<b>Altitude:</b> 1792m, Depth (to deepest point in 161) 534m<br>
<b>Location:</b> 136a: E 36374, N (52)82219, H 1795m<br>
136b:E 36378, N (52)82237, H 1789m<br>
136c:E 36382, N (52)82251, H 1790m<br>
136d:E 36388, N (52)82252, H 1792m<br>
<br>135m on bearing of 66° from Vorderer Schwarzmooskogel summit or 123m
East and 55m north of the summit.
136b is 22m N of 136a, 136c is 28m N of 136a, 136d is 35m NNE of 136a.
All entrances on same shelf. 136b &c are holes in shelf, 136d is large (15x10m) funnel-shaped hole just over 1m ridge (so not obvious from normal route).
<p><aname="ent">Relocated</a> in 1996. From
main summit, drop down east to a bare limestone shelf. Follow this ~NE for
some way (c 200m) until a way down east again reaches a small group of
<p><aname="orchestral">Standing</a> at this point, looking down the slope of
the floor, an opening at the bottom of the chamber of the left-hand wall
leads to the <b>Orchestral Pit</b>. From the foot of the chamber up a short
(c 8m) climb over mud and boulders and then up another (c 8m) climb on steep
rock, leads to a small opening. (The rope has been left
<ahref="../../fixaid.htm#opit">permanently rigged</a> on this climb). On the
right hand wall at the foot of the chamber is a boulder choke through which
it is possible to climb down around 10m. No recommendable leads were found
here. Immediately behind the landing point and around 30m higher up the wall
is the connection to the <ahref="fbl136.htm">Forbidden Land</a> (161) which
must be reached via the God's Traverse.
<p><aname="exitsl">Proceeding</a> up the 16m climb from the floor of
the Theatre, a narrow opening leads to a precarious climb down the other
side (c.5m) over the top of a large wedged boulder in a rift chamber, <b>Exit Stage Left</b>. There is an aven in the roof of this chamber, which can be
descended as a pitch (the 30m continuation of Plughole Pitch) from the end of
the <ahref="#footlight">Footlights Traverse</a>. A second aven is reached by
a short (c 3m) climb up opposite the entry climb. A small window (too small
for human access) in the left hand wall of the chamber connects to the
undescended pitch accessible from the <ahref="#plughole">rock bridge</a> 18m
down Plughole pitch, 26m above. Rocks can also be thrown in through a small
gap in the boulder floor. This pitch continues below this level.
<p>In the Orchestral Pit, a number of wet shafts connect from the ceiling in
addition to a number of dry avens. The dry avens nearest to the Forbidden
Land have been connected to an eyehole on the God's Traverse around 15m
above the connection to <ahref="fbl136.htm#ealgor">Elin Algor</a>. The
floor of the Orchestral Pit has a number of pools and also a considerable
amount of brown powdery mud, similar to that found in the horizontal areas of
Kaninchenhöhle such as <ahref="offffr.htm#mmudpie">Mississippi Mud
Pie</a>, <ahref="triasp.htm#triasp">Triassic Park</a> etc. , of which
the majority of 136 is devoid. No leads were found in the Orchestral Pit.
<p>Wet Dreams is the original route, explored first in 1983/4, but named in 1997 in memory of the anticipated connection with 161 by this route. In fact
no such connection has yet been found, but the shaft series has not yet been
bottomed and so it's still a possibility.
<p>Continuing from the foot of the <ahref="#3rdp">third pitch</a> and
crossing the traverse to the point where the Eyehole Route diverges, a dry
hang is possible to the bottom of the rift down which the water disappears.
At the foot of this 15m pitch is a narrow rift, leading quickly to a further
12m pitch followed by another narrow rift to another pitch.
<p><aname="pfantasy">Around</a> the head of this pitch, <b>Phreatic
Fantasy</b> - so called because of the anticipated large sloping ramps
expected from a previous cave description - are a number of small, clean and
fairly uninteresting roof tubes, probably phreatic in origin. The shaft at
this point becomes roughly vertical and descends in a number of sections a
further surveyed 35m, becoming increasingly wet towards the bottom. From the
surveyed limit a further pitch of around 30m (estimated) can be seen
descending immediately below.
<h4>1983 rigging</h4>
<p>The split between Eyehole and Wet Dreams is about three quarters of the
way down what the 1983 description had as a broken shaft of c 100m. This was
in sections of 14m vertical, 24m sloping, 13m vertical to a ledge. Here a
desperate step across (worse on exit) attained a parallel shaft which
apparently connected back lower down. The main way dropped 9m sloping, 29m
vertical, to a 9m slope and a final 3m vertical to what is assumed to have
been the Phreatic Fantasy level - though the pitch lengths (mainly deduced
from survey data) don't correspond well with the 1997 experience and this may
be below the next pitch. 1983 figures put the next pitch as 17m sloping, then
15m vertical to a bolt at -194m, which may be a similar point to that reached
on this route in 1997, or not quite as deep.
<h4>1984 series</h4>
<p>A further drop is 5m to "a very bad bolt" and either 15m total, or a
further 15m from the bolt, to a spray lashed ledge with only one small alcove
in which to cower and brew up. A rift in the floor leads 6m to a rebelay and
a final 20-25m pitch into a chamber with two ways off. One was very tight to
an aven and small drop which stones indicate ends blind in mud floor after
c10m. The main way was a squeeze past a very large boulder, down a 10m pitch
to a stream which flows into the classic too-narrow draughting rift. Logbook
describes this as -260m, which fits with the non-existence of a 30m
"virtual" pitch which is believed to be the result of an ambiguity elsewhere
in the 1984 log book.
<p><b>Exploration:</b> CUCC 1983, 1984,
<ahref="../../years/1997/index.htm">1997</a>,
<ahref="../../years/1999/index.htm">1999</a>
<br><b>Survey:</b> 1983 Surface survey from Vord. Schwarzmooskogel (p1843)
<br>1997 Surface survey to 1623/147
<br>underground survey, CUCC 1983 to -194m (unpublished ?), and a new one in 1997
