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@ -2530,13 +2530,13 @@ We reached the top at 8:45, finally having surveyed Brandywine Overpass! I emerg
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<div class="tripdate" id="2024-08-06c">2024-08-06</div>
<div class="trippeople"><u>wob rotsonw</u>,Sarah Parker,Colin Foord,</div>
<div class="trippeople"><u>wob rotsonw</u>,Colin Foord,Sarah Parker,</div>
<div class="triptitle">264 Balkon - Final Balkon Camp of 2024</div>
I was not expecting to be here, however climbing plans fell through and I was shoehorned into a 3 night camp by Becka with a bunch of expo youngers. Good opportunity to see some new cave and get some fitness ahead of the VHO trip, so I was easily convinced.
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Headed up to top camp on Sunday evening with Nat and Sarah after a very nice swim. Nat was subjected to wearing a corset after falling onto his spanner in a very ungraceful manner. Sarah had sprained both ankles, however she was convinced to dose up on drugs and join me at underground camp, which I especially appreciated on the morning that we were due to head underground after two of my prospective team decided they weren't keen.
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Arrived at camp around 4pm, after a quick dehydrated meal we headed off to examine the pushing options left for us by Becka, Sam and Ellie in Enthusiasm Chamber. After the tedious commute through Northern Powerhouse and the very slippery ascent through alphanuepsilonupsilon...etc we arrived at the up pitch rigged by Sam into the chamber, which is very impressive. After a quick scope around we decided that we would push a pitch in the western end of Enthusiasm chamber. No one else seemed that keen to bolt, so it fell to me and I put a Y-hang in and set off. Dropped down a couple of steps to a ledge above two different holes, both seemed to carry some draught so I picked the lefthand one after realising that both had a significant degree of hanging unsupported death boulders lying around. However the second one seemed if anything the more dangerous so we left it at that, turning one A lead into two B leads. Back to camp for noodles and bed by half midnight.
Arrived at camp around 4pm, after a quick dehydrated meal and Classical Bangers we headed off to examine the pushing options left for us by Becka, Sam and Ellie in Enthusiasm Chamber. After the tedious commute through Northern Powerhouse and the very slippery ascent through alphanuepsilonupsilon...etc we arrived at the up pitch rigged by Sam into the chamber, which is very impressive. After a quick scope around we decided that we would push a pitch in the western end of Enthusiasm chamber. No one else seemed that keen to bolt, so it fell to me and I put a Y-hang in and set off. Dropped down a couple of steps to a ledge above two different holes, both seemed to carry some draught so I picked the lefthand one after realising that both had a significant degree of hanging unsupported death boulders lying around. However the second one seemed if anything the more dangerous (boulders funnelling into hole which is the pitch continuation) so we left it at that, turning one A lead into two B leads. Back to camp for noodles and bed by half midnight.
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Next day was the big pushing day down Tartarus. Set off from camp around 11 with the aim of pushing Nat and Becka's A lead at the end of Charon. Tartarus was very nicely bolted by Hannah and we arrived at an unappetising looking muddy traverse shortly after Colin decided to try and prematurely end the trip by throwing himself down the final drop, fortunately the jape is still at the age where you bounce instead of break. Sarah then wallowed in the squalour for a while trying to find a rebelay bolt, she failed and I took over, managing to avoid getting quite as clarted as she had after watching how this particular flavour of mud behaved. Down at the bottom, the streamway we had traversed above headed off in the opposite direction to the lead to which we were headed, so I used the other two as a firemans belay and dropped down to have a quick look. Not promising, so we headed out along the continuing muddy traverse to the head of an annoying little pitch, following which the mud continued to the head of a rift which apparently was bolted with a rock...
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