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<tr><th align=left><font size=+2>145</font></th>
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<th align=center><font size=+2>Wolfhöhle</font></th>
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<th align=right><font size=+2>4/t/S +</font></th></tr>
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<p><b>Altitude:</b> 1687m, depth -399m, +10m = 409m<br>
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<b>Location:</b> On the plateau, 18m above
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<a href="82.htm">Bräuninghöhle</a> (Kat. 82)<br>
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Permanent survey station 0/4 at the entrance has coordinates :<br>
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E 35927.7 N (52)82357.6 H 1687.45
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<p>Other noted entrances are 145b at E 35907.6 N (52)82532.5 H 1684.9
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and 145c at E 35915.8 N (52)82502.5 H 1697.3
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<p><b>Approaches:</b> There are two routes to this entrance, one directly
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from the Schwarzmoossattel, which is marked by the remains of a line of blue
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bailer twine, and one from the plateau camp.
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<p>For the latter, follow route described under Kat. <a
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href="80.htm">80</a> and <a href="82.htm">82</a>,
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but rather than heading for the obvious entrance of 82, follow the cairns
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uphill towards the col between the Schwarzmooskogels. Shortly on the right
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is a horizontal draughting entrance 0.9m high and 1.1m wide with no number -
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this is presumed to be 145b (it has been checked as going into 145). 20-30m
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further up the hill, drop into a doline with a horizontal entrance leading
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off. This is 145a.
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<p><center><a href="145/l145.htm"><img alt="Entrance photo"
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src="145/t145.jpg" width=109 height=152></a></center>
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2001-08-16 13:43:09 +01:00
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<p><a href="145/145.png">
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<img src="145/145-2.png" width=752 height=948></a>
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<p>Entrance is 2m high and 1m wide and walking passage leads for 120m of
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level going to first pitch, with a few side passages (one to higher
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entrance). Pitch is 19m into <b>Wolf Chamber</b> where the skeleton proved
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not to be of a wolf but of a Brown Bear, <i>Ursus arctos</i>. A pit in the
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floor, the <b>Bear Pit</b> is blind, and the continuation of the entrance
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pitch emits no draught and is believed to choke, but was never seriously
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investigated. A loose 3m climb at the far end of the chamber leads up into a
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draughting tube. This leads to an awkward 15m slimy tube descent, <b>Bog
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Seat Climb</b>, best laddered. A short grovel enlarges to a sandy stooping
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passage which pops out over the edge of a large black hole. Off to the left
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at this point a crawl intersects a larger passage leading to another set of
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smaller shafts only partially descended. It is also possible to reach the
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opposite side of the big pitch by this route.
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<p>The 83m <b>Big Leap</b> is rigged in three sections of 22, 25 and 36m via
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two freehanging rebelays and a deviation near the bottom, in a large rift
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with black peaty mud on the walls in the upper section. The rift narrows and
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bottoms out in a small streamway blocked here and there by jammed boulders
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which no longer (since 1984) constitute a squeeze. Short traverses and
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pitches of 15m and 6m are straightforward until a second large shaft is
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reached. The water cannot be avoided on the 59m <b>Tiddley Pom pitch</b>,
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which can become a serious proposition in wet weather. The first section is
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11m, to the level where a heavy drip (rapidly becoming a torrent in
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thunderstorms) enters. The rebelay bolt is tucked away to the left, a long
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reach round the corner. Further sections of 17 and 24m in a circular shaft of
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about 6m diameter reach a big wet ledge. The final section of 7m reaches a
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big dry stance on jammed boulders, <b>Cold Toes Ledge</b>. This is far enough
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out of the water to be an acceptable place to sit and wait for 16 hours, or
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to brew soup.
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<p>The stream continues to drop in a rift, with pitches of 13 and 14m from
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jammed boulders. The water then sinks into a slit, <b>Nobody Knows</b>,
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which was descended for 15m before becoming too tight. To continue, traverse
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over this hole and continue a short way to a large black chasm, the 112m
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<b>Fear and Loathing Pitch</b>, involving some airy traversing near the top.
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Sections of 10, 29 and 16m reach <b>Acrobat Flake</b>, where careful rigging
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is required to avoid a particularly gymnastic changeover for the next
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section of 16m. The rift (never wider than 3-4m) continues with drops of 18
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and 23m to land on an unpleasant bit of damp floor:<b> Las Vegas</b>.
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<p>A particularly unpleasant mud-walled rift, <b>Beezley Street</b>,
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("where the rats have rickets") continues as a traverse if you can
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stay up, or a nasty thrutch otherwise. This ends abruptly where an aven
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brings clean washed limestone for the next 14m pitch. A clean, but sharp
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traverse continues to corkscrewing 18 and 5m pitches into <b>The Drainage
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Ditch</b>, a wading depth section of passage occasionally blocked by
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boulders, which hold back the static pools. Short pitches of 8, 9 and 7m
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twist down to another section of drainage ditch which continues for a few
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more metres to a static sump 399m below the main entrance.
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<p>A hole above the sump leads to a small, muddy, grovelly continuation to
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some small avens and a further sump, before closing down.
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<p><b>Geology :</b> Tubes near the entrance are formed along the prominent
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NE-SW joint direction in the area, which so dominates the nearby <a
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href="82.htm">Bräuninghöhle</a>, and the cave trends generally SW
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as it drops. However, all the major vertical development is in deep shafts
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on joints at right-angles to this major trend, on a strike of about
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120-300°. Fear and Loathing pitch in particular is in a strikingly
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narrow rift over 110m deep, suggesting an almost vertical joint. Below this
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shaft there is very little significant jointing, and the cave meanders
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considerably before the dismal end another 140m SW.
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<p><b>Exploration:</b> CUCC 1983-4. There is now a
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<a href="145/histry.htm">history file</a> indexing
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into the log book write-ups.
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<p><b>Survey:</b> There is a particularly inadequate elevation only in
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Cambridge Underground 1985. There is an <a href="145/145.png">area
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plan, drawn at 1:2000</a>, showing 145, <a href="82.htm">82</a> and <a
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href="148.htm">148</a> on Gauß and Krüger coordinates, which has
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never been published.<br>
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There is enough survey bumph to draw a respectable plan.
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