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<title>1623:76 -- Brave New World</title>
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<tr><th id="kat_no">76 - main a b</th><th id="name">Eislufthöhle</th><th id="status">5/S/E +</th></tr>
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<H1>Brave New World</H1>
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<H2>The Test Tubes</H2>
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<p>The Test Tubes are reached by a short exposed roped climb up from The Ledge in
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Plugged Shaft. Crawling forward a few metres reaches a widening where SRT kits
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can be removed; further crawling and a sharp right and then left hand bend
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reaches about 40m of rift passage. A short way along this, the passage to
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Lovers Leap doubles back on the right. Towards the end of the rift, a low
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wriggle gains a junction, the main rift continues. A solution tube above is
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C2004-76-04C and the rift on the left is C2004-76-05C, the crawling passage on
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right soon becomes narrower and C2004-76-42C doubles back on the right, the now
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small passage continues to formations, and appears to continue beyond,
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C2004-76-41C. At the end of the main rift, the passage turns sharply
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right to become a hand and knees crawl along a phreatic tube. 25 metres later
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this pops out near the top of a much larger vadose passage, Brave New World.
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<H2>Brave New World</H2>
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<p>Southeast (left when entering from The Test Tubes) goes for about 50m to a
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boulder choke, passing on the right 3 small passages, which join and lead to an
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undescended pitch (C2004-76-43B).
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Northwest (right), along Brave New World soon leads to a pitch (A*) and a
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complicated junction, the first passage off on the left is full of loose
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blocks, in the process of falling out of the ceiling, C2004-76-25C. There is
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an unexplored passage on the right, above the pitch, C2004-76-26B. The
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remaining passages are best reached by a roped traverse round the left
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wall, and into the next passage on the left. The continuation of Brave New
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World, Overhanded Tactics continues beyond the pitch and is gained by a passage
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on the right (bringing one back to A* pitch), and another roped traverse across
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the pitch. After 30m, this walking size rift passage becomes choked, and a low
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crawl on the right leads to The Boiling Tubes (a hands and knees crawl along a
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strongly drafting phreatic tube). After 20m The Boiling Tubes get smaller, and
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most of the draft goes up a small choked aven, passages also branch off to the
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left (C2004-76-64C) and right (C2004-76-63C), whilst straight ahead continues,
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but is smaller (C2004-76-62B).
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Back at the complicated junction above A* pitch, the main passage to the SW
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gradually descends and leads after about 30m to a four way junction with B*
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passage. Turning left (E), along B* passage first passes a small passage on
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the left where the small trickle of water enters (C2004-76-31 C) and then a
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climb to a possible higher passage (C2004-76-30V). B* passage ends at an aven
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on the left, the main way on appears to be up this (C2004-76-29V), ahead is a
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small inlet (C2004-76-28X) and on the right is a small passage (C2004-76-27C).
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Doubling back under the original passage (at the junction with B* passage) is a
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meandering canyon, Canyon, which soon reaches an un-descended pitch
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(C2004-76-40A).
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Turning right along B* passage soon arrives at an un-descended pitch
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(C2004-76-22A) and four way junction, straight on (C2004-76-23A) and right
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(C2004-76-24A) can only be reached by crossing the pitch. Left is reached by
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carefully traversing round the pitch, and after 30m of walking passage, reaches
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another un-descended pitch (C2004-76-18A) and multi-way junction, Hidden
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Promise. Left is small (C2004-76-21C), straight on would be reached by
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traversing over the pitch (C2004-76-19B), as would the roof tube above this
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(C2004-76-20C). Right (Branch Line) soon becomes walking size and bends right
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(two small passages head off on the left here, C2004-76-44C and C2004-76-45C).
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After a total of 50m of passage (occasionally decorated with straws in the
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roof) it becomes choked. Two very low passages on the left lead into No Ways
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Chamber, another low passage leaves this on the right, at the bottom of a slope
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to Ol's Squeeze (C2004-76-56C), a climb up may lead to more passage at the SW
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of the chamber (C2004-76-55V). The main way on is through an initially low
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crawl on the SE (left) into a walking size rift passage, Back on Track. 50m
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later this reaches another chamber, All-ways Chamber with two currently
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unexplored leads, C2004-76-53V is up the 4m climb (steep, but with big holds)
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and C2004-76-54C is the small drafting passage to the north. The rift to the
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SE, gained by a 6m climb very shortly becomes too small.
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<H2>Fault Pitch Series</H2>
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A* pitch is 17m; rigged with a boulder-backup, pitch head bolts and deviation
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bolt. To the west of the pitch head is an unexplored passage heading south
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(C2004-76-39C), below the pitch head is an unexplored inlet (C2004-76-37C), and
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near the bottom of a pitch is a window in the NW wall (C2004-76-38B) At the
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bottom of A* there are two small unexplored passages (C2004-76-35C and
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C2004-76-36C) the main passage heads of the other way and is a high rift, after
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about 15m this bends to the right, with an explored, but very low, passage on
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the left, at ground level C2004-76-34 C. A few meters further on is an
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aven/inlet on the left (C2004-76-32 X), approximately 10m Fault Pitch is
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reached. Fault pitch continues above (C2004-76-33 X), and whilst normal only
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slightly drippy is very noises with water when it rains. A traverse round to
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the right of the pitch reaches a big passage Forward to the Past, initially
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phreatic, then a high rift which joins Plugged Shaft about ½ way down is
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final pitch.
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<p>
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Fault Pitch follows down a fault (with ~1m offset); a rebelay and deviation
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near a rock bridge at -7m are followed by a 13m pitch to a large ledge. From
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here a passage leads SW to a loose 8m pitch and rubble slope to a choke. Above
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this loose pitch, a ramp leads up (C2004-76-57B). Continuing down the Fault
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Pitch Series, a 26m pitch is rigged from a y-hang, some of the way down the
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pitch a small rift appears to head off in two directions (C2004-76-61B and
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C2004-76-59C), the pitch lands on a ledge, which can be traversed to where
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things get smaller and two choices lead off. The first is a rift
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(C2004-76-58C) and the second is the next pitch in the series, this looks much
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smaller than those above, is un-descended and is perhaps not a place to be in
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rain (C2004-76-60B).
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<H2>Lovers Leap</H2>
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The passage leaving the Test Tube soon reaches the Lovers Leap Pitch; the
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passage appears to continue over pitch (C2004-76-12C), and it looks like there's
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a higher level to the passage you reach the pitch head from (C2004-76-11C).
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The 6m pitch drops into
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a high rift, at the upstream end an aven leads up (C2004-76-10X), and after a
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further 6m pitch the rift becomes narrower. It looks like it would be
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too narrow to pass, but suitably small rocks drop a long way if thrown right
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and looking at survey data this is premused to rejoin Plugged Shaft. A likely
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candidate crack in the wall of Plugged Shaft has been noted.
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