204
(CUCC 1999/03)

Steinbrückenhöhle

 4/S x

No Pain No Gain through to the Colonnade

Survey

Survey

No Pain No Gain

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 leading back to 110 Bidet, whilst to the left is aad 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 leading to 'King Carbide and two connecting passages to the right, which re-emerges on the right at a T junction slightly down the passage. To the left of this T junction, the passage enlarges slightly, and there soon 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, to the left, 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 blind hole in the floor, windows to Insignificant Chamber, and a bedding plane continuing up at 10°, which again connects into Insignificant Chamber.

'King Carbide

At the end of the Near End near Kidney Bean a small awkward chamber was found by moving a large boulder and almost crushing Simon Lee in the process. This was found to give onto the head of an 18m pitch which was rigged with a bolt and a sling around a natural. A narrow rifty pitch was descended with the aid of a deviation about half way down to arrive in a small chamber with multiple ways on. The most obvious way looked out on to a large chamber named Pleasure Dome. To the left, whilst facing Pleasure Dome, a crawl, leads to a T junction, the left side leads a pitch into Pleasure Dome. The right leads to another pitch, which presumably also leads to Pleasure Dome. This pitch can be traversed around, to a continuing crawl to the right [C2000-204-52 C] and passage that joins to the righthand way out of the base of 'King Carbide. This passage enters a moderately sized chamber, with a rift descending into the floor on the left [C2000-204-50 C], which may provide water for the waterfall into pleasure dome. Over the rift, to the left is a partially bolder filled passage [C2000-204-51 B]. To the right over the rift, and around the rift to the right, two passages shortly emerge in No Pain No Gain.

Insignificant Chamber

Insignificant Chamber, a moderate sized chamber, can be entered at floor level from No Pain No Gain. To the left it turns into a passage, there are a number a interconnecting holes on the right [C2000-204-58 C]. This passage gets smaller and reaches a juction, 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 leads to Drilling Delight, and to the right is a small passage that connects to the Bonsai Crawl. Half way along this small passage there is a small pitch [C2000-204-59 C].

Straight on, upslope from where No Pain No Gain enters Insignificant chamber, is a bedding plane which splits left to Bonsai Crawl and right to [C2000-204-09 B].

To the right upon entering Insignificant Chamber one can climb upto a point above the small chamber in No Pain No Gain. Continuing climbing up to the left leads to an aven[C2001-204-2 X] and 5m of horizontal passage, leading to a wet aven[C2001-204-1 X] and a 2m climb down, to where the passage doubles back underneath itself, becoming to tight. From above the small chamber, a small crawl goes of to the right, and a phreatic tube emerges on a wall slightly further along. Going along the small crawl, a small passage goes of to the left[C2001-204-3 C], before emerging in a small chamber. To the right is the phreatic tube seen part way up a wall in insignificant chamber. Straight on leads to a crawl at floor level[C2001-204-7 C]. To the left, the passage turns left, with a crawl going to the left at floor level[C2001-204-4 B], and a passage seen going of 3m up the wall[C2001-204-5 C]. Around this corner a pitch is met, with a passage 4m up the wall[C2001-204-6 C]. Micturation pitch:

This pitch was descended into a small chamber at -5m with a small window looking out onto a large chamber. The pitch was then descended via a rebelay after a sloping wall to land in the north-east alcove of Pleasuredome.

Drilling Delight

The first pitch of drilling delight is rigged with a back up in the floor of the downward sloping floor, with a Y hang from bolts on a vertical part of the ceiling over the pitch. This leads down to a ledge, which required a rebelay off a natural. At the bottom of the pitch, a crawl leads to the left[C2001-204-62 C], a 1m climb up to the right immediately leads to the next pitch. Near the bottom of this pitch, a further small pitch continues downwards[C2001-204-64 B]. A walking passage heads south-east for a short distance, and a squeeze can be gone through to the left, to a small chamber. Straight on a short climb leads to a rift with a too tight slot in the floor to an echoing pitch. To the right is another climb which may need a few bolts for protection[C2001-204-63 B]. Further investigation through the squeeze revealed that the climbC2001-204-63 B]ended in another short ascending aven with a blind roof. This was not surveyed as the climb was not ascended coupled with the reluctance of other members of the team to pass the squeeze.The pitch QM [C2001-204-64 B]was descended using the rope from the previous pitch and a rebelay which continued for a further 9m and ended in a blind pool or a sump which was not investigated further.

Bonsai Crawl

Bonsai Crawl is a wide bedding plane. A tall and thin passage to the right goes to Flopsy the Bunny Rabbits Lair The main passage continues up hill 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 debauches into The Colonnade.

Flopsy the Bunny Rabbits Lair

The tall thin passage from Bonsai Crawl 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, then opening out, to a pitch on the left[C2000-204-61 B] , with an aven above[C2000-204-60 X]. This pitch can be carefully traversed around without a safety line, the passage emerges at a cross junction at The Colonade.