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<TH align=left width="30%"><FONT size=+2>204</font><br><font size=+1>(CUCC 1999/03)</FONT></TH>
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<TH lang=de><h1>Steinbr<62>ckenh<6E>hle</h1></TH>
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<TH align=right width="30%"><FONT size=+2>4/S x</FONT></TH></TR>
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<h2>Swings and Roundabouts area</h2>
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2002-07-16 16:52:33 +01:00
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Swings and Roundabouts is an area of rubble-strewn passages to the west of
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Treeumphant Passage. Access is from Bonsai Crawl or the 204d entrance.
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<H3>Playground</H3>
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<p>Swings and Roundabouts branches off
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<a href="treeumphant.shtml">Treeumphant Passage</a> at what was QM12B, in
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<a href="nopain.shtml#Bonsaicrawl">Bonsai Crawl</a>.
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Initialy, a walking sized passage <b>Playground</b> leads past some mud
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formations and a drippy mini-aven to a view overlooking a mid-sized chamber <b>Magic
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Roundabout</b> with several exits. The easiest way to the chamber floor is via a climb
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down through a hole on the right at the end of Playground.</P>
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<H3>Magic Roundabout Chamber and surrounding passage</H3>
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<p>Once in the chamber, climbing down over boulders to the left leads to a
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small exit between rocks. A short rubble-strewn chute follows arriving after a few
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metres at a large shaft. Neither roof nor floor are visible; rocks fall for some 2-3
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seconds.</p>
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<p>Back in the main chamber, a rubble slope to the north leads onwards. To the north
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of the slope is
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an unpromising QM; to the east leads back to the point where Playground overlooks the
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chamber. To the west is the main passage continuation. A passage on the left is
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<b>Pretty Bits</b>, which also has windows into the main chamber. Continuing over rocks,
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a phreatic tube enters from <b>Juicy Bits</b> on the left; the main way on is up a short
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slope over boulders to the start of the main Swings trunk passage: 10m wide and 8m
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high.</p>
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<H3>Swings Passage</H3>
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<p>The trunk passage, a large phreatic with much breakdown and generally a boulder strewn
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floor, continues for over 100m in a northerly direction. Rubble slopes up and down
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keep the passage at roughly the same level. Along its length, a number of
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passages branch off to the left and right.</P>
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<P>The first two passages leading off are <b>Juicy Bits</b> on the left and the way
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towards <b>The Slide</b> on the right. Further along, the small connection with The
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Slide enters from the right. A pitch on the left is surrounded by a lot of very
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loose boulders; rocks fall for a considerable distance, but no attempt was made
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to desecend due to the loose debris. Across the top of the pitch are two slots
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looking into <b>Chicago Chicanes</b>. Continuing along Swings passage, the entrance to
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Chicago Chicanes is on the left and a short unpromising QM on the right.</P>
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<P>A little further along, a phreatic tube slopes down to the left. This passes
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through a small chamber and develops a stream in a deep, narrow slot in the
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floor before choking in earth.</P>
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<P>A series of small holes in the right hand wall interconnect, with a
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possible, uninviting, way on through tight, sharp vadose passage.</P>
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<P>At the end of Swings passage, a very loose rubble slope leads up to
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<b>Suspended Solution</b>, and so on towards the 204d entrance. Mid-way up the
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slope, a traverse (rope advised) round a nose of rock is possible. This leads
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one to the base of a climb (not yet done) up to where water can be heard and a
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large passage continues. Alternatively, traversing futher to the right from the
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base of the climb leads to a steeply sloping, cleanwashed phreatic tube. This
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heads both up and down and may be the connection to <b>Helter Skelter</b>.</p>
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<H4>The Slide</H4>
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<p>A large passage to the right quickly narrows up a rubble slope to a
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drafting, but otherwise unprommising QM. Before the slope, a passage entering
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from the left leads to <b>The Slide</b> passages.</P>
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<p>The Slide passages are upwardly sloping phreatics, mainly clean washed. Soon
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after entering the slide, a small passage on the left connects back to the main
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Swings trunk passage. Heading on up the slope past a couple of small loops
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brings one to a window onto a very large shaft; neither floor nor roof
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are visible.</P>
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<h4>Chicago Chicanes</H4>
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<b>Chicago Chicanes</b> doubles back on the main passage. A series of rubble filled
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pot-holes leads to a chamber with a high aven and slits up on the right wall
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back into the main passage. Beyond the chamber, a hole in the floor leads to
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two small rift passages, right an unpromising QM, an left probably linking into
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the pitch head at the start of <b>Juicy Bits</b>. Climbing up and over the hole leads
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to more pot-holes and a boulder choke. Carefully negotiating the boulders and
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through a narrow slot brings one back to Juicy Bits.</P>
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<h3>Suspended Solution</h3>
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<P><b>Suspended Solution</b> is a solution tube at the top of the rubble slope at the
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end of Swings Passage. When scaling this slope, care is needed as if too much
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rubble is kicked down it will be difficult to climb up into the tube. Also, the
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(much larger) boulders at the top of the slope may be dislodged. Climbing up
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through the tube brings one to the base of another scree slope. A sloping
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passage to the right has been climbed for some distance but appears to go
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nowhere.</P>
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<P>At the top of the scree slope, under a low arch, is a small chamber. A
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hading rift on the right has been climbed for some distance. There is an
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unpromising hole on the left. Straight ahead leads to a climb down (20' ladder
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useful) into <b>Living Daylight Cavern</b>.</P>
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<H3>Living Daylight Cavern and 204d</H3>
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<P>This large chamber (11m diameter) has a boulder floor and what looked like a
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dried stream floor. A possible QM in the left hand corner goes over boulders
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into a small chamber. The way on is under a low arch across the chamber from
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the ladder. A climb up reaches more space and becomes more serious. From the
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arch, go left to within sight of the 204d entrance. The 7m climb up is bolted
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at the top, or may be climbed from the bottom in the recess in the right hand
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wall. Traversing over the top of the climb emerges in the base of a shake
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hole.</p>
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2002-07-14 23:28:31 +01:00
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<H3><A name=survey>Survey</A></H3>
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<center><img src="swings.png" width=756 height=880 alt="Survey"></center>
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