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<h2>Underworld</h2>
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<a href="l/underworld.html"><img class="onright" src="t/underworld.jpg" /></a>
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<p>The Underworld starts from the foot of Cerberus pitch. <i>A hole down on the
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left, [<a href="qm.html#C2003-204-04" id="qC2003-204-04">C2003-204-04 B</a>]
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leads to the head of a rift; this is likely to link to the rift
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[<a href="qm.html#C2003-204-02" id="qC2003-204-02">C2003-204-02 B</a>] leading
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from the base of Trihang. Ahead is a blind pit around 4m deep.</i> An obvious
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path on the right in the mud floor leads along horizontal walking passage past
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conservation-taped stalactites <i>and two tubes leading up to the right. The
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first of these is [<a href="qm.html#C2003-204-06"
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id="qC2003-204-06">C2003-204-6 C</a>]; the second closes down after a few body
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lengths.</i> The passage continues to a junction. Up and to the left a passage
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goes of to <a href="#sirens">Sirens</a>; ahead and slightly to the right the
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passage goes to <a href="#poohstyx">PoohStyx</a>; sharp right ends in a mud
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choke.</p>
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<p><a href="l/underworld.html"><img class="onright" src="t/underworld.jpg"
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alt="Dave at foot of Cerberus pitch" /></a>The Underworld starts from the foot
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of Cerberus pitch. <i>A hole down on the left, [<a href="qm.html#C2003-204-04"
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id="qC2003-204-04">C2003-204-04 B</a>] leads to the head of a rift; this is
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likely to link to the rift [<a href="qm.html#C2003-204-02"
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id="qC2003-204-02">C2003-204-02 B</a>] leading from the base of Trihang. Ahead
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is a blind pit around 4m deep.</i> An obvious path on the right in the mud
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floor leads along horizontal walking passage past conservation-taped
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stalactites <i>and two tubes leading up to the right. The first of these is [<a
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href="qm.html#C2003-204-06" id="qC2003-204-06">C2003-204-6 C</a>]; the second
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closes down after a few body lengths.</i> The passage continues to a junction.
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Up and to the left a passage goes of to <a href="#sirens">Sirens</a>; ahead and
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slightly to the right the passage goes to <a href="#poohstyx">PoohStyx</a>;
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sharp right ends in a mud choke.</p>
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<h3><a id="poohstyx">Poohstyx</a></h3>
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Continuing straight ahead at the first main Underworld junction, the passage
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<p>Continuing straight ahead at the first main Underworld junction, the passage
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soon drops down to a ledge overlooking Pooh Styx pitch. <i>The pitch descends
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for 25m, picking up spray towards the bottom, to a flat floor with two too
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tight rifts leading off. There is also a possible continuation through a window
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@@ -62,39 +63,43 @@ href="qm.html#C2003-204-12" id="qC2003-204-12">C2003-204-12 C</a>]; continuing
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along the rift leads to the small Beyond-Poohstyx pool, which is
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overlooked by the ledge in <a href="#sirens">Sirens</a> beyond Bracket Fungus
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passage. Extending high above the sirens ledge, an aven goes up for a good 20
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metres [<a href="qm.html#C2003-204-13" id="qC2003-204-13">C2003-204-13 X</a>].
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metres [<a href="qm.html#C2003-204-13" id="qC2003-204-13">C2003-204-13
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X</a>].</p>
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<a href="l/sirens.html"><img class="onright" src="t/sirens.jpg" /></a>
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<h3><a id="sirens">Sirens</a></h3>
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Left at the main junction in the Underworld is the start of Sirens. From this
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point into Sirens and Subsoil the cave consists mainly of phreatic tunnels
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partially filled with mud or gravel banks, with a strong draft coming out of the
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cave. From the junction into Sirens the narrow but always walking passage
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climbs steeply up a mud-floored passage to a ledge with conservation-taped
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formations that overlooks <b><a id="blackmaria">Black Maria</a></b> chamber
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(p.30). Just before the ledge, two holes in the floor on the right drop steeply
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down, with rocks bouncing a long way [<a href="qm.html#C2003-204-14"
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id="qC2003-204-14">C2003-204-14 C</a>] and [<a href="qm.html#C2003-204-15"
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id="qC2003-204-15">C2003-204-15 C</a>]. Below and to the left of where Sirens
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enters Black Maria chamber, a passage appears to lead off [<a
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href="qm.html#C2003-204-16" id="qC2003-204-16">C2003-204-16 C</a>]. Black Maria
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chamber is rigged from a ledge that traverses around the right of the chamber.
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Rigged from two bolted Y-hangs, this pitch lands in a moderate-sized chamber
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with just one small passage leading off [<a href="qm.html#C2004-204-70"
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id="qC2004-204-70">C2004-204-70 C</a>]. At the level of the pitch head for
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Black Maria and further around the chamber, a moderate-size, horizontal
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mud-floored passage leads off [<a href="qm.html#C2003-204-18"
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id="qC2003-204-18">C2003-204-18 B</a>], but this was declared to be
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"nontrivial" to reach. From the ledge where Sirens enters Black Maria chamber,
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the main way on is over a traverse on the right using naturals (15m rope; 2
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slings) to gain a large passage sloping up. Straight ahead is a thin rift:
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Bracket Fungus passage, the way on is up the steep mud slope to the left,
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<a href="#oxtail">Oxtail Oxbow</a>.</p>
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<p><a href="l/sirens.html"><img class="onright" src="t/sirens.jpg" alt="Photo
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of Sirens stals" /></a>Left at the main junction in the Underworld is the start
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of Sirens. From this point into Sirens and Subsoil the cave consists mainly of
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phreatic tunnels partially filled with mud or gravel banks, with a strong draft
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coming out of the cave. From the junction into Sirens the narrow but always
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walking passage climbs steeply up a mud-floored passage to a ledge with
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conservation-taped formations that overlooks <b><a id="blackmaria">Black
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Maria</a></b> chamber (p.30). Just before the ledge, two holes in the floor on
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the right drop steeply down, with rocks bouncing a long way [<a
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href="qm.html#C2003-204-14" id="qC2003-204-14">C2003-204-14 C</a>] and [<a
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href="qm.html#C2003-204-15" id="qC2003-204-15">C2003-204-15 C</a>]. Below and
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to the left of where Sirens enters Black Maria chamber, a passage appears to
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lead off [<a href="qm.html#C2003-204-16" id="qC2003-204-16">C2003-204-16
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C</a>]. Black Maria chamber is rigged from a ledge that traverses around the
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right of the chamber. Rigged from two bolted Y-hangs, this pitch lands in a
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moderate-sized chamber with just one small passage leading off [<a
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href="qm.html#C2004-204-70" id="qC2004-204-70">C2004-204-70 C</a>]. At the
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level of the pitch head for Black Maria and further around the chamber, a
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moderate-size, horizontal mud-floored passage leads off [<a
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href="qm.html#C2003-204-18" id="qC2003-204-18">C2003-204-18 B</a>], but this
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was declared to be "nontrivial" to reach. From the ledge where Sirens enters
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Black Maria chamber, the main way on is over a traverse on the right using
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naturals (15m rope; 2 slings) to gain a large passage sloping up. Straight
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ahead is a thin rift: Bracket Fungus passage, the way on is up the steep mud
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slope to the left, <a href="#oxtail">Oxtail Oxbow</a>.</p>
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<h3><a href="l/bracketfungus1.html"><img class="onleft" src="t/bracketfungus1.jpg" /></a>
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<a id="bracketfungus">Bracket Fungus Passage</a></h3>
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<h3><a href="l/bracketfungus1.html"><img class="onleft"
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src="t/bracketfungus1.jpg" alt="bracket fungus formations" /></a> <a
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id="bracketfungus">Bracket Fungus Passage</a></h3>
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<p>[DO NOT ENTER; CONSERVATION-TAPED OFF; USE OXTAIL OXBOW BYPASS ON THE LEFT
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INSTEAD.] This is a narrow but very well-decorated rift, with
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bracket-fungus-like formations on both walls and stalactites above; it is
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@@ -127,9 +132,8 @@ junction with the main passage, the main route is to the left, up a steep mud
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slope to a further junction. At this junction, straight ahead leads to Terra
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Firma, and to the right leads to Quiz Rift.</p>
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<h3><a id="terrafirma">Terra Firma</a>
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<a href="l/crystalpool.html"><img class="onright" src="t/crystalpool.jpg"
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alt="crystal pool photo" /></a></h3>
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<h3><a href="l/crystalpool.html"><img class="onright" src="t/crystalpool.jpg"
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alt="crystal pool photo" /></a><a id="terrafirma">Terra Firma</a> </h3>
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<p>Straight ahead is a narrow passage which opens onto a small chamber, Terra
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Firma, with mud banks and a blind pit in the floor. Above the pit, a passage
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<h3><a id="subsoilchamber">Subsoil Chamber</a></h3>
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<a href="l/crystals.html"><img class="onleft" src="t/crystals.jpg" /></a>
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<a href="l/mudpillars.html"><img class="onright" src="t/mudpillars.jpg" /></a>
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<p>
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Subsoil Chamber is large with a boulder floor, sloping down to the south.
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<i>Heading north up the slope leads to <a href="#heavilysoiled">Heavily
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Soiled</a> (q.v.).</i>. Heading south from the base of the University Challenge
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pitch, <i>after 10m on the right is the entry to the canyon leading to <a
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<p> <a href="l/crystals.html"><img class="onleft" src="t/crystals.jpg"
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alt="crystal-encrusted rock" /></a> <a href="l/mudpillars.html"><img
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class="onright" src="t/mudpillars.jpg" alt="mud pillars" /></a> Subsoil Chamber
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is large with a boulder floor, sloping down to the south. <i>Heading north up
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the slope leads to <a href="#heavilysoiled">Heavily Soiled</a> (q.v.).</i>.
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Heading south from the base of the University Challenge pitch, <i>after 10m on
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the right is the entry to the canyon leading to <a
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href="#earthenware">Earthenware</a></i>, while <i>on the left a passage leads
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up steeply past conservation-taped fine, white crystals to a small, wet aven
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with two QM C's[<a href="qm.html#C2004-204-56" id="qC2004-204-56">C2004-204-56
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C</a>]</i> as the chamber drops down steeply with a boulder-strewn floor to a
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small, wet aven with fine, large banks of conservation-taped mud and mud pillar
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formations topped by pebbles. At the base of the chamber, to the right is a
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large phreatic passage three-quarters filled with mud; this connects back to <a href="#earthenware">Earthenware</a>, while to the left is <a href="#hippohollows">Hippo Hollows</a> passage.</p>
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large phreatic passage three-quarters filled with mud; this connects back to <a
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href="#earthenware">Earthenware</a>, while to the left is <a
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href="#hippohollows">Hippo Hollows</a> passage.</p>
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<p>These two trunk passages, Hippo Hollows to the south and Earthenware Passage
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to the north, together with the short linking passage in between appear to
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@@ -224,9 +230,9 @@ the left needs protecting, while ahead from the ledge is an aven and pitch with
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the sound of water [<a href="qm.html#C2004-204-55"
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id="qC2004-204-55">C2004-204-55 ?</a>].</p>
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<a href="l/hippohollows.html"><img class="onright" src="t/hippohollows.jpg"
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/></a>
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<h3><a id="hippohollows">Hippo Hollows</a></h3>
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<h3><a href="l/hippohollows.html"><img class="onright" src="t/hippohollows.jpg"
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alt="Hippo Hollows mud pots" /></a><a id="hippohollows">Hippo Hollows</a></h3>
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<p>On the left, from the southern base of Subsoil Chamber, a 1.8m climb up a mud
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bank leads to a mud-floored passage that enters Hippo Hollows. This section of
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<h3><a id="fatworm">Fat Worm Blows a Sparky</a></h3>
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<a href="l/whiteclouds.html"><img class="onleft" src="t/whiteclouds.jpg"
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/></a>
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<p>Chalk and Cheese pitch enters a moderate-sized chamber. To the right JULIAN
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[<a href="qm.html#C2004-204-60" id="qC2004-204-60">C2004-204-60 A</a>]. A large
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walking passage leads off to the left. From this walking passage, a
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ramp soon leads down to the right. This shortly comes to a junction. Down and
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straight ahead JULIAN [<a href="qm.html#C2004-204-61"
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id="qC2004-204-61">C2004-204-61 A</a>] [<a href="qm.html#C2004-204-62"
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id="qC2004-204-62">C2004-204-62 B</a>]. To the right the passage squeezes past
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unusual white plastic-like formations (<b><a id="littlewhiteclouds">Little
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White Clouds</a></b>) to a small chamber. The left of this chamber opens out
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over a pitch [<a href="qm.html#C2004-204-63" id="qC2004-204-63">C2004-204-63
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A</a>]. Straight ahead from the chamber the passage continues. JULIAN. <!-- XXX
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I suspect this bit might be wrong. --></p>
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<p><a href="l/whiteclouds.html"><img class="onleft" src="t/whiteclouds.jpg"
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alt="Little White Clouds ceiling formations" /></a> Chalk and Cheese pitch
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enters a moderate-sized chamber. To the right JULIAN [<a
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href="qm.html#C2004-204-60" id="qC2004-204-60">C2004-204-60 A</a>]. A large
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walking passage leads off to the left. From this walking passage, a ramp soon
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leads down to the right. This shortly comes to a junction. Down and straight
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ahead JULIAN [<a href="qm.html#C2004-204-61" id="qC2004-204-61">C2004-204-61
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A</a>] [<a href="qm.html#C2004-204-62" id="qC2004-204-62">C2004-204-62 B</a>].
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To the right the passage squeezes past unusual white plastic-like formations
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(<b><a id="littlewhiteclouds">Little White Clouds</a></b>) to a small chamber.
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The left of this chamber opens out over a pitch [<a href="qm.html#C2004-204-63"
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id="qC2004-204-63">C2004-204-63 A</a>]. Straight ahead from the chamber the
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passage continues. JULIAN. <!-- XXX I suspect this bit might be wrong. --></p>
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<a href="l/deadbat.html"><img class="onright" src="t/deadbat.jpg"
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<p>The main walking passage soon reaches <b><a id="batchamber">Dead Good Bat
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Chamber</a></b> with a freshly deceased bat marked by conservation tape by the
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prominent central boulder. <i>Low on the left of this chamber, Thin Rift passage
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goes down steeply in tight rift. A handline was needed to continue down at the
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limit of surveying in 2004 [<a href="qm.html#C2004-204-X73"
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<p><a href="l/deadbat.html"><img class="onright" src="t/deadbat.jpg" alt="Dead
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bat" /></a> The main walking passage soon reaches <b><a id="batchamber">Dead
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Good Bat Chamber</a></b> with a freshly deceased bat marked by conservation
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tape by the prominent central boulder. <i>Low on the left of this chamber, Thin
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Rift passage goes down steeply in tight rift. A handline was needed to continue
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down at the limit of surveying in 2004 [<a href="qm.html#C2004-204-X73"
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id="qC2004-204-X73">C2004-204-X73 A</a>].</i> Several passages lead down on the
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right from Good Dead Bat Chamber: all interconnect in a maze of small walking
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and crawling tubes. An alcove in one tube is conservation-taped off to protect
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Chamber, a free-climb steeply up on the left leads to a point around 4m below a
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large tube which would require bolting to access [<a
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href="qm.html#C2004-204-65" id="qC2004-204-65">C2004-204-65 B</a>]. Straight
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ahead leads steeply down large boulders to a small chamber and a wet
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aven [<a href="qm.html#C2004-204-66" id="qC2004-204-66">C2004-204-66
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C</a>].</p>
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ahead leads steeply down large boulders to a small chamber and a wet aven [<a
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href="qm.html#C2004-204-66" id="qC2004-204-66">C2004-204-66 C</a>].</p>
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<h3><a id="earthenware">Earthenware</a></h3>
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@@ -316,8 +318,9 @@ id="qC2004-204-24">C2004-204-24 A</a>]. There is a further possible pitch on
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the left [<a href="qm.html#C2004-204-25" id="qC2004-204-25">C2004-204-25
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B</a>].</p>
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<p>A little beyond this is a junction, <i>where a passage leads off to the left [<a href="qm.html#C2004-204-27" id="qC2004-204-27">C2004-204-27 A</a>], while
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a muddy slope on the right leads to a muddy tube that goes steeply up to a
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<p>A little beyond this is a junction, <i>where a passage leads off to the left
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[<a href="qm.html#C2004-204-27" id="qC2004-204-27">C2004-204-27 A</a>], while a
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muddy slope on the right leads to a muddy tube that goes steeply up to a
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boulder choke. A second, less obvious tube leads up on the right just before
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this first tube. This second tube climbs up very steeply and continues beyond
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the end of the 2004 survey though some aid may be needed to complete the climb
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conservation-taped to prevent access to avoid damage to the fine calcite on the
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walls; while to the left is unexplored [<a href="qm.html#C2004-204-42"
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id="qC2004-204-42">C2004-204-42 ?</a>]. JULIAN, I can't remember what happened
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here at this junction - more QM's ahead at least I think?
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here at this junction - more QM's ahead at least I think?</p>
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<!-- XXX Hardware needs to be checked against original survey notes when these
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have been scanned ! -->
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the top of the boulder slope. A deep pitch descends on the left [<a
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href="qm.html#C2004-204-39" id="qC2004-204-39">C2004-204-39 B</a>] and there is
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a possible continuation up on the right of the slope through boulders [<a
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href="qm.html#C2004-204-40" id="qC2004-204-40">C2004-204-40 B</a>].
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href="qm.html#C2004-204-40" id="qC2004-204-40">C2004-204-40 B</a>].</p>
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<h3><a id="underware">Underware</a></h3>
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<p>The two passages up on the right of Earthenware both enter a very large,
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horizontal phreatic passage, Underware. This continues both left (north) and right (south).
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horizontal phreatic passage, Underware. This continues both left (north) and
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right (south).</p>
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<p>From the entry points from Earthenware, Underware continues to the left for
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around 50m north, to end in a huge boulder
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choke and roof collapse. <i>A small drafting passage off to the right at the
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start of this collapse zone is the start of <b><a id="earthenware3">Earthenware
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III</a></b>. This passage leads steeply up to a pitch head [<a
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href="qm.html#C2004-204-43" id="qC2004-204-43">C2004-204-43 C</a>]. Beyond this
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pitch, to the left, the passage continues to a small chamber. MARTIN Becka
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claims there were no ways on here but there are three marked in your survey
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notes [<a href="qm.html#C2004-204-44" id="qC2004-204-44">C2004-204-44 B</a>]
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[<a href="qm.html#C2004-204-45" id="qC2004-204-45">C2004-204-45 X</a>] [<a
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href="qm.html#C2004-204-46" id="qC2004-204-46">C2004-204-46 C</a>]. </i> There
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is alleged to be at least one passage leading off from the left of Underware by
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the collapse zone [XXX unnumbered QMs if they exist].</p>
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around 50m north, to end in a huge boulder choke and roof collapse. <i>A small
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drafting passage off to the right at the start of this collapse zone is the
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start of <a href="#tableware">Tableware</a>.</i> There is alleged to be at
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least one passage leading off from the left of Underware by the collapse zone
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[XXX unnumbered QMs if they exist].</p>
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<p>Underware continues right as large passage to the south, passing a small
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passage to the left[<a href="qm.html#C2004-204-47"
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Just before it closes down a large passage leads off up to the left. This
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climbs up steeply past a huge boulder mid-passage then narrows as it reaches a
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small mud chamber. Under a boulder on the left of this chamber the passage
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turns right <!-- and may continue up ahead [QM-B?] - unsubstantiated by survey
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--> and closes down. The main way on is a drafting thin rift on the left that
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soon opens out into the bottom of a large sloping passage. This mud-floored
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ramp climbs up very steeply and in 2004 the survey ended at the point at which
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protection was needed to continue the ascent [<a href="qm.html#C2004-204-49"
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id="qC2004-204-49">C2004-204-49 A</a>]. A second passage leads off on the
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right where the thin rift enters this steep ramp. This second passage again
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climbs up steeply and appeared to reach an <!-- pitch head [QM-B].--> aven [<a
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turns right, becomeing too tight after 4m, and at the far end of the chamber a
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passage goes off which becomes too tight after 6m. The main way on is a
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drafting thin rift on the left that soon opens out into the bottom of a large
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sloping passage. This mud-floored ramp climbs up very steeply and in 2004 the
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survey ended at the point at which protection was needed to continue the ascent
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[<a href="qm.html#C2004-204-49" id="qC2004-204-49">C2004-204-49 A</a>]. A
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second passage leads off on the right where the thin rift enters this steep
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ramp. This second passage again climbs up steeply and appeared to reach an
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aven, with possible passages leading off around 4m up [<a
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href="qm.html#C2004-204-48" id="qC2004-204-48">C2004-204-48 X</a>].</p>
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<h3><a id="tableware">Tableware</a></h3>
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<p>The passage heads steeply upwards, and it splits into many small
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tubes which all meet up with each other and meet a horizontal piece of phreatic
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tube. <i>To the right passes a hole going down to the right [<a
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href="qm.html#C2004-204-43" id="qC2004-204-43">C2004-204-43 C</a>], where
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stones will rattle for quite a while, probably due to a sloping pitch rather
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than any great depth, while continuing past the hole leads up slope to come
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into a larger passage, which is more easily acessed by following the main
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route.</i> To the left a little more scrambling up leads into a passage that
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goes off to the left and right, and is high enough to stand up in.</p>
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<p><i>To the right opens up some more and leads to a pitch [<a
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href="qm.html#C2004-204-44" id="qC2004-204-44">C2004-204-44 B</a>], and an aven
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[<a href="qm.html#C2004-204-45" id="qC2004-204-45">C2004-204-45 X</a>]; a small
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hole on the right before the pitch is where the previously described passage
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enters.</i> To the left, the passage continues to a small sloping chamber, at
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the bottom of which a crawl goes off but chokes, while at the top of the
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chamber a couple of short passages also quickly choke. From the higher
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entrance to the chamber there is a rift in the ceiling, which continues on the
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opposite side of the chamber; [<a href="qm.html#C2004-204-46"
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id="qC2004-204-46">C2004-204-46 C</a>] this would require a climb of a couple
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of metres to access.</p>
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