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76 - main a bEislufthöhle5/S/E +
+ +

1970's Route

+ +A further 13m pitch, Saved +Shaft, into a smaller aven chamber, Boulder Chamber, leads +to an apparent end, but thrutch through boulders into top of rift/canyon. +Hole in floor is 32m pitch into Keg Series (no draught) with +further unexplored pitch below. Continuing traverse leads to climbs +down then split pitch of 19m and 14m, Follow-through Shaft, +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.

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 The Balcony +where water runs away from obvious way on into a tight immature drain.

Ben +with the Greene King pennant on the Balcony

From the +Balcony a 7m pitch drops into the Hall of the Greene King, +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 Gents' Pitch 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.

   

Julian Griffiths abseiling the 16.5m and Gents' +pitches on the bottoming trip in 1979

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 Fiesta Run is reached. This awkward slanting +rift pitch of 28m is so muddy that ladders are de rigeur. +The name derives from the car crash which terminated exploration +at this point in 1978.

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.

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, Madlmeier Schacht, 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.

Simon Farrow on +the last 17m pitch of Madlmeier Schacht

Julian Griffiths at the final sump - 1979

There +are a number of going leads in this cave and you're welcome to them. + + +

+ + + + diff --git a/plateau/76/brave.htm b/plateau/76/brave.htm new file mode 100644 index 000000000..c32681be5 --- /dev/null +++ b/plateau/76/brave.htm @@ -0,0 +1,153 @@ + + + + + +1623:76 -- Brave New World> +</head> + +<body> + +<table id="cavepage"> +<tr><th id="kat_no">76 - main a b</th><th id="name">Eislufthöhle</th><th id="status">5/S/E +</th></tr> +</table> + +<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). +</p> + +<p> +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). +</p> + +<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). +</p> + +<p> +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). +</p> + +<p> +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. 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Entrance Series

+ +Two snow plugged dolines (76 b & c) and a narrow shaft +(76a) unite in a narrow rift leading to a windy lifelining position, +Draught Bitter, at the head of a 72m shaft plugged with snow. +Rigging Plugged Shaft between snow and rock, pitches in 1977 +were 18m to a snow platform, 12m to a ledge, then 29m to a substantial +ledge, Yesterday's Terminus. 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. + + +
+ + + + diff --git a/plateau/76/keg.htm b/plateau/76/keg.htm new file mode 100644 index 000000000..825f29761 --- /dev/null +++ b/plateau/76/keg.htm @@ -0,0 +1,48 @@ + + + + + +1623:76 -- Keg Series> +</head> + +<body> + +<table id="cavepage"> +<tr><th id="kat_no">76 - main a b</th><th id="name">Eislufthöhle</th><th id="status">5/S/E +</th></tr> +</table> + +<H1>Keg Series</H1> + +<p> +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. +</p> + +<!-- LINKS --> +<hr /><ul> +<li><a href="76.html">Back to 76 index page</a></li> +<li><a href="../../plateau/index.html#id76">Plateau area index and description</a></li> +<li><a href="../../indxal.htm#id76">Full Index of 1623 Caves</a></li><li><a href="../../areas.htm">Other Areas</a></li> +<li><a href="../../index.htm">Back to Expedition Intro page</a></li> +<li><a href="../../index.htm">Back to Expedition Intro page</a></li> +</ul> +<!-- /LINKS --> + +</body> +</html>