| 204 (CUCC 1999/03) |
Steinbrückenhöhle |
4/S x |
|---|---|---|
No Pain No Gain is a low tube, which emerges to a mud-floored chamber. (Please try not to disturb the remaining flow patterns in the mud). A crawly mud floored passage leaves the chamber to the right. To the right near the end of the crawl is a bedding plane that continues uphill [C2000-204-01 B], whilst to the left is a small stone floored pit. There is a 2m climb up from the top of the pit. This has a stalactite formation at the top on the right, and threads on the left where a sling may be attached to assist. The crawl then continues to a junction with two connecting passages to the left [C2000-204-02 B] and two connecting passages to the right [C2000-204-03 C]. The passage then continues to a T junction where it enlarges slightly. To the right is [C2000-204-04 C]. To the left there is a chamber that is intersected by a tight rift with flowing water. Downstream is [C2000-204-05 C]. Upstream a key hole passage slopes upwards, to a T-junction with a chamber to the right, and an short, almost flat-out crawl to the left. The chamber, which has an aven [C2000-204-55 X], can be dropped into. A rift at the other end of the chamber leads to a waterfall which feeds the stream that runs through the chamber. Climbing up before the rift gives access to a crawl [C2000-204-06 C]. The flat out crawl emerges to a small angular chamber, at the top of which, to the right, is a hole [C2000-204-07 C]. To the left a low passage runs above a 4m drop [C2000-204-08 B]. This then turns right and continues to a fork in the passage. To the left is Insignificant Chamber, and to the right is a smaller chamber with a hole in the floor, windows to Insignificant Chamber, and a bedding plane continuing up at 10°, which again connects into Insignificant Chamber.
Insignificant Chamber can be entered at floor level from No Pain No Gain. It extends to a passage on the left as one enters, where there are a number a interconnecting holes on the right [C2000-204-58 C]. Upslope from the entrance is a bedding plane which splits left to Bonsai Crawl on the left and to [C2000-204-09 B] on the right. To the right upon entering Insignificant Chamber one can climb up to a point above the small chamber in No Pain No Gain. From here there is a phreatic tube[C2000-204-57 C] that can be probably be reached with the aid of a traverse line. The passage continues climbing ever upward [C2000-204-56 B]. The passage to the left from Insignificant Chamber gets smaller and meets a crossroads. To the left is a walking size passage with a small pit in the floor that continues to a large pitch [C2000-204-10 A], thought to drop into Pleasuredome. Straight on the passage turns to a steeply sloping pitch [C2000-204-11 B]. To the right is some small passage that connects to the Bonsai Crawl. Half way along this passage there is a hole [C2000-204-59 C].
Bonsai Crawl is a wide bedding plane. A tall and thin passage to the right goes to a chamber with a pitch [C2000-204-52 C] and a couple of small passages to the right [C2000-204-50 C] and [C2000-204-51 C]. A passage leads off to the left and gets lower, passing some pretties on the floor. It then continues [C2000-204-53 A]. Bonsai Crawl continues to a fork that has a stooping-size passage to the left [C2000-204-12 B]. To the right is a walking-size passage with a boulder floor. There is a hole in the right wall that has a couple of small passages leading off [C2000-204-13 C], [C2000-204-14 C]. The passage then debouches into The Colonnade.
Bonsai Crawl joins at a point where The Colonnade, a wide walking passage with a boulder floor, makes a sharp turn. To the right the passage comes to a chamber-like crossroads. To the left is an initially walking-sized tube [C2000-204-41 A] and to the right a low draughting crawl [C2000-204-42 B]. The Colonnade continues 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 [C2000-204-15 C]; then 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 into Treeumphant Passage.