<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0//EN"> <html> <head> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf8" /> <title>Stellerweg system Glossary of names</title> <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="../../css/main2.css" /> </head> <body> <p><center><!-- a href="index.htm"><img alt="Overview " src="../../../icons/ovview.png" width=40 height=40></a> <a href="pix.htm"><img alt=" Photos " src="../../../icons/vtour.png" width=40 height=40></a --> <img alt="Rigging" src="../../../icons/rigbut.png" width=40 height=40> <a href="../#id41"><img alt=" Desc " src="../../../icons/desc.png" width=40 height=40></a> <a href="../../"><img alt=" Expo " src="../../../icons/ausbut.png" width=40 height=40></a> <a href="../../infodx.htm"><img alt=" Topics " src="../../../icons/index.png" width=40 height=40></a> <a href="../../indxal.htm"><img alt=" Index " src="../../../icons/indxal.png" width=40 height=40></a> <a href="../../../"><img alt=" CUCC" src="../../../icons/cucc.png" width=40 height=40></a></center> <h1>Stellerweghöhlen system (1623/41) Glossary</h1> <p>This list will start to get unwieldy - so here are a bunch of links to take you to roughly the right place alphabetically:<br> <a id="AtoZ" /> <!-- a name="AtoZ" href="#id09">0-9</a --> | <a href="#A">A</a> | <a href="#B">B</a> | <a href="#C">C</a> | <a href="#D">D</a> | <a href="#E">E</a> | <a href="#F">F</a> | <a href="#G">G</a> | <a href="#H">H</a> | <a href="#I">I</a> | <a href="#J">J</a> | <a href="#K">K</a> | <a href="#L">L</a> | <a href="#M">M</a> | <a href="#N">N</a> | <a href="#O">O</a> | <a href="#P">P</a> | <a href="#Q">Q</a> | <a href="#R">R</a> | <a href="#S">S</a> | <a href="#T">T</a> | <a href="#U">U</a> | <a href="#V">V</a> | <a href="#W">W</a> | <a href="#X">X</a> | <a href="#Y">Y</a> | <a href="#Z">Z</a> <br> <!-- a id="id09" href="#exit">Links</a --> <a name="A" href="#AtoZ">A-Z</a> | <a href="#exit">Links</a><dl> <dt>Alice im Wunderland<dd>(1998, Arge) <dt><a href="deepwy.htm#confluence">And Another Pitch</a><dd>The wet, 9m, second pitch in the streamway downstream from The Confluence (1981, CUCC) <dt><a href="deepwy.htm#confluence">Another Pitch</a><dd>The 5m first pitch in the streamway downstream from The Confluence, also known as The Twelve Foot Climb, but not really climbable except in the dryest conditions (1981, CUCC) </dl><a name="B" href="#AtoZ">A-Z</a> | <a href="#exit">Links</a><dl> <dt>Babylon<dd>Major Passage series upstream from 115 Big Chamber which CUCC managed to miss almost entirely. <dt><a href="115.htm#bbungle">Baker's Bungle</a><dd>First hole down at the end of the phreatic passage below Bell Pitch in 115. This turned out not to be a viable way on (1980, CUCC) <dt><a href="115.htm#derigel">Bell Pitch</a><dd>20m first pitch in 155 entrance (1980, CUCC) <dt><a href="115.htm#bigcham115">The Big Chamber in 115</a><dd>A large chamber where the 115 entrance pitch series meets other streams which combine into Pete's Purgatory. This is the first significant sub-horizontal phreatic level, still incompletely explored (1981, CUCC) <dt><a href="off41.htm#bigcham142">The Big Chamber in 142</a><dd>A Large chamber reached by a 40m pitch from the point where <span lang="de">Schwabenschacht</span> later joined 142. An alternative route to the chamber can be gained from the foot of the 18m pitch in 142 (1982, 1985, CUCC) <dt><a href="off115.htm#futser">Big Enough Chamber</a><dd>A 4m high (ie. easily big enough to stand up) chamber in Futility Series (1982, CUCC) <dt><a href="41.htm#bigpitch">The Big Pitch</a><dd>a 100m pitch in a huge elliptical shaft, mostly free hanging by the preferred (1981) route. At the end of the sub-horizontal entrance series of <span lang="de-at">Stellerweghöhle.</span> (1980, 1981, CUCC). This is also the point at which the way in from <span lang="de">Larchenschacht,</span> <a href="../../noinfo/88.htm">1623/88</a> joins, and just downstream lies the connection from <a href="144.htm">1623/144</a> <dt><a href="41.htm#id41bigrift">The Big Rift</a><dd>a 100m broken shaft leading from below the short pitches following the Big Pitch in <span lang="de-at">Stellerweghöhle</span> down to Junction Chamber. With 1980's rigging, this section of the cave is extremely flood-prone (1980, 1981, CUCC) </dl><a name="C" href="#AtoZ">A-Z</a> | <a href="#exit">Links</a><dl> <dt><a href="deepwy.htm#camp">Camp Chamber</a><dd>a sandy-floored side passage on the left (south) near the end of Dartford Tunnel, continuing unexplored as a traverse over what is assumed to be Pete's Purgatory. This was the underground camp when the system was bottomed (1982, CUCC) <dt><a href="115.htm#ramp">The Col</a><dd>a mud-floored saddle at the foot of the Ramp pitches, enabling access at one side to the Rift, and at the other, a view over unexplored black space threatened by hanging death (1981, CUCC) <dt><a href="offdp.htm#rampant">Cologne Cathedral</a><dd>An impressively large chamber, 15m diameter and at least 20m high, reached via Rampant Passage above The Confluence (1982, CUCC) <dt><a href="deepwy.htm#slit">Coming Soon</a><dd>The 7m ninth pitch in the streamway below the Confluence (1982, CUCC) <dt><a href="deepwy.htm#lakep">Commando Climb</a><dd>A 4m handline climb in spray at the bottom of Letch Pitch in the streamway below the Confluence (1981, CUCC) <dt><a href="deepwy.htm#confluence">The Confluence</a><dd>The point in Pete's Purgatory where a second stream joins from the right, resulting in an increase in passage size to something reasonable. This tributary stream is assumed to be fed mainly from <span lang="de-at">Stellerweghöhle</span>. Directly above is the remoter end of the Purgatory Bypass. <dt><a href="115.htm#purgbypass0">The Connection</a><dd>Passages beyond the 115 Big Chamber leading towards 41 at Junction Chamber (1981, CUCC/UBSS) <dt><a href="115.htm#purgbypass0">Connection Cairn</a><dd>A marked junction in low passage no longer on the main route from 115 to 41, where the connection was first confirmed (1981, CUCC/UBSS) </dl><a name="D" href="#AtoZ">A-Z</a> | <a href="#exit">Links</a><dl> <dt><a href="deepwy.htm#dartford">Dartford Tunnel</a><dd>A major fossil phreatic tube followed from Junction Chamber to the Confluence. Originally explored most of the way by CUCC/UBSS in 1981, whose cairn was found in 1982 by CUCC exploration back from the Confluence. <dt>Dazu<dd>Side passage left from Windloch beyondf Babylon (1999, Arge) <dt><a href="deepwy.htm#slit">The Duck</a><dd>A swimming-depth canal with 10 cm airspace at -800m in the streamway below the Confluence (1982, CUCC) </dl><a name="E" href="#AtoZ">A-Z</a> | <a href="#exit">Links</a><dl> <dt><a href="offdp.htm#rampant">Echo Aven</a><dd>an aven estimated 30m high, reached by dangerous climbs of 10 and 5m from <span lang="de">Köln Dom</span> (1982, CUCC) <dt>Euphrates<dd>Right (west) at T-junction at end of Babylon (Arge) </dl><a name="F" href="#AtoZ">A-Z</a> | <a href="#exit">Links</a><dl> <dt>Fritz's Freeway<dd> <dt><a id="futser" href="off115.htm#futser">Futility Series</a><dd>a series of generally uninspiring passages reached by a left turn in the traverse above the start of Pete's Purgatory. Mainly explored because of its tantalising draught which led to a choke c 100m fr om the surface </dl><a name="G" href="#AtoZ">A-Z</a> | <a href="#exit">Links</a><dl> <dt><a name="germanr" href="off41.htm#germanr">German Route</a><dd>The original route of exploration in <span lang="de-at">Stellerweghöhle,</span> never well-documented. Not believed to be a useful way to depth, though it was supposed to go to -276m by a way on now apparently lost (1954, SA; 1972, unknown ?) <dt><a href="deepwy.htm#lakep">Grope Pitch</a><dd>The 17m sixth pitch in the streamway below the Confluence (1981, CUCC) </dl><a name="H" href="#AtoZ">A-Z</a> | <a href="#exit">Links</a><dl> <dt><a href="115.htm#derigel">The Hedgehog</a><dd>an awkward catchy rift passage, negotiated mainly by crawling at one level or another, leading from Bell Pitch to the big phreatic passage leading on in 115 (1980, CUCC) </dl><a name="I" href="#AtoZ">A-Z</a> | <a href="#exit">Links</a><dl> <dt><a href="115.htm#inletp">Inlet Pitches</a><dd>Below the Ramp and the Rift in 115, originally 18, 19 and 6m pitches in rift exposed to spray from an inlet high above. Rebolted by power drill in 2000 by Arge to give an all-weather route (1981, CUCC) </dl><a name="J" href="#AtoZ">A-Z</a> | <a href="#exit">Links</a><dl> <dt>Jade<dd>Passage of Warme Dusche Rampe (2000, Arge) <dt><a href="deepwy.htm#jncha">Junction Chamber</a><dd>The chamber where Stellerweg's Big Rift drops into the horizontal passages of <span lang="de">Schnellzughöhle,</span> and the key to the onward route to great depth (1981, CUCC) </dl><a name="K" href="#AtoZ">A-Z</a> | <a href="#exit">Links</a><dl> <dt><a href="offdp.htm#rampant"><span lang="de">Köln Dom</span></a><dd> An impressively large chamber, 15m diameter and at least 20m high, reached via Rampant Passage above The Confluence (1982, CUCC) </dl><a name="L" href="#AtoZ">A-Z</a> | <a href="#exit">Links</a><dl> <dt><a href="deepwy.htm#lakep">Lake Pitch</a><dd>The 9m fourth pitch in the streamway downstream from The Confluence, landing in a large pool (1981, CUCC) <dt>Lampentot<dd>Side passage from Warm Duscher Rampen (1998, Arge) <dt><a href="deepwy.htm#lakep">Letch Pitch</a><dd>The 22m fifth pitch in the streamway downstream from The Confluence, with a rebelay ledge halfway down (1981, CUCC) </dl><a name="M" href="#AtoZ">A-Z</a> | <a href="#exit">Links</a><dl> <dt><a href="deepwy.htm#confluence">Marlow Climb</a><dd>The 7m third pitch in the streamway downstream from The Confluence, also known as Yet Another Pitch (1981, CUCC) <dt>Megalo-Schlinger<dd> </dl><a name="N" href="#AtoZ">A-Z</a> | <a href="#exit">Links</a><dl> <dt><a href="off115.htm#zwei">Nebukadnezar</a><dd>climbing passage off SE from Tigris. Ascends to 155m above 115 Big Chamber leading (at 1450m altitude) to within 15m of surface with a massive draught. Likely to lead to a new entrance lower down east of 115, thus bypassing the Ramp, the Rift and the Inlet pitches (2000, Arge) <dt>Nutzlosigkeit<dd>German translation for what CUCC explored as <a href="#futser">Futility Series</a> </dl><a name="O" href="#AtoZ">A-Z</a> | <a href="#exit">Links</a><dl> <dt><a href="deepwy.htm#orgasm">Orgasm Chasm</a><dd>The 90m shaft beyond the duck in the main streamway below -800m. </dl><a name="P" href="#AtoZ">A-Z</a> | <a href="#exit">Links</a><dl> <dt><a href="off115.htm#futser">Pebble Beach Chamber</a><dd>A 12m high chamber in Futility Series with interesting red flowstone (1982, CUCC) <dt><a href="off115.htm#petepurg">Pete's Purgatory</a><dd>The unrelenting narrow streamway taking the combined waters over 800m from the 115 Big Chamber to The Confluence (1981, CUCC) <dt><a href="deepwy.htm#jncha">Purgatory Bypass</a><dd>Collective name for passages which bypass Pete's Purgatory to reach the Confluence. On the usual route from 115, this includes all <a href="115.htm#purgbypass0">the passage from Big Chamber,</a> as well as Dartford Tunnel (1981/2, CUCC) </dl><a name="Q" href="#AtoZ">A-Z</a> | <a href="#exit">Links</a> <p>There are no places beginning with a "Q" ! <p><a name="R" href="#AtoZ">A-Z</a> | <a href="#exit">Links</a><dl> <dt><a href="115.htm#ramp">The Ramp</a><dd>this proved to be the correct way on just beyond Baker's Bungle in 115. Spotted at the end of 1980 expo, but not explored until 1981 (1981, CUCC) <dt><a href="offdp.htm#rampant">Rampant Passage</a><dd>Large rising passage, 7m high and 2m wide, heading north from above the Confluence to Cologne Cathedral (1982, CUCC) <dt><a href="115.htm#id115rift">The Rift</a><dd>Below the Ramp and across the col, the main 115 pitch series eventually hits a more vertical fault, forming this split pitch (1981, CUCC) <dt><a href="off41.htm#rodrunway">Rodent Runway</a><dd>The original connection route from 142 to <span lang="de-at">Stellerweghöhle</span> hidden in boulders off the sloping chamber leading up to the Big Chamber in 142 (1983, CUCC) <dt><a href="144.htm#roddive">Roddick's Dive</a><dd>A drop through an awkward and slippery restriction below the Yellow Brick Road in 144. Best with some sort of protection, as the continuing descent of a rock slab has an exposed and muddy landing (1985, CUCC) <dt><a href="off41.htm#roofpcham">Roof Pendant Chamber</a>A phreatic passage along the strike of the hading joints in 142, leading from Rodent Runway towards the 21m pitch in <span lang="de-at">Stellerweghöhle</span> (1983, CUCC) <dd> </dl><a name="S" href="#AtoZ">A-Z</a> | <a href="#exit">Links</a><dl> <dt>Schabernackschacht<dd> <dt><a href="deepwy.htm#slit">The Slit</a><dd>The 22m eighth pitch in the streamway below the Confluence (1982, CUCC) <dt><span lang="de">Stalaglufthöhle</span><dd>The name used by CUCC in conversation and the log books for the <a href="#germanr">German route</a> in <span lang="de-at">Stellerweghöhle</span> during its fruitless re-exploration in 1980. <dt><a href="deepwy.htm#lakep">Subtle Approach</a><dd>The 13m seventh pitch, with an awkward takeoff, in the streamway below the Confluence (1981, CUCC) </dl><a name="T" href="#AtoZ">A-Z</a> | <a href="#exit">Links</a><dl> <dt>Tigris<dd>Left (east) at T-junction at end of Babylon (1999, Arge) <dt>Treppengang<dd>Side passage from Vereinigungshalle by MP 21 (Arge) <dt><a href="deepwy.htm#confluence">Twelve Foot</a><dd>The 5m first pitch in the streamway downstream from The Confluence, also known as Another Pitch, and not really climbable except in the dryest conditions (1981, CUCC) </dl><a name="U" href="#AtoZ">A-Z</a> | <a href="#exit">Links</a><dl> </dl><a name="V" href="#AtoZ">A-Z</a> | <a href="#exit">Links</a><dl> </dl><a name="W" href="#AtoZ">A-Z</a> | <a href="#exit">Links</a><dl> <dt>Warm Duscher Rampen<dd>(Arge) <dt>Wet'n'Wild<dd>(Arge) <dt><a href="off41.htm#wigway">Wiggy's Way to 60' pitch</a><dd>A route leading from very near the 1623/142 entrance and ending unexplored at a pitch estimated at 20m (1983, CUCC) <dt>Windloch<dd>NE-trending passage with strong gale, left near end of Babylon (1999, Arge) <dt>A Windy Day in Manhattan<dd>(1999, Arge) </dl><a name="X" href="#AtoZ">A-Z</a> | <a href="#exit">Links</a> <p>There are no places beginning with an "X"! <p><a name="Y" href="#AtoZ">A-Z</a> | <a href="#exit">Links</a><dl> <dt><a href="144.htm#entser">Yellow Brick Road</a><dd>The first level of phreatic development in 144, about 180m below the entrance, a dusty-floored passage sporting various ways off not pushed to a conclusion (1983, CUCC) <dt><a href="deepwy.htm#confluence">Yet Another Pitch</a><dd>The 7m third pitch in the streamway downstream from The Confluence, also known as Marlow Climb (1981, CUCC) </dl><a name="Z" href="#AtoZ">A-Z</a> | <a href="#exit">Links</a><dl> <dt><a href="off115.htm#zwei">Zweistromland</a><dd>Main passage in Babylon, reached via a canyon from 115 Big Chamber. Splits at end into Euphrates and Tigris (latter to Nebukkadnezar-Rampe). </dl> <a href="#AtoZ">A-Z</a> <hr /> <!-- LINKS --><a name="exit"> </a> <ul> <li><b>Stellerweghöhlensystem</b> Cave Description -<br> <!-- img alt="--->" src="../../../icons/lists/1.png"> <a href="index.htm">Overview</a><br --> <ul> <li><a href="41.htm">Entrance 41</a> (Stellerweghöhle)</li> <li><a href="115.htm">Entrance 115</a> (Schnellzughöhle)</li> <li><a href="qmlist.htm">Question Marks</a></li> <li><a href="histry.htm">History</a> (index to CUCC trips in the log book)</li> </ul></li> <li><a href="../../">Back to Expedition Intro page</a> <ul> <li><a href="../../infodx.htm">Index to info/topic pages</a></li> <li><a href="../../areas.htm">Area/subarea descriptions</a></li> <li><a href="../../indxal.htm">Full Index to 1623 caves</a></li> </ul></li> <li><a href="../../../">Back to CUCC Home page</a></li> </ul> </body> </html>