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<h2>161 Kaninchenhöhle: Knossos area</h2>
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<h3>Knossos area to Carrefour</h3>
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<p>From the foot of the Knossos pitch, up and to the right is the foot of a
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steeply sloping wall where rocks dropped down the holes in the false floor on
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the approach to Knossos land. About 2m up this wall is a 1m by 2m hole into
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the <a href="offrhr.htm#pitandp">Pit and the Pendulum</a>. Below is some
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extremely loose space amongst the rocks (probably <a href="qmtodo.htm#C1989-161-01"
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name="qC1989-161-01">C1989-161-01</a>) presumably connecting to <a
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href="offrhr.htm#rabbitc">Rabbit Curry</a>. A few metres further round the
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chamber is a narrow steeply ascending rift, which goes for about 15m before
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getting too steep to ascend further. High above the east side of the chamber
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is the head of the pitch from <a href="triasp.htm#minoan">Minoan
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Surprise</a>. No other ways out of the chamber have been found, but other
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points of interest are a couple of drippy avens on the chamber's far side,
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and a frozen manganese oxide stream.
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<p><center><a href="300dpi/knoss.png"><img alt="Knossos survey: 28k gif"
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<h4><a name="thamlets">Tower Hamlets</a> (1989)</h4>
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<p><b>Tower Hamlets</b> is in two parts. The first part can be reached from
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the foot of <a href="sibria.htm#starwars">Star Wars</a> and from Knossos, the
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second from the col between <a href="sibria.htm#tblocks">Tower Blocks</a> and
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<a href="sibria.htm#wfallc">Waterfall Chamber</a>.
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<p>The first part of Tower Hamlets is an 11m high chamber about 12m by 4m
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with a boulder-strewn floor and a narrow passage coming in from Knossos about
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3m up the right hand wall at the far end. Around to the left in the SW end
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there are a 3m climb up to a tube through to Tower Blocks, and a steeply
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sloping sandy passage connecting to the other half of Tower Hamlets.
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<p>This consists of a large sand ramp sloping up into the roof. On the right
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hand side, a difficult 7m climb [<a href="qmdone.htm#C1989-161-04"
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name="qC1989-161-04">C1989-161-04</a>] leads into a passage connecting the two parts of
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Tower Hamlets at roof level (1992). On the left hand side, there is a 1.5m
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diameter tube going up, reached by a simple but exposed climb protected by a
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bolt, [<a href="qmdone.htm#C1989-161-05" name="qC1989-161-05">C1989-161-05</a>]. The tube goes about
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4m before choking (1993). Walking back down the sand slope leads onto the col
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between Tower Blocks and the passage to Waterfall Chamber.
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<h4><a name="olympus">Tower Blocks and Olympus</a> (1988/1989)</h4>
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<p>Across the wide open space of <a href="sibria.htm#tblocks">Tower
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Blocks</a>, opposite the point of entry from Star Wars, there is a shelf
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leading to a short, choked, sandy inlet. Just to the right of this is a climb
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over a boulder into <b>Olympus</b>. Further around to the right, the floor
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drops steeply to the foot of a high drippy aven. A dodgy climb up of 10m by
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the right hand wall will also bring you into Olympus.
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<p>Olympus is nice walking passage for 40m to a junction with a big passage
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coming in from the left, <a href="#bmeal">B-Meal</a>.
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<p>The main passage continues for another 30m to <a href="#wobbling">
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Wobbling</a>, but a turn off on the right hand side after c15m is the
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continuation of Olympus. This is an inlet blocked by cemented shingle, but
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climbing over the shingle bank on the right through a low arch leads into
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pleasant phreatic passage which is between half and nearly full of sand and
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shingle at various points along its length. Passing a couple of crawls with
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an aven between them leads into larger passage with yet another choked inlet
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on the right and a very unlikely-looking zig-zag ending with a crawling
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passage to the left and a 3m climb up into a rift straight ahead. This rift
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leads straight to the <a name="qC1988-161-05">top</a> of <a
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href="deepwy.htm#flapjack"> Flapjack</a>, directly opposite the way in from
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<a href="sibria.htm#carrefour"> Carrefour</a>.
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<p>The crawling passage leads to a 2m climb down after 15m. Opposite this is
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a climb up, <a href="qmtodo.htm#C1989-161-03">Del's Climb</a>, which remains
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unexplored [<a name="qC1989-161-03">C1989-161-03</a> B]. Below the entry climb, left is a
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phreatic tube going to a 2m climb into a high, choked rift; whilst to the
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right, the passage widens over boulders leads to another view into the <a
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href="deepwy.htm#flapjack">Flapjack</a> pitch (to the right) and a complex
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collapse chamber (to the left) with various climbs and passages through
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boulders.
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<p><a href="300dpi/ambi.png"><img alt="Olympus survey - 21k gif" width=720
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<h4><a name="bmeal">B-Meal</a> (1989)</h4>
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<p>On the left, 40m into Olympus, walking up the slope leads into a 10m high
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arched passage. This goes south for 40m, passing two climbs of 2 and 5m to
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reach a 3m climb up with a hole at the bottom of it. Through the hole is a
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tight climb down 4m to a rift leading after 5m to the bottom of a 6m pitch,
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choked both at floor level and at the top. At the top of the climb, a right
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turn gains a jump down 1.5m onto sand leading round a corner to another
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choked pitch extremely similar to the one below, whilst a climb up another 3m
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to the left reaches a high chamber. A few metres walk further leads to the
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edge of a 5m drop into a very high chamber and round to the right is a view
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back down to the two 3m climbs. Going down the pitch, a steep, rocky chamber
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floor leads to another 6m pitch into the foot of an active stream pot. The
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water goes off down a rift by the foot of the pitch but disappears into a
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boulder choke another 6m down in the bottom of the rift.
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<h4><a name="wobbling">Wobbling</a> (1989)</h4>
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<p>In Olympus, 15m beyond the junction with B-Meal, Olympus itself takes the
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apparently less significant way right (north). Straight on in the main
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passage leads a further 15m. At the end of the passage is an impressive
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cemented shingle bank on the right hand side and a narrow and steeply
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descending rift on the left (south). This continues for 25m before apparently
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becoming too squalid, too tight and blocked all at the same time. However,
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15m along, at roof level (4m up) on the right, is a very obscure and
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draught-free tube - this is <b>Wormhole</b>, the end of the
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<b>Ambidextrous</b> connection (<a href="offlhr.htm#ambidex">from the Left
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Hand Route</a>, 1991).
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<h4><a name="ambirtol">Ambidextrous RHR to LHR</a> (1991)</h4>
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<p><b>Wormhole</b> is an obscure hole 4m up the right hand side
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of Wobbling, at the top of the rift. Crawling in here along a tiny bit of
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passage for 10m round a tight left corner it gets slowly larger and resumes
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the southward trend. You pass a small hole in the floor and after 25-30m, the
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roof rises to a large space. Ahead is a damp pitch/aven [<a
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href="qmtodo.htm#C1991-161-06" name="qC1991-161-06">C1991-161-06</a>]. This is bypassed in large
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rockstrewn passage to the left. Round the next corner is another access to
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the pitch along a rift, with a traverse to a choked sandy passage possible.
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<p>To the left along the rift, a 3m climb up through boulders gains the other
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end of the rift. The passage zags back to the right (in the corner on the
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left is <b>Pretty Pointless</b>, 5m of tight passage with a stal in it). A
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small chamber and 2m downclimb is at the next zig, then you go right (zag
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again) through the narrow exit to gain larger passage.
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<p><a name="ambifix">Climbing</a> up rocks at the end you should see the rope
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of the 11m up-pitch into <b>Time Dilation</b> (permanently rigged - see
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<a href="../../fixaid.htm#ambi">fixed ropes table</a>). To the right is a
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rift-developed dead-end passage. Up the pitch a 5m climb gains a view back
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over the last section of passage. The only way out is upslope to the right,
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then sharp right and down the sand slope to the bottom of the 5m pitch up
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(also permanently rigged) into Ragnarök.
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From the top you can clamber straight up over the boulders, but
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it is easier to go left along a narrow walking passage for 15m to reach
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<a href="lhr.htm#ragnarok">Ragnarök</a>.
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<h3>Around Carrefour</h3>
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<h4><a name="toiletb">Toilet Block</a> (1989)</h4>
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width=178 height=134 align=left hspace=10 vspace=10></a><b>1989
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camp</b>
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<p>Straight across <a href="sibria.htm#carrefour">Carrefour</a> (from
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Waterfall Chamber) is the <b>Toilet Block</b>, the original
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<a name="rhrcamp">camp-site</a> for the Right Hand Route. A short walking
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section leads into a very high cross rift via a 2m climb. This rift is choked
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at both ends, but going straight across continues into a 3m high 2m wide
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sandy floored passage to a crawl into a chamber containing a damp climb down
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to a choked streamway.
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<p><a href="300dpi/yapate.png"><img alt="survey - 20k gif" width=640
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<h4><a name="sokb">Sheared Off Known Better</a> (1990)</h4>
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<p>A narrow hole in the floor of Yapate inlet at
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<a href="sibria.htm#carrefour">Carrefour</a>, c15m from the way into Toilet
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Block is <b>Sheared Off Known Better</b>. This starts with a 22m pitch,
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rigged from the back of a big boulder. This drops you into the bottom of the
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active canyon that can be heard in the floor of Yapate. The passage is narrow
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and winding and much climbing about is necessary to progress. After 25m of
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traversing there is a 6m pitch, then after climbs down of 4m, 3m and 2m, a
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15m pitch is reached. This is the current limit of exploration
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[<a href="qmtodo.htm#C1990-161-06" name="qC1990-161-06">C1990-161-06</a>] as the bolt driver sheared
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off whilst setting a spit here (thus the name) so no further progress could
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be made. The position and the water volume make it very likely that this
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passage connects with <a href="deepwy.htm#flapjack">Flapjack</a> in the
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vicinity of the 28m wet pitch.
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