plateau - Digging and Thunderstorms

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Thu 01 Aug 2024
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What had planned to be a cool, early walk up to the plateau invetably became a more middle and hottest part of the day sort of deal. Drenched in sweat we made our way to base camp where we stopped for a quick lunch then headed off in the Tunnocks direction.

Armed with a crowbar and a lump hammer our plan was to investigate a promising dig that Nat and Sarah had found in the previous days.

The last 100m of navigation proved quite painful as thick swathes of bunde seemed keen to stop us reaching our destination but the devilish trees eventually yeilded and we found the hole as described under a large pine.

We got to work trying to remove the boulders but the rock wrestling was rather sheepish on account of the seemingly quite large drop directly underneath us.

Around this time Zac informed us that the distant thunderstorm in the datchstein direction was looking a lot less distant at that current moment and we decided it best to leave the large metal tools at the cave and return to Top Camp before it was upon us.

Cue a rather exciting plateau walk with sound of thunder encouraging quite a brisk pace all the way back to Stone(y) Bridge.

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Survex files on this date:
    caves-1626/359/paradise_lost
    caves-1626/359/simple_pleasures
Wallets on this date:
    2024#33 Paradise lost ['plan1-paradiselost', 'notes1-paradiselost', 'elev1-paradiselost', 'notes4-par…
    2024#34 Simple Pleasures ['notes1-simplepleasures', 'plan1-simplepleasures', 'notes2-simplepleasures']
Logbook trips on this date:
    basecamp - Magic Button
    Homecoming - The First Rule of Alpine Caving
    Homecoming - Simple Pleasures
    Homecoming - Back to Brandywine
    plateau - Digging and Thunderstorms
    Homecoming - Alpine Torrent
    topcamp - Bunde Tea