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<tr><th align=left><font size=+2>115</font></th>
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<th align=center><font size=+2>Schnellzughöhle</font></th>
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<th align=right><font size=+2>6/t/S/W x</font></th></tr>
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<p><b>Altitude:</b> 1478m, depth -740m, +231m.<br>
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<b>Position:</b> E 35840 N (52)81049<br>
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<b>Marking:</b> number painted on right (east-facing) wall of entrance
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<p><b>Location:</b> Follow Stögerweg beyond <a
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href="../noinfo/smkridge/32.htm">Windloch</a> to a steep descent. Just below
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this, by a large tree on the right of the path (permanent survey station P3),
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descend steeply to the right on a barely discernible trod.
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<p>This involves at least one freeclimb which is awkward with lots of kit.
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Make lots of noise if you are first, especially on the first trip, since
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snakes seem to like it here. Eventually a large horizontal
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railway-tunnel-like entrance appears. If you fall off a cliff, you've gone a
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little too far downhill.
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<p>This is the main entrance through which the majority of the <a
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href="41.htm">Stellerweghöhle</a> system was explored. See the
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separate <a href="41/115.htm#ent115">full guidebook description</a> for
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details, just an overview is given here.
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<p>The entrance leads to a non-obvious way on to the head of the short
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<b>Bell Pitch</b>, from where very awkward going leads out to a bigger
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passage to reach <b>The Ramp</b> a series of off-vertical pitches.
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The damper but technically easier <b>Inlet Pitches</b> drop to a Big
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Chamber, from where <b>Pete's Purgatory</b> starts, and leads in 800m
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of tortuous going to <b>The Confluence</b> and the larger streamway
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leading to the deepest point.
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<p>Better is the <b>Purgatory Bypass</b> which starts as dry fossil tubes,
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with a choice of routes to reach <b>Junction Chamber</b> where the <b>Big
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Rift</b> of <a href="41.htm">Stellerweghöhle</a> enters. Opposite, the
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huge fossil tube of <b>Dartford Tunnel</b> makes for easy progress to the
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Confluence, about halfway down the system. The continuing main streamway is
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interrupted by a bypassable sump and numerous pitches before a low airspace
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duck at the end of an unpromising canal leads to the spectacular <b>Orgasm
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Chasm</b>. Careful rigging avoids the water in this 140m shaft, ending
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in muddy passage and another short drop to a deep and terminal sump.
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<p><b>Exploration:</b> CUCC 1980-1985
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<p>Note: The Austrian Kataster has adopted a very perverse way of numbering
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things. Their numbers are as follows :
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<ul>
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<li>115a Stellerweghöhle entrance 41a
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<li>115b Stellerweghöhle entrance 41b
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<li>115c Stellerweghöhle entrance 41c ( where ? )
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<li>115d Schnellzughöhle entrance 115
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<li>115e unnamed entrance 142</ul>
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