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<h2>Caves of loserplateau (locations acording to all.3d)</h2>
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<h2>Caves of Löserplateau (locations according to all.3d)</h2>
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<b>Nat Dalton</b> ULSA<br />
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Expedition 2014
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- keen explorer of <a href="../../1623/264/index.htm">Balkonhöhle</a>.</p>
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- keen explorer of <a href="../../1623/264/index.htm">Balkonhöhle</a>.</p>
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<p>Photo on right taken whilst tagging the entrance of Balkonhöhle in 2014.</p>
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<p>Photo on right taken whilst tagging the entrance of Balkonhöhle in 2014.</p>
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<hr style="clear: both" /><p class="caption">At entrance of Balkonhöhle in 2014, by Katey Bender.</p>
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<hr style="clear: both" /><p class="caption">At entrance of Balkonhöhle in 2014, by Katey Bender.</p>
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<h3>Cave photos needed, especially entrances</h3>
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<dt><!--2020-04-30 becka-->New katastered caves need photos
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<dd>1626/359 Homecoming Cave Heimkehrhöhle 2018-dm-07
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<dd>1623/290 Fish Face Cave Fischgesicht-Höhle 2017_cucc_28
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<dd>1623/291 Happy Butterfly Cave Glückliche-Schmetterlingshöhle
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<dd>1623/285 Knackered Tacklesack Cave Geknackter-Packsackhöhle 2006-08
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<dd>1623/288 Purple Lupin Cave Lila Lupinenhöhle 2015-mf-06
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<dd>1626/359 Homecoming Cave Heimkehrhöhle 2018-dm-07
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<dd>1623/290 Fish Face Cave Fischgesicht-Höhle 2017_cucc_28
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<dd>1623/291 Happy Butterfly Cave Glückliche-Schmetterlingshöhle
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<dd>1623/285 Knackered Tacklesack Cave Geknackter-Packsackhöhle 2006-08
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<dd>1623/288 Purple Lupin Cave Lila Lupinenhöhle 2015-mf-06
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<dd>2015_cucc_24
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<dd>1623/295 No Watermelon Cave Keine-Wassermelone-Höhle cucc-2017-23
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<dd>1623/293 Blocked Air Cave Blocklufthöhle 2010-03
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<dd>1623/296 Double Gemse Cave Doppel-Gemse-Höhle 2012-70
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<dd>1623/295 No Watermelon Cave Keine-Wassermelone-Höhle cucc-2017-23
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<dd>1623/293 Blocked Air Cave Blocklufthöhle 2010-03
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<dd>1623/296 Double Gemse Cave Doppel-Gemse-Höhle 2012-70
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<h3>Logbook fettling</h3>
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</li><li><b>Connection to 204</b>: it seems likely that pitches in the southern end of Tunnocks could drop into a continuation of the 'Wares level in 204. There should only be about 75m to drop to that level. <a href="http://expo.survex.com/folk/l/dunks.htm">Duncan Collis</a> 06:32, 30 May 2008 (BST)
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</li><li>Explore Hauchhöhle
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</li><li>Explore Hauchhöhle
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<ul><li>Hopfully we can find a bypass to razordance, allowing far easier access to the horizontal section beyond which may well connect to KH (we can dream...) Hauchhohle itself may also link 204 and KH - but either way it's an important cave that needs some love.
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<FONT FACE="Times New Roman"><FONT SIZE=2><U><B>Kaninchenhöhle,
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Steinbrückenhöhle and Tunnockschacht: a brief history</B></U></FONT></FONT></P>
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<FONT FACE="Times New Roman"><FONT SIZE=2><U><B>Kaninchenhöhle,
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Steinbrückenhöhle and Tunnockschacht: a brief history</B></U></FONT></FONT></P>
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<P LANG="zxx" CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%">
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<FONT FACE="Times New Roman"><FONT SIZE=2>Kaninchenhöhle was CUCC's
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<FONT FACE="Times New Roman"><FONT SIZE=2>Kaninchenhöhle was CUCC's
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primary project throughout the 1990s, following its discovery in
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1988, eventually reaching 22km length and 500m depth. In 1999
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Steinbrückenhöhle was discovered a km or so to the North, and (not
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Steinbrückenhöhle was discovered a km or so to the North, and (not
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least because it had a really nice bivi site), because the main
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focus. Over the next decade, nearly 17km of passages were explored
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there with a vertical range of over 600m. The cave has several
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levels, lined up with the dip of the limestone plateau, separated
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from one another by pitch series, and has potential to connect to
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both Kaninchenhöhle ('KH') and Tunnockschacht, as it lies between
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both Kaninchenhöhle ('KH') and Tunnockschacht, as it lies between
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them, and by the end of 2010 quite close to both, although the KH
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nearest approach point had been checked carefully and found hopeless
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Theory’, and had discovered a number of leads at the bottom, one of
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which being a tantalising 20m away from Steinbrückenhöhle. </FONT></FONT>
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which being a tantalising 20m away from Steinbrückenhöhle. </FONT></FONT>
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<FONT FACE="Times New Roman"><FONT SIZE=2>Hopes for a connection
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space, and to search for the potential connection with
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Tunnockschacht, whose closest point was only a few dozen tantalising
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metres away from Steinbrückenhöhle.</FONT></FONT></P>
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<FONT FACE="Times New Roman"><FONT SIZE=2>After two successful
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camping trips, about 1km of new cave was found in Steinbrückenhöhle,
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and it is now 17.7km long. A fair amount of time was spent checking
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Steinbrückenhöhle. Plans were made, equipment purchased, and Neil,
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Andy and some newly recruited team members were ready for a rematch.</FONT></FONT></P>
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<FONT FACE="Times New Roman"><FONT SIZE=2><U><B>Kaninchenhöhle</B></U></FONT></FONT></P>
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62km Schwartzmooskogelhöhlensystem and the 27km of Steinbrücken +
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62km Schwartzmooskogelhöhlensystem and the 27km of Steinbrücken +
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<li>24 entrances</li>
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<li>30 years of expeditions</li>
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<li>this year - from Normway and NZ</li>
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<li>5 joint members of Verein für Hölenkunde in Obersteir (VfHO)</li>
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<li>5 joint members of Verein für Hölenkunde in Obersteir (VfHO)</li>
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<li>This year - saved 2 sheep from 3 holes </li>
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<li>Project + bunch of intellectuals -> world leading cave surveying software.</li>
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<li>Support (hospitality) of family Wilpernig over 30 years here </li>
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<div class="tripdate" id="t2015-07-07a">2015-07-07</div>
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<div class="trippeople"><u>Luke</u>, Joe</div>
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<div class="triptitle">Gemsehöhle - 107</div>
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<p>An early 7:00am start resulted in a marginally cooler walk up to the entrance of 107 after dropping off first load we returned immediately down making good progress, we collected another rucksack worth of rope and returned to the entrance entering the cave at 12:00. The first pitch had a precariously hanging 2 tonnes of snow hanging on the side of the wall, (this was ignored!) trip continued the first 5 ropes where rigged. A quick return to the surface to warm up, and then re-entered with more rope making it all the way to Twin Pitches at which point all the rope had been exhausted, returning out the trick was to ignore the fact that the block of snow/ice was disintegrating above you showering pieces on you (this would have to be sorted).</p>
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<div class="triptitle">Gemsehöhle - 107</div>
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<p>A return with the rope required and drill to sort out the sketchy rigging resulted in the arrival at the top at 12:00 after a more relaxed start. The first task was to destroy the ever melting snow which was achieved in 30 mins. The down trip involved sorting out multiple rigging issues and everything was made much safer. Water flow had increased dramatically since yesterday. Making it to Too Bold For This Spit, we halted, rigged it but had to turn round because of lack of hangers and quantity of water flowing down. Exitting the cave was much more pleasant without the looming iceberg.</p>
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<p>The plan was to go and find Organhöhle (located by Wookey and Olaf in 2012) plus swing by some of the holes Duncan and I found in the same area in the same year. Since expo was quite sparsely populated, we decided to take advantage of drill availability to drop some of the short pitches we had found. We decided to take two oversuits, two helmets and one SRT kit between us and also some surveying gear to give ourselves the option of verifying that we really had found Organhöhle.</p>
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<p>The plan was to go and find Organhöhle (located by Wookey and Olaf in 2012) plus swing by some of the holes Duncan and I found in the same area in the same year. Since expo was quite sparsely populated, we decided to take advantage of drill availability to drop some of the short pitches we had found. We decided to take two oversuits, two helmets and one SRT kit between us and also some surveying gear to give ourselves the option of verifying that we really had found Organhöhle.</p>
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<p>Things did not go entirely according to plan.</p>
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<p>We first swung by Tunnocks to pick up an SRT kit. It was at this point that I realised that I hadn't seen any rope being packed. It was hot and fairly late so we pressed on to Balkonhöhle from where we took a somewhat roundabout route towards Organhöhle via a subsidiary summit of the Hohes Augsteck. Coming off the back of this, Dan spotted a cave. There is a hole in the side of the cliff leading onto a rift pitch, with another couple of surface shafts above that go to the same place - definitely worth a tag. Since we had a drill, this should have been a quick job. However, a lack of drill bits was going to make it a lot harder. Fortunately, we had a hand bolting kit, so I made up a tag (2015-DL-01) and Dan set about placing a hand bolt for it.</p>
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<p>Whilst Dan was drilling, I set off in the direction where Mark's GPS said Organhöhle was supposed to be. Found a hole in the right place, and headed back to Dan who had by now stopped drilling - not because the bolt was complete but because the head of the bolt driver had sheared off.</p>
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<p>We all trooped over to the Organhöhle candidate entrance, where we could have started surveying.... if we had brought a tape measure. I donned oversuit and helmet and set off to verify that we had the right cave. After a bit of walking / crawling I found a decent sized pitch with two spits for a Y-hang at the top (one of which looks good, and one is shagged) - so I'm pretty sure we've got the right cave. It looks a bit like this:</p>
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<p><img src="logbkimg07.jpeg" alt="Organhöhle entrance area plan"></p>
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<p>With that we headed back towards Top Camp via a more direct route, placing cairns as we went. Eventually we picked up a cairned path that I suspect goes to Bullet's 2nd Höhle. This route is fairly direct and the terrain reasonable, but it is going to takae a while - likely over an hour from Balconyhöhle.</p>
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<p>We first swung by Tunnocks to pick up an SRT kit. It was at this point that I realised that I hadn't seen any rope being packed. It was hot and fairly late so we pressed on to Balkonhöhle from where we took a somewhat roundabout route towards Organhöhle via a subsidiary summit of the Hohes Augsteck. Coming off the back of this, Dan spotted a cave. There is a hole in the side of the cliff leading onto a rift pitch, with another couple of surface shafts above that go to the same place - definitely worth a tag. Since we had a drill, this should have been a quick job. However, a lack of drill bits was going to make it a lot harder. Fortunately, we had a hand bolting kit, so I made up a tag (2015-DL-01) and Dan set about placing a hand bolt for it.</p>
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<p>Whilst Dan was drilling, I set off in the direction where Mark's GPS said Organhöhle was supposed to be. Found a hole in the right place, and headed back to Dan who had by now stopped drilling - not because the bolt was complete but because the head of the bolt driver had sheared off.</p>
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<p>We all trooped over to the Organhöhle candidate entrance, where we could have started surveying.... if we had brought a tape measure. I donned oversuit and helmet and set off to verify that we had the right cave. After a bit of walking / crawling I found a decent sized pitch with two spits for a Y-hang at the top (one of which looks good, and one is shagged) - so I'm pretty sure we've got the right cave. It looks a bit like this:</p>
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<p>With that we headed back towards Top Camp via a more direct route, placing cairns as we went. Eventually we picked up a cairned path that I suspect goes to Bullet's 2nd Höhle. This route is fairly direct and the terrain reasonable, but it is going to takae a while - likely over an hour from Balconyhöhle.</p>
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<p>Our final act was to take a look at Ants in Pants schlucht. The snow level looks pretty low, so this might be worth revisiting later on expo.
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<div class="tripdate" id="t2015-07-16c">2015-07-16</div>
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<div class="trippeople"><u>Rachel</u>, Luke & Mark</div>
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<div class="triptitle">Balkonhöhle - QMs in Far Side</div>
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<p>After some unexpeced surface prospecting (read: getting lost) at the left hand valley between Tunnocks and Balcony, we made it into the entrance about 12. Since the Dark Arts had pretty much been killed off, we set our sights on a cluster of A/B leads (85, 86, 87) in the Far Side. Luke rigged the traverse by 60C since the mud here was particularly thick and persistent. It seems like someone blocked all the bolts along here with small stones to prevent them being used again ? (Not mentioned in last year's log book as far as we can see). Unperturbed, Luke set about bolting and soon we reached a second traverse rigged by Mark. There seems to be a minor flaw on the survey where stomping passage leads to a sandy chamber, which is actually a fuck-off 63m pitch. Closer inspection of the survey shows the detail hidden under the sand, and perhaps this could be amended to prevent Luke making any more surprised squeaks & giggles.</p>
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<p>We turned around and took the long route round to the cluster of leads we were after, following the survey since none of us had been in this direction before. I rigged the P10m and we quickly found the F.O. hole from the other (Far Farside?) side. At 85, 86 it was really loose rock and Luke "scampered" up the climb at 87, finding it was a connection without rigging to 85,86.</p>
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<p>Here, Mark's nerves were crushed with all the loose slatey rock that followed with every step Luke made over the pitch 20, so we retreated and tied in the two B leads at 35,36. As the Pre-'15 survey suggests, they do connect, and lead on to a sizeable chamber, which was quite wet and led to two (small) pitches and not a lot else.</p>
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<p>Keen and inspired, we took some slings back to Luke's risky climb and followed it up to a chimney climb. Frank followed him up and suddenly backed off exclaiming "fuck me". Luke's opinion on what is free-climbable apparently needs some tuning. Bolts were placed and a path around the pitch to 86A was surveyed. This led to two leads, a right-hand route which finally led to a boulder choke.</p>
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<p>After showing Rob the sights in Balcony, we continued on the left hand side. It continued much further than we expected, leading to a ~25m chamber containing a 15m pitch and two leads on the far wall.</p>
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<p>The lead on the left connected round to 85A, while the right led on up a loose, steep rift. Here a couple of small pitches were found and what seems to be a moraine left by an ice flow. From here, it would get a bit wet and bolting was required, so we upped and left.</p>
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<p>Frank and I returned to continue surveying and kill off a few leads that led off horizontally. There is a huge draught acting [a wide blank - something intended to be added here?], and further exploration is required. Said draught made it too cold to continue after several hours, so we set off to look for the many other groups down Balcony. After dismissing a muddy climb which looked uninviting, we left the search for Julian's group. We followed Turtlehead to warm ourselves up, and ultimately left, considering the small hole Frank had begun digging at the bottom of the entrance series.</p>
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<p>A human-sized hole was visible, with a steep tube leading downwards for a few metres. We left our SRT kits and descended, myself somewhat unenthusiastic, making comments like "typical Mendip caver" and "Grrr". However, it soon opened up into a T-junction, with 5m high ceilings, and shattered boulders. We followed the route to the left, a rift leading to a 10m pitch (QM A), with a further QMA climb up a small hole on the left hand wall. It was V. cold down here and seemingly solid boulders were actually fragmented, held together with wishful thinking.</p>
|
||||
<p>Whilst Frank drew up the survey, I had a gander down the right hand passage, sticking to the right and ignoring further leads off. I followed the sound of running water and finally found the connection with "Room With A View". Frank followed and pointed out a somehwat frisky looking boulder on a left-hand lead that I had passed, a few metres across and held a couple of metres up by two points crumbling away. I obediently stood under said boulder for Frank to take a photo.</p>
|
||||
@ -271,21 +271,21 @@
|
||||
<hr />
|
||||
<div class="tripdate" id="t2015-07-18d">2015-07-18</div>
|
||||
<div class="trippeople"><u>Luke</u>, Anthony, Dan</div>
|
||||
<div class="triptitle">Balcony Höhle - 59b</div>
|
||||
<div class="triptitle">Balcony Höhle - 59b</div>
|
||||
<p>The aim was to rig rift 59b with the hope of entering the large sandy "massive hole". The rift initially started out in the right direction and after some handy points from Anthony I started on the process of dropping multiple Y hangs (rigging guide with survey). Well Anthony and Dan set off to retrieve more rope from further in the cave and take many photos. They conveniently returned when the drill battery ran out after "6 holes" so returned to collect the rope and extra battery after explaining to Dan and Anthony I was close to the bottom and would only be 30 mins. I dropped the last pitch which was longer than expected. Upon reaching the bottom, the rift decided to change direction away from the massive hole I was aiming to enter. It unfortunately continued in the other direction so a return trip would be needed to survey and derig. I returned an hour later to find a cold Dan and Anthony and headed out.</p>
|
||||
<div class="timeug">T/U: 7</div>
|
||||
|
||||
<hr />
|
||||
<div class="tripdate" id="t2015-07-19d">2015-07-19</div>
|
||||
<div class="trippeople"><u>Luke</u> + Rob</div>
|
||||
<div class="triptitle">Balconyhöhle - 59b</div>
|
||||
<div class="triptitle">Balconyhöhle - 59b</div>
|
||||
<p>A return trip was needed to survey and derig the disastour of the previous day. I managed to persuade (cous-cous) Rob into helping me, believing it would crap out and thus be an easy job and being able to move the rope to other areas of the cave. This was not to be. The rift continued so needed surveying. After a couple of sketchy freeclimbs we made it to another big hole. This was wet and it did not look like a suitable way to rig from (could shorten the wetness of the rigging from the top). This was likely to be a thing which was going to be done when all the excellent A leads had been killed off. Rob derigged. By the time we set off, Rachel and Frank were already exitting the area to more warmer leads. We continued so as to give Julian's team the rope. We found them in a massive surveying fuck up but were directed along the passage to where there was a dead bat. By the time Julian caught up the batt was flat and no longer well preserved. Since 5 people were planning to exit the cave, me and Rob head off into the extremeties of the Turtle Head to access the leads. This proved quite interesting and managed to kill off an A lead (92a) by just sticking my head into it (confirmed the following day).</p>
|
||||
<div class="timeug">T/U: 8</div>
|
||||
|
||||
<hr />
|
||||
<div class="tripdate" id="t2015-07-21b">2015-07-21</div>
|
||||
<div class="trippeople"><u>Luke</u></div>
|
||||
<div class="triptitle">Balconyhöhle</div>
|
||||
<div class="triptitle">Balconyhöhle</div>
|
||||
<p>Showed a new team (who?) into Balcony, showing them the leads and rope. Left them to survey, returning from the end of Turtle Head to the entrance pitch in 25 mins to meet up with a team which was exitting early for a trip down the hill.</p>
|
||||
<div class="timeug">T/U: [not mentioned]</div>
|
||||
|
||||
@ -314,7 +314,7 @@
|
||||
<hr />
|
||||
<div class="tripdate" id="t2015-07-21c">2015-07-21</div>
|
||||
<div class="trippeople"><u>Wookey</u>, Matt, Sarah, Luke</div>
|
||||
<div class="triptitle">Balconhöhle - Einundzwanzig leads (Ice cock)</div>
|
||||
<div class="triptitle">Balconhöhle - Einundzwanzig leads (Ice cock)</div>
|
||||
<p>1st expo trip for Sarah, 1st trip to BH for Wook.</p>
|
||||
<p>Carried gear over after sorting survey stuff so only just underground before midday. Luke showed us the route to the far end + gear dump & the various leads.</p>
|
||||
<p>Friendly cave, but a fair way to the end. Had a look at the near (wet) side of the pitch to consider rigging. Could be done from this side but prob better from the other.</p>
|
||||
@ -381,7 +381,7 @@
|
||||
<hr />
|
||||
<div class="tripdate" id="t2015-07-27b">2015-07-27</div>
|
||||
<div class="trippeople"><u>Pete Talling</u>, Fleur Loveridge</div>
|
||||
<div class="triptitle">BALCONY HÖHLE<br/>Exploring North beyond Icecock Chamber into the Frozen North</div>
|
||||
<div class="triptitle">BALCONY HöHLE<br/>Exploring North beyond Icecock Chamber into the Frozen North</div>
|
||||
<div>
|
||||
<div style="float:left">
|
||||
<img src="logbkimg09.jpeg" alt="Plan of frozen North area">
|
||||
@ -395,7 +395,7 @@
|
||||
<hr />
|
||||
<div class="tripdate" id="t2015-07-28b">2015-07-28</div>
|
||||
<div class="trippeople"><u>Pete Talling</u>, Sarah, Ben Whetton, Matt</div>
|
||||
<div class="triptitle">Balcony Höhle Frozen North</div>
|
||||
<div class="triptitle">Balcony Höhle Frozen North</div>
|
||||
<div style="float:left">
|
||||
<img src="logbkimg10.jpeg" alt="Plan of far frozen North area">
|
||||
</div>
|
||||
@ -450,8 +450,8 @@
|
||||
<hr />
|
||||
<div class="tripdate" id="t2015-07-28d">2015-07-28</div>
|
||||
<div class="trippeople">Martin, <u>Jacob</u> and Elliott</div>
|
||||
<div class="triptitle">Balcony - to Gösser Wager</div>
|
||||
<p>Having walked up to top camp late and therefore being ready in the afternoon, we left for a shortish trip to look for bits in Balcony. We descended the entrance series pitches and then followed the main route, roughly in the direction of Icecock aven. Eventually we reached the gear dump to find the other two groups down Balcony Höhle having a natter. Michael bet Martin a Gösser that we couldn't find the rift they had just found. We continued down Turtle Head, up a short handlined climb and down another pitch to the rift the other group suggested we survey. We surveyed along it about 20m and then back to the pitch. At the bottom of the rift is a small but potentially descendable hole with a long rattle. Managed to muddle our way out without any difficulties.</p>
|
||||
<div class="triptitle">Balcony - to Gösser Wager</div>
|
||||
<p>Having walked up to top camp late and therefore being ready in the afternoon, we left for a shortish trip to look for bits in Balcony. We descended the entrance series pitches and then followed the main route, roughly in the direction of Icecock aven. Eventually we reached the gear dump to find the other two groups down Balcony Höhle having a natter. Michael bet Martin a Gösser that we couldn't find the rift they had just found. We continued down Turtle Head, up a short handlined climb and down another pitch to the rift the other group suggested we survey. We surveyed along it about 20m and then back to the pitch. At the bottom of the rift is a small but potentially descendable hole with a long rattle. Managed to muddle our way out without any difficulties.</p>
|
||||
<div class="timeug">T/U: [not mentioned]</div>
|
||||
|
||||
<hr />
|
||||
@ -711,7 +711,7 @@ seen, preparing to slip'n'slide our way back to top camp.</p>
|
||||
task for Elaine & Elliott was to take a look at it. It was Elliott's first ever bolting trip. The
|
||||
first bolt went in like a dream. Howeer, whilst setting the second bolt (in the best rock we could
|
||||
find), a large crack appeared around the Hilti, and then the whole bit of rock sheared off. We
|
||||
therefore decided to name the cave <u>Bergkäsehöhle</u> - Mountain cheese cave.</p>
|
||||
therefore decided to name the cave <u>Bergkäsehöhle</u> - Mountain cheese cave.</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>Subsequent bolts were more successful and we dropped the small pitch to a boulder-floored
|
||||
chamber. The way led on over a suspended boulder floor, past a precarious boulder and on to more
|
||||
@ -753,7 +753,7 @@ below. Another ~15m to another re-belay, single bolt, before 10m to the floor of
|
||||
look and was haued out by his feet. Loose boulder-strewn floor with clean walls gave nothing else
|
||||
away. De-rigging took ~2.30 hours, with the difficult narrow entrance making tackle sack
|
||||
hauling <u>very</u> hard work. Martin & Jacob helped to get gear back to Top Camp, after meeeting
|
||||
them at Balconhöhle.</p>
|
||||
them at Balconhöhle.</p>
|
||||
<div class="timeug">T/U: 9 hrs</div>
|
||||
|
||||
<hr />
|
||||
@ -1102,7 +1102,7 @@ immediately before Pushing The Envelope squeeze.</p>
|
||||
<hr />
|
||||
<div class="tripdate" id="t2015-08-10a">2015-08-10</div>
|
||||
<div class="trippeople"><u>Elliott</u>, Nathan, George</div>
|
||||
<div class="triptitle">Balkonhöhle, Lost Surveyor(?) pitches</div>
|
||||
<div class="triptitle">Balkonhöhle, Lost Surveyor(?) pitches</div>
|
||||
<p>[<b>Missing writeup here:</b>]</p>
|
||||
<p><img src="logbkimg26.jpeg" alt="Topos for Lost Surveyor pitches"></p>
|
||||
|
||||
@ -1126,9 +1126,9 @@ was holidaying in Bad Aussee) volunteered to help out as a way of seeing what ou
|
||||
like. His partner Sandy came along too for a looksee.</p>
|
||||
<p>
|
||||
The caves are somewhat scattered. wk12 is on the Schwarzmoos Sattel, wk11 is near the top
|
||||
of the Vord and wk4 is down the back of the vord, below Eishöhle. Also the rope and gear
|
||||
of the Vord and wk4 is down the back of the vord, below Eishöhle. Also the rope and gear
|
||||
was at 107. THe plan was to try and relocate the caves, taking enough gear to actually
|
||||
look in, hopefully having time to visit Eishöhle too and bring some rope down from
|
||||
look in, hopefully having time to visit Eishöhle too and bring some rope down from
|
||||
107. And to start nice and early to minimise the time in the boiling heat of
|
||||
midday. Needless to say this plan proved to be hopelessly ambitious. </p>
|
||||
|
||||
@ -1180,7 +1180,7 @@ prooved too hard, so that shot was done downwards on the exit.</p>
|
||||
slot booked. A Tag 'WK11' was hastily prepared (by penknife scratching as we had no
|
||||
stamps) and attached, and we packed up and left ASAP, except of course that we are still
|
||||
lost in the karren, with the nipple visible quite some distance away. (There was clearly
|
||||
no time for a look at Eishöhle or for wk4 - those would have to wait for another day). The
|
||||
no time for a look at Eishöhle or for wk4 - those would have to wait for another day). The
|
||||
going was mostly not too bad but we did get stopped by Bunde and big (15m) drops into
|
||||
holes in a couple of places. Soon saw a couple of rucksacks, which were ARGE ones at 158
|
||||
(Donner und Blitzen Hohle). This was helpful as we could now track faint bootprints to get
|
||||
@ -1207,8 +1207,8 @@ with. As we walked past the Bla-Alm turnoff we were hailed from up the hill, by
|
||||
Elliott and Michael who wanted to leave rope in our car. Key arrangments were made, updates given and
|
||||
we carried on our way.</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>Not hard to follow the Eishöhle path, passing numerous caches of ARGE gear along the way (142,
|
||||
the nipple, Eishöhle 40a). 216 has more cold air than I remember and 40h is transformed. The crawl
|
||||
<p>Not hard to follow the Eishöhle path, passing numerous caches of ARGE gear along the way (142,
|
||||
the nipple, Eishöhle 40a). 216 has more cold air than I remember and 40h is transformed. The crawl
|
||||
is now a 4-5m-high passage with the old bolts stranded in the ceiling - soon you won't need any ice
|
||||
gear at all to get in. It was very nice to sit in the fridge as huge amounts of cold air spilled out
|
||||
of the entrance, but soon enough we had to get on with the task at hand.</p>
|
||||
|
@ -193,7 +193,7 @@ that", on a spike, bags were left just below magic glue, with a long plod out.</
|
||||
<hr />
|
||||
<div class="tripdate" id="t2016-06-27c">2016-06-27</div>
|
||||
<div class="trippeople"><u>Sioned</u>, Andrew, Becka</div>
|
||||
<div class="triptitle">Balkonhöhle</div>
|
||||
<div class="triptitle">Balkonhöhle</div>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>Went for an explore with a few 30m lengths of rope. Was mine & Andrew's first trip down &
|
||||
Becka hadn't been down since 2014. Andrew was initially considering dropping down one of the
|
||||
@ -210,7 +210,7 @@ from the right & a squeeze over a 4m drop at the bottom but we had no rope l
|
||||
<hr />
|
||||
<div class="tripdate" id="t2016-06-27d">2016-06-27</div>
|
||||
<div class="trippeople">Nathan, George, Luke</div>
|
||||
<div class="triptitle">Balkonhöhle - Bipedal</div>
|
||||
<div class="triptitle">Balkonhöhle - Bipedal</div>
|
||||
<p>Callout book entry</p>
|
||||
<div class="callout">22:00</div>
|
||||
|
||||
@ -291,7 +291,7 @@ only up to 50m (the one we used the day before was 100m) so we de-rigged and cam
|
||||
<hr />
|
||||
<div class="tripdate" id="t2016-06-28e">2016-06-28</div>
|
||||
<div class="trippeople">Nathan, George</div>
|
||||
<div class="triptitle">Balkonhöhle - Bipedal</div>
|
||||
<div class="triptitle">Balkonhöhle - Bipedal</div>
|
||||
<p>Callout book entry</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<hr />
|
||||
@ -348,7 +348,7 @@ the same order.</p>
|
||||
<hr />
|
||||
<div class="tripdate" id="t2016-06-29b">2016-06-29</div>
|
||||
<div class="trippeople">Luke, George, Frank</div>
|
||||
<div class="triptitle">Balkonhöhle - Dig Dug Pitch</div>
|
||||
<div class="triptitle">Balkonhöhle - Dig Dug Pitch</div>
|
||||
<p>Callout book entry</p>
|
||||
<div class="callout">21:00</div>
|
||||
|
||||
@ -375,7 +375,7 @@ the short traverse beyond.</p>
|
||||
<hr />
|
||||
<div class="tripdate" id="t2016-07-01a">2016-07-01</div>
|
||||
<div class="trippeople"><u>Becka</u>, Julian, Andrew</div>
|
||||
<div class="triptitle">Balkonhöhle 264 - Frozen North</div>
|
||||
<div class="triptitle">Balkonhöhle 264 - Frozen North</div>
|
||||
<p>Had a good orientation session trying to spot good QMs in 264. Went up Turtlehead and
|
||||
looked for QM92A and concluded it probably didn't exist (it was just the p6). Then looked
|
||||
just to N, looked at S side of QMAp60 but v. wet this side so we picked our way around to
|
||||
@ -466,7 +466,7 @@ functional was a definite improvement in condition, so I won't complain too much
|
||||
so high as they would have been had we died of hypothermia. I suppose dead people can't feel miserable, but it
|
||||
would have been a hassle for everyone else. Around 5am, the condition of the pitch had dramatically improved, and
|
||||
Mark made the excecutive decision to get out then. Again, it was a very efficient operation. Mark and I tandem
|
||||
prussicked out, and David followed behind. By 6am we were officially out of Balkonhöhle.</p>
|
||||
prussicked out, and David followed behind. By 6am we were officially out of Balkonhöhle.</p>
|
||||
<p>There are several lessons to be learned here. The first is to avoid wet pitches - don't be swayed by hubris.
|
||||
Secondly, appreciate cushions, try sitting still on unforgiving limestone for several straight hours if you don't.
|
||||
Thirdly, you don't need to take drugs to experience altered states of consciousness. Just get really cold. But at
|
||||
@ -476,7 +476,7 @@ the end of the day, it was an experience, albeit not a fun one. We live to cave
|
||||
<hr />
|
||||
<div class="tripdate" id="t2016-07-02b">2016-07-02</div>
|
||||
<div class="trippeople">Mark D, George, Nat, Haydon</div>
|
||||
<div class="triptitle">Balkonhöhle Rescue</div>
|
||||
<div class="triptitle">Balkonhöhle Rescue</div>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>At 22:00 David and Roshni's callout went live. We scanned the hill for lights, but saw
|
||||
nothing. So we prepared for a rescue and departed for the entrance. We had the response bag and
|
||||
@ -525,14 +525,14 @@ got my gear dry before the heavy rain started.</p>
|
||||
<hr />
|
||||
<div class="tripdate" id="t2016-07-02d">2016-07-02</div>
|
||||
<div class="trippeople"><u>Haydon (Twat)</u>, Ash, Mark D, Sioned</div>
|
||||
<div class="triptitle">Balkonhöhle</div>
|
||||
<div class="triptitle">Balkonhöhle</div>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>Went down to Long Drop after Haydons desire to do some f**king caving after ecoli.</p>
|
||||
<p>First tried to approach pitch from wrong direction after Marks misguided directions from last year and Haydon hanging
|
||||
off questionable naturals. (Hammer and setter may have been left here!).</p>
|
||||
<p>After continuing to the correct pitch Haydon continued to rig the pitch only to find that the hammer and setter was left
|
||||
at the last pitch. Ash and Sioned retrieved this from the previous pitch while Haydon gardened some sizeable boulders from
|
||||
a ledge 10m down, that Ashley could hear from the other end of Balkonhöhle.</p>
|
||||
a ledge 10m down, that Ashley could hear from the other end of Balkonhöhle.</p>
|
||||
<p>After rope and setter had returned Haydon dropped the pitch to approx 50m and the first main ledge, to continue the next
|
||||
drop having cold grumblings from the top of the pitch (who knows why?).</p>
|
||||
<p>Ash's perspective continued below:</p>
|
||||
@ -573,7 +573,7 @@ George and Luke didn't connect when they rigged a parallel shaft in Champagne on
|
||||
<hr />
|
||||
<div class="tripdate" id="t2016-07-03c">2016-07-03</div>
|
||||
<div class="trippeople">Luke, Andrew, <u>Becka</u>, George</div>
|
||||
<div class="triptitle">Looking for 2nd Balkonhöhle entrance (dropping 2010-04)</div>
|
||||
<div class="triptitle">Looking for 2nd Balkonhöhle entrance (dropping 2010-04)</div>
|
||||
<p>Dropped 2010-04 using naturals to get to snow slope. Andrew and I used the shovel to dig at the base and the side in 3 spots.
|
||||
Soft snow initially and some gaps but no draft. Gave up after less than an hour. Survey in folder #8 (2016-08).</p>
|
||||
<p>Dropped 2010-03 using naturals. Becka down - no way on. Turned out Noel had also checked this in 2012 and surveyed it.</p>
|
||||
@ -784,7 +784,7 @@ pushing for another day, we then headed out.</p>
|
||||
<hr />
|
||||
<div class="tripdate" id="t2016-07-06d">2016-07-06</div>
|
||||
<div class="trippeople">Rob, <u>Alice</u>, Katey</div>
|
||||
<div class="triptitle">Balkonhöhle - Hilti-a-Plenty, surveying Northen Straight</div>
|
||||
<div class="triptitle">Balkonhöhle - Hilti-a-Plenty, surveying Northen Straight</div>
|
||||
<p>My (Alice) first surveying trip. We started at where myself, Katey and Rob had had a nose around the day
|
||||
before. George and I started surveying while Rob went ahead to rig a traverse further ahead. across a pitch ~6m.
|
||||
The larger passage continues to the right into a tight popcorny squeeze which brings you out onto a wedged
|
||||
|
@ -408,7 +408,7 @@ Nobody caved.</p>
|
||||
<hr />
|
||||
<div class="tripdate" id="t2017-08-06b">2017-08-06</div>
|
||||
<div class="trippeople"><u>Jacob</u>, Elaine</div>
|
||||
<div class="triptitle">Guten Morgen Höhle - trip #1</div>
|
||||
<div class="triptitle">Guten Morgen Höhle - trip #1</div>
|
||||
<p>After walking
|
||||
across to the Organhohle bivvy in the rainm and then getting cooped
|
||||
up by the weather, Elaine and I decided to push GMH, a lead very
|
||||
@ -423,7 +423,7 @@ an undropped pitch. <img src="logbkimg7.jpeg" alt="Sketch survey of Guten Morgen
|
||||
<hr />
|
||||
<div class="tripdate" id="t2017-08-07a">2017-08-07</div>
|
||||
<div class="trippeople"><u>Jacob</u>, Elaine</div>
|
||||
<div class="triptitle">Guten Morgen Höhle - trip #2</div>
|
||||
<div class="triptitle">Guten Morgen Höhle - trip #2</div>
|
||||
<p>Elaine and I
|
||||
returned to GMH the following day to bolt the pitch and survey the
|
||||
cave as nothing had been surveyed past the entrance pitch so far.
|
||||
@ -668,7 +668,7 @@ that the area merited another visit the next day.</p>
|
||||
<hr />
|
||||
<div class="tripdate" id="t2017-07-30a">2017-07-30</div>
|
||||
<div class="trippeople"><u>Rob</u>, Luke, Becka</div>
|
||||
<div class="triptitle">GSH - Glücklich Schmetterlingehöhle (GSH) and Kein Wassermelonhöhle (KWH) - initial exploration</div>
|
||||
<div class="triptitle">GSH - Glücklich Schmetterlingehöhle (GSH) and Kein Wassermelonhöhle (KWH) - initial exploration</div>
|
||||
<p>We returned with
|
||||
more rope and drill batteries to rig the loose climb in CUCC-2017-24
|
||||
(GSH or Happy Butterfly Hole) and to continue digging CUCC-2017-23
|
||||
@ -817,7 +817,7 @@ Bridge, I saw a golden opportunity to utilise the Brendan Cave Cinema
|
||||
System<sup>TM</sup>.</p>
|
||||
<p><img src="logbkimg.jpeg" alt="Diagram of Brendan Cave Cinema System"></p>
|
||||
<p>This device had
|
||||
previously been tested with great success in Balkonhöhle with Corin.
|
||||
previously been tested with great success in Balkonhöhle with Corin.
|
||||
We were able to watch the whole of Skyfall before ASH had finished
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rigging his pitch.
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<p>On a wet, claggy
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day we decided that we should at least try to go caving, so we set
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out to try and find Bad Forecast, based only on a GPS pin and the
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instructions: ‘you go to Balkonhöhle, then continue up a bit.’
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instructions: ‘you go to Balkonhöhle, then continue up a bit.’
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Given the visibility was ~50m and dropping, it took a long time to
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get to the right area, and then even longer to find the cave.</p>
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<p>Once we had got
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@ -1154,7 +1154,7 @@ safely, almost missing callout at 11pm. What a first trip.
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escorting Nadia down the hill Becka was keen to see the continuation
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of GSH. Successful distribution of drill batteries. Set off to cave,
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route needs cairning but only takes 30 minutes. Mike and Nathan in
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CUCC-2017-28 (now named Fisch Gesicht Höhle). Inspected some
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CUCC-2017-28 (now named Fisch Gesicht Höhle). Inspected some
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horizontal leads at head of big pitch but crapped out immediately.
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Still had drill battery so descended to the pushing front from last
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trip. Battery wouldn’t die so had to keep on going, multiple
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@ -1230,7 +1230,7 @@ Becka.
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<div class="tripdate" id="t2017-08-02e">2017-08-02</div>
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<div class="trippeople"><u>Mike Butcher</u>, Nathan</div>
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<div class="triptitle">CUCC-2017-28 - aka Fisch Gesicht Höhle (FGH)</div>
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<div class="triptitle">CUCC-2017-28 - aka Fisch Gesicht Höhle (FGH)</div>
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<p>Went to drop the
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pitch reached by Nathan the day before, having rigged a traverse
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before his batteries died. However, our drill battery was flat. No
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For the avoidance of doubt, and for those of you don't know us, that's utter bollocks. George is a far better caver than me at SRT, rigging, finding and sticking with a project, navigation (not hard), climbing, carrying heavy bags, derigging, patience, surveying, conservation and scooping (yup, it's out there, sue me for defamation if you dare!). Don't be running away with the idea that list is comprehensive though: I have the edge on him at squeezes (despite him being willing to try harder, sleep deprivation (my, don't young people sleep a lot?), I'm far bossier and, though I haven't tested this properly, I reckon I've a greater bloody-minded capacity for enduring misery (I suspect it would take around a week of 10 hour trips in small, cold, wet, muddy, boring caves to break him and you just wouldn't believe how full my diary is right now so that'll have to wait).
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<p>
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Anyway, we (us two, Luke, Olly, Adam, Rachel, Nadia, Jacob, Philip, Wookey and Max) had a series of fine trips including finding what we think is the deepest shaft in the SMK system (Mongol Rally at 200m deep), two connections between Balkonhöhle and Tunnockschact, a sprout and a sump at -720m, many, many bat bones and over 5km of passage including the monster Grand Prix (incidentally, I agree, what's with the names? My carefully crafted puns were all flat-out rejected so we're stuck with a notable chamber called Big Lad - it should have been Raisin' Hell - and both Hangryman Pitch and Hangeryman Pitch are still up for grabs). Also, after 5 weeks of training I've mastered an alternative way to the tie a stopper knot and learnt the industry standard way to tie knots in the end of a rope (thanks, guys, for that fine use of my strictly limited long term memory).
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Anyway, we (us two, Luke, Olly, Adam, Rachel, Nadia, Jacob, Philip, Wookey and Max) had a series of fine trips including finding what we think is the deepest shaft in the SMK system (Mongol Rally at 200m deep), two connections between Balkonhöhle and Tunnockschact, a sprout and a sump at -720m, many, many bat bones and over 5km of passage including the monster Grand Prix (incidentally, I agree, what's with the names? My carefully crafted puns were all flat-out rejected so we're stuck with a notable chamber called Big Lad - it should have been Raisin' Hell - and both Hangryman Pitch and Hangeryman Pitch are still up for grabs). Also, after 5 weeks of training I've mastered an alternative way to the tie a stopper knot and learnt the industry standard way to tie knots in the end of a rope (thanks, guys, for that fine use of my strictly limited long term memory).
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<p>
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After 220 hours underground this summer with CUCC I've skipped derigging (obviously I'd have loved to have helped out but unfortunately the timing was against me) and I've decamped to spend a week with the local Austrian club (VHO http://vho-caving-news.blogspot.com/) on their Plankamira expedition. This made for quite a culture change - there's only 5 of us and we're all around a half century old. Now, at last, my rigging suggestions are listened to attentively (rather than being firmly squashed) and nobody passes comment about the volume of food I get through (George eats like a grasshopper). I've also escaped the unending put-downs - "if you're going to rig that pitch don't do a half-arsed job of it"; "that wouldn't have happened if you hadn't placed it in a flake"; "you and your slopy shoulders"; and "no, you can't lead us out, you're so bad it's just not funny" and so on. Also, it's relaxing not having to tell everyone what to do :-) Best of all, I'm now the fastest prussiker (yeah, yeah, of course it's not a competition).
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