Loser Plateau - Surface Wander

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Loser Plateau

Tue 25 Jul 2006    Wed 26 Jul 2006

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Dave Mon 24 Jul 2006 Wed 26 Jul 2006
Sandeep Mon 24 Jul 2006 Wed 26 Jul 2006
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