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Wed 07 Aug 2013    Sun 11 Aug 2013

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Jenny Wed 07 Aug 2013 Sun 11 Aug 2013
Olly Wed 07 Aug 2013 Sun 11 Aug 2013
Stuart Wed 24 Jul 2013 Sun 11 Aug 2013
Sat 10 Aug 2013
Jenny



It thunderstormed all night and was still raining in the morning so we altered our planned trip to land of confusion and decided to look at leads in Ropeless and Sleepless. The drill was at the pushing front so we were a bit limited. Headed to the end of Ropeless and went down the pitch the other side of Ropefree. After a nice pitch we landed in a drippy chamber with a small rift heading off. Sadly this got too small within a few meters. Stuart and I surveyed out.

Headed through Pushing the Envelope into Sleepless. Olly looked down the short pitch under the 5m rope traverse. It was a couple of little pitches and an exciting climb by Olly. Olly could here water noise down a hole on the right (possibly connects to the parallel rift) and another climb/pitch heading north. Decided to leave that until we had more gear.

While Olly derigged Stuart looked at a roof tube above which looks promising but needs a drill. Moved on to the Coldest place in Earth to take the rope to the start of the traverse. On the way out we had a look at getting into the roof tubes level with the top of the short pitch. Stuart traversed across from the pitch and I climbed from the bottom further along. The climb up was easy and I got to a similar level to Stuart. I knocked off a few loose holds and climbed up further. Suddenly I was falling down the rift, briefly I had a calm sense of inevitability, I knew I would end up hurt at the bottom of the rift. Fortunately the feeling passed and it was replaced by the idea that I wedge myself in as soon as possible. I managed this at the last possible point and finally remembered to stop screaming.

Fortunately I wasn’t too hurt and Olly came and helped me extract myself. My hip hurt a bit where I wedged myself in and I didn’t want to be underground anymore. I left Olly and Stuart to survey the roof tube while I caved out feeling very lucky and very stupid.

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Survex files on this date:
    caves-1623/107/ropelesshole
    caves-1623/107/0810
    caves-1623/107/cairnpitch
Wallets on this date:
    2013#23 surface prospecting ['cave064']
    2013#26 ropeless sleepless restless ['olly360.bmp', 'olly364.bmp', 'olly366_rot', 'olly358', 'olly361.bmp', 'olly35…
Logbook trips on this date:
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