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<h2>161 Kaninchenhöhle: Where the Wind Blows</h2>
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<h3><a name="catwoman">Catwoman's Claws</a>
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(<a href="../../years/1996/index.htm">1996</a>)</h3>
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<p>This series trends almost due north and is substantially linear in nature
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with numerous shafts and avens appearing along its length. It is unusual
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for the Puerile Humour series in that it draughts out (ie. towards Triassic
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Park) in the summer. The series is some 70m higher than, and passes less than
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100m to the east of <a href="farnth.htm#eanglia">East Anglia</a> at "The Far
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End" of the 'old' cave.
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<p>Turning left (NNE) at Gotham City Junction, over a low pebble bank, the
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passage is straight for 30m with mud banks either side and a narrow slot in
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the floor occasionally visible. Towards the end of this straight section the
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mud is covered in calcite and numerous stalactites are found, <b>The
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Claws</b>, that give this passage its name. The passage turns left, up a
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boulder slope. An aven ~10m is passed on the left and a narrow trench in the
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floor is again visible. Passage continues past mud banks for 25m, and opens
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out with an aven to the right and an apparent end with a rock wall in front.
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<h4><a name="nubr">No Utility Belt Required</a></h4>
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<p>Looking to the left at the end of Catwoman's Claws, an unobvious, small
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(1.5m high by 30cm) rift in the wall can be seen, this is a 2m squeeze <b>No
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Utility Belt Required</b> that pops out into a small chamber with
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<a href="offph.htm#offnubr">several ways on</a>. The way on is to the right
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of the exit of the squeeze.
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<p><center><a href="300dpi/cat.png"><img
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<h4><a name="wtwb">Where the Wind Blows</a></h4>
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<p>To the right of the exit to No Utility Belt Required, combined tactics can
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be used to gain the top of a 3m climb and scramble up a steep mud slope
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(back over the top of the squeeze). A thread on the left can then be used to
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rig a handline for the climb.
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<p>At the top of the mud slope is an open area with a conical mud pile in the
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centre with a view back down, on the right, to the chamber and aven [QM
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96-32], encountered before the squeeze.
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<p>The way on, <b>Where The Wind Blows</b>, is to the left, heading down a
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steep mud slope for 10m to a brief crawl / stoop before opening out to
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walking sized passage once more. 10m on, the mud floor gives way to calcited
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mud and boulders with a narrow vadose trench in the floor and avens (about
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10m high) right and left. Another vadose trench is then met running down the
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passage and off to the left originating from the base of yet another aven on
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the left. The passage widens slightly (to 5m) with an aven (~10m) on the
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right, then constricts briefly with an aven (~10m) on the left. The passage
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then widens to ~7m with a 3m drop to the right and several narrow rifts in
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the floor lead to <a href="offph.htm#pencils">Pencil Shaft</a>.
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<p>Continuing on up a rock strewn slope enters the start of a large fault
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chamber 30m long, 5m wide and ~15m high. Several
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<a href="offph.htm#offwtwb">shafts and avens</a> punctuate this, the last
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traversed to the left to reach the end of the chamber where the boulders give
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way to a mud floor and a narrow rift leads off north on the right hand side.
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<h4><a name="hairfire">Bloody Hairfire Passage</a>
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(<a href="../../years/1996/index.htm">1996</a>)</h4>
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<p><a href="300dpi/bhfp.png"><img alt="survey - 7k gif" width=640
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<p>The rift continues for 7m or so, turns to the east and lowers through a
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calcite curtain into a mud floored phreatic passage. The mud gives way to a
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rock floor with a shallow trench in the floor at a corner. Straight on are
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some small connected phreatic pockets and to the left is a fine flat, mud
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floored, arched phreatic passage, 3m wide by 1.5m high on average, with
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occasional phreatic pockets along it's length. <b>Bloody Hairfire Passage</b>
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(so called due to an error reading a compass with a carbide light!) heads
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dead straight, level and almost due north for 70m.
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<p>The passage then bears slightly to the right and a very careful crawl must
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be made to the left of a calcite pool, with delicate calcite flower, in the
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centre of the mud floor. 25m on, a phreatic shelf opens out at roof level and
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to the right, and a further 20m reaches the cobble strewn passage end.
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Straight on ends in a choked, but draughting bedding [<a name="qC1996-161-37"
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href="qmtodo.htm#C1996-161-37">C1996-161-37</a> C], whereas to the left a crawl under small
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stal formations enters a narrow 4m aven/rift [<a name="qC1996-161-36"
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href="qmtodo.htm#C1996-161-36">C1996-161-36</a> C] again choked with cobbles with a draught
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coming through.
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<p>10 m back from the end on the right (going in) is a very unobvious hole in
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the floor against the wall with a draught coming out of it. The body sized
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hole drops 2m to a rift that then doubles back and drops ~4m to a small
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chamber with puddle in the floor [<a name="qC1996-161-35"
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href="qmdone.htm#C1996-161-35">C1996-161-35</a> A]. This continues, but now requires
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hammering for further progress [<a name="qC1997-161-35"
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href="qmtodo.htm#C1997-161-35">C1997-161-35</a>].
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<p>There was some (as yet undescribed) work here in 1997, leading to an "aven
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above climbs up through the floor at end" [<a name="qC1997-161-36"
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href="qmtodo.htm#C1997-161-36">C1997-161-36</a>].
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