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<html><head><title>Balkonhohle Underground Description</title></head><body>
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<H1>Balkonhohle Underground Description</H1>
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<H2>Entrance series</H2>
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<p>Wide entrance part-way up cliff leads to two crawling passages. Both end in pitches (probably the same pitch). The right-hand one (which draughts gently out) has a short pitch, into a chamber with a wedged bolder. A gully at the edge of the chamber shortly drops into a larger shaft. Following down a futher gully leads to the main hang of the pitch, landing on a loose ledge. A traverse along the ledge leads to a short pitch to a large chamber.</p>
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<H2>Room with a view</H2>
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At the bottom of the pitch series you will be at one end of a large chamber. Heading toward the center you will climb around a large boulder and down to the main floor. Continuing round to the right leads to the main passage, a sandy orange rift heading left out of the end of the chamber.
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The rift slopes gently upward, winding a little until a sharp left turn. Just before this turn is a smaller passage leading right and down which leads to Chasm Passage. The main rift continues, sloping slightly down until it makes a sharp right turn and starts to slope upward sleeply.
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Keeping in the same direction, the passage continues to slope upward, with the occasional large boulder blocking the passage to scramble up. The obvious left turn, angled slightly back in the direction you came, leads to Hiltaplenty. After this, there is a right passage leading the quick way through Liar's Bakery.
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At the end of the rift is an large chamber with water splashing down from an aven in the far corner. The obvious continuation is through a low wide archway on the right wall into Liar's Bakery. Up the left wall of the chamber is a short freeclimb up to Lemonsnout. A bolt and a thread on either side of the opening provide the opportunity to rig a handline if desired.
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<H2>Hiltaplenty</H2>
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<p>Accessed by turning left into low passage immediately after a short traverse past a deep hole on the main route away from the bottom of the entry series pitches. The passage continues as an easy crawl over dry, sandy mud. After a relatively short distance the passage reached a t-juction of almost standing height. Right leads to increasingly cramped and bouldery crawls whilst left almost immediately reaches Hiltaplenty pitch.</p>
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<p>This pitch can be traversed across, leading to [what does it lead to?] or descended [how many?] metres past one rebelay and one deviation. The cave in this area appears phreatic and relatively clean, however the lack of obvious source and the presence of a small amount of dirt suggest that the pitch remains dry. This drops down onto the ledge leading to Pubic Synthesis and is then followed by another [how long?]pitch.</p>
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<H2>Pubic Synthesis</H2>
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From the ledge at the bottom of the first Hiltaplenty pitch, passage with floor of slightly damp mud inclines upwards roughly 5m where a obvious potential natural belay point sits at the base of the left hand wall. Continuing up the increasingly low passage, it shortly begins to turn left and a crawl which quickly becomes too small backs of on the left. Further up a muddy slope another short crawl doubles back, this time on the right. The main route forward becomes steeper and impassable immediately after this.
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<H2>Lemon Snout</H2>
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After climbing up to the entrance, Lemon Snout appears as a tall, narrow rift passage with a rocky floor. A short way in the passage turns sharply left then right, with an awkward boulder to scramble around on the second corner. The rift continues sloping gently upward, after a short while the floor drops about a meter and it is advisable to continue by traversing on the obvious footholds.
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The rift traverse turns right above a hole in the lower level which is large enough to crawl into, but only connects back to the main rift in two other places. Meanwhile, the main traverse curves back left and lowers to meet the floor. After this a pair of smoothed rock bridges cut the passage in two vertically, they can be climbed from between the two but not from the outside.
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After the bridges the passage forks, with the larger route heading left, but more passage in the right fork.
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A hole in the on the left route floor shortly after leads steeply down, but doesn't continue. Avoiding this you come to a slightly wider chamber with a cracked black mud floor, and then the rift closes up.
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<H2>Liar's Bakery</H2>
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<H2>Natural High</H2>
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<H2>Chasm passage</H2>
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<H2>Leeds Bypass</H2>
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<H2>Far Side</H2>
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<H2>Turtlehead</H2>
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