Surface - Hike to Garlic

Tue 01 Aug 2023
Joe Stell



Woke up to see a sub-optimal forecast. Somehow I was convinced that hiking to Garlic Cave Camp was of course the best course of action to take, so we set off. It was actually dry for the first third or so to fishface gear dump to collect our caving gear, but this did not last.

The path is a little treacherous in the wet, so it was a little slow going and slightly miserable and wet but we made it. Adam started shovelling snow, Nathan joined in, then I did. I believe Adam had some grand design in mind but I think we ruined it. We then decided to rig a third tarp up to stop the horrible drip right next to the kitchen, but we rigged a drippy tarp and so the situation wasn't drastically improved. We all went to sleep pretty early without anything else to do.

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Survex files on this date:
    caves-1623/290/bavariangentian
    caves-1623/290/delicatesteve
Wallets on this date:
    2023#63 delicate steve ['elevation-delicate_steve', 'notes-2-delicate_steve', 'notes-3-delicate_steve'…
    2023#68 bavariangentian ['elevation', 'notes-bavariangentian', 'plan']
    2023#75 imputation_bias", "copredy_fair" ['elev-imputation-bias', 'plan-elev-imputation-bias', 'plancopredy_fair', 'elev…
Logbook trips on this date:
    Surface - Hike to Garlic
    Fishface - Bavarian Gentian
    Fishface - Pushing the bottom of FishFace - camp #2 - part 2