Tunnocks - Ducks on Ice rigging + connecting

Mon 04 Aug 2014
Becka



Off to finish the Ducks on Ice survey. As soon as I stopped into the horizontal tube I cold see people had been here before so we romped off to see where we were - + soon arrived right above the top bolt of Caramel Catharsis, bingo! Decided this would make a far superior entrance, avoiding two tacklesack mauling crawls, a poxy short pitch, a traverse + some caving... but it needed a little work. Neil rigged a handline down Caramel Catharsis then helped me with some gardening then headed off to help Rob trying to improve the rig down lower Tunnocks entrance (Ducks on Ice) whilst I spend a merry 3 hours trundling boulders to garden the route. I did a single leg (99cm) survey to do the connection + headed out whilst Neil valiantly stood by until Rob finished the rigging (tricky given the ice/crap rock/danger of rockfall/sharp corners several hours later.

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Survex files on this date:
    caves-1623/107/entcleads
    caves-1623/107/fudgedup
    caves-1623/264/roomwithaview2
    caves-1623/264/smashcrashpassage
    caves-1626/loutoti-01/LT-Clemens
Wallets on this date:
    2014#11 Room with a View ['notes2', 'notes1', 'planpt2', 'plan1', 'elevpt2', 'notespt2']
    2014#12 Smash Crash ['notes2', 'notes1', 'plan2', 'elev1', 'plan1']
    2014#27 Fudged Up ['plan2', 'notes2', 'notes1', 'elev1', 'plan1', 'elev2']
Logbook trips on this date:
    2005-05 - 2005-05 Balcony Höhle
    Tunnocks - Ducks on Ice rigging + connecting
    Tunnocks - Champagne on Ice
    Tunnocks - THE BEAST