"The others were still bolting so we surveyed a QM [question mark grade] B i'd +"The others were still bolting so we surveyed a QM +[question mark grade] B I'd spotted at the base of Eh Bah Gum. This was another small, drafty rift which, again popped out into The Beast but this time we could get out onto a wide ledge so we started surveying along the left wall with various tubes on the left. "Holly did you walk down that mud bank", "No, I thought that looked like - footprints" I peered again - it could be due to rock fall, but it did look + footprints". I peered again - it could be due to rock fall, but it did look very like footprints..... and then I saw two more -- we've definitely got to somewhere people have been before. I walked over with tape and straight to survey station 23 and we finished the survey then went for a run to see where @@ -321,7 +327,7 @@ Quoting one of the explorers on the trip: I muttered to each other that this looked very like The Wares -- but we didn't want to count our chickens so on we ran until "Oooh" said Holly pointing at a nondescript mud bank we had to crawl over "I've been here -- for sure -- its - The Wares -- WE'VE CONNECTED we shrieked at each other"+ The Wares -- WE'VE CONNECTED we shrieked at each other"
It had previously been postulated that a fault might prohibit this connection being made, but thankfully that was not the case. This discovery makes @@ -388,3 +394,5 @@ draining to Altaussee with the caves under Schoenberg, perhaps even including the great system of Raucherkarhoehle and Feuertalsystem, whose waters reach daylight at the Nagelsteghoehle above Blaa-Alm. One can but wait: the long story of the caves of the Schwarzmooskogel is only beginning.
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