Stellerweghöhlen system (1623/41) Glossary
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- Alice im Wunderland
- (1998, Arge)
- And Another Pitch
- The wet, 9m,
second pitch in the streamway downstream from The Confluence (1981, CUCC)
- Another Pitch
- 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)
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- Babylon
- Major Passage series upstream from 115 Big Chamber which
CUCC managed to miss almost entirely.
- Baker's Bungle
- 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)
- Bell Pitch
- 20m first pitch in 155
entrance (1980, CUCC)
- The Big Chamber in 115
- 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)
- The Big Chamber in 142
- A Large
chamber reached by a 40m pitch from the point where
Schwabenschacht later joined 142. An alternative route
to the chamber can be gained from the foot of the 18m pitch in 142 (1982,
1985, CUCC)
- Big Enough Chamber
- A 4m high (ie.
easily big enough to stand up) chamber in Futility Series (1982, CUCC)
- The Big Pitch
- 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
Stellerweghöhle. (1980, 1981, CUCC).
This is also the point at which the way in from
Larchenschacht,
1623/88 joins, and just downstream lies the
connection from 1623/144
- The Big Rift
- a 100m broken shaft leading
from below the short pitches following the Big Pitch in
Stellerweghöhle down to Junction Chamber. With
1980's rigging, this section of the cave is extremely flood-prone (1980,
1981, CUCC)
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- Camp Chamber
- 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)
- The Col
- 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)
- Cologne Cathedral
- An impressively
large chamber, 15m diameter and at least 20m high, reached via Rampant
Passage above The Confluence (1982, CUCC)
- Coming Soon
- The 7m ninth pitch in the
streamway below the Confluence (1982, CUCC)
- Commando Climb
- A 4m handline climb in
spray at the bottom of Letch Pitch in the streamway below the Confluence
(1981, CUCC)
- The Confluence
- 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 Stellerweghöhle.
Directly above is the remoter end of the Purgatory Bypass.
- The Connection
- Passages beyond
the 115 Big Chamber leading towards 41 at Junction Chamber (1981, CUCC/UBSS)
- Connection Cairn
- 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)
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- Dartford Tunnel
- 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.
- Dazu
- Side passage left from Windloch beyondf Babylon (1999, Arge)
- The Duck
- A swimming-depth canal with
10 cm airspace at -800m in the streamway below the Confluence (1982, CUCC)
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- Echo Aven
- an aven estimated 30m high,
reached by dangerous climbs of 10 and 5m from Köln
Dom (1982, CUCC)
- Euphrates
- Right (west) at T-junction at end of Babylon (Arge)
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- Fritz's Freeway
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- Futility Series
- 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
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- German Route
- The
original route of exploration in
Stellerweghöhle, 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 ?)
- Grope Pitch
- The 17m sixth pitch in the
streamway below the Confluence (1981, CUCC)
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- The Hedgehog
- 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)
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- Inlet Pitches
- 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)
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- Jade
- Passage of Warme Dusche Rampe (2000, Arge)
- Junction Chamber
- The chamber where
Stellerweg's Big Rift drops into the horizontal passages of
Schnellzughöhle, and the key to the onward route
to great depth (1981, CUCC)
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- Köln Dom
-
An impressively large chamber, 15m diameter and at least 20m high, reached
via Rampant Passage above The Confluence (1982, CUCC)
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- Lake Pitch
- The 9m fourth pitch in the
streamway downstream from The Confluence, landing in a large pool (1981,
CUCC)
- Lampentot
- Side passage from Warm Duscher Rampen (1998, Arge)
- Letch Pitch
- The 22m fifth pitch in the
streamway downstream from The Confluence, with a rebelay ledge halfway
down (1981, CUCC)
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- Marlow Climb
- The 7m third
pitch in the streamway downstream from The Confluence, also known as
Yet Another Pitch (1981, CUCC)
- Megalo-Schlinger
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- Nebukadnezar
- 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)
- Nutzlosigkeit
- German translation for what CUCC explored as
Futility Series
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- Orgasm Chasm
- The 90m shaft beyond
the duck in the main streamway below -800m.
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- Pebble Beach Chamber
- A 12m high
chamber in Futility Series with interesting red flowstone (1982, CUCC)
- Pete's Purgatory
- The unrelenting
narrow streamway taking the combined waters over 800m from the 115 Big
Chamber to The Confluence (1981, CUCC)
- Purgatory Bypass
- Collective name
for passages which bypass Pete's Purgatory to reach the Confluence. On the
usual route from 115, this includes all the
passage from Big Chamber, as well as Dartford Tunnel (1981/2, CUCC)
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There are no places beginning with a "Q" !
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- The Ramp
- 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)
- Rampant Passage
- Large rising passage,
7m high and 2m wide, heading north from above the Confluence to Cologne
Cathedral (1982, CUCC)
- The Rift
- Below the Ramp and across the
col, the main 115 pitch series eventually hits a more vertical fault, forming
this split pitch (1981, CUCC)
- Rodent Runway
- The original
connection route from 142 to Stellerweghöhle
hidden in boulders off the sloping chamber leading up to the Big
Chamber in 142 (1983, CUCC)
- Roddick's Dive
- 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)
- Roof Pendant ChamberA phreatic passage
along the strike of the hading joints in 142, leading from Rodent Runway
towards the 21m pitch in Stellerweghöhle
(1983, CUCC)
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- Schabernackschacht
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- The Slit
- The 22m eighth pitch in the
streamway below the Confluence (1982, CUCC)
- Stalaglufthöhle
- The name used by CUCC in
conversation and the log books for the German route in
Stellerweghöhle during its fruitless
re-exploration in 1980.
- Subtle Approach
- The 13m seventh pitch,
with an awkward takeoff, in the streamway below the Confluence (1981, CUCC)
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- Tigris
- Left (east) at T-junction at end of Babylon (1999, Arge)
- Treppengang
- Side passage from Vereinigungshalle by MP 21 (Arge)
- Twelve Foot
- 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)
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- Warm Duscher Rampen
- (Arge)
- Wet'n'Wild
- (Arge)
- Wiggy's Way to 60' pitch
- A route
leading from very near the 1623/142 entrance and ending unexplored at
a pitch estimated at 20m (1983, CUCC)
- Windloch
- NE-trending passage with strong gale, left near end of
Babylon (1999, Arge)
- A Windy Day in Manhattan
- (1999, Arge)
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There are no places beginning with an "X"!
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- Yellow Brick Road
- 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)
- Yet Another Pitch
- The 7m third
pitch in the streamway downstream from The Confluence, also known as
Marlow Climb (1981, CUCC)
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- Zweistromland
- Main passage in Babylon,
reached via a canyon from 115 Big Chamber. Splits at end into Euphrates
and Tigris (latter to Nebukkadnezar-Rampe).
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