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<h2>161 Kaninchenhöhle: near entrance</h2>
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<h3><a name="dungeonp">Dungeon series</a> (1988)</h3>
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<p>The most obvious way on from the entrance pitch chamber (hence the one
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explored in 1988 as the second pitch) is the 20m <b>Dungeon Pitch</b>. This
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leads through an eyehole to another pitch, 10m deep, landing on a boulder
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floor, with two ways on.
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<h4><a name="dungeon">Dungeon</a> (1988/1992)</h4>
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<p>At the foot of the boulder slope in <a href="bsains.htm#bigsain">Big
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Sainsbury's</a> traversing left above the obvious hole leads to a window
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looking out into Dungeon Pitch. A 15m drop into a circular chamber with a way
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on through an eyehole to a 4m drop into the next chamber (Zoom dropped in
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1988 found here). A right turn under a frightening rock leads to S'not pitch
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rift (so S'not could have been found in 1988!).
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<p><a name="variom">To left</a> are two ways on: hole down is short choked
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pitch. Narrow way on in front is <b>Variomatic</b> (because you have to take
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your gear off to get through).
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<p>At the lowest point of the SE (entrance) end of
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<a href="bsains.htm#bigsain">Big Sainsbury's</a>, to the right at the foot
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of <a href="bsains.htm#autodoors">Automatic Doors</a> pitch, a rift leads
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back. This goes to Dungeon Pitch and on through the floor. The lower part is
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undescended, but probably connects to The Dungeon (at base of Dungeon pitch).
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This connecting rift is reached by descending Dungeon Pitch about 12m, before
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penduluming off on to a ledge.
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<h4><a name="itb">Ignore this Bit</a> (1993)</h4>
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<p>From the ledge part way down <a href="bsains.htm#autodoors">Automatic
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Doors</a>, at the end further from the entrance, a passage leads off SW. The
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name reflects the fact that it leads nowhere, but was prone to rediscovery. A
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low passage leads for 25m to an enlargement in a small chamber. Hard right,
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and at the top of the chamber, a small passage (unsurveyed) leads back to a
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balcony over Big Sainsbury's.
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<p>Ahead is a big hole, and to its right, a tight bedding rift leads up c 20m
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to a dead end. The hole opens onto a 16m pitch on a 150°-330° rift,
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landing part way down a boulder slope in a chamber, <b>Ignorance is
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Bliss</b>. A small waterfall enters at the top of the slope (the northern
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end). Downslope, a traverse past bivalve fossils in the wall reaches the
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takeoff for a further 15m pitch (on the published plan, these pitches are
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marked together as p30m). The landing is near the foot of a boulder slope in
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a similar chamber, whose upper end extends underneath Ignorance is bliss.
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This lower floor is also apparently suspended, but a void below its lowest
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point is not reachable.
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<h3><a name="rabbitw">Rabbit Warren Series</a> (1988)</h3>
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<p>The second route out of the <a href="bsains.htm#basement">Basement</a> (at
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the foot of the 161a entrance pitch) is a stoop on the left hand (south)
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side. A 2m climb leads into the <b>Rabbit Warren Series</b>. This leads to
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Adrian's Route and <a href="france.htm#france">France</a>, normally entered
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by 161c. Early documentation described this whole area (Rabbit Warren,
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Adrian's Route, French Connection II and upper stuff below 161b & 161c)
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as Adrian's Route.
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<p>Initially a small phreatic tube and several short climbs lead to a blocked
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12m pitch (handline advised for traverse across). Just beyond this, a fork to
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the right leads to a tight stream rift and a couple of nasty but undescended
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pitches. To the Left two routes both lead to a 10m pitch into the top of the
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French Connection II rift. The bottom of this pitch is the furthest you can
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get in this direction from the 161b or 161c entrances.
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<div class="onleft"><a href="i/161b_entrance.jpg"><img
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src="t/161b_entrance.jpg"></a> <p class="caption">161b entrance (© Olly
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Betts 1990)</p></div>
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<h4><a name="adriansr">Adrian's Route</a></h4>
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<p>Adrian's Route (named after Adrian the Anaconda - the 130m rope used to
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rig it) starts here. At the S end of the rift are a pair of blind holes. Next
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is the big Adrian shaft of 40m, quickly followed by a hading one of 46m. The
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rift at the bottom ends in a draughting sand-filled tube with no way on at a
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depth of 170m.
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<p><a id="id161b">A bolted</a> traverse (1990) across Adrian pitch (E side)
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leads to a partially rock-filled passage which after 30m of crawling,
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stooping and walking, a left turn up a similar but smaller passage, a grovel
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into a low chamber and a climb through a short rift leads to the tight
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boulder choked 161b entrance.
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<h3 style="clear: both">Big Sainsbury's offshoots</h3>
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<p><a name="skullp">At the</a> highest point of
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<a href="bsains.htm#bigsain">Big Sainsbury's,</a> 20m from
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<a href="bsains.htm#autodoors">Automatic Doors</a>, in the left (SW) wall is
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a pair of eyeholes overlooking <b>Skull Pitch</b>, a 10m pitch and high aven
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with two short blocked passages at the bottom.
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<p><a name="umleitung">At the same point</a> on the right (NE) a 3m climb
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leads into <b>Umleitung</b>, a passage back to the top of Dungeon Pitch on
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the opposite side from the Basement, and from here there is another 5m climb
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up to a rift leading to another pitch. There is a possible continuation over
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the pitch
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([<a href="qmtodo.htm#C1990-161-09" name="qC1990-161-09">C1990-161-09</a> C],
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needs bolting). The pitch is 13m (?) to a choked floor. Further progress can
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be made 5m(?) down the choke against the opposite wall.
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<p>A few metres further along the left wall of Big Sainsbury's is a short
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low passage which chokes after 12m.
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<p>About halfway along Big Sainsbury's (before the way into Drunk &
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Stupid on the right) is a small hole in the floor, very loose and uninviting
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[<a href="qmtodo.htm#C1989-161-08" name="qC1989-161-08">C1989-161-08</a> B].
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Entering without major gardening would be foolhardy.
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<h4><a name="levitn">Levitation Pitch</a> (1991)</h4>
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<p>About halfway along <a href="bsains.htm#snotp">Dewdrop</a> (before it
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emerges into the Left Hand Route) there is a hading rift on the left which
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can be climbed up for 4m to the foot of an unascended big aven, the 6m
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diameter <b>Levitation Pitch</b>. This is directly below Big Sainsbury's.
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<h4><a name="ashopper">Alternative Shopper</a> (1989)</h4>
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<p>Along <a href="bsains.htm#bigsain">Big Sainsbury's,</a> 20m beyond the
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entrance of <a href="drunk.htm">Drunk & Stupid,</a> is a pair of very
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high avens with associated pitches. There is a traverse line along the left
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hand wall which leads to a col between the two drops. Along this traverse is
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a passage in the left hand wall which goes for 25m before choking. The first
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drop is <a href="bsains.htm#checkout">Checkout,</a> the old main route on.
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The second drop is <b>Alternative Shopper</b>, a funnel-shaped 30m pitch
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followed by a 10m pitch under a big boulder at the bottom. Below this is a
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tight rift leading to a chamber where two rifts leading on are both too
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tight.
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