"Kataster Number","Kat Status Code","Entrances","Unofficial number","Multiple entrances","Autogen file","Link file","Link Entrance","Name","Unofficial Name","Comment","Area","Explorers","Underground Description","Equipment","qm list","Kataster status","References","Underground centre line","Underground drawn survey","Survex file to get length and depth","Length","Depth","Extent","Notes","Entrance name","tag point in dataset","other point in dataset","description of other point","exact entrance in dataset (drip line/highest enclosed contour)","Type of survey fix","GPS pre SA","GPS post SA","Northing","Easting","Altitude","Bearings","Map","Location","Approach","Entrance description","Photo of location","Marking","Marking comment","Findability","Findability comment"
1,"2/(W) +","a b","","","noinfo/aaussee/1.htm","","","Liägerhöhle","D'Liëger","",10,"</p><ul><li>Höhlenforschervereinigung Altaussee, 19xx</li><li>Sektion Ausseerland 1960</li><li>Dived by Verein für Höhlenkunde in Obersteier in 1984 and 1985, when the final sump went to about -20m. On the first occasion they spoiled the visibility in the sump by not being careful enough about how they drained the sump on the approach route.</li></ul><p>","Seasonally active cave. Ends in a 'Lake', which is a sump pool, apparently higher than the level of Altausseer See, and close to the surveyed level of the Stellerweg sump.</p><p>Access to the final sump is guarded by short siphons in each of the two passages going to the far end of the cave. These can be drained, but care should be taken to ensure they are drained towards the entrance, otherwise the final sump will become muddy. Visited by Mike Thomas and Pete Lancaster in 1989, as far as the short sumps.</p><p>A note on the geology : The north shore of the lake follows a large fault with a big throw, so that this cave is in the same block of limestone as the Stögerweg area caves. The Austrians think there is no hydrological connection between this cave/resurgence and the lake level, since vauclusian resurgences in the lake appear to be in a very different block of limestone which has been down-faulted relative to the plateau. However, it seems more likely that these risings are actually <b>on</b> the fault, and that the lake level, and the level of the sumps in this cave and in <a href=""../../smkridge/41.htm"">Stellerweghöhle</a> are closely related.","","","","There are descriptions (in German) of dives in the terminal sump in <a href=""../../others/obsteier/dive1.htm"" lang=""de-at"">1985</a> and <a href=""../../others/obsteier/dive2.htm"" lang=""de-at"">1988</a>. A further follow-up article is awaiting scanning in...","","A4 survey in Mitt. der Sektion Ausseerland 18(4), Oct. 1980, facing p 86. This is dated 1935, 1960 and looks like a third generation photocopy of a larger survey - the quality is very poor.","","306m","71m","NW-SE 160m","","","","","","","","","p1","","","East Entrance 812m West entrance 809m","","28.1 cm E, 15.4 cm N, sheet 15/1 Alpine Club 1:25000 map","At the foot of a gully cutting the southwestern end of Steller, a major cliff band SE of the Loser - Bräuning area. A couple of hundred metres north of the Youth Hostel at the NE corner of Altausseer See.","If you follow the lakeside path (shortest approach from Altaussee on north side of lake) there is a junction where the path to Hochklapfsattel departs. A short way west of (ie. before) this junction is a bridge over a normally dry stream bed. Follow the stream bed up for a short way until it splits, then follow the apparently smaller branch to the right (east). Scramble up rocks to the East Entrance. This is marked on the Alpine Club 1:25000 map.</p><p>Although the Altitude given is 812m, it doesn't seem that high, and 812m is exactly 100m above lake level, which is a little suspicious. If you accept instead the phrase ""climb 70m higher"" in the original kataster description, the altitude comes out about 780 to 785m, which puts the final sump at almost exactly the level of the lake.","","</p><table class=""imgtable""> <tr> <td><a href=""liager.jpg""><img src=""liager_small.jpg"" /></a></td> <td><a href=""liagerview.jpg""><img src=""liagerview_small.jpg"" /></a></td></tr><tr class=""caption""> <td>Entrance</td><td>View from entrance towards Altaussee</td></tr> </table> <p>","","","Surveyed",""
2,"0/(W) =","","","","noinfo/aaussee/2.htm","","","Wasserlöcher","","",10,"Unexplored ","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","810m","","","As for Liägerhöhle, the altitude is a little suspect. I think it is further below Kat.1 than this. In any case, it is quite impenetrable.","","Unexplored resurgence directly below the western entrance of <a href=""1.htm"">Liägerhöhle</a> (Kat.1). At the foot of Steller, a cliff band SE of and directly below the Loser Panoramastraße Bergrestaurant.","CUCC were shown some photographs of 1 & 2 in flood, when a truly enormous river emerges from both entrances and numerous impenetrable cracks. This explains the vegetation-free state of the twin river beds leading down towards Altausseer See. ","","","Lost",""
3,"1/T(W) +","","","","noinfo/augstb/3.htm","","","Gellerofen","","",11,"</p><ul><li>Oldest documentation is dated 1880.</li><li>Höhlenforschervereinigung Altaussee, 1937</li><li>Sektion Ausseerland, 1968</li></ul><p>","","","","","","","Plan at 1:100 by Alfred Auer, 1968 ","","13.1m","3.04m","","","","","","","","","","","","","1015m","","This is not marked on the Austrian´s map.","at the SW foot of the Loserstockes","reached from Altaussee above Posern. (I think this is below the toll road somewhere).","The entrance is 7.5m wide by 1.2m high. 'Durch das 7,5m breite und 1,2m hohe, flachbogenförmige Portal gelangt man zunächst in eine kuppelförmige Vorhalle, dann in einen durch Korrosionskolke ausgeformten Canyon. Höhlenkarren, Bergmilchbildungen, eine Sickerwasserquelle und Höhlenfauna fallen besonders auf.'","","","","Lost",""
4,"1/T(W) +","","","","noinfo/augstb/4.htm","","","Ritscherbachhöhle","","",11,"Höhlenforschervereinigung Altaussee, 1937","","","","","","","Plan at 1:100 by Alfred Auer, 1968 ","","12.3m","1.07m","","","","","","","","","","","","","1015m","","","Near <a href=""3.htm"">Gellerofen</a> (Kat. 3), at the SW foot of the Loserstockes.","","A 2.2m wide and 1.3m high entrance leads horizontally to ""Bruchschutt und Sickerwassergerinne"". ","","","","Lost",""
5,"1/S(W) +","","","","noinfo/gschwand/5.htm","","","Holzknechtbrünndlloch","","",9,"Höhlenforschervereinigung Altaussee, 1938","","","","","","","Plan at 1:100 by Alfred Auer, 1968 ","","12m","8m","","","","","","","","","","","","","1230m","","","SW foot Loserstockes","reached by path west from Loser Hütte, past Augst A.H.","Eine 1,5m grosse Schachtöffnung fü in einen stiefelförmigen Schacht, in dem ein Sickerwassergerinne früher von Holzknechten als Trinkwasserquelle genutzt wurde.'","","","","Lost",""
6,"0/W +","","","","noinfo/gschwand/6.htm","","","Quelle","Wasserloch","",9,"Unexplored - Noted for Kataster: Sektion Ausseerland, 1968 ","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","1425m","","","150m west of Augst A.H. ","","a small unenterable resurgence ","","","","Lost",""
7,"1/(W) +","","","","noinfo/loser/7.htm","","","Bachschläg","","","8a","","","","","","","","","","3m","","","","","","","","","","","","","","1550m","","Location plan by Alfred Auer at 1:200, 1968 ","West of the Loser Hütte below the south face of Loser.","Reached from the path up Loser by diagonalling down to the head of the gully from the path as it starts to climb again at about 1600m. ","A 1.8m wide by 1.2m high rock shelter, and an occasionally active rising. There is a noticeable gully below this, presumably carrying water in wet weather. ""Bei Hochwasser entströmt ihm ein mächtiger Bach und stürzt als Wasserfall über zwei Geländstufen und durch einen Graben 200m zur Loserstraße herab, wo das Wasser nach einem Durchlaß im verkarsteten Gestein versickert."" ","","","","Lost",""
8,"2/T +","","","","noinfo/loser/8.htm","","","Großes Loserloch","","","8a","</p><ul><li>First recorded in 1774</li><li>Explored since 1931</li><li>J Völlenkle of L.V.H.Linz, 1:250, 1972</li></ul><p>","The round 8m wide by 10m high entrance leads into an upper level, the Hauptgang, leading north then northeast to Regenhalle, a sizeable chamber apparently formed on a significant SW-NE joint. Immediately right at the start of the chamber, a boulder slope leads up into Teilungshalle, from where a wider slope drops left back into Regenhalle about halfway along. At the highest point of Teilungshalle, a SE-going passage quickly chokes with boulders, but appears to be heading directly for the end of Kleines Loserloch, perhaps 10m away.</p><p>Keeping to the right (SW) wall entering Teilungshalle, a rift leads SW. A passage left after 5m quickly ends too tight. A traverse to the left hand side bypasses a 5m shaft in the floor. 15m beyond, another lead on the left leads up into a small chamber, Kapelle. The continuing rift, Südwest-Kluft, gets narrower for c 25m until deemed impassable.</p><p>Back in Regenhalle, a narrow section along the joint between the two ways to Teilungshalle, gives access to a lower series via a sharp turn to the right, due south. This wide passage, Südwest-gang, passes under Teilungshalle, and turns SW directly under Südwest-Kluft. A narrow rift on the left parallels the main passage for some way. The main way develops into Gr. Dom, 12m wide, with a boulder slope up until the passage chokes comprehensively on a broad front, almost exactly below the cliff outside.</p><p>At the far (NE) end of Regenhalle, stright on enters a draughting boulder choke, but two ways up to the right lead into Stufengang, with a complex of little rifts and an extension NE to a low choked area. ","","","","","","A4 survey in Mitt. der Sektion Ausseerland 18(4), Oct. 1980, facing p 87: a plan by J Völlenkle of L.V.H.Linz, 1:250, 1972. As printed, this looks like about a 4th generation photocopy. Also includes <a href=""9.htm"">Kat. 9</a>","","390m","+20m -11m","140m SW-NE","","","","","","","","","","","","1615m","","21.8 cm E, 17.75 cm N, OAV sheet 15/1 ","At the south foot of Loser (visible from Altaussee).","Reached by traversing west from the Loser path as it draws level with the cliffs. ","Round 8m wide by 10m high entrance","","","","Lost",""
9,"2/T +","","","","noinfo/loser/9.htm","","","Kleines Loserloch","","","8a","since 1932 ","The cave is essentially a single passage for c 60m going NE to a narrowing. To the left at this point is a small extension, with a blind pit to the SW, and a draughting boulder choke to the NE. This is c 10m from a corresponding choke in Teilugshalle of Großes Loserloch.","","","","","","A4 survey in Mitt. der Sektion Ausseerland 18(4), Oct. 1980, facing p 87: a plan by J Völlenkle of L.V.H.Linz, 1:250, 1972. As printed, this looks like about a 4th generation photocopy. Also includes <a href=""8.htm"">Kat. 8</a>","","72m","+12.5 -7.5m","50m SW-NE","","","","","","","","","","","","1622m","","","Just right (25m East) of, and above, Großes Loserloch. ","","In a narrow rift in the cliff, there are two small entrances, the lower one is the normal way in, and an upper entrance to its left leads to passage which joins the normal way within 5m","","","","Lost",""
10,"1/T =","","","","noinfo/gschwand/10.htm","","","Spalthöhle","","",9,"Höhlenforschervereinigung Altaussee, 1937 ","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","",""," c1715m","",""," In NW face of Loser, overlooking Blaa-Alm.","","","","","","Lost",""
11,"1/T =","","","","noinfo/gschwand/11.htm","","","Höhle in der Loserwestwand 1","","",9,"Höhlenforschervereinigung Altaussee, 1937 ","","","","","","","","","60m","","","","","","","","","","","","",""," c1715m","",""," In NW face of Loser, overlooking Blaa-Alm.","","an impressive 12m wide by 15m high entrance. ","","","","Lost",""
12,"0/T -","","","","noinfo/gschwand/12.htm","","","Höhle in der Loserwestwand 2","","",9,"Höhlenforschervereinigung Altaussee, 1937 ","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","",""," c1715m","",""," In NW face of Loser, overlooking Blaa-Alm.","","","","","","Lost",""
13,"2/T +","","","","noinfo/loser/13.htm","","","Knochenhöhle","","","8d","Sektion Ausseerland, 1972 ","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","1690m","","","Above Dimmelwand, a rockface above the final section of the toll road.(West of Augstsee on Gschirr) ","","","","","","Lost",""
14,"1/T +","","","","noinfo/loser/14.htm","","","Schafkirche","","","8c","Sektion Ausseerland, 1968 ","","","","","","","","","36m","","","","","","","","","","","","","","1670m","","25.3 cm E, 19.75 cm N, sheet 15/1 (named on map). ","SW of Augstsee in the small scars forming the NE face of the small ridge running down to the Bergrestaurant from Loser Fenster, overlooking the lake.","","","","","","Lost",""
15,"1/(W) +","","","","noinfo/egglgrub/15.htm","","","Michel-Gang","","",7,"Sektion Ausseerland, 1953 ","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","1500m","","","Below main path west of Egglgrube. (About 35m below the path as it contours east of Sommersitz) ","","","","","","Lost",""
16,"1/T +","","","","noinfo/loser/16.htm","","","Pauli-Loch","","","8c","Sektion Ausseerland, 1968 ","Since the length is recorded as 40m, it is interesting to read that a maximum/ minimum thermometer and hygrometer were placed 50m from the entrance from June 1976 to September 1977. These showed that the temperature varied from 1 to 5°C, with a relative humidity between 94% and 100%. The cave yielded Pseudoscorpions of the species <i>Neobisium blothrus aueri</i>.","","","","","","","","40m","","","","","","","","","","","","","","1690m","","","Below cliffs west of Augstsee.","","","","","","Lost",""
17,"1/T =","","","","noinfo/loser/17.htm","","","Bärenhöhle im Höllgraben","","","8b","Höhlenforschervereinigung Altaussee, 1949. ","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","1380m","","","In Höllgraben, which is a major gully starting below the Bergrestaurant and dropping down to <a href=""../aaussee/1.htm"">Liägerhöhle</a> at the NW end of the Altausseer See. Cave is below and South of Bergrestaurant, just at the top break of slope.","","","","","","Lost",""
18,"2/T +","","","","noinfo/loser/18.htm","","","Gaisofen im Ammerei","","","8b"," LVHK Wien, 1974 ","","","","","","","","","250m","","","","","","","","","","","","","","1440m","","","500m NE of Loser Hütte, north of <a href=""17.htm""> Bärenhöhle</a> (Kat.17) in Ammereich, a small cliff band below the toll road.","","","","","","Lost",""
19,"1/T +","","","","noinfo/egglgrub/19.htm","","","Gamsofen im Scharlingkar","","",7,"Sektion Ausseerland, 1953 ","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","1450m","","","SE of Egglgrubenalm, ie. follow the valley down from Egglgrube until some huts appear - the cave is then SE below a small cliff somewhere. ","","","","","","Lost",""
20,"1/T +","","","","noinfo/egglgrub/20.htm","","","Windhöhle","","",7,"Sektion Ausseerland, 1953 ","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","1475m","","","In Scharlingkar. This is the band of cliffs SW of Weiße Wand. The cave is SW of <a href=""19.htm"">Gamsofen</a> (Kat.19) and almost due south of the huts in Bräning Alm.","","","","","","Lost",""
21,"2/S/T +","","","","noinfo/egglgrub/21.htm","","","Windloch im Egglgrube","","",7,"Höhlenforschervereinigung Altaussee, 1938 ","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","1510m","","","South of Egglgrubenalm (it looks to be east of it on the map), north of <a href=""19.htm"">Gamsofen</a> (Kat.19).","","","","","","Lost",""
22,"1/S x","","","","noinfo/egglgrub/22.htm","","","Spiralschacht","","",7,"Höhlenforschervereinigung Altaussee, 1939 ","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","1500m","","","South of Egglgrubenalm. Not marked on Austrian´s map","","","","","","Lost",""
23,"1/t/S =","","","","noinfo/egglgrub/23.htm","","","Steinbockhöhle","","",7,"Höhlenforschervereinigung Altaussee, 1939 ","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","1500m","","","East of Egglgrubenalm near Weiße Wand. ","","","","","","Lost",""
24,"1/S =","","","","noinfo/egglgrub/24.htm","","","Schachthöhle bei Egglgrubenalm","","",7,"Schauberger, 1938 ","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","1540m","","","South of junction of paths near Egglgrube (ie. divergence of CUCC's routes to the col and to Stellerweg) ","","","","","","Lost",""
25,"2/T x","","","","noinfo/egglgrub/25.htm","","","Mauskothhöhle","","",7,"Höhlenforschervereinigung Altaussee, 1938 ","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","1500m","","","East of Egglgrubenalm, very near <a href=""23.htm"">Steinbockhöhle</a> (Kat. 23).","","","","","","Lost",""
26,"1/(W) +","","","","noinfo/br-alm/26.htm","","","Wasserschlinger I","","",3,"Sektion Ausseerland, 1976 ","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","1542m","","","In Bräuning Kunntal, the large closed depression west of Bräuning Alm. ","","","","","","Lost",""
27,"1/(W) +","","","","noinfo/br-alm/27.htm","","","Wasserschlinger II","","",3,"Sektion Ausseerland, 1976 ","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","1542m","",""," In Bräuning Kunntal, next to <a href=""26.htm"">Kat.26</a>","","","","","","Lost",""
28,"2/t/S +","","","","noinfo/smkridge/28.htm","","","Augsteckhöhle","","","2a","LVHK Wien, 1974 ","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","1630m","","","Next to Stögerweg (path 201) just beyond <a href=""../../egglgrub/index.html"">Egglgrube</a> and the branch path to <a href=""../../kratzer/index.html"">the Kratzer valley</a>. ie. we pass it on the way to <a href=""../../smkridge/41.htm"">Stellerweghöhle</a>. It is marked by a red-painted omega in the path, just where the junction path leading to The Nipple and the German bivouac leaves the main path, at which point there is also a laser-rangefound <a href=""../../handbook/survey/lasers.htm"">fixed point</a>.","","","","Paint","Numbered in red","Refindable","Near Stoger Weg. Should be easy to find"
29,"1/S x","","","","noinfo/br-alm/29.htm","","","Schwarzmoosloch","","",3,"Schauberger, 1921 ","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","1560m","","","NE of huts in Bräuning Alm ","","","","","","Lost",""
30,"1/S x","","","","noinfo/br-alm/30.htm","","","Grundloses Loch","","",3,"LVHK Oberösterreich, 1966 ","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","1570m","","","Next to path towards Bräuning Alm from Egglgrube junction. (I think this may be the first walled open shaft on the true left of the valley below Bräuning Alm) ","","","","","","Lost",""
31,"2/T +","","","","noinfo/smkridge/31.htm","","","Elchhöhle","Megalodontenhöhle","","2a","LVHK Wien, 1974","Mainly horizontal and going northish under the path. A large phreatic tube in horizontally bedded limestone. Visited by Andy Waddington, Doug Florence with Karl Gaisberger on August 12th, 1978. Latter person collected a rare cave beetle from it (only the second specimen of this species collected in Austria, if we understood Karl correctly), which I think is now in the Natural History Museum in Vienna, having been pickled in Vodka borrowed from an expedition member. Name comes from discovery of Elk bones when first explored. ","","","","","In dataset","","caves/31/31.svx","262m","26m","85m","","","","p31","No idea","","Surface survey","","","","","","","","Next to Stögerweg (path 201) somewhat beyond <a href=""28.htm"">Augsteckhöhle</a> (Kat. 28). Located very near laser point 7/9.","","","","Paint","Red number - next to main path","Surveyed",""
32,"1/S +","","","","noinfo/smkridge/32.htm","","","Windloch am Stögerweg","","","2a","LVHK Oberösterreich, 1966 ","","","","","","","","","","25m","","","","","p032","drilled hole above 1623/32 entrance (next to path)","p032x","Nils","","",81126,35771,"1567m","","","Obvious horizontal entrance right next to path 201 shortly before you hack off to Stellerweghöhle. ","","A major landmark for CUCC navigation, and also very useful for storing beer, this obvious 2m high entrance is right next to the path and blows a lot of cold air in summer. Unfortunately, it doesn't go anywhere. It does, however, have a permanent survey station.","","Spit","CUCC drilled hole and small red-painted pre-1981 number","Surveyed",""
33,"1/T +","","","","noinfo/br-alm/33.htm","","","Schichtgrenzenhöhle","","",3,"Sektion Ausseerland, 1975 ","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","1570m","","","South of Bräuning Alm. I think this is another of the fenced off shafts near the path north from the junction at Egglgrube. ","","","","","","Lost",""
34,"1/T +","","","","noinfo/kratzer/34.htm","","","Höhle am Kratzer I","","",4,"Sektion Ausseerland, 1973 ","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","1590m","","","Quite a way east of Bräuning Alm in the top end of the Kratzer valley.","","","","","","Lost",""
35,"2/S/T x","","","","noinfo/kratzer/35.htm","","","Dr. Kerschner Höhle","","",4,"</p><ul><li>Found by Othmar Schauberger, 1921.</li><li>Looked at for some years by F Hütter, but always blocked by snow.</li><li>In October 1976, G Graf managed to descend 30m in the shaft, the uppermost part of which was snow and ice free. The continuation of the way could not be found.</li><li>In August 1977, 5kg of salt was dumped onto the snow blockage. In October 1977, after a long walk over the plateau, it was looked at again and successfully explored.</li></ul><p>","Now, the Austrian's exploration details suggest that the cave was substantially unblocked in 1976 (to -30m in October), while CUCC's find was choked at -10m. Also, the description given of this cave in the local Climbing Guide (Krenmayr) sounds nothing like B5 at all, (he says, already explored in 1921, but today almost forgotten. Need Ice equipment) so the Austrian writing in the caver's magazine who said it was B5 may have been mistaken. Krenmayr gives length 250m, depth 100m.</p><p>This description by Karl Gaisberger is from the 1977 Exploration:</p><p>After climbing down 8m to where the shaft appeared blocked by snow, progress did not seem likely. I [translator] think ""there was a spiralling way in the snow to a wall of ice columns"". A very steep descent led into a passage with a snow cone. (This was still in the previous year's snow-free climb !). Pushing through a thin snow-wall through which the light glimmered, a direct way was established. Through a hole in the snow in a rubble-filled passage, the way soon branched. Both branches ended blind.</p><p>The lower level of the cave, described by O Schauberger, must be found on the opposite side of the snow-cone from the [Schluf?]. One now comes to a chamber complex where a sloping 10m shaft climbs down into the <b>Kristallhalle</b>. The walls here are covered with admittedly large, but superficially weathered calcite somethings (Kalzitdrusen).</p><p>From the Kristallhalle, through a narrow bit to a side-something with a pile of rubble, the <b>Tropfsteinhalle</b>. There is a single 60cm high stalagmite here. It shows a corroded appearance, indicating aggressive ground water. Tropfsteinhalle contains, so far, the most beautiful flowstone decorations in the Loser area. These include [plenty dictionary failure here] Sinterfahnen, Boden- und Deckenzapfen, sogar Excentriques.</p><p>In the area of the stalagmites, several dead pseudoscorpions (<i>Neobisium aueri</i>) were found. <i>There is some more description of the floor of the chamber (I think), but I can't make head nor tail of it.</i>","","","","","","","","250m","Given 100m in 1980.","","","","","","","","","","","","","1630m","","","Just SW of the col (Schwarzmoossattel), SE of Bräuning Nase. ","","Surface shaft often blocked with snow","","","This hole supposedly has a CUCC painted number ""B5"" of 1976 vintage, which will probably be pretty faded. But the cave descriptions do not agree.","Lost",""
36,"1/S x","","","","noinfo/kratzer/36.htm","","","Schachtgruppe I - V","","",4,"Höhlenforschervereinigung Altaussee, undated. ","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","p36","","","GPS post SA","","","","","","","","Austrian kataster says Hinterbräuning, south of Bräuning Nase, but this isn´t where their map shows it. Map shows it south east of Schwarzmoossattel, on east side of upper Kratzer valley below Schwarzmooskogel.</p><p>The cave was located on the ground by CUCC in 1990 and it is, in fact, just south of Schwarzmoossattel, which is almost due east of Bräuning Nase. From the path leaving the col going south, hack off following the little stream down into the valley. This sinks into the northernmost of a group of three shafts below a small headwall facing east.</p><p>Number is in red on the headwall just south of the three entrances.</p><p>A group of five (presumably small) shafts. One of these was thought, by the Austrians, to be CUCC's 'B1' of 1976. This, however, is patently not the case, since the sequence B1-B4 goes up the valley, and B4 is about level, perhaps slightly lower than 36.","","A group of five (presumably small) shafts","","Paint","Number is in red on the headwall just south of the three entrances. ","Surveyed",""
37,"0/S -","","","","noinfo/plateau/37.htm","","","Schachtgruppe beim Hinterer Schwarzmooskogel","","","1d","Discovered by Höhlenforschervereinigung Altaussee, undated.<br /> Status is given as totally unexplored, so it could well be a CU<!>CC hole by now, and have a different number.","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","1700m","","","West of Ht. Schwarzmooskogel. Well out onto the plateau, and hence, almost impossible to find or identify. ","","","","","","Lost",""
38,"1/T +","","","","noinfo/plateau/38.htm","","","Algenhöhle","","","1d","Höhlenforschervereinigung Altaussee, 1938","Behind the entrance there is a single passage at right angles to it, with boulders (Blockwerk). ","","","","","","Sketch by J. Gaisberger snr., 1938 ","","33m","","","","","","","","","","","","","","1700m","","","West of Hinterer Schwarzmooskogel (exact location unknown) Possibly near <a href=""37.htm"">Kat.37</a> (q.v.)","","","","","","Lost",""
39,"1/T +","","","","noinfo/kratzer/39.htm","","","SCHWA höhle 39","","","2b or 4 (unclear)","Höhlenforschervereinigung Altaussee, 1938","","","","","","","","","18m","","","","","","","","","","","","","","1740m","","","West side of Vorderer Schwarzmooskogel according to text. Map shows it on S side, not far from the summit area. Later reference says it is above and south of <a href=""36.htm"">Kat.36</a>, however the kataster description of the location of 36 is also wrong... ","","2.2m wide by 1.2m high entrance leads in a gentle slope to where it becomes too tight. ","","","","Lost",""
40,"7/S/T/E x","a–s","","yes","noinfo/smkridge/40.htm","","","Schwarzmooskogeleishöhle","Schwarzmooskogelhöhlensystem","see also <a href=""smkridge/40/cucc.htm"">CUCC discoveries in Eishöhle</a>","2b","The main passages as far as Elephantengang were explored by 1938. Since then a variety of groups have worked here finding numerous extensions, of which Schneevulkanhalle is the most significant.</p><p>Until recently, it has been difficult to come close to a comprehensive survey or even a good estimate of the length of the system because of a lack of contact and some misunderstanding between the groups involved. However, in 1997 a chance encounter (at the International Congress) by Wookey with Denis Motte, of the <a href=""../../others/gscb/index.htm"">G.S.Clerval,</a> led to renewed contacts with one group who explored this area, and Thilo Müller of ARGE has contacted the leaders of other groups and obtained all the rest of the 1980s information that survives. This is being merged into a coherent set of information which will guide necessary resurvey work to complete the picture.</p><ul><li>Discovered and main passages explored in 1929 by Ausseer cavers, and surveyed in 1938 by O Schauberger and U Czornig.</li><li>Further exploration 1953, Sektion Ausseerland.</li><li>Wilfried Lorenz, Franz Lindenmayr with Nuremburg and Munich cavers discover the Schneevulkanhalle at the beginning of July 1978 (not yet connected to Eishöhle).</li><li>In Autumn 1983, Eishöhle was ""1600m long with four entrances"".</li><li>After several trips by the Germans in September to November 1983, the system was 2500m long with five entrances [<a href=""../../others/muenchen/de/841642.htm"" lang=""de"">Der Schlaz, 42</a>, also on site in <a href=""../../others/muenchen/en/841642.htm"">English translation</a>].</li><li>More recently, Reinhard Kieselbach's (München/Nurnberg - VfHM) group have linked it to <a href=""88.htm"">Lärchenschacht</a> (88) (itself 1885m long in April 1995, and apparently giving a combined length of 6km) which they also connected to <a href=""../../smkridge/41.htm"">Stellerweghöhle</a> (5.75 km).</li><li>Our Current estimate of the cave length is 1,863km, from a total surveyed length of 2,463m (600m of the 974m long Schneevulkanhalle survey is not deemed to be part of the cave length).<br />The length comes from:<br />VfHM 1980s survey - 693m: Original part of cave plus extensions<br /> VfHO 1991 survey - 374m: Schneevulkanhalle from 40e entrance<br />CUCC 1998-9 surveys - 751m: Heaven and Hell and persitence of vision SVH extensions<br />Arge 1999 surveys - 130m: Königsschacht and Grüner Eingang</li></ul><p>Stellerweghöhle in turn is connected to <a href=""78.htm"">Schwabenschacht</a> which was over 7km at the time and exploration continues. This must make the combined system at least 19 km long. We have seen figures quoted as high as 25km, but this may involve some double-counting, given the uncertainties involved. Arge's estimate (entirely from extant survey data) was 22.7 km after summer 1999.","Schwarzmooskogeleishöhle is an extensive cave over 1600m long before 1983, extended to 2500m by a German group by 1985. The system is mainly horizontal, though tackle is needed to explore it fully, and crampons are necessary in parts, because of the substantial quantities of ice in the cave. Was extended by the Germans who worked in the area in the early eighties, who suggested then that there was potential for extension vertically. Subsequently linked via a 30m pitch to <a href=""88.htm"">Lärchenschacht</a> (1623/88) which in turn was connected to the <a href=""../../smkridge/41.htm"">Stellerweghöhlensystem</a>, giving no increase in depth if the laser-rangefound altitude is correct rather than the old kataster one, which seems likely.</p><h4>Translated brief guide</h4><p>From 'Längsten und Tiefsten Hohlen in Österreich', translated by Wookey and Thilo:</p><p>The cave is on the southeastern slopes of the Vorderen Schwarzmooskogel (1843) devel
40,"","a","","entrance","noinfo/smkridge/40a.htm","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","Oberer Eingang","","p40a","it is laser point 14","","laser point","","",81700.93,36459.49,"1689.6784m","","","","From the Bergrestaurant, take path 201, ignoring the left turn to the plateau at Egglgrube. Pass the junction path left to Kratzer and continue until a red upper-case Omega is seen in the middle of the path, marking Kat. 28 (we think). There is a well-marked (cairns and red paint spots/arrows) branch path here. Follow this for about half an hour to the back of the limestone knoll known as ""The Nipple"" (and Weisse Warz and bunter's bulge). Things to note: first there is a wire traverse then you pass the lightninged tree in a sizeable valley. (Opposite this tree is the point you would turn left for Schwabenscacht). Shortly after that a pair of red arrows point in opposite directions. Go steeply uphill here doubling back slightly, rather than the more obvious straight on. Turn right about 40m beyond the nipple and head across the limestone for a narrow gully. After a hundred metres or so new red paint marks appear and take you to 40a. A very large cave entrance, 20 minutes further on, was the German's (Munich) bivouac, and a few minutes later, a strongly draughting (out in summer) tube about 5m in diameter is the main entrance (""Hauptportal"" - 40a).","a strongly draughting (out in summer) tube about 5m in diameter","","Tag (?)","","Surveyed","Marked entrance thought to be 40a"
40,"","b","","entrance","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","Schneeschacht ","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","Tag","Tag placed eary in 2002 expo","?",""
40,"","f","","entrance","smkridge/40/40f.html","","","","","","","","Classic pitch lands on slope to snow. Down side of snow leads into passage containing red climbing rope; this is the top of Brennerbeserlschluf (40e) before the snow volcano into Schneevulkanhalle.","","","","","","","","","","","","Königsschachts ","","p40f","?","","Surface survey","","",82042,36587,"1688m","","","","Just 20m below traverse ledge on 163 -> 40s route","Large shaft","</p> <table class=""imgtable""><tr> <td><a href=""i/40f-1.jpg""><img src=""t/40f-1.jpg"" /></a></td> <td><a href=""i/40f-2.jpg""><img src=""t/40f-2.jpg"" /></a></td> <td><a href=""i/40f-3.jpg""><img src=""t/40f-3.jpg"" /></a></td> <td><a href=""i/40f-4.jpg""><img src=""t/40f-4.jpg"" /></a></td> </tr><tr class=""caption""><td colspan=""4""> Wookey on the entrance shaft in 2002 (photo Olly Betts, using Wookey's camera)</td></tr> </table><p>","","","Surveyed",""
40,"","g","","entrance","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","Einstieg zur Hans Pfandl-Halle","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","?",""
41,"7/S/T/E x","a b","","yes","smkridge/41.htm","","","Stellerweghöhle","","","2a","Length of CUCC's part is approx 5.75 km, while the Germans had about 6 km in 88 in 1987, and the French (?) connected the Eishöhle (2.5 km or more) in the same year. This should make the system about 14-15 km all told before 1996. The Stuttgart group, <a href=""http://arge.itvd.uni-stuttgart.de/"">Arbeitsgemeinschaft Höhle und Karst Grabenstetten e.V.</a>, have, early in 1996, connected their cave <a href=""../noinfo/smkridge/78.htm"">Schwabenschacht</a> (1623-78) into a passage in <a href=""142.htm"">1623/142</a>, one way into the system. This adds no new depth, but considerably increases the overall length. ARGE have also been doing much useful resurvey and some exploration, bringing their estimate of the total length to 22.7 km in 1999.","As the <a href=""41/41.htm"">full guidebook description</a> is understandably quite big and is still evolving, just an overview is given here.</p><p>Sub-horizontal passages lead through steeply-hading rifts from this entrance. A lower route was originally explored by a German group before CUCC's first visit, and remains poorly documented and not fully explored. The higher route, explored by CUCC, leads past connections to <a href=""142.htm"">142</a>, another CUCC find. Passages trend downhill to reach the <b>Big Pitch</b> of 100m vertical.</p><p><a href=""../noinfo/smkridge/88.htm"">Lärchenhöhle</a> connects at the bottom of the Big Pitch, and a streamway leads down. A roof passage connects to CUCC's <a href=""144.htm"">144</a>, and another leads on to smaller pitches to the <b>Big Rift</b>, dropping steeply down several pitches to reach <b>Junction Chamber</b> with connections to <a href=""115.htm"">Schnellzughöhle</a> (115).</p><p>The route to 115 also leads to <b>Pete's Purgatory</b>, 800m of awful streamway to <b>the Confluence</b>, much more easily reached by large fossil passages starting with <b>Dartford Tunnel</b> from Junction Chamber. The Confluence is around half the depth of the system, and marks a transition to a single linear streamway leading to great depth, a feature currently unique in the known caves of the area.</p><p>The streamway is interrupted by a bypassable sump and several, mainly short, pitches, before a low-airspace canal appears to mark the end. However, a low duck can be passed to reach a deep and very wet shaft <b>Orgasm Chasm</b> which drops to the final muddy passage and short pitch to a dismal and deep rift sump.</p><p>The sump is 898m below the 41a entrance, and is at just about the same level as Altausseer See, in whose <a href=""../aaussee/0.htm"">underwater risings</a> the Stellerweg water is presumed to emerge. The scope for greater depth here seems minimal, but connections to various higher entrances have increased this to c971m, with perhaps a little more potential still to realise (optimistically up to 1058m).","","","","","","","smk-system.svx","8088m (SMK system total 54000m)","357m (SMK system total 1032m)","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","</p><ul><li>41a (main) 1611m, 47° 40' 10"" N, 13° 48' 41"" E</li><li>41b (upper) 1625m, 47° 40' 10"" N, 13° 48' 42"" E</li></ul><p>","Follow Stögerweg to <a href=""../noinfo/smkridge/32.htm"">Windloch</a> and then a hundred metres or so further. When the path starts to drop steeply, backtrack 10m (where there should be a permanent survey station 'P4') and start to hack up the hillside. Orange paint flashes on the rock should be visible, and will lead after 300m or so to a cave entrance at the head of a gully. If it isn't blowing the trees around in the cold air, it isn't the right place!","","","","",""
41,"","a","40j","entrance","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","p041a","station at entrance 41a, left side of main entrance","p041ax","Nils","","",81244,35827,"1621m","","","","","","","","","Surveyed"
41,"","b","40k","last entrance","smkridge/41b.htm","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","p41b","Surface survey","","",81258,35863,"1635m","","","The upper entrance (41b) is in a large rift about 30m to the east of the lower (41a) which is a strongly outward-draughting tube in a shattered gully.","","","","Paint","Number painted in red","Surveyed"
42,"1/S =","","","","noinfo/smkridge/42.htm","","","Wasserschacht","","","2a","Sektion Ausseerland, 1952 ","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","1700m","","","SSW of Vd. Schwarzmooskogel, not far (50m vertical) up the hill from Stellerweghöhle, so we have probably rediscovered it and renumbered it. ","","","","","","Lost"
43,"1/T+","","","","noinfo/kratzer/43.htm","","","Höhle beim Wackelstein","","",4,"Sektion Ausseerland, 1973 ","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","1650m","","","SE of Bräuning Nase, apparently just below the path up to Schwarzmoossattel. ","","","","","","Lost"
44,"1/T+","","","","noinfo/kratzer/44.htm","","","Höhle am Kratzer II","","",4,"","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","1620m","","","In upper Kratzer valley south of the col. ","","","","","","Lost"
45,"1/S/E +","","","","noinfo/wilden/45.htm","","","Dannerschacht","","",5,"","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","1610m","","","East of Vorderer Schwarzmooskogel. NE of the Eishöhle, and looking pretty difficult to get to. ","","","","","","Lost"
51,"1/T +","","","","noinfo/aaussee/51.htm","","","Höhlen 1-3 in Weiße Wand","","",10,"","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","1330-1400m","","","At the bottom of Weiße Wand west of Hochklapfsattel, some way below the Stögerweg path. ","","","","","","Lost"
52,"1/S/W +","a b","","","noinfo/gschwand/52.htm","","","Sennerkeller & Sauloch","","",9,"Sektion Ausseerland, 1968 ","To the north, an 11m long, 2m high and 0.5m wide meander passage leads off. Through the passage flows a small gutter, which might well end too tight just after the turn off to Sennerkeller, the water emerging at a small spring to the north of Sennerkeller in a karren field. ","","","","Mitt. der Sektion Ausseerland 19(3) July, 1981, p 49 ","","1:250, Alfred Auer, 1968 (no copy available) ","","32m","15m","17.5m SW-NE","","","","","","","","","","","","1490m","","","Gschwandalm, by the path.","Reached by walking all the way round Loser from the Loser Hütte. ","In a 15m by 6m wide rift is the 6m by 4m entrance to the Sauloch. This is in a steep-sided doline used as a dumping place for all sorts of refuse.","","","","Lost"
53,"1/T +","","","","noinfo/augstb/53.htm","","","Gellerliäger","","",11,"","""Horizontale, niedere Röhre mit Bruchschutt.""","","","","","","Plan 1:100 by Alfred Auer, 1968 ","","","","5m N-S ","","","","","","","","","","","","1020m","","","","12m east and 5m above <a href=""3.htm"">Gellerofen</a> (Kat.3)","","","","","Lost"
54,"1/T =","","","","noinfo/augstb/54.htm","","","Seehöhle","","",11,"Karl Gaisberger, 1959 ","","","","","","","","","5m","","","","","","","","","","","","","","780m","","","South of and well below <a href=""3.htm"">Gellerofen</a> (Kat.3), not marked on the Austrian´s map, but apparently just off the road in Augstbachtal. Must be almost in the village. ""Kleine Höhle mit einer Wasserlacke im Inneren.""","","","","","","Lost"
55,"1/S/T =","","","","noinfo/loser/55.htm","","","Schachthöhle west. Hochanger","","","8d","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","1750m","","","Almost on the saddle between Loser and Hochanger. ","","","","","","Lost"
56,"1/T +","","","","noinfo/loser/56.htm","","","Hornsteinhöhle","","","8c","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","1650m","","","West side of Augstsee. ","","","","","","Lost"
57,"1/S +","","","","noinfo/loser/57.htm","","","Höhle unterhalb der Schafkirche","","","8c","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","1660m","","","West side of Augstsee. ","","","","","","Lost"
58,"1/T +","","","","noinfo/loser/58.htm","","","Höhle unterhalb ab Pauli-Loch","","","8c","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","1670m","","","West side of Augstsee. ","","","","","","Lost"
59,"1/T+","","","","noinfo/loser/59.htm","","","Bruchshutthöhle","","","8c","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","1680m","","","West side of Augstsee on map. Text says W Hochangerlift (presumed to be the ski lift which runs from near the Loser Hütte towards Loser Fenster) on Gschirr, which is itself unnamed on the map. Current surmise is that the map location is correct, that the cave is actually east of the lift, and that Gschirr is the ridge running down from Loser Fenster to the Bergrestaurant. However the map symbol implies that this is a shaft, and this location is actually unlikely for a shaft...","","","","","","Lost",""
60,"1/S =","","","","noinfo/gschwand/60.htm","","","Schacht I-IV bei Gschwandalm","","",9,"Sektion Ausseerland, 1965, 1968","","","","","Mitt. der Sektion Ausseerland 19(3) July, 1981, p 49 ","","","","40m","30m","","","","","","","","","","","","","1590m","","","1 Km NE of Gschwandalm between spot heights 1537 and 1607m, below the path. <p>In a hollow is a 4m wide and 40m long rift containing a row of shafts (II-IV). The rift reaches -30m, where there is a melt-water pool. A little higher up the slope is a triangular opening 1.5m wide and 2.2m long. At -15m, this connects with the others.","","","","","","Lost",""
61,"1/T +","","","","noinfo/br-alm/61.htm","","","Gemsbockhöhle","","",3,"Karl Gaisberger, 1975 ","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","1620m","","","NE of Bräuning Alm, north of the path to Schwarzmoossattel.","","","","","","Lost",""
62,"1/T +","","","","noinfo/loser/62.htm","","","Dolinenhöhle","","","8d","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","1620m","","","Above Dimmelwand - cliff above last section of toll road. ","","","","","","Lost",""
66,"1/T+","","","","noinfo/augstb/66.htm","","","Löckerweghöhle","","",11,"Höhlenforschervereinigung Altaussee, 1939 ","","","","","","","Plan at 1:100 by Alfred Auer, 1968 ","","11.1m","","SW-NE","","","","","","","","","","","","980m","","","SW side of Loserstockes, directly above Ht.Posern. ","","2.6m wide by 1m high entrance, ""flachbogenförmige Portal führt in eine 1939 von der H.V.A. ausgegrabene horizontal Höhle. Holozäne Knochenfunde.""","","","","Lost",""
67,"2/T +","","","","noinfo/loser/67.htm","","","Biwakhöhle am Loser","","","8d","","In October 1977, Karl Gaisberger collected the first examples of the Pseudoscorpion <i>Neobisium hermanni</i> to be found in the Totes Gebirge.","","","","","","","","55m","","","","","","","","","","","","","","1670m","","","Above Dimmelwand. ","","","","","","Lost",""
68,"1/T +","","","","noinfo/aaussee/68.htm","","","Kleine Bärenhöhle","","",10,"","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","1370m","","","At foot of Weiße Wand west of Hochklapfsattel, just NNE of Kat.51","","","","","","Lost",""
69,"1/S +","","","","noinfo/loser/69.htm","","","Schacht am Gschirr","","","8d","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","1690m","","","Text says West of Augstsee. Map shows it above Dimmelwand. ","","","","","","Lost",""
71,"2/S/W +","a b","","","kratzer/71.htm","","","Fledermaushöhle","","",4,"Discovered by Karl Gaisberger in October 1975, but prevented from continuing by start of winter snows, so shared exploration with CUCC, 1976. ","Initial hands and knees crawl for 20m soon enlarges and descends past a couple of oxbows (one leading to within sight of daylight up an aven) to reach twin climbs of 8m, the easier being through a hole to the right. Soon afterwards is the first pitch, a sloping 8m. Below this, a pleasant passage with occasional bat-droppings leads to a short muddy crawl, an earth bank and a sizeable chamber. The next pitch, of 7m, is reached after more muddy passage, and may be climbed/jumped by a rift to one side, but is best rigged for the return.</p><div class=""centre""><a href=""l/ca7.htm""><img alt=""Photo - 34k"" src=""t/ca7.jpg"" width=""178"" height=""134"" /></a> <a href=""l/ca4.htm""><img alt=""Photo - 22k"" src=""t/ca4.jpg"" width=""200"" height=""150"" /></a></div><p>Easy going continues past a right turn to a complex junction at several levels. The water can be followed down a rift to a drop into an impenetrable fissure. Back at the junction, a traverse and thrutch through lead to a small tube, which crosses a cross-rift and ends at a filthy sump. Left at the cross rift, however, a low crawl gives onto a greasy chimney climb of 4m with very little in the way of holds. At the foot of this, the water reenters, and soon develops acute verticality. The first 5m are technical and best rigged, but below that, the descent becomes more spiralling in mainly solid rock. After 30m, things become more shattered and muddy and the climb drops into water leading very quickly to a sump at -90m.</p><p>Shortly before the second pitch, a right turn leads into an inlet passage, over a slot to the main passage below, over a traverse and a false floor, to reach, eventually, an aven ascended for about 25m and continuing, but with no great prospects.</p><p>From the Chamber, a traverse can be entered from the top of the rock-slope. The level closes off after about 15m, but below a climb down, a pitch was excavated dropping into a larger passage which soon choked comprehensively.","","","","","no","<a href=""../../jnl/1977/index.htm"">Cambridge Underground 1977</a>, facing page 46.</p><p><img alt=""survey: 15k gif"" width=""560"" height=""650"" src=""71.png"" /><p>(The original notes have been lost; the length cited was calculated by inventing stations and survey legs based on the drawn-up survey.)","","347m","90m","116m","","","","","","","","","","","","1600m","","","West of Kratzer valley, off path to Schwarzmoossattel.","","Entrance is in a fair-sized shakehole in the dwarf-pine-covered karren before Schwarzmoossattel.","","Paint (?)","Believed to be numbered in red","Refindable","AERW knows where it is"
72,"1/T +","","","","noinfo/loser/72.htm","","","Skeletthöhle","","","8c","Sektion Ausseerland, 1976 ","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","1720m","","","West of Augstsee. ","","","","","","Lost",""
73,"2/S =","","","","noinfo/kratzer/73.htm","","","Suppentellerschacht","","",4,"</p><ul><li>Discovered by K Gaisberger and F Hütter in August 1973 (to -30m)</li><li>Sektion Ausseerland, 1977 (Karl Gaisberger + Edith Bednarik)</li></ul><p>","The first step is sprayed by meltwater, and the second step leads to -30m. A short rope leads to the next step. A rift follows an acute angle under the entrance way, some metres back. This section is very narrow, and over the narrow section pours a showerbath. Now a second squeeze leads to a fine pitch which bends back under the previous section. Then it gets complicated (the language, not the cave). It sounds like a series of either roomy or narrow wet pitches. Exploration appears to cease at -60m because of water down the neck and in the suit. It isn't clear if the cave actually stops at this point.","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","1580m","","","In Kratzer valley, some way up valley from <a href=""../../kratzer/71.htm"">Fledermaushöhle</a> (Kat.71).","","","","","","Lost",""
74,"1/T +","","","","noinfo/kratzer/74.htm","","","Schneckenhaushöhle","","",4,"Edith Bednarik, 1977","Sounds like a free-climb to a snow choke (very much like B5, which must be in virtually the same place ?)","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","1600m","","","In Kratzer valley, down valley from <a href=""../../kratzer/71.htm"">Fledermaushöhle</a> (Kat. 71), on true right some way above bottom of valley. In the same entrance doline as <a href=""35.htm"">Dr.Kerschner Höhle</a> (Kat.35).","","","","","","Lost","Probably =B5"
75,"2/T +","","","","noinfo/kratzer/75.htm","","","Wisenthöhle","","",4,"Edith Bednarik, 1977","This entrance connects with a second shaft just down valley. The Austrian article describing the cave says it is about 60m long, but this did not appear to be the case in 1990, since it seems to choke very quickly - perhaps digging would now be required to get in.","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","1680m","","","Just south of Schwarzmoossattel, in the far upper reaches of Kratzertal. There is an obvious freeclimbable shaft/cave just down valley from the equally obvious shakehole/shaft labelled <a href=""../../kratzer/b4.htm"">B4</a>.","","","","Paint","It is numbered twice, once very faded and once very badly run (last seen 1996): both numbers are needed to deduce (with difficulty) that this is indeed ""75"".","Refindable","Seen in 1990 and 1996 (by AERW?)"
76,"5/S/E x","main a b","","yes","plateau/76/76.htm","","","Eislufthöhle","","","1d","CUCC 1977-79,2004","<ul><li><a href=""entrance.htm"">Entrance Series</a></li><li><a href=""70sroute.htm"">1970's Route</a></li><li><a href=""keg.htm"">Keg Series</a></li><li><a href=""brave.htm"">Brave New World</a></li></ul>","","<a href=""qmlist.htm"">Question Mark List</a>","","The exploration is written up in many places:</p><ul><li><a href=""../../years/1977/report.htm#youth"">Cambridge Underground 1978</a></li><li><a href=""../../years/1977/771649.htm"">Belfry Bulletin 354</a>, Nick Thorne</li><li><a href=""../../years/1978/report.htm#ropes"">Cambridge Underground 1979</a></li><li><a href=""../../years/1978/bcracc.htm"">BCRA Caves & Caving 2</a>, Andy Waddington </li><li><a href=""../../years/1978/npc79.htm"">Northern Pennine Club Journal vol 3 no. 2, 1979</a>, Andy Waddington, Simon Farrow</li><li><a href=""../../years/1978/descnt.htm"">Descent 40 (Jan/Feb 1979)</a>, Nick Thorne</li><li><a href=""../../years/1978/782034.htm"">Belfry Bulletin 366 (Oct 1978)</a>, Nick Thorne</li><li><a href=""../../years/1979/report.htm"">Cambridge Underground 1980</a></li><li><a href=""../../years/1979/descnt.htm"">Descent 44</a>, Nick Thorne</li><li><a href=""../../years/1979/792026.htm"">Belfry Bulletin 378</a>, Nick Thorne</li><li><a href=""../../years/1979/bcracc.htm"">BCRA Caves & Caving 8</a>, Andy Waddington</li><li><a href=""../../years/1977/andylg.htm#id1977-76-1"">Logbook accounts</a></li><li><a href=""histry.htm"">Trip index</a></li><li><a href=""../../years/1979/811412.htm"">Speleo Krakow 1/2 Dec 1980</a>, Andy Waddington</li></ul><p>This last item, the only complete write up of 1977-79, appeared in Polish translation, and is published in the English original for the first time here.","Data for the sections covered so far by the resurvey project begun in 2004 can be downloaded as a <a href=""76.3d"">.3d file</a> or <a href=""surveydata.tgz"">raw Survex data</a>.","<p>The lower parts of the 1970s surveys are based on measurement of rope lengths and thus probably best categorised as Grade 2. The 2004 resurveyed depth for the taproom agrees closely with the 1970s surveys: <ul><li> <a href=""../../years/1977/106.png"">After first year of exploration (1977)</a></li><li> <a href=""../../years/1978/106.png"">After 1978 exploration</a></li><li> After 1979, the end of the original 1970's exploration: <a href=""76upper.png"">Upper half</a> and <a href=""76lower.png"">Lower half</a></li><li> <a href=""76_final_col_small.png"">2004 new exploration and resurvey down to the taproom</a></li></ul></p>","","1180m resurveyed so far","~ 506m; resurveyed to 189m","172m surveyed","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","Out on the plateau near some very large erratic boulders. Laser rangefound point 0/6 is between the three entrances","","","</p><div class=""centre""><a name=""scf"" href=""l/scf.htm""><img src=""t/scf.jpg"" width=""170"" height=""108"" alt=""SCF.jpg (73k)"" /></a><p>Simon Farrow at the entrance of 76 during the initial exploration in 1977</p></div><p>","","The entrance is prominently numbered 106 which is the number we had allocated to it, but a description of the cave was published in the Belfry Bulletin, which is seen by Alfred Auer, who allocated his own number to it in advance of our report.",""," "
76,"","main","","entrance","","","","","","","","CUCC 1977-79,2004","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","p76","entrance dotted triangle on 76","","Surface survey","","","","","","","","","","","","Tag","","Surveyed",""
77,"1/S +","","","","noinfo/egglgrub/77.htm","","","Fichtenschacht","","",7,"Sektion Ausseerland/ Edith Bednarik, 1979","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","1500m ","","","North of Scharlingkar. Some way east of the Bergrestaurant, above the cliffs. 500m west of Egglgrubenalm.","","","","","","Lost",""
78,"5/S/t/E x","a–e","","yes","noinfo/smkridge/78.htm","","","Schwaben(schacht)höhle","","","2a","Fred Vischer, 1980 (as far as 2/S/T)</p><p>Ongoing exploration by <a href=""http://arge.itvd.uni-stuttgart.de/"">Arbeitsgemeinschaft Höhle und Karst Grabenstetten e.V.</a>","The cave is a complex of hading rifts and steep ramps with several deep points. The deepest point is near the southern limit of the system. A vertical series with pitches of 9m, 15m, 17m and 13m reaches Nägschtmol-Meander (1992), where the survey legs are all very short. This climbs slightly before heading south and dropping, passing Alexander der Große (a generally level side passage heading southwest to Leopardencanyon, apparently beyond the known passages in <a href=""../../smkridge/115.htm"">Schnellzughöhle</a>) to der gute Abgang (the good lead). A 7m pitch and more steep descents end at a point almost directly above the assumed line of Pete's Purgatory in Schnellzug, maybe a third of the way to the Confluence from where it is abandoned for the Purgatory Bypass. This small streamway lies perhaps 120-130m below Schwabenschacht's deep point, but it is known that several unsurveyed fossil phreatic passages lie above this upstream part of the Purgatory, so a connection could be quite close.</p><p>This description is now quite out of date as it does not include the its connection, nor entrances c,d and e.","","","","","In dataset","Grade 5 survey by ARGE (not ours to reproduce)","smk-system.svx","7781m","327m","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","Entrances a and b are actually on the SW side of Vorder Schwarzmooskogel","Approached by the same route as for things to the east, as cliffs bar access from Kratzer. Follow the Stoger weg from Egglgrube, past the T-junction to Kratzer, and on until there is a red omega in the middle of the path (marking Kat. 28). Just before this, in a position with a better view, is a laser-rangefound point marked by a bolt with a painted circle round it.</p><p>Take the Eishöhle path, which starts from the omega, going left up the hillside. Follow this for a few minutes, past an awkward little traverse rigged with a steel cable and then a couple of minutes further. There is a very easily missed branch left just before the path traverses a ledge under an overhang in a cliff to its left in a relatively wide small valley. The landmark for this point is a dead (lightning) tree up on the right.</p><p>Take this left branch, and follow it (few landmarks, but it is a definite path, and there are cut branches in places). This path eventually climbs into impenetrable dwarf pine, to emerge at a small gravelly clearing and a doline, used as a bivouac site. The a and b entrances are just short distances away through the pine, the normally-used one being below a prominent larch tree. The other entrance is a long rift shaft. Both are impressive, though it is quite infeasible that anyone could ever have found them in the first place.","","","","","",""
82,"4/S/T +","","","","plateau/82.htm","","","Bräuninghöhle","","","1c","CUCC 1977 - Team Geriatric","Very obvious walking sized cave entrance leads to a boulder strewn passage (ice formations early in season) into an aven with daylight entering 20m above. A scramble over boulders leads to <b>Apfelschacht</b> - a 6m pitch with loose boulders at the head. This drops to a 3m climb and then a 20m pitch <b>Orangenschacht</b> with a trickle of water entering halfway down. From the foot, a fine keyhole passage imaginatively named <b>Schlüssellochgang</b>, and a choice of routes. The most obvious way on is a 10m pitch, <b>Bierschacht</b> over a stalagmite flow to an awkward crawl, <b>Worm Passage</b>, which looked likely to end things. However, this opens out suddenly at a pitch head. <b>Nocheinbierschacht</b> is 15m, impressively free. At the foot, a vocal connection can be made with a phreatic passage above the third pitch which ends in a big hole.</p><p>Ahead is a phreatic tunnel which chokes, and a large black emptiness. This is descended for 25m in four 6m steps, <b>Viermalbierschacht</b>, to a ledge big enough for one and a bit people. The stream goes over this ledge into a large black void. This pitch, <b>Besoffene</b>, is 50m and hangs free for all but the last 8m in a very impressive shaft. From the foot, traverse above a steeply dropping stream canyon to a sloping platform from which a 17m pitch reaches the stream floor. This cascades over a further 6m pitch, below which a climb out of the stream reaches a rig point for a 30m pitch ending on a slope down to a sump at -216m.","","","","","","Cambridge Underground 1978, facing p 32</p><p>There is also an <a href=""145/145.png"">area plan</a> showing 82 in context with <a href=""145/145.html"">145</a> and <a href=""148.htm"">148</a>.</p><p><img alt=""survey: 28k gif"" width=""640"" height=""1300"" src=""others/82.png"" />","","","-216m, +20","","","","","p82","tip of rock marked ""82"" at entrance","","Surface survey","","","","","","","","Plateau 430m from col, roughly NE.","From Schwarzmoossattel, follow description to <a href=""80.htm"">80</a>. From here, a route leads directly towards Hinterer Schwarzmooskogel over fairly flat karren, becoming more shattered towards another cairn. Then there is a somewhat chaotic area.</p><p>Skirt this on the left to a small ridge running left-right. There is a cairn to the right across the chaotic bit. From the ridge, 82 is the obvious entrance directly ahead. Across the ridge to the right, more cairns lead initially towards 82, but then become misleading as they head up the hill to <a href=""145/145.html"">Wolfhöhle</a> (145).","","</p><table class=""imgtable""><tr><td rowspan=""2""><a href=""others/l/82jont.htm""><img alt=""Entrance"" width=""180"" height=""247"" src=""others/t/82jont.jpg"" /></a></td><td><a href=""others/l/82area.htm""><img alt=""Entrance area view"" src=""others/t/82area.jpg"" width=""185"" height=""122"" /></a></td></tr><tr><td><a href=""others/l/82stal.htm""><img alt=""Photo of ice stal (27k)"" src=""others/t/82stal.jpg"" width=""113"" height=""145"" /></a></td></tr> </table><p>","Tag","""82"" in red paint on boulder and on left of cave. 1998 tag ""1623 82 CUCC 1977"" on right inside cave entrance (not at survey point).","Surveyed",""
83,"2/S =","","","","plateau/83.htm","","","Schwa Schacht 83","","","1c","CUCC 1977 - Team Geriatric","13m freeclimb dropped onto a steep snowslope requiring a handline. This was descended for 10m to a steep boulder slope which funnelled down to a small hole through which stones dropped for a long time. The large amounts of scree made descent unwise. Above the boulder slope, a phreatic passage led quickly to a big hole in the floor. The hole is a fine free-hanging descent of 36m to a solid choke of boulders. The phreatic passage continues beyond the pitch, but was not reached, and trends uphill.","","","","","","Grade 1 extended elevation in Cambridge Underground <a href=""others/80-86.png"">expedition report</a>","","","55m","","This was originally listed as ""exploration completed"", but the description and survey suggest that with modern drilltastic rigging techniques it would not be hard to reach the continuation of the phreas across the head of the final pitch.","","","p83","exact point not recorded","","Surface survey","","","","","","","","Plateau, 200m north of <a href=""82.htm"">Bräuninghöhle</a> (Kat. 82). This is not very obvious, since it is in an area of dwarf pine on a knoll south of the dry valley containing <a href=""107.htm"">Kat. 107</a>","","","","Paint","Red paint number from 1977","Surveyed",""
84,"1/T -","","","","plateau/84.htm","","","Schwa Höhle 84","","","1c","CUCC 1977 - Team Geriatric","Draughting tube leads to a small chamber, further small tube leads off, unexplored since deemed impenetrable in shorts and T-shirt.","","","","","","Grade 1 extended elevation in Cambridge Underground <a href=""others/80-86.png"">expedition report</a>","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","c 1660m","","","Plateau WNW of <a href=""83.htm"">Kat.83</a>","","","","Paint","","Lost","Not seen since 1977 apparently"
86,"1/S +","","","","plateau/86.htm","","","Schwa Schacht 86","","","1c","CUCC 1977 - Team Geriatric","Rift descent of 25m until gap between snow and rock got too small.","","","","","","Grade 1 extended elevation in Cambridge Underground <a href=""others/80-86.png"">expedition report</a>","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","c 1670m","","","Plateau, on higher ground just SE of <a href=""82.htm"">Bräuninghöhle</a> (Kat.82)","","","","Paint","Numbered in red (1977)","Lost","Not seen since 1977 apparently"
"87A","3/S +","","","","smkridge/87.htm","","","Schacht 87A bei Stögerweg","","","2a","CUCC 1980, 1987","Horizontal entrance at base of small cliff at head of dry valley, leads over peaty infill to a pitch head. Cross first hole and descend second, 30m to large chamber. To left is unsurveyed inlet ending too small, while to right is head of very steeply descending phreatic-tube-like pitch of 15m vertically (20m+ of rope). This is a little thrutchy to start, but opens out, and ends in a short climb.</p><div class=""centre""><a name=""p2"" href=""others/l/87a.htm""><img alt=""(mono photo - 63k)"" src=""others/t/87a.jpg"" width=""134"" height=""200"" /></a> Head of Second pitch <a href=""others/l/87b.htm""><img alt=""(mono photo - 41k)"" src=""others/t/87b.jpg"" width=""134"" height=""200"" /></a></div><p>A further 15m pitch follows, hanging clear of a wall made up mainly of boulders. A way on across the head of the final pitch appears too tight. Hole in floor is last pitch, of 33m, which has a boulder 10m high in it, and you can descend either side. Draught is lost into a small passage which you could reach by bolting, but it seems a little pointless.</p><p>There is a 1987 extension, but I can't make much sense of the logbook description.","","","","","","? MISSING (grade 5)","caves/087/087.svx","","111.5m","","The 1987 logbook suggests we changed this to 87b and the cave that had mistakenly been numbered 88, called 87b on this site, we called 87a, so we had better look into this.","","","p87","first (of several) bolts used for rigging, LHS of entrance","","","","","","","","","","In a dry valley leading up from the Stögerweg (path 201) shortly after the turn off for <a href=""115.htm"">Schnellzughöhle</a>. In 2001 the hole was seen blowing a large quantity of vapour visible from some way off.","","","","Paint","No. 87 in red, which is correct but might have been changed to 87A (OK) or 87B (bad) in 1987","Surveyed",""
"87B","0/S +","","","","smkridge/87B.htm","","","Schacht 87B bei Stögerweg","","","2a","CUCC 1980, 1987","","","","","","","","","","1.2m","","The 1987 logbook suggests we changed this to 87a and 87 to 87b, so we had better look into this. ","","","","","","","","","","","circa 1505m","","","<i>In</i> Stogerweg - you literally step over it while walking along the path.</p><p>Numbered '88' in a fit of optimism while the explorer was getting changed to investigate this impressively draughting hole, it proved in fact to be only 1.2 metres deep and too tight. It appears to be above the inlet below pitch 1 in cave 87, and has been renumbered 87b, since the Austrians have allocated number 88 to Lärchenhöhle.","","","","Paint","","Refindable","Easily refindable, it's right on the Stogerweg path. May well be erroneously marked as 88"
88,"3/S/T x","","40i","","noinfo/smkridge/88.htm","","","Lärchenschacht","","","2a","</p><ul><li>First descent by <span lang=""de"">Reinhard Lemmer</span> in 1983, depth 40m, blocked by ice.</li><li><span lang=""de"">Reinhard Kieselbach, Franz Lindenmayr</span> and <span lang=""de"">K Peter</span> make second descent over a weekend in August 1985, finding the <b lang=""de"">Oberpfälzer Halle</b>.</li><li>In September, FHKF, VHM and HFG-KA returned, discovered <b lang=""de"">Frankenschnellweg,</b> and the way to the <b lang=""de"">Großer Cañon,</b> and surveyed.</li><li>In 1986, exploration continued to <b lang=""de"">Hall Dom,</b> connecting to <span lang=""de"">Stellerweg.</span> Also found <b lang=""de"">Geburtstagsgang,</b> which came out in <span lang=""de"">Großer Cañon.</span></li><li>In 1987, the German groups were replaced by French (<a href=""../../others/gscb/index.htm"">GSCB,</a> GSD, ASCR) who found <b lang=""de"">Sandschacht,</b> heading N and E. A 5m climb from <span lang=""fr"">Puits Madonna</span> reached a passage with cairns and a definite connection to <span lang=""de"">Schwarzmooskogeleishöhle.</span> A through trip was done the next day by GSCB and GSD.</li><li>In 1988 surveys were tied together with an improved surface survey.</li></ul><p>","Few details available, since we were for many years unable to obtain a survey. A figure of over 6 km long in 1987 was quoted, but this would appear to include the <a href=""40.htm"">Eishöhle</a>. Contact was finally made with the French group in 1997 and <span lang=""fr"">Denis Motte</span> has sent us a plan on 12 A3 sheets, dated April 1995, which gives the length as 1885m. The following description is made up entirely by looking at the survey, and should not be taken as reliable. It is hoped that we will do better after visiting the cave with a view to finding its connections with <span lang=""de"">Stellerweghöhle</span> (<a href=""../../smkridge/41.htm"">1623/41</a>) and <a href=""../../smkridge/144.htm"">1623/144</a>.</p><p>Open shaft descends 5m to first rigging bolt, then short pitch to snow plug. The way out is to the NE, where the survey shows a couple of (inaccessible ?) question marks and a traverse over a pit. Narrow rift continues past another unexplored small passage to the right, and in 20m opens out into a sizeable chamber. The boulder floor drops away to the north (left) and ahead. Up right is a bouldery antechamber with the base of a ramp up SE. A short passage here chokes.</p><p>20m across the boulder slope, it is possible to descend the slope left into the main part of <b lang=""de"">Oberpfälzer Halle</b>, 15m wide and 30m long, now heading west, still descending over boulders. To the right is a 15m rift passage with an inlet. Ahead, the chamber narrows, but large bouldery passage continues with two or three big boulders (over 5m). To SW is a junction marking the start of <b lang=""de"">Jsartal</b>. Up a steep ramp to the right (NW) is unexplored, whilst left, south, goes directly below the entrance in a passage with a slot in the floor. After 25m is a widening and junction. Right curves round to end below an aven. Left goes quickly to another junction. Right soon chokes in boulders, whilst left ends quickly in an undescended rift pitch.</p><p>Back at the junction at the start of <span lang=""de"">Jsartal,</span> the main way SW soon traverses a large hole in the floor, then continues as a small canyon until 50m from the start is a junction in small passage. Right pops out immediately into the side of a ramp rising right (north) to a choke. Down ends in a pitch, which is best reached by the small passage left at the junction. This quickly doglegs and comes out over the pitch on the opposite side from the ramp. The pitch (undescended) is seen to be a widening in a deep floor canyon, which continues as <span lang=""de"">Jsartal</span> develops into an 8m wide rocky chamber through which the floor trench meanders.</p><p>After a short way, the trench abruptly ends, and a ramp up above it
89,"1/S +","","","","plateau/89.htm","","","Schwa Schacht 89","","","1d","CUCC 1979 ","A 25m shaft into a narrow rift of zero lateral extension. ","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","c 1630m ","","","Plateau","","","","","","Lost","""Out from 97 somewhere"" and hence probably hopeless."
90,"1/S +","","CUCC96-WK01","","plateau/90/90.html","","","Bräu Schacht 90","","","1a","CUCC 1977 - Team Enthusiast.","Rift entrance in scrub leads to a loose, choked rift, 20m deep. 1996 sketch survey says 12.5m deep, 3m long (N-S) and 1.4m wide. West wall of shaft is 1.5m higher than east, and bolt plus red-painted number are at SE corner.","","","","","","</p><div class=""centre""><img alt=""1996 survey"" src=""90survey.jpg"" border=""1"" /></div><p>Grade 2 (at a guess), drawn up in loose leaves in front of 1996-9 NotKH book","caves/90/90.svx","","20m","","Briefly known as CUCC96-WK01, but the number existed meaningfully only for an hour or so until Wookey spotted that the cave was, in fact, 1623/90","","p90","","","","Surface survey","","gps00.90","","","","Bräuning Wall pt. 1828: 247°, Bräuning Nase: 153°, Vorderer Schwarzmooskogel (nipple): 097°, Hinterer Schwarzmooskogel: 050°, Schönberg: 346°","","Plateau - below Bräuning Scharte - the large and dramatic breach in the Bräuning Wall. GPS (1996) UTM 33T 0410257 5280891; UTM 33T 0410281 5280823; GK 5410141 5283007","Not located in search, 1989. Found 1996 and surveyed to. From Top Camp follow Bräuning path on slope, about 80m along (from point above waterhole) to where it meets edge of large patch of dwarf pine (c 100m diameter) on a raised limestone shelf. There is another patch of pines on slope to left for c 30m. Entrance is close to corner of big patch, 21m from path. Follow joint through gap in pines about 5m past where limestone step meets path. This is the same joint as CUCC 1996 WK 02, CUCC 1996 WK 03 and 1623/159. Surface survey location sketch in not KH 1996 p 3","","</p><table class=""imgtable""><tr> <td><img src=""90_entrance_location.jpg"" /></td> <td><img src=""90_entrance_tag_ringed.jpg"" /></td> </tr><tr class=""caption""> <td>Entrance area</td> <td>Closeup of entrance (red circle marks tag - original <a href=""90_entrance.jpg"">here</a>)</td> </tr></table><p>","Tag","red painted number ""90"" (1977), 1998 tag ""1623 90 CUCC 1977""","Surveyed",""
92,"2/S +","","","","plateau/92.htm","","","Bräu Schacht 92","","","1a","CUCC 1977 - Team Enthusiast.","Pitch of 15m leads to a boulder thrutch and climbs down. More boulders lead to a final pitch of 30m to a solid choke at -90m.","","","","","","</p><p><img alt=""grade 1 elevation: 12k gif"" width=""640"" height=""900"" src=""others/92.png"" />","","","90m","","","","","","","","","","","","","1645m","","","Plateau - below Bräuning Scharte. Not located in searches, 1989, 1998.","","Small, horizontal entrance in deep scrub draughts slightly and leads to an incredibly loose interior.","","Paint","","Lost","Not seen since 1977 despite several concerted searches. Below Bräuningscharte"
97,"4/S/W x","","","","plateau/97.htm","","","Schneewindschacht","","","1d","CUCC 1977 - Team Enthusiast.","The entrance is the head of a 10m freeclimbable chimney, followed by a 5m climb into a small chamber. Two ways on from the chamber unite in a tiny crawl under a drip. A thrutch through (about the size of Baptistry in Car Pot) is <b>The Nun's Cunt</b>, which ends abruptly at <b>The Vestry</b>, where SRT gear can be put back on while perched above the pitch which follows. Drops of 15m, 20m and 20m, <b>The Bottomless Abbess</b>, lead to a traverse over a blind pitch of about 10m.</p><p>The Bottomless Abbess continues with pitches of 15m, 30m, 15m and 15m to a short horizontal section. This breaks out into the side of another shaft where 15m and 10m pitches lead to a more complex area. A short pitch of 6m leads to the <b>Priest's Hole</b> and a gently slanting ramp into a dry, dusty, abandoned phreatic passage. This is interrupted by a large hole in the floor, which would require bolts to cross.</p><p>Down the hole, the 25m pitch starts unpromisingly, but soon bells out into a magnificent trench passage. Traversing over a gully leads to a series of short climbs and a fine last pitch <b>The Dissolution</b>. Here the water sinks into an impenetrable crack.</p><p>The entrance draughts strongly, but there is no air movement at the end, the most likely way on being the traverse to reach the continuation of the phreatic level at -190m. Unfortunately, the trip to this point is quite severe, since the crawl would render rescue impractical and the Bottomless Abbess rapidly becomes very wet after rain.","","","","","","</p><ul><li>grade 1 extended section, JTG, 1977.</li><li>Surface survey grade 3, 1984, AERW+MM from laser 0/4 at <span lang=""de"">Wolfhöhle</span></li></ul><div class=""centre""><img alt=""100 dpi elevation (710x1710) 30k gif"" width=""710"" height=""1710"" src=""others/97.png"" /></div><p>","","","265m","","","","","p97","west edge of doline","","Surface survey","","",83039,35837,"1641m","","","Out on the plateau.","Head across for the large erratic boulders near <a href=""76/76.htm"">76</a> (aka 106), then away from the col past the open shaft of <a href=""105/105.html"">105</a>, turning left at a gap in the scrub which leads down a bare karren corridor to some dolines. Step across one and cast about for a large one with 97 in red paint.","A moderately large doline, usually without snow, has a small triangular opening at the SW end.","","Tag","""97"" in red paint on doline wall, tag 2005","Surveyed",""
98,"1/S +","","","","plateau/98.htm","","","Plateau Schacht 98","Dropped Light Shaft","","1d","CUCC 1978 - Team Youth/Ladders","After top of entrance shaft, it bells out, to land on a lightly boulder-covered floor after 29m. Tight thrutch to one side leads to second pitch of 17m to a flat rock floor with no way on.","","","","<a href=""../years/1978/log.htm#id1978-98-1"">Logbook accounts</a>","","","","","47m","","","","","","","","","","","","","c 1630m ","HSK 116°, Nipple 174° (?!?), Nase 199°. Zinken 216°","","Out on the plateau somewhat further than <a href=""97.htm"">97</a>, in a large sloping rockface. Refound 1990, ""shaft further up bedding plane from 176"" (presumably away from 175).","","A small shaft in a large grike with very sharp rocks at the top","","Spit","Bolts at entrance; conjectured to be paint marked as well.","Refindable","Hopefully refindable via 176"
100,"1/S +","","","","plateau/100.htm","","","Plateau Schacht 100","Viper Shaft","","1a","CUCC 1977, Team Youth, and again in 1990 by AERW ","An east-west rift with two obvious points of descent. The more easterly is about 6m deep and can be seen to end in a chamber. The more westerly is a 15m pitch, with a window communicating with the east hole. At base are boulders and a climb down. A crawl leads to an inlet where water appears and sinks into an impenetrable slot with very sharp rock. ","","","","","","","","","18m","","","","p100","","","","Surface survey","","","","","","","","Just beyond the col, on the left. It is, in fact, extremely near Top Camp, virtually on one of the routes to the Schwarzmooskogel areas. ","","","","Tag","red painted number, with 1998 tag ""1623 100 CUCC 1977"" in centre (M6 stud).</p><p>This cave was originally only numbered in carbide, so was unmarked for years. It was relocated in 1989, but was not numbered until 1993 since AERW didn't think to carry paint while trying to find old holes. The orange number was fading and chipped in 1995, so was refreshed in red. The surface survey was to the centre of the middle digit of the number.","Surveyed",""
"","","main","","entrance","","","","","","","","</p><ul><li>CUCC 1977 - Team Youth (A.Waddington & N.Thorne)</li><li>Surface survey to entrance CUCC, 1998</li></ul><p>","","","","","","","","","","","","","","t101","","","","Surface survey","","","","","","","","","","","","Tag","","Surveyed",""
"","","a","","last entrance","","","","","","","","</p><ul><li>CUCC 1977 - Team Youth (A.Waddington & N.Thorne)</li><li>Surface survey to entrance CUCC, 1998</li></ul><p>","","","","","","","","","","","","","","gps98.101a","","","","GPS pre SA","gps98.101a","","","","","","","","","","","Paint","","Surveyed",""
103,"1/S +","","","","plateau/103.htm","","","Plateau Schacht 103","","","1d","</p><ul><li>CUCC 1977 - Team Youth (S.Farrow & N.Thorne)</li><li>Surface survey to entrance, CUCC 1998</li></ul><p>","A semi-horizontal rift going south, slopes down at 45° to head of a very broken shaft aligned on a joint perpendicular to the scarp (joint is on 055-235°). Drops 30m past much wedged, frost-shattered rock to a choke at -30m.","","","","","","","","","30m","","","","t103","","","","Surface survey","gps98.103","","","","","HSK 075°, VSK Nipple 153°, Lost Rucksack Cairn 325°","","GPS GK 5410472 5283506 (FOM 8.7m) About 15m north of <a href=""102/102.html"">Kat.102</a>, in the face of the same 125-305° fault scarp as <a href=""101/101.html"">101</a>'s northward crawl, which is about 35m away to the SE. ","","","","Tag"," alloy tag ""1623 103 CUCC 1977"" on M6 stud below the faded remains of a painted number on the NW-facing wall of a prominent joint making a break in the scarp face in which the entrance lies. ","Surveyed",""
106,"","","","","","","","","","Number not allocated (see <a href=""plateau/76/76.htm"">Eislufthöhle 1623/76</a>)","nonexistent","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","",""
107,"4/S/T +","","","","plateau/107.htm","","","Gemshöhle","","","1c","CUCC 1978: opened and Big Rift explored by Team Youth. Team Geriatric explored the Big Pitch and reached the bottom.","Small entrance in boulders in a dry gully drops into a small chamber, in the bottom corner of which is the excavated head of a pitch. This quickly bells out to 6m diameter and lands after 18m in a large passage which contains ice-formations early in the season. This large, phreatic passage chokes in both directions and the way on is in a rift to one side, from which the draught pours.</p><p>A pitch of 23m has an inlet entering part way down, which makes the rest of this pitch and the following one of 19m unpleasant in wet weather. Two ways then lead on, either down with the water or by traversing round this drop to another passage.</p><p>Climbing down with the water leads to a short passage with the water in a rift below. Round a sharp corner is a short drop to the head of a larger rift. A 5m pitch down this leads to another rift which, in turn, leads out to the side of a large shaft. Stones dropped from a small hole in the corner of the passage above the 5m pitch also fall into this shaft. Laddering from the side, the pitch is 67m with a large ledge just above half-way, and is unpleasantly wet in poor weather. From the base of this pitch, the continuing rift/canyon trends south west and has pitches of 5, 9 and 8m before the other route drops in from above.</p><p>Over the traverse, a short pitch of 4.5m, followed by a short climb up, leads to the head of a pitch of 10m to a boulder floor. Two ways on from here are down through the boulders into a shaft, or across the shaft and into a narrow rift. The way through boulders soon chokes, but the narrow rift soon opens into a massive shaft of 100m with a rebelay roughly halfway. This drops directly into the rift reached by the original route.</p><p>Below the junction, the rift continues with a 5m climb and pitches of 5, 14 and 44m, this last pitch being quite wet and emerging into a massive cross-rift trending south east. The water disappears into the choked floor of this rift via a nasty wet crawl, rapidly becoming too small.","","","","","","grade 5 survey from 1978</p><p><img src=""others/107.png"" alt=""107 survey"" />","","","280m","","","","","p107","exact point not recorded","","Surface survey","gps98.107","","","","","","","On the plateau in a prominent dry valley below southern forepeak of Hinterer Schwarzmooskogel, some way below Laser Point 0_5. The bottom of the gully is pretty much on the (cairned) best walking route from Top Camp to <a href=""82.htm"">Bräuninghöhle</a> (Kat.82) and <a href=""76/76.htm"">Eislufthöhle</a> (Kat.76).","","","</p><div class=""centre""><a href=""others/l/107.htm""><img alt=""Photo of entrance"" src=""others/t/107.jpg"" width=""117"" height=""175"" /></a></div><p>","Tag","number twice in orange paint, 1998 tag on survey point ""1623 107 CUCC 1978""","Surveyed",""
109,"1/T/S +","","","","smkridge/109.htm","","","Schwa-Schacht 109","","","2a","CUCC 1980, 1987","The obvious way in leads to a 'Viewing gallery' over the entrance chamber, but descent this way would require tackle. Best way in is to the left where a freeclimb leads down a 10m ramp in a chamber. This is snow-choked in some years but in 1980 a dig opened a triangular slot to a 6m pitch into a smaller, boulder-choked chamber. This was reentered in 1987 and an animal skeleton was found and removed for the Austrian cavers. There is a very small, but draughting tube in the roof of this final chamber, going back towards the surface.","","","","","","? grade 1","","","","","This does not appear to be in the Austrians' Kataster.","","","p109","point above 1623/109 entrance","","Surface survey","","","","","","","","","This is a hole you step over on the way to <a href=""113.htm"">Sonnenstrahlhöhle</a> (113).","","","Paint","as at Aug 2001: ""109"" in very faded yellow paint, with an Omega.","Surveyed",""
110,"1/S/T +","","","","remote/110.htm","","","Kein Hubschrauber Höhle","","",6,"CUCC 1978 - Team Supersmooth/Supercool ","Insignificant low entrance with icy draught is marked with number in red paint. Through boulders leads to an 8m drop and walking passage ending in a collapse chamber with draught emerging from the choke. Needed digging to get in.","","","","","","</p><p><img alt=""grade 1 plan: 12k gif"" width=""500"" height=""600"" src=""110.png"" />","","","","","Name comes from logbook comment ""helicopter failed to turn up"".","","","","","","","","","","","","","","On the plateau, about 2km (sic) beyond <a href=""../plateau/76/76.htm""><span lang=""de"">Eislufthöhle</span></a> towards <span lang=""de-at"">Schönberg.</span> Actually, I am convinced that 2 km is a gross exaggeration, and half a mile would be more likely, otherwise it would be in a huge area of dwarf pine.","","","","Paint","","Lost","We don't have a cat's chance in hell of finding this"
111,"1/S +","","","","plateau/111.htm","","","Plateau Schacht 111","","","1d","CUCC 1978 - Supersmooth/Supercool","Shaft 20m to ledge, then 10m to choke/too narrow.","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","Out on plateau, quite near <a href=""98.htm"">98</a>. ","","","","Paint (?)","","Lost","Near 98"
112,"1/S +","","","","plateau/112.htm","","","Plateau Schacht 112","","","1d","CUCC 1978 - Supersmooth/Supercool","Next to open shaft half full of snow. Shaft drops 50m past two ledges to choke.","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","",""," Out on plateau, 50m from <a href=""111.htm"">111</a>. ","","","","Paint (?)","","Lost","50m from 111 and close to 98"
113,"4/S/T +","","","","smkridge/113.htm","","","Sonnenstrahlhöhle","","","2a","</p><ul><li>CUCC 1980 (Team Sunbeam) to bottom</li><li>1982 to push bottom, but no new passage found.</li><li>Entered from 152 in 1985, Ibbeth Perilous Pot route connected 1987</li></ul><p>","Entrance is <b>huge</b>. A sizeable dry valley develops into a canyon which is full of snow. The canyon ends downstream in a solid wall, where the rigging point for the entrance pitch starts by the aforementioned tree. A short drop leads to a ledge where a stretch to the left (facing the rock) reaches a rebelay in a fine position on the impending wall. From here, drop 21m onto a large snow slope, then 10m further to the flat snow floor of a large chamber lit from above by the shaft.</p><div class=""centre""><a href=""others/l/113day.htm""><img src=""others/t/113day.jpg"" alt=""(photo (23k jpeg))"" width=""130"" height=""200"" /></a></div><p>The way on is up a climb of 3m to a horizontal passage. There is an area of hading rifts, not fully explored. The first hole descends a ramp over treacherous ice and rubble for 30m to the head of a pitch, <b>Ibbeth Perilous Pot</b>. A second parallel ramp connects to the same point. Both these ramps suffer from loose rock and are best tackled with a handline. The main pitch drops for 20m in a series of steps, best rigged. A final 13m drop then lands on a rock/ice blockage <b>Marathon Ledge</b>, which at one time contained the original explorer's helmet and lights, dropped from the head of the pitch. A hammered route past the blockage leads to two short drops, then a 6m pitch into the Opera House (see below).</p><p>A descent of the second major hole from the entrance is the normal route and leads to a ramp down, traverse across and the head of <b>Point Five Gully</b>. The gully is decorated with ice formations early in the season, as are all the useful hand- and footholds on the following ramp, so a rope is recommended to descend <b>Fox's Glacier</b>. At the foot, about 60m below the entrance chamber, is a low bouldery chamber, and a low arch leads to a larger chamber, <b>Barnsley Methodist Chapel</b>, which is 20m high and 30m long.</p><p>The Chapel is floored with large boulders at one end, but an obvious low sandy passage to the left leads to the head of a 14m dry rift pitch with a bouldery takeoff. The pitch is free-hanging after the first two metres, to a gravel-floored chamber opening off the rift. Water entering high on the right takes a floor trench 10m deep which may be traversed above to gain the <b>Balcony</b> of the <b>Opera House</b>, an impressive 20m diameter, roughly circular chamber. A 12.5m pitch (awkward takeoff as rigged in 1980) gains the bouldery, sloping floor. A scramble down boulders and a further 7m pitch over a very large boulder leads into a rift, where an awkward 10m pitch with natural belays and joke bolts leads to a flat mud floor at a larger section at the head of a pitch. At this point the draught changes direction, the cave becomes clean, and a stream is met falling from an inaccessible (and out of sight) passage, apparently at the same level as the pitch head.</p><p>Down the pitch, a rebelay (which is a very long stretch to rig unless you're very tall) avoids the worst of the water on <b>Purple Pit</b>. Quite possibly this could be rigged as a deviation (we didn't do these in 1980). There is a long section to a large ledge, from where the pitch leaves the fault it has been following and heads down a series of short steps with rebelays a few metres apart. At the bottom of this section, 60m below the start, a further fault is met at right angles, with twin holes in the floor. The first one is wet and nasty, while the second is tolerable. Both unite and go off to the left in a diminutive streamway. To the right above the holes is the entry point from <a href=""152.htm"">Bananehöhle</a>(152), explored in 1985.</p><div class=""centre""><a name=""ppitbot"" href=""others/l/purple.htm""><img src=""others/t/purple.jpg"" alt=""(B/W photo (58k jpeg))"" width=""134"" height=""200"" /><
114,"0 + ?","","","","wilden/114.htm","","","Verlorenschacht 114","","",5,"CUCC 1980","","","","","","","","","","","","I have just (May 1990) found an old note book which says this was explored by John, Tony and Andy C, but gives no detail on where or what. There is a strong suspicion that the cave was one of the ""promising leads"" found on their trip to Wildenseealm. However, the only published account refers the reader to the 1980 log book. This latter is, unfortunately, missing.</p><p>This does not appear to be in the Austrians' Kataster ","","","","","","","","","","","","","","This cave has not been documented, but is probably somewhere near 115 or 41. ","","","","","","Lost","Near Wildenseealm (not a hope)"
115,"6/t/S/W x","","40m","","smkridge/115.htm","","","Schnellzughöhle","","","2a","CUCC 1980-1985","This is the main entrance through which the majority of the <a href=""41.htm"">Stellerweghöhle</a> system was explored. See the separate <a href=""41/115.htm#ent115"">full guidebook description</a> for details, just an overview is given here.</p><p>The entrance leads to a non-obvious way on to the head of the short <b>Bell Pitch</b>, from where very awkward going leads out to a bigger passage to reach <b>The Ramp</b> a series of off-vertical pitches. The damper but technically easier <b>Inlet Pitches</b> drop to a Big Chamber, from where <b>Pete's Purgatory</b> starts, and leads in 800m of tortuous going to <b>The Confluence</b> and the larger streamway leading to the deepest point.</p><p>Better is the <b>Purgatory Bypass</b> which starts as dry fossil tubes, with a choice of routes to reach <b>Junction Chamber</b> where the <b>Big Rift</b> of <a href=""41.htm"">Stellerweghöhle</a> enters. Opposite, the huge fossil tube of <b>Dartford Tunnel</b> makes for easy progress to the Confluence, about halfway down the system. The continuing main streamway is interrupted by a bypassable sump and numerous pitches before a low airspace duck at the end of an unpromising canal leads to the spectacular <b>Orgasm Chasm</b>. Careful rigging avoids the water in this 140m shaft, ending in muddy passage and another short drop to a deep and terminal sump. ","","","","","In dataset","CUCC's parts surveyed to Grade 5 but not all drawn up - see <a href=""41/survey.htm"">","smk-system.svx","","-740m, +231m","","The Austrian Kataster has adopted a very perverse way of numbering things. Their numbers are as follows:</p><ul> <li>115a Stellerweghöhle entrance 41a</li> <li>115b Stellerweghöhle entrance 41b</li> <li>115c Stellerweghöhle entrance 41c ( where ? )</li> <li>115d Schnellzughöhle entrance 115</li> <li>115e unnamed entrance 142</li></ul><p>","","","p115","P115 on left in Schnellzug entrance.","p115x","Nils","","gps00.115",81041,35841,"1488m","","","","Follow Stögerweg beyond <a href=""../noinfo/smkridge/32.htm"">Windloch</a> to a steep descent. Just below this, by a large tree on the right of the path (permanent survey station P3), descend steeply to the right on a barely discernible trod.</p><p>This involves at least one freeclimb which is awkward with lots of kit. Make lots of noise if you are first, especially on the first trip, since snakes seem to like it here. Eventually a large horizontal railway-tunnel-like entrance appears. If you fall off a cliff, you've gone a little too far downhill.","","","Paint","number painted on right (east-facing) wall of entrance","Surveyed",""
116,"2/t/S/E +","","","","noinfo/smkridge/116.htm","","","Kleine Eishöhle","","","2a","Germans","","","","","","In dataset","M Schweicer & F Vischer, July 1982, <a href=""l/116pln.htm"">PLAN</a> (20k) and <a href=""l/116elv.htm"">ELEVATION</a> (12k)","caves/116/116.svx","286m","38m","","This cave was previously marked as having an altitude of 1820m","","","p116","","","Nils","","",81449,35689,"1662m","","","Vorderer Schwarzmooskogel. ","","","","","","Surveyed",""
"121-126","","","","","","","","","","Numbers 121-126 are allocated to the Germans, but there is no documentation available to suggest that caves have been found for these numbers.","nonexistent","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","",""
130,"2/S +","","","","noinfo/smkridge/130.htm","","","Cäcilien-Schacht","","","2a","Germans","Halfway down, a hading rift is intersected, which can be followed a short way SW, climbing up slightly. This appears to be dipping steeply SE, but becomes too narrow. ","","","","","","K Gebhard, F Vischer, 1982 ","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","1660m","","","Vorderer Schwarzmooskogel.",""," A fairly straight shaft of c 80m on a joint aligned on 230°.","","","","Lost",""
131,"2/E/S x","","","","noinfo/remote/131.htm","","","Thomas-Eishöhle","","",6,"","","","","","","","","caves/131/131.svx","1017m","193m","234m","","","","p131","","","Laut Information Robert Seebacher, E-Mail 11/00 an Thilo","","",83700,37700,"1721m","","","SE face of Kleines Augsteck. ","","","","","","Surveyed",""
132,"2/T +","","","","noinfo/remote/132.htm","","","Tropfsteinhöhle am Augsteck","","",6,"","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","1600m","","","SE face of Kleines Augsteck.. ","","","","","","Lost",""
133,"1/T +","","","","noinfo/remote/133.htm","","","Unterstandhöhle","","",6,"","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","1604m","","","SE face of Kleines Augsteck. ","","","","","","Lost",""
134,"1/T +","","","","noinfo/wilden/134.htm","","","Höhlenruine bei der Wasserstelle","","",5,"","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","",""," 1531m ","","","West of Wildenseealm. The name would suggest that it is next to the water tank which supplies drinking water to the various buildings of Wildenseealm, and which is shown on the map, at about the right altitude.","","","","","","Lost",""
136,"2/S +","a–d","","yes","smkridge/161/136.htm","","","Steinschlagschacht","","","2c","CUCC 1983, 1984, <a href=""../../years/1997/index.htm"">1997</a>, <a href=""../../years/1999/index.htm"">1999</a>","1983 description is : shaft -194m. The bottom was reached in 1984, at depths variously estimated -240m, -260m and -285m, when the rift became too narrow. 1983 survey (which was never drawn up) only goes to -194m.</p><p><i><a name=""id136p1"" href=""../../years/1997/index.htm"">1997</a> rigging</i></p><div class=""onleft""><a href=""fullsize/136elv.png""><img alt=""Elevation - 26k GIF"" width=""300"" height=""709"" src=""inline/136elv.png"" /></a></div><div class=""centre""><a href=""l/jh97-3.htm""><img alt=""Photo - 57k"" src=""t/jh97-3.jpg"" width=""150"" height=""225"" /></a></div><p>The rope (60m used in 1997, though this is not generous) for the first pitch is belayed to the 3m boulder. A short drop from the surface (c.3m) leads to the top of a steeply inclined boulder slope which is also very loose. The head of the main entrance pitch hang used to be immediately at the foot of this slope, however it has now been rigged from the right hand wall, out of the immediate line-of-fire from the boulder slope. A traverse line of around 10m at 30° is rigged on the right hand wall to reach the pitch head. The main hang is around 35m almost free-hanging, but for a minor deviation about 8m below the pitch head.</p><div class=""centre""><a name=""p1"" href=""l/jh97-7.htm""><img alt=""Photo - 38k"" src=""t/jh97-7.jpg"" width=""148"" height=""225"" /></a></div><p>From the foot of the entrance pitch, a fairly narrow slot with a short climb down (c 1m) connects to a large boulder-strewn chamber. This chamber is entered from the top left corner (standing looking down the slope) and the main way on is around 10m down the slope, under a very large boulder towards the right hand wall. At the foot of the chamber are two large holes of around 5m depth, one in each corner. One of these holes has a spit above it, suggesting it was descended in 1983/4, however no descent was made of either hole in 1997. It is speculated that these may connect to the second pitch at a lower point than that used as the pitch head in 1997.</p><p style=""clear: both""><i><a name=""id136p2"">Second</a> Pitch</i></p><p>Returning to the main route down, the head of the second pitch is a belay point on the right hand wall of the chamber immediately above a very large perched boulder at ""floor"" level. A 130m rope was initially used here, though some spare was later cut off. Beware of apparently sound footholds here as they have a habit of falling off down the next 70m or so of the pitch series! A rebelay is required just below the take-off point on the boulder to avoid rubbing the edge of the block on the way up. This rebelay is particularly awkward on the way up since the rope tends to pull into the crack between wall and boulder. The shaft continues down more or less vertically for a further 3 rebelays (50m) until the first substantial ledge is reached. (A deviation is required below the 3rd rebelay from the pitch head to avoid an otherwise serious rub just below the rebelay bolt).</p><div class=""centre""><a href=""l/jh97-9.htm""><img alt=""Photo - 55k"" src=""t/jh97-9.jpg"" width=""225"" height=""150"" /></a><a href=""l/jh9711.htm""><img alt=""Photo - 60k"" src=""t/jh9711.jpg"" width=""150"" height=""225"" /></a></div><p>From this ledge, a further pitch descends, rigged from two bolts on the left hand wall with an immediate deviation off the right hand wall. Traversing ahead over the pitch, it appears that there is a parallel shaft visible through an eyehole in the left hand wall. It is believed that this is the shaft described as being accessed by a ""desperate step across"" which was descended in 1984 and found to reconnect to the wet route lower down.</p><p>Descending from the ledge, a further substantial ledge is reached after c8m. On the way up it is advisable to cower under the overhanging wall of this ledge to avoid exposing yourself to rocks
s (mainly deduced from survey data) don't correspond well with the 1997 experience and this may be below the next pitch. 1983 figures put the next pitch as 17m sloping, then 15m vertical to a bolt at -194m, which may be a similar point to that reached on this route in 1997, or not quite as deep.</p><p><i>1984 series</i></p><p>A further drop is 5m to ""a very bad bolt"" and either 15m total, or a further 15m from the bolt, to a spray lashed ledge with only one small alcove in which to cower and brew up. A rift in the floor leads 6m to a rebelay and a final 20-25m pitch into a chamber with two ways off. One was very tight to an aven and small drop which stones indicate ends blind in mud floor after c10m. The main way was a squeeze past a very large boulder, down a 10m pitch to a stream which flows into the classic too-narrow draughting rift. Logbook describes this as -260m, which fits with the non-existence of a 30m ""virtual"" pitch which is believed to be the result of an ambiguity elsewhere in the 1984 log book.","","","","","In dataset","</p><ul><li>1983 Surface survey from Vord. Schwarzmooskogel (p1843)</li><li>1997 Surface survey to 1623/147</li><li>Underground survey, CUCC 1983 to -194m (unpublished ?), and a new one in 1997</li></ul><p>","smk-system.svx","","(to deepest point in 161) 534m","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","135m on bearing of 66° from Vorderer Schwarzmooskogel summit or 123m East and 55m north of the summit. 136b is 22m N of 136a, 136c is 28m N of 136a, 136d is 35m NNE of 136a. All entrances on same shelf. 136b & are holes in shelf, 136d is large (15x10m) funnel-shaped hole just over 1m ridge (so not obvious from normal route).","<a name=""ent"">Relocated</a> in 1996. From main summit, drop down east to a bare limestone shelf. Follow this ~NE for some way (c 200m) until a way down east again reaches a small group of holes/shafts/rifts (CUCC 1997-07, 209, 136c, 136b). Cross this area south, initially keeping close below a small cliff to your right. After passing 136b, 136a is a little off to the left (east) of the cliff at the south end of the karren shelf. (See area map in NotKH survey book p88-89). The entrance is in a depression and is marked by, and under, a large (3m cubicish) boulder with a faint (in 1996) '136' painted on the S side, and a Tag.</p><p>From Top Camp, proceed via the 161 approach up to the point (immediately past 1623/147) where a short climb down through the bunde drops onto a large, wide, grassy area perhaps 200m before reaching Vd1 and 30m higher. Cross the grassy patch, contouring around the hill and then take the 3rd steep grassy bank up to the right, through some bunde (this is not the most obvious slope). Climb up to the limestone shelf above and then continue contouring around the hill at roughly the same level for a further 300m to the entrance.","","</p><div class=""centre""><a href=""l/jh97-2.htm""><img alt=""Photo - 58k"" src=""t/jh97-2.jpg"" width=""225"" height=""150"" /></a></div><p>Photos of b, c, d ents on Dave's camera","","","",""
"","","a","","entrance","smkridge/161/136a.htm","","","","","","","CUCC 1983, 1984, <a href=""../../years/1997/index.htm"">1997</a>, <a href=""../../years/1999/index.htm"">1999</a>","","","","","","","","","","","","","","p136","","","","Nils","","gps00.136 gps00.136_2",82220,36364,"1796m","135m on bearing of 66° from Vorderer Schwarzmooskogel summit or 123m East and 55m north of the summit.","","","","","","Tag","","Surveyed",""
"","","b","CUCC96-WK10","entrance","smkridge/161/136b.htm","","","","","","","</p><ul><li>Discovered CUCC 1996 (Wookey)</li><li>Explored and surveyed 1999 (Andy Atkinson, Simon Flower)</li></ul><p>","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","p136b","spit","","Surface survey","","",82237,36367,"1789m","VSK: 233°, Hollweiser: 145° (from a point between the WK7-WK10 entrances)","","136b is 22m N of 136a","","Slot entrance, leads 10m down spacious boulder slope to p5. Warm draught.","","Spit","","Surveyed",""
"","","c","CUCC96-WK9","entrance","smkridge/161/136c.htm","","","","","","","</p><ul><li>Discovered CUCC 1996 (Wookey)</li><li>Explored and surveyed 1999 (Andy Atkinson, Simon Flower)</li></ul><p>","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","p136c","spit","","Surface survey","","",82252,36371,"1790m","VSK: 233°, Hollweiser: 145° (from a point between the WK7-WK10 entrances)","","136c is 28m N of 136a","","136c is slot next to Schistock-Absturzschacht, and clearly connects to 136d.","","Unmarked","","Surveyed",""
"","","d","CUCC96-WK9","last entrance","smkridge/161/136d.htm","","","","","","","</p><ul><li>Discovered CUCC 1996 (Wookey)</li><li>Explored and surveyed 1999 (Andy Atkinson, Simon Flower)</li></ul><p>","","","","","","","","","","","","","","p136d","","","","Surface survey","","",82252,36376,"1792m","VSK: 233°, Hollweiser: 145° (from a point between the WK7-WK10 entrances)","","136d is 35m NNE of 136a.","","136d is 15x10m funnel-shaped shaft over a 1m ridge from <a href=""../209/209.html"">209 - Schistock-Absturzschacht</a>, so not quite as obvious.","","Retag","Tag ""CUCC 97-08"" between 136d and 209 (Schistock-Absturzschacht)","Surveyed",""
137,"1/S +","","","","smkridge/137.htm","","","Schwa Schacht 137","","","2c","CUCC 1983","Shaft","","","","","","","","","47m","","","","","","","","","","","","","c 1790m","","","East of Vorderer Schwarzmooskogel","","","","Paint (?)","","Refindable","Believed marked (may have been seen 1996) Same area as 135 & 136. Should be refindable"
138,"1/S +","","","","smkridge/138.htm","","","Schwa Schacht 138","","","2c","</p><ul><li>CUCC 1983</li><li>Surveyed-to 1999 (Wookey, Mark Shinwell)</li></ul><p>","Rapidly turns vertical and when explored, choked with snow at -40m.","","","","","In dataset","Sketch in not-KH survey book 1996, page 14. Area map NoKH book p88.","caves/138/138.svx","46m","42m","6m","","","p138","","","","Surface survey","","",82206,36323,"1795m","","","East flank of Vorderer Schwarzmooskogel. One shelf up from 136. 50m WSW of 136a.","Follow route to <a href=""161/136.htm"">136</a>. From large cubic boulder at 136a entrance climb 4m step to west. Go 25m SW along 'gully' between bunde, then turn R into gap. Large, T-shaped entrance now visible in cliff 15m ahead.","","","Tag","Number in red on the right wall of the vertical of the ""T"" saying ""138 CUCC 1983"". Spit with metal tag ""CUCC 138"" placed 1997. ","Surveyed",""
139,"1/S +","","","","smkridge/139.htm","","","Schwa Schacht 139","","","2c","</p><ul><li>CUCC 1983</li><li>Relocated 1996 (Wookey).</li><li>Surveyed to 1999.08.07 (Andy Atkinson, Simon Flower)</li></ul><p>","Shaft. Two pitches to -30m, then too narrow.","","","","","In dataset","","caves/139/139.svx","21m","20m","0.6m","","","p139","","","","Surface survey","","gps00.139",82312,362328,"1827m","HSK 022°, Gries Kgl. 356°, Hollweiser 147°","","Vord SMK, just below (~70m on bearing 070°) secondary Northern summit. 90m NW of 136d, approx 200m N of Vorderer Schwarzmooskogel summit.</p><p>GPS fix GK 5411207 to 5282893, Alt. 1877 ± 91m","From VSMK summit: go down 50m on E side to a large shelf, walk along ~NE 200m to where shelf peters out. Up slope on left is 139.</p><p>From VD1 to 136 route: As you come over crest out of grassy gully there is a choss bowl/snow ahead (you cross this to get to the 136 shelf. Instead turn right uphill, up small steps on open limestone. 139 is a large square cleft in a limestone scarp after about 60m.","","","Tag","Tag ""CUCC 139"" (1997). Red Paint ""139 CUCC 1983"" (1983).","Surveyed",""
140,"2/S x ","","","","smkridge/140.htm","","","Schwa Schacht 140","","","2b","CUCC 1983","Shaft entrance is 9m by 6m, with first pitch 15m to boulders. A 6m pitch is immediately followed by a 10m drop to a sloping boulder floor. From the end of this, a 5.5m drop reaches a longer boulder slope, which leads into a canyon at 90°. Down this is a longer pitch split into 10 and 10.5m sections by a small ledge, landing on a very large boulder. Over the boulder are two ways on.</p><p>Through a squeeze is a shaft 10m deep to floor with <b>continuing hole and a further shaft to one side, neither of which were descended, despite a draught coming out through the squeeze</b>.</p><p>The way followed is a 5m pitch from the big boulder, to a boulder false floor. At the end of this, the roof rises into a high aven and an 11m pitch drops to a flat boulder floor next to another huge block. A hole down gives a 7m drop next to stacked rocks and a way on across boulders leads to a final 8m pitch.</p><p>Forward over boulders passes under another high aven from which water falls. A short climb down leads to where this water disappears into a scrofulous slot, at a depth of 95m.</p><p>The cave is in a key position, almost directly above the Breeze Block area of <a href=""161/chile.htm"">Chile,</a> in Kaninchenhöhle. However, these passages lie between 250 and 300m below the 140 entrance, so this is probably not a potential easy way in.","","","","","","? grade 3. In 1983 logbook (but not scanned?)","","","","","","","","p140","very old surface survey (notes missing)","","","gps98.140","gps00.140","","","1796m","","","South of Vorderer Schwarzmooskogel - 126m on 194° from summit.</p><p>47° 40' 41"" N 13° 48' 58"" E","From Top Camp, climb the ""high"" route towards 161. Just past the highest point, join a traverse round the Schwarzmooskogel heading south and eventually more west. If you pick the right level, this passes the large open shaft of 140. Alternatively, the cave may be approached from the summit (point 1843) though various cliffs make this approach difficult.","","","Paint (?)","","Surveyed",""
141,"1/S =","","","","smkridge/141.htm","","","Schwa Höhle 141","","","2a","CUCC 1982, 1983","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","p141","","","Surface survey","","","","","","","","On the hillside above Windloch (Kat.32).","","A large non-draughting entrance, not pushed, appears to contain an 80m pitch in a narrow rift. Described in a later journal as -30m.","","Paint","painted number ""131"" in red <i>[is this a typo? I hope so]</i>","Surveyed",""
142,"6/T/S x","","40n","","smkridge/142.htm","","","Schwa Höhle 142","","","2a","</p><ul><li>CUCC 1982-85</li><li>Arge/CUCC 1996</li></ul><p>","Yet another entrance to <a href=""41.htm"">Stellerweghöhle</a>, with two points of connection, and also the first point of connection with Schwabenschacht, a similar cave explored by <a href=""http://arge.itvd.uni-stuttgart.de/"">Arbeitsgemeinschaft Höhle und Karst Grabenstetten e.V.</a>. 142 contains a very large chamber, imaginatively named <b>The Big Chamber</b> reached by a 34m pitch from a point adjacent to the connection. A <a href=""41/off41.htm#ent142"">full description</a> of 142 (but not 78) is one of the components of the Stellerweghöhle guidebook, just an overview is given here.</p><p>Note: With apparent perversity, the Austrians have numbered this as 115e in their Kataster. This is likely to give rise to immense confusion in the long term as more caves are connected, and numbers on entrances cannot readily be altered (owing to the obscurity of their location and inaccessibility from within the system).</p><p>After an initial small tube, the cave opens into passages very similar to those in Schwabenschacht and the upper levels of Stellerweghöhle. Descent of some of the steep ramps to the right of the main way on may provide further connections into the main cave (and one may have already done so). However, staying high leads through tubes to an inobvious junction. Left is the connection to 78, whilst right leads immediately to the head of a pitch into the <b>Big Chamber</b> - a popular name in the system. A route from this chamber leads to the foot of an 18m pitch in the entrance series of <a href=""41.htm"">Stellerweghöhle</a>, and a more obscure route through boulders from the head of the Big Chamber pitch leads to the same place.","","","","","In dataset","CUCC plan from surveys 1982-1985, here in several sections:</p><ul><li><a href=""41/142ent.png"">Entrance area</a></li><li><a href=""41/142bc.png"">Big Chamber</a></li><li><a href=""41/142-41.png"">Stellerweg connection</a>...</li></ul><p>","smk-system.svx","","","","this entrance to the main system really should have a name.","","","p142","","","Nils","","",81218.2,35770.4,"1615.1m","","","","Hack up the hillside behind <a href=""../noinfo/smkridge/32.htm"">Windloch</a> (Kat.32).","","","Tag (?)","The entrance was prominently numbered '132' in red but this was finally changed in 1996 after the connection to <a href=""../noinfo/smkridge/78.htm"">Schwabenschacht</a> (1623-78)","Surveyed",""
143,"3/S +","","","","smkridge/143.htm","","","Weiße Warze Schacht I","","","2a","CUCC 1983, 1984 ","The first pitch starts after a short climb down boulders. From here light may be seen entering from another entrance 143b. The pitch of 20m lands on a small ledge and a short freeclimb leads to a traverse over wedged blocks. The next pitch of 10m is rigged over the edge of the last of these and brings one to a balcony at the start of a 23m shaft. Another clean, almost circular shaft (19m) follows, to a climb of 6m down wedged boulders. The passage now narrows to a small vadose canyon with a stream in it, but soon turns vertical at an 8m pitch, followed quickly by one of 18m. At the foot of this final shaft, the stream flows down a rift, approximately 10m deep, but too narrow to follow. Much hammering here achieved little progress, but could be heard clearly in passages leading from above the Big Pitch in <a href=""41/41.htm#bigpitch"">Stellerweghöhle</a>.","","","","","In dataset","See <a href=""41/hlevel.png"">Stellerweghöhlensystem upper levels</a> survey","caves/143/143.svx","182m","124m","36m","The above name is provisional, since its not really my prerogative to name it, but it should have a name really.","","","p143","","p143x","Nils","","","","","","","","The Nipple, (aka ""Weiße Warze"")","","The square shaped entrance lies just below (22m vertically at 34m on 158°) the nipple at the end of the ridge running SSW from Vorderer Schwarzmooskogel.","","","","Surveyed",""
144,"6/S/T x","","","","smkridge/144.htm","","","Tony's Second Höhle","","","2a","CUCC 1983, 1985 ","This is the highest entrance to Stellerweghöhle found by CUCC, and a full description is included in the Stellerweghöhle <a href=""41/144.htm"">guidebook description</a>, just an overview is given here.</p><p>A predominantly vertical entrance series leads to a level of extensive fossil phreatic development, <b>not fully explored</b>. The main passage, <b>The Yellow Brick Road</b>, leads to the lip of a 25m pitch into a large muddy chamber. From the bottom, a steeply dipping tube is followed down until a canyon is reached from a boulder chamber. Most ways close down quickly from here.</p><p>Across the pitch from Yellow Brick Road is a large continuing passage, gained by an obscure and somewhat exposed route in boulders. It soon leads to a bolted climb, but a ramp down below drops to another large passage. Right here, the draught is followed through winding passage until it emerges 20m up in a chamber. Backtracking leads to a squeeze and muddy crawls to the bottom, from where a canyon develops, finally dropping into <a href=""41/41.htm"">Stellerweghöhle</a> below the Big Pitch via a 10m chimney.</p><p>There are a significant number of unpushed leads in the cave, but all are expected to connect back to already known passage. One may provide a connection to the northernmost reaches of <a href=""../noinfo/smkridge/78.htm"">Schwabenschacht</a> (1623/78).","","","","","In dataset","Survey integrated into <a href=""41/144.htm"">guidebook description</a>","smk-system.svx","","","","This name is the 1983 provisional name, which was intended to be scrapped. Weiße Warze Höhle II might be better, but this cave really should have a proper name - after all, it was 284m deep before the connection to the main system! It appears in Austrian lists just as Schwarzmooskogelschacht. ARGE call it ""Tony's Second Höhle"" , so we're probably stuck with the name now.","","","p144","","p144x","Nils","","","","","","","","The Nipple, (aka ""Weiße Warze"")","","","","","","Surveyed",""
145,"4/t/S +","a–c","","yes","plateau/145/145.html","","","Wolfhöhle","","","1c","CUCC 1983-4. There is now a <a href=""histry.htm"">history file</a> indexing into the log book write-ups.","Entrance is 2m high and 1m wide and walking passage leads for 120m of level going to first pitch, with a few side passages (one to higher entrance). Pitch is 19m into <b>Wolf Chamber</b> where the skeleton proved not to be of a wolf but of a Brown Bear, <i>Ursus arctos</i>. A pit in the floor, the <b>Bear Pit</b> is blind, and the continuation of the entrance pitch emits no draught and is believed to choke, but was never seriously investigated. A loose 3m climb at the far end of the chamber leads up into a draughting tube. This leads to an awkward 15m slimy tube descent, <b>Bog Seat Climb</b>, best laddered. A short grovel enlarges to a sandy stooping passage which pops out over the edge of a large black hole. Off to the left at this point a crawl intersects a larger passage leading to another set of smaller shafts only partially descended. It is also possible to reach the opposite side of the big pitch by this route.</p><p>The 83m <b>Big Leap</b> is rigged in three sections of 22, 25 and 36m via two freehanging rebelays and a deviation near the bottom, in a large rift with black peaty mud on the walls in the upper section. The rift narrows and bottoms out in a small streamway blocked here and there by jammed boulders which no longer (since 1984) constitute a squeeze. Short traverses and pitches of 15m and 6m are straightforward until a second large shaft is reached. The water cannot be avoided on the 59m <b>Tiddley Pom pitch</b>, which can become a serious proposition in wet weather. The first section is 11m, to the level where a heavy drip (rapidly becoming a torrent in thunderstorms) enters. The rebelay bolt is tucked away to the left, a long reach round the corner. Further sections of 17 and 24m in a circular shaft of about 6m diameter reach a big wet ledge. The final section of 7m reaches a big dry stance on jammed boulders, <b>Cold Toes Ledge</b>. This is far enough out of the water to be an acceptable place to sit and wait for 16 hours, or to brew soup.</p><p>The stream continues to drop in a rift, with pitches of 13 and 14m from jammed boulders. The water then sinks into a slit, <b>Nobody Knows</b>, which was descended for 15m before becoming too tight. To continue, traverse over this hole and continue a short way to a large black chasm, the 112m <b>Fear and Loathing Pitch</b>, involving some airy traversing near the top. Sections of 10, 29 and 16m reach <b>Acrobat Flake</b>, where careful rigging is required to avoid a particularly gymnastic changeover for the next section of 16m. The rift (never wider than 3-4m) continues with drops of 18 and 23m to land on an unpleasant bit of damp floor:<b> Las Vegas</b>.</p><p>A particularly unpleasant mud-walled rift, <b>Beezley Street</b>, ("where the rats have rickets") continues as a traverse if you can stay up, or a nasty thrutch otherwise. This ends abruptly where an aven brings clean washed limestone for the next 14m pitch. A clean, but sharp traverse continues to corkscrewing 18 and 5m pitches into <b>The Drainage Ditch</b>, a wading depth section of passage occasionally blocked by boulders, which hold back the static pools. Short pitches of 8, 9 and 7m twist down to another section of drainage ditch which continues for a few more metres to a static sump 399m below the main entrance.</p><p>A hole above the sump leads to a small, muddy, grovelly continuation to some small avens and a further sump, before closing down.</p><p><b>Geology :</b> Tubes near the entrance are formed along the prominent NE-SW joint direction in the area, which so dominates the nearby <a href=""../82.htm"">Bräuninghöhle</a>, and the cave trends generally SW as it drops. However, all the major vertical development is in deep shafts on joints at right-angles to this major trend, on a strike of about 120-300°. Fear and Loathing pitch in particular is in a strikingly narrow ri
"","","a","","entrance","","","","","","","","CUCC 1983-4. There is now a <a href=""histry.htm"">history file</a> indexing into the log book write-ups.","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","p145","May be Laser point 0/4, but it is dubious","","","","gps00.145","","","","","","","","","","Tag","Red paint ""145""; tag.","Surveyed",""
"","","b","","entrance","","","","","","","","CUCC 1983-4. There is now a <a href=""histry.htm"">history file</a> indexing into the log book write-ups.","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","p145b","","","Surface survey","","","","","","","","","","","","Tag","","Surveyed",""
"","","c","","last entrance","","","","","","","","CUCC 1983-4. There is now a <a href=""histry.htm"">history file</a> indexing into the log book write-ups.","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","p145c","","","Surface survey","","","","","","","","","","","","Unmarked","","Surveyed",""
146,"1/S -","","","","smkridge/146.htm","","","Tobogganschacht","","","2c","","","","","","","","","","","","","Interestingly, the Austrians have this as 1/T +, at 1700m, NE of Schwarzmoossattel, and think it was explored by CUCC in 1984 to a depth of -40m. A photocopy of an annotated copy of the OAV map lying around in the Expo files puts this about halfway between 145 and 147, which makes sense when you think about it.","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","Unexplored entrance (may be the one Tony called Tobogganschacht)","","","","Refindable","May be unexplored; AERW had this marked as lost, but the mysterious map suggests it shouldn't be too hard to find - worth a look."
147,"2/T +","","","","smkridge/147.htm","","","Schwa Höhle 147","","","2c","CUCC 1988 ","Horizontal walking entrance leads south to a descending passage and junction. Down to right is a shorter but smaller route to the lower cave, while ahead leads past a small choked passage on the right to the head of a pitch. Across the pitch a smaller passage continues to a blind pitch where a draught enters from the floor, and an even smaller continuing passage which ends too small, also draughting.</p><p>Down the main pitch, in a rift, is 10m to a boulder pile in a chamber where the shorter route reenters, and a passage continues back north towards the entrance. South is a rift ending too tight. The main way soon leads to a pitch of 10m with a large ledge halfway. A short passage intersects a cross-rift before becoming too small (with a draught), but down the rift drops c15m to a choke at about -45m.","","","","","In dataset","Elevation and plan, 1988, unpublished? Claims to be grade 5b, but comment in 1988 logbook suggests that compass may have been seriously deviated by use of a torch to illuminate it. Drawn up survey has only one scale bar, though clearly plan and elevation are not to the same scale. Surface survey to top of Vd. Schwarzmooskogel, 1994</p><p>Re-explored and surveyed in 1999 - see <a href=""../years/1999/log.htm#id1999-147-1"">log-book write-up</a> – but apparently never drawn up.</p><p><img alt=""Plan, 12k gif"" width=""800"" height=""500"" src=""others/147p.png"" /></p><p><img alt=""Elevation, 15k gif"" width=""500"" height=""800"" src=""others/147l.png"" />","caves/147/147.svx","","","","Number originally allocated to a cave which was not marked with a number, and which was not relocated until 1988. Interestingly, the Austrians had this as 2/T +, at 1700m, NW of Vorderer Schwarzmooskogel, and think CUCC explored it to 60m long and 10m deep in 1984. This suggests a CUCC documentation failure and probably a relocation failure, as the cave explored in 1988 was very different...","","t147","p147","Start of (old) underground survey (Orange circle with orange dot in middle on rock nodule above entrance)","","Nils","","","","","","","","Probably somewhat uphill from 146, ie. NW of Vd. Schwarzmooskogel.</p><p>"3m entry pitch in rift going into bluff wall on camp 2 side of Vord. Schwarzmooskogel on cairned path." (<a href=""../tcamps.htm#vd1camp"">Camp 2</a> refers to the 1988/89 camp up near the col between Vord. and Hint. Schwarzmooskogel.)","","","","Tag","","Surveyed",""
148,"2/t/S +","","","","plateau/148.htm","","","Marilyn Monroe Höhle","","","1c","CUCC 1984, 1987","Not really pushed in 1984, since discovered right at the end, but relocated in 1987: horizontal tube entrance about 1m in diameter. An awkward crawl over boulders for 10m leads to a squeeze down behind a boulder with light entering ahead. Short freeclimb reaches a phreatic tube of about 3m diameter. To the right silts up in boulders while to the left descends gently over snow and big rocks to reach a sizeable chamber and pitch of about 20m. Avoiding the pitch, a route down through boulders for 3m reaches a very unstable boulder slope, which is crossed to reach another 3m pitch to a rift with a further pitch on the left. To the right, the roof lowers over large boulders, and a small ice chamber is reached with a frozen stream. A narrow section leads down to a rift of 5m down to an earthy passage.</p><p>Back at the boulder slope (I think), the 20m pitch can again be attained and from here is 15m to the floor of a 20m high chamber with three ways on. Facing away from pitch, righthand rift leads to a flat-out crawl over ice. This passes remarkable ice formations to emerge at <b>The Ice Castle</b>, a chamber with a large ice-stalagmite formation. The route terminates in a steep ice slope at the far side of the chamber.</p><p>Way directly ahead from pitch is a 3m climb into a large phreatic tube round a 90° bend to a solid wall of boulders. Ways into the choke proved very loose and tight, but a continuing rift/chamber could be seen through a tiny but strongly draughting hole.</p><p>Third way on from pitch ascends steeply and becomes tight, with a jammed boulder now in the way. Route ends at a steep ice-climb for which no equipment was available.","","","","","In dataset","There is an <a href=""145/145.png"">area plan, drawn at 1:2000</a>, showing <a href=""145/145.html"">145</a>, <a href=""82.htm"">82</a> and 148 on Gauß and Krüger coordinates, which has never been published.</p><p>This description originally just listed the survey as ""MISSING (grade 3)"". It's unclear if this combined plan is this missing survey or not. <p><a href=""145/145.png""> <img src=""145/145-2.png"" alt=""Survey (17k PNG)"" width=""752"" height=""948"" /></a>.","caves/148/148.svx","92m surveyed","39.2m surveyed","48m surveyed","","","","p148","","","Surface survey","","","","","","","","On the plateau, next to cairned path from the col past 82 leading to 107 etc., just by a short climb up; noticeable by (and discovered by) its cold outward draught.","","","","Tag","red painted number ""148"". 1998 tag ""1623 148 CUCC 1984"" on survey point on RHS of entrance.","Surveyed",""
149,"1/S +","","","","smkridge/149.htm","","","Plateau Schacht 149","","","2c","CUCC 1984","Documentation comprises a grade 1 sketch with no description in 1984 logbook. Horizontal entrance leads under a shaft to surface and a 5m climb down to a choke. Over the hole and left leads in a sandy tube to a traverse reaching a 4m diameter tube. To the right this is choked, with small blocked tubes leading off. Ahead and left a 10m pitch leads to a solid choke.","","","","","","","","","","","Until the 1984 logbook surfaced in 1993, we thought this number was not allocated, but, interestingly, the Austrians had this as 2/T +, 1685m, NE of Schwarzmoossattel, and think it was explored in 1984 by CUCC to 100m long and 15m deep. Where is this information coming from, and why didn't CUCC record it for their own benefit too?","","","","","","","","","","","","","","The entrance is in a large gully, just above the sandy depression, opposite Wolfhöhle. Several draughting entrances. Sketch with no north arrow, but would guess that its north from <a href=""../plateau/145/145.html"">145</a>.","","","","","","Lost","Needs looking at again, AERW doesn't know where to find it"
150,"0/T +","","","","smkridge/150.htm","","","Schwa Röhrhöhle 150","","","2a","CUCC 1985 ","Draughting tube, too tight at -2m, and therefore should not really have a kataster number. ","","","","","","","","","","","","","","p150","","","Surface survey","","","","","","","","On the way to 152","","","","","","Surveyed",""
151,"0/T +","","","","smkridge/151.htm","","","Schwa Höhle 151","","","2a","CUCC 1985 ","Chamber 3m in diameter with draughting slot which proved too tight, -3m. This suggest that it is is too small to have a number. ","","","","","","","","","","","","","","p151","","","Surface survey","","","","","","","","On the way to 152","","","","","","Surveyed",""
152,"4/S +","","","","smkridge/152.htm","","","Bananehöhle","","","2a","CUCC 1985 ","A vertical entrance which leads, at a depth of -145m, into <a href=""113.htm"">Sonnenstrahlhöhle</a> below the Purple Pit, just before Müsli crawl (-198m from Sonnenstrahl entrance bolt). Entrance pitch <b>Scott</b> is 9m over snow, then a small tube leads down to a short climb down boulders to an 8m pitch <b>Virgil</b>, followed immediately by <b>Alan</b>, another 8m pitch landing in <b>Dump Chamber</b>. A long rift, <b>Boulder Alley</b> leads to a rock bridge and scramble down boulders into <b>Boulder Chamber</b> which ends in a 4m climb and pitches of 5m (<b>John</b>) and 4m (<b>Parker</b>) over boulders. A 5m pitch (<b>Mr. Tracy</b>) drops into the top of a very tall narrow rift. A slight widening allows a short climb down into the canyon, but is soon too tight - <b>Lady Penelope</b>. The rift continues until a fault is met and <b>The Good Pitch Venus</b> is 24m to <b>Behind the Drinks Cabinet</b>. A further rift leads to a 16m pitch which lands in Sonnenstrahlhöhle.</p><p>Boulder Chamber appears to correspond with the bouldery Opera House in Sonnenstrahlhöhle, while the Good Pitch Venus and following 16m pitch correlate with the Purple Pit.","","","","","In dataset","? MISSING (grade 4)","caves/152/152.svx","321m","145m","80m","","","","p152","drilled station at entrance ","","Surface survey","","","","","","","","on the hillside below and to the east of 113","","","","Spit","Drilled station","Surveyed",""
153,"1/S +","","","","smkridge/153.htm","","","Schwa Schacht 153","","","2b","Discovered CUCC 1985 (on last day), explored 1987","Entrance climb of 12m in doline appears to choke, but a small letterbox squeeze in side of shaft leads to broken pitch. First section of 6m in a rift less than 2m wide leads to a ledge, then 12m down to a floor. A slightly hammered squeeze leads into another narrow rift dropping 10m. This constricts to 20cm and then becomes totally impassable only shortly below. Squeezes are quite epic to reverse.","","","","","","Grade 1 elevation from 1987 Log Book, surface survey from cairn on Bunter's Bulge.</p><div class=""centre""><img alt=""Sketch survey, 9k gif"" width=""640"" height=""510"" src=""others/153.png"" /></div><p>","","","","","","","","p153","","","Surface survey","","gps00.153","","","","","","~200m on 013° magnetic and +03° from Bunter's Bulge <span lang=""de"">(Weiße Warze).</span>","From <span lang=""de"">Weiße Warze,</span> follow red arrows until you see yellow arrows, follow these (there would seem to be just two of them). After last yellow arrow, cross gully in same direction, then permanent survey mark TC is on large slab in centre of next depression. From here, climb out of depression on bearing 035°, then keep going up gully to 153 (large boulder above on left is a good vantage point). ","","","","","Surveyed",""
154,"1/S x","a b","","yes","smkridge/154.htm","","","Schwa Schacht 154","","","2b","Discovered CUCC 1985 (on last day), explored 1987","Loose pitch head gives onto 5m entrance pitch. A rift leads off but quickly chokes, while a draughting slot could be dug, but is rather loose and dangerous, so was left.","","","","","","Grade 1 plan (no scale) from 1987 Log Book, surface survey from Bunter's Bulge.</p><div class=""centre""><img alt=""sketch - 3k gif"" width=""280"" height=""250"" src=""others/154.png"" /></div><p>","","","","","This doesn't sound much like the 1985 log book description, which is of a climb down in a rift below the survey mark into a chamber with daylight entering in two or three places. There is another way out, though where this is isn't mentioned, and the cave needed a rope to push further. However, the 1987 sketch does sound like this ! It is not clear whether the 1987 push addressed the way out needing a rope - perhaps another look would be a good idea, if a party is working in this area.","","","","","","","","","","","","","","~60m on 222° from outcrop which is ~100m on 10° from 153.","From 153, follow gully, keeping slightly left to end (10° magnetic), climb over ridge to left and continue with next gully into depression. Lower entrance in bottom of depression, but this is not marked, on over next ridge to find marked entrance.","","","","No definite evidence which entrances are marked as what; but the survey notes say 154b is unmarked, so presumably 154a is marked somehow - presumably paint, or perhaps a spit?","",""
"","","a","","entrance","","","","","","","","Discovered CUCC 1985 (on last day), explored 1987","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","p154","","","Surface survey","","","","","","","","","","","","Paint (?)","","Surveyed",""
"","","b","","last entrance","","","","","","","","Discovered CUCC 1985 (on last day), explored 1987","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","p154b","","","Surface survey","","","","","","","","","","","","Unmarked","","Surveyed",""
155,"1/S -","","","","smkridge/155.htm","","","Unerforscht Schacht 155","","","2b","CUCC 1985 (on last day), was this pushed in 1987 ?","The cave can be entered via a slot on the right hand side of snow plug, or by crossing the snow plug onto the ice. The ice slopes down in one corner, possibly to a pitch, which, however, will need a rope to verify. Another slot nearby may drop into the same chamber. ","","","","","","Grade 1 elevation in 1985 Log Book ?","","","","","","","","p155","","","Surface survey","","gps00.155","","","","","","about 150m ENE of <a href=""154.htm"">154</a>","From 154, climb up and right and around a grassy shoulder. Then walk down (heading roughly east), skirting past a choked doline and 155 lies ahead.","A huge snow-plugged entrance apparently akin to <a href=""113.htm"">113</a>.","","","","Surveyed",""
157,"2/S x ","","","","smkridge/157.htm","","","Schwa Schacht 157","Pirat Schacht","","1c","Uncertain. Rediscovered CUCC 1987","Entrance shaft of 50m until gap between snow and rock became too perilous in 1987 - bottom still out of sight. About 25m below the karren, a rift passage leads off from side of shaft into parallel shaft with aven. This shaft is of unknown depth but has recent looking bolts of unknown origin. It is just conceivable that these bolts are in 107, but far more likely that the cave had been looked at by GSCB who were in the area on a reconnaissance in 1986 (?) and more seriously in 1987.</p><p>The second cave has a walk-in entrance, splitting just inside. The left passage comes out below a shaft from the surface, and apparently continues unexplored. The main passage reaches a 10m pitch, also below a surface shaft, which drops into a chamber. To the left is a short passage to an undescended pitch of about 10m, while to the right are three ways on. First is a rift, then a passage with an ice floor, and finally, half back towards the entrance, is a passage emerging below another surface shaft (passed on the surface just before reaching the entrance). This final passage also appeared to continue. Because a large carbide pig was found outside the entrance, it was assumed that someone else was in the course of exploring this cave.","","","","","","","","","","","","","p157","","","","","","","","","","","","""about 6m above <a href=""../handbook/survey/lasers.htm"">Laser rangefound point 0/5</a>"" (which is above gully containing <a href=""../plateau/107.htm"">Kat. 107</a> and marked with an alloy tag stamped ""LASER 0-5""). The cave was looked for but not seen in a visit to this laser point in 1998. A <a href=""../plateau/1987_02.html"">second cave 100m from 0/5</a>, uphill to the left, was not given a number because of evidence of previous exploration, but should be investigated further. (This might, or might not, be <a href=""bogen.html"">Bogenhöhle</a>.) 157 was relocated in 2001, visible to the right of the route up to 204. It was marked with faded yellow paint.","","","","Tag","Tag placed 2000","Surveyed","Much confusion"
158,"3/S +","","","","smkridge/158.htm","","","Donner und Blitzen Höhle","","","2b","CUCC 1987","A body-width passage formed by a wall on the left and a large detached slab on the right descends for about 5m at 45°, with occasional glimpses of daylight above. A cross passage is then encountered. To the right is blocked after a few metres, but left descends to meet the base of the wall. To the right here, a 20-22cm squeeze is passed by lying on one side. After 2m of further tight progress, the rift opens onto a drop. A steep tube descends for about 12m to a small chamber and with care can be descended free.</p><p>From the chamber, the passage curves to the left and opens onto the head of a 7m pitch, which drops onto a large ledge. A rebelay just over the lip of the ledge at the left hand side gives a further 18m free-hanging pitch to a landing on boulders several metres across, which appear to be jammed across the shaft.</p><p>A narrow rift around a corner stops at a drip and a small pool. The way on is through a gap to a hole with a jammed block. Climbing down to the block leads to the head of an 18m pitch which rapidly opens into a huge split-level chamber. The pitch lands on <b>Big Bertha</b>, a boulder some 4m in diameter. </p><p>To the north, a narrow rift has been followed for about 10m to a tight vertical drop of at least 5m down the rift, but this has not been pushed. East from Big Bertha leads to a 5m drop to the lower half of the chamber, which is floored with loose rock. An archway to the left leads to a 7m pitch to a small stream. This disappears down an impassable slot, but is met lower in the cave.</p><p>From the archway, a climb up behind a boulder propped against the side of the chamber leads to a col. One side rapidly curves up to the roof. The other ascends over very loose boulders for at least 25m (15m vertical) until the roof is met. This area has not been exhaustively pushed, but seems unlikely to lead anywhere.</p><p>Descending the other side of the col gives a series of ledges via 5m, 7m and 8m pitches, in a canyon some 5m wide and at least 15m high. The stream enters at the bottom of the 7m pitch. Below, the rift continues down a moderate slope and round a corner, with a final short 4m pitch to a soil and rock floored chamber.</p><p>A strong draught is felt around the edges of the chamber, rising from the choked floor. It is possible to descend in loose boulders in a number of places but all ways meet the roof and choke - pushing in this area is dangerous and unpromising.</p><p>Near the bottom of the previous pitch, a 5m deep circular pit in the floor can be descended. This takes a large drip from the stream above. At the bottom, a tight (22-26cm) rift leads on for 3m to a further 3m pitch to a small chamber. An impassable passage continues, while a small window gives a view of a widening beyond.","","","","","In dataset","Grade 3 plan and elevation in <a href=""../../jnl/1988/index.htm"">Cambridge Underground 1988</a>, p 6</p><p><img alt=""E-W Elevation, 15k gif"" width=""500"" height=""760"" src=""others/158ew.png"" /></p><p><img alt=""Plan, 15k gif"" width=""840"" height=""400"" src=""others/158p.png"" />","","","128m (deepest surveyed point is -118m)","","","","","p158","on big rock at entrance","","Surface survey","","gps00.158","","","","","","400m NNE of The Nipple <span lang=""de"">(Weißen Warze)</span> at the base of a wall to the left after passing a sandy depression (walking from the Nipple).","","","","Paint","","Surveyed",""
160,"2/S/ +","","","","plateau/160.htm","","","Plateau Schacht 160","Jared's Hole","","1a","CUCC 1988 ","Bottoming trip used a 70m rope to reach a choke (with a draught). A small side rift at the bottom choked after 3m.</p><p>The cave could probably do with another descent to record some details of the interior or even a survey !","","","","","","","","","","","1988 logbook implies that this is "Jared's Hole". Was provisionally numbered "181" but apparently never marked. ","","p160","","","","Surface survey","","gps00.160","","","","","","On plateau, near <a href=""b10.htm"">B10</a> (according to B10 info). <a href=""../years/1988/log.htm#start"">Map in 1988 logbook</a> shows 160 as out on the plateau from Bräuning Scharte in an area of terracing, and WSW of B10. Hole tagged in 1998 is just east of 91, and can also be reached by following the terrace west from the 159 entrance.","","","","Tag","The hole believed to be 160 was unmarked until tagged in 1998 ""1623 160 CUCC 1988"" on flat limestone 1m east of entrance. This had been relocated in 1996 and was then thought to be <a href=""159/159.html"">159</a>, but latter was found marked in 1998.","Surveyed",""
161,"5/S/E x","a–h","","yes","smkridge/161/top.htm","","","Kaninchenhöhle","","","2c","CUCC 1988-98","Rather than adopting the usual approach of describing every side passage in the main description, which makes the 'normal' descent route hard to follow, this description describes each main route down the cave first, mentioning side passages only where necessary to make the correct main route clear. Various side passages and connecting routes are described subsequently, area by area. The directions left and right are always relative to travel in the direction of the description, compass directions are given where there is any ambiguity. Most passages are described going 'into the cave', on the assumption that this is how they will be first met. Some passages are described in both directions, either because it is difficult to follow them without getting into side leads, or because they form important links between different parts of the system, and may be traversed either way on various round trips.</p><p>The <b>clickable index</b> has developed into a <a href=""names.htm"">glossary</a>, which it is hoped will make it easier to find bits of the cave by name - <b>be warned</b>, this became so big that it was decided to split it up and it is now a <b>framed</b> page.</p><p>There are also <a href=""pix.htm"">virtual tours</a>, containing thumbnails of all the pictures of the caves. Although these pages are kept small, all the photos mean that they can require a <b>lot</b> of memory to load. The original comprehensive tour has been split into two, for the <a href=""pixrh.htm"">Right Hand Route</a>, and for passages most conveniently reached from the <a href=""pixsf.htm"">Scarface entrance</a>. Two new tours have been created for the <a href=""pixlw.htm"">Lost World</a> and Wheelchair Access, and for the new way into the Forbidden Land via <a href=""pixss.htm""><span lang=""de"">Steinschlagschacht</span></a>. Each thumbnail on these tours links to a full-size version of the picture, and each full-size picture has links into the appropriate bit of the description.</p><h4>Exploration</h4><p>Throughout the guide, the date of exploration is noted for each area. There is a <a href=""histry.htm"">history</a> page which can be used as a clickable index into the logbook write ups of all the 161 trips, so it should be easy to follow the exploration of any part of the cave. <b>Warning</b>, this was also getting too big and is now framed.</p><h4>Overview</h4><p>The upper part of the system can be best thought of as a number of separate areas, each with its own vertical development. The more recently found extensive horizontal development, being easier to traverse, is generally better connected. Although there are various links between the vertical routes, a given destination will tend to have one 'obvious' approach. These areas are <a href=""france.htm"">France</a>, the <a href=""lhr.htm"">Left Hand Routes</a>, the <a href=""rhr.htm"">Right Hand Routes</a>, the southernmost part of the system reached via <a href=""136.htm""><span lang=""de"">Steinschlagschacht</span></a>, routes from <a href=""sftotp.htm"">Scarface</a> entrance. So rapidly has exploration proceeded from Triassic Park that now more than half the total length is most conveniently reached via 161d.</p><p>The key to all the deepest and most remote parts of the system is the huge collapse chamber of Knossos. This was reached from the 161a entrance via the Right Hand Route, and now via the 161d <a href=""sftotp.htm#id161d"">""Scarface""</a> entrance through <a href=""triasp.htm#triasp"">Triassic Park</a>. This provides a much easier route in, making trips to the further reaches less strenuous. From Knossos, horizontal trunk passage leads north, giving access first to a series of <a href=""deepwy.htm"">deep vertical systems</a>, and further on to complex areas of rifts and old passages. A significant horizontal route leading northwest, <a href=""sibria.htm#siberia"">Siberia</a>, has only been pushed as a result of the new entrance, but has yielded a new deep point
"","","a","","entrance","smkridge/161/161a.htm","","","","","","2c","CUCC 1988-98","<a href=""bsains.htm#id161a"">Click here for underground description</a>","","","","","","","","","","","","","","p161a","","","Nils","","gps00.161a2","","","","","","","","","","Tag","","Surveyed",""
"","","b","","entrance","smkridge/161/161b.htm","","","","","","2c","CUCC 1988-98","<a href=""offtop.htm#id161b"">Click here for underground description</a>","","","","","","","","","","","","","","p161b","","","Nils","","","","","","","","","","","","Tag","","Surveyed",""
"","","c","VSS 88AF","entrance","smkridge/161/161c.htm","","","","","","2c","CUCC 1988-98","<a href=""france.htm#id161c"">Click here for underground description</a>","","","","","","","","","","","","","","p161c","","","Nils","","","","","","","","","","","The 161c entrance is <a href=""../others/l/161c.htm"">shown here</a>.","Tag","","Surveyed",""
"","","d","","entrance","smkridge/161/161d.htm","","","","","","2c","CUCC 1988-98","<a href=""sftotp.htm#id161d"">Click here for underground description</a>","","","","","","","","","","","","","p161dtag","p161d","","","Surface survey","","gps00.161d gps00.161d_2","","","","","","","","","","Tag","","Surveyed",""
"","","e","","entrance","smkridge/161/161e.htm","","","","","","2d","CUCC 1988-98","<a href=""icelnd.htm#id161e"">Click here for underground description</a>","","","","","","","","","","","","","","p161e","","","Nils","","","","","","","","","","","","Tag","","Surveyed",""
"","","f","","entrance","smkridge/161/161f.htm","","","","","","2d","CUCC 1988-98","<a href=""pheast.htm#id161f"">Click here for underground description</a>","","","","","","","","","","","","","","p161f","","","Surface survey","","","","","","","","","","","","Tag","","Surveyed",""
"","","g","2003-06","entrance","smkridge/161/161g.htm","","","Arachnowrapper","","","2d","CUCC 2003","<a href=""icelnd.htm#id161g"">Click here for underground description</a>","","","","","","","","","","","","","p161g","","","","","","gps03.161g","","","","","","","","","","Retag","Tag still says ""CUCC 2003/06"".","Surveyed",""
"","","h","2004-12","entrance","smkridge/161/161h.htm","","","","","","2d","CUCC 2004","<a href=""icelnd.htm#id161h"">Click here for underground description</a>","","","","","","","","","","","","","p161h","","","","Underground survey","","gps04.p2004-12","","","","","","NE slope of Hinterer Schwarzmooskogel","Difficult route finding past Damoclesschact and 2003-07 to edge of plateau. Climb down to easy gemsa path and turn north for 200m.","Above short climb low body sized tube below cleft in cliff.","</p><div class=""centre""><img src=""i/161hclose.jpg"" alt=""close up entrance picture"" /><img src=""i/161hfar.jpg"" alt=""distant entrance picture"" /><p>161h entrance </p></div><p>","Retag","Tag still says ""CUCC 2004-12""","Surveyed",""
162,"2/S +","main b","","yes","smkridge/162.htm","","","Schwa Höhle 162","","","2c","CUCC 1988. 162b independently discovered by Brian and Becka 1999 and relocated + tagged ""1999-10"" by Wookey and Andy A 2000.","The cave takes a good couple of hours to explore thoroughly. Through the entrance is a large chamber with a 4m x 8m crater in it. A 3m climb down to the bottom gives access to a 3m climb back up to the right, leading into the cave and a crawl at the lowest point of the boulders leading into a choked bit of cave with small solutional stuff in the roof. It is also possible to traverse around the left edge of the crater to reach a triangular crawl which goes for about 10m before it gets too tight.</p> <p>The entire floor of this cave consists of small rocks and boulders. There is no solid rock anywhere horizontal, except halfway down the pitch.</p> <p>After climbing out of the hole there is another 5m deep choked hole beyond. Traverses round to both the left and right are possible, although a little care is required due to the low roof and loose floor.</p> <p>To the right, rubble coming out of the bottom of a choked shaft almost blocks the passage but a crawl through to the left remains, with a strong wind blasting through the confined space. Beyond this constriction the draught is lost. The roof remains low on the other side, although it is possible to stand up off to the left where there is a 4m climb up to what looks like a way on but is actually blind. Moving around the boulder pile to the right leads to a big passage. There are a few large boulders 10m to the right with a 4m climb down between them leading to a tight choked rift. This was also dug into from the top passage by the extremely zealous original explorers! There is an alcove in front and a rubble slope up to the right. Round the corner to the right is another shaft-bottom rubble pile and a hole disappearing into the roof. At the top of the slope to the left is a 4m climb up through and around big wedged boulders to reach an impressive chamber 7m × 9m and 12m high. There is a possible climb up into an aven in the corner which probably doesn't go and has a couple of moves at the top which need protecting.</p> <p>Back at the fork near the entrance, turning left and thrutching over a couple of rocks (another windy spot) leads to the head of a 17m pitch broken by a ledge 8m down. There is a bolt for a ladder hang on this ledge. Going off to the left allows a safe traverse past the pitch continuation to the bottom of a 6m high rift with some ice in it, slowly narrowing as it goes up.</p> <p>At the foot of the pitch is what looks like an ancient phreatic remnant. It is about 40m long and 6m wide, and mostly full of rocks. To the left it is blocked at the end by the rubble coming out of the bottom of a big shaft. It is possible to work round the foot of this for about 3m to the left and 10m to the right.</p> <p>Going the other way down the passage reveals a large snow column by the left hand wall. It is possible to climb up between the column and its containing shaft, presumably all the way to the surface, but no-one has managed it yet. Beyond this column the roof gets lower, apart from a couple of solutional avens and eventually a small shaft-bottom rock pile and a couple of small inlet tubes mark the end of the cave.</p> <p>There is no extant description or survey of what Brian and Becka discovered in 1999 except that it was a shaft to around 50m of passage. This and the position of their entrance suggests that they had dropped into the lower part of 162, near the snow column from the original description.","","","","","In dataset","1990 plan Cambridge Underground 1991</p><p><img alt=""survey - 16k gif"" width=""649"" height=""505"" src=""others/162.png"" />","caves/162/162.svx","156-159m","22 m (survey) or 33 m (text)","","The <a href=""../years/1988/log.htm"">1988 log book</a> refers to this cave as ""Adam's Hole (2)"".","","","","","","Surface survey","","gps00.162","","","","","","Vorderer Schwarzmooskogel, about halfway between <a href
"","","b","1999-10","last entrance","","","","","","","","CUCC 1988. 162b independently discovered by Brian and Becka 1999 and relocated + tagged ""1999-10"" by Wookey and Andy A 2000.","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","p162b","spit hole","","","","p1999-10","","","","","","","","","","Retag","Tag placed 2000, still says ""CUCC 1999-10""","Surveyed",""
164,"2/S +","","","","plateau/164.htm","","","Plateau Schacht 164","","","1a","<a href=""../years/1988/164.htm"">CUCC 1988</a>","The entrance pitch is 10m, and has a detectable draught - quite strong in view of the size of the entrance. There was only the remains of a snow plug in 1988, although the plug is almost complete in some years (eg. 1995 - it was gone again in 1996).</p><p>A small stream enters and lands on boulders at the foot of the pitch in a passage leading south along a fault. A climb of 4m over precarious boulders reaches a bolt for the second pitch. The quality of rock in this area leaves a lot to be desired. The second pitch, 12m and third pitch, 15m are separated only by a small ledge. Water sinks in floor of small passage floored with what would appear to be the previous season's roof, now decayed into small jagged rocks. Continuing passage over boulders rises to 4-5m dropping steeply for 30m on the same south-trending fault. The water is rejoined at a freehanging 10m pitch from a rock bridge overlooking a sizeable chamber.</p><p>The stream sinks at the foot of the pitch in the centre of the 15m by 7m chamber floor. To the east, a scramble leads up to a shattered cross-rift from a large shelf about 15m long and 10m wide, but ends too tight. A similar feature to the west up a 4m climb becomes a low bedding with no way on. Due south are two passages, the one to the right leading 20m round a couple of bends to a sandy choke. The left passage quickly chokes. The draught seems to be lost into the continuation of the passage above the final pitch, on the far side of the chamber. This would be best reached by a traverse on steep loose rock from the 4m climb in the chamber. The pitches take large quantities of water very quickly in rain.","","","","","","<a href=""others/164.png"">Elevation</a> in Cambridge Underground 1989","","","60ish metres","","","","p164tag","p164rig","","","Surface survey","","","","","","","","On plateau, beyond <a href=""198/198.html"">B11</a> (1623/198). This is a snow-choked shaft next to the very large snow-choked shaft, which has always been blocked with snow and was therefore not explored or numbered for many years, but is now <a href=""189.htm"">189</a>.","","","</p><div class=""centre""><a href=""others/l/189164.htm""><img src=""others/t/189164.jpg"" width=""121"" height=""176"" alt=""entrance picture - 87k jpeg"" /></a><p>164 entrance (left of centre) seen over 189 entrance.</p></div><p>","Tag","On wall above entrance, facing NE, number in red, 1988. Austrian metal tag, 1995.","Surveyed",""
165,"1/S +","","","","smkridge/165.htm","","","Schwa Schacht 165","","","2d","CUCC 1989","15m shaft explored by Adam and Planc on 24th August 1989, and apparently never returned to, but did get its number painted. Relocated and surveyed to in 1999.</p><p>In same fault line, but further north, in an area of bare limestone is another shaft. This already had a bolt when encountered in 1989, despite being outside the area previously looked at by CUCC. It was in excess of 35m deep and was not marked by CUCC. Cross on Schönberg 322°, Bräuning Nase 222°</p><p>This latter cave may be <a href=""195/195.html"">195</a> (marked in 1995) which is c 80m almost due north, although the faults in this area are mainly aligned on about 020°, so it may be an as-yet-unrelocated shaft.","","","","","","","","","","","","","","p165","","","Surface survey","","","","","","Cross on Schönberg 331°, Bräuning Nase 226°","","On the west side of the Hinterer Schwarzmooskogel in a fault line. About 80m due south of <a href=""195/195.html"">195</a>, which is visible from top camp.","","","","Tag","Tag placed 1999","Surveyed",""
172,"1/T +","","90/2","","plateau/172.htm","","","Plateau Höhle 90/2","","","1a","Almost certainly seen before, but recorded CUCC 1990","Horizontal, walk-in phreatic tube dipping to S and trending 190°. 40m long, 4m wide, 1.5 to 2m high. Choked at end.","","","","","In dataset","</p><div class=""centre""><img src=""others/172plan.png"" /></div><p>Notes in 2000#34","caves/172/172.svx","","","","","","","p172","","","Surface survey","","","","","","","","North of <a href=""171/171.html"">171</a> along fault, on cliff facing north, 10m east of fault. HSK 063°, Schönberg cross 343°. Relocated from these bearings, which seem about right, in 1995.","","","</p><div class=""centre""><a href=""others/l/172.htm""><img alt=""Entrance photo"" src=""others/t/172.jpg"" width=""200"" height=""150"" /></a><p>Entrance to 1623/172, seen in 1995</p></div><p>","Tag","Originally marked ""CUCC 90/2"" in red, changed to ""172"" in 1991. An Austrian metal tag bolted to entrance in 1995.","Surveyed",""
173,"1/S +","","90/3","","plateau/173.htm","","","Plateau Schacht 90/3","","","1d","Recorded CUCC 1990","Lies along fracture line from <a href=""172.htm"">172</a> with several shafts connected by a narrow rift. Most of these are snow plugged - 173 also has a plug but this has shrunk and a large gap is visible around the edges. Fracture trends 024°, shaft is c20m deep and 7m diameter.","","","","","","","","","C20m","","","","t173","","","","Surface survey","","","","","","Bräuning Nase 191° (1995, 1990 record says 186°), Nipple 159°, Hinterer Schwarzmooskogel appears as two peaks, left hand one is 080° (1995, 1990 figure 082° unclear which peak), Bräuning Zinken 224° (1995, 1990:220°)","","","","","</p><div class=""centre""><a href=""others/l/173.htm""><img alt=""Photo - 96k"" width=""194"" height=""130"" src=""others/t/173.jpg"" /></a></div><p>","Tag","Originally marked ""CUCC 90/3"" in red, changed to ""173"" in 1991. An Austrian metal tag bolted to entrance in 1995.","Surveyed",""
175,"1/S +","","90/5","","plateau/175.htm","","","Plateau Schacht 90/5","","","1d","Recorded CUCC 1990, descended 1990-07-29","c20m shaft, snow at bottom. Last (2nd) pitch led to climb into choked bit.","","","","","","Sketch survey in 1990 survey book, page 78","","","","","","","","","","","","","gps00.175","","","","Nipple 167°, Bräuning Nase 193°, Bräuning Zinken 220°, HSK 100° (1990 bearings)","","","Further round cliff to NE of <a href=""174.htm"">174</a> on NW side of shallow valley bounded on one side by the HSK.</p><p>If you <b>are</b> coming from 174, 175 is a couple of scars down from where you arrive by simply following the cliff.","","</p><div class=""centre""><a href=""others/l/175.htm""><img src=""others/t/175.jpg"" alt=""Entrance photo (85k JPEG)"" width=""123"" height=""175"" /></a><a href=""others/l/175snr.htm""><img src=""others/t/175snr.jpg"" alt=""Entrance in context of surroundings (68k JPEG)"" width=""154"" height=""110"" /></a></div><p>","Tag","Originally marked ""CUCC 90/5"" in red, changed to ""175"" in 1991. An Austrian metal tag bolted to entrance in 1995.","Surveyed",""
176,"1/S -","","90/6","","plateau/176.htm","","","Plateau Schacht 90/6","","","1d","Recorded CUCC 1990","c30m shaft with snow-covered ledge at 15m. Rocks thrown down land on cobble floor.","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","gps00.176","","","1665m (by altimeter set 1610 at Bergrestaurant)","Hinterer Schwarzmooskogel 102½ (1995, to left hand peak; 1990/91 100 or 104°?), rightmost (of three) peak of Vorderer Schwarzmooskogel 168½° (1990/91: 167 or 169°), Bräuning Nase 195° (1995, 1990:193°), Bräuning Zinken 220½ (1995, 1990/91 220 or 214°), Top Camp 192° (1991?)","","At foot of SE-facing scar, just NE of a much more obvious (but unmarked) NW-SE rift with snow. Below this scar is a pavement formed in a shelly band of limestone, which dips c 10-15° on a strike of 135-315°. Following the pavement down and dropping down one scar leads to <a href=""175.htm"">175</a>.","","","</p><div class=""centre""><a href=""others/l/176snr.htm""><img alt=""Photo of entrance"" src=""others/t/176snr.jpg"" width=""122"" height=""172"" /></a></div><p>","Tag","Originally marked ""CUCC 90/6"" in red, changed to ""176"" in 1991, on scar above cave, rather small. An Austrian metal tag bolted to entrance next to the number in 1995.","Surveyed",""
177,"1/S +","","90/7","","plateau/177.htm","","","Tantalus Schacht","","","1d","CUCC 1990 ","Named by dehydrated discoverers who had allowed water (and paint) out of their possession. At the bottom of the shaft is beautiful flowing stream. 35m shaft from Bunde belay to pool, water seep and ice at bottom. Access to promising looking passage which unfortunately quickly chokes.","","","","","","</p><p><img src=""others/177pln.png"" alt=""Sketch plan (5k PNG)""/>","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","Bräuning Nase 215°, Bräuning Zinken 234°, Schönberg summit 332°. This proved impossible to find in 1995 from these bearings which bring one to a point c 200m NNE of 1623/104 (easily spotted by the prominent split boulder above its entrance). The vicinity is hard to search owing to an excess of dwarf pine scrub and small cliffs.","","At break of slope between HSK and the plateau. ","","","","","","Lost","There is a shaft nearby with a loose rock numbered 177, which is <b>wrong</b> (suspected at the time, hence the use of an easily erasable mark)"
178,"1/T +","","90/8","","plateau/178.htm","","","Plateau Höhle 90/8","","","1d","CUCC 1990 ","Window into very large passage about 10×20m, fluted snow plug, second drops onto end of plug. To NE, passage leads to another large chamber with another shaft coming in at the far end.","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","Schönberg cross 330°, Bräuning Zinken 239°, Bräuning Nase 229°, Nipple 210°. The last is apparently totally wrong, but the other three lines intersect within a circle about 200m across","","","","","","","","Lost",""
179,"1/S +","","90/9","","plateau/179.htm","","","Plateau Schacht 90/9","","","1d","CUCC 1990 ","A 7m pitch leading to c5m of low cave.","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","Bräuning Scharte 218°","","","","","","","","Lost"
180,"2/S +","","90/10","","smkridge/180.htm","","","Schwa Schacht 90/10","","","2c","CUCC 1990 ","There is an ice shaft under collapsed boulders. A bedding in the side of this gives access to two adjacent loose pitches. Various impenetrable vocal connections to the surface exist. 30m pitch with ledge and rebelay at -15m leads to <b>Icicle Works</b> - very nice stals and flows. Follow flow down hole <b>Slush crawl</b> then rift. ","","","","","","","","","","","","","","p180","","","Surface survey","","","","","","","","Located on terrace N of <a href=""161/france.htm"">161b</a> and 161c (French entrance), before a big bowl of choss and rifts.","","","</p><div class=""centre""><a href=""others/l/180.htm""><img alt=""Photo - 82k"" width=""133"" height=""200"" src=""others/t/180.jpg"" /></a></div><p>","Tag","Red painted ""CUCC 90/10"". Spit placed for tag in 1997. Tag 1999","Surveyed"
181,"1/S +","","90/11","","plateau/181.htm","","","Plateau Schacht 90/11","","","1b","CUCC 1990 ","12m shaft with snow at bottom and rocky ledge at -5m. Aligned on 120°. Short way off at bottom is soon too tight.","","","","","","","","","12m","","","","","","","","","","","","","","HSK 074°, Bräuning Nase 165°, Bräuning Scharte 194°, Bräuning Zinken 216°","","","","","","Paint","Paint says ""90/11"" in red","Lost"
182,"4/S +","","90/12","","plateau/182/182.html","","","Bovistundpuderzuckerhöhle","Puffball and Icing Sugar Cave","","1b","CUCC 1990-1992 - see <a href=""histry.htm"">History</a> for index into logbooks","The main entrance joins with a secondary, slightly smaller entrance in a daylit chamber on top of a snow plug. Sky can be seen through a third entrance in the ceiling, which is surrounded by undergrowth on the surface. A hole down the back edge of the snow plug leads to a slither down a partially iced steep (30°) boulder slope, with a low ceiling which soon rises. A large boulder several metres across is jammed across the slope at a few metres further down, below which the boulder slope continues. An inlet to the left just before an ice formation soon becomes too tight. Carrying on, the slope soon gives way to a traverse above a vadose canyon, with a laddered climb (6m) after about 25m. It is possible to continue along the top of the rift all the way to above the top of shell pitch. It is much more spacious than below but has a couple of bad steps.</p><p>From the bottom of the ladder, the passage soon drops down a climb of 2m. Then there is a winding, rifty passageway, named ""<b>Magic Mushroom Passage</b>"" due to the peculiar mushroom-like formations on the walls. These, together with the white dusty look of the walls in places, give the cave its name. After 100m the rift widens, and a traverse develops above a narrower rift below. The upper level may be followed to above the first rope pitch, but the more usual route is to climb down a rock pile into the lower rift (40cm wide), which is known as the <b>Yorkshire Ripper</b>, due to the effect of the sharp, narrow rift on oversuits, and the Yorkshire feel of the cave at this point. After 15m, relieved at one point by a small alcove with an irritating spray of water, the narrow rift widens, after a final flourish, to the head of the first rope pitch (6m).</p><div class=""centre""><a name=""shellp"" href=""l/shellp.htm""><img alt=""Shell Pitch"" src=""t/shellp.jpg"" width=""164"" height=""248"" /></a><p class=""caption"">Shell Pitch</p></div><p>Carrying on from the base of the pitch, the tiny rift in the floor deepens, and traversing along leads soon to the head of <b>Shell pitch</b> (19m). Descending gives a fine view of the chamber, the walls of which contain many large bivalve fossils (hence the pitch's name). From this chamber, a short traverse leads to a junction. Left is an unclimbable aven, whilst to the right is <b>Piezo de Resistance</b>, described below. The main route is currently down <b>Q8</b> pitch which is broken by a ledge after 16m. After a further 9m and a rebelay, a pendulum through a window to one side leads on. Descending further, the shaft stops after 19m and a further rebelay. There are no passable ways on from the bottom (<b>Strike One</b>).</p><p>After the pendulum, a vast army of rebelays lies in wait (<b>Dot to Dot</b>), eventually ending in a larger pitch (25m) the bottom of which, again, has no ways on (<b>Strike Two</b>).</p><p>Yet again, a pendulum (at -14m) yields more cave (<b>Bottom Bypass</b>). A dubious 11m hang leads to a ledge. At one end of the ledge, ducking under an arch enters a chamber at the bottom of a high shaft (<b>Lady's Loo</b>), down which a vast torrent pours in wet weather. A further 9m down from the ledge is a floor. Progress can be made along the top of a slimy keyhole shaped rift (<b>Tarzan's Folly</b>) which is irritating to pass, especially with tackle. After 20m, a false floor appears and a few metres further on is <b>The Dark Room</b>, a high chamber with dark, textured walls. A waterfall cascades down from unfathomable heights, and pounds onto a ledge to the back right of the cavern.</p><p>Climbing down a slimy slope (which in an ideal world would be lined) the way on is along a rift which exits from the rear of the chamber on the left side. The rift has a couple of false floors in it. The middle level leads to the head of the next pitch: <b>Natural Redundancy</b> (11m) is reached after about 10m. The
183,"2/S x ","","90/13","","plateau/183.htm","","","Elchfalle","","","1b","CUCC 1990-1992","A small man-sized hole behind a flake in the obvious fault. Boulder almost blocking entrance was pulled clear in 1992. Descend a boulder pile for 5m then sloping start to an 8m pitch. Strong draught at this point. A few metres of boulder-floored passage lead to another short pitch (5m sloping, then 5m vertical). Another very short passage leads to the third pitch of 10m to a flat boulder floor followed quickly by the fourth pitch rigged clear of a tiny stream by bolts on the roof/far wall. This is again c 10m with a deviation half way to land on more boulders. The water quickly sinks in these, and a little way forward, a hole opens onto a pitch of 6m rigged from a Y-hang. The stream comes down at the east end of this chamber, joined by another inlet from the north, and leaves south to another 5m pitch, quickly followed by another 5m pitch, from the base of which there is a crawling passage. Downstream is a crawl was explored for varying distances on several occasions until the explorers ran out of enthusiasm; the passage also continues upstream, which was not explored.","","Continuing crawl both upstream and downstream at bottom","","","In dataset","","caves/183/183.svx","106m","71m","","","","","p183","","","Surface survey","","","","","","","","","From <a href=""182/182.html"">182</a>, go N up pavement. Just over crest turn left along sporadically vegetated ledge below 2m wall (to S). After 100m, a large fault is met which contains 183. ","","","Paint","Paint mark still says ""90/13""","Surveyed"
184,"1/T +","","90/14","","plateau/184.htm","","","Shiruken","","","1b","Recorded CUCC 1990, descended by Adam ?","It's a sharp narrow canyon and it's a BASTARD. Hence is called Shiruken (the sharp spikey things Ninjas throw).","","","","","","","","","","","","","","p184","","","Surface survey","","","","","","","","","From <a href=""183.htm"">183</a>, go south up the fault until an area of exposed limestone is met on the left (about 20m). Go left (E) along this exposure up to where the bunde starts and locate a surface stream canyon. This becomes 184 when it goes underground (and it's marked). ","","","Paint","","Surveyed"
186,"2/S +","","","","kratzer/186.htm","","","Rosenkavalierhöhle","","",4,"CUCC 1990 ","Cairn built by entrances. There are three entrances investigated:</p><p>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.</p><p>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.","","","","","","</p><p><img src=""../years/1990/rosenk.png"" alt=""Sketch survey (9k PNG)"" width=""768"" height=""627"" /></p><p>sketch survey by William Stead from 1990 logbook","","","","","","","","p186","","","Surface survey","","","","","","(1994 bearings <span lang=""de-at"">Bräuning Zinken</span> 284.5°, <span lang=""de-at"">Loser</span> 235°)","","Near <span lang=""de-at"">Schwarzmooskogel</span> just before top camp, 50m higher than path and on opposite hillside, where path by <span lang=""de-at"">Bräuning Nase</span> meets fault running up the mountain.</p><p>1994 log shows location (note that the arrow labelled "approx north" is <strong>very</strong> approx, as it is actually roughly east):</p><p><a href=""../years/1994/185map.png""><img src=""../years/1994/185-2.png"" alt=""Sketch map (5k PNG)"" width=""563"" height=""124"" /></a></p><p>Following the route depicted, if you reach a sandy depression, you have gone too far.","","","","Tag","This was numbered 185 at the entrance, but this was fixed in 1997, and a metal tag ""CUCC 186"" bolted on. ","Surveyed"
187,"1/S -","","","","smkridge/187.htm","","","Schwa Schacht 187","","","2c","CUCC 1990-","Nearly vertical bedding plane allows a 5m climb from where 5m+ of pitch can be seen and stones thrown down it indicate more.","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","Bräuning Nase 246°","","","Up ridge to Hinterer Schwarzmooskogel from <a href=""161/top.htm"">161</a>, Cairn by entrance.","","","Paint","Marked ""CUCC 90"". Near 161a","Refindable"
188,"1/T +","a–d","","yes","plateau/188/188.html","","","Skinrip Durchgange I-VI","","","1a","CUCC 1990","From memory, the cave consists of two 3m deep surface shafts of diameter two meters, connected by c. 4m of 0.60m diameter horizontal phreas at the bottom. From the shaft nearer the Hinter-SMK the phreas continued for another 5-6m before I ran away as it was getting a bit tight. It could well be skinrip durchgang from the huge description given on the website, and I just never made it as far as the awkward climb. Survey is Grade II.","","","","","","It is not yet confirmed, but it seems likely that this is the same cave partially surveyed by Phil Underwood in 1997 entitled 'dodgy compost'.","","","","","""Austria cave systems manual"" has scribbled note ""this number not CUCC's"" so this probably should revert to number CUCC-1990-18?","","","","","","","","","","","","","","A line of about six entrances near <a href=""../../tcamps.htm#topcamp"">Top Camp</a>.","","A fun system of openings in a line, all connected by cave, the last of which is a very tricky climb to get out of and is in the middle of Bunde. It contains some snow and ice blockages, making it unpleasant without gear.","</p><table class=""imgtable""> <tr> <td><a href=""dodgy.jpg""><img src=""dodgy_small.jpg"" /></a></td> <td><a href=""downent.jpg""><img src=""downent_small.jpg"" /></a></td> <td><a href=""alongline.jpg""><img src=""alongline_small.jpg"" /></a></td> </tr><tr class=""caption""> <td>Entrance location</td><td>View down main entrance</td><td>View along rift</td></tr> </table> <p>","Tag","",""
189,"1/S +","","","","plateau/189.htm","","","Plateau Schacht 189","","","1a","CUCC 1993 or 1994","In fact, it doesn't appear to have been written up at the time. It was redescended in 1996, and there is nothing in the 1996 logbook or notKH survey book, so there is no description here.","","","","","","","","","","","","","t189","","","","Surface survey","","","","","","","","","From Schwarzmoossattel directly out onto the plateau, keeping to the left edge of a large flat area of karren, passes first Fuchshöhle <a href=""198/198.html"">B11</a>, then <a href=""164.htm"">164</a>, a snow-plugged shaft below a small north-facing scar. 164 and 189 are both on the same joint going 018-198°: a few metres north of 164 is a fault line on 102-282° with a large open and heavily snow-plugged shaft, noted often since 1976, but not explored and written up until 1994 (or 1993?).","","</p><div class=""centre""><a href=""others/l/189164.htm""><img src=""others/t/189164.jpg"" width=""149"" height=""142"" alt=""Photo - 44k"" /></a><p>164 entrance (left of centre) seen over 189 entrance.</p><a href=""others/l/189svy.htm""><img src=""others/t/189svy.jpg"" alt=""Photo - 61k"" width=""200"" height=""134"" /></a><p>The entrance looking north during surface survey in 1996.</p></div><p>","Tag","This is 189, numbered in red paint, and marked with an Austrian metal tag in 1995.","Surveyed"
191,"1/S +","","","","smkridge/191.htm","","","Schwa Schacht 191","","","2c","CUCC 1995 ","A 1½m diameter shaft in a limestone shelf with the sound of water. 4m 1st pitch leads to loose floor sloping to passage 3m long heading SSW. 2nd pitch in floor has water entering from above (which could simply be meltwater). 5m pitch leads to sloping boulder choke. ","","","","Anthony from James 95.07.08 S94p45","","","","","","","","","","p191","","","Surface survey","","","","","","Trisselberg cross 185½°, Summit of Vorderer Schwarzmooskogel 222½°, Prominent col to north of Trisselberg 147½°.","","About 100m NNE from <a href=""161/france.htm"">161c</a>","","","","Tag","""CUCC 191 +"" in paint and a metal tag ""CUCC 191"" added in 1997.","Surveyed"
192,"1/S -","","","","smkridge/192.htm","","","Schwa Schacht 192","","","2c","Unknown, and CUCC 1995 (unfinished) ","About a 15m shaft with a large rift at the bottom. Probably doesn't go but can't be sure. Rift c 10m long, on 50-230° with deepest point to SW. Descended to -10m on ladder, but can't see round corner to left (SE) below. Existing spit found near top, but previously unmarked.","","","","Kate 95.07.26 S94p42","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","c1755m","1623/161c 200°","","About 100m NNE from <a href=""161/france.htm"">161c</a>, and a few metres higher.","","Two cairns, one either side of entrance.","","Paint","","Lost"
193,"1/S +","","","","smkridge/193.htm","","","Schwa Schacht 193","","","2c","CUCC 1995, 2000 ","Rift at 70-80°. A 3m by 4m shaft descends 7m to a rock floor. To the south a tight bit of rift can be entered for a few metres. To the west a small chamber can be entered via a 1m step down.","","","","</p><ul><li>Anthony from Nick's notes 95.07.08-9 S94p45</li><li>ref survey 2000#36, 2000#37</li></ul><p>","In dataset","</p><p><img src=""193/193.png"" alt=""plan and elevation of 193 (10k)"" />","caves/193/193.svx","","","","","","","p193","","","Surface survey","","","","","","","","200m East of 161c.","","","","Tag","Tag placed 2000","Surveyed"
194,"1/S +","","","","smkridge/194.htm","","","Schwa Schacht 194","","","2d","Unknown, and CUCC 1995","A small hole in the side of a big surface rift (on about 060-240°). The surface rift is about 5m deep, and a tiny way goes off to the E at the north-eastern end, becoming too tight at about -15m. The small hole under the NW wall at the SE end is a pitch of c 30m to a 10m long rift parallel with the surface rift. Rope did not reach, but appears to be no way on.","50m rope?","","","Kate 95.07.26 S94p42-3","","","","","","","","","","p194","","","Surface survey","","","","","","Bräuning Zinken 230°</p><p>Two other bearings are given, one to ""Kleine Wehr Kogel"" 354°, but, in fact, to ""Kleine Wild Kogel"". The other is 295° to a small peak left of the Schönberg which I can't identify from the map. ","","On large white patch of limestone on NW flank of Hinterer Schwarzmooskogel (visible from Top Camp), quite near the far side of the bare area and just above a larch tree leaning SE.","On cairned path from Top Camp to Steinbruckenhöhle (204). 60m W of <a href=""194.htm"">195</a>. Area map NotKH book p 115.","","</p><div class=""centre""><a href=""others/l/194.htm""><img alt=""context view - 8k jpg"" width=""143"" height=""170"" src=""others/t/194bw.jpg"" /></a><a href=""others/l/194.htm""><img alt=""number - 12k gif"" width=""170"" height=""143"" src=""others/t/194no.jpg"" /></a><a href=""others/l/194.htm""><img alt=""rift to NE - 11 k jpg"" width=""143"" height=""170"" src=""others/t/194rft.jpg"" /></a></div><p>","Tag","Tag ""CUCC 1623/194"" (1999). Cairn and numbered in red (1996) on NE face of a large boulder bridging the rift (visible in context photo).","Surveyed"
195,"1/S -","","","","smkridge/195/195.html","","","Schwa Schacht 195","Driver Diver","","2d","</p><ul><li>Original discovery not known</li><li>Refound 1989 CUCC (Pete Lancaster Adam Cooper)</li><li>Re-found and marked 1995 CUCC (Kate Janossy)</li><li>Surveyed to 1999 CUCC (Anthony Day, Duncan Collis)</li><li>Descended 2000 CUCC (Earl Merson, Phil Underwood)</li></ul><p>","A very large surface rift (almost a canyon), with a pitch at the west end. This has a 5-6 second booming clattering drop, and had a very poor quality spit at the top. It was not descended in 1995. This may be the cave referred to in the description of <a href=""../165.htm"">165</a>, located by CUCC in 1989, but already having a bolt, and not descended by CUCC but with ""a drop in excess of 35m"". 2000 descent reached floor at 37m down, with the only way on a small hole that turned out to be too tight.","50m rope?","","","Kate 95.07.26 S94p43-4; 21st July entry in <a href=""../../years/2000/log.htm"">2000 logbook</a>","In dataset","</p><div class=""centre""><img src=""plan.png"" /></div><p>Elevation never drawn up; see notes in 2000#04","caves/195/195.svx","","","","","","","p195","","","Nils","","gps00.195","","","","Bräuning Zinken 225° ""Kleine Wild Kogel"" 354°","","On large white patch of limestone on NW flank of Hinterer Schwarzmooskogel (visible from Top Camp), quite near the top of the bare area (higher up than <a href=""../194.htm"">1623/194</a>).","On cairned path from Top Camp to Steinbruckenhöhle (204). 195 is 60m E of <a href=""../194.htm"">194</a> and 50m WSW of <a href=""../196.htm"">196</a>, and 90m NNW of <a href=""../165.htm"">165</a>. Area map NotKH book p115.","","</p><div class=""centre""><a href=""../others/l/195.htm""><img alt=""Entrance photo - 31k"" width=""143"" height=""170"" src=""../others/t/195rft.jpg"" /></a><a href=""../others/l/195.htm""><img alt=""Photo of number - 8k"" width=""85"" height=""72"" src=""../others/t/195no.jpg"" /></a></div><p>","Tag","Cairn, Red paint '195' (1995). Tag ""CUCC 1623/195"" (1999).","Surveyed"
196,"1/T +","","","","smkridge/196.htm","","","Schwa Höhle 196","","","2d","</p><ul><li>Discovered: CUCC 1995 (Kate Janossy, Balázs Izapy)</li><li>Surveyed: 1999 (Anthony Day, Duncan Collis)</li></ul><p>","By a large (10m wide) snow choked doline, are two horizontal entrances going WSW. The right one is uphill over boulders and ends very quickly. The left one (196) is downhill and carries a draught. The triangular cross-section (widest at the bottom) passage goes for 10m to a junction with a blind uphill branch to the right, whilst straight ahead is too tight.","None","","","Kate 95.07.26 S94p44","In dataset","</p><div class=""centre""><a href=""others/196.png""><img alt=""1999 plan, and elevation 17k gif"" width=""379"" height=""698"" src=""others/196.png"" /></a></div><p>","caves/196/196.svx","26m","15m","","","","","p196","","","Surface survey","","","","","","Bräuning Zinken 240°""Kleine Wild Kogel"" 356°","","On large white patch of limestone on NW flank of Hinterer Schwarzmooskogel (visible from Top Camp), quite near the top of the bare area, higher up than <a href=""195/195.html"">1623/195</a>. ","Path from Top Camp to Steinbruckenhöhle (204) goes past this cave. Close to <a href=""194.htm"">194</a>, <a href=""195/195.html"">195</a>, <a href=""165.htm"">165</a>.","","","Tag","Red paint '196' (1995). Tag ""CUCC 1623/196"" (1999).","Surveyed"
197,"1/S +","","CUCC 1976/B8","","plateau/197.htm","","","Bemoost Tropfen Höhle","Mossy Dribble Cave","","1a","CUCC 1976","A large open hole with snow in the bottom. In wet weather, the old number is even harder to spot, but the hole is very noisy with sinking water. 20m of ladder were fed down between snow and rock before snow plug totally blocked the way on. However, this was in 1976, a year with quite a large amount of snow.","","","","","","","",""," 25m","","","","t197","","","","Surface survey","gps98.b8","gps00.b8","","","","(1976) Bräuning Nase 208°, Schönberg 350°, Spot point 1828, 240°</p><p>In fact it is impossible to see <b>any</b> landmarks from the actual entrance.","","","This is situated on the plateau just on a major fault where one climbs down over bare rock for 4m. From <a href=""../tcamps.htm#topcamp"">Top Camp</a>, head somewhat east of north onto a large area of bare karren containing B11 (<a href=""198/198.html"">1623/198</a>). Continue parallel with the line of a small scarp running north, and pass <a href=""164.htm"">1623/164</a> on the left. Scrambling past a wide snow choked shaft (<a href=""189.htm"">1623/189</a>) on the right, descend and turn right, along the line of a north-facing scarp containing B9 (<a href=""190/190.html"">1623/190</a>), heading roughly east, and clamber down a few small scars to the large open doline.","","</p><div class=""centre""><a href=""others/l/b8locn.htm""><img src=""others/t/b8locn.jpg"" alt=""Photomontage indicating location of B8 in landscape (98k JPEG)"" width=""334"" height=""167"" /></a><p>Photomontage showing location of B8 below scar. Vorderer Schwarzmooskogel and Schwarzmoossattel behind (<b>Warning</b> - full size image is 1000 pixels wide)</p></div><p>","Tag","Number ""B8"" of 1976 vintage painted in dull green on the wall facing south, opposite the fault scarp, which is very hard to spot, although not fading appreciably year to year. There is an easier-to-find number painted higher up on an east-facing rock, initially in orange, but "refreshed" in red in 1995 as the orange paint was crap. Below this number is the drilled spit with tag ""CUCC 1976 B8"" which is also the point surveyed to. This will, in due course, be replaced by a new tag with the Austrian kataster number, on the same bolt.</p><p>Retagged 1997.","Surveyed"
199,"1/T +","","","","smkridge/199.htm","","","Stürzender Felsbrocken Höhle","Tumbling Boulder Hole","","2c","</p><ul><li>CUCC 1987-08-30</li><li>Reexplored (and a new sketch survey, see 1998 NotKH survey book) (Kate Janossy, Brian Outram) in 1998.</li><li>Grade 3 survey in 1999 (Wookey, Andy Atkinson)</li></ul><p>","A steeply descending tube over scree (sometimes snow), initially 3m in diameter, leads down to a choke. To the right in a cross-rift 24m long (beware of loose rock here) is an audible connection to the surface (199c). The final section of the main tube has roof pendants, and ends with a rising sand floor over which the crawl becomes too tight. The second entrance (199b) is just up and to the left of the main one.","None absolutely required, but 15m handline helpful for entrance, especially if snowy.","","","","In dataset","</p><div class=""centre""><a href=""others/199p.png""><img alt=""1999 plan, 19k gif"" width=""320"" height=""300"" src=""others/199p2.png"" /></a><a href=""others/199e.png""><img alt=""1999 elevation, 14k gif"" width=""320"" height=""260"" src=""others/199e2.png"" /></a></div><p>","caves/199/199.svx","65m","29m","","","","","p199","","","Surface survey","","gps00.199","","","","","","NW flank of Vorderer Schwarzmooskogel. About 30m SSW of 156.","Follow the cairned path which ascends the Vorder Schwarzmooskogel from the NW. Shortly after passing the open rift entrance of 1623/156 (50m south of Laser Point 0/1), scramble up to the right (south). One large and two small open cave entrances.","","","Tag","metal tag stamped ""CUCC 199"" fixed by M6 stud epoxied into vertical wall left of main entrance (stud placed 1998, kataster number tag replaced provisional one in 1999).","Surveyed"
200,"1/S +","","93/01","","plateau/200.htm","","","Verlorener Rucksack Schacht","Lost Rucksack Cave","","1d","Discovery and initial descent CUCC 1993 (Adam Cooper), bottomed in three trips in 1998 (Wookey, Andy Waddington).","Found in 1993, it was intended to mark the cave but not descend. However Adam Cooper's rucksack (containing the rope), placed unwisely near the edge, made the first descent. Adam followed on a ladder to retrieve it, then placed a bolt for a further descent on rope. The shaft continued beside a snow plug, but was deemed unsuitable for further exploration in shorts. The find was not relocated in 1993, so exploration stopped. Found again in 1995 whilst marking other known entrances, and probably seen again in 1996.</p><p>After a first descent placing a bolt again showed it unsuitable for exploration in shorts, a determined effort by Wookey in 1998 pushed the second pitch, between hanging death ice and snow to a definite choke. However, partway down this pitch was a window with a draught, leading to a third pitch (one bolt at takeoff, another just below). This was nn metres to a final choke.</p><p>The whole cave is formed on a fault which forms a SE-facing scarp on the surface. A short distance NE of the entrance, the fault line cuts a lower-lying area. The draught, which was mostly outward through the head of the third pitch during the final exploratory trip, periodically reverses for 10-15 seconds. It would appear to be powered by surface breezes via various other small windows to the surface, most probably including ones lower down in the depression to the NE.","","","","","","</p><div class=""centre""><a href=""others/200.png""><img alt=""1998 survey 27k gif"" width=""645"" height=""662"" src=""others/200.png"" /></a></div><p>","","","45m","","","","t200","","","","Surface survey","gps98.1993_01 gps98.1993_01a","gps00.93_01a gps00.93_01b","","","","","","700m north of Schwarzmoossattel.","From <a href=""164.htm"">164</a>, avoid <a href=""189.htm"">189</a> (easiest 15m to its right over a small ridge, but OK immediately on its right edge), then go roughly NNW (a few cairns - 1996 vintage orange paint has completely faded). This leads up onto the right edge of a ridge (the main part of which is deep Lärchen), passing right of the OAV ski marker pole. This is an easy walk above a short (climbable) cliff looking down onto <a href=""210.htm"">210</a>. When this easy walk is interrupted by a step down, head leftish over a series of limestone steps to reach a descent into a large broken area (near <a href=""173.htm"">173</a>). Climb steeply left up boulders to a large cairn, then along a sloping limestone shelf. Shortly ahead is an abrupt headwall, below which is the shaft of <b>Lost Rucksack Cave</b> (given temporary number CUCC 1993 01). The area could also be reached (with more difficulty) from the ""central"" plateau area towards <a href=""76/76.htm"">76</a>, and also via the ""Geologists' walk"" which passes much further left via <a href=""171/171.html"">171</a> and <a href=""172.htm"">172.</a> ","","</p><div class=""centre""><a href=""../plateau/others/l/lrh.htm""><img alt=""Photo of 1993 descent"" src=""../plateau/others/t/lrh.jpg"" width=""123"" height=""169"" /></a><p>Adam Cooper descending to place a bolt below the lip in 1993</p></div><p>","Retag","M6 stud with alloy tag ""CUCC 1993 01"" on flat rock NE of shaft. This will be replaced with the correct kataster number in due course.","Surveyed"
201,"1/S +","","1998/01","","smkridge/201.htm","","","Haftefelle Schacht","Ski-skin shaft","","2c","CUCC 1998 - a single descent.","2m diameter shaft drops 25m to a boulder floor - a short second pitch follows immediately leading to a too-tight rift. A 40m rope is sufficient.","","","","","In dataset","? pic","caves/201/201.svx","15m","15m","","","","","p201","","","Surface survey","","gps00.201","","","","","","NW flank of Vorderer Schwarzmooskogel. 20m N of Laser 0/1","Follow the cairned path which ascends the Vorder Schwarzmooskogel from the NW. Shortly before the obvious open rift entrance of <a href=""156/156.html"">1623/156</a> (which is 50m south of Laser Point 0/1) is a small (2m diameter) open shaft.","","","Tag","metal tag stamped ""CUCC 201"" fixed by M6 stud epoxied into horizontal surface on NW side of main entrance (stud placed 1998, proper kataster number tag replaced provisional one in 1999).","Surveyed"
204,"5/S x","a–f","CUCC 1999/03","yes","smkridge/204/204.html","","","Steinbrückenhöhle","","","2d","</p><ul><li>CUCC 1999 to length 1365m, depth 226m</li><li>CUCC 2000 to 2.5km, depth 368m</li><li>CUCC 2001 to 4.7km, depth 368m</li><li>CUCC 2002 to 5.3km, depth 454m</li><li>CUCC 2003 to 7.2km, depth 510m</li><li>CUCC 2004 to length 9.1km, depth 542m</li><li>CUCC 2005 to length 11.7km, depth 542m</li></ul><p>","</p><ul><li><a href=""entrance.html"">Entrance and The Near End passages</a></li><li><a href=""midlevel.html"">Mid-level passages (including Wolpertinger Way)</a></li><li><a href=""ariston.html"">Deep routes via the Ariston Series</a></li><li><a href=""millennium.html"">Millennium Dome / White Elephant area</a></li><li><a href=""nopain.html"">No Pain No Gain and Pleasuredome</a></li><li><a href=""treeumphant.html"">Trunk way through Treeumphant Passage to Cave Tree Chamber and beyond</a></li><li><a href=""swings.html"">Swings and Roundabouts area</a></li><li><a href=""rhino.html"">Rhino Rift</a></li><li><a href=""uworld.html"">The Underworld</a></li><li><a href=""subsoil.html"">Subsoil</a></li><li><a href=""subway.html"">Subway Series</a></li><li style=""margin-top: 1em""><a href=""atoz.html"">Glossary of passage names</a></li><li><a href=""gallery.html"">Photo gallery</a></li></ul><p>","","<a href=""qm.html#qmextant"">Question mark list</a> and <a href=""qm.html#qmdone"">Completed question mark list</a>. ","","","In dataset; download <a href=""204.3d"">.3d file</a> or <a href=""surveydata.tgz"">Raw survey data</a>","</p> <ul> <li><a href=""surveys/plan2005.png"">Plan, post-2005 Expo</a> [2696k; 4234x7000 pixels, colour] or <a href=""surveys/plan2005.svg.gz"">1601k gzipped SVG</a> or <a href=""surveys/plan2005.pdf"">8898k PDF</a></li> <li><a href=""surveys/plan2004.png"">Plan, post-2004 Expo</a> [1497k; 5722x10764 pixels, colour]</li> <li><a href=""surveys/plan2003.png"">Plan, post-2003 Expo</a> [760k; 3654x5699 pixels, colour]</li> <li><a href=""surveys/plan2002.png"">Plan, post-2002 Expo</a> [702k; approx 2400x3200 pixels, greyscale] or <a href=""surveys/plan2002.ps.gz"">1.8M gzipped postscript</a></li> <li><a href=""surveys/plan2001.png"">Plan, post-2001 Expo</a> [511k; approx 2500x3500 pixels, greyscale]</li> <li><a href=""surveys/plan2000.png"">Plan, post-2000 Expo</a> [79k; approx 2300x3300 pixels, monochrome]</li> <li><a href=""surveys/elev2000.png"">Elevation, post-2000 Expo</a> [22k; approx 1900x2200 pixels, monochrome]</li> <li><a href=""surveys/plan1999.gif"">Plan, post-1999 Expo</a> [26k; approx 582x783 pixels, greyscale]</li> <li><a href=""surveys/elev1999.gif"">Elevation, post-1999 Expo</a> [16k; approx 432x586 pixels, greyscale]</li> </ul><p>","caves/204/204.svx","11.7km","542m","645m (approximately N-S)","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","The cave is situated on the west side of the col between the <span lang=""de-at"">Hinterer Schwarzmooskogel</span> and <span lang=""de-at"">Nieder Augst-Eck</span>. It is currently one of the main areas of exploration for CUCC, who in 2001 established a <a href=""bivvy.html"">bivvy site</a> under the <a href=""bridge.html"">stone bridge</a> opposite the entrance.","The route from Top Camp used since 1999 (probably near optimal) is a cairned path via <span lang=""de"">Wolfhöhle</span> (<a href=""../../plateau/145/145.html"">1623/145</a>) and Laser Point 5, then up to the top of the bare patch of white limestone visible from Top Camp, passing <a href=""../195/195.html"">195</a> and <a href=""../196.htm"">196.</a> The path used in 2001 then skirts around the contours, passing the unmistakable arched entrance of <a href=""../234/234.html"">Hauchhöhle</a>, to arrive <a href=""sbview.html"">directly opposite the stone bridge</a> after which the cave was named (in previous years a route slightly higher up towards the Hinter was used, which some people still prefer; this is also cairned). Alternatively, the cave may be approached from the summit of HSK - probably the optimal route if you are coming from any of the <a href=""../161/t
"","","g","","entrance","","","","","","","","CUCC 2005","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","p204g","Old tag spit on loose boulder","","Surface survey","","","","","","","","","","","","","","Surveyed"
205,"2/S +","","1999-BO-01","","smkridge/205/205.html","","","Nordalpenschacht","","","2c","CUCC 1999","The main entrance is rigged off a spit and naturals and drops around 8m, via a natural deviation at a ledge, to a small chamber. A crawl leads off from here at head height for some distance, but closes off. The way on is to continue straight down through the floor of this chamber, through fairly solidly wedged boulders (quite tight) using the rope rigged on the entrance pitch. This lands at the head of a walking sized rift heading steeply down. There are two small passages in the wall where the rope comes down [these connect to the horizontal entrance of <b lang=""de"">Nordalpenhöhle,</b> see below]. Clamber down the rift. At the bottom is the snow plug from the second entrance. It is possible to cross the snow plug. At the far side, the passage closes down and is mud filled with no draught.</p><p>The way on is a flat-out crawl under the right wall, immediately before the snow plug. The crawl was dug because it was draughting out quite strongly. Once under the wall, the roof immediately rises to comfortable crawling height and the passage widens. After 5m, roomy phreatic passage is reached, around 5m wide and 3m high. A roof tube leads off to the right. It can also be reached by a roof crawl from further down the passage on the left. The tube leads to two small chambers and ends in a too-tight rift.</p><p>The floor of the main passage starts to drop away as the passage turns to the right, leaving a ledge along the left wall. A trickle of water enters at floor level. A pitch is rigged off the ledge using spits in the left wall. This pitch drops 10m and ends in a choked chamber. An exposed traverse on the left, beyond the pitch head, leads to a choked tube. Directly across from the pitch head, a further roof tube also chokes.</p><p>The third horizontal entrance begins with a flat out crawl in sticky mud, and reaches a small, low chamber. The low passage continues as hands and knees crawling. This passes a window on the left which looks into the snow-filled shaft (the second entrance). Straight ahead and a little further, an eyehole looks into the chamber which the first entrance pitch lands in. Continuing on, straddling over a rock ridge leads to two further eyeholes which look into the sloping rift passage where the rope ends from the first entrance pitch.","","","","","In dataset","1996-9 NotKH book pages 76-77. There are two sets of surveys: larger-scale drawings of the main passages, and less detailed sketches including the horizontal Nordalpenhöhle entrance. These are all very bad scans, as the originals are on very thin paper, and can't easily be removed from the NotKH book without damaging them.</p><ul><li><a href=""planmain.jpg"">Main plan</a></li><li><a href=""plan2.jpg"">C entrance plan</a></li><li><a href=""elevmain.jpg"">Main elevation</a></li><li><a href=""elev2.jpg"">C entrance elevation</a></li></ul><p>","caves/205/205.svx","91m","39m","","","","p205tag","p205","","","Surface survey","","gps00.205","","","","","","(tagged point might be the start of underground survey, main entrance, ~2m from tag)","","The main (first) entrance is a 2m x 0.5m shaft around 5m higher and 7m away from a larger, snow-plugged shaft (the second entrance), which in turn is just above a snow field, a little higher than the Eishöhle path. Both entrances lie on an obvious fault line which heads uphill for around 100m. If the fault line is followed up to just past a squeeze through bunde, you can turn left for around 100m to reach the entrance to 1623/136, <a href=""../161/136.htm"">Steinschlagschacht.</a></p><p>A third, horizontal entrance is found by heading down to the snow filled shaft (the second entrance) and traversing left beneath a small cliff for around 20m. This leads to a low, unobvious hole at foot height, noticed because it was draughting out quite strongly. There is a surface survey to this third entrance from the first entrance.","</p> <div class=""centre""> <a href=""ent.jpg""><img src=""ent_small.jpg
210,"1/T +","","1998-03","","plateau/210.htm","","","Fettsack und Faulpelz höhle","Lardy Festerers' Cave","","1a","</p><ul><li>Discovered: CUCC 1998.07.19 (Brian Outram, Wookey)</li><li>Explored/Drawn/Surveyed to: CUCC 1998.07.21 (Kate Janossy, Brian Outram) (NotKH book p64), surface survey NotKH book p58</li></ul><p>","In a small doline, a low horizontal entrance next to a snow plug leads to a boulder slope. A draughting squeeze leads to muddy passage + a small chamber with boulder floor, a choked depression to the left + a choked uphill slope stright on. There is a rifty hole in the floor just before the large boulder in the middle of the chamber, partly covered with boulders. The bottom can be seen 2m below. No way on, not clear where draught goes.","None","","Form sent 2000.05, number 210 allocated. ","","","</p><div class=""centre""><img alt=""1998 survey 10k gif"" width=""498"" height=""338"" src=""others/210p.png"" /></div><p>","","~30m","","","","","t210","lardysurf.0","Entrance","","Surface survey","","gps00.210","","","","","","On plateau NNE of Lower Top Camp, on route to 101 area. This cave is about 120m north of B8, ~150m NNE from the large doline of 189.","Follow route (towards 101/102/200 area if that helps) from Lower Top Camp past 164 and 189 (large holes, passed 15m to right), then go roughly NNW (a few cairns). This leads up onto the right edge of a ridge (the main part of which is deep <span lang=""de"">Lätchen),</span> passing right of the OAV ski marker pole. This is an easy walk above a short (climbable) cliff looking down onto the small doline containing this cave.","","","Tag","Tag on doline wall opposite cave.","Surveyed"
"211-213","","","","","","","","","","We don't know if these numbers were ever used","nonexistent","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","",""
214,"","","2000-03","","smkridge/214.html","","","Segment cave","","","2d","Discovered by CUCC","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","p214","","","Surface survey","","","","","","","","","","","","Retag","Tag still says ""2000-03""","Surveyed"
215,"","a b","2000-05","yes","smkridge/215/215.html","","","Rufverbindungshöhle","","","2b","CUCC 2000 Wookey, Mike Allen","? Wookey","","","","2000 log book (2000/08/03 + 2000/08/06)","In dataset","</p><div class=""centre""><img alt=""plan survey"" src=""plan.png"" /></div><div class=""centre""><img alt=""elev survey"" src=""elev.png"" /></div><p>Notes in 2000#23","caves/215/215.svx","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","Eishöhle portal row, between 40e and 40h","? wookey","Low and wide","? wookey","","","Surveyed"
"","","a","","entrance","","","","","","","","CUCC 2000 Wookey, Mike Allen","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","p215","","p215x","Nils","","","","","","","","","","","","Tag","tag as 215a in 2001",""
"","","b","","last entrance","","","","","","","","CUCC 2000 Wookey, Mike Allen","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","p215b","","","Surface survey","","","","","","","","","","","","Tag","tag as 215b in 2001",""
216,"","","2000-06","","smkridge/216.html","","","Nichts 50","","","2b","ARGE","","","","","","In dataset","","caves/216/216.svx","","","","","","","p216","","p216x","Nils","","","","","","","","","","","","Tag","tag as 216 in 2001","Surveyed"
218,"1/S =","","1996WK6","","smkridge/218.html","","","Hammerkopfabsturtzhöhle","","","2c","CUCC 1996 (Wookey)","A narrow rift entrance 4m deep leads to a tight squeeze needing caving gear (and maybe some hammering). An estimated 6m drop lies beyond the constriction.","","","","","","? wookey.","","","","","","","","p218","","","Surface survey","","gps00.218","","","","Grießkogel: 354°, HSK (rightmost peak) 018°","","Holes <a href=""219.html"">CUCC1996WK5</a> and CUCC1996WK6 are close together, at GPS fix GK 5411291 5282969. (Converted from GPS: E 36414 N (52)82369 H?, Averaged from GPS: E 36417 N (52)82366 H? )","On return from 161d, whilst heading up gully towards the col (and survey point Vd1), turn off left heading for top of VSK.","","","Retag","tag 2000 as WOOK6","Surveyed"
219,"1/S -","","1996WK5","","smkridge/219.html","","","Tertaeingfester","","","2c","CUCC 1996 (Wookey)","Cave in rift with two vertical ways in, both c 5m deep. There is a tight third way in at an angle. The floor of the rift chokes.","","","","","","? wookey.","","","","","","","","p219","","","Surface survey","","gps00.219","","","","Grießkogel: 354°, HSK (rightmost peak) 018°","","Holes CUCC1996WK5 and <a href=""218.html"">CUCC1996WK6</a> are close together, at GPS fix GK 5411291 5282969. (Converted from GPS: E 36414 N (52)82369 H?, Averaged from GPS: E 36417 N (52)82366 H? )","On return from 161d, whilst heading up gully towards the col (and survey point Vd1), turn off left heading for top of VSK.","","","Retag","tag 2000 as WOOK5","Surveyed"
222,"1/S -","","1996-04","","smkridge/222.html","","","Gösserhöhle","","","2d","CUCC 1993 (only marked “+""), 1996","Large space at foot of 5m cliff in very broken area. 5 x 1.8m shaft bridged by chockstone, 8m deep to a sloping choked floor.","","","","","","","","","","","","","","p222","","","Surface survey","","gps00.96_04 gps00.96_04a","","","","VSK (probably true summit): 213°, ?? (<b>not</b> Hollweiser - nearest peak across Hochklapf valley): 114°","","East of HSK summit, in an area of small shafts (north of CUCC <a href=""224.html"">96-02</a>, south of <a href=""223.html"">96-03</a>)","","","","Retag","A spit with tag ""CUCC 9604"" placed in 1996 and a red ""+"" next to chockstone on east side opposite cliff.","Surveyed"
223,"1/S +","","1996-03","","smkridge/223.html","","","Eggenbergschacht","","","2d","CUCC 1993 (only marked “+""), drawn + tagged 1996, surveyed 2000","Cave appears as narrow slot. Two tight holes after 6m climb down gives p10 to choked floor & quite large chamber 10 x 5m floor area.","Ladder required","","","","","? wookey.","","","","","","","","p223","","","Surface survey","","gps00.96_03","","","","VSK (probably true summit): 213°, ?? (<b>not</b> Hollweiser - nearest peak across Hochklapf valley): 114°","","East of HSK summit, in an area of small shafts (north of CUCC <a href=""224.html"">96-02</a> and <a href=""222.html"">96-04</a>)","See 2000 survey","","</p><div class=""centre""><a href=""others/l/9603.htm""><img alt=""Photo - 51k"" src=""others/t/9603.jpg"" width=""134"" height=""200"" /></a></div><p>","Retag","A spit with tag ""CUCC 96-03"" placed in 1996 and a red ""+"", both on wall of doline facing north.","Surveyed"
224,"1/S +","","1996-02","","smkridge/224.html","","","Toplesscayonhöhle ","","","2d","CUCC 1993 (only marked “+""), explored 1996, surveyed 2000","Cave is exposed section of canyon formed on a bend. Bridge of roof remains at one point, separating the two entrances. At the bottom of the canyon (~8m deep) about 10m of descending rift is accessible with a climb back up part way along. All choked.","No tackle required","","","","","? plan, elevation","","","","","","","","p224","","","Surface survey","","gps00.96_02","","","","VSK (probably true summit): 213°, ?? (<b>not</b> Hollweiser - nearest peak across Hochklapf valley): 114°","","East of HSK summit, in an area of small shafts (south of CUCC <a href=""223.html"">96-03</a> and <a href=""222.html"">96-04</a>)","area map notKH p23.","","","Retag","A spit with tag ""CUCC 9602"" placed in 1996 and a red ""+"", on wall of canyon, facing west.","Surveyed"
228,"","","","","noinfo/egglgrub/228.html","","","Kleine Schnellzughöhle","","",7,"ArGE (Nils + Kai Schwekendiek, August 2000)","","","","","","In dataset","","caves/228/228.svx","","","","","","","p228","","","Surface survey","","","","","","","","","","","","","","Surveyed"
230,"+(?)","","1999-04","","","","","Vergeßlichheithöhle","","","2c","CUCC","","","","","","","","","20m","8m","","","","","p230","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","Retag","Tagged as ""99-04""","Surveyed"
231,"2/E +","a–i","2000-01","yes","smkridge/231/231.html","","","Traungoldhöhle","","","2d","CUCC 2000","Entrance A leads to daylight chamber, down an awkward climb, whilst entrance B is a snow and boulder slope to the same chamber. To the right leads to another chamber, which ent H drops into, and a slope up to the left about 2m up the wall leads to entrance D. Continuing on stooping passage leads to a climb which emerges under a stone bridge which contains entrances E, F and G. A crawl at ground level between A & B leads to some loose slopes and entrance I. From the day light chamber the passage to the left leads quickly to a 3m climb down into the largest chamber of the cave. From here around to the left leads to entrance shaft C, and a passage leads off the other side of the shaft that is walking height leading to climbs up over boulders with a loose ceiling above. This leads to a T junction, which ends in boulders to the right and a short climb to a dead end to the left. To the right in the largest chamber, a wide low short passage leads to an ice-floored chamber. Crawling passage then leads to the deepest chmber, which has an ice flow into and down the chamber. At the opposite end of the chamber a 3m climb is reached, which was climbed and quickly closed down. ","","","","","In dataset","</p><p><a href=""231surveylarge.jpg""><img alt=""231 survey"" src=""231surveysmall.jpg"" /></a></p><p>Survey of 231 ","caves/231/231.svx","229m","27m","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","The cave is situated 30m NE of 204b.","","","</p><div class=""centre""><a href=""231aphotolarge.png""><img alt=""231A photo"" src=""231aphotosmall.jpg"" /></a><p>Photo of 231A</p></div><p>","","Tags made saying ""1623/231"" and entrance letter for all entrances.",""
232,"2/S x ","","","","","","","Grießkogelschacht","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","",""
233,"","","","","","","","","","Number allocated to Germans","nonexistent","","","","","","","","","","244m","111m","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","",""
234,"3/S/W x","a b","2000-09","yes","smkridge/234/234.html","","","Hauchhöhle","","","2d","CUCC 2000, 2002, 2004.","</p><ul><li><a href=""upperlevel.html"">Upper level</a></li><li><a href=""pie.html"">Pie Series + Wowoland level</a></li><li style=""margin-top: 1em""><a href=""gallery.html"">Photo gallery</a></li></ul><p>","20m rope + 2 slings for ent pitch; 5m handline + 1 or 2 slings for climb down into Flashgun Chamber. More needed for Pie Series and traverse to Sweet Sight.","<a href=""qm.html"">Question mark list</a>.","Form submitted summer 2003 as part of a misnumbering cockup. Resolved 2004-07-28 with allocation of new number 234.","","In dataset; download <a href=""234.3d"">.3d file</a> or <a href=""surveydata.tgz"">Raw survey data</a>","plan drawn up after 2005 expo:</p><p><a href=""234plan.png""><img alt=""234 plan survey"" src=""234plansmall.png"" /></a></p><p>(2004 version archived <a href=""surveys/234-2004-survey.png"">here</a>, or in colour <a href=""surveys/234-2004-surveycolour.png"">here</a>.)","caves/234/234.svx","619m","61m","127m","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","The arch-shaped entrance and gully are obvious from the route used in 2000 onwards from Top Camp to <a href=""../204/204.html"">Steinbrückenhöhle</a>. Shortly after crossing the large bare area of limestone slabs on the flanks of the Hinter, the path traverses directly around the right-hand side of the entrance gully.","","</p><div class=""centre""><a href=""l/tag.html""><img src=""t/tag.jpg"" /></a> <a href=""l/bent.html""><img src=""t/bent.jpg"" /></a></div>","","","",""
235,"1/T +","","","","smkridge/235/235.html","","","Schaukelfelsbrockenhöhle","","","2b","CUCC 2001","A rift can be descended, over wedged stones, inculding one that rocks. This leads to a narrow hading rift with wedged boulders for a ceiling.","","","","","","</p><p><a href=""235surveylarge.jpg""><img alt=""235 survey"" src=""235surveysmall.jpg"" /></a></p><p>","","6m","3m","","","","","gps02olly.235","","","","","","","","","","","The cave is situated on a flatish area of limestone uphill from the row of Eishöhle entrances that lead to Schneevulcanhalle. ","","","","Tag","""1623/235"" tag placed 2002-08-09. (Is this correct, or does the tag really say 1623/230, as the 2002 logbook asserts?)","Surveyed",""
236,"1/T +","","","","smkridge/236/236.html","","","Moostunnelhöhle","","","2b","CUCC 2001","A short initially mossy cave that slopes downhill to a corner, where the cave becomes to tight.","","","","","","</p><p><a href=""236surveylarge.jpg""><img alt=""236 survey;"" src=""236surveysmall.jpg"" /></a>","","5m","2m","","","","","gps02olly.236","","","","","","","","","","","The cave is situated on a flattish area of limestone uphill from the row of Eishöhle entrances that lead to Schneevulcanhalle. ","","","</p><div class=""centre""><a href=""236entlarge.jpg""><img alt=""236 photo"" src=""236entsmall.jpg"" /></a><p>Photo of 236 entrance</p><a href=""236entcloseuplarge.jpg""><img alt=""236 photo"" src=""236entcloseupsmall.jpg"" /></a><p>Close up photo of 236 entrance</p></div><p>","Retag","Alloy tag ""1623/232"" placed 2002-08-09. Number realised to be in error 2004, needs correcting","Surveyed",""
237,"1/T +","a–c","","yes","smkridge/237/237.html","","","Dreieingangabdrosselnhöhle","","","2b","CUCC 2001, 2002","A moderate sized chamber with large blocks on the floor, one entrance is low and wide, one is small up a 3m climb and one is a walk in entrance","","","","","","</p><p><a href=""237surveylarge.jpg""><img alt=""237 survey"" src=""237surveysmall.jpg"" /></a></p><p>","","10m","5m","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","The cave is situated on a flattish area of limestone uphill from the row of Eishöhle entrances that lead to Schneevulcanhalle, SW of 163 and below VSK summit cliffs. Very broken area.","Follow ""path"" towards 163, but instead of taking down-trending traverse ledge (above 40f), after very steep slope up, continue up slope and to left.","","</p><table class=""imgtable""><tr> <td><a href=""237Aphotolarge.jpg""><img alt=""237A entrance photo (JPEG)"" src=""237Aphotosmall.jpg"" /></a></td> <td><a href=""237Bphotolarge.jpg""><img alt=""237B entrance photo (JPEG)"" src=""237Bphotosmall.jpg"" /></a></td> <td><a href=""237Cphotolarge.jpg""><img alt=""237C entrance photo (JPEG)"" src=""237Cphotosmall.jpg"" /></a></td> </tr><tr class=""caption""> <td>237A</td><td>237B</td><td>237C</td></tr></table><p><!-- Not sure who took the earlier photos; the 2002 237C photo is from Wookey's collection -->","Retag","Main entrance tagged ""1623/233A"" in 2002, owing to misnumbering cockup. Spits placed for 233B and 233C and tags left by spit holes 2002-08-09 (failed to take enough bolts - d'oh). Misnumbering noticed 2004, needs correcting.","Surveyed",""
238,"1/T +","a b","","yes","smkridge/238/238.html","","","Flinkameiseschacht","Speedy Ant Shaft","","2b","CUCC 2001,2002","An approximately 20m deep shaft with snow at the bottom. If snow levels allow, a way on can found down the left side of the snow plug, through an awkward squeeze over a large rock into a chamber with a snow and ice slope. A second short pitch leads off to the left, but soon ends.</p><p>A second small entrance leads via an awkward crawl to a sloping ledge on the right hand wall of the shaft a couple of metres down.","","","2002 logbook (2002-08-05)","","","</p><p><a href=""238surveylarge.jpg""><img alt=""238 survey (from 2001)"" src=""238surveysmall.jpg"" /></a></p><p>Survey of 238 from 2001. The cave was resurveyed in 2002 but this has apparently not been drawn up.","","25m","20m","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","The cave is situated on a flattish area of limestone uphill from the row of Eishöhle entrances that lead to Schneevulcanhalle. The shaft is located at the base of a cliff. Refound in 2002 by following path from 163 towards 162 for ~100m.","","","","","Tag ""1623/234A"" placed on main entrance in 2002. ""1623/234B"" tag placed 2002-08-09. Misnumbering noticed 2004, needs retagging.","Surveyed","Tags on both entrances say 234"
239,"3/S/T x","","2001-04","","smkridge/239/239.html","","","Rock'n'Roll Höhle","","(a.k.a. Olly's Sucking Höhle)","2d","CUCC 2001 Phil U, Mark S","<i>[Taken from 2001 log book]</i> ""Went to investigate this draughting orifice. Initial entrance climb is fine, if you chimney down on the R side. At the bottom, there are three ways on. The first one goes back under the entrance, down a boulder slope, to emerge in a large chamber ""Cheesy dip"". There are a number of small leads off, all choked. In the roof is lots of daylight, coming from 2001-046. Left from the entrance went down a loose slope (blowing). Right (Sucking) went along a bit. We decided to do some surveying. Which required red paint. Which was at the bivvi site. So we went and had a cup of tea for a bit. Came back with surveying gear and surveyed the LH route to a ~5m deep pit.""</p><p>(There were at least three trips to this cave judging by the survey file, but only this one was written up.)","","","Form sent 2004.04.30. Number 239 allocated by Robert TWC at 2004 expo dinner","","In dataset","</p><p><a href=""239plan.jpg""><img alt=""239 plan survey – 50k jpg;"" src=""239plansmall.jpg"" /></a>","caves/239/239.svx","503m","45m","172m","","","","p239","","","Surface survey","","","","","","","","In small valley just below top of SMK ridge, 200m S of 204 bivvy site","","","","Tag","Tagged as 2001-04 by initial explorers. Retagged with final kataster number 2004-07-31.","Surveyed"
240,"2/S/T +","","2003-08","","smkridge/240/240.html","","","Gewölbeschacht","Arch Shaft","","2d","CUCC 2003 Earl M, Brian O","Entrance is a wide, open rift aligned roughly north-south, spanned by a rock bridge at the southern end. The cave proper starts with a boulder slope at the north-east corner of the rift, which briefly closes down before opening out into a high, narrow slot. Beyond thisis a pitch, the foot of which is blocked by snow.","Approx 75m rope; see elevation survey.","There is a possible lead in an alcove on the far wall of the final pitch, but this was not thought promising, and was left uninvestigated.","Form sent 2004.04.30. Number 240 allocated by Robert TWC at 2004 expo dinner","","In dataset","</p><p><img src=""240extelev.jpg"" alt=""240 elevation (34k jpg)"" /></p><p><img src=""240plan.jpg"" alt=""240 plan (26k jpg)"" /></p><p>(Notes in 2003#29)","caves/240/240.svx","51m","44m","11m E-W","","","p240","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","</p><table class=""imgtable""> <tr><td><a href=""ent_far.jpg""><img src=""ent_far_small.jpg"" /></a></td><td><a href=""ent_south.jpg""><img src=""ent_south_small.jpg"" /></a></td><td><a href=""ent_tag.jpg""><img src=""ent_tag_small.jpg"" /></a></td><td><a href=""ent_east.jpg""><img src=""ent_east_small.jpg"" /></a></td></tr><tr class=""caption""><td>Facing south</td><td>Facing south (closeup)</td><td>Tag placement</td><td>Facing east</td></tr></table><p>","Tag","Tagged as 2003-08 by original explorers. Retagged with final kataster number 2004.","Surveyed"
241,"2/T +","","2003-04","","smkridge/241/241.html","","","Dreieckhöhle","Triangle Cave","","2d","CUCC 2003 Julian T, Dave L, Frank T","A short sloping crawl leads to a stooping passage which opens out into a large horizontal phreatic passage heading northeast, floored with large blocks. This proceeds for around 25m to the northeast before terminating in an unstable boulder pile. Some small tubes branch off but are too small to access. In summer 2003 there was a strong inwards draught, which lost itself in the terminal boulder chokes.","None required","None (one arguable dig, not worth the bother)","Form sent 2004.04.30. Number 241 allocated by Robert TWC at 2004 expo dinner","","In dataset","</p><p><a href=""241plan.png""><img src=""241plansmall.png"" alt=""241 plan (22k png)"" /></a> <a href=""elev.jpg""><img src=""elev_small.jpg"" alt=""241 elev"" /></a></p><p>(Notes in 2003#23)","caves/241/241.svx","53m","13m","33m N-S","","","p241","","","","Surface survey","","","","","","","","In small elliptical depression around 100m N of stone bridge. A short tunnel to the south from this depression can be seen from the stone bridge; this is triangular in cross-section, hence the name.","","","</p><div class=""centre""><img alt=""entrance photo - 75k jpeg"" src=""241ent.jpg"" /></div><p>","Tag","Tagged as 2003-04 by initial explorers. Retagged with final kataster number 2004-07-31.","Surveyed"
242,"1/S/W +","","2002-04","","smkridge/242/242.html","","","Tropfelhöhle","Dripping Cave","","2d","</p><ul><li>Tagged CUCC 2002 (culprit not known).</li><li>Explored + surveyed CUCC 2003, Anthony + Julia.</li></ul><p>","Square hole at the end of short gully looks out onto a drop of 3m (spit placed for ladder) to a false floor with a further similar-sized drop by a large boulder (continue the same ladder). Landing in a rift, east quickly becomes too tight, while west leads to a 3m free-climbable drop which is choked at the bottom.","","","Form sent 2004.04.30. Number 242 allocated by Robert TWC at 2004 expo dinner","","In dataset","</p><p><img src=""plan.png"" alt=""2002-04 plan (25k png)"" /></p><p>Notes in 2003#22","caves/242/242.svx","17m","11m","","","","","p242","pitch head bolt","","Surface survey","","","","","","","","","Go to 204C and stand facing the stone bridge. The entrance can be seen ~60m away {might be wise to check surface survey if bothered} at the end of a short gully.","","","Tag","Tag on LH wall of gully approaching entrance. Tagged as 2002-04 by original discoverers; retagged with final kataster number 2004.07.31.","Surveyed"
243,"2/S/E x","","2001-05","","smkridge/243/243.html","","","GNDN Höhle","Goes Nowhere Does Nothing","","2d","CUCC 2001 Earl, Becka, Mick","<i>[Taken from 2001 log book]</i> ""It went in ~5m horizontally then into hading rift. I climbed down ~5m to the head of a pitch + various possibilities. Back out. Earl in to rig pitch whilst Mick + I surface surveyed from 204D tag bolt to new cave + put in a tag bolt above its entrance. Mick + I then continued the survey down to Earl. Pitch went down, still hading, to large snow + ice plug ... with no ways on + we seemed to have lost the draft. Surveyed to far side of chamber then back out. Earl derigged + Mick + I went into passage at top of pitch which had two LHS small leads off, both of which drop into steeply descending rift (the second one being too tight to go through). Mick dropped well down into the rift, which kept going, though without much draft, to a small way on which he reckoned would drop into the pitch. Its possible we did miss the way on in the cave as we seemed to have lost the draft down the pitch. Worth another look around probably.""","Rope for 5m pitch","Some C-grade QMs, see survey","Form sent 2004.04.30. Number 243 allocated by Robert TWC at 2004 expo dinner","","In dataset","</p><p><a href=""243plan.jpg""><img src=""243plansmall.jpg"" alt=""243 plan (37k jpg)"" /></a></p><p><a href=""243elev.jpg""><img src=""243elevsmall.jpg"" alt=""243 elevation (43k jpg)"" /></a>","caves/243/243.svx","53m","31m","","","","t243","","","","Surface survey","","","","","","","","About 50m from 204D, down the hill + north","","","","Retag","Tagged as 2001-05 by original explorers. To be retagged with final kataster number 2004.","Surveyed"
244,"2/S/T +","","2003-10","","smkridge/244/244.html","","","Dünne Faulpelz Höhle","Skinny Festerers' Cave","","2d","Original exploration CUCC 2003 (Frank, Brian). Further exploration 2004 (Brian, Tony, Martin, Stuart).","The entrance pitch, which is rigged with a spit y-hang and natural back up, its initially constricted and spiky but not tight. It becomes a fine 28m wine bottle shaped rift with 2 deviations off naturals. A ledge part-way down can be swung onto to look through into a parallel shaft. The landing for both is on a steep unstable slope of gravel and cobbles, in the main chamber of the cave.</p> <p>Here three ways lead off. Following the slope down leads to a short climb down to another smaller chamber and on to the head of a pitch; a safety line is useful here, if only to prevent disturbing the loose rocks. The pitch was rigged with one rebelay to land in a puddle at the bottom of a tall chamber, where ducking under a wall leads to a body sized passage with a slight draught. This continues via an acute bend, and tightens to a cobble blockage. A fossil inlet opposite the pool leads to a sandy climb <i>[but not to anything else apparently]</i>.</p> <p>Back in the main chamber, at the bottom of the slope on the left are two phreatic windows, offset by 45°. The upper hole is too small, while the lower hole gives access to a phreatic passage with windows into the parallel upper passage. After around 25m the lower passage ends in chossy infill; an easy 2m climb leads back into the upper phreas, which is somewhat larger at this point. This level soon closes down but continues far enough to bypass the blockage in the lower passage via an easy climb down. Around 7m further on a wall of uniform 20mm gravel blocks the passage; the draught disappears, possibly through this choke.</p> <p>The third route from the main chamber is a bolt route up one wall toa passage heading off northwards 4m above the floor. There are 2 spits placed to assist the climb and 2 more at the top to rig off. The northwards passage, <b>Zero Gravity Anomaly</b>, is now easy rift to an easy 5m climb down; the way on is a short dug crawl to a tight hammered open pitch head. This is short (7m), with a single spit pitch head backed up by spits in the crawl, and a deviation off a natural. The landing is on a mud and gravel floor; the chamber closes down almost immediately to a 10cm wide rift, no echo, rattle or draft.","Entrance pitch: 3 slings, 2 hangers and maillons, approx 40m rope (use tag spit as one anchor). Upclimb into Zero Gravity Anomaly: 7m rope, 2 hangers and maillons. Pitch at the end of Zero Gravity: 15m rope, 3 hangers + maillons, 1 sling.","Nothing accessible without capping","Form sent May 2005; number assigned by Robert, 2005","","In dataset","</p><a href=""plan.jpg""><img src=""plansmall.jpg"" /></a> <a href=""elev.jpg""><img src=""elevsmall.jpg"" /></a> <p>Notes in 2003#33 (does not include extensions from 2004, which are in 2004#56 and have not yet been scanned)","caves/2003-10/2003-10.svx","156m","51m","51m","","","p244","","","","Surface survey","","","","","","","","Immediately above and behind the 204 stone bridge bivvy","","","","Retag","Tag placed 2003 with provisional number","Surveyed"
245,"2/E x","","2003-09","","smkridge/245/245.html","","","Weizeneishöhle","","","2d","CUCC 2003: Originally located by Olly M; entrance dug out by Olly + Earl; exploration and underground survey Olly M + Mark S.","Entrance is large alcove / chamber in NW side of choss bowl. Very strong outwards draught emerges from small gap under right-hand wall, which leads to a crawl. This opens up to a walking passage with scatterings of ice and snow. A passage goes up to the left as the main way on turns a corner. It enters a large (> 10m diameter) chamber with an ice floor, and an ice stal on the floor. There is some passage with dodgy boulders to the right, but the draught comes from a very dodgy boulder slope on the left (reached by climbing round the edge of the ice). Might be worth poking, but it's quite unstable. We looked up the passage on the left but it doesn't seem to go anywhere.","","Tightish meander in the floor of left-hand passage might go (blows outwards a bit), but awkward to enter. QM C. Also dodgy boulder slope, which is in the right direction for terminal chokes of On a Mission in 204 and might repay some prodding with a crowbar.","Form prepared May 2005, number allocated by Robert on Expo 2005","","In dataset","</p><img src=""245plan.jpg"" /><p>Notes in 2003#31","caves/2003-09/2003-09.svx","134m","18m","42m E-W","","","t245","","","","Surface survey","","","","","","","","In large choss bowl southwest of 204d entrance","","Obvious arched entrance","</p><div class=""centre""><img alt=""entrance photo - 106k jpeg"" src=""245ent.jpg"" /></div><p>","Retag","Tag placed 2003 with provisional number","Surveyed"
246,"2/S/T +","","2003-05","","smkridge/246/246.html","","","Damoclesschacht","","","2d","CUCC 2003 Martin G, Brian O","A short entrance crawl gives access to a vertical shaft with precariously balanced boulders. At the base of the shaft a further climb (pitch?) down ends in a choke at -46m. 12m above the floor in the main shaft it is possible to swing into a side chamber, with no ways on.","","","Form prepared March 2005, sent May, number issed August.","","In dataset","</p><a href=""246svy.jpg""><img src=""246svysmall.jpg"" /></a><p>Notes in 2003 #11","caves/2003-05/2003-05.svx","58m","46m","6m E-W","","","p246","","","","","","","","","","","","","Originally approached by walking southwards along E side of SMK ridge from 204.","","","Retag","Tag placed 2003 with provisional number","Surveyed"
247,"1/S/T +","","2003-03","","smkridge/247/247.html","","","Kartoffelbreihöhle","Mashed Potato Cave","","2d","CUCC 2003 Julian T, Dave L","A climb down/squeeze through boulders (awkward on the way out for fat bastards like me - Dave) leads to a small chamber ~4m across, with a loose hole in the floor at the far end. This was descended for perhaps 15 or 20m to a hopelessly choked floor of small pebbles. A window around a third of the way down the pitch leads to a parallel shaft, also choked at the bottom (from which there is another window back into the main shaft).","26m rope + some (4 or 5) hangers sufficient","","Form prepared 06/03/2005, sent May 2005, number issued August.","","","</p><img src=""247elev.jpg"" /> <img src=""247plan.jpg"" /> <p>(drawn up partly from sketch in 2003 logbook and partly from memory)","","","~20m","","","","p247","","","","GPS post SA","","","","","","","","On south flank of Nieder Augst-Eck just north of stone bridge. Directly to the east of 2003-04.","","","</p><div class=""centre""><img alt=""entrance photo - 75k jpeg"" src=""247ent.jpg"" /></div><p>","Retag","Tag placed 2003 with provisional number","Surveyed"
248,"3/S/T +","","2003-02","","smkridge/248/248.html","","","Blaudrachenschacht","","","2d","CUCC 2003 Tony R, Brian O","Awkward climb down leads to a sloping chamber with small climbs. At the end of this chamber a tight awkward rift overlooks a short pitch giving access to a small chamber with a window 4 metres up on the right wall. A rift in the floor leads to a 90m pitch. Rebelays in the far wall eventually reach a fine shaft which can be descended to a floor with no way on. A short 3m climb reveals a climbable rift past awkward boulders to a small elongate chamber with no way on. Bolting up to the window at the top of the pitch led to another small chamber, also with no way on.","","","","","In dataset","</p><img src=""248extend.jpg"" /><p>(Image assembled from two separate drawn up surveys in wallets 2003#10 and 2004#08.)","caves/2003-02/2003-02.svx","133m","109m","25m E-W","","","p248","","","","","","","","","","","","","Walk over the back of the ridge from 204","","","Retag","Tag placed 2003 with provisional number","Surveyed"
249,"2/T +","","2002-01","","smkridge/249/249.html","","","Artischockehöhle","","","2d","CUCC 2002 Dunks, Mark S","A contortion through boulders leads to a large horizontal passage, which gradually ascends until eventually lowering to a short flat-out crawl over choss. This leads to a chamber, from where it is possible to slither to the left through a gap between choss and the ceiling. Here there are two ways on. To the right ends quickly; a dig under the wall ended in a further choke. To the left leads to a tight crawl through dangerous boulders which would need digging to make further progress.</p><p>A noticable draught outwards is present throughout the cave.","","","","","","</p><div class=""centre""><a href=""249plan.png""><img alt=""2002 survey png"" src=""249plansmall.png"" /></a></div><p>","","64m","7m","51m","","","t249","","","","Surface survey","","","","","","","","","The entrance is situated in a large choss bowl adjacent to the route used in 2000 onwards from Top Camp to <a href=""../204/204.html"">Steinbrückenhöhle</a>, where the path turns left just beyond <a href=""../234/234.html"">Hauchhöhle</a>.","","</p><div class=""centre""><a href=""249entbig.jpg""><img src=""249entsmall.jpg"" /></a><p class=""caption"">(The tag is on the wall behind my head)</p></div><p>","Retag","Tag on rock wall on LH side facing entrance, with provisional number.","Surveyed"
250,"1/T +","","2000-AA-01","","plateau/250/250.html","","","Schönschrifthöhle","Calligraphy Cave, a.k.a. Dämmerunghöhle or Twilight Cave","","1a","Has a ""+"" mark of unknown provenance. Rediscovered and surveyed by CUCC (Andy A and Wookey) 2000","Surface pit 6m deep, choked at bottom.","Maybe some rope, I don't know.","","","See 2000 logbook entry (August 9th).","In dataset","</p><div class=""centre""><img src=""250svy.png"" /></div><p>Notes in 2000#34","caves/2000-aa-01/2000-aa-01.svx","10.2m","6.35m","7.98m","","","p250","","","","","","","","","","","","On path between 171 and 172.","From old Top Camp","","A photo is alleged to have been taken in 2000 but has apparently been lost.","Retag","Tagged ""2000-aa-01"" in 2000","Surveyed"
251,"2/S/T +","","2004-11","","smkridge/251/251.html","","","In Ihrer Gesichtshöhle ","In Your Face cave","","2d","CUCC 2004 Becka + Nial+Martin+Stuart","A small, drafting entrance in the bottom of a deep gully leads into low phreatic passage. After a short crawl over small angular rocks, a series of small (1 meter) drops enlarge the passage to allow standing room. The passage continues a short distance to a chamber with a scree floor. <p>To the left, are what appear to be blocked entrance shafts with flows of debris that spill into the chamber. Right leads to a spacious passage that rapidly becomes a flat out crawl over loose rocks, and chokes soon after. Higher up on the right, and looking back in the direction of the entrance, is a small phreatic tube that slopes upward. This can be followed around two right-angled turns before it chokes. <p>The way on from the chamber is straight on. Ducking under a low protrusion from the ceiling leads into another, slightly larger, chamber. <p>A passage leads off to the left from the far side of the chamber. This can be followed for a short distance before it reaches a blank wall with a small amount of water emerging from a hole near the top. A climb through a window in the right of the chamber leads to the bottom of an aven. <p>On the right hand wall of the chamber, to the left of the window, a short free climb provides the main way on. Below the climb an awkward crawling passage slopes downwards and emerges part way down the pitch. From the top of the climb, a high passage slopes steeply downwards for about five meters to emerge at the top of the ten meter pitch. <p>The pitch descends at a less than vertical angle to an icy boulder choke at the bottom with no way on. Above the pitch and to the left, a walking sized phreatic tube can be reached by way of a bolted climb. This leads to a muddy boulder choke.","30m rope + 10 hangers, should get you to all of the cave.","","Form prepared 06/03/2005, waiting to be sent.","","In dataset","</p><a href=""plan.jpg""><img src=""plansmall.jpg"" /></a> <a href=""elev.jpg""><img src=""elevsmall.jpg"" /></a> <p>Notes in 2004#13; Tunnelized version of plan <a href=""iyfplan.png"">here</a>.","caves/2004-11/2004-11.svx","145m","39m","53m N-S","","","t251","","","","Surface survey","","","","","","","","","From 204A go to 204D, then carry on a bit further.","Low (crawling) drafting phreatic hole in shallow valley heading down towards bowl of plateau.","</p><div class=""centre""><a href=""ent.jpg""><img alt=""entrance photo"" src=""entsmall.jpg"" /></a></div><p>","Retag","Tag 21/7/2004 with provisional number","Surveyed"
50,"3/S/T","","","","noinfo/1626/50.htm","","","Ahnenschacht","","",1626,"</p><ul><li>Discovered by Upper Austrians in 1856.</li><li>The point -320m was reached by them in 1958.</li><li>In 1967 and 1968 the <a href=""../../others/bec/index.htm"">Bristol Exploration Club</a> reached -395m, the Horizontal network, with a length of 1 km, was discovered.</li><li>In 1972, 73, 74 and 75, the GSAB <span lang=""fr"">""Les Gours""</span> explored and discovered over 5km of passage and about 1500m of pitches. This got them to -612m.</li><li>We note also the participation, in 1974, of three clubs from Eastern France: <span lang=""fr"">S.C.Vesoul, G.S.Clerval & S.S.Daules.</span></li><li>In 1975 CARSS joined a mini-expedition in July and likewise, CASEO in August.</li><li>A GSAB expedition in August 1977 connected a new entrance <span lang=""de"">(Frigoschacht)</span> at -130m, surveyed the Vegetable Garden and explored the new areas Yodl and KGB.</li><li><cite>Descent 176</cite> (Feb/Mar 2004) p18 states:<blockquote><p>Meanwhile, on the other side of the range, Upper Austrian cavers have undertaken some homework that others left behind a quarter of a century ago. <b>Ahnenschacht</b> (Ancestors' Shaft) was discovered in the 1950s and pushed to -395m. In the 1970s, Belgian cavers found vast horizontal passages amounting to about 5km in total – and a continuation to -602m. Their pushes came to an abrupt halt, however, when in 1975 a caver fractured his pelvis and had to be transported out of the cave. It was Austria's biggest cave rescue operation in the 20th century.</p><p>Since documentation of the Belgian finds was fragmentary and of very poor quality, some members of the <span lang=""de"">Verein für Höhlenkunde in Oberösterreich</span> decided to fill in the gaps in the maps and resume surveying activities. So far, 1.7km have been accurately surveyed.</p><div style=""text-align: right"">Correspondent: Theo Pfarr</div></blockquote><p>(I fear attempting to reconcile the chronology of the above snippet with theinformation above is a hopeless task.)</p></li></ul><p>","</p><h4>Entrance series</h4><p>The entrance is in a small shakehole situated on the ridge separating <span lang=""de"">Feuertal</span> and <span lang=""de"">Hintergras.</span> The cave starts with four pitches (p14, p11, p5 and p11) which drop onto a slope formed of big boulders (rope desirable). After this, another series of small pitches (p9, p7, p6, p4, p10, p18, p11) from which is reached the <span lang=""de"">Sinterterrasse</span> at -141m.</p><p>From this point, one has left the zone of small pitches and started a series of pitches which in reality are part of a single shaft down to -400m.</p><p>Indeed, if you had an unfortunate accident on the <span lang=""de"">Sinterterrasse,</span> you would fall all the way to -400m. These pitches are usually wet, especially after rain... Here is the list of pitches: p25, <span lang=""de"">Schuppenstufe</span> 30, p10, <span lang=""de"">Sicherungsstufe</span> 32, <span lang=""de"">Schachtgabel</span> 48, a 10m ramp, <span lang=""de"">Josef Schacht</span> 100m. On the <span lang=""de"">Josef Schacht,</span> a pendulum 6m from the top enables one to reach the entry to the Horizontal network. Descending the <span lang=""de"">Josef Schacht</span> a little further, after a 6.5m and a 10m pitch, access can be gained to a wide canyon, active in the bottom, and which ends in a fissure. This canyon is fossil in the upper level and certainly presents possibilities for continuation.</p><h4>Lateral development from <span lang=""de"">Josef Schacht</span></h4><p>After one has crossed the ""doorway"" and a short squeeze, one enters the network proper. At this point is a passage covered in rather special formations. The first junction gives access to a network ... [unfortunately there are lines missing in my photocopy of <span lang=""fr"">Spéalp</span> 1]</p><h4>The Vegetable Garden</h4><p>This fossil system, which has not been fully travelled through, contains numerous possibilities. It is reached by thre
55,"4/T/S/E x","a–q","","yes","noinfo/1626/55.htm","","","Raucherkarhöhle","","",1626,"</p><ul><li>Under the aegis of LVHK <span lang=""de"">Oberösterreich,</span> 1961-present,</li><li>Austrian National expedition took place in 1965,</li><li>Both LVHK <span lang=""de"">Oberösterreich</span> and LVHK <span lang=""de"">Steiermark</span> worked together in 1973.</li></ul><p>","The labyrinthine system contains several levels of development, mostly southwards towards <a href=""5.htm""><span lang=""de"">Nagelsteghöhle</span></a> (the probable resurgence at 850m). The current deepest point (a sump) has been reached by systematically traversing over pitches of 40 to 90m.","","","","</p><dl><dt>78.2012</dt><dd><cite>(GSAB) <span lang=""fr"">Spéalp</span> 1 (June 1977) pp 33-49</cite>, <b>Totes Gebirge: <span lang=""fr"">Description des principaux gouffres de la zone ouest du massif</span></b>, <span lang=""fr"">Jean Claude Hans & Etienne Degrave</span><br /><a href=""../../others/gsab/en/782012.htm#id55"">English Translation</a><br /><a href=""../../others/gsab/fr/782012.htm#id55"" lang=""fr"">En Français</a></dd></dl><p>The description is translated mainly from reference 78.2012 by Andy Waddington and Jill Gates, with additional info on dates/lengths as cited.","","","","","","","</p><p>More information on this cave, by those exploring it, can be found on the <b lang=""de-at"">Landesverein für Höhlenkunde in Oberosterreich</b> site, with text available in both <a href=""http://alpha.aec.at/cave/cave.html"">English</a> and <a href=""http://alpha.aec.at/cave/index.html"" lang=""de-at"">German</a> and with a number of excellent photos.</p><ul><li>The cave had been surveyed to 6000m long and -216m by 1965. An Austrian National expedition in 1965 reached -530m.</li><li>A sump in the <span lang=""de"">Hinterland</span> at -538m was reached in 1966, when the length was over 10.3 km.</li><li>In 1970, <span lang=""de"">Großen Rundgange</span> and <span lang=""de"">Ischler Esteiler</span> brought the length up to 16.3 km.</li><li>In October 1973, the <span lang=""de"">Dunkler Grund</span> area led to -718m, (-723m in some sources) at which time the length was 18km.</li><li>In 1975 the system was connected to the nearby <span lang=""de"">Planer-Eishöhle.</span></li><li>The length in January 1976 was 19052m and in December 1977, 20155.5m.</li><li><span lang=""de"">Sektion Ausseerland</span> journal gave 23900 m in July 1980.</li><li><span lang=""fr-be"">Spéleo Flash</span> number 128 gives 16 entrances and a length over 30km.</li><li><span lang=""de"">Die Höhle</span> 1986(3) gives 747m, 40km, which is about the same as LVHK <span lang=""de"">Steiermark</span> Journal for 1984, which states length 40.2km, depth 746m as at the end of 1984.</li><li>The World Deep/Long caves list (end 1995) from Bob Gulden of the NSS Geo² Long and Deep caves committee gives 70km and 725m, quoting BCRA Caves & Caving number 44, p 47 as its source (Summer 89).</li></ul><p>","","","","","","","","","","","","","","NE of Hinterer Raucher","","There are seventeen entrances, of which the highest is at 1635m. This gives the cave a vertical range of -718m, +7m, total 725m.","","","",""
117,"3/S =","","","","noinfo/1626/117.htm","","","Trunkemboldschacht","Gouffre Empagadure, H1","",1626,"</p><ul><li>Discovered in July 1976 by <span lang=""fr"">F.Vergier.</span></li><li>Explored between 12th and 23rd July 1976 by <span lang=""fr"">A.C.Toulon, S.C.Toulon, Lou Darbon & Spéléo Ragaie</span> to -587m.</li><li>In 1977 <span lang=""fr"">A.C.Toulon,</span> and groups from <span lang=""fr"">Aragnous & Darboun</span> reached -854m.</li></ul><p>","Down to -287m the cave is made up of shortish pitches interspersed with tight meandering passage : p8, p12, p17, p9, p20, p3, p12, p30, p7, p6, p9, p8, p7, p5, p34, p6, p8, p5, p9. At -287m, an 18m pitch drops into a large chamber. The water disappears in the boulders to reappear in a whole series of wet pitches of which the longest is 30m. Floods impeded exploration at the bottom of this branch: at -456m a pitch of about 20m was definitely too wet to be descended. At -488m a low passage was also too wet. Moreover, the draught there was weak or absent.</p><p>In the chamber at -308m, a reascent of about 15m gave access to a fairly wide fossil canyon which blew a detectable draught. After 30m, this passage opened onto the enormous <span lang=""fr"">Puits de Naufragés</span> (The Castaway's pitch), with a cross section of 15 by 25 metres and 242m deep. Near the bottom of this pitch, several inlets appeared to come from the first branch explored. The bottom of the pitch contracted to a joint-guided rift, exploration in 1976 ending at the head of a pitch estimated at 40m. (Depth 587m).</p><p>The cave continued predominantly vertical in 1977, with pitches of 54, 88, 53 and 25m to two siphons at -854m. The altitude of these sumps is 756m - the valley level.","","","","</p><dl><dt>78.2012</dt><dd><cite>(GSAB) <span lang=""fr"">Spéalp</span> 1 (June 1977) pp 33-49</cite>, <b>Totes Gebirge: <span lang=""fr"">Description des principaux gouffres de la zone ouest du massif</span></b>, <span lang=""fr"">Jean Claude Hans & Etienne Degrave</span><br /><a href=""../../others/gsab/en/782012.htm#id117"">English Translation</a><br /><a href=""../../others/gsab/fr/782012.htm#id117"" lang=""fr"">En Français</a></dd><dt>78.2003</dt><dd><cite>(GSAB) <span lang=""fr"">Spéalp</span> 2 (1978) p64, survey</cite>, <b lang=""de"">Trunkemboldschacht</b>, <span lang=""fr"">Jean Pierre Braun</span><br /><a href=""../../others/gsab/782003.htm"" lang=""fr"">En Français</a></dd></dl><p>The description is translated mainly from reference 78.2003 by Andy Waddington and Jill Gates.","","","","","-854m to 3 sumps, a predominantly vertical system.","","","","","","","","","","","","","1610m","","","NE of point 1895m (<span lang=""de"">Hangender Kogel,</span> NE face).","","","","","","",""
120,"4/T/S x","a–d","","yes","noinfo/1626/120.htm","","","Feuertalsystem","","",1626,"</p><ul><li>Found in 1973 by <a href=""../../others/gsab/index.htm""><span lang=""fr"">Groupe Spéléo Alpin Belge</span></a> under the name T3, but not pushed to any depth.</li><li>Rediscovered in July 1976 by <span lang=""fr"">J.M.Piron</span> and explored from 12th to 23rd of July by <span lang=""fr"">A.C.Toulon, S.C.Toulon, Lou Darbon & Spéléo Ragaie</span> to a depth of 708m. Later sources refer to this group as 'an unheard of group of <span lang=""fr"">""Spéléos Provençaux""'.</span></li><li>The same group in 1977 discovered the two lower entrances, using them to explore to the bottom at -913m.</li><li>The Austrian expedition of 1985 set out to connect <span lang=""de"">Feuertalsystem</span> to <a href=""55.htm""><span lang=""de"">Raucherkarhöhle</span></a> and found a large horizontal passage, but no connection.</li></ul><p>","From the <span lang=""fr"">Quelli</span> entrance, pitches p8, p19, p83, p33, p24, p17, p5, p33, p24, p9, p33, p27, p103 lead to -400m. Here one reaches a vast passage going up and downhill. The downstream passage emerges at the top of an 84m pitch. Below this a winding canyon interspersed with small pitches gives onto a 15m pitch and the end of exploration in 1976 at -708m.</p><p>The lower entrances lead by large phreatic passages to pitches which drop into a further large horizontal level which undulates between -410m and -500m. At -497m, this links to the main vertical system from <span lang=""fr"">Quelli.</span> Using these lower ways in, exploration reached a sump at -913m in 1977. Following the large phreatic level away from <span lang=""fr"">Quelli</span> goes for about a kilometre before breaking into the side of a colossal shaft at -414m. This is a 211m pitch to a choke at -625m. There is a possible way on across this shaft, which is, however, 20m in diameter.","","","","</p><dl><dt>78.2012</dt><dd><cite>(GSAB) <span lang=""fr"">Spéalp</span> 1 (June 1977) pp 33-49</cite>, <b><span lang=""de"">Totes Gebirge</span>: <span lang=""fr"">Description des principaux gouffres de la zone ouest du massif</span></b>, <span lang=""fr"">Jean Claude Hans & Etienne Degrave</span><br /><a href=""../../others/gsab/en/782012.htm#id117"">English Translation</a><br /><a href=""../../others/gsab/fr/782012.htm#id117"" lang=""fr"">En Français</a></dd><dt>78.2013</dt><dd><cite>(GSAB) <span lang=""fr"">Spéalp</span> 2 (1978) pp 66-67, survey</cite>, <b lang=""de"">Feuertalsystem</b>, <span lang=""fr"">Jean Claude Hans</span><br /><a href=""../../others/gsab/782013.htm"" lang=""fr"">En Français</a></dd></dl><p>The description is translated mainly from these references by Andy Waddington and Jill Gates.","","","","","","","</p><ul><li>The Austrian expedition of 1985 found a 3km horizontal passage, which brought the total length of the system to 15km.</li><li>In early 1997 the length was given as 19808m <span lang=""de"">(Markus Wiesinger,</span> personal comm.)</li></ul><p>","","","","","","","","","","","","","","In the south flank of <span lang=""fr"">Feuertal</span> on the north side of <span lang=""de"">Schönberg. Kataster</span> says west of <span lang=""de"">Schönberg,</span> east of <span lang=""de"">Franzosenschacht,</span> 1626/119.","","","","","","",""
120,"","c","","entrance","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","<span lang=""fr"">Carcajau</span> (F9)","","","","","","","","","","1736m or 1731m","","","","","","","","","",""
122,"3/S =","","","","noinfo/1626/122.htm","","","Ufoschacht","Gouffre Ovni","",1626,"</p><ul><li>Discovered in August 1974 by D.Motte.</li><li>Entrance unblocked by <span lang=""fr"">Groupe Spéléo Alpin Belge</span> in 1975 and 76.</li><li>Explored in August 1976 by <span lang=""fr"">F.Dechany & J.C.Hans</span> (GSAB) to -201m</li><li>Pushed to -565m on a further GSAB trip 5th-29th August 1977.</li></ul><p>","The entrance consists of a crack about 20cm high, which was at first cleared as far as a chamber with no exit. The draught which had enabled the entrance to be found now showed the way on. After having unblocked a fissure dubbed Sas, a pitch, <b lang=""fr"">Escalier Anti-G,</b> was reached. This is broken in five places. A second pitch, <b lang=""fr"">Puits Andromède,</b> broken into three, leads to a short canyon, then to several drops and pitches interspersed with short squeezes. The following pitches can be seen as forming a single 80m shaft, the <b lang=""fr"">Puits Ganimède,</b> divided into five and becoming bigger and bigger in depth as well as width. The cave continues by a fault rift two or three metres wide and 40m deep, <b lang=""fr"">Puits Trou Noir</b> (The Black Hole). The early pitches are dry, but by this point, at -200m, the shafts are much wetter.</p><p>The explorers in 1977 started on the descent of a fine 60m pitch of constant shape, slightly sloping, <b lang=""fr"">Puits Zorglub.</b> At the bottom of this is the only chamber of the cave : the <b lang=""fr"">Salle Galactique.</b> Here the cave splits into two routes, the active and the fossil.</p><h4>Active system</h4><p>Downstream from the chamber a drop leads to a small chamber among boulders, the Love Nest. (No idea who ventured to call it this). Between the boulders a 20m pitch opens, immediately followed by a 25m pitch. In fact, the last 25m of descent drops between the walls of an immense aven to land on a flat gravel floor. A diagonal chimney leads to a trickle of water.</p><p>A fissure marks the start of the <b lang=""fr"">Méandre Anti-Matière,</b> where one immediately rejoins the underground stream. This has an average flow of two litres per second but quite rapidly increases to 10-15 litres per second in flood. The first part of the meander is straight and interrupted by 3 small pitches and two drops. At the top of the first, in the roof, is the connection with the fossil system. Quickly, the meander becomes less amenable: high and narrow, it is plastered with mud (the anti-matter) which makes progress quite arduous. Three pitches of 5, 14 and 10m punctuate progress. This last, followed by a drop of 3m, gives access to a section of passage blocked by clay. At the end of this, the stream disappears into a fissure with tight impenetrable bends.</p><p>The main passage continues ahead as a quite large fossil branch. After some 50m, the draught goes into an earthy hole, the start of a big pitch of 70m in several stages, the <b lang=""fr"">Puits du Centaure.</b></p><p>Halfway down, the pitch is rejoined by the stream which is avoided by a parallel fossil shaft. There immediately follows another pitch of 55m, the <b lang=""fr"">Puits du Fond des Ages,</b> totally wet and characterised by an elliptical cross-section and constant slope. At the bottom, the water is engulfed by a fissure about three metres long, followed by a tight meander which has not been pushed. This is the deepest point : -565m.</p><h4>Fossil system</h4><p>Upstream from the <span lang=""fr"">Salle Galactique,</span> a window some metres high gives access to a good-sized passage (3x3m on average), the <b lang=""fr"">Méandre des Petits Hommes Verts</b> (the Little Green Men's passage). One comes up against a climb of 3m at the base of which the trickle of water is lost into a meander cut below the fossil passage (see below). After a narrowing and a climb, the passage ends in boulders between which it is still possible to penetrate for a dozen metres.</p><p>Back in the meander below the fossil passage: this ends at the <b
"","1/S +","","A1","","kratzer/a1.htm","","","CUCC 1976/A1","","",4,"CUCC 1976","An obvious open entrance leads to an 11m pitch into a rift chamber choked in both directions. ","","","","","","","","","11m","","","","","","","","","","","","","c 1635m","","","Situated some 50m vertically below Schwarzmoossattel, up valley from the Loser Hütte. (I think the reference to the Loser Hütte is very misleading outside the context of the original article in <i>Cambridge Underground</i>, and should really be up valley from Bräuning Alm).","","","","","","Lost","Probably hopeless"
"","1/S/T +","","B1","","kratzer/b1.htm","","","CUCC 1976/B1","","",4,"CUCC 1976","A 14m pitch drops into rift passage quickly choking to the east. To the west, a short walk reaches a 3m climb to a higher level, choking rapidly.","","","","","","","","","14m ","","Thought by the Austrians to be one of a group of <a href=""../noinfo/kratzer/36.htm"">shafts numbered 36</a> in the Kataster, but the location of B1 relative to <a href=""b4.htm"">B4</a>, which is very near 36, precludes this interpretation. Unfortunately, B1 was not relocated in a search in 1990.","","","","","","","","","","","c 1640m ?","","","Situated some 40m from <a href=""a1.htm"">A1</a>, up valley and slightly higher up the east slope, the hole lies in an obvious E-W fault.","","","","","","Lost","Probably hopeless"
"","1/S +","","B2","","kratzer/b2.htm","","","CUCC 1976/B2","","",4,"CUCC 1976 ","A 4m climb leads to two 5m drops and a snow plug. Across the snow a direct pitch can be reached.","","","","","","","","","15m","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","Up the bottom of the valley from <a href=""b1.htm"">B1</a>, B2 is met just at the foot of the last steep pull up onto the col. Not relocated in search in 1990.","","","","","","Lost","Probably hopeless"
"","1/S +","","B3","","kratzer/b3.htm","","","CUCC 1976/B3","","",4,"CUCC 1976","The lowest entrance drops via a 10m pitch into a descending rift. The rift drops steadily over boulders to a choke. Up rift from the pitch, daylight is reached from one of the other holes.","","","","","","","","","15m ?","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","Just a few metres up valley from <a href=""b2.htm"">B2</a>, a series of holes. (<i>Cambridge Underground 1977</i> gives bearings of Loser 238°, Bräuning Nase 280°. However, Loser is not visible from this area and it is most likely that this bearing is to Sommersitz, which looks rather similar from this direction.) Not relocated in search in 1990. ","","","","","","Lost",""
"","1/S +","","B4","","kratzer/b4.htm","","","CUCC 1976/B4","","",4,"CUCC 1976","Descent of 45° snow slope reaches a choked rift. Above and ahead water enters via small aven but no sign of a way on.","","","","","","CUCC sketch 1996","","","?","","","","","p1976_b4","","","Surface survey","","gps00.b4","","","","","","Again just a short distance up valley from <a href=""b3.htm"">B3</a>, a significant shakehole with snow at foot. (<i>Cambridge Underground 1977</i> gives bearings of Loser 234°, Bräuning Nase 292°. However, Loser is not visible from this area and it is most likely that this bearing is to Sommersitz, which looks rather similar from this direction.)</p><p> Relocated in searches in 1990 and 1996 - best (and pretty easily) found from Schwarzmoossattel or <a href=""../tcamps.htm#topcamp"">Top Camp</a> by following the path south until a small spring (at the site of the <a href=""../tcamps.htm#id1979camp"">1979 bivouac</a>) feeds a tiny stream descending into the valley. This sinks in the northernmost shaft of <a href=""../noinfo/kratzer/36.htm"">Schachtgruppe 36</a>. In the centre of the valley across from this point is an obvious shakehole, usually with a small snowchoke, in a shaft.","","","","Tag","","Surveyed",""
"","1/S +","","B5","","kratzer/b5.htm","","","CUCC 1976/B5","","probably = <a href=""#id74"">74</a>",4,"CUCC 1976","Descent over snow of 10m or so ended a snow choke.","","","","","","","","","10m","","Probabaly =<a href=""../noinfo/kratzer/74.htm"">74</a>","","","","","","","","","","","","","","""Right on the col - the scar to the west has large holes immediately below it."" A scar to the west with large holes below it exactly describes <a href=""../noinfo/kratzer/36.htm"">Schachtgruppe 36</a> as seen from <a href=""b4.htm"">B4</a>. B5 was not relocated in a search in 1990, nor so far in 1995. However, the Austrians thought B5 was the same as Kat. 35, whose description is nothing similar, <em>but</em> 35 is in the same doline as Kat. 74, which <em>does</em> sound exactly like B5, so we can probably assume that it is the same place.","","","","","","Lost","Probably hopeless"
"","1/S +","","B6","","plateau/b6.htm","","","CUCC 1976/B6","","","1a","CUCC 1976","Descent of 8m to a choke.","","","","","","","","","8m","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","Small shaft on plateau just over the col. It is believed that this has not been found since 1976, despite a number of searches.","","","","","","Lost",""
"","1/S +","","B10","","plateau/b10.htm","","","CUCC 1976/B10","","","1a","CUCC 1976, 1988","Simply a 5m climb to two short pitches choked at foot of second. Rigged entirely on natural belays in 1988.","","","","","","","","","","","This was apparently relocated and reexplored by CUCC <a href=""../years/1988/log.htm#id1988-B10-1"">in 1988</a>, before they spotted the number. Shown as being near the foot of the Bräuning wall, in the same area as <a href=""159/159.html"">159</a> and <a href=""160.htm"">160</a>. Not relocated, however, in a search in 1990, probably because it's further out onto the plateau than the 91,93,94 area where I looked. There are a couple of likely looking holes immediately north of the grassy area containing lower top camp, but no number was visible in 1998.","","","","","","","","","","","","","","Lies in maze of karren north of B9.","","","","","","Refindable","Persistent reports of this being seen (including accidental reexploration in 1988), but not by those doing the documentation :-("
"","2/S +","","LA11","","1626/la11.htm","","","Lungehöhle","","",1626,"<a href=""../others/luss/index.htm"">LUSS</a> 1987-9","A large rift gives an awkward 7m ladder climb down into a chamber leading to a boulder slope. Climb down in a rift for 8m (narrow at top) until a loose slope leads down to a 7m pitch where a small dry inlet enters. The pitch leads onto a rocking boulder wedged in a narrow rift and a tight squeeze down, <b>The Jaws</b>, forms the head of the next 16m pitch and the start of <b>Deep Throat Series</b>.</p><p>The pitch lands in a small chamber with a short walking rift exit. Pitches of 14m, 8m and 10m follow in rapid succession. At the foot of the 10m pitch, a smooth, oval squeeze, <b>The Cnut</b> (spelling mistake), opens onto <b>The Womb</b>. This is a fine pitch of 41m in a spacious shaft, landing in a chamber 12m x 10m with a floor of large boulders of dubious stability.</p><p>A rift to one side is a loose and narrow pitch of 17m to a ledge and much nicer drop of 10m. A large rift, <b>The Large Intestine</b>, follows. Initially traversed on wide ledges, this soon narrows to a crawl along the rift at roof level. A 14m pitch descends to the foot of the rift and a short section of sharp, suit-ripping rift leads to a chamber with an inlet up to one side. The suit ripping rift can be bypassed by a pendulum, but the rope left for this is now hanging inaccessible, so the original manoevre would need to be repeated.</p><p>The exit from the chamber is too tight, but a 12m pitch up reaches a muddy solution tube at roof level, originally reached by an exposed traverse from a point halfway down the previous pitch. A slippery climb up and a short flat-out crawl, <b>The Small Intestine</b>, leads to the head of a constricted pitch of 10m to a wider section of the rift. After a few metres, a pit in the floor necessitates a climb down, then back up of 5m. At this point, a traverse follows the roof of the rift while the floor cuts down sharply. A pair of 13m deep holes are crossed by fairly exposed traverses, and further traversing reaches the next pitch <b>Fantasy</b>, in a shaft which is initially about 15m in diameter.</p><p>A drop of 46m, broken by ledges covered in loose boulders, lands on a large sloping ledge at a junction with a much larger shaft. The rubble needs caution, as much of the rest of the pitch is in the firing line.</p><p>The next section is 58m with two deviations, close to a wall down which some water falls. The opposite wall is some 20-30m away, and to either side, no walls are visible. Below this section, a narrow saddle of rock splits the shaft, the left hand route (facing the water) being taken. A further 27m lands on an enormous (20m x 30m) flat ledge right across the shaft, with pitches continuing both sides.</p><p>The right hand (facing the water) shaft is the continuation of the route voided at the rock saddle. A steep, muddy slope leads onto a 41m pitch and, below this, a climb over a muddy boulder pile leads onto a steep ramp (rope required) descending 15m into <b>The Dream Machine</b>. This is a massive passage 30m wide leading through boulders the size of houses. After about 100m, a boulder pile with a large central boulder is reached. Beyond, the passage can be seen to continue, but scaling equipment will be required to reach it.</p><p>From the 30m x 20m ledge, the left hand shaft is undescended, but rock tests indicate a similar depth to the right hand shaft, ie. about 50m.</p><p>At the end of 1988, the depth is 354m with excellent potential.</p><p>Stopped at -375m, no further details at present.","","","","</p><ul><li><dl><dt>87.1514</dt><dd><cite>Austria Reconnaissance Expedition 1987, Lancaster University Speleological Society</cite></dd></dl></li><li><dl><dt>89.1866</dt><dd><cite>Dead Mountains Expedition 1988, L.U.S.S.</cite> 24pp illus.</dd></dl></li></ul><p>","","","","","354m <strong>Still going</strong>","","","","","","","","","","","","","1839m","","","13° 50' 22" E, 47° 42' 26" N</p><p>150m due south of Roß Kogel summit - to north of a sn
"","3/S -","","LA12","","1626/la12.htm","","","Sternloch","","",1626,"<a href=""../others/luss/index.htm"">LUSS</a> 1987-8","A narrow slot (1m x 5m) with a small capping roof, soon bells out to a landing after 17m on a boulder-strewn ledge. The second pitch, <b>Virgo</b>, follows immediately, bolt belays giving a fine hang of 21m. Ways down through the boulder floor soon choke, but a step up into a small alcove reveals a small hole dropping into a rift. This is the take-off for <b>Aquarius</b>, an 85m shaft in six sections. Halfway down, the water cascades in from the roof, usually in large quantities.</p><p>From the base of Aquarius, traversing forwards gains a drier hang for the next pitch of 16m. A pendulum 10m down avoids the worst of the water, which continues down a clean circular shaft (see below).</p><p>The pendulum reaches <b>W.C.S. series</b> where two short drops in a rift lead to a bolt rebelay in a massive jammed boulder. Just below this, a window opens into a narrow shaft which is undescended. At the foot of the rift, a short section of hading rift gets wetter at the head of the next pitch, whose 11m are always lashed by spray from somewhere above.</p><p>A short traverse into a large alcove escapes the spray and facilitates a dry hang for <b>FUDE</b>, a 14m pitch with natural belays set well back and soft squidgy choss at the pitch head. Two climbs lead to a rift/ramp area where the way on is tight and thrutchy. <b>Nil Desperandum</b> soon drops to the head of a short pitch and more climbs down into a chamber.</p><p>The rift outlet is too tight, but a 5m climb up gains a bypass where a short traverse leads to <b>Ardua</b>, a pitch of 11m. Down the slope, the water sinks in boulders, but the way on is a slot in the wall behind a large boulder. This immediately bells out onto <b>Astra</b>, a 38m pitch where a pendulum onto and over a huge chocked boulder reaches bolts for the second part of the pitch, a superb 25m drop down one end of a large rift.</p><p>Climbing down at the far end of the rift, an area of breakdown is reached. Up the boulders, a rift enters from the right (presumed to be an inlet, but not explored), while water can be heard away to the left. However, the loose nature of this area, combined with the pitch below, precluded anything more than a cursory examination.</p><p>Under the boulders, a short pitch lands in a chamber where the water is rejoined shortly before it cascades over the lip of another large shaft, the limit of exploration in 1987.</p><p>The pitch is 57m and quite wet, dropping into a sizeable chamber (50m x 10m and 40m high), <b>The Planetarium</b>. This chamber is formed along a fault, with breakdown littering the floor. At one end, under a large waterfall, is a pitch between the wall and the boulders. This drops 15m into an extremely loose boulder choke <b>Religious Places</b>, with no way on. No other route out could be found from the Planetarium, giving an overall depth of 331m.</p><p>The wet way on from the bottom of Aquarius descends pitches of 7m and 27m. The latter is arguably the best pitch of the cave, hanging free for 23m beside a column of water. Unfortunately, the way on is a tiny impassable rift.","","","","</p><ul><li><dl><dt>87.1514</dt><dd><cite>Austria Reconnaissance Expedition 1987, Lancaster University Speleological Society</cite></dd></dl></li><li><dl><dt>89.1866</dt><dd><cite>Dead Mountains Expedition 1988, L.U.S.S.</cite> 24pp illus.</dd></dl></li></ul><p>","","","","","331m","","","","","","","","","","","","","1850m","","","13° 50' 20" E, 47° 42' 27" N</p><p>On flat col to the south of Roß Kogel, slightly above and to the west of a small but prominent rock shelter.","","","","","","",""
"","2/S +","","LA25","","remote/la25.htm","","","LUSS/LA25","","",6,"LUSS 1987-8","A tricky 4m climb down to a ledge and further 2m drop gain the floor of a chamber. Down boulder slope in chamber leads to a further short climb on overhanging loose rubble to a small chamber with draughting rift. A squeeze through the rift opens directly onto the head of an awkward 8m pitch. Beyond, the floor soon disappears and way on is 5m of traverse in a widening rift to where stones fall free for 5 seconds, this was the 1987 terminus.</p><p>A 6m drop reaches a point overlooking a 5m wide circular shaft. Bolts for a Y-hang lead onto the 56m free-hanging <b>Heart of Gold</b> pitch, named for its cross section. Another 10m drop on the other side of a boulder lands on a large ledge covered in loose boulders, <b>The Italian Bistro</b>. Awkward rigging on the right wall and two lower bolts allow <b>Deep Thought</b> to be rigged just clear of the tottering boulders that give the 18m pitch its name.</p><p>At the base is <b>The Restaurant at the End of the Cave</b>, a large chamber sporting five waterfalls. From the foot of the pitch, the floor is steeply inclined up to an arch, beyond which the chamber continues to rise to a total length of about 50m. A debris slope up to a tube at the highest points leads only to a choke. There is no other way on from the Restaurant since the floor is choke by major collapse at a depth of 117m.","","","","The above description is taken from the LUSS <a href=""../others/luss/index.htm"">reports</a> on the 1987 and 1988 expeditions.","","A4 elev/plan to grade 5b, LUSS 1987-8 ","","","117m","","","","","","","","","","","","","1880m","","","13° 50' 04"" E, 47° 42' 04"" N</p><p>A large depression on the Hohes Augst-Eck ridge about 1km SSW of Roß Kogel, is reached from the crest of the ridge above the obvious rock arch, by following a large snow field to the head of the depression. Contouring around to the south of the depression, following the bedding, LA25 to 27 are close together.","","Above the large depression, LA25 is an open, but obscure hole on a bedding shelf. ","","","","Lost",""
"","2/T +","","LA26","","remote/la26.htm","","","LUSS/LA26","","",6,"LUSS 1987","A large low opening behind a large snow field soon develops into a large horizontal passage dropping to a choke after 50m. A climb up before the choke reaches a loose ramp. Uphill in the ramp chokes, whilst down the slope passes an oxbow toreach a drippy choked chamber. Opposite the point of entry to the ramp, a slot in the wall reaches an ascending ramp. To the left is a small inlet, and to the right is a pitch into the rift. A climbable bypass gains the roof of the drippy chamber.","","","","The above description is taken from the LUSS <a href=""../others/luss/index.htm"">report</a> on the 1987 expedition.","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","1880m","","","13° 50' 06"" E, 47° 42' 02"" N</p><p> A large depression on the Hohes Augst-Eck ridge about 1km SSW of Roß Kogel, is reached from the crest of the ridge above the obvious rock arch, by following a large snow field to the head of the depression. Contouring around to the south of the depression, following the bedding, LA25 to 27 are close together. LA26 is approximately 200m SE of <a href=""la25.htm"">LA25</a>","","","","","","Lost",""
"","1/T +","","LA27","","remote/la27.htm","","","LUSS/LA27","","",6,"LUSS 1987","A small tube at the foot of the cliff leads as a low crawl for about 30m to a choke. A slight draught emerges from a 10cm wide rift.","","","","The above description is taken from the LUSS <a href=""../others/luss/index.htm"">report</a> on the 1987 expedition.","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","1860m","","","13° 50' 08"" E, 47° 42' 04"" N</p><p> A large depression on the Hohes Augst-Eck ridge about 1km SSW of Roß Kogel, is reached from the crest of the ridge above the obvious rock arch, by following a large snow field to the head of the depression. Contouring around to the south of the depression, following the bedding, LA25 to 27 are close together. LA27 is approximately 100m E of <a href=""la26.htm"">LA26</a>, down the snow slope and around to the foot of a small cliff. ","","","","","","Lost",""
"","1/S -","","LA30","","remote/la30.htm","","","LUSS/LA30","","",6,"LUSS 1987-8","","","","","The above description is taken from the LUSS <a href=""../others/luss/index.htm"">reports</a> on the 1987 and 1988 expeditions.","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","1820m","","","13° 50' 13"" E, 47° 42' 12"" N","","Hole at base of snowfield drops to head of ice-ramp which is undescended. Small chamber visible below.","","","","Lost",""
"","3/S +","","LA34","","1626/la34.htm","","","Rätselhöhle","","","1626 or 6 (borderline)","<a href=""../others/luss/index.htm"">LUSS</a> 1987, 1989","Originally thought to be a choked shaft, it was noted as "worth another look" in 1987, but was not relocated in 1988. Closer inspection with a ladder revealed parallel slots in the rift and a noticeable draught.</p><p>The original entrance is a "walk-in" open shaft which leads on to a twisted vertical pitch of 17m, <b>Parthos</b>, into a sizeable chamber at the top of a rubble slope. The obvious small wriggle at the bottom of the slope leads to the <b>Musketeers' Series</b>, while a bolted climb leads to the main way on.</p><p>The Musketeers' Series consists of stooping phreatic passages, with a 5m pitch, then a couple of climbs to the head of an 11m pitch, <b>Aramis</b>, into a chamber. At the far end, a further pitch, <b>Athos</b>, is 8m. The way on is up a short climb to the head of a 5m+10m ramp, <b>Porthos</b>, down to a phreatic tube with a silted up floor. Digging in the silt revealed a tight rift rising up, but as this was too tight, the dig was abandoned. The water from Aramis descends a tight rift in the base of the phreatic tube, but after 3m, this too became too tight.</p><p>The climb up before the Musketeers' Series leads quickly to a T-junction. To the right, a winding ramp passage of decreasing size leads on and up with several fallen blocks making progress awkward. This route ends at a small chamber with an inlet dropping from the roof. Left from the T-junction leads on down a gently sloping boulder ramp in stooping, then walking passage. This increases in size and becomes steeper before emerging into the side of an enormous boulder ramp, <b>Hillsborough Revisited</b>. The inlet passage enters three quarters of the way up Hillsborough, which is 10m wide by 5m high and drops a total of 40m at 40°. At the base of Hillsborough, an aven rises to the surface and daylight can be seen reflecting off the sides of this second entrance. A third entrance was discovered on the surface which leads down a deep grike through a tight arch and into a small chamber. Digging boulders revealed a steeply inclined squeeze leading onto a pitch at the top of the Hillsborough ramp. The base of this pitch leads onto an inclined overhanging terrace with a hole at the back which drops 2m onto another inclined overhanging terrace. A 4m climb down from this ledge ends at the top of the boulder ramp of Hillsborough.</p><p>The base of Hillsborough was blind until a dig in unstable boulders on the left hand side revealed a tight drop between two wedged boulders into another very sizeable ramp, <b>Penistone Road</b>. This ramp is convoluted and twists around open shafts and roof collapse to end in a huge chamber with a small muddy hole in the floor, <b>The Hole in the Road</b>. This way on is blind.</p><p>An alternative route from the main ramp of Penistone Road leads down an old phreatic tube decorated with calcite frost and numerous small helictites to a flat-out crawl to a 25m blind pitch.</p><p>Near the bottom of the Hole in the Road, a 6m rope climb up the eastern wall, <b>The Escalator</b>, leads to a series of solution tubes. A 1m diameter tube drops NE into <b>The Broadwalk</b>, a sizeable mud-floored phreatic passage. Here, following a strong draught, the passage opens up, becoming very high with a number of avens cutting down into the passage. A 4m rope climb drops down to the head of a pitch, <b>Reason to Believe?</b>. This dry shaft is disjointed and 144m deep, broken at approximately half depth by a 'saddle'. A further short pitch lands on a slope before the final drop into a sizeable chamber. The only exit from this chamber is to the east and is a muddy rift passage traversed at various levels. This leads to the head of a further series of disjointed shafts and the wet 77m pitch <b>More than a Feeling</b>. Here a 57m drop lands on a spray-lashed ledge and a further 20m drop gives way to a large boulder slope. Two wet 2m climbs lead up to the
"","1/S +","","LA35","","remote/la35.htm","","","LUSS/LA35","","",6,"LUSS 1988","Crawl at back of rock shelter leads to 15m pitch to large chamber on fault. Many loose boulders. Squeeze between boulders onto 16m pitch to choke.","","","","The above description is taken from the LUSS <a href=""../others/luss/index.htm"">report</a> on the 1988 expedition.","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","1880m","","","13° 50' 05"" E, 47° 42' 03"" N","","","","","","Lost",""
"","1/S +","","LA37","","remote/la37.htm","","","LUSS/LA37","","",6,"LUSS 1988","Steep snow ramp descends 10m to pool of water. No way on.","","","","The above description is taken from the LUSS <a href=""../others/luss/index.htm"">report</a> on the 1988 expedition.","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","1860m","","","13° 50' 08"" E, 47° 42' 03"" N","","","","","","Lost",""
"","1/S +","","LA38","","remote/la38.htm","","","LUSS/LA38","","",6,"LUSS 1988","15m inclined pitch to snow blockage.","","","","The above description is taken from the LUSS <a href=""../others/luss/index.htm"">report</a> on the 1988 expedition. ","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","1900m","","","13° 50' 01"" E, 47° 42' 02"" N","","","","","","Lost",""
"","1/E +","","LA40","","remote/la40.htm","","","LUSS/LA40","","",6,"LUSS 1988","Small entrance leads to boulder ramp to choke with ice formations.","","","","The above description is taken from the LUSS <a href=""../others/luss/index.htm"">report</a> on the 1988 expedition.","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","1860m","","","13° 50' 01"" E, 47° 42' 13"" N","","","","","","Lost",""
"","","","BS1-15","","","","","","","UBSS finds - no documentation","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","Lost",""
"","","","BS16","","","","","","","UBSS finds - no documentation",6,"","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","bs16","","","Coordinates probably read from map, converted from lat long assuming MGI datum","","","","","","","","","","","","","","Lost","No idea if these coordinates are any good"
"","2/S +","","BS17","","noinfo/remote/bs17.htm","","","Organhöhle","","",6,"<a href=""../../others/ubss/index.htm"">UBSS</a> 1990","A deep and serious cave in a very remote location, with numerous Puits en bayonettes, from which rescue would be virtually impossible after a tortuous tube at -100m.</p><p>The 1m diameter entrance is followed by a walking sized phreatic passage with further entrances in the roof. This continues to a four-way junction. Straight on soon chokes at a boulder slope. Up to the left, the passage winds back to a further entrance. The way on is down to the right. The 5m high passage continues, passing low crawls on the left and right to a point where the roof lowers and the passage is split horizontally. The lower passage leads to an extensive series of low crawls whilst the upper passage continues to a squeeze past a debris cone with a distinct draught. Past the debris cone the passage splits again. The right hand passage chokes soon after a 12m pitch but the left hand passage carries on as a hands and knees crawl, crosses a blind 4m pit and soon reaches the <b>first pitch</b>.</p><p>A fine descent of 66m in a large shaft lands on a boulder ledge with the <b>second pitch</b> following on immediately. This descends 50m to a 15cm wide rift. Although there is a possible continuation beyond, this would require considerable effort to enter and was not pushed. A climb up to a window above the second pitch (krab and sling left rigged) gains a climb down to the boulder-strewn foot of an aven and a horizontal tube going off (not explored). 13m down the second pitch, <b>Fledermaus ledge</b> can be gained, with a passage leading off to <b>Fledermaus pitch</b>, named for the quantities of bat skeletons at its head. This 27m descent reaches about the same level as the base of the second pitch, and is blind except for a small slot in one wall. Traversing over Fledermaus leads to a small chamber with two tubes leading off, both draughting. The left tube becomes too tight, but a pitch can be seen beyond the constriction. The right tube is the <b>Organ Grinder</b>.</p><p>The Organ Grinder is 46m of exceedingly tortuous passage - nowhere extremely tight but twisting and turning, rising and falling, requiring a unique combination of contortions. It is best tackled feet first on the way in (head first on the way out) until a flat out crawl near the end which leads to the crux: a U-bend, best approached head first on the descent. This is even more difficult on the return, when it is best tackled feet first. UBSS's times to pass this passage varied from 10 minutes to 3½ hours, with an average of 20 minutes. There is just room to replace SRT gear before the following pitch. <b>The return of an injured person through this tube would be almost impossible without extensive modification of the cave.</b></p><p>The <b>third pitch</b> descends 42m, passing two windows, to a floor with no way on. From the foot of the pitch, a 3m climb up to a ledge reveals two climbs down. One of thse is blind, but the other leads to an undescended pitch of c20m.</p><p>Both of the windows in the third pitch connect with <b>Topher's pitch</b>, and the lower one was rigged. From here the pitch is 86m with a large ledge near the bottom. At the foot, a window leads to an aven, whilst in the opposite wall, another window looks onto the fifth pitch, <b>Toccata and Feuge</b> (sic).</p><p>Toccata and Feuge is best descended from a ledge above the large ledge in Topher's pitch. Rigged mainly from flakes and threads, it drops in a series of steps, 39m in total. A small hole in the floor drops into a chamber with no passable way on - just two exits, both too tight. 10m back up the pitch, a ledge can be gained and is the start of the <b>Rift Climb</b>. This is a 40m descent, and is best rigged as a self-lined climb. The rift continues for some distance horizontally, but has not been followed. Below the Rift climb, the head of another pitch can be gained, but great care should be exercised in the Rift Climb and this following pitch (<b>The Pitch of th
"","","","BS18","","","","","","","UBSS finds - no documentation","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","Lost",""
"","","","BS19","","","","","","","UBSS finds - no documentation",6,"","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","bs19","","","Coordinates probably read from map, converted from lat long assuming MGI datum","","","","","","","","","","","","","","Lost","No idea if these coordinates are any good"
"","","","BS20-nn?","","","","","","","UBSS finds - no documentation","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","Lost",""
"","","","88H","","","","","","","GSCB","2b","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","Refindable","Has been seen recently (1998)"
"","","","88F","","smkridge/88f.html","","","","","GSCB","2b","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","gps02olly.88f","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","Tag","tag VSS188F 2002","Refindable","Has been seen recently (2002)"
"","","","1987-02","","plateau/1987_02.html","","","","","","1c","Found by CUCC 1987. Original explorers unknown, possibly GSCB?","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","100m up from <a href=""../smkridge/157.htm"">157</a> and 0/5. Possibly the same cave as <a href=""../smkridge/bogen.html"">Bogenhöhle</a>?","","","","","","Lost",""
"","","","1989-01","","","","","","","Probably <a href=""#id195"">195</a>. See <a href=""#id195"">165</a> for more details.","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","North of 165","","","","Unmarked","","Lost","May be 195 but seems unlikely; or 196"
"","","","1990-15","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","Paint","Numbered erroneously as ""185"" ","Lost","AERW doesn't know where to find it"
"","1/S -","","1992-X01","","plateau/1992-X01.html","","","","Olly's 1992 minus cave","","1b","CUCC 1992 Olly Betts","Undescended. 2 second drop with a rattle for a bit.","","","","1992 logbook (1992.08.01)","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","Unmarked","","Refindable",""
"","1/S -","","1996-01","","smkridge/1996_01.html","","","Ski-pole höhle","","","2c","CUCC 1996-07-15 Nick, Brian, Tina","Climb down shakehole to open shaft with a jammed boulder at the top. Shaft developed on joint is 1.4m across, 1.5m in the other direction and drops straight down 10m. Rift at bottom is 2m high. 1.5m drop then gently ascending rift gets too tight.","","","","","","","","","11.1m","","There are many holes along the rift - all the others are choked or too tight.","","","","","","","gps96.96_1","","","","","","","","Situated at top end of rift/gorge next to <a href=""../smkridge/161/sftotp.htm#id161d"">path to 161d</a>. Walking <em>to</em> 161d: go into the very narrow gorge, then up the right hand wall about a third of the way along. This gets you into the next gorge, trending on bearing 031° (looking towards 161d end of path). Turn right up the rift. 96/01 is at the top end.","","","Tag","A spit with ""CUCC 96-01""","Refindable","Has a 1996 GPS fix which is almost certainly hopelessly wrong as it puts it way to the north of 161d"
"","1/S -","","1996-05","","plateau/1996_05.html","","","","","","1d","CUCC 1996 Andy Waddington and Fran","Cave is a North-South rift in a joint hading very steeply - say 85 degrees dip to west. Stones rattle down shaft for a very long time. No evidence of previous exploration (ie. no spits, no mud, vegetation not noticeably trampled).","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","gps98.1996_05","","","","c. 1640m","Schönberg 342½°, Bräuning Zinken 204½°, Hinterer Schwarzmooskogel 101° (very flat summit, so exact point not obvious), Loser Cross 213½°, using AndyW compass NPC#2 (Suunto #439258)","","","From <a href=""../plateau/164.htm"">164</a>, follow recent (1996 vintage? - not of CUCC origin) fluorescent orange paint dots (these had faded almost completely by 1998, but there are some older red ones for the early part of the route), over a ridge passing the OAV ski marker pole, then leftish over a series of limestone steps to reach a descent into a large broken area (thought to be near <a href=""../plateau/173.htm"">173</a>). Climb steeply left up boulders to a large cairn with a bright orange dot, then over a series of limestone shelves. Shortly up here is a shaft now known to be <a href=""../plateau/200.htm"">Lost Rucksack Cave</a> (marked with temporary number CUCC 1993 01). The route continues remarkably easily over a series of bunde-free pavements - easily relocated in 1998. Eventually a large orange dot with an arrow points into a gap in the pines with many fresh (1996) cut branches (again, not CUCC's work). No more dots are to be found, and all ways close up in bunde beyond an obvious shaft in a N-S rift which is therefore clearly the ultimate destination of the marked path.","","</p><div class=""centre""><a href=""others/l/9605.htm""><img alt=""Entrance photo (45k JPEG)"" width=""150"" height=""188"" src=""others/t/9605.jpg"" /></a><p>Entrance rift, looking north.</p></div><p>A picture of the Bräuning wall and Loser from the vicinity of the entrance is <a href=""../piclinks/bw_pks.htm"">here</a>.","Tag","Tag placed on pavement on east side of shaft near middle, a spit with CUCC tag ""9605"".","Surveyed",""
"","1/S -","","1996WK4","","smkridge/1996wk4.html","","","","","","2b","CUCC 1996 (Wookey)","Big enough to be worth dropping.","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","gps00.wk4","","","","","","A picture of the Bräuning wall and Loser from the vicinity of the entrance is <a href=""../piclinks/bw_pks.htm"">here</a>.","This is a GPSed hole found by Wookey on a thrashed route whilst looking for a possible route from 161d over the top of the Hochklapf spur of the Vord to the Stogerweg. There is a large N-S (ish) fault/joint in the bunde here which provides useful path. Approximately on top of bulge sticking out into valley."," This cave was a squareish hole in a the path that one had to traverse carefully","","Unmarked","","Surveyed",""
"","1/S -","","1996WK11","","smkridge/1996wk11.html","","","","","","2b","CUCC 1996 (Wookey)","Big rift aligned 115<->295°. At WNW end is big. Descends over boulders and then snow beyond point of exploration. Needs rope to complete descent, although it is likely to be choked.","","","","","","? Survey plan and elv in NotKH book.NotKH book 1999- p16","","","","","","","","","","","","","gps00.wk11","","","1661 +/- 53","Nipple: 202°, Trissel: 179°, Hollweiser: 138°","","At foot of slope from top of VSK, on Eastern side, before flat area containing Nipple to south of VSK.","","","","Unmarked","","Surveyed",""
"","? +","","1998-X01","","plateau/1998-X01.html","","","","","","1d","Has a ""+"" mark of unknown provenance. Rediscovered and tied to surface survey by CUCC (Wookey and Andy W) 1998.","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","p1998-x01","","","GPS post SA","","","","","","","","","","","","Unmarked (?)","","Surveyed",""
"","","","1999-X01","","smkridge/1999-X01/1999-X01.html","","","","MI5 Cave","","2c","Has a ""-"" mark of unknown provenance. Rediscovered and surveyed to (but not descended) CUCC 1999","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","pmi5","","","","","","","","","","","Schwarzmooskogel ridge near 180 and 191","","","</p> <div class=""centre""> <a href=""../others/l/1999x1.htm""><img src=""../others/t/1999x1.jpg"" /></a></div><p>","Paint (?)","","Surveyed",""
"","1/? +","","2000-02","","smkridge/2000-02/2000-02.html","","","","","","2c","Has a ""+"" mark of unknown provenance. Relocated by CUCC (Wookey, Andy W and Julian T) in 1996; GPSsed and tagged by CUCC (Andy A and Wookey) 2000","? Wookey","? Wookey","","","See 2000 logbook entry (July 30th)","","","","","","","","","","p2000-02","","","GPS post SA","","","","","","","","","","","","Tag","Tagged ""2000-02"" in 2000","Surveyed"
"","1/S +","","2000-08","","smkridge/2000-08/2000-08.htm","","","Grabenkrieghöhle","Trench Warfare Cave","","2d","Originally noted, but not descended, by CUCC Duncan in 2000. Has quite a history of getting reexplored regularly as people explore it and forget to record that it doesn't go: CUCC 2000 (Duncan), 2002 (MikeTA), 2003 (Mark S), 2004 (Dave L)","Short pitch (~6m) from chossy naturals leads to large (~4m wide) unroofed passage. Uphill leads to rift, which is choked (corresponding to nearby choked surface rift). Downhill passes a wedged rock to a climb down onto a snowbank. Right is blind, left descends and leads to a blind pit with a too-tight continuation (looks diggable though).","","Plausible dig.","","","","","","~20m","~10m","~15m","","","","p2000-08","","","Surface survey","","","","","","","","The large entrance is adjacent to the route used in 2000 onwards across the plateau to <a href=""../204/204.html"">Steinbrückenhöhle</a>, shortly before arriving at the stone bridge. It lies almost directly above the huge aven of 7-11 Chamber in 204; the vertical separation, however, is of the order of 120m.","","","</p><div class=""centre""><img alt=""entrance photo - 50k jpeg"" src=""ent.jpg"" /></div><p>","Tag","","Surveyed"
"","1/T +","","2001-02","","smkridge/2001-02/2001-02.html","","","","","","2d","CUCC 2001 MikeTA","Small downhill crawl, choked after around 1.5 body lengths.","","","","<a href=""../../years/2001/log.htm#id2001-204-12"">2001 logbook</a>","","","","","","","","","","p2001-02","","","Surface survey","","","","","","","","","","","","Spit","","Surveyed"
"","-","","2001-09","","smkridge/2001-09/2001-09.html","","","Funkberaterschacht","Electrician's Shaft","","2b","Entrance noted CUCC 2001 Olly B, Martin","","","","","","Claimed to be in dataset (not clear where)","","","","","","","","","gps02olly.2001-09","","","","","","","","","","","In the vicinity of the Eishöhle portal row","","","</p><div class=""centre""><a href=""2001-09closebig.jpg""><img src=""2001-09closesmall.jpg"" alt=""close-up"" /></a> <a href=""2001-09farbig.jpg""><img src=""2001-09farsmall.jpg"" alt=""longer view"" /></a></div><p>","Tag","","Surveyed"
"","+","","2001-10","","smkridge/2001-10/2001-10.html","","","Großarbeithöhle","Big Job Cave","","2b","Entrance noted CUCC 2001 Olly B, Martin","Free-climbable entrance. Chokes to right; may be diggable to left.","","","","2002 logbook (2002-08-18)","","","","","","","","","","gps02olly.2001-10","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","Tag","","Surveyed"
"","=","","2001-12","","smkridge/2001-12/2001-12.html","","","Unnotiggewohnlichkeitschacht","Uncalled-for Vulgarity Shaft","","2b","Apparently explored previously by VfHM. Rediscovered by CUCC 2001 Olly B, Martin but not descended. Descended 2002 Olly B","Large doline entrance can be descended by abseiling or free-climb. At the bottom is a small tunnel which gets smaller - probably too tight, but may be diggable. Can also squeeze through along fault into next, smaller doline, but no further. In the opposite direction is a rift connecting to a second entrance which had a VfHM spit in 2002, where there is a draughting hole in the floor. This gives access to a rift which becomes too tight at ground level; it may be possible to traverse above but it is loose and ""unappealing"".","","One awkward rift.","","2002 logbook (2002-08-18)","","","","","","","","","","gps02olly.2001-12","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","Tag","","Surveyed"
"","=","","2001-MS-01","","smkridge/bogen.html","","","Bogenhöhle","","","1c","Origin obscure; surveyed 2001 CUCC (Mark S, Mike Cox)","","","","","","In dataset","Notes in 2001#11 apparently, but this wallet is missing","surface/bogen.svx","","","","","","tbogen","","","","Surface survey","","","","","","","","","","This cave is somewhat mysterious; it may in fact be the ""second cave with a walk-in entrance"" mentioned in the <a href=""157.htm"">157</a> description, but that is described as being 100m from Laser 0/5, whereas this is more like 30m (or 60m to the further entrance).","","Tag","Tag, apparently, but what the tag says is unclear!","Surveyed"
"","1/S +","","2002-W-02","","smkridge/2002-W-02/2002-W-02.html","","","","","","2b","Almost certainly seen before but documented CUCC 2002 Olly B, Wookey","5m deep rift, snow at bottom. Upper end chokes, lower end continues into narrow canyon going in direction of 40s. There is a vocal connection at the start of this canyon to 217. (Light can just be seen - far too narrow to pass.)","","","","2002 logbook (2002-08-05)","","Notes in 2002#06 (not drawn up)","caves/2002-w-02/2002-w-02.svx","22m","10m","13m","","","p2002-w-02","","","","","","","","","","","","20m directly below 229 and 15m away from 40s","","","","Spit","Tag bolt placed but no tags to hand","Surveyed"
"","1/S =","","2002-AD-01","","smkridge/2002-AD-01/2002-AD-01.html","","","","","","2d","Entrance noted CUCC 2002 (Anthony)","Short drop (~4m) to snow plug. There is a gap above the snow plug and there may be a way on, though it is probably choked.","","","","<a href=""../../surveys/2002/2002#12/notes1.jpg"">Original survey notes</a>","","","","","","","","","gps02.p2002-ad-01","","","","","","","","","","","","On far side of Nieder Augst-Eck ridge from stone bridge is a large valley between the NAE and the next ridge. (Valley heads towards the valley between Altaussee and Wildensee huts). Gully leading into this contains many holes that are obviously choked. Cave is at head of gully.","","","","Spit","","Surveyed"
"","1/S =","","2002-AD-02","","smkridge/2002-AD-02/2002-AD-02.html","","","","","","2d","Entrance noted CUCC 2002 (Anthony)","10-15m deep with snow plug (probably choked)","","","","<a href=""../../surveys/2002/2002#12/notes1.jpg"">Original survey notes</a>","","","","","","","","","gps02.p2002-ad-02","","","","","","","","","","","","At bottom of gully from <a href=""../2002-AD-01/2002-AD-01.html"">2002-AD-01</a> are some shafts - one is ~1m square, lower down is another ~2m square with a part-drilled spit hole at the top.","","","","Spit","","Surveyed"
"","1/S =","","2002-AD-03","","smkridge/2002-AD-03/2002-AD-03.html","","","","","","2d","Entrance noted CUCC 2002 (Anthony)","Inside entrance, rubble slope drops down to short pitch into chamber. Chamber is ~20ft deep from entrance. One wall is steeply inclined, chamber may continue underneath. At (illegible) there may be a continuation: a narrow gully appears to twist off to the left. Above is an eye-hole through which there appears to be blank space.</p> <p>Further round from this entrance and lower down, there is a large depression with a small snow-plug on the floor, with a crawl at the bottom (very small technical QM) - looks like lots of water comes down it - disappears into a choss bowl.","","","","<a href=""../../surveys/2002/2002#12/notes1.jpg"">Original survey notes</a>","","","","","","","","","gps02.p2002-ad-03","","","","","","","","","","","","","Traverse along terrace above level of <a href=""../2002-AD-02/2002-AD-02.html"">2002-AD-02</a> to reach grassy col - cave is horizontal entrance on hillside.","","","","","Surveyed"
"","1/S =","","2002-AD-04","","smkridge/2002-AD-04/2002-AD-04.html","","","","","","2d","Entrance noted CUCC 2002 (Anthony)","The first hole is triangular with sandy-floored passage leading to 2 things: firstly, a small slot in the floor where rocks fall for ~2 sec, and secondly a climb/squeeze over/under a large rock to a rocky floor, roof ~15 feet here. It appears that a narrow canyon is filled with rocks for ~10ft - maybe after that it could be descended.</p><p>Further round are 2 holes together. Lower of the two is full of rocks. Nearer is steeply sloping hole (sounds dead).","","","","<a href=""../../surveys/2002/2002#12/notes1.jpg"">Original survey notes</a>","","","","","","","","","gps02.p2002-ad-04","","","","","","","","","","","","","Further round and higher up on the same side of the col as <a href=""../2002-AD-03/2002-AD-03.html"">2002-AD-03</a> are three holes.","","","Spit","Spit hole drilled at first entrance (the triangular one)","Surveyed"
"","1/T +","","2002-03","","smkridge/2002-03/2002-03.html","","","Igelhöhle","Hedgehog cave","","2d","Entrance noted CUCC 2002 Dunks, Ben S. Descended CUCC 2004, Dave L.","Awkward sharp climb down leads to constricted chamber floored with choss. No ways on and no draught.","","","","","","","","~5m","~2m","~5m","","","p2002-03","","","","Surface survey","","","","","","","","","In the bottom of a small depression that one steps around on the 204 walk-in, just beyond the large choss bowl where the rather nonobvious entrance to <a href=""../249/249.html"">Artischockehöhle</a> is situated (which is itself a little beyond the obvious entrance to <a href=""../234/234.html"">Hauchhöhle</a>).","","","Tag","Tag placed 2002","Surveyed"
"","1/S x","","2002-07","","smkridge/2002-07/2002-07.html","","","","Quarries A-C","","2d","CUCC 2002 Frank, Ben","From the sketch it seems that there are 3 entrances in a line which connect underground, and a continuing downwards shaft blocked with snow. In 2002 there was a gap down one side of the snow plug but this was not explored. This point is 34m below the surface and a mere 9m above Crowning Glory in 204.","","","","","In dataset","</p><img src=""elev.png"" /><p>(Drawn up by DL from Frank's notes in 2002#23)","caves/2002-07/2002-07.svx","42m","34m","16m","","","p2002-07","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","Tag","Tag placed 2002","Surveyed"
"","1/S x","","2002-08","","smkridge/2002-08/2002-08.html","","","","Quarries E","","2d","CUCC 2002 Frank, Ben","Hole at the bottom of a surface depression opens out to a pitch into a 6m by 4m chamber. Next pitch-head is too tight and requires capping.","","","","","In dataset","","caves/2002-08/2002-08.svx","21m","14m ","10m","","","t2002-08","p2002-08","point on dripline","","","","","","","","","","","","","","Tag","Tag placed 2002","Surveyed"
"","1/S +","","2002-XX","","smkridge/2002-XX/2002-XX.html","","","","Quarries D","","2d","CUCC 2002 Frank, Ben","12m surface shaft, too tight at bottom.","","","","","In dataset","","caves/quarriesd/quarriesd.svx","21m","12m","3m","","","","pquarriesd","No idea","","","","","","","","","","","","","","Spit (?)","","Surveyed"
"","-","","2002-10","","smkridge/2002-10/2002-10.html","","","","","","2d","Entrance noted CUCC 2002 Dunks","5m shaft into a 3m long chamber with unexplored continuations in both directions","","","","<a href=""../../surveys/2002/2002#31/notes1.jpg"">original survey sketches</a>","","","","","","","","","gps02.p2002-10","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","Tag","Tag placed 2002","Surveyed"
"","-","","2002-X15","","smkridge/2002-X15/2002-X15.html","","","","","","2d","Entrance noted CUCC 2002 Dunks","""Big, blind tunnel"" it says here - presumably that's a tick then?","","","","<a href=""../../surveys/2002/2002#31/notes1.jpg"">original survey sketches</a>","","","","","","","","","","gps02.p2002-x15","No idea","","","","","","","","","","","","","","Unmarked","","Surveyed"
"","-","","2002-X16","","smkridge/2002-X16/2002-X16.html","","","","","","2d","Entrance noted CUCC 2002 Dunks","Notes have one word of description, which is rather smudged but could be ""spring"" (?)","","","","<a href=""../../surveys/2002/2002#31/notes1.jpg"">original survey sketches</a>","","","","","","","","","","gps02.p2002-x16","No idea","","","","","","","","","","","","","","Unmarked","","Surveyed"
"","-","","2002-X17","","smkridge/2002-X17/2002-X17.html","","","","","","2d","Entrance noted CUCC 2002 Dunks","~20m deep shaft in slabs","","","","<a href=""../../surveys/2002/2002#31/notes1.jpg"">original survey sketches</a>","","","","","","","","","","gps02.p2002-x17","No idea","","","","","","","","","","","","","","Unmarked","","Surveyed"
"","1/S/T +","","2003-01","","smkridge/2003-01/2003-01.html","","","Nischehöhle","Alcove cave","","2d","CUCC 2003 Tony R, Brian O","A short climbable rift in an alcove in the side of the hill leads to about an 8metre pitch to a small round chamber which is comprehensively choked ","","","","","In dataset","","caves/2003-01/2003-01.svx","26m","9m","12m N-S","","","p2003-01","","","","","","","","","","","","","Walk over the back of the ridge from 204","","","Tag","Tag placed 2003","Surveyed"
"","?","","2003-07","","smkridge/2003-07/2003-07.html","","","","","","2d","CUCC 2003 ?Brian?","Believed to have been descended in 2003 (probably by Brian)","","","","","","","","","","","","","gps03.2003-07","","","","","","","","","","","","This cave is somewhat mysterious. 2003 records give a GPS fix for ""2003-07"" at the location described; but in 2004 it transpired that the cave documented under the number 2003-08, now renumbered as <a href=""../240/240.html"">240</a>, had actually been tagged as 2003-07.</p> <p>A search of the location described by these GPS coordinates by Anthony + Julia in 2005 revealed a single candidate shaft, which Julia thought she had seen someone climbing out of, possibly Brian.","","Small pit with a horizontal entrance leading to an immediate short pitch.","</p><div class=""centre""><a href=""ent.jpg""><img src=""ent_small.jpg""></a></div><p>","Unmarked","","Surveyed"
"","1/T +","","2003-X11","","smkridge/2003-X11/2003-X11.html","","","","Earl + Becka's Dead Cave 1","","2d","CUCC 2003 (Earl, Becka)","Loose boulder slope in ~25m into boulder/rubble choked chamber, quite large and with a high roof (say 5m high and 5m wide). No draught, no way on visible. Boulders loose at the top.","","","","2003#03","","","","","","","","","","gps03_bis.p2003-x11","","","GPS post SA","","","","","","","","Below and SE of GPSsed point","","","","Unmarked","","Surveyed"
"","1/S -","","2003-X12","","smkridge/2003-X12/2003-X12.html","","","","Earl + Becka's Undescended Shaft 2","","2d","CUCC 2003 (Earl, Becka)","Surface shaft ~10m deep to boulder floor. Shaft ~3x4m at surface. Could be rigged on naturals. Can't tell if draughting.","","","","2003#03","","","","","","","","","","gps03_bis.p2003-x12","","","GPS post SA","","","","","","","","","","","","Unmarked","","Surveyed"
"","1/T =","","2003-X13","","smkridge/2003-X13/2003-X13.html","","","","Earl + Becka's Low Entrance 4","","2d","CUCC 2000? 2001? + 2003 (Earl, Becka)","Crawl over small stones. No apparent draught.","","Not clear if it's been pushed to conclusion; if so, it needs documenting properly anyway","","2003#03","","","","","","","","","","gps03_bis.p2003-x13","","","GPS post SA","","","","","","","","Just off old route to 204","","Obvious low arch in large depression","","Unmarked","","Surveyed"
"","1/T +","","2003-X14","","smkridge/2003-X14/2003-X14.html","","","","Earl + Becka's Dead Cave 5","","2d","CUCC 2003 (Earl, Becka) + possibly also earlier (?)","~6m dia chamber with sloping boulder floor. Non-draughting crawl leading off chokes. Bones in corner.","","","","2003#03","","","","","","","","","","gps03_bis.p2003-x14","","","GPS post SA","","","","","","","","","","Obvious low arch under cliff","","Paint","Spit hole with yellow paint","Surveyed"
"","1/S +","","2003-X15","","smkridge/2003-X15/2003-X15.html","","","","Earl + Becka's Dead Cave 6","","2d","CUCC 2003 (Earl, Becka)","Moderate shaft. Can free climb down about 15m to small chamber choked with boulders and no draught.","","","","2003#03","","","","","","","","","","gps03_bis.p2003-x15","","","GPS post SA","","","","","","","","Very near summit of Hinterer Schwarzmooskogel","","","","Unmarked","","Surveyed"
"","1/S =","","2003-X16","","smkridge/2003-X16/2003-X16.html","","","","Earl + Becka's Cave 7","","2d","CUCC 2003 (Earl, Becka)","Moderate shaft, 4m diameter. Drops 10-15m, free-climbable with care. Sloping to boulder floor. One phreatic tube off, sloping up ~20°, not pushed, no draught.","","One crawling lead.","","2003#03","","","","","","","","","","gps03_bis.p2003-x16","","","GPS post SA","","","","","","","","Very near Rock'n'Roll Höhle.","","","","Unmarked","","Surveyed"
"","1/S -","","2003-X17","","smkridge/2003-X17/2003-X17.html","","","","Earl + Becka's Shaft 8","","2d","CUCC 2003 (Earl, Becka)","2m diameter shaft, ~5m deep, possible way off at bottom (not promising).","","","","2003#03","","","","","","","","","","gps03_bis.p2003-x17","","","GPS post SA","","","","","","","","In grassy meadow at edge of bunde","","","","Unmarked","","Surveyed"
"","1/S +","","2003-X18","","smkridge/2003-X18/2003-X18.html","","","","Earl + Becka's Dead Shaft 10","","2d","CUCC 2003 (Earl, Becka)","E-W joint with two shaft entrances. Westerly entrance free-climbable to snow plug. Then crawl under arch into 2nd chamber at base of easterly entrance. No way on.","","","","2003#03","","","","","","","","","","gps03_bis.p2003-x18","","","GPS post SA","","","","","","","","~40m off 204 path near 2000-08.","","","","Unmarked","","Surveyed"
"","+","","2004-03","","plateau/2004-03/2004-03.html","","","","","","1d","CUCC 2004 (Olly, Jenny)","A large entrance visible from a considerable distance leads a few metres and turns a corner then stops. Reportedly looked at by CUCC as far back as 1976 (when it also didn't go anywhere!)","","","","Email 2005-05-30 and 2006-06-21","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","On cairned route from Eislufthölhle to old Top Camp","Large entrance","","</p> <div class=""centre""><a href=""../others/l/76bivvyvw.html""><img src=""ent_small.jpg"" /></a><p class=""caption"">View from near 76, showing entrance</p></div>","Unmarked","Tag prepared but not placed 2004, stored at 76 bivvy. Hole drilled for tag 2005.","Refindable"
"","-","","2004-04","","plateau/2004-04/2004-04.html","","","","","","1d","CUCC 2004 (Olly, Jenny)","Undescended","Rope required","","","Email 2005-05-30","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","Not too far from 76 or 97","Large elongate hole surrounded by bunde","","","Tag","Tag placed 2004 (on SW side of hole)","Refindable"
"","-","","2004-05","","plateau/2004-05/2004-05.html","","","","","","1d","CUCC 2004 (Olly, Jenny)","Not descended. ~10m to a ledge, seemed to go deeper.","","","","<a href=""../../years/2004/logbook.html#t2004-07-31B"">2004 log book</a>","","Sketch in logbook","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","Just below high point west of 2004 Eislufthöhle bivvy (on E side of high point)","","Series of entrances along a joint","</p> <div class=""centre""> <table class=""imgtable""><tr> <td><a href=""2004-05.jpg""> <img alt="""" src=""2004-05small.jpg"" /></a></td> <td><a href=""2004-05_jen.jpg""> <img alt="""" src=""2004-05_jensmall.jpg"" /></a></td> </tr> <tr class=""caption""> <td>2004-05 entrance</td> <td>Jenny Black at the entrance</td> </tr></table> </div><p>","Unmarked","Tag prepared but not placed 2004, stored at 76 bivvy","Refindable"
"","-","","2004-06","","plateau/2004-06/2004-06.html","","","","","","1d","CUCC 2004 (Olly, Jenny)","Not descended. ","","","","<a href=""../../years/2004/logbook.html#t2004-07-31B"">2004 log book</a>","","Sketch in logbook","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","Not far from 175, west and a little north of the erratic boulders","","Rift below a line of small cliffs","</p> <div class=""centre""> <table class=""imgtable""><tr> <td><a href=""2004-06_view.jpg""> <img alt="""" src=""2004-06_viewsmall.jpg"" /></a></td> <td><a href=""2004-06_close.jpg""> <img alt="""" src=""2004-06_closesmall.jpg"" /></a></td> </tr> <tr class=""caption""> <td>View across plateau towards Bräuning Wall</td> <td>Entrance close-up</td> </tr></table> </div><p>","Unmarked","Tag prepared but not placed 2004, stored at 76 bivvy","Refindable"
"","+","","2004-07","","plateau/2004-07/2004-07.html","","","","","","1d","CUCC 2004 (Olly, Jenny)","Scramble down over boulders, and down slope to chamber. Small passage leads off at the end, but becomes to small.","","","","<a href=""../../years/2004/logbook.html#t2004-07-31B"">2004 log book</a>","","? Jenny","","","","","","","p2004-07","","","","","","","","","","","","Not far from 175","","Walk/scramble in entrance","","Unmarked","Tag prepared but not placed 2004, stored at 76 bivvy","Surveyed"
"","=","","2004-08","","plateau/2004-08/2004-08.html","","","","","","1d","CUCC 2004 (Olly, Jenny)","Large chamber with partially collapsed roof and two entrances","","","","<a href=""../../years/2004/logbook.html#t2004-07-31B"">2004 log book</a>","","","","","","","","","p2004-08","","","","","","","","","","","","West of 2004 Eislufthöhle bivvy","","","</p><div class=""centre""> <a href=""2004-08.jpg""><img src=""2004-08small.jpg""></a></div><p>","Unmarked","Tag prepared but not placed 2004, stored at 76 bivvy","Surveyed"
"","-","","2004-09","","plateau/2004-09/2004-09.html","","","","","","1d","CUCC 2004 (Olly, Jenny)","Not descended","","","","<a href=""../../years/2004/logbook.html#t2004-07-31B"">2004 log book</a>","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","Near where Tantalus Schacht ought to be, apparently","","","","Unmarked","Tag prepared but not placed 2004, stored at 76 bivvy","Refindable"
"","-","","2004-10","","smkridge/2004-10/2004-10.html","","","","","","2d","CUCC 2004 Becka + Nial","Go down tube next to main entrance shaft to head of pitch. Pitch less than 10m down. Possible ways on.","20m rope + spits etc.","","","","","","","","","","","","gps04.p2004-10","","","","GPS post SA","","","","","","215 deg to Zinken, 309 deg to Griess Kogel. <em>(I suspect there is an error here, as this would be almost right at the summit of the Griess Kogel -DL.)</em>","","","From 204 bivvy over col then down + west following line of large shafts / collapses.","Entrance shaft with snow plug, pitch visible beyond","</p><div class=""centre""><a href=""ent.jpg""><img alt=""entrance photo"" src=""entsmall.jpg"" /></a></div><p>","Tag","Tag 21/7/2004","Surveyed"
"","0/S -","","2004-13","","smkridge/2004-13/2004-13.html","","","","","","2d","CUCC 2004 ?. Surface surveyed CUCC 2005 (Anthony, Julia)","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","p2004-13","Part drilled spit hole","","Surface survey","","","","","","","","Between 161E and 161H, on the same level as E","","Horizontal entrance 4-5m wide, quite low, leading to crawl sloping downwards at around 45°. Strong cold outwards draught.","None in existence","Spit","Part-drilled spit hole","Surveyed"
"","1/T +","","2004-14","","smkridge/2004-14/2004-14.html","","","Doktorarbeitloch","Thesis Cave","","2d","CUCC 2004 Olly M, Mark S + Stuart","Rift continues for ~15m with a critical-angle boulder slope. Choked at bottom with slight draft emerging from rocks.","Oversuit + helmet <em>(and presumably a light as well - DL)</em>","","","","In dataset","Notes in 2004#40 (missing)","caves/2004-14/2004-14.svx","23m","13m","18m E-W","","","p2004-14","","","","","","","","","","","","SMK ridge, near 234 (Hauchhöhle)","Follow normal 204 walk-in path as far as 2002-03 and turn left (northwards). Climb over ridge, down into choss bowl then left over bunderous ridge.","Pit with snow plug (at time of original exploration in 2004) leads to vertical rift entrance.","</p> <div class=""centre""> <table class=""imgtable""><tr> <td><a href=""2004-14far.jpg""> <img alt="""" src=""2004-14farsmall.jpg"" /></a></td> <td><a href=""2004-14close.jpg""> <img alt="""" src=""2004-14closesmall.jpg"" /></a></td> <td><a href=""2004-14back.jpg""> <img alt="""" src=""2004-14backsmall.jpg"" /></a></td></tr> <tr class=""caption""> <td>Entrance</td> <td>Close-up showing tag</td> <td>View back from entrance</td> </tr></table> </div><p>","Tag","Tag 1/8/2004","Surveyed"
"","1/T +","a b","2004-15","yes","smkridge/2004-15/2004-15.html","","","Rundreisehöhle","Olly's Through Trip","","2d","CUCC 2004 Olly M, Mark S + Stuart","20m of rift connects both entrances. Going A->B passage leads off on the left by A but is too tight after ~10m. Next left in the main rift is an oxbow and connects back into main rift after ~4m of tight passage.","Oversuit + helmet <em>(and presumably a light as well - DL)</em>","Passage on left might just go, but only for small and stupid people","","","In dataset","Plan:</p><div class=""centre""><img src=""04-15plan.jpg"" /></div><p>Elevation:</p><div class=""centre""><img src=""04-15elev.jpg"" /></div><p>Notes in 2004#41","caves/2004-15/2004-15.svx","43m","10m","32m E-W","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","SMK ridge, near 234 (Hauchhöhle)","Follow normal 204 walk-in path as far as 2002-03 and turn left (northwards). Climb over ridge, down into choss bowl then left over bunderous ridge.","A: Climb down in rift leads to slot straight ahead. B: Large pit with loose boulders leads to a small rift.","</p> <div class=""centre""> <table class=""imgtable""><tr> <td><a href=""2004-15aclose.jpg""> <img alt="""" src=""2004-15aclosesmall.jpg"" /></a></td> <td><a href=""2004-15aback.jpg""> <img alt="""" src=""2004-15abacksmall.jpg"" /></a></td> <td><a href=""2004-15b.jpg""> <img alt="""" src=""2004-15bsmall.jpg"" /></a></td> <td><a href=""2004-15btag.jpg""> <img alt="""" src=""2004-15btagsmall.jpg"" /></a></td></tr> <tr class=""caption""> <td>2004-15a entrance</td> <td>View backwards from 2004-15a entrance</td> <td>2004-15b entrance</td> <td>2004-15b tag close-up</td> </tr></table> </div><p>","Tag","Tag 1/8/2004",""
"","","a","","entrance","","","","","","","","CUCC 2004 Olly M, Mark S + Stuart","","","","","","","","","","","","","","2004-15.taga","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","Tag","Tag","Surveyed"
"","","b","","last entrance","","","","","","","","CUCC 2004 Olly M, Mark S + Stuart","","","","","","","","","","","","","","2004-15.tagb","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","Tag","Tag","Surveyed"
"","0/S -","","2004-16","","smkridge/2004-16/2004-16.html","","","","","","2d","CUCC 2004 Martin, Frank","Not descended","Oversuit + handline","","","","","","","","","","","","gps04.p2004-16","","","","","","","","","","","","On slope above 204 C and E","Go to 204C and head up 15m. Now contour around to large cairn. Cave is downslope towards main plateau.","Climb down hole along a fault with 3m cliff behind. Black hole continues down fault. Sucks slightly.","</p><div class=""centre""><a href=""2004-16.jpg""><img src=""2004-16-small.jpg"" /></a></div>","Tag","Tag 3/8/2004","Surveyed"
"","0/S -","","2004-17","","smkridge/2004-17/2004-17.html","","","","","","2d","CUCC 2004 Martin, Frank","Not descended","Oversuit + 30m rope","","","","","","","","","","","","gps04.p2004-17","","","","","","","","","","","","On slope above 204 C and E","Go to 204C and head up 15m. Now contour around to large cairn by 2004-16. Cave is 25m up fault from here.","Climb down hole in steeply hading rift to 15m pitch blowing out.","</p><div class=""centre""><a href=""2004-17ent.jpg""><img src=""2004-17entsmall.jpg"" /></a> <a href=""2004-17downent.jpg""><img src=""2004-17downentsmall.jpg"" /></a></div> ","Tag","Tag 3/8/2004","Surveyed"
"","0/S -","","2004-18","","smkridge/2004-18/2004-18.html","","","","","","2d","Entrance noted CUCC 2004 Martin, Frank. Descended 2005 Olly, Mark, Dave.","Spacious entrance shaft lands on snow plug about 10m down. At one side (uphill, which is probably roughly east) is a short section of rift, and a slot down one side of the snow plug, but this proved too narrow (at least with 2005 snow levels) ","20m rope + slings","","","<a href=""../../years/2005/logbook.html#t2005-08-03B"">2005 logbook description</a>","","NOTES MISSING","","","","","","","gps04.p2004-18","","","","","","","","","","","","On slope above 204 C and E","As for 2004-16 and 17; follow fault northwards to southern edge of large choss bowl containing a number of shafts.","10-15m shaft with snow at bottom. Tagged on south wall.","</p><div class=""centre""><a href=""2004-18far.jpg""><img src=""2004-18farsmall.jpg"" /></a> <a href=""2004-18close.jpg""><img src=""2004-18closesmall.jpg"" /></a> <a href=""descent.jpg""><img src=""descent_small.jpg"" /></a></div> ","Tag","Tag 3/8/2004","Surveyed"
"","2/S/T x ","a–c","2004-19","yes","smkridge/2004-19/2004-19.html","","","Kindergartenhöhle","","","2d","CUCC 2004 Brian, Tony","Entrances A and B quickly unite. Phreatic passage leads downslope past a pitch (QM A) to a crossroads. Straight on is choked; right leads to a chamber and another choke, possibly passable (QM A). Left is 25m of varying-size phreatic to a T-junction. Right leads to two choked passages, both probably diggable (left QM A, right QM B) -- these draft, although the notes don't say whether the draft is in or out. Left at the T-junction leads upslope via a 2m climb to a chamber with an aven, then another chamber at the foot of an 18m surface shaft (entrance C). From this chamber a small passage leads off to the left (QM C).","Rope + SRT gear","Two pitches and some diggable chokes, see description.","","<a href=""../../years/2004/logbook.html#t2004-08-04E"">Logbook account</a>","In dataset","Plan:</p><div class=""centre""><img src=""plan.jpg"" /></div><p>Elevation:</p><div class=""centre""><img src=""elev.jpg"" /></div><p>Notes in 2004#46","caves/2004-19/2004-19.svx","106m","21m","34m E-W","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","East of 204. Routefinding difficult. GPS essential.","","4m wide arch in side of limestone bed. Also surface shaft above same bed.","","","Tagged as ""2004-19""",""
"","1/E =","","2004-21","","smkridge/2004-21/2004-21.html","","","","Earl's Hat Cave","","2d","CUCC 2001,2004","Walk down slope (sometimes snow plugged) to chamber. Two passages lead on, left hand passage is choked, right hand passage has not been explored.","Handline may be required","Right hand passage","","","","","","","","","","","","gps04.p2004-21","","","GPS post SA","","","","","","","","Very close to 204 D, approx. 15m down slope NW.","","Huge open triangular entrance, facing North West.","</p><div class=""centre""><a href=""view.jpg""><img alt=""entrance photo"" src=""viewsmall.jpg"" /></a></div><p>","Unmarked","","Surveyed"
"","1/S + (?)","","2005-01","","smkridge/2005-01/2005-01.html","","","","Mysteryville","","2d","CUCC 2005 Mark S, Emma","","","","","","In dataset","NOTES MISSING!","caves/2005-01/2005-01.svx","","","","","","","p2005-01","","","GPS post SA","","","","","","","","","","","","","",""
"","1/S =","","2005-08","","smkridge/2005-08/2005-08.html","","","","2002-X11","","2d","Entrance noted CUCC 2002 (Duncan). Refound + partially explored CUCC 2005 (Peter + Phil)","","","","","<a href=""../../surveys/2002/2002#31/notes1.jpg"">original survey sketches</a>; <a href=""../../years/2005/logbook.html#t2005-08-10A"">2005 log book</a>","","","","","","","","","gps02.p2005-08","","","","","","","","","","","","","","~8m dia shaft, with another shaft adjacent. Looks about 15m deep. Bottom has snow plug, and looks typically chossy. However, rift visible in North end - could go.","","Tag","Tag ""2005-08"" placed 2005","Surveyed"
"","1/S +","","2005-95","","plateau/2005-95/2005-95.html","","","","","","1d","CUCC 2005 (Dave)","Wide rift, with 3 separate shafts separated by narrow rock bridges. Soundly snow-choked in 2005.","","","","<a href=""../../years/2005/logbook.html#t2005-07-26A"">2005 logbook</a>","In dataset","Notes in 2005#05","caves/2005-95/2005-95.svx","","","","","","p2005-95","","","","GPS post SA","","","","","","","","South of <a href=""../76/76.htm"">76</a>, on path towards Top Camp","","","Photo 2005 on Olly's camera, but would be of doubtful use relocating it","Tag","Tag ""2005-95"" placed 2005","Surveyed"
"","1/S =","","2005-97","","plateau/2005-97/2005-97.html","","","Genutetschacht","Fluted Pot","","1d","CUCC 2005 (Olly B)","A fluted draughting shaft, roughly between 76 and 97, which Olly descended on natural belays. Went for 4m before becoming too tight.","","","","<a href=""../../years/2005/logbook.html#t2005-07-30B"">2005 logbook</a>","","","","","","","","","p2005-97","","","","GPS post SA","","","","","","","","","","","","Unmarked","","Surveyed"
