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Migovec 2018, 40 km and it keeps going!

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September 21, 2018
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Migovec 2018, 40 km and it keeps going!

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September 21, 2018
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  1. Klic Globin 2018 Over 40km and it keeps going! Imperial

    College Caving Club, Jamarska Sekcija Planinskega Druˇ stva Tolmin September 21, 2018
  2. Outline 1 Geography Slovenia Migovec area 2 History of exploration

    The M2-M16-M18 system — 1974-2000 Vrtnarija — 2000-2015 Coincidence Cave 2015-2018 3 Primadona — 2016 to present 4 Klic Globin ’Call from the Depths’ 2018 Logistics Camping at the Manger
  3. Table of Contents 1 Geography Slovenia Migovec area 2 History

    of exploration The M2-M16-M18 system — 1974-2000 Vrtnarija — 2000-2015 Coincidence Cave 2015-2018 3 Primadona — 2016 to present 4 Klic Globin ’Call from the Depths’ 2018 Logistics Camping at the Manger
  4. The Migovec System I The Migovec area • Caves 120

    GPS en- trances • Cumulative length 44.5km under Migovec I The Migovec system • Depth 972m • Length 41.8 km (08.2018) • Entrances 8
  5. Table of Contents 1 Geography Slovenia Migovec area 2 History

    of exploration The M2-M16-M18 system — 1974-2000 Vrtnarija — 2000-2015 Coincidence Cave 2015-2018 3 Primadona — 2016 to present 4 Klic Globin ’Call from the Depths’ 2018 Logistics Camping at the Manger
  6. The three era of exploration I M2-M16-M18 (’Old Sys- tem’)

    1974-2000 I Gardeners World 2000- 2015 I Primadona-Monatip 2000-present 0 100 200 300 400 500m 0 100 200 300 400 500 600 700 800 900 1000m To Infinity and Beyond The Rock of Sages Colarado Sump Miles Underground Smash No More Potatoes Nitro Let na Drugi Svet The Palace of King Minos Milky Way Kokain Bonus Chamber Amazing Grace Stuck in Paradise 神風 Salvation Penitence Lost Miles Consort Road Yorkshire e e Minestrone Atlantis Galactica Marwood Inlet Good Not Grand Elephant Dinner Service Water Hope Big Rock Slinging in the Rain Straightjacket Time Bandits Cuckoo's Nest Rural Underground Hot Pants Beetle Juice Sic Semper Tyrannis Pleasure Palace Jericho Aja! Brave New World Tolminski Migovec Trig Point Invictus Lazarus Formative Push Your Luck Agartha Jetstream Final Draft Meridian Way Choke-a-bloke Empty quarter Blast! Andrea Bocelli Hoover Dam True Adventures Povezava Galerija e e Stara Jama Brezno TTT Mandare Drek Salome Vialos Déjà Vu Karstaway Upside Down Chamber Colony What a Coincidence! Hall of the Mountain King Alkatraz Bear Pitch Drugi Vhod Double think Smer0 Minotaur Rift Minotaur Rift Korita Roaring Elephant Big Chamber Hallowine Netopir Loozer Hallowine Dreams for the soul Bikini Carwash Leki Pot Dodge City Club Mig Challenger Bear Necessities Canberra Hotline Hidrant Rock &Roll Lost City Goody Bag Bats-hit Passage FA999 Rameses Teotihuacan Coldfeet Wonderstuff A Pun too Far Concorde Pico Memory Lane Blind Spot Balamory P.B. Junc. Labyrinth Vzporedni Svet Singing Rock Pravokotni Svet e e e M16 M2 (Kavka Jama) M18 (Strgane Srajce) Silos NCB Shreddies Slab Primer Občina Tolmin, Slovenija Globina 972m, Dolžina 37.2 km Natančnost meritev BCRA 4-5B (1994-2016) Raziskave 1974-2016 Imperial College CC/JS PD Tolmin 2016 Sistem Vrtnarija (Vrtnarija in Vilinska jama) Sistem Primadona ( Primadona, U-bend in Monatip) Sistem Migovec (Kavkna jama, Jama strgane srajce in M16) JAME POD MIGOVCEM S Pravi Plan view
  7. The three era of exploration I M2-M16-M18 (’Old Sys- tem’)

    1974-2000 I Gardeners World 2000- 2015 I Primadona-Monatip 2000-present 0 100 200 300 400 500m 0 100 200 300 400 500 600 700 800 900 1000m To Infinity and Beyond The Rock of Sages Colarado Sump Miles Underground Smash No More Potatoes Nitro Let na Drugi Svet The Palace of King Minos Milky Way Kokain Bonus Chamber Amazing Grace Stuck in Paradise 神風 Salvation Penitence Lost Miles Consort Road Yorkshire e e Minestrone Atlantis Galactica Marwood Inlet Good Not Grand Elephant Dinner Service Water Hope Big Rock Slinging in the Rain Straightjacket Time Bandits Cuckoo's Nest Rural Underground Hot Pants Beetle Juice Sic Semper Tyrannis Pleasure Palace Jericho Aja! Brave New World Tolminski Migovec Trig Point Invictus Lazarus Formative Push Your Luck Agartha Jetstream Final Draft Meridian Way Choke-a-bloke Empty quarter Blast! Andrea Bocelli Hoover Dam True Adventures Povezava Galerija e e Stara Jama Brezno TTT Mandare Drek Salome Vialos Déjà Vu Karstaway Upside Down Chamber Colony What a Coincidence! Hall of the Mountain King Alkatraz Bear Pitch Drugi Vhod Double think Smer0 Minotaur Rift Minotaur Rift Korita Roaring Elephant Big Chamber Hallowine Netopir Loozer Hallowine Dreams for the soul Bikini Carwash Leki Pot Dodge City Club Mig Challenger Bear Necessities Canberra Hotline Hidrant Rock &Roll Lost City Goody Bag Bats-hit Passage FA999 Rameses Teotihuacan Coldfeet Wonderstuff A Pun too Far Concorde Pico Memory Lane Blind Spot Balamory P.B. Junc. Labyrinth Vzporedni Svet Singing Rock Pravokotni Svet e e e M16 M2 (Kavka Jama) M18 (Strgane Srajce) Silos NCB Shreddies Slab Primer Občina Tolmin, Slovenija Globina 972m, Dolžina 37.2 km Natančnost meritev BCRA 4-5B (1994-2016) Raziskave 1974-2016 Imperial College CC/JS PD Tolmin 2016 Sistem Vrtnarija (Vrtnarija in Vilinska jama) Sistem Primadona ( Primadona, U-bend in Monatip) Sistem Migovec (Kavkna jama, Jama strgane srajce in M16) JAME POD MIGOVCEM S Pravi Plan view
  8. The three era of exploration I M2-M16-M18 (’Old Sys- tem’)

    1974-2000 I Gardeners World 2000- 2015 I Primadona-Monatip 2000-present 0 100 200 300 400 500m 0 100 200 300 400 500 600 700 800 900 1000m To Infinity and Beyond The Rock of Sages Colarado Sump Miles Underground Smash No More Potatoes Nitro Let na Drugi Svet The Palace of King Minos Milky Way Kokain Bonus Chamber Amazing Grace Stuck in Paradise 神風 Salvation Penitence Lost Miles Consort Road Yorkshire e e Minestrone Atlantis Galactica Marwood Inlet Good Not Grand Elephant Dinner Service Water Hope Big Rock Slinging in the Rain Straightjacket Time Bandits Cuckoo's Nest Rural Underground Hot Pants Beetle Juice Sic Semper Tyrannis Pleasure Palace Jericho Aja! Brave New World Tolminski Migovec Trig Point Invictus Lazarus Formative Push Your Luck Agartha Jetstream Final Draft Meridian Way Choke-a-bloke Empty quarter Blast! Andrea Bocelli Hoover Dam True Adventures Povezava Galerija e e Stara Jama Brezno TTT Mandare Drek Salome Vialos Déjà Vu Karstaway Upside Down Chamber Colony What a Coincidence! Hall of the Mountain King Alkatraz Bear Pitch Drugi Vhod Double think Smer0 Minotaur Rift Minotaur Rift Korita Roaring Elephant Big Chamber Hallowine Netopir Loozer Hallowine Dreams for the soul Bikini Carwash Leki Pot Dodge City Club Mig Challenger Bear Necessities Canberra Hotline Hidrant Rock &Roll Lost City Goody Bag Bats-hit Passage FA999 Rameses Teotihuacan Coldfeet Wonderstuff A Pun too Far Concorde Pico Memory Lane Blind Spot Balamory P.B. Junc. Labyrinth Vzporedni Svet Singing Rock Pravokotni Svet e e e M16 M2 (Kavka Jama) M18 (Strgane Srajce) Silos NCB Shreddies Slab Primer Občina Tolmin, Slovenija Globina 972m, Dolžina 37.2 km Natančnost meritev BCRA 4-5B (1994-2016) Raziskave 1974-2016 Imperial College CC/JS PD Tolmin 2016 Sistem Vrtnarija (Vrtnarija in Vilinska jama) Sistem Primadona ( Primadona, U-bend in Monatip) Sistem Migovec (Kavkna jama, Jama strgane srajce in M16) JAME POD MIGOVCEM S Pravi Plan view
  9. The three era of exploration I M2-M16-M18 (’Old Sys- tem’)

    1974-2000 I Gardeners World 2000- 2015 I Primadona-Monatip 2000-present 0 100 200 300 400 500m 0 100 200 300 400 500 600 700 800 900 1000m To Infinity and Beyond The Rock of Sages Colarado Sump Miles Underground Smash No More Potatoes Nitro Let na Drugi Svet The Palace of King Minos Milky Way Kokain Bonus Chamber Amazing Grace Stuck in Paradise 神風 Salvation Penitence Lost Miles Consort Road Yorkshire e e Minestrone Atlantis Galactica Marwood Inlet Good Not Grand Elephant Dinner Service Water Hope Big Rock Slinging in the Rain Straightjacket Time Bandits Cuckoo's Nest Rural Underground Hot Pants Beetle Juice Sic Semper Tyrannis Pleasure Palace Jericho Aja! Brave New World Tolminski Migovec Trig Point Invictus Lazarus Formative Push Your Luck Agartha Jetstream Final Draft Meridian Way Choke-a-bloke Empty quarter Blast! Andrea Bocelli Hoover Dam True Adventures Povezava Galerija e e Stara Jama Brezno TTT Mandare Drek Salome Vialos Déjà Vu Karstaway Upside Down Chamber Colony What a Coincidence! Hall of the Mountain King Alkatraz Bear Pitch Drugi Vhod Double think Smer0 Minotaur Rift Minotaur Rift Korita Roaring Elephant Big Chamber Hallowine Netopir Loozer Hallowine Dreams for the soul Bikini Carwash Leki Pot Dodge City Club Mig Challenger Bear Necessities Canberra Hotline Hidrant Rock &Roll Lost City Goody Bag Bats-hit Passage FA999 Rameses Teotihuacan Coldfeet Wonderstuff A Pun too Far Concorde Pico Memory Lane Blind Spot Balamory P.B. Junc. Labyrinth Vzporedni Svet Singing Rock Pravokotni Svet e e e M16 M2 (Kavka Jama) M18 (Strgane Srajce) Silos NCB Shreddies Slab Primer Občina Tolmin, Slovenija Globina 972m, Dolžina 37.2 km Natančnost meritev BCRA 4-5B (1994-2016) Raziskave 1974-2016 Imperial College CC/JS PD Tolmin 2016 Sistem Vrtnarija (Vrtnarija in Vilinska jama) Sistem Primadona ( Primadona, U-bend in Monatip) Sistem Migovec (Kavkna jama, Jama strgane srajce in M16) JAME POD MIGOVCEM S Pravi Plan view
  10. Coincidence Cave I Discovered in 2015 - 5m progress in

    the entrance I 2016 - draught absent I 2018 - strong, cold draught - 3 days digging lead to break- through
  11. A possible lower entrance I Same fault controlled passage as

    deep Vrtnarija southern extensions I 220 m to go I further progress through capping
  12. Table of Contents 1 Geography Slovenia Migovec area 2 History

    of exploration The M2-M16-M18 system — 1974-2000 Vrtnarija — 2000-2015 Coincidence Cave 2015-2018 3 Primadona — 2016 to present 4 Klic Globin ’Call from the Depths’ 2018 Logistics Camping at the Manger
  13. Neprehojene Poti 2016 2016 aims I Re-rig the Primadona entrance

    series I Check any side passages left unpushed I Gather experience in large pitch bolting/rigging I Reach the bottom?
  14. Neprehojene Poti 2016 2016 aims I Re-rig the Primadona entrance

    series I Check any side passages left unpushed I Gather experience in large pitch bolting/rigging I Reach the bottom? 2016 results I Galerija branch successfully pushed to new shaft series I Horizontal passage connected back to the old Slovene route I 1.7 km of new passage, 2nd largest chamber in system I helicopter rescue
  15. ˇ Cez Rob 2017 2017 aims I Continue pushing the

    2016 extensions: • Above Karstaway • Below TTT • Below Knot Very Good I Find suitable campsite I Reach the bottom?
  16. ˇ Cez Rob 2017 2017 aims I Continue pushing the

    2016 extensions: • Above Karstaway • Below TTT • Below Knot Very Good I Find suitable campsite I Reach the bottom? 2017 results I The three main leads: • Karstaway ! reconnected with Hall of the Mountain King • TTT ! draughting boulder chokes • Knot Very Good ! storming lead into blank mountain I 1.8 km of new passage
  17. Table of Contents 1 Geography Slovenia Migovec area 2 History

    of exploration The M2-M16-M18 system — 1974-2000 Vrtnarija — 2000-2015 Coincidence Cave 2015-2018 3 Primadona — 2016 to present 4 Klic Globin ’Call from the Depths’ 2018 Logistics Camping at the Manger
  18. Logistics I 4-5 days of ’carries’ for essential supplies I

    rope and wine helicoptered up (huge favour from Slovene air force) I rigging of abseil in parallel
  19. What we ran on I 100m of rigging tape I

    300 bolts (inc. 250 stainless steel) I 250 hangers and maillons I 1.1km rope (inc. 300m from UKC)
  20. What the expedition runs on I 9 kg powdered milk

    (all gone!) I ⇡ 30, 000 pinecones I > 20 kg cheese
  21. Logistics I 3 (then 2, then 1) power drills I

    10 Li-ions I 150 rechargeable AAs I spare for personal power packs
  22. Underground communications I 3 station set-up • Surface (120˚) •

    Mary’s Caf´ e (-300m V, 450m H,120˚) • The Manger (-120m V, 250m H, 190˚) I > 60 messages sent with drop to 30% battery over 4 weeks use
  23. Camping Rhys Tyers I ⇡ 3 hours to/from camp I

    max two nights under- ground in teams of 3 I 12 h shifts (day/night train)
  24. Camping I 4 Nitestar 450 sleeping bags I gas and

    trangia stoves I fairy lights and church candles I string for drying lines and drip water collection Rhys Tyers
  25. Below Camp I 1139m new passage I New depth of

    -770m at Chocolate River I draughting lead wide open heading south
  26. Below Mary’s Caf´ e 2018 Achievements I successful camp at

    depth I 3 operational CaveLink I > 2.6km new passages I Over 46m depth added to Primadona I Monitoring of M17 ice cave started