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<non_public>False</non_public>
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<caveslug>1623-161</caveslug>
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<official_name>Kaninchenhöhle</official_name>
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<area>1623</area>
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<area>2c</area>
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<kataster_code>5/S/E x</kataster_code>
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<kataster_number>161</kataster_number>
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<unofficial_number></unofficial_number>
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<entrance>
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<entranceslug>1623-161a</entranceslug>
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<letter>a</letter>
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</entrance>
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<entrance>
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<entranceslug>1623-161b</entranceslug>
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<letter>b</letter>
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</entrance>
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<entrance>
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<entranceslug>1623-161c</entranceslug>
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<letter>c</letter>
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</entrance>
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<entrance>
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<entranceslug>1623-161d</entranceslug>
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<letter>d</letter>
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</entrance>
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<entrance>
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<entranceslug>1623-161e</entranceslug>
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<letter>e</letter>
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</entrance>
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<entrance>
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<entranceslug>1623-161f</entranceslug>
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<letter>f</letter>
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</entrance>
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<entrance>
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<entranceslug>1623-161g</entranceslug>
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<letter>g</letter>
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<entrance>
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<entranceslug>1623-161h</entranceslug>
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<letter>h</letter>
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</entrance>
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<explorers>CUCC 1988-98dd</explorers>
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2022-03-18 22:35:41 +00:00
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<underground_description>Rather than adopting the usual approach of describing every side passage in the main description, which makes the
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'normal' descent route hard to follow, this description describes each main route down the cave first, mentioning side passages only where
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necessary to make the correct main route clear. Various side passages and connecting routes are described subsequently, area by area. The
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directions left and right are always relative to travel in the direction of the description, compass directions are given where there is any
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ambiguity. Most passages are described going 'into the cave', on the assumption that this is how they will be first met. Some passages are
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described in both directions, either because it is difficult to follow them without getting into side leads, or because they form important
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links between different parts of the system, and may be traversed either way on various round trips.</p><p>The <b>clickable index</b> has
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developed into a <a href="names.htm">glossary</a>, which it is hoped will make it easier to find bits of the cave by name - <b>be warned</b>,
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this became so big that it was decided to split it up and it is now a <b>framed</b> page.</p><p>There are also <a href="pix.htm">virtual
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tours</a>, containing thumbnails of all the pictures of the caves. Although these pages are kept small, all the photos mean that they can
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require a <b>lot</b> of memory to load. The original comprehensive tour has been split into two, for the <a href="pixrh.htm">Right Hand
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Route</a>, and for passages most conveniently reached from the <a href="pixsf.htm">Scarface entrance</a>. Two new tours have been created for
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the <a href="pixlw.htm">Lost World</a> and Wheelchair Access, and for the new way into the Forbidden Land via <a href="pixss.htm"><span
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lang="de">Steinschlagschacht</span></a>. Each thumbnail on these tours links to a full-size version of the picture, and each full-size picture
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has links into the appropriate bit of the description.</p><h4>Exploration</h4><p>Throughout the guide, the date of exploration is noted for
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each area. There is a <a href="histry.htm">history</a> page which can be used as a clickable index into the logbook write ups of all the 161
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trips, so it should be easy to follow the exploration of any part of the cave. <b>Warning</b>, this was also getting too big and is now
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framed.</p><h4>Overview</h4><p>The upper part of the system can be best thought of as a number of separate areas, each with its own vertical
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development. The more recently found extensive horizontal development, being easier to traverse, is generally better connected. Although there
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are various links between the vertical routes, a given destination will tend to have one 'obvious' approach. These areas are <a
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href="france.htm">France</a>, the <a href="lhr.htm">Left Hand Routes</a>, the <a href="rhr.htm">Right Hand Routes</a>, the southernmost part of
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the system reached via <a href="136.htm"><span lang="de">Steinschlagschacht</span></a>, routes from <a href="sftotp.htm">Scarface</a>
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entrance. So rapidly has exploration proceeded from Triassic Park that now more than half the total length is most conveniently reached via
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161d.</p><p>The key to all the deepest and most remote parts of the system is the huge collapse chamber of Knossos. This was reached from the
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161a entrance via the Right Hand Route, and now via the 161d <a href="sftotp.htm#id161d">"Scarface"</a> entrance through <a
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href="triasp.htm#triasp">Triassic Park</a>. This provides a much easier route in, making trips to the further reaches less strenuous. From
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Knossos, horizontal trunk passage leads north, giving access first to a series of <a href="deepwy.htm">deep vertical systems</a>, and further
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on to complex areas of rifts and old passages. A significant horizontal route leading northwest, <a href="sibria.htm#siberia">Siberia</a>, has
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only been pushed as a result of the new entrance, but has yielded a new deep point to the cave. There appear to be deep vertical leads in the
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far north, too, though they have mostly been avoided by a series of "mental" tyroleans and bolt traverses.</p><h4>Tourist trips</h4><p>It is
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still probably some way off the time when one might choose a tourist trip on the basis of its "classic" quality. Mostly, choices available
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depend on what is rigged this year for exploratory purposes. This will usually only include one main route into an area, so trips like a Left
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Hand Route / Garden Party or Drunk & Stupid exchange will not be easy. Similarly, the original classic Right Hand Route / Dreamtime
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exchange was only really possible during the exploration of the latter, before the Squeeze was bypassed and this modified RHR became the trade
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route.</p><p>However, now that <a href="sibria.htm#knossos">Knossos</a> is accessible from the Scarface entrance, this has opened up the
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possibilities for a whole raft of pull-through trips with a minimum of pre-rigging. The one fly in the ointment is the relative difficulty of
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surface travel between the 161d and upper entrances. The route used in 1996 seems to be good enough to have become a trade route, and after one
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benightment through loss of the route in 1997, it has been very well marked with cairns.</p><p>Already possible is the 161c to 161d through
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trip via France. In the future, pull-throughs of LHR, Garden Party or Drunk and Stupid should all be possible via Ambidextrous. Right Hand
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Route or Dreamtime give access to Knossos. Care must be taken, however, not to try rapelling down any of the plethora of routes which
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<b>don't</b> connect into the Knossos area.</p><p>As in the more famous <b lang="fr">Dent du Crolles</b> system, route-finding errors on
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bridge-burning trips could entail a long wait for someone to figure out where you went!</p><h4>Structure</h4><p><a href="svlinx.htm">Line
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plots</a> of the cave give some idea of it's shape, extent and structure.</p><p>The main entrance at 1787m drops to a major sub-horizontal
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level at 1720-1750m, containing the large passages of <a href="bsains.htm#bigsain">Big Sainsbury's</a> and its continuation into the upper part
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of <a href="dream.htm#dreamtime">Dreamtime</a>, and the smaller passages of the <a href="offtop.htm#rabbitw">Rabbit Warren</a> and the French
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entrances <a href="offtop.htm#id161b">161b</a> and <a href="france.htm#id161c">161c</a>. From this level a number of vertical routes drop to
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another significant sub-horizontal level dipping from around 1700m in the SW of the system (upper part of France) to around 1600m where this
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level is lost in the roof of <a href="sibria.htm#knossos">Knossos</a>. [This is probably debatable, as Boulder Alley from Poxy Pitch downwards
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is probably in a fault rift].</p><p>Multiple, predominantly vertical, routes drop to the cave's most important sub-horizontal passages around
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1540m in the area below the entrance dipping to c1510m in <a href="sibria.htm#tblocks">Tower Blocks</a> and the start of <a
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href="sibria.htm#yapate">YAPATE</a>. This is a major fossil passage rising up the dip to the NNE, and continuing as <a
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href="sibria.htm#cfn">Chicken Flied Nice</a> to c1540m where complexity increases. The major horizontal development in France is entered at
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c1550m, with the lowest passages down to 1480m. The major trunk route through Triassic Park is between 1560 and 1620m, and this level is also
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lost in what is presumed to be the roof of Knossos.</p><p>Whilst none of the routes below the entrance area get below about 1480m, there are a
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series of interconnecting shafts dropping below YAPATE and Chicken Flied Nice ending at or just above 1290m in sumps or tightness. The original
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deepest point, at the bottom of Flapjack, is at 1289m, 498m below the main entrance. Passages to the northwest led through a bitterly cold,
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draughty passage known as <a href="sibria.htm#siberia">Siberia</a>, which was left well alone until access via 161d made it easier. It was
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pushed in 1997 and 1998 down two very large pitches to a new deep point 534m below the 136 entrance at 1258m altitude.</p><p>There is just one
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section of <a href="deepwy.htm#elevel">horizontal level</a> at c1400m, which is not very extensive to date, and similarly a tantalising glimpse
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of what appears to have been very large trunk passage below 1300m in Siberia, but this is comprehensively choked in both directions.</p><p>This
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overview is currently mostly updated to reflect exploration to 1995, though the line plots are up to 1996. </underground_description>
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<equipment></equipment>
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<references></references>
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<survey>? grade 5</survey>
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<kataster_status></kataster_status>
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<underground_centre_line>In dataset</underground_centre_line>
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<notes></notes>
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<length>26284m (2017)</length>
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<depth>526m (2017)</depth>
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<extent></extent>
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<survex_file>caves-1623/161/161.svx</survex_file>
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<description_file></description_file>
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<url>1623/161/top.htm</url>
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</cave>
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