GSH - bottom of big pitch

Wed 02 Aug 2017
Luke Stangroom



With Rob escorting Nadia down the hill Becka was keen to see the continuation of GSH. Successful distribution of drill batteries. Set off to cave, route needs cairning but only takes 30 minutes. Mike and Nathan in CUCC-2017-28 (now named Fisch Gesicht Höhle). Inspected some horizontal leads at head of big pitch but crapped out immediately. Still had drill battery so descended to the pushing front from last trip. Battery wouldn’t die so had to keep on going, multiple options but ran out of rope.

On exit flood pulse happened at the top of the big pitch so not sure how it responds to water. CouldaWouldaShoulda was rigged perfectly out of the water. Exited cave, tagged CUCC-2017-28 noting that Mike and Nathan had probably not had any drill battery. Back to Top Camp in 40 minutes, confirmed that Nathan and Mike got no holes. Almost acted as callout for Balcony crew who got rained in despite the rain happening for 30 minutes 5 hours previously.

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Survex files on this date:
    caves-1623/290/blower
    caves-1623/290/entranceseries
    caves-1623/291/gsh4
    caves-1623/291/riftpiece
    caves-1623/258/hydra/hipstersreturn
Wallets on this date:
    2017#00 [] ['4. folderindex', '2017walletsindex', '2. folderindex', 'test-unrecognised-fil…
    2017#29 Happy Butterfly - Gluckliche Schmetterling Hohle ['plan-1', 'notes2', 'notes1', 'GSH_Horizontal', 'GSH_Horizontal']
    2017#30 Rift Piece ['plan-1', 'notes']
    2017#35 Hipster's Return ['plan', 'notes']
Logbook trips on this date:
    Tunnocks - The Beast, trip #3
    Tunnocks - Camp Kraken: below Snake Pit
    Balcony - not finding Sloppy Seconds, touristing, flooding
    GSH - bottom of big pitch
    CUCC-2017-28 - aka Fisch Gesicht Höhle (FGH)
    Expo - Update 2 new caves