2 July |
The van leaves Oxford and breaks down! |
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5-6 July |
"Top Camp" established at the Snow Pole |
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6 July |
F65 |
Located and bottomed |
JH CJD |
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F41 |
Snow digging trip |
TSG AB PM |
7 July |
F64 |
Pushed down the first 2 pitches |
CJD AB |
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Area F |
F66, F67 and F68 located |
TSG PM |
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Area F |
F70 and F69 located |
PMM MN |
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F64 |
Surveyed then pushed They Come at Night |
TSG JPNP JH |
8 July |
F64 |
Surveyed and pushed Mostly |
PMM RG |
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Area F |
F68 digging rocks, F41 digging snow |
MN RB PM AH WN |
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Area F |
F70 explored |
JH JPNP |
9 July |
F64 |
The Fierce Ladies of Cannock reached |
TSG PM JH JPNP |
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Area F |
F70 pushed, F41 snow digging |
WN RG MN RB |
10 July |
F64 |
hammering The Fierce Ladies |
GL AH JH |
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F64 |
Survey trip |
MN JH JPNP |
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Area F |
Shaft bashing |
RB |
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Area C |
C6, 7 & 8 examined |
WN WS |
11 July |
Area F |
F56 re-examined |
GL JH |
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Area F |
F80 and F81 found |
PMM |
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F64 |
Fierce Ladies and first of Their Sisters passed |
TSG CJD |
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F64 |
Various leads looked into |
RG AB |
12 July |
C8 |
Collapsed boulder choke |
PM WS |
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F64 |
Surveying and second sister pushed |
CJD AH TSG |
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Shaft bashing |
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RB RG |
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F64 |
Pushing up inlet |
SJP MN |
13 July |
C8 |
Through the Square Window |
WS PM |
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C8 |
In The Wiggly Bit and the Arched Window |
WN RG |
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C8 |
The Round Window |
TSG AB |
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F64 |
Climbing above They Come at Night |
RB CJD |
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Area F |
F71 and F72 examined |
PMM SJP |
14 July |
Area F |
F80 and F81 located, F81 bottomed |
WS PMM AB SJP |
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F64 |
Bad Habits surmounted |
GL JH |
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C8 |
Surveying trip |
CJD RB JPNP |
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F71 |
More work on the squeezes |
TSG SJP |
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C8 |
Smarty Run examined |
WN KT JB |
15 July |
F64 |
Old Bore's Hill climbed, choke examined |
TSG GL |
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C8 |
Window cleaning |
PM JPNP KT |
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F71 |
Hammering squeeze |
RB SJP |
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Area F |
Shaft bashing |
SC JB |
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F64 |
Trying The Ladies |
CV JH MN |
16 July |
F64 |
Survey trip |
GL JH KT |
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F71 |
Passed squeeze (again) |
SJP JB MN |
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Area F |
F82 located |
SC |
17 July |
F64 |
Surveying trip |
UM ADS JH |
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C8 |
Trip abandoned due to chopped rope |
MN AH SJP RG |
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F71 |
Squeeze passed (yet again) |
MN RB SJP JPNP |
18 July |
F64 |
An attempt to pass the boulder choke |
ADS JPNP KT |
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C8 |
C9 "found" (C3 rediscovered) |
WS PM JH |
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F71 |
Cave bottomed |
JB SJP |
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F80 |
Quickly ran out of rope |
RB PMM RG |
19 July |
C3 |
Explored to boulder choke |
WS PM JH |
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Areas C, 9, 6 |
Shaft bashing |
GL |
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F64 |
Boulder choke attacked |
ADS |
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Area F |
F75-78 located |
JAR RB SV |
20 July |
C3 |
Entrance rerigged, Anethical descended |
PM WS RG |
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C3 |
Tourist trip |
JB UM KT |
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F64 |
Tourist trip |
SV ADS |
21 July |
C3 |
Good Night Vienna and Bullseye examined |
WS PM RG |
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F64 |
Boulder choke finally solved |
ADS |
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F71 |
Detackling and photo trip |
PMM CV JB KT |
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F64 |
Quicky trip |
KT JB |
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C3 |
Survey trip |
UM AH MN |
22 July |
C3 |
Moose Hole to 65p Streamway explored |
WS PM RG |
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C3 |
Surveying |
AH JH MN |
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F64 |
Pushing the rift beyond Tony's pitch |
GL DL |
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C3 |
Rerigging |
PMM JPNP |
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C3 |
Snickers descended (Snab in the Dark) |
UM ADS HS |
23 July |
C3 |
Descended the Wet Pitch (She Rises) |
WS JH |
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C3 |
Survey trip |
DL CV KT JB |
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F64 |
Survey trip |
JH MN SJP |
23-24 July |
C3 |
Night Games |
WS PMM JH |
24 July |
F64 |
Further down into Zodiac Rift |
GL JPNP RG |
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C3 |
Survey team |
MN SJP HS |
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C3 |
Pushed through Tony's wet crawl |
ADS KT |
25 July |
F64 |
Checked out loose ends and tided up a bit |
GL MN |
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C3 |
Surveying |
AH UM DL |
26 July |
F52 |
Small extension |
GL |
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C3 |
Rerigging and surveying |
WS JH PMM |
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Area F |
F75-78 all bottomed |
JAR SV |
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F79 |
Bottomed |
KT JB |
27 July |
C3 |
Jolly trip |
JH SV |
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Area G |
Photo trip |
JAR |
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C3 |
Wet Crawl bypassed, pitch beyond examined |
ADS DL KT |
28 July |
F80 |
Surveyed, photographed and derigged |
PMM SJP |
29 July |
C3 |
"100 m" pitch traversed over |
WS JH |
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F80 |
Gear recovered |
PMM |
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F64 |
Further work in Zodiac Rift |
GL JH AH HS |
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F64 |
Inlet climbed |
RG SJP |
30 July |
C3 |
Photo trip |
PMM SJP |
31 July |
F64 |
Further down the rift |
GL JPNP |
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C3 |
A jolly |
DL MN |
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Area C |
C 10-12 located |
WS |
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Area F |
F48 re-examined |
AH HS |
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Area F |
Prospecting |
SC |
1 August |
Cavers' Holiday |
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2 Aug |
C3 |
Survey trip |
MN HS JPNP |
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C3 |
Meat Cleaver and Defenestrator examined |
WS DL JH |
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C10 |
Bottomed |
AH SJP GL |
3 Aug |
Area F |
F70 and 72 re-examined |
GL SJP SC |
4 Aug |
F64 |
Deeper in Zodiac Rift |
GL AH |
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F64 |
Photography trip |
JH SJP |
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Area C |
Surface survey |
MH WS |
5 Aug |
C12 |
Cave bottomed |
JPNP AH SJP |
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C3 |
The Klingon reached |
WS JH |
6 Aug |
Area F |
F24 and 27 re-examined and 83 bottomed |
GL SC |
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C3 |
Photo trip |
JH PG SJP |
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C11 |
Cave examined and dug a little |
AH MN DL HS |
7 Aug |
F64 |
Deeper still in Zodiac Rift |
GL JPNP |
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F64 |
Tourist trip |
MN PG |
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C11 |
Little progress made before the site was abandoned |
AH SJP |
8 Aug |
Area C |
Shaft bashing |
IA GN |
9 Aug |
C3 |
Final pushing trip potential campsite found |
WS AH JH |
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F64 |
Bottom of rift reached |
WS JPNP |
10 Aug |
C3 |
Photo trip |
PG SJP (AA) |
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Area C |
C13 and 14 located |
IA GN |
11 Aug |
F64 |
Derigged |
JH GL JP SGR |
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C3 |
Derigging |
DL HS WS MN |
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C13 |
Going down, ran out of time, derigged |
IA GN |
13 Aug |
C3 |
Derigging |
SGR PG JH AH |
14 Aug |
C3 |
Derigging |
JH DL HS GN IA JPNP |
15 Aug |
C41 |
Snow plug re-examined |
GL |
15-18 Aug |
Top Camp dismantled, carried down the hill |
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19 Aug |
Beach Party |
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22 Aug |
The red van returns to Oxford |
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