.
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<div class="tripdate" id="2005-07-31b">2005-07-31</div>
<div class="trippeople">Andrew, Wookey, <u>Becka</u>, </div>
<div class="trippeople"><u>Becka</u>, Andrew, Wookey</div>
<div class="triptitle">204 - Gaffered - Heavily Soiled (again)</div>
<br /><br />Andrew took photos whilst we flash-serfed. Unfortunately, the shot of Gaffered didn't work out. Then we surveyed to the right from the top of the steep ramp from yesterday, into a chamber where Andrew found a failry obscure way on through a narrow rift on the left. This led to a small chamber with two ways on that soon fizzled out and a boulder choke. We were about to pack up when Andrew wriggled up behind the boulders and disappeared ... for some time. Bum. I moaned and whinged all the way up a 45&deg; slope of perched boulders covered in impact marks. Lovely-jumbly. This led to a big space at the bottom of a <u>huge</u> aven with just one small lead off in one corner heading down steeply (needs a rope to be sensible). We ended up <u>way</u> above all the Underworld level - potty.
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<div class="tripdate" id="2005-08-01a">2005-08-01</div>
<div class="trippeople"><u>Dave</u>, Wookey, </div>
<div class="trippeople"><u>Dave</u>, Wookey</div>
<div class="triptitle">Loser Plateau - Surface documentation work</div>
<br /><br />In the course of a long and inordinately tiring surface walk, visited the following caves:
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<br /><br />All the above numbers are from Wook's Garmin GPS12, which was persuaded to produce dataset coordinates with the following settings: Position Format: User Grid; Longitude Origin: 13&deg; 20' E; Scale 1.0; False Easting 0; False Northing 4800000; Austrian datum.
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<div class="tripdate" id="2005-08-01b">2005-08-01</div>
<div class="trippeople">Andrew, <u>Becka</u>, </div>
<div class="trippeople"><u>Becka</u>, Andrew</div>
<div class="triptitle">204 - Faith - Beyond Belief - Atheism</div>
<br /><br />A rocky start as Andrew's light died in the entrance crawl (good place to do it though) so he went back out to borrow Frank's and got very hot. Went slickly after that. I grumbled big-time when I realised that the pitch Andrew was going to rig wasn't the large one over a dodgy traverse but was <u>another</u> wriggle down through boulders following the draught. A psychological backup looping a rope around one of the boulders was followed by an efficiently placed spit in the middle of the boulders down to large draughty passage ... which went for about 30m to a squeeze up through yet another set of boulders + to the bottom of a large aven with no tempting ways on. Back in the 30m of passage there is a small draughting pitch on the left but with yet more boulders balanced at the top. We headed back out to the junction just after the drippy chamber + I had a look left down the passage that Wookey, Andrew + I hadn't surveyed on 2005-08-29. It went down, down, down for over 10 minutes of crawling with a couple of squeezes over wedged boulders. The draught seemed to gradually weaken + it got a bit smaller but I couldn't manage to kill it. Out nice + early for the stomp down the hill for the dinner.
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<div class="tripdate" id="2005-08-01c">2005-08-01</div>
<div class="trippeople"><u>Jenny</u>, Olly B, </div>
<div class="trippeople"><u>Jenny</u>, Olly B</div>
<div class="triptitle">Loser Plateau - Surface Stuff</div>
<br /><br />I wasn't feeling too well, so we decided to do some surface stuff. We headed back to <b>2005-99</b> with oversuits + got to where I got to 2 days before. Olly said he wasn't really in the mood for nasty tight cave, so I went in, wriggling along the rift, I was fairly sure it seemed to continue + get wider. It was tighter than it looked, and whilst it did get wider, it wasn't wide enough to turn round in, and a few meters further on it got too tight. The draught present at the entrance seemed to vanish down the boulders on the right, not down this passage.
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<br /><br />Rigging guide for 76 - Saved Shaft to the Tap Room
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<div class="tripdate" id="2005-08-03a">2005-08-03</div>
<div class="trippeople"><u>Becka</u>, Andrew, Martin, , *6 ARGE people</div>
<div class="trippeople"><u>Becka</u>, Andrew, Martin, *6 ARGE people</div>
<div class="triptitle">145 - Wolfh&ouml;hle</div>
<br /><br />Over the past year Robert Winkler and I had coordinated a joint CUCC/ARGE trip to resurvey the upper levels of Wolfh&ouml;hle + look for possible horizontal connections to nearby caves. ARGE had spent four days up near Griess Kogel (complete with helicopter gear lift) to a new cave there but unfortunately it had finished at -350m.
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<br /><br /><u>Andrew</u> + Marcus Shauermann: Down to first pitch to find Martin + Robert at the first pitch. Video + camera gear out. Lots of light. Surveyed back out 1 leg 1 video 6 photos. (See guide to how to do things really slowly.) Met team 2 coming in and sent off to survey side passage leads, very dull. Down the pitch, more photos, more video. Then sent off to survey back from 83m pitch. Took down hill turn at the bottom of the small sloping pitch. This is not recommended, gets very small and muddy, yuk! Found pitch, surveyed, back. On the way out more video in Wolf Chamber. It was pissing down on the surface, horrible.
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<div class="tripdate" id="2005-08-03b">2005-08-03</div>
<div class="trippeople">Mark, <u>Dave</u>, </div>
<div class="trippeople"><u>Dave</u>, Mark</div>
<div class="triptitle">Cave 2004-18 - + prospecting</div>
<br /><br />Walked up to <b>2004-18</b>. Descended to check out continuation from yesterday's trip by Mark + Olly. Rift narrowed to the size of my boot, so I gave up and declared the cave <u>done</u>.
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<br /><br />The Spit Driver: I was using Olly's driver, and it knackered itself very tediously, the screw thread getting stick in a spit. So to use the spit marked "X" in the diagram, screw a broken driver into it + tie the rope to that!
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<div class="tripdate" id="2005-08-03c">2005-08-03</div>
<div class="trippeople"><u>Phil</u>, Olly M, Sarah, </div>
<div class="trippeople"><u>Phil</u>, Olly M, Sarah</div>
<div class="triptitle">204 - Vague Wanderings in 204</div>
<br /><br />Having finally walked up the hill, I decided that an easy trip would be in order. So I gladly accepted Olly + Sarah's invitation to go & push some "C" leads in Swings + Roundabouts. A prompt set-off saw us underground at noon. After a brief argument with 204e, I found myself travelling down Crowning Glory passage. Here, Sarah + Olly played in the oxbows. And then we went on. Olly climbed up the crazy, crazy climb in the aven just west of Treeumphant south of the junction with Crowning Glory. Olly got a good 10-15m up before he declared it a bit airy and came down. And then we went on to Magic Roundabout. Went up Ermintrude, and by the survey notes we have, got a good 2m further up the passage. At this point, Sarah found a tight vertical squeeze, and forced herself into it. At this point, my memory becomes clouded by the mists of hypothermia. I seem to remember Sarah screaming & ranting 'cos she couldn't get any further. I explained that I was (a) cold and (b) definitely not going up the bit Sarah got stuck in.
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<div class="tripdate" id="2005-08-04a">2005-08-04</div>
<div class="trippeople">Nial, Dour, <u>Dave</u>, </div>
<div class="trippeople"><u>Dave</u>, Dour, Nial</div>
<div class="triptitle">204 - Gaffered</div>
<br /><br />Woke up to find the weather was still minging, so we elected to avoid it by going deep. Nial guided us down through the Underworld and Fat Worm; I put in a 1999 rope on the Cerberus traverse, which we can leave there permananently. Dour and I inspected the rig on the big pitch in Apocalypse, and decided it was fine, despite Nial's reservations. I abseiled down to the floor (below where Martin + Nial had swung off on their previous trips), noticed another pitch (~5m, with another beyond) and a side passage leading off from a ledge slightly above. This was a peculiar spiralling tube in very sharp rock, which I followed for some distance past a tight bend until it closed down. SRT kit removal was needed to get out past the tight bend, and somewhere en route I had ripped my oversuit.
<br /><br />Prusiking back up to the swing-off into the Underground, I found a somewhat frustrated Dour, who had dropped his dangly bag - containing the Hiltis - down a pitch. He abbed down off one bolt, and I hauled up the dangly on the end of the rope and put in a proper Y-hang that we could safely prusik back up. Much fun was had with the next pitch, a funnel-shaped hole through boulders. Nial located a large but loose thread, and I put in a bolt for a Y-hang and a deviation off the other side. Unfortunately I put it in a bit close to the edge, making a very tough get-off. At this point we realised it was time to go. Took nearly 5 hours to get out; Nial + I surfaced at 1.20am, Dour somewhat later.
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<div class="tripdate" id="2005-08-04b">2005-08-04</div>
<div class="trippeople"><u>Jenny</u>, Olly B, </div>
<div class="trippeople"><u>Jenny</u>, Olly B</div>
<div class="triptitle">Loser Plateau - Surface shaft</div>
<br /><br />Walked up the hill in the morning in the rain + clag. I told Olly that seeing as we had walked up, we ought to do something, either go caving or do surface stuff. I kind of imagined Olly would pick caving cos it kept raining, but he didn't; I couldn't back down. We walked across to 175ish, turned left and saw 174, which was where it should be. Saw a cairned path with red painted spots (interestingly only painted on the side of rocks as if you were walking back to old Top Camp or the Bergrestaurant or somesuch); followed this to <b>1996-05</b> which we figured wasn't the purpose of the path as it continued north from here with cairns + more paint splodges. The cave really didn't seem to have been descended before - no evidence of bolts, paint, random bits of gear tape, sardine tins, and as the path doesn't stop here there is no reason to think it's been explored. It looks an interesting area to prospect, as there were lots of big holes, it's in a blank space on the map + it is easily reached by a good path from near old top camp (near 174 at least).
<br /><br />We headed back to 175, walked up to 176 and continued in the hope of re-finding 98. We looked quite thoroughly but didn't have any luck. I wonder if we were in the wrong place, or the paint was no longer visible?
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<div class="tripdate" id="2005-08-05a">2005-08-05</div>
<div class="trippeople">Sarah, Stuart, <u>Dave</u>, </div>
<div class="triptitle">Cave 2005-04 - and Cave 2005-05</div>
<div class="trippeople"><u>Dave</u>, Sarah, Stuart</div>
<div class="triptitle">2005-04, 2005-05, 2004-18 - Cave 2005-04 - and Cave 2005-05</div>
<br /><br />After a magisterial faff I led S+S to the new holes, via 204D (which is a terrible route, utterly hopeless). I showed Sarah how to put in a bolt for the 2005-05 tag while Stuart descended. Being more adventurous, or less sensible, than I, he got further than I, descending the right-hand passage at the bottom to reach another pitch with <u>conservation tape</u> at the bottom!
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<br /><br />Before surveying this, S+S went to survey the other hole (2005-04), while I walked back to the bivvy for my caving gear. On returning I went down to meet them on the ledge by the horizontal side series, and I left them to survey that while I went down to the pitch I had seen on the previous trip to bolt it properly. And at the bottom was <u>more tape</u>!
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<br /><br />I prusiked back up to meet S+S warming up on the surface, and I went back to bolt 05 while the finished the survey of 04. Ran out of rope at a rebelay bolt form which I could have descended to the floor. Waited for S+S before walking back via 2004-18. View of sunset across plateau from by the entrances is absolutely gorgeous.
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<div class="tripdate" id="t2005-08-05B">2005-08-05</div>
<div class="trippeople"><u>Jenny</u>, Olly B</div>
<div class="triptitle">76 - Brave New World</div>
<br /><br />It was pretty wet, so we decided the 1970s route + Keg Series might well be really wet + nasty so headed for BNW instead. On the last 1970s route trip we had taken half a dozen of our hangers back out for such an eventuality. Unfortunately Dave had carried them up to 204 by mistake. We found we had a clown, a twist with no bolt and a home-made 1970s hanger with no bolt rescued from 99 earlier. Then we found a bag of bolts and things looked up. I derigged 4 "non-essential" hangers on the way in as well. We carried the drill + a 39m rope into BNW and I looked at <b>QM 04-19B</b> first. We had run out of decent slings so the rope was attached to a boulder by two retired cowstails. This concentrated my mind on not falling off. I traversed across the pitch (QM 04-18A) which actually looked quite pleasant and on, the roof tube QM <b>04-20C</b> reconnects trivially here, and the passage continues, gets low, then reaches another pitch (~2s drop). I traversed back, whimpering a bit at the shit belay and the distance I was horizontally from it. I then bolted a Y-hang to descend <b>04-18 A</b>. Olly took over setting the second bolt as I am crap at hammering. It was a lovely free hanging 20m pitch, landing in a pleasant rift passage, gradually descended for ~30m until it reached another pitch (~30m deep). This turned out to be halfway down the big pitch from the Four Ways junction; thus Olly named the passage <b>Pleasant but Pointless</b>. We surveyed back along the top, and Olly started to bolt across the Four Ways junction pitch to QM 04-23A until we got cold + tired + went out.
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<br /><br />It was pretty wet, so we decided the 1970s route + Keg Series might well be really wet + nasty so headed for BNW instead. On the last 1970s route trip we had taken half a dozen of our hangers back out for such an eventuality. Unfortunately Dave had carried them up to 204 by mistake.
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We found we had a clown, a twist with no bolt and a home-made 1970s hanger with no bolt rescued from 99 earlier. Then we found a bag of bolts and things looked up. I derigged 4 "non-essential" hangers on the way in as well.
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We carried the drill + a 39m rope into BNW and I looked at <b>QM 04-19B</b> first. We had run out of decent slings so the rope was attached to a boulder by two retired cowstails. This concentrated my mind on not falling off. I traversed across the pitch (QM 04-18A) which actually looked quite pleasant and on, the roof tube QM <b>04-20C</b> reconnects trivially here, and the passage continues, gets low, then reaches another pitch (~2s drop).
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I traversed back, whimpering a bit at the shit belay and the distance I was horizontally from it. I then bolted a Y-hang to descend <b>04-18 A</b>. Olly took over setting the second bolt as I am crap at hammering. It was a lovely free hanging 20m pitch, landing in a pleasant rift passage, gradually descended for ~30m until it reached another pitch (~30m deep). This turned out to be halfway down the big pitch from the Four Ways junction; thus Olly named the passage <b>Pleasant but Pointless</b>.
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<div class="tripdate" id="2005-08-05b">2005-08-05</div>
<div class="trippeople">Dour, <u>Julia</u>, </div>
<div class="trippeople"><u>Julia</u>, Dour</div>
<div class="triptitle">Loser Plateau - Useful Surface Stuff</div>
<br /><br />The all-important List Of Things To Do included retagging the new KH entrances (161G + H). I vaugely remembered walking to 161G with Brian and Martin two years ago so it made sense to add my memory to that of the GPS.
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<br /><br />We ended up doing quite a lot of climbing to get up to a sensible level again. This time the GPS came up trumps and led us straight to <b>240</b>. 240 is tagged as 240, and is where it should be according to AJ's GPS. The GPS took us to a hole I thought I recognised, for <b>2003-07</b>. There were no markings of any sort, as far as we could see, but I may have a memory of sitting at the top of it whilst someone (Brian?) descended. So said candidate cave has been photoed and is on the Expo machine (usefulphotos/julia). It as deemed sensible to leave it unmarked, as it may or may not be 2003-07, and we wouldn't want two caves with the same number now would we? Skulle &oslash;nske at jeg skrev litt p&aring; norsk i l&oslash;pet or Expo. [<i>etc - I can't be arsed to transcribe this - DL</i>].
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<div class="tripdate" id="2005-08-05c">2005-08-05</div>
<div class="trippeople"><u>Becka</u>, Nial, </div>
<div class="trippeople"><u>Becka</u>, Nial</div>
<div class="triptitle">204 - 204E Photos + Crowning Glory</div>
<br /><br />Nial had had a long trip yesterday + I'd walked up from Base Camp first thing in the morning + did a second carry to fetch stuff from Wolfh&ouml;hle in the evening so a short afternoon trip was in order. Nial wanted to get a series of photos of the trip down Gaffered so we set off with our basic digital cameras. Got some surprisingly good shots - Nial's hot tips seemed to work well:
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<br /><br />Took photos as far as the traverse line on Gaffered. Then out to check out Crowning Glory [<i>that is, QM <b>01-10A</b> at the northern end of that passage</i>]. The handline up was still rigged, and, mysteriousy, there were still the two hangers left for the pitch down. I then put in a hand bolt to descend the next (3m?) pitch that last time Martin had gone down by just trailing the previous pitch rope down. From here there is a pitch down (QM B?) and a climb up that would need to be bolted (QM B/C?). The previous survey ends at the top of the handline climb so there is ~20m more unsurveyed from here (the 4m pitch down to a small chamber then the 3m pitch to a small aven + the QM B pitch).
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<div class="tripdate" id="2005-08-06a">2005-08-06</div>
<div class="trippeople">Andrew, <u>Dave</u>, </div>
<div class="trippeople"><u>Dave</u>, Andrew</div>
<div class="triptitle">204 - High Hopes</div>
<br /><br />Plan was that Andrew and I would survey the far end of High Hopes while Stuart + Sarah surveyed down 2005-05 (now <b>204G</b>) so we could tie in the survey to that and the previous day's survey of 2005-04 (now <b>204H</b>), with S+S also putting in a leg to connect the other shaft next to 2005-04 (now <b>204I</b>). We got a bit lost in High Hopes for a while, but found the two avens + surveyed out. No sign of a survey station in G, so we put paint on the wall + decorated it with cons tape; found the marker in H without trouble. Couldn't find the point in High Hopes either.
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<br /><br />Walked down the hill. Ate lots of stodge at Loser H&uuml;tte. Drank G&ouml;sser. Listened to Metallica. Drank more G&ouml;sser. [<i>Repeat and fade...</i>]
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<div class="tripdate" id="2005-08-06b">2005-08-06</div>
<div class="trippeople"><u>Becka</u>, Nial, </div>
<div class="trippeople"><u>Becka</u>, Nial</div>
<div class="triptitle">204 - Subway</div>
<br /><br />Whizzed down the by-now pretty damn slimy Gaffered ropes to Fat Worm + then the Four Pitches of the Apocalypse. Moaned at the single spit rig for the third of these. (What's the point of taking a drill down the cave if you don't use it to rig properly? Moan, moan.) Also griped at the pitch out of Turnstile Chamber that Dave had rigged as you had to get off below the deviation so effectively whilst dangling over the pitch with no traverse line. Great. Down the final series of very short (2m etc) pitches to a traverse. Nial + I then handbolted a traverse line along the traverse across a shale bank to new stuff. Surveyed up to a big ramp. Down soon choked + up got very steep + pretty small but a passage on the far side of the ramp was drafting strongly This quickly led to a series of holes in the floor with what sounded like a roaring stream in it. We then surveyed down a very steeply descending tube that eventually choked. Partway down another tube led off very steeply up with an extremely slimy, muddy floor. We surveyed up this until it got silly. Finally we put in another couple of spits to drop the pitch back at the traverse line, on the right. Only I went down to check it - there was a drafting tiny mud tube at the base with the sound of water. The third of the Four Pitches of the Apocalypse was really wet on the way out and I got cold putting in a second spit for it on the way out. Still, an efficient trip.
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<div class="tripdate" id="2005-08-07a">2005-08-07</div>
<div class="trippeople"><u>Jenny</u>, Olly B, </div>
<div class="trippeople"><u>Jenny</u>, Olly B</div>
<div class="triptitle">76 - Brave New World</div>
<br /><br />Got bored of sitting in the tent in the rain (there are only so many games of I Spy you can play...) and went back to BNW. Olly continued to bolt across to <b>04-23A</b> and traversed over the secondary pitch that joins the main lower down. Sadly the passage it reached soon was choked with lots of rocks which was a shame. We surveyed and moved to the climb in All Ways Chamber, using a sling to stand in to place the first bolt, then I came down and Olly climbed up and placed the second, higher bolt and scrambled over the top. Whilst our methods seemed to work, they don't seem to really match those in "Alpine Caving Techniques"...
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<br /><br />On the way out the big snow plug had gone, presumably due to the large amounts of rain. And the draught was reversed! It was almost like being in a different cave, quite freaky.
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<div class="tripdate" id="2005-08-07b">2005-08-07</div>
<div class="trippeople"><u>Becka</u>, Nial, Andrew, </div>
<div class="trippeople"><u>Becka</u>, Andrew, Nial</div>
<div class="triptitle">204 - Hanging Onto Faith + photos</div>
<br /><br />Nial + I aacted as flash slaves + Andrew took 50-odd photos through the tirp including a fair few in Magic Roundabout Chamber that should look pretty groovy. Off to Faith Traverse + Nial set off with a 48m rope. After a reccy rigging off a thread then a rebelay bolt he got to ... the end of the rope. We derigged + had a quick look down Unconformity. Unfortunately I'd forgotten the 5m pitch down to the chamber so we had to use our only rope on this so we didn't have enough rope to rig the ramps - I'd wanted to check out the QMs west of Cat's Claw but we couldn't get down so we went home.
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<div class="tripdate" id="2005-08-08a">2005-08-08</div>
<div class="trippeople"><u>Jenny</u>, Olly B, </div>
<div class="trippeople"><u>Jenny</u>, Olly B</div>
<div class="triptitle">Loser Plateau - Walking back</div>
<br /><br />Woke up to see it had snowed in the night + the snow had settled ... we decided to walk down the hill, the bit across the plateau was during a snowstorm + quite epic - slippy snow-covered rocks and stuff. Once we got to the col it was much better + less snow.
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<div class="tripdate" id="2005-08-08b">2005-08-08</div>
<div class="trippeople"><u>Becka</u>, Nial, Andrew, </div>
<div class="trippeople"><u>Becka</u>, Andrew, Nial</div>
<div class="triptitle">204 - Subway again</div>
<br /><br />Off to the holes with the sound of water that we'd got to on our last trip (2005-08-06). Andrew + I put in pitch head bolts by hand then Andrew took down Anthony's drill to finish the rig whilst Nial + I surveyed down. Descended to a largish chamber but it fizzled down to a small damp drippy hole - not exactly the master streamway I'd been expecting. From here a scrawny rift led off that Andrew hadn't thought mcuh of (narrow + sharp) but I went a bit further + found a pitch so Nial + I kept on surveying down whilst Andrew jerry-rigged the pitch using my retired sling round a thread. Rather nice 15m pitch down but the only way on was through a squeeze. Andrew took off his string gear and got through + reported more of the same thin rift so we called it a day + derigged. We then showed [shoved?] Andrew down the left pitch at Nial + my traverse of 2005-08-06. Didn't go; no surprises there. We'd pretty well ticked off the leads beyond the traverse so we derigged it + went upslope where Nial + Martin had surveyed on 2005-08-01. Andrew climbed the short traverse + put in a traverse line + we surveyed up walking size but steep (up + down) passage to a pitch + to a rift. Time to call it a day.
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<br /><br />[<i>Barely legible paragraph scribbled in bottom margin</i>]<b>Note</b>: The only properly wet pitch in the whole of the trip is the third of the Four Pitches of the Apocalypse - though the first of these pitches is also quite damp, expecially with the current rubbish too-tight rig which means you get stuck in the worst of the water trying to get off rope.
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<div class="tripdate" id="2005-08-09a">2005-08-09</div>
<div class="trippeople"><u>Phil</u>, Dave, </div>
<div class="trippeople"><u>Phil</u>, Dave</div>
<div class="triptitle">234 - Horizontal Stuff, Pie Series, Hauchh&ouml;hle</div>
<br /><br />Enticed by tales of easy caving **with no tight bits**, I decided to join Dave on a "quick" bimble down Hauchh&ouml;hle. Some four hours later on, I was crawling backwards through a muddy wallow. How? - read on, dear reader.
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<div class="tripdate" id="2005-08-09b">2005-08-09</div>
<div class="trippeople"><u>Becka</u>, Andrew, </div>
<div class="trippeople"><u>Becka</u>, Andrew</div>
<div class="triptitle">204 - Hanging Onto Faith (again)</div>
<br /><br />Back to Faith Traverse with the original 48m rope and a 62m rope, determined to finish it. Andrew handbolted his way down the lovely but sloping shaft which would be ideal drill territory. He kept warm putting in spits in acrobatic places while I froze at the top. Eventually I went down as he said he was at a ledge. After an SRT obstacle course (free hanging rebelays, deviations way out there on the far wall and a knot pass) I got to a small slopy cleft in the shaft + stuck in a spit to keep warm. Andrew rigged the last hang only to find - we'd sodding run out of rope again. Andrew suggested prusiking up, then surveying back down again but that seemed daft so we left it rigged + went home.
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<div class="tripdate" id="2005-08-09c">2005-08-09</div>
<div class="trippeople">Frank, <u>Dour</u>, </div>
<div class="trippeople"><u>Dour</u>, Frank</div>
<div class="triptitle">204 - Surveying 204G</div>
<br /><br />Wandered over the Quarries in the general direction of the new 204 entrances, which we found easily with the aid of Dave's GPS on the last section. Nial put in a tag bolt at the I entrance, and also a new tag bolt at G (the original having been placed in a mobile boulder). Frank and I surface surveyed from 204I to G and connected to Frank and Earl's earlier surface survey from 204D -> 2004-18.
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<br /><br />With the survey complete we had run out of time, and so escaped from the Land of Hanging Icy Death.
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<div class="tripdate" id="2005-08-09d">2005-08-09</div>
<div class="trippeople"><u>Jenny</u>, Olly B, </div>
<div class="trippeople"><u>Jenny</u>, Olly B</div>
<div class="triptitle">Loser Plateau - Surface Stuff</div>
<br /><br />Walked back up to the bivi in the afternoon attempting to find 1999-OB-01 and 1999-OB-02 on the way. Failed in this, though we did find <b>101</b> and <b>102</b>, which are tagged (though 101a isn't and the paint is very faint). These were duly photographed. Discovered that the bearings for 1999-OB-02 line up quite near Pancake Aven, so plan to look harder for it next year.
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<div class="tripdate" id="2005-08-09e">2005-08-09</div>
<div class="trippeople">Pete, <u>Phil</u>, </div>
<div class="trippeople"><u>Phil</u>, Pete</div>
<div class="triptitle">Loser Plateau - Surface Documentation Work</div>
<br /><br />Having decided that I would have a slack day, I got "persuaded" into finding + tagging some caves. We originally set off for 2002-X11, so we set off from 204 on a NE bearing and walked for a bit. Stopping to check on GPS, we found that our target was a long way away across a big valley of bunde + choss. So we re-aimed for 2002-X18. This also seemed to be across a big valley full of bunde + choss. So we compromised and went for 2002-X14.
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<br /><br />And now it's time for bed. Goodnight. Hugs + kisses, Phil
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<div class="tripdate" id="2005-08-10a">2005-08-10</div>
<div class="trippeople"><u>Dave</u>, Frank, </div>
<div class="trippeople"><u>Dave</u>, Frank</div>
<div class="triptitle">234 - Hauchh&ouml;hle again</div>
<br /><br />Having met Olly, Stuart + Peter passing by when Phil + I emerged from Hauchh&ouml;hle on the 9th, I went underground again armed with a Frank, a drill and a detailed location sketch.
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<br /><br />While getting out I became aware of a pain in my left foot. By the time we reached the bivvy it was severely unpleasant, and my foot was covered in huge red blisters. The cause of this is obscure, but the fact that I hadn't washed my wetsocks all expo probably didn't help.
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<div class="tripdate" id="2005-08-10b">2005-08-10</div>
<div class="trippeople"><u>Julia</u>, Dour, </div>
<div class="trippeople"><u>Julia</u>, Dour</div>
<div class="triptitle">Loser Plateau - More useful surface stuff</div>
<br /><br />The Expo website features not one but two pictures of 161H: a closeup and one with a Brian for scale. We thought we should get the job finished, so we pottered back over that way. A gemse very helpfully stood on the skyline for quite a while and was very photogenic. Anyway, after some searching, AJ located <b>161H</b>, quite a bit lower down than we'd looked on the previous occasion. So we tagged it as 161H. Anthony then used his homing beacon to find his namesake entrance and we surface surveyed 161E->161H->161G, getting rained on half the time. One of the stations on the survey was a part-drilled spit hole above a hole with a cold draught blowing out of it, as the 161 entrances do. Entrance is wide (4-5 metres) and lowish. The right hand side of the entrance (as you're facing the hillside) slopes downwards at about 45&deg;. Anyway, having put the data in, we found out that we'd located 2004-13.
<br /><br />There's nearly no data about this, don't know if anyone's been inside. The entrance is ~30m from stuff in KH. [<i>more comments in Norwegian</i>]
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<div class="tripdate" id="2005-08-10c">2005-08-10</div>
<div class="trippeople"><u>Becka</u>, Andrew, Nial, </div>
<div class="trippeople"><u>Becka</u>, Andrew, Nial</div>
<div class="triptitle">204 - Subway (again, again)</div>
<br /><br />This was to be the first derigging trip down Gaffered so we knew it would be a long one. I derigged Hippocratic Oath on the way down so we could take that rope out with us, then we went to the pitch next to the upslope traverse that we'd had fun with at the end of the 2005-08-08 trip. Andrew + Nial put in spits midway down the pitch (<b>Pig's Ear Pitch</b>) - the top was rigged off the huge rock column and then a roof deviation. We surveyed down + got into large (but mostly loose-boulder-filled) steeply descending passage.
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<br /><br /><a id="foo">[*]</a> After two dry days on the surface this was now not very damp at all so it responds quite fast to rain.
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<div class="tripdate" id="2005-08-10d">2005-08-10</div>
<div class="trippeople"><u>Jenny</u>, Olly B, </div>
<div class="trippeople"><u>Jenny</u>, Olly B</div>
<div class="triptitle">76 - Brave New World (BNW) - Loopy</div>
<br /><br />Went into BNW with the drill battery to climb the final good up-lead (<b>04-30</b>) then look at some of the down pitches. Olly climbed up to a ledge and put in a bolt, and traversed across placing 2 bolts on the way. The climb/traverse wasn't too epic, except the only rock good enough for bolts was at foot level.
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<br /><br />We left the climb rigged, leaving the end of the 2000 39m rope there. Then went to look at <b>04-40A</b>. Olly put a couple of bolts in what looks like a lovely pitch - NO CHOSS, not anywhere. Very echoey, but sadly the rope didn't reach the bottom. We went out carting the rope + drill + SRT kit through the Test Tubes. BNW is weird - all the QM's seem to either choke or reconnect to known cave. Whilst we have surveyed more cave, the maximum extent of BNW is virtually unchanged. There are still good leads there, but they are either small or pitches.
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<div class="tripdate" id="2005-08-11a">2005-08-11</div>
<div class="trippeople"><u>Becka</u>, Andrew, </div>
<div class="trippeople"><u>Becka</u>, Andrew</div>
<div class="triptitle">204 - Hanging Onto Faith (again, again)</div>
<br /><br />My last day of caving so the spirit was willing but the body was oh, so weak. We were determined to crack the pitch series so set off with another 50m rope as that <u>had</u> to be enough to bottom it. We surveyed down. I'd forced Andrew to do notes because my pitch sketches look like random placed ovals. Unfortunately he insisted on making a good job of it which meant none of my trademark joke plumbs were allowed, + instead I got to do lots of grimly athletic instrument readings and it was all slow going. We finally arrived at our previous mini-ledge + rigged the new rope ... it only just reached the bottom but it did get us there, yee-ha. The excitement was short-lived - Hanging onto Faith is a beautiful, large, airy pitch series, which would make a lovely trade route, but it just ends in a boulder-filled chamber.
<br /><br />We wrapped up the survey + derigged out. We'd brought 2 tacklesacks in + I'd thought there were more down but there weren't so we ended up with a sack each and four or more chained ropes. By the time we'd got Taking the Piss pitch derigged I was feeling wiped out so was persuaded to leave the rope we couldn't fit in bags in Magic Roundabout chamber + I pottered out. Then I got given 45 minutes at Top Camp to change, pack + stomp off down the hill to Base Camp.
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<div class="tripdate" id="2005-08-11b">2005-08-11</div>
<div class="trippeople">Frank, <u>Dour</u>, </div>
<div class="trippeople"><u>Dour</u>, Frank</div>
<div class="triptitle">204 - High Hopes derig, 204G->E through trip</div>
<br /><br />Frank assured me that it would only take a couple of hours to tidy up some loose ends in High Hopes and fish the rope out. This estimate turned out to be wrong by a factor of 150%, so this could almost be called a proper caving trip.
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<br /><br />With that we staggered out of the E entrance with 3 bags between 2 feeling depressingly unfit. A nice tourist through some bits of the cave I've never previously visited.
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<div class="tripdate" id="2005-08-11c">2005-08-11</div>
<div class="trippeople"><u>Jenny</u>, Olly B, </div>
<div class="trippeople"><u>Jenny</u>, Olly B</div>
<div class="triptitle">76 - Derigging Keg Series</div>
<br /><br />Went down Keg Series, leaving the drill at the Taproom for tomorrow, and derigging up to the Taproom. We cut off the end of the rope for the climb into Razor Advance, and cut off the top end to leave the pendulum rigged - so the 80ish metre rope with no end markings left is the 2004 rope that was 101m or 103m or somesuch. I carried the bag out and was tired.
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<div class="tripdate" id="2005-08-12a">2005-08-12</div>
<div class="trippeople"><u>Jenny</u>, Olly B, </div>
<div class="trippeople"><u>Jenny</u>, Olly B</div>
<div class="triptitle">76 - 1970s Route + derigging</div>
<br /><br />Went down to the Tap Room to push the 1970s route as far as possible, survey + derig. Got to the ledge we got to last time (which is now called <b>Spent Ledge</b> because of all the carbide there and some reference to popular culture that Olly thought of that I didn't get). Olly bolted down like this:
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<br /><br />to land on a ledge with a ~11m pitch below. We turned round here + surveyed back, and derigged to the bottom of Saved Shaft, getting the 4 bags there, 2 of which we took out.
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<div class="tripdate" id="2005-08-13a">2005-08-13</div>
<div class="trippeople"><u>Jenny</u>, Olly B, </div>
<div class="trippeople"><u>Jenny</u>, Olly B</div>
<div class="triptitle">76 - Final derig</div>
<br /><br />Derigging Saved + Plugged Shafts didn't go too badly + we got 4 bags out of the cave - trip wasn't epic like I thought it would be. And we did a carry down in the morning before caving. The carries down were worse than the derigging.
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<br /><br /><b>PS</b> Thanks for coming to rescue us, sorry we didn't need rescuing. Actually, no, I'm glad we didn't need rescuing, but I am sorry you thought we did.
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<div class="tripdate" id="2005-08-14a">2005-08-14</div>
<div class="trippeople"><u>Dave</u>, Andrew, </div>
<div class="trippeople"><u>Dave</u>, Andrew</div>
<div class="triptitle">234 - Hauchh&ouml;hle Photo Trip</div>
<br /><br />Went in. Took some photos from the bottom of Pie Series to the top of Monster Munch. Went out. Observed that it was raining. Cursed loudly.
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<div class="trippeople"><u>Dave</u>, </div>
<div class="trippeople"><u>Dave</u></div>
<div class="triptitle">234 - Hauchh&ouml;hle Derig</div>
I foolishly observed that it would take one person less than twice as long as two people to derig Hauchh&ouml;hle. Found myself derigging it solo. Doh!
<br /><br />Pie Series: OK with use of Traxion + foot jammer hauling rig. Upper horizontal stuff: extremely tedious! 3 return trips through Tacklesack Blues, much fun all round.
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<div class="tripdate" id="2005-08-15b">2005-08-15</div>
<div class="trippeople"><u>Andrew</u>, Phil, </div>
<div class="trippeople"><u>Andrew</u>, Phil</div>
<div class="triptitle">204 - Gaffered derig</div>
<br /><br />Down to the rebelay above the eyehole pitch. 180m of rope does not fit, even in a big tackle bag. Magic Roundabout with 3 bags, lots of bits and rope hanging out, was I glad to see Phil who helped get them out.
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