From 841a36734e30d4bab30dca10d35c658f9e059d73 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: olly Date: Thu, 7 Sep 2006 04:29:07 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] [svn r7535] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- r10848: expo | 2006-08-15 12:13:38 +0100 Updated with results of Olly and Jenny's surface work ---------------------------------------------------------------------- --- noinfo/CAVETAB2.CSV | 29 ++++++++++++++++------------- 1 file changed, 16 insertions(+), 13 deletions(-) diff --git a/noinfo/CAVETAB2.CSV b/noinfo/CAVETAB2.CSV index 11eddc08d..0200bffce 100644 --- a/noinfo/CAVETAB2.CSV +++ b/noinfo/CAVETAB2.CSV @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@ -,"Kat Status Code","Entrances","Unofficial number","Multiple entrances","Autogen file","Link file","Link Entrance","Name","Unofficial Name","Comment","Area","Explorers","Underground Description","Equipment","qm list","Kataster status","References","Underground centre line","Underground drawn survey","Survex file to get length and depth","Length","Depth","Extent","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","Marking comment","Findability","Findability comment" +"Kataster Number","Kat Status Code","Entrances","Unofficial number","Multiple entrances","Autogen file","Link file","Link Entrance","Name","Unofficial Name","Comment","Area","Explorers","Underground Description","Equipment","qm list","Kataster status","References","Underground centre line","Underground drawn survey","Survex file to get length and depth","Length","Depth","Extent","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","Marking comment","Findability","Findability comment" 1,"2/(W) +","a b",,,"noinfo/aaussee/1.htm",,,"Liägerhöhle","D'Liëger",,10,"

","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.

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.

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 on the fault, and that the lake level, and the level of the sumps in this cave and in Stellerweghöhle are closely related.",,,,"There are descriptions (in German) of dives in the terminal sump in 1985 and 1988. 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",,,,,,,,,"p1",,,"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.

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.",,"

EntranceView from entrance towards Altaussee

",,,"Surveyed", 2,"0/(W) =",,,,"noinfo/aaussee/2.htm",,,"Wasserlöcher",,,10,"Unexplored ",,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,"810m",,,"As for Liägerhöhle, the altitude is a little suspect. I think it is further below Kat.1 than this. In any case, it is quite impenetrable.",,"Unexplored resurgence directly below the western entrance of Liägerhöhle (Kat.1). At the foot of Steller, a cliff band SE of and directly below the Loser Panoramastraße Bergrestaurant.","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. ",,,"Lost", 3,"1/T(W) +",,,,"noinfo/augstb/3.htm",,,"Gellerofen",,,11,"

",,,,,,,"Plan at 1:100 by Alfred Auer, 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. '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.'",,,,"Lost", @@ -34,7 +34,7 @@ 33,"1/T +",,,,"noinfo/br-alm/33.htm",,,"Schichtgrenzenhöhle",,,3,"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. ",,,,,,"Lost", 34,"1/T +",,,,"noinfo/kratzer/34.htm",,,"Höhle am Kratzer I",,,4,"Sektion Ausseerland, 1973 ",,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,"1590m",,,"Quite a way east of Bräuning Alm in the top end of the Kratzer valley.",,,,,,"Lost", 35,"2/S/T x",,,,"noinfo/kratzer/35.htm",,,"Dr. Kerschner Höhle",,,4,"

","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.

This description by Karl Gaisberger is from the 1977 Exploration:

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.

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 Kristallhalle. The walls here are covered with admittedly large, but superficially weathered calcite somethings (Kalzitdrusen).

From the Kristallhalle, through a narrow bit to a side-something with a pile of rubble, the Tropfsteinhalle. 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.

In the area of the stalagmites, several dead pseudoscorpions (Neobisium aueri) were found. There is some more description of the floor of the chamber (I think), but I can't make head nor tail of it.",,,,,,,,"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.","Lost", -36,"1/S x",,,,"noinfo/kratzer/36.htm",,,"Schachtgruppe I - V",,,4,"Höhlenforschervereinigung Altaussee, undated. ",,,,,,,,,,,,,,,"p36",,,"GPS post SA",,,,,,,,"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 Kratzer valley below Schwarzmooskogel.

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.

Number is in red on the headwall just south of the three entrances.

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",,"Paint","Number is in red on the headwall just south of the three entrances. ","Surveyed", +36,"1/S x",,,,"noinfo/kratzer/36.htm",,,"Schachtgruppe I - V",,,4,"Höhlenforschervereinigung Altaussee, undated. ",,,,,,,,,,,,,,"p36",,,,"Surface survey",,,,,,,,"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 Kratzer valley below Schwarzmooskogel.

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.

Number is in red on the headwall just south of the three entrances.

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",,"Tag","Faded red paint '36' on the headwall just south of the three entrances. Tag ""1623/36"" placed by CUCC in centre of paint marking on 2006-08-14. ","Surveyed", 37,"0/S -",,,,"noinfo/plateau/37.htm",,,"Schachtgruppe beim Hinterer Schwarzmooskogel",,,"1d","Discovered by Höhlenforschervereinigung Altaussee, undated.
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. ",,,,,,"Lost", 38,"1/T +",,,,"noinfo/plateau/38.htm",,,"Algenhöhle",,,"1d","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 Kat.37 (q.v.)",,,,,,"Lost", 39,"1/T +",,,,"noinfo/kratzer/39.htm",,,"SCHWA höhle 39",,,"2b or 4 (unclear)","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 Kat.36, 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. ",,,,"Lost", @@ -94,7 +94,7 @@ 72,"1/T +",,,,"noinfo/loser/72.htm",,,"Skeletthöhle",,,"8c","Sektion Ausseerland, 1976 ",,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,"1720m",,,"West of Augstsee. ",,,,,,"Lost", 73,"2/S =",,,,"noinfo/kratzer/73.htm",,,"Suppentellerschacht",,,4,"

","The first step is sprayed by meltwater, and the second step leads to -30m. A short rope leads to the next step. A rift follows an acute angle under the entrance way, some metres back. This section is very narrow, and over the narrow section pours a showerbath. Now a second squeeze leads to a fine pitch which bends back under the previous section. Then it gets complicated (the language, not the cave). It sounds like a series of either roomy or narrow wet pitches. Exploration appears to cease at -60m because of water down the neck and in the suit. It isn't clear if the cave actually stops at this point.",,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,"1580m",,,"In Kratzer valley, some way up valley from Fledermaushöhle (Kat.71).",,,,,,"Lost", 74,"1/T +",,,,"noinfo/kratzer/74.htm",,,"Schneckenhaushöhle",,,4,"Edith Bednarik, 1977","Sounds like a free-climb to a snow choke (very much like B5, which must be in virtually the same place ?)",,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,"1600m",,,"In Kratzer valley, down valley from Fledermaushöhle (Kat. 71), on true right some way above bottom of valley. In the same entrance doline as Dr.Kerschner Höhle (Kat.35).",,,,,,"Lost","Probably =B5" -75,"2/T +",,,,"noinfo/kratzer/75.htm",,,"Wisenthöhle",,,4,"Edith Bednarik, 1977","This entrance connects with a second shaft just down valley. The Austrian article describing the cave says it is about 60m long, but this did not appear to be the case in 1990, since it seems to choke very quickly - perhaps digging would now be required to get in.",,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,"1680m",,,"Just south of Schwarzmoossattel, in the far upper reaches of Kratzertal. There is an obvious freeclimbable shaft/cave just down valley from the equally obvious shakehole/shaft labelled B4.",,,,"Paint","It is numbered twice, once very faded and once very badly run (last seen 1996): both numbers are needed to deduce (with difficulty) that this is indeed ""75"".","Refindable","Seen in 1990 and 1996 (by AERW?)" +75,"2/T +",,,,"noinfo/kratzer/75.htm",,,"Wisenthöhle",,,4,"Edith Bednarik, 1977","This entrance connects with a second shaft just down valley. The Austrian article describing the cave says it is about 60m long, but this did not appear to be the case in 1990, since it seems to choke very quickly - perhaps digging would now be required to get in. In 2006, it appears there's a low crawl leading off from the base of the entrance slope, so perhaps the 1990 inspection missed this...",,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,"Surface survey",,,,,"1680m",,,"Just south of Schwarzmoossattel, in the far upper reaches of Kratzertal. There is an obvious freeclimbable shaft/cave just down valley from the equally obvious shakehole/shaft labelled B4.",,,,"Tag","It is numbered twice in red paint, once very faded and once very badly run (and also very faded in 2006): both numbers are needed to deduce (with difficulty) that this is indeed ""75"". Tag ""1623/75"" placed by CUCC on 2006-08-14.","Surveyed","Seen in 1990 and 1996 (by AERW?). Relocated, tagged, and surfaced surveyed to in 2006." 76,"5/S/E x","main a b",,"yes","plateau/76/76.htm",,,"Eislufthöhle",,,"1d","CUCC 1977-79,2004-2006","

",,"Question Mark List",,"The exploration is written up in many places:

This last item, the only complete write up of 1977-79, appeared in Polish translation, and is published in the English original for the first time here.","Data for the sections covered so far by the resurvey project begun in 2004 can be downloaded as a .3d file or raw Survex data.","

The lower parts of the 1970s surveys are based on measurement of rope lengths and thus probably best categorised as Grade 2. The 2004 resurveyed depth for the taproom agrees closely with the 1970s surveys:

",,"1180m resurveyed so far","~ 506m; resurveyed to 189m","172m surveyed",,,,,,,,,,,,,,,"Out on the plateau near some very large erratic boulders. Laser rangefound point 0/6 is between the three entrances",,,"

Simon Farrow at the entrance of 76 during the initial exploration in 1977

",,"The entrance is prominently numbered 106 which is the number we had allocated to it, but a description of the cave was published in the Belfry Bulletin, which is seen by Alfred Auer, who allocated his own number to it in advance of our report.",," " 76,,"main",,"entrance",,,,,,,,"CUCC 1977-79,2004-2006",,,,,,,,,,,,,,,"p76","entrance dotted triangle on 76",,"Surface survey",,,,,,,,,,,,"Tag",,"Surveyed", 76,,"a",,"entrance",,,,,,,,"CUCC 1977-79,2004-2006",,,,,,,,,,,,,,,"p76a",,,,,,,,,,,,,,,"Tag",,"Surveyed", @@ -126,7 +126,7 @@ 95,"1/S -",,,,"br-alm/95/95.html",,,"Bräu Schacht 95",,,3,"CUCC 1977 - Team Enthusiast. ","A 10m climb down to an unpushed and unpromising tube. ",,,,,,,,,,,,,"p95",,,,"GPS post SA",,,,,"1585m",,,"South of Bräuning Alm, near camp 1 (1977), very close to 96",,,"

View from entrance towards Egglgrube Entrance shaft Tag and original paint marking

Photos © Olly Betts 2005","Tag","Number painted on rock (very faint). Tag added 2005-07-28.","Surveyed", 96,"3/S +",,,,"br-alm/96/96.html",,,"Bräu Schacht 96",,,3,"CUCC 1977 - Team Enthusiast.","Open shaft of 15m leads to a descending rift. Next pitch of 25m, then a short climb, 6m pitch and 15m pitch into a chamber where the water sinks. The upper level of a small rift leads to an abandoned passage and a series of increasingly muddy freeclimbs to a final squeeze and 5m pitch into a sordid little sump.",,,,,,"

",,,"105m",,,,"p96",,,,"GPS post SA",,,,,"c 1600m",,,"In grassy pasture east of Bräuning Alm, next to CUCC's high-level camp of 1977 (camp 1). Relocated 2005, near part-built new shepherds' hut.",,,"

1976 descent2005 photos (© Olly Betts)

","Tag","Original 1976 number in red paint, refreshed in orange in 1990. Tag added 2005-07-28.","Surveyed", 97,"4/S/W x",,,,"plateau/97.htm",,,"Schneewindschacht",,,"1d","CUCC 1977 - Team Enthusiast.","The entrance is the head of a 10m freeclimbable chimney, followed by a 5m climb into a small chamber. Two ways on from the chamber unite in a tiny crawl under a drip. A thrutch through (about the size of Baptistry in Car Pot) is The Nun's Cunt, which ends abruptly at The Vestry, where SRT gear can be put back on while perched above the pitch which follows. Drops of 15m, 20m and 20m, The Bottomless Abbess, lead to a traverse over a blind pitch of about 10m.

The Bottomless Abbess continues with pitches of 15m, 30m, 15m and 15m to a short horizontal section. This breaks out into the side of another shaft where 15m and 10m pitches lead to a more complex area. A short pitch of 6m leads to the Priest's Hole and a gently slanting ramp into a dry, dusty, abandoned phreatic passage. This is interrupted by a large hole in the floor, which would require bolts to cross.

Down the hole, the 25m pitch starts unpromisingly, but soon bells out into a magnificent trench passage. Traversing over a gully leads to a series of short climbs and a fine last pitch The Dissolution. Here the water sinks into an impenetrable crack.

The entrance draughts strongly, but there is no air movement at the end, the most likely way on being the traverse to reach the continuation of the phreatic level at -190m. Unfortunately, the trip to this point is quite severe, since the crawl would render rescue impractical and the Bottomless Abbess rapidly becomes very wet after rain.",,,,,,"

",,,"265m",,,,,"p97","west edge of doline",,"Surface survey",,,83039,35837,"1641m",,,"Out on the plateau.","Head across for the large erratic boulders near 76 (aka 106), then away from the col past the open shaft of 105, turning left at a gap in the scrub which leads down a bare karren corridor to some dolines. Step across one and cast about for a large one with 97 in red paint.","A moderately large doline, usually without snow, has a small triangular opening at the SW end.",,"Tag","""97"" in red paint on doline wall, tag 2005","Surveyed", -98,"1/S +",,,,"plateau/98.htm",,,"Plateau Schacht 98","Dropped Light Shaft",,"1d","CUCC 1978 - Team Youth/Ladders","After top of entrance shaft, it bells out, to land on a lightly boulder-covered floor after 29m. Tight thrutch to one side leads to second pitch of 17m to a flat rock floor with no way on.",,,,"Logbook accounts",,,,,"47m",,,,,,,,,,,,,"c 1630m ","HSK 116°, Nipple 174° (?!?), Nase 199°. Zinken 216°",,"Out on the plateau somewhat further than 97, in a large sloping rockface. Refound 1990, ""shaft further up bedding plane from 176"" (presumably away from 175).",,"A small shaft in a large grike with very sharp rocks at the top",,"Spit","Bolts at entrance; conjectured to be paint marked as well.","Refindable","Hopefully refindable via 176" +98,"1/S +",,,,"plateau/98.htm",,,"Plateau Schacht 98","Dropped Light Shaft",,"1d","CUCC 1978 - Team Youth/Ladders","After top of entrance shaft, it bells out, to land on a lightly boulder-covered floor after 29m. Tight thrutch to one side leads to second pitch of 17m to a flat rock floor with no way on.",,,,"Logbook accounts",,,,,"47m",,,,"p98",,,,"Surface survey",,,,,,,,"Shaft further up bedding plane from 176 (away from 175) and down a level. Located in a large sloping rockface.",,"A small shaft in a large grike with very sharp rocks at the top",,"Paint","Bolts at entrance; marked ""98"" in faded yellow paint as well.","Surveyed", 99,"1/S +",,,,"plateau/99/99.html",,,"Plateau Schacht 99",,,"1d","

","Entrance gully of 5m leads to 20m pitch at 70° over snow, heading roughly back towards Eislufthöhle. At the base is a 'snow-duck' under a rock wall beyond which a small rift-like chamber descends about 3m. Straight ahead at the same level, the rift quickly becomes an impenetrable slot through which can be seen a 2m wide passage with an ice floor running down from right to left at 5-10°. This is the source of the strong draught. Below the slot is another low hole, this leaks a vague draught and leads to a small boulder-strewn ledge with a definite blackness continuing to the left behind more boulders. Energetic but nervous removal of these gave obvious signs of a continuation, but other commitments and rain prevented a return. Note therefore it has been Left Going.",,,,"1979 logbook, 2004 logbook","In dataset","Grade 1 3-d sketch by Tony Malcolm, 1979

",,,,,,,"p99",,,,"Surface survey",,,,,,,,"A short way South East of Eislufthöhle Kat.76

E 35876.6 N (52)82903.5 H 1638.9",,"Draughting entrance near Eislufthöhle(1623/76), ignored at first, since it was assumed it would join 76.","

Entrance area in 1999, with tag highlighted (original here)Jenny Black on the entrance slope, 2004

(Photos © Olly Betts)","Tag","Tag placed 1999","Surveyed", 100,"1/S +",,,,"plateau/100.htm",,,"Plateau Schacht 100","Viper Shaft",,"1a","CUCC 1977, Team Youth, and again in 1990 by AERW ","An east-west rift with two obvious points of descent. The more easterly is about 6m deep and can be seen to end in a chamber. The more westerly is a 15m pitch, with a window communicating with the east hole. At base are boulders and a climb down. A crawl leads to an inlet where water appears and sinks into an impenetrable slot with very sharp rock. ",,,,,,,,,"18m",,,,"p100",,,,"Surface survey",,,,,,,,"Just beyond the col, on the left. It is, in fact, extremely near Top Camp, virtually on one of the routes to the Schwarzmooskogel areas. ",,,,"Tag","red painted number, with 1998 tag ""1623 100 CUCC 1977"" in centre (M6 stud).

This cave was originally only numbered in carbide, so was unmarked for years. It was relocated in 1989, but was not numbered until 1993 since AERW didn't think to carry paint while trying to find old holes. The orange number was fading and chipped in 1995, so was refreshed in red. The surface survey was to the centre of the middle digit of the number.","Surveyed", 101,"1/S +","main a",,"yes","plateau/101/101.html",,,"Plateau Schacht 101",,,"1d","

","Entrance is in a rift orientated 40°-220° and hading about 20°. A 5m climb down leads to a horizontal passage going both ways, north leading out into the face of the scarp (101A). South (down dip) leads to a 4m pitch followed by a small crawl in a scree-floored phreatic tube, leading down dip, at about 30°. This drops via a short climb into a meandering phreatic tube with a tiny stream slot fed by an aven on the left. Progress is by crawling in the roof tube, which goes for about 40m until a window in the right wall leads to the base of an aven. The continuing crawl is too small, while a climb down below the aven (undescended) appears to choke.",,,,,,"? MISSING (grade 1)",,,"~12m",,,,,,,,,,,,,,"Bräuning Scharte 218°, Grieskogel 012.5°, Bräuning Nase 194.5°, Lost Rucksack cairn 319° (compass #439258: NPC2)",,"Out on the plateau, near a large north-facing fault scarp on 125-305°. Perhaps best located when looking for Wolfhöhle (which is nowhere nearby) in the mist (see 1984 logbook). There was an OAV ski-tourers' marker pole due north of the col, from which the entrance is about 50m away on 35°. Unfortunately, the pole was pretty much invisible from the approach route in 1977, and is now rotting on the ground, only visible from a metre away at best. However, the cave was relocated in 1998. It turns out to be very close to the faintly-marked path which leads past Lost Rucksack Cave towards CUCC 1996-05, and is a short way south of 1623/173.

(GPS: (cliff directly above 101A) GK 5410503 5283483 (FOM 9.2m))",,"Main entrance is in a rift orientated 40°-220° and hading about 20°","

Jenny Black at the main entranceLooking down main entrance shaft101A entranceExtremely faded paint markings

(Photos © Olly Betts 2005)","Tag","extremely faded numbers ""101"" and ""101A"" in red on upper and lower entrances. 1998 tag ""1623 101 CUCC 1977"" on upper entrance, southeast-facing (M6 stud).",, @@ -140,9 +140,9 @@ 107,"4/S/T +",,,,"plateau/107.htm",,,"Gemshöhle",,,"1c","CUCC 1978: opened and Big Rift explored by Team Youth. Team Geriatric explored the Big Pitch and reached the bottom.","Small entrance in boulders in a dry gully drops into a small chamber, in the bottom corner of which is the excavated head of a pitch. This quickly bells out to 6m diameter and lands after 18m in a large passage which contains ice-formations early in the season. This large, phreatic passage chokes in both directions and the way on is in a rift to one side, from which the draught pours.

A pitch of 23m has an inlet entering part way down, which makes the rest of this pitch and the following one of 19m unpleasant in wet weather. Two ways then lead on, either down with the water or by traversing round this drop to another passage.

Climbing down with the water leads to a short passage with the water in a rift below. Round a sharp corner is a short drop to the head of a larger rift. A 5m pitch down this leads to another rift which, in turn, leads out to the side of a large shaft. Stones dropped from a small hole in the corner of the passage above the 5m pitch also fall into this shaft. Laddering from the side, the pitch is 67m with a large ledge just above half-way, and is unpleasantly wet in poor weather. From the base of this pitch, the continuing rift/canyon trends south west and has pitches of 5, 9 and 8m before the other route drops in from above.

Over the traverse, a short pitch of 4.5m, followed by a short climb up, leads to the head of a pitch of 10m to a boulder floor. Two ways on from here are down through the boulders into a shaft, or across the shaft and into a narrow rift. The way through boulders soon chokes, but the narrow rift soon opens into a massive shaft of 100m with a rebelay roughly halfway. This drops directly into the rift reached by the original route.

Below the junction, the rift continues with a 5m climb and pitches of 5, 14 and 44m, this last pitch being quite wet and emerging into a massive cross-rift trending south east. The water disappears into the choked floor of this rift via a nasty wet crawl, rapidly becoming too small.",,,,,,"grade 5 survey from 1978

",,,"280m",,,,,"p107","exact point not recorded",,"Surface survey","gps98.107",,,,,,,"On the plateau in a prominent dry valley below southern forepeak of Hinterer Schwarzmooskogel, some way below Laser Point 0_5. The bottom of the gully is pretty much on the (cairned) best walking route from Top Camp to Bräuninghöhle (Kat.82) and Eislufthöhle (Kat.76).",,,"

","Tag","number twice in orange paint, 1998 tag on survey point ""1623 107 CUCC 1978""","Surveyed", 108,"1/S +",,,,"plateau/108/108.html",,,"Plateau Schacht 108",,,"1d","CUCC 1980 John, Tony and Andy Connolly; 2004 Jenny and Olly","

Originally described here as 7m deep ""Schwa Höhle 108"": Horizontal entrance to a large chamber with narrow rift dropping away. Ends too tight.

However, a cave numbered 108 was relocated in 2004, which does not match this description at all. It's marked with paint ""108"" and has a spit in the centre of the ""0"". The spit isn't great, but there's a good chunky flake to use too. The shaft descends ~9m to a ledge. At this level there's a horizontal passage which leads immediately to a 4m deep blind rift pitch. Back in the main shaft, a few natural rebelays get you to a floor just under 30m down. At one end of the rift a draught emerges from rocks, but removing some rocks it appears it would need quite a lot of work to make progress and the continuation may be too small anyway.

",,,,,"In dataset",,,,"26m",,"This does not appear to be in the Austrians' Kataster.",,"p108",,,,"Surface survey",,,,,,"Bräuning Nase 200°, Bräuning Zinken 235°, Vd. Schwarzmooskogel 175°.",,"108 is on the plateau (not near 41 as one older journal suggests), around 80m West of 76 (106).",,,"

EntranceCloseup of marking

Photos © Olly Betts 2004","Tag","Tag ""1623/108"" placed 2006 using existing spit in centre of paint marking.","Surveyed", 109,"1/T/S +",,,,"smkridge/109.htm",,,"Schwa-Schacht 109",,,"2a","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",,,,,,,,,"This is a hole you step over on the way to Sonnenstrahlhöhle (113).",,,"Paint","as at Aug 2001: ""109"" in very faded yellow paint, with an Omega.","Surveyed", -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.",,,,,,"

",,,,,"Name comes from logbook comment ""helicopter failed to turn up"".",,,,,,,,,,,,,,"On the plateau, about 2km (sic) beyond Eislufthöhle towards Schönberg. 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",,"Lost","We don't have a cat's chance in hell of finding this" -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 98. ",,,,"Paint (?)",,"Lost","Near 98" -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 111. ",,,,"Paint (?)",,"Lost","50m from 111 and close to 98" +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.",,,,,,"

",,,,,"Name comes from logbook comment ""helicopter failed to turn up"".",,,,,,,,,,,,,,"On the plateau, about 2km (sic) beyond Eislufthöhle towards Schönberg. 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",,"Lost","We don't have a cat's chance in heck of finding this" +111,"1/S +",,,,"plateau/111.htm",,,"Plateau Schacht 111",,,"1d","CUCC 1978 - Supersmooth/Supercool","Shaft 20m to ledge, then 10m to choke/too narrow.",,,,,,,,,,,,,"p111",,,,"Surface survey",,,,,,,,"Out on plateau, quite near 98. ",,,,"Paint","""111"" in red paint - still clearly readable in 2006","Surveyed","Near 98" +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.",,,,,,,,,,,,,"p112",,,,,,,,,,,," Out on plateau, 50m from 111. ",,,,"Paint","""112"" in red paint - still clearly readable in 2006","Surveyed","20m from 111 and close to 98" 113,"4/S/T +",,,,"smkridge/113.htm",,,"Sonnenstrahlhöhle",,,"2a","

","Entrance is huge. 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.

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, Ibbeth Perilous Pot. 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 Marathon Ledge, 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).

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 Point Five Gully. 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 Fox's Glacier. At the foot, about 60m below the entrance chamber, is a low bouldery chamber, and a low arch leads to a larger chamber, Barnsley Methodist Chapel, which is 20m high and 30m long.

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 Balcony of the Opera House, 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.

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 Purple Pit. 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 Bananehöhle(152), explored in 1985.

Simon Kellet at the top of the short dry pitch below Purple Pit

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, Müsli Crawl. 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, Sprucy Wind, 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.

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, The Crematorium, 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.

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.",,,,,,"? MISSING (grade 3)","caves/113/113.svx","521m","330m approx (apparently, but surveyed only to 206m)","91m",,,,"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 Stellerweghöhle. This involves a steep descent, then a long horizontal stretch, crossing the dry valley containing Kat. 87a. 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 109. 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.",,"

Andy Connolly on entrance, 1980

","Paint","Orange painted number on north-facing wall above shaft","Surveyed", 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.

This does not appear to be in the Austrians' Kataster ",,,,,,,,,,,,,,"This cave has not been documented, but is probably somewhere near 115 or 41. ",,,,,,"Lost","Near Wildenseealm (not a hope)" 115,"6/t/S/W x",,"40m",,"smkridge/115.htm",,,"Schnellzughöhle",,,"2a","CUCC 1980-1985","This is the main entrance through which the majority of the Stellerweghöhle system was explored. See the separate full guidebook description for details, just an overview is given here.

The entrance leads to a non-obvious way on to the head of the short Bell Pitch, from where very awkward going leads out to a bigger passage to reach The Ramp a series of off-vertical pitches. The damper but technically easier Inlet Pitches drop to a Big Chamber, from where Pete's Purgatory starts, and leads in 800m of tortuous going to The Confluence and the larger streamway leading to the deepest point.

Better is the Purgatory Bypass which starts as dry fossil tubes, with a choice of routes to reach Junction Chamber where the Big Rift of Stellerweghöhle enters. Opposite, the huge fossil tube of Dartford Tunnel 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 Orgasm Chasm. 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","CUCC's parts surveyed to Grade 5 but not all drawn up - see here","smk-system.svx",,"-740m, +231m",,"The Austrian Kataster has adopted a very perverse way of numbering things. Their numbers are as follows:

",,,"p115","P115 on left in Schnellzug entrance.","p115x","Nils",,"gps00.115",81041,35841,"1488m",,,,"Follow Stögerweg beyond Windloch 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.

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.",,,"Paint","number painted on right (east-facing) wall of entrance","Surveyed", @@ -217,9 +217,9 @@ ,,"b",,"last entrance",,,,,,,,"CUCC 1990.",,,,,,,,,,,,,,,"p171b",,,"Surface survey",,,,,,,,,,,,"Paint (?)",,"Surveyed", 172,"1/T +",,"90/2",,"plateau/172.htm",,,"Plateau Höhle 90/2",,,"1a","Almost certainly seen before, but recorded CUCC 1990","Horizontal, walk-in phreatic tube dipping to S and trending 190°. 40m long, 4m wide, 1.5 to 2m high. Choked at end.",,,,,"In dataset","

Notes in 2000#34","caves/172/172.svx",,,,,,,"p172",,,"Surface survey",,,,,,,,"North of 171 along fault, on cliff facing north, 10m east of fault. HSK 063°, Schönberg cross 343°. Relocated from these bearings, which seem about right, in 1995.",,,"

Entrance to 1623/172, seen in 1995

","Tag","Originally marked ""CUCC 90/2"" in red, changed to ""172"" in 1991. An Austrian metal tag bolted to entrance in 1995.","Surveyed", 173,"1/S +",,"90/3",,"plateau/173.htm",,,"Plateau Schacht 90/3",,,"1d","Recorded CUCC 1990","Lies along fracture line from 172 with several shafts connected by a narrow rift. Most of these are snow plugged - 173 also has a plug but this has shrunk and a large gap is visible around the edges. Fracture trends 024°, shaft is c20m deep and 7m diameter.",,,,,,,,,"C20m",,,,"t173",,,,"Surface survey",,,,,,"Bräuning Nase 191° (1995, 1990 record says 186°), Nipple 159°, Hinterer Schwarzmooskogel appears as two peaks, left hand one is 080° (1995, 1990 figure 082° unclear which peak), Bräuning Zinken 224° (1995, 1990:220°)",,,,,"

","Tag","Originally marked ""CUCC 90/3"" in red, changed to ""173"" in 1991. An Austrian metal tag bolted to entrance in 1995.","Surveyed", -174,"1/S +",,"90/4",,"plateau/174/174.html",,,"Plateau Schacht 90/4",,,"1d","Recorded CUCC 1990, descended by Adam ?","c 30m shaft, climbable for first 10m to rock bridge. Snow at bottom, but cobble floor also visible.",,,,,,,,,"C30m",,,,,,,,,,"gps00.174",,,"1665m (by altimeter set 1610 at Bergrestaurant)","Hinterer Schwarzmooskogel 088° (1995, 1990:087°) to right hand peak, Rightmost apparent peak of three on Vorderer Schwarzmooskogel 160° (1990), Bräuning Nase 188° (1995, 1990:189°), Bräuning Zinken 221° (1995, 1990:218°)",,"Situated on fracture bearing 044° which forms prominent banded cliff visible North of Top Camp on second low ridge.","This cave is quite hard to find, even though the bearings get you very close. It is just below a cliff, which is almost the highest bit of cliff in the vicinity. The entrance is almost on the (E-W) axis on the ridge and the cliff faces SE. The number is easily missed.",,"

Robert Seebacher at the entrance in 1995Tag and painted numberView back towards Brauning Wall, showing possible faultWeathered rock on wall behind entrance shaft

Photos © Andy Waddington 1995 (1) and © Olly Betts 2005 (2,3,4).","Tag","Originally marked ""CUCC 90/4"" in red, changed to ""174"" in 1991. An Austrian metal tag bolted to entrance in 1995.","Surveyed", -175,"1/S +",,"90/5",,"plateau/175.htm",,,"Plateau Schacht 90/5",,,"1d","Recorded CUCC 1990, descended 1990-07-29","c20m shaft, snow at bottom. Last (2nd) pitch led to climb into choked bit.",,,,,,"Sketch survey in 1990 survey book, page 78",,,,,,,,,,,,,"gps00.175",,,,"Nipple 167°, Bräuning Nase 193°, Bräuning Zinken 220°, HSK 100° (1990 bearings)",,,"Further round cliff to NE of 174 on NW side of shallow valley bounded on one side by the HSK.

If you are coming from 174, 175 is a couple of scars down from where you arrive by simply following the cliff.",,"

","Tag","Originally marked ""CUCC 90/5"" in red, changed to ""175"" in 1991. An Austrian metal tag bolted to entrance in 1995.","Surveyed", -176,"1/S -",,"90/6",,"plateau/176.htm",,,"Plateau Schacht 90/6",,,"1d","Recorded CUCC 1990","c30m shaft with snow-covered ledge at 15m. Rocks thrown down land on cobble floor.",,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,"gps00.176",,,"1665m (by altimeter set 1610 at Bergrestaurant)","Hinterer Schwarzmooskogel 102½ (1995, to left hand peak; 1990/91 100 or 104°?), rightmost (of three) peak of Vorderer Schwarzmooskogel 168½° (1990/91: 167 or 169°), Bräuning Nase 195° (1995, 1990:193°), Bräuning Zinken 220½ (1995, 1990/91 220 or 214°), Top Camp 192° (1991?)",,"At foot of SE-facing scar, just NE of a much more obvious (but unmarked) NW-SE rift with snow. Below this scar is a pavement formed in a shelly band of limestone, which dips c 10-15° on a strike of 135-315°. Following the pavement down and dropping down one scar leads to 175.",,,"

","Tag","Originally marked ""CUCC 90/6"" in red, changed to ""176"" in 1991, on scar above cave, rather small. An Austrian metal tag bolted to entrance next to the number in 1995.","Surveyed", +174,"1/S +",,"90/4",,"plateau/174/174.html",,,"Plateau Schacht 90/4",,,"1d","Recorded CUCC 1990, descended by Adam ?","c 30m shaft, climbable for first 10m to rock bridge. Snow at bottom, but cobble floor also visible.",,,,,,,,,"C30m",,,,"p174",,,,"Surface survey",,,,,"1665m (by altimeter set 1610 at Bergrestaurant)","Hinterer Schwarzmooskogel 088° (1995, 1990:087°) to right hand peak, Rightmost apparent peak of three on Vorderer Schwarzmooskogel 160° (1990), Bräuning Nase 188° (1995, 1990:189°), Bräuning Zinken 221° (1995, 1990:218°)",,"Situated on fracture bearing 044° which forms prominent banded cliff visible North of Top Camp on second low ridge.","This cave is quite hard to find, even though the bearings get you very close. It is just below a cliff, which is almost the highest bit of cliff in the vicinity. The entrance is almost on the (E-W) axis on the ridge and the cliff faces SE. The number is easily missed.",,"

Robert Seebacher at the entrance in 1995Tag and painted numberView back towards Brauning Wall, showing possible faultWeathered rock on wall behind entrance shaft

Photos © Andy Waddington 1995 (1) and © Olly Betts 2005 (2,3,4).","Tag","Originally marked ""CUCC 90/4"" in red, changed to ""174"" in 1991. An Austrian metal tag bolted to entrance in 1995.","Surveyed", +175,"1/S +",,"90/5",,"plateau/175.htm",,,"Plateau Schacht 90/5",,,"1d","Recorded CUCC 1990, descended 1990-07-29","c20m shaft, snow at bottom. Last (2nd) pitch led to climb into choked bit.",,,,,,"Sketch survey in 1990 survey book, page 78",,,,,,,"p175",,,,"Surface survey",,,,,,"Nipple 167°, Bräuning Nase 193°, Bräuning Zinken 220°, HSK 100° (1990 bearings)",,,"Further round cliff to NE of 174 on NW side of shallow valley bounded on one side by the HSK.

If you are coming from 174, 175 is a couple of scars down from where you arrive by simply following the cliff.",,"

","Tag","Originally marked ""CUCC 90/5"" in red, changed to ""175"" in 1991. An Austrian metal tag bolted to entrance in 1995.","Surveyed", +176,"1/S -",,"90/6",,"plateau/176.htm",,,"Plateau Schacht 90/6",,,"1d","Recorded CUCC 1990","c30m shaft with snow-covered ledge at 15m. Rocks thrown down land on cobble floor.",,,,,,,,,,,,,"p176",,,,"Surface survey",,,,,"1665m (by altimeter set 1610 at Bergrestaurant)","Hinterer Schwarzmooskogel 102½ (1995, to left hand peak; 1990/91 100 or 104°?), rightmost (of three) peak of Vorderer Schwarzmooskogel 168½° (1990/91: 167 or 169°), Bräuning Nase 195° (1995, 1990:193°), Bräuning Zinken 220½ (1995, 1990/91 220 or 214°), Top Camp 192° (1991?)",,"At foot of SE-facing scar, just NE of a much more obvious (but unmarked) NW-SE rift with snow. Below this scar is a pavement formed in a shelly band of limestone, which dips c 10-15° on a strike of 135-315°. Following the pavement down and dropping down one scar leads to 175.",,,"

","Tag","Originally marked ""CUCC 90/6"" in red, changed to ""176"" in 1991, on scar above cave, rather small. An Austrian metal tag bolted to entrance next to the number in 1995.","Surveyed", 177,"1/S +",,"90/7",,"plateau/177.htm",,,"Tantalus Schacht",,,"1d","CUCC 1990 ","Named by dehydrated discoverers who had allowed water (and paint) out of their possession. At the bottom of the shaft is beautiful flowing stream. 35m shaft from Bunde belay to pool, water seep and ice at bottom. Access to promising looking passage which unfortunately quickly chokes.",,,,,,"

",,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,"Bräuning Nase 215°, Bräuning Zinken 234°, Schönberg summit 332°. This proved impossible to find in 1995 from these bearings which bring one to a point c 200m NNE of 1623/104 (easily spotted by the prominent split boulder above its entrance). The vicinity is hard to search owing to an excess of dwarf pine scrub and small cliffs.",,"At break of slope between HSK and the plateau. ",,,,,,"Lost","There is a shaft nearby with a loose rock numbered 177, which is wrong (suspected at the time, hence the use of an easily erasable mark)" 178,"1/T +",,"90/8",,"plateau/178.htm",,,"Plateau Höhle 90/8",,,"1d","CUCC 1990 ","Window into very large passage about 10×20m, fluted snow plug, second drops onto end of plug. To NE, passage leads to another large chamber with another shaft coming in at the far end.",,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,"Schönberg cross 330°, Bräuning Zinken 239°, Bräuning Nase 229°, Nipple 210°. The last is apparently totally wrong, but the other three lines intersect within a circle about 200m across",,,,,,,,"Lost", 179,"1/S +",,"90/9",,"plateau/179.htm",,,"Plateau Schacht 90/9",,,"1d","CUCC 1990 ","A 7m pitch leading to c5m of low cave.",,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,"Bräuning Scharte 218°",,,,,,,,"Lost", @@ -271,7 +271,7 @@ 207,"1/T +",,"96-WK2",,"plateau/207/207.html",,,"Plumpsklohöhle","Crapper Höhle",,"1a","

","Small (1.1 x 0.9 m) horizontal cave about 7m long in cliff edge, very small skylight lets light in at end.","None",,"Form sent 2000.05, number allocated. ",,"In dataset","

 

Survey drawn up in loose leaves in front of 1996-9 NotKH book","caves/207/207.svx","7m","1m",,,,,"p207",,,"Surface survey",,"gps00.wk2",,,,"VSK (obvious point = Nipple ?) 103°, HSK (leftmost top) 052°, Schönberg 346° ",,"100m W of the waterhole at (upper) top camp. In small cliff one step up from top camp level. Entrance faces N. 16m S of 1623/208.","From Top Camp (upper site) walk along ""crapper"" shelf, following path. After 80m where path goes down to next shelf, climb 3m step ahead. 207 is to the left (and 208 to the right).

Surface survey location sketch in not KH 1996 p 3, area map: NotKH book pp68-69",,"

Photo © Dave Loeffler 2005","Tag","Paint ""+"" and tag.","Surveyed", 208,"1/S +",,"96-WK3",,"plateau/208/208.html",,,"Quallenhöhle","Jellyfish Cave",,"1a","

","Two entrances, one 5m lower than the other. Lower section is expanded joint at foot of step, 6m deep. free-climable to gain a choked floor. A small continuation leads to small space in rifty corner where rocks have not filled. Upper entrance is 2-3m diameter shaft 5m deep, also free-climable.","None, 8m handline would be useful.",,"Form sent 2000.05, number allocated. ",,"In dataset","

Grade 2 (at a guess), drawn up in loose leaves in front of 1996-9 NotKH book","caves/208/208.svx","15m","13m",,"The name is essentially spurious, but makes a change from bears, wolves and rabbits ;-).",,,"p208",,,"Surface survey",,"gps00.wk3",,,,"B.Nase 161°, VSK (obvious point = Nipple ?) 104°, HSK (leftmost top) 054°, Schönberg 346°, Wildkogel (L&R ends of obvious summit ridge) 007-011°",,"100m W of the waterhole at (upper) top camp. 65m N of 90. 16m N of 207.","From Top Camp (upper site) walk along ""crapper"" shelf, following path. After 80m where path goes down to next shelf, climb 3m step ahead. 208 is to the right (and 207 to the left). The lower entrance is accessible from below the step.

Surface survey location sketch in not KH 1996 p 3, area map: NotKH book pp68-69",,"

Upper (A) entranceLower (B) entrance

Photos © Dave Loeffler 2005","Tag","""+"" (on cliff between entrances). Tag spit by upper entrance.","Surveyed", 209,"1/S +",,"1996WK8 (maybe also CUCC 1996-08)",,"smkridge/209/209.html",,,"Schistock-Absturzschacht","Dropped skipole hole",,"2c","

","3m x 0.8m shaft, 16m deep. Freeclimb descent is possible but difficult. Belay (and light!) needed. No draught. Bottom choked by rubble.","20m rope. ",,"Form sent 2000.05, number 209 allocated. ",,"In dataset","? grade 5","caves/209/209.svx",,,,,,,"p209",,,"Surface survey",,,,,,"VSK: 233°, Hollweiser: 145° (from a point between the WK7-WK10 entrances)",,"Along shelf from 136. 35mN of 136a, 10m NW of 136d.","The normal route to 136 (from SMK col/Vd1), passes over/past this cave. It is one of the group of holes shafts and rifts on the same shelf as 136a,b,c,d. From large cubic boulder at 136a, follow shelf N past 136b, and 136c. This cave is the last of these 3 holes. The entrance is joint-developed 3 x 0.8m shaft. Area map NotKH book p 88-89.",,"

 

Photos © David Loeffler 2005 and Paul Hammond 1999.","Tag",,"Surveyed", -210,"1/T +",,"1998-03",,"plateau/210.htm",,,"Fettsack und Faulpelz höhle","Lardy Festerers' Cave",,"1a","

","In a small doline, a low horizontal entrance next to a snow plug leads to a boulder slope. A draughting squeeze leads to muddy passage + a small chamber with boulder floor, a choked depression to the left + a choked uphill slope stright on. There is a rifty hole in the floor just before the large boulder in the middle of the chamber, partly covered with boulders. The bottom can be seen 2m below. No way on, not clear where draught goes.","None",,"Form sent 2000.05, number 210 allocated. ",,,"

",,"~30m",,,,,"t210","lardysurf.0","Entrance",,"Surface survey",,"gps00.210",,,,,,"On plateau NNE of Lower Top Camp, on route to 101 area. This cave is about 120m north of B8, ~150m NNE from the large doline of 189.","Follow route (towards 101/102/200 area if that helps) from Lower Top Camp past 164 and 189 (large holes, passed 15m to right), then go roughly NNW (a few cairns). This leads up onto the right edge of a ridge (the main part of which is deep Lätchen), passing right of the OAV ski marker pole. This is an easy walk above a short (climbable) cliff looking down onto the small doline containing this cave.",,,"Tag","Tag on doline wall opposite cave.","Surveyed", +210,"1/T +",,"1998-03",,"plateau/210.htm",,,"Fettsack und Faulpelz höhle","Lardy Festerers' Cave",,"1a","

","In a small doline, a low horizontal entrance next to a snow plug leads to a boulder slope. A draughting squeeze leads to muddy passage + a small chamber with boulder floor, a choked depression to the left + a choked uphill slope stright on. There is a rifty hole in the floor just before the large boulder in the middle of the chamber, partly covered with boulders. The bottom can be seen 2m below. No way on, not clear where draught goes.","None",,"Form sent 2000.05, number 210 allocated. ",,,"

",,"~30m",,,,,"t210","lardysurf.0","Entrance",,"Surface survey",,"gps00.210",,,,,,"On plateau NNE of Lower Top Camp, on route to 101 area. This cave is about 120m north of B8, ~150m NNE from the large doline of 189.","Follow route (towards 101/102/200 area if that helps) from Lower Top Camp past 164 and 189 (large holes, passed 15m to right), then go roughly NNW (a few cairns). This leads up onto the right edge of a ridge (the main part of which is deep Lätchen), passing right of the OAV ski marker pole. This is an easy walk above a short (climbable) cliff looking down onto the small doline containing this cave.",,,"Retag","Tag on doline wall opposite cave, but still says ""1998-03"".","Surveyed", "211-213",,,,,,,,,,"We don't know if these numbers were ever used","nonexistent",,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,, 214,,,"2000-03",,"smkridge/214.html",,,"Segment cave",,,"2d","Discovered by CUCC",,,,,,,,,,,,,,,"p214",,,"Surface survey",,,,,,,,,,,,"Retag","Tag still says ""2000-03""","Surveyed", 215,,"a b","2000-05","yes","smkridge/215/215.html",,,"Rufverbindungshöhle",,,"2b","CUCC 2000 Wookey, Mike Allen","? Wookey",,,,"2000 log book (2000/08/03 + 2000/08/06)","In dataset","

Notes in 2000#23","caves/215/215.svx",,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,"Eishöhle portal row, between 40e and 40h","? wookey","Low and wide","? wookey",,,"Surveyed", @@ -387,7 +387,7 @@ ,,,"88F",,"smkridge/88f.html",,,,,"GSCB","2b",,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,"gps02olly.88f",,,,,,,,,,,,,,,"Tag","tag VSS188F 2002","Refindable","Has been seen recently (2002)" ,,,"1987-02",,"plateau/1987_02.html",,,,,,"1c","Found by CUCC 1987. Original explorers unknown, possibly GSCB?",,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,"100m up from 157 and 0/5. Possibly the same cave as Bogenhöhle?",,,,,,"Lost", ,,,"1989-01",,,,,,,"Probably 195. See 165 for more details.",,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,"North of 165",,,,"Unmarked",,"Lost","May be 195 but seems unlikely; or 196" -,,,"1990-15",,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,"Paint","Numbered erroneously as ""185"" ","Lost","AERW doesn't know where to find it" +,,,"1990-15",,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,"Probably doesn't exist! Suspected to be a typo in a 1990 log book write up of surface work. The number ""90/15"" isn't mentioned anywhere else at all.",,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,"Paint","Numbered erroneously as ""185"" ","Lost","AERW doesn't know where to find it" ,"1/S -",,"1992-X01",,"plateau/1992-X01.html",,,,"Olly's 1992 minus cave",,"1b","CUCC 1992 Olly Betts","Undescended. 2 second drop with a rattle for a bit.",,,,"1992 logbook (1992.08.01)",,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,"Unmarked",,"Refindable", ,"1/S -",,"1996-01",,"smkridge/1996_01.html",,,"Ski-pole höhle",,,"2c","CUCC 1996-07-15 Nick, Brian, Tina","Climb down shakehole to open shaft with a jammed boulder at the top. Shaft developed on joint is 1.4m across, 1.5m in the other direction and drops straight down 10m. Rift at bottom is 2m high. 1.5m drop then gently ascending rift gets too tight.",,,,,,,,,"11.1m",,"There are many holes along the rift - all the others are choked or too tight.",,,,,,,"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 right hand wall about a third of the way along. This gets you into the next gorge, trending on bearing 031° (looking towards 161d end of path). Turn right up the rift. 96/01 is at the top end.",,,"Tag","A spit with ""CUCC 96-01""","Refindable","Has a 1996 GPS fix which is almost certainly hopelessly wrong as it puts it way to the north of 161d" ,"1/S -",,"1996-05",,"plateau/1996_05.html",,,,,,"1d","CUCC 1996 Andy Waddington and Fran","Cave is a North-South rift in a joint hading very steeply - say 85 degrees dip to west. Stones rattle down shaft for a very long time. No evidence of previous exploration (ie. no spits, no mud, vegetation not noticeably trampled).",,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,"gps98.1996_05",,,,"c. 1640m","Schönberg 342½°, Bräuning Zinken 204½°, Hinterer Schwarzmooskogel 101° (very flat summit, so exact point not obvious), Loser Cross 213½°, using AndyW compass NPC#2 (Suunto #439258)",,,"From 164, follow recent (1996 vintage? - not of CUCC origin) fluorescent orange paint dots (these had faded almost completely by 1998, but there are some older red ones for the early part of the route), over a ridge passing the OAV ski marker pole, then leftish over a series of limestone steps to reach a descent into a large broken area (thought to be near 173). Climb steeply left up boulders to a large cairn with a bright orange dot, then over a series of limestone shelves. Shortly up here is a shaft now known to be Lost Rucksack Cave (marked with temporary number CUCC 1993 01). The route continues remarkably easily over a series of bunde-free pavements - easily relocated in 1998. Eventually a large orange dot with an arrow points into a gap in the pines with many fresh (1996) cut branches (again, not CUCC's work). No more dots are to be found, and all ways close up in bunde beyond an obvious shaft in a N-S rift which is therefore clearly the ultimate destination of the marked path.",,"

Entrance rift, looking north.

A picture of the Bräuning wall and Loser from the vicinity of the entrance is here.","Tag","Tag placed on pavement on east side of shaft near middle, a spit with CUCC tag ""9605"".","Surveyed", @@ -399,7 +399,7 @@ ,"? +",,"1998-X01",,"plateau/1998-X01.html",,,,,,"1d","Has a ""+"" mark of unknown provenance. Rediscovered and tied to surface survey by CUCC (Wookey and Andy W) 1998.",,,,,,,,,,,,,,,"p1998-x01",,,"GPS post SA",,,,,,,,,,,,"Unmarked (?)",,"Surveyed", ,,,"1999-X01",,"smkridge/1999-X01/1999-X01.html",,,,"MI5 Cave",,"2c","Has a ""-"" mark of unknown provenance. Rediscovered and surveyed to (but not descended) CUCC 1999",,,,,,,,,,,,,,,"pmi5",,,,,,,,,,,"Schwarzmooskogel ridge near 180 and 191",,,"

","Paint (?)",,"Surveyed", ,,,"1999-OB-01",,"plateau/1999-OB-01/1999-OB-01.html",,,,,,"1d","CUCC 1999 (Olly Betts)","Inside small cliff facing toward B.wall. Slightly draughting, 6m deep, with snow plug at bottom. Unexplored, not a promising lead.",,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,"VSK 151, HSK 065, Sch 010, BZW 222 (from top of small cliff). (from NotKH 1996- book p110)",,,,,"

Photo © Olly Betts 1999","Tag",,"Refindable", -,,,"1999-OB-02",,"plateau/1999-OB-02/1999-OB-02.html",,,,,,"1d","CUCC 1999 (Olly Betts)",,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,"BN 211 BZ 229 HSK 061",,,,,"

LocationEntrance closeup showing tag (original here)

(Photo © Olly Betts 1999)","Tag",,"Surveyed", +,,,"1999-OB-02",,"plateau/1999-OB-02/1999-OB-02.html",,,,,,"1d","CUCC 1999 (Olly Betts)",,,,,,,,,,,,,,"p99ob02",,,,"Surface survey",,,,,,"BN 211 BZ 229 HSK 061",,,,,"

LocationEntrance closeup showing tag (original here)

(Photo © Olly Betts 1999)","Tag",,"Surveyed", ,,,"1999_MS_01",,"smkridge/1999_ms_01.html",,,,,,"2b","CUCC 1999 (Mark Shinwell)",,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,"gps00.99ms01",,,,,,,,,,,,"Surveyed", ,,,"1999_MS_02",,"smkridge/1999_ms_02.html",,,,,,"2b","CUCC 1999 (Mark Shinwell)",,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,"gps00.99ms02",,,,,,,,,,,,"Surveyed", ,"1/? +",,"2000-02",,"smkridge/2000-02/2000-02.html",,,,,,"2c","Has a ""+"" mark of unknown provenance. Relocated by CUCC (Wookey, Andy W and Julian T) in 1996; GPSsed and tagged by CUCC (Andy A and Wookey) 2000","? Wookey","? Wookey",,,"See 2000 logbook entry (July 30th)",,,,,,,,,,"p2000-02",,,"GPS post SA",,,,,,,,,,,,"Tag","Tagged ""2000-02"" in 2000","Surveyed", @@ -489,3 +489,6 @@ ,,"b",,"last entrance",,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,"p2006-04b",,,,"GPS post SA",,,,,,,,,,,,"Tag",,"Surveyed", ,"0/S -",,"2006-05",,"smkridge/2006-05/2006-05.html",,,,"M5",,"2d",,,,,,,,,,,,,,,"gps06.2006-05",,,,"GPS post SA",,,,,,,,,,"Draughting surface shaft",,"Tag",,"Surveyed", ,"1/T +",,"2006-06",,"smkridge/2006-06/2006-06.html",,,"Bogenhöhle",,,"1c","Origin obscure; surveyed 2001 CUCC (Mark S, Mike Cox)",,,,,,"In dataset","Notes in 2001#11 apparently, but this wallet is missing","surface/bogen.svx",,,,,,"tbogen",,,,"Surface survey",,,,,,,,,,"This cave is somewhat mysterious; it may in fact be the ""second cave with a walk-in entrance"" mentioned in the 157 description, but that is described as being 100m from Laser 0/5, whereas this is more like 30m (or 60m to the further entrance).",,"Tag","Tag, apparently, but what the tag says is unclear!","Surveyed", +,"0/S -",,"2006-07",,"smkridge/2006-07/2006-07.html",,,"Infrared Spectrometer",,,"2d","CUCC 2006 (Phil + Matt)","One spit placed, but not descended",,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,, +,,,"2006-08",,,,,,,,"2d",,,,,,,,"NOTES MISSING!",,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,, +,"1/S +",,"2006-09",,"smkridge/2006-09/2006-09.html",,,,"Random Höhle",,"2d","CUCC 2006 (Phil + Chantalle)",,,,,,,"Notes in 2006#27","caves/2006-09/2006-09.svx",,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,