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45 lines
3.4 KiB
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{
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"date": "2025-07-14",
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"title": "KH - To the Natural Way",
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"place": "KH",
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"other_people": "",
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"text": "Following a walk up the plateau to meet with Becka, we packed for a long trip to push the A lead at the end of Natural Way. I joined last minute following Chris needing to spend time fixing the water system. After a quick lunch we wandered across the plateau to the cave and were on our way.\nA relatively efficient journey in through Knossos, up Staircase 36, through to Repton and on to Satan's Sitting Room. This was as far as I'd previously been, so the new experience of the Wise Men traverse of footloops was entertaining. A bit more rope and we were into Tinkle Rift, crawling along the bottom.\nWe then stopped as Russell bolted a handline and traverse at Black Velvet to protect a bold step. Then onwards with another short handline further along. We corkscrewed up near a very large hole and the passage became very crawly as we entered East Anglia. Another short climb, following a contorted passage and we eventually reached the pitch that Charlotte and Russell had reached on their previous trip. Finally, we could walk into the open leads!\n<p>\nNot so fast!\n<p>\nBecka rigged the short pitch down but by then we'd spotted the rope for an up pitch on the far side of the chamber. Charlotte rigged this, muttering about rope rub and dodgy naturals on her ascent whilst we shivered in the group shelter. Surely we were there now?\n<p>\nNope. Next came the Natural Way traverse, left rigged on a rambly route around various fins of rock and ledges. Ash rigged most of this then Russell took over to finish it using the last of the many ropes that we had brought along. We derigged the old rope as we went along and took out any that we didn't reuse for handlines. \n<p>\nAt last we were into the horizontal passages at the end of Natural Way. We had already decided it was well past time to go home but since we were here it would be mad not to have a look around (though our 2 sets of survey gear would clearly not be needed). We scampered around but failed to find the walking A lead that we expected at the far end. Instead there was a so-so narrow, muddy pitch down and nothing horizontal on the far side. And the B leads looked suspiciously like C leads or nothing at all. Slightly deflated we girded our loins for the long trog back, taking all the rope and rigging gear that wasn't in the rig back to Staircase 36.\n<p>\nWe eventually emerged at 1am to a clear evening after a long and splendidly varied trip but it would have been still better to have been rewarded with an exciting lead at the end of it (six trips and counting for Charlotte and Russell). \n<p>\n<p><b>\nRigging topo for ropework required from the end of the Three Wise Men traverse to the end of Natural Way\n</b><p>\n<img src = \"/expofiles/photos/2025/161-beyond-3wisemen-riggingtopo.jpg\"\nwidth = \"600\"/>",
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"slug": "2025-07-14f",
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"time_underground": 12.0,
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"author": {
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"slug": "ashley-gregg",
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"nickname": "Ash",
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"tu": 12.0
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},
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"trippersons": [
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{
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"slug": "ashley-gregg",
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"nickname": "Ash",
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"tu": 12.0
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},
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{
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"slug": "becka-lawson",
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"nickname": "Becka",
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"tu": 12.0
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},
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{
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"slug": "charlotte-payne",
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"nickname": "Charlotte",
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"tu": 12.0
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},
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{
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"slug": "russell-woodger",
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"nickname": "Russell",
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"tu": 12.0
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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": "161",
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"unofficial_number": ""
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}
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} |