crawlway


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crawlway

A crawlspace having one dimension that is many times larger than the other two.
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After several hours of one-way travel into the cave, we found ourselves quickly retreating from a wide, low crawlway when a small trickle of water nearby started to rush faster and back up into drier portions of our constricted space.
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In May 1986, after two years of digging, they finally uncovered a crawlway to a large room.
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"And even though we're 20 metres below street level there's another four metres of crawlways below us that give even more access."
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When we were designing the crawlways and things like that, it was like a live-action videogame.
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I coped and so did our photographer Steven Brough but he saw several visitors misjudge distances and bang their head on the top of the narrow crawlways.
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* Remove grade stakes, wood in crawlways, and other unnecessary wood sources.
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The Hole has a bad reputation among cavers because of the 4-foot-high Bathtub passage and many miles of other small crawlways. It was named after Holloch Cave in Switzerland, where Holloch means hole of the devil.
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