# 204 outstanding QMlist after 1999

# Steinbruckenhöhle Question Mark list

### (Last update after 1999 expedition)

Format is QM identifier, Quality Grade, Area indicator, decription of QM. The QM numbers themselves are in the format Discoverer identifier, Year of discovery, Cave identifier, serial number. If you look at the html, you will find that the nearest survey station (without its "<cavenumber>." prefix) is included in an html comment for almost all leads. Now that there is an index to the surveys, there may soon be a way to get from the QM to the relevant survey file, but not the pictures :-(

In general, an unpushed QM will have a link from its QM number in the description to here, and a link from here to the relevant point in the description. If there is no link, it means that I can't yet work out where the QM is in the description, or the description doesn't yet exist :-).

Discoverer identifiers

A
  ARGE
B
  Groupe Spéléeo de Clerval - Baume les Dames
C
  Cambridge University Caving Club

Quality Grades:

A
  A fine QM - git down there and look.
B
  Not so promising, or requiring some effort (eg. a climb)
C
  Pretty cruddy, or good but very hard to get to.
V
  An aven which might be climbable, but not adequately assessed
X
  A high, wet or unsafe-looking aven unlikely to be climbed
?
  No-one writing this list actually knows!

Note that the quality grades are assigned by the explorers at the time, and that subsequent discoveries may mean that the grade is optimistic, since the lead may now drop into passage which wasn't then explored. Also, different explorers have different ideas - one man's "A-lead" may be another's "C-lead" :-(

Area indicator:

Aris
  Ariston Series
NE
  Near End
WE
  White Elephant
Wolp
  Wolpertinger Way and 110 a day level

C1999-204-01 C
  NE:Passage visible from pitchhead [ent.7 ]
C1999-204-02 B
  NE:Pitch/climb reached from top of snowplug [ent.7]
C1999-204-03 C
  NE:Passage above gap at edge of snowplug above normal route [ent.7]
C1999-204-04 C
  NE:Crawl on left in needle passage [ent.25]
C1999-204-05 B
  NE:Continuation of crawl into boulder chamber [pretty.4]
C1999-204-06 C
  NE:Continuation of crawl opposite Thread Pitch head [ent.27]
C1999-204-07 B
  NE:Climb down into rift in low boulder chamber [pretty.4]
C1999-204-08 C
  NE:Undescended pitch [junction.2]
C1999-204-09 C
  Wolp:Hole in floor through dangerous boulders [veined.10]
C1999-204-10 C
  Wolp:Passage on right [veined.9]
C1999-204-11 C
  Wolp:Crawl to left at start of 110-a-day [110aday.23]
C1999-204-12 C
  Wolp:Left at X-roads [110aday.17]
C1999-204-13 C
  Wolp:Right at X-roads [110aday.17]
C1999-204-14 C
  Wolp:Left branch (tight) [110aday.1]
C1999-204-15 C
  Wolp:Right Branch (tight) [110aday.1]
C1999-204-16 A
  Wolp:20m pitch in left branch [110aday.1]
C1999-204-17 C
  Wolp:Possible Passage heading E on far side of rift opposite pitch head [pendulum.20]
C1999-204-18 C
  Wolp:Tight passage on left [pendulum.13]
C1999-204-19 C
  Wolp:Awkward way on at bottom of 2m climb down [phreatic.1]
C1999-204-20 B
  Aris:Passage possibly leading off from ledge 5m off the floor (RH wall going in) [ariston2.19]
C1999-204-21 A
  Aris:Short pitch in aven chamber [ariston2.17]
C1999-204-22 C
  Aris:Tight rift on left [ariston2.16]
C1999-204-23 A
  Aris:Pitch at end of slope [ariston2.14]
C1999-204-24 A
  Aris:Big drop at bottom [ariston2.3]
C1999-204-25 B
  WE:Eyehole halfway down 10m pitch [dome.17]
C1999-204-26 B
  WE:Narrow slot in rift at -182m [dome.41]

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