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1623/41 Stellerweghöhle Guidebook
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<h2>Stellerweghöhlensystem: deep side leads</h2>
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<h3><a name="offdford">Dartford Tunnel</a></h3>
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<p>There are several small tubes leading off both right and left near the
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start of <a href="deepwy.htm#dartford">Dartford Tunnel</a> [<a name="C1982-41-00"
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href="qmlist.htm#C1982-41-00">C1982-41-00</a>], also downhill, but none of these
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crawls/stoops have been pushed to a conclusion. There may also be high leads
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to the left 40m [<a name="C1982-41-01" href="qmlist.htm#C1982-41-01">C1982-41-01</a>] and 60m
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[<a name="C1982-41-02" href="qmlist.htm#C1982-41-02">C1982-41-02</a>] from the start.</p>
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<p>Where Dartford Tunnel turns abruptly right (NW) and changes into a high
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rift, there is a possiblity of a passage to the left, about 6m up the wall,
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continuing the line of the rift in the opposite direction [<a name="C1982-41-04"
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href="qmlist.htm#C1982-41-04">C1982-41-04</a>] to the SE. This NW-SE joint is parallel
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with the Big Rift of Stellerweg, and seems to be a major influence in this
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area.</p>
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<p>The joint-guided rift ends abruptly at a T-junction where the main way
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is left in SW-trending vadose canyon. To the right is also big passage,
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leading Northeast to an aven with an inlet [<a name="C1982-41-05"
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href="qmlist.htm#C1982-41-05">C1982-41-05</a>], but no way on. On the main way, at a 4m
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climb down, a passage comes in from the right, also NE; this may be followed
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to a low area of mud and boulders [<a name="C1982-41-06"
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href="qmlist.htm#C1982-41-06">C1982-41-06</a>] with no continuation.</p>
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<h3>Confluence Area (1982)</h3>
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<p>Where the Purgatory Bypass finally intersects the canyon of the stream
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entering at the Confluence, the main way is to the left on a ledge. No
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attempt has apparently been made to follow the canyon to the right at high
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level [<a name="C1982-41-12" href="qmlist.htm#C1982-41-12">C1982-41-12</a>], perhaps because
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of its angle and lack of friction.</p>
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<p>The main way crosses the canyon to a terrace, and drops down from here to
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the Confluence from a corner. If, instead of dropping down here, the terrace
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is followed round the corner to the right, it leads to a dry vadose trench in
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the floor and then a traverse above the main streamway. <b><a id="rampant">Rampant
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Passage</a></b> starts near this corner and rises as a large dry passage, 7m high
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and 2m wide. This climbs 30m in its 65m length to emerge at a huge chamber,
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<b>Cologne Cathedral (Köln Dom)</b> approximately 15m in diameter and
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apparently 20m high. A dangerous climb, c10, c5m leads to 25m of passage
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ending in the huge 30m high Echo Aven [<a name="C1982-41-14"
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href="qmlist.htm#C1982-41-14">C1982-41-14</a>]. It's not entirely clear whether there is
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a way on [<a name="C1982-41-13" href="qmlist.htm#C1982-41-13">C1982-41-13</a>] in the roof of
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Köln Dom.</p>
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<p>Many of the passages in these levels contain dead bats, perhaps suggesting
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a lower entrance, though this seems unlikely to be nearby. Some of the deeper
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passages of <a href="../../noinfo/1623/78.htm">Schwabenschacht (1623/78)</a> are near this
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area, perhaps 200m above the Confluence. The top of Echo Aven is near to
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halfway to bridging this gap, which suggests the possibility of a connection
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in the next few years.</p>
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<p>The climb down from the Bypass lands at the junction of the Purgatory
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water and an inlet [<a name="C1981-41-07" href="qmlist.htm#C1981-41-07">C1981-41-07</a>] which
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can be followed upstream (ESE) in a passage similar to the Purgatory, until
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soon after a 7m climb up, the streamway divides twice and becomes too small
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to follow. This is thought to be the Stellerweg water, last seen in Junction
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Chamber, but is likely also to include water from various inlets and floor
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trenches seen in Dartford Tunnel, as there are no inlets in the Purgatory
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itself.</p>
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<h3>Stream Inlets below the Confluence (1982)</h3>
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<p>Downstream of the Confluence, just after the first (4m) wet climb is the
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entry of a dry inlet on the right, which leads back towards the Confluence,
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but was not pushed to a conclusion [<a name="C1982-41-15"
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href="qmlist.htm#C1982-41-15">C1982-41-15</a>]. Shortly downstream, below the 7m pitch,
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the streamway feeding the cascade on the left [<a name="C1982-41-16"
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href="qmlist.htm#C1982-41-16">C1982-41-16</a>] remains unexplored (this is shown on the
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right on the survey, not the left).</p>
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<p>Where the sump bypass drops back to the main stream, the continuing way up
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is unexplored [<a name="C1981-41-22" href="qmlist.htm#C1981-41-22">C1981-41-22</a>]. Halfway
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between the next 3m pitch and the Twelve Foot Climb, (50m from each) another
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inlet enters from high up, this time on the right [<a name="C1981-41-23"
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href="qmlist.htm#C1981-41-23">C1981-41-23</a>]. Much further on, another unexplored inlet
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up on the left [<a name="C1981-41-24" href="qmlist.htm#C1981-41-24">C1981-41-24</a>], shortly
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precedes the Subtle Approach Pitch.</p>
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