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<i>italics</i>.</p>
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<p>A significant cave
found in 2018 on the western edge of our area. This is the first cave
so far out onto the Plateau that breaks into complex and extensive
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vegetation on either side. It is an obvious open pit with a snow plug
in the bottom.</p>
<p><u><b>2018
Discoveries</b></u></p>
<h2>2018 Discoveries</h2>
<p><b>Entrance series</b></p>
<h3></h3>Entrance series
<p>The entrance pitch
(p5) drop onto a snow plug where heading downslope leads to a stance
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directly opposite the ledge. <i>(There may be passage leading off
from these jammed boulders, QMB). </i>The p30 from this ledge to the
floor of the chamber is <b>Radagast</b> and it lands on a boulder
floor. (<i>5m below the top of </i><i><b>Radagast</b></i><i> it is
floor. (<i>5m below the top of <b>Radagast</b> it is
possible to swing into a series of small phreatic tubes and immature
vadose shafts trending SW at point PT01 and leading past PT02. This
area does not contain any great leads but may be worth a look as it
@ -128,7 +127,7 @@ with a vadose trench and a stream in the bottom. This leads via a p10
to a short series of narrow tubes which end in tight sumps and
chokes).</i></p>
<p><b>The Second Coming</b></p>
<H3>The Second Coming</H3>
<p><b>The Second Coming
</b>starts below the p5 N of PT03 (which is at the end of the
@ -182,11 +181,10 @@ Saunders et al in 2018, supposedly to a large chamber called the
been forthcoming. The whole area needs a good push; there are
probably no easy leads but the draft is absolutely ridiculous</i>).</p>
<p><b>Hobnob Hallway</b></p>
<H3>Hobnob Hallway</H3>
<p><i>(This description
should be checked and related to the QMs marked on the survey)
</i>Heading L at the first junction along <b>The</b> <b>Second Coming</b>
should be checked and related to the QMs marked on the survey)</i>Heading L at the first junction along <b>The Second Coming</b>
leads to <b>Hobnob Hallway</b>. This starts as a sand floored
phreatic passage. A short distance along a hole in the floor leads N
to <b>Kit Kat connection </b>which loops back to <b>The Second
@ -200,28 +198,27 @@ returning to the canyon. To the R is unsurveyed, but the L continues
along a phreatic named <b>Papsi Passage</b>, with the canyon in the
floor. Occasional smaller (barely body sized) phreatics break off
from this. Eventually the canyon is lost, and the phreatic continues.
A further junction is reached, to the R, <b>Papsi Passage</b>
continues. To the L leads down<b> Dead Fly Passage</b>, ending at the
A further junction is reached, to the R, <b>Papsi Passage</b> continues. To the L leads down<b> Dead Fly Passage</b>, ending at the
top of a canyon, presumably the continuation of the earlier canyon.
<b>Papsi Passage</b> continues in the phreatic until it too reaches a
canyon, presumably the same)<i>. </i>
</p>
<p><u><b>2019
Discoveries</b></u></p>
<H2>2019
Discoveries</H2>
<p><b>Propane
Nightmares</b></p>
<h3>Propane
Nightmares</h3>
<p>From PT03 at the end
of the traverse from the Entrance Series descend the p5 to the N.
(<i>Ahead the main passage is The Second Coming).</i> <i>Ascend a p8
(<i>Ahead the main passage is The Second Coming). Ascend a p8
(left rigged 2019) </i>up to a small phreatic tube on the R. This
enters <b>Propane Nightmares. </b>It starts as a stooping size
phreatic tube formed on a fault plane heading E. (<i>Around 10m from
the start of the passage a narrow canyon leads up on the R and then
heads steeply down towards the sound of a waterfall. This ends in a
steep slope which the survey suggests connects with </i><i><b>Grommit</b></i><i>)</i>.
steep slope which the survey suggests connects with <b>Grommit</b>)</i>.
The main passage continues E with a similar size, passing a handline
c8 up (<i>left rigged in 2019)</i> immediately followed by a p12
down. Continuing E soon reaches a three-way junction at PT11. This is
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<b>Watershed</b>, a fine streamway that trends SE. (<i>Just past the
waterfall the passage passes beneath the traverse mentioned above)</i>.</p>
<p><b>Watershed</b>
continues for over 100m as a significant streamway with some
<p><b>Watershed</b> continues for over 100m as a significant streamway with some
unusually impressive speleothems for the Totes Gebirge. This section
is reminiscent of the great stream caves of the Mendip Hills until
the water begins to cut down into a trench in the floor. At this