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<H1>1970's Route</H1>
A further 13m pitch, <b>Saved
Shaft</b>, into a smaller aven chamber, <b>Boulder Chamber</b>, leads
to an apparent end, but thrutch through boulders into top of rift/canyon.
Hole in floor is 32m pitch into <b>Keg Series</b> (no draught) with
further unexplored pitch below. Continuing traverse leads to climbs
down then split pitch of 19m and 14m, <b>Follow-through Shaft</b>,
dropping into side of abandoned canyon. Upstream to the left ends
immediately while down canyon leads to head of a chamber, The Taproom,
with a 5m climb down a big boulder under heavy drip/spray (handline
useful). Also from the head of the chamber, passage leads back to
a large unexplored hole in floor with lots of water entering from
a high aven. 1977 terminus at -150m.</p> <p>From chamber, scramble
down in rift (rope useful owing to greasy rock and 120 metre drop)
to reach head of large rift pitch below jammed boulder. Pitch drops
in two sections of 10m and 35m, with stream out of reach in canyon,
to ledge where stream bed is crossed (traverse line). Further pitch
of 10m leads to straddle climb up to rocking boulder, then traverse
forward to good belays for 48m pitch. This lands on <b>The Balcony</b>
where water runs away from obvious way on into a tight immature drain.</p><div
class=""centre""><a name=""hgk"" href=""l/hotgk.htm""><img src=""t/hotgk.jpg""
width=""151"" height=""116"" alt=""HotGK.jpg (69k)"" /></a><p>Ben
with the Greene King pennant on the Balcony</p></div><p>From the
Balcony a 7m pitch drops into the <b>Hall of the Greene King</b>,
a huge soaring aven chamber. The way on over a boulder floor leads
under suspended boulders, one of immense size, to a 5m pitch down
off the edge of a boulder. In the floor is a sharp canyon that loops
round to a junction. Left leads to <b>Gents' Pitch</b> route, while
right leads to a dry passage. After a few metres in the dry passage,
there is a rift in the floor to the left, which is a muddy, broken
pitch with sections of 3m, 12m and 18m into the main canyon (1978
route). Another few metres ahead, a bold step across the canyon leads
to further passage which eventually degenerates and rejoins the main
canyon upstream (right) of the bold step.</p><div class=""centre""><a
name=""p16"" href=""l/p16.htm""><img src=""t/p16.jpg"" width=""143""
height=""170"" alt=""p16.jpg (58k)"" /></a>&nbsp; &nbsp;<a href=""l/gents.htm""><img
src=""t/gents.jpg"" width=""143"" height=""170"" alt=""Gents.jpg
(36k)"" /></a><p>Julian Griffiths abseiling the 16.5m and Gents'
pitches on the bottoming trip in 1979</p></div><p>The 1979 route
from the junction leads to a pitch of 16.5m, free hanging just clear
of the wall, with an excellent takeoff. However the rope gets muddy
from mud on clothing in a couple of trips, so care is required. Next
drop is the Gents' pitch of 9.5m, which leads to a short streamway
rejoining the main canyon from the 1978 route. The bottom of this
pitch is a good place for cavers to perform ablutions with the mud
on their ascenders, hence the name (all the explorers were male).
The main passage now leads on with stream in floor and muddy ledges
above until the <b>Fiesta Run</b> is reached. This awkward slanting
rift pitch of 28m is so muddy that ladders are <b><i>de rigeur</i></b>.
The name derives from the car crash which terminated exploration
at this point in 1978.</p><p>A traverse forward on muddy ledges leads
out over a huge shaft with the ominous sound of a waterfall below.
Traversing further eventually leads to a further pitch of 5m to a
col. Down another 10m on the side away from the main shaft lands
on a solid floor in an abandoned rift. Forward leads through narrow
passage with sharp rock to a point where thrutchy traversing is necessary
to make further progress. A 23m broken pitch in sharp rock, with
very bad rub points leads only to a tight crawl. This was pushed
by Julian Griffiths to emerge at a drop with a large aven above,
which remains unexplored at about -395m depth.</p><p>The main way
on, however, is to drop back into canyon towards the ominous hiss
of water in a very wide pitch where the stream seems to have hit
a fault at right angles to the arriving passage direction. The middle
section of this 28m pitch is huge, before narrowing to a ledge parallel
to the new fault, and 'downstream' from the original direction of
stream flow. From the ledge, a smaller shaft of 33m drops down the
new fault rift to a boulder floor where the water sinks. The fault
rift, <b>Madlmeier Schacht</b>, now drops in sections of 24 and 19m
to the end of the rope in 1979. Here an exposed freeclimb of 5m with
icy water flowing over the handholds is not really recommended -
take a longer rope. Next pitch of 24m picks up the main water again
10m down, and final pitch of 17m from ledge drops to floor of rift
chamber, but mud on floor precedes final muddy 10m pitch down a boulder
wall to a deep and terminal rift sump at -506m.</p><p><a name=""penult""
href=""l/penult.htm""><img src=""t/penult.jpg"" width=""123"" height=""184""
alt=""Penult.jpg (87k)"" class=""aligntop"" /></a> Simon Farrow on
the last 17m pitch of Madlmeier Schacht</p><p><a href=""l/sump.htm""><img
src=""t/sump.jpg"" width=""121"" height=""187"" alt=""Sump.jpg (37k)""
class=""aligntop"" /></a> Julian Griffiths at the final sump - 1979</p><p>There
are a number of going leads in this cave and you're welcome to them.
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<H1>Brave New World</H1>
<H2>The Test Tubes</H2>
<p>The Test Tubes are reached by a short exposed roped climb up from The Ledge in
Plugged Shaft. Crawling forward a few metres reaches a widening where SRT kits
can be removed; further crawling and a sharp right and then left hand bend
reaches about 40m of rift passage. A short way along this, the passage to
Lovers Leap doubles back on the right. Towards the end of the rift, a low
wriggle gains a junction, the main rift continues. A solution tube above is
C2004-76-04C and the rift on the left is C2004-76-05C, the crawling passage on
right soon becomes narrower and C2004-76-42C doubles back on the right, the now
small passage continues to formations, and appears to continue beyond,
C2004-76-41C. At the end of the main rift, the passage turns sharply
right to become a hand and knees crawl along a phreatic tube. 25 metres later
this pops out near the top of a much larger vadose passage, Brave New World.
</p>
<H2>Brave New World</H2>
<p>Southeast (left when entering from The Test Tubes) goes for about 50m to a
boulder choke, passing on the right 3 small passages, which join and lead to an
undescended pitch (C2004-76-43B).
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Northwest (right), along Brave New World soon leads to a pitch (A*) and a
complicated junction, the first passage off on the left is full of loose
blocks, in the process of falling out of the ceiling, C2004-76-25C. There is
an unexplored passage on the right, above the pitch, C2004-76-26B. The
remaining passages are best reached by a roped traverse round the left
wall, and into the next passage on the left. The continuation of Brave New
World, Overhanded Tactics continues beyond the pitch and is gained by a passage
on the right (bringing one back to A* pitch), and another roped traverse across
the pitch. After 30m, this walking size rift passage becomes choked, and a low
crawl on the right leads to The Boiling Tubes (a hands and knees crawl along a
strongly drafting phreatic tube). After 20m The Boiling Tubes get smaller, and
most of the draft goes up a small choked aven, passages also branch off to the
left (C2004-76-64C) and right (C2004-76-63C), whilst straight ahead continues,
but is smaller (C2004-76-62B).
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<p>
Back at the complicated junction above A* pitch, the main passage to the SW
gradually descends and leads after about 30m to a four way junction with B*
passage. Turning left (E), along B* passage first passes a small passage on
the left where the small trickle of water enters (C2004-76-31 C) and then a
climb to a possible higher passage (C2004-76-30V). B* passage ends at an aven
on the left, the main way on appears to be up this (C2004-76-29V), ahead is a
small inlet (C2004-76-28X) and on the right is a small passage (C2004-76-27C).
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Doubling back under the original passage (at the junction with B* passage) is a
meandering canyon, Canyon, which soon reaches an un-descended pitch
(C2004-76-40A).
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Turning right along B* passage soon arrives at an un-descended pitch
(C2004-76-22A) and four way junction, straight on (C2004-76-23A) and right
(C2004-76-24A) can only be reached by crossing the pitch. Left is reached by
carefully traversing round the pitch, and after 30m of walking passage, reaches
another un-descended pitch (C2004-76-18A) and multi-way junction, Hidden
Promise. Left is small (C2004-76-21C), straight on would be reached by
traversing over the pitch (C2004-76-19B), as would the roof tube above this
(C2004-76-20C). Right (Branch Line) soon becomes walking size and bends right
(two small passages head off on the left here, C2004-76-44C and C2004-76-45C).
After a total of 50m of passage (occasionally decorated with straws in the
roof) it becomes choked. Two very low passages on the left lead into No Ways
Chamber, another low passage leaves this on the right, at the bottom of a slope
to Ol's Squeeze (C2004-76-56C), a climb up may lead to more passage at the SW
of the chamber (C2004-76-55V). The main way on is through an initially low
crawl on the SE (left) into a walking size rift passage, Back on Track. 50m
later this reaches another chamber, All-ways Chamber with two currently
unexplored leads, C2004-76-53V is up the 4m climb (steep, but with big holds)
and C2004-76-54C is the small drafting passage to the north. The rift to the
SE, gained by a 6m climb very shortly becomes too small.
</p>
<H2>Fault Pitch Series</H2>
<p>
A* pitch is 17m; rigged with a boulder-backup, pitch head bolts and deviation
bolt. To the west of the pitch head is an unexplored passage heading south
(C2004-76-39C), below the pitch head is an unexplored inlet (C2004-76-37C), and
near the bottom of a pitch is a window in the NW wall (C2004-76-38B) At the
bottom of A* there are two small unexplored passages (C2004-76-35C and
C2004-76-36C) the main passage heads of the other way and is a high rift, after
about 15m this bends to the right, with an explored, but very low, passage on
the left, at ground level C2004-76-34 C. A few meters further on is an
aven/inlet on the left (C2004-76-32 X), approximately 10m Fault Pitch is
reached. Fault pitch continues above (C2004-76-33 X), and whilst normal only
slightly drippy is very noises with water when it rains. A traverse round to
the right of the pitch reaches a big passage Forward to the Past, initially
phreatic, then a high rift which joins Plugged Shaft about ½ way down is
final pitch.
</p>
<p>
Fault Pitch follows down a fault (with ~1m offset); a rebelay and deviation
near a rock bridge at -7m are followed by a 13m pitch to a large ledge. From
here a passage leads SW to a loose 8m pitch and rubble slope to a choke. Above
this loose pitch, a ramp leads up (C2004-76-57B). Continuing down the Fault
Pitch Series, a 26m pitch is rigged from a y-hang, some of the way down the
pitch a small rift appears to head off in two directions (C2004-76-61B and
C2004-76-59C), the pitch lands on a ledge, which can be traversed to where
things get smaller and two choices lead off. The first is a rift
(C2004-76-58C) and the second is the next pitch in the series, this looks much
smaller than those above, is un-descended and is perhaps not a place to be in
rain (C2004-76-60B).
</p>
<H2>Lovers Leap</H2>
<p>
The passage leaving the Test Tube soon reaches the Lovers Leap Pitch; the
passage appears to continue over pitch (C2004-76-12C), and it looks like there's
a higher level to the passage you reach the pitch head from (C2004-76-11C).
The 6m pitch drops into
a high rift, at the upstream end an aven leads up (C2004-76-10X), and after a
further 6m pitch the rift becomes narrower. It looks like it would be
too narrow to pass, but suitably small rocks drop a long way if thrown right
and looking at survey data this is premused to rejoin Plugged Shaft. A likely
candidate crack in the wall of Plugged Shaft has been noted.
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<H1>Entrance Series</H1>
Two snow plugged dolines (76 b &amp; c) and a narrow shaft
(76a) unite in a narrow rift leading to a windy lifelining position,
<b>Draught Bitter</b>, at the head of a 72m shaft plugged with snow.
Rigging <b>Plugged Shaft</b> between snow and rock, pitches in 1977
were 18m to a snow platform, 12m to a ledge, then 29m to a substantial
ledge, <b>Yesterday's Terminus</b>. In 1979, with changed snow topography,
and rigging for SRT, the drops were 11, 7, 17 and 19m to Yesterday's
Terminus where a traverse out reaches a bolt for the final 13m drop
onto a snow pile in a large aven chamber.
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<H1>Keg Series</H1>
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The top 32m pitch of Keg Series was rigged in 2004 by swinging across into the
obvious horizontal passage about 17m down. At the end of this short passage, a
further pitch is reached (C2004-76-46B), before this and on the left a pitch
descends to re-join the original route at the bottom (this route is much better
protected from loose rocks). The second pitch continues below with at least on
natural deviation necessary to keep the rope away from the wall. 24m later a
ledge is reached; from here the third (26m) pitch can be rigged, with a
deviation (bolt) shortly below. At the base of this pitch is a large ledge, to
the SE is a short drop leading to some water (C2004-76-51C). To the NW a 5m
pitch leads to a junction, below and on the left is a small sump, to the right
is a short crawl leading to a junction with a small stream, upstream looks
small (C2004-76-50C) and downstream continues for at least 5m but becomes quite
tight (C2004-76-49C). The main way on is along a rift above the sump, Razor
Prance. After 18m of tortuous rift, Razor Prance ends at an un-descended pitch
(C2004-76-52A), razor prance may continue beyond this (C2004-76-48C). There is
a window in the west wall of the final Keg Series Pitch, which may provide an
alternative route into Razor Prance, C2004-76-47A.
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