Migovec 2018, 40 km and it keeps going!

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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. Triglav National Park
3. Triglav National Park
4. Klic Globin 2018 - the Call of the Depths
5. 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
6. 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
7. Slovene geography
8. Slovene geology
9. The Migovec area
10. Rivers around Migovec
11. The Migovec area
12. Rivers around Migovec
13. Tolminski Migovec
14. The Migovec System
15. 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
16. The Migovec Plateau
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. The three era of exploration
19. 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
20. 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
21. 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
22. 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
23. Exploration on Migovec
24. The original caves M2 cave M16 cave
25. Exploring M16 Rhys Tyers
26. Forging the M2-M16-M18 connections David Wilson
27. Forging the early connections David Wilson Mark Evans (right)
28. Forging the early connections
29. Going deep Mark Evans
30. Vrtnarija pitch series Jarvist Frost
31. Vrtnarija pitch series Jarvist Frost
32. Vrtnarija — Camping at X-Ray Rhys Tyers
33. Vrtnarija Northern Extensions Jarvist Frost
34. Vrtnarija Northern Extensions Jarvist Frost Plan view
35. Vrtnarija Southern Extensions Rhys Tyers
36. Vrtnarija Southern Extensions Rhys Tyers Plan view
37. Vrtnarija Southern extensions Jarvist Frost
38. A multilevel system
39. Coincidence Cave
40. Coincidence Cave
41. 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
42. Coincidence Cave
43. Coincidence Cave (in 2015) Pete Hambley
44. Coincidence Cave (in 2018) Rhys Tyers
45. Coincidence Cave Rhys Tyers
46. Progress in Coincidence cave Rhys Tyers
47. A possible lower entrance
48. A possible lower entrance I Same fault controlled passage as deep Vrtnarija southern extensions I 220 m to go I further progress through capping
49. 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
50. Finding the entrance to Primadona
51. Finding the entrance to Primadona
52. Rebolting the abseil
53. Rebolting the abseil
54. Finding the entrance at last Flyover Ben Richards
55. Finding the entrance at last Flyover Ben Richards
56. Finding the entrance at last
57. The Primadona entrance series
58. 2016-2017 Rhys Tyers
59. Neprehojene Poti 2016
60. 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?
61. 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
62. ˇ Cez Rob 2017
63. 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?
64. 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
65. 2017 findings Jarvist Frost
66. Some surface exploration Jack Hare
67. Some surface exploration Jack Hare
68. 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
69. Logistics
70. 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
71. Logistics
72. What we ran on
73. 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)
74. Logistics
75. Logistics
76. Logistics
77. What the expedition runs on
78. What the expedition runs on I 9 kg powdered milk (all gone!) I ⇡ 30, 000 pinecones I > 20 kg cheese
79. Logistics
80. Logistics
81. Logistics
82. Logistics I 3 (then 2, then 1) power drills I 10 Li-ions I 150 rechargeable AAs I spare for personal power packs
83. Underground communications
84. Underground communications
85. 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
86. Camping Rhys Tyers I Rerigging I Carrying underground gear
87. Getting to camp Rhys Tyers
88. Getting to camp Rhys Tyers
89. Getting to camp Rhys Tyers
90. The new site Rhys Tyers I D´ ej` a Vu junction
91. The new site Rhys Tyers I D´ ej` a Vu junction
92. Camping Jack Hare
93. The Manger Rhys Tyers
94. Camping Rhys Tyers
95. 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)
96. Camping Rhys Tyers
97. 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
98. Below Camp Rhys Tyers
99. Below Camp Rhys Tyers
100. Below Camp I 1139m new passage I New depth of -770m at Chocolate River I draughting lead wide open heading south
101. Below Mary’s Caf´ e
102. Below Mary’s Caf´ e Rhys Tyers
103. Below Mary’s Caf´ e Rhys Tyers
104. Below Mary’s Caf´ e Rhys Tyers
105. Below Mary’s Caf´ e Tanguy Racine
106. Below Mary’s Caf´ e
107. 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