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<title>1623/161d Kaninchenhöhle - Triassic to France</title>
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<p><center><a href="top.htm"><img alt="Overview "
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<a href="pixsf.htm"><img alt=" Photos "
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<a href="names.htm"><img alt=" Glossary "
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<a href="../../../index.htm"><img alt=" CUCC"
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<h2>Kaninchenhöhle: Triassic Park through Flat France</h2>
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<h3>Overview</h3>
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<p>An extensive series of horizontal development at a similar altitude to the
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other major passages in Kaninchenhöhle, but quite a distance away from
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them. Most of this area is now best reached from the 161d entrance, and this
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page describes the main route from Triassic Park to the original point of
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entry at the traverse off Sultans of Swing. Two other routes from Triassic
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Park to the bottom of France are also possible, but both these need rigging
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and are treated on the <a href="offffr.htm">side passages</a> page.
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<a name="slc"><h3>Guillotine to French Revolution (1995)</h3></a>
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<p>Triassic Park part I heading south ends with a split into
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<a href="triasp.htm#shwall">Shortage of Walls</a> (up right with a route
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into France via <a href="offffr.htm#teapot">Teapot</a>) and the Guillotine
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straight on. This is a high rift passage with an obvious hanging death
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boulder in the roof. Down the slope is a bend left leading to the
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<a href="tptosf.htm#critend">161d entrance</a>, but just before this, low on
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the right is the way into <b>Salt Lake City</b>.
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<p>This rapidly opens out into a 7-10m wide passage carrying a considerable
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draught, and with a beautiful white floor. Following this SSW passes a 2m
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climb on <a href="offffr.htm#slc">the right</a>, before narrowing a little.
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<p><center><a href="l/slc.htm"><img alt="Salt Lake City portrait - 60k"
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src="t/slc.jpg" width=124 height=180></a>
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<img alt=" " src="../../../icons/lists/tab64.png"><a href="l/slc2.htm">
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<img alt="Salt Lake City Landscape - 35k" src="t/slc2.jpg" width=200
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height=134></a></center>
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<p><a name="stnwpal">This is</a> short-lived, as the passage opens into the
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huge space of <b>Staud'nwirt Palace</b>. The main route is deflected right
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(WSW) here with the boulder floor rising on the outside of the bend. <a
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href="offffr.htm#stpal">Ways on here</a> have proven disappointing, though
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some inaccessible holes in the roof remain unexplored.
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<p><center><a href="300dpi/frev.png"><img alt="French Revolution survey -
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18k gif" width=640 height=450 src="inline/frev.png"></a></center>
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<p><a name="zombie">Descending</a> boulders west, the way gets smaller, and
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funnels down to a 5m climb down (ladder
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<a href="../../fixaid.htm#zstosp">left rigged</a>) into <b>Zombie Slime</b>,
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a 3m wide meandering passage, entered at a chamber with two
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<a href="offffr.htm#zscha">minor ways</a> off.
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<p><center><a href="l/zombie.htm"><img alt="Zombie Slime pic - 40k"
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src="t/zombie.jpg" width=134 height=178 align=middle></a><img alt=" "
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src="../../../icons/lists/tab64.png"><b>Zombie Slime</b></center>
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<p>The main way on goes west for a short way to a three-way junction.
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<a href="offffr.htm#zs3way">Left</a> is a short series rejoining the main way
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10m later. This main route turns sharp right and continues to end abruptly
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at a boulder choke coming out of an aven. There is an audible connection
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to the other side of the choke, <a href="#fbchoke">6m away</a> off Fudge
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Brownie.
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<p><a name="bcunt" href="l/bcunt.htm"><img alt="Brownie's Cunt Photo"
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align=bottom src="t/bcunt.jpg" width=124 height=184></a> Brownie's Cunt from
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Zombie Slime.
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<p><a name="frev">The bypass</a> to this choke is found on the left (SW) 6m
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before, where a tiny passage at floor level, <b>Brownie's Cunt</b>, squeezes
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through. This has been enlarged by the removal of some rocks, and immediately
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encounters a 1m climb down into somewhat larger passage, <b>French
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Revolution</b>. This is joined from the left by two more small passages which
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rejoin but just fail to connect back to Zombie Slime.
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<p><center><a href="l/zombie.htm"><img alt="Zombie Slime pic - 40k"
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src="t/zombie.jpg" width=134 height=178 align=middle></a><img alt=" "
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src="../../../icons/lists/tab64.png"><b>Zombie Slime</b></center>
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<p><a name="13mcha">Continuing</a> SW a few more metres, a traverse over a
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pitch is preceded by a small hole at floor level on the right. The traverse
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emerges into a chamber some 13m in diameter, and the right wall can be
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followed past the other end of the small hole and into one branch of Fudge
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Brownie.
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<p>The chamber has numerous exits, of which two significant ones to the south
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rejoin beyond a rock pillar and go to <a href="fbland.htm#rhorror">Rocky
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Horror</a> and the way to Forbidden Land. To the east over a narrow canyon
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in the floor is the original branch of Fudge Brownie - a stooping NW-trending
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passage with gloopy mud which gave the name. <a
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href="offffr.htm#13mcha">Minor ways</a> in the floor and SE wall of the
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chamber have all been pushed to conclusions within a short distance.
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<a name="fbrownie"><h3>Fudge Brownie to Mississippi (1994)</h3></a>
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<p><a name="fbchoke">The first</a>, right hand, walking sized branch of Fudge
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Brownie curves NW and soon encounters a difficult 3m climb down. Immediately
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right below this is a short passage which ends in the choke blocking the NW
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end of Zombie Slime. Left is more easy walking to where the gloopy branch
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comes in from the left.
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<p>The second branch of Fudge Brownie, from the west side of the chamber,
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is 30m of stooping progress in glutinous mud, to the junction with the
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first branch. The way continues NW as a slightly inclined passage, always
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slippery, splitting for a while into a higher passage to the right and a
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lower one to the left. A low way left off the lower passage gives access
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to Mississippi, but it is easier to continue straight on.
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<p><a name="misisip">Left and</a> right ways remerge and 20m further on, pop
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out into Mississippi. This is a 150m long pebble-covered passage. Left goes
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south, passing a small entry to <a href="offffr.htm#mihemd">Mohr-im-Hemd</a>
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to the right and the other way from Fudge Brownie on the left, before ending
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at a pitch, <a href="offffr.htm#bsuspend"><b>Black Suspender</b></a>.
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<p>Right goes just a short way north to a junction with
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<a href="offffr.htm#mmudpie">Mississippi Mud Pie</a> on the right. Left
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quickly reaches a steep mud slope down to
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<a href="france.htm#sultans">Sultans of Swing</a> pitch in France, which can
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be gained 8m below the takeoff via a muddy traverse.
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