Main Line Passage
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Main Line Passage[edit | edit source]
Main Line Passage is initially boulder-strewn, but soon reaches easy walking with occasional boulder obstacles, in a 3m high, mud-floored, decorated passage.
After about 5 minutes, a window is reached above a 6m drop.
- 10m rope, or 20m rope for pull-through; belay to large boulder.
The pitch drops at the end of Snail Cavern. There are various onwards routes, described in a clockwise direction.
- A few metres to the right of Mainline Passage, about 6m up, is another window, with a rope leading up to it (February 2016); this is Sideline Passage.
- Below and to the right of Sideline Passage is a steep descent, which leads into Lower Snail Cavern.
- Up the boulder slope, ahead to the right, leads into Snail Chamber.
- Doubling back to the right leads to Monster Cavern, leading back to Main Line Terminus.