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<tr><th align=left><font size=+2>78</font></th>
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<th align=center><font size=+2>Schwaben(schacht)höhle</font></th>
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<th align=right><font size=+2>5/S/t/E x</font></th></tr>
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<p><b>Altitude:</b> 1669m<br>
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<b>Depth :</b> 289m<br>
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<b>Length :</b> 6.04 km
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<p><b>Location:</b> E 35727.5 N (52)81436.3 H 1664.8<br>
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Actually on the SW side of Vorder Schwarzmooskogel, but approached by the
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same route as for things to the east, as cliffs bar access from Kratzer.
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Follow the Stoger weg from Egglgrube, past the T-junction to Kratzer, and on
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until there is a red omega in the middle of the path (marking Kat. 28). Just
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before this, in a position with a better view, is a laser-rangefound point
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marked by a bolt with a painted circle round it.
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<p>Take the Eishöhle path, which starts from the omega, going left up
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the hillside. Follow this for a few minutes, past an awkward little traverse
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rigged with a steel cable and then a couple of minutes further. There is a
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very easily missed branch left just before the path traverses a ledge under
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an overhang in a cliff to its left in a relatively wide small valley. The
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landmark for this point is a dead (lightning) tree up on the right.
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<p>Take this left branch, and follow it (few landmarks, but it is a definite
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path, and there are cut branches in places). This path eventually climbs
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into impenetrable dwarf pine, to emerge at a small gravelly clearing and a
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doline, used as a bivouac site. The two entrances are just short distances
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away through the pine, the normally-used one being below a prominent larch
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tree. The other entrance is a long rift shaft. Both are impressive, though
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it is quite infeasible that anyone could ever have found them in the first
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place.
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<p>The cave is a complex of hading rifts and steep ramps with several deep
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points. The deepest point is near the southern limit of the system. A
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vertical series with pitches of 9m, 15m, 17m and 13m reaches
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Nägschtmol-Meander (1992), where the survey legs are all very short.
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This climbs slightly before heading south and dropping, passing Alexander
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der Große (a generally level side passage heading southwest to
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Leopardencanyon, apparently beyond the known passages in
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<a href="115.htm">Schnellzughöhle</a>) to der gute Abgang (the good
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lead). A 7m pitch and more steep descents end at a point almost directly
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above the assumed line of Pete's Purgatory in Schnellzug, maybe a third of
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the way to the Confluence from where it is abandoned for the Purgatory
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Bypass. This small streamway lies perhaps 120-130m below Schwabenschacht's
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deep point, but it is known that several unsurveyed fossil phreatic passages
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lie above this upstream part of the Purgatory, so a connection could be
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quite close.
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<p><b>Exploration :</b> Fred Vischer, 1980 (as far as 2/S/T)<br>
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Ongoing exploration by
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<a href="http://arge.itvd.uni-stuttgart.de/">Arbeitsgemeinschaft
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Höhle und Karst Grabenstetten e.V.</a>
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