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35 lines
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{
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"date": "1978-08-14",
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"title": "cave - Team Geriatric",
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"place": "cave",
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"other_people": "",
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"text": "<br /><br />Team Geriatric crawled up the hillside half a mile\nbehind the fast moving dust cloud that showed where team youth was burning\nup the miles. At the cave entrance, when they eventually got there, the\npensioners were heard to be talking about family responsibilities,\narthritis and other ploys for not going underground (one of them even had to\nbe lent a descender, having conveniently forgotten his own).\n<br /><br /> Marshalled\nbetween members of the Youth Team, the ancients were carefully fed down the\nentrance of the cave. A curious transformation came over them, a glazed\nexpression in their old eyes as though recalling distant memories of when\nthey too had discovered new glories. Down the first pitch, then the second,\nand the third, then along the traverse ; so far so good, their aged limbs\nhad stood up well to the strain. Now at the head of the next pitch they were\nsat down and told of hitherto undescended holes ahead of them. Then Team\nYouth vanished into the darkness to push into discoveries elsewhere.\n\n<br /><br />Left alone at last, the crones shook off their disguise of weariness.\nSwiftly they fixed a rope down the thirty foot pitch to a large floor of\nunstable boulders. One of them carried on to the bottom of the boulder choke\nwhile another was fixing a bolt at the top of the rift. Soon Rod was going\ndown the rift till he ran out of rope at about 70'. He called for another\nrope, tied it onto the end of the previous one and carried on down to the\nend of that one too. He ascended to a safe spot (The Sentry Box) and called\nthe others down. Dave, the last man down, took another 200' of rope with him\nto the bottom of the second rope. Here he placed another bolt, belayed the\nrope, and vanished off into a vast, dark hole. At one stage he was abseiling\ndown between the wall and a huge pinnacle, 30' high. The rope just reached\nthe floor. Here a stream appeared. He followed it down a descending rift\nuntil, after about 50' of descent, he came to a small pitch with possibly\nanother one beyond that.\n\n<br /><br />Dave prusiked back to where Rod and Vic had been waiting in the Sentry\nBox sharing both ends of a bar of Kendal Mint Cake at the same time since it\nwas too hard to break. From here the operation of getting out was a smooth\nwell-rehearsed exercise that they had done many times before. It took only\njust over the hour to get out onto the plateau where they were in time to\nenjoy the last few hours of sunshine.\n\n<br /><br />And Team Youth ? They came eventually, weary, dirty and dishevelled as\nusual. They had missed the sunshine. It was dark by the time they got\ndown. Team Geriatric had wined and dined and already gone to the pub.\n\n<br /><br /><a href=\"#id1978-107-7\">Previous trip</a>/\n<a href=\"#id1978-107-9\">Next trip</a>",
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"slug": "1978-08-14b",
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"time_underground": 0.0,
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"author": {
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"slug": "dave-fox",
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"nickname": "Dave Fox",
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"tu": 0.0
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},
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"trippersons": [
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{
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"slug": "dave-fox",
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"nickname": "Dave Fox",
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"tu": 0.0
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},
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{
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"slug": "rod-leach",
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"nickname": "Rod Leach",
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"tu": 0.0
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},
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{
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"slug": "vic-brown",
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"nickname": "Vic Brown",
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"tu": 0.0
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}
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],
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"expedition": {
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"year": "1978",
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"name": "CUCC expo 1978"
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}
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} |