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@@ -33,7 +33,7 @@ Below this is a larger and still deeper level, Subsoil, at around 1520m.</p>
left, [<a href="qm.html#C2003-204-04" id="qC2003-204-04">C2003-204-04 B</a>]
leads to the head of a rift; this is likely to link to the rift
[<a href="qm.html#C2003-204-02" id="qC2003-204-02">C2003-204-02 B</a>] leading
from the base of Trihang. Ahead is a blind pit around 4m deep.</i> An obvious
from the base of Trihang. Ahead is a blind pit around 4m deep.</i> An obvious
path on the right in the mud floor leads along horizontal walking passage past
conservation-taped stalactites <i>and two tubes leading up to the right. The
first of these is [<a href="qm.html#C2003-204-06"
@@ -75,7 +75,7 @@ formations that overlooks <b><a id="blackmaria">Black Maria</a></b> chamber
(p.30). Just before the ledge, two holes in the floor on the right drop steeply
down, with rocks bouncing a long way [<a href="qm.html#C2003-204-14"
id="qC2003-204-14">C2003-204-14 C</a>] and [<a href="qm.html#C2003-204-15"
id="qC2003-204-15">C2003-204-15 C</a>]. Below and to the left of where Sirens
id="qC2003-204-15">C2003-204-15 C</a>]. Below and to the left of where Sirens
enters Black Maria chamber, a passage appears to lead off [<a
href="qm.html#C2003-204-16" id="qC2003-204-16">C2003-204-16 C</a>]. Black Maria
chamber is rigged from a ledge that traverses around the right of the chamber.
@@ -165,76 +165,236 @@ World</a></b> pitch (p25). This descends via awkward rigging (not perfected in
id="univchallenge">University Challenge</a></b> pitch (p15) descends to land
partway down the large, confusing Subsoil Chamber.</p>
<h3><a id="subsoil">Subsoil level</a></h3>
<h2><a id="subsoil">Subsoil level</a></h2>
<h4><a id="earthenware">Earthenware</a></h4>
[<a href="qm.html#C2004-204-23" id="qC2004-204-23">C2004-204-23 C</a>]
[<a href="qm.html#C2004-204-24" id="qC2004-204-24">C2004-204-24 A</a>]
[<a href="qm.html#C2004-204-25" id="qC2004-204-25">C2004-204-25 B</a>]
[<a href="qm.html#C2004-204-26" id="qC2004-204-26">C2004-204-26 B</a>]
[<a href="qm.html#C2004-204-27" id="qC2004-204-27">C2004-204-27 A</a>]
[<a href="qm.html#C2004-204-28" id="qC2004-204-28">C2004-204-28 A</a>]
[<a href="qm.html#C2004-204-41" id="qC2004-204-41">C2004-204-41 ?</a>]
[<a href="qm.html#C2004-204-42" id="qC2004-204-42">C2004-204-42 ?</a>]
<h4><a id="hardware">Hardware</a></h4>
[<a href="qm.html#C2004-204-29" id="qC2004-204-29">C2004-204-29 X</a>]
[<a href="qm.html#C2004-204-30" id="qC2004-204-30">C2004-204-30 X</a>]
[<a href="qm.html#C2004-204-31" id="qC2004-204-31">C2004-204-31 C</a>]
[<a href="qm.html#C2004-204-32" id="qC2004-204-32">C2004-204-32 X</a>]
<h4>Do not know what this passage is called</h4>
[<a href="qm.html#C2004-204-33" id="qC2004-204-33">C2004-204-33 A</a>]
[<a href="qm.html#C2004-204-34" id="qC2004-204-34">C2004-204-34 A</a>]
[<a href="qm.html#C2004-204-35" id="qC2004-204-35">C2004-204-35 A</a>]
[<a href="qm.html#C2004-204-36" id="qC2004-204-36">C2004-204-36 A</a>]
[<a href="qm.html#C2004-204-37" id="qC2004-204-37">C2004-204-37 A</a>]
[<a href="qm.html#C2004-204-38" id="qC2004-204-38">C2004-204-38 B</a>]
[<a href="qm.html#C2004-204-39" id="qC2004-204-39">C2004-204-39 B</a>]
[<a href="qm.html#C2004-204-40" id="qC2004-204-40">C2004-204-40 B</a>]
<h3><a id="subsoilchamber">Subsoil Chamber</a></h3>
<h4><a id="underware">Underware</a></h4>
These are the northerly qms that happened on the same trip as underware, do not
know if passage is called underware
[<a href="qm.html#C2004-204-43" id="qC2004-204-43">C2004-204-43 C</a>]
[<a href="qm.html#C2004-204-44" id="qC2004-204-44">C2004-204-44 B</a>]
[<a href="qm.html#C2004-204-45" id="qC2004-204-45">C2004-204-45 X</a>]
[<a href="qm.html#C2004-204-46" id="qC2004-204-46">C2004-204-46 C</a>]
These are the southerly qms of underware
[<a href="qm.html#C2004-204-47" id="qC2004-204-47">C2004-204-47 C</a>]
[<a href="qm.html#C2004-204-48" id="qC2004-204-48">C2004-204-48 X</a>]
[<a href="qm.html#C2004-204-49" id="qC2004-204-49">C2004-204-49 A</a>]
<h4><a id="chimney">Chimney</a></h4>
<h4><a id="heavilysoiled">Heavily Soiled</a></h4>
Don't really know what the passage is called that these qms are in:
[<a href="qm.html#C2004-204-20" id="qC2004-204-20">C2004-204-20 X</a>]
[<a href="qm.html#C2004-204-22" id="qC2004-204-22">C2004-204-22 A</a>]
[<a href="qm.html#C2004-204-56" id="qC2004-204-56">C2004-204-56 C</a>]
Subsoil Chamber is large with a boulder floor, sloping down to the south.
<i>Heading north up the slope leads to <a href="#heavilysoiled">Heavily
Soiled</a> (q.v.).</i>. Heading south from the base of the University Challenge
pitch, <i>after 10m on the right is the entry to the canyon leading to <a
href="#earthenware">Earthenware</a></i>, while <i>on the left a passage leads
up steeply past conservation-taped fine, white crystals to a small, wet aven
with two QM C's[<a href="qm.html#C2004-204-56" id="qC2004-204-56">C2004-204-56
C</a>]</i> as the chamber drops down steeply with a boulder-strewn floor to a
small, wet aven with fine, large banks of conservation-taped mud and mud pillar
formations topped by pebbles. At the base of the chamber, to the right is a
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>
<h4><a id="soiled">Soiled Passage</a></h4>
[<a href="qm.html#C2004-204-50" id="qC2004-204-50">C2004-204-50 A</a>]
[<a href="qm.html#C2004-204-51" id="qC2004-204-51">C2004-204-51 B</a>]
[<a href="qm.html#C2004-204-52" id="qC2004-204-52">C2004-204-52 C</a>]
[<a href="qm.html#C2004-204-53" id="qC2004-204-53">C2004-204-53 B</a>]
[<a href="qm.html#C2004-204-54" id="qC2004-204-54">C2004-204-54 C</a>]
[<a href="qm.html#C2004-204-55" id="qC2004-204-55">C2004-204-55 ?</a>]
<p>These two trunk passages, Hippo Hollows to the south and Earthenware Passage
to the north, together with the short linking passage in between appear to
originally have been a single, large phreatic passage running north/south which
has subsequently been cut into three sections by two canyons running parallel
in Subsoil Chamber.</p>
<h4><a id="hippohollows">Hippo Hollows</a></h4>
[<a href="qm.html#C2004-204-58" id="qC2004-204-58">C2004-204-58 B</a>]
[<a href="qm.html#C2004-204-59" id="qC2004-204-59">C2004-204-59 B</a>]
<h3><a id="heavilysoiled">Heavily Soiled</a></h3>
<h4><a id="fatworm">Fat Worm Blows a Sparky</a></h4>
[<a href="qm.html#C2004-204-60" id="qC2004-204-60">C2004-204-60 A</a>]
[<a href="qm.html#C2004-204-61" id="qC2004-204-61">C2004-204-61 A</a>]
[<a href="qm.html#C2004-204-62" id="qC2004-204-62">C2004-204-62 B</a>]
[<a href="qm.html#C2004-204-63" id="qC2004-204-63">C2004-204-63 A</a>]
[<a href="qm.html#C2004-204-64" id="qC2004-204-64">C2004-204-64 C</a>]
[<a href="qm.html#C2004-204-65" id="qC2004-204-65">C2004-204-65 B</a>]
[<a href="qm.html#C2004-204-66" id="qC2004-204-66">C2004-204-66 C</a>]
<p>Clambering up from the base of University Challenge pitch to the top of
Subsoil Chamber, a sandy passage leads off up steeply. <i>A sandy tube which
soon branches off to the right rapidly closes down.</i> The restricted main
passage ahead swings left then heads down and provides a good pitch bypass
connection into Heavily Soiled passage. <i>Heavily Soiled was originally
accessed via a 5m pitch rigged off naturals just up from the base of
University Challenge pitch. Here, at the north end of Subsoil Chamber, the
passage initially ascends steeply with a rift in the mud-covered floor. It
continues upward, passing a passage leading off to the right [<a
href="qm.html#C2004-204-50" id="qC2004-204-50">C2004-204-50 A</a>] and quickly
reaches a large boulder in the passage where the sandy pitch bypass described
above joins from the right. Turning left instead of right at the base of the 5m
pitch emerges at the canyon leading to <a
href="#earthenware">Earthenware</a>.</i> Back in Heavily Soiled, just beyond
the junction of the two routes is a tube on the right, which has not been
explored in 2004, [<a href="qm.html#C2004-204-51"
id="qC2004-204-51">C2004-204-51 B</a>], nor has another slightly further on [<a
href="qm.html#C2004-204-53" id="qC2004-204-53">C2004-204-53 B</a>]. The main
passage then levels off and there is a 1.8m climb down a mud bank. At the
bottom a passage leads off to the left [<a href="qm.html#C2004-204-52"
id="qC2004-204-52">C2004-204-52 C</a>], after which the passage continues up
through large boulders and breakdown. A restricted crawl on the left through
boulders is followed by either an easy squeeze on the left [<a
href="qm.html#C2004-204-54" id="qC2004-204-54">C2004-204-54 C</a>] or a climb
ahead that opens out onto a large muddy ledge above a mud-floored chamber where
the 2004 survey ends. A 2m climb from the ledge to the floor of the chamber on
the left needs protecting, while ahead from the ledge is an aven and pitch with
the sound of water [<a href="qm.html#C2004-204-55"
id="qC2004-204-55">C2004-204-55 ?</a>].</p>
<h4><a id="batchamber">Bat Chamber</a></h4>
<h4><a id="thinrift">Thin Worm Rift</a></h4>
<h3><a id="hippohollows">Hippo Hollows</a></h3>
<p>On the left, from the southern base of Subsoil Chamber, a 1.8m climb up a mud
bank leads to a mud-floored passage that enters Hippo Hollows. This section of
passage has a series of small, attractive pots floored with cracked mud (CARE -
traverse above the pots). Straight on after the pots, the passage ends in a
rift and <b><a id="chalkcheese">Chalk and Cheese</a></b> pitch. <i>Before this
point, but after the pots, a ramp up on the left leads to a pitch (p.8). At the
base of this pitch a squeeze appears to open out onto a further pitch [<a
href="qm.html#C2004-204-X72" id="qC2004-204-X72">C2004-204-X72 ?</a>].
Traversing over the 8m pitch and up a steep muddy bank leads shortly to the
head of a further pitch which has not yet been descended [<a
href="qm.html#C2004-204-58" id="qC2004-204-58">C2004-204-58 B</a>]. Shortly
after this first left ramp, a second ramp to the left leads to a position
overlooking the same rift that can be more easily accessed by continuing
straight along the main Hippo Hollows passage.</i> On the right of the main
passage opposite the second ramp there is an aven on the right with sounds of
running water in wet conditions [<a href="qm.html#C2004-204-59"
id="qC2004-204-59">C2004-204-59 B</a>]. The climb up to the aven would require
bolting. Chalk and Cheese pitch is rigged from bolts in the roof to a
self-lined climb down a narrow rift to enter the Fat Worm Blows A Sparky
area.</p>
<h3><a id="fatworm">Fat Worm Blows a Sparky</a></h3>
<p>Chalk and Cheese pitch enters a moderate-sized chamber. To the right JULIAN
[<a href="qm.html#C2004-204-60" id="qC2004-204-60">C2004-204-60 A</a>]. A large
walking passage leads off to the left. From this walking passage, a
ramp soon leads down to the right. This shortly comes to a junction. Down and
straight ahead JULIAN [<a href="qm.html#C2004-204-61"
id="qC2004-204-61">C2004-204-61 A</a>] [<a href="qm.html#C2004-204-62"
id="qC2004-204-62">C2004-204-62 B</a>]. To the right the passage squeezes past
unusual white plastic-like formations (<b><a id="littlewhiteclouds">Little
White Clouds</a></b>) to a small chamber. The left of this chamber opens out
over a pitch [<a href="qm.html#C2004-204-63" id="qC2004-204-63">C2004-204-63
A</a>]. Straight ahead from the chamber the passage continues. JULIAN. <!-- XXX
I suspect this bit might be wrong. --></p>
<p>The main walking passage soon reaches <b><a id="batchamber">Good Dead Bat
Chamber</a></b> with a freshly deceased bat marked by conservation tape by the
prominent central boulder. <i>Low on the left of this chamber, Thin Rift passage
goes down steeply in tight rift. A handline was needed to continue down at the
limit of surveying in 2004 [<a href="qm.html#C2004-204-X73"
id="qC2004-204-X73">C2004-204-X73 A</a>].</i> Several passages lead down on the
right from Good Dead Bat Chamber: all interconnect in a maze of small walking
and crawling tubes. An alcove in one tube is conservation-taped off to protect
the hundreds of bat bones; many other bat bones are found at lower
concentrations throughout Subsoil, possibly washed out of the mud deposits. In
another tube is an unexplored passage [<a href="qm.html#C2004-204-64"
id="qC2004-204-64">C2004-204-64 C</a>]. Continuing ahead beyond Good Dead Bat
Chamber, a free-climb steeply up on the left leads to a point around 4m below a
large tube which would require bolting to access [<a
href="qm.html#C2004-204-65" id="qC2004-204-65">C2004-204-65 B</a>]. Straight
ahead leads steeply down large boulders to a small chamber and a wet
aven [<a href="qm.html#C2004-204-66" id="qC2004-204-66">C2004-204-66
C</a>].</p>
<h3><a id="earthenware">Earthenware</a></h3>
<p>From the foot of <a href="#univchallenge">University Challenge</a> pitch,
descending around 10m south down the chamber, there is a very large boulder on
the right with two spits in the roof to rig a 3m pitch (free-climbable with
care) to a steeply descending canyon. Following down the canyon, shortly an
opening on the right links to the start of <a href="#heavilysoiled">Heavily
Soiled</a> passage. <i>At the base of the canyon the passage continues as fairly
tight rift guarded by poised rocks [<a href="qm.html#C2004-204-22"
id="qC2004-204-22">C2004-204-22 A</a>].</i> Between these points, <i>a high mud
bank on the left opens into the short section of phreatic passage which
continues further south as Hippo Hollows, passing a high tube in the right-hand
wall [<a href="qm.html#C2004-204-20" id="qC2004-204-20">C2004-204-20 X</a>].
</i> The main way on is opposite this high mud bank. Here, on the right near
the bottom of the canyon, a short traverse (two spits and a natural EARL? <!--
Artificial Earls just don't cut it --> and a 12m rope) over a large, loose mud
bank gains access up to a large walking passage, Earthenware. This drafts out
strongly and continues north, horizontally, for 100m. Earthenware initially
passes some stalactites, opposite which there is a passage on the left [<a
href="qm.html#C2004-204-23" id="qC2004-204-23">C2004-204-23 C</a>]; then the
phreatic development extends to slope up on the right side. A wet pitch in a
trench can be stepped over [<a href="qm.html#C2004-204-26"
id="qC2004-204-26">C2004-204-26 B</a>] and a hole on the left of the passage
may join to this pitch [<a href="qm.html#C2004-204-24"
id="qC2004-204-24">C2004-204-24 A</a>]. There is a further possible pitch on
the left [<a href="qm.html#C2004-204-25" id="qC2004-204-25">C2004-204-25
B</a>].</p>
<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
a muddy slope on the right leads to a muddy tube that goes steeply up to a
boulder choke. A second, less obvious tube leads up on the right just before
this first tube. This second tube climbs up very steeply and continues beyond
the end of the 2004 survey though some aid may be needed to complete the climb
up [<a href="qm.html#C2004-204-28" id="qC2004-204-28">C2004-204-28 A</a>].
These two tubes are the <b><a id="chimney">Chimney</a></b>.</i> The main
passage of Earthenware continues up a slope over mud floor formations and
boulders to an obvious junction. The draft comes from the continuation of
Earthenware straight ahead. <i>The larger passage on the left is <b><a
id="stoneware">Stoneware</a></b>. Stoneware leads steeply down and narrows from
large walking passage to twisting vadose passage with a clean-washed rock floor
with loose, sharp rocks balanced on it. This continues for around 50m to a
chamber. Here there is a drop through loose mud [XXX unnumbered QM B] and a
roof tube [<a href="qm.html#C2004-204-29" id="qC2004-204-29">C2004-204-29
X</a>]. Continuing on, past another roof tube [<a href="qm.html#C2004-204-30"
id="qC2004-204-30">C2004-204-30 X</a>], the passage terminates at a drippy aven
[<a href="qm.html#C2004-204-32" id="qC2004-204-32">C2004-204-32 X</a>].</i>
<i>[Editor's note: I'm rather puzzled by this as the QM grades assigned on the
survey don't match the description. Somewhere along here there is another one
[<a href="qm.html#C2004-204-31" id="qC2004-204-31">C2004-204-31
C</a>].]</i></p>
<p>Earthenware continues smaller and soon reaches a further
junction. <i>To the right leads up to <a href="#underware">Underware</a>, and
the left leads to <a href="#hardware">Hardware</a>.</i> Straight ahead
continues past a passage on the left [<a href="qm.html#C2004-204-41"
id="qC2004-204-41">C2004-204-41 ?</a>] to arrive shortly at a further junction.
Here a second right also links to Underware but this route is
conservation-taped to prevent access to avoid damage to the fine calcite on the
walls; while to the left is unexplored [<a href="qm.html#C2004-204-42"
id="qC2004-204-42">C2004-204-42 ?</a>]. JULIAN, I can't remember what happened
here at this junction - more QM's ahead at least I think?
<!-- XXX Hardware needs to be checked against original survey notes when these
have been scanned ! -->
<p><b><a id="hardware">Hardware</a></b> is initially small but strongly
drafting and twists along and soon reaches a junction. Ahead on the left down a
ramp has not been surveyed in 2004 [<a href="qm.html#C2004-204-33"
id="qC2004-204-33">C2004-204-33 A</a>]. Just beyond this ramp, a muddy passage
leads up on the right [<a href="qm.html#C2004-204-34"
id="qC2004-204-34">C2004-204-34 A</a>]. Continuing straight ahead, the main
passage soon opens up into very large phreatic passage with large boulders on the floor. Soon there are openings on both
left [<a href="qm.html#C2004-204-35" id="qC2004-204-35">C2004-204-35 A</a>] and
right [<a href="qm.html#C2004-204-36" id="qC2004-204-36">C2004-204-36 A</a>],
and further along is another crossroads (left [<a href="qm.html#C2004-204-37"
id="qC2004-204-37">C2004-204-37 A</a>], right [<a href="qm.html#C2004-204-38"
id="qC2004-204-38">C2004-204-38 B</a>]). This large passage soon closes down
again and slopes steeply up in a large boulder pile. The 2004 survey ended at
the top of the boulder slope. A deep pitch descends on the left [<a
href="qm.html#C2004-204-39" id="qC2004-204-39">C2004-204-39 B</a>] and there is
a possible continuation up on the right of the slope through boulders [<a
href="qm.html#C2004-204-40" id="qC2004-204-40">C2004-204-40 B</a>].
<h3><a id="underware">Underware</a></h3>
<p>The two passages up on the right of Earthenware both enter a very large,
horizontal phreatic passage, Underware. This continues both left (north) and right (south).
<p>From the entry points from Earthenware, Underware continues to the left for
around 50m north, to end in a huge boulder
choke and roof collapse. <i>A small drafting passage off to the right at the
start of this collapse zone is the start of <a id="earthenware3">Earthenware
III. This passage leads steeply up to a pitch head [<a
href="qm.html#C2004-204-43" id="qC2004-204-43">C2004-204-43 C</a>]. Beyond this
pitch, to the left, the passage continues to a small chamber. MARTIN Becka
claims there were no ways on here but there are three marked in your survey
notes [<a href="qm.html#C2004-204-44" id="qC2004-204-44">C2004-204-44 B</a>]
[<a href="qm.html#C2004-204-45" id="qC2004-204-45">C2004-204-45 X</a>] [<a
href="qm.html#C2004-204-46" id="qC2004-204-46">C2004-204-46 C</a>]. </i> There
is alleged to be at least one passage leading off from the left of Underware by
the collapse zone [XXX unnumbered QMs if they exist].</p>
<p>Underware continues right as large passage to the south, passing a small
passage to the left[<a href="qm.html#C2004-204-47"
id="qC2004-204-47">C2004-204-47 C</a>], before closing down in a boulder slope.
Just before it closes down a large passage leads off up to the left. This
climbs up steeply past a huge boulder mid-passage then narrows as it reaches a
small mud chamber. Under a boulder on the left of this chamber the passage
turns right <!-- and may continue up ahead [QM-B?] - unsubstantiated by survey
--> and closes down. The main way on is a drafting thin rift on the left that
soon opens out into the bottom of a large sloping passage. This mud-floored
ramp climbs up very steeply and in 2004 the survey ended at the point at which
protection was needed to continue the ascent [<a href="qm.html#C2004-204-49"
id="qC2004-204-49">C2004-204-49 A</a>]. A second passage leads off on the
right where the thin rift enters this steep ramp. This second passage again
climbs up steeply and appeared to reach an <!-- pitch head [QM-B].--> aven [<a
href="qm.html#C2004-204-48" id="qC2004-204-48">C2004-204-48 X</a>].</p>
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