Stone Monkey

A draughting hole part way along the Caramel Catharsis traverse becomes a walking-sized phreatic passage heading steeply uphill to the east.  In places the floor is covered with rocks, elsewhere the passage is steep enough that there is bedrock as any rocks fall off.  As stone monkey ascends it splits into parallel passages that then rejoin,  going past two crawls on the right [QM 07-01 C] [QM 07-02 C]. After 50m a large window to the left contains a 5m climb down to a boulder floor and a possibly choked passage, with solution pockets in the roof.

A little futher a crawl goes off to the left to a chamber, with a 2m climb down to the top a a small rift. [?16#37-3c tight pitch head with a ~5m drop to the floor of a rift].  There is an aven above the chamber that connects back into stone monkey.

Continuing up stone monkey, leads past a roof tube on the right [QM 07-03 C] to a widening. To the right (south) is the connection to Boulder Surfer, the bottom of the Ducks on Ice route into the cave. Left (north) are a number of QMs. Working round the left hand wall from the point of entry is a 2m climb to the aven of the previous chamber and a phreatic tube [QM 07-16 B];  there is a 4m climb down a small tube to a chamber.  Water enters the chamber from a wet 5m high aven [?16#37-1X 5m tall wet aven] and a hole in the floow goes down 3m past some ice to a choke.

At the widening, the main way on is straight ahead (south east) though a low upward crawl that was originally accessed by extracting rocks, which then fell a long way back down stone monkey.  This area is still fairly unstable. The crawl pops out though a a bit of a squeeze into a large chamber.  To the right in the chamber there is a descending preatic passage with chunky chrinoid fossils.  Just before this passage becomes too tight a small low hole in the wall to the left leads to a short pitch of about 4m [?16#37-2B  short pitch to a passage below].  Back in the chamber the right/south wall there is a nasty rift [QM 0758-1 C] and a passage heading south 12m up the wall [QM 08-06 B].  In the chamber to the left there is a phreatic tube in the north wall of the passage [QM 07-14 C] and an aven above [QM 07-10 X].  At the top of the chamber is a 4m climb up followed immediately by a 5m climb down to the continuation of stone monkey.