PEACEFUL CAVE

Herbert Daniel Gebauer - 06/01/2018

A probably south-south-east facing rift entrance (1 m wide and 2 m high) and sort of a sinkhole in surface gorge (Brown 2007.02.24 Mss) leads to an immediate drop (approximately 10 + 15 m deep) which Brown (2006.02.17 Mss) characterised as an allegedly perennial stream cave but everybody knows that Mark W. Brown cannot tell the difference between season and perennial. The entrance shaft is not only characterised by a calcite boss (speleothem) on the right-hand (north-east) side but also by the fact, that all kinds of rocks, silver watches, and other heavy pieces, which are thrown down from the surface into the entrance, drop into water —hence the cave name? ETYMOLOGY: No locally known name has been identified for the gorge or gully on surface and pothole cave entrance (note 1) which somehow got nicknamed Peaceful Cave (note 2) and subsequently was alienated into a so-called Krem Jai Jai (Brooks, S J et al. 2007.03.01 Mss; Brown 2007.02.24 Mss) of which perfectly nobody familiar with te area ever had heard. SITUATION 1: Brown (2006.02.10 Mss) placed the cave entrance in a streambed (no name recorded) on the western side of the most northerly houses in Lelad village (church near N25°18'37”: E92°29'43” WGS84). SITUATION 2: Brown (2007.02.24 Mss) avoids to explain how to find this item, sticks to deluding and resorts to treason: Rhys has this information. POSITION 1: Brown (2006.02.10 Mss) positioned Peaceful Cave at an estimated distance of 20 m on a 020° bearing from GPS position N25°18'52.4”: E092°29'34.1” (±10.4 m, WGS84): 1086 m asl and thus near N25°18'53.0”: E92°29'34.2” (±15 m, WGS84). POSITION 2: Rhys Williams (GPS Garmin Etrex Venture), assisted by Mark W. Brown and Brian Cullen, read with an unidentified offset from Peacefull Cave a GPS position with a ridiculous precision of ±22 m at N25°18'52.9”: E92°29'33.4” (WGS84): 1111 m asl (GPS Garmin Etrex Venture) and thus at a horizontal linear distance of 22.6 to 55.0 m approximately east of Brow's 2006 position but vertically 26 m higher up (note 4). CAVE DESCRIPTION 1: Brooks, S J et al. (2007.03.01 Mss Diary2007.doc Sun 25th Feb) noticed a series of pitches broken by a 30 m crawl, including a 46 m hang. At base level the cave entered small draughting ducks (nose in roof jobs). CAVE DESCRIPTION 2: Brown (2007.02.24 Mss) understood Krem Jai Jai update of -Peaceful Cave- from 2006 consists, literally quoted, of Perenial [sic!] stream sink into series of pitches. Bottom descends into small phreatic rifts (small low ducks in 2007) before he continues to describe his adventure sports training device as a rift entrance 2 m high x 1 m in surface gorge. Descend c.10 m, 15 m pitches. 30 m crawl to head of 50 m shaft followed by 25 m shaft into chamber. Small ducks off bottom if not small ducks at base. Nose in roof on back job. CAVE DESCRIPTION 3: JARRATT & DAWSON (2007) were told of … a series of pitches descending to a base level small and decidedly unpleasant draughting ducks wich --apparently not lame-- drove Mark B., Rhys and Brian C. back out. TACKLE: 30 m rope, 100 m rope, 12 througbolt hangers, deviation on big pitch. PROSPECTS: Brooks (2006 undated Mss amendments to Brown 2006.02.10 Mss): Good. Brown (2007.02.24 Mss) darws attention to small ducks at base which remained unexplored because they need a cave enterer prepared for a nose in roof on back job.CAVE CLIMATE: At an unidentified time on a 10th February observed (Brown 2006.02.10 Mss) a lack of obvious air current and recorded no draught today while Brown (2007.02.24 Mss) draws attention to good air draught at an unidentified hour of the day on a 25th February 2007. CAVE LIFE: Brown (2007.02.24 Mss) has frogs (or so).'s 2006 position but vertically 26 m higher up (note 4). CAVE DESCRIPTION 1: Brooks, S J et al. (2007.03.01 Mss Diary2007.doc Sun 25th Feb) noticed a series of pitches broken by a 30 m crawl, including a 46 m hang. At base level the cave entered small draughting ducks (nose in roof jobs). CAVE DESCRIPTION 2: Brown (2007.02.24 Mss) understood Krem Jai Jai update of -Peaceful Cave- from 2006 consists, literally quoted, of Perenial [sic!] stream sink into series of pitches. Bottom descends into small phreatic rifts (small low ducks in 2007) before he continues to describe his adventure sports training device as a rift entrance 2 m high x 1 m in surface gorge. Descend c.10 m, 15 m pitches. 30 m crawl to head of 50 m shaft followed by 25 m shaft into chamber. Small ducks off bottom if not small ducks at base. Nose in roof on back job. CAVE DESCRIPTION 3: JARRATT & DAWSON (2007) were told of … a series of pitches descending to a base level small and decidedly unpleasant draughting ducks wich --apparently not lame-- drove Mark B., Rhys and Brian C. back out. TACKLE: 30 m rope, 100 m rope, 12 througbolt hangers, deviation on big pitch. PROSPECTS: Brooks (2006 undated Mss amendments to Brown 2006.02.10 Mss): Good. Brown (2007.02.24 Mss) darws attention to small ducks at base which remained unexplored because they need a cave enterer prepared for a nose in roof on back job.CAVE CLIMATE: At an unidentified time on a 10th February observed (Brown 2006.02.10 Mss) a lack of obvious air current and recorded no draught today while Brown (2007.02.24 Mss) draws attention to good air draught at an unidentified hour of the day on a 25th February 2007. CAVE LIFE: Brown (2007.02.24 Mss) has frogs (or so).