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<title>258: Underground description</title>
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<table id="cavepage">
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<tr><th id="kat_no">258 - a b</th><th id="name">Tunnockschacht</th><th id="status">2 ??</th></tr>
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<h2>How to find it</h2>
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<p>The route starts from the stone bridge and takes about 20 minutes.
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It is cairned all the way. Head to the
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204e entrance and continue up the gully. The route rises over the broken
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area known as the <i>Quarries</i> and then heads over the brow of the hill.
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It then crosses the top of the large broken gully mentioned in the old route
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below to reach a traverse across a steeply-sloping incised slab. A climb
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up a gully then reaches a small col where a small path can be followed through
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the bunde to the left, via a small vegetated bowl, to emerge at the 258b
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entrance. This entrance is a shaft surrounded by bunde on three sides.
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The 258a entrance is in the obvious adjacent shakehole.
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<h3>Old route</h3>
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<p>From the stone bridge, follow the cairns towards 204e entrance. Upon
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reaching the final gully, where the path turns up to the right towards
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that entrance, continue straight across and then work to the right,
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traversing around
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the rear lip of a hole. This leads to the bottom of a loose climb, which
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is ascended to reach another level. A prominent Christmas tree style fir
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marks the point where another climb is made to the next level up. It is
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then necessary to ascend to the next level above this, either by a short
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traverse and then a narrow climb between two blocks, or by heading right
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and then heading back up to the left. Having done this, a short ascent
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on small loose stones brings one to the uppermost level, marked by a
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prominent cairn (visible from the stone bridge).
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</p>
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<p>Follow the cairns around to the left, descending slightly at first and
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then maintaining the same level, to eventually reach a cairned point
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overlooking a large broken gully running from right to left. Descend
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into the gully (passing the shaft of 2004-18) and cross to the other side
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where an obvious level ascends upwards and to the right. Having reached
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the top, follow the cairns to the right to arrive quickly at an area with
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a hole to each side. The shakehole to the left, containing a cairn
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originally some
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two feet high, contains the 258a entrance; the 258b entrance is the other hole.
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<h2>Entrance shaft</h2>
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<p><b>Warning:</b> Beware of loose rocks.</p>
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<p>The shaft of the 258b entrance, rigged with an initial belay, deviation and
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Y-hang just below the lip,
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gives onto the main entrance shaft just above a single bolt rebelay also
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accessible from the 258a entrance. A hang of around 10 metres from this
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single bolt lands on a flat
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floor where there is sometimes a snow plug. (The 258a entrance, no longer
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used, was rigged with a thread in the bottom of the shakehole and a bolt
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on the left wall under the dripline. This enabled a descent of several
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metres to a small ledge, where working around to the right gained a rebelay,
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succeeded by the single bolt rebelay mentioned above.)
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A bolt on the left
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wall (looking down the pitch) may be used to reanchor the rope here.
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Upslope leads to an alcove. The rear of this alcove opens onto the
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top of a pitch that appears to be of quite some depth [2006-258-1-B] which
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may connect with Stone Monkey below.
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<p>Following the left wall, a traverse
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leads to a low bolt, which is succeeded by a scruffy descent of only
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two metres to another rebelay on a flat wall. The descent continues down
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the side, or on top of, a large snow plug to a lip where two bolts in the
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ceiling (ring hangers essential) provide a high Y-belay for the next stage
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of the pitch. (The original route used in 2006 did not use this Y-belay,
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and instead descended via an undercut rift to the left known as The Col.)
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A deviation helps slightly to alleviate rope rub on the lip
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and is succeeded by a further ledge. There is sometimes a snow plug here,
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and upslope, a rift leads off (under The Col) which could maybe lead to
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further passage [2006-258-3-B].
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<p>The rope is rebelayed at the ledge, and
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after a further rebelay from a nose, drops for a few metres to the head of
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a large snow slope. The descent is continued from the same belay all the
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way to the bottom of the slope. There is a possible way on to the
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side of the snow plug on the left wall [2006-258-4-C]. Passing under
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an arch the slope terminates with ice stalactites in alcoves to either side and
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(depending on the year) an ice lake or pile of snow. The ice stal in
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the alcove to the left could be ascended with ice and/or climbing equipment
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to reach a passage [2006-258-5-C].
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<p>[Description needed 2006-258-2-B is missing - Dave Loeffler or Aaron Curtis or Mark Shinwell]</p>
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<h2>To the main cave</h2>
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<p>The main way on from the bottom of the snow slope
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is a hole at floor level that leads
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into a chamber. This chamber is on occasion occupied by a large ice
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stalactite and accompanying ice floor.
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A small hole to the right gives access to
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<b>Bauernkrapfen Passage</b>, a well-formed sloping crawl debouching
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into a large rift
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chamber, <b>Three Fried Mice</b>.
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Following the chamber around to the left
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leads to a choke at the bottom of a slope, although before this it is possible
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to climb up the wall and through a hole under boulders to gain a higher level,
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with a view over the chamber before Bauernkrapfen Passage but no other ways
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on.</p>
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<p>Following the rift around to the right from the end of
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Bauernkrapfen Passage, passing some small
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faulted phreatic tubes in the left wall,
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leads to an opening in the right wall. The succeeding phreatic passage,
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<b>Strudel Crawl</b>, sucks strongly and
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continues sloping down past a delicate traverse over a hole [2006-258-12-C]
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to eventually arrive at a further hole in the floor [2006-258-13-B]. A
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traverse line is required to cross this. Shortly after the traverse,
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there is an eyehole in the right-hand wall (facing downslope), which leads
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to the large passage of <b>Ribs with Knödel</b>. Strudel Crawl may also be
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followed down without going through the eyehole to reach the same point,
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although this route is not recommended for descent, due to a drop underneath.
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<p>[Description needed 2006-258-6-X, 2006-258-7-X, 2006-258-8-X, 2006-258-9-X, 2006-258-10-D, 2006-258-11-C is missing from below - Dave Loeffler or Aaron Curtis or Mark Shinwell]</p>
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<p>[Description needed Flapjack choke does this mean that 2006-258-13B has been completed? If so tunnel and qm list need ammending - Steve Jones or Serena Povia or Becka Lawson]</p>
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<h2>Ribs with Knödel to Caramel Catharsis</h2>
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<p>One exits Strudel Crawl to find the large passage of Ribs with Knödel
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sloping down to the right. In this direction, a hole in the floor is
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passed, before a much larger hole right across the passage is reached.
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A rope belayed to bolts on the left side of the passage enables a descent to be
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made to a point where it is possible to climb down, behind and around a
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rock pillar to complete the crossing of the hole. A further passage leads
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off from behind this pillar [QM ?].
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<p>After the hole, a sloping traverse is crossed; water enters from the
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roof here. This is followed by a long ramp downwards. A rope belayed to
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a large thread over towards the left, well back from the lip, enables a
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descent towards the right wall to reach the traverse of
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<b>Caramel Catharsis</b>. This follows the right wall, still sloping
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down and passing a hole into <b>Stone Monkey</b>,
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to a pitch of a few metres landing on a sandy floor in an
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impressive chamber.
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Continuing northwards past the taped floor leads
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to the <a href="littoralnorth.html">Littoral North</a> and the main part of
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the cave.
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The other obvious exit leads to <b>Secret Squirrel</b>.
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<p>[more needed]
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<p>
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[Description needed - Tom Handford or Dave Loeffler]
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[2006-258-14-C]
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[2006-258-15-C]
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[2006-258-16-B]
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[2006-258-17-C]
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[2006-258-18-C]
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[2006-258-40-C]
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<p>More to deal with: <a href="misc.html">misc</a>
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