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<tr><th align=left><font size=+2>107</font></th>
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<th align=center><font size=+2>Gemshöhle</font></th>
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<th align=right><font size=+2>4/S/T +</font></th></tr>
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<p><b>Altitude:</b> 1661m, depth 280m<br>
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<b>Position:</b> E 35930 N (52)82721<br>
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<b>Marking:</b> number twice in orange paint, 1998 tag on survey point "1623 107 CUCC 1978"
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<p><b>Location:</b> On the plateau in a prominent dry valley below
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southern forepeak of Hinterer Schwarzmooskogel, some way below Laser
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Point 0_5. The bottom of the gully is pretty much on the (cairned) best
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walking route from Top Camp to <a href="82.htm">Bräuninghöhle</a>
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(Kat.82) and <a href="76.htm">Eislufthöhle</a> (Kat.76).
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<p><center><a href="others/l/107.htm"><img alt="Photo of entrance"
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src="others/t/107.jpg" width=117 height=175></a></center>
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<p>Small entrance in boulders in a dry gully drops into a small chamber, in
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the bottom corner of which is the excavated head of a pitch. This quickly
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bells out to 6m diameter and lands after 18m in a large passage which
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contains ice-formations early in the season. This large, phreatic passage
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chokes in both directions and the way on is in a rift to one side, from
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which the draught pours.
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<p>A pitch of 23m has an inlet entering part way down, which makes the rest
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of this pitch and the following one of 19m unpleasant in wet weather. Two
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ways then lead on, either down with the water or by traversing round this
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drop to another passage.
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<p>Climbing down with the water leads to a short passage with the water in a
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rift below. Round a sharp corner is a short drop to the head of a larger
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rift. A 5m pitch down this leads to another rift which, in turn, leads out
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to the side of a large shaft. Stones dropped from a small hole in the corner
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of the passage above the 5m pitch also fall into this shaft. Laddering from
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the side, the pitch is 67m with a large ledge just above half-way, and is
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unpleasantly wet in poor weather. From the base of this pitch, the
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continuing rift/canyon trends south west and has pitches of 5, 9 and 8m
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before the other route drops in from above.
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<p>Over the traverse, a short pitch of 4.5m, followed by a short climb up,
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leads to the head of a pitch of 10m to a boulder floor. Two ways on from
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here are down through the boulders into a shaft, or across the shaft and
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into a narrow rift. The way through boulders soon chokes, but the narrow
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rift soon opens into a massive shaft of 100m with a rebelay roughly halfway.
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This drops directly into the rift reached by the original route.
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<p>Below the junction, the rift continues with a 5m climb and pitches of 5,
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14 and 44m, this last pitch being quite wet and emerging into a massive
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cross-rift trending south east. The water disappears into the choked floor
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of this rift via a nasty wet crawl, rapidly becoming too small.
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<p><b>Exploration:</b> CUCC 1978: opened and Big Rift explored by Team Youth.
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Team Geriatric explored the Big Pitch and reached the bottom.
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