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35 lines
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{
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"date": "2025-07-13",
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"title": "Gruffalo 2025-js-04 - Descent of Turbine Hall",
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"place": "Gruffalo",
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"other_people": "",
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"text": "With over 100m rope plus rigging gear between the 2 of us we staggered off via the Fishface path. En route we checked out two nearby holes that Joel and Hamish had previously found. \n<p>\nLucky Crowbar was at 33T 411074 5282956. Joel free-climbed down 5m to a snow plug with no way off horizontally. No Draught.\n<p>\n2025-js-06 at 33T 411092 5282971 had a weak draught out. Joel descended 5m on Petzl Pulses to a boulder blockage over a p15. The boulders would need a crowbar or capping to pass.\n<p>\nWe then reached Gruffalo where I was *most* impressed by the absolutely arctic draught blasting out of it. Joel and Hamish had already had a trip to the top of the second pitch but Joel wanted to do some rerigging so I basked in the sun until that was done and I could start the survey. I'd failed to bring any nail varnish so Joel obligingly partly drilled holes to mark stations. He rigged our first 2 ropes and I went out to fetch the third and thaw out my hands. He rigged the second pitch beyond two unpleasant thrutches over wedged boulders then threw rocks at a massive icicle until it was felled to make the pitch a bit safer. He continued down, next to a huge ice floe. We finished our rope and hangers and the survey at the start of a catchy rift, 1m high x 0.5m wide with an absolute gale howling out. I headed out but, oh no, it was now raining. We waited until it stopped then I insisted on a different route back, following the easy, obvious, steadily ascending bunde-free cleft NNE for ~250m until it intersected the usual path SE up to the Tunnocks col (again, easy, bunde-free and steadily ascending) then back to Top Camp on the usual Balkon path.\n<p><b>\nRigging topo for first 3 pitches in Gruffalo \n(as far as the rift below Turbine Hall)\n</b><p>\n<img src = \"/expofiles/photos/2025/rigging-topo-entrance-gruffalo.jpg\"\nwidth = \"600\"/>",
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"slug": "2025-07-13a",
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"time_underground": 5.0,
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"author": {
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"slug": "becka-lawson",
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"nickname": "Becka",
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"tu": 5.0
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},
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"trippersons": [
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{
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"slug": "becka-lawson",
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"nickname": "Becka",
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"tu": 5.0
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},
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{
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"slug": "joel-stobbart",
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"nickname": "Joel",
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"tu": 5.0
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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": "",
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"unofficial_number": "2025-js-04"
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}
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} |