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<center><font size=-1>Cambridge Underground 1986-7 p 11</font>
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<h2>Guidebook Description to the 144 Stellerweg Connection</h2></center>
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2004-04-29 18:43:49 +01:00
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<p>144 is described in the <a href="../1983/143144.htm#id144">1984 edition</a>
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of Cambridge Underground. The route is described from the entrance to the
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bottom at about -285m. The following guide starts from the large chamber now
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called "The Yellow Brick Road" at about -200m.
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<p>Crossing the Yellow Brick Road from the 11m pitch leads to a 25m pitch
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down a layered mud wall. About 3m to the left of the tube leading to the
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pitch, a series of small tubes and ramps may be found. The main tube
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terminates after about 4m at a small hole, Roddick's Dive, which is best
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rigged with a 6m ladder. This drops through a restriction and down a rock
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slab to a muddy sloping landing.
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<p>traversing across the mud around to the right leads after about 10m to a
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2m climb into a passage. This is the passage that can be seen across the head
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of the 25m pitch. To the right, the pitch is encountered after about 5m. To
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the left, the passage continues for some 25m, past a number of ramp tubes on
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the left. The passage is then blocked by orange sand infill. The rift above
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the infill has been entered by bolting (two bolts on the left hand wall), and
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rapidly ascends and narrows. At its furthest, there is an undescended small
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hole in the floor down which water can be heard.
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<p>Back at the infill, the way on is down the ramp tube on the left. This is
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descended on a slope of about 45 degrees for about 60m until a large dry
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passage is entered. To the left this becomes narrower, with steeply sloping
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soil ledges and a narrow rift below. This direction has not been pushed, but
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is resumed to be the same rift as that at the bottom of Roddick's Dive, and
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probably the same as that below the 11m pitch entering the Yellow Brick Road.
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<p>To the right, the passage continues large over a broken rock floor with a
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trench in the middle. At the point where the trench opens out, and drops for
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about 2m, two ways on are possible. Descent into the first (caution -
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unstable rock) leads to a rift between boulders and a climb back up into the
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passage, above a hole. Alternatively, a traverse to the right leads to the
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same point.
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<p>From here the route follows a series of winding passages generally floored
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with loose dry yellow or grey sand, with several shorts descents over
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boulders. The draught is the best guide until the passage breaks out into a
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chamber which is itself a large alcove about 20m up the side of a much larger
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chamber.
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<p>Back tracking approximately 20m leads via a squueze, through sandy
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chambers to a muddy low crawl to the bottom of the pitch. This is very
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draughty and damp. Following the passage downstream, it develops into a
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vadose canyon with the stream in the floor. After approximately 20m another
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10m pitch is met. By following the steep wet tube on the right you pop out
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3.5m from the bottom of this pitch. A wide chimney brings you to the floor in
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the rift below, with <span lang=de>Stellerweg</span> Big Pitch to the left,
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and 115 to the right.
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<!-- LINKS -->
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<ul>
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<li><a href="../../smkridge/41/144.htm">1623/144</a> Guidebook page</li>
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<li>1985 Expedition info:
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<ul>
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<li><a href="log.htm">Logbook</a></li>
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<li>Cambridge Underground Expo Report:
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<ul>
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<li><a href="report.htm">Austria 1985</a></li>
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<li><a href="bdseye.htm">A Bird's Eye View</a>, Tina White</li>
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<li>Summary of caves <a href="loser.htm">explored 1976-85</a><br>
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<li><a href="bcracc.htm">BCRA Caves & Caving Report</a><br> -->
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</ul></li>
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<li><a href="../../pubs.htm#pubs1985">Index</a> to all publications</li>
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<li><a href="../../index.htm">Back to Expeditions intro page</a></li>
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<li><a href="../../../index.htm">CUCC Home Page</a></li>
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<li><a href="../../../jnl/index.htm">Index</a> to Cambridge Underground<br>
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