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1623:1
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<tr><th align=left><font size=+2>1 a b</font></th>
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<th align=center lang=de><font size=+2>Liägerhöhle</font></th>
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<th align=right><font size=+2>2/(W) +</font></th></tr>
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<tr><th></th><th align=center lang=de><font size=+2>= D<>Liëger</font></th></tr>
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<p><b>Altitude:</b> East Entrance 812m West entrance 809m Length 306m, Depth
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71m, extent NW-SE 160m
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<p><b>Location:</b> At the foot of a gully cutting the southwestern end of
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Steller, a major cliff band SE of the Loser - Bräuning area. A couple
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of hundred metres north of the Youth Hostel at the NE corner of Altausseer
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See.
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<p>If you follow the lakeside path (shortest approach from Altaussee on
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north side of lake) there is a junction where the path to Hochklapfsattel
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departs. A short way west of (ie. before) this junction is a bridge over a
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normally dry stream bed. Follow the stream bed up for a short way until it
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splits, then follow the apparently smaller branch to the right (east).
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Scramble up rocks to the East Entrance. This is marked on the Alpine Club
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1:25000 map.
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<p>Although the Altitude given is 812m, it doesn<73>t seem that high, and 812m
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is exactly 100m above lake level, which is a little suspicious. If you
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accept instead the phrase "climb 70m higher" in the original kataster
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description, the altitude comes out about 780 to 785m, which puts the final
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sump at almost exactly the level of the lake.
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<p><b>Map:</b> 28.1 cm E, 15.4 cm N, sheet 15/1
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<p><b>Survey:</b> A4 survey in Mitt. der Sektion Ausseerland 18(4), Oct.
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1980, facing p 86. This is dated 1935, 1960 and looks like a third
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generation photocopy of a larger survey - the quality is very poor.
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<p><b>References:</b> There are descriptions (in German) of dives in the
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terminal sump in <a href="../../others/obsteier/dive1.htm"
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lang="de-at">1985</a> and <a href="../../others/obsteier/dive2.htm"
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lang="de-at">1988</a>. A further follow-up article is awaiting scanning in...
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<p>Seasonally active cave. Ends in a 'Lake', which is a sump pool, apparently
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higher than the level of Altausseer See, and close to the surveyed level of
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the Stellerweg sump.
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<p>Access to the final sump is guarded by short siphons in each of the two
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passages going to the far end of the cave. These can be drained, but care
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should be taken to ensure they are drained towards the entrance, otherwise
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the final sump will become muddy. Visited by Mike Thomas and Pete Lancaster
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in 1989, as far as the short sumps.
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<p>A note on the geology : The north shore of the lake follows a large fault
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with a big throw, so that this cave is in the same block of limestone as the
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Stögerweg area caves. The Austrians think there is no hydrological
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connection between this cave/resurgence and the lake level, since vauclusian
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resurgences in the lake appear to be in a very different block of limestone
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which has been down-faulted relative to the plateau. However, it seems more
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likely that these risings are actually <b>on</b> the fault, and that the
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lake level, and the level of the sumps in this cave and in <a
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href="../../smkridge/41.htm">Stellerwehöhle</a> are closely related.
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<p><b>Exploration:</b> Höhlenforschervereinigung Altaussee, 19xx
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<p>Sektion Ausseerland 1960
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<p>Dived by Verein für Höhlenkunde in Obersteier in 1984 and 1985,
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when the final sump went to about -20m. On the first occasion they spoiled
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the visibility in the sump by not being careful enough about how they
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drained the sump on the approach route.
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