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Buck Blake
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<h1>Expo 2025</h1>
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<div class="tripdate" id="2025-06-28a">2025-06-28</div>
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<div class="trippeople"><u>Buck Blake</u>, Alice Kirby, Hamish Weir, Jonty Pine</div>
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<div class="triptitle">Basecamp - Basecamp begins</div>
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Arrived at basecamp ~4:15am and promptly set up tents and went to sleep. Retrieved tatty hut key from the gasthof first thing in the morning, where it was confirmed that taped-off area along the East side of the basecamp field/parking lot has been set aside for camping, rather than parking, meaning we have more space this year!
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Alice and Jonty then went for a mega shop whilst Hamish and I began unpacking the loft.
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Charlotte, Harry, Hannah C, and Chris arrived, shortly followed by the return of Alice and Jonty, finally getting us up to the eight people apparently required to successfully set up the bier tent.
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Alice and I (successfully) tested the Blue Box's number plate on the toll road, then returned to basecamp to admire the now completed bier tent, which shortly thereafter facilitated the frying of 2025's first batches of basecamp chips, shortly before Russell and Joel.
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Evening came, accompanied by some splashing around in the river and much packing of top camp bags. Jonty got the tatty hut wifi working shortly before Dan and Dylan arrived by train. No Ella in sight, however, as she became separated from them during a particularly faffy train changeover, and is now due in an hour later. Lara and Hannah UG due by car past midnight.
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<div class="tripdate" id="2025-06-28b">2025-06-28</div>
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<div class="trippeople"><u>Ella marcovitch</u>, Dan gorst, Dylan wase, Smella Marcovitch</div>
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<div class="triptitle">Base camp - Arrival!</div>
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A nice late morning start of 5.10am to St Pancras International allowed a wonderful night’s sleep (3 hrs). This was followed by Eurostar to Brussels, a train to Frankfurt, and a train to Linz, with all going well.
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Then we arrived at Linz, with dan and Dylan exiting the train. Ella however, was hit with the most egregious faff ever seen. And then suddenly, the beep of the train, the rising of the step, the closing of the doors…and the train rolled away with Ella onboard. RIP.
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After, a slightly mad panic and laughs at the nightmare of a situation, it was worked out that Ella could get the LAST train to Bad Aussee.
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Thankfully, all worked out, with us arriving in two groups after 18hrs and 19hrs. This was followed by some unsuccessful putting up of tents in what felt like a car park, but a good night’s sleep despite the tent looking like an old man’s ball bag.
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<div class="tripdate" id="2025-06-29a">2025-06-29</div>
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<div class="trippeople"><u>Buck Blake</u>, Alice Kirby, Charlotte Payne, Chris Densham, Hamish Weir, Hannah Collings, Harry Kettle, Joel Stobbart, Russell Woodger</div>
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<div class="triptitle">Topcamp - Topcamp Setup</div>
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Awake at 6:30am, a speedy breakfast and a speedy bag check, and we were on our way to the toll road by around 7:10. The walk up the col and across the plateau went nice and smoothly and we were up there by just after 10am (Chris, Harry, and Hannah were up even earlier).
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We quickly set about unpacking the storage cave, and by 11am everything was out. Solar panels were set up, stuff was moved into Stoneybridge, and a water tarp was rigged. We also discovered that the snacks drum had a lot of loose peanuts in it. Given Dan's allergies, we moved this (along with anything else we found to be containing nuts) back into the storage cave for use only once he's left the expedition.
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We then we had a lunch break before beginning the long and arduous process of setting up the ropes for the tarp. There was a lot of searching for bolts and scrutinising old photos of the tarp setup involved, but we eventually got the ropes into a state that looked like it would support a tarp without it tipping water on all our heads. By this point it was getting late, so we decided to leave tarp rigging for the next day.
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We set up the second water tarp, then headed down the hill, reflectoring maybe a third of the route back to the col. We planned to do the whole route, but the reflectors we brought were those from base camp, and we think those were probably just spares, rather than ones taken off the route last year, as there were nowhere near enough. The ones used last year must be some of the ones still at top camp.
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We also had a little trouble finding the battery, but this was eventually found in the Stoneybridge connection to the Animal Hole.
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The reflectors are oriented so that white is to topcamp, and red is to the col. However, a few of the most col-ward reflectors we used were unfortunately white on both sides. These should ideally be swapped out whenever the rest of the route gets reflectored.
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