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 <div class="tripdate" id="t2015-07-07a">2015-07-07</div>
 <div class="trippeople"><u>Luke</u>, Joe</div>
-<div class="triptitle">Gemsehöhle - 107</div>
+<div class="triptitle">Gemseh&ouml;hle - 107</div>
 <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>
 <img src="logbkimg01.jpeg" alt="sketch of stick-man luke and 'fuckoff bit of snow' hovering in pitch">
 <div class="timeug">T/U: 6hrs</div>
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 <div class="tripdate" id="t2015-07-08a">2015-07-08</div>
 <div class="trippeople"><u>Luke</u>, Joe</div>
-<div class="triptitle">Gemsehöhle - 107</div>
+<div class="triptitle">Gemseh&ouml;hle - 107</div>
 <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>
 <p>Much rerigging was had.</p>
 <div class="timeug">T/U: 6 hr</div>
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 <div class="tripdate" id="t2015-07-16a">2015-07-16</div>
 <div class="trippeople">Dan, Matt, <u>Anthony</u></div>
 <div class="triptitle">Team Fiasco go surface prospecting</div>
-<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>
+<p>The plan was to go and find Organh&ouml;hle (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 Organh&ouml;hle.</p>
 <p>Things did not go entirely according to plan.</p>
-<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>
-<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>
-<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>
-<p><img src="logbkimg07.jpeg" alt="Organhöhle entrance area plan"></p>
-<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>
+<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 Balkonh&ouml;hle from where we took a somewhat roundabout route towards Organh&ouml;hle 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>
+<p>Whilst Dan was drilling, I set off in the direction where Mark's GPS said Organh&ouml;hle 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>
+<p>We all trooped over to the Organh&ouml;hle 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>
+<p><img src="logbkimg07.jpeg" alt="Organh&ouml;hle entrance area plan"></p>
+<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 H&ouml;hle. This route is fairly direct and the terrain reasonable, but it is going to takae a while - likely over an hour from Balconyh&ouml;hle.</p>
 <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>
 <div class="trippeople"><u>Rachel</u>, Luke &amp; Mark</div>
-<div class="triptitle">Balkonhöhle - QMs in Far Side</div>
+<div class="triptitle">Balkonh&ouml;hle - QMs in Far Side</div>
 <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 &amp; giggles.</p>
 <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>
 <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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 <div class="tripdate" id="t2015-07-17c">2015-07-17</div>
 <div class="trippeople"><u>Rachel</u>, Luke &amp; Frank</div>
-<div class="triptitle">Balkonhöhle</div>
+<div class="triptitle">Balkonh&ouml;hle</div>
 <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>
 <p>Deciding the left hand passage was much more inspiring, we returned the next day.</p>
 <div class="timeug">T/U: 8 hours</div>
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 <div class="tripdate" id="t2015-07-18c">2015-07-18</div>
 <div class="trippeople"><u>Rachel</u>, Frank &amp; Rob</div>
-<div class="triptitle">Balkonhöhle</div>
+<div class="triptitle">Balkonh&ouml;hle</div>
 <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>
 <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>
 <div class="timeug">T/U: 7 hours</div>
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 <div class="tripdate" id="t2015-07-19c">2015-07-19</div>
 <div class="trippeople"><u>Rachel</u> &amp; Frank</div>
-<div class="triptitle">Balkonhöhle</div>
+<div class="triptitle">Balkonh&ouml;hle</div>
 <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>
 <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>
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 <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 H&ouml;hle - 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>
 
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 <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">Balconyh&ouml;hle - 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>
 
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 <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">Balconyh&ouml;hle</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>
 
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 <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">Balconh&ouml;hle - 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 &amp; 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>
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 <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 H&ouml;HLE<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">
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 <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 H&ouml;hle Frozen North</div>
 <div style="float:left">
   <img src="logbkimg10.jpeg" alt="Plan of far frozen North area">
 </div>
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 <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 G&ouml;sser 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 H&ouml;hle having a natter. Michael bet Martin a G&ouml;sser 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>
 
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@@ -711,7 +711,7 @@ seen, preparing to slip'n'slide our way back to top camp.</p>
 task for Elaine &amp; 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>Bergkäseh&ouml;hle</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 &amp; Jacob helped to get gear back to Top Camp, after meeeting
-them at Balconhöhle.</p>
+them at Balconh&ouml;hle.</p>
 <div class="timeug">T/U: 9 hrs</div>
 
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@@ -1102,7 +1102,7 @@ immediately before Pushing The Envelope squeeze.</p>
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 <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">Balkonh&ouml;hle, 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 Eish&ouml;hle. 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 Eish&ouml;hle 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 Eish&ouml;hle 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 Eish&ouml;hle path, passing numerous caches of ARGE gear along the way (142,
+the nipple, Eish&ouml;hle 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>