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"date": "2025-07-01",
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"title": "Balkonhohle - How many cavers does it take to find Mongol Rally?",
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"place": "Balkonhohle",
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"other_people": "",
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"text": "Chris, Hannah and I set off at the horrible hours of the morning that the toll road requires with the task of rebolting and rigging Mongol Rally. After a long walk to Top Camp and a lot of faff we finally got going at 12:15. The walk to Balcony is definitely not half an hour (despite what Jono says) and so we got underground around 1:30 keen to get out of the heat.\n<p>\nWe did some fettling of the entrance series to prevent rub. One deviation still needs adding - a spit is already there a third of the way down the big pitch on the true left. Hannah did what she called \u2018back seat rigging\u2019 shouting up suggestions of what to edit. \n<p>\nWe set off with confidence at the bottom of the pitch and immediately got lost. Luckily Chris\u2019 memory and Hannah\u2019s vibes ensured we didn\u2019t go down any wrong passage for too long. I had unhelpfully fuzzy memories of every passage. This pattern continued, taking up quite a lot of time until the rope washing station.\n<p>\n<p>\nHere it was packing more packing and trying to avoid mud unsuccessfully. Armed with three disgustingly heavy bags on top of our own we continued, and Chris regaled us with tales of expos past until we eventually found Honeycomb. I did my best to fall down a big hole by going straight at the last tuning but thankfully failed.\n<p>\nWe zoomed down some very slippy ropes and Hannah nearly died on her simple multiple times (her words). And got to the crawl before Mongol Rally around 6:30\n<p>\nHere my true motivations became apparent: I had stuffed my tackle sack with a crowbar , a few spoons and a mess tin with the goal to win a fight with the crawl. Unfortunately by this point psych was low and we were all worried about how long the way in had taken us. Deciding we\u2019d still been helpful in carrying the bags, we left them at the top of Mongol Rally for others to rig. In order of closest to the pitch to furthest they were: blue (three small ropes), green (two big ropes, one thick) and blue (one spare very big rope). There\u2019s also a drill, hangers and maillons. \n<p>\nWanting to at least have a token dig I spent 5 minutes whacking the crawl to surprising progress! It\u2019s wider and was easy to dig. For the good of the collective others are required to give at least three whacks with the crowbar as they pass by.\n<p>\nAnnoyingly the way out took no time at all. Some lovely prussiking and good caving and we were at the bottom of the pitch series in a few hours. We left some cairns in the hope others won\u2019t struggle with nav as much as we did. Hannah blasted some music on a very fucked (although new) cave speaker for motivation for the last prussik and we emerged around 10.\n<p>\nOn the walk back an ominous voice shouted to us over the plateau and we managed to ask Joel to put the kettle on from 15 minutes walk away. A lovely day out.\n<p>\nWritten with additions from Hannah.",
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"slug": "2025-07-01b",
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"time_underground": 8.5,
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"author": {
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"slug": "lara-bartleet",
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"nickname": "Lara",
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"tu": 8.5
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},
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"trippersons": [
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{
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"slug": "lara-bartleet",
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"nickname": "Lara",
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"tu": 8.5
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},
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{
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"slug": "chris-densham",
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"nickname": "Chris Densham",
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"tu": 8.5
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},
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{
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"slug": "hannah-urquhart-greaves",
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"nickname": "Hannah U",
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"tu": 8.5
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}
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],
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"expedition": {
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"year": "2025",
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"name": "CUCC expo 2025"
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},
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"cave": {
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"areacode": "1623",
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"kataster_number": "264",
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"unofficial_number": "2005-05"
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}
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} |