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<title>1623/161 Kaninchenhöhle - Knossos to Triassic</title>
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<h2>161 Kaninchenhöhle: Knossos to Triassic</h2>
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<h3>Overview</h3>
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<p>The link into Knossos from Triassic Park provides the means to exit from
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the Right Hand Routes to entrance 161d (Scarface), thus enabling a variety of
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through trips to be achieved. With the possibility of parties wishing to exit
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161d without having entered that way, a description of the route in this
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"reverse" direction seems useful. As this is not really logical in this
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direction for new exploration of side leads, side passages are only mentioned
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where absolutely necessary for navigation of the main route.
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<a name="knossos"><h3>Knossos to Trifurcation (1996)</h3></a>
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<p><center><a href="l/pebble.htm"><img alt="Mono photo" width=245 height=170
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align=middle vspace=10 src="t/pebble.jpg"></a><a href="l/knoss.htm"><img
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alt="Colour photo" src="t/knoss.jpg" width=181 height=122 align=middle
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hspace=20></a></center>
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<p>Whether reached from Right Hand Route or Triassic Park, <b>Knossos</b> is
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both the key to deep routes and the far north, and the crucial turning point
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in through trips between 161a and 161d-f. The 30m
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<a href="rhr.htm#knossosp">Knossos pitch</a> from the Right Hand Route drops
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onto large boulders sloping northwest, at the southwest side of the 60m
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diameter chamber. This boulder slope is followed up, keeping rightwards,
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to find the bottom of a rope (rigged previously), on the pitch at the
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eastern side of the chamber.
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<p><center><a href="300dpi/knoss.png"><img alt="Knossos survey: 28k gif"
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src="inline/knoss.png" width=600 height=400></a></center>
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<p>The pitch is 10-15m up to reach the SW end of <b>Minoan Surprise</b>. This
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is big passage, heading NE past big pitches to emerge in <b>Triassic Park</b>
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at its westernmost end at <b>Trifurcation</b>, a wide junction with much
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fallen rock and a large aven. The slope up left goes to a col on the way to
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<a href="offtp3.htm#bugger">Bugger</a>, but the main trunk route of Triassic
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Park lies right, initially east.
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<h3>Triassic Park heading south</h3>
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<p><b>Triassic Park</b> is a passage 600m long, 5-18m wide and 3m-20+m tall.
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<b>There is a well-defined route down the passage (marked with red/white
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flagging tape) which should be followed.</b>
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<p>Triassic Park III is easy going for 70m to <b>Locophobia</b>, which
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contains a stream arriving from the left (north) and leaving in the floor in
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the middle. It is possible (and currently, incorrectly, marked with tape) to
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climb out of the pit in the floor on the left and follow the left wall into
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Triassic Park pt. II. However, it is preferable to cross boulders to the
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right and climb up just at the point where a large circular passage
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(<a href="offtri.htm#crailway">Children's Railway</a>) emerges. Traversing
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left of this, along the right wall, soon leads back to the taped route in
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Triassic Park part II.
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<p><center><a name="tp2" href="l/photop.htm"><img align=bottom
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src="t/photop.jpg" width=181 height=124></a> <a
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href="l/trias.htm"><img src="t/trias.jpg" width=183 height=124
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align=bottom></a></center> <center>Triassic Park part II between Locophobia
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and Ring Piece Junction</center>
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<p>Now heading ESE, this is easy walking on a mud floor, passing numerous
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small side passages. A curve right and the way is heading south into a wide
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section of passage. Up on the left is a passage heading east, which, like
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Triassic Park itself, has a flagged route into it. This is start of the <a
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href="phnear.htm#phumour">Puerile Humour Series</a>, a very extensive set of
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passages leading to the two new exits of 161e and 161f and two promising
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northbound routes.
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<p>Only a short way further south from the junction with Puerile Humour
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is the complex Ring Piece Junction. Ways right (west, to
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<a href="offtri.htm#rpjleft">Tapeworm</a>) and
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<a href="offtri.htm#rpjleft">straight ahead</a> (south) are both smaller than
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the continuation of Triassic Park to the left (east). This curves round
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gently rightwards for the next 80m of passage (marked by very dark sediment)
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to a hole in the floor. Climbing over this, the passage narrows and turns
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abruptly right to head SW. Almost ahead is the entry passage of Dr. Snuggles
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over a pitch. Triassic Park continues left of this, down a 3m climb into a
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trench, marking the transition to Triassic Park part I.
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<p>Immediately, a hole in the floor must be traversed on the left (although a
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high level traverse from above the 3m climb may be possible, too).
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Continuing, the trench emerges into the widening passage, and in 60m reaches
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an inlet on the left (very active in wet weather), with a clean washed pitch,
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<a href="offtri.htm#overflow">The Overflow</a>, below it. When not in flood,
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this is a very good carbide-filling spot.
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<p>Another one hundred metres of very easy going follows, passing odd tunnels
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on the right (into <a href="offtri.htm#altuni">Alternative Universe</a>). A
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much larger black space on the right is <b>Shortage of Walls</b>. The flagged
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route ends here, marking the southern limit of Triassic Park. Straight ahead
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is <b>the Guillotine</b>, a high rift passage with an obvious hanging death
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rock up in the roof. Ahead on the right is the low entry to <a
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href="tptofr.htm#slc">Salt Lake City</a>, whilst curving left is <b>Critters'
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End</b> and the <a href="tptosf.htm#critend">way out to the surface</a> at
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the <b>Scarface</b> (161d) entrance.
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<p>Far more side passages exist than are noted above, since this description
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is intended to serve those using Triassic as an exit route from deeper in the
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cave. Most of these are better found from the description of Triassic Park
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<a href="triasp.htm">heading north</a>, which would be the normal route of
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access from the 161d entrance.
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