1626-359 - Homecoming . Watershed . Alpine Showers

Fri 14 Jul 2023
Becka

Walked from Top Camp to Homecoming + headed down quite efficiently, split to 2 groups at the previous survey limit, below CHarlotte's 2nd pitch, Harry, Charlotte + James started surveying downstream. Jono + I surveyed upstream for a mighty 3 legs ("Alpine Waterfall") to where the stream spouted down from on high. We went up the pitch with the rope + drill aiming to bolt a vertical lead but Harry caught us up to say they needed it so he took the drill + rope + they bolted downstream until they ran out of rope to leave a splashy A-lead continuing downstream.

Jono + I ticked off the QMA between the 1st + 2nd pitches {squiggle} was higher in the same rift that Harry et al were in - confirmed with a vocal connection - then we surveyed a minor loop + lead near the start of the 2023 finds ("Hoverbone Canyon 2") [squiggle squiggle, not at all Hoverbone Canyon, Ed.] + Jono did photogrammetry.

We'd run out of horizontal leads so headed out, luckily beating the jam caused by 2 trips arriving simultaneously at the bottom of Homecoming entrance which meant that some people had a very late night.

T/U Becka and Jono 13 hours, the others 15 hours

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Survex files on this date:
    caves-1626/359/alpine_showers
    caves-1626/359/alpine_waterfall
    caves-1626/359/flowstone_canyon2
    caves-1626/359/goose_box
Wallets on this date:
    2023#21 and surface near Garlic ['Garlic-Surface-1']
    2023#22 [Goose_Box] ['notes_Goose_Box_3', 'notes_Goose_box_2', 'Goose Box plan', 'notes_Goose_Box_1…
    2023#23 Alpine Waterfall - watershed ['incavenotes-2', 'incavenotes-1']
    2023#24 flowstone canyon -alpine_waterfall ['Flowstone2-incavenotes-2', 'Flowstone2-incavenotes-1']
    2023#25 [Alpine Showers] ['Alpine-showers-plan-sketch', 'Alpine-showers-plan']
    2023#27 Lord Of The Flies ['Final File', 'Final File_3wEMucM']
    2023#33 prospecting ['No uploaded scans or incorrect path to wallet contents']
Logbook trips on this date:
    Homecoming - pushing down homecoming from flowstone canyon, into alpine showers
    basecamp - UK Caving Blog post: Rain at times
    Basecamp - Floating down the river to Bad Aussee
    homecoming - Shallow Homecoming and pushing beyond Hobknob Hallway & Dead Flied Passage
    1626-359 - Homecoming . Watershed . Alpine Showers