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<th align=center lang="de"><font size=+2>Trunkemboldschacht</font></th>
<th align=right><font size=+2>3/S =</font></th></tr>
<tr><th></th><th align=center lang="fr"><font size=+2>(Gouffre Empagadure, H1)</font></th></tr>
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<p><b>Altitude</b>: 1610m<br>
<b>Location</b>: NE of point 1895m (<span lang="de">Hangender Kogel,</span>
NE face).<br>
<b>Depth</b>: -854m to 3 sumps, a predominantly vertical system.
<p>Down to -287m the cave is made up of shortish pitches interspersed with
tight meandering passage : p8, p12, p17, p9, p20, p3, p12, p30, p7, p6, p9,
p8, p7, p5, p34, p6, p8, p5, p9. At -287m, an 18m pitch drops into a large
chamber. The water disappears in the boulders to reappear in a whole series
of wet pitches of which the longest is 30m. Floods impeded exploration at
the bottom of this branch: at -456m a pitch of about 20m was definitely too
wet to be descended. At -488m a low passage was also too wet. Moreover, the
draught there was weak or absent.
<p>In the chamber at -308m, a reascent of about 15m gave access to a fairly
wide fossil canyon which blew a detectable draught. After 30m, this passage
opened onto the enormous <span lang="fr">Puits de Naufrag&eacute;s</span>
(The Castaway's pitch), with a cross section of 15 by 25 metres and 242m
deep. Near the bottom of this pitch, several inlets appeared to come from the
first branch explored. The bottom of the pitch contracted to a joint-guided
rift, exploration in 1976 ending at the head of a pitch estimated at 40m.
(Depth 587m).
<p>The cave continued predominantly vertical in 1977, with pitches of 54,
88, 53 and 25m to two siphons at -854m. The altitude of these sumps is 756m
- the valley level.
<p><b>Exploration :</b> Discovered in July 1976 by
<span lang="fr">F.Vergier.</span> Explored between 12th and 23rd July 1976 by
<span lang="fr">A.C.Toulon, S.C.Toulon, Lou Darbon &amp; Sp&eacute;l&eacute;o
Ragaie</span> to -587m.
<br>In 1977 <span lang="fr">A.C.Toulon,</span> and groups from <span lang="fr">Aragnous &amp; Darboun</span> reached -854m.
<p><b>References :</b>
<dl>
<dt>78.2012<dd><cite>(GSAB) <span lang="fr">Sp&eacute;alp</span> 1 (June 1977) pp 33-49</cite>,
<b>Totes Gebirge : <span lang="fr">Description des principaux gouffres de la
zone ouest du massif</span></b>,
<span lang="fr">Jean Claude Hans &amp; Etienne Degrave</span><br>
<a href="../../others/gsab/en/782012.htm#117">English Translation</a><br>
<a href="../../others/gsab/fr/782012.htm#117" lang="fr">En Fran&ccedil;ais</a>
<dt>78.2003<dd><cite>(GSAB) <span lang="fr">Sp&eacute;alp</span> 2 (1978) p64, survey</cite>,
<b lang="de">Trunkemboldschacht</b>, <span lang="fr">Jean Pierre Braun</span><br>
<a href="../../others/gsab/782003.htm" lang="fr">En Fran&ccedil;ais</a>
</dl>
<p>The above description is translated mainly from reference 78.2003 by Andy
Waddington and Jill Gates.
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<th align=center><font size=+2 lang="de">Feuertalsystem</font></th>
<th align=right><font size=+2>4/T/S x</font></th></tr>
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<p><b>Altitude</b>:<blockquote>120a <span lang="de">Kacherlschacht</span> (<span lang="fr">Quelli,</span> F3) 1940m<br>
120b <span lang="fr">Velo-Tracteur</span> (F6) 1774m<br>
120c <span lang="fr">Carcajau</span> (F9) 1736m or 1731m<br>
120d <span lang="de">Altark&ouml;gerlh&ouml;hle 1670m</span><br></blockquote>
<p><b>Location</b>: In the south flank of <span lang="fr">Feuertal</span> on
the north side of <span lang="de">Sch&ouml;nberg. Kataster</span> says west
of <span lang="de">Sch&ouml;nberg,</span> east of
<span lang="de">Franzosenschacht,</span> 1626/119.
<p>From the <span lang="fr">Quelli</span> entrance, pitches p8, p19, p83,
p33, p24, p17, p5, p33, p24, p9, p33, p27, p103 lead to -400m. Here one
reaches a vast passage going up and downhill. The downstream passage emerges
at the top of an 84m pitch. Below this a winding canyon interspersed with
small pitches gives onto a 15m pitch and the end of exploration in 1976 at
-708m.
<p>The lower entrances lead by large phreatic passages to pitches which drop
into a further large horizontal level which undulates between -410m and
-500m. At -497m, this links to the main vertical system from
<span lang="fr">Quelli.</span> Using these lower ways in, exploration reached
a sump at -913m in 1977. Following the large phreatic level away from
<span lang="fr">Quelli</span> goes for about a kilometre before breaking into
the side of a colossal shaft at -414m. This is a 211m pitch to a choke at
-625m. There is a possible way on across this shaft, which is, however, 20m
in diameter.
<p>The Austrian expedition of 1985 found a 3km horizontal passage, which
brought the total length of the system to 15km.
<p>In early 1997 the length was given as 19 808 m
<span lang="de">(Markus Wiesinger,</span> personal comm.)
<p><b>Discovery</b>: Found in 1973 by
<a href="../../others/gsab/index.htm"><span lang="fr">Groupe
Sp&eacute;l&eacute;o Alpin Belge</span></a> under the name T3, but not pushed
to any depth.
<p><b>Exploration</b>: Rediscovered in July 1976 by
<span lang="fr">J.M.Piron</span> and explored from 12th to 23rd of July by
<span lang="fr">A.C.Toulon, S.C.Toulon, Lou Darbon &amp; Sp&eacute;l&eacute;o
Ragaie</span> to a depth of 708m. Later sources refer to this group as 'an
unheard of group of <span lang="fr">"Sp&eacute;l&eacute;os
Proven&ccedil;aux"'.</span><br>
The same group in 1977 discovered the two lower entrances, using them to
explore to the bottom at -913m.<br>
The Austrian expedition of 1985 set out to connect
<span lang="de">Feuertalsystem</span> to
<a href="55.htm"><span lang="de">Raucherkarh&ouml;hle</span></a> and found a
large horizontal passage, but no connection.
<p><b>References :</b>
<dl>
<dt>78.2012<dd><cite>(GSAB) <span lang="fr">Sp&eacute;alp</span> 1 (June 1977) pp 33-49</cite>,
<b><span lang="de">Totes Gebirge</span> : <span lang="fr">Description des principaux gouffres de la
zone ouest du massif</span></b>,
<span lang="fr">Jean Claude Hans &amp; Etienne Degrave</span><br>
<a href="../../others/gsab/en/782012.htm#117">English Translation</a><br>
<a href="../../others/gsab/fr/782012.htm#117" lang=fr>En Fran&ccedil;ais</a>
<dt>78.2013<dd><cite>(GSAB) <span lang="fr">Sp&eacute;alp</span> 2 (1978) pp 66-67, survey</cite>,
<b lang="de">Feuertalsystem</b>, <span lang="fr">Jean Claude Hans</span><br>
<a href="../../others/gsab/782013.htm" lang="fr">En Fran&ccedil;ais</a>
</dl>
<p>The above description is translated mainly from these references by Andy
Waddington and Jill Gates.
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<th align=center lang="de"><font size=+2>Ufoschacht</font></th>
<th align=right><font size=+2>3/S =</font></th></tr>
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<p><b>Altitude</b>: 1520m<br>
<b>Location</b>: <span lang="de">Plagitzergrube,</span> NE of
<span lang="de">Hangender Kogel.</span> This puts it quite close to
<span lang="de">Trunkemboldschacht,</span> <a href="117.htm">1626/117</a>
(which is 90m higher) and also near the path.
<p>Description adapted from the references by Andy Waddington. This
translation has not been vetted by a fluent french reader, and I'm afraid it
shows rather badly in places.
<p>The entrance consists of a crack about 20cm high, which was at first
cleared as far as a chamber with no exit. The draught which had enabled the
entrance to be found now showed the way on. After having unblocked a fissure
dubbed Sas, a pitch, <b lang="fr">Escalier Anti-G,</b> was reached. This is
broken in five places. A second pitch, <b lang="fr">Puits
Androm&egrave;de,</b> broken into three, leads to a short canyon, then to
several drops and pitches interspersed with short squeezes. The following
pitches can be seen as forming a single 80m shaft, the <b lang="fr">Puits
Ganim&egrave;de,</b> divided into five and becoming bigger and bigger in
depth as well as width. The cave continues by a fault rift two or three
metres wide and 40m deep, <b lang="fr">Puits Trou Noir</b> (The Black Hole).
The early pitches are dry, but by this point, at -200m, the shafts are much
wetter.
<p>The explorers in 1977 started on the descent of a fine 60m pitch of
constant shape, slightly sloping, <b lang="fr">Puits Zorglub.</b> At the
bottom of this is the only chamber of the cave : the <b lang="fr">Salle
Galactique.</b> Here the cave splits into two routes, the active and the
fossil.
<h3>Active system</h3>
<p>Downstream from the chamber a drop leads to a small chamber among
boulders, the Love Nest. (No idea who ventured to call it this). Between the
boulders a 20m pitch opens, immediately followed by a 25m pitch. In fact, the
last 25m of descent drops between the walls of an immense aven to land on a
flat gravel floor. A diagonal chimney leads to a trickle of water.
<p>A fissure marks the start of the <b lang="fr">M&eacute;andre
Anti-Mati&egrave;re,</b> where one immediately rejoins the underground
stream. This has an average flow of two litres per second but quite rapidly
increases to 10-15 litres per second in flood. The first part of the meander
is straight and interrupted by 3 small pitches and two drops. At the top of
the first, in the roof, is the connection with the fossil system. Quickly,
the meander becomes less amenable: high and narrow, it is plastered with mud
(the anti-matter) which makes progress quite arduous. Three pitches of 5, 14
and 10m punctuate progress. This last, followed by a drop of 3m, gives access
to a section of passage blocked by clay. At the end of this, the stream
disappears into a fissure with tight impenetrable bends.
<p>The main passage continues ahead as a quite large fossil branch. After
some 50m, the draught goes into an earthy hole, the start of a big pitch of
70m in several stages, the <b lang="fr">Puits du Centaure.</b>
<p>Halfway down, the pitch is rejoined by the stream which is avoided by a
parallel fossil shaft. There immediately follows another pitch of 55m, the
<b lang="fr">Puits du Fond des Ages,</b> totally wet and characterised by an
elliptical cross-section and constant slope. At the bottom, the water is
engulfed by a fissure about three metres long, followed by a tight meander
which has not been pushed. This is the deepest point : -565m.
<h3>Fossil system</h3>
<p>Upstream from the <span lang="fr">Salle Galactique,</span> a window some
metres high gives access to a good-sized passage (3x3m on average), the
<b lang="fr">M&eacute;andre des Petits Hommes Verts</b> (the Little Green
Men's passage). One comes up against a climb of 3m at the base of which the
trickle of water is lost into a meander cut below the fossil passage (see
below). After a narrowing and a climb, the passage ends in boulders between
which it is still possible to penetrate for a dozen metres.
<p>Back in the meander below the fossil passage: this ends at the
<b lang="fr">Puit de la Com&egrave;te</b> (discovered by the
<span lang="fr">Gaumais</span>), a 60m pitch, spray-lashed in its lower part
by <b lang="fr">Le Pipi</b> (the wee-wee). At the base of this pitch is the
beginning of the <b lang="fr">M&eacute;andre des Mutants.</b> This is a
passage for masochists <span lang="fr">par excellence</span> : low and tight,
gear gets caught everywhere. It ends in a series of climbs and a 30m pitch
joining the active system.
<h3>Geology &amp; Meteorology</h3>
<p>see reference 78-2008
<p><b>Exploration</b>: Discovered in August 1974 by D.Motte.<br>
Entrance unblocked by <span lang="fr">Groupe Sp&eacute;l&eacute;o Alpin
Belge</span> in 1975 and 76.<br>
Explored in August 1976 by <span lang="fr">F.Dechany &amp; J.C.Hans</span>
(GSAB) to -201m<br>
Pushed to -565m on a further GSAB trip 5th-29th August 1977.
<p><b>References :</b>
<dl>
<dt>78.2012<dd><cite>(GSAB) <span lang="fr">Sp&eacute;alp</span> 1
(June 1977) pp 33-49</cite>, <b>Totes Gebirge : <span lang="fr">Description
des principaux gouffres de la zone ouest du massif</span></b>,
<span lang="fr">Jean Claude Hans &amp; Etienne Degrave</span><br>
<a href="../../others/gsab/en/782012.htm#117">English Translation</a><br>
<a href="../../others/gsab/fr/782012.htm#117" lang="fr">En Fran&ccedil;ais</a>
<dt>78.2008<dd><cite>(GSAB) <span lang="fr">Sp&eacute;alp</span> 2 (1978)
pp 14-19, figures, surveys</cite>, <span lang="fr"><b>Gouffre Ovni</b>,
Georges Feller</span><br>
<a href="../../others/gsab/en/782008.htm">English Translation</a><br>
<a href="../../others/gsab/fr/782008.htm" lang="fr">En Fran&ccedil;ais</a>
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<p><b>Altitude</b>: 865m<br>
<b>Location</b>: Above Rettenbachtal (north side).<br>
Easily reached on foot from Blaa-Alm, even when drunk
<p>A resurgence cave of major importance, visited by CUCC in 1976. Krenmayr
gives it 278m long, seasonally active, very roomy water cave. The associated
perennial resurgence is Naglbr&uuml;nndl, putting out 50-100 l/s.
<p>Entrance is at the head of a large stream bed (carries major flow in
flood), and is reminiscent of Sleets Gill. The tube descends at 60&deg; to
a short walk round a pool to a short greasy climb. One soon emerges in the
huge main passage, floored at the lower end by vast amounts of very
unpleasant mud. The sump is reached by a right turn over some fine
stratified sand, but CUCC's interest lay in some holes in the roof at the top
end, with the hope of a high-level continuation.
<p>The mud eventually runs out to be replaced by more and more inclined
slabs, which were very easy on the way up. The gradient steadily increases
until the floor merges into the end wall, and the trickle of water enters
from high up. At this point, a couple of holes in the roof have already
been passed, but investigation revealed these to be beyond reasonable
reach without some fairly serious bolting.
<p><b>Exploration</b>: LVHK Ober&ouml;sterreich, 1972
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<p><b>Altitude</b>: 1890m<br>
<span lang="de">Frigoschacht</span> 1875m (enters at -130m at
<span lang="de">Sinterterrasse)</span><br>
<b>Location</b>: NW of <span lang="de">Wehrkogel</span> on the
<span lang="de">Sch&ouml;nberg.</span> Marked and named on OAV map sheet
15/1.
<h3>Entrance series</h3>
<p>The entrance is in a small shakehole situated on the ridge separating
<span lang="de">Feuertal</span> and <span lang="de">Hintergras.</span> The
cave starts with four pitches (p14, p11, p5 and p11) which drop onto a slope
formed of big boulders (rope desirable). After this, another series of small
pitches (p9, p7, p6, p4, p10, p18, p11) from which is reached the
<span lang="de">Sinterterrasse</span> at -141m.
<p>From this point, one has left the zone of small pitches and started a
series of pitches which in reality are part of a single shaft down to -400m.
<p>Indeed, if you had an unfortunate accident on the
<span lang="de">Sinterterrasse,</span> you would fall all the way to -400m.
These pitches are usually wet, especially after rain... Here is the list of
pitches: p25, <span lang="de">Schuppenstufe</span> 30, p10,
<span lang="de">Sicherungsstufe</span> 32,
<span lang="de">Schachtgabel</span> 48, a 10m ramp, <span lang="de">Josef
Schacht</span> 100m. On the <span lang="de">Josef Schacht,</span> a pendulum
6m from the top enables one to reach the entry to the Horizontal network.
Descending the <span lang="de">Josef Schacht</span> a little further, after a
6.5m and a 10m pitch, access can be gained to a wide canyon, active in the
bottom, and which ends in a fissure. This canyon is fossil in the upper level
and certainly presents possibilities for continuation.
<h3>Lateral development from <span lang="de">Josef Schacht</span></h3>
<p>After one has crossed the "doorway" and a short squeeze, one
enters the network proper. At this point is a passage covered in rather
special formations. The first junction gives access to a network ...
[unfortunately there are lines missing in my photocopy of
<span lang="fr">Sp&eacute;alp</span> 1]
<h3>The Vegetable Garden</h3>
<p>This fossil system, which has not been fully travelled through, contains
numerous possibilities. It is reached by three principal access routes: the
pitch already mentioned; a descending fissure a little before the Belgica;
and a sloping passage with formations in the Mammoth pitch chamber. The
system is composed of a big chamber with numerous passages and junctions; it
is very poorly known and no doubt houses many surprises. Continuing along
the passage, one passes a step of 4m to find a junction, to the left at
which lies the bivouac.
<h3>Belgica system</h3>
<p>Directly after the bivouac, there is a 10m pitch, and at the bottom, a new
junction: downhill the Belgica passage, of fairly small dimensions, which
leads, after traversing past three holes, to a descent of an 8m and a 17m
pitch and to the squeezes passed by our French colleagues.
<p>Uphill, discovered by D.Motte and PIE, in the course of the expedition in
1974, is the <span lang="fr">Galerie de Francs Comtois.</span> This is a
large ascending fossil passage interspersed with traverses, dips and pitches.
It reascends to -90m. At -150m, a 20m pitch reaches the <span
lang="fr">R&eacute;somega.</span>
<p>A little before the 20m pitch, a short descending canyon passage avoids
the 20m pitch and the series of squeezes following it. The <span
lang="fr">R&eacute;somega</span> is an alternately ascending and descending
passage, very chaotic, interspersed with several junctions and pitches which
leads to the <span lang="fr">Balcon du Visionnaire,</span> offering several
possibilities. A 60m pitch gives onto another 60m pitch which is undescended.
There is another big pitch in excess of 100m and an unfinished ascending
passage. A little before, a 10m pitch allows one to reach a passage
interspersed with 3 junctions and 7 exits ! This shows the level of
complexity which we ran into.
<p>It was also at the <span lang="fr">Balcon du Visionnaire</span> that an
accident occurred in 1975, which terminated exploration in that year.
<p>Back in the Horizontal network, and after passing a little bouldery climb
an inlet is encountered, named The Bath. The passage continues a little
longer, to end in a pitch. [ exploration incomplete ]
<p>The following junction has been named Mammoth Junction because the
passage to the right leads onto the pitch of the same name. It is necessary
to exercise great care and attention not to slip hereabouts, because a fall
would drop you into same.
<p>The Mammoth Pitch, Para-pitch and probably the Negus pitch, form part of
the same system (see survey) which is composed of a 146m pitch, a 10m
pitch and a narrow canyon interspersed with several cascades leading finally
to a 35m pitch giving onto the sump at -612m. The Para-pitch, p106, is
followed by pitches of 5, 10 and 50m and drops via the latter into the
Mammoth Canyon.
<p>The Negus pitch, which is undescended, should also drop into the same
canyon. Several other small pitches and active streamways should also rejoin
this system.
<p>The depth of 612m should be treated cautiously because the method of
survey used (based on the height of a man) is fairly imprecise. The bottom
could be anywhere between -580m and -630m. The shortage of time prevented us
from redoing our survey. [The depth quoted in <span lang="fr">Atlas des
Grandes Gouffres</span> is -607m, which is shown as the bottom of this
system. However, a Belgian survey shows the Yodl system (which is supposed to
end at -607m) to be somewhere else entirely, so it is rather unclear which
survey is wrong.]
<p>Turning left, the Zipfer passage is followed for 150m before reaching an
important junction: to the left Chimneys passage, to the right Draughting
passage.
<h3>Chimneys Passage</h3>
<p>This is very large with a constant slope, interrupted in the middle by a
squeeze and a couple of drops. The <span lang="de">Schnaps</span> pitch (40m
with an unexplored, narrow canyon) is avoided by traversing to reach a 25m
pitch in which you must pendulum 5m from the bottom in order to reach a
chamber in which is met a small stream. Climbing up a little opposite, a
short upper passage rejoins the stream by a 20m pitch. In the chamber, the
descent of a 10m pitch allows the stream to be followed to a squeeze beyond
which one can hear the grumble of a large river ? A place to go back to.
<h3>Draughting passage</h3>
<p>This is fossil, and tight in places, and allows exploration of a very
complex network which intersects itself in various places and which could
hold very great surprises, since its exploration has only been sketchily
outlined. The exit from this passage is in an area of boulders where two
possibilities exist:
<p><b>To the left</b>: a tight passage has been forced on a slope to
<span lang="de">Kitschacht</span> (Tackle Bag Shaft) a magnificent 50m drop,
very wide and completely free hanging. At its base, several possibilities. A
tight active canyon which can be bypassed by a fossil passage, broken by an
earthy drop of 3m to a huge 15m pitch leading to a sump at -360m.
<p>A drop of a few metres gives access to a huge fossil passage (10
&times; 5m). The floor of this is cut by a deep canyon which has not
been explored. After a hundred metres or so the passage ends at a vast wet
pitch. Climbing over a big boulder on the right gives access to another pitch
upwards.
<p>Just after the base of <span lang="de">Kitschacht,</span> a passage of 80m
makes a connection with the system of the
<span lang="fr">D&eacute;collement</span> pitch at the bottom of the 40m
shaft. A canyon leaving the junction passage can be followed for more than
300m, and exits, in several places, into the side of the big fossil passage,
just before the pitch upwards.
<p><b>To the right</b>: The <span lang="fr">D&eacute;collement</span> pitch,
with, at its base, a sloping chamber full of boulders. To the left a very
deep ascending canyon is unexplored. In the bottom is the
<span lang="fr">M&eacute;andre Emeri,</span> so called because the formations
are orientated in the direction of progress and of the draught. This rejoins
a wide pitch with an inlet. After this 15m pitch is a short canyon and a damp
40m pitch. At the bottom, a huge descending passage suddenly turns almost
vertical. This is the Toboggan, needing 20m of rope (a very spectacular
passage). At this level one again cuts a new streamway. The passage
continues, then contracts, and chokes at -385m.
<h3>Extensions to the Belgica system (various Belgians, June/July 1977)</h3>
<p><b>After the Bivouac</b>: a 10m pitch, then turn left into a small
passage, ignore three pitches to the side, then descend pitches of 8 and 13m
to arrive at some easy squeezes on the left. After this, a climb of 5m and a
42m pitch. Stops in a sand blockage at -410m.
<p>Over the 13m pitch a small passage goes to several climbs in a fossil
series. There is a 25m pitch and two 10m pitches ending in several very
tight chimneys.
<h3>Yodl system (explored GSAB, August 1977)</h3>
<p>From the entrance, after 70m down <span lang="de">Josef schacht,</span>
climb down 7m over a large block and descend about 12m in the bottom of a
meander. Progress is then in the meander, with a short climb in a fault on
the left and a 120m pitch, in sections of 22m and 100m. Beyond is a tight
canyon with a 20m pitch to a sump at -607m (the last part of the 100m pitch
is wet).
<p><span lang="fr">Atlas des Grands Gouffres du Monde</span> 1979 says that
the original -395m route goes on to c-470m (unsurveyed) and there are also
routes ending at -385m and -386m.
<b>Exploration</b>: Discovered by Upper Austrians in 1856.<br>
The point -320m was reached by them in 1958.<br>
In 1967 and 1968 the <a href="../../others/bec/index.htm">Bristol Exploration
Club</a> reached -395m, the Horizontal network, with a length of 1 km, was
discovered.<br>
In 1972, 73, 74 and 75, the GSAB <span lang="fr">"Les Gours"</span> explored
and discovered over 5km of passage and about 1500m of pitches. This got them
to -612m. We note also the participation, in 1974, of three clubs from
Eastern France: <span lang="fr">S.C.Vesoul, G.S.Clerval &amp;
S.S.Daules.</span> In 1975 CARSS joined a mini-expedition in July and
likewise, CASEO in August.<br>
A GSAB expedition in August 1977 connected a new entrance
<span lang="de">(Frigoschacht)</span> at -130m, surveyed the Vegetable Garden
and explored the new areas Yodl and KGB.
<p><b>References :</b>
<dl>
<dt>78.2012<dd><cite>(GSAB) <span lang="fr">Sp&eacute;alp</span>
1 (June 1977) pp 33-49</cite>, <b>Totes Gebirge :
<span lang="fr">Description des principaux gouffres de la
zone ouest du massif</span></b>,
<span lang="fr">Jean Claude Hans &amp; Etienne Degrave</span><br>
<a href="../../others/gsab/en/782012.htm#117">English Translation</a><br>
<a href="../../others/gsab/fr/782012.htm#117" lang="fr">En Fran&ccedil;ais</a>
<dt>79.1855<dd><cite>(GSAB) <span lang="fr">Sp&eacute;alp</span> 3 (Oct.
1978) pp 44-45, survey</cite>, <b lang="de">Ahnenschacht 77/78</b>, Jean
Pierre Braun<br>
<a href="../../others/gsab/en/791855.htm">English Translation</a><br>
<a href="../../others/gsab/fr/791855.htm" lang="fr">En Fran&ccedil;ais</a>
</dl>
<p>The above description was translated from the references by Andy
Waddington and Jill Gates.
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<tr><th align=left><font size=+2>55 a-q</font></th>
<th align=center lang="de"><font size=+2>Raucherkarh&ouml;hle</font></th>
<th align=right><font size=+2>4/T/S/E x</font></th></tr>
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<p>More information on this cave, by those exploring it, can be found on the
<b lang="de-at">Landesverein f&uuml;r H&ouml;hlenkunde in Oberosterreich</b>
site, with text available in both
<a href="http://alpha.aec.at/cave/cave.html">English</a> and
<a href="http://alpha.aec.at/cave/index.html" lang="de-at">German</a> and
with a number of excellent photos.
<p><b>Altitude</b>:<blockquote lang="de">
55 a Durchgang Fensterhalle 1532 &amp; 1539m<br>
55 b B&auml;renh&ouml;hle 1547m<br>
55 c Neuer Eingang 1563m<br>
55 d Grundloch (&quot;Brunnen&quot;) 1544m<br>
55 e Schacht I 1570m<br>
55 f Schacht II 1547m<br>
55 g Schacht III 1560m<br>
55 h Schneegrube 1540m<br>
55 i Schacht IV (Pilzlingschacht) 1560m<br>
55 k Obere Himmelspforte 1630m<br>
55 l Untere Himmelspforte 1593m<br>
55 m Durchgang Feistor 1540m<br>
55 n Einstieg Altausseergang 1553m<br>
55 o Planer-Eish&ouml;hle 1470m<br>
55 p Humuspforte 1635m<br>
55 q Gigantenkluft 1518m</blockquote>
<p><b>Location</b>: NE of Hinterer Raucher
<p>There are seventeen entrances, of which the highest is at 1635m. This
gives the cave a vertical range of -718m, +7m, total 725m.
<p>The cave had been surveyed to 6000m long and -216m by 1965. An Austrian
National expedition in 1965 reached -530m. A sump in the
<span lang="de">Hinterland</span> at -538m was reached in 1966, when the
length was over 10.3 km. In 1970, <span lang="de">Gro&szlig;en
Rundgange</span> and <span lang="de">Ischler Esteiler</span> brought the
length up to 16.3 km. In October 1973, the <span lang="de">Dunkler
Grund</span> area led to -718m, (-723m in some sources) at which time the
length was 18km. In 1975 the system was connected to the nearby
<span lang="de">Planer-Eish&ouml;hle.</span> The length in January 1976 was
19052m and in December 1977, 20155.5m. <span lang="de">Sektion
Ausseerland</span> journal gave 23900 m in July 1980.
<span lang="fr-be">Sp&eacute;leo Flash</span> number 128 gives 16 entrances
and a length over 30km. <span lang="de">Die H&ouml;hle</span> 1986(3) gives
747m, 40km, which is about the same as LVHK <span lang="de">Steiermark</span>
Journal for 1984, which states length 40.2km, depth 746m as at the end of
1984. The World Deep/Long caves list (end 1995) from Bob Gulden of the NSS
Geo&sup2; Long and Deep caves committee gives 70km and 725m, quoting BCRA
Caves &amp; Caving number 44, p 47 as its source (Summer 89).
<p>The labyrinthine system contains several levels of development, mostly
southwards towards <a href="5.htm"><span lang="de">Nagelstegh&ouml;hle</a>
(the probable resurgence at 850m). The current deepest point (a sump) has
been reached by systematically traversing over pitches of 40 to 90m.
<p><b>Exploration</b>: Under the aegis of LVHK
<span lang="de">Ober&ouml;sterreich,</span> 1961-present,<br>
Austrian National expedition took place in 1965,<br>
Both LVHK <span lang="de">Ober&ouml;sterreich</span> and LVHK
<span lang="de">Steiermark</span> worked together in 1973.
<p><b>References :</b>
<dl>
<dt>78.2012<dd><cite>(GSAB) <span lang="fr">Sp&eacute;alp</span> 1
(June 1977) pp 33-49</cite>,
<b>Totes Gebirge : <span lang="fr">Description des principaux gouffres de la
zone ouest du massif</span></b>,
<span lang="fr">Jean Claude Hans &amp; Etienne Degrave</span><br>
<a href="../../others/gsab/en/782012.htm#55">English Translation</a><br>
<a href="../../others/gsab/fr/782012.htm#55" lang="fr">En Fran&ccedil;ais</a>
</dl>
The above description is translated mainly from reference 78.2012 by Andy
Waddington and Jill Gates, with additional info on dates/lengths as cited.
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