CUCC Expeditions to Austria: 1976 - 2024

Survex File: caves-1626/359/portcullispassage

*begin portcullispassage ; stations linked into other surveys (or likely to) *export 0 10 ; Cave: homecoming ; Area in cave/QM: flowstone canyon *title "portcullispassage" *date 2024.07.18 *team Insts James Waite, *team Insts Lara Bartleet *team Notes Lara Bartleet *team Tape James Waite *instrument MUSC Disto ; Calibration: yes *ref 2024#06 ; Centreline data *data normal from to length bearing gradient ignoreall 0 1 6.17 164 -30 point 0 is blue NP 6 in flowstone canyon 1 2 5.21 198 0 overtop of walking passage 2 3 2.63 165 -14.8 up above in new passage 3 4 12.32 211 -30 narrow rift in floor 4 . 8.21 345 -72.9 down through floor to passage below 4 5 4.49 197 -9.6 5 6 6.62 236.8 -36.4 drops and rises - rising leads nowhere 6 7 6.45 237 -15.1 7 8 5.15 216 -27.8 8 9 6.49 236 -58.3 in same chamber as flowstone canyon survey (piss chamber) 9 . 34.03 99.7 69.3 up into aven 9 10 1.14 118 19 point 10 is blue point in piss chamber, 19? ;----------- ;recorded station details (leave commented out) ;(NP=Nail Polish, LHW/RHW=Left/Right Hand Wall) ;Station Left Right Up Down Description ;pink nail varnish markings ;0 1.1 1 4.8 2.7 ; blue NP 6 in flowstone canyon on LHW ;1 0 1.3 4.7 2.1 ; no blue point so overlapping surveyed passage ;2 1.6 0 0.6 0.54 ;3 1.38 1.16 1.2 1.3 ;4 1.3 0.7 0.59 0.6 ;5 0 1.2 1.2 1.7 ;6 0 0.56 0.27 1.20 ;7 0.97 0 0.74 1.77 ;8 0.15 0.79 0.52 1.14 ; above passage, high level route ends ;9 0.3 2.9 4.3 1.3 ; in piss chamber ;LRUDs arranged into passage tubes ;new *data command for each 'passage', ;repeat stations and adjust numbers as needed *data passage station left right up down 0 1.1 1 4.8 2.7 1 0 1.3 4.7 2.1 2 1.6 0 0.6 0.54 3 1.38 1.16 1.2 1.3 4 1.3 0.7 0.59 0.6 5 0 1.2 1.2 1.7 6 0 0.56 0.27 1.20 7 0.97 0 0.74 1.77 8 0.15 0.79 0.52 1.14 9 0.3 2.9 4.3 1.3 ;------------ ;Cave description ;climb up on right hand side, over sandy passage leads to long sandy rift above main passage, unstable. continues past pretty helictites on left hand side. at the same point to the right and upward in the rift is another rising rift with phreatic roof and extremely loose sandy floor with large drops, continues as too wide traverse. the main passage continues downwards and onwards with sandy rift floor. you emerge at a window 5 meters above piss chamber (chamber just before the squeeze at the top of Sound of Water pitch). the aven continues upwards above the window. *end portcullispassage

underground survey length: 56.67 metres
cave primary survexfile caves-1626/359/359.svx
directory primary survexfile caves-1626/359/359
block portcullispassage has parent block 359 (in file caves-1626/359/359.svx)

2024-07-18 ['portcullispassage']

Survex files on this date:
    caves-1626/359/portcullispassage
    caves-1626/359/myfavouritethings
Wallets on this date:
    2024#06 portcullispassage ['portcullispassage']
    2024#07 myfavouritethings ['Alpineshowerscontinuedriggingtopo', 'myfavoritethings']
    2024#08 2024-JL-01 ['notes-2024-jl-01-0001_ZRaysdP', 'notes-2024-jl-01-0001']
Logbook trips on this date:
    homecoming - There and there and there and back again