;;;; Dogleg Complex, and its continuations *begin Dogleg ; Connections *equate circus1.9 dogleg1.39 *equate circus1.10 dogleg1.40 *equate circus2.5 circus1.23 *equate circus2.18 circus1.18 *equate rainbow1.32 circus1.24 *equate rainbow2.6 rainbow1.8 ;Tim/Pauline ; *equate dogleg1.0 msdright.16 *equate topbanana.7 topshop.6 *equate topbanana.8 tophole.9 *equate topbanana.14 dogleg1.35 ; Dogleg Complex Surveyed 19/1/97 ; Steve Roberts (book), Fleur Loveridge (tape), ; Nobby Mumford (explorer), Ian Benson (instruments) *begin dogleg1 0 1 20.75 137 +42 ; 0 is station 16 in MSDright survey (Into the Black) ; 1 is cairn at top of boulder slope. 2 1 8.33 022 -49 2 3 3.4 211 11 4 3 2.98 325 -28 4 5 3.45 142 22 6 5 2.41 261 -26 6 7 4.76 164 +39 7 8 6.03 136 11 ; 8 is a marked cairn, in chamber with easily diggable ; rock filled passage leading on under flat roof. 6 9 6.05 335 -9 10 9 10.41 190 -8 10 11 7.30 044 -17 12 11 9.19 292 -13 ; 12 is survey station 1 in a LotD side passage ; "Panda Hunting", explored 7/12/96 ; by Pauline, Tim, JC 13 3 3.70 019 1 14 13 2.47 086 -20 ; 14 is cairned "permanent" 14 15 2.55 240 -8 16 15 6.84 323 1 17 16 2.88 039 16 17 18 6.78 219 -36 ; "Kev's pitch" 19 18 5.98 033 -19 19 20 4.95 213 +14 ; ends in hopeless choke after climb up. 21 14 6.22 132 +41 21 22 2.88 345 +6 23 22 3.25 146 -2 24 23 3.10 107 -20 24 25 5.04 008 -2 26 25 8.78 136 -16 ;choke 27 25 2.94 201 -48 27 28 4.00 004 -54 ; beyond the last survey station is climb ; down into small chamber with choked rift in floor. ; Hopeless. ; (even though it took an hour of heavy rock shifting to open rift) ; Next bit was surveyed to end of exploration, ; then the connecting legs added at the end. 30 29 6.665 144 -11 ; 30 is in hopelessly choked (but sparkly) chamber at foot of pitch 30 31 5.1 075 65 31 32 4.00 168 75 32 33 5.75 162 -4 34 33 10.45 114 8 34 35 10.17 352 23 ; dead end. diggable. 34 36 5.2 143 12 37 36 7.77 026 -2 37 38 12.90 278 -15 ; 38 is marked cairn 39 38 5.9 345 5 ; 39 is at head of ~15m pitch into ongoing rift. whooee ! ; 39 39a 15 0 -90 ;GUESS LEG, so now removed 40 38 10.40 152 -36 ; (THIS LEG WAS NOTED THE OTHER WAY ROUND, BUT MUST BE THIS WAY!) ; 40 is part way along route to pretty chamber ; with several rock-shifting ways on ? ; Now the connection back. 31 41 3.4 016 70 41 42 8.15 028 11 24 42 2.22 010 +23 ; Complex! * end dogleg1 ;;;;;;;;;;;;;; Circus Maximus ; ;Explored & surveyed 25-1-97 ;Notes: Chris ;Instruments: Nobby ;Tape Fleur *begin circus1 ; start from end beyond 3rd Dogleg pitch 1 2 8.95 187 +29 ;1=pss ; 1 is jct in cross rift (pss), 2 ends in diggable gypsummy chokes 1 3 6.22 329 +10 ;chokes at 3 1 4 3.40 069 +11 4 5 5.60 053 -41 5 6 4.30 000 -90 ;6=floor of rift beyond foot of ladder 7 6 3.12 230 -20 7 8 4.00 035 - ;8=poss. dig 7 9 7.45 355 +68 ; 9 = pss 39 of dogleg1 ; Now passage from "Top Spots" 11 10 6.75 159 +14 ;10 = 40 of dogleg1, 11=pss 12 11 12.95 173 -11 ;view across Top Spots, 12=dig 11 13 11.40 214 +8 13 14 11.80 210 -7 14 15 17.15 321 -4 15 16 9.35 314 -2 16 17 1.80 355 +24 18 17 3.90 156 -31 ;18 = pss 19 18 3.68 143 +4 19 20 31.25 215 0 20 21 19.15 216 +7 ;21 = pss. Getting big! 21 22 29.75 140 -4 22 23 13.20 196 +13 ;23 = pss on undercut shelf. Open rift beyond. 24 22 14.23 094.5 -11 ;24 = pss on left corner. Open rift (2 dir.) beyond. *end circus1 *begin circus2 ;Off circus maximus ;Explored & surveyed 1 Feb 97 ;Notes Chris ;Instruments Charles Bailey ;Tape Wookey ;calibrations: ;starts from SW corner of CM chamber ;Very pretty, end choked 1a 0 8.00 316 0 1 1a 1.00 226 0 ;Gd2 leg 2 1 2.85 142 +8 2 3 2.30 319 +13 ;notes say 219 but wrong! 3 4 7.25 351 +2 5 4 2.35 152 +26 ;; stations 6-17 moved to Rainbow Canyon, where they belong ;now continuing from start Circus Maximus 1 sta 18. 19 18 13.38 125 -03 19 20 15.90 338.5 -02 21 20 7.72 146 -12 22 21 3.45 128 -7 23 22 10.24 143 +8 ;Staggeringly pretty helictite chandeliers 23 24 12.00 027 +10 24 25 7 173 -5 ;gd 2 25 26 7 153 -30 ;gd 2 estimated ;All points choke ;*LRUD ;1 1 2 1 2 ;2 0 0.5 - - ;3 0.5 0 1 0.5 ;4 0 0.5 1 0.5 ;5 0.5 big 2 0.5 ; ; ;19 0.8 1.8 0 1.5 ;20 0.8 0 1 0.3 ;21 0.4 0.4 0 0.5 ;22 1 0.3 0 0.5 ;23 1 5 1.5 0 ;24 - - 0 0.4 ;*ENDLRUD *end circus2 *begin rainbow1 ; PR, TG, 1.2.97 ; Rainbow Canyon, near Circus Maximus ;from to tape compass clino 1 2 6.20 156.5 +13 ; 1 = J1 2 3 4.80 201 -5 3 4 21.00 168.5 +15 4 5 6.8 170 -11 5 6 13.70 148.5 +11.5 6 7 9.7 156 -4.5 7 8 7.82 180 -3.5 ; 8 = J2 9 8 1.71 076 -13.5 9 10 4.23 299.5 +3.5 ; 10 = J3 10 11 6.30 302.5 +5 ; 11 = J4 11 12 4.65 327 +10 12 13 6.45 293 -14.5 ; 13 = J5 13 14 1.32 222 -52.5 14 15 2.49 221.5 -3.5 15 16 2.27 240.5 +4.5 ; 16 = J6 16 17 8.6 332 0 17 18 7.28 318 -1 18 19 2.51 335 +2 19 20 4.10 301.5 +2 20 21 3.92 221 -9.5 21 22 3.88 291 +11 ; 22 = J7 22 23 6.00 348 -10.5 24 23 9.83 157.5 +4 25 1 3.1 282.5 -28 25 26 8.7 108.5 +5 26 27 5.54 144 +1 27 28 4.60 121.5 -2 28 29 7.88 138.5 -1.5 29 30 20.77 141 +2 31 30 1.7 250 -3.5 ; 31 = J8 32 31 3.34 205.5 +10 ; 32 = circus maximus stn 24 *end rainbow1 *begin rainbow2 ;Explored & surveyed 1 Feb 97 ;Notes Chris ;Instruments Charles Bailey ;Tape Wookey ;calibrations: ;Now continuing from TG/PR sta. 8 ;\circus1.24 6 50 180 0 ;bodged/guessed - need data! 7 6 5.00 313 -20 7 8 1.21 097 +18 8 9 7.97 143 +0.5 10 9 4.61 333 -5 11 10 5.80 305 +3 12 11 7.29 323 +1.5 13 12 7.81 342 -2 14 13 9.87 337 +2.5 15 14 6.79 334 0 16 15 0.72 065.5 +1 16 17 3.83 180 -4 ;flat out crawl diggable, no draft ;LRUD ;7 0.6 0.5 0.4 0.5 ;8 0.3 0.3 0 0.7 ;9 0.5 0 0.6 0.3 ;10 0.4 0 0.5 0.4 ;11 0.7 0 0.5 0.3 ;12 0 0.6 0.8 0.4 ;13 0 0.5 0.4 0.5 ;14 0 0.5 0.4 0.5 ;15 0.5 0.8 0 0 ;16 0 0.5 0.2 0.2 ;17 0.2 0.4 0 0.3 *end rainbow2 ;Top Banana. Main line. ;Starts up slope of Topbanana chamber ;Ends in tight rift with boulders. ;Passable with work *begin topbanana 0 1 4 140 0; Grade1 0=tight rift 2 1 3.4 312 2 ;1=PSS 2 3 2.2 206 4 3 4 2.70 142 14 4 5 6.82 209 0 5 6 4.84 136 -2 6 7 8.82 163 2; 7=PSS=topshop.6 7 8 5.97 161 -6; 8=tophole.9 8 9 4.90 136 19; High and low leval routes.Survey through higher 9 10 6.7 144 -19 10 11 6.99 200 9 11 12 3.70 197 -8 12 13 3.10 187 11 13 14 1.32 94 0; 14=dogleg.35 *end topbanana ;Top Shop ;Parallel passages on left that descend to mud chokes. "Drafty" *begin topshop 1 2 5.31 033 14 ; 1=PSS Possible digs in roof (tight) floor (mud) 2 3 1.05 080 38 ; 2=Junction with passage down to squeeze (see st2a) 2 2a 5 010 -30; Grade1:2a=Corkscrew squeeze to choke. 3 4 2.00 015 3; 4=eyehole to main passage 4 5 3.68 354 9 5 6 3.05 045 20;6=Topbanana.7 6 7 15 010 0; Grade1:Rift with squeezes. Ends in mudchoke *end topshop ;Top'Hole ;Climb down in boulders in lower route of topbanana ; Then climb up into Top'hole chamber with several potential digs *begin tophole 1 2 4.5 097 22; 1=PSS near entrance to chamber 2 3 5.76 143 30 ; 3=Top of slope: Potential digs to right (boulder) and left ;(mub/rock) 1 4 5.00 354 16; Left end of chamber 1 5 2.05 193 -46 5 6 2.10 206 2 6 7 3.02 282 47 7 8 3.91 276 22 8 9 3.00 304 22; 9=topbanana.8 *end tophole *end Dogleg