Balkonhöhle - hilti a plenty

Sun 31 Jul 2022
Frank Tully



Martin rigged 'hilti a plenty' whilst I fettled the bivi, then turned up a bit late. Headed down to the 'sponge chamber' sandy slope and missed the low crawl to 'let's be appalling', slid down the low slide onto the pitchhead which we started to rig. Whilst bored I climbed 2m above the pitchhead, gaining access into a tiny tube, 'sponge chamber2 tiny tube'. Phreatic tube trending down, wide enough at the top but slightly narrower below, basically its quite strenuous, pushed for a few meters beyond the end of the survey. The tube continues much the same but it is not draughting much. Headed out because we got cold, found the passage to 'let's be appalling'.

[Frank's writeup just says "Paul". This is presumed to be Paul Fox not Paul Walko given that they were all caving together the previous day.]]

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Survex files on this date:
    caves-1623/264/lower_balkon/erechtheion1
    caves-1623/264/lower_balkon/erechtheion2
    caves-1623/264/lower_balkon/erechtheion3
Wallets on this date:
    2022#01 erechtheion1 ['notes2', 'notes1', 'plan2', 'plan4', 'plan6', 'plan3', 'plan1', 'plan5']
    2022#02 erechtheion2 ['notes2', 'notes1']
    2022#03 erechtheion3 ['notes1', 'survey']
Logbook trips on this date:
    Balkonhöhle - hilti a plenty
    Balkonhöhle - pushing in Northern Pitstop
    Balkonhöhle - Hilti-a-plenty NO SPANNERS
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