Ahead is a phreatic tunnel which chokes, and a large black emptiness. This is descended for 25m in four 6m steps, Viermalbierschacht, to a ledge big enough for one and a bit people. The stream goes over this ledge into a large black void. This pitch, Besoffene, is 50m and hangs free for all but the last 8m in a very impressive shaft. From the foot, traverse above a steeply dropping stream canyon to a sloping platform from which a 17m pitch reaches the stream floor. This cascades over a further 6m pitch, below which a climb out of the stream reaches a rig point for a 30m pitch ending on a slope down to a sump at -216m.",,,,,,"Cambridge Underground 1978, facing p 32
There is also an area plan showing 82 in context with 145 and 148.
",,,"-216m, +20",,,,,"p82","tip of rock marked ""82"" at entrance",,"Surface survey",,,,,,,,"Plateau 430m from col, roughly NE.","From Schwarzmoossattel, follow description to 80. From here, a route leads directly towards Hinterer Schwarzmooskogel over fairly flat karren, becoming more shattered towards another cairn. Then there is a somewhat chaotic area.
Skirt this on the left to a small ridge running left-right. There is a cairn to the right across the chaotic bit. From the ridge, 82 is the obvious entrance directly ahead. Across the ridge to the right, more cairns lead initially towards 82, but then become misleading as they head up the hill to Wolfhöhle (145).",,"
","Tag","""82"" in red paint on boulder and on left of cave. 1998 tag ""1623 82 CUCC 1977"" on right inside cave entrance (not at survey point).","Surveyed", 83,"2/S =",,,,"plateau/83.htm",,,"Schwa Schacht 83",,,"1c","CUCC 1977 - Team Geriatric","13m freeclimb dropped onto a steep snowslope requiring a handline. This was descended for 10m to a steep boulder slope which funnelled down to a small hole through which stones dropped for a long time. The large amounts of scree made descent unwise. Above the boulder slope, a phreatic passage led quickly to a big hole in the floor. The hole is a fine free-hanging descent of 36m to a solid choke of boulders. The phreatic passage continues beyond the pitch, but was not reached, and trends uphill.",,,,,,,,,"55m",,"This was originally listed as ""exploration completed"", but the description suggests that with modern drilltastic rigging techniques it would not be hard to reach the continuation of the phreas across the head of the final pitch, and possibly also to find a safe route through the boulderous hole.",,,"p83","exact point not recorded",,"Surface survey",,,,,,,,"Plateau, 200m north of Bräuninghöhle (Kat. 82). This is not very obvious, since it is in an area of dwarf pine on a knoll south of the dry valley containing Kat. 107",,,,"Paint","Red paint number from 1977","Surveyed", 84,"1/T -",,,,"plateau/84.htm",,,"Schwa Höhle 84",,,"1c","CUCC 1977 - Team Geriatric","Draughting tube leads to a small chamber, further small tube leads off, unexplored since deemed impenetrable in shorts and T-shirt.",,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,"c 1660m",,,"Plateau WNW of Kat.83",,,,"Paint",,"Lost","Not seen since 1977 apparently" @@ -123,18 +123,18 @@ 92,"2/S +",,,,"plateau/92.htm",,,"Bräu Schacht 92",,,"1a","CUCC 1977 - Team Enthusiast.","Pitch of 15m leads to a boulder thrutch and climbs down. More boulders lead to a final pitch of 30m to a solid choke at -90m.",,,,,,"
",,,"90m",,,,,,,,,,,,,"1645m",,,"Plateau - below Bräuning Scharte. Not located in searches, 1989, 1998.",,"Small, horizontal entrance in deep scrub draughts slightly and leads to an incredibly loose interior.",,"Paint",,"Lost","Not seen since 1977 despite several concerted searches. Below Bräuningscharte"
93,"1/S +",,,,"plateau/93/93.html",,,"Bräu Schacht 93",,,"1a","CUCC 1977 - Team Enthusiast.","Long rift on a joint (strike 246°, dip 70° towards SE) ending in choke at -35m. An adjacent shaft on the same joint but further east is bigger and more obvious, but chokes much nearer the surface. ",,,,,,,,,"35m",,,,"p93",,,,"Surface survey",,,,,,,,"Plateau - below Bräuning Scharte, north of Kataster 91. ","From Schwarzmoossattel, follow cairned path below the Bräuning Wall, past Top Camp (1988 on). Where this path meets the scree/snow slope from the wall, it turns right, out onto the plateau (this is the main path to Gschwandt-Alm, in frequent use).
100m from the right turn is a snow field on the right, with the sound of falling water at its lower edge. This is the entrance to 91 and from here, 93 is 20m further away from the Bräuning Wall.",,"
| Entrance 91 on left, looking towards 93 and Schönberg | 93 entrance area, with location of tag highlighted | Closeup of entrance |
Photos © Andy Waddington 1990 (1) and © Olly Betts 1999 (2,3).","Tag","numbered in red (1977) on scarp facing south, 1998 tag ""1623 93 CUCC 1977"".(placed in middle of ""9"")","Surveyed", 94,"1/S +",,,,"plateau/94/94.html",,,"Bräu Schacht 94",,,"1a","CUCC 1977 - Team Enthusiast.","A rift on a joint (strike 223°, dip 70° to SE) is a spiralling freeclimb to a choke at -35m",,,,,,,,,"35m",,,,"p94",,,,"Surface survey",,,,,,,," A little north of Kat.93.","From 91 (q.v.), the karren slopes down at 10°. About 50m down the slope on a bearing of 335° is the large open shaft of 94, (visible from 93, which is about 20m from 91).",,"
| View of 94 from 93 | Entrance area (tag highlighted) in 1999 | Entrance closeup |
Photos © Andy Waddington 1990 (1) & © Olly Betts 1999 (2, 3)","Tag","number in red (1977) on scarp facing south, 1998 tag ""1623 94 CUCC 1977"" - tag bolt (middle of ""9"")","Surveyed", -95,"1/S -",,,,"br-alm/95.htm",,,"Bräu Schacht 95",,,3,"CUCC 1977 - Team Enthusiast. ","A 10m climb down to an unpushed and unpromising tube. ",,,,,,,,,,,,,"gps05dave.95",,,,"GPS post SA",,,,,"1585m",,,"South of Bräuning Alm, near camp 1 (1977), close to 96",,,"On Olly's camera","Tag","Number painted on rock (very faint). Tag added 2005-07-28.","Surveyed", -96,"3/S +",,,,"br-alm/96.htm",,,"Bräu Schacht 96",,,3,"CUCC 1977 - Team Enthusiast.","Open shaft of 15m leads to a descending rift. Next pitch of 25m, then a short climb, 6m pitch and 15m pitch into a chamber where the water sinks. The upper level of a small rift leads to an abandoned passage and a series of increasingly muddy freeclimbs to a final squeeze and 5m pitch into a sordid little sump.",,,,,,"
",,,"105m",,,,"gps05dave.96",,,,"GPS post SA",,,,,"c 1600m",,,"In grassy pasture east of Bräuning Alm, next to CUCC's high-level camp of 1977 (camp 1). ",,,"
Original photo; 2005 photo on Olly's camera","Tag","number painted red in 1976, refreshed (probably in orange which elsewhere hasn't lasted well) in 1990. Tag added 2005-07-28.","Surveyed", +95,"1/S -",,,,"br-alm/95.htm",,,"Bräu Schacht 95",,,3,"CUCC 1977 - Team Enthusiast. ","A 10m climb down to an unpushed and unpromising tube. ",,,,,,,,,,,,,"p95",,,,"GPS post SA",,,,,"1585m",,,"South of Bräuning Alm, near camp 1 (1977), close to 96",,,"On Olly's camera","Tag","Number painted on rock (very faint). Tag added 2005-07-28.","Surveyed", +96,"3/S +",,,,"br-alm/96.htm",,,"Bräu Schacht 96",,,3,"CUCC 1977 - Team Enthusiast.","Open shaft of 15m leads to a descending rift. Next pitch of 25m, then a short climb, 6m pitch and 15m pitch into a chamber where the water sinks. The upper level of a small rift leads to an abandoned passage and a series of increasingly muddy freeclimbs to a final squeeze and 5m pitch into a sordid little sump.",,,,,,"
",,,"105m",,,,"p96",,,,"GPS post SA",,,,,"c 1600m",,,"In grassy pasture east of Bräuning Alm, next to CUCC's high-level camp of 1977 (camp 1). ",,,"
Original photo; 2005 photo on Olly's camera","Tag","number painted red in 1976, refreshed (probably in orange which elsewhere hasn't lasted well) in 1990. Tag added 2005-07-28.","Surveyed", 97,"4/S/W x",,,,"plateau/97.htm",,,"Schneewindschacht",,,"1d","CUCC 1977 - Team Enthusiast.","The entrance is the head of a 10m freeclimbable chimney, followed by a 5m climb into a small chamber. Two ways on from the chamber unite in a tiny crawl under a drip. A thrutch through (about the size of Baptistry in Car Pot) is The Nun's Cunt, which ends abruptly at The Vestry, where SRT gear can be put back on while perched above the pitch which follows. Drops of 15m, 20m and 20m, The Bottomless Abbess, lead to a traverse over a blind pitch of about 10m.
The Bottomless Abbess continues with pitches of 15m, 30m, 15m and 15m to a short horizontal section. This breaks out into the side of another shaft where 15m and 10m pitches lead to a more complex area. A short pitch of 6m leads to the Priest's Hole and a gently slanting ramp into a dry, dusty, abandoned phreatic passage. This is interrupted by a large hole in the floor, which would require bolts to cross.
Down the hole, the 25m pitch starts unpromisingly, but soon bells out into a magnificent trench passage. Traversing over a gully leads to a series of short climbs and a fine last pitch The Dissolution. Here the water sinks into an impenetrable crack.
The entrance draughts strongly, but there is no air movement at the end, the most likely way on being the traverse to reach the continuation of the phreatic level at -190m. Unfortunately, the trip to this point is quite severe, since the crawl would render rescue impractical and the Bottomless Abbess rapidly becomes very wet after rain.",,,,,,"
",,,"265m",,,,,"p97","west edge of doline",,"Surface survey",,,83039,35837,"1641m",,,"Out on the plateau.","Head across for the large erratic boulders near 76 (aka 106), then away from the col past the open shaft of 105, turning left at a gap in the scrub which leads down a bare karren corridor to some dolines. Step across one and cast about for a large one with 97 in red paint.","A moderately large doline, usually without snow, has a small triangular opening at the SW end.",,"Tag","""97"" in red paint on doline wall, tag 2005","Surveyed", 98,"1/S +",,,,"plateau/98.htm",,,"Plateau Schacht 98","Dropped Light Shaft",,"1d","CUCC 1978 - Team Youth/Ladders","After top of entrance shaft, it bells out, to land on a lightly boulder-covered floor after 29m. Tight thrutch to one side leads to second pitch of 17m to a flat rock floor with no way on.",,,,"Logbook accounts",,,,,"47m",,,,,,,,,,,,,"c 1630m ","HSK 116°, Nipple 174° (?!?), Nase 199°. Zinken 216°",,"Out on the plateau somewhat further than 97, in a large sloping rockface. Refound 1990, ""shaft further up bedding plane from 176"" (presumably away from 175).",,"A small shaft in a large grike with very sharp rocks at the top",,"Spit","Bolts at entrance; conjectured to be paint marked as well.","Refindable","Hopefully refindable via 176" -99,"1/S x",,,,"plateau/99/99.html",,,"Plateau Schacht 99",,,"1d","
","Entrance gully of 5m leads to 20m pitch at 70° over snow, heading roughly back towards Eislufthöhle. At the base is a 'snow-duck' under a rock wall beyond which a small rift-like chamber descends about 3m. Straight ahead at the same level, the rift quickly becomes an impenetrable slot through which can be seen a 2m wide passage with an ice floor running down from right to left at 5-10°. This is the source of the strong draught. Below the slot is another low hole, this leaks a vague draught and leads to a small boulder-strewn ledge with a definite blackness continuing to the left behind more boulders. Energetic but nervous removal of these gave obvious signs of a continuation, but other commitments and rain prevented a return. Note therefore it has been Left Going.",,,,"1979 logbook, 2004 logbook",,"Grade 1 3-d sketch by Tony Malcolm, 1979
E 35876.6 N (52)82903.5 H 1638.9",,"Draughting entrance near Eislufthöhle(1623/76), ignored at first, since it was assumed it would join 76.","
| Entrance area in 1999, with tag highlighted (original here) | Jenny Black on the entrance slope, 2004 |
(Photos © Olly Betts)","Tag","Tag placed 1999","Surveyed", +99,"1/S x",,,,"plateau/99/99.html",,,"Plateau Schacht 99",,,"1d","
","Entrance gully of 5m leads to 20m pitch at 70° over snow, heading roughly back towards Eislufthöhle. At the base is a 'snow-duck' under a rock wall beyond which a small rift-like chamber descends about 3m. Straight ahead at the same level, the rift quickly becomes an impenetrable slot through which can be seen a 2m wide passage with an ice floor running down from right to left at 5-10°. This is the source of the strong draught. Below the slot is another low hole, this leaks a vague draught and leads to a small boulder-strewn ledge with a definite blackness continuing to the left behind more boulders. Energetic but nervous removal of these gave obvious signs of a continuation, but other commitments and rain prevented a return. Note therefore it has been Left Going.",,,,"1979 logbook, 2004 logbook",,"Grade 1 3-d sketch by Tony Malcolm, 1979
E 35876.6 N (52)82903.5 H 1638.9",,"Draughting entrance near Eislufthöhle(1623/76), ignored at first, since it was assumed it would join 76.","
| Entrance area in 1999, with tag highlighted (original here) | Jenny Black on the entrance slope, 2004 |
(Photos © Olly Betts)","Tag","Tag placed 1999","Surveyed", 100,"1/S +",,,,"plateau/100.htm",,,"Plateau Schacht 100","Viper Shaft",,"1a","CUCC 1977, Team Youth, and again in 1990 by AERW ","An east-west rift with two obvious points of descent. The more easterly is about 6m deep and can be seen to end in a chamber. The more westerly is a 15m pitch, with a window communicating with the east hole. At base are boulders and a climb down. A crawl leads to an inlet where water appears and sinks into an impenetrable slot with very sharp rock. ",,,,,,,,,"18m",,,,"p100",,,,"Surface survey",,,,,,,,"Just beyond the col, on the left. It is, in fact, extremely near Top Camp, virtually on one of the routes to the Schwarzmooskogel areas. ",0,,,"Tag","red painted number, with 1998 tag ""1623 100 CUCC 1977"" in centre (M6 stud).
This cave was originally only numbered in carbide, so was unmarked for years. It was relocated in 1989, but was not numbered until 1993 since AERW didn't think to carry paint while trying to find old holes. The orange number was fading and chipped in 1995, so was refreshed in red. The surface survey was to the centre of the middle digit of the number.","Surveyed", 101,"1/S +","main a",,"yes","plateau/101.htm",,,"Plateau Schacht 101",,,"1d","
","Entrance is in a rift orientated 40°-220° and hading about 20°. A 5m climb down leads to a horizontal passage going both ways, north leading out into the face of the scarp (101A). South (down dip) leads to a 4m pitch followed by a small crawl in a scree-floored phreatic tube, leading down dip, at about 30°. This drops via a short climb into a meandering phreatic tube with a tiny stream slot fed by an aven on the left. Progress is by crawling in the roof tube, which goes for about 40m until a window in the right wall leads to the base of an aven. The continuing crawl is too small, while a climb down below the aven (undescended) appears to choke.",,,,,,"? MISSING (grade 1)",,,"~12m",,,,,,,,,,,,,,"Bräuning Scharte 218°, Grieskogel 012.5°, Bräuning Nase 194.5°, Lost Rucksack cairn 319° (compass #439258: NPC2)",,"Out on the plateau, near a large north-facing fault scarp on 125-305°. Perhaps best located when looking for Wolfhöhle (which is nowhere nearby) in the mist (see 1984 logbook). There was an OAV ski-tourers' marker pole due north of the col, from which the entrance is about 50m away on 35°. Unfortunately, the pole was pretty much invisible from the approach route in 1977, and is now rotting on the ground, only visible from a metre away at best. However, the cave was relocated in 1998. It turns out to be very close to the faintly-marked path which leads past Lost Rucksack Cave towards CUCC 1996-05, and is a short way south of 1623/173.
(GPS: (cliff directly above 101A) GK 5410503 5283483 (FOM 9.2m))",,,,"Tag","extremely faded numbers ""101"" and ""101A"" in red on upper and lower entrances. 1998 tag ""1623 101 CUCC 1977"" on upper entrance, southeast-facing (M6 stud).",, ,,"main",,"entrance","plateau/101main.htm",,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,"t101",,,,"Surface survey",,,,,,"Bräuning Scharte 218°, Grieskogel 012.5°, Bräuning Nase 194.5°, Lost Rucksack cairn 319° (compass #439258: NPC2)",,,,"Entrance is in a rift orientated 40°-220° and hading about 20°",,"Tag","extremely faded numbers ""101"" in red. 1998 tag ""1623 101 CUCC 1977"" southeast-facing (M6 stud).","Surveyed", ,,"a",,"last entrance","plateau/101a.htm",,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,"gps98.101a",,,,"GPS pre SA","gps98.101a",,,,,,,"(GPS: (cliff directly above 101A) GK 5410503 5283483 (FOM 9.2m))",,,,"Paint","extremely faded numbers ""101A"" in red","Surveyed", 102,"1/S +",,,,"plateau/102.htm",,,"Plateau Schacht 102",,,"1d","CUCC 1977 - Team Youth (A.Waddington) ","A near-straight shaft of 20m ends on a snow plug.",,,,,,,,,,,,,"gps00.102",,,,"GPS post SA","gps98.102",,,,"c 1630m",,,"GPS GK 5410464 5283496 (FOM 11.5m) About 50m west of Kat.101, c 15m south of Kat. 103, on a parallel joint.",,,,"Tag","painted number is extremely faded, and appears only as a slight lightening in the lichen when wet. Part drilled hole for tag. Tagged 1998","Surveyed", 103,"1/S +",,,,"plateau/103.htm",,,"Plateau Schacht 103",,,"1d","
","A semi-horizontal rift going south, slopes down at 45° to head of a very broken shaft aligned on a joint perpendicular to the scarp (joint is on 055-235°). Drops 30m past much wedged, frost-shattered rock to a choke at -30m.",,,,,,,,,"30m",,,,"t103",,,,"Surface survey","gps98.103",,,,,"HSK 075°, VSK Nipple 153°, Lost Rucksack Cairn 325°",,"GPS GK 5410472 5283506 (FOM 8.7m) About 15m north of Kat.102, in the face of the same 125-305° fault scarp as 101´s northward crawl, which is about 35m away to the SE. ",,,,"Tag"," alloy tag ""1623 103 CUCC 1977"" on M6 stud below the faded remains of a painted number on the NW-facing wall of a prominent joint making a break in the scarp face in which the entrance lies. ","Surveyed", -104,"1/S +",,,,"plateau/104/104.html",,,"Plateau Schacht 104",,,"1d","CUCC 1977 - Team Youth (S.Farrow)","Belay to a bolt in the boulder (on top, 1977 vintage), and as much dwarf pine as you can string together. A somewhat broken but roomy shaft of 29m with ledges at -10 and -24m, to a choke.",,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,"c 1650m ",,,"In deep scrub adjacent to a very large erratic boulder, in the same area as Eislufthöhle (Kat. 76). The boulder has an incipient split, and is visible from the col.",,,"
Entrance looking down from top of boulder (spit visible in front on boot)
Photo © Olly Betts, 2004","Tag","Red-painted number (1977). Traces of paint still visible in 2004, but number very hard to make out. Described boulder with spit on top fortunately still enables reliable identification. Tag placed on spit 2005-07-28.","Surveyed","Close to 76, worth a look" +104,"1/S +",,,,"plateau/104/104.html",,,"Plateau Schacht 104",,,"1d","CUCC 1977 - Team Youth (S.Farrow). Relocated and surface surveyed CUCC 2005.","Belay to a bolt in the boulder (on top, 1977 vintage), and as much dwarf pine as you can string together. A somewhat broken but roomy shaft of 29m with ledges at -10 and -24m, to a choke.",,,,,,,,,,,,,"p104",,,,"Surface survey",,,,,"c 1650m ",,,"In deep scrub adjacent to a very large erratic boulder, in the same area as Eislufthöhle (Kat. 76). The boulder has an incipient split, and is visible from the col.",,,"
Entrance looking down from top of boulder (spit visible in front on boot)
Photo © Olly Betts, 2004","Tag","Red-painted number (1977). Traces of paint still visible in 2004, but number very hard to make out. Described boulder with spit on top fortunately still enables reliable identification. Tag placed on spit 2005-07-28.","Surveyed","Close to 76, worth a look" 105,"1/S +",,,,"plateau/105/105.html",,,"Plateau Schacht 105",,,"1d","CUCC 1977 - Team Youth (N.Thorne, A.Waddington)","Handline descent for 9m leads to a ledge from where a fine 31m pitch drops 14m to a large ledge, then continues in a parallel shaft below an aven, with further ledges at -17, -21m. The shaft is in clean bluish-white limestone and lands on a dampish flat gravel floor.",,,,,,,,,,,,,,"p105",,,"Surface survey",,,,,,,,"30m north of Eislufthöhle on the plateau.",,,"
Entrance (red circle indicates tag - original here)
","Tag","paint; tag 1999","Surveyed", 106,,,,,,,,,,"Number not allocated (see Eislufthöhle 1623/76)","nonexistent",,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,, 107,"4/S/T +",,,,"plateau/107.htm",,,"Gemshöhle",,,"1c","CUCC 1978: opened and Big Rift explored by Team Youth. Team Geriatric explored the Big Pitch and reached the bottom.","Small entrance in boulders in a dry gully drops into a small chamber, in the bottom corner of which is the excavated head of a pitch. This quickly bells out to 6m diameter and lands after 18m in a large passage which contains ice-formations early in the season. This large, phreatic passage chokes in both directions and the way on is in a rift to one side, from which the draught pours.
A pitch of 23m has an inlet entering part way down, which makes the rest of this pitch and the following one of 19m unpleasant in wet weather. Two ways then lead on, either down with the water or by traversing round this drop to another passage.
Climbing down with the water leads to a short passage with the water in a rift below. Round a sharp corner is a short drop to the head of a larger rift. A 5m pitch down this leads to another rift which, in turn, leads out to the side of a large shaft. Stones dropped from a small hole in the corner of the passage above the 5m pitch also fall into this shaft. Laddering from the side, the pitch is 67m with a large ledge just above half-way, and is unpleasantly wet in poor weather. From the base of this pitch, the continuing rift/canyon trends south west and has pitches of 5, 9 and 8m before the other route drops in from above.
Over the traverse, a short pitch of 4.5m, followed by a short climb up, leads to the head of a pitch of 10m to a boulder floor. Two ways on from here are down through the boulders into a shaft, or across the shaft and into a narrow rift. The way through boulders soon chokes, but the narrow rift soon opens into a massive shaft of 100m with a rebelay roughly halfway. This drops directly into the rift reached by the original route.
Below the junction, the rift continues with a 5m climb and pitches of 5, 14 and 44m, this last pitch being quite wet and emerging into a massive cross-rift trending south east. The water disappears into the choked floor of this rift via a nasty wet crawl, rapidly becoming too small.",,,,,"Reverse-engineered data in dataset measured from drawn-up survey","grade 5 survey from 1978
",,,"280m",,,,,"p107","exact point not recorded",,"Surface survey","gps98.107",,,,,,,"On the plateau in a prominent dry valley below southern forepeak of Hinterer Schwarzmooskogel, some way below Laser Point 0_5. The bottom of the gully is pretty much on the (cairned) best walking route from Top Camp to Bräuninghöhle (Kat.82) and Eislufthöhle (Kat.76).",,,"
","Tag","number twice in orange paint, 1998 tag on survey point ""1623 107 CUCC 1978""","Surveyed", @@ -175,7 +175,7 @@ s (mainly deduced from survey data) don't correspond well with the 1997 experien 142,"6/T/S x",,"40n",,"smkridge/142.htm",,,"Schwa Höhle 142",,,"2a","
","Yet another entrance to Stellerweghöhle, with two points of connection, and also the first point of connection with Schwabenschacht, a similar cave explored by Arbeitsgemeinschaft Höhle und Karst Grabenstetten e.V.. 142 contains a very large chamber, imaginatively named The Big Chamber reached by a 34m pitch from a point adjacent to the connection. A full description of 142 (but not 78) is one of the components of the Stellerweghöhle guidebook, just an overview is given here.
Note: With apparent perversity, the Austrians have numbered this as 115e in their Kataster. This is likely to give rise to immense confusion in the long term as more caves are connected, and numbers on entrances cannot readily be altered (owing to the obscurity of their location and inaccessibility from within the system).
After an initial small tube, the cave opens into passages very similar to those in Schwabenschacht and the upper levels of Stellerweghöhle. Descent of some of the steep ramps to the right of the main way on may provide further connections into the main cave (and one may have already done so). However, staying high leads through tubes to an inobvious junction. Left is the connection to 78, whilst right leads immediately to the head of a pitch into the Big Chamber - a popular name in the system. A route from this chamber leads to the foot of an 18m pitch in the entrance series of Stellerweghöhle, and a more obscure route through boulders from the head of the Big Chamber pitch leads to the same place.",,,,,"In dataset","CUCC plan from surveys 1982-1985, here in several sections:
","smk-system.svx",,,,"this entrance to the main system really should have a name.",,,"p142",,,"Nils",,,81218.2,35770.4,"1615.1m",,,,"Hack up the hillside behind Windloch (Kat.32).",,,"Tag (?)","The entrance was prominently numbered '132' in red but this was finally changed in 1996 after the connection to Schwabenschacht (1623-78)","Surveyed", 143,"3/S +",,,,"smkridge/143.htm",,,"Weiße Warze Schacht I",,,"2a","CUCC 1983, 1984 ","The first pitch starts after a short climb down boulders. From here light may be seen entering from another entrance 143b. The pitch of 20m lands on a small ledge and a short freeclimb leads to a traverse over wedged blocks. The next pitch of 10m is rigged over the edge of the last of these and brings one to a balcony at the start of a 23m shaft. Another clean, almost circular shaft (19m) follows, to a climb of 6m down wedged boulders. The passage now narrows to a small vadose canyon with a stream in it, but soon turns vertical at an 8m pitch, followed quickly by one of 18m. At the foot of this final shaft, the stream flows down a rift, approximately 10m deep, but too narrow to follow. Much hammering here achieved little progress, but could be heard clearly in passages leading from above the Big Pitch in Stellerweghöhle.",,,,,"In dataset","See Stellerweghöhlensystem upper levels survey","caves/143/143.svx","182m","124m","36m","The above name is provisional, since its not really my prerogative to name it, but it should have a name really.",,,"p143",,"p143x","Nils",,,,,,,,"The Nipple, (aka ""Weiße Warze"")",,"The square shaped entrance lies just below (22m vertically at 34m on 158°) the nipple at the end of the ridge running SSW from Vorderer Schwarzmooskogel.",,,,"Surveyed", 144,"6/S/T x",,,,"smkridge/144.htm",,,"Tony's Second Höhle",,,"2a","CUCC 1983, 1985 ","This is the highest entrance to Stellerweghöhle found by CUCC, and a full description is included in the Stellerweghöhle guidebook description, just an overview is given here.
A predominantly vertical entrance series leads to a level of extensive fossil phreatic development, not fully explored. The main passage, The Yellow Brick Road, leads to the lip of a 25m pitch into a large muddy chamber. From the bottom, a steeply dipping tube is followed down until a canyon is reached from a boulder chamber. Most ways close down quickly from here.
Across the pitch from Yellow Brick Road is a large continuing passage, gained by an obscure and somewhat exposed route in boulders. It soon leads to a bolted climb, but a ramp down below drops to another large passage. Right here, the draught is followed through winding passage until it emerges 20m up in a chamber. Backtracking leads to a squeeze and muddy crawls to the bottom, from where a canyon develops, finally dropping into Stellerweghöhle below the Big Pitch via a 10m chimney.
There are a significant number of unpushed leads in the cave, but all are expected to connect back to already known passage. One may provide a connection to the northernmost reaches of Schwabenschacht (1623/78).",,,,,"In dataset","Survey integrated into guidebook description","smk-system.svx",,,,"This name is the 1983 provisional name, which was intended to be scrapped. Weiße Warze Höhle II might be better, but this cave really should have a proper name - after all, it was 284m deep before the connection to the main system! It appears in Austrian lists just as Schwarzmooskogelschacht. ARGE call it ""Tony's Second Höhle"" , so we're probably stuck with the name now.",,,"p144",,"p144x","Nils",,,,,,,,"The Nipple, (aka ""Weiße Warze"")",,,,,,"Surveyed", -145,"4/t/S +","a–c",,"yes","plateau/145.htm",,,"Wolfhöhle",,,"1c","CUCC 1983-4. There is now a history file indexing into the log book write-ups.","Entrance is 2m high and 1m wide and walking passage leads for 120m of level going to first pitch, with a few side passages (one to higher entrance). Pitch is 19m into Wolf Chamber where the skeleton proved not to be of a wolf but of a Brown Bear, Ursus arctos. A pit in the floor, the Bear Pit is blind, and the continuation of the entrance pitch emits no draught and is believed to choke, but was never seriously investigated. A loose 3m climb at the far end of the chamber leads up into a draughting tube. This leads to an awkward 15m slimy tube descent, Bog Seat Climb, best laddered. A short grovel enlarges to a sandy stooping passage which pops out over the edge of a large black hole. Off to the left at this point a crawl intersects a larger passage leading to another set of smaller shafts only partially descended. It is also possible to reach the opposite side of the big pitch by this route.
The 83m Big Leap is rigged in three sections of 22, 25 and 36m via two freehanging rebelays and a deviation near the bottom, in a large rift with black peaty mud on the walls in the upper section. The rift narrows and bottoms out in a small streamway blocked here and there by jammed boulders which no longer (since 1984) constitute a squeeze. Short traverses and pitches of 15m and 6m are straightforward until a second large shaft is reached. The water cannot be avoided on the 59m Tiddley Pom pitch, which can become a serious proposition in wet weather. The first section is 11m, to the level where a heavy drip (rapidly becoming a torrent in thunderstorms) enters. The rebelay bolt is tucked away to the left, a long reach round the corner. Further sections of 17 and 24m in a circular shaft of about 6m diameter reach a big wet ledge. The final section of 7m reaches a big dry stance on jammed boulders, Cold Toes Ledge. This is far enough out of the water to be an acceptable place to sit and wait for 16 hours, or to brew soup.
The stream continues to drop in a rift, with pitches of 13 and 14m from jammed boulders. The water then sinks into a slit, Nobody Knows, which was descended for 15m before becoming too tight. To continue, traverse over this hole and continue a short way to a large black chasm, the 112m Fear and Loathing Pitch, involving some airy traversing near the top. Sections of 10, 29 and 16m reach Acrobat Flake, where careful rigging is required to avoid a particularly gymnastic changeover for the next section of 16m. The rift (never wider than 3-4m) continues with drops of 18 and 23m to land on an unpleasant bit of damp floor: Las Vegas.
A particularly unpleasant mud-walled rift, Beezley Street, ("where the rats have rickets") continues as a traverse if you can stay up, or a nasty thrutch otherwise. This ends abruptly where an aven brings clean washed limestone for the next 14m pitch. A clean, but sharp traverse continues to corkscrewing 18 and 5m pitches into The Drainage Ditch, a wading depth section of passage occasionally blocked by boulders, which hold back the static pools. Short pitches of 8, 9 and 7m twist down to another section of drainage ditch which continues for a few more metres to a static sump 399m below the main entrance.
A hole above the sump leads to a small, muddy, grovelly continuation to some small avens and a further sump, before closing down.
Geology : Tubes near the entrance are formed along the prominent NE-SW joint direction in the area, which so dominates the nearby Bräuninghöhle, and the cave trends generally SW as it drops. However, all the major vertical development is in deep shafts on joints at right-angles to this major trend, on a strike of about 120-300°. Fear and Loathing pitch in particular is in a strikingly narrow rift over 110m deep, suggesting an almost vertical joint. Below this shaft there is very little significant jointing, and the cave meanders considerably before the dismal end another 140m SW.",,,,,"In dataset","There is a particularly inadequate elevation only in Cambridge Underground 1985. There is an area plan, drawn at 1:2000, showing 145, 82 and 148 on Gauß and Krüger coordinates, which has never been published.
There is enough survey bumph to draw a respectable plan.
","caves/145/145.svx","1108m","402m","354m",,,,,,,"laser point",,,,,,,,"On the plateau, 18m above Bräuninghöhle (Kat. 82)
Permanent survey station 0/4 at entrance a.","There are two routes to this entrance, one directly from the Schwarzmoossattel, which is marked by the remains of a line of blue bailer twine, and one from the plateau camp.
For the latter, follow route described under Kat. 80 and 82, but rather than heading for the obvious entrance of 82, follow the cairns uphill towards the col between the Schwarzmooskogels. Shortly on the right is a horizontal draughting entrance 0.9m high and 1.1m wide with no number - this is presumed to be 145b (it has been checked as going into 145). 20-30m further up the hill, drop into a doline with a horizontal entrance leading off. This is 145a.",,"
Photos of all three ents on Dave's camera",,,, +145,"4/t/S +","a–c",,"yes","plateau/145/145.html",,,"Wolfhöhle",,,"1c","CUCC 1983-4. There is now a history file indexing into the log book write-ups.","Entrance is 2m high and 1m wide and walking passage leads for 120m of level going to first pitch, with a few side passages (one to higher entrance). Pitch is 19m into Wolf Chamber where the skeleton proved not to be of a wolf but of a Brown Bear, Ursus arctos. A pit in the floor, the Bear Pit is blind, and the continuation of the entrance pitch emits no draught and is believed to choke, but was never seriously investigated. A loose 3m climb at the far end of the chamber leads up into a draughting tube. This leads to an awkward 15m slimy tube descent, Bog Seat Climb, best laddered. A short grovel enlarges to a sandy stooping passage which pops out over the edge of a large black hole. Off to the left at this point a crawl intersects a larger passage leading to another set of smaller shafts only partially descended. It is also possible to reach the opposite side of the big pitch by this route.
The 83m Big Leap is rigged in three sections of 22, 25 and 36m via two freehanging rebelays and a deviation near the bottom, in a large rift with black peaty mud on the walls in the upper section. The rift narrows and bottoms out in a small streamway blocked here and there by jammed boulders which no longer (since 1984) constitute a squeeze. Short traverses and pitches of 15m and 6m are straightforward until a second large shaft is reached. The water cannot be avoided on the 59m Tiddley Pom pitch, which can become a serious proposition in wet weather. The first section is 11m, to the level where a heavy drip (rapidly becoming a torrent in thunderstorms) enters. The rebelay bolt is tucked away to the left, a long reach round the corner. Further sections of 17 and 24m in a circular shaft of about 6m diameter reach a big wet ledge. The final section of 7m reaches a big dry stance on jammed boulders, Cold Toes Ledge. This is far enough out of the water to be an acceptable place to sit and wait for 16 hours, or to brew soup.
The stream continues to drop in a rift, with pitches of 13 and 14m from jammed boulders. The water then sinks into a slit, Nobody Knows, which was descended for 15m before becoming too tight. To continue, traverse over this hole and continue a short way to a large black chasm, the 112m Fear and Loathing Pitch, involving some airy traversing near the top. Sections of 10, 29 and 16m reach Acrobat Flake, where careful rigging is required to avoid a particularly gymnastic changeover for the next section of 16m. The rift (never wider than 3-4m) continues with drops of 18 and 23m to land on an unpleasant bit of damp floor: Las Vegas.
A particularly unpleasant mud-walled rift, Beezley Street, ("where the rats have rickets") continues as a traverse if you can stay up, or a nasty thrutch otherwise. This ends abruptly where an aven brings clean washed limestone for the next 14m pitch. A clean, but sharp traverse continues to corkscrewing 18 and 5m pitches into The Drainage Ditch, a wading depth section of passage occasionally blocked by boulders, which hold back the static pools. Short pitches of 8, 9 and 7m twist down to another section of drainage ditch which continues for a few more metres to a static sump 399m below the main entrance.
A hole above the sump leads to a small, muddy, grovelly continuation to some small avens and a further sump, before closing down.
Geology : Tubes near the entrance are formed along the prominent NE-SW joint direction in the area, which so dominates the nearby Bräuninghöhle, and the cave trends generally SW as it drops. However, all the major vertical development is in deep shafts on joints at right-angles to this major trend, on a strike of about 120-300°. Fear and Loathing pitch in particular is in a strikingly narrow rift over 110m deep, suggesting an almost vertical joint. Below this shaft there is very little significant jointing, and the cave meanders considerably before the dismal end another 140m SW.",,,,,"In dataset","There is a particularly inadequate elevation only in Cambridge Underground 1985. There is an area plan, drawn at 1:2000, showing 145, 82 and 148 on Gauß and Krüger coordinates, which has never been published.
There is enough survey bumph to draw a respectable plan.
","caves/145/145.svx","1108m","402m","354m",,,,,,,"laser point",,,,,,,,"On the plateau, 18m above Bräuninghöhle (Kat. 82)
Permanent survey station 0/4 at entrance a.","There are two routes to this entrance, one directly from the Schwarzmoossattel, which is marked by the remains of a line of blue bailer twine, and one from the plateau camp.
For the latter, follow route described under Kat. 80 and 82, but rather than heading for the obvious entrance of 82, follow the cairns uphill towards the col between the Schwarzmooskogels. Shortly on the right is a horizontal draughting entrance 0.9m high and 1.1m wide with no number - this is presumed to be 145b (it has been checked as going into 145). 20-30m further up the hill, drop into a doline with a horizontal entrance leading off. This is 145a.",,"
| 145a (© Andy Waddington 1984) | 145a (© David Loeffler 01/08/2005 12:03:13) | 145b (© David Loeffler 01/08/2005 10:46:39) | 145c (© David Loeffler 01/08/2005 12:18:14) |
(We strongly believe the hole above is 145c, but we are not completely sure.)",,,, ,,"a",,"entrance",,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,"p145","May be Laser point 0/4, but it is dubious",,,,"gps00.145",,,,,,,,,,"Tag","Red paint ""145""; tag.","Surveyed", ,,"b",,"entrance",,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,"p145b",,,"Surface survey",,,,,,,,,,,,"Tag",,"Surveyed", ,,"c",,"last entrance",,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,"p145c",,,"Surface survey",,,,,,,,,,,,"Unmarked",,"Surveyed", @@ -252,13 +252,16 @@ s (mainly deduced from survey data) don't correspond well with the 1997 experien 201,"1/S +",,"1998/01",,"smkridge/201.htm",,,"Haftefelle Schacht","Ski-skin shaft",,"2c","CUCC 1998 - a single descent.","2m diameter shaft drops 25m to a boulder floor - a short second pitch follows immediately leading to a too-tight rift. A 40m rope is sufficient.",,,,,"In dataset","? pic","caves/201/201.svx","15m","15m",,,,,"p201",,,"Surface survey",,"gps00.201",,,,,,"NW flank of Vorderer Schwarzmooskogel. 20m N of Laser 0/1","Follow the cairned path which ascends the Vorder Schwarzmooskogel from the NW. Shortly before the obvious open rift entrance of 1623/156 (which is 50m south of Laser Point 0/1) is a small (2m diameter) open shaft.",,,"Tag","metal tag stamped ""CUCC 201"" fixed by M6 stud epoxied into horizontal surface on NW side of main entrance (stud placed 1998, proper kataster number tag replaced provisional one in 1999).","Surveyed", 202,,,,,"noinfo/smkridge/202.html",,,"Dominoschacht",,,"2a",,,,,,,"In dataset",,"caves/202/202.svx",,,,,,,"p202",,,"Surface survey",,,,,,,,,,,,,,"Surveyed", 203,,,,,"noinfo/smkridge/203.html",,,"Sonnenscheinschacht",,,"2a",,,,,,,"In dataset",,"caves/203/203.svx",,,,,,,"p203",,,"Surface survey",,,,,,,,,,,,,,"Surveyed", -204,"5/S x","a–f","CUCC 1999/03","yes","smkridge/204/204.html",,,"Steinbrückenhöhle",,,"2d","
","
",,"Question mark list and Completed question mark list. ",,,"In dataset; download .3d file or Raw survey data","
","caves/204/204.svx","11.7km","542m","645m (approximately N-S)",,,,,,,,,,,,,,,"The cave is situated on the west side of the col between the Hinterer Schwarzmooskogel and Nieder Augst-Eck. It is currently one of the main areas of exploration for CUCC, who in 2001 established a bivvy site under the stone bridge opposite the entrance.","The route from Top Camp used since 1999 (probably near optimal) is a cairned path via Wolfhöhle (1623/145) and Laser Point 5, then up to the top of the bare patch of white limestone visible from Top Camp, passing 195 and 196. The path used in 2001 then skirts around the contours, passing the unmistakable arched entrance of Hauchhöhle, to arrive directly opposite the stone bridge after which the cave was named (in previous years a route slightly higher up towards the Hinter was used, which some people still prefer; this is also cairned). Alternatively, the cave may be approached from the summit of HSK - probably the optimal route if you are coming from any of the 161 entrances.",,,,,, +204,"5/S x","a–f","CUCC 1999/03","yes","smkridge/204/204.html",,,"Steinbrückenhöhle",,,"2d","
","
",,"Question mark list and Completed question mark list. ",,,"In dataset; download .3d file or Raw survey data","
","caves/204/204.svx","11.7km","542m","645m (approximately N-S)",,,,,,,,,,,,,,,"The cave is situated on the west side of the col between the Hinterer Schwarzmooskogel and Nieder Augst-Eck. It is currently one of the main areas of exploration for CUCC, who in 2001 established a bivvy site under the stone bridge opposite the entrance.","The route from Top Camp used since 1999 (probably near optimal) is a cairned path via Wolfhöhle (1623/145) and Laser Point 5, then up to the top of the bare patch of white limestone visible from Top Camp, passing 195 and 196. The path used in 2001 then skirts around the contours, passing the unmistakable arched entrance of Hauchhöhle, to arrive directly opposite the stone bridge after which the cave was named (in previous years a route slightly higher up towards the Hinter was used, which some people still prefer; this is also cairned). Alternatively, the cave may be approached from the summit of HSK - probably the optimal route if you are coming from any of the 161 entrances.",,,,,, ,,"a",,"entrance",,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,"p204a",,,"Nils",,,,,,,,,,,,"Tag",,"Surveyed", ,,"b",,"entrance",,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,"p204b",,,"Surface survey",,,,,,,,,,,,"Tag",,"Surveyed", -,,"c",,"entrance",,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,"p204c",,,"Surface survey",,,,,,,,,,,,"Tag",,"Surveyed", -,,"d",,"entrance",,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,"p204d",,,"Surface survey",,,,,,,,,,,,"Tag",,"Surveyed", -,,"e",,"entrance",,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,"p204e",,,"Surface survey",,,,,,,,,,,,"Tag",,"Surveyed", -,,"f",,"last entrance",,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,"p204f",,,"Surface survey",,,,,,,,,,,,"Tag",,"Surveyed", +,,"c",,"entrance",,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,"p204c",,,,"Surface survey",,,,,,,,,,,,"Tag",,"Surveyed", +,,"d",,"entrance",,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,"t204d",,,,"Surface survey",,,,,,,,,,,,"Tag",,"Surveyed", +,,"e",,"entrance",,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,"p204e",,,,"Surface survey",,,,,,,,,,,,"Tag",,"Surveyed", +,,"f",,"entrance",,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,"p204f",,,,"Surface survey",,,,,,,,,,,,"Tag",,"Surveyed", +,,"g",,"entrance",,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,"p204g","Old tag spit on loose boulder",,"Surface survey",,,,,,,,,,,,,,, +,,"h",,"entrance",,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,"p204h",,,,"Surface survey",,,,,,,,,,,,,,, +,,"i",,"last entrance",,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,"p204i",,,"Surface survey",,,,,,,,,,,,,,, 205,"2/S +",,"1999-BO-01",,"smkridge/205/205.html",,,"Nordalpenschacht",,,"2c","CUCC 1999","The main entrance is rigged off a spit and naturals and drops around 8m, via a natural deviation at a ledge, to a small chamber. A crawl leads off from here at head height for some distance, but closes off. The way on is to continue straight down through the floor of this chamber, through fairly solidly wedged boulders (quite tight) using the rope rigged on the entrance pitch. This lands at the head of a walking sized rift heading steeply down. There are two small passages in the wall where the rope comes down [these connect to the horizontal entrance of Nordalpenhöhle, see below]. Clamber down the rift. At the bottom is the snow plug from the second entrance. It is possible to cross the snow plug. At the far side, the passage closes down and is mud filled with no draught.
The way on is a flat-out crawl under the right wall, immediately before the snow plug. The crawl was dug because it was draughting out quite strongly. Once under the wall, the roof immediately rises to comfortable crawling height and the passage widens. After 5m, roomy phreatic passage is reached, around 5m wide and 3m high. A roof tube leads off to the right. It can also be reached by a roof crawl from further down the passage on the left. The tube leads to two small chambers and ends in a too-tight rift.
The floor of the main passage starts to drop away as the passage turns to the right, leaving a ledge along the left wall. A trickle of water enters at floor level. A pitch is rigged off the ledge using spits in the left wall. This pitch drops 10m and ends in a choked chamber. An exposed traverse on the left, beyond the pitch head, leads to a choked tube. Directly across from the pitch head, a further roof tube also chokes.
The third horizontal entrance begins with a flat out crawl in sticky mud, and reaches a small, low chamber. The low passage continues as hands and knees crawling. This passes a window on the left which looks into the snow-filled shaft (the second entrance). Straight ahead and a little further, an eyehole looks into the chamber which the first entrance pitch lands in. Continuing on, straddling over a rock ridge leads to two further eyeholes which look into the sloping rift passage where the rope ends from the first entrance pitch.",,,,,"In dataset","1996-9 NotKH book pages 76-77. There are two sets of surveys: larger-scale drawings of the main passages, and less detailed sketches including the horizontal Nordalpenhöhle entrance. These are all very bad scans, as the originals are on very thin paper, and can't easily be removed from the NotKH book without damaging them.
","caves/205/205.svx","91m","39m",,,,"p205tag","p205",,,"Surface survey",,"gps00.205",,,,,,"(tagged point might be the start of underground survey, main entrance, ~2m from tag)",,"The main (first) entrance is a 2m x 0.5m shaft around 5m higher and 7m away from a larger, snow-plugged shaft (the second entrance), which in turn is just above a snow field, a little higher than the Eishöhle path. Both entrances lie on an obvious fault line which heads uphill for around 100m. If the fault line is followed up to just past a squeeze through bunde, you can turn left for around 100m to reach the entrance to 1623/136, Steinschlagschacht.
A third, horizontal entrance is found by heading down to the snow filled shaft (the second entrance) and traversing left beneath a small cliff for around 20m. This leads to a low, unobvious hole at foot height, noticed because it was draughting out quite strongly. There is a surface survey to this third entrance from the first entrance.","
Photos © Olly Betts 2000. Model: Martin Green.","Retag","tag at main entrance ""CUCC 1999-01""","Surveyed", 206,,"a–g",,"yes","noinfo/smkridge/206.html",,,"7-Eingangshöhle",,,"2b",,,,,,,"In dataset",,"caves/206/206.svx",,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,, ,,"a",,"entrance",,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,"p206",,,"Surface survey",,,,,,,,,,,,,,"Surveyed", @@ -304,7 +307,7 @@ s (mainly deduced from survey data) don't correspond well with the 1997 experien ,,"i",,"last entrance",,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,"p231i",,,"Surface survey",,,,,,,,,,,,"Tag",,"Surveyed", 232,"2/S x ",,,,,,,"Grießkogelschacht",,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,, 233,,,,,,,,,,"Number allocated to Germans","nonexistent",,,,,,,,,,"244m","111m",,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,, -234,"3/S/W x","a b","2000-09","yes","smkridge/234/234.html",,,"Hauchhöhle",,,"2d","CUCC 2000, 2002, 2004.","
","20m rope + 2 slings for ent pitch; 5m handline + 1 or 2 slings for climb down into Flashgun Chamber. More needed for Pie Series and traverse to Sweet Sight.","Question mark list.","Form submitted summer 2003 as part of a misnumbering cockup. Resolved 2004-07-28 with allocation of new number 234.",,"In dataset; download .3d file or Raw survey data","plan drawn up after 2004 expo:
(Also exists in printable form, which will be 1:500 scale if printed at 300dpi; see here, or here and here for versions split up to print on 2 A4 sheets. There are also corresponding colour versions here, here and here.)","caves/234/234.svx","619m","61m","127m",,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,"The arch-shaped entrance and gully are obvious from the route used in 2000 onwards from Top Camp to Steinbrückenhöhle. Shortly after crossing the large bare area of limestone slabs on the flanks of the Hinter, the path traverses directly around the right-hand side of the entrance gully.",,"
","20m rope + 2 slings for ent pitch; 5m handline + 1 or 2 slings for climb down into Flashgun Chamber. More needed for Pie Series and traverse to Sweet Sight.","Question mark list.","Form submitted summer 2003 as part of a misnumbering cockup. Resolved 2004-07-28 with allocation of new number 234.",,"In dataset; download .3d file or Raw survey data","plan drawn up after 2004 expo:
(Also exists in printable form, which will be 1:500 scale if printed at 300dpi; see here, or here and here for versions split up to print on 2 A4 sheets. There are also corresponding colour versions here, here and here.)","caves/234/234.svx","619m","61m","127m",,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,"The arch-shaped entrance and gully are obvious from the route used in 2000 onwards from Top Camp to Steinbrückenhöhle. Shortly after crossing the large bare area of limestone slabs on the flanks of the Hinter, the path traverses directly around the right-hand side of the entrance gully.",,"
",,"6m","3m",,,,,"gps02olly.235",,,,,,,,,,,"The cave is situated on a flatish area of limestone uphill from the row of Eishöhle entrances that lead to Schneevulcanhalle. ",,,,"Tag","""1623/235"" tag placed 2002-08-09. (Is this correct, or does the tag really say 1623/230, as the 2002 logbook asserts?)","Surveyed", @@ -374,9 +377,12 @@ s (mainly deduced from survey data) don't correspond well with the 1997 experien ,"1/S +",,"LA37",,"remote/la37.htm",,,"LUSS/LA37",,,6,"LUSS 1988","Steep snow ramp descends 10m to pool of water. No way on.",,,,"The above description is taken from the LUSS report on the 1988 expedition.",,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,"1860m",,,"13° 50' 08"" E, 47° 42' 03"" N",,,,,,"Lost", ,"1/S +",,"LA38",,"remote/la38.htm",,,"LUSS/LA38",,,6,"LUSS 1988","15m inclined pitch to snow blockage.",,,,"The above description is taken from the LUSS report on the 1988 expedition. ",,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,"1900m",,,"13° 50' 01"" E, 47° 42' 02"" N",,,,,,"Lost", ,"1/E +",,"LA40",,"remote/la40.htm",,,"LUSS/LA40",,,6,"LUSS 1988","Small entrance leads to boulder ramp to choke with ice formations.",,,,"The above description is taken from the LUSS report on the 1988 expedition.",,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,"1860m",,,"13° 50' 01"" E, 47° 42' 13"" N",,,,,,"Lost", -,,,"BS1-16",,,,,,,"UBSS finds - no documentation",,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,"Lost", -,"2/S +",,"BS17",,"noinfo/remote/bs17.htm",,,"Organhöhle",,,6,"UBSS 1990","A deep and serious cave in a very remote location, with numerous Puits en bayonettes, from which rescue would be virtually impossible after a tortuous tube at -100m.
The 1m diameter entrance is followed by a walking sized phreatic passage with further entrances in the roof. This continues to a four-way junction. Straight on soon chokes at a boulder slope. Up to the left, the passage winds back to a further entrance. The way on is down to the right. The 5m high passage continues, passing low crawls on the left and right to a point where the roof lowers and the passage is split horizontally. The lower passage leads to an extensive series of low crawls whilst the upper passage continues to a squeeze past a debris cone with a distinct draught. Past the debris cone the passage splits again. The right hand passage chokes soon after a 12m pitch but the left hand passage carries on as a hands and knees crawl, crosses a blind 4m pit and soon reaches the first pitch.
A fine descent of 66m in a large shaft lands on a boulder ledge with the second pitch following on immediately. This descends 50m to a 15cm wide rift. Although there is a possible continuation beyond, this would require considerable effort to enter and was not pushed. A climb up to a window above the second pitch (krab and sling left rigged) gains a climb down to the boulder-strewn foot of an aven and a horizontal tube going off (not explored). 13m down the second pitch, Fledermaus ledge can be gained, with a passage leading off to Fledermaus pitch, named for the quantities of bat skeletons at its head. This 27m descent reaches about the same level as the base of the second pitch, and is blind except for a small slot in one wall. Traversing over Fledermaus leads to a small chamber with two tubes leading off, both draughting. The left tube becomes too tight, but a pitch can be seen beyond the constriction. The right tube is the Organ Grinder.
The Organ Grinder is 46m of exceedingly tortuous passage - nowhere extremely tight but twisting and turning, rising and falling, requiring a unique combination of contortions. It is best tackled feet first on the way in (head first on the way out) until a flat out crawl near the end which leads to the crux: a U-bend, best approached head first on the descent. This is even more difficult on the return, when it is best tackled feet first. UBSS's times to pass this passage varied from 10 minutes to 3½ hours, with an average of 20 minutes. There is just room to replace SRT gear before the following pitch. The return of an injured person through this tube would be almost impossible without extensive modification of the cave.
The third pitch descends 42m, passing two windows, to a floor with no way on. From the foot of the pitch, a 3m climb up to a ledge reveals two climbs down. One of thse is blind, but the other leads to an undescended pitch of c20m.
Both of the windows in the third pitch connect with Topher's pitch, and the lower one was rigged. From here the pitch is 86m with a large ledge near the bottom. At the foot, a window leads to an aven, whilst in the opposite wall, another window looks onto the fifth pitch, Toccata and Feuge (sic).
Toccata and Feuge is best descended from a ledge above the large ledge in Topher's pitch. Rigged mainly from flakes and threads, it drops in a series of steps, 39m in total. A small hole in the floor drops into a chamber with no passable way on - just two exits, both too tight. 10m back up the pitch, a ledge can be gained and is the start of the Rift Climb. This is a 40m descent, and is best rigged as a self-lined climb. The rift continues for some distance horizontally, but has not been followed. Below the Rift climb, the head of another pitch can be gained, but great care should be exercised in the Rift Climb and this following pitch (The Pitch of the Flying Boulders) as there are many loose rocks, which, when dislodged, fall the full depth of both pitches. From the bottom of Topher's Pitch to the head of PotFB, many fossils of ""large bivalves and snails on sticks"" protrude up to 25mm from the rock.
The PotFB was rigged from a thread and is somewhat awkward for 6m to a rebelay, after which it hangs free. The 32m descent lands in The Hall of the Flying Boulders, which again contains much loose rock, choking the floor level. However, a 2m climb up a mudbank leads to an impressive phreatic passage. A pit in the floor of this passage drops to a chamber with a deep well. Passing this, and a smaller side passage on he left, one soon reaches Another Bloody Pitch with a strong draught at the head. The side passage also joins this pitch. Another Bloody Pitch is 31m, but ends blind. A window part way down reaches a further shaft of 36m, also blind, but this is the deepest explored point, at -295m.
From the head of Another Bloody Pitch, a continuation of the phreatic passage can be seen, but will not be reached without a serious bolted traverse. It is thought that this is the main way on, at c260m depth.",,,," The above description is adapted from the UBSS report in Newsletter Vol 6 No. 3, November 1990. ",,"Grade 3c survey on cover of UBSS Nls 6(3), 11/90",,"235m","295m",,,,,"bs17",,,"Coordinates probably read from map, converted from lat long assuming MGI datum",,,,,"1950m",,,"About 300m along the north side of the ridge running east from Hohes Augst-Eck, about 50m from the summit of the ridge at the foot of a 5m cliff, a 1m diameter tube. [no surface survey info or coordinates].",,,,,,"Lost", -,,,"BS18-nn?",,,,,,,"UBSS finds - no documentation",,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,"Lost", +,,,"BS1-15",,,,,,,"UBSS finds - no documentation",,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,"Lost", +,,,"BS16",,,,,,,"UBSS finds - no documentation",,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,"bs16",,,"Coordinates probably read from map, converted from lat long assuming MGI datum",,,,,,,,,,,,,,"Lost","No idea if these coordinates are any good" +,"2/S +",,"BS17",,"noinfo/remote/bs17.htm",,,"Organhöhle",,,6,"UBSS 1990","A deep and serious cave in a very remote location, with numerous Puits en bayonettes, from which rescue would be virtually impossible after a tortuous tube at -100m.
The 1m diameter entrance is followed by a walking sized phreatic passage with further entrances in the roof. This continues to a four-way junction. Straight on soon chokes at a boulder slope. Up to the left, the passage winds back to a further entrance. The way on is down to the right. The 5m high passage continues, passing low crawls on the left and right to a point where the roof lowers and the passage is split horizontally. The lower passage leads to an extensive series of low crawls whilst the upper passage continues to a squeeze past a debris cone with a distinct draught. Past the debris cone the passage splits again. The right hand passage chokes soon after a 12m pitch but the left hand passage carries on as a hands and knees crawl, crosses a blind 4m pit and soon reaches the first pitch.
A fine descent of 66m in a large shaft lands on a boulder ledge with the second pitch following on immediately. This descends 50m to a 15cm wide rift. Although there is a possible continuation beyond, this would require considerable effort to enter and was not pushed. A climb up to a window above the second pitch (krab and sling left rigged) gains a climb down to the boulder-strewn foot of an aven and a horizontal tube going off (not explored). 13m down the second pitch, Fledermaus ledge can be gained, with a passage leading off to Fledermaus pitch, named for the quantities of bat skeletons at its head. This 27m descent reaches about the same level as the base of the second pitch, and is blind except for a small slot in one wall. Traversing over Fledermaus leads to a small chamber with two tubes leading off, both draughting. The left tube becomes too tight, but a pitch can be seen beyond the constriction. The right tube is the Organ Grinder.
The Organ Grinder is 46m of exceedingly tortuous passage - nowhere extremely tight but twisting and turning, rising and falling, requiring a unique combination of contortions. It is best tackled feet first on the way in (head first on the way out) until a flat out crawl near the end which leads to the crux: a U-bend, best approached head first on the descent. This is even more difficult on the return, when it is best tackled feet first. UBSS's times to pass this passage varied from 10 minutes to 3½ hours, with an average of 20 minutes. There is just room to replace SRT gear before the following pitch. The return of an injured person through this tube would be almost impossible without extensive modification of the cave.
The third pitch descends 42m, passing two windows, to a floor with no way on. From the foot of the pitch, a 3m climb up to a ledge reveals two climbs down. One of thse is blind, but the other leads to an undescended pitch of c20m.
Both of the windows in the third pitch connect with Topher's pitch, and the lower one was rigged. From here the pitch is 86m with a large ledge near the bottom. At the foot, a window leads to an aven, whilst in the opposite wall, another window looks onto the fifth pitch, Toccata and Feuge (sic).
Toccata and Feuge is best descended from a ledge above the large ledge in Topher's pitch. Rigged mainly from flakes and threads, it drops in a series of steps, 39m in total. A small hole in the floor drops into a chamber with no passable way on - just two exits, both too tight. 10m back up the pitch, a ledge can be gained and is the start of the Rift Climb. This is a 40m descent, and is best rigged as a self-lined climb. The rift continues for some distance horizontally, but has not been followed. Below the Rift climb, the head of another pitch can be gained, but great care should be exercised in the Rift Climb and this following pitch (The Pitch of the Flying Boulders) as there are many loose rocks, which, when dislodged, fall the full depth of both pitches. From the bottom of Topher's Pitch to the head of PotFB, many fossils of ""large bivalves and snails on sticks"" protrude up to 25mm from the rock.
The PotFB was rigged from a thread and is somewhat awkward for 6m to a rebelay, after which it hangs free. The 32m descent lands in The Hall of the Flying Boulders, which again contains much loose rock, choking the floor level. However, a 2m climb up a mudbank leads to an impressive phreatic passage. A pit in the floor of this passage drops to a chamber with a deep well. Passing this, and a smaller side passage on he left, one soon reaches Another Bloody Pitch with a strong draught at the head. The side passage also joins this pitch. Another Bloody Pitch is 31m, but ends blind. A window part way down reaches a further shaft of 36m, also blind, but this is the deepest explored point, at -295m.
From the head of Another Bloody Pitch, a continuation of the phreatic passage can be seen, but will not be reached without a serious bolted traverse. It is thought that this is the main way on, at c260m depth.",,,," The above description is adapted from the UBSS report in Newsletter Vol 6 No. 3, November 1990. ",,"Grade 3c survey on cover of UBSS Nls 6(3), 11/90",,"235m","295m",,,,,"bs17",,,"Coordinates probably read from map, converted from lat long assuming MGI datum",,,,,"1950m",,,"About 300m along the north side of the ridge running east from Hohes Augst-Eck, about 50m from the summit of the ridge at the foot of a 5m cliff, a 1m diameter tube. [no surface survey info or coordinates].",,,,,,"Lost","No idea if these coordinates are any good" +,,,"BS18",,,,,,,"UBSS finds - no documentation",,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,"Lost", +,,,"BS19",,,,,,,"UBSS finds - no documentation",,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,"bs19",,,"Coordinates probably read from map, converted from lat long assuming MGI datum",,,,,,,,,,,,,,"Lost","No idea if these coordinates are any good" +,,,"BS20-nn?",,,,,,,"UBSS finds - no documentation",,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,"Lost", ,"+ (?)",,"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","
| Approach | Closeup of entrance | Paint markings |
Photos © 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)" @@ -416,19 +422,15 @@ s (mainly deduced from survey data) don't correspond well with the 1997 experien ,"1/S x",,"2002-07",,"smkridge/2002-07/2002-07.html",,,,"Quarries A-C",,"2d","CUCC 2002 Frank, Ben","From the sketch it seems that there are 3 entrances in a line which connect underground, and a continuing downwards shaft blocked with snow. In 2002 there was a gap down one side of the snow plug but this was not explored. This point is 34m below the surface and a mere 9m above Crowning Glory in 204.",,,,,"In dataset","
(Drawn up by DL from Frank's notes in 2002#23)","caves/2002-07/2002-07.svx","42m","34m","16m",,,"p2002-07",,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,"Tag","Tag placed 2002","Surveyed", ,"1/S x",,"2002-08",,"smkridge/2002-08/2002-08.html",,,,"Quarries E",,"2d","CUCC 2002 Frank, Ben","Hole at the bottom of a surface depression opens out to a pitch into a 6m by 4m chamber. Next pitch-head is too tight and requires capping.",,,,,"In dataset",,"caves/2002-08/2002-08.svx","21m","14m ","10m",,,"t2002-08","p2002-08","point on dripline",,,,,,,,,,,,,,"Tag","Tag placed 2002","Surveyed", ,"1/S +",,"2002-XX",,"smkridge/2002-XX/2002-XX.html",,,,"Quarries D",,"2d","CUCC 2002 Frank, Ben","12m surface shaft, too tight at bottom.",,,,,"In dataset",,"caves/quarriesd/quarriesd.svx","21m","12m","3m",,,,"pquarriesd","No idea",,,,,,,,,,,,,,"Spit (?)",,"Surveyed", -,"-",,"2002-X09",,"smkridge/2002-X09/2002-X09.html",,,,,,"2d","Entrance noted CUCC 2002 Dunks","Not descended",,,,,,,,,,,,,,"gps02.p2002-x09","No idea",,,,,,,,,,,,"Apparently ""Darenesque""",,"Unmarked",,"Surveyed", -,"-",,"2002-X09B",,"smkridge/2002-X09B/2002-X09B.html",,,,,,"2d","Entrance noted CUCC 2002 Dunks","Not descended",,,,,,,,,,,,,,"gps02.p2002-x09b","No idea",,,,,,,,,,,,"Prominent rock shelter",,"Unmarked",,"Surveyed", -,"-",,"2002-10",,"smkridge/2002-10/2002-10.html",,,,,,"2d","Entrance noted CUCC 2002 Dunks","5m shaft into a 3m long chamber with unexplored continuations in both directions",,,,,,,,,,,,,"gps02.p2002-10",,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,"Tag","Tag placed 2002","Surveyed", -,"-",,"2002-X11",,"smkridge/2002-X11/2002-X11.html",,,,,,"2d","Entrance noted CUCC 2002 Dunks","5m wide circular 8m pitch with unexplored passages leading off NE and NW, and a rock bridg e at SW corner.",,,,,,,,,,,,,,"gps02.p2002-x11","No idea",,,,,,,,,,,,,,"Unmarked",,"Surveyed", -,"-",,"2002-X12",,"smkridge/2002-X12/2002-X12.html",,,,,,"2d","Entrance noted CUCC 2002 Dunks","Not descended",,,,,,,,,,,,,,"gps02.p2002-x12","No idea",,,,,,,,,,,,"1m triangular slopy",,"Unmarked",,"Surveyed", -,"-",,"2002-X13",,"smkridge/2002-X13/2002-X13.html",,,"L Schacht",,,"2d","Entrance noted CUCC 2002 Dunks","15m deep undescended surface shaft",,,,,,,,,,,,,,"gps02.p2002-x13","No idea",,,,,,,,,,,,,,"Unmarked",,"Surveyed", -,"-",,"2002-X14",,"smkridge/2002-X14/2002-X14.html",,,,,,"2d","Entrance noted CUCC 2002 Dunks","Not descended",,,,,,,,,,,,,,"gps02.p2002-x14","No idea",,,,,,,,,,,,"Cliff entrance, 3m wide, 1m high on cliff facing E",,"Unmarked",,"Surveyed", -,"-",,"2002-X15",,"smkridge/2002-X15/2002-X15.html",,,,,,"2d","Entrance noted CUCC 2002 Dunks","""Big, blind tunnel"" it says here - presumably that's a tick then?",,,,,,,,,,,,,,"gps02.p2002-x15","No idea",,,,,,,,,,,,,,"Unmarked",,"Surveyed", -,"-",,"2002-X16",,"smkridge/2002-X16/2002-X16.html",,,,,,"2d","Entrance noted CUCC 2002 Dunks","Notes have one word of description, which is rather smudged but could be ""spring"" (?)",,,,,,,,,,,,,,"gps02.p2002-x16","No idea",,,,,,,,,,,,,,"Unmarked",,"Surveyed", -,"-",,"2002-X17",,"smkridge/2002-X17/2002-X17.html",,,,,,"2d","Entrance noted CUCC 2002 Dunks","~20m deep shaft in slabs",,,,,,,,,,,,,,"gps02.p2002-x17","No idea",,,,,,,,,,,,,,"Unmarked",,"Surveyed", -,"-",,"2002-X18",,"smkridge/2002-X18/2002-X18.html",,,,,,"2d","Entrance noted CUCC 2002 Dunks","2m wide shaft in bunde",,,,,,,,,,,,,,"gps02.p2002-x18","No idea",,,,,,,,,,,,,,"Unmarked",,"Surveyed", +,"-",,"2002-X09",,"smkridge/2002-X09/2002-X09.html",,,,,,"2d","Entrance noted CUCC 2002 Dunks","Not descended",,,,"original survey sketches",,,,,,,,,,"gps02.p2002-x09","No idea",,,,,,,,,,,,"Apparently ""Darenesque""",,"Unmarked",,"Surveyed", +,"-",,"2002-X09B",,"smkridge/2002-X09B/2002-X09B.html",,,,,,"2d","Entrance noted CUCC 2002 Dunks","Not descended",,,,"original survey sketches",,,,,,,,,,"gps02.p2002-x09b","No idea",,,,,,,,,,,,"Prominent rock shelter",,"Unmarked",,"Surveyed", +,"-",,"2002-10",,"smkridge/2002-10/2002-10.html",,,,,,"2d","Entrance noted CUCC 2002 Dunks","5m shaft into a 3m long chamber with unexplored continuations in both directions",,,,"original survey sketches",,,,,,,,,"gps02.p2002-10",,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,"Tag","Tag placed 2002","Surveyed", +,"-",,"2002-X15",,"smkridge/2002-X15/2002-X15.html",,,,,,"2d","Entrance noted CUCC 2002 Dunks","""Big, blind tunnel"" it says here - presumably that's a tick then?",,,,"original survey sketches",,,,,,,,,,"gps02.p2002-x15","No idea",,,,,,,,,,,,,,"Unmarked",,"Surveyed", +,"-",,"2002-X16",,"smkridge/2002-X16/2002-X16.html",,,,,,"2d","Entrance noted CUCC 2002 Dunks","Notes have one word of description, which is rather smudged but could be ""spring"" (?)",,,,"original survey sketches",,,,,,,,,,"gps02.p2002-x16","No idea",,,,,,,,,,,,,,"Unmarked",,"Surveyed", +,"-",,"2002-X17",,"smkridge/2002-X17/2002-X17.html",,,,,,"2d","Entrance noted CUCC 2002 Dunks","~20m deep shaft in slabs",,,,"original survey sketches",,,,,,,,,,"gps02.p2002-x17","No idea",,,,,,,,,,,,,,"Unmarked",,"Surveyed", +,"-",,"2002-X18",,"smkridge/2002-X18/2002-X18.html",,,,,,"2d","Entrance noted CUCC 2002 Dunks","2m wide shaft in bunde",,,,"original survey sketches",,,,,,,,,,"gps02.p2002-x18","No idea",,,,,,,,,,,,,,"Unmarked",,"Surveyed", ,"1/S/T +",,"2003-01",,"smkridge/2003-01/2003-01.html",,,"Alcove cave",,,"2d","CUCC 2003 Tony R, Brian O","A short climbable rift in an alcove in the side of the hill leads to about an 8metre pitch to a small round chamber which is comprehensively choked ",,,,,"In dataset",,"caves/2003-01/2003-01.svx","26m","9m","12m N-S",,,"p2003-01",,,,,,,,,,,,,"Walk over the back of the ridge from 204",,,"Tag","Tag placed 2003","Surveyed", -,"?",,"2003-07",,"smkridge/2003-07/2003-07.html",,,,,,"2d","CUCC 2003 ?Brian?","Believed to have been descended in 2003 (probably by Brian)",,,,,,,,,,,,,"gps03.2003-07",,,,,,,,,,,,"This cave is somewhat mysterious. 2003 records give a GPS fix for ""2003-07"" at the location described; but in 2004 it transpired that the cave documented under the number 2003-08, now renumbered as 240, had actually been tagged as 2003-07.
A search of the location described by these GPS coordinates by Anthony + Julia in 2005 revealed a single candidate shaft, which Julia thought she had seen someone climbing out of, possibly Brian.",,"Small pit with a horizontal entrance leading to an immediate short pitch.","On Julia's camera","None",,"Surveyed", +,"?",,"2003-07",,"smkridge/2003-07/2003-07.html",,,,,,"2d","CUCC 2003 ?Brian?","Believed to have been descended in 2003 (probably by Brian)",,,,,,,,,,,,,"gps03.2003-07",,,,,,,,,,,,"This cave is somewhat mysterious. 2003 records give a GPS fix for ""2003-07"" at the location described; but in 2004 it transpired that the cave documented under the number 2003-08, now renumbered as 240, had actually been tagged as 2003-07.
A search of the location described by these GPS coordinates by Anthony + Julia in 2005 revealed a single candidate shaft, which Julia thought she had seen someone climbing out of, possibly Brian.",,"Small pit with a horizontal entrance leading to an immediate short pitch.","On Julia's camera","Unmarked",,"Surveyed", ,"1/T +",,"2003-X11",,"smkridge/2003-X11/2003-X11.html",,,,"Earl + Becka's Dead Cave 1",,"2d","CUCC 2003 (Earl, Becka)","Loose boulder slope in ~25m into boulder/rubble choked chamber, quite large and with a high roof (say 5m high and 5m wide). No draught, no way on visible. Boulders loose at the top.",,,,"2003#03",,,,,,,,,,"gps03_bis.p2003-x11",,,"GPS post SA",,,,,,,,"Below and SE of GPSsed point",,,,"Unmarked",,"Surveyed", ,"1/S -",,"2003-X12",,"smkridge/2003-X12/2003-X12.html",,,,"Earl + Becka's Undescended Shaft 2",,"2d","CUCC 2003 (Earl, Becka)","Surface shaft ~10m deep to boulder floor. Shaft ~3x4m at surface. Could be rigged on naturals. Can't tell if draughting.",,,,"2003#03",,,,,,,,,,"gps03_bis.p2003-x12",,,"GPS post SA",,,,,,,,,,,,"Unmarked",,"Surveyed", ,"1/T =",,"2003-X13",,"smkridge/2003-X13/2003-X13.html",,,,"Earl + Becka's Low Entrance 4",,"2d","CUCC 2000? 2001? + 2003 (Earl, Becka)","Crawl over small stones. No apparent draught.",,"Not clear if it's been pushed to conclusion; if so, it needs documenting properly anyway",,"2003#03",,,,,,,,,,"gps03_bis.p2003-x13",,,"GPS post SA",,,,,,,,"Just off old route to 204",,"Obvious low arch in large depression",,"Unmarked",,"Surveyed", @@ -438,14 +440,14 @@ s (mainly deduced from survey data) don't correspond well with the 1997 experien ,"1/S -",,"2003-X17",,"smkridge/2003-X17/2003-X17.html",,,,"Earl + Becka's Shaft 8",,"2d","CUCC 2003 (Earl, Becka)","2m diameter shaft, ~5m deep, possible way off at bottom (not promising).",,,,"2003#03",,,,,,,,,,"gps03_bis.p2003-x17",,,"GPS post SA",,,,,,,,"In grassy meadow at edge of bunde",,,,"Unmarked",,"Surveyed", ,"1/S +",,"2003-X18",,"smkridge/2003-X18/2003-X18.html",,,,"Earl + Becka's Dead Shaft 10",,"2d","CUCC 2003 (Earl, Becka)","E-W joint with two shaft entrances. Westerly entrance free-climbable to snow plug. Then crawl under arch into 2nd chamber at base of easterly entrance. No way on.",,,,"2003#03",,,,,,,,,,"gps03_bis.p2003-x18",,,"GPS post SA",,,,,,,,"~40m off 204 path near 2000-08.",,,,"Unmarked",,"Surveyed", ,"=",,"2004-01",,"plateau/2004-01/2004-01.html",,,,,,"1d","CUCC 2004 (Olly, Jenny)","Chossy slope heading down hill, with snow plug below skylight. Close to the 76 bivi, used initially to sleep in, and after we started camping it was used to store gear+food and cook in when raining.",,,,"Email 2005-05-30",,,,,,,,,,"gps04.p2004-01",,,"GPS post SA",,,,,,,,,"As for 76","Large entrance facing towards ridge (with smaller skylight entrance near 99)",,"Tag","Tag placed 2004","Surveyed", -,"=",,"2004-02",,"plateau/2004-02/2004-02.html",,,,,,"1d","CUCC 2004 (Olly, Jenny)","Draughting hole with a chossy entrance. Just inside is a crap snow plug that collapsed a lot. The draught issues from a too-narrow rift roughly below the entrance. The top of the rift has a large rock wedged in. This can be rocked if pulled very hard. Perhaps it's worth removing to see if the rift is wide enough at the top? It's definitely wider beyond the rift.",,"tight slot, see description",,"2004 log book",,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,"Short distance further north along same small valley as the 2004 Eislufthöhle bivi",,,,"Tag","Tag placed 2004","Refindable", +,"=",,"2004-02",,"plateau/2004-02/2004-02.html",,,,,,"1d","CUCC 2004 (Olly, Jenny)","Draughting hole with a chossy entrance. Just inside is a crap snow plug that collapsed a lot. The draught issues from a too-narrow rift roughly below the entrance. The top of the rift has a large rock wedged in. This can be rocked if pulled very hard. Perhaps it's worth removing to see if the rift is wide enough at the top? It's definitely wider beyond the rift.",,"tight slot, see description",,"2004 log book",,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,"Short distance further north along same small valley as the 2004 Eislufthöhle bivi",,,,"Tag","Tag placed 2004","Refindable", ,"+",,"2004-03",,"plateau/2004-03/2004-03.html",,,,,,"1d","CUCC 2004 (Olly, Jenny)","Doesn't go anywhere, apparently.",,,,"Email 2005-05-30",,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,"On cairned route from Eislufthölhle to old Top Camp","Large entrance",,"
View from near 76, showing entrance
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| 2004-05 entrance | Jenny Black at the entrance |
","Unmarked","Tag prepared but not placed 2004, stored at 76 bivvy","Refindable", -,"-",,"2004-06",,"plateau/2004-06/2004-06.html",,,,,,"1d","CUCC 2004 (Olly, Jenny)","Not descended. ",,,,"2004 log book",,"Sketch in logbook",,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,"Not far from 175, west and a little north of the erratic boulders",,"Rift below a line of small cliffs","
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| View across plateau towards Bräuning Wall | Entrance close-up |
","Unmarked","Tag prepared but not placed 2004, stored at 76 bivvy","Refindable", -,"+",,"2004-07",,"plateau/2004-07/2004-07.html",,,,,,"1d","CUCC 2004 (Olly, Jenny)","Scramble down over boulders, and down slope to chamber. Small passage leads off at the end, but becomes to small.",,,,"2004 log book",,"? Jenny",,,,,,,"p2004-07",,,,,,,,,,,,"Not far from 175",,"Walk/scramble in entrance",,"Unmarked","Tag prepared but not placed 2004, stored at 76 bivvy","Surveyed", -,"=",,"2004-08",,"plateau/2004-08/2004-08.html",,,,,,"1d","CUCC 2004 (Olly, Jenny)","Large chamber with partially collapsed roof and two entrances",,,,"2004 log book",,,,,,,,,"p2004-08",,,,,,,,,,,,"West of 2004 Eislufthöhle bivvy",,,"
","Unmarked","Tag prepared but not placed 2004, stored at 76 bivvy","Surveyed", -,"-",,"2004-09",,"plateau/2004-09/2004-09.html",,,,,,"1d","CUCC 2004 (Olly, Jenny)","Not descended",,,,"2004 log book",,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,"Near where Tantalus Schacht ought to be, apparently",,,,"Unmarked","Tag prepared but not placed 2004, stored at 76 bivvy","Refindable", +,"-",,"2004-05",,"plateau/2004-05/2004-05.html",,,,,,"1d","CUCC 2004 (Olly, Jenny)","Not descended. ~10m to a ledge, seemed to go deeper.",,,,"2004 log book",,"Sketch in logbook",,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,"Just below high point west of 2004 Eislufthöhle bivvy (on E side of high point)",,"Series of entrances along a joint","
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| 2004-05 entrance | Jenny Black at the entrance |
","Unmarked","Tag prepared but not placed 2004, stored at 76 bivvy","Refindable", +,"-",,"2004-06",,"plateau/2004-06/2004-06.html",,,,,,"1d","CUCC 2004 (Olly, Jenny)","Not descended. ",,,,"2004 log book",,"Sketch in logbook",,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,"Not far from 175, west and a little north of the erratic boulders",,"Rift below a line of small cliffs","
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| View across plateau towards Bräuning Wall | Entrance close-up |
","Unmarked","Tag prepared but not placed 2004, stored at 76 bivvy","Refindable", +,"+",,"2004-07",,"plateau/2004-07/2004-07.html",,,,,,"1d","CUCC 2004 (Olly, Jenny)","Scramble down over boulders, and down slope to chamber. Small passage leads off at the end, but becomes to small.",,,,"2004 log book",,"? Jenny",,,,,,,"p2004-07",,,,,,,,,,,,"Not far from 175",,"Walk/scramble in entrance",,"Unmarked","Tag prepared but not placed 2004, stored at 76 bivvy","Surveyed", +,"=",,"2004-08",,"plateau/2004-08/2004-08.html",,,,,,"1d","CUCC 2004 (Olly, Jenny)","Large chamber with partially collapsed roof and two entrances",,,,"2004 log book",,,,,,,,,"p2004-08",,,,,,,,,,,,"West of 2004 Eislufthöhle bivvy",,,"
","Unmarked","Tag prepared but not placed 2004, stored at 76 bivvy","Surveyed", +,"-",,"2004-09",,"plateau/2004-09/2004-09.html",,,,,,"1d","CUCC 2004 (Olly, Jenny)","Not descended",,,,"2004 log book",,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,"Near where Tantalus Schacht ought to be, apparently",,,,"Unmarked","Tag prepared but not placed 2004, stored at 76 bivvy","Refindable", ,"-",,"2004-10",,"smkridge/2004-10/2004-10.html",,,,,,"2d","CUCC 2004 Becka + Nial","Go down tube next to main entrance shaft to head of pitch. Pitch less than 10m down. Possible ways on.","20m rope + spits etc.",,,,,,,,,,,,"gps04.p2004-10",,,,"GPS post SA",,,,,,"215 deg to Zinken, 309 deg to Griess Kogel. (I suspect there is an error here, as this would be almost right at the summit of the Griess Kogel -DL.)",,,"From 204 top camp over col then down + west following line of large shafts / collapses.","Entrance shaft with snow plug, pitch visible beyond","
","Tag","Tag 21/7/2004","Surveyed", ,"0/S -",,"2004-13",,"smkridge/2004-13/2004-13.html",,,,,,"2d","CUCC 2004 ?. Surface surveyed CUCC 2005 (Anthony, Julia)",,,,,,,,,,,,,,,"p2004-13","Part drilled spit hole",,"Surface survey",,,,,,,,"Between 161E and 161H, on the same level as E",,"Horizontal entrance 4-5m wide, quite low, leading to crawl sloping downwards at around 45°. Strong cold outwards draught.","None in existence","Spit","Part-drilled spit hole","Surveyed", ,"1/T +",,"2004-14",,"smkridge/2004-14/2004-14.html",,,"Doktorarbeitloch","Thesis Cave",,"2d","CUCC 2004 Olly M, Mark S + Stuart","Rift continues for ~15m with a critical-angle boulder slope. Choked at bottom with slight draft emerging from rocks.","Oversuit + helmet (and presumably a light as well - DL)",,,,"In dataset","Notes in 2004#41","caves/2004-14/2004-14.svx","23m","13m","18m E-W",,,"p2004-14",,,,,,,,,,,,"SMK ridge, near 234 (Hauchhöhle)","Follow normal 204 walk-in path as far as 2002-03 and turn left (northwards). Climb over ridge, down into choss bowl then left over bunderous ridge.","Pit with snow plug (at time of original exploration in 2004) leads to vertical rift entrance.","
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","Tag","Tag 1/8/2004","Surveyed", @@ -459,5 +461,21 @@ s (mainly deduced from survey data) don't correspond well with the 1997 experien ,,"a",,"entrance",,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,"p2004-19a",,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,"Tag (?)",,"Surveyed", ,,"b",,"entrance",,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,"p2004-19b",,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,"Tag (?)",,"Surveyed", ,,"c",,"last entrance",,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,"p2004-19c",,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,"Tag (?)",,"Surveyed", -,"1/S/T +",,"2004-20",,"smkridge/2004-20/2004-20.html",,,"Crowbar höhle",,,"2d","CUCC 2004 Dave, Olly M","Entrance pitch leads to small elongated chamber floored with gravel and blocks. A slope up at the southern end reveals two impassably tight passages to the left (eastwards). Near the foot of the pitch a tube slopes down to the west, but this is blocked by a large boulder; it presumably would connect to 2000-08 which is nearby.","20m rope + two hangers for ent pitch.","One dig, see description.",,,"In dataset","Notes in 2004#51","caves/2004-20/2004-20.svx","15m","10m","10m N-S",,,"t2004-20",,,"p2004-20",,,,,,,,,"In choss-filled depression near 2000-08.","Follow usual path from 204 bivvy. Turn left just before 2000-08.","Groove in side of depression allows descent past boulder floor; groove continues upwards to lip of depression and is easily spotted.","
","Tag","Tag 8/8/2004","Surveyed", -,"1/E =",,"2004-21",,"smkridge/2004-21/2004-21.html",,,,"Earl's Hat Cave",,"2d","CUCC 2001,2004","Walk down slope (sometimes snow plugged) to chamber. Two passages lead on, left hand passage is choked, right hand passage has not been explored.","Handline may be required","Right hand passage",,,,,,,,,,,,"gps04.p2004-21","No idea",,"GPS post SA",,,,,,,,"Very close to 204 D, approx. 15m down slope NW.",,"Huge open triangular entrance, facing North West.","
","Unmarked",,"Surveyed", +,"1/S/T +",,"2004-20",,"smkridge/2004-20/2004-20.html",,,"Crowbar höhle",,,"2d","CUCC 2004 Dave, Olly M","Entrance pitch leads to small elongated chamber floored with gravel and blocks. A slope up at the southern end reveals two impassably tight passages to the left (eastwards). Near the foot of the pitch a tube slopes down to the west, but this is blocked by a large boulder; it presumably would connect to 2000-08 which is nearby.","20m rope + two hangers for ent pitch.","One dig, see description.",,,"In dataset","Notes in 2004#51","caves/2004-20/2004-20.svx","15m","10m","10m N-S",,,"t2004-20",,,"p2004-20",,,,,,,,,"In choss-filled depression near 2000-08.","Follow usual path from 204 bivvy. Turn left just before 2000-08.","Groove in side of depression allows descent past boulder floor; groove continues upwards to lip of depression and is easily spotted.","
","Tag","Tag 8/8/2004","Surveyed", +,"1/E =",,"2004-21",,"smkridge/2004-21/2004-21.html",,,,"Earl's Hat Cave",,"2d","CUCC 2001,2004","Walk down slope (sometimes snow plugged) to chamber. Two passages lead on, left hand passage is choked, right hand passage has not been explored.","Handline may be required","Right hand passage",,,,,,,,,,,,"gps04.p2004-21",,,"GPS post SA",,,,,,,,"Very close to 204 D, approx. 15m down slope NW.",,"Huge open triangular entrance, facing North West.","
","Unmarked",,"Surveyed", +,1,,"2005-01",,"smkridge/2005-01/2005-01.html",,,,"Mysteryville",,"2d","CUCC 2005 Mark S, Emma",,,,,,"In dataset","NOTES MISSING!","caves/2005-01/2005-01.svx",,,,,,,"p2005-01",,,"GPS post SA",,,,,,,,,,,,,,, +,"?",,"2005-02",,"smkridge/2005-02/2005-02.html",,,,,,"2d","CUCC 2005 ??",,,,,,,,,,,,,,,"p2005-02",,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,, +,"?",,"2005-03",,"smkridge/2005-03/2005-03.html",,,,,,"2d","CUCC 2005 ??",,,,,,,,,,,,,,,"p2005-03",,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,, +,"1/S =",,"2005-05",,"smkridge/2005-05/2005-05.html",,,,"2002-X14",,"2d","Entrance noted CUCC 2002 (Duncan). Refound + partially explored CUCC 2005 (Peter + Phil)","Two routes, which both lead to pitches (probably the same pitch).",,,,"original survey sketches; 2005 log book",,"Grade 1 sketch in 2005#28",,,,,"The number 2005-05 was also used (briefly) for another entrance, which was found the next day to connect to 204, and designated as 204G. The number was reused due to an acute tag shortage.",,,"p2005-05",,,"GPS post SA",,,,,,,,,,"Cliff entrance, 3m wide, 1m high on cliff facing E","On Pete's camera","Tag","Tag ""2005-05"" placed 2005","Surveyed", +,"1/S =",,"2005-06",,"smkridge/2005-06/2005-06.html",,,"L Shaft","2002-X13",,"2d","Entrance noted CUCC 2002 (Duncan). Refound + partially explored CUCC 2005 (Peter + Phil)",,,,,"original survey sketches; 2005 log book",,,,,,,,,,"p2005-06",,,"GPS post SA",,,,,,,,,,"L-shaped shaft entrance, around 15m deep. Needs a ladder / rope.","On Pete's camera","Tag","Tag ""2005-06"" placed 2005","Surveyed", +,"1/S +",,"2005-07",,"smkridge/2005-07/2005-07.html",,,,"2002-X12",,"2d","Entrance noted CUCC 2002 (Duncan). Refound + explored CUCC 2005 (Peter + Phil)",,,,,"original survey sketches; 2005 log book",,"Notes in 2005#28","caves/2005-07/2005-07.svx",,,,,,"p2005-07",,,,"GPS post SA",,,,,,,,,,"Sloping triangular entrance 1m wide","On Pete's camera","Tag","Tag ""2005-07"" placed 2005","Surveyed", +,"1/S =",,"2005-08",,"smkridge/2005-08/2005-08.html",,,,"2002-X11",,"2d","Entrance noted CUCC 2002 (Duncan). Refound + partially explored CUCC 2005 (Peter + Phil)",,,,,"original survey sketches; 2005 log book",,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,"~8m dia shaft, with another shaft adjacent. Looks about 15m deep. Bottom has snow plug, and looks typically chossy. However, rift visible in North end - could go.",,"Tag","Tag ""2005-08"" placed 2005","Surveyed", +,,,"2005-91",,"plateau/2005-91/2005-91.html",,,,,,"1d",,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,, +,"1/S +",,"2005-92",,"plateau/2005-92/2005-92.html",,,,,,"1d","CUCC 2005 (Jenny)","Narrow shaft with strong draught, leads to choke","Rope + SRT gear",,,"2005 logbook","In dataset","Notes in 2005#05","caves/2005-92/2005-92.svx",,,,,,"p2005-92",,,,"GPS post SA",,,,,,,,"South of , on path towards Top Camp",,,"On Olly's camera","Tag","Tag ""2005-92"" placed 2005","Surveyed", +,"1/S +",,"2005-93",,"plateau/2005-93/2005-93.html",,,,,,"1d","CUCC 2005 (Jenny + Dave)","Rifty shaft, choked with snow. A narrow slot between the snow and the wall was descended by Jenny but soon became too tight.",,,,"2005 logbook","In dataset","Notes in 2005#05","caves/2005-93/2005-93.svx",,,,,,"p2005-93",,,,"GPS post SA",,,,,,,,"South of , on path towards Top Camp",,,"On Olly's camera","Tag","Tag ""2005-93"" placed 2005","Surveyed", +,"1/S +",,"2005-94",,"plateau/2005-94/2005-94.html",,,,,,"1d","CUCC 2005 (Jenny)","Narrow shaft dropping into rift, soon becoming too tight.",,,,"2005 logbook","In dataset","Notes in 2005#05","caves/2005-94/2005-94.svx",,,,,,"p2005-94",,,,"GPS post SA",,,,,,,,"South of , on path towards Top Camp",,,"On Olly's + Dave's cameras","Tag","Tag ""2005-94"" placed 2005","Surveyed", +,"1/S +",,"2005-95",,"plateau/2005-95/2005-95.html",,,,,,"1d","CUCC 2005 (Dave)","Wide rift, with 3 separate shafts separated by narrow rock bridges. Soundly snow-choked in 2005.",,,,"2005 logbook","In dataset","Notes in 2005#05","caves/2005-95/2005-95.svx",,,,,,"p2005-95",,,,"GPS post SA",,,,,,,,"South of , on path towards Top Camp",,,"On Olly's camera","Tag","Tag ""2005-95"" placed 2005","Surveyed", +,"1/S +",,"2005-96",,"plateau/2005-96/2005-96.html",,,,"Chimney Pot",,"1d","CUCC 2005 (Dave)","Tubular shaft of around 1.5m diameter, terminating in choss 8m down.",,,,"2005 logbook","In dataset","Notes in 2005#05","caves/2005-96/2005-96.svx",,,,,,"p2005-96",,,,"GPS post SA",,,,,,,,"South of , on path towards Top Camp. Somewhat to the north of 2005-92 to 2005-95 area, near a bunde-topped hillock.",,,"On Olly's camera","Tag","Tag ""2005-96"" placed 2005","Surveyed", +,"1/S +",,"2005-97",,"plateau/2005-97/2005-97.html",,,,"Fluted Pot",,"1d","CUCC 2005 (Olly B)","A fluted draughting shaft, roughly between 76 and 97, which Olly descended on natural belays. Went for 4m before becoming too tight.",,,,"2005 logbook",,,,,,,,,"p2005-97",,,,"GPS post SA",,,,,,,,,,,,"Unmarked",,"Surveyed", +,"1/S x",,"2005-98",,"plateau/2005-98/2005-98.html",,,,"Hanger Pot",,"1d","CUCC 2005 (Olly B)",,,,,"2005 logbook",,,,,,,,,"p2005-98",,,,"GPS post SA",,,,,,,,,,,,"Unmarked",,"Surveyed", +,"1/T +",,"2005-99",,"plateau/2005-99/2005-99.html",,,,"Coatless Cave",,"1d","CUCC 2005 (Jenny)",,,,,"2005 logbook: discovery; exploration",,"Notes in 2005#30","caves/2005-99/2005-99.svx",,,,,,"p2005-99",,,,"GPS post SA",,,,,,,,,,,,"Unmarked","Spit hole made, but tag not placed (tagging kit not available)","Surveyed",