CUCC Expeditions to Austria: 1976 - 2024

-It all begins in the tatty hut, several gossers short of a brewery. "let's go up in the weather window!" charlie had not done enough caving and wanted to camp in FF. "We'll call it the three-day bounce"."then we'll have a four-day weekend!" "We go to find the four day weekend!" - -

-Glossing over the ensuing hangover(and Adam's tent-sump experience) the Three Day Bounce was planned: Adam EJ and Nat Walker would join the camp and we would combine the trip with camp-derigging. -saturday 6th August: In the mid afternoon, the five of us set out to FF. Fueed by curry arrincini and [fish?] bread, the vibes brewed as the day went on. THe walk up via stone bridge was awful: wet, windy with occasional hail. The stone bridge was a miss with the tarp full of water, we had our curries and continued to FF. As we walked the weather window remained [fully?] shut. - -

-A quick change and down we endt. Time in 2100 (after faff). We made camp by 2300 and straight to bed. Much pissing ensued; -statistics: - -

-Charlie: 5 -Adam B: 3 -Adam EJ: 3 -Ben C: 2 -Nat W: 3 - -

-Total Pisses: 16 - -

-We woke before dawn: 10:00 An Alpine Start. -

-Now to get to business: Our lead was a hole in the floor at the start of the Elizabeth line. Charlie Bolted while adam and Ben went to derig. -

-Adam B now recounts the derigging: - -

-after derigging we are joined by nat and EJ. -Me and Ben pressed along the victorua line, beutiful passage, we derigged 2 pitches in an hour all very smooth untill... we reached a sketchy up traverse and up pitch. Nadia had clearly said to derig the traverse upwards and leave the uppitch. -thiss of course me and ben ignored and proceeded to rig an increadibly sketchy 1 bolt wander pull through, completely unessecarily, to derig an uppitch. At the tune we were rather happy with our selves. Nadia did not hold that same sentiment. Anyyway we popped back to charlue to find a pile of yellow group shelter slumped on the floor and some fresh bolts on the the wall. -

-Finally Charlie awoke. -

-The potential 4 day weekend awaited. Charlie went first, the hole was nice and cosy. He sliithered down and we followed. -

-The chamber consisted of an old meander and dry waterfall abbout 4m diameter, The four day weeked we exclaimed with grins on our faces. However like all great weekends it ended far too soon with a monday, the only reall lead a tight stream canyon, which [...] connected into the stream way, was tight and shit as charlie found out and was such was a C lead named monday. We surveyed out and waited to rendevous with adam EJ and Nat W. -

-After hearing if their travels [...] stream way pitch that became too wet we made our way back to base camp: we arrived at 17:00 after such an arduous entry to the trip, the actual caving was a load of bollocks and aside from ben and Charlie [cheating?] and some crawls we all headed to bed at about 19:00 after an allmighty 9 hours out for bed. -

-It was an early start he had on tueday. Our allarm clock, Nat W, at 7:00 AM a hhuman casio beep, resonated through the twisting passage of bed ridden cavers. With your calssic faff we packed up camp and left to the surface at 9:30. what was also realised underwaround was that the drum for our bowel movements was missing. I as such proceeded to individdually bag mine and 3 other men's shits into a large double bag and then securly seat them right at the top of big red [?] tackle sack, precious cargo -

-We all prusssiked out to a glorious sunshine day meeting the derigging team at the surface, taking part in an impresive amount of faff even by my standards about a 2.5 hr gap between members. after all having a good chin wag with frank on the re belays we headed out to a beautiful day with Nat out around 11:30 and charlie popping out around 14:30. Overall a successful yet [undergound?] remarkably uneventful trip. -5 legs surveyed, 3 pitches derigged and some shit moved from one hole to another solid. -

-4 day weekedn Rigging topo-(pitch is called 3 day bounce) P.S two bolts for backup to yhang - be carefull of rope rub