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1623:41
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<tr><th align=left><font size=+2>41 a b</font></th>
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<th align=center><font size=+2>Stellerweghöhle</font></th>
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<th align=right><font size=+2>6/S/T x</font></th></tr>
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<p><b>Altitude:</b> 1650m according to old Austrian kataster.
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<p>CUCC <b>survey:</b><ul>
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<li>41a (main) 1611m, 47° 40' 10" N, 13° 48' 41" E
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<li>41b (upper) 1625m, 47° 40' 10" N, 13° 48' 42" E</ul>
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and via laser-rangefound point 0/8: E 35833.9 N (52)81250.4 H 1624.5
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<p>Depth from 41b to sump 898m - Overall vertical range 971m in the
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41 - 115 - 142 - 144 system. Connections to
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<a href="../noinfo/smkridge/88.htm">Lärchenschacht</a> (88) and on to
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<a href="../noinfo/smkridge/40.htm">Schwarzmooskogeleishöhle</a> (40) do
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<b>not</b> increase this.
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<p>Length of CUCC's part is approx 5.75 km, while the Germans had about 6 km
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in 88 in 1987, and the French (?) connected the Eishöhle (2.5 km or
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more) in the same year. This should make the system about 14-15 km all told
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before 1996. The Stuttgart group,
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<a href="http://arge.itvd.uni-stuttgart.de/">Arbeitsgemeinschaft
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Höhle und Karst Grabenstetten e.V.</a>, have, early in 1996, connected
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their cave <a href="78.htm">Schwabenschacht</a> (1623-78) into a passage in
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<a href="142.htm">1623/142</a>, one way into the system. This adds no new
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depth, but considerably increasesthe overall length. "Arge" have also been
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doing much useful resurvey and some exploration, bringing their estimate of
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the total length to 22.7 km in 1999.
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<p>As the <a href="41/41.htm">full guidebook description</a> is
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understandably quite big and is still evolving, just an overview is given
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here.
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<p><b>Location:</b>
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Follow Stögerweg to <a href="../noinfo/smkridge/32.htm">Windloch</a>
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and then a hundred metres or so further. When the path starts to drop
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steeply, backtrack 10m (where there should be a permanent survey station
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'P4') and start to hack up the hillside. Orange paint flashes on the rock
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should be visible, and will lead after 300m or so to a cave entrance at the
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head of a gully. If it isn't blowing the trees around in the cold air, it
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isn't the right place !
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<p>Sub-horizontal passages lead through steeply-hading rifts from this
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entrance. A lower route was originally explored by a German group before
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CUCC's first visit, and remains poorly documented and not fully explored.
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The higher route, explored by CUCC, leads past connections to <a
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href="142.htm">142</a>, another CUCC find. Passages trend downhill to
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reach the <b>Big Pitch</b> of 100m vertical.
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<p><a href="../noinfo/smkridge/88.htm">Lärchenhöhle</a> connects at
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the bottom of the Big Pitch, and a streamway leads down. A roof passage
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connects to CUCC's <a href="144.htm">144</a>, and another leads on to smaller
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pitches to the <b>Big Rift</b>, dropping steeply down several pitches to
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reach <b>Junction Chamber</b> with connections to <a
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href="115.htm">Schnellzughöhle</a> (115).
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<p>The route to 115 also leads to <b>Pete's Purgatory</b>, 800m of awful
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streamway to <b>the Confluence</b>, much more easily reached by large
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fossil passages starting with <b>Dartford Tunnel</b> from Junction
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Chamber. The Confluence is around half the depth of the system, and
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marks a transition to a single linear streamway leading to great depth,
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a feature currently unique in the known caves of the area.
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<p>The streamway is interrupted by a bypassable sump and several, mainly
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short, pitches, before a low-airspace canal appears to mark the end. However,
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a low duck can be passed to reach a deep and very wet shaft <b>Orgasm
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Chasm</b> which drops to the final muddy passage and short pitch to a dismal
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and deep rift sump.
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<p>The sump is 898m below the 41a entrance, and is at just about the same
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level as Altausseer See, in whose <a href="../aaussee/0.htm">underwater
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risings</a> the Stellerweg water is presumed to emerge. The scope for greater
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depth here seems minimal, but connections to various higher entrances have
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increased this to c971m, with perhaps a little more potential still to
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realise (optimistically up to 1058m).
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