From 94fa429ad378aa91f302faaed8670434550fbaa8 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Philip Sargent
@@ -34,22 +34,16 @@ QM is in the description, or the description doesn't yet exist :-).
A - A fine QM - go down there and look. +
B - Not so promising, or requiring some effort (eg. a climb). +
C - Pretty cruddy, or good but very hard to get to. +
D - A dig only possible to continue if loose rocks or soil are removed. +
X - A high, wet or unsafe-looking aven unlikely to be climbed
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And we used to have (no longer used): +
V - An aven which might be climbable, but not adequately assessed (use C or X instead, with comment) +
? - Unknown - origin lost in history.
Note that the quality grades are assigned by the explorers at the time, and that subsequent discoveries may mean that the grade is optimistic, since the @@ -59,14 +53,9 @@ may be another's "C-lead" :-(
In past years, we used to add into the QM identifier an indication of who discovered it. This is no longer used. -
A - ARGE. +
B - Groupe Spéléo de Clerval - Baume les Dames. +
C - Cambridge University Caving Club - Expo.