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<h2><a name="rhroute">161 Kaninchenhöhle: Right Hand Route</a> (1988)</h2>
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<p><b>Overview</b>: passage in the same sub-horizontal level as
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<a href="lhr.htm#lhroute">LHR</a>, leads west and north to bigger descending
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passage heading NE before dropping into huge chambers giving access to a
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major phreatic level at 1510m (-280m), rising northwards (fossil downstream)
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to 1540m, punctuated by ways into deep shaft systems and leading eventually
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to an area of much greater complexity to the NE.
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<h3><a name="chunnel">The Chunnel</a> (1988)</h3>
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<p><a href="l/chunlp.htm"><img src="t/chunlp.jpg" width=154 height=122
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align=left hspace=10></a>At the start of the Right Hand Route reached via
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<a href="bsains.htm#snotp">Dewdrop</a> or <a href="bsains.htm#beckaf">Becka
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Falls</a> is a descending route which takes the form of a large phreatic
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passage, <b>The Chunnel</b>, which is covered by a thin layer of moon milk.
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Walking leads round to the right for 30m until the short (7m) <b>Chunnel
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Pitch</b> breaks up the passage. A thread belay at the top of a greasy slope
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protects the approach to the hang from a bolt in the roof.
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<p>A further descent (off the main route) enters
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<a href="offrhr.htm#brunners">Bladerunner</a>, whilst along The Chunnel for
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another 30m reaches an area with large rock pinnacles, odd water-worn
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clefts.<br clear=all>
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<h4><a name="otr">Over the Rainbow</a> (1988)</h4>
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<p>The Chunnel drops into an open area of fallen boulders with several holes
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in the floor. The best route into this area is to traverse along the second
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cleft on the right and drop through a small hole beneath a boulder at its
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end. From here traversing left allows a climb down to the floor (easy if
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you have done it before, but awkward first time when approached from above).
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On the floor, by the left hand wall, is <a href="offrhr.htm#potofau"><b>Pot
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of Gold</b></a> and across the chamber is a wedged block allowing a traverse
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over the deep <a name="rainbowp"><b>Rainbow Pitch</b></a>, followed by a
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steep slope upwards; <b>Over the Rainbow</b>. To the right of this hole is a
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rock pillar and the other side of it allows a safe bypass. Two other holes in
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the floor in this area connect to Rainbow Pitch which becomes too tight 10m
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down.
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<h4><a name="poxyp">Bungalow and Poxy</a> pitches (1988)</h4>
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<p><a href="l/bunglw.htm"><img alt="(Bungalow pitch photo)"
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src="t/bunglw.jpg" width=115 height=169 align=left hspace=10></a>The large
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Chunnel phreas now continues with a step at an oxbow to a wider
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boulder-floored section with avens in the left hand wall where
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<a href="dream.htm#dreamtime">Dreamtime</a> rejoins the Right Hand Route. The
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short <b>Bungalow Pitch</b> on the right hand wall goes down 7m under a HUGE
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wedged boulder, <b>The Bungalow</b>.
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<p>The passage has now become a wide boulder-floored rift. Ten metres on is
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the 6m <b>Poxy Pitch</b>, again on the right hand wall. Both Poxy and
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Bungalow pitches can be avoided by difficult climbs against left hand
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(northwest) wall. The continuing climb down through a massive boulder
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collapse area reaches a flat slab and an apparent junction. To the right it
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merely chokes in about 5m but it looks like the obvious way on when returning
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so most people have checked it out in detail.
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<p><a href="300dpi/balley.png"><img alt="survey - 15k gif" width=640
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<h4><a name="balley">Boulder Alley</a> to Knossos (1988)</h4>
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<p><a href="l/bldaly.htm"><img alt="Photo - 43k" src="t/bldaly.jpg"
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width=134 height=200 align=left hspace=10></a> <b>Boulder Alley</b>
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<p><a name="sftrav">Continuing</a> instead to the left and up reaches the top
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of a large 45° boulder slope, <b>Boulder Alley</b>, which descends for
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45m passing a probably unexplored pitch in the left hand wall, and a window
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3m up on the right into <a href="offrhr.htm#pitandp">Pit & Pendulum</a>.
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A short sandy slope goes up from the foot of Boulder Alley and then the
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steeply descending boulders continue, passing a 4m climb down into a stream
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canyon in the left hand wall. A traverse line across <b>Squashed Fly
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Traverse</b> starts just after this climb, leading down a false floor, past a
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couple of holes, to the edge of a huge open space.
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<p><a name="knossosp">The 30m Knossos pitch</a>, rigged as a single hang from
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1991, deposits the intrepid caver on the sloping boulder floor of a 60m
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diameter domed space, <a href="sibria.htm#knossos">Knossos</a>, where most
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ways on are loose, choked or inaccessible from below. Knossos can also be
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reached (from 1996) from the massive horizontal development of the 161d (<a
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href="sftotp.htm#mothshag">Scarface</a>) entrance, and is the key to
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extensive systems running to the north, containing all the deepest points of
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the cave.
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