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<title>1623:204 -- Mid-level passages</title>
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<table id="cavepage">
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<tr><th id="kat_no">204</th><th id="name">Steinbrückenhöhle</th><th
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id="status">4/S x</th></tr> </table>
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<h1>Mid-level passages (including Wolpertinger Way)</h1>
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<b><a href="#survey">Survey</a></b> --
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<b><a href="204.html">204 index</a></b></div>
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<p><b>Summary</b>: The mid-level series is a network of phreatic passages
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formed in a bed around 15m lower than the <a href="entrance.html">Near End</a>
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series. The trunk passage of Wolpertinger Way slopes down from the bottom of
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Thread Pitch towards an area of interconnecting passages around the foot of
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Pendulum Pitch. From here one can descend into the <a
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href="ariston.html">Ariston Series</a>, or follow passages into the <a
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href="millennium.html">Millennium Dome</a> area, or via <a
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href="nopain.html">No Pain No Gain</a> to the northern parts of the cave.</p>
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<h3><a id="wolp">Wolpertinger Way</a></h3>
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<p>
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<a href="l/11cei.html">
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<img class="onright" src="t/11cei.jpg" alt="Wolpertinger Way" />
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</a>
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<a href="entrance.html#thread">Thread Pitch</a> and <a
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href="entrance.html#stitch">Stitch This</a> from the Near End series land at
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the top of a large 6-8m diameter phreatic passage, <b>Wolpertinger Way</b>.
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This heads downhill, past some ice formations on the left hand side, for 35m to
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a junction. To the left <a href="#recycledrabbit">Recycled Rabbit</a> leads
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off, which was for a long time not noted. Straight ahead is a steep gully
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leading to a 6.5m diameter circular shaft with aven above - <b><a
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id="veined">You're So Veined</a></b>. There is a traverse round the right hand
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side of the gully on an increasingly narrow ledge.</p>
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<p>To the right from the top of the gully, passing over a hole in the floor
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through dangerous boulders [<a href="qm.html#C1999-204-09"
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id="qC1999-204-09">C1999-204-09 C</a>], reaches a junction. Right is a passage,
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which quickly chokes, straight ahead leads into <a href="#onetenaday">110 A
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Day</a>, whilst left is the main route.</p>
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<p><a href="l/7icef.html"><img class="onleft" src="t/7icef.jpg"></a>
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More sandy crawling leads to a crossroads, where left leads to
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the ledge overlooking the pitch, and right is a short crawl leading
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to the main passage part of the way down <a
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href="#pendulum">Pendulum Pitch</a>, the easiest route to the <a
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href="millennium.html#elephant">White Elephant Series</a>.
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Straight ahead leads to a further junction. Left is a ledge, from which one can
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descend onto a bridge of boulders between You're So Veined and <a
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href="ariston.html#potulike">Pot-U-Like</a>, the current trade route into the
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Ariston Series. Alternatively, traversing along the ledge leads towards <a
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href="#bunnybowel">Bunny's Bowel</a>.</p>
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<p>Right at the junction is a short passage to a blind pit. Traversing around
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this to the right gives an alternative route to <a href="#pendulum">Pendulum
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Pitch</a>. Traversing around to the left leads a rift that leads initially
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upwards, where a passage leads of to the right; continuing along down the rift
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leads to an undescended pitch [<a href="qm.html#C2001-204-67">C2001-204-67
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B</a>]. A passage on the opposite side of the pitch can be accessed from the
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top of You're So Veined. The passage leading of to the right of the rift
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quickly enters a small chamber. To the left leads to the undescended pitch [<a
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href="qm.html#C2001-204-67">C2001-204-67 B</a>]; straight on leads to a
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junction, with both ways on being too tight. To right from the small chamber
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leads to the passage between <a href="#pendulum">Pendulum Pitch</a> the <a
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href="millennium.html">Millennium Dome area</a>.</p>
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<h3 style="clear: both"><a id="bunnybowel">Bunny's Bowel</a></h3>
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<p>Traversing towards the right at the head of <a href="#veined">You're So
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Veined</a> leads to a boulder floored passage. A window looks out to the left
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to the head of an undescended pitch [<a href="qm.html#C2001-204-66"
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id="qC2001-204-66">C2001-204-66 C</a>]. Carrying on leads to the previously
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described undescended pitch [<a href="qm.html#C2001-204-67"
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id="qC2001-204-67">C2001-204-67 B</a>]; looking across this passages are
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visible, one of which is the link between Wolpertinger Way and the Pendulum
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Pitch route. To the left a climb leads to a short passage to <b>Bunny's
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Bowel</b>, a small chamber. A passage doubling back leads underneath the
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previous passage to the undescended pitch [<a
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href="qm.html#C2001-204-67">C2001-204-67 B</a>]. In Bunny's Bowel, a climb to
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the right leads to a drop into the passage from <a href="#pendulum">Pendulum
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Pitch</a> to <a href="millennium.html#elephant">Millennium Dome</a>. A window
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to the right leads to a 3m climb (rigged with a handline) to a muddy chamber
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with a 3m deep hole in the floor, with ways on that were too tight. Back in
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Bunny's Bowel, to the left the passage goes past an undescended 8m pitch [<a
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href="qm.html#C2001-204-65" id="qC2001-204-65">C2001-204-65 C</a>], then
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finishes in a mud choke.</p>
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<h3><a id="recycledrabbit">Recycled Rabbit</a></h3>
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<p>Near the southern end of Wolpertinger Way, on the left of the passage as one
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descends, is a small low crawling-size passage leading off at right angles. The
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passage continues for 65m, climbing slightly and remaining approximately the
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same diameter throughout its length. The passage ends too tight but on the
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right there is an impassable (at present) connection with a moderately sized
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chamber - but the use of plug and feather may enlarge the connection to allow
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passage. [<a href="qm.html#C2001-204-73" id="qC2001-204-73">C2001-204-73
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C</a>]</p>
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<h3><a id="onetenaday">110 A Day</a></h3>
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<p><b>110 A Day</b> is a long, dusty passage which varies between stooping and
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crawling for 110m. Immediately after the start is a sharp right hand bend with
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a crawl straight ahead to <a href="#onetenbidet">110 Bidet</a>. About halfway along is a
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crossroads, where low passages lead off to the left to 110 Bidet and to
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the right [<a href="qm.html#C1999-204-13" id="qC1999-204-13">C1999-204-13
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C</a>]. At the terminus reached in 1999, the passage splits into two. Each
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branch immediately becomes tight, but could be pushed further with a little
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determination and effort [<a href="qm.html#C1999-204-14"
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id="qC1999-204-14">C1999-204-14 C</a> and <a href="qm.html#C1999-204-15"
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id="qC1999-204-15">C1999-204-15 C</a>]. In the left hand branch, just before
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the passage becomes tighter, is a pitch of perhaps 20m; all the ways on at the
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base of this are too tight.</p>
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<h3><a id="onetenbidet">110 Bidet</a></h3>
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<p><b>110 Bidet</b> is a stooping size passage which runs parallel to <a
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href="#onetenaday">110 A Day</a>. It can be accessed via a crawl about 1m up that
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carries straight on from where 110 A Day starts with a sharp right hand turn.
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The crawl emerges into larger passage; to the left after 5m is <a
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href="#pendulum">Pendulum Pitch</a>. Going right leads to a hole in the floor
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among boulders, <a href="#marblerun">Marble Run</a>. To the left here is a low passage leading to
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<a href="nopain.html#nopainnogain">No Pain No Gain</a>, whilst 110 Bidet
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carries straight on. Continuing on, the passage turns right, followed shortly
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by a crossroads with a crawly passage. To the right is a dead end; to the left
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is <a href="#upat45">Upwards at 45°</a><!--[<a href="qm.html#C2000-204-54"
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id="qC2000-204-54">C2000-204-54 B</a>]-->. Straight on emerges into <a
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href="#onetenaday">110 A Day</a> about half way along its length.</p>
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<h3><a id="upat45">Up At 45 degrees</a></h3>
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<p>Up at 45 degrees starts as a strongly drafting crawl off <a
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href="#onetenbidet">110 Bidet</a>, which soon leads to a small chamber, with a
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pit in the floor that can be traversed around to the left, to continuing
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passage. This soon leads to a major fork. <i>To the left, a junction is
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reached, where things get a little complicated as the passage is moderately low
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and wide with a number of pillars. To the left here becomes too tight, whilst
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to the right rejoins the other main fork, and straight on leads to the base of
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a chamber, whoose floor is a sloped pile of boulders. Near the top of this
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pile, holes through the bolders reveal a chamber beneath. This can be reached
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by a crawl to the left, followed by a free climb down. This lower chamber,
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which also has a boulder floor, has three narrow rifts leading off, whoose
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floors are some distance below. Two of these rifts are at the far end of the
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chamber [<a href="qm.html#C2002-204-09" id="qC2002-204-09">C2002-204-09 C</a>]
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[<a href="qm.html#C2002-204-10" id="qC2002-204-10">C2002-204-10 C</a>], whilst
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the third heads back under the upper chamber [<a href="qm.html#C2002-204-11"
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id="qC2002-204-11">C2002-204-11 C</a>]</i>. To the right at the first fork
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leads steadily upwards, passing a phreatic tube up and to the right <i>which
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joins back to the chamber at the start of up at 45 degrees</i> and various
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small crawls to the left, <i>which join together and lead to the left hand
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branch.</i> A boulder is reached which needs to be climbed upon, up to some
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rather critically angled boulder floor, which eventually ends in a drippy
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chamber with a tight way on to the right [<a href="qm.html#C2002-204-14"
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id="qC2002-204-14">C2002-204-14 C</a>].</p>
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<h3><a id="marblerun">Marble Run</a></h3>
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<p><b>Marble Run</b> runs along a fault line that created a small passable
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phreatic tube, which has subsequently been intersected by a tight rifty stream
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way. 20m along the rift bears to the right and is too tight to pass, whilst
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the phreatic passage continues on to a small chamber. Here the passage doubles
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back over itself to continue above the original passage. The passage does this
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once more to end in an earth blockage.</p>
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<h3><a id="pendulum">Pendulum Pitch Route</a></h3>
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<p><b>Pendulum Pitch</b> is in a large rift. The first section is a loose
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boulder slope (care required) to a rebelay, then a descent of 23m via a
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deviation off the far wall below a large wedged boulder. There may be a passage
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on the far side of the rift accessible with difficulty from this boulder [<a
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href="qm.html#C1999-204-17" id="qC1999-204-17">C1999-204-17 C</a>]. From the
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base of the pitch, two rift passages lead off which very quickly become too
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tight.</p>
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<p>The main route on is reached by swinging off after 16m into a 6m wide
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passage. Two passages in the left hand wall are quickly encountered. The first
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quickly becomes too tight, the second is a short crawl leading into the network
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of sandy crawls at the bottom of <a href="#wolp">Wolpertinger Way</a>, and is
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the best route from here to the <a href="ariston.html#ariston">Ariston
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Series</a>. Continuing down the main passage, passing either side of a huge
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boulder, reaches a blind pit in the floor, with two ways on.</p>
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<p>A loose and slightly precarious traverse round the blind pit leads to a
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short passage on the left, emerging at the head of <a href="#veined">You're So
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Veined</a>. A rift visible at the opposite side of the pit has an audible
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connection to You're so Veined.</p>
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<p>To the right at the blind pit is a draughting phreatic tube leading towards
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the <a href="millennium.html">Millennium Dome area</a>.</p>
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<div class="centre">
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<h3><a id="survey">Survey</a></h3>
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<img src="midlevel.png" alt="Survey" style="padding: 2pt; border: 2px solid #id000" /></div>
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