The Open Cave

I was completing the basic ages with a 2nd avatar, collected the poles, and tried to give them back.
The first age I returned to, Gahreesen, I opened the journey door, went through and crashed when linking to the Bahro cave.

Now I cannot get any of the journey doors to open again.
I even tried restarting my PC.

I think this is the problem with the loosing journey clothes. Try to collect the clothes again.

Are you sure it wasn't a coincidental crash, linking in general has been rather dangerous lately. (I just lost 2 Pellets in a row trying to link to the silo with a test Avatar) If the cloth count is not at 7 the door won't open, so that connection, though possible, is not likely.
Edit; The problem with the journey cloth count seams to me to be that the cloth count record does not always load properly with the Avatar, rather than an actual reset, as the correct count often returns on subsequent visits.