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<div class="tripdate" id="2015-07-07a">2015-07-07</div>
<div class="trippeople"><u>Luke</u>, Joe</div>
<div class="triptitle">Gemseh&ouml;hle - 107</div>
<div class="triptitle">107 - Gemseh&ouml;hle</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="/years/2015/logbkimg01.jpeg" alt="sketch of stick-man luke and 'fuckoff bit of snow' hovering in pitch">
<div class="timeug">T/U: 6.0 hours</div>
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<div class="tripdate" id="2015-07-08a">2015-07-08</div>
<div class="trippeople"><u>Luke</u>, Joe</div>
<div class="triptitle">Gemseh&ouml;hle - 107</div>
<div class="triptitle">107 - Gemseh&ouml;hle</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: 6.0 hours</div>
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<div class="tripdate" id="2015-07-09a">2015-07-09</div>
<div class="trippeople"><u>Joe</u>, Luke</div>
<div class="triptitle">107</div>
<div class="triptitle">107 - Too Bold For This Spit</div>
<p>Start 11:00 End 19:30</p>
<p>Lucky Luke had been persuaded to go down 107 again with the promise of large cave to be seen. Rigging 'Too Bold For This Spit' wasn't so wet but still not nice! Some new bolts were put in and then we set off for China. We went into 161 searching for the mysterious missing rope - didn't find it but enjoyed 161 which has a very different character to 107. Thedre are some lovely "stone mushrooms" down there (take a camera next time). We had a look down a 'C' lead on the west wall of China ..... Will have to go down and survey tomorrow (Luke).</p>
<p>Lucky Luke had been persuaded to go down 107 again with the promise of large cave to be seen. Rigging 'Too Bold For This Spit' wasn't so wet but still not nice! Some new bolts were put in and then we set off for China. We went into 161 searching for the mysterious missing rope - didn't find it but enjoyed 161 which has a very different character to 107. There are some lovely "stone mushrooms" down there (take a camera next time). We had a look down a 'C' lead on the west wall of China ..... Will have to go down and survey tomorrow (Luke).</p>
<div class="timeug">T/U: 8.0 hours</div>
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<div class="tripdate" id="2015-07-10a">2015-07-10</div>
<div class="trippeople"><u>Anthony</u>, Mark D</div>
<div class="triptitle">Tunnocks Entrance Rig</div>
<div class="triptitle">Tunnocks - Entrance Rig</div>
<p>Headed up to Tunnocks with enough rope for the entrance pitch and maybe Caramel Catharsis as well, plus drill in case entrance rig fettling was required. I rigged down following the trail of reflectors which made finding the bolts easy, making only minimal changes to the 2014 rig. There was a substantial pile of snow at the first choss slope (completely bare last year as I recall) and also at other points lower down. At the second choss slope, I spent a while swinging around with skyhooks to see if I could find a way to avoid it completely, eventually concluding that it would be very acrobatic for little gain. I put in an extra bolt for the next descent to replace the Y-hang with bolts miles up in the air on the far wall with a Y-hang on the near side of the drop with an immediate deviation off the far wall. Continued down until the trail of reflectors seemed to indicate an airy-fairy route across the wall. I elected to descend directly to the floor which was covered in relatively fresh snow. There is still some very old ice down there which would make the original route very tedious. Ducks on Ice is open, however, albeit with a higher snow level than I recall from last year. Mark descended the snow slope and discovered an enormous ice stal hanging like the Sword of Damocles right above the way on. Something needed to be done about this, so we retreated to plan our next move.</p>
<div class="timeug">T/U: 6.0 hours</div>
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<div class="tripdate" id="2015-07-16b">2015-07-16</div>
<div class="trippeople"><u>Jenny</u>, Olly</div>
<div class="triptitle"><u>107 - Old Route</u></div>
<div class="triptitle">107 - <u>Old Route</u></div>
<p>Got a lift up the hill in the morning and after a bit of faffing headed down 107 with a view to looking at the old route beyond the entrance pitch. Used the backup bolt I'd placed in 2012, and Olly traversed along to get a Y-hang at the end. This got us nicely to the bottom of the old p23, and I noticed that upon the right was the window through from the rampy bit above Ropeless. (We'd been down from there in 2013, but gone right not left, so seen this pitch but not known for sure that this was the original route).</p>
<p>
<p>Olly put in his second Y-hang of the day, then got bored of rigging properly and stuck in a rope protector and headed down. This got us to the bottom of Red [?] - p18 and down the next (~3m) short drop as well. The p18 looks fine in terms of water (our rig is quite a bit across from the wet 1978 hang) but the next little drop was in the water.</p>
<p>
<p>Took off our SRT kit and headed off - there are several passages here, it is more complex than the 1978 survey implies, though that survey is corect in what it does show. Headed down a eastward passage, a mixture of crawling + sideways wriggling. After a bit the floor trench heads right then left - west. Followed this, past a pretty stal. On the way back (surveying) noticed that the other way on was the drafty route. Surveyed back to the bottom of the rope, then left the survey hanging for now and derigged out planning to come in using the Ropeless window tomorrow. Consequently surveyed the top pitch now, but failed to find the old station to tie into.</p>
<div class="timeug">T/U: 6.0 hours</div>
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<div class="tripdate" id="2015-07-17b">2015-07-17</div>
<div class="trippeople"><u>Jenny</u>, Olly</div>
<div class="triptitle"><u>107 - Old Route</u></div>
<div class="triptitle">107 - <u>Old Route</u></div>
<p>Failed to get an early start, and headed into the cave around noon. First finished derigging and sketching from yesterday. Olly rigged into where we were yesterday via the Window in Ropeless, to yesterday's 2nd Y-hang. This time with a rebelay not a rope protector. For reasons I now forget, this semi-free hanging rebelay got rigged with a clown for added entertainment.</p>
<p>Got down into Old Rift via the 1978 route (climb doesn't need a bolt / rope etc.) Started surveying from the big boulder that all the surveys in the area seem to connect to. Then tied into the end of yesterday's tubular survey and then the start of yesterday's p18 survey (at the Y-hang bolt) then up to the 2015 station on the Ropeless window. Not sure how that took a whole trip, but it did somehow.</p>
<div class="timeug">T/U: 6.0 hours</div>
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<div class="tripdate" id="2015-07-18d">2015-07-18</div>
<div class="trippeople"><u>Luke</u>, Anthony, Dan</div>
<div class="triptitle">Balcony H&ouml;hle - 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: 7.0 hours</div>
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<div class="tripdate" id="2015-07-19b">2015-07-19</div>
<div class="trippeople"><u>Jenny</u>, Olly</div>
<div class="triptitle"><u>107 - Old Route</u></div>
<div class="triptitle">107 - <u>Old Route</u></div>
<p>Got underground nice and early - 9:10 am! Whizzed down to where the two old routes diverge and headed towards the p67. Turns out you traverse over the p67 to get to the p5. We did this using 1978 spits just to have a look. There is a trickle of water down the back wall, and a rift heading west. We traversed along this, it was the sort of rift with no visible floor and of unknown depth. After a short while the rift got wider, and I became incredibly scared and refused to continue. We surveyed back to the head of the p67. On typing in the data, it seems that my pitch detecting radar knew we were about to traverse over the p100, and hence made me stop. Olly rigged down the p67 directly (ie. not via the p5) and got a Y-hang that made a lovely free hang, despite a complex pitch head. Sadly it got wet and the rope was fast so Olly had it wrapped round his leg. This gave him 2 options, abseil indefinitely, or torniquet his leg. He took the first option.</p>
<p>Olly shouts up "I'm down, the pitch is wet". I wonder how wet, is he telling me that he will come back up and add some rigging, or that I should come down but make sure the survey box is closed first. After a few iterations of Olly shouting 'the hang is wet' and me shouting 'can I descend?', Olly eventually shouts that he is coming up.</p>
<p>This would be the perfect time to sit in my lovely new bothy bag, except that I am the wrong side of the pitch wedged in a rift. After a while I see Olly putting in a bolt, and I can follow down. We end up in a side rift via a couple of rebelays and a comedy deviation. We survey up this and down to the bottom of the main hang. Then have a quick wander down to the next short pitch.</p>
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<div class="tripdate" id="2015-07-19d">2015-07-19</div>
<div class="trippeople"><u>Luke</u>, Rob</div>
<div class="triptitle">Balconyh&ouml;hle - 59b</div>
<div class="triptitle">Balcony - h&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: 8.0 hours</div>
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<div class="tripdate" id="2015-07-21b">2015-07-21</div>
<div class="trippeople"><u>Luke</u></div>
<div class="triptitle">Balconyh&ouml;hle - Balkonh&ouml;hle</div>
<div class="triptitle">Balcony - Balkonh&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: 0.0 hours</div>
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<div class="tripdate" id="2015-07-21c">2015-07-21</div>
<div class="trippeople"><u>Wookey</u>, Luke, Matt, Sarah</div>
<div class="triptitle">Balconh&ouml;hle - Einundzwanzig leads (Ice cock)</div>
<div class="triptitle">Balcony - h&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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<p>Surveyed up &amp; others followed then explored. Matt shinned up to R on ledge - looks like a lead. Sarah went round corner to find massive aven-base with more ice. Very impressive. Called 'Ice cock'.</p>
<p>Surveyed it all till it was 5:30 &amp; time to go home.</p>
<p>W+S got a bit lost on way out, &amp; Matt overtook, so confusion for a few mins. Soon back together, then in familiar territory, so Matt could get us home. 80m of entrance felt quite long. 500m tomorrow is going to be super-long.</p>
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<p>Passage Desc: Passage on L wiggles to 5m traverse reaching sandy dead-end. Sandy dig &amp; small choked inlet slot back joins into bottom of traverse &amp; accesses bottom of scree below climb to Icecock. On main way, c5 reaches small hole above top chockstone. Climbing through reaches high (25m) hading rift with Icefall on far wall. Ledge ascends NE to climb (QM-B). To L (W) c1 then leads to R with roof lowering. Passage off on R (QM-A). Almost immediately break out into large round space which is bottom of ~40m aven. 8m up on west wall is a space, could be bolted to (QM-B). On R is small pitch in wall QM-C (p7). Ahead, part fallen ice &amp; another ice fall coming from smaller aven on L (QM-X). Beyond is short climb down (QM-B). Draught has been lost here - no doubt it is coming down the pitch.</p>
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<div class="tripdate" id="2015-07-24b">2015-07-24</div>
<div class="trippeople"><u>Jenny</u>, Olly</div>
<div class="triptitle">Surface</div>
<div class="triptitle">13-SW-01 - Surface</div>
<p>A rest day for Olly's knees. Headed to 13-SW-01 and rigged it, placing what must have been my first hand bolt. I can see why drills are so popular ! Followed the old red paint marks, up at first to an old CUCC cave marked "+ CUCC" and "1987" - think this must be 2006-03 and next door 2006-02, except we didn't see any tags. Having looked at the 2006 photos, I am certain that we were at the correct place. So either we failed to see the tag or the website is wrong in thinking that it is tagged.</p>
<div class="timeug">T/U: 0.0 hours</div>
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<div class="tripdate" id="2015-08-05b">2015-08-05</div>
<div class="trippeople"><u>Chris Densham</u>, Anthony Day</div>
<div class="triptitle">Tunnocks, Kraken Lower</div>
<div class="triptitle">Tunnocks - Kraken Lower</div>
<p>[<b>Missing writeup</b>: Tunnocks, Kraken Lower, Anthony, Chris]</p>
<p><img src="/years/2015/logbkimg20.jpeg" alt="Topo of traverse out of Kraken"></p>
<p><img src="/years/2015/logbkimg21.jpeg" alt="Plan of Tentacle traverse"></p>
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<div class="tripdate" id="2015-08-06a">2015-08-06</div>
<div class="trippeople"><u>Elaine</u>, Elliott</div>
<div class="triptitle">Batteries !*!*!*!</div>
<p>[<b>Missing writeup here</b>]</p>
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<div class="triptitle">258 - Batteries !*!*!*!</div>
[Never written up - what else is missing from the 2015 logbook? Elaine's song for a start. Needs a thorough checking over. Ed.]
<p>
Having made it up the hill in 1h20min the night before, Elaine and Elliot were keen for some caving. Sadly, everybody else wanted to head down the hill, so we decided to have our own caving trip, with blackjack and hookers.
<p>
<p>
Ben's half-bolted pitch was in need of being finished, so we decided upon that as our destination. After an accidental diversion to Sponge Maiden Passage, we found the right spot.
<p>
Ben and Pete were not joking about it being muddy :-(
<p>
We had better luck with batteries, though, and Elliott didn't take long in putting in the rest of the Y-hang and a deviation. We descended the 10-15m pitch and found two possible ways on.
<p>
Elliott had a quick look at the C lead and decided it probably crapped out. We decided to leave most of our things at the foot of the pitch and take a look at the A lead. Some sandy-floored vadose passage led to a slight squeeze into an aven with a boulder floor. Upwards looked potentially climbable (probably wants ropes really) with a couple of good leads going off. Downwards led to an awkward wriggle to a short but awkward climb. Here was another aven with significant drips, and pools on the bottom (following several dry days).
<p>
To the right, a passage led to another aven with splendid acoustics, so we had a sing-song. the floor of that passage had a small slit running along it, which in places was wide enough to see down into another level around 15-20m below with more pools and running water. At the end of the passage was a climb down into a rift - a potential way on, but we didn't look at it.
<p>
We decided to survey back from there to the pitch. Elliott went to get the instruments. Coming back he fell off the climb into the drippy aven. he was fine, though a little shaken. We marked our first station and prepared the notebook. The instruments then proceeded not to work. JOY.
<p>
We thus decided to name teh third aven (good acoustics) "Freude" (as we had also done a good rendition of "An die freude" (ode to joy) in it earlier. The first aven was named Blackjack and the drippy one was named Hookers.
<p>
Knowing we didn't have working instruments, we decided not to push any further and headed out.
<p>
The muddy pitch/climb proved very adept at using up lots of our excess energy and we gave our thumbs a good work-out trying to make the jammers not slip.
<p>
Out in time for a leisurely walk back to top camp with dinner in the sun.
<img src="/years/2015/asong.jpg" width=90% />
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<div class="tripdate" id="2015-08-08a">2015-08-08</div>
<div class="trippeople"><u>Jenny</u>, Olly</div>
<div class="triptitle">Surface - 2007-71</div>
<div class="triptitle">2007-71 - Surface</div>
<p>Spent the day packing up the bivi and carrying a stupidly heavy pack down the hill. For a break placed tags on 2007-71 b and c (The 'a' entrance was tagged in 2007)</p>
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<div class="tripdate" id="2015-08-09b">2015-08-09</div>
<div class="trippeople"><u>Wookey</u>, Philip Balister, Sandy Knapp</div>
<div class="triptitle">plateau - Document remaining wook-caves (wk12, wk11)</div>
<div class="trippeople"><u>Wookey</u>, Philip Balister, *Sandy Knapp</div>
<div class="triptitle">96WK11 - Document remaining wook-caves (wk12, wk11)</div>
<p>Wook foolishly recorded some entrances whilst wandering in the 1990s, before realising
that it's actually rather unhelpful to just note entrances. Most of those have long been
explored and catalogued but 3 remain in the dataset: wk4, wk11 and wk12. One of my
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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>
<p>
<p>Some research showed that wk12 had in fact been surveyed, photoed and tagged (2005-89) in
2005 on a trip with Dave Loeffler. So that was used as a check that the GPS co-ords
matched the real world. It was easily found on the col, along with B4. Both were photoed
and a quick sketch of B4 done.</p>
<p>
<p>Then we headed over to 107 to fish out a suitable shortish (thin, light) rope, SRT kit,
helmet+light, distoX2, hangers, sling. We also had tags, notebook, pencils. We staggered
over from 107 with the rest of the rope and a T-sack which didn't strap on anywhere, and
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was only 650m away according to phone GPS, but it took a good, sweaty, while to get that
down to 170m by reaching the peak of the Vord. We signed the book, noting that Wook was last
there in 2005, and most visitors come in Feb and March, and thus must ski there.</p>
<p>
<p>
We headed down the shelves on the SE side of the Vord, and soon found a good schacht. This
was between 'p140' and 'gps00.140' so seemed very likely to be 140. We could find no sign
@@ -1204,7 +1232,7 @@ there in 2005, and most visitors come in Feb and March, and thus must ski there.
documented. Pressing on we soon got to a large hole below, '155' according to the GPS, and
indeed it has '155' written on it in orange paint which has stod the test of time well.
</p>
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<p>Now we were only 76m from the fabled wk11. Passed a great big rift cave too big to ignore
on the left, on shelf below 155, but no sign of tags/paint. Hard to believe given size of
it. Pressed on and had to ignore another 12m+ shaft nearby quite hard. Phil couldn't quite
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more wandering showed no cave at al at the actual GPS location, but the big rift was within
50m, fit the description and was exactly the sort of thing that would be very hard to
ignore.</p>
<p>
<p>The cave has a steepish slope, mostly snow-covered, going out of sight about 15m down. We
GPSed it, then started survey. Phil put in the handbolt whilst wook belayed off a couple of
boulders and descended. Turned out to go further than expected. 20m-ish rope wasn't quite
@@ -1221,11 +1249,11 @@ long enough, but snow slope leveled out enough to make ginger descent possible.
bottom it closes down and the open way on is slightly too small for a person, certainly one
in shorts+t-shirt, but there is a decent ingoing draught. It looks like a few mins moving
rocks and some actualy caving gear might make it passsable.</p>
<p>
<p>Solo surveying is possible with a distoX, although still a fag as you have to check
lines, mark both ends and then survey. Getting a shot out into the very bright sunshine
prooved too hard, so that shot was done downwards on the exit.</p>
<p>
<p>It was now 4pm and we had to be back at the carpark by 6pm as Phil+Sandy had a restaurant
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
@@ -1238,7 +1266,7 @@ prooved too hard, so that shot was done downwards on the exit.</p>
the path become a lot easier to follow. Slogged on for some time, eventually getting to
the Storgerweg, for a mere 25mins hike back to the carpark. We had 20 mins to spare on
deadline, but it was bloody hard work.</p>
<p>
<p>Still, objective of making wk11 katasterable achieved, and thinks muchly to Phil for helping carry the crap.</p>
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