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<h1>Austria 1992</h1>
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<a id="id1992-182-1">29/6/92 | Puffball | Mark M, Julian H, Matt, <u>Alistair</u></a>
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<p>Caving at last !! The first problem that was presented to us was how to
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get in. The winter snow fall had not fully melted and the entrance appeared
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snow plug. There was the possibility of gaining entrance down the side of
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the snow just to the left of the cave number. So we placed a Hilti and
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dropped down a ladder. This provided a way into the main hole. Some digging
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provided a route into the passageway into the cave.
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<p>Since last year it
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appears that the roof has fallen in and there is a new hole in the roof
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<-- Bollocks ! Look at the survey fellas... The boulder choke is very
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loose and should be descended with caution.
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<p>Once we arrived at Shell Pitch,
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Julian and Matt went ahead to start rigging Piezo. Mark and I began to
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re-rig Shell Pitch but due to a slight misjudgement we only had one hammer
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with us and were unable to dress the rock properly. This will be re-rigged
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next time we go down, hopefully.
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<p>On the traverse to Piezo there is a move
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over a deep hole which should be hand lined and possibly explored. Julian
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had rigged the first part of Piezo too a long free hang. We descended this
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but found that rigging the next pitch would be difficult avoid what could be
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a large waterfall and as our side of the cave was not vertical. The other
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side is overhanging and should make an excellent place to rig, but
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unfortunately it is virtually impossible to reach, let alone to drill a
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hole. After some looking we spotted a good ish rigging point, again it was
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somewhat difficult to reach as a traverse out was required and then the rope
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just pulled you straight back.
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<p>Matt at this point was feeling very cold and
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decided to leave the cave. We then started rigging a descending traverse
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from the top of the pitch to reach this point. After 3 bolts we were tired
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and decided to come out. We're not far from reaching the good rigging side -
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next trip we'll get there.
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<p>T.U. Matt - 6 hours<br />
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Mark, Julian, Ali - 9 hours
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<p><a href="../1991/log.htm#id1991-182-13">Previous trip</a> (last year) /
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<a href="#id1992-182-2">Next trip</a>
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<hr /><a id="id1992-182-2">2/7/92 | Puffball | Mark M, Julian H, <u>Alistair</u></a>
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<p>Re-rigged Shell Pitch, placed a hand line over a large hole before Piezo,
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also spit placed for exploration. Carried on pushing to Dark Room
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(hopefully) - more epic bolting. Rebelays removed down first pitch of Piezo
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so now there is a straight drop to a shelf half way down the pitch. From
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there is a upward pitch leading to a hole in the opposite wall. Then a
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descent down a pitch the other side of the hole in the wall is currently
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halfway through being rigged with two rebelays to reach a free hang for some
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distance. This route keeps the caver out of any water. Many bolts were
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placed and removed to reach the route. It rained whilst we were down the
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cave and we didn't notice at all.
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<p>T.U. = 9½ hours.
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<p><a href="#id1992-182-1">Previous trip</a> /
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<a href="#id1992-182-3">Next trip</a>
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<hr /><a id="id1992-182-3">3/7/92 | Puffball - Crow's Nest | Mark M, Julian H, <u>Alistair</u></a>
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<p>Piezo goes through to the Darkroom ! The hole named Crow's Nest led via
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4/5 rebelays (2/3 hanging) to a 34m free-hang into the darkroom. This free
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hang ends up in a waterfall coming into the Darkroom, therefore we rigged a
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second route, a dry route, through an eye hole through the side of the wall
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of the free hang. This provides a nearly totally dry route to the Darkroom.
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The whole pitch from the Crow's Nest to the Darkroom is about 60/65m. Once
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we had reached the Darkroom we had little rope left so surveyed the pitch on
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the way out.
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<p>T.U. = 11 hours
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<p><a href="#id1992-182-2">Previous trip</a> /
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<a href="#id1992-182-4">Brute Force discovery trip</a> (same day)/
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<a href="#id1992-182-5">Next Darkroom trip</a>
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<hr /><a id="id1992-182-5">4/7/92 | Puffball - Chimney | Glen, <u>Mark M</u></a>
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<p>Carried about 200m of rope through the Darkroom to the rigging front.
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Re-rigged the Chimney on a longer rope and used the excess to rig a traverse
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line through the Darkroom and the first section of the rift to Redundant
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Natural. We also re-rigged Redundant Natural on one rope rather than two,
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and placed a deviation on the second part of the pitch.
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<p>T/U 11 hours
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<p><a href="#id1992-182-3">Previous trip</a> /
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<a href="#id1992-182-6">Brute Force trip</a> (same day)/
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<a href="#id1992-182-7">Next trip</a><hr />
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<a id="id1992-182-4">3/7/92 | Puffball | Matt, Glen, Julian S</a>
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<p>Went down to inspect a hole near the top of Piezo. Found a ~10m pitch -
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called Brute Force, and a 35m pitch, called Ignorance. Ignorance is a dead
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end, but has a hole about halfway up, which may go.
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<p>T/U u hrs
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<p><a href="#id1992-182-2">Previous trip</a> /
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<a href="#id1992-182-3">Piezo trip</a> (same day)/
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<a href="#id1992-182-6">Next Brute Force trip</a><hr />
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<a id="id1992-182-6">4/7/92 | Puffball | Matt, Julian S</a>
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<p>Tried to rig hole ½ way up Ignorance. Eventually leads into main
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route, probably at top of Dot-to-dot. Left rigged until it can be surveyed.
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WARNING - do not prussik up bottom section - freeclimb instead.
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<p>T/U 7 hrs
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<p><a href="#id1992-182-4">Previous trip</a> /
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<a href="#id1992-182-5">Darkroom trip</a> (same day)/
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<a href="#id1992-182-8">Next Brute Force trip</a><hr />
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<a id="id1992-182-7">7/7/92 | Puffball | Mark S, <u>Clive</u></a>
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<p>After everybody else jacked for various reasons, we went caving. We
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touristed to the top of Natural Redundancy and then left, having admired
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Mark M, Julian H & Ali's hanging rebelays. Up & out, and home - we
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were tourists & we don't care.
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<p>T/U 5 hrs
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<p><a href="#id1992-182-5">Previous trip</a> /
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<a href="#id1992-182-8">Next trip</a>
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<hr /><a id="id1992-182-8">8/7/92 | Puffball - pottering | Olly, Julian S, Glen</a>
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<p>Pottering about trip. If you follow the roof in the entrance rift, you
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eventually come out over the top of Shell Pitch. Ignorance comes down by the
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question mark in Dot-to-dot, and should be rerigged since the rigging wasn't
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designed for people to actually use it. Ho hum. Went and saw the Darkroom.
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Came out.
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<p>T/U 7½ hrs
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<p><a href="#id1992-182-7">Previous trip</a> /
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<a href="#id1992-182-5">Last Ignorance trip</a> /
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<a href="#id1992-182-9">Push trip</a> (same day)<hr />
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<a id="id1992-161-1">7/7/92 | Kaninchenhöle | <u>Mark M</u></a>
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<p>Went down to get as much as possible of the co-ax out. Rigged in as far
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as the third pitch, but unfortunately I didn't know where the rebelays etc.
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should be so I rigged it completely crapply and had zillions of rubs and
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abseiling on single crap bolts. Basically I didn't enjoy it at all, and I
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was wearing dry grots and Julian's gear so I got cold and wet and thoroughly
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pissed off. Eventually got about 200m of co-ax out and prussik out just
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after my 2 hour call out had expired !
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<p>T/U 2 hrs
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<p><a href="../1991/log.htm#id1991-161-16">Previous trip</a> (1991 derig) /
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<a href="#id1992-161-2">Next trip</a>
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<hr /><a id="id1992-182-9">8/7/92 | Puffball | Matt, Julian H, Alistair, <u>Mark M</u></a>
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<p>We rigged in to the Navigational Limit and pushed the end. Abseiled past
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the last of Dokertee's ladder bolts and via a deviation to avoid water to
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the foot of the pitch. Then we walked down a length of rift (10m) to the
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head of another pitch. This remains to be rigged with the 200m of rope we
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now have at the pushing front.
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<p>The problems came on the boulder slope on the way out. There's a big
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boulder jammed across the entrance boulderslope, holding back a terrific
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weight of piled boulders. This boulder is resting on a pile of other shit
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that gets eroded with every person leaving the cave. As I was climbing over
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it some loose rock fell out from under it and this big (3' cube) boulder
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subsided slightly. This scared me a lot. Julian was behind me, he chimneyed
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up beside the boulder without touching it and then climbed up the boulder
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slope. As he climbed past me more rocks fell out from under the big boulder
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and it subsided by another 2".
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<p>Anyhow we got out okay and considered ourselves lucky. The entrance is
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now definitely unsafe and I will not be going down it until it changes. T/U
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14 hours.
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<p><a href="#id1992-182-7">Previous trip</a> /
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<a href="#id1992-182-8">Pottering trip</a> (same day)/
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<a href="#id1992-182-10">Next trip</a><hr />
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<a id="id1992-182-10">10/7/92 | Puffball -retrieve glasses | <u>Olly</u></a>
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<p>I decided that far too much ill-informed bullshit was flying regarding
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the Puffball "Rolling Stone", so went prospecting with Glen and
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Julian S via PB to retrieve my glasses and some gear. Decided a quick look
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at the boulder was in order, so I donned my oversuit over my shorts &
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T-shirt and with Julian's helmet (he has a laser) I descended and inspected
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the boulder and the rift for a while. Gingerly kicking the two rocks
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produced no movement, and after a little more contemplation I decided I was
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willing to go and retrieve the drill if this would be useful. I carefully
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left and found a pair of caving gloves I had dropped down the side of the
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snow plug last year ! Then we went prospecting, refound 90/14 (=184) and
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Glen fell down thru' a snow plug and dislocated his shoulder.
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<p>T/U 15 minutes.
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<p><a href="#id1992-182-9">Previous trip</a> /
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<a href="#id1992-182-11">Next trip</a><hr />
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<a id="id1992-161-2">10/07/92</a> | 161 | Andrew, <u>Jerry</u>
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<p>Went to rig upto Knossos, we rigged top pitch. Jerry left tackle sack of
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rope at top so had to go back, I needed the practice. Went to Big
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Sainsbury's then rigged S'not pitch. We could not find the second rebelay.
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It was supposed to be a natural. Jerry rigged the last section which made it
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go to Knossos.
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<p>T/U 8 hrs Jerry
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<p><a href="#id1992-161-1">Previous trip</a> (initial rig) /
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Next trips: <a href="#id1992-161-3">Gnome</a> /
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<a href="#id1992-161-4">Beyond Yapate</a> /
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<a href="#id1992-161-5">Left Hand Route</a> /
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<a href="#id1992-161-11">Dungeon</a>
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<a id="id1992-182-11">10/7/92 | Puffball | <u>David F</u> & Andrew</a>
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<p>...and everyone else
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<p>After Olly's trip saying Puffball was alright <-- "I never said
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it was alright - I said I was willing to go and get the drill if it would
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help in making it safe, 'cos in my opinion, if it fell, the rift would slow
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it enough to get out of the way in time." I went down to play pulleys
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ropes and stuff for fifteen minutes to sure it wasn't. Olly was in fact
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wrong <-- "No, 'cos it didn't go down the slope so I was, in fact,
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completely right" and after putting a bolt in I reached down to put a
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tape round the offending rock, and when I had my arms in the boulder slope
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erm, erm well anyway about 2 seconds later I was four foot further down the
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cave thinking - 'well that went remarkably well didn't it', 30s later I had
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really bad shakes. We then wasted some time trying to pull rocks down from
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the surface with pulley and loadsa people <- complete waste of time.
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Andrew and I then spent the next few hours kicking shit down the cave. It
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was dead dull and knackering, much like prussiking with someone throwing
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rocks on your head.
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<p>T/U 3 hrs
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<p><a href="#id1992-182-10">Previous trip</a> /
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<a href="#id1992-182-12">Next trip</a><hr />
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<a id="id1992-182-12">11/7/92 | Puffball | Julian H, Richie, Aggy</a>
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<p>Having sorted out the dodgy boulder slope with Dave and Andy previously,
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it was time to go caving again. As we got to the cave cloud rolled in
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obscuring all visibility and it started raining. Decided to come out in
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daylight in case visibility continued to be crap. Laid cable for some time
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until about ½ way down Cloud Chamber and then ran out of cable.
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Continued to bottom of Cloud Chamber then turned around. Meanwhile surface
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weather continued to deteriorate to the point where it became much wetter
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underground. Cyclotron was fairly wet at the bottom and Natural Redundancy
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less so. However, the wet weather route from Darkroom to Piezo turned out to
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be really good, only a bit damp on the lower section above the eyehole.
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Arrived on surface in pouring rain, so changed at top camp. Very hard work
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finding way across plateau in darkness and poor visibility.
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<p>T/U 8½ hours
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<p><a href="#id1992-182-11">Previous trip</a> /
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<a href="#id1992-182-13">Next trip</a>
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<a id="id1992-161-3">14/7/92</a> | Kaninchenhöhle | Tina + Mike TA
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<p>After two years wondering about whether it went, we returned to the
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boulder choke at the end of Gnome Passage off Dreamtime. In the interim it
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had collapsed a bit so we had a quick look and decided that being Austria
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and not (say) Mendips, it was (a) too much like hard work and (b) too
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dangerous. However, on the way in, we had noticed that the rift in the
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middle of the passage at the start of Dreamtime was now accessible, a load
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of crap having disappeared. Rigged a rope from a very large boulder and a
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thread and descended below a large piece of hanging death. Established that
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this is not part of Bullshit Alley, but goes back under the rift sort of
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towards Alternative Shopper (but as far as anyone can remember, nothing
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breaks into Alt. Shopper). Needs to be explored 'cos we buggered off out.
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This bit is called "Deep Sleep" (ask Tina).
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<p>T/U 6 hours
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<p>PS: Rerigged entrance pitch properly but pitch 2 is a big improvement.
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<a id="id1992-182-14">14/7/92 | Puffball - sumped | <u>Richie</u> & Jerry</a>
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<p>After finding a complete set of borrowed gear for Jerry having spent
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several fruitless hours looking for Kaninchenhöhle & Jerry's gear,
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we finally descended the entrance at 15.15 with the intention of finding
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Mark M etc. at pushing front. Descent was extremely uneventful reaching
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pushing front to find the cave had "sumped out". Met Olly and
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Julian S on way out. Carried battery for drill up Piezo causing massive
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distress to wedding tackle.
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<p>T/U 9½ hrs
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<p><a href="#id1992-182-12">Previous trip</a> /
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<a href="#id1992-182-13">Bottoming trip</a> (same day)/
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<a href="#id1992-182-15">Next trip</a>
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<hr />14/7/92 | 90/13 aka 183 | Julian H, Aggy & <u>Matt</u>
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<p>Didn't get underground until 4 ! God we were crap. Entrance is a 'tight'
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(well, for Julian at any rate) squeeze past a boulder and into a hands &
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knees crawl for about 10 ft. Following the fault line, sliding over loose
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boulders, after ~30 ft we reached the first pitch, around 10 mins, and while
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I faffed on the rebelay, Julian got the first bolt of the next pitch in, but
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for some (still) unknown reason, the cone was knocked too far into the spit,
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splitting it. The next bolt was also a no-hoper. Next we kicked 12 ton of
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shit down the pitch. The rope led down about 2m - almost a free climb -
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across a ledge littered with boulders and then to the floor of a rock
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covered chamber with a little waterfall, (which probably looks fairly
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impressive in the wet). A small slot under one wall led to the third pitch -
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still to have a rebelay placed. The way on at the bottom of this is a small
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hole leading into largish rift.
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<p>I'm crap and can't remember the names - but we do have some (honist) - so
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Olly can't get his warped imagination out of here.
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<p>To be filled in later.
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<p>Cave - Moose Trap<br />
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1st pitch - Rocky<br />
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2nd pitch - Bullwinkle<br />
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3rd pitch - Cliopatra's
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<p>T/U 8 hrs (all at less than 50m, what a bunch of light weights)<hr />
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<a id="id1992-182-13">14/7/92 | Puffball - muddy crawl | Alistair, Clive, Fran, <u>Mark M</u></a>
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<p>A couple of days before 600m of cable for radios had been laid down the
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cave. Then Julian carried 200m of rope to the pushing front. Only one thing
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could happen next - we found the sump. We rigged two pitches after
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Traditional Style, the second of which was disgustingly muddy and ended in a
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sump pool the size of a dinner plate. Yuk ! However, this may not be the end
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because above the sump pool there is a muddy crawl going off for some
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distance. It is below the high water mark of the sump pool and clearly sumps
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when it rains, but none-the-less will probably be pushed on the next trip
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down there.
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<p>We found:
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<p>[grade 1 elevation]
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<p>T/U 13 hours
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<p><a href="#id1992-182-12">Previous trip</a> /
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<a href="#id1992-182-14">Tourist trip</a> (same day)/
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<a href="#id1992-182-15">Next trip</a><hr />
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<a id="id1992-182-15">14/7/92 | Puffball - Aqueous | Olly, <u>Julian S</u></a>
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<p>Didn't get underground until 22.15 (beat that Matt). Resurveyed entrance
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then went into cave proper and surveyed from ladder to just before 1st rope
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pitch. Met 6 people who were all coming out. Got yummy illuminated compasses
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to do rift section. God, so nice. Other set too shit ! A clino that sticks
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90% of the time, a compass with no line on it - Accurate survey city ! Now
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to survey properly. You have a rift that's narrow at the bottom and wide at
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the top. Very wide in places. Positively capacious in fact. Ol: "I want
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to survey along the roof if I can". Point is that Julian is very crap
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at wide traverses. Ol: "It's easy that bit. You just put one foot on
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that blank wall there and stretch across to that massive foothold only 6ft
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away. It's huge. It's at least an inch across". Julian S:
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"No". Finish surveying 04.30, Bored now. Go down to see what Brute
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Force does. Get to top. Lift up drill battery and massively lose interest.
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Olly tries his footjammer out up Shell Pitch. It failed. Get out 7.15. It
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was raining. Again. Solidly. Heavily. Aqueously. Pissed down. Pissed Off.
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Very Pissed Off. So we pissed off and woke up top camp. Then we pissed off
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to BA and sat in the potato hut.
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<p>T/U 9 hrs
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<p><a href="#id1992-182-13">Previous trip</a> /
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<p>PS. What do you call 2 ageing Austrians who are walking across the
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<hr /><a id="id1992-161-5">16/7/92</a> | 161 | Henri, Andrew, Tony, <u>David F</u>
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<p>Once upon a time in the west four intrepid cavers went a cavering. One by
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one they assembled around a hole in some limestone. The 3rd born donned his
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suit of armour and clutched his sword before leaping fear(less)/(full)y into
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its mouth. After battling with its sore throat he leapt, fought and once
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again cried.
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<p>They stopped cause they found a small and insignificant reason to go no
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further. They were as apathetic as a six shot revolver. They threw rocks and
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bolts.
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<p>They descended Garden Party fearfully.
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<p>Dum dee dum. Niflheim [This is disinformational, Ed.]
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<p> Love Dave<br />
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<a id="id1992-182-16">16/7/92 | Puffball - Brute Force + Ignorance | Richie, <u>Alistair M</u></a>
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<p> The intension of our trip was to go down Brute Force + Ignorance -
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push the (?) and survey it all. What happens was that we went down Strike 2
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- which will go I think, - it's not too tight - there's another pitch
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beyond. We started surveying Strike 2 not knowing where we were going
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eventually dropped the pencil, got cold + tired so left 100m 9mm at Dot to
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Dot to push (?) and came out - sorry
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<a id="id1992-182-17">16/7/92 | Puffball | Julian H, Wookey, <u>Gill</u></a>
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<p>Intention to get to bottom and survey out, checking leads on the way and
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hopefully finding they don't go. Wooks + Gill much impressed with the new
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Piezo route and wet route rigging, but those enormous hanging rebelays
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knackered Gill out. (How about a smaller loop next time?). Much spagetti
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junction.
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<p>Anyway Gill wimped out at Traditional Style and solo-ed out. Julian +
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Wooks checked out muddy crawl above the sump, which goes to another sump.
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Then they de-rigged last 2 pitches and brought out x'00's m rope. There is a
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lead off Delicate Sound of Thunder, passage on left leads to
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"Honeycomb" (lots of phreatic maze) water coming down a small
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hole; mud pools; passage to a pitch above a pool. God I hope it doesn't go.
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<p><u>Geology</u> : Many pitches obviously on a fault line between the grey
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shelly limestone (huge bivalves 6" across) and a sandy coloured rock.
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The grey one is the one that doesn't bolt easily. Often see offset of beds,
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eg. a ~horizontal dark shale bed. Some pitches along a wide fault zone, at
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least 2 faults 4 foot apart. Whole cave is developed along same plane - see
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Olly's survey rotating.
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<p> T/U 8 hours (Gill) 11 hrs (Julian & Wookey)
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<p>Took 5 hrs to get baggy bastards out and we went incredibly slowly by the
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end. Wooks threw up 3 times on return due to de-hydration. It was shit.
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16/7/92 | Puffball - Moose Trap | Aggy, Glen, Clive, <u>Matt</u>
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<p>Rigged 2 more pitches in Moose Trap, one goes through a tight hole in a
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boulder slope.
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17/7/92 | Puffball - Moose Trap - Surveying | Fran, MarkM, <u>Matt</u>
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<p>Surveyed all 5 pitches of Moose Trap
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<a id="id1992-182-18">17/7/92 | Puffball | Olly, JulianS</a>
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<p>Went down, came out. Joined up surveys of QS&C and below. Also grade
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1ed the bit off Del Thunder.
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17/7/92 | Puffball - Surface survey | Andrew & <u>Wook</u>
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<p>Surface survey Puffball (182) to 183 & 184<hr />
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14/7/92 | Surface survey | Gill & <u>Wook</u>
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20/7/1992 | Puffball - Moose Trap | Aggy, Richie
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<p>Went up to Moose Trap. Rigged down to rift (can't remember no. of
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pitches). Found cut in rope just where we were to rig at top of pitch.
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Rigged one other small pitch, which promptly collapsed to a climb. P9. Rift,
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tight and horrible.
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<a id="id1992-161-6">17/7/1992</a> | 161 - Deep Sleep | Mike TA
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<p>Nobody else wanted to go down 161 so I was forced to go alone into the
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depths of 161, to see if Deep Sleep went anywhere. Well, after 4 bolts it
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didn't !! For 161 this is positively amazing and stunning !! On the way out,
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has a look at the passage at the bottom of Pitch2,m [might be p21m ? Ed.] it
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has a 2 second drop at the end. Came out to loadsa sunshine.
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<a id="id1992-161-7">18/7/1992</a> | 161 - Deep Sleep | Mike TA, Wookey
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<p>"Want to go down 161" says Wookey, so "OK" I says.
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(a) Went and surveyed Deep Sleep (b) Went and looked at Gnome passage;
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Wookey pushed the r/hand branch to a pitch so surveyed most of it (c)
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Shifted the co-ax down the squeeze and (d) Buggered off out to daylight
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<p>T/U 7½ hours
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<a id="id1992-182-19">18/7/1992 | Puffball | Julian H, Andrew, Tony, <u>Mark M</u></a>
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<p>Combined photo and derig trip.
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<p>We all went in together, took photos at : Puffball rift; Shell pitch; New
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Battery Rebelays; Cloud Chamber; NDE. Then Andy and Tony went out and Julian
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and I began derigging. First we checked the various holes emanating from the
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hole in Delicate Sound of Thunder. Olly had pushed one of these to a pitch,
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without his SRT gear on, but we couldn't fit wearing ours and so decided
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that it was clearly far too tight and ignored it. We derigged NDE, Cloud
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Chamber and Natural Redundancy, plus the Dry Route parallel to The Chimney.
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Half the resulting rope we took out and half we left in an utterly knackered
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tacklesack at the head of Piezo. We also got out all 600m of cable and
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carried out the drill battery.
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<p>ANYONE GOING DOWN TO DE-RIG FURTHER WOULD DO WELL TO TAKE DOWN TWO EMPTY
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TACKLESACKS.
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<p>The Dark Room has been derigged so the Chimney rope can be pulled up from
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above. Have fun on the rebelays !
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<p> T/U 11½ hrs (Mark M, Julian H)<br />
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8½ hrs (Tony, Andy)
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<a id="id1992-161-4">14/7/92</a> | 161 - pipeless | <u>Andrew</u>, David F
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<p>Finished rigging to Repton. Going up other side of HG discovered some
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fool (Wookey) had not put the handline on so there was an epic get off. This
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ruined our original plan of rigging Exhaustion so we had a look at another
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lead. Tried surveying but clino died. So went and found a big chamber,
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Satan's Sitting Room. No rope so gave up and came home.
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<a id="id1992-182-20">23/7/92 | Puffball | Julian S</a>
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<p>Went to fetch my gear back from Puffball for the great Eishohle
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extravaganza. As me Aggy Clive leave top camp Andy shouts "You could
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get the rope from Shell if you want to fetch it." Bugger that thinks I.
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As I wander I dither etc, and when I reach Puffball decide OK. I ought to
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then. Go back to Top Camp, get carbide etc., go back. "It's somewhere
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at the base of Shell" says Andy. Back to cave, get changed, down I go.
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Hum ti tum rift bashing god its boring bottom of Shell - No rope. Go to top
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of BFI - still no rope. I can't get back up the 8ft climb unaided so can't
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go any further. "Oh bugger" says I "I won't be able to take 2
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full tacklebags of rope out of that bastard rift. Shucks!" Out I troll.
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God Puffball is boring fifth time around. Mind you, my Macsuit is still in
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one piece tee-hee-hee
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<p>T/U 1½ hrs
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<p>PS I tried to help derig honest
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<a id="id1992-161c-1">24/7/92 | 161 - France | Tony</a>
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<p>Rigged in to bottom of Roll of the Dice, but could not [find] last
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rebelay and could not be bothered to put in a new spit so left all the gear
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there approx.- 4 hangers, 2 tectors, 1 bolting kit, 2 tapes, 60m of rope.
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<u>Warning</u> top of roll of the dice wants another tector or preferably a
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rebelay - rope can be obtained by removing the clown well back from the top
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of pitch. Also for the first few prussiks up from the freehanging rebelay in
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Francophobia (one with tape foot sling) rope rubs, but I have now tightened
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the deviation so I don't know if it still will. Caving is <u>ace</u> best
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trip I've had in months, ran back to top camp because I was feeling so good
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and Gill who saw me thought there must have been an accident.
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<a id="id1992-161-8">22/7/1992</a> | 161 - (Repton) Garden Party | Andrew, David F, <u>Wookey</u>
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<p>Boogied on up to KH efficiently early with drill and gear with intent to
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finish off Garden Party and way down to Pipeless to sump and push.
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<p>Plan failed as Garden Party went huge and we used up baby drill battery
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on 80m of rigging down two shafts. Somehow we didn't intersect with
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Powerstation - what the hell is going on? Had a good wander round connecting
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rift and 2 parallel shafts. Andy was ill and after surveying 1st bit went
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out. Dave and I surveyed out all the new stuff - really satisfying. This
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cave is ridiculous (again)
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<p>TU (Wook/ Dave) 11hrs<br />
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(Andy) 7hrs
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<a id="id1992-161-9">23/7/1992</a> | 161 - Pipeless push/survey | Jerry, <u>Wookey</u>
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<p>Got up later & then only underground by 2.20. Gave Jerry a good
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tourist trip on the way down - he was stunned by the sheer size of KH.
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Staggered all the way to Repton [this was originally typed in as Pipeless -
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its almost illegible] with a borrowed York rope, to find some more there -
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bum, needn't have bothered. Had a look at rock in my question mark and moved
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part of it but decided too dodgey to move other half. Then trundled all the
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way down Pipeless to Satan's Sitting Room. Rigged down pitch & found a
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bit more cave at the bottom, including Silent Fellow, a chamber with a pitch
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out of it (but very chossy) prob 30m. Then surveyed out. Pipeless is very
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windy & bloody freezing. Trailed back to surface with some hangers and
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Mike's rope. Satisfying, efficient trip. Jesus what a lot of cave.
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<p>T/U 12.5 hrs
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<p>25/7/1992 | Sonnenleitenschacht (Sun-ladder shaft) | Aggy, Jerry, <u>Wook</u>, *Robert TWC
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<p>Up at an unreasonable hour (5.30) to meet Austrians at 06.30. Long, hot,
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fast walkin. We were shagged. Fortunately caving was much easier & we
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were suitably boggled by fairly mental shaft series down to -368m
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(p20,p93,p19,p10,p53,p88,p57). Nasty tight rift halfway down.
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<p>At bottom is some horizontal cave with mega-slippery mud. Did a bit of
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surveying but bottom pitch was too wet so had a look at rest of cave, ending
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at a big shaft (surprise surprise) got a rope to enable Rob to do traverse
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round pitch-head to find miles more cave- prob nearly 300m to a big rift
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pitch & shaft down to streamway. Fucking brill - and we didn't even have
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to survey it.
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25/7/92 | GRUBSTEN WEST-WANDHÖHLE 1625/351 - An Eishöhle near Bad Mitterndorf | Olly, JulianS, Richie, Fran, <u>Clive</u>
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<p>+Hans, H's son(Manfred), another one + Günther (Austrians)
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<p>Preparation started early for this one : packing rucksacks the afternoon
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before!?! What, CUCC getting organised? Fortunately we were able to disprove
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this by having a 21st birthday party the evening and before, and various of
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us bivvied coz it was nice, despite knowing that the Austrians wanted to
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meet us in BM at 6.30am. We made it, with Richie's epic driving, 2 mins
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early.
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<p>So here we are at the top of the toll road (another one). Olly improves
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our organisational record by having no crampons, and the Austrians had no
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spare set. They did say they might tho'). Hans sez an ice axe is good gear
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though, so off we walk to the cave.
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<p>Plan: 1hr walk to cave, 2hrs cave, 2hrs walk back across the plateau then
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bier in a caff.
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<p>Results: Austrians lots CUCC 1 Where did we lose?
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<p>First game: Rucksacks. We had traditional cavers rucksacks with lots of
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gear. The Austrians rucksacks looked like they would struggle to hold a
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walkman, let alone full caving gear.
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<p>2nd game: Hangover (some of us). Imagine going Sunday caving (albeit with
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dry gear) at 6am, after a late nite sess at the Hill Inn. You don't, do you?
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You go to bernies and fester lots and groan and maybe walk round Yorkshire
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a bit. Not walk up a mountain led by hyper-fit Austrians who say 10km is
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1hrs walk easily. With caving gear. On nasty scree slopes with goats
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throwing rocks at you. "See the hole in the middle of the cliff there?
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That's it". While changing, my oversuit did a tumbling boulder
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impression. I didn't really want it to fall all the huge distance down the
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scree slope. I like grass: it stops things falling.
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<p>3rd game: Odd gear. Hans' furry - unpacks from his tiny rucksack along
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with oodles of ham sandwiches, wurst etc (slavering english had no
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breakfast) a furry. Imagine camo pattern, 'cept in bright colours. That's
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it. Hans' son's undersuit - looked like black bubble-wrap? Ho hum
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<p>4th Game: We won (what - FESTERING of course). Various light fettling,
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hangovers, generally being slow.
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<p>5th Game - Caving (yes now comes the important bit). U go down the
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obvious cave, then crawl a tiny bit (austrians are hard, they don't need
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kneepads. Fran and Richie do, tho'). Out again a few metres later. A through
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trip! Down another cave, amusing fixed ladder with lots of bolts & wires
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holding it together. Perhaps a leetle bit over the top. Some rocks, then
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crampons on for a toddle down a nice ice slope. Watching Olly fun, as Hans
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walks him down (Ol's foot resting on Hans' etc). Squeeze at bottom of ice
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would be awful except ice is v. slippy(!). Then some real caving. We
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wandered round lots of big bouldery passage, being shown all the leads &
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being out caved in a miserably easy cave. Günter had a trick of being
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behind one minute, then you see him next in front. OK, he did find the cave.
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The walls were all light coloured mud, making the big spaces quite bright
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for a change (cf puffball any [?]). It's a big cave : 10km, 400m deep &
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we only saw the top bit. Beautiful sail like piece of really blue ice
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somewhere we saw. Eventually after wandering apparently randomly exeunt
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cavers. Out, change. Hans showed us (in the cave) a passage which went up,
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and said "We found the hole in the top by surveying it underground,
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then walking 350m from the campsite & saying 'Yes it's here'". Why
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can't CUCC surveying be this good? Anyway, we have to climb horribly steep
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chossy crap bit of mountain. I scared. At the top, a football pitch sized
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bit of grass. Flat! Their campsite - amusing camping - they have to carry
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all their shit up, but a helicopter delivers barrel of beer and cakes.
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<p>Walk back across plateau - real Totes Gebirge - grey and white, no bunde
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for miles but little grey plants feeking [?] around. Shown some big holes
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& people drool etc. - one is a big hole near the path with a
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cross/memorial on the other side of the path from the hole so people fall
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down it on the way to see it.
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<p>Vaguely tropical once in the plant level again - clear lake below,
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beautiful colours, plants with really bright colours all round.
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<p>Then to a Gasthof for a yearned-for drink & home.
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<p>Summary: don't go caving at 6am with immensely hard Austrians who are
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really good tourist guides (the day was really interesting despite the fact
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I felt a complete ouigee) The End
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<p>T/U 2½ hrs ?
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<p>P.S. Richie and Fran stole Aggy and Jerry's shorts on the way out the A's
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thought this was funny. There seemed no point in nicking Wook's shorts tho.
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<p>P.P.S. Guess whose light failed despite it being a club FX2 and whose
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replacement carbide was shit also?<hr />
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<a id="id1992-182-21">27/7/1992</a> | Puffball - Derig | <u>Wook</u> & Ol
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<p>Wook checked out QM's down Chimney : Just extensions of rift. Had a jolly
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time de-rigging, especially Crow's Nest which was epic. Ol tried a couple of
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bits & ticked off a QM leaving one crap one. Decided to head out with 3
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baggies as 6 would be stupid.
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<a id="id1992-182-22">28/7/1992 | Puffball - derig | <u>Wook</u> and Ol
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<p>Went down BFI. Got very cold surveying it & Ol rigged down to Strike
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2 to force 'too tight'. Little pitch and some stuff. Derigged most of it but
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had to give up to get back to camp in time for slideshow - only 2 baggies
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<a id="id1992-161c-3">28/7/92</a> | 161 - France | Fran, Jerry, <u>Mike TA</u>
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<p>Zippo down to where Tony and Andy jacked out. Fast descent aided by
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several french bolts until (with only just enough rope) we dropped into a
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huge (well, pretty huge) chamber. Poked around, found several ways on (one
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bolted), and left, 'cos Fran/Jerry wanted to go to the slide show.
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<a id="id1992-161-13">29/7/92</a> | 161 - Hyper Gamma Spaces | Wook, Andrew<br />
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<p>Went down with Andy and Wookey to HGS where we left them to rig a
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tyrolean (inadvertantly stealing the bag of gear they needed). Missed
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directions to Exhaustion (?) and ended up in Pipeless, but found ~110m new
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passage and another pitch. Surveyed out. I was knacked.
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<p>Wook & Andy - discovered Wook's filled-in Q.M. going to Pipeless -
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ticked off 2 QM's !
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<a id="id1992-161-13b">29/7/92</a> | 161 | Mike TA, Sam<br />
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though Mike remembered it in 2009 when it wasn't
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parsed into the <a href="../../handbook/troggle/trogintro.html">troggle</a> database]
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<a id="id1992-161-11">27/7/1992</a> | 161 - Dungeon | Sam, Gill, Rachel, Julian S
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<p>Someone finally rigs Dungeon ! Get down, find Dungeon (not that simple,
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once we went down 2nd pitch). Spend such a long time trying to put a spit
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in, Gill offers to "nip down S'not and fetch the drill". Off go
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Gill and Rachel. 2 hrs later, JulianS & Sam finish messing about, go
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down the pitch, and decide the best way is to rig on through an eyehole. Rig
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the eyehole. "Can you hear a whistle Sam ?" "Don't think
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so". About to go down. Hear six whistle blasts. "Oh, SHIT !"
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Never prussiked so fast in my life. Sam in front, races down S'not. Horrible
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thoughts of stretchers and falling boulders. Major relief when its just that
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Gill has been strung up for 1½ hrs. Ends up with Sam undoing the
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rebelay so she can get past. After this, nobody feels like much more caving,
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so exit all.
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<a id="id1992-161-12">28/7/1992</a> | 161 - Dungeon | Sam, Julian S
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<p>Go down to survey Dungeon. Descend pitch into second chamber on
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yesterday's rigging (note, take a rope 'tector). Survey. Find the way on,
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and a Zoom which must have fallen down the entrance.
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<a id="id1992-161c-4">30/7/1992</a> | 161 - France | <u>Wook</u>, Henri
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<p>Faffed measuring Puffball ropes & eventualy went once it was too hot.
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Nice 1st trip down France, if a bit drippy. Faffed somewhat surveying down
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to impressive space at bottom. Also arsed about with rigging in largely vain
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attempt to improve it, after dire warnings about ropes too short, spits shit
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etc. Had a good poke round in chamber and found some scrotty stream cave
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with lots of water in it before boogying out. Took ages to get out, &
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then we got lost on the way to 161a & I ended up taking 40 mins &
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going via Vd1 to get my bearings - doesn't limestone look like limestone a
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lot.
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<p>My attempt to go on the ouigee trip largely failed as we were still
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eating tea at 2 am.
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<p>Nice bit of cave though, and having possibly reached the phreatic level
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it should go like a train.
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<p>[grade I sketch of chamber]
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<a id="id1992-161-16">31/7/1992</a> | 161 - Dungeon | Tony, <u>Gill</u>, Rachel, Sam, Tina, Mike TA
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<p>Photo trip/pottering. Some photos of 2nd pitch from Big Sainsbury's,
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showing eyehole from entrance and boulder slope down to S'not. Sponsorship
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photos on a high slab in Big Sains - having a brew not 20m from the bottom
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of the 2nd pitch. Trangia works really well underground; brew good
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moraliser. Then split 3 parties: Mike + Tina more B.S. photos, Sam + Tony
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down to Dungeon to inspect leads, Gill + Rachel down S'not to explore ?'s
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and go touristing. Explored uphill from bottom of S'not -> 2 leads (which
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AndyA and IainM have also been down) choke up, but possible small uphill
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crawl. Draughts.
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<p>Explored holes down right hand fork to Arrow Chamber, without actually
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getting into the chamber (I think). Rachel scurried down lots stoopy
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passage/crawls/holes down, some which go quite a way. Worth another look,
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ie. go towards Arrow Chamber and duck down beneath huge boulder blocking
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high rift.
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<p>Tony + Sam + Mike + Tina proved that Dungeon connects to S'not via a
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window under a big boulder. 7m pitch at bottom too tight at bottom and
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choked.
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<p>T/U 5 hrs
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<p><a href="#id1992-161-12">Previous Dungeon trip</a> /
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<a href="#id1992-161-10">Previous LHR trip</a> /
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31/7/1992 | Surface | Aggy, Fran, Jerry, Clive
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<p> /~TU 1hr~\ /~ TU ½hr ~\
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<p>Quote "Small depression near 164" in logbook.
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<p>Found this cave when prospecting, & found it to be a cavern full of
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pretty ice. This time brought cameras. Looped tapes over a couple of lumps
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of rock & Aggy went down. (All were wearing shorts & tee-shirts).
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Removed SRT gear & passed up to Jerry. Fran descended, then, eventually,
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Clive. Bloody Cold. Then Jerry. Landing area is sunk in under level of snow,
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so large kick from side is needed to land on snow. Took loads of pics. Still
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bloody cold. Came out to heat shock. Best part is it is 10 mins from Top
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Camp.
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<p>No. is 189, name GLITTERSTOMPF.
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<p>Prospecting (sometime in the middle)<br />
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Aggy, Julian S, Fran & Jerry<br />
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½ HR
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<p>Found lots of holes - generally wandered in the direction of the huge
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piece of limestone on the far side of the Hinter Schwarzmooskogel (?).
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Including Glitterstompf, 164, 107 an old path. As suspected, most holes
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blocked w/ snow but the limestone has lots of biggies - but only had a 26m
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rope w/ us so didn't go down all. Worth going back to the limestone w/ lots
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of rope - couple of very large drops. Didn't bother doing more than + the
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ones that we actually bottomed - headed back to 161 path. Came across a
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large hole on the hillside - can be seen from the large piece of limestone
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on the Wook path. Went over snowfield to the top - looked down - saw no
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bolts although so<?> sany[?] it may be Tantalschacht - needs going
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down - huge chamber below - very close to path - found an S [???].<hr />
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<a id="id1992-161-14">30/7/1992</a> | 161 - Repton | <u>Aggy</u>, Jerry, Andrew, *Sep, *Robert
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<p>Jerry & Austrians arrived @ Top Camp 8:15. After waking up, got down
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cave by 10:00. Went down to Repton, Pipeless & to top of Satan's Sitting
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Room. Robert strung a type of traverse over a big hole (6' long) &
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Jerry, trusting Robert, went first. Drilled 2 holes above new pitch, while
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Jerry went to Repton for rope. Sep/Robert wanted to see daylight, so we left
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for the surface. Robert & Jerry went ahead (Jerry behind !). They were
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far enough ahead to suspect they had got lost. Fran on surface, with already
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changed Robert & Jerry.
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<p>TU Hard cavers Rob, Jerry 6hrs<br />
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Humans Aggy, Andrew, Sep 7½hrs
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<a id="id1992-161c-2">27/7/1992 | 161 - France | <u>Andrew</u>, Tony</a>
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<p>Tony (the hard caver) had been down a few days before to rig this, the
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most superior of pushing fronts. Sat in the entrance waiting until our
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bodies had cooled to a temperature that would allow the brains' thought
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channels to open. At this point Tony's brain (not unexpectedly) told him
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caving was shit (a true fact) but we continued. Beautiful wizzy pitch. Then
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at the bottom of Roll of the Dice 'BELOW' I tensed and waited for the clack
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to come. Nothing happened. Began to relax. Wack, Oh no I am falling should
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not have let go of the rope. Why is my stop not working. Ah let go of the
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handle. 'STOP' thats better, bollocks, who put that wall there. Ouch ! Zip.
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Next thing I know I am at the top of the next pitch been ill again. Never
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mind lets continue. At last, the pushing front. Wander up and down, traverse
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across, Tony has a go. Time to rig the Crash, Oh no no again I'm falling.
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Where has that 6ft by 1ft shelf I was standing on gone. Went down Toothless,
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put one bolt in using 3 spits, got psyched so left.
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<a id="id1992-161-10">24/7/1992</a> | 161 - Garden Party Finish - Survey & derig | Andrew, <u>David F</u>
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<p>I can't remember what happened, so I shall make something up. The battery
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was heavy. It was heavy on the way to the cave. It was heavy in conjunction
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with a light tackle sack. It was fucking heavy in the full tackle sack and a
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drill.
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<p>So, I went dangling with gear, strewn with expensive dead weight across
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dubious traverses down dubious climbs and across f'ing unlikely chocked
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boulder floor things. Thus, standing at the edge of Cat Litter, I clipped in
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and descended, slammed a bolt in the wall - I thought about using my hand
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driver but thought that I ought to use Mark Mileing [??] battery. Descended
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loads, Andy followed and said Hey up gus [??] its some gear tape. And thus
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realised we were in known cave. We then found some rope. After toffee eating
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we lugged heaved hauled and surveyed. Laugh.
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<p>T/U 9
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<a id="id1992-161-15">29/7/1992| 161 - Bladerunner - Hole below pitch
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below squeeze | <u>David F</u></a>
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<p>[missing date -- JGT]
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<p>Our lonely intrepid explorer made his way to the cave. He entered
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thinking of the absence of annoying friends. He came upon a drop with badly
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buried rope. He fearlessly pounded upon the rock eventually it gave
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way. The rope was claimed. I rigged the first three belays on tape - such
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delight - never before had I had so many tapes - oooh the benefit of being a
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facist thieving bastard. Bolt, bolt, bolt, bolt yawn loadsa pitch.
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<p>Bollock Bollocks, it stops. I don't fit. Aahh but no. It goes so
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squeezesque* lovely. Then rift, then maze, then pitch. Yawn bolts.
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<p>* Millenium Falcan -> squeeze bit<br />
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* Yoda -> mazey bit<br />
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* Androids -> pitch
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<p>T/U 8hrs
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<p><a href="#id1992-161-2">Previous trip</a> (initial RHR rig) /
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<a id="id1992-182-23">30/7/1992 | Puffball | Clive</a>
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<p>(has no friends, sob)
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<p>Joined the ever increasing gang of solo cavers to look at crawly bit at
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bottom of 183. Yes, it goes, but it's shit ! Very Mendip crawly (eastwater
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?) follow stream, small climbs occ. all in an angled rift (or fault ?). A
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bit mazy so if one way doesn't go another will. Scared after trying to
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descend climb head first with crap hand holds, so got out.
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<p>Then go to Puffball to retrieve bags of rope JulianS went to get, but
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Olly & Wooks had got before. Found this out descending 8ft & 10ft
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pitches at beginning of Piezo "but I'm sure there's a rope here
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normally". Climb out just, exit, fester a while in sun & met
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callout 3 hrs early coming to rescue me.
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<p>T/U 5 hrs PS solo is good - none of the nasty cavers around but a bit
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scary sometimes.
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3/8/1992 | Trisselwand | *Christine, *Jeremy, *Jane, Mark M
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<p>Got up ridiculously early (7 AM !) to beautiful blue skies, sunshine etc.
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Drove to Sattel & immediately set off on the wrong path. Having realised
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our error, we turned back and tried again (the correct path is the left one
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which is signposted Trisselwand - as opposed to the one on the right
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signposted Trisselwand !) We then walked along the 233 for a short distance
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& turned left at the first thing that could just about pass for a path -
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this again was wrong of course (stay on the 233 until a reasonably sized
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path on the left - probably the second turning). After about an hour of
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walking through forests, christmas trees, etc. we turned right into the
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bunde (again wrong - you should keep on the path which goes down).
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Eventually, we arrived at the base of the lower left of the two large
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gulleys in the face - below an obvious pine tree (Wookey). Started climbing
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at ~11 am by which time the sun was just getting into the gulley. Start at
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obvious ring around corner from tree - many of these throughout the climb
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are next to brown/orange splodges of paint. 1st 2 pitches were easy &
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scrambly but with few places for protection - following the easiest line up.
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3rd pitch - walk across to left wall & climb the crack - it would
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probably be a good idea to belay at the bottom of this (piton) instead of
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from the top of the second. Protection for this consists of pitons of
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varying quality. 4th & 5th & 6th straightforward but can't really
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remember (NB 50m rope recommended/needed for several of thse pitches). Some
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sections can be done moving together. Eventually arrived below a huge
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headwall with a large section of loose scree/boulders etc. to the left.
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Spent a long time faffing around here by going too high - it looks as if you
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can avoid the scree by doing this but a sheer gulley stops you halfway
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across. Correct way is to go across to the left & slightly upwards
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across the scree. This is quite exposed but otherwise not too bad. The point
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to aim for is a downward sloping slab on the corner of the left wall. There
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are pitons towards the left wall, honest !
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<p>At this point (5pm) Jeremy decided he was suffereing from sunstroke &
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he wanted to go down. NB there is almost no shade or breeze on the climb so
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take lots (2 lt per person) of water. Abseiled down as far as second pitch
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without any problem. I abseiled down to the 2nd and spent ages looking for
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the belay (someone had moved it around a corner on the right) which
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Christine then had a minor epic trying to reach. The stance at the top of
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this is quite small. It was starting to get dark & the first drops of
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rain from an obvious thunderstorm were starting to fall - all these together
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resulted in the rope getting horrendously tangled halfway down the pitch.
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After spending ~5 min attempting to untangle this - hanging at the base of a
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small gulley - the storm broke. The nice gulley was quickly transformed into
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a cascade of water, rocks were hitting me on the head. At this point I
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wasn't very happy. After resigning myself to the fact that I was obviously
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going to die, managed to move out of the worst of the shit on to a face
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& spent the next half hour untangling rope and cowering.
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<p>Back at the top, everyone else was having a similarly shit time getting
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pelted with ice and rocks - Christine ending up with a really pretty bruised
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shoulder. Eventually we all reached the bottom in various states of
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coldness, wetness, sanity etc. Walked back (right way this time) only to
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meet the Austrian Mountain Rescue on their way to us - someone had seen
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lights on the face in a thunderstorm and called them out. They didn't seem
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too pissed off but they were amazed that we had managed to spend 9 hrs on
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the face. Arrived back at Hilde's ~ 00.30 to meet the CUCC rescuers (thanks
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to all involved) who's been driving arpund looking for us before going to
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call out the rescue.
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<p>Good trip - definitely worth doing (quickly though).
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<p>Mark T/E (Time epic) 9hrs<hr />
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<a id="id1992-161-17">2/8/1992</a> | 161 - Arrow Chamber | <u>Wook</u>, Andrew, Jerry, Aggy
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<p>All trailed to end, very efficient - taking only an hour to get to the
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end of Yapate where we took some photos - Andy being impressed by alertness
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& capability of his team. (Wook checked out Gill/Rachels bit in LH Route
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on way down - then popped into Arrow Chamber to see Del/DaveH's QM from a
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couple of years ago - looks extremely promising and draughting with only a
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7m pitch to negotiate.) Took a few more photos in Pipeless & then
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continued climb in SSR. Aggy volunteered (foolishly) to man the drill &
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put in another bolt before clipped everything to everything & going for
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it - he got to a precarious position before running out of cows tail tinsel.
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He had to hang there for a couple of mins while Andy went along the traverse
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trying not to pull on the rope & thus Aggy off. Thus released he made
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the final move & floundered onto the shelf gibbering. Throughout this
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process 'useful' advice had been given by the 3 onlookers, so the climb is
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called '3 wise men'. Aggy had had enough after putting in the top bolt so
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Wook went to have a look & Tony & Andy went to get some gear from
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Mostly Mud & rig tension traverse at start of SSR properly.
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<p>Rather than gaining miles of horizontal passage, Aggy had gained a 1m
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wide shelf between 2 pitches. Wook abbed down & discovered they
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connected so put in a bolt for mega swing to gain window across this pitch.
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This was just poss & this led to a chamber with accessible passage out
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of it, leading to another big (30m) pitch and a draughting passage. Andy
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& Wook started SSR survey up her silly rigging whilst Aggy & Tony
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went to rig pitch in Mostly Mud - fused drill due to shagged cable &
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trailed out.
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<p>Andy & Wook got cold & bored after a bit & went exploring -
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found heaps of cave, including beautiful big phreas with Jet black floor -
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pity to put footprints in it. Another pitch at end & then narrower
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passage to more QM's - ridiculous cave. Too tired [?] to survey on return so
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buggered off out.
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<p>See over for diag. T/U 15 hrs (Wook & Andy)<br />
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14 hrs (Aggy & Jerry)
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<p>FAR TOO FAR 10 QM's !!!
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<a id="id1992-161-18">4/8/1992 | 161- Knossus | Wook & Andrew</a>
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<p>Having failed to find a new entrance on previous day (and narrowly
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avoided the thunderstorm mentioned elsewhere), we had to go in the usual way
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to finish the survey & derig. Did this, finding another 2 QM's &
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ignoring these as we had plenty to do then started mega derig with 2½
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tacklebags, the drill, battery and ladder between us. Despite leaving the
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battery in Knossus for photos, it took 6hrs to get out - we were fucked.
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<p>TU: 15½ hrs
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<p>Also changed Strange Upfall rope for a long enough rope (45m) &
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staircase 36 one as it has been used for 3 years.
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<p>Left 41m rope rigged on 3 Wise Men.
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<p><a href="#id1992-161-17">Previous trip</a> /
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<a href="#id1992-161-19">Final derig</a>
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<a id="id1992-161-19">5/8/1992 | 161 - More De-rigging | </a> DavidH, DavidF, <u>Wook</u>, Andrew, Henri & Clive
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<p>Uncle Tom Cobbly & all go to fish all the gear out of KH.
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<p>Initially:
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<p>Team A: Dave & Dave: Tourist to end & then derig Strange Downfall
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& RH.<br />
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Team B: Wook & Henri: Survey & derig Bladerunner.<br />
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Team C: Andy & Clive: Photo Knossos & fish out battery ('Small Paul')
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<p>Started off to plan although team photo had probs & dropped a slave
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down pitch in Knossos.
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<p>Much swearing took place below squeeze as Wook-the-ill & throwing [?]
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resigned & became team derig whilst DaveF went to finish survey &
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derig.
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<p>Team 1 became DaveH & Clive with baggies,<br />
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Team 2 Wook & Andy ([can't read this]) &<br />
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Team 3 Dave & Henri who didn't finish survey & still didn't get out
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till 3.30 am.
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<p>Bloody hard work all round (esp. DaveH who did the entrance twice &
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shifted 3 baggies & the battery !)
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<pre>
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T/U: Dave H: 1-10.30: 9½
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Dave F: 1-3.30: 14½
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Henri : 1.30-3.30: 14 or something
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Wook : 1.30-11.00: 9½ like that.
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Andy : 2.00-11.00: 9
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Clive : 2.00-10.30: 8½
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</pre>
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<p>Then came the carrying !........
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<p>Previous trips: <a href="#id1992-161-18">Far End</a> /
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<a href="#id1992-161-15">Bladerunner</a> /
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<a href="../1993/log.htm#id1993-161-1">Next trip</a> - 1993 rigging in
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<a id="id1992-182-24">2/8/1992 | Puffball - solo, survey, push, deri, overnight - mega-hero-trip | <u>Olly</u></a>
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<p>Arrived at Top Camp just as everyone left (I can take a hint) so after
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sitting in a tent making pancakes in a thunderstorm for the first night I
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got bored and went caving. Pushed up inlet in entrance slope 'til it got too
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awful for words (really quite awful, believe me.....), then solo surveyed
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over top of fisrt pitch to top of Shell. <u>Don't</u> try solo-surveying. If
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you do, you won't get cold 'cos you'll spend ¾ of the time putting
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rocks on the end of the tape and walking gently back down the passage
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praying that it'll stay on. Also a candle makes a good sighting point (lit
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of course) unless you're in a pitch series. Got bored two legs from end so
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checked out a daft area and looked at the crawl over the top of Shell. In a
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maelstrom of ennui I took a bearing along it and went to derig. Derig up to
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Shell (greasing the bolts !) and finished survey. Entrance rift is paradise
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with only one baggy. Broke end off tape and dropped ladder spreader and had
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to go back down for it. That's about it. Oh - exit coincided perfectly with
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dawn as intended.
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<p>T/U 8½ hours
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<p><a href="#id1992-182-23">Previous trip</a>
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<hr />
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1/8/1992 | Surface - Various holes: Prospecting, (re)numbering and mobile festering | <u>Olly</u>
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<br />
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<p>to 1992.08.05
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<p>Found various caves which were already numbered, renumbered 90/1 =
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1623/171. Found & numbered 171b (entrance approx 50m away which connects
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non-trivially). Numbered 189 ("Glitterstompf") with a
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"-" because although marked with a "+" on the other
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side, I don't believe you can say it doesn't go when its so full of snow.
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(Also renumbered 90/13, 90/14 and 90/15 as 183, 184, 185, (183 and 184 on
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92.07.17)) Bottomed 4 blind shafts on walk to 182 (Puffball) <u>&</u>
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marked with "+"'s. Also found 2 going caves. One is next to 189
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& is numbered 190, the other marked "CUCC -" 'cos we've run
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out of numbers. This one is where the 2 Puffball route variants merge/split.
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A map:
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<p>[grade 1 sketch]
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<p>This one has a 2 second drop with a rattle for a bit. Worth a look. I'll
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draw another map when I find the call-out book (it's sketched on the back).
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<p>At long last, here's the picture from the call-out book:
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<p>[better grade 1 sketch]<hr />
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2/8/1992 | Elchfalle attempted survey & derig | Clive & <u>Olly</u>
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<p>After waiting for Clive to appear so I could go surveying with someone to
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hold the other end of the tape, we finally got down 183 late in the evening.
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We reached the bottom, I tried the rift downstream & hated it so came
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back.
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<p>NO-ONE SEEMS TO HAVE TRIED GOING <u>UP</u>STREAM !!!
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<p>Probably fruitless, but maybe worth a look.
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<p>Surveyed to bottom of fifth ie. end of last survey, when as Clive was
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pulling up the pitch I heard water. "Clive, be quiet a mo." Jangle
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- jangle. "Clive ..." Gurgh, gurgh, <u> splosh </u> a torrent
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suddenly appears "Oh fuck !" Clive attemts to cut the rope which
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had just caught under a rock, as I prussik up the 5th pitch. At the top,
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paranoia convinces me the water is increasing, so I tell Clive to get up the
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rope. We exit quickly, astounded that the entire cave is rigged out of the
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water. Nice one folks ! I only wish Clive would appear before I start
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worrying where he's got to, but he's sensibly taking it slowly. Ho hum.
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<p>T/U: 4 hours<hr />
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<a id="id1992-161c-5">3/8/1992</a> | 161 - France - push, survey, derig | David H, Julian S, <u>Olly</u>
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<p>Foregoing the chance of the long walk to Repton and beyond, Dave
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"I'll carry that tacklesack" Howes, Julian "I'm shit at
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caving, y'know" Shilton and myself opt for France - -300m with 30 ft of
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walking. We descend, marvelling at the re-belays which have been breeding in
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dark corners since last year. Just as I begin to wonder if the universe
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outside of an endless piece of rope with bolts every six feet is a figment
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of my fudge-fevered brain, we reach Algeria, DaveH: "Would you like to
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rig while we survey ?" Of course I would. Try to rig a 50m hang on 9mm
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rope from two I.R.T. placed bolts in two ?tectors. The hang bolt - just to
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add to my confidence - is in a boulder larger than a house jammed in the
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rift. Reach the floor thinking that surveying has its attractions. Rig 2
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more poxy rebelays to a smaller chamber where the French spits run out.
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There's an obvious aqueous way on or a "Driller-killer" traverse
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over the top of the end wall. Both have big drops (2 sec+??). Dave &
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Julian come down the 50 & Julian gibbers at the rub. He has a point, but
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I'd rather he told me at the top. Dave looks at the next chamber and we
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derig. God it was fun. Dave & I emerge to find JulianS has fallen off a
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(surface) cliff and badly bruised his back. Ho hum.
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<p>T/U: 8 hours
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<p>Nomenclature: Favourites are: "Orient Express" for 50m &
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"Titfield Thunderbolt" for [this bit off edge of photocopy]
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<p><a href="#id1992-161c-4">Previous trip</a> /
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<a href="../1993/log.htm#id1993-161c-1">Next trip</a> (1993 rigging in)
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4/8/92 | Elchfalle - derig | Clive
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<p>derigged it. Carbide <u>does</u> burn thro' rope quickly: 1 minute !
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<p>T/U a couple of hours - God knows: this is a year later !
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<p>1st trip was aborted due to rain, so Clive went back. God this pen is
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crap. Olly
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