Steinbruckenhöhle Question Mark list

Format is QM identifier, Quality Grade, Area indicator, decription of QM. The QM numbers themselves are in the format Discoverer identifier, Year of discovery, Cave identifier, serial number. If you look at the html, you will find that the nearest survey station (without its "<cavenumber>." prefix) is included in an html comment for almost all leads. Now that there is an index to the surveys, there may soon be a way to get from the QM to the relevant survey file, but not the pictures :-(

In general, an unpushed QM will have a link from its QM number in the description to here, and a link from here to the relevant point in the description. If there is no link, it means that I can't yet work out where the QM is in the description, or the description doesn't yet exist :-).

Discoverer identifiers

A

ARGE

B

Groupe Spéléeo de Clerval - Baume les Dames

C

Cambridge University Caving Club

Quality Grades:

A

A fine QM - git down there and look.

B

Not so promising, or requiring some effort (eg. a climb)

C

Pretty cruddy, or good but very hard to get to.

V

An aven which might be climbable, but not adequately assessed

X

A high, wet or unsafe-looking aven unlikely to be climbed

?

No-one writing this list actually knows!

Note that the quality grades are assigned by the explorers at the time, and that subsequent discoveries may mean that the grade is optimistic, since the lead may now drop into passage which wasn't then explored. Also, different explorers have different ideas - one man's "A-lead" may be another's "C-lead" :-(

Area indicator:

Aris

Ariston Series

Insig

Insignificant chamber and Bonsai crawl

NE

Near End

NPNG

No Pain No Gain

Tree

The Collonade, Treeumphant passage, Great oak chamber and Cave tree chamber

WE

White Elephant

Wolp

Wolpertinger Way and 110 a day level

C1999-204-01 C

NE:Passage visible from pitchhead [ent.7 ]

C1999-204-02 B [done in 2000]

NE:Pitch/climb reached from top of snowplug [ent.7]

C1999-204-03 C

NE:Passage above gap at edge of snowplug above normal route [ent.7]

C1999-204-04 C

NE:Crawl on left in needle passage [ent.25]

C1999-204-05 B [done in 2000]

NE:Continuation of crawl into boulder chamber [pretty.4]

C1999-204-06 C

NE:Continuation of crawl opposite Thread Pitch head [ent.27]

C1999-204-07 B

NE:Climb down into rift in low boulder chamber [pretty.4]

C1999-204-08 C [done in 2000]

NE:Undescended pitch [junction.2]

C1999-204-09 C

Wolp:Hole in floor through dangerous boulders [veined.10]

C1999-204-10 C [done in 2000]

Wolp:Passage on right [chokes after 3m][veined.9]

C1999-204-11 C [done in 2000]

Wolp:Crawl to left at start of 110-a-day [110 bidet] [110aday.23]

C1999-204-12 C [done in 2000]

Wolp:Left at X-roads [110 bidet] [110aday.17]

C1999-204-13 C

Wolp:Right at X-roads [110aday.17]

C1999-204-14 C

Wolp:Left branch (tight) [110aday.1]

C1999-204-15 C

Wolp:Right Branch (tight) [110aday.1]

C1999-204-16 A [done in 2000]

Wolp:20m pitch in left branch [110aday.1]

C1999-204-17 C

Wolp:Possible Passage heading E on far side of rift opposite pitch head [pendulum.20]

C1999-204-18 C

Wolp:Tight passage on left [pendulum.13]

C1999-204-19 C

Wolp:Awkward way on at bottom of 2m climb down [phreatic.1]

C1999-204-20 B

Aris:Passage possibly leading off from ledge 5m off the floor (RH wall going in) [ariston2.19]

C1999-204-21 A [done in 2000]

Aris:Short pitch in aven chamber [ariston2.17]

C1999-204-22 C

Aris:Tight rift on left [ariston2.16]

C1999-204-23 A [done in 2000]

Aris:Pitch at end of slope [ariston2.14]

C1999-204-24 A [done in 2000]

Aris:Big drop at bottom [ariston2.3]

C1999-204-25 B [done in 2000]

WE:Eyehole halfway down 10m pitch [dome.17]

C1999-204-26 B

WE:Narrow slot in rift at -182m [dome.41]

C2000-204-01 B

NPNG:Upward sloping bedding plane [nopainnogain.34]

C2000-204-02 B

NPNG:Two passages merging leading to small pitch, aven [nopainnogain.30]

C2000-204-03 C

NPNG:Crawling passage to right at fork [nopainnogain.30]

C2000-204-04 C

NPNG:Right at T junction [nopainnogain.27]

C2000-204-05 C

NPNG:Rift with stream, going down stream [nopainnogain.26]

C2000-204-06 C

NPNG:Climb at end of chamber to a crawl [nopainnogain.13]

C2000-204-07 C

NPNG:High end of chamber to right[nopainnogain.20]

C2000-204-08 B

NPNG:3m drop down slope in floor of passage [nopainnogain.19]

C2000-204-09 B

Insig:Bedding plane to right [insignificant.5]

C2000-204-10 A

Insig:30m pitch [insignificant.4]

C2000-204-11 B

Insig:Sloping chute to 30m pitch, dead?[treeumphant.2]

C2000-204-12 B

Insig:Stooping passage to left at fork [treeumphant.11]

C2000-204-13 C

Insig:Small passage continuing in direction of main passage through hole in right wall [treeumphant.12]

C2000-204-14 C

Insig:Small passage continuing in opposite direction of main passage through hole in right wall [treeumphant.12]

C2000-204-15 C

Tree:Crawl on right [treeumphant.13]

C2000-204-16 B

Tree:Crawl in trench on left [treeumphant.15]

C2000-204-17 C

Tree:Small passage links to ?21 [treeumphant.15]

C2000-204-18 C

Tree:High up crawl on left [treeumphant.15]

C2000-204-19 C

Tree:Tight stooping passage to left [treeumphant.16]

C2000-204-20 C

Tree:Passage to left at fork, reduces in size [treeumphant.16]

C2000-204-21 C

Tree:Crawl high up links to ?17 [treeumphant.17]

C2000-204-22 C

Tree:I do not know, this may well not exsist [treeumphant.17]

C2000-204-23 A

Tree:Over the bolder slope [treeumphant.18]

C2000-204-24 A

Tree:Walking passage keeps go a long way [treeumphant.19]

C2000-204-25 C

Tree:Crawl high up on right [treeumphant.19]

C2000-204-26 C

Tree:Tight passage high up [treeumphant.20]

C2000-204-27 X

Tree:Possibly an aven [treeumphant.19]

C2000-204-28 A

Tree:Stooping passage [treeumphant.22]

C2000-204-29 Dig

Tree:Pitch low down on right needs digging [treeumphant.23]

C2000-204-30 C

Tree:Possible passage needing traversing to [treeumphant.24]

C2000-204-31 B

Tree:Passage continues over pitch [treeumphant.24]

C2000-204-32 B

Tree:Down Great oak chamber 5m? [treeumphant.24]

C2000-204-33 X

Tree:Passage continues over pitch [treeumphant.24]

C2000-204-34 B

Tree:Somewhere in oxbow [treeumphant.26]

C2000-204-35 X

Tree:Aven in oxbow [treeumphant.26]

C2000-204-36 C

Tree:Floor level on right needs digging [treeumphant.27]

C2000-204-37 C

Tree:Floor level on right needs digging [treeumphant.27]

C2000-204-38 X

Tree:Aven in cave tree chamber [treeumphant.28]

C2000-204-39 B

Tree:Pitch ?30m [treeumphant.28]

C2000-204-40 A

Tree:Passage continuation over pitch[treeumphant.28]

C2000-204-41 A

Tree:Initially walking drafting tube 70m draught uphill still going walk/crawl [colonade.2]

C2000-204-42 B

Tree:Low drafting crawl [colonade.2]

C2000-204-43 Dig

Tree:Chose slope on left needs digging[colonade.5/A>]

C2000-204-44 X

Tree:Aven [colonade.7]

C2000-204-45 B

Tree:Straight on tight drafting [colonade.7]

C2000-204-46 C

Tree:Tight rift [colonade.9]

C2000-204-47 A

Tree:Tight rift + stream, may be linked to waterfall in chamber in no pain no gain[colonade.9]

C2000-204-48 X

Tree:Aven [colonade.9]

C2000-204-49 C

Tree:Climb up over bolders [colonade.8]

C2000-204-50 C

Tree:Small passage low down on right in chamber [bonsai.3]

C2000-204-51 C

Tree:Small passage high up on right in chamber [bonsai.3]

C2000-204-52 C

Tree:Pitch in chamber [bonsai.3]

C2000-204-53 A

Tree:Passage continues [bonsai.6]

C2000-204-54 B

Wolp:Crawl, that is windy [110_bidet.9]

C2000-204-55 X

Tree:Aven [nopainnogain.13]

C2000-204-56 B

Insig:Climb up over boulders in Insignificant Chamber [insignificant.2]

C2000-204-57 C

Insig:Phreatic tube off Insignificant Chamber, may need a traverse bolting [insignificant.2]

C2000-204-58 C

Insig:Connected holes in floor on right [insignificant.2]

C2000-204-59 C

Insig:Hole to the side of the crawl [treeumphant.6]

C2000-204-60 C

Aris: Tight rift after 8m pitch

C2000-204-61 C

Fled: Traverse in Fledermausshacht

C2000-204-62 Dig

Fled: Mudbanks in chamber off the top of Fledermausshacht

C2000-204-63 B

Razor: Upstream waterfall

C2000-204-64 A

Razor: Downstream pitch