81 - 81-148 connection

Tue 07 Aug 2007
Jenny Black



Olly looked down the surface shaft near 148 first - down to the snow plug then the ledge to where a narrow rift heads down presumably into the aven in 148. Didn't push down this yet as we have the other route rigged.

We were going to push the pitch shaft in 148 but I was feeling sick so we went back to 81 to tie up a surveying loose end. Olly concocted a plan whereby I sat at the entrance and felt ill, and Olly went down the rift shaft and bolted the hypothesized 148 connection. I figured he would have a hard time with the rope, drill & survey left on his own through the rift & climbs, so I came too & felt ill & whinged a lot. Olly bolted down the pitch at the end of the ice and sadly it didn't go far. We surveyed it and while I derigged Olly looked for other pitches we had missed.

Back at the other end a tight grovel through ice led to a small rift and a pitch. This dropped into 148! Right where we built a cairn which was cool. Surveyed out passing Nial & Andrew photoing ice and raisins.

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Survex files on this date:
    caves-1623/204/convenience/crapper1
    caves-1623/204/convenience/crapper2
    caves-1623/204/convenience/crapper3
    caves-1623/258/literalnorth
    caves-1623/258/oompah
    surface/1623/near06_2007
Wallets on this date:
    2007#45 ['elev1', 'elev2', 'notes2', 'notes1', 'plan']
    2007#48 ['elevation', 'notes2', 'notes1', 'plan']
    2007#52 ['plan2', 'elevation3', 'plan1', 'plan3', 'elevation2']
    2007#96 surface ['austria2007notes-0014-82-to-85']
Logbook trips on this date:
    Dachstein Via Ferrata
    2007-04 - Walk to 204 via 161d
    Anemometer related quick useless trip
    204 - Gaffered -> Inconvenience Series
    1987-02 - Surface and Shaft
    81 - 81-148 connection