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Arrive Saturday (24th July 1982) evening to glorious sunshine. Sunday dull,
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examine lake from pedalo. Large canvas erection appears, much to horror of
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everyone else on campsite. Uncouth rabble now appears and makes much noise
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until uncivil hour in morning. Visit toll road.
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<p>Monday visit toll road, visit plateau in misty wet conditions: no view; no
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hot sun !
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<hr /><a id="id1982-115-1">Tuesday Wave 1</a>
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<p>Tuesday David & Ian Brindle rig first section of ramps. 4 new bolts
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placed. One on short pitch near entrance made redundant as no likes
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prusikking up this delightful short pitch. Ramp declared open and much
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improved. Fall off ramp whilst trying to place bolt, give up ! Second wave
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arrives and takes over rigging ramp.
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<p align=right>9 hrs or so<br>Tuesday was wet again!
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<hr /><a id="id1982-115-2">27th Tuesday</a> 115 wave
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2 Mike + Phil
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<p>A good trip for dropping tackle, though all recovered this year unlike
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last year's ammo can. The entrance series to 115 hasn't changed much, grotty
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as ever. We reached the head of the ramp and voices, the Bouncing Brindles
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were buggering about with bolts. After some discussion we took over and Mike
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bolted a rather greasy traverse and a greasier abb down to the foot of the
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Ramp - but out of the big hole which caused so much complaint last year. The
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seemingly endless piece of Marlow took us half way down the Rift pitches to a
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rather frighteningly perched half ton boulder. We slung a rope on the next
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pitch and exitted. A good 8 hr breaking in trip and having dropped a tackle
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bag, hammer, driver, gloves numerous times and sealing ring we should both
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have exhausted our golden boot potential.
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<p align=right>8 hrs
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<p><a href="#id1982-115-3">Next trip</a>/
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<a href="#id1982-115-1">Previous trip</a>
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<hr />27th Tuesday 113 Andy W + Pete
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<p>Having calculated all the tackle to the nearest inch, the rigging in was
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bound to be superbly efficient and smooth - WRONG ! The entrance pitch was
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easy, then Andy tried to pioneer a new route to Fox's Glacier. Once a safe
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route was relocated, life got complicated since Point Five Gully was
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completely iced over - exit one 50+m rope meant for lower down. More big ice
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formations in Barnsley Methodist Chapel then cock-up no. 2, a 15m rope for a
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14m pitch with a 10m belay. A 22m rope didn't quite reach, much to Andy's
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annoyance, so exit another 50+m rope meant for lower down. The next rope was
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perfect though, and the smooth efficiency started to appear. Rigged right on
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down the Opera House and Purple Pit to -210m and dumped remaining tackle
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(just one short rope) before muesli crawl. Then up and out to a rainy, dark,
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grotty evening. 7 hrs.
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<br>Desperate walk back in wet black gravity. Missed pub but beer in car.
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<p align=right>~ 7 hrs.
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<hr />27th Tuesday <a id="id1982-115-S">Surface survey</a>
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from 113 to 115
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<p align=right>Andy D, Chas.
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<p>Having been shown where 113 lurks, we surveyed down the gully & along
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the path to 115. We used two staffs, compass, clino & tape.
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<p>We left permanent survey stations outside 113, halfway down the 113 gully,
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at 87, at 88 and outside 115. 113 is 164m or something above 115. Caused much
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amusement to local tourists. <---- <i>This ain't caving</i> <font
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size=-1>but it is relevant</font>
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<p>Survey at back of book
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<hr /><a id="id1982-115-3">28th Wednesday</a> July
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<p>Wave 1 115 Rigging rift Ian B &
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Chas
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<p>Another half past six start so we were down in good time. The less said
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about this trip the better. I couldn't find last year's route in the rift so
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nearly gave myself a hernia placing a free-hanging bolt of which more anon.
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Then under the boulders at the top of the inlet pitch which was a fairly
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trepidating experience. Mucked about with a couple of ladders at the
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entrance, met wave 2, and then we'd made a pig's ear of it & went out.
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<p align=right>8 hrs
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<p><a href="#id1982-115-4">Next trip</a>/
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<a href="#id1982-115-2">Previous trip</a>
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<hr /><u><a id="id1982-115-4">Wave 2</a> 115</u> Rigging
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to Big Chamber Andy D, Dave B
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<p>Well the sun was shining so wave 2 only reached the cave at half three.
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God I hate this strenuous boring entrance series. Down the Ramp, mucho
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improved. Incidentally, we passed wave 1 at the Bell Pitch - we we late or
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were they early ? Chas had rigged a fine free hanging bolt but it was removed
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and the old route taken down to the inlet. After much indecision whether to
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go over or under the boulders we bolted out under, and on each successive wet
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pitch we traversed out as far as we could, using the rope from the pitch
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above as aid, to bolt. This made the changeovers strenuous but the pitches
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are dry. At last we dropped down the fine pitch into the Chamber, still as
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big as ever, the stream seemed quite high. Andy didn't say much (his first
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trip) but I coukd see he was enjoying it really. We dumped rope, food, hexy
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burners, sardines etc. and had some tomato & beef soup (yeurgh). Hastened
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slowly out. Emerged at about two in the morning. Andy got really pissed off
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as his Petzl Stinky needed twice as much carbide as mine despite having a 14
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litre jet anstatt the usual 21. 11 hrs.
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<br>The furry suit is starting to niff a bit after only two trips.
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<p align=right>Dave
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<p align=right>11 hrs
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<p><a href="#id1982-115-5">Next trip</a>/
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<a href="#id1982-115-3">Previous trip</a>
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<hr /><a id="id1982-115-5">29th Thursday</a> 115 Pete +
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Phil
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<p>The first big trip - jeez were we knackered ! Full of beans, literally,
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Pete made a jet assisted walk in. Surprisingly efficient trip in with tackle
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bags. The Ramp is different but no easier. Some entertaining rigging on the
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Inlet Pitches. And then Purgatory, what can one say, it goes on and on and
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on. We rigged the Pre-sump Pitch, then the Post-sump Bypass Pitch. On into
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the stream, considering the quantity of rain there was pleasingly low water.
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We rigged the first three streamway pitches, 7m slopping + damp, 5m, new bolt
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to make the next 40m pitch drier. Carried on down a rather wet climb with
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grotty memories of last year, we decided it needed a rope and that we'd turn
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around before we got cold. Going back Purgatory was longer and destroyed a
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tackle bag and a boiler suit. Soup in the main chamber provided just enough
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body heat to combat the chill acquired waiting to brew it ! From then a
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sleepy exit was made, both of us nodding off at strategic points on the
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entrance pitches, and on the Stogerweg on the way back.
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<p align=right>Time 14 hrs.
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<p><a href="#id1982-115-6">Next trip</a>/
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<a href="#id1982-115-4">Previous trip</a>
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<hr />29th Thursday. Sonnenstrahlhöhle
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1623/113 Andy & Mike
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<p>The usual early start got us underground by ~1pm with only mild wittering
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on the entrance rebelay. Things went rather more smoothly than on Tuesday,
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rerigging Point Five Gully with a 36m rope, thus freeing the 53m rope for
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Sprucy Wind. Further success on the 14m pitch led us on to the Opera House
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where Mike found a missing bolt. Purple Pit was as magnificent as ever (Mike
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didn't appreciate the Bowers rebelay). Muesli Crawl was located and Sprucy
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Wind rigged... The squeeze at the pitch head gave Andy some trouble but the
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main trouble was the Union of Bullshitting Spastic Speleologists rope
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protector of which more later... Pitches rigged with minimal slack (one with
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tension between the bolts, much to Mike's chagrin - but the rope only just
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reached the next rebelay anyway). At least one bolt on the next section
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wasn't located, leaving a ~35m section with a couple of rubs :- must fix this
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next time. Needless to say - the rope was too short on the wet part and Andy
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had a brief spell of pitch rigging by braille and ended with a knot to pass
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at the final ledge. Then.... the bottom.
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<p>The chamber at the pitch bottom quickly became littered with bolts,
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hangers and solid rubber trussing gear as yopur intrepid speleos prepared to
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face ... THE SQUEEZE. Urgh ! Gnnuk ! Pop ! Into the Crematorium and the near
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silence of a dry chamber. Tripping over drystone walls as they went, the
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heroes, now over a thousand feet below the black hell of Schwarzmooskogel in
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the remote Austrian Alps .. What ? Oh, sorry - facts only. We looked briefly
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at some climbs and then shinned down into the narrow rift found by Tony's
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carbide lamp in 1980. More thrutching noises, grunts, groans and sundry
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curses accompanied desperate slow, woofta-ripping progress along a crawling
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rift over a four inch stream slot among muddy, sharp crumbly rock. This led
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for ages down tiny hading climbs to a micro-stream. More awkward climbs with
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lobbing lumps of rock dropped to Andy's limit of 1980 - the promising ongoing
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passage was huge ! after removing stones it was almost 4" (10cm) wide with a
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half-body-sized cavity beyond. We extended it about 2ft (60cm) horizontally
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and even less depth. SO much for top entrances to Stellerweg ! Turning round
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and getting out took less than an hour or so, only slightly shredded. I don't
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think Mike really appreciated being taken down here at all.
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<p>So ... OUT ! Re-assuringly steady progress up the pitches interrupted only
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by the crappy UBSS protector falling down the rope and landing on Andy. Don't
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they have croc clips in Bristol ? Sardines at Muesli Crawl galvanised the
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team to upward progress at almost exactly the same speed as before, slowing
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as the boulders became oppressive at the Opera House. Not far to go now chaps
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! Just the thrutchy boulder and the loose scree and the glassy ice slope and
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the endless upward slogging entrance pitch and the bolt and the blasted
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bouncy bunde blocking bludering blacked-out bleary-eyed (insert a plural word
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meaning cavers but beginning with 'B'), from their rightful place on the
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outside skin of the sphere we laughingly call the earth, or something. End
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Delirium.
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<p>We walked back in the dark and missed the pub.
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<p align=right>8½ hours
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<hr /><a id="id1982-115-6">30th Friday</a>
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Schnellzughöhle 115
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<p align=right>Andy D + Chas
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<p>A leisurely start saw us underground by 3 O'Clock. The memory has faded by now but we rigged the last three year's pitches. The next is a pleasant 10m pitch and shortly afterwards a slightly bigger pitch we didn't go down. At the time we thought it might be a climb but it definitely isn't.
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<p>We took some food and a stove down to the sump bypass and had a brew of disgusting soup in the Big Chamber on the way out.
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<p>Oh and we put backup bolts on some of the other streamway pitches. Out at 5.20 in the dawn light. Andy kept falling asleep on the walk back.
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<p align=right>14 hrs
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<p><a href="#id1982-115-7">Next trip</a>/
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<a href="#id1982-115-5">Previous trip</a>
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<hr /><i>There is a very large blank space in the logbook suggesting an omitted
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write-up that no-one ever got round to.</i>
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<hr />Saturday 31st July
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<p>Well, Dave and Ian were going to explore the phreatic maze at the bottom
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of 41 .... but we'd been outdrinking the local cavers in Bad Mitterndorf last
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night and the first expedition Huey & Ralph by Dave meant that he jacked
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at the carpark.
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<hr />Sunday 1st August
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<p><a id="id1982-115-7">41 Phreatic</a> Ian & Dave
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<p>Alpine style starts at 0600 hours just don't work for C.U.C.C. so a
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leisurely start meant we felt vaguely human as we descended the usual boring
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entrance. Excitement at the wet pitches with a roar of water (it had been
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raining). We descended hurtling down through the spray footing it from wall
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to wall to avoid the worst. Vague doubts about the return are dispelled as we
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soar down into the Big Chamber. Food was dumped (fromk the tacklebag) and we
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scrambled into the connection. Damn we're lost. Back and forth, eventually we
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are on a ledge in 41 but 10m above the floor ! Shit ! BAck again and at last
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we've done it. On into the Dartford Tunnel - this is huge but better things
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are to come. Turning left to last year's terminus. Excitelment increases - we
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are in virgin passage - no, still old footprints in the sand ahead. Suddenly
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an inscription "cucc/UBSS 81" in the mud and ahead a sloping traverse. This
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was quickly overcome and ahead a stomping passage leads to - what ? A small
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climb is overcome and we cross a deep rift with a roar of water but ahead the
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phreatic tube continues. We're almost running now, pinting out features, not
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listening, the tension is incredible, a feeling of "how long will it last?"
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Suddenly a junction with a dry Purgatory in the floor and a dead bat. Hardly
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pausing we push up Rampant Passage, slower now, panting with exertion and
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excitement, this tube rises a hundred feet in two hundred feet of length. At
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the top we suddenly emerge into Cologne Cathedral, a silent but huge chamber.
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A dangerous climb leads to 30m Echo Aven. We return and push down the rift.
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Ahead the roar of water and suddenly we're hanging out over over an enormous
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streamway, water cascades down out of sight. We can't go on so we survey
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grade 2 out in what we've found. A magnificent trip and the sunset on the
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Trisselwand as we emerged was quite superb. This was continental caving as
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I'd really imagined it.
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<p align=right>10 hrs
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<p align=right>Dave
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<p><a href="#id1982-115-8">Tourist trip same day</a>/
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<a href="#id1982-115-9">Surveying trip next day</a>/
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<a href="#id1982-115-10">Next pushing trip</a>/
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<a href="#id1982-115-6">Previous trip</a>
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<hr /><a id="id1982-142-1">Saturday 31st
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July</a> - Prospecting south of 41 on east side of
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Schwarzmooskogel.
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<p>Pete, Mike, Phil.
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<p>With three of us strung across the 'bunde' we covered quite a lot of
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ground, and yet this amounted to probably only 10% of the area we crossed.
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And caves do appear in the middle of nowhere. The major joint trends are easy
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to follow but largely unproductive being full of small non-draughting shafts.
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Valleys are much more promising and consequently full of bunde. Two decent
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prospects were found.
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<dt>131<dd>A large classical cave entrance strewn with boulders in a
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prominent valley. Back bearings to Trisselberg 170°, Bergrestaurant
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240°. Probably about 1720m. Best reached from the cairned path along the
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ridge top, which leaves Stogerweg at cave 28.
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<dt>132<dd>Small hole immediately below an ice + stone plugged shaft. Very
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good draught out. About 250m south of 41 at approx same height. No bearings.
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Best reached from the Stogerweg 200m before 32, climb beneath a small cliff,
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then up diagonally through bunde to large grassy + rocky slope. Climb to top
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right of this slope to find the ice plugged shaft.
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<p><a href="#id1982-142-2">Next trip</a>
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<hr /><a id="id1982-142-2">Sunday 1st August</a> Prospecting -
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131, 132
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<p>Phil + Mike
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<p>We had intended to go down the streamway in 115, but all the rain the day
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before and the swollen becks on the surface at the Bergrestaurant caused us
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to make a nearly sensible decision. Unfortunately the restaurant was closed
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and we didn't have the face to go straight back so we tramped to 115, thought
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some more, and decided to go back to yesterday's finds. The bunde was piss
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wet, so were we, maybe slightly in the head too.
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<p>First to 132, clad in T-shirts + Wetsuit top + jeans, Phil dropped in,
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squirmy entrance, dug through some stones into a low phreatic tunnel, no
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draught. Mike tracked the draught, dug out some boulders and revealed masses
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of phreatic passage, hading ramps and possible big pitches. This is almost
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certainly another entrance into the top of Stellerweg hohle. There are also a
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number of ramps upwards, two of which were traced to earthworm size wet holes
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alluringly near to the surface. There must be potential for a higher entrance
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to the system. Worth going back to but we're keeping the location secret
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until 115 is surveyed. The exploration was halted by a shortage of light and
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sore knees.
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<p>131. Just a quick look, another steep ramp, but no horizontal development
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in the top 30m. Holes in the ramp of tight vadose stream character, with a
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drop estimated at 80m.
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<p align=right>Time ~3 hrs
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<p><a href="#id1982-142-3">Next 142 trip</a>/
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<a href="#id1982-142-1">Previous trip</a>
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<hr /><a id="id1982-115-8">Sunday 1st August</a> Gear + Limb
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testing trip down 115
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<p>Tim and Philip S
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<p>Phil's first trip down any continental cave - and on his 28th (<--
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<font size=-2>I don't believe it!</font>) birthday too. Originally we were
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only going down to test out Tim's SRT gear, wetsuit, enduro suit etc. that
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had been sitting in 4 City Rd for months. When we were down it seemed a shame
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not to go on so we continued down to the top of the wettish pitches before
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the big chamber.
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<p>Fine training trip, 5 hours
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<p><a href="#id1982-115-7">Pushing trip same day</a>/
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<a href="#id1982-115-9">Surveying trip next day</a>/
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<a href="#id1982-115-10">Next pushing trip</a>
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<hr /><a id="id1982-115-9">Monday 2nd August</a> 115
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surveying Phil S & Chas
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<br>Surveying round the Big Chamber & placed a fixed station. V. slow 7
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hrs saw a pine marten on the way back not in the cave, fool. ~ 7 hrs
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<hr /><a id="id1982-115-10">Monday 2nd August</a> 115 Pushing
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<p>Mike + Phil
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<p>Got down to Main Chamber in 1½ hrs for Dig Bicks, then to sump in
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1½ hrs, then added a short rope to the stream "Yet another pitch"
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before continuing. Rebelayed the Letch Pitch to make it slightly less damp
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though with a bit more enterprise and penduling through the waterfall a
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comfortable rebelay may have been managed farther round to the right; but it
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was too cold for acrobatics. Below 'the Slit', Andy + CHas' last pitch, the
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stream meandered on to a fairly grotty looking pitch 'Coming Soon' which we
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rigged and then jacked through coldness and the ever pesent paranoia that the
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damned stream is out to get us. Met Tim + Pete at foot of Letch pitch and
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left them with the glory hunt and tales of gathering clouds on the surface.
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Not too hard on exit, it just takes so long, and Mike had a lot of trouble
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with his genitalia; endeavouring to return them to a state of prepubescence
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by the application of a non too comfortable prussik truss.
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<p>As last year the trips are getting heroically long to place a couple of
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bolts, and hydrophobia is rife. We definitely need some sustained fair
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weather, or else we'll all be reduced to surveying trips.
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<p align=right>Time 15 hrs
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<a href="#id1982-115-11">Next pushing trip</a> (following on same day) /
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<a href="#id1982-115-7">Previous pushing trip</a>
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<hr /><a id="id1982-115-11">Monday 2nd August</a> 115 Pushing
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<p>Tim + Pete
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<p>Team gastronomique went down with the express intention of blitzing the
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food dumps; if the cave went a little bit further than last time then it was
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purely by accident.
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<p>Got quickly to main chamber + made do with a couple of Mars Bars. Blatted
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on down Purgatory + met Phil + Mike at Letch pitch on their way out. Brief
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pause to unload unruly bowels. Continued to Slit pitch where some rather
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desperate rope damage was skilfully concealed with a rope protector. Next
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pitch was Phil + Mike's undescended 8m pitch which landed in a pleasant,
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gently sloping canal. Sauntered on down, passage looking more + more
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sump-like every step. Rounded corner to see sump. Sighs of relief could be
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heard all the way back to the main entrance. Unfortunately.... youthful
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over-enthusiasm on the part of Plank caused him to plunge into a rather deep
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dank pool + find a duck with a few inches of air space out under one wall.
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Trying not to think of upstream bowel movements + ignoring little brown
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submarines in the pool, our intrepid team swam through more cnal (the final
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sump can't be far now can it ?) leading to yet another pitch - Orgasm Chasm.
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Rigged ~ 40 ft to a ledge then 40ft to another ledge. Still couldn't see the
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bottom. Pretty spray-lashed chamber - very impressive. Came out. Stopped for
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a brew at sump bypass food dump. Stopped for another at main chamber. Came
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out pretty slowly. May have had less to do with fatigue than with the weight
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of Dig Biccies being carried in tummies.
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<p align=right>time 16 hrs.
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<p><a href="#id1982-115-13">Next pushing trip</a>/
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<a href="#id1982-115-12">Next trip</a> (surveying)/
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<a href="#id1982-115-10">Previous trip</a>
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<hr />Tuesday 3rd August No trips, at least not speleological (!)
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<p align=right>. . . . . way out man . . . . .
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<hr />Wednesday 4 August
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<p>Phil S & Janet abortive trip to begin survey of the Purgatory.
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Sensible decision taken at 115 entrance in face of nausea (& headache).
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Retrat.
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<hr /><a id="id1982-142-3">Weds 4th Aug</a>
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<p>Doug, Mike
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<p>Exploration of 132. Found a big chamber and a big pitch. Thrutched around
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various crawls and lost each other. Sat around waiting for each other for 2
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hrs and then went to call out rescue for each other. Fortunately met near
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entrance. Almost a nasty fiasco.
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<p align=right>Doug. ~ 4 hrs
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<p><a href="#id1982-142-4">Next trip</a>/
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<a href="#id1982-142-2">Previous trip</a>
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<hr /><a id="id1982-115-12">THURSDAY 5 AUGUST</a>
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<p>Phil S. & Janet
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<p>Second attempt to survey Purgatory. Dave & Chas followed us down -
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about 1 hr 20 mins to Main Chamber. An hour later we were still there trying
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to get the clino to be visible - all fogged up. Janet put it in a pocket
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whilst we chatted to Phil & Pete - then took itn out to discover it was
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perfectly clear. Surveyed 9 stations down Purgatory when it fogged up again.
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Philip tried everything - breathing on it, sucking it, licking it - sticking
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it in armpits etc. whilst Janet painted a mark. Got it visible again and
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surveyed - with several clino problem breaks - until station 24 when it
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became completely unmanageable. Painted mark & came out - sane but cold.
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A quick dash around phreatic passage to Pebble Beach Chamber and the drafty
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hole to warm up + back to main chamber for sardines (later regretted). Out in
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3 hrs 10 minutes - forgetting the notebook in the Main Chamber. The Purgatory
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has ways of preserving its secrets...
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<p><a href="#id1982-115-13">Next pushing trip</a> (same day)/
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<a href="#id1982-115-16">Next surveying trip</a>/
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<a href="#id1982-115-11">Previous trip</a>
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<hr /><a id="id1982-115-13">Thursday 5th August</a> 115
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Pushing
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<p>Chas & Dave
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<p align=right>My old man said "Follow the van..." geddit ? Gertcha !
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<p>Well . . . . what can I say ? Preparing for a long trip, Dave put on long
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johns, wetsuit, furry suit, pullover, cagoule and overalls. Unfortunately he
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could barely move and had to take off a layer or two at the Ramp. Down the
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Purgatory was as nasty as ever. Then, past the Confluence and "Yeeeeeeeah !"
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I've never been as near having an orgasm underground as when I saw the smoked
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"CUCC 82" in the roof. Suitably encouraged by the easy way out, we pressed
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on. A pleasant series of pitches lead to the Duck. Yeurgh !! Chas did well to
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survive in just a furry suit. Then - Orgasm Chasm. Jeez what a shaft ! We put
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in two bolts and a large freehang 150+ dropped to (no not a floor) a ledge.
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Another bolt but rope too short. Still no floor. Back (bounce) up (bounce)
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the Interalp (bounce) which stopped bouncing when it caught and I was
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prussiking up an iron bar ! Shit. We've now been under 9 hours so exit. Large
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gonk at sump bypass. At confluence we gratefully climbed up into the phreas.
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The way to 115 is about half a mile of walking and traversing. Towards the
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end we were stopping every 50m for a rest. In the Big Chamber, we had a
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really bad gonk for 25 minutes or so - I began to wonder if we'd make it.
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Once the prussiking had started it wasn't so bad but it was slow hard
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progress all the way. The Bell Pitch alone took 15 minutes. Then the crawl
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out to a painful dawn. In silence we changed and walked back to the
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Loserhütte. The sight of Mike asleep in his car was very welcome indeed.
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At long last we could relax, after sixteen and a half hours unbroken struggle
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with this fierce cave.
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<p align=right>16½ hours
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<p><a href="#id1982-115-15">Next streamway pushing trip</a>/
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<a href="#id1982-115-14">Bypass pushing trip</a> (same day)/
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<a href="#id1982-115-7">Trip which left the "CUCC 82"</a>/
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<a href="#id1982-115-11">Previous streamway pushing trip</a>
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<hr /><a id="id1982-142-4">Thursday 5th August</a> Exploring
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132
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<p align=right>Tim, Andy D & Mike
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<p>Went to Big Chamber to descend pitch with 66m rope, water for Andy's stink
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found next to rescue Mars Bar. Descended big pitch via ledge 4m down, after
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much wittering ~35m pitch into huge chamber filled with v. loose boulders,
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ways on opposite pitch via loose squeeze, not pushed. Ways down under loose
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boulders in floor probably choked.
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<p align=right>5 hrs
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<p><a href="#id1982-142-5">Next trip</a> (derigging)/
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<a href="#id1982-142-3">Previous trip</a>
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<hr /><a id="id1982-115-14">Thursday 5th August</a>
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<br>115 Dry Bits
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<br>Phil, Pete.
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<p align=right>11 hrs
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<p>Aim: to push the streamway found by Ian + Dave
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beyond the railway tunnel in Stellerweg.
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<p>Met Janet + Phil in Big Chamber, then through the connection; route
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finding being moderately easy - following footprints. Heard Janet + Phil
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surveying in Purgatory when we were at connection cairn. In Junction Chamber
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we shot up the big passage and missed the turning left to the railway tunnel.
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We eventually got to the point where traversing became nasty + realized our
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mistake; but it should be possible to go much further up here. Down the
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railway tunnel with various climbs up & down and a jump across the top of
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the stream canyon; we reached a corner where the traverse ran out; so
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freeclimbed down ~5m to the stream below, we were amazed to find arrows
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pointing upwards, smoked onto the wall and then a pitch, nicely rigged: we
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were in the 115 streamway, we trogged down to the sump just to make sure. We
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had dropped down at the Confluence. We went back up the "Stellerweg Inlet",
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which starts off larger than Purgatory, but soon breaks down into inlets; we
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freeclimbed ~7m pitch, but eventually gave up when it was getting tight.
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There didn't seem any easy way of getting up into the dry stuff, so we went
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back to the Confluence and climbed up there. Rigged a traverse with a rope
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(before this we managed to avoid the jump across the stream by following a
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parallel ramp on the left). We had a prod around in many of the passages, but
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they all seem to close down as inlets; so there doesn't seem much prospect
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for any great extension. Coming back found a phreatic tube/crawl which
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bypassed the cairn + a small passage with some <u>straws</u> ! Dropped back
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into the Purgatory to avoid the traverse near 115.
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<p>Fine walk back - views of the Dachstein by moonlight ! Pete.
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<p><a href="#id1982-115-13">Streamway pushing trip</a> which left the arrows (same day)/
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<a href="#id1982-115-12">Surveying trip</a> (same day)/
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<a href="#id1982-115-15">Next pushing trip</a> (camp)/
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<a href="#id1982-115-11">Previous Bypass pushing trip</a>
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<hr />Thursday 5th August SONNENSTRAHLHÖHLE survey +
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frontier push.
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<p>The trip that took four days to start ! Doug & Andy had even got
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changed outside the entrance for one attempt before jacking. Finally
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underground at 12.30 on Thursday ... now read on ...
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<p>Zapped down to Opera House then started survey from station 1980/S27 at
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the thread. Keine promble down Purple Pit confirming previous "survey" to
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1980/SA0 at the last bolt. Zoomed through muesli crawl to Sprucy Wind where
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Andy relieved the tension in the rebelay (not without hassle). Then zipped
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down the rope to the bottom. Thrutched into the Crematorium where Andy
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started and Doug finished a bolt to protect a daring climb onto the loose
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muddy sloping ledge. Doug did the daring deed of deadly dangerous desperate
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daring (Bzzzzz! "repetition"). Onto the ledge and along past a thread
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(runner) and onto the base of the ramp. Needless to say, but I'll say it
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anyway, this didn't go. Doug reached the base of an unscalable 15m aven and
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the hoped for streamway bypass was unfound. Retreat, unable to evade the
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concept which strikes dread into every caver's heart. . .
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<p>DERIGGING (Aaagh ! No ! Faint ! Throw up !)
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<p>Derigged the whole of Sprucy Wind and the last bit of Purple Pit. Exitted
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(very slowly with more cursing / unit depth than previously seen this year)
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with 150m rope + hangers & Co. & Co. Out @ midnight to v. nice moon.
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<p>11½ hours (gasp!). A.
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<hr /><u>Friday 6th August</u> <u>Dachstein walking trip</u>
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<p>Doug, Andy W, Andy D, Chas
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<p>Quite a drive to Ramsau am Dachstein, aided by a [?] of beer and snacks.
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Once there we looked at the walk up, looked at the Seilbahn tariff, looked at
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the walk again and decided that 150 S would be well spent on a return ticket.
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The ride is very steep and goes up 1000m in a single span. The path looks
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appalling from the Seilbahn - very exposed & scree-covered. Besides it's
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better to save your energy for when you get to the top.
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<p>Most of the glacier is flat, mushy snow without crevasses. We took a walk
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up the Hoher Gjaidstein 2,7 hundred and something. Fine view of the
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Trisselwand and of Hoher Dachstein from the top. It looks quite easy to get
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up Hoher Dachstein so this must be done next time.
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<p>Doug and Andy W went to play on the bergschrund & Andy D and Chas
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found a snowslope to learn braking and glissading on. Standing glissade is
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really fun. We rushed back, missed a bahn by one minute and had to wait for
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the last one down - by this time the weather had really come down and the
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lightning was flashing. We met a real alpinist and his son, draped round with
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sitharnesses, chest harnesses, pegs, nuts, etriers, crampons, enormous coils
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of rope, u.s.w., u.s.w. A very good day out.
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<p align=right>Chas.
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<p>P.S. the altitude (or something) made us fart like drains. We think
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methane comes out of solution at low pressures.
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<hr />Friday 6th August
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<p>No caving was done. Went to the fireworks at Hallstatt and spent the day
|
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searching Bad Aussee for gas.
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<br><font size=-1><i>Why walk further than Waddington's tent ?</i></font>
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<hr />Saturday 7th August
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<p>Tim and Phil nearly went underground, but fitness doubts in training and
|
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intense precipitation caused a sensible decision to be made. Instead, tackle
|
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for a camp was assembled and carried up to 115.
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<p>Did anyone cave ? No. I think not. The three day cycle strikes with a
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vengeance: it certainly can't be the sunshine that keeps us above ground.
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<p>Somebody write in this space. So as I can have a clean page for the next
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write up.
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<p>[ someone has obligingly written "Balls" diagonally in large letters to
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fill the space, Ed. ]
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<hr /><a id="id1982-115-15">Sunday/Monday</a> 8/9th
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August 115
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<p>Tim + Phil
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|
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<p>We went in with Paddy and Dave as Sherpas to ferry four tackle bags and a
|
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50m rope to the phreas above the Stellerweg - Purgatory confluence. A camp
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was established on a moderately flat sandy patch in a side passage with very
|
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little draught. Shitting facilities, upwind, in an abandoned vadose groove.
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Water at the Confluence, a ten minute round trip.
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|
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<p>After Rams Bras + Dig Bix we went on a pushing trip. Rerigged ORgasm
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Chasm, same bolts so enterprisingly installed by Chas + Dave, different rope.
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Both had lots of fun shuffling ropes and knots and rebelays suspended 200' up
|
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the gaping hole. The big pitch ~150', is really great to descend but a nerve
|
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wracking slog up, listening for twangs and rubs. Orgasm Chasm finally rigged
|
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with a 3m descending traverse line, two ~12m pitches, a 7m, 45mm, round a
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col, 15m. At the floor of the Chasm, the water runs down a rift in one
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corner, followed round to a black slit hole. On the opposite side of the
|
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Chasm to the final rope, an archway leads into a semi-abandoned passage, with
|
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a 6m pitch and then the same black slit as above. Put a bolt on this but
|
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didn't descend, sounds about 100' deep - could this be the end ? Don't miss
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next week's exiting episode. The return trip was dogged by light problems.
|
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Four boxes of wet matches, two dud cigarette lighters, a self destructing
|
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leaky ammo can led to several anxious moments. Good advert for Timex watches,
|
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still running after a 60' drop and two hours immersed in water - not so Casio
|
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watches.
|
|
|
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<p>Back to camp at 2am, dry clothes, warm pits, soup, spag bol, egg noodles,
|
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dig bix, cigarettes and a comfortable kip till midday. Nice not to be woken
|
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by the sun, or to know that it had pissed with rain all night. Just as above
|
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ground the worst part of camping is getting out of a warm pit into the cold
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air and then into cold damp caving gear. A grade IV Yorkshire change.
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|
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<p>On our way back to the surface we were rather pissed off not to meet the
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next wave of campers, bar amp followers. A little trickle of rain had
|
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frightened them away, they sat in BAr fischer and auctioned off our cassette
|
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tapes, hash, etc. Good to have friends. Exit from camp only took 3½
|
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hours, including further extensive stops to get carbides going, Phil having
|
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prussiked up his own prussik sling in the dark ! Emerged to daylight, Mike
|
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and Andy to meet us, veg curry, beer and the munchies.
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|
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<p>CUCC first underground camp.
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<br>Deepest CUCC trip ? But how deep.
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<br>Time underground 31 hrs.
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<p><a href="#id1982-115-17">Next (abortive) pushing trip</a> (camp) /
|
|
<a href="#id1982-115-16">Surveying trip</a> (same day)/
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<a href="#id1982-115-19">Next useful pushing trip</a> (camp) /
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<a href="#id1982-115-13">Previous pushing trip</a>
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<hr /><a id="id1982-115-16">Schnellzughöhle</a> : The Survey
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?! Pete and Andy
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|
|
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<p>A 'gentle' introduction to the system for Andy - whose light was in his
|
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car (oops). Down on Chas's light (Thanks Chas) but with no water - at first.
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Pete and Andy soon had hands cold enough to grab water and make ice cubes,
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but we refrained and carried on surveying and surveying and surveying and
|
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surveying and surveying and
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s u r v e y i n g
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a n d
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s u r v e y a w n. Met Paddy
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and Dave coming the other way in their sherpa trip, so added them to the
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survey party leaving Andy to sketch only. This didn't help as his light ran
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out of water. Anyway, we stopped at the top of the Ramp. Relief for Andy also
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meant light for Andy, but a nasty burnt urea smell for all concerned.
|
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Thrashed out - 6 hrs ? What is this ? A short trip ?!! Unheard of !.
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<p align=right>A.
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<p>P.S. The survey, while short, may be the best bit !
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<p>[Webeditor: the results of this particular survey trip may be seen on the
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site in <a href="../../smkridge/41/115p.png">plan (33k gif, 800x1080)</a> or <a href="../../smkridge/41/115x.png">extended section (23k gif, 1090x700)</a>]
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<p><a href="#id1982-115-18">Next surveying trip</a> /
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<a href="#id1982-115-15">Pushing trip</a> (same day - camp) /
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<a href="#id1982-115-12">Previous surveying trip</a>
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<hr /><a id="id1982-115-17">Tuesday / Wednesday 10/11
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August</a> 115 Pushing ? + Camping
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<p>Mike and Andy
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<p>It rained all night on Monday night but we still went down even though it
|
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looked a bit wet. Got u/g at ~12 to be greeted almost immediately by the
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sound of rushing water in places which are normally dry. Took a long time to
|
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get to big chamber owing to failure of Mikes big stinky. Found way through
|
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Purgatory Bypass surprisingly easily only went wrong way twice. The water at
|
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the Confluence looked rather high but we decided to push on down. Got as far
|
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as the 2nd pitch in Orgasm Chasm which we found <u>FULL</u> of water. Andy
|
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tested it with his foot and retreated. We reluctantly jacked and had an
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uneventful trip out apart from meeting Pete + Andy W in streamway (and being
|
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later woken up by them) Our only achievement on this trip was removing some
|
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rubbish from the camp.
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|
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<p align=right>~ 28 hours
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<p><a href="#id1982-115-19">Next streamway pushing trip</a> (the bottom) /
|
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<a href="#id1982-115-18">Surveying trip</a> (same day) /
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<a href="#id1982-115-15">Previous streamway pushing trip</a>
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<hr /><a id="id1982-115-18">Tuesday / Wednesday 10/11
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August</a> 115
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<p>Pete + Andy W
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<p>Went down the streamway thought it rather wet but pressed on and surveyed
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from the 12 foot climb downstream. Met Andy + Mike who'd jacked because of
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water. Got to the head of the Marlow climb where we decided to turn back
|
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because of extreme cold, worries about the water, single bolt rigging, etc.
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So we surveyed the dry bit from Confluence almost to the Big Chamber,
|
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stopping at the camp for a meal. Out not too rapidly.
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<p align=right>Pete
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<p align=right>21 hours
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<p><a href="#id1982-115-20">Next surveying trip</a> /
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<a href="#id1982-115-17">Pushing trip</a> (same day - camp, abortive) /
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<a href="#id1982-115-16">Previous surveying trip</a>
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<hr /><a id="id1982-115-19">Wednesday / Thursday 11/12
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August</a> 115
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<p>Chas and Dave
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<p align=right>The Sump<!-- replace this with a scanned graphic ? -->
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<br><font size=-1>Rabbit Rabbit Rabbit !</font>
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<p>As we entered, sun was beating down & promised to hold. This was the
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last pushing trip cos time was out - derigging would have to start tomorrow.
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We met Mike & Dobbers at inlet pitches and learnt to our dismay that they
|
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had been foiled by water in Orgasm Chasm. This meant that photo gear had to
|
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be abandoned at the camp for an all out push. As we entered the streamway the
|
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water seemed higher than usual. We pushed quickly on - I was thinking of the
|
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wet pitch found by Tim & Phil but knew we'd go on until bolts or rope ran
|
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out regardless of time. Duck was not too bad and onto Orgasm Chasm. On the
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big drop were two ropes - Chas went down the one with no knot on the end but
|
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spotted it in time (phew). The pitches became wetter and then the 100'. I
|
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vegetated while Chas placed one wet freehanging bolt then down into a cold
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spray lashed chamber. We rushed into a corner to fettle. Poking among
|
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enormous boulders we dropped into the stream again, through a canal and to a
|
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20' pitch. No, it was a free climb and suddenly a sump. Just a rift with a
|
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very deep scummy pool. No great thrill, no cheers or handshakes, we traversed
|
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over to check for a bypass, but I think we knew this was it and we were
|
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getting cold so a slow return to camp was made. A good meal and a King Edward
|
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Cigar to celebrate, and a good nights sleep meant a speedy exit the next day.
|
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It's very hard to get out of bed when it's dark even at 1pm. We hitched back
|
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to camp and revealed all - I think they were all very pleased though cavers
|
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aren't prone to outbursts of emotion.
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<p align=right>29½ hours
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<p><a href="#id1982-115-20">Next trip to bottom</a> /
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<a href="#id1982-115-17">Previous (abortive) pushing trip</a>
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<a href="#id1982-115-15">Previous pushing trip</a>
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<hr />Friday 13th August 113
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<p>Tim + Phil
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<p>Just for a change of cave we derigged 113 from Purple Pit to the entrance.
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Apart from one trip down Lost Johns and a couple down 132, 115 is the only
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cave both of us had been in in the last twelve months. Sonnenstrahlhohle is a
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fine pot, great shame its not the entrance to 115. Positively speleoorgasmic
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entrance. Some pretty hair raising bolts though, even if they are well
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positioned. In and out in 3½ hours. Then we had to walk back avec
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beaucoup de tackle; there are far more pleasurable ways of putting your back
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out than carrying 120m of rope and a rucksack full of caving gear; but such
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means are not so readily available. Malesh !
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<hr />Friday 13th August Dachstein walking trip
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<p align=right>Andy W, Dave, Mike, Chas
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<p>We went up Hoher Dachstein. Across the glacier - saw one uncovered
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crevasse - up a snowslope & then via an incredible number of fixed
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enormous pegs to the top. Having carried beer up for summit celebrations Chas
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reached the top, dumped the sack and broke a bottle, flooding several
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people's gear. Weather got worse & we came down. V. fine walk.
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<p>Chas.
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<hr /><a id="id1982-115-20">Friday / Saturday 13/14
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August</a> 115 Derigging & Surveying
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<p>Pete and Andy D
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<p>Got down to the bottom in about 5 hours, where we ritually peed in the
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sump and photographed it. Its rather similar to the one in Penyghent, in a
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rift, and looking as if it goes deep. There is a small passage going up above
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the sump, but it is full of boulders and we didn't think it was the time to
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start digging. We surveyed and derigged the two big pitches in 5 hours and
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managed to take the tackle thru the duck before it all got too much and we
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left it at the head of the last streamway pitch. 4½ hours, 60 stations
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and 5 bars of chocolate later we decided we were bored with surveying and
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jacked in at the head of last year's undescended pitch. We arrived back at
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camp after 16½ hrs caving and ate a vast amount before we went to bed.
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We met Chas & Dave at the camp, then Andy + Mike who relieved us of
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tackle bags at the bottom of the rift pitches. The entry was rather slow due
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to severe abrasion problems in very sensitive areas. Just managed to see the
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fireworks as we came out.
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<p align=right>Pete
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<p align=right>32 hours
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<p><a href="#id1982-115-22">Next derigging trip</a> /
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<a href="#id1982-115-19">Previous bottoming trip</a> /
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<a href="#id1982-115-21">Next (survey/sherpa) trip</a> /
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<a href="#id1982-115-18">Previous surveying trip</a> /
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<hr /><a id="id1982-115-21">Saturday 14th August</a> 115 Surveying
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<p>Mike & Andy W
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<p>Good late start, but not too inefficient down to Ramp. Survey went rather
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slowly. Like everywhere else in the cave, its a bastard to sketch the ramp.
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You can tell how slow progress was when two of us had time for 4 (four)
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pisses and one shit at just one rebelay. Surveying hurriedly (but not too
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quickly) out of the serious odour zone, we heard Pete & Andy coming up
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from below. Not wishing to collide part way down a rope, we waited and then
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carried gear for the deriggers to the entrance. Out in time for an aerial
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view of the fireworks. Rotten traffic jams in Altaussee.
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<p align=right>6 hrs
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<p><a href="#id1982-115-22">Next surveying trip</a> (same day and overnight) /
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<a href="#id1982-115-20">Previous surveying trip</a>
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<hr /><a id="id1982-115-22">Saturday / Sunday 13/14th</a> [actually 14/15th,
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Ed.] 115 Surveying, Derigging, photoing, bat rescue, etc.
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<p>Chas + Dave. <font size=-2>Gortcha !</font>
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<p>After wogging all the beans and tuna, leaving only sardines for the other
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intrepid speleos, we went quickly down to the camp & met Pete & Andy
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there. Dismayed to find quite a bit of surveying still to be done, from the
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free climb above the Pool Pitch down to last year's undescended pitch. This
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took us over 100 legs of fast surveying to grade 3. We had Dave's Photo gear
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& photoed the Pool Pitch on the way. Went on down to the duck where Chas
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bravely volunterred to venture into the icy water, the cold clutching at his
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vitals, while Dave stood in up to his waist & took several stunning
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action photos. Then we derigged out as far as the head of the Pool Pitch and
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left all the tackle there. This involved some tremendous activity with a
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pulley and jammer courtesy of Brindle haulage Ltd. - Chas's footloops were
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nearly sawn in half. Back to camp for an ausblaten meal.
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<p>Leisurely start on Sunday. We piccied the Dartford Tunnel at length - at
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least Dave piccied it while unwilling photographer's assistant scurried round
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in the dark letting off flashguns. We found several bats in the phreas &
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brought out three, carefully packed in a tin, having photographed one in situ
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first. This brings the known total of bats to about 5 and makes me wonder
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whether the phreas does connect to the surface somewhere down the hill.
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<p>Photographed the Rift pitches & Bell pitch on the way out & exited
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to a colossal thunderstorm. The walk back was the most desperate part of the
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trip & we were grateful to Mike for being in the carpark.
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<p>33 hrs Chas <--- the longest ever
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<p><a href="#id1982-115-23">Next surveying trip</a> /
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<a href="#id1982-115-24">Next derigging trip</a>
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<a href="#id1982-115-21">survey/Sherpa trip</a> (earlier same day)
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<a href="#id1982-115-20">Previous derig/camping trip</a>
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<hr /><a id="id1982-115-24">Monday / Tuesday</a>
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<p align=center>115 Derigging
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<p>Mike, Pete
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<p>Spent many hours hauling 4 amazingly heavy tackle bags up from top of Lake
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Pitch to camp, then carried 2 on to Stellerweg chamber where we rigged a rope
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down the climb. So to bed, only to be woken by Andy & Andy at ~3 in the
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morning. Next day we derigged to camp, had a bonfire with the rubbish &
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carried all the gear back to Big Chamber. The inlet pitches were extremely
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wet indeed. So we left the tackle bags we were carrying at the top of chamber
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pitch + got ourselves out. But to redeem the situation we brought one of the
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heavy tackle bags Andy + Andy had left at the last rift pitch.
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<p align=right>31½ hours
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<p><a href="#id1982-115-25">Final derigging trip</a>
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<a href="#id1982-115-23">survey/Sherpa trip</a> (same overnight)
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<a href="#id1982-115-22">Previous derig/camping trip</a>
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<hr /><a id="id1982-115-23">Monday/Tuesday</a>
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<p align=center>15th/16th [actually 16/17th]
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<p>Andy W, Andy D
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<p>Completed surveying of 115 by surveying from bottom of ramp to part way
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down the connection. Went on to camp sketching as we went. Had a quick meal
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at camp and started carrying the streamway tackle out. Found them too heavy
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and left them at various stages on our journey. Came out at 1.30 pm.
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<p align=right>~ 18½ hours
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<p><a href="#id1982-115-25">Final derigging trip</a>
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<a href="#id1982-115-23">Derigging trip</a> (same overnight)
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<a href="#id1982-115-22">Previous surveying trip</a>
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<hr /><a id="id1982-115-25">Wednesday / Thursday 17th/18th [actually 18/19th]</a> <u><b>115
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Final Derig</b></u>
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<p>Dave, Andy D, Paddy, Chas
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<p>The lowest gear was in the Big Chamber and we derigged from there with no
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major hitches. Thanks to everyone who carried the gear back from the
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entrance.
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<p>P.S. Chas was walled in with tackle bags at the entrance crawl. The
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bastards !
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<p align=center>10 hrs
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<p>
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<a href="#id1982-115-24">Previous derig/camping trip</a> /
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This was the last CUCC 115 trip to date
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<hr /><a id="id1982-142-5"><u>Thursday 18th [actually 19th]</u></a> 132
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Derigging
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<p>Mike, Pete
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<p>We derigged 132 in 1½ hrs, then surface surveyed from the lower to
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the upper entrance of 41; and took lots + lots of bearings on the
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Trisselwand.
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<p align=right>1½ hours.
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<p><a href="../1983/log.htm#id1983-142-1">Next trip</a> (1983)/
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<a href="#id1982-142-3">Previous trip</a>
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<li>1982 Expedition info:
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<ul>
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<li>Main Expo report, Cambridge Underground 1983:
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<ul>
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<li><a href="report.htm">CUCC in Austria</a> - Phil Townsend</li>
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<li><a href="41gd.htm">Stellerweg Guidebook Description</a> by Pete Lancaster</li>
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<li><a href="41svy.htm">Stellerweg Survey</a> article by Andy Waddington</li>
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<li><a href="41camp.htm">The Underground Camp</a> by Chas Butcher</li>
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<li><a href="newbit.htm">New Discoveries</a> 1982 by Mike Thomas</li>
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<li><a href="bats.htm">The Bats of 115</a> by Dave Brindle</li>
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</ul></li>
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<li><a href="bcracc.htm">BCRA Caves & Caving Report</a></li>
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<li><a href="../../pubs.htm#pubs1982">Index</a> to all publications</li>
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