ARGE links fixed in the cave description pages

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<explorers></p><ul><li>CUCC 1982-85</li><li>Arge/CUCC 1996</li></ul><p></explorers>
<underground_description>Yet another entrance to <a href="41.htm">Stellerwegh&ouml;hle</a>, with two points of connection, and also the first point of connection with Schwabenschacht, a similar cave explored by <a href="http://arge.itvd.uni-stuttgart.de/">Arbeitsgemeinschaft H&ouml;hle und Karst Grabenstetten e.V.</a>. 142 contains a very large chamber, imaginatively named <b>The Big Chamber</b> reached by a 34m pitch from a point adjacent to the connection. A <a href="41/off41.htm#ent142">full description</a> of 142 (but not 78) is one of the components of the Stellerwegh&ouml;hle guidebook, just an overview is given here.</p><p>Note: With apparent perversity, the Austrians have numbered this as 115e in their Kataster. This is likely to give rise to immense confusion in the long term as more caves are connected, and numbers on entrances cannot readily be altered (owing to the obscurity of their location and inaccessibility from within the system).</p><p>After an initial small tube, the cave opens into passages very similar to those in Schwabenschacht and the upper levels of Stellerwegh&ouml;hle. Descent of some of the steep ramps to the right of the main way on may provide further connections into the main cave (and one may have already done so). However, staying high leads through tubes to an inobvious junction. Left is the connection to 78, whilst right leads immediately to the head of a pitch into the <b>Big Chamber</b> - a popular name in the system. A route from this chamber leads to the foot of an 18m pitch in the entrance series of <a href="41.htm">Stellerwegh&ouml;hle</a>, and a more obscure route through boulders from the head of the Big Chamber pitch leads to the same place.</underground_description>
<underground_description>Yet another entrance to <a href="41.htm">Stellerwegh&ouml;hle</a>, with two points of connection, and also the first point of connection with Schwabenschacht, a similar cave explored by <a href="../others/arge/index.html">Arbeitsgemeinschaft H&ouml;hle und Karst Grabenstetten e.V.</a>. 142 contains a very large chamber, imaginatively named <b>The Big Chamber</b> reached by a 34m pitch from a point adjacent to the connection. A <a href="41/off41.htm#ent142">full description</a> of 142 (but not 78) is one of the components of the Stellerwegh&ouml;hle guidebook, just an overview is given here.</p><p>Note: With apparent perversity, the Austrians have numbered this as 115e in their Kataster. This is likely to give rise to immense confusion in the long term as more caves are connected, and numbers on entrances cannot readily be altered (owing to the obscurity of their location and inaccessibility from within the system).</p><p>After an initial small tube, the cave opens into passages very similar to those in Schwabenschacht and the upper levels of Stellerwegh&ouml;hle. Descent of some of the steep ramps to the right of the main way on may provide further connections into the main cave (and one may have already done so). However, staying high leads through tubes to an inobvious junction. Left is the connection to 78, whilst right leads immediately to the head of a pitch into the <b>Big Chamber</b> - a popular name in the system. A route from this chamber leads to the foot of an 18m pitch in the entrance series of <a href="41.htm">Stellerwegh&ouml;hle</a>, and a more obscure route through boulders from the head of the Big Chamber pitch leads to the same place.</underground_description>
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<survey>CUCC plan from surveys 1982-1985, here in several sections:</p><ul><li><a href="41/142ent.png">Entrance area</a></li><li><a href="41/142bc.png">Big Chamber</a></li><li><a href="41/142-41.png">Stellerweg connection</a>...</li></ul><p></survey>

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<explorers>Length of CUCC's part is approx 5.75 km, while the Germans had about 6 km in 88 in 1987, and the French (?) connected the Eish&ouml;hle (2.5 km or more) in the same year. This should make the system about 14-15 km all told before 1996. The Stuttgart group, <a href="http://arge.itvd.uni-stuttgart.de/">Arbeitsgemeinschaft H&ouml;hle und Karst Grabenstetten e.V.</a>, have, early in 1996, connected their cave <a href="../1623/78.htm">Schwabenschacht</a> (1623-78) into a passage in <a href="142.htm">1623/142</a>, one way into the system. This adds no new depth, but considerably increases the overall length. ARGE have also been doing much useful resurvey and some exploration, bringing their estimate of the total length to 22.7 km in 1999.</explorers>
<underground_description>As the <a href="41/41.htm">full guidebook description</a> is understandably quite big and is still evolving, just an overview is given here.</p><p>Sub-horizontal passages lead through steeply-hading rifts from this entrance. A lower route was originally explored by a German group before CUCC's first visit, and remains poorly documented and not fully explored. The higher route, explored by CUCC, leads past connections to <a href="142.htm">142</a>, another CUCC find. Passages trend downhill to reach the <b>Big Pitch</b> of 100m vertical.</p><p><a href="../1623/88.htm">L&auml;rchenh&ouml;hle</a> connects at the bottom of the Big Pitch, and a streamway leads down. A roof passage connects to CUCC's <a href="144.htm">144</a>, and another leads on to smaller pitches to the <b>Big Rift</b>, dropping steeply down several pitches to reach <b>Junction Chamber</b> with connections to <a href="115.htm">Schnellzugh&ouml;hle</a> (115).</p><p>The route to 115 also leads to <b>Pete's Purgatory</b>, 800m of awful streamway to <b>the Confluence</b>, much more easily reached by large fossil passages starting with <b>Dartford Tunnel</b> from Junction Chamber. The Confluence is around half the depth of the system, and marks a transition to a single linear streamway leading to great depth, a feature currently unique in the known caves of the area.</p><p>The streamway is interrupted by a bypassable sump and several, mainly short, pitches, before a low-airspace canal appears to mark the end. However, a low duck can be passed to reach a deep and very wet shaft <b>Orgasm Chasm</b> which drops to the final muddy passage and short pitch to a dismal and deep rift sump.</p><p>The sump is 898m below the 41a entrance, and is at just about the same level as Altausseer See, in whose <a href="../1623/0.htm">underwater risings</a> the Stellerweg water is presumed to emerge. The scope for greater depth here seems minimal, but connections to various higher entrances have increased this to c971m, with perhaps a little more potential still to realise (optimistically up to 1058m).</underground_description>
<explorers>Length of CUCC's part is approx 5.75 km, while the Germans had about 6 km in 88 in 1987, and the French (?) connected the Eish&ouml;hle (2.5 km or more) in the same year. This should make the system about 14-15 km all told before 1996. The Stuttgart group, <a href="../others/arge/index.html">Arbeitsgemeinschaft H&ouml;hle und Karst Grabenstetten e.V.</a>, have, early in 1996, connected their cave <a href="../1623/78.htm">Schwabenschacht</a> (1623-78) into a passage in <a href="142.htm">1623/142</a>, one way into the system. This adds no new depth, but considerably increases the overall length. ARGE have also been doing much useful resurvey and some exploration, bringing their estimate of the total length to 22.7 km in 1999.</explorers>
<underground_description>As the <a href="41/41.htm">full guidebook description</a> is understandably quite big and is still evolving, just an overview is given here.</p><p>Sub-horizontal passages lead through steeply-hading rifts from this entrance. A lower route was originally explored by a German group before CUCC's first visit, and remains poorly documented and not fully explored. The higher route, explored by CUCC, leads past connections to <a href="142.htm">142</a>, another CUCC find. Passages trend downhill to reach the <b>Big Pitch</b> of 100m vertical.</p><p><a href="../1623/88.htm">L&auml;rchenh&ouml;hle</a> connects at the bottom of the Big Pitch, and a streamway leads down. A roof passage connects to CUCC's <a href="144.htm">144</a>, and another leads on to smaller pitches to the <b>Big Rift</b>, dropping steeply down several pitches to reach <b>Junction Chamber</b> with connections to <a href="115.htm">Schnellzugh&ouml;hle</a> (115).</p><p>The route to 115 also leads to <b>Pete's Purgatory</b>, 800m of awful streamway to <b>the Confluence</b>, much more easily reached by large fossil passages starting with <b>Dartford Tunnel</b> from Junction Chamber. The Confluence is around half the depth of the system, and marks a transition to a single linear streamway leading to great depth, a feature currently unique in the known caves of the area.</p><p>The streamway is interrupted by a bypassable sump and several, mainly short, pitches, before a low-airspace canal appears to mark the end. However, a low duck can be passed to reach a deep and very wet shaft <b>Orgasm Chasm</b> which drops to the final muddy passage and short pitch to a dismal and deep rift sump.</p><p>The sump is 898m below the 41a entrance, and is at just about the same level as Altausseer See, in whose <a href="../1623/0.htm">underwater risings</a> the Stellerweg water is presumed to emerge. The scope for greater depth here seems minimal, but connections to various higher entrances have increased this to c971m, with perhaps a little more potential still to realise (optimistically up to 1058m).
<p>In 2018 Robert Seebacher told us that recent diving had found a deeper funnel-shaped depression in the lake - with rocks at the bottom - where most of the resugence seemed to come from. It had been found because there had been an ice-free area in the lake during the preceding winter. So the story about small resurgences over an area seems to have missed the main outflow.
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<explorers>Fred Vischer, 1980 (as far as 2/S/T)</p><p>Ongoing exploration by <a href="http://arge.itvd.uni-stuttgart.de/">Arbeitsgemeinschaft H&ouml;hle und Karst Grabenstetten e.V.</a></explorers>
<explorers>Fred Vischer, 1980 (as far as 2/S/T)</p><p>Ongoing exploration by <a href="../others/arge/index.html">Arbeitsgemeinschaft H&ouml;hle und Karst Grabenstetten e.V.</a></explorers>
<underground_description>The cave is a complex of hading rifts and steep ramps with several deep points. The deepest point is near the southern limit of the system. A vertical series with pitches of 9m, 15m, 17m and 13m reaches N&auml;gschtmol-Meander (1992), where the survey legs are all very short. This climbs slightly before heading south and dropping, passing Alexander der Gro&szlig;e (a generally level side passage heading southwest to Leopardencanyon, apparently beyond the known passages in <a href="../../1623/115.htm">Schnellzugh&ouml;hle</a>) to der gute Abgang (the good lead). A 7m pitch and more steep descents end at a point almost directly above the assumed line of Pete's Purgatory in Schnellzug, maybe a third of the way to the Confluence from where it is abandoned for the Purgatory Bypass. This small streamway lies perhaps 120-130m below Schwabenschacht's deep point, but it is known that several unsurveyed fossil phreatic passages lie above this upstream part of the Purgatory, so a connection could be quite close.</p><p>This description is now quite out of date as it does not include the its connection, nor entrances c,d and e.</underground_description>
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<notes>UBSS finds - see <a href="http://www.ubss.org.uk/resources/proceedings/vol19/UBSS_Proc_19_2_251-264.pdf">Proc. Univ. Bristol Spelaeol Soc. 1992 19 (2), 263</a></notes>
<notes>UBSS finds - see <a href="../others/ubss/index.htm">UBSS</a>
or more specifically <a href="../others/ubss/UBSS_Proc_19_2_251-264.pdf">Proc. Univ. Bristol Spelaeol Soc. 1992 19 (2), 251-264</a> </notes>
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<depth>20m</depth>
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