Loser Plateau - Surface Wander

Tue 25 Jul 2006
Dave

After emerging from the Death or Glory survey we still had some light left, so we opted for a surface retagging walk. Armed with the marking board, a camera, the pile of pre-made tags, a spanner, we set out from the bridge towards 2003-X14. Did an ent photo + a sketch survey.

Then we slogged up the Hinter. View from the top is amazing. Looked at 2003-X15; looks obviously choked. Stupidly didn't get an altitude fix, but got a photo.

Descended towards 214. This had a tag "2000-03" as expected so replaced it with a proper tag + took a photo. Cave is a fairly jolly bit of tube going ~20m, stooping size, to a second skylight exit (probably too tight to be passable).

Then we went in search of 222,3+4. Walked to where the GPS said 223 should be, but no evidence of a tag; same happened at 222 so we gave up + walked home. Oddly enough the original survey claims unambiguously that the survey points are tag bolts, so either I was being useless or my GPS was foxed by the steep hillside.

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Survex files on this date:
    caves-1623/204/nearend/deathglory
Wallets on this date:
    2006#08 ['notes2', 'notes1', 'extend', 'plan']
Logbook trips on this date:
    204 - Death and Glory
    Loser Plateau - Surface Wander