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<th align=center><font size=+2>Dr. Kerschner Höhle</font></th>
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<th align=right><font size=+2>2/S/T x</font></th></tr>
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<p><b>Altitude:</b> 1630m<br>
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<b>Depth:</b> Given 100m in 1980.<br>
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<b>Location:</b> Just SW of the col (Schwarzmoossattel), SE of Bräuning Nase.
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<p>This hole supposedly has a CUCC painted number "B5" of 1976 vintage, which
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will probably be pretty faded. Now, the Austrian's exploration details
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suggest that the cave was substantially unblocked in 1976 (to -30m in
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October), while CUCC's find was choked at -10m. Also, the description given
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of this cave in the local Climbing Guide (Krenmayr) sounds nothing like B5
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at all, (he says, already explored in 1921, but today almost forgotten. Need
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Ice equipment) so the Austrian writing in the caver's magazine who said it
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was B5 may have been mistaken. Krenmayr gives length 250m, depth 100m.
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<p>This description by Karl Gaisberger is from the 1977 Exploration:
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<p>After climbing down 8m to where the shaft appeared blocked by snow,
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progress did not seem likely. I [translator] think "there was a spiralling
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way in the snow to a wall of ice columns". A very steep descent led into a
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passage with a snow cone. (This was still in the previous year's snow-free
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climb !). Pushing through a thin snow-wall through which the light
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glimmered, a direct way was established. Through a hole in the snow in a
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rubble-filled passage, the way soon branched. Both branches ended blind.
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<p>The lower level of the cave, described by O Schauberger, must be found on
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the opposite side of the snow-cone from the [Schluf?]. One now comes to a
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chamber complex where a sloping 10m shaft climbs down into the
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<b>Kristallhalle</b>. The walls here are covered with admittedly large, but
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superficially weathered calcite somethings (Kalzitdrusen).
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<p>From the Kristallhalle, through a narrow bit to a side-something with a
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pile of rubble, the <b>Tropfsteinhalle</b>. There is a single 60cm high
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stalagmite here. It shows a corroded appearance, indicating aggressive
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ground water. Tropfsteinhalle contains, so far, the most beautiful flowstone
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decorations in the Loser area. These include [plenty dictionary failure
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here] Sinterfahnen, Boden- und Deckenzapfen, sogar Excentriques.
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<p>In the area of the stalagmites, several dead pseudoscorpions (<i>Neobisium
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aueri</i>) were found. <i>There is some more description of the floor of the
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chamber (I think), but I can't make head nor tail of it.</i>
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<p><b>Exploration:</b> Found by Othmar Schauberger, 1921. Looked at for some
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years by F Hütter, but always blocked by snow. In October 1976, G Graf
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managed to descend 30m in the shaft, the uppermost part of which was snow
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and ice free. The continuation of the way could not be found. In August
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1977, 5kg of salt was dumped onto the snow blockage. In October 1977, after
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a long walk over the plateau, it was looked at again and successfully
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explored.
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