Caramel Catharsis to water collecting pool junction
From the foot of Caramel Catharsis, Secret Squirrel is downhill to the south. The major route is a large, passage heading northwest for around 20m past taped formations on the floor. Twin passages to the left here lead to Stomach Ulsa. [SURVEY SHOWS UNEXPLORED PASSAGE TO WEST HERE QM 07-06 B – DOES THIS REALLY EXIST? ORIGINAL SURVEY SUGGESTS TWO PASSAGES BOTH GOING TO STOMACH ULSA] The main way is through a low arch straight ahead to a 3m climb down in a rift below an aven, which can be climbed far enough to see that it probably doesn't go. At the bottom is a wide stony passage with a pool useful for collecting water, and an important junction.
The most obvious route is rightish (north) up another awkward climb leading to Y KeyKey Beach and the Littoral North; left (southwest) leads almost immediately to a 12m pitch into Frankly Freezing. Ahead (west) is the climb towards Usual Suspects.
Littoral North
If the north passage is taken from the water collecting pool, a 2m climb up rotten calcite leads (past a small unexplored passage on the left [QM 07-04 A]) to an unusual critical-angle pile of 10cm diameter rocks Y KeyKey Beach. The narrowing at the top of this pile (it gets close to the roof) has a stonking gale coming through it. Just beyond this where the passage widens to 8m, behind the large rock on the left is the hidden entrance to Rhubarb Crumbly, leading to the lower levels via String Theory and the northern areas via Max Pleasure.
On the right, at the widening, is a shallow pit [QM 07-05-C] [Has this been ticked off? Or does it need to be put into tunnel and the QM list? - Becka Lawson].
Ahead (northeast) the comfortable passage only goes for about 20m before reaching the edge of a huge shaft undercutting the RH wall: The Thin Red Line. An airy traverse to the left of this reaches another hole on the left down, apparently into the same pitch [QM 07-89-B]. Immediately ahead is another large hole [QM 07-91-A]. Up is a large aven (30m+ [QM 07-98 X]). A continuation is visible across the other side of the pitch - this is the passage at the head of Blind and Broken and Gravity Always Wins and is accessed via Starlight Passage.
