Location unclear
1c – Eastern plateau near 204 walk-in path
1c – Eastern plateau near 204 walk-in path
| Entrance | Dave pointing out the tag bolt |
Photos © Olly Betts 2005","Tag","Tag 2005-07-28","Surveyed","" +80,"1/S +","","","","plateau/80/80.html","","","Schwa Schacht 80","","","1c","CUCC 1977 - Team Geriatric, 1994","A straight pitch of 14m to a choke.","","","","","","Grade 1 extended elevation in Cambridge Underground expedition report","","","14m ","","","","","p080","","","Nils","","gps00.80","","","","(1996) VSK nipple: 135°, BW pt 1835: 043° (this cannot possibly be right), Grieskogel: 007°, HSK: 043°","","Plateau just NE of col.","From Schwarzmoossattel, drop onto the plateau, where an intermittent line of cairns leads from the Bräuning wall camp (CUCC's Top Camp from 1988) across to the right, leading to the 8x caves and 145. Directly across a large clear area of karren, a large cairn used to mark the 8m by 5m entrance shaft, but this has apparently disappeared (1995) only to be rebuilt in 1996 - but is very vulnerable to demolition by winter snows. The shaft is otherwise invisible from a few metres away. The number 80, in red, is quite faded (1989) and is on the shaft wall facing the Bräuning wall.","","
| Entrance shaft | View down shaft | Cairn and very faded paint mark |
Photos © Olly Betts 2005","Tag","Tag 1998, retag 1999","Surveyed","" +81,"1/T +","","","","plateau/81/81.html","","","Schwa Höhle 81","","","1c","CUCC 1977 - Team Geriatric","A short section of horizontal passage 5m below the surface, with two entrances, but no way on. ","","","","","","Grade 1 extended elevation in Cambridge Underground expedition report","","15m. ","","","","","","","","","GPS post SA","","p81","","","","","","Plateau just NE of col, between 80 and 82, very close to 85.","","","
| Entrance | Dave pointing out the tag bolt |
Photos © Olly Betts 2005","Tag","Tag 2005-07-28","Surveyed","" 82,"4/S/T +","","","","plateau/82.htm","","","Bräuninghöhle","","","1c","CUCC 1977 - Team Geriatric","Very obvious walking sized cave entrance leads to a boulder strewn passage (ice formations early in season) into an aven with daylight entering 20m above. A scramble over boulders leads to Apfelschacht - a 6m pitch with loose boulders at the head. This drops to a 3m climb and then a 20m pitch Orangenschacht with a trickle of water entering halfway down. From the foot, a fine keyhole passage imaginatively named Schlüssellochgang, and a choice of routes. The most obvious way on is a 10m pitch, Bierschacht over a stalagmite flow to an awkward crawl, Worm Passage, which looked likely to end things. However, this opens out suddenly at a pitch head. Nocheinbierschacht is 15m, impressively free. At the foot, a vocal connection can be made with a phreatic passage above the third pitch which ends in a big hole.
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.","","","","","","Grade 1 extended elevation in Cambridge Underground expedition report","","","55m","","This was originally listed as ""exploration completed"", but the description and survey suggest 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.","","","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.","","","","","","Grade 1 extended elevation in Cambridge Underground expedition report","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","c 1660m","","","Plateau WNW of Kat.83","","","","Paint","","Lost","Not seen since 1977 apparently" @@ -135,7 +135,7 @@ 102,"1/S +","","","","plateau/102/102.html","","","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.","","","
| Entrance view, looking roughly east towards the Hinter | Entrance closeup |
(Photos © Olly Betts 2005)","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","
- CUCC 1977 - Team Youth (S.Farrow & N.Thorne)
- Surface survey to entrance, CUCC 1998
","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). 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","" +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.","","","
| View of location (entrance in centre of picture) | Entrance (1999) | Entrance (2005) — note tag and number on right-hand wall | View down entrance shaft |
Photos © Olly Betts","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","" 108,"1/S +","","","","plateau/108/108.html","","","Schwa-Höhle 108","","","1d","CUCC 1980 John, Tony and Andy Connolly","Horizontal entrance to a large chamber with narrow rift dropping away. Ends too tight.
A cave numbered 108 was relocated in 2004, but does not match this description. It's marked with paint ""108"" and has a spit in the centre of the ""0"". The spit isn't great, but there's a good chunky flake to use too. The shaft descends ~9m to a ledge. At this level there's a horizontal passage which leads immediately to a 4m deep blind rift pitch. Back in the main shaft, a few natural rebelays get you to a floor just under 30m down. At one end of the rift a draught emerges from rocks, but removing some rocks it appears it would need quite a lot of work to make progress and the continuation may be too small anyway.
","","","","","","","","","7m","","This does not appear to be in the Austrians' Kataster.","","","p108","","","","","","","","","Bräuning Nase 200°, Bräuning Zinken 235°, Vd. Schwarzmooskogel 175°.","","108 is not near 41 - it is on the plateau. Further across than 76 (106) past erratics - middle of nowhere","","","| Entrance | Closeup of marking |
Photos © Olly Betts 2004","Paint","","Surveyed","" diff --git a/noinfo/prospecting_guide.html b/noinfo/prospecting_guide.html index 4795ed883..d9b7032e0 100644 --- a/noinfo/prospecting_guide.html +++ b/noinfo/prospecting_guide.html @@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
Prospecting Guide
Generated 06/20/06 16:22:23
+Prospecting Guide
Generated 06/21/06 18:58:12
Notes:
- A marking status of "Retag" means a tag is in place but it carries a provisional number, or in some cases an incorrect number, and needs replacing with a new tag.
- Kataster status codes indicate the size of a cave, its character and its exploration status, as described here.
- For more info on each cave, see the links to detailed description pages.
Eishöhle area detail
Steinbrückenhöhle area detail
Location unclear
| 1992-X01 | Olly's 1992 minus cave | Refindable | Unmarked | 1/S - | |||
1c – Eastern plateau near 204 walk-in path
| Cave Number | Name | E | N | Alt | Marking | Status | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 80 | Schwa Schacht 80 | 35752 | 82468 | 1666 | Tag | 1/S + | |
| Cave Number | Name | E | N | Alt | Marking | Status | |
| 80 | Schwa Schacht 80 | 35752 | 82468 | 1666 | Tag | 1/S + | |
| 81 | Schwa Höhle 81 | 35824 | 82555 | 1657 | Tag | 1/T + | |
| 82 | Bräuninghöhle | 35868 | 82578 | 1658 | Tag | 4/S/T + | |
| 83 | Schwa Schacht 83 | 35931 | 82698 | 1669 | Paint | 2/S = | |
| 84 | Schwa Höhle 84 | Lost | Paint | 1/T - | Plateau WNW of Kat.83 | ||
| 85 | Schwa Höhle 85 | 35853 | 82562 | 1657 | Tag | 2/t/S + | |
| 85 | Schwa Höhle 85 | 35853 | 82562 | 1657 | Tag | 2/T/S + | |
| 86 | Schwa Schacht 86 | Lost | Paint | 1/S + | Plateau, on higher ground just SE of Bräuninghöhle (Kat.82) | ||
| 107 | Gemshöhle | 35929 | 82721 | 1660 | Tag | 4/S/T + | |
| 145 | Wolfhöhle | 4/t/S + | |||||