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<HTML lang=en><HEAD><TITLE>1623:204 -- No Pain No Gain area</TITLE>
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<TH align=left width="30%"><FONT size=+2>204</font><br><font size=+1>(CUCC 1999/03)</FONT></TH>
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<TH lang=de><h1>Steinbrückenhöhle</h1></TH>
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<TH align=right width="30%"><FONT size=+2>4/S x</FONT></TH></TR>
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<h2>No Pain No Gain through to the Colonnade</h2>
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<H3><A name=nopainnogain>No Pain No Gain</A></H3>
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<P><B>No Pain No Gain</B> is a low tube, which emerges to a mud-floored chamber. (Please
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try not to disturb the remaining flow patterns in the mud). A crawly mud floored
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passage leaves the chamber to the right. To the right near the end of the crawl is a
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bedding plane that continues uphill [<A
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href="qm.shtml#C2000-204-01"
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name=qC2000-204-01>C2000-204-01 B</A>], whilst to the left is a small stone floored pit. There
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is a 2m climb up from the top of the pit. This has a stalactite formation at the top on the
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right, and threads on the left where a sling may be attached to assist. The crawl then
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continues to a junction with two connecting passages to the left [<A
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href="qm.shtml#C2000-204-02"
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name=qC2000-204-02>C2000-204-02 B</A>] and two connecting passages to the right [<A
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href="qm.shtml#C2000-204-03"
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name=qC2000-204-03>C2000-204-03 C</A>]. The passage then continues to a T junction where it
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enlarges slightly. To the right is [<A
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href="qm.shtml#C2000-204-04"
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name=qC2000-204-04>C2000-204-04 C</A>]. To the left there is a chamber that is
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intersected by a tight rift with flowing water. Downstream is [<A
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href="qm.shtml#C2000-204-05"
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name=qC2000-204-05>C2000-204-05 C</A>]. Upstream a key hole passage slopes upwards, to a T-junction
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with a chamber to the right, and an short, almost flat-out crawl to the left.
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The chamber, which has
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an aven [<A
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href="qm.shtml#C2000-204-55"
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name=qC2000-204-55>C2000-204-55 X</A>], can be dropped into.
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A rift at the other end of the chamber leads to a
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waterfall which feeds the stream that runs through the chamber. Climbing up before the rift gives
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access to a crawl [<A
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href="qm.shtml#C2000-204-06"
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name=qC2000-204-06>C2000-204-06 C</A>]. The flat out crawl emerges to a small angular chamber, at the
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top of which, to the right, is a hole [<A
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href="qm.shtml#C2000-204-07"
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name=qC2000-204-07>C2000-204-07 C</A>]. To the left a low passage runs above a 4m drop [<A
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href="qm.shtml#C2000-204-08"
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name=qC2000-204-08>C2000-204-08 B</A>]. This then turns right and continues to a fork in the passage. To
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the left is <B>Insignificant Chamber</B>, and to the right is a smaller chamber with a hole in the floor,
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windows to <B>Insignificant Chamber</B>, and a bedding plane continuing up at 10°, which again connects into <B>Insignificant Chamber</B>.
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<H3><A name=insignificantchamber>Insignificant Chamber</A></H3>
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<P><B>Insignificant Chamber</B> can be entered at floor level from <B>No Pain No Gain</B>. It extends to a
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passage on the left as one enters, where there are a number a interconnecting holes on the right [<A
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href="qm.shtml#C2000-204-58"
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name=qC2000-204-58>C2000-204-58 C</A>]. Upslope from the entrance is a bedding plane which splits left to
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<B>Bonsai Crawl</B> on the left and to [<A
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href="qm.shtml#C2000-204-09"
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name=qC2000-204-09>C2000-204-09 B</A>] on the right. To the right upon entering Insignificant Chamber one can climb up
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to a point above the small chamber in <B>No Pain No Gain</B>. From here there is a phreatic tube[<A
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href="qm.shtml#C2000-204-57"
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name=qC2000-204-57>C2000-204-57 C</A>] that can be probably be reached with the aid of a traverse line. The passage
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continues climbing ever upward [<A
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href="qm.shtml#C2000-204-56"
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name=qC2000-204-08>C2000-204-56 B</A>]. The passage to the left from Insignificant Chamber gets smaller and
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meets a crossroads. To the left is a walking size passage with a small pit in the floor that continues to a large
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pitch [<A
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href="qm.shtml#C2000-204-10"
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name=qC2000-204-10>C2000-204-10 A</A>], thought to drop into Pleasuredome. Straight on the passage turns to a steeply
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sloping pitch [<A
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href="qm.shtml#C2000-204-11"
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name=qC2000-204-11>C2000-204-11 B</A>]. To the right is some small passage that connects to the Bonsai
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Crawl. Half way along this passage there is a hole [<A
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href="qm.shtml#C2000-204-59"
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name=qC2000-204-59>C2000-204-59 C</A>].
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<H3><A name=Bonsaicrawl>Bonsai Crawl</A></H3>
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<P><B>Bonsai Crawl</B> is a wide bedding plane. A tall and thin passage to the right goes to a chamber
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with a pitch [<A
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href="qm.shtml#C2000-204-52"
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name=qC2000-204-52>C2000-204-52 C</A>] and a couple of small passages to the right [<A
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href="qm.shtml#C2000-204-50"
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name=qC2000-204-50>C2000-204-50 C</A>] and [<A
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href="qm.shtml#C2000-204-51"
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name=qC2000-204-51>C2000-204-51 C</A>]. A passage leads off to the left and gets lower, passing some
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pretties on the floor. It then continues [<A
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href="qm.shtml#C2000-204-53"
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name=qC2000-204-53>C2000-204-53 A</A>]. Bonsai Crawl continues to a fork that has a stooping-size
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passage to the left [<A
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href="qm.shtml#C2000-204-12"
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name=qC2000-204-12>C2000-204-12 B</A>]. To the right is a walking-size passage with a boulder floor.
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There is a hole in the right wall that has a couple of small passages leading off [<A
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href="qm.shtml#C2000-204-13"
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name=qC2000-204-13>C2000-204-13 C</A>], [<A
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href="qm.shtml#C2000-204-14"
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name=qC2000-204-14>C2000-204-14 C</A>]. The passage then debouches into <B>The Colonnade</B>.
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<H3><A name=thecolonnade>The Colonnade</A></H3>
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<P><B>Bonsai Crawl</B> joins at a point where <b>The Colonnade</b>, a wide walking passage with a boulder
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floor, makes a sharp turn. To the right the passage comes to a chamber-like crossroads. To the left
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is an initially walking-sized tube [<A
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href="qm.shtml#C2000-204-41"
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name=qC2000-204-41>C2000-204-41 A</A>] and to the right a low draughting crawl [<A
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href="qm.shtml#C2000-204-42"
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name=qC2000-204-42>C2000-204-42 B</A>]. <b>The Colonnade</b> continues and a stream joins from the left.
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Further along on the left is a pile of stones which must originate from a passage [<A
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href="qm.shtml#C2000-204-43"
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name=qC2000-204-43>C2000-204-43 Dig</A>]. The passage then becomes small with a possible aven [<A
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href="qm.shtml#C2000-204-44"
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name=qC2000-204-44>C2000-204-44 X</A>], a tight rift [<A
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href="qm.shtml#C2000-204-45"
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name=qC2000-204-45>C2000-204-45 B</A>], and a crawl down and to the right. The crawl emerges into
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a chamber, with a possible way on over rocks directly ahead [<A
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href="qm.shtml#C2000-204-49"
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name=qC2000-204-49>C2000-204-49 C</A>]. The chamber gets larger to the right, where there are two
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tight rifts leading off [<A
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href="qm.shtml#C2000-204-46"
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name=qC2000-204-46>C2000-204-46 C</A>], [<A
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href="qm.shtml#C2000-204-47"
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name=qC2000-204-47>C2000-204-47 C</A>] and an aven [<A
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href="qm.shtml#C2000-204-48"
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name=qC2000-204-48>C2000-204-48 X</A>]. Water was flowing down one of these, possibly to the waterfall
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entering the chamber in <b>No Pain No Gain</b>. At this time in 2000
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it had not rained on the surface for 8 days. Back where
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<B>Bonsai Crawl</B> enters, the passage goes straight on with a number of minor passages to the sides.
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These are a crawl to the left [<A
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href="qm.shtml#C2000-204-15"
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name=qC2000-204-15>C2000-204-15 C</A>]; then some distance further on, another crawl on the left [<A
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href="qm.shtml#C2000-204-16"
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name=qC2000-204-16>C2000-204-16 B</A>] leading from a trench in the passage; a small passage on the
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right [<A
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href="qm.shtml#C2000-204-17"
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name=qC2000-204-17>C2000-204-17 C</A>] that links to [<A
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href="qm.shtml#C2000-204-21"
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name=qC2000-204-21>C2000-204-21 C</A>]; and a crawl high up to the left [<A
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href="qm.shtml#C2000-204-18"
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name=qC2000-204-18>C2000-204-18 C</A>]. A short distance further a walking-size passage goes to the
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left [<A
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href="qm.shtml#C2000-204-19"
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name=qC2000-204-19>C2000-204-19 C</A>]. The main passage then forks: to the left is [<A
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href="qm.shtml#C2000-204-20"
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name=qC2000-204-20>C2000-204-20 C</A>] whilst to the right the passage continues past a high up crawl [<A
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href="qm.shtml#C2000-204-21"
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name=qC2000-204-21>C2000-204-21 C</A>], and then possibly [<A
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href="qm.shtml#C2000-204-22"
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name=qC2000-204-22>C2000-204-22 C</A>]. The main passage then pops out into
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<a href="treeumphant.shtml#treeumphantpassage"><B>Treeumphant Passage</B></a>.
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