<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0//EN"> <html> <head> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf8" /> <title>1623/161 Kaninchenhöhle D & S</title> <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="../../css/main2.css" /> </head> <body> <p><center><a href="top.htm"><img alt="Overview " src="ovview.png" width=40 height=40></a> <a href="pix.htm"><img alt=" Photos " src="vtour.png" width=40 height=40></a> <img alt="Rigging" src="rigbut.png" width=40 height=40> <a href="names.htm"><img alt=" Glossary " src="idx161.png" width=40 height=40></a> <a href="../index.html#id161"><img alt=" Desc " src="desc.png" width=40 height=40></a> <a href="../../index.htm"><img alt=" Expo " src="ausbut.png" width=40 height=40></a> <a href="../../infodx.htm"><img alt=" Topics " src="index.png" width=40 height=40></a> <a href="../../indxal.htm"><img alt=" Index " src="indxal.png" width=40 height=40></a> <a href="../../../index.htm"><img alt=" CUCC" src="cucc.png" width=40 height=40></a></center> <h2>161 Kaninchenhöhle: Drunk & Stupid (1989)</h2> <b>Overview</b>: A Vertical series from <a href="bsains.htm#bigsain">Big Sainsbury's</a>, NW of the <a href="bsains.htm#id161a">entrance</a>, that spirals round, first west, then south, then east almost directly under the entrance, continuing east to join <a href="lhr.htm#lhroute">Left Hand Route</a> at -255m. <p><center><a href="l/dh_dns.htm"><img alt="photo in D&S" src="t/dh_dns.jpg" width=134 height=200></a><br> Pitch head in Drunk and Stupid.</center> <p><a name="dands">The first</a> large hole in Big Sainsbury's, against the right hand (NE) wall heading away from <a href="bsains.htm#autodoors">Automatic Doors</a>, and c50m from that pitch is the start of <b>Drunk & Stupid</b>. The beginning of this route is best rigged on one long length as pitch follows traverse and so on. The entrance hole is an 8m pitch, <a name="tten"><b>The Ten</b></a> to an uninspiring boulder slope, ignored in 1988. A traverse line should be rigged to reach a tube at the bottom leading into a large rift with a 20m hang, <a name="ttwenty"><b>The Twenty</b></a>, to a boulder strewn floor. <p>From the bottom of the Twenty, a traverse line is required to descend a slippery slope to the head of an excellent 30m pitch, <a name="tthirty"><b>The Thirty</b></a>, (rope pad for the belay knot). The way on is now clean washed rift with traverse lines and a couple of short hangs. <p><a name="dns20m">This rift</a> comes to a <b>20m pitch</b>, where there are several <a href="offdns.htm#dns20mposs">possibilities</a>. The main route of Drunk & Stupid is reached across the head of the pitch into another passage. <p><a name="parauniv">Follow</a> the passage (minding holes in floor) to reach a superb natural belay with natural backup in the roof for <b>Parallel Universe</b>, a 20m pitch (the rock is too rubbish to bolt). Further incredibly sharp, stream-washed passage drops down a couple of 5m climbs/pitches to a Y-hang for <a name="yatmp"><b>YATMP</b></a> (yet another 20m pitch). Finally the rift is done with one 5m pitch into a 10m x 5m chamber, <a name="wetncha"><b>Wet Nappy Chamber</b></a>. <p><a name="bslicer">The water</a> way becomes too tight, but the continuation is a climb up on the left into a nasty, muddy hading rift, <b>Bacon Slicer</b>, which requires a traverse line to reach a ladder pitch some 15m down. The walls of the rift slope at 65°. The rift is relatively tight and awkward although a reasonably easy route was eventually discovered that involved doubling back to the streamway 15m below the head of the ladder. <p><a name="ddooms">A short</a> climb out of the rift leads to a larger section with a trench in the floor. Within 20m the passage closes down into a very loose-looking boulder choke. Beneath this is a short section of narrow rift leading to the head of a 15m pitch, <b>Darkness Dooms</b>. At the bottom, the stream disappears down a 3m trench that slopes steeply downwards for about 15m. A handline is useful here. The trench gradually widens until a sharp right turn where large rift passage is again entered. <p>After a short section of wider passage, a 2m boulder climb leads to the head of another hading rift. This is much larger than the Bacon Slicer although the walls slope at the same angle of 65°. The boulder climb marks the start of a spectacular climb down a boulder slope with a vertical descent of 18m. The boulder slope ends in:- <h3><a name="helipad">Helipad</a> (1989)</h3> <p>This chamber is approximately 10m across and 20m along. Along the left hand wall is a sandy shelf approximately 1.5m above the floor of the chamber. To the right of a waterfall at the far end is a short climb up leading to a section of small, twisting phreatic tubes. These were not surveyed but were explored to the head of an 11m pitch that lands in French Connection Chamber. Left of this are <a href="offdns.htm#hpad">two minor QMs</a>. A traverse to the right is possible here to gain the passage leading back to <a href="offdns.htm#deadandb">Dead and Buried</a>. <p><a name="fcc"><b>French Connection Chamber</b></a> is thus named because the original Drunk and Stupid explorers found a rope here, coming down the far wall - as it was unmarked it was assumed that they had broken into another cave, maybe French (the <a href="../../others/gscb/index.htm">Groupe Spéléologique de Clerval</a> were working in the area at this time, although we had no contact with them). The next party down <a href="lhr.htm#niflheim">Niflheim</a> was surprised to find a note with CUCC's address on attached to the rope. Thus French Connection Pitch and Chamber were born. <p><a name="fccrope">This short</a> (9m) pitch from the Left Hand Route is left <a href="../../fixaid.htm#fcon">permanently rigged</a>, so that a party descending Drunk and Stupid may climb it and rig the last 7m of <a href="lhr.htm#niflheim">Niflheim</a> to gain access to the horizontal passages at the bottom of Left Hand Route. <hr /></body> </html>