From 3fbc66f376fe91f4b6c1ac4ff1799dfcef4a3d4c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: anthony Date: Thu, 18 Oct 2012 21:02:12 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] Rewrite midlevel description to reflect important routes in 2012 rather than 1999, including the description of the approach to MFC from millennium.html --- smkridge/204/midlevel.html | 79 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++------------ 1 file changed, 54 insertions(+), 25 deletions(-) diff --git a/smkridge/204/midlevel.html b/smkridge/204/midlevel.html index 377056897..6748bc5dd 100644 --- a/smkridge/204/midlevel.html +++ b/smkridge/204/midlevel.html @@ -25,10 +25,10 @@ series. The trunk passage of Wolpertinger Way slopes down from the bottom of Thread Pitch towards an area of interconnecting passages around the foot of Pendulum Pitch. From here one can descend into the Ariston Series, or follow passages into the Millennium Dome area, or via Pussy Prance area, or via No Pain No Gain to the northern parts of the cave.

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Wolpertinger Way

+

Wolpertinger Way and You're So Veined Area

@@ -46,33 +46,61 @@ side of the gully on an increasingly narrow ledge.

To the right from the top of the gully, passing over an impassable hole in the floor through dangerous boulders, reaches a junction. Right is a passage, -which quickly chokes, straight ahead leads into 110 A -Day, whilst left is the main route.

+which quickly chokes. Straight ahead leads into 110 A +Day, which is the route to No Pain No Gain and +all points north. Left is the route towards the Ariston +Series and Pussy Prance area.

More sandy crawling leads to a crossroads, where left leads to -the ledge overlooking the pitch, and right is a short crawl leading +the ledge overlooking You're So Veined, and right is a short crawl leading to the main passage part of the way down Pendulum Pitch, the easiest route to the White Elephant Series. -Straight ahead leads to a further junction. Left is a ledge, from which one can -descend onto a bridge of boulders between You're So Veined and Pot-U-Like, the current trade route into the -Ariston Series. Alternatively, traversing along the ledge leads towards Pendulum Pitch. Straight ahead leads to a further junction. +Left is a ledge overlooking You're So Veined which is the usual starting +point for descending the Ariston Series. +Alternatively, traversing along the ledge leads towards Bunny's Bowel.

Right at the junction is a short passage to a blind pit. Traversing around -this to the right gives an alternative route to Pendulum -Pitch. Traversing around to the left leads a rift that leads initially -upwards, where a passage leads of to the right; continuing along down the rift -leads to an undescended pitch [C2001-204-67 -B]. A passage on the opposite side of the pitch can be accessed from the -top of You're So Veined. The passage leading of to the right of the rift -quickly enters a small chamber. To the left leads to the undescended pitch [C2001-204-67 B]; straight on leads to a -junction, with both ways on being too tight. To right from the small chamber -leads to the passage between Pendulum Pitch the Millennium Dome area.

+this to the right leads to the large passage that is reached part way down +Pendulum Pitch. Turning left after the traversing +the blind pit is the main way on.

+ +

Traversing around to the left of the blind pit leads to a rift that +leads initially upwards, where a passage leads off to the right. Continuing +along down the rift leads to an undescended pitch +[C2001-204-67 B]. A passage on the opposite +side of the pitch can be accessed from the top of You're So Veined. The passage +leading off to the right of the rift quickly enters a small chamber. To the left +leads to the undescended pitch [C2001-204-67 +B]; straight on leads to a junction, with both ways on being too tight. To +the right from the small chamber leads to the passage between +Pendulum Pitch and the +Pussy Prance area.

+ +

Turning left after traversing round the right-hand side of the blind +pit leads to a draughting phreatic passage. This passage heads downhill at a +comfortable walking size past a tight passage on the left, which leads back +towards Wolpertinger Way. 5m further on a +tube at roof level heads towards Bunny's +Bowel. After 20m, a 3m climb up into a roof tube on the right hand side is +the way into the White Elephant Series. The phreatic +passage continues for a further 15m past a too tight inlet on the right and a +traverse over a blind pit to a 4m deep hole in the floor leading to Merry Fucking Christmas, which is the +route to the Pussy Prance area.

+ +

Traversing over the hole and up a loose climb with a too tight rift in the +right hand wall leads into an uphill passage, which is choked with mud after 5m. +A sandy crawl on the right just before the choke leads via a left hand bend with +a too tight rift on the right (probably connecting to that at the loose climb) +ending at a 2m climb down. There is a possible way on at the bottom of this, but +it is very small and tall people at least would have to enter feet first [C1999-204-19 C]. It is likely +that this passage connects to Merry Fucking +Christmas. There is a noticeable draught here blowing downhill (into the +cave).

Bunny's Bowel

@@ -87,8 +115,8 @@ Pitch route. To the left a climb leads to a short passage to Bunny's Bowel, a small chamber. A passage doubling back leads underneath the previous passage to the undescended pitch [C2001-204-67 B]. In Bunny's Bowel, a climb to -the right leads to a drop into the passage from Pendulum -Pitch to Millennium Dome. A window +the right leads to a drop into the phreatic passage that leads to +Merry Fucking Christmas. A window to the right leads to a 3m climb (rigged with a handline) to a muddy chamber with a 3m deep hole in the floor, with ways on that were too tight. Back in Bunny's Bowel, to the left the passage goes past an undescended 8m pitch [. A rift visible at the opposite side of the pit has an audible connection to You're so Veined.

To the right at the blind pit is a draughting phreatic tube leading towards -the Millennium Dome area.

+Merry Fucking Christmas which is the +route to the Pussy Prance area.