diff --git a/smkridge/204/gallery.html b/smkridge/204/gallery.html index e62409164..be4bdee22 100644 --- a/smkridge/204/gallery.html +++ b/smkridge/204/gallery.html @@ -50,6 +50,7 @@ + @@ -60,9 +61,13 @@ + + + + @@ -79,16 +84,23 @@

Rhino Rift / On A Mission

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Unclassified

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Hippocratic Oath mud slope
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Wookey enthroned at the top of a muddy slope in Hippocratic Oath.

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Wookey enthroned at the top of a muddy slope in Hippocratic Oath. (Becka claims this is the short muddy slope heading up to QM 05-65A)

Photo © Andrew Atkinson 31/07/05 17:40:26

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Formations in Hippocratic Oath
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Closeup shot of curious stalactite blobs (compare longer shot of same formations). I believe this was taken in Hippocratic Oath.

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Closeup shot of curious stalactite blobs (compare longer shot of same formations). I believe this was taken in Hippocratic Oath, as previous shot)

Photo © Andrew Atkinson 31/07/05 17:24:07

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Hippocratic Oath
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I think this is Hippocratic Oath passage (that's basically a guess based on the time it was taken).

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Becka in Hippocratic Oath, near the fork where Hippocratic 2 branches off.

Photo © Andrew Atkinson 31/07/05 13:59:41

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Hippocratic Oath
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I think this is somewhere in Hippocratic Oath

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I think this is somewhere in Hippocratic Oath (Becka suggests this is the narrow passage southwards at the start of Hippocratic 2)

Photo © Andrew Atkinson 31/07/05 14:05:27

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Becka in Hippocratic Oath
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No idea where this is; probably Hippocratic based on chronology of photos.

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No idea where this is; probably Hippocratic based on chronology of photos. (Apparently the passage heading north from the junction where Hippocratic 2 branches off)

Photo © Andrew Atkinson 31/07/05 17:42:49

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Becka in Hippocratic Oath
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No idea where this is, but it must be Hippocratic Oath from the chronology, and that ceiling formation should be pretty recognisable.

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Hippocratic Oath master junction ceiling formation

Photo © Andrew Atkinson 31/07/05 17:44:34

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Someware +
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Fork in passage near start of Hippocratic Oath.

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Photo © Andrew Atkinson 31/07/05 13:40:59

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Formations in Hippocratic Oath
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I believe this photo was taken in Hippocratic Oath passage in Subsoil.

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I believe this photo was taken in Hippocratic Oath passage in Subsoil. (Becka suggests this is the passage heading southwards at the start of Hippocratic 2)

Photo © Andrew Atkinson 31/07/05 17:20:59

@@ -27,4 +27,4 @@ - \ No newline at end of file + diff --git a/smkridge/204/l/sschamber.html b/smkridge/204/l/hippocraticchamber.html similarity index 78% rename from smkridge/204/l/sschamber.html rename to smkridge/204/l/hippocraticchamber.html index bf6b0eb1e..bdaed633b 100644 --- a/smkridge/204/l/sschamber.html +++ b/smkridge/204/l/hippocraticchamber.html @@ -11,20 +11,22 @@ -
Subsoil Chamber +
Subsoil Chamber
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Subsoil Chamber (I think)

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Looking down from the pitch at the start of Hippocratic +Oath (Wookey and Becka standing on the slope)

Photo © Andrew Atkinson 31/07/05 13:25:50

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Rigging in Hanging Onto Faith
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Nial Peters rigging a rebelay in Hanging Onto Faith. Note the skyhook attached to his cowstail, to take his weight while he threads a sling into the hole in the wall.

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Nial Peters rigging a rebelay in Hanging Onto Faith. Note the skyhook attached to his cowstail, to take his weight while he threads a sling into the hole in the wall. This is the first rebelay on the first pitch; the photographer is apparently on Faith traverse itself.

Photo © Andrew Atkinson 07/08/05 15:03:39

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Nial somewhere +
Nial somewhere
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This is quite a nice photo but I have no idea where it was taken. Must be somewhere in the vicinity of Magic Roundabout judging by the time stamp, but it's not passage I recognise. Perhaps it's the climb up into Swings main passage from Magic Roundabout?

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Nial on an awkward climb in Magic Roundabout Chamber.

Photo © Andrew Atkinson 07/08/05 13:39:49

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Pitch
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Pitch somewhere – no idea where, but it looks nice so I thought I'd put the photo up anyway.

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Wot No Bolts (probably).

Photo © Andrew Atkinson 07/08/05 17:37:51

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T-shaped passage +
T-shaped passage
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No idea where this is; somewhere in the Rhino Rift series?

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T-shaped passage at the very start of Rhino Rift, near the bottom of Wot No Bolts.

Photo © Andrew Atkinson 07/08/05 17:34:11

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Hanging Onto Faith +
Hanging Onto Faith
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I think this is the chamber at the bottom of Hanging Onto Faith, where the pitch series ends in a boulder choke.

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Chamber at the start of Unconformity (probably).

Photo © Andrew Atkinson 07/08/05 16:52:32

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Chamber +
Chamber
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I haven't a clue where this is, but it looks jolly impressive. (Actually it's probably somewhere in Rhino Rift, possibly the bottom of Wot No Bolts, but I can't swear to that – need to check with Becka / Nial / Andrew.)

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Chamber at the bottom of Wot No Bolts.

Photo © Andrew Atkinson 07/08/05 14:25:04

@@ -27,4 +27,4 @@ - \ No newline at end of file + diff --git a/smkridge/204/rhino.html b/smkridge/204/rhino.html index 84f7cba4c..b9d60b07e 100644 --- a/smkridge/204/rhino.html +++ b/smkridge/204/rhino.html @@ -28,6 +28,9 @@ Beauty. Other connections back to the rest of the cave are via a very loose connection to Insignificant Chamber or the 21 Bolt Traverse.

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Taking the Piss

Descending this 8m pitch is the most direct, although not the original, route @@ -35,7 +38,7 @@ into the series; it lands in a short narrow passage which is followed by a climb down out of a window in the wall of the passage to the north of Meeting House.

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Rhino Rift 1

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Rhino Rift 1

At the top of Taking the Piss, continuing to the left rather than descending leads to a narrow horizontal rift, the original Rhino Rift. After around @@ -85,6 +88,11 @@ passage [C2003-204-51 B].

On A Mission

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Wot No Bolts pitch is 9m deep and lands in a chamber (which doesn't seem to have its own name). South from the foot of the pitch leads to a small passage at the southern end [

Unconformity

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This series is developed in a thrust fault leading downwards at around +

+This series is developed in a thrust fault leading downwards at around 60° below the horizontal. The logbook description is rather confusing and it is not clear which parts are climbs and which are pitches, since the original surveyors did not draw up an elevation.

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Faith traverse starts at the bottom of Belief chamber. Original +

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Faith traverse starts at the bottom of Belief chamber. Original exploration was done all on naturals, as there are a number of threads, and the -slope to the wall allows it to fairly easily to be climbed across. However the -pitch below, Hanging Onto Faith, is very -deep, so security of a traverse is required. Descending the pitch leads to -[NIAL ANDREW BECKA] [C2005-204-19 B]

+slope to the wall allows it to be climbed across fairly easily. However the +pitch below, Hanging Onto Faith, is very +deep, so security of a traverse is required.

On the other side of the pitch, the passage starts to go slightly upwards, initially passing under a couple of roof tubes, [C2005-204-79 B] [C2005-204-80 C] [C2005-204-81 D].

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Hanging Onto Faith

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Descending the pitch leads to +[NIAL ANDREW BECKA] [C2005-204-19 B]

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Crimper

After a short piece of horizontal passage, Crimper drops down a bit of a diff --git a/smkridge/204/swings.html b/smkridge/204/swings.html index e4c5f958e..74f7c1a74 100644 --- a/smkridge/204/swings.html +++ b/smkridge/204/swings.html @@ -39,9 +39,12 @@ floor is via a corkscrew climb down through a hole in the floor on the right.

Magic Roundabout Chamber and surrounding passage -

Once in the chamber, climbing down over boulders to the left leads to a +

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+ +

Once in the chamber, climbing down over boulders to the left leads to a small exit between rocks. A short rubble-strewn chute (which is free-climbable but crumbly, and was rigged in 2002 with a Y-hang following Dave falling off it) leads to a duck under a flake into a mud-floored ramp. After 15m or so a @@ -298,7 +301,7 @@ of dog-legs to reach a loose boulder-filled chamber; various attempts to dig in the floor and walls of this met with no success. The way on is a downward-sloping tube, leading to a further chamber; an oxbow part- way down the slope leads back into this lower chamber, and a hole in the floor of the -slope also doesn't go . In the chamber there are two +slope also doesn't go. In the chamber there are two ways on; one horizontal meandering slot closes down, while a prominent ramp leads to the head of a pitch. Traversing on a wide sloping ledge leads past Pile Driver passage to a point where the pitch may be diff --git a/smkridge/204/t/hippocratic_fork.jpg b/smkridge/204/t/hippocratic_fork.jpg new file mode 100644 index 000000000..d27bf0814 Binary files /dev/null and b/smkridge/204/t/hippocratic_fork.jpg differ diff --git a/smkridge/204/t/sschamber.jpg b/smkridge/204/t/hippocraticchamber.jpg similarity index 100% rename from smkridge/204/t/sschamber.jpg rename to smkridge/204/t/hippocraticchamber.jpg diff --git a/smkridge/204/t/random1.jpg b/smkridge/204/t/mroundclimb.jpg similarity index 100% rename from smkridge/204/t/random1.jpg rename to smkridge/204/t/mroundclimb.jpg diff --git a/smkridge/204/t/random3.jpg b/smkridge/204/t/tshape.jpg similarity index 100% rename from smkridge/204/t/random3.jpg rename to smkridge/204/t/tshape.jpg diff --git a/smkridge/204/t/hontofaith3.jpg b/smkridge/204/t/unconformity.jpg similarity index 100% rename from smkridge/204/t/hontofaith3.jpg rename to smkridge/204/t/unconformity.jpg diff --git a/smkridge/204/t/random2.jpg b/smkridge/204/t/wotnobolts.jpg similarity index 100% rename from smkridge/204/t/random2.jpg rename to smkridge/204/t/wotnobolts.jpg diff --git a/smkridge/204/uworld.html b/smkridge/204/uworld.html index cced33aba..198771c46 100644 --- a/smkridge/204/uworld.html +++ b/smkridge/204/uworld.html @@ -86,6 +86,17 @@ pitch, Cerberus. The traverse is best rigged by free-climbing to the top of Cerberus pitch on the left side of the rift then rigging the traverse from the top.

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Cerberus is a steeply sloping, very muddy ramp down. It is rigged from a +bolted Y-hang and then a deviation from a natural the left wall, landing at the +start of the Underworld.

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Eeyore

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At the pitch-head for Cerberus, above the traverse up to it, a slightly exposed sideways traverse gives access to a stooping-height phreatic passage, @@ -101,14 +112,15 @@ emerging in a chamber. Climbing down around a large wedged boulder to the floor reveals a narrow, unpromising-looking pitch-head, estimated at 10m [C2004-204-69 B].

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Cerberus is a steeply sloping, very muddy ramp down. It is rigged from a -bolted Y-hang and then a deviation from a natural the left wall, landing at the -start of the Underworld.

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The Underworld

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The Underworld

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The Underworld starts from the foot +

+Dave at foot of Cerberus pitch + +
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The Underworld starts from the foot of Cerberus pitch. A hole down on the left, [C2003-204-04 B] leads to the head of a rift; this is likely to link to the rift [].

Sirens

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Photo -of Sirens stalsLeft at the main junction in the Underworld is the start +

+ +Photo of Sirens stals +
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Left at the main junction in the Underworld is the start of Sirens. From this point into Sirens and Subsoil the cave consists mainly of phreatic tunnels partially filled with mud or gravel banks, with a strong draft coming out of the cave. From the junction into Sirens the narrow but always