Plateau - Cold Shallow Holes

Wed 02 Aug 2023
Botch

prospecting N of FishFace After gettinng out of a 48h camp we were a bit knackered so wanted t do some prospecting. After some tactical faff to avoid the raiin we set off around 1230. I wanted to look North of FishFace as me and Becka had found an aven North of the coconut shy with water coming in from above. We passed the silver moth crew coming out to also prospect the area as their cave had died. We first found a shaft with a deflated balloon('Dead Balloon Hole') which connected through to a small surface rift and surveyed this. We then inspected a huge doline with not much in the way of care and found a small cave and a blocked small shaft. We then headed towards the area directly above where I'd been in FF and found a very promising hole - Mountain Aven. It has a ridiculous draught, blasting cold air [?] from the hole. Unfortunately despite a bit of clearing rocks we coulldnt find the way on. However, it could be promising as when we exited our glasses fogged up! We then dropped kit at Homecoming and Met becka and luke who'd been working on a new route to Homecoming. They showed us a promising potential bivvy site too.

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Survex files on this date:
    caves-1623/290/theophilus_goon_returns
    caves-1623/290/theophilus_goon_returns_2
    caves-1623/290/muddy_goons
    caves-1623/290/imputation_bias
    caves-1623/290/copredy_fair
    caves-1623/313/313
    caves-1623/312/312
Wallets on this date:
    2023#60 theophilus_goon_returns ['plan2', 'Theophilus_goon_returns_notes1', 'elevation2', 'elevation1', 'Theoph…
    2023#61 muddy_goons ['Muddy_goon_sketch2', 'plan61', 'Muddy_goon_sketch3', 'Muddy_goon_notes2', 'Mu…
    2023#64 beyond FGH ['new-2023-BL-11', 'new-2023-BL-10']
    2023#69 2023-RAWDB-01 Dead Balloon Hole, 02:Mountain Aven ['original-notes-1623-2023-RAWDB-02', 'plan-1623-2023-RAWDB-02', 'Wallet69-2023…
    2023#75 imputation_bias", "copredy_fair" ['elev-imputation-bias', 'plan-elev-imputation-bias', 'plancopredy_fair', 'elev…
    2023#76 Buzzard Hole ['notes-elev-sketch', 'new-cave-sheet', 'notes-data']
    2023#77 Ancient Technology ['notes-ancient-technology-notes-plus-newcavesheet']
Logbook trips on this date:
    Buzzard - dropping Buzzard Hole on the northerly Kleiner Wildkogel ridge
    Surface - Prospecting east and south of Kleiner Wildkogel
    Fishface Camp - Pushing Theophilus Goon
    Plateau - Prospecting around FishFace
    Plateau - Cold Shallow Holes