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"","","b","","last entrance","","","","","","","","Discovered CUCC 1985 (on last day), explored 1987","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","p154b","","","Surface survey","","","","","","","","","","","","Unmarked","","Surveyed",""
155,"1/S -","","","","smkridge/155.htm","","","Unerforscht Schacht 155","","","2b","CUCC 1985 (on last day), was this pushed in 1987 ?","The cave can be entered via a slot on the right hand side of snow plug, or by crossing the snow plug onto the ice. The ice slopes down in one corner, possibly to a pitch, which, however, will need a rope to verify. Another slot nearby may drop into the same chamber. ","","","","","","Grade 1 elevation in 1985 Log Book ?","","","","","","","","p155","","","Surface survey","","gps00.155","","","","","","about 150m ENE of <a href=""154.htm"">154</a>","From 154, climb up and right and around a grassy shoulder. Then walk down (heading roughly east), skirting past a choked doline and 155 lies ahead.","A huge snow-plugged entrance apparently akin to <a href=""113.htm"">113</a>.","","","","Surveyed",""
156,"1/S +","","","","smkridge/156/156.html","","","Schwa Schacht 156","","","2c","CUCC 1987","An open rift with a rock bridge. Pitch of 25m drops onto snow bank, and route to southeast of this drops a further 15m to a complete choke with snow.","","","","","","</p><div class=""centre""><img alt=""Map+survey, 10k gif"" width=""620"" height=""336"" src=""../others/156.png"" /></div><p>Grade 1 plan/elev of 156 and T.B.H. from <a href=""../../years/1987/log.htm"">1987 Log Book</a>","","","","","The <a href=""../../years/1987/log.htm"">log book</a> refers to exploration in the vicinity of 0/1 including 156 and a nearby cave (unnumbered in 1987) <a href=""../199.htm"">Tumbling Boulder Hole</a>. There is, however, another piece of paper which says it is very near (and NE of) point 0/2. This appears to arise from the diagram which accompanies the log book entry, which shows 0/2 with no north arrow, and uphill up the page. If the point was really 0/1 on this diagram, then the descriptions would match, with north at 7 O'Clock on the diagram. The logbook suggests that the discoverers had visited 0/2 (and found very little nearby) and then 0/1 later, finding 156. GPS location and later a surface survey (1998) confirms that 0/1 is the correct laser point.","","t156","p156","random point or top rigging bolt","","Surface survey","gps98.156","","","","","","","<span lang=""de-at"">Vorderer Schwarzmooskogel,</span> 50m south of <a href=""../../handbook/survey/lasers.htm"">laser rangefound point 0/1</a>. The recently (1998) cairned route up the <span lang=""de-at"">Vd. Schwarzmooskogel</span> NW flank passes very close to the laser point, and skirts the NE end of the open rift of 156. Surface survey connecting Tag and original survey ( to top rigging bolt) done in 1999. ","","","</p><div class=""centre""><a href=""ent.jpg""><img src=""ent_small.jpg"" /></a></div><p>Photo &copy; Dave Loeffler 2005","Tag","""1623 156 CUCC 1987"" on alloy tag on west side of more southerly opening, more-or-less directly above the first rigging bolt","Surveyed",""
157,"2/S x ","","","","smkridge/157.htm","","","Schwa Schacht 157","Pirat Schacht","","1c","Uncertain. Rediscovered CUCC 1987","Entrance shaft of 50m until gap between snow and rock became too perilous in 1987 - bottom still out of sight. About 25m below the karren, a rift passage leads off from side of shaft into parallel shaft with aven. This shaft is of unknown depth but has recent looking bolts of unknown origin. It is just conceivable that these bolts are in 107, but far more likely that the cave had been looked at by GSCB who were in the area on a reconnaissance in 1986 (?) and more seriously in 1987.</p><p>The second cave has a walk-in entrance, splitting just inside. The left passage comes out below a shaft from the surface, and apparently continues unexplored. The main passage reaches a 10m pitch, also below a surface shaft, which drops into a chamber. To the left is a short passage to an undescended pitch of about 10m, while to the right are three ways on. First is a rift, then a passage with an ice floor, and finally, half back towards the entrance, is a passage emerging below another surface shaft (passed on the surface just before reaching the entrance). This final passage also appeared to continue. Because a large carbide pig was found outside the entrance, it was assumed that someone else was in the course of exploring this cave.","","","","","","","","","","","","","p157","","","","","","","","","","","","""about 6m above <a href=""../handbook/survey/lasers.htm"">Laser rangefound point 0/5</a>"" (which is above gully containing <a href=""../plateau/107.htm"">Kat. 107</a> and marked with an alloy tag stamped ""LASER 0-5""). The cave was looked for but not seen in a visit to this laser point in 1998. A second cave 100m from 0/5, uphill to the left, was not given a number because of evidence of previous exploration, but should be investigated further. (This might, or might not, be <a href=""bogen.html"">Bogenh&ouml;hle</a>.) 157 was relocated in 2001, visible to the right of the route up to 204. It was marked with faded yellow paint.","","","","Tag","Tag placed 2000","Surveyed","Much confusion"
157,"2/S x ",,,,"smkridge/157.htm",,,"Schwa Schacht 157","Pirat Schacht",,"1c","Uncertain. Rediscovered CUCC 1987","Entrance shaft of 50m until gap between snow and rock became too perilous in 1987 - bottom still out of sight. About 25m below the karren, a rift passage leads off from side of shaft into parallel shaft with aven. This shaft is of unknown depth but has recent looking bolts of unknown origin. It is just conceivable that these bolts are in 107, but far more likely that the cave had been looked at by GSCB who were in the area on a reconnaissance in 1986 (?) and more seriously in 1987.</p><p>The second cave has a walk-in entrance, splitting just inside. The left passage comes out below a shaft from the surface, and apparently continues unexplored. The main passage reaches a 10m pitch, also below a surface shaft, which drops into a chamber. To the left is a short passage to an undescended pitch of about 10m, while to the right are three ways on. First is a rift, then a passage with an ice floor, and finally, half back towards the entrance, is a passage emerging below another surface shaft (passed on the surface just before reaching the entrance). This final passage also appeared to continue. Because a large carbide pig was found outside the entrance, it was assumed that someone else was in the course of exploring this cave.",,,,,,,,,,,,,"p157",,,,,,,,,,,,"""about 6m above <a href=""../handbook/survey/lasers.htm"">Laser rangefound point 0/5</a>"" (which is above gully containing <a href=""../plateau/107.htm"">Kat. 107</a> and marked with an alloy tag stamped ""LASER 0-5""). The cave was looked for but not seen in a visit to this laser point in 1998. A <a href=""../plateau/1987_02.html"">second cave 100m from 0/5</a>, uphill to the left, was not given a number because of evidence of previous exploration, but should be investigated further. (This might, or might not, be <a href=""bogen.html"">Bogenh&ouml;hle</a>.) 157 was relocated in 2001, visible to the right of the route up to 204. It was marked with faded yellow paint.",,,,"Tag","Tag placed 2000","Surveyed","Much confusion"
158,"3/S +","","","","smkridge/158.htm","","","Donner und Blitzen H&ouml;hle","","","2b","CUCC 1987","A body-width passage formed by a wall on the left and a large detached slab on the right descends for about 5m at 45&deg;, with occasional glimpses of daylight above. A cross passage is then encountered. To the right is blocked after a few metres, but left descends to meet the base of the wall. To the right here, a 20-22cm squeeze is passed by lying on one side. After 2m of further tight progress, the rift opens onto a drop. A steep tube descends for about 12m to a small chamber and with care can be descended free.</p><p>From the chamber, the passage curves to the left and opens onto the head of a 7m pitch, which drops onto a large ledge. A rebelay just over the lip of the ledge at the left hand side gives a further 18m free-hanging pitch to a landing on boulders several metres across, which appear to be jammed across the shaft.</p><p>A narrow rift around a corner stops at a drip and a small pool. The way on is through a gap to a hole with a jammed block. Climbing down to the block leads to the head of an 18m pitch which rapidly opens into a huge split-level chamber. The pitch lands on <b>Big Bertha</b>, a boulder some 4m in diameter. </p><p>To the north, a narrow rift has been followed for about 10m to a tight vertical drop of at least 5m down the rift, but this has not been pushed. East from Big Bertha leads to a 5m drop to the lower half of the chamber, which is floored with loose rock. An archway to the left leads to a 7m pitch to a small stream. This disappears down an impassable slot, but is met lower in the cave.</p><p>From the archway, a climb up behind a boulder propped against the side of the chamber leads to a col. One side rapidly curves up to the roof. The other ascends over very loose boulders for at least 25m (15m vertical) until the roof is met. This area has not been exhaustively pushed, but seems unlikely to lead anywhere.</p><p>Descending the other side of the col gives a series of ledges via 5m, 7m and 8m pitches, in a canyon some 5m wide and at least 15m high. The stream enters at the bottom of the 7m pitch. Below, the rift continues down a moderate slope and round a corner, with a final short 4m pitch to a soil and rock floored chamber.</p><p>A strong draught is felt around the edges of the chamber, rising from the choked floor. It is possible to descend in loose boulders in a number of places but all ways meet the roof and choke - pushing in this area is dangerous and unpromising.</p><p>Near the bottom of the previous pitch, a 5m deep circular pit in the floor can be descended. This takes a large drip from the stream above. At the bottom, a tight (22-26cm) rift leads on for 3m to a further 3m pitch to a small chamber. An impassable passage continues, while a small window gives a view of a widening beyond.","","","","","In dataset","Grade 3 plan and elevation in <a href=""../../jnl/1988/index.htm"">Cambridge Underground 1988</a>, p 6</p><p><img alt=""E-W Elevation, 15k gif"" width=""500"" height=""760"" src=""others/158ew.png"" /></p><p><img alt=""Plan, 15k gif"" width=""840"" height=""400"" src=""others/158p.png"" />","","","128m (deepest surveyed point is -118m)","","","","","p158","on big rock at entrance","","Surface survey","","gps00.158","","","","","","400m NNE of The Nipple <span lang=""de"">(Wei&szlig;en Warze)</span> at the base of a wall to the left after passing a sandy depression (walking from the Nipple).","","","","Paint","","Surveyed",""
159,"2/S +","","","","plateau/159/159.html","","","Winded Hole","","","1a","CUCC 1988 (1st pitch Chris &amp; Becka, bottomed by Chris).","Two bolts in entrance for Y-hang to give c40m vertical to a boulder floor, then a further 20m in a big boulder chamber. A ""nice skeleton"" and an old colander (!) were found on the terminal choke in 1988.","","","","","","","","","c50m","","","","t159","","","","Surface survey","","","","","","1990 Bearings (we have no idea where these came from and they aren't remotely in the right place): HSK 116&deg;, Nipple 174&deg;, Br&auml;uning Nase 199&deg;, Br&auml;uning Zinken 216&deg;</p><p>1996: HSK 059&deg;, VSK nipple 111&deg;, Br&auml;uning Nase 152&deg;, Kleine Wild Kogel 009&deg;(left) and 010&deg;(right), Br&auml;uning Wall pt. 1828 209&deg;, Br&auml;uning Wall pt. 1835 221&deg;, Br&auml;uning Zinken 232&deg; ","","Near 'crapping region' of Top Camp (1990). Cave is on the same fault/joint as <a href=""../90/90.html"">1623/90</a>, <a href=""../207/207.html"">1623/207</a> and <a href=""../208/208.html"">1623/208</a>, but further out from the Br&auml;uning Wall, c 100m on 067&deg;.","Cave relocated 1990, 1996 and surveyed to in 1998. Entrance reached in two minutes from upper top camp by heading west and dropping down one terrace.","","</p><table class=""imgtable""><tr><td><a href=""../others/l/159.htm""><img alt=""entrance photo - link to 56k jpeg"" src=""../others/t/159.jpg"" /></td><td><a href=""ent2005.jpg""><img src=""ent2005_small.jpg"" /></a></td></tr><tr class=""caption""><td>View towards col</td><td>View down shaft (note tag on shaft wall just below number board)</td></tr></table><p>Photos &copy; Andy Waddington 1998 and David Loeffler 2005","Tag","orange number ""159"" facing north. 1998 tag ""1623 159 CUCC 1988"" attached to more northerly of two Y-hang bolts, just below surface. This is the anchor visible in the photograph (with an orange circle painted round it), taken before the tag was attached.","Surveyed",""
160,"2/S/ +","","","","plateau/160.htm","","","Plateau Schacht 160","Jared's Hole","","1a","CUCC 1988 ","Bottoming trip used a 70m rope to reach a choke (with a draught). A small side rift at the bottom choked after 3m.</p><p>The cave could probably do with another descent to record some details of the interior or even a survey !","","","","","","","","","","","1988 logbook implies that this is &quot;Jared's Hole&quot;. Was provisionally numbered &quot;181&quot; but apparently never marked. ","","p160","","","","Surface survey","","gps00.160","","","","","","On plateau, near <a href=""b10.htm"">B10</a> (according to B10 info). <a href=""../years/1988/log.htm#start"">Map in 1988 logbook</a> shows 160 as out on the plateau from Br&auml;uning Scharte in an area of terracing, and WSW of B10. Hole tagged in 1998 is just east of 91, and can also be reached by following the terrace west from the 159 entrance.","","","","Tag","The hole believed to be 160 was unmarked until tagged in 1998 ""1623 160 CUCC 1988"" on flat limestone 1m east of entrance. This had been relocated in 1996 and was then thought to be <a href=""159/159.html"">159</a>, but latter was found marked in 1998.","Surveyed",""
@@ -386,7 +386,7 @@ s (mainly deduced from survey data) don't correspond well with the 1997 experien
"","+ (?)","","HFG-KA88","","smkridge/hfg-ka88/hfg-ka88.html","","","","","","2b","Franco-German group 1988","","","","","See 2002 logbook entry (2002-08-05)","","","","","","","","","","gps02olly.hfg-ka88","","","","","","","","","","","Close to 163, down a couple of ledges from 2001-08.","","Nice sloping shaft on a rift/diaclase","</p> <table class=""imgtable""><tr> <td><a href=""hfgapproach.jpg""><img src=""hfgapproach_small.jpg"" /></a></td> <td><a href=""hfgent.jpg""><img src=""hfgent_small.jpg"" /></a></td> <td><a href=""hfgcloseup.jpg""><img src=""hfgcloseup_small.jpg"" /></a></td> </tr><tr class=""caption""><td> Approach</td><td>Closeup of entrance</td> <td>Paint markings</td></tr> </table><p>Photos &copy; Wookey 2002","Paint","Hard to read (originally read as BFG-KA88). Also a red splodge which is more likely to be a + than a -","Surveyed",""
"","","","88H","","","","","","","GSCB","2b","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","Refindable","Has been seen recently (1998)"
"","","","88F","","smkridge/88f.html","","","","","GSCB","2b","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","gps02olly.88f","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","Tag","tag VSS188F 2002","Refindable","Has been seen recently (2002)"
"","","","1987-02","","plateau/1987_02.html","","","","","","1c","? GSCB exploration","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","100m up from 157 and 0/5","","","","","","Lost",""
,,,"1987-02",,"plateau/1987_02.html",,,,,,"1c","? GSCB exploration",,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,"100m up from <a href=""../smkridge/157.htm"">157</a> and 0/5. Possibly the same cave as <a href=""../smkridge/bogen.html"">Bogenh&ouml;hle</a>?",,,,,,"Lost",
"","","","1989-01","","","","","","","Probably <a href=""#id195"">195</a>. See <a href=""#id195"">165</a> for more details.","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","North of 165","","","","Unmarked","","Lost","May be 195 but seems unlikely; or 196"
"","","","1990-15","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","Paint","Numbered erroneously as ""185"" ","Lost","AERW doesn't know where to find it"
"","1/S -","","1992-X01","","plateau/1992-X01.html","","","","Olly's 1992 minus cave","","1b","CUCC 1992 Olly Betts","Undescended. 2 second drop with a rattle for a bit.","","","","1992 logbook (1992.08.01)","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","Unmarked","","Refindable",""
1 Kataster Number Kat Status Code Entrances Unofficial number Multiple entrances Autogen file Link file Link Entrance Name Unofficial Name Comment Area Explorers Underground Description Equipment qm list Kataster status References Underground centre line Underground drawn survey Survex file to get length and depth Length Depth Extent Notes Entrance name tag point in dataset other point in dataset description of other point exact entrance in dataset (drip line/highest enclosed contour) Type of survey fix GPS pre SA GPS post SA Northing Easting Altitude Bearings Map Location Approach Entrance description Photo of location Marking Marking comment Findability Findability comment
192 155 1/S - smkridge/155.htm Unerforscht Schacht 155 2b CUCC 1985 (on last day), was this pushed in 1987 ? The cave can be entered via a slot on the right hand side of snow plug, or by crossing the snow plug onto the ice. The ice slopes down in one corner, possibly to a pitch, which, however, will need a rope to verify. Another slot nearby may drop into the same chamber. Grade 1 elevation in 1985 Log Book ? p155 Surface survey gps00.155 about 150m ENE of <a href="154.htm">154</a> From 154, climb up and right and around a grassy shoulder. Then walk down (heading roughly east), skirting past a choked doline and 155 lies ahead. A huge snow-plugged entrance apparently akin to <a href="113.htm">113</a>. Surveyed
193 156 1/S + smkridge/156/156.html Schwa Schacht 156 2c CUCC 1987 An open rift with a rock bridge. Pitch of 25m drops onto snow bank, and route to southeast of this drops a further 15m to a complete choke with snow. </p><div class="centre"><img alt="Map+survey, 10k gif" width="620" height="336" src="../others/156.png" /></div><p>Grade 1 plan/elev of 156 and T.B.H. from <a href="../../years/1987/log.htm">1987 Log Book</a> The <a href="../../years/1987/log.htm">log book</a> refers to exploration in the vicinity of 0/1 including 156 and a nearby cave (unnumbered in 1987) <a href="../199.htm">Tumbling Boulder Hole</a>. There is, however, another piece of paper which says it is very near (and NE of) point 0/2. This appears to arise from the diagram which accompanies the log book entry, which shows 0/2 with no north arrow, and uphill up the page. If the point was really 0/1 on this diagram, then the descriptions would match, with north at 7 O'Clock on the diagram. The logbook suggests that the discoverers had visited 0/2 (and found very little nearby) and then 0/1 later, finding 156. GPS location and later a surface survey (1998) confirms that 0/1 is the correct laser point. t156 p156 random point or top rigging bolt Surface survey gps98.156 <span lang="de-at">Vorderer Schwarzmooskogel,</span> 50m south of <a href="../../handbook/survey/lasers.htm">laser rangefound point 0/1</a>. The recently (1998) cairned route up the <span lang="de-at">Vd. Schwarzmooskogel</span> NW flank passes very close to the laser point, and skirts the NE end of the open rift of 156. Surface survey connecting Tag and original survey ( to top rigging bolt) done in 1999. </p><div class="centre"><a href="ent.jpg"><img src="ent_small.jpg" /></a></div><p>Photo &copy; Dave Loeffler 2005 Tag "1623 156 CUCC 1987" on alloy tag on west side of more southerly opening, more-or-less directly above the first rigging bolt Surveyed
194 157 2/S x smkridge/157.htm Schwa Schacht 157 Pirat Schacht 1c Uncertain. Rediscovered CUCC 1987 Entrance shaft of 50m until gap between snow and rock became too perilous in 1987 - bottom still out of sight. About 25m below the karren, a rift passage leads off from side of shaft into parallel shaft with aven. This shaft is of unknown depth but has recent looking bolts of unknown origin. It is just conceivable that these bolts are in 107, but far more likely that the cave had been looked at by GSCB who were in the area on a reconnaissance in 1986 (?) and more seriously in 1987.</p><p>The second cave has a walk-in entrance, splitting just inside. The left passage comes out below a shaft from the surface, and apparently continues unexplored. The main passage reaches a 10m pitch, also below a surface shaft, which drops into a chamber. To the left is a short passage to an undescended pitch of about 10m, while to the right are three ways on. First is a rift, then a passage with an ice floor, and finally, half back towards the entrance, is a passage emerging below another surface shaft (passed on the surface just before reaching the entrance). This final passage also appeared to continue. Because a large carbide pig was found outside the entrance, it was assumed that someone else was in the course of exploring this cave. p157 "about 6m above <a href="../handbook/survey/lasers.htm">Laser rangefound point 0/5</a>" (which is above gully containing <a href="../plateau/107.htm">Kat. 107</a> and marked with an alloy tag stamped "LASER 0-5"). The cave was looked for but not seen in a visit to this laser point in 1998. A second cave 100m from 0/5, uphill to the left, was not given a number because of evidence of previous exploration, but should be investigated further. (This might, or might not, be <a href="bogen.html">Bogenh&ouml;hle</a>.) 157 was relocated in 2001, visible to the right of the route up to 204. It was marked with faded yellow paint. "about 6m above <a href="../handbook/survey/lasers.htm">Laser rangefound point 0/5</a>" (which is above gully containing <a href="../plateau/107.htm">Kat. 107</a> and marked with an alloy tag stamped "LASER 0-5"). The cave was looked for but not seen in a visit to this laser point in 1998. A <a href="../plateau/1987_02.html">second cave 100m from 0/5</a>, uphill to the left, was not given a number because of evidence of previous exploration, but should be investigated further. (This might, or might not, be <a href="bogen.html">Bogenh&ouml;hle</a>.) 157 was relocated in 2001, visible to the right of the route up to 204. It was marked with faded yellow paint. Tag Tag placed 2000 Surveyed Much confusion
195 158 3/S + smkridge/158.htm Donner und Blitzen H&ouml;hle 2b CUCC 1987 A body-width passage formed by a wall on the left and a large detached slab on the right descends for about 5m at 45&deg;, with occasional glimpses of daylight above. A cross passage is then encountered. To the right is blocked after a few metres, but left descends to meet the base of the wall. To the right here, a 20-22cm squeeze is passed by lying on one side. After 2m of further tight progress, the rift opens onto a drop. A steep tube descends for about 12m to a small chamber and with care can be descended free.</p><p>From the chamber, the passage curves to the left and opens onto the head of a 7m pitch, which drops onto a large ledge. A rebelay just over the lip of the ledge at the left hand side gives a further 18m free-hanging pitch to a landing on boulders several metres across, which appear to be jammed across the shaft.</p><p>A narrow rift around a corner stops at a drip and a small pool. The way on is through a gap to a hole with a jammed block. Climbing down to the block leads to the head of an 18m pitch which rapidly opens into a huge split-level chamber. The pitch lands on <b>Big Bertha</b>, a boulder some 4m in diameter. </p><p>To the north, a narrow rift has been followed for about 10m to a tight vertical drop of at least 5m down the rift, but this has not been pushed. East from Big Bertha leads to a 5m drop to the lower half of the chamber, which is floored with loose rock. An archway to the left leads to a 7m pitch to a small stream. This disappears down an impassable slot, but is met lower in the cave.</p><p>From the archway, a climb up behind a boulder propped against the side of the chamber leads to a col. One side rapidly curves up to the roof. The other ascends over very loose boulders for at least 25m (15m vertical) until the roof is met. This area has not been exhaustively pushed, but seems unlikely to lead anywhere.</p><p>Descending the other side of the col gives a series of ledges via 5m, 7m and 8m pitches, in a canyon some 5m wide and at least 15m high. The stream enters at the bottom of the 7m pitch. Below, the rift continues down a moderate slope and round a corner, with a final short 4m pitch to a soil and rock floored chamber.</p><p>A strong draught is felt around the edges of the chamber, rising from the choked floor. It is possible to descend in loose boulders in a number of places but all ways meet the roof and choke - pushing in this area is dangerous and unpromising.</p><p>Near the bottom of the previous pitch, a 5m deep circular pit in the floor can be descended. This takes a large drip from the stream above. At the bottom, a tight (22-26cm) rift leads on for 3m to a further 3m pitch to a small chamber. An impassable passage continues, while a small window gives a view of a widening beyond. In dataset Grade 3 plan and elevation in <a href="../../jnl/1988/index.htm">Cambridge Underground 1988</a>, p 6</p><p><img alt="E-W Elevation, 15k gif" width="500" height="760" src="others/158ew.png" /></p><p><img alt="Plan, 15k gif" width="840" height="400" src="others/158p.png" /> 128m (deepest surveyed point is -118m) p158 on big rock at entrance Surface survey gps00.158 400m NNE of The Nipple <span lang="de">(Wei&szlig;en Warze)</span> at the base of a wall to the left after passing a sandy depression (walking from the Nipple). Paint Surveyed
196 159 2/S + plateau/159/159.html Winded Hole 1a CUCC 1988 (1st pitch Chris &amp; Becka, bottomed by Chris). Two bolts in entrance for Y-hang to give c40m vertical to a boulder floor, then a further 20m in a big boulder chamber. A "nice skeleton" and an old colander (!) were found on the terminal choke in 1988. c50m t159 Surface survey 1990 Bearings (we have no idea where these came from and they aren't remotely in the right place): HSK 116&deg;, Nipple 174&deg;, Br&auml;uning Nase 199&deg;, Br&auml;uning Zinken 216&deg;</p><p>1996: HSK 059&deg;, VSK nipple 111&deg;, Br&auml;uning Nase 152&deg;, Kleine Wild Kogel 009&deg;(left) and 010&deg;(right), Br&auml;uning Wall pt. 1828 209&deg;, Br&auml;uning Wall pt. 1835 221&deg;, Br&auml;uning Zinken 232&deg; Near 'crapping region' of Top Camp (1990). Cave is on the same fault/joint as <a href="../90/90.html">1623/90</a>, <a href="../207/207.html">1623/207</a> and <a href="../208/208.html">1623/208</a>, but further out from the Br&auml;uning Wall, c 100m on 067&deg;. Cave relocated 1990, 1996 and surveyed to in 1998. Entrance reached in two minutes from upper top camp by heading west and dropping down one terrace. </p><table class="imgtable"><tr><td><a href="../others/l/159.htm"><img alt="entrance photo - link to 56k jpeg" src="../others/t/159.jpg" /></td><td><a href="ent2005.jpg"><img src="ent2005_small.jpg" /></a></td></tr><tr class="caption"><td>View towards col</td><td>View down shaft (note tag on shaft wall just below number board)</td></tr></table><p>Photos &copy; Andy Waddington 1998 and David Loeffler 2005 Tag orange number "159" facing north. 1998 tag "1623 159 CUCC 1988" attached to more northerly of two Y-hang bolts, just below surface. This is the anchor visible in the photograph (with an orange circle painted round it), taken before the tag was attached. Surveyed
197 160 2/S/ + plateau/160.htm Plateau Schacht 160 Jared's Hole 1a CUCC 1988 Bottoming trip used a 70m rope to reach a choke (with a draught). A small side rift at the bottom choked after 3m.</p><p>The cave could probably do with another descent to record some details of the interior or even a survey ! 1988 logbook implies that this is &quot;Jared's Hole&quot;. Was provisionally numbered &quot;181&quot; but apparently never marked. p160 Surface survey gps00.160 On plateau, near <a href="b10.htm">B10</a> (according to B10 info). <a href="../years/1988/log.htm#start">Map in 1988 logbook</a> shows 160 as out on the plateau from Br&auml;uning Scharte in an area of terracing, and WSW of B10. Hole tagged in 1998 is just east of 91, and can also be reached by following the terrace west from the 159 entrance. Tag The hole believed to be 160 was unmarked until tagged in 1998 "1623 160 CUCC 1988" on flat limestone 1m east of entrance. This had been relocated in 1996 and was then thought to be <a href="159/159.html">159</a>, but latter was found marked in 1998. Surveyed
198 161 5/S/E x a&ndash;h yes smkridge/161/top.htm Kaninchenh&ouml;hle 2c CUCC 1988-98 Rather than adopting the usual approach of describing every side passage in the main description, which makes the 'normal' descent route hard to follow, this description describes each main route down the cave first, mentioning side passages only where necessary to make the correct main route clear. Various side passages and connecting routes are described subsequently, area by area. The directions left and right are always relative to travel in the direction of the description, compass directions are given where there is any ambiguity. Most passages are described going 'into the cave', on the assumption that this is how they will be first met. Some passages are described in both directions, either because it is difficult to follow them without getting into side leads, or because they form important links between different parts of the system, and may be traversed either way on various round trips.</p><p>The <b>clickable index</b> has developed into a <a href="names.htm">glossary</a>, which it is hoped will make it easier to find bits of the cave by name - <b>be warned</b>, this became so big that it was decided to split it up and it is now a <b>framed</b> page.</p><p>There are also <a href="pix.htm">virtual tours</a>, containing thumbnails of all the pictures of the caves. Although these pages are kept small, all the photos mean that they can require a <b>lot</b> of memory to load. The original comprehensive tour has been split into two, for the <a href="pixrh.htm">Right Hand Route</a>, and for passages most conveniently reached from the <a href="pixsf.htm">Scarface entrance</a>. Two new tours have been created for the <a href="pixlw.htm">Lost World</a> and Wheelchair Access, and for the new way into the Forbidden Land via <a href="pixss.htm"><span lang="de">Steinschlagschacht</span></a>. Each thumbnail on these tours links to a full-size version of the picture, and each full-size picture has links into the appropriate bit of the description.</p><h4>Exploration</h4><p>Throughout the guide, the date of exploration is noted for each area. There is a <a href="histry.htm">history</a> page which can be used as a clickable index into the logbook write ups of all the 161 trips, so it should be easy to follow the exploration of any part of the cave. <b>Warning</b>, this was also getting too big and is now framed.</p><h4>Overview</h4><p>The upper part of the system can be best thought of as a number of separate areas, each with its own vertical development. The more recently found extensive horizontal development, being easier to traverse, is generally better connected. Although there are various links between the vertical routes, a given destination will tend to have one 'obvious' approach. These areas are <a href="france.htm">France</a>, the <a href="lhr.htm">Left Hand Routes</a>, the <a href="rhr.htm">Right Hand Routes</a>, the southernmost part of the system reached via <a href="136.htm"><span lang="de">Steinschlagschacht</span></a>, routes from <a href="sftotp.htm">Scarface</a> entrance. So rapidly has exploration proceeded from Triassic Park that now more than half the total length is most conveniently reached via 161d.</p><p>The key to all the deepest and most remote parts of the system is the huge collapse chamber of Knossos. This was reached from the 161a entrance via the Right Hand Route, and now via the 161d <a href="sftotp.htm#id161d">"Scarface"</a> entrance through <a href="triasp.htm#triasp">Triassic Park</a>. This provides a much easier route in, making trips to the further reaches less strenuous. From Knossos, horizontal trunk passage leads north, giving access first to a series of <a href="deepwy.htm">deep vertical systems</a>, and further on to complex areas of rifts and old passages. A significant horizontal route leading northwest, <a href="sibria.htm#siberia">Siberia</a>, has only been pushed as a result of the new entrance, but has yielded a new deep point to the cave. There appear to be deep vertical leads in the far north, too, though they have mostly been avoided by a series of "mental" tyroleans and bolt traverses.</p><h4>Tourist trips</h4><p>It is still probably some way off the time when one might choose a tourist trip on the basis of its "classic" quality. Mostly, choices available depend on what is rigged this year for exploratory purposes. This will usually only include one main route into an area, so trips like a Left Hand Route / Garden Party or Drunk &amp; Stupid exchange will not be easy. Similarly, the original classic Right Hand Route / Dreamtime exchange was only really possible during the exploration of the latter, before the Squeeze was bypassed and this modified RHR became the trade route.</p><p>However, now that <a href="sibria.htm#knossos">Knossos</a> is accessible from the Scarface entrance, this has opened up the possibilities for a whole raft of pull-through trips with a minimum of pre-rigging. The one fly in the ointment is the relative difficulty of surface travel between the 161d and upper entrances. The route used in 1996 seems to be good enough to have become a trade route, and after one benightment through loss of the route in 1997, it has been very well marked with cairns.</p><p>Already possible is the 161c to 161d through trip via France. In the future, pull-throughs of LHR, Garden Party or Drunk and Stupid should all be possible via Ambidextrous. Right Hand Route or Dreamtime give access to Knossos. Care must be taken, however, not to try rapelling down any of the plethora of routes which <b>don't</b> connect into the Knossos area.</p><p>As in the more famous <b lang="fr">Dent du Crolles</b> system, route-finding errors on bridge-burning trips could entail a long wait for someone to figure out where you went!</p><h4>Structure</h4><p><a href="svlinx.htm">Line plots</a> of the cave give some idea of it's shape, extent and structure.</p><p>The main entrance at 1787m drops to a major sub-horizontal level at 1720-1750m, containing the large passages of <a href="bsains.htm#bigsain">Big Sainsbury's</a> and its continuation into the upper part of <a href="dream.htm#dreamtime">Dreamtime</a>, and the smaller passages of the <a href="offtop.htm#rabbitw">Rabbit Warren</a> and the French entrances <a href="offtop.htm#id161b">161b</a> and <a href="france.htm#id161c">161c</a>. From this level a number of vertical routes drop to another significant sub-horizontal level dipping from around 1700m in the SW of the system (upper part of France) to around 1600m where this level is lost in the roof of <a href="sibria.htm#knossos">Knossos</a>. [This is probably debatable, as Boulder Alley from Poxy Pitch downwards is probably in a fault rift].</p><p>Multiple, predominantly vertical, routes drop to the cave's most important sub-horizontal passages around 1540m in the area below the entrance dipping to c1510m in <a href="sibria.htm#tblocks">Tower Blocks</a> and the start of <a href="sibria.htm#yapate">YAPATE</a>. This is a major fossil passage rising up the dip to the NNE, and continuing as <a href="sibria.htm#cfn">Chicken Flied Nice</a> to c1540m where complexity increases. The major horizontal development in France is entered at c1550m, with the lowest passages down to 1480m. The major trunk route through Triassic Park is between 1560 and 1620m, and this level is also lost in what is presumed to be the roof of Knossos.</p><p>Whilst none of the routes below the entrance area get below about 1480m, there are a series of interconnecting shafts dropping below YAPATE and Chicken Flied Nice ending at or just above 1290m in sumps or tightness. The original deepest point, at the bottom of Flapjack, is at 1289m, 498m below the main entrance. Passages to the northwest led through a bitterly cold, draughty passage known as <a href="sibria.htm#siberia">Siberia</a>, which was left well alone until access via 161d made it easier. It was pushed in 1997 and 1998 down two very large pitches to a new deep point 534m below the 136 entrance at 1258m altitude.</p><p>There is just one section of <a href="deepwy.htm#elevel">horizontal level</a> at c1400m, which is not very extensive to date, and similarly a tantalising glimpse of what appears to have been very large trunk passage below 1300m in Siberia, but this is comprehensively choked in both directions.</p><p>This overview is currently mostly updated to reflect exploration to 1995, though the line plots are up to 1996. <a href="qmtodo.htm">Outstanding</a> and <a href="qmdone.htm">now finished</a> In dataset ? grade 5 smk-system.svx 24485m after 1999 expedition 534m On the limestone ridge between the <span lang="de-at">Hinterer</span> and <span lang="de-at">Vorderer Schwarzmooskogels</span>, about 200 metres up towards the <span lang="de-at">Hinterer</span> from the col, and about 20m down the east side of the ridge itself. The main <a href="bsains.htm#id161a">161a</a> entrance shaft overlooks a gully dropping steeply SE towards <span lang="de-at">Augstwies See</span>. The <a href="offtop.htm#id161b">161b</a> and <a href="france.htm#id161c">161c</a> (French) entrances are close together about 75m to the SE, down the gully. Considerably further down the gully, a traverse is possible (somewhat engineered) to reach an area of recently fallen rock, where the "Scarface" <a href="sftotp.htm#id161d">161d</a> entrance is located. Continuing the traverse, but regaining about 20m of height to the NE, the "exits" of 161f and then 161e can be reached. See the <a href="pix.html">photo gallery</a> for entrance photos.
386 88H GSCB 2b Refindable Has been seen recently (1998)
387 88F smkridge/88f.html GSCB 2b gps02olly.88f Tag tag VSS188F 2002 Refindable Has been seen recently (2002)
388 1987-02 plateau/1987_02.html 1c ? GSCB exploration 100m up from 157 and 0/5 100m up from <a href="../smkridge/157.htm">157</a> and 0/5. Possibly the same cave as <a href="../smkridge/bogen.html">Bogenh&ouml;hle</a>? Lost
389 1989-01 Probably <a href="#id195">195</a>. See <a href="#id195">165</a> for more details. North of 165 Unmarked Lost May be 195 but seems unlikely; or 196
390 1990-15 Paint Numbered erroneously as "185" Lost AERW doesn't know where to find it
391 1/S - 1992-X01 plateau/1992-X01.html Olly's 1992 minus cave 1b CUCC 1992 Olly Betts Undescended. 2 second drop with a rattle for a bit. 1992 logbook (1992.08.01) Unmarked Refindable
392 1/S - 1996-01 smkridge/1996_01.html Ski-pole h&ouml;hle 2c CUCC 1996-07-15 Nick, Brian, Tina Climb down shakehole to open shaft with a jammed boulder at the top. Shaft developed on joint is 1.4m across, 1.5m in the other direction and drops straight down 10m. Rift at bottom is 2m high. 1.5m drop then gently ascending rift gets too tight. 11.1m There are many holes along the rift - all the others are choked or too tight. gps96.96_1 Situated at top end of rift/gorge next to <a href="../smkridge/161/sftotp.htm#id161d">path to 161d</a>. Walking <em>to</em> 161d: go into the very narrow gorge, then up the right hand wall about a third of the way along. This gets you into the next gorge, trending on bearing 031&deg; (looking towards 161d end of path). Turn right up the rift. 96/01 is at the top end. Tag A spit with "CUCC 96-01" Refindable Has a 1996 GPS fix which is almost certainly hopelessly wrong as it puts it way to the north of 161d