diff --git a/noinfo/CAVETAB2.CSV b/noinfo/CAVETAB2.CSV index a66848f4d..3874c10df 100644 --- a/noinfo/CAVETAB2.CSV +++ b/noinfo/CAVETAB2.CSV @@ -1,10 +1,10 @@ "Kataster Number","Kat Status Code","Entrances","Unofficial number","Multiple entrances","URL","Name","Unofficial Name","Comment","Area","No Info","Explorers","Underground Description","Equipment","qm list","Kataster status","References","Underground centre line","Underground drawn survey","Survex file to get length and deapth","Length","Depth","Extent","Header","Footer","Notes","Entrance name","tag point in dataset","other point in dataset","description of other point","exact entrance in dataset (drip line/highest enclosed contour)","Type of survey fix","GPS pre SA","GPS post SA","Northing","Easting","Altitude","Bearings","Map","Location","Approach","Entrance description","Photo of location","Marking" -1,"2/(W) +","a b",,,"noinfo/aaussee/1.htm","Liägerhöhle","D'Liëger",,10,"No Info","Höhlenforschervereinigung Altaussee, 19xx <p>Sektion Ausseerland 1960 <p>Dived by Verein für Höhlenkunde in Obersteier in 1984 and 1985, when the final sump went to about -20m. On the first occasion they spoiled the visibility in the sump by not being careful enough about how they drained the sump on the approach route. ","Seasonally active cave. Ends in a 'Lake', which is a sump pool, apparently higher than the level of Altausseer See, and close to the surveyed level of the Stellerweg sump. <p>Access to the final sump is guarded by short siphons in each of the two passages going to the far end of the cave. These can be drained, but care should be taken to ensure they are drained towards the entrance, otherwise the final sump will become muddy. Visited by Mike Thomas and Pete Lancaster in 1989, as far as the short sumps. <p>A note on the geology : The north shore of the lake follows a large fault with a big throw, so that this cave is in the same block of limestone as the Stögerweg area caves. The Austrians think there is no hydrological connection between this cave/resurgence and the lake level, since vauclusian resurgences in the lake appear to be in a very different block of limestone which has been down-faulted relative to the plateau. However, it seems more likely that these risings are actually <b>on</b> the fault, and that the lake level, and the level of the sumps in this cave and in <a href=""../../smkridge/41.htm"">Stellerweghöhle</a> are closely related. ",,,,"There are descriptions (in German) of dives in the terminal sump in <a href=""../../others/obsteier/dive1.htm"" lang=""de-at"">1985</a> and <a href=""../../others/obsteier/dive2.htm"" lang=""de-at"">1988</a>. A further follow-up article is awaiting scanning in...",,"A4 survey in Mitt. der Sektion Ausseerland 18(4), Oct. 1980, facing p 86. This is dated 1935, 1960 and looks like a third generation photocopy of a larger survey - the quality is very poor. ",,"306m","71m","NW-SE 160m",,,,,,,,,,,,,,"East Entrance 812m West entrance 809m",,"28.1 cm E, 15.4 cm N, sheet 15/1 Alpine Club 1:25000 map","At the foot of a gully cutting the southwestern end of Steller, a major cliff band SE of the Loser - Bräuning area. A couple of hundred metres north of the Youth Hostel at the NE corner of Altausseer See.","If you follow the lakeside path (shortest approach from Altaussee on north side of lake) there is a junction where the path to Hochklapfsattel departs. A short way west of (ie. before) this junction is a bridge over a normally dry stream bed. Follow the stream bed up for a short way until it splits, then follow the apparently smaller branch to the right (east). Scramble up rocks to the East Entrance. This is marked on the Alpine Club 1:25000 map. <p>Although the Altitude given is 812m, it doesn�t seem that high, and 812m is exactly 100m above lake level, which is a little suspicious. If you accept instead the phrase ""climb 70m higher"" in the original kataster description, the altitude comes out about 780 to 785m, which puts the final sump at almost exactly the level of the lake. ",,"CUCC were shown some photographs of 1 & 2 in flood, when a truly enormous river emerges from both entrances and numerous impenetrable cracks. This explains the vegetation-free state of the twin river beds leading down towards Altausseer See. ", +1,"2/(W) +","a b",,,"noinfo/aaussee/1.htm","Liägerhöhle","D'Liëger",,10,"No Info","Höhlenforschervereinigung Altaussee, 19xx <p>Sektion Ausseerland 1960 <p>Dived by Verein für Höhlenkunde in Obersteier in 1984 and 1985, when the final sump went to about -20m. On the first occasion they spoiled the visibility in the sump by not being careful enough about how they drained the sump on the approach route. ","Seasonally active cave. Ends in a 'Lake', which is a sump pool, apparently higher than the level of Altausseer See, and close to the surveyed level of the Stellerweg sump. <p>Access to the final sump is guarded by short siphons in each of the two passages going to the far end of the cave. These can be drained, but care should be taken to ensure they are drained towards the entrance, otherwise the final sump will become muddy. Visited by Mike Thomas and Pete Lancaster in 1989, as far as the short sumps. <p>A note on the geology : The north shore of the lake follows a large fault with a big throw, so that this cave is in the same block of limestone as the Stögerweg area caves. The Austrians think there is no hydrological connection between this cave/resurgence and the lake level, since vauclusian resurgences in the lake appear to be in a very different block of limestone which has been down-faulted relative to the plateau. However, it seems more likely that these risings are actually <b>on</b> the fault, and that the lake level, and the level of the sumps in this cave and in <a href=""../../smkridge/41.htm"">Stellerweghöhle</a> are closely related. ",,,,"There are descriptions (in German) of dives in the terminal sump in <a href=""../../others/obsteier/dive1.htm"" lang=""de-at"">1985</a> and <a href=""../../others/obsteier/dive2.htm"" lang=""de-at"">1988</a>. A further follow-up article is awaiting scanning in...",,"A4 survey in Mitt. der Sektion Ausseerland 18(4), Oct. 1980, facing p 86. This is dated 1935, 1960 and looks like a third generation photocopy of a larger survey - the quality is very poor. ",,"306m","71m","NW-SE 160m",,,,,,,,,,,,,,"East Entrance 812m West entrance 809m",,"28.1 cm E, 15.4 cm N, sheet 15/1 Alpine Club 1:25000 map","At the foot of a gully cutting the southwestern end of Steller, a major cliff band SE of the Loser - Bräuning area. A couple of hundred metres north of the Youth Hostel at the NE corner of Altausseer See.","If you follow the lakeside path (shortest approach from Altaussee on north side of lake) there is a junction where the path to Hochklapfsattel departs. A short way west of (ie. before) this junction is a bridge over a normally dry stream bed. Follow the stream bed up for a short way until it splits, then follow the apparently smaller branch to the right (east). Scramble up rocks to the East Entrance. This is marked on the Alpine Club 1:25000 map. <p>Although the Altitude given is 812m, it doesn´t seem that high, and 812m is exactly 100m above lake level, which is a little suspicious. If you accept instead the phrase ""climb 70m higher"" in the original kataster description, the altitude comes out about 780 to 785m, which puts the final sump at almost exactly the level of the lake. ",,"CUCC were shown some photographs of 1 & 2 in flood, when a truly enormous river emerges from both entrances and numerous impenetrable cracks. This explains the vegetation-free state of the twin river beds leading down towards Altausseer See. ", 2,"0/(W) =",,,,"noinfo/aaussee/2.htm","Wasserlöcher",,,10,"No Info","Unexplored ",,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,"810m",,,,,,"CUCC were shown some photographs of 1 & 2 in flood, when a truly enormous river emerges from both entrances and numerous impenetrable cracks. This explains the vegetation-free state of the twin river beds leading down towards Altausseer See. ", -3,"1/T(W) +",,,,"noinfo/augstb/3.htm","Gellerofen",,,11,"No Info","Oldest documentation is dated 1880. Höhlenforschervereinigung Altaussee, 1937 Sektion Ausseerland, 1968",,,,,,,"Plan by Alfred Auer at 1:100, 1968 ",,"13.1m","3.04m",,,,,,,,,,,,,,,"1015m",,"This is not marked on the Austrian�s map.","at the SW foot of the Loserstockes","reached from Altaussee above Posern. (I think this is below the toll road somewhere).","The entrance is 7.5m wide by 1.2m high.<p>'Durch das 7,5m breite und 1,2m hohe, flachbogenförmige Portal gelangt man zunächst in eine kuppelförmige Vorhalle, dann in einen durch Korrosionskolke ausgeformten Canyon. Höhlenkarren, Bergmilchbildungen, eine Sickerwasserquelle und Höhlenfauna fallen besonders auf.'",, +3,"1/T(W) +",,,,"noinfo/augstb/3.htm","Gellerofen",,,11,"No Info","Oldest documentation is dated 1880. Höhlenforschervereinigung Altaussee, 1937 Sektion Ausseerland, 1968",,,,,,,"Plan by Alfred Auer at 1:100, 1968 ",,"13.1m","3.04m",,,,,,,,,,,,,,,"1015m",,"This is not marked on the Austrian´s map.","at the SW foot of the Loserstockes","reached from Altaussee above Posern. (I think this is below the toll road somewhere).","The entrance is 7.5m wide by 1.2m high.<p>'Durch das 7,5m breite und 1,2m hohe, flachbogenförmige Portal gelangt man zunächst in eine kuppelförmige Vorhalle, dann in einen durch Korrosionskolke ausgeformten Canyon. Höhlenkarren, Bergmilchbildungen, eine Sickerwasserquelle und Höhlenfauna fallen besonders auf.'",, 4,"1/T(W) +",,,,"noinfo/augstb/4.htm","Ritscherbachhöhle",,,11,"No Info","Höhlenforschervereinigung Altaussee, 1937",,,,,,,"Plan at 1:100 by Alfred Auer, 1968 ",,"12.3m","1.07m",,,,,,,,,,,,,,,"1015m",,,"Near <a href=""3.htm"">Gellerofen</a> (Kat. 3), at the SW foot of the Loserstockes.",,"A 2.2m wide and 1.3m high entrance leads horizontally to ""Bruchschutt und Sickerwassergerinne"". ",, 5,"1/S(W) +",,,,"noinfo/gschwand/5.htm","Holzknechtbrünndlloch",,,9,"No Info","Höhlenforschervereinigung Altaussee, 1938",,,,,,,"Plan at 1:100 by Alfred Auer, 1968 ",,"12m","8m",,,,,,,,,,,,,,,"1230m",,,"SW foot Loserstockes","reached by path west from Loser Hütte, past Augst A.H.","Eine 1,5m grosse Schachtöffnung fü in einen stiefelförmigen Schacht, in dem ein Sickerwassergerinne früher von Holzknechten als Trinkwasserquelle genutzt wurde.'",, -6,"0/W +",,,,"noinfo/gschwand/6.htm","Quelle","Wasserloch",,9,"No Info","Unexplored � Noted for Kataster: Sektion Ausseerland, 1968 ",,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,"1425m",,,"150m west of Augst A.H. ",,"a small unenterable resurgence ",, +6,"0/W +",,,,"noinfo/gschwand/6.htm","Quelle","Wasserloch",,9,"No Info","Unexplored – Noted for Kataster: Sektion Ausseerland, 1968 ",,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,"1425m",,,"150m west of Augst A.H. ",,"a small unenterable resurgence ",, 7,"1/(W) +",,,,"noinfo/loser/7.htm","Bachschläg",,,"8a","No Info",,,,,,,,,,"3m",,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,"1550m",,"Location plan by Alfred Auer at 1:200, 1968 ","West of the Loser Hütte below the south face of Loser.","Reached from the path up Loser by diagonalling down to the head of the gully from the path as it starts to climb again at about 1600m. ","A 1.8m wide by 1.2m high rock shelter, and an occasionally active rising. There is a noticeable gully below this, presumably carrying water in wet weather. <p>""Bei Hochwasser entströmt ihm ein mächtiger Bach und stürzt als Wasserfall über zwei Geländstufen und durch einen Graben 200m zur Loserstraße herab, wo das Wasser nach einem Durchlaß im verkarsteten Gestein versickert."" ",, 8,"2/T +",,,,"noinfo/loser/8.htm","Großes Loserloch",,,"8a","No Info","First recorded in 1774<br> Explored since 1931<br> J Völlenkle of L.V.H.Linz, 1:250, 1972","The round 8m wide by 10m high entrance leads into an upper level, the Hauptgang, leading north then northeast to Regenhalle, a sizeable chamber apparently formed on a significant SW-NE joint. Immediately right at the start of the chamber, a boulder slope leads up into Teilungshalle, from where a wider slope drops left back into Regenhalle about halfway along. At the highest point of Teilungshalle, a SE-going passage quickly chokes with boulders, but appears to be heading directly for the end of Kleines Loserloch, perhaps 10m away. <p>Keeping to the right (SW) wall entering Teilungshalle, a rift leads SW. A passage left after 5m quickly ends too tight. A traverse to the left hand side bypasses a 5m shaft in the floor. 15m beyond, another lead on the left leads up into a small chamber, Kapelle. The continuing rift, Südwest-Kluft, gets narrower for c 25m until deemed impassable. <p>Back in Regenhalle, a narrow section along the joint between the two ways to Teilungshalle, gives access to a lower series via a sharp turn to the right, due south. This wide passage, Südwest-gang, passes under Teilungshalle, and turns SW directly under Südwest-Kluft. A narrow rift on the left parallels the main passage for some way. The main way develops into Gr. Dom, 12m wide, with a boulder slope up until the passage chokes comprehensively on a broad front, almost exactly below the cliff outside. <p>At the far (NE) end of Regenhalle, stright on enters a draughting boulder choke, but two ways up to the right lead into Stufengang, with a complex of little rifts and an extension NE to a low choked area. ",,,,,,"A4 survey in Mitt. der Sektion Ausseerland 18(4), Oct. 1980, facing p 87: a plan by J Völlenkle of L.V.H.Linz, 1:250, 1972. As printed, this looks like about a 4th generation photocopy. Also includes <a href=""9.htm"">Kat. 9</a>",,"390m","+20m -11m","140m SW-NE",,,,,,,,,,,,,,"1615m",,"21.8 cm E, 17.75 cm N, OAV sheet 15/1 ","At the south foot of Loser (visible from Altaussee).","Reached by traversing west from the Loser path as it draws level with the cliffs. ","Round 8m wide by 10m high entrance",, 9,"2/T +",,,,"noinfo/loser/9.htm","Kleines Loserloch",,,"8a","No Info","since 1932 ","The cave is essentially a single passage for c 60m going NE to a narrowing. To the left at this point is a small extension, with a blind pit to the SW, and a draughting boulder choke to the NE. This is c 10m from a corresponding choke in Teilugshalle of Großes Loserloch.",,,,,,"A4 survey in Mitt. der Sektion Ausseerland 18(4), Oct. 1980, facing p 87: a plan by J Völlenkle of L.V.H.Linz, 1:250, 1972. As printed, this looks like about a 4th generation photocopy. Also includes <a href=""8.htm"">Kat. 8</a>",,"72m","+12.5 -7.5m","50m SW-NE",,,,,,,,,,,,,,"1622m",,,"Just right (25m East) of, and above, Großes Loserloch. ",,"In a narrow rift in the cliff, there are two small entrances, the lower one is the normal way in, and an upper entrance to its left leads to passage which joins the normal way within 5m",, @@ -20,7 +20,7 @@ 19,"1/T +",,,,"noinfo/egglgrub/19.htm","Gamsofen im Scharlingkar",,,7,"No Info","Sektion Ausseerland, 1953 ",,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,"1450m",,,"SE of Egglgrubenalm, ie. follow the valley down from Egglgrube until some huts appear - the cave is then SE below a small cliff somewhere. ",,,, 20,"1/T +",,,,"noinfo/egglgrub/20.htm","Windhöhle",,,7,"No Info","Sektion Ausseerland, 1953 ",,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,"1475m",,,"In Scharlingkar. This is the band of cliffs SW of Weiße Wand. The cave is SW of <a href=""19.htm"">Gamsofen</a> (Kat.19) and almost due south of the huts in Bräning Alm.",,,, 21,"2/S/T +",,,,"noinfo/egglgrub/21.htm","Windloch im Egglgrube",,,7,"No Info","Höhlenforschervereinigung Altaussee, 1938 ",,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,"1510m",,,"South of Egglgrubenalm (it looks to be east of it on the map), north of <a href=""19.htm"">Gamsofen</a> (Kat.19).",,,, -22,"1/S x",,,,"noinfo/egglgrub/22.htm","Spiralschacht",,,7,"No Info","Höhlenforschervereinigung Altaussee, 1939 ",,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,"1500m",,,"South of Egglgrubenalm. Not marked on Austrian�s map",,,, +22,"1/S x",,,,"noinfo/egglgrub/22.htm","Spiralschacht",,,7,"No Info","Höhlenforschervereinigung Altaussee, 1939 ",,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,"1500m",,,"South of Egglgrubenalm. Not marked on Austrian´s map",,,, 23,"1/t/S =",,,,"noinfo/egglgrub/23.htm","Steinbockhöhle",,,7,"No Info","Höhlenforschervereinigung Altaussee, 1939 ",,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,"1500m",,,"East of Egglgrubenalm near Weiße Wand. ",,,, 24,"1/S =",,,,"noinfo/egglgrub/24.htm","Schachthöhle bei Egglgrubenalm",,,7,"No Info","Schauberger, 1938 ",,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,"1540m",,,"South of junction of paths near Egglgrube (ie. divergence of CUCC's routes to the col and to Stellerweg) ",,,, 25,"2/T x",,,,"noinfo/egglgrub/25.htm","Mauskothhöhle",,,7,"No Info","Höhlenforschervereinigung Altaussee, 1938 ",,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,"1500m",,,"East of Egglgrubenalm, very near <a href=""23.htm"">Steinbockhöhle</a> (Kat. 23).",,,, @@ -34,12 +34,12 @@ 33,"1/T +",,,,"noinfo/br-alm/33.htm","Schichtgrenzenhöhle",,,3,"No Info","Sektion Ausseerland, 1975 ",,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,"1570m",,,"South of Bräuning Alm. I think this is another of the fenced off shafts near the path north from the junction at Egglgrube. ",,,, 34,"1/T +",,,,"noinfo/kratzer/34.htm","Höhle am Kratzer I",,,4,"No Info","Sektion Ausseerland, 1973 ",,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,"1590m",,,"Quite a way east of Bräuning Alm in the top end of the 4. ",,,, 35,"2/S/T x",,,,"noinfo/kratzer/35.htm","Dr. Kerschner Höhle",,,4,"No Info","Found by Othmar Schauberger, 1921. Looked at for some years by F Hütter, but always blocked by snow. In October 1976, G Graf managed to descend 30m in the shaft, the uppermost part of which was snow and ice free. The continuation of the way could not be found. In August 1977, 5kg of salt was dumped onto the snow blockage. In October 1977, after a long walk over the plateau, it was looked at again and successfully explored. ","Now, the Austrian's exploration details suggest that the cave was substantially unblocked in 1976 (to -30m in October), while CUCC's find was choked at -10m. Also, the description given of this cave in the local Climbing Guide (Krenmayr) sounds nothing like B5 at all, (he says, already explored in 1921, but today almost forgotten. Need Ice equipment) so the Austrian writing in the caver's magazine who said it was B5 may have been mistaken. Krenmayr gives length 250m, depth 100m. <p>This description by Karl Gaisberger is from the 1977 Exploration: <p>After climbing down 8m to where the shaft appeared blocked by snow, progress did not seem likely. I [translator] think ""there was a spiralling way in the snow to a wall of ice columns"". A very steep descent led into a passage with a snow cone. (This was still in the previous year's snow-free climb !). Pushing through a thin snow-wall through which the light glimmered, a direct way was established. Through a hole in the snow in a rubble-filled passage, the way soon branched. Both branches ended blind. <p>The lower level of the cave, described by O Schauberger, must be found on the opposite side of the snow-cone from the [Schluf?]. One now comes to a chamber complex where a sloping 10m shaft climbs down into the <b>Kristallhalle</b>. The walls here are covered with admittedly large, but superficially weathered calcite somethings (Kalzitdrusen). <p>From the Kristallhalle, through a narrow bit to a side-something with a pile of rubble, the <b>Tropfsteinhalle</b>. There is a single 60cm high stalagmite here. It shows a corroded appearance, indicating aggressive ground water. Tropfsteinhalle contains, so far, the most beautiful flowstone decorations in the Loser area. These include [plenty dictionary failure here] Sinterfahnen, Boden- und Deckenzapfen, sogar Excentriques. <p>In the area of the stalagmites, several dead pseudoscorpions (<i>Neobisium aueri</i>) were found. <i>There is some more description of the floor of the chamber (I think), but I can't make head nor tail of it.</i>",,,,,,,,"250m","Given 100m in 1980.",,,,,,,,,,,,,,,"1630m",,,"Just SW of the col (Schwarzmoossattel), SE of Bräuning Nase. ",,"Surface shaft often blocked with snow",,"This hole supposedly has a CUCC painted number ""B5"" of 1976 vintage, which will probably be pretty faded. But the cave descriptions do not agree." -36,"1/S x",,,,"noinfo/kratzer/36.htm","Schachtgruppe I - V",,,4,"No Info","Höhlenforschervereinigung Altaussee, undated. ",,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,"GPS00.36",,,"1680m",,,"Austrian kataster says Hinterbräuning, south of Bräuning Nase, but this isn�t where their map shows it. Map shows it south east of Schwarzmoossattel, on east side of upper 4 below Schwarzmooskogel. <p>The cave was located on the ground by CUCC in 1990 and it is, in fact, just south of Schwarzmoossattel, which is almost due east of Bräuning Nase. From the path leaving the col going south, hack off following the little stream down into the valley. This sinks into the northernmost of a group of three shafts below a small headwall facing east. <p>Number is in red on the headwall just south of the three entrances. <p>A group of five (presumably small) shafts. One of these was thought, by the Austrians, to be CUCC's 'B1' of 1976. This, however, is patently not the case, since the sequence B1-B4 goes up the valley, and B4 is about level, perhaps slightly lower than 36.",,"A group of five (presumably small) shafts",,"Number is in red on the headwall just south of the three entrances. " +36,"1/S x",,,,"noinfo/kratzer/36.htm","Schachtgruppe I - V",,,4,"No Info","Höhlenforschervereinigung Altaussee, undated. ",,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,"GPS00.36",,,"1680m",,,"Austrian kataster says Hinterbräuning, south of Bräuning Nase, but this isn´t where their map shows it. Map shows it south east of Schwarzmoossattel, on east side of upper 4 below Schwarzmooskogel. <p>The cave was located on the ground by CUCC in 1990 and it is, in fact, just south of Schwarzmoossattel, which is almost due east of Bräuning Nase. From the path leaving the col going south, hack off following the little stream down into the valley. This sinks into the northernmost of a group of three shafts below a small headwall facing east. <p>Number is in red on the headwall just south of the three entrances. <p>A group of five (presumably small) shafts. One of these was thought, by the Austrians, to be CUCC's 'B1' of 1976. This, however, is patently not the case, since the sequence B1-B4 goes up the valley, and B4 is about level, perhaps slightly lower than 36.",,"A group of five (presumably small) shafts",,"Number is in red on the headwall just south of the three entrances. " 37,"0/S -",,,,"noinfo/plateau/37.htm","Schachtgruppe beim Hinterer Schwarzmooskogel",,,"1d","No Info","Discovered by Höhlenforschervereinigung Altaussee, undated.<p>Status is given as totally unexplored, so it could well be a CUCC hole by now, and have a different number. ",,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,"1700m",,,"West of Ht. Schwarzmooskogel. Well out onto the plateau, and hence, almost impossible to find or identify. ",,,, 38,"1/T +",,,,"noinfo/plateau/38.htm","Algenhöhle",,,"1d","No Info","Höhlenforschervereinigung Altaussee, 1938","Behind the entrance there is a single passage at right angles to it, with boulders (Blockwerk). ",,,,,,"Sketch by J. Gaisberger snr., 1938 ",,"33m",,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,"1700m",,,"West of Hinterer Schwarzmooskogel (exact location unknown) Possibly near <a href=""37.htm"">Kat.37</a> (q.v.)",,,, 39,"1/T +",,,,"noinfo/kratzer/39.htm","SCHWA höhle 39",,,"2b or 4 location unclear","No Info","Höhlenforschervereinigung Altaussee, 1938",,,,,,,,,"18m",,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,"1740m",,,"West side of Vorderer Schwarzmooskogel according to text. Map shows it on S side, not far from the summit area. Later reference says it is above and south of <a href=""36.htm"">Kat.36</a>, however the kataster description of the location of 36 is also wrong... ",,"2.2m wide by 1.2m high entrance leads in a gentle slope to where it becomes too tight. ",, 40,"7//S/T/E x","a b c d e f g h s",,"yes","smkridge/40.htm","Schwarzmooskogeleishöhle","Schwarzmooskogelhöhlensystem",,"2a",,"The main passages as far as Elephantengang were explored by 1938. Since then a variety of groups have worked here finding numerous extensions, of which Schneevulkanhalle is the most significant.<p> Until recently, it has been difficult to come close to a comprehensive survey or even a good estimate of the length of the system because of a lack of contact and some misunderstanding between the groups involved. However, in 1997 a chance encounter (at the International Congress) by Wookey with Denis Motte, of the <a href=""../../others/gscb/index.htm"">G.S.Clerval,</a> led to renewed contacts with one group who explored this area, and Thilo Müller of ARGE has contacted the leaders of other groups and obtained all the rest of the 1980s information that survives. This is being merged into a coherent set of information which will guide necessary resurvey work to complete the picture. <ul> <li>Discovered and main passages explored in 1929 by Ausseer cavers, and surveyed in 1938 by O Schauberger and U Czornig. <li>Further exploration 1953, Sektion Ausseerland. <li>Wilfried Lorenz, Franz Lindenmayr with Nuremburg and Munich cavers discover the Schneevulkanhalle at the beginning of July 1978 (not yet connected to Eishöhle). <li>In Autumn 1983, Eishöhle was ""1600m long with four entrances"". <li>After several trips by the Germans in September to November 1983, the system was 2500m long with five entrances [<a href=""../../others/muenchen/de/841642.htm"" lang=""de"">Der Schlaz, 42</a>, also on site in <a href=""../../others/muenchen/en/841642.htm"">English translation</a>]. <li>More recently, Reinhard Kieselbach's (München/Nurnberg - VfHM) group have linked it to <a href=""88.htm"">Lärchenschacht</a> (88) (itself 1885m long in April 1995, and apparently giving a combined length of 6km) which they also connected to <a href=""../../smkridge/41.htm"">Stellerweghöhle</a> (5.75 km). <li>Our Current estimate of the cave length is 1,863km, from a total surveyed length of 2,463m (600m of the 974m long Schneevulkanhalle survey is not deemed to be part of the cave length).<br> The length comes from:<br> VfHM 1980s survey - 693m: Original part of cave plus extensions<br> VfHO 1991 survey - 374m: Schneevulkanhalle from 40e entrance<br> CUCC 1998-9 surveys - 751m: Heaven and Hell and persitence of vision SVH extensions<br> Arge 1999 surveys - 130m: Königsschacht and Grüner Eingang </ul> <p>Stellerweghöhle in turn is connected to <a href=""../../smkridge/78.htm"">Schwabenschacht</a> which was over 7km at the time and exploration continues. This must make the combined system at least 19 km long. We have seen figures quoted as high as 25km, but this may involve some double-counting, given the uncertainties involved. Arge's estimate (entirely from extant survey data) was 22.7 km after summer 1999.","<p>Schwarzmooskogeleishöhle is an extensive cave over 1600m long before 1983, extended to 2500m by a German group by 1985. The system is mainly horizontal, though tackle is needed to explore it fully, and crampons are necessary in parts, because of the substantial quantities of ice in the cave. Was extended by the Germans who worked in the area in the early eighties, who suggested then that there was potential for extension vertically. Subsequently linked via a 30m pitch to <a href=""88.htm"">Lärchenschacht</a> (1623/88) which in turn was connected to the <a href=""../../smkridge/41.htm"">Stellerweghöhlensystem</a>, giving no increase in depth if the laser-rangefound altitude is correct rather than the old kataster one, which seems likely. <h4>Translated brief guide</h4> <p>From 'Längsten und Tiefsten Hohlen in Österreich', translated by Wookey and Thilo: <p>The cave is on the southeastern slopes of the Vorderen Schwarzmooskogel (1843) developed in Dachsteinkalk. From seven partly shaft-like entrance points, a huge, flat-floored level with impressive ice formations can be approached. The <b>Schneevulkanhalle</b> at the northern end is the biggest ice-bearing chamber in middle Europe. <p>Four entrances lead into the central area. A 40m shaft from the Top Entrance '<b>Oberen Eingang</b>' breaks into the ice-decorated '<b>Altausseer Halle</b>'. To the west from here via a 25m ramp accessing '<b>Schneehalle</b>' leads both to entrance 2 and the connecting gallery from the ice-bearing '<b>Thalhammerhalle</b>', that can be entered from entrances 3 and 4 too. South of the Schnee and Altausseer Halles, the '<b>Teufelberger Halle</b>' connects, the bottom of which contains an ice lake. A wide passage with side shafts goes southsouthwest to '<b>Hans-Pfandl-Halle</b>'. The east connected room, also reached by a 23m high chimney (entrance 7), is divided into two by a high block barrier. The '<b>Flusstunnel</b>' south from here ends blocked. <p>From the Altausseer Halle, a lofty passage with ice figures heads off NNE. The continuation is the '<b>Halle des Schiefen Turms</b>', where the '<b>Wahnsinnschächte</b>' branches off on the west. It was thought that this was blocked by ice. However, over a wall of ice one reaches the 130 by 75 by 50 m Schneevulkanhalle, on the eastern wall of which rises a steep snowslope flowing from the '<b>Königsschachts</b>' (entrance 6). The chamber with its very impressive ice formations can also be reached via the '<b>Brennerbeselschluf</b>' (entrance 5). At its northern end a climb reveals the easterly-running '<b>Kalten Gang</b>' and the parallel '<b>Spinnenfriedhof</b>'. <h3><a name=""svh"">Schneevulkanhalle</a> trip:</h3> <p>The principal objective of both pushing and tourist trips is the huge ice chamber of Schneevulkanhalle, which requires some serious ice work to reach from the older entrances in the middle of the system. Instead, follow the description to the ""new"" entrance (Brennerbeselschluf, 40e), with a somewhat limited area to get changed, perched between the icy blast from the cave and whatever the Austrian weather is offering. <p>The entrance is not walk-in, and low crawling in the face of the icy draught starts at once. A small descending tube (somewhat muddy - irritating in crampons!) leads in about 20m to a short climb down into larger (walking/stooping) passage 'Geröllgang. This goes downhill to a scramble up. This was totally ice-covered in 1997 and 1998, but not 1999 or 2000 and has a <a href=""../../fixaid.htm#icy"">fixed rope</a> (VfHO-installed), which may be buried in ice at somewhat critical points - a certain amount of care is needed if chipping it out with an ice-axe and gloves really are needed ! <p>Partway up this slope is a space on the left [<a href=""../../smkridge/40/qm.htm#C000040-05"" name=""qC000040-05"">C0000-40-05</a> A], including a pitch in the floor. At the far end of this space, a short crawl and a grovel down through boulders where a stream comes in from above both choke. The pitch is a c3, p20, p30 - the last part being very wet in early summer. Leading to <a HREF=""#schotterland"">Schotterland</a>. <p>Survey data also suggests a passage off to the right of the iceslope for 20m or so. <p>Above the scramble up is a short traverse, also rather interesting when covered in hard ice (and also protected by a fixed rope which had to be dug out in 1998). A steeply ascending passage to the L holds a quantity of particularly scrofulous rope (presumably a previous fixed rope). This can be climbed ~10m until it gets too vertical. It draughts. Beyond the ice is a steep snow/ice slope down into the huge Schneevulkanhalle. It is <b>strongly</b> recommended to equip this with a properly rigged SRT rope rather than anything less - the cave has seen a number of accidents, some <b>fatal</b>. Although the slope looks like soft snow, it is a layer of coarsely crystalline hard névé over solid ice. In parts it is almost impossible to kick steps into, whilst in others it offers only minimal purchase for crampon points. Conditions no doubt vary with the season as well as with position on the slope and the year. Tackle required: 50m rope, crampons. There is one bolt at the top, for a traverse line to two bolts off to the R in the roof where the snow-slope proper starts. Sometimes the traverse area is full of snow and an ice-screw or ice-axe rebelay/deviation (club first ? in 1989) may be needed. A deviation (from rock) at the head of the steep section was found adequate in 1998. <p><center><img alt=""plan - 12k gif"" width=600 height=540 src=""i/40svh.png""></center> <p> The 50m Königschacht (40f) entrance is the source of the snow slope and comes in here. It is often full of snow but was open in 1999 and so was surveyed (by ARGE). <p>At the bottom is the main chamber from which the pitch does indeed look like a snow-covered volcanic cone. Most of the floor area is ice-covered and only a slight slope is necessary to make crampons vital here. Most of the chamber is filled with ice formations up to 15m high (end of season). Those with two ice-tools can climb almost anything in the chamber, though the formations are no doubt rather more spectacular and fragile in spring or early summer. Formation-ice can also shatter very easily as melting occurs between component crystals later in the season, so it is probably safer for climbers to stick to hard névé. Ways on are mostly reached by steeper slopes that definitely require ice-gear and can be quite unnerving approached from above. Note that the slopes are usually <b>hard</b> ice, ice-axe-braking after a slip is not an option - lifeline or don't fall ! <p><center><a href=""l/istal.htm""><img alt=""Photo of ice formations, 41k jpeg"" width=150 height=200 src=""t/istal.jpg""></a></center> <p>Starting from the pitch (facing outwards from the slope), heading round the chamber to the left leads over a large flat area of ice to where a gap between ice and rock [<a href=""../../smkridge/40/qm.htm#C000040-01"" name=""qC000040-01"">C0000-40-01</a> A] drops 10m (2 bolts, one added 1999) into large passage <a HREF=""../../smkridge/40/cucc.htm#elephant"">elephantengang</a>. <p>Right next to it is an icefall coming in from above [<a href=""../../smkridge/40/qm.htm#C000040-02"" name=""qC000040-02"">C0000-40-02</a> C] (Apparently explored by GSCB in early 80s for ~40m). 40m round the wall of the chamber is a rubble run-in, iced on the top half. This was climbed by Haines (1998) and Atkinson (1999), as well as the GSCB. At the top is a wet boulder choke that definately doesn't go, but the GSCB plan shows a narrow rift on the right marked 'tight'. <p>Halfway up this slope on the left is the narrow entrance to <a href=""../../smkridge/40/cucc.htm#pov"">Persistence of Vision</a>. <p>20m further round another couple of icefalls come in. Both are about 8-10m and vertical [<a href=""../../smkridge/40/qm.htm#C000040-03"" name=""qC000040-03"">C0000-40-03</a> A]. GSCB plan shows they have climbed up here to find a 20m pitch beyond into narrow rift. Their survey doesn't make it clear how it ends. CUCC bolted up the left side of the left icefall in 2000 to find an ice water duck leading to a pitch series (<b>Mission Impossible</b>). The duck was dry in 2001, but back again in 2002. <p>50m further round (downslope) the ice drops away steeply under the wall. A line is advisable for the descent. 20m down, the ice slope peters out giving way to sand and rocks. At the end here is a very strongly draughting hole [<a href=""../../smkridge/40/qm.htm#C000040-04"" name=""qC000040-04"">C0000-40-04</a> B]. This appears too tight, but survey data shows this is where Kalten Gang and Spinnefriedhof are (VfHM, 1984). To the right at the foot of the slope closes down with rocks and ice - it would probably connect with Plastic Hell. A few metres up from the bottom of the slope on the left hand (N) wall is a gap between the ice and rock leading into a large chamber [<a href=""qm.htm#A199840-05"" name=""qA199840-05"">A1998-40-05</a> B] (reported by Robert Winkler). <p>Back in Schneevulkanhalle, another 10m clockwise round the chamber is another, steeper iceslope. A rope is definitely needed for this. This is the way to <a href=""../../smkridge/40/cucc.htm#phell"">Plastic Hell.</a> <p>Beyond and above are more thin icefalls coming from high in the ceiling - trying to climb these would be bonkers - the debris from the collapse of some of them is all around. <h2><a name=""schotterland"">Schotterland</a> (Munich cavers 198? and ARGE 2000)</h2> <p>The foot of the piss-wet pitch opens out into very large triangular passage. You can go NE about 35m until it chokes (a good draught comes out of one hoplessly choked corner) or SW 20 to a T-junction. Right (W) is Kleiner keller. Left, ducking under the low wall, is Schotterland. <p>Kleiner keller is about 50m on huge passage to where the end is choked with glacial fill and a waterspout comes in the from the roof 3m up. A sling ladder makes it possible to ascend the waterspout - you can even doing it without getting very wet, as the spout is unusually well-concentrated, and thus avoidable. This comes into an E-W rift, with the water coming from the E end. It can be ascended in both directions at various traverse levels for about 30m, but the top appears choked at all points. The top is probably very close to the floor of Elephantengang.</p> <p>The old Munich cavers' data suggests that there is a passage off kleiner keller that we missed - which seems hard to believe, but maybe it is worth another visit?</p> <p>Schotterland is more enormous passage (10m wide) going SSE, presumably schotterland, due to the flooring of small rocks. A ramp goes up steeply on the L after 30m. It closes down after 40m. Ahead the passage slowly narrows until it chokes at the end - probably very close to the surface.</p>",,,,,"In dataset",,"smk-system.svx","54000m","1032m",,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,"SSE of Vd. Schwarzmooskogel and ENE of a large basin in the hillside which often contains a lot of snow. Roughly a 450m NNE of <a href=""../../smkridge/113.htm"">Sonnenstrahlhöhle</a> - CUCC's furthest east permanent survey station.","From the Bergrestaurant, take path 201, ignoring the left turn to the plateau at Egglgrube. Pass the junction path left to Kratzer and continue until a red upper-case Omega is seen in the middle of the path, marking Kat. 28 (we think). <p>There is a well-marked (cairns and red paint spots/arrows) branch path here. Follow this for about half an hour to the back of the limestone knoll known as ""The Nipple"" (and Weisse Warz and bunter's bulge). Things to note: first there is a wire traverse then you pass the lightninged tree in a sizeable valley. (Opposite this tree is the point you would turn left for Schwabenscacht). Shortly after that a pair of red arrows point in opposite directions. Go steeply uphill here doubling back slightly, rather than the more obvious straight on. Turn right about 40m beyond the nipple and head across the limestone for a narrow gully. After a hundred metres or so new red paint marks appear and take you to 40a. <p>A very large cave entrance, 20 minutes further on, was the German's (Munich) bivouac, and a few minutes later, a strongly draughting (out in summer) tube about 5m in diameter is the main entrance (""Hauptportal"" - 40a). This was also the site of an old French bivouac, but must have been very cold. Continue along past some big holes and slightly downhill (one 5m step down). After about 180m(?) you reach the area of numerous entrances in a row There is the small Grüner Eingang (40s), 2 larger entrances ('Eistunnel' and 'Nichts50'), a small blocked entrance, and finally, where the path ends abruptly and unambiguously the ""new"" entrance (40e, Brennerbeserlschluf), also strongly draughting. This is between one and a half and two hours from the car park.",,, -40,,"a",,"entrance","40a.htm",,,,,"No Info",,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,"Oberer Eingang",,"p40a","it is laser point 14",,"laser point",,"GPS00.40lasr",81700.9294,36459.4949,"1689.6784m",,,,"From the Bergrestaurant, take path 201, ignoring the left turn to the plateau at Egglgrube. Pass the junction path left to Kratzer and continue until a red upper-case Omega is seen in the middle of the path, marking Kat. 28 (we think). There is a well-marked (cairns and red paint spots/arrows) branch path here. Follow this for about half an hour to the back of the limestone knoll known as ""The Nipple"" (and Weisse Warz and bunter's bulge). Things to note: first there is a wire traverse then you pass the lightninged tree in a sizeable valley. (Opposite this tree is the point you would turn left for Schwabenscacht). Shortly after that a pair of red arrows point in opposite directions. Go steeply uphill here doubling back slightly, rather than the more obvious straight on. Turn right about 40m beyond the nipple and head across the limestone for a narrow gully. After a hundred metres or so new red paint marks appear and take you to 40a. A very large cave entrance, 20 minutes further on, was the German's (Munich) bivouac, and a few minutes later, a strongly draughting (out in summer) tube about 5m in diameter is the main entrance (""Hauptportal"" � 40a).","a strongly draughting (out in summer) tube about 5m in diameter",, +40,,"a",,"entrance","40a.htm",,,,,"No Info",,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,"Oberer Eingang",,"p40a","it is laser point 14",,"laser point",,"GPS00.40lasr",81700.9294,36459.4949,"1689.6784m",,,,"From the Bergrestaurant, take path 201, ignoring the left turn to the plateau at Egglgrube. Pass the junction path left to Kratzer and continue until a red upper-case Omega is seen in the middle of the path, marking Kat. 28 (we think). There is a well-marked (cairns and red paint spots/arrows) branch path here. Follow this for about half an hour to the back of the limestone knoll known as ""The Nipple"" (and Weisse Warz and bunter's bulge). Things to note: first there is a wire traverse then you pass the lightninged tree in a sizeable valley. (Opposite this tree is the point you would turn left for Schwabenscacht). Shortly after that a pair of red arrows point in opposite directions. Go steeply uphill here doubling back slightly, rather than the more obvious straight on. Turn right about 40m beyond the nipple and head across the limestone for a narrow gully. After a hundred metres or so new red paint marks appear and take you to 40a. A very large cave entrance, 20 minutes further on, was the German's (Munich) bivouac, and a few minutes later, a strongly draughting (out in summer) tube about 5m in diameter is the main entrance (""Hauptportal"" – 40a).","a strongly draughting (out in summer) tube about 5m in diameter",, 40,,"b",,"entrance","40b.htm",,,,,"No Info",,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,"Schneeschacht ",,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,, 40,,"c",,"entrance","40c.htm",,,,,"No Info",,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,"Reichenvaterschacht ",,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,, 40,,"d",,"entrance","40d.htm",,,,,"No Info",,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,"Unterer Eingang",,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,, @@ -73,7 +73,7 @@ 51,"1/T +",,,,"noinfo/aaussee/51.htm","Höhlen 1-3 in Weiße Wand",,,10,"No Info",,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,"1330-1400m",,,"At the bottom of Weiße Wand west of Hochklapfsattel, some way below the Stögerweg path. ",,,, 52,"1/S/W +","a b",,,"noinfo/gschwand/52.htm","Sennerkeller & Sauloch",,,9,"No Info","Sektion Ausseerland, 1968 ","To the north, an 11m long, 2m high and 0.5m wide meander passage leads off. Through the passage flows a small gutter, which might well end too tight just after the turn off to Sennerkeller, the water emerging at a small spring to the north of Sennerkeller in a karren field. ",,,,"Mitt. der Sektion Ausseerland 19(3) July, 1981, p 49 ",,"1:250, Alfred Auer, 1968 (no copy available) ",,"32m","15m",,,,,,,,,,,,,,,"1490m",,,"Gschwandalm, by the path.","Reached by walking all the way round Loser from the Loser Hütte. ","n a 15m by 6m wide rift is the 6m by 4m entrance to the Sauloch. This is in a steep-sided doline used as a dumping place for all sorts of refuse.",, 53,"1/T +",,,,"noinfo/augstb/53.htm","Gellerliäger",,,11,"No Info",,"""Horizontale, niedere Röhre mit Bruchschutt.""",,,,,,"Plan 1:100 by Alfred Auer, 1968 ",,,,"5m N-S ",,,,,,,,,,,,,,"1020m",,,,"12m east and 5m above <a href=""3.htm"">Gellerofen</a> (Kat.3)",,, -54,"1/T =",,,,"noinfo/augstb/54.htm","Seehöhle",,,11,"No Info","Karl Gaisberger, 1959 ",,,,,,,,,"5m",,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,"780m",,,"South of and well below <a href=""3.htm"">Gellerofen</a> (Kat.3), not marked on the Austrian�s map, but apparently just off the road in Augstbachtal. Must be almost in the village. <p>""Kleine Höhle mit einer Wasserlacke im Inneren.""",,,, +54,"1/T =",,,,"noinfo/augstb/54.htm","Seehöhle",,,11,"No Info","Karl Gaisberger, 1959 ",,,,,,,,,"5m",,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,"780m",,,"South of and well below <a href=""3.htm"">Gellerofen</a> (Kat.3), not marked on the Austrian´s map, but apparently just off the road in Augstbachtal. Must be almost in the village. <p>""Kleine Höhle mit einer Wasserlacke im Inneren.""",,,, 55,"1/S/T =",,,,"noinfo/loser/55.htm","Schachthöhle west. Hochanger",,,"8d","No Info",,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,"1750m",,,"Almost on the saddle between Loser and Hochanger. ",,,, 56,"1/T +",,,,"noinfo/loser/56.htm","Hornsteinhöhle",,,"8c","No Info",,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,"1650m",,,"West side of Augstsee. ",,,, 57,"1/S +",,,,"noinfo/loser/57.htm","Höhle unterhalb der Schafkirche",,,"8c","No Info",,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,"1660m",,,"West side of Augstsee. ",,,, @@ -118,7 +118,7 @@ "87B",0,,,,"smkridge/87B.htm","Schacht 87B bei Stögerweg",,,"2a",,"CUCC 1980, 1987",,,,,,,,"caves\088\088.svx",,"minimal",,,,,,,,,,,,,,,"circa 1505m",,,"<i>In</i> Stogerweg - you literally step over it while walking along the path. <p>Numbered '88' in a fit of optimism while the explorer was getting changed to investigate this impressively draughting hole, it proved in fact to be only 1.2 metres deep and too tight. It appears to be above the inlet below pitch 1 in cave 87, and has been renumbered 87b, since the Austrians have allocated number 88 to Lärchenhöhle. <p><b>Note:</b> the 1987 logbook suggests we changed this to 87a and 87 to 87b, so we had better look into this. ",,,, 88,"3/S/T x",,,,"noinfo/smkridge/88.htm","Lärchenschacht",,,"2a","No Info","<ul> <li>First descent by <span lang=""de"">Reinhard Lemmer</span> in 1983, depth 40m, blocked by ice. <li><span lang=""de"">Reinhard Kieselbach, Franz Lindenmayr</span> and <span lang=""de"">K Peter</span> make second descent over a weekend in August 1985, finding the <b lang=""de"">Oberpfälzer Halle</b>. <li>In September, FHKF, VHM and HFG-KA returned, discovered <b lang=""de"">Frankenschnellweg,</b> and the way to the <b lang=""de"">Großer Cañon,</b> and surveyed. <li>In 1986, exploration continued to <b lang=""de"">Hall Dom,</b> connecting to <span lang=""de"">Stellerweg.</span> Also found <b lang=""de"">Geburtstagsgang,</b> which came out in <span lang=""de"">Großer Cañon.</span> <li>In 1987, the German groups were replaced by French (<a href=""../../others/gscb/index.htm"">GSCB,</a> GSD, ASCR) who found <b lang=""de"">Sandschacht,</b> heading N and E. A 5m climb from <span lang=""fr"">Puits Madonna</span> reached a passage with cairns and a definite connection to <span lang=""de"">Schwarzmooskogeleishöhle.</span> A through trip was done the next day by GSCB and GSD. <li>In 1988 surveys were tied together with an improved surface survey. </ul>","Few details available, since we were for many years unable to obtain a survey. A figure of over 6 km long in 1987 was quoted, but this would appear to include the <a href=""40.htm"">Eishöhle</a>. Contact was finally made with the French group in 1997 and <span lang=""fr"">Denis Motte</span> has sent us a plan on 12 A3 sheets, dated April 1995, which gives the length as 1885m. The following description is made up entirely by looking at the survey, and should not be taken as reliable. It is hoped that we will do better after visiting the cave with a view to finding its connections with <span lang=""de"">Stellerweghöhle</span> (<a href=""../../smkridge/41.htm"">1623/41</a>) and <a href=""../../smkridge/144.htm"">1623/144</a>. <p>Open shaft descends 5m to first rigging bolt, then short pitch to snow plug. The way out is to the NE, where the survey shows a couple of (inaccessible ?) question marks and a traverse over a pit. Narrow rift continues past another unexplored small passage to the right, and in 20m opens out into a sizeable chamber. The boulder floor drops away to the north (left) and ahead. Up right is a bouldery antechamber with the base of a ramp up SE. A short passage here chokes. <p>20m across the boulder slope, it is possible to descend the slope left into the main part of <b lang=""de"">Oberpfälzer Halle</b>, 15m wide and 30m long, now heading west, still descending over boulders. To the right is a 15m rift passage with an inlet. Ahead, the chamber narrows, but large bouldery passage continues with two or three big boulders (over 5m). To SW is a junction marking the start of <b lang=""de"">Jsartal</b>. Up a steep ramp to the right (NW) is unexplored, whilst left, south, goes directly below the entrance in a passage with a slot in the floor. After 25m is a widening and junction. Right curves round to end below an aven. Left goes quickly to another junction. Right soon chokes in boulders, whilst left ends quickly in an undescended rift pitch. <p>Back at the junction at the start of <span lang=""de"">Jsartal,</span> the main way SW soon traverses a large hole in the floor, then continues as a small canyon until 50m from the start is a junction in small passage. Right pops out immediately into the side of a ramp rising right (north) to a choke. Down ends in a pitch, which is best reached by the small passage left at the junction. This quickly doglegs and comes out over the pitch on the opposite side from the ramp. The pitch (undescended) is seen to be a widening in a deep floor canyon, which continues as <span lang=""de"">Jsartal</span> develops into an 8m wide rocky chamber through which the floor trench meanders. <p>After a short way, the trench abruptly ends, and a ramp up above it leads to a junction. Left continues up ramp, but not very far. Right traverses the ramp (another down-section soon ends), then heads west past another blind passage on the right, to break out into a larger passage ahead. Left (south) is the way to <span lang=""de"">Geburtstagsgang,</span> whilst right (north) eventually leads to the <a href=""#fsw""><span lang=""de"">SchwarzmooskogelEishöhle</span> connection</a>. <h3 lang=""de"">Geburtstagsgang</h3> <p>Ascending a low ramp leads past various short side-extensions to <b lang=""de"">Schafott</b> - apparently a breakthrough point in 1986 ? Beyond this, small passage continues SW, with a mudbank on the left, for almost 50m until it widens out and descends a steep slope towards a floor trench. Left here a further ramp ascends east to a choke. The floor trench continues W, then NW, but would seem to be too narrow. Staying on the north side of the trench and heading NW (right from the point of entry) leads through mud and/or shingle deposits in a small zig-zag passage which meets first a small canyon which doesn't go, and then a T-junction over another canyon. <p>Right ends after ten metres or so, whilst left (west) meets another junction where a further trench comes in from the left (south). This also appears to be too small to follow, but would seem likely to connect with one or both of the trenches seen earlier. Ahead reaches a chamber, with a steep slope down left to yet another trench, but staying high gains the continuation of <span lang=""de"">Geburtstagsgang</span> continuing small with a narrow floor canyon. This now goes NW for 50m, to a T-junction. Right ends almost immediately, whilst left shortly pops out in bigger passage on a ledge overlooking a small stream. <p>Right in the canyon, 12m away, is bigger passage <span lang=""de"">(<a href=""#gc"">Großer Cañon</a>),</span> and the original way to Stellerweghöhle, whilst ahead/left goes west, quickly picking up an inlet from the left and dropping 30m in <b lang=""de"">Ungarn Cañon</b>, a narrow way for 50m, to where exploration ceased. It is not clear, but this may well be a pitch, quite possibly into part of the <span lang=""de"">Stellerweg</span> system. <h3>To <span lang=""de"">Stellerweghöhle</span></h3> <p>By going right at the start of <span lang=""de"">Ungarn Cañon,</span> large, bouldery passage is soon met at a T-junction. To the right is an alternative route from the entrance via <a href=""#fsw""><span lang=""de"">Frankenschnellweg</span></a> and <span lang=""de"">Großer Cañon.</span> This route was found first, but the survey numbering suggests it was surveyed later and I might deduce that this is not the normal way. <p>Left in the bigger passage is over boulders, passing a short passage on the left. A hole in the floor of this appears to connect to <span lang=""de"">Ungarn Cañon.</span> Ahead, a slit in the floor is traversed (on the right ?) to reach a pair of large boulders. Up right here ends quickly in an unclimbable sediment wall. Continuing west, the trench reappears (now traversed on left) and soon expands to be a large hole in the floor. It is unclear from the survey how this is crossed, but on the far side, it would appear that a pitch of c 35m is descended, over jammed blocks. Rising steeply to the right (north) from (the foot ?) here is an unascended ramp, which seems likely to connect to unsurveyed passages below Roddick's Dive in <a href=""../../smkridge/144.htm"">1623/144</a>. <p>A continuation WNW from this point would appear to be part of the streamway below the <a href=""../../smkridge/41/41.htm#bigpitch"">Big Pitch</a> in <span lang=""de"">Stellerweghöhle.</span> This in turn suggests that the 35m or so descent must be in the lower part of this shaft, and the ramp seen to the right starts some way above the foot of the pitch. <h3><a name=""fsw""><span lang=""de"">Frankenschnellweg</span></a> and the way to the <a href=""40.htm""><span lang=""de"">Eishöhle</span></a></h3> <p>From the junction at the west of <span lang=""de"">Jsartal,</span> large passage heads north for a short way to a T-junction. Right encounters two floor trenches, the right hand of which soon widens to a 3m deep blind pit. Across this is 25m of rising passage to a choke. Left soon swings round and heads north again, passong another short, blind ascending way on the left. A short section of floor trench is traversed and a short way beyond is <b lang=""de"">Brotzeitplatz</b>, where a large cross-rift goes a short distance left and right. <p>Ahead is <b lang=""de"">Frankenschnellweg</b>, a rifty passage with rounded roof, heading north with an initial floor trench. Thirty metres or so from <span lang=""de"">Brotzeitplatz</span> another cross-rift is met, this time at an angle. This is the start of a slightly mazey area. To the right is narrow for 30m to the edge of a wide shaft, <b lang=""de"">Regenschacht</b>, 4m deep. By traversing right on the near edge, a small passage is gained which circles all the way round to the far side, then ends in a small aven. <p>Ahead in <span lang=""de"">Frankenschnellweg,</span> another cross-rift is encountered less than 20m ahead. Right turns sharply back and connects to the <span lang=""de"">Regenschacht</span> passage about halfway along. Left is too narrow to follow, but lines up with another section of rift in the mazey area. Continuing north in <span lang=""de"">Frankenschnellweg,</span> the boulder floor changes and a steep slope down leads to the lip of a canyon at <b lang=""fr"">Puits du Sable</b>. Directly opposite is a short blind ramp up. Right is the way to <a href=""#gg""><span lang=""fr"">Grand Galerie</span></a>, described below, whilst left is the start of <span lang=""de"">Großer Cañon.</span> <h3><a name=""gc""><span lang=""de"">Großer Cañon</span></a></h3> <p>This is the deep rift reached at the end of <a href=""#fsw""><span lang=""de"">Frankenschnellweg</span></a>, but it is not clear that this is the best way to get to it. Back at the start of the mazey area, the way left (SW) is boulder-floored rift which continues for twenty metres or so until a junction. Ahead chokes, but two ways right soon unite. The left way looks harder - a traverse over a trench, whilst the right way is boulder floored. Beyond the reunion is narrower, with a slot in the floor, and zig-zagging roughly NW, though clearly interrupted by a number of SW-NE joints. One of these can be followed for ten or fifteen metres, where it becomes too narrow, but lined up with a cross-rift in <span lang=""de"">Frankenschnellweg.</span> <p>After this joint, the next junction is effectively an oxbow on the left, where a bat was found during exploration. Ahead soon reaches the top of the <b lang=""de"">Großer Cañon</b>, some 40m downstream from the point reached in <span lang=""de"">Frankenschnellweg.</span> A descent to the bottom at this point is a 30m pitch. Directly across from the point of entry is a ramp up, with various sediment banks, leading to <a href=""#sh""><span lang=""de"">Sophienhalle.</span></a> To the right goes back towards the <span lang=""fr"">Puits du Sable</span> and <a href=""#gg""><span lang=""fr"">Grand Galerie</span></a> - see below. <p>To the left, <span lang=""de"">Großer Cañon</span> heads SW in a classic meander, or traversing rift. Give or take a couple of zags, this is straight for almost 100m, at which point it is interrupted by a bouldery chamber of about 10m diameter. Beyond, <span lang=""de"">Großer Cañon</span> continues S then SW again, getting wider. Boulders hide the trench, and the passage curves west. To the left is the way in via <span lang=""de"">Geburtstagsgang</span> and on to <span lang=""de"">Ungarn Cañon.</span> Ahead is the main way into <span lang=""de"">Stellerweg,</span> described above. It is not clear whether the stream below <span lang=""de"">Großer Cañon</span> goes on this way, or joins <span lang=""de"">Ungarn Cañon.</span> <h3><a name=""gg""><span lang=""fr"">Grande Galerie</span></a></h3> <p>Upstream in <span lang=""de"">Großer Cañon,</span> most easily reached by the <span lang=""fr"">Puits du Sable,</span> ascending passage heads east, and soon develops into a very wide passage with a deep canyon floor. It looks as if this passage is done at the level of the bottom of the canyon, which leads up, passing an inlet on the right, to a large pool at the foot of <b lang=""fr"">Puits Madonna</b>. This is ascended to reach a similar level to the point of entry above <span lang=""fr"">Puits du Sable.</span> The continuation enlarges into <b lang=""fr"">Grande Galerie</b>, soon attaining impressive dimensions of 15m wide by 20m high. Question marks mark apparently inaccessible passages, two on the right and one on the left. <p>Beyond a couple of impressive boulders, a climb up leads to a smaller continuation. To the right is a hole in the floor with passage beyond, but left is a ramp up which soon rejoins the passage beyond the hole. The way gets bigger again, in passage first explored from <a href=""40.htm""><span lang=""de"">Schwarzmooskogeleishöhle</span></a>, until after 50m, it ends at the foot of a thirty metre pitch from the other cave. <h3><a name=""sh""><span lang=""de"">Sophienhalle</span></a></h3> <p>On the NW side of <span lang=""de"">Großer Cañon,</span> directly opposite the entry via the mazey area, or 40m downstream from the entry via <span lang=""fr"">Puits du Sable,</span> is a ramp up NNW. Right and left are walls of sediment, but the main way suddenly turns right, though still ascending steeply. The ramp eases and becomes more bouldery, now heading NE, suddenly to end at a widening above a deep undescended pit. A climb up on the right of this reaches the top of the far wall, in a large N-S collapse chamber, <b lang=""de"">Sophienhalle</b>. This shows clear bedding in the walls, and appears to have formed by spalling. Over the boulder floor, another steep wall precedes a ramp down to a choke. Dotted lines suggest a northward continuation, though whether this is above or below the ramp is unclear.",,,,"Information from <a href=""../../others/gscb/index.htm""><span lang=""fr"">Groupe Spéléologique de Clerval - Baume les Dames</span></a>",,,,,"215m to connection below Stellerweg big pitch. ",,,,,,,"p088",,"p088x","Nils",,,81391,36311,"1647m",,,,,,, 89,"1/S +",,,,"plateau/89.htm","Schwa Schacht 89",,,"1d",,"CUCC 1979 ","A 25m shaft into a narrow rift of zero lateral extension. ",,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,"c 1630m ",,,"Plateau",,,, -90,"1/S +",,,,"plateau/90.htm","Bräu Schacht 90",,,"1a",,"CUCC 1977 - Team Enthusiast.","Rift entrance in scrub leads to a loose, choked rift, 20m deep. 1996 sketch survey says 12.5m deep, 3m long (N-S) and 1.4m wide. West wall of shaft is 1.5m higher than east, and bolt plus red-painted number are at SE corner.",,,,,,"? CUCC 1996 � Wookey.",,,"20m",,,,,,"p90",,,,"Surface survey",,"GPS00.90",82353,35373,"1681m","Bräuning Wall pt. 1828: 247°<br> Bräuning Nase: 153°<br> Vorderer Schwarzmooskogel (nipple): 097°<br> Hinterer Schwarzmooskogel: 050°<br> Schönberg: 346°<br>",,"Plateau - below Bräuning Scharte - the large and dramatic breach in the Bräuning Wall.","Not located in search, 1989. Found 1996 and surveyed to. From Top Camp follow Bräuning path on slope, about 80m along (from point above waterhole) to where it meets edge of large patch of dwarf pine (c 100m diameter) on a raised limestone shelf. There is another patch of pines on slope to left for c 30m. Entrance is close to corner of big patch, 21m from path. Follow joint through gap in pines about 5m past where limestone step meets path. This is the same joint as CUCC 1996 WK 02, CUCC 1996 WK 03 and 1623/159<br> Surface survey location sketch in not KH 1996 p 3",,"?","red painted number ""90"" (1977), 1998 tag ""1623 90 CUCC 1977""" +90,"1/S +",,,,"plateau/90.htm","Bräu Schacht 90",,,"1a",,"CUCC 1977 - Team Enthusiast.","Rift entrance in scrub leads to a loose, choked rift, 20m deep. 1996 sketch survey says 12.5m deep, 3m long (N-S) and 1.4m wide. West wall of shaft is 1.5m higher than east, and bolt plus red-painted number are at SE corner.",,,,,,"? CUCC 1996 – Wookey.",,,"20m",,,,,,"p90",,,,"Surface survey",,"GPS00.90",82353,35373,"1681m","Bräuning Wall pt. 1828: 247°<br> Bräuning Nase: 153°<br> Vorderer Schwarzmooskogel (nipple): 097°<br> Hinterer Schwarzmooskogel: 050°<br> Schönberg: 346°<br>",,"Plateau - below Bräuning Scharte - the large and dramatic breach in the Bräuning Wall.","Not located in search, 1989. Found 1996 and surveyed to. From Top Camp follow Bräuning path on slope, about 80m along (from point above waterhole) to where it meets edge of large patch of dwarf pine (c 100m diameter) on a raised limestone shelf. There is another patch of pines on slope to left for c 30m. Entrance is close to corner of big patch, 21m from path. Follow joint through gap in pines about 5m past where limestone step meets path. This is the same joint as CUCC 1996 WK 02, CUCC 1996 WK 03 and 1623/159<br> Surface survey location sketch in not KH 1996 p 3",,"?","red painted number ""90"" (1977), 1998 tag ""1623 90 CUCC 1977""" 91,"1/S +",,,,"plateau/91.htm","Bräu Schacht 91",,,"1a",,"CUCC 1977 - Team Enthusiast.","A snow-fed rift in open karren on a fault/joint aligned on 67°. Choked at -20m (or plumb of -14m in 1996 to tiny snow plug).",,,,,,,,,"20m",,,,,,"p91",,,,,,"GPS00.91",82472,35271,"1652m","Schönberg 347°, HSK 054°, VSK (nipple) 108°, Bräuning Nase 150°, Bräuning Wall pt. 1828 210°, Bräuning Wall pt. 1835 224°<br>GPS: UTM 33T 0410171 5280908; UTM 33T 0410155 5280976; UTM 33T 0410177 5280894<br> ",,"Plateau - below Bräuning Scharte.","From Schwarzmoossattel, follow cairned path below the Bräuning Wall, past <a href=""../tcamps.htm#topcamp"">Top Camp</a> (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). <p>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. The bolt is at the NE end of the rift. ",,"<p><center><a href=""others/l/91_93.htm""><img src=""others/t/91_93.jpg"" width=214 height=155></a><br><b>Entrance 91 looking north towards 93 and Schönberg</b></center>","number in red (1977) on small scarp facing south, 1998 tag ""1623 91 CUCC 1977""" 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.",,,,,,"<img alt=""grade 1 elevation: 12k gif"" width=640 height=900 src=""others/92.png"">",,,"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" 93,"1/S +",,,,"plateau/93.htm","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",,,82485,35269,"1650m",,,"Plateau - below Bräuning Scharte, north of Kataster <a href=""91.htm"">91</a>. ","rom Schwarzmoossattel, follow cairned path below the Bräuning Wall, past <a href=""../tcamps.htm#topcamp"">Top Camp</a> (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). <p>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.",,"<center><a href=""others/l/91_93.htm""><img src=""others/t/91_93.jpg"" width=214 height=155></a><br><b>Entrance 91 on left, looking towards 93 and Schönberg</b></center>","numbered in red (1977) on scarp facing south, 1998 tag ""1623 93 CUCC 1977"".(placed in middle of ""9"")" @@ -133,7 +133,7 @@ ,,"main",,"entrance",,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,"p101tag",,,," Surface survey to entrance CUCC, 1998",,,82908,35601,"1633m","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°","?","extremely faded numbers ""101"" in red. 1998 tag ""1623 101 CUCC 1977"" southeast-facing (M6 stud)." ,,"a",,"last entrance",,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,"GPS98.101a",,,,,,,"(GPS: (cliff directly above 101A) GK 5410503 5283483 (FOM 9.2m))",,,,"extremely faded numbers ""101A"" in red" 102,"1/S +",,,,"plateau/102.htm","Plateau Schacht 102",,,"1b",,"CUCC 1977 - Team Youth (A.Waddington) ","A near-straight shaft of 20m ends on a snow plug.",,,,,,,,,,,,,,,"?",,,,,"GPS98.102","GPS00.102 GPS00.102a",,,"c 1630m",,,"GPS GK 5410464 5283496 (FOM 11.5m) About 50m west of <a href=""101.htm"">Kat.101</a>, c 15m south of <a href=""103.htm"">Kat. 103</a>, on a parallel joint.",,,"?","painted number is extremely faded, and appears only as a slight lightening in the lichen when wet. Part drilled hole for tag. Tagged 1998" -103,"1/S +",,,,"plateau/103.htm","Plateau Schacht 103",,,"1b",,"CUCC 1977 - Team Youth (S.Farrow & N.Thorne)","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.",,,,,,,,,,,,,,,"p103tag",,,,"Surface survey","GPS98.103",,82932,35577,"1632m","HSK 075�, VSK Nipple 153�, Lost Rucksack Cairn 325�",,"GPS GK 5410472 5283506 (FOM 8.7m) About 15m north of <a href=""102.htm"">Kat.102</a>, in the face of the same 125-305° fault scarp as <a href=""101.htm"">101</a>�s northward crawl, which is about 35m away to the SE. ",,,"?"," 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 fade in which the entrance lies. " +103,"1/S +",,,,"plateau/103.htm","Plateau Schacht 103",,,"1b",,"CUCC 1977 - Team Youth (S.Farrow & N.Thorne)","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.",,,,,,,,,,,,,,,"p103tag",,,,"Surface survey","GPS98.103",,82932,35577,"1632m","HSK 075°, VSK Nipple 153°, Lost Rucksack Cairn 325°",,"GPS GK 5410472 5283506 (FOM 8.7m) About 15m north of <a href=""102.htm"">Kat.102</a>, in the face of the same 125-305° fault scarp as <a href=""101.htm"">101</a>´s northward crawl, which is about 35m away to the SE. ",,,"?"," 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 fade in which the entrance lies. " 104,"1/S +",,,,"plateau/104.htm","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 <a href=""76.htm"">Eislufthöhle</a> (Kat. 76). The boulder has an incipient split, and is visible from the col.",,,,"paint" 105,"1/S +",,,,"plateau/105.htm","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",,,82967,35883,"1649m ",,,"30m north of <a href=""76.htm"">Eislufthöhle</a> on the plateau.",,,"?","paint tag 1999" 106,,,,,,,,"Number not allocated (see <a href=""plateau/76.htm"">Eislufthöhle 1623/76</a>)",,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,, @@ -141,9 +141,9 @@ 108,"1/S +",,,,"remote/108.htm","Schwa-Höhle 108",,,6,,"CUCC 1980 John, Tony and Andy Connolly","Horizontal entrance to a large chamber with narrow rift dropping away. Ends too tight.",,,,,,,,,,,,,"This does not appear to be in the Austrians' Kataster.",,,,,,,,,,,,"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",,,, 109,"1/t/S +",,,,"smkridge/109.htm","Schwa-Schacht 109",,,"2b",,"CUCC 1980, 1987","The obvious way in leads to a 'Viewing gallery' over the entrance chamber, but descent this way would require tackle. Best way in is to the left where a freeclimb leads down a 10m ramp in a chamber. This is snow-choked in some years but in 1980 a dig opened a triangular slot to a 6m pitch into a smaller, boulder-choked chamber. This was reentered in 1987 and an animal skeleton was found and removed for the Austrian cavers. There is a very small, but draughting tube in the roof of this final chamber, going back towards the surface.",,,,,,"? grade 1",,,,,,,"This does not appear to be in the Austrians' Kataster.",,,"p109","point above 1623/109 entrance",,"Surface survey",,,81246,36202,"1592m",,,,"This is a hole you step over on the way to <a href=""113.htm"">Sonnenstrahlhöhle</a> (113). ",,,"as at Aug 2001: ""109"" in very faded yellow paint, with an Omega." 110,"1/S/T +",,,,"remote/110.htm","Kein Hubschrauber Höhle",,,6,,"CUCC 1978 - Team Supersmooth/Supercool ","Insignificant low entrance with icy draught is marked with number in red paint. Through boulders leads to an 8m drop and walking passage ending in a collapse chamber with draught emerging from the choke. Needed digging to get in.",,,,,,"<img alt=""grade 1 plan: 12k gif"" width=500 height=600 src=""110.png"">",,,,,,,"Name comes from logbook comment ""helicopter failed to turn up"".",,,,,,,,,,,,,,"On the plateau, about 2km (sic) beyond <a href=""../plateau/76.htm""><span lang=""de"">Eislufthöhle</span></a> towards <span lang=""de-at"">Schönberg.</span> Actually, I am convinced that 2 km is a gross exaggeration, and half a mile would be more likely, otherwise it would be in a huge area of dwarf pine.",,,,"paint" -111,"1/S +",,,,"plateau/111.htm","Plateau Schacht 111",,,"1d",,"CUCC 1978 � Supersmooth/Supercool","Shaft 20m to ledge, then 10m to choke/too narrow.",,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,"Out on plateau, quite near <a href=""98.htm"">98</a>. ",,,, -112,"1/S +",,,,"plateau/112.htm","Plateau Schacht 112",,,"1d",,"CUCC 1978 � Supersmooth/Supercool","Next to open shaft half full of snow. Shaft drops 50m past two ledges to choke.",,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,," Out on plateau, 50m from <a href=""111.htm"">111</a>. ",,,, -113,"4/S/T +",,,,"smkridge/113.htm","Sonnenstrahlhöhle",,,"2b",,"CUCC 1980 (Team Sunbeam) to bottom; 1982 to push bottom, but no new passage found. Entered from 152 in 1985, Ibbeth Perilous Pot route connected 1987 ","Entrance is <b>huge</b>. A sizeable dry valley develops into a canyon which is full of snow. The canyon ends downstream in a solid wall, where the rigging point for the entrance pitch starts by the aforementioned tree. A short drop leads to a ledge where a stretch to the left (facing the rock) reaches a rebelay in a fine position on the impending wall. From here, drop 21m onto a large snow slope, then 10m further to the flat snow floor of a large chamber lit from above by the shaft. <p><center><a href=""others/l/113day.htm""><img src=""others/t/113day.jpg"" alt=""(photo (23k jpeg))"" width=130 height=200></a></center> <p>The way on is up a climb of 3m to a horizontal passage. There is an area of hading rifts, not fully explored. The first hole descends a ramp over treacherous ice and rubble for 30m to the head of a pitch, <b>Ibbeth Perilous Pot</b>. A second parallel ramp connects to the same point. Both these ramps suffer from loose rock and are best tackled with a handline. The main pitch drops for 20m in a series of steps, best rigged. A final 13m drop then lands on a rock/ice blockage <b>Marathon Ledge</b>, which at one time contained the original explorer's helmet and lights, dropped from the head of the pitch. A hammered route past the blockage leads to two short drops, then a 6m pitch into the Opera House (see below). <p>A descent of the second major hole from the entrance is the normal route and leads to a ramp down, traverse across and the head of <b>Point Five Gully</b>. The gully is decorated with ice formations early in the season, as are all the useful hand- and footholds on the following ramp, so a rope is recommended to descend <b>Fox's Glacier</b>. At the foot, about 60m below the entrance chamber, is a low bouldery chamber, and a low arch leads to a larger chamber, <b>Barnsley Methodist Chapel</b>, which is 20m high and 30m long. <p>The Chapel is floored with large boulders at one end, but an obvious low sandy passage to the left leads to the head of a 14m dry rift pitch with a bouldery takeoff. The pitch is free-hanging after the first two metres, to a gravel-floored chamber opening off the rift. Water entering high on the right takes a floor trench 10m deep which may be traversed above to gain the <b>Balcony</b> of the <b>Opera House</b>, an impressive 20m diameter, roughly circular chamber. A 12.5m pitch (awkward takeoff as rigged in 1980) gains the bouldery, sloping floor. A scramble down boulders and a further 7m pitch over a very large boulder leads into a rift, where an awkward 10m pitch with natural belays and joke bolts leads to a flat mud floor at a larger section at the head of a pitch. At this point the draught changes direction, the cave becomes clean, and a stream is met falling from an inaccessible (and out of sight) passage, apparently at the same level as the pitch head. <p>Down the pitch, a rebelay (which is a very long stretch to rig unless you're very tall) avoids the worst of the water on <b>Purple Pit</b>. Quite possibly this could be rigged as a deviation (we didn't do these in 1980). There is a long section to a large ledge, from where the pitch leaves the fault it has been following and heads down a series of short steps with rebelays a few metres apart. At the bottom of this section, 60m below the start, a further fault is met at right angles, with twin holes in the floor. The first one is wet and nasty, while the second is tolerable. Both unite and go off to the left in a diminutive streamway. To the right above the holes is the entry point from <a href=""152.htm"">Bananehöhle</a>(152), explored in 1985. <p><center><a name=""ppitbot"" href=""others/l/purple.htm""> <img src=""others/t/purple.jpg"" alt=""(B/W photo (58k jpeg))"" width=134 height=200 align=left></a> Simon Kellet at the top of the short dry pitch below Purple Pit <br clear=all></center> <p>The diminutive streamway ends shortly in a tight sump, but before this, a climb up leads unobviously to a traverse and then a crawl trending back over the entry point, <b>Müsli Crawl</b>. A number of acute bends are disorientating, then a short drop leads to a final rift and a pitch head. This is a thrutch to start, then drops 10m to where the water reenters. A series of drops, <b>Sprucy Wind</b>, follows, and some of the bolts (1980 vintage, greased in 1982) are easily missed, which makes the pitches wetter. There is a branch shaft at one point which is unexplored, but appears to reunite somewhat lower down. The pitches of 8, 26, 12, 10, 10, 20, 5 and 9m drop to a final rift chamber where an inlet from up on the left doubles the size of the stream on a rocky floor. This inlet responds to floods about an hour faster than the main water. The combined waters fall down a 6m drop and sink in a gravel-choked pool. <p>Climbing up opposite the inlet, a dry rift is a little tight but pops out into a series of dry passages, apparently quite unrelated to the rift pitches. This area, <b>The Crematorium</b>, is a good place to wait when the pitches flood. There is a large horizontal passage ending in a chamber with various bedding crawl extensions. Avens in the roof are hard to reach (one bolt used for aid) and don't seem to go anywhere. A narrow rift in the floor contains the stream, and a climb down can be made at one point where it is just wide enough. Thrutching forward in a traverse cum crawl a short way above the water, a couple more diminutive drops reach a place where to continue would be just plain stupid, since it is small and wet. The cave was rigged in 1982 just to go and push the end. It didn't go. <p>There is potential for further extension by traversing over down-ramps in the entrance area, and by gaining access to the source of the water (and route of the draught) at the top of Purple Pit. Apparently the Point Five Gully and Fox's Glacier Ramp was traversed over in 1987, and another ramp descended, but this seems to have rejoined the main route somewhere near Barnsley Methodist Chapel. This route was not surveyed.",,,,,,"? grade 3",113,,"330m approx.",,,,,,,"p113","pitch head bolt on wall above yawning chasm near ""113"" paint mark. NB this cannot be reached without SRTing off the bunde and is very exposed (start of underground survey)",,"Surface survey",,,81333,36253,"1640m",,,,"Follow Stögerweg (path 201) well past turn off for <a href=""41.htm"">Stellerweghöhle</a>. This involves a steep descent, then a long horizontal stretch, crossing the dry valley containing Kat. <a href=""87.htm"">87a</a>. After quite a way, there is an orange paint flash on the left, more easily seen when coming the other way. This is just a few metres before you turn left and start hacking up the hillside. Further orange paint marks the route, which goes up a dry valley and over the entrance <a href=""109.htm"">109</a>. Eventually, a scrub-free area is reached, go right and then scramble up rock towards a tree. Don�t rush beyond the tree or you'll fall a long way.",,"<center><a href=""others/l/113ac.htm""><img src=""others/t/113ac.jpg"" alt=""(photo (67k jpeg))"" width=124 height=184></a> Andy Connolly on entrance, 1980 <a href=""others/l/113ent.htm""><img src=""others/t/113ent.jpg"" alt=""(photo (53k jpeg))"" width=131 height=165></a></center>","Orange painted number on north-facing wall above shaft" +111,"1/S +",,,,"plateau/111.htm","Plateau Schacht 111",,,"1d",,"CUCC 1978 – Supersmooth/Supercool","Shaft 20m to ledge, then 10m to choke/too narrow.",,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,"Out on plateau, quite near <a href=""98.htm"">98</a>. ",,,, +112,"1/S +",,,,"plateau/112.htm","Plateau Schacht 112",,,"1d",,"CUCC 1978 – Supersmooth/Supercool","Next to open shaft half full of snow. Shaft drops 50m past two ledges to choke.",,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,," Out on plateau, 50m from <a href=""111.htm"">111</a>. ",,,, +113,"4/S/T +",,,,"smkridge/113.htm","Sonnenstrahlhöhle",,,"2b",,"CUCC 1980 (Team Sunbeam) to bottom; 1982 to push bottom, but no new passage found. Entered from 152 in 1985, Ibbeth Perilous Pot route connected 1987 ","Entrance is <b>huge</b>. A sizeable dry valley develops into a canyon which is full of snow. The canyon ends downstream in a solid wall, where the rigging point for the entrance pitch starts by the aforementioned tree. A short drop leads to a ledge where a stretch to the left (facing the rock) reaches a rebelay in a fine position on the impending wall. From here, drop 21m onto a large snow slope, then 10m further to the flat snow floor of a large chamber lit from above by the shaft. <p><center><a href=""others/l/113day.htm""><img src=""others/t/113day.jpg"" alt=""(photo (23k jpeg))"" width=130 height=200></a></center> <p>The way on is up a climb of 3m to a horizontal passage. There is an area of hading rifts, not fully explored. The first hole descends a ramp over treacherous ice and rubble for 30m to the head of a pitch, <b>Ibbeth Perilous Pot</b>. A second parallel ramp connects to the same point. Both these ramps suffer from loose rock and are best tackled with a handline. The main pitch drops for 20m in a series of steps, best rigged. A final 13m drop then lands on a rock/ice blockage <b>Marathon Ledge</b>, which at one time contained the original explorer's helmet and lights, dropped from the head of the pitch. A hammered route past the blockage leads to two short drops, then a 6m pitch into the Opera House (see below). <p>A descent of the second major hole from the entrance is the normal route and leads to a ramp down, traverse across and the head of <b>Point Five Gully</b>. The gully is decorated with ice formations early in the season, as are all the useful hand- and footholds on the following ramp, so a rope is recommended to descend <b>Fox's Glacier</b>. At the foot, about 60m below the entrance chamber, is a low bouldery chamber, and a low arch leads to a larger chamber, <b>Barnsley Methodist Chapel</b>, which is 20m high and 30m long. <p>The Chapel is floored with large boulders at one end, but an obvious low sandy passage to the left leads to the head of a 14m dry rift pitch with a bouldery takeoff. The pitch is free-hanging after the first two metres, to a gravel-floored chamber opening off the rift. Water entering high on the right takes a floor trench 10m deep which may be traversed above to gain the <b>Balcony</b> of the <b>Opera House</b>, an impressive 20m diameter, roughly circular chamber. A 12.5m pitch (awkward takeoff as rigged in 1980) gains the bouldery, sloping floor. A scramble down boulders and a further 7m pitch over a very large boulder leads into a rift, where an awkward 10m pitch with natural belays and joke bolts leads to a flat mud floor at a larger section at the head of a pitch. At this point the draught changes direction, the cave becomes clean, and a stream is met falling from an inaccessible (and out of sight) passage, apparently at the same level as the pitch head. <p>Down the pitch, a rebelay (which is a very long stretch to rig unless you're very tall) avoids the worst of the water on <b>Purple Pit</b>. Quite possibly this could be rigged as a deviation (we didn't do these in 1980). There is a long section to a large ledge, from where the pitch leaves the fault it has been following and heads down a series of short steps with rebelays a few metres apart. At the bottom of this section, 60m below the start, a further fault is met at right angles, with twin holes in the floor. The first one is wet and nasty, while the second is tolerable. Both unite and go off to the left in a diminutive streamway. To the right above the holes is the entry point from <a href=""152.htm"">Bananehöhle</a>(152), explored in 1985. <p><center><a name=""ppitbot"" href=""others/l/purple.htm""> <img src=""others/t/purple.jpg"" alt=""(B/W photo (58k jpeg))"" width=134 height=200 align=left></a> Simon Kellet at the top of the short dry pitch below Purple Pit <br clear=all></center> <p>The diminutive streamway ends shortly in a tight sump, but before this, a climb up leads unobviously to a traverse and then a crawl trending back over the entry point, <b>Müsli Crawl</b>. A number of acute bends are disorientating, then a short drop leads to a final rift and a pitch head. This is a thrutch to start, then drops 10m to where the water reenters. A series of drops, <b>Sprucy Wind</b>, follows, and some of the bolts (1980 vintage, greased in 1982) are easily missed, which makes the pitches wetter. There is a branch shaft at one point which is unexplored, but appears to reunite somewhat lower down. The pitches of 8, 26, 12, 10, 10, 20, 5 and 9m drop to a final rift chamber where an inlet from up on the left doubles the size of the stream on a rocky floor. This inlet responds to floods about an hour faster than the main water. The combined waters fall down a 6m drop and sink in a gravel-choked pool. <p>Climbing up opposite the inlet, a dry rift is a little tight but pops out into a series of dry passages, apparently quite unrelated to the rift pitches. This area, <b>The Crematorium</b>, is a good place to wait when the pitches flood. There is a large horizontal passage ending in a chamber with various bedding crawl extensions. Avens in the roof are hard to reach (one bolt used for aid) and don't seem to go anywhere. A narrow rift in the floor contains the stream, and a climb down can be made at one point where it is just wide enough. Thrutching forward in a traverse cum crawl a short way above the water, a couple more diminutive drops reach a place where to continue would be just plain stupid, since it is small and wet. The cave was rigged in 1982 just to go and push the end. It didn't go. <p>There is potential for further extension by traversing over down-ramps in the entrance area, and by gaining access to the source of the water (and route of the draught) at the top of Purple Pit. Apparently the Point Five Gully and Fox's Glacier Ramp was traversed over in 1987, and another ramp descended, but this seems to have rejoined the main route somewhere near Barnsley Methodist Chapel. This route was not surveyed.",,,,,,"? grade 3",113,,"330m approx.",,,,,,,"p113","pitch head bolt on wall above yawning chasm near ""113"" paint mark. NB this cannot be reached without SRTing off the bunde and is very exposed (start of underground survey)",,"Surface survey",,,81333,36253,"1640m",,,,"Follow Stögerweg (path 201) well past turn off for <a href=""41.htm"">Stellerweghöhle</a>. This involves a steep descent, then a long horizontal stretch, crossing the dry valley containing Kat. <a href=""87.htm"">87a</a>. After quite a way, there is an orange paint flash on the left, more easily seen when coming the other way. This is just a few metres before you turn left and start hacking up the hillside. Further orange paint marks the route, which goes up a dry valley and over the entrance <a href=""109.htm"">109</a>. Eventually, a scrub-free area is reached, go right and then scramble up rock towards a tree. Don´t rush beyond the tree or you'll fall a long way.",,"<center><a href=""others/l/113ac.htm""><img src=""others/t/113ac.jpg"" alt=""(photo (67k jpeg))"" width=124 height=184></a> Andy Connolly on entrance, 1980 <a href=""others/l/113ent.htm""><img src=""others/t/113ent.jpg"" alt=""(photo (53k jpeg))"" width=131 height=165></a></center>","Orange painted number on north-facing wall above shaft" 114,"0 + ?",,,,"wilden/114.htm","Verlorenschacht 114",,,5,,"CUCC 1980",,,,,,,,,,,,,,"I have just (May 1990) found an old note book which says this was explored by John, Tony and Andy C, but gives no detail on where or what. There is a strong suspicion that the cave was one of the ""promising leads"" found on their trip to Wildenseealm. However, the only published account refers the reader to the 1980 log book. This latter is, unfortunately, missing. <p>This does not appear to be in the Austrians' Kataster ",,,,,,,,,,,,,,"This cave has not been documented, but is probably somewhere near 115 or 41. ",,,, 115,"6/t/S/W x",,,,"smkridge/115.htm","Schnellzughöhle",,,"2a",,"CUCC 1980-1985","This is the main entrance through which the majority of the <a href=""41.htm"">Stellerweghöhle</a> system was explored. See the separate <a href=""41/115.htm#ent115"">full guidebook description</a> for details, just an overview is given here. <p>The entrance leads to a non-obvious way on to the head of the short <b>Bell Pitch</b>, from where very awkward going leads out to a bigger passage to reach <b>The Ramp</b> a series of off-vertical pitches. The damper but technically easier <b>Inlet Pitches</b> drop to a Big Chamber, from where <b>Pete's Purgatory</b> starts, and leads in 800m of tortuous going to <b>The Confluence</b> and the larger streamway leading to the deepest point. <p>Better is the <b>Purgatory Bypass</b> which starts as dry fossil tubes, with a choice of routes to reach <b>Junction Chamber</b> where the <b>Big Rift</b> of <a href=""41.htm"">Stellerweghöhle</a> enters. Opposite, the huge fossil tube of <b>Dartford Tunnel</b> makes for easy progress to the Confluence, about halfway down the system. The continuing main streamway is interrupted by a bypassable sump and numerous pitches before a low airspace duck at the end of an unpromising canal leads to the spectacular <b>Orgasm Chasm</b>. Careful rigging avoids the water in this 140m shaft, ending in muddy passage and another short drop to a deep and terminal sump. ",,,,,"In dataset","? grade 5",115,,"-740m, +231m",,,,"The Austrian Kataster has adopted a very perverse way of numbering things. Their numbers are as follows : <ul> <li>115a Stellerweghöhle entrance 41a <li>115b Stellerweghöhle entrance 41b <li>115c Stellerweghöhle entrance 41c ( where ? ) <li>115d Schnellzughöhle entrance 115 <li>115e unnamed entrance 142</ul>",,,"p115","P115 on left in Schnellzug entrance.","p115x","Nils",,"GPS00.115",81041,35841,"1488m",,,,"Follow Stögerweg beyond <a href=""../noinfo/smkridge/32.htm"">Windloch</a> to a steep descent. Just below this, by a large tree on the right of the path (permanent survey station P3), descend steeply to the right on a barely discernible trod. <p>This involves at least one freeclimb which is awkward with lots of kit. Make lots of noise if you are first, especially on the first trip, since snakes seem to like it here. Eventually a large horizontal railway-tunnel-like entrance appears. If you fall off a cliff, you've gone a little too far downhill.",,,"number painted on right (east-facing) wall of entrance" 116,"2/t/S/E +",,,,"noinfo/smkridge/116.htm","Kleine Eishöhle",,,"2b","No Info","Germans",,,,,,"In dataset","M Schweicer & F Vischer, July 1982, <a href=""l/116pln.htm"">PLAN</a> (20k) and <a href=""l/116elv.htm"">ELEVATION</a> (12k)",116,"286m","38m",,,,"This cave was previously marked as having an altitude of 1820m",,,"p116",,,"Nils",,,81449,35689,"1662m",,,"Vorderer Schwarzmooskogel. ",,,, @@ -203,7 +203,7 @@ ,,"e",,"entrance","icelnd.htm#161e",,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,"p161e",,,"Nils",,,,,,,,,,,,"Tag." ,,"f",,"entrance","pheast.htm#161f",,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,"p161f",,,"Surface survey",,,,,,,,,,,,"Tag." ,,136,,"last entrance","136.htm",,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,, -162,"2/S +",,,,"smkridge/162.htm","Schwa Höhle 162",,,"2b",,"CUCC 1988","The cave takes a good couple of hours to explore thoroughly. Through the entrance is a large chamber with a 4m � 8m crater in it. A 3m climb down to the bottom gives access to a 3m climb back up to the right, leading into the cave and a crawl at the lowest point of the boulders leading into a choked bit of cave with small solutional stuff in the roof. It is also possible to traverse around the left edge of the crater to reach a triangular crawl which goes for about 10m before it gets too tight. <p>The entire floor of this cave consists of small rocks and boulders. There is no solid rock anywhere horizontal, except halfway down the pitch. <p>After climbing out of the hole there is another 5m deep choked hole beyond. Traverses round to both the left and right are possible, although a little care is required due to the low roof and loose floor. <p>To the right, rubble coming out of the bottom of a choked shaft almost blocks the passage but a crawl through to the left remains, with a strong wind blasting through the confined space. Beyond this constriction the draught is lost. The roof remains low on the other side, although it is possible to stand up off to the left where there is a 4m climb up to what looks like a way on but is actually blind. Moving around the boulder pile to the right leads to a big passage. There are a few large boulders 10m to the right with a 4m climb down between them leading to a tight choked rift. This was also dug into from the top passage by the extremely zealous original explorers! There is an alcove in front and a rubble slope up to the right. Round the corner to the right is another shaft-bottom rubble pile and a hole disappearing into the roof. At the top of the slope to the left is a 4m climb up through and around big wedged boulders to reach an impressive chamber 7m � 9m and 12m high. There is a possible climb up into an aven in the corner which probably doesn't go and has a couple of moves at the top which need protecting. <p>Back at the fork near the entrance, turning left and thrutching over a couple of rocks (another windy spot) leads to the head of a 17m pitch broken by a ledge 8m down. There is a bolt for a ladder hang on this ledge. Going off to the left allows a safe traverse past the pitch continuation to the bottom of a 6m high rift with some ice in it, slowly narrowing as it goes up. <p>At the foot of the pitch is what looks like an ancient phreatic remnant. It is about 40m long and 6m wide, and mostly full of rocks. To the left it is blocked at the end by the rubble coming out of the bottom of a big shaft. It is possible to work round the foot of this for about 3m to the left and 10m to the right. <p>Going the other way down the passage reveals a large snow column by the left hand wall. It is possible to climb up between the column and its containing shaft, presumably all the way to the surface, but no-one has managed it yet. Beyond this column the roof gets lower, apart from a couple of solutional avens and eventually a small shaft-bottom rock pile and a couple of small inlet tubes mark the end of the cave.",,,,,"In dataset","1990 plan Cambridge Underground 1991 <p><img alt=""survey - 16k gif"" width=649 height=505 src=""others/162.png"">",162,"156-159m","22 m (survey) or 33 m (text)",,,,"The <a href=""../years/1988/log.htm"">1988 log book</a> refers to this cave as ""Adam's Hole (2)"".",,,"p162",,,"Surface survey","GPS96.162 GPS96bestfit.162","GPS00.162",,,,,,"Vorderer Schwarzmooskogel, about halfway between <a href=""161/top.htm"">161</a> and <a href=""../noinfo/smkridge/40.htm"">Eishöhle</a>. Following the French traverse route along the shelf marked with orange paint from 161c will take you to just below 162 and <a href=""163.htm"">163</a>.<br> ","About 250m from survey point vd1. From vd1, head directly down the gully (bearing about 100°, for about 130m, then turn right, angle right and traverse below the bunde field on the right along the most obvious shelf (you should find the french path here) for another 130m or so. The cave entrance is a 1.5m � 2m hole in the wall to the right of the traverse shelf with a very cold draught coming out of it. It is one shelf above the French path and if you are at the wrong level you will miss it.",,, +162,"2/S +",,,,"smkridge/162.htm","Schwa Höhle 162",,,"2b",,"CUCC 1988","The cave takes a good couple of hours to explore thoroughly. Through the entrance is a large chamber with a 4m × 8m crater in it. A 3m climb down to the bottom gives access to a 3m climb back up to the right, leading into the cave and a crawl at the lowest point of the boulders leading into a choked bit of cave with small solutional stuff in the roof. It is also possible to traverse around the left edge of the crater to reach a triangular crawl which goes for about 10m before it gets too tight. <p>The entire floor of this cave consists of small rocks and boulders. There is no solid rock anywhere horizontal, except halfway down the pitch. <p>After climbing out of the hole there is another 5m deep choked hole beyond. Traverses round to both the left and right are possible, although a little care is required due to the low roof and loose floor. <p>To the right, rubble coming out of the bottom of a choked shaft almost blocks the passage but a crawl through to the left remains, with a strong wind blasting through the confined space. Beyond this constriction the draught is lost. The roof remains low on the other side, although it is possible to stand up off to the left where there is a 4m climb up to what looks like a way on but is actually blind. Moving around the boulder pile to the right leads to a big passage. There are a few large boulders 10m to the right with a 4m climb down between them leading to a tight choked rift. This was also dug into from the top passage by the extremely zealous original explorers! There is an alcove in front and a rubble slope up to the right. Round the corner to the right is another shaft-bottom rubble pile and a hole disappearing into the roof. At the top of the slope to the left is a 4m climb up through and around big wedged boulders to reach an impressive chamber 7m × 9m and 12m high. There is a possible climb up into an aven in the corner which probably doesn't go and has a couple of moves at the top which need protecting. <p>Back at the fork near the entrance, turning left and thrutching over a couple of rocks (another windy spot) leads to the head of a 17m pitch broken by a ledge 8m down. There is a bolt for a ladder hang on this ledge. Going off to the left allows a safe traverse past the pitch continuation to the bottom of a 6m high rift with some ice in it, slowly narrowing as it goes up. <p>At the foot of the pitch is what looks like an ancient phreatic remnant. It is about 40m long and 6m wide, and mostly full of rocks. To the left it is blocked at the end by the rubble coming out of the bottom of a big shaft. It is possible to work round the foot of this for about 3m to the left and 10m to the right. <p>Going the other way down the passage reveals a large snow column by the left hand wall. It is possible to climb up between the column and its containing shaft, presumably all the way to the surface, but no-one has managed it yet. Beyond this column the roof gets lower, apart from a couple of solutional avens and eventually a small shaft-bottom rock pile and a couple of small inlet tubes mark the end of the cave.",,,,,"In dataset","1990 plan Cambridge Underground 1991 <p><img alt=""survey - 16k gif"" width=649 height=505 src=""others/162.png"">",162,"156-159m","22 m (survey) or 33 m (text)",,,,"The <a href=""../years/1988/log.htm"">1988 log book</a> refers to this cave as ""Adam's Hole (2)"".",,,"p162",,,"Surface survey","GPS96.162 GPS96bestfit.162","GPS00.162",,,,,,"Vorderer Schwarzmooskogel, about halfway between <a href=""161/top.htm"">161</a> and <a href=""../noinfo/smkridge/40.htm"">Eishöhle</a>. Following the French traverse route along the shelf marked with orange paint from 161c will take you to just below 162 and <a href=""163.htm"">163</a>.<br> ","About 250m from survey point vd1. From vd1, head directly down the gully (bearing about 100°, for about 130m, then turn right, angle right and traverse below the bunde field on the right along the most obvious shelf (you should find the french path here) for another 130m or so. The cave entrance is a 1.5m × 2m hole in the wall to the right of the traverse shelf with a very cold draught coming out of it. It is one shelf above the French path and if you are at the wrong level you will miss it.",,, 163,"2/S +",,,,"smkridge/163.htm","Schwa Höhle 163",,,"2b",,"CUCC 1988 ","This is a fairly small cave remnant, but it does have a draught at the end suggesting more passage beyond. <p>The entrance is low and wide (3.5m) and descends down a rocky slope for 20m to some impressive ice stals. There is a small tube in the roof on the right through which daylight can be seen. The cave extends another 10m past the ice stals in fossil passage until it chokes. A 3m climb up on the left allows access to a tiny rift which can be climbed down for a few uninspiring metres. <p>5m back from the ice stals, towards the entrance, there is a stoop under a massive boulder forming the left wall. Here is a 3m climb down into the second part of the cave. Downslope from here is a chamber with a small frozen stream running through it and a choked alcove containing another ice stal beyond the stream. The chamber through which the stream 'flows' appears to have been formed by the entire roof falling about 1.5m in one piece and it is possible to climb beneath this huge rock near the way in. Over on the right is a climb through an eyehole to a 3m climb down into a stream rift. This has a howling draught coming out of it but it is too small to get down - although the heavy application of a hammer might do the trick.",,,,,"In dataset","1990 plan, Cambridge Underground 1991<p><img alt=""survey - 12k gif"" width=640 height=385 src=""others/163.png"">",163,"58m","17m",,,,"The <a href=""../years/1988/log.htm"">1988 log book</a> refers to this cave as ""Adam's Hole (1)"".",,"p163tag","p163",,,"Surface survey",,"GPS00.163",,,,,,"In the right hand side of a 15m diameter couloir near <a href=""162.htm"">162</a>.",,,,"Tag." 164,"2/S +",,,,"plateau/164.htm","Plateau Schacht 164",,,"1a",,"<a href=""../years/1988/164.htm"">CUCC 1988</a>","The entrance pitch is 10m, and has a detectable draught - quite strong in view of the size of the entrance. There was only the remains of a snow plug in 1988, although the plug is almost complete in some years (eg. 1995 - it was gone again in 1996). <p>A small stream enters and lands on boulders at the foot of the pitch in a passage leading south along a fault. A climb of 4m over precarious boulders reaches a bolt for the second pitch. The quality of rock in this area leaves a lot to be desired. The second pitch, 12m and third pitch, 15m are separated only by a small ledge. Water sinks in floor of small passage floored with what would appear to be the previous season's roof, now decayed into small jagged rocks. Continuing passage over boulders rises to 4-5m dropping steeply for 30m on the same south-trending fault. The water is rejoined at a freehanging 10m pitch from a rock bridge overlooking a sizeable chamber. <p>The stream sinks at the foot of the pitch in the centre of the 15m by 7m chamber floor. To the east, a scramble leads up to a shattered cross-rift from a large shelf about 15m long and 10m wide, but ends too tight. A similar feature to the west up a 4m climb becomes a low bedding with no way on. Due south are two passages, the one to the right leading 20m round a couple of bends to a sandy choke. The left passage quickly chokes. The draught seems to be lost into the continuation of the passage above the final pitch, on the far side of the chamber. This would be best reached by a traverse on steep loose rock from the 4m climb in the chamber. The pitches take large quantities of water very quickly in rain.",,,,,," <a href=""others/164.png"">Elevation</a> in Cambridge Underground 1989",,,"60ish metres",,,,,,"p164tag","p164rig",,,"Surface survey","GPS96.164/189 GPS96bestfit.164",,,,,,," On plateau, beyond <a href=""198.htm"">B11</a> (1623/198). This is a snow-choked shaft next to the very large snow-choked shaft, which has always been blocked with snow and was therefore not explored or numbered for many years, but is now <a href=""189.htm"">189</a>.",,,"<a href=""others/l/189164.htm""> <img src=""others/t/189164.jpg"" width=121 height=176 align=bottom alt=""entrance picture - 87k jpeg""></a> 164 entrance (left of centre) seen over 189 entrance.","On wall above entrance, facing NE, number in red, 1988. Austrian metal tag, 1995." 165,"1/S +",,,,"smkridge/165.htm","Schwa Schacht 165",,,"2b",,"CUCC 1989","15m shaft explored by Adam and Planc on 24th August 1989, and apparently never returned to, but did get its number painted. Relocated and surveyed to in 1999. <p>In same fault line, but further north, in an area of bare limestone is another shaft. This already had a bolt when encountered in 1989, despite being outside the area previously looked at by CUCC. It was in excess of 35m deep and was not marked by CUCC. Cross on Schönberg 322°, Bräuning Nase 222°<br> This latter cave may be <a href=""195.htm"">195</a> (marked in 1995) which is c 80m almost due north, although the faults in this area are mainly aligned on about 020°, so it may be an as-yet-unrelocated shaft.",,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,"p165",,,"Surface survey",,,,,,"Cross on Schönberg 331°, Bräuning Nase 226°<br>",,"On the west side of the Hinterer Schwarzmooskogel in a fault line. About 80m due south of <a href=""195.htm"">195</a>, which is visible from top camp.",,,,"Tag. 1999" @@ -291,7 +291,7 @@ 228,,,,,,"?",,,,,,,,,,,"In dataset",,228,,,,,,,,,"p228",,,"Surface survey",,,,,,,,,,,, 229,,,,,,"?",,,,,,,,,,,"In dataset",,229,,,,,,,,,"p229",,,"Surface survey",,,,,,,,,,,, 230,"+(?)",,"1999-04",,,"Vergeßlichheithöhle",,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,"tag 99-04" -231,"2/E +","a b c d e f g h i","2000-01","yes","smkridge/231/231.shtml","Traungoldhöhle",,,"2b",,"CUCC 2000","Entrance A leads to daylight chamber, down an awkward climb, whilst entrance B is a snow and boulder slope to the same chamber. To the right leads to another chamber, which ent H drops into, and a slope up to the left about 2m up the wall leads to entrance D. Continuing on stooping passage leads to a climb which emerges under a stone bridge whcih contains entrances E, F and G. A crawl at ground level between A & B leads to some loose slopes and entrance I. From the day light chamber the passage to the left leads quickly to a 3m climb down into the largest chamber of the cave. From here around to the left leads to entrance shaft C, and a passage leads off the other side of the shaft that is walking height leading to climbs up over boulders with a loose ceiling above. This leads to a T junction, which ends in boulders to the right and a short climb to a dead end to the left. To the right in the largest chamber, a wide low short passage leads to an ice-floored chamber. Crawling passage then leads to the deepest chmber, which has an ice flow into and down the chamber. At the opposite end of the chamber a 3m climb is reached, which was climbed and quickly closed down. ",,,,,"In dataset","<a href=""231surveylarge.jpg""><img alt=""231 survey"" src=""231surveysmall.jpg""></a> <p>Survey of 231 ",231,"229m","27m",,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,"The cave is situated 30m NE of 204b.",,,"<a href=""231aphotolarge.png""><img alt=""231A photo"" src=""231aphotosmall.jpg""></a> <p>Photo of 231A","Spit holes prepared, Tags made saying �1623/231� and may be placed for all entrances." +231,"2/E +","a b c d e f g h i","2000-01","yes","smkridge/231/231.shtml","Traungoldhöhle",,,"2b",,"CUCC 2000","Entrance A leads to daylight chamber, down an awkward climb, whilst entrance B is a snow and boulder slope to the same chamber. To the right leads to another chamber, which ent H drops into, and a slope up to the left about 2m up the wall leads to entrance D. Continuing on stooping passage leads to a climb which emerges under a stone bridge whcih contains entrances E, F and G. A crawl at ground level between A & B leads to some loose slopes and entrance I. From the day light chamber the passage to the left leads quickly to a 3m climb down into the largest chamber of the cave. From here around to the left leads to entrance shaft C, and a passage leads off the other side of the shaft that is walking height leading to climbs up over boulders with a loose ceiling above. This leads to a T junction, which ends in boulders to the right and a short climb to a dead end to the left. To the right in the largest chamber, a wide low short passage leads to an ice-floored chamber. Crawling passage then leads to the deepest chmber, which has an ice flow into and down the chamber. At the opposite end of the chamber a 3m climb is reached, which was climbed and quickly closed down. ",,,,,"In dataset","<a href=""231surveylarge.jpg""><img alt=""231 survey"" src=""231surveysmall.jpg""></a> <p>Survey of 231 ",231,"229m","27m",,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,"The cave is situated 30m NE of 204b.",,,"<a href=""231aphotolarge.png""><img alt=""231A photo"" src=""231aphotosmall.jpg""></a> <p>Photo of 231A","Spit holes prepared, Tags made saying “1623/231” and may be placed for all entrances." ,,"a",,"entrance",,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,"p231a",,,"Surface survey",,,,,,,,,,,"<a href=""231aphotolarge.png""><img alt=""231A photo"" src=""231aphotosmall.jpg""></a> <p>Photo of 231A", ,,"b",,"entrance",,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,"p231b",,,"Surface survey",,,,,,,,,,,, ,,"c",,"entrance",,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,"p231c",,,"Surface survey",,,,,,,,,,,, @@ -302,7 +302,7 @@ ,,"h",,"entrance",,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,"p231h",,,"Surface survey",,,,,,,,,,,, ,,"i",,"last entrance",,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,"p231i",,,"Surface survey",,,,,,,,,,,, 232,"1/T +",,,,"smkridge/232/232.shtml","Moostunnelhöhle",,,"2b",,"CUCC 2001","A short initially mossy cave that slopes downhill to a corner, where the cave becomes to tight.",,,,,,"<a href=""232surveylarge.jpg""><img alt=""232 survey;"" src=""232surveysmall.jpg""></a>",,"5m","2m",,,,,,,"gps01.p232",,,,,,,,,,,"The cave is situated on a flatish area of limestone uphill from the row of Eishöhle entrances that lead to Schneevulcanhalle. ",,,"<a href=""232entlarge.jpg""><img alt=""232 photo"" src=""232entsmall.jpg""></a> <p>Photo of 232 entrance <p><a href=""232entcloseuplarge.jpg""><img alt=""232 photo"" src=""232entcloseupsmall.jpg""></a> <p>Close up photo of 232 entrance","Alloy tag ""1623/232"" placed 2002-08-09." -233,"1/T +","a b c",,"yes","smkridge/233/233.shtml","Dreieingangabdrosselnhöhle",,,"2b",,"CUCC 2001","A moderate sized chamber with large blocks on the floor, one entrance is low and wide, one is small up a 3m climb and one is a walk in entrnace",,,,,,"<a href=""233surveylarge.jpg""><img alt=""233 survey"" src=""233surveysmall.jpg""></a>",,"10m","5m",,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,"The cave is situated on a flatish area of limestone uphill from the row of Eishöhle entrances that lead to Schneevulcanhalle. ",,,,"Main entrance tagged ""1623/233A"" in 2002. Spits placed for 233B and 233C and tags left by spit holes 2002-08-09 (failed to take enough bolts � d'oh)." +233,"1/T +","a b c",,"yes","smkridge/233/233.shtml","Dreieingangabdrosselnhöhle",,,"2b",,"CUCC 2001","A moderate sized chamber with large blocks on the floor, one entrance is low and wide, one is small up a 3m climb and one is a walk in entrnace",,,,,,"<a href=""233surveylarge.jpg""><img alt=""233 survey"" src=""233surveysmall.jpg""></a>",,"10m","5m",,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,"The cave is situated on a flatish area of limestone uphill from the row of Eishöhle entrances that lead to Schneevulcanhalle. ",,,,"Main entrance tagged ""1623/233A"" in 2002. Spits placed for 233B and 233C and tags left by spit holes 2002-08-09 (failed to take enough bolts – d'oh)." ,,"a",,"entrance",,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,"gps01.p233",,,,,,,,,,,,,,"CUCC 2001 ", ,,"b",,"entrance",,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,"<a href=""233Bphotolarge.jpg""><img alt=""233B photo"" src=""233Bphotosmall.jpg""></a> ", ,,"c",,"last entrance",,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,, @@ -324,17 +324,17 @@ ,"1/S -",,"LA30",,"remote/la30.htm","LUSS/LA30",,,6,,"LUSS 1987-8",,,,,"The above description is taken from the LUSS <a href=""../others/luss/index.htm"">reports</a> on the 1987 and 1988 expeditions.",,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,"1820m",,,"13° 50' 13"" E, 47° 42' 12"" N",,"Hole at base of snowfield drops to head of ice-ramp which is undescended. Small chamber visible below.",, ,"1/S +",,"LA35",,"remote/la35.htm","LUSS/LA35",,,6,,"LUSS 1988","Crawl at back of rock shelter leads to 15m pitch to large chamber on fault. Many loose boulders. Squeeze between boulders onto 16m pitch to choke.",,,,"The above description is taken from the LUSS <a href=""../others/luss/index.htm"">report</a> on the 1988 expedition.",,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,"1880m",,,"13° 50' 05"" E, 47° 42' 03"" N",,,, ,"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 <a href=""../others/luss/index.htm"">report</a> on the 1988 expedition.",,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,"1860m",,,"13° 50' 08"" E, 47° 42' 03"" N",,,, -,"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 <a href=""../others/luss/index.htm"">report</a> on the 1988 expedition. ",,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,"1900m",,,"13� 50' 01"" E, 47� 42' 02"" N",,,, +,"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 <a href=""../others/luss/index.htm"">report</a> on the 1988 expedition. ",,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,"1900m",,,"13° 50' 01"" E, 47° 42' 02"" N",,,, ,"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 <a href=""../others/luss/index.htm"">report</a> on the 1988 expedition.",,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,"1860m",,,"13° 50' 01"" E, 47° 42' 13"" N",,,, ,,,"BS1-16",,,,,"UBSS finds - no documentation",,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,, -,"2/S +",,"BS17",,"remote/bs17.htm","Organhöhle",,,6,,"<a href=""../others/ubss/index.htm"">UBSS</a> 1990<br>","<b>Overview:</b> 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. <p>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 <b>first pitch</b>. <p>A fine descent of 66m in a large shaft lands on a boulder ledge with the <b>second pitch</b> 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, <b>Fledermaus ledge</b> can be gained, with a passage leading off to <b>Fledermaus pitch</b>, 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 <b>Organ Grinder</b>. <p>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 3� hours, with an average of 20 minutes. There is just room to replace SRT gear before the following pitch. <b>The return of an injured person through this tube would be almost impossible without extensive modification of the cave.</b> <p>The <b>third pitch</b> 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. <p>Both of the windows in the third pitch connect with <b>Topher's pitch</b>, 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, <b>Toccata and Feuge</b> (sic). <p>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 <b>Rift Climb</b>. 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 (<b>The Pitch of the Flying Boulders</b>) 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. <p>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 <b>The Hall of the Flying Boulders</b>, 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 <b>Another Bloody Pitch</b> 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. <p>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 <cite>UBSS <!--a href=""../UBSSAck"">report in</a--> Newsletter Vol 6 No. 3, November 1990</cite>. ",,"Grade 3c survey on cover of UBSS Nls 6(3), 11/90",,"235m","295m",,,,,,,,,,,,,,,"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].",,,, +,"2/S +",,"BS17",,"remote/bs17.htm","Organhöhle",,,6,,"<a href=""../others/ubss/index.htm"">UBSS</a> 1990<br>","<b>Overview:</b> 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. <p>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 <b>first pitch</b>. <p>A fine descent of 66m in a large shaft lands on a boulder ledge with the <b>second pitch</b> 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, <b>Fledermaus ledge</b> can be gained, with a passage leading off to <b>Fledermaus pitch</b>, 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 <b>Organ Grinder</b>. <p>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. <b>The return of an injured person through this tube would be almost impossible without extensive modification of the cave.</b> <p>The <b>third pitch</b> 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. <p>Both of the windows in the third pitch connect with <b>Topher's pitch</b>, 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, <b>Toccata and Feuge</b> (sic). <p>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 <b>Rift Climb</b>. 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 (<b>The Pitch of the Flying Boulders</b>) 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. <p>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 <b>The Hall of the Flying Boulders</b>, 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 <b>Another Bloody Pitch</b> 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. <p>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 <cite>UBSS <!--a href=""../UBSSAck"">report in</a--> Newsletter Vol 6 No. 3, November 1990</cite>. ",,"Grade 3c survey on cover of UBSS Nls 6(3), 11/90",,"235m","295m",,,,,,,,,,,,,,,"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].",,,, ,,,"BS18-nn?",,,,,"UBSS finds - no documentation",,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,, ,,,"88H",,,,,"GSCB",,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,"?", ,,,"88AF",,,,,"GSCB - now <a href=""#161"">161c</a>",,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,, ,,,"VSS188F",,,,,"GSCB",,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,"?",,,,,,,,,,"tag VSS188F 2002" ,,,"1987/02",,,,,"? GSCB exploration",,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,"100m up from 157 and 0/5",,,, ,,,"1989/01",,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,"Probably the same as 195. (documented under 165)",,,,,,,,,,,,,,"North of 165",,,, -,,,"1990-15",,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,"�185�" +,,,"1990-15",,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,"“185”" ,,,"1996-01",,,"Ski-pole höhle",,,,,"CUCC 1996-07-15 Nick, Brian, Tina","Climb down shakehole to open shaft with jammed boulder at the top. Shaft developed on joint is 1.4m across and drops straight down 10m. Rift at bottom is 2m high. 1.5m drop then gently ascending rift gets too tight. ",,,,,,,,,"11.1m",,,,,,,,,,,"GPS96.96_1",,,,,,,," Situated at top end of rift/gorge next to path to 161d. Walking to 161d: go into the very narrow gorge, then up the RH wall about 1/3 the way along. This gets you into the next gorge , trending on bearing 031 (looking towards 161d end of path). Turn R up the rift here are many holes along the rift - all choked or too tight. 96/01 is at the top end. ",,,"with a bolt" ,,,"1996-05",,,,,,,,"CUCC 1996 Andy Waddington and Fran","Cave is a N-S rift in a joint hading very steeply - say 85 degrees dip to west. Tag placed on rock on east side near centre. Stones rattle down shaft for some way.",,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,"GPS98.1996_05",,,,," Schönberg 342.5, Zinken 204.5, HSK 101 (Very rounded summit so exact point not obvious), Loser Cross 213.5, using AndyW compass NPC#2 (Suunto #439258) ",,,"follow new-looking (in 1996, gone in 1997) flourescent paint dots north across plateau (from Top Camp area) for a long way. Route ends with recently cut bunde and shaft entrance. No evidence of previous descent. ",,,"Tag placed on rock on east side near centre." ,0,,"1996WK4",,,,,,,,,"Big enough to count as a cave.",,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,"GPS96.wk4 GPS96bestfit.wk4","GPS00.wk4",,,,,,,"This is a GPSed hole found by wookey on a thrashed route from 161d down to the stogerweg over the saddle there. Approximately on top of bulge sticking out into valley.","It's a squareish hole in a little gulley with Bunde to either side.",, @@ -360,3 +360,4 @@ ,"-",,"2001-11",,,"Schnürsenkelschacht",,,"2b",,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,"?",,,,,,,,,, ,"-",,"2001-12",,,"Unnotiggewohnlichkeitschacht",,,"2b",,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,"?",,,,,,,,,, ,"2/T x",,"2002-01",,"smkridge/2002-01/2002-01.htm","Artischockehöhle",,,,,"CUCC 2002.","A contortion through boulders leads to a large horizontal passage, which gradually ascends until eventually lowering to a short flat-out crawl over choss. This leads to a chamber, from where it is possible to slither to the left through a gap between choss and the ceiling. Here there are two ways on. To the right ends quickly; a dig under the wall ended in a further choke. To the left leads to a tight crawl through dangerous boulders which would need digging to make further progress. <p>A noticable draught outwards is present throughout the cave.",,,,,,,,"70m approx.",,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,"The entrance is situated in a large choss bowl adjacent to the route used in 2000 onwards from Top Camp to <a href=""../204/204.shtml"">Steinbrückenhöhle</a>. ",,,"Tag." +,"1/T +",,"2003-04",,"smkridge/2003-04.html","Dreieckhöhle","Triangle Cave",,"2b",,"CUCC 2003 Julian T, Dave L, Frank T","DESCRIPTION WILL GO HERE","None required","None (one arguable dig, not worth the bother)","Form prepared but not yet sent",,"In dataset","2003#23","2003-04","53m","13m",,,,,,"p2003_04",,,,"Surface survey",,,,,,,,,"In small elliptical depression around 100m N of stone bridge",,,"Tagged 2003" diff --git a/noinfo/CAVETAB2.sxc b/noinfo/CAVETAB2.sxc index 4e19fe585..6c82a1ce1 100644 Binary files a/noinfo/CAVETAB2.sxc and b/noinfo/CAVETAB2.sxc differ