| 204 (CUCC 1999/03) | Steinbrückenhöhle | 4/S x |
|---|---|---|
Bonsai Crawl emerges into The Colonnade, a wide walking passage with a boulder floor, at a sharp turn. To the right the passage comes to a chamber-like crossroads. To the left is an initially walking-sized tube, Sucker, and to the right a low draughting crawl, Flopsy the Bunny Rabbit's Lair, which connects back to Insignificant Chamber. The Colonnade continues straight on, and a stream joins from the left. Further along on the left is a pile of stones which must originate from a passage [C2000-204-43 Dig]. The passage then becomes small with a possible aven [C2000-204-44 X], a tight rift [C2000-204-45 B], and a crawl down and to the right. The crawl emerges into a chamber, with a possible way on over rocks directly ahead [C2000-204-49 C]. The chamber gets larger to the right, where there are two tight rifts leading off [C2000-204-46 C], [C2000-204-47 C] and an aven [C2000-204-48 X]. Water was flowing down one of these, possibly to the waterfall entering the chamber in No Pain No Gain. At this time in 2000 it had not rained on the surface for 8 days. Back where Bonsai Crawl enters, the passage goes straight on with a number of minor passages to the sides. These are: a crawl to the left which slopes slightly upwards to a pit with a small body sized tube going of at the bottom[C2000-204-54 C], continuing over the pit a flat out crawl continues upwards[C2000-204-53 C]; some distance further on, another crawl on the left [C2000-204-16 B] leading from a trench in the passage; a small passage on the right [C2000-204-17 C] that links to [C2000-204-21 C]; and a crawl high up to the left [C2000-204-18 C]. A short distance further a walking-size passage goes to the left [C2000-204-19 C]. The main passage then forks: to the left is [C2000-204-20 C] whilst to the right the passage continues past a high up crawl [C2000-204-21 C], and then possibly [C2000-204-22 C]. The main passage then pops out intoTreeumphant Passage.
The Colonnade meets Treeumphant Passage at a narrow angle. In one direction Treeumphant Passage ends just next to its entrance at a boulder slope. Ascending this leads to a fork; the left branch is blind and the right branch ends shortly afterwards in a choked chamber. In the other direction, Treeumphant Passage continues over large boulders going slightly up hill. There is a walking passage off to the left which goes to Crowning Glory, as well as a high up crawl to the right [C2000-204-25 C] and then a tight high passage to the left [C2000-204-26 C]. The passage then increases in height approaching a sharp turn to the right. Here a walking size passage [C2000-204-28 A] continues straight on, and there may be an aven in the ceiling [C2000-204-27 X]. The main passage passes possibly diggable holes at floor level [C2000-204-29 Dig], and continues into Great Oak Chamber.
Treeumphant Passage disappears into an approx 5m drop [C2000-204-32 B] in Great Oak Chamber and there is an aven above [C2000-204-33 X]. There may be passage continuing straight across the chamber [C2000-204-31 B], as well as a passage to the right [C2000-204-30 C]. Just before the drop there is a bouldery slope up to another smaller walking size passage. There is an oxbow to the left, with a possible passage leading offit [C2000-204-34 B], as well as an aven [C2000-204-35 X]. There are a couple of possible digs to the left slightly further on [C2000-204-36 C], [C2000-204-37 C] before the passage enters Cave Tree Chamber.
There is a climb down of about 2m into Cave Tree Chamber, which has a bouldery floor on the left, and a pitch on the right [C2000-204-39 B]. An aven extends above [C2000-204-38 X], and the passage may continue over the pitch [C2000-204-40 A]. It would be advisable to protect this traverse.
A phreatic passage with a stream flowing down it, which heads upwards from a passage ofTreeumphant Passage. Near the begining a high up crawl heads of to the left[C2000-204-8 C]. Another 20m leads to a bolder infall which can be climbed over, or the stream can be followed around to the right. A 2m scramble climb is reaced, and Bolder Coaster, on the left, can be acessed by traversing from the pitch head. Further up the passage bolder infall from the left leads to Treeumphant Passage[C2000-204-9 A]. The summit of a bolder is soon reached, as the passage becomes smaller. Going down the bolders goes into a chamber, with an aven[C2000-204-11 X], and a 4m climb up at the end, followed by a pitch, which has been started down[C2000-204-10 A].
Germknödels Revenge is the short connection between 204e and the Treeumphant end of Boulder Coaster. 204e is a low square hole in the face of a cliff. From here a low passage leads down and to the right. A short climb down and up again brings one to the top of the pitch. The (awkward) passage from 204f is a small tube sloping uphill at ~45° on the right, and a possible QM from across the top of the shaft.
A backup and Y-hang are followed by a rebelay or short deviation next to a window into a parallel shaft (There may be undocumented QMs in this shaft). The pitch narrows below the deviation, to a rebelay where it bells out to several metres diameter. The remaining drop is in a fine open shaft, passing a ledge a few metres off the floor, into Crowning Glory Chamber
204f is a hole in a pile of boulders a few metres up the surface gully from 204e. A small tube descends towards 204e via a couple of bouldery squeezes. The tube becomes steeper with a black space beyond. A light shone down this tube reveals that it connects to the top of the pitch reached from 204e.