# 1623:186

186 | Rosenkavalierhöhle | 2/S +
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Altitude:
Location: Near Schwarzmooskogel just before top camp, 50m higher than path and on opposite hillside, where path by Bräuning Nase meets fault running up the mountain. (1994 bearings Bräuning Zinken 284.5°, Loser 235°)

This was numbered 185 at the entrance, but this was fixed in 1997, and a metal tag "CUCC 186" bolted on. 1994 log shows location (note that the arrow labelled "approx north" is very approx, as it is actually roughly east):

Following the route depicted, if you reach a sandy depression, you have goner too far. Cairn built by entrances. There are three entrances investigated:

Highest is really tight flat out crawl leading to a tightish but passable rift, draughting. Abandoned in favour of a newly collapsed small hole 10m below, at the foot of a small (5m) cliff. This had a very big rock blocking the entrance and rewarded the huge effort required to move it with nearly 5m of passage to a choke and a choked shaft.

10m further down still is the third entrance. A 6m climb down to a large ramp and a rebelay is the start of a 30m pitch. One way at the bottom is an 8m boulder slope climb up to a choke and small aven. The other way is a 2m climb into moonmilk crawl and some tight thrutching and chokes. All thoroughly investigated and not going anywhere.

sketch survey by William Stead from 1990 logbook

Exploration: CUCC 1990

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