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<p><center><a href="top.htm"><img alt="Overview "
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<a href="../index.html#id161"><img alt=" Desc "
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<h2><a id="id161a">Original Entrance Series</a> (1988)</h2>
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<p><center><table><tr><td><a href="l/161a89.htm">
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<img alt="Photo of entrance area (107k)" src="t/161a89.jpg"
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width=121 height=178 hspace=10></a></td>
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<td><a name="entpitch" href="l/ent_a.htm">
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<img alt="Photo of entrance pitch (64k)" src="t/ent_a.jpg"
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<td><a href="l/boltp1.htm">
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<img alt="Looking up entrance" width=167 height=137 hspace=10
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src="t/boltp1.jpg"></a></td></tr></table></center>
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<p><a name="basement">The position</a> of the main entrance, on a ridge,
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has protected it from the thermoclastic scree usually found blocking open
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shaft entrances. The 37m, relatively free-hanging (deviation, rebelay at
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-12(?)m, one more deviation) pitch reaches a small chamber,
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<b>The Basement</b>, with four ways on.
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<p>Most obvious is the <a href="offtop.htm#dungeonp">Dungeon Pitch</a>. A
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stoop under an arch on the left hand (south) side of the chamber leads to the
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<a href="offtop.htm#rabbitw">Rabbit Warren Series</a> and the connection to
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<a href="france.htm#france">France</a>, <a href="offtop.htm#id161b">161b</a>
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and <a href="france.htm#id161c">161c</a>. A third exit is through a 1m diameter
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hole in the floor on the right. walking around the corner to the west reveals
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the fourth way on to <a href="#bigsain">Big Sainsbury's</a>.
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<p><center><a name="autodoors" href="l/autodr.htm"><img alt="Automatic Doors
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from Big Sainsbury's" src="t/autodr.jpg" width=120
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height=181></a> <a href="l/pitch2.htm"><img
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alt="Automatic Doors from ledge" src="t/pitch2.jpg" width=165
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height=121></a></center>
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<br><center>Two views of the Automatic Doors pitch</center>
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<p>The deepest parts of the system are reached through Big Sainsbury's, a
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very large passage about 100m long and 10m diameter. This is reached by a 12m
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pitch, <b>Automatic Doors</b>, down to a ledge, or optionally 20m down to the
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boulder floor. The third way out of the entrance chamber comes out in the
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wall around from Automatic Doors.
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<h2><a name="bigsain">161 Kaninchenhöhle: Big Sainsbury's</a> (1988)</h2>
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<p>At the foot of the boulder slope below <a href="#autodoors">Automatic
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Doors</a> is a large hole to the left (top of Dungeon Rift) and a crawl
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right, through boulders, to the <a href="#snotp">S'not</a>/
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<a href="#snotp">Dewdrop</a> approach to the deep routes
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(<a href="lhr.htm#lhroute">Left</a> and <a href="rhr.htm#rhroute">Right</a>).
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From the pitch, <b>Big Sainsbury's</b> heads NW, initially uphill over large
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boulders for 20m to the highest point. Continuing downhill, for 30m, there is
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a 2m x 4m hole in the floor against the right hand wall. This is the start of
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<a href="drunk.htm#dands">Drunk and Stupid</a>, a steeply descending rift
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which goes down to -200m before connecting with the
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<a href="lhr.htm#lhroute">Left Hand Route</a> at
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<a href="offlhr.htm#fcp">French Connection Pitch</a>.
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<p><center><a href="l/bsains.htm"><img src="t/bsains.jpg" width=158
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height=124></a></center>
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<p>20m beyond the entrance of Drunk & Stupid is a pair of very high avens
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with associated pitches. There is a traverse line along the left hand wall
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which leads via a 5m drop to a col between the two drops. Along this traverse
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is a passage in the left hand wall which goes for 25m before choking. The
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first drop is <a href="#checkout">Checkout</a>, the original
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approach to the deep routes, the second drop is
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<a href="offtop.htm#ashopper">Alternative Shopper</a>.
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<a href="dream.htm#dreamtime">Dreamtime</a> is the continuation of Big
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Sainsbury's, and is reached via the col.
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<h2><a name="snotp">S'not / Dewdrop</a> (1991)</h2>
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<p>Discovered in 1991, <b>Dewdrop</b> is by far the fastest approach to the
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deep routes. Downslope from the ledge at the foot of <a
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href="#autodoors">Automatic Doors</a> leads to an obvious rift/hole. About 4m
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down the climb into this hole, an unobvious crawl right through boulders
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leads to the head of <b>S'not Pitch</b>. This is a 35m rift pitch with four
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rebelays. The pitch lands in a joint-controlled high passage <b>Dewdrop</b>.
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Following the graded (but loose) stones downhill via a sharp left leads to
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easy passage. Dewdrop passes the <a name="lhrcamp">1989 Left Hand Route
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campsite</a> and splits after 45m. The <a href="lhr.htm#lhroute">Left Hand
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Route</a> is reached in another 10m at <b>Dewdrop Junction</b> by either way,
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the left passage having rocks in it, the right passage being a bit smaller.
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<p><center><a href="l/dewdrp.htm"><img alt="Dewdrop Junction photo"
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src="t/dewdrp.jpg" width=174 height=118></a></center>
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<p>The Left Hand Route at this point is a keyhole passage, to the right
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(east) leading further into LHR. The terminology is confusing at this point
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simply because the original way into the Left and Right Hand Routes came in
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from the other side at a different point ! To the left (NNW) is a zig-zagging
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keyhole passage. This shortly leads to a hole in the floor, (<a
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href="lhr.htm#gparty">Garden Party</a>), with bolts either side for a
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traverse line. Left Hand Route changes to an inclined rift, passing below the
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climb up into <a href="offlhr.htm#cowboy">Cowboy Caver</a>. A traversy climb
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down leads to a junction, where right leads to the foot of <a
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href="#beckaf">Becka Falls</a>, on the original route from the
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surface. Straight on is the <a href="rhr.htm#rhroute">Right Hand Route</a>.
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<h3><a name="checkout">Checkout to the Squeeze</a> (1988)</h3>
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<p>The original way to reach the deep routes, now generally bypassed via
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<a href="#snotp">Dewdrop</a>, or by <a
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href="dream.htm#dreamtime">Dreamtime</a> for the RHR. <b>Checkout</b> is a
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10m pitch (rigged to avoid a very unstable boulder slope) leading to a
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further 26m pitch in an inclined rift, <a name="lbowels"><b>Loose
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Bowels</b></a>. The head of this is known as <a name="deathdoor"><b>Death's
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Door</b></a>. This is followed by a free-climbable rift, <a
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name="riftsn"><b>Rift Sans Nom</b></a>.
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<p><center><a href="l/squeez.htm"><img alt="Squeeze Photo" src="t/squeez.jpg"
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width=122 height=181></a></center>
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<p><a name="squeeze">The foot</a> of Rift Sans Nom reaches a very tight
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hammered squeeze, <b>The Squeeze</b> (aka Beer Belly
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Blues), at the top of an 8m pitch, <a name="beckaf"><b>Becka Falls</b></a>.
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The rift enlarges below the pitch and merges with another, entering a huge
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phreatic passage, at -118m from entrance 161a. This gives the two possible
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ways on, the <a href="lhr.htm#lhroute">Left Hand Route</a> to the left (north
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east), and the <a href="rhr.htm#rhroute">Right Hand Route</a> to the right
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(south west) - named from this junction.
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