| 2010-01 | Clownhöhle | 1/E+ |
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Entrance: Fix type: GPS post SA Tag point: p2010-01
-Lookup values for tag point data: Alt: 1773.21 N84394.67 E36369.23
Nominal area: 2d - Northern Schwarzmooskogel ridge (access from Steinbrücken)
- -Location: West of the Hinter-Neider Aust Eck col.
- -Entrance Description: Triangular entrance with two bunder patches above looking like a clowns face.
- -Entrance Photo:
Marking: Tag. (Tag marked "2010-01")
- -References: 2010#01 survey wallet
- -Underground Description: Snow slope descends down at 30 degrees for 12m, passing an alcove on the left with a possible small continuation, then past a second alcove with 4m aven down which an ice water fall runs. The passage ends next to a fine ice stalactite with a too tight continuing passage.
- -Equipment: Cave gear required to push too tight passage in alcove
- -Survey: 
Explorers: CUCC 2010 (Mark + Martin Green)
- -Centre Line: In dataset
- -Survex file: Caves/2010-01/2010-01.svx
- - -| 230 (1999-04) | Vergeßlichheithöhle | +(?) |
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Length: 20m Depth: 8m
- -Entrance: Point: p230 Point description: none
-Lookup values for point data: Alt: 1805.00 N82843.00 E36468.00
Nominal area: 2c - Vorderer to Hinterer Schwarzmooskogel – Kaninchenhöhle area
- -Marking: Retag. (Tagged as "99-04")
- -Explorers: CUCC
- - -| 234 - a b (2000-09) | Hauchhöhle | 3/S/W x |
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Wowoland is a new horizontal level discovered and partly surveyed in 2005. -It is reached via the Pie Series pitches.
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The
-initial 3m climb is free-climbable but in view of the drop beyond it is
-advisable to rig from the spit in the ceiling, which may be backed up to a
-thread back on the right. At the bottom is a wide ledge, with a narrow crawl
-leading off to the right (facing the pitch), which was checked out in 2006 and
-doesn't go. Ahead is the head of the first pitch, Steak (21m), rigged
-from a Y-hang in the ceiling and a deviation from the left-hand wall around 5m
-down. There is a sizeable aven above the pitch [C2004-234-32 X]. The landing is on a boulder floor, a
-few metres away from the head of the next pitch, Kidney (17m); this is
-rigged with a traverse bolt on the left-hand wall followed by a Y-hang across
-the rift. It is a fine shaft with a kidney-shaped cross-section; it is possible
-that in very wet conditions it might need a deviation to stay out of the drips,
-but it has been drip-free on all trips so far. The landing is on another
-boulder-strewn floor; at the far side of the chamber is a narrow slot in the
-floor, Who Ate All The Pies, which was blocked by a large boulder in
-2004.
Around 5m from the floor of Kidney, a side passage, -Crust leads off; after passing a puddle of water it turns to the right -and slopes steeply upwards. At the top of the slope the continuation is a -mud-floored, body-sized tube, which was explored for some distance but was -becoming increasingly tedious; shortly beyond the furthest survey station it -opens out into a small chamber (just big enough to turn round in) after which -it closes in horizontally to a narrow high slot, which may be passable for -small people [C2004-234-22 -C].
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-The boulder at Who Ate All The Pies was removed by capping in 2005,
-revealing a pitch of 3m or so to a short section of sloping rift, opening out
-onto a further pitch. This is rigged from a bolt on the LH wall and lands on a
-wide, drippy ledge on the side of a substantial shaft, with an aven above.
-Traversing along a ledge on the right-hand wall (2 or 3 spits) leads to a wide
-Y-hang for the next pitch. This passes a large undercut ledge, landing 2m
-further down on a sloping, frequently spray-lashed rock floor. From here,
-stepping through a window leads to a handline climb of around 3m (which can get
-rather damp) down into Wowoland.
The bottom of the handline climb is a small chamber with numerous exits. -Two passages in the left-hand wall part-way down the -climb are the route into Three Cookies -Chamber. Further on on the left is a hole in the floor, which leads -to a nasty-looking climb down in a tight rift [C2005-234-08 C]. Straight on is a narrow trench, -carrying the water from Pie Series; here one can climb up into Lost Gloves Chamber, while the trench doubles back round to -the left and continues as a low crawl [C2005-234-03 C]. - -
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-The two tubes in the wall lead into a compact knot of small crawls. Keeping -to the left, one emerges in Three Cookies -Chamber, a wedge-shaped chamber with a mud floor. Here there are three -ways on. Straight on is too tight, while on -the left a wide passage with a narrow slot in the floor reaches a T-junction. -Right ends quickly, while left leads to an up-climb and short pitch into the -base of a drippy aven, Weeweeland, which is -directly underneath Cess Pot in the upper levels. The drips disappear into a -narrow winding passage in the floor in sharp rock [C2005-234-07 C]. The -main way out of Three Cookies is under an arch on the right, leading to an -upwards-sloping stooping passage floored with powdery mud. Soon a junction is -reached, where a passage leads off to the right but ends in a mud -blockage. Straight on up the slope leads to a section of crawling over -deeply eroded potholes, passing a pair of too-tight passages on the right -before a short flat-out section, emerging in Monster's Lair.
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-Monster's Lair is a small round mud-floored -chamber, with formations on the ceiling. From here a climb up leads to a -steeply inclined section of rift, sloping upwards, with a T-shaped -cross-section. Soon this levels out, with a small hole in the floor [C2005-234-10 C]. Shortly -beyond this, the rift opens out, and a shaft, Monster Munch, descends. -This can be rigged from a thread in the roof, a traverse bolt in the left-hand -wall and a bolt hight on the right; a long deviation back to the traverse bolt -gives a good hang. 5m down is a constriction, with an immense thread providing -a convenient rebelay, below which the shaft widens dramatically. A large ledge -10m below was the 2005 limit. At this point, a rebelay on the left-hand wall -drops a further 10m onto a pile of jammed boulders. Clambering over these -reaches a ledge where the main hang bolt for the shaft is set. This hang is -around 50m; the first section slopes slightly, but after 30m it straightens -out. The resulting rub point was protected in 2006 and 2008 by an extremely tenuous -deviation off a flake; when better bolting equipment is available, a traverse -to a rebelay on the far wall would be very much preferable. Shortly below -the final hang bolt, there is a slot in the wall leading back underneath the -jammed boulders into a chamber. This connects back to the pitch lower down.. The -landing at the bottom of the pitch is in a largish chamber, with water dripping -in from above, and a trench in the floor. At the far end of the chamber, one can -climb up and over a pile of boulders (probably needs protecting with a rope in -future, as the pile looks liable to fall down the pitch without much -provocation!) to continue the descent; a spit at the top of the boulder pile -provides backup, and a second low down on the pitch gives a -just-about-tolerable hang. A deviation off a huge anvil-shaped projection of -rock moves the rope out to a better position, allowing a landing on a ledge -around 5m down. This was the 2006 limit of exploration. From here, the -shaft widens out to one side (beneath the slot at the base of the -previous pitch), and a rebelay below the ledge allows a descent of 15m to the -floor. A slot in the floor leads to a downward climb onto a mass of -precariously placed boulders. However the only way on, down which the water disappears, is a narrow slot a few inches wide.
- -Traversing over the top of Monster Munch leads to a wide ledge. Here, a -passage in the far wall leads to Spit or -Swallow, a stooping-size phreatic passage. A turning sharp right leads -to a ledge overlooking the main shaft of Monster Munch, which may be a good way -to avoid the tedious rigging of the 2006 route. A second turning on the right -is unexplored [C2006-234-01 -C], as are two turnings on the left further on [C2006-234-02 C] [C2006-234-03 C]. Finally the -passage emerges in the side of a shaft, Instant -Relief, which continues both downwards and upwards [C2006-234-05 X]. A -10m descent (off a spit in the passage and a natural) leads into a -large chamber and the Last Chance Saloon.
- -The Last Chance Saloon is entered by continuing across the -bouldery floor at the bottom of Instant Relief. There are two ways -on. Keeping to the left leads, via a very loose climb down, into a -stooping height passage which passes over a hole leading down to a -pitch [C2006-234-02 -A] and thereafter gradually decreases in size [C2006-234-08 -C]. From the Last Chance Saloon, bearing to the right -leads to an upward sloping crawl which soon increases in size -significantly. An alcove on the left enters a sandy floored chamber -which may contain a way on [C2008-234-03 C]The passage continues past a -window overlooking a pitch [C2008-234-04 A], with another passage clearly visible on -the far side [C2008-234-05 B], before finally ending at the -top of another pitch [C2008-234-06 A]. - - -
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-Lost Gloves Chamber is a smallish ovoid chamber -floored with boulders, sloping slightly. At the top of the slope, in one wall -is a body-sized tube leading back into Three -Cookies, while on the opposite side is another tube which loops round to -the right to connect back into the same chamber. Near this, at the bottom end -of the chamber, is the climb down to connect with the bottom of Pie Series, -while climbing up above this to the left leads to a horizontal -stooping/crawling sized passage, Pie R Squared -(or Pie Arse Squared). A little way in is an opening on the left [C2005-234-02 B], missed by -the original explorers. Other than this, Pie Arse Squared continues in fine -style for a considerable distance, meandering from side to side but with no -side branches or junctions; part-way along is a section with fine moonmilk -deposits, and beyond this is a muddy wallow. Eventually one emerges in a flat, -wide chamber, where there are two ways on. On the right is a 10 pitch -leading to a ledge which looks out onto a 5m deep blind pit: Limo Pit. On the left is a passage leading off -at floor level, which contains some fine flowstone formations and straws; -unfortunately, these soon conspire to completely block the passage.
-Note that information on caves in the adjacent area -1626 (Rauher - Schönberg) is to be found elsewhere. See also the list of lengths and depths for the caves where we have -survey data.
- -| 10 | Spalthöhle | 1/T = |
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Entrance: Recorded Alt: c1715m
- -Nominal area: 9 - Gschwandt
- -Location: In NW face of Loser, overlooking Blaa-Alm.
- -Explorers: Höhlenforschervereinigung Altaussee, 1937
- - -| 11 | Höhle in der Loserwestwand 1 | 1/T = |
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Length: 60m
- -Entrance: Recorded Alt: c1715m
- -Nominal area: 9 - Gschwandt
- -Location: In NW face of Loser, overlooking Blaa-Alm.
- -Entrance Description: an impressive 12m wide by 15m high entrance.
- -Explorers: Höhlenforschervereinigung Altaussee, 1937
- - -| 12 | Höhle in der Loserwestwand 2 | 0/T - |
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Entrance: Recorded Alt: c1715m
- -Nominal area: 9 - Gschwandt
- -Location: In NW face of Loser, overlooking Blaa-Alm.
- -Explorers: Höhlenforschervereinigung Altaussee, 1937
- - -| 131 | Thomas-Eishöhle | 2/E/S x |
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Length: 1016m Depth: 192m Extent: 234m
- -Entrance: Recorded Alt: 1721m Recorded as N83700 Recorded as E37700 Fix type: Laut Information Robert Seebacher, E-Mail 11/00 an Thilo Point: p131 Point description: none
-Lookup values for point data: Alt: 1610.00 N83700.00 E37700.00
Nominal area: 6 - Far plateau
- -Location: SE face of Kleines Augsteck.
- -Survex file: caves/131/131.svx
- - -| 132 | Tropfsteinhöhle am Augsteck | 2/T + |
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Entrance: Recorded Alt: 1600m
- -Nominal area: 6 - Far plateau
- -Location: SE face of Kleines Augsteck..
- - -| 133 | Unterstandhöhle | 1/T + |
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Entrance: Recorded Alt: 1604m
- -Nominal area: 6 - Far plateau
- -Location: SE face of Kleines Augsteck.
- - -| 134 | Höhlenruine bei der Wasserstelle | 1/T + |
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Entrance: Recorded Alt: 1531m
- -Nominal area: 5 - Schwarzmoos-Wildensee
- -Location: West of Wildenseealm. The name would suggest that it is next to the water tank which supplies drinking water to the various buildings of Wildenseealm, and which is shown on the map, at about the right altitude.
- - -| 15 | Michel-Gang | 1/(W) + |
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Entrance: Recorded Alt: 1500m
- -Nominal area: 7 - Egglgrube
- -Location: Below main path west of Egglgrube. (About 35m below the path as it contours east of Sommersitz)
- -Explorers: Sektion Ausseerland, 1953
- - -| 19 | Gamsofen im Scharlingkar | 1/T + |
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Entrance: Recorded Alt: 1450m
- -Nominal area: 7 - Egglgrube
- -Location: SE of Egglgrubenalm, ie. follow the valley down from Egglgrube until some huts appear - the cave is then SE below a small cliff somewhere.
- -Explorers: Sektion Ausseerland, 1953
- - -| 20 | Windhöhle | 1/T + |
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Entrance: Recorded Alt: 1475m
- -Nominal area: 7 - Egglgrube
- -Location: In Scharlingkar. This is the band of cliffs SW of Weiße Wand. The cave is SW of Gamsofen (Kat.19) and almost due south of the huts in Bräning Alm.
- -Explorers: Sektion Ausseerland, 1953
- - -| 21 | Windloch im Egglgrube | 2/S/T + |
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Entrance: Recorded Alt: 1510m
- -Nominal area: 7 - Egglgrube
- -Location: South of Egglgrubenalm (it looks to be east of it on the map), north of Gamsofen (Kat.19).
- -Explorers: Höhlenforschervereinigung Altaussee, 1938
- - -| 22 | Spiralschacht | 1/S x |
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Entrance: Recorded Alt: 1500m
- -Nominal area: 7 - Egglgrube
- -Location: South of Egglgrubenalm. Not marked on Austrian´s map
- -Explorers: Höhlenforschervereinigung Altaussee, 1939
- - -| 228 | Kleine Schnellzughöhle |
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Length: 29m Depth: 9m Extent: 18m
- -Entrance: Fix type: Surface survey Point: p228 Point description: none
-Lookup values for point data: Alt: 1599.96 N81034.19 E35060.88
Nominal area: 7 - Egglgrube
- -Explorers: ArGE (Nils + Kai Schwekendiek, August 2000)
- -Centre Line: In dataset
- -Survex file: caves/228/228.svx
- - -| 23 | Steinbockhöhle | 1/t/S = |
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Entrance: Recorded Alt: 1500m
- -Nominal area: 7 - Egglgrube
- -Location: East of Egglgrubenalm near Weiße Wand.
- -Explorers: Höhlenforschervereinigung Altaussee, 1939
- - -| 24 | Schachthöhle bei Egglgrubenalm | 1/S = |
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Entrance: Recorded Alt: 1540m
- -Nominal area: 7 - Egglgrube
- -Location: South of junction of paths near Egglgrube (ie. divergence of CUCC's routes to the col and to Stellerweg)
- -Explorers: Schauberger, 1938
- - -| 25 | Mauskothhöhle | 2/T x |
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Entrance: Recorded Alt: 1500m
- -Nominal area: 7 - Egglgrube
- -Location: East of Egglgrubenalm, very near Steinbockhöhle (Kat. 23).
- -Explorers: Höhlenforschervereinigung Altaussee, 1938
- - -| 26 | Wasserschlinger I | 1/(W) + |
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Entrance: Recorded Alt: 1542m
- -Nominal area: 3 - Bräuning Alm
- -Location: In Bräuning Kunntal, the large closed depression west of Bräuning Alm.
- -Explorers: Sektion Ausseerland, 1976
- - -| 27 | Wasserschlinger II | 1/(W) + |
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Entrance: Recorded Alt: 1542m
- -Nominal area: 3 - Bräuning Alm
- -Location: In Bräuning Kunntal, next to Kat.26
- -Explorers: Sektion Ausseerland, 1976
- - -| 29 | Schwarzmoosloch | 1/S x |
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Entrance: Recorded Alt: 1560m
- -Nominal area: 3 - Bräuning Alm
- -Location: NE of huts in Bräuning Alm
- -Explorers: Schauberger, 1921
- - -| 30 | Grundloses Loch | 1/S x |
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Entrance: Recorded Alt: 1570m
- -Nominal area: 3 - Bräuning Alm
- -Location: Next to path towards Bräuning Alm from Egglgrube junction. (I think this may be the first walled open shaft on the true left of the valley below Bräuning Alm)
- -Explorers: LVHK Oberösterreich, 1966
- - -| 33 | Schichtgrenzenhöhle | 1/T + |
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Entrance: Recorded Alt: 1570m
- -Nominal area: 3 - Bräuning Alm
- -Location: South of Bräuning Alm. I think this is another of the fenced off shafts near the path north from the junction at Egglgrube.
- -Explorers: Sektion Ausseerland, 1975
- - -| 34 | Höhle am Kratzer I | 1/T + |
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Entrance: Recorded Alt: 1590m
- -Nominal area: 4 - Kratzer valley
- -Location: Quite a way east of Bräuning Alm in the top end of the Kratzer valley.
- -Explorers: Sektion Ausseerland, 1973
- - -| 35 | Dr. Kerschner Höhle | 2/S/T x |
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Length: 250m Depth: Given 100m in 1980.
- -Entrance: Recorded Alt: 1630m
- -Nominal area: 4 - Kratzer valley
- -Location: Just SW of the col (Schwarzmoossattel), SE of Bräuning Nase.
- -Entrance Description: Surface shaft often blocked with snow
- -Marking: 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.
- -Underground Description: 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.
- -Explorers:
| 37 | Schachtgruppe beim Hinterer Schwarzmooskogel | 0/S - |
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Entrance: Recorded Alt: 1700m
- -Nominal area: 1d - Further plateau near Eislufthöhle
- -Location: West of Ht. Schwarzmooskogel. Well out onto the plateau, and hence, almost impossible to find or identify.
- -Explorers: 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.
| 38 | Algenhöhle | 1/T + |
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Length: 33m
- -Entrance: Recorded Alt: 1700m
- -Nominal area: 1d - Further plateau near Eislufthöhle
- -Location: West of Hinterer Schwarzmooskogel (exact location unknown) Possibly near Kat.37 (q.v.)
- -Underground Description: Behind the entrance there is a single passage at right angles to it, with boulders (Blockwerk).
- -Survey: Sketch by J. Gaisberger snr., 1938
- -Explorers: Höhlenforschervereinigung Altaussee, 1938
- - -| 39 | SCHWA höhle 39 | 1/T + |
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Length: 18m
- -Entrance: Recorded Alt: 1740m
- -Nominal area: 2b - South-east slopes of Vorderer Schwarzmooskogel – Eishöhle area 4 - Kratzer valley
- -Location: 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...
- -Entrance Description: 2.2m wide by 1.2m high entrance leads in a gentle slope to where it becomes too tight.
- -Explorers: Höhlenforschervereinigung Altaussee, 1938
- - -| 43 | Höhle beim Wackelstein | 1/T+ |
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Entrance: Recorded Alt: 1650m
- -Nominal area: 4 - Kratzer valley
- -Location: SE of Bräuning Nase, apparently just below the path up to Schwarzmoossattel.
- -Explorers: Sektion Ausseerland, 1973
- - -| 44 | Höhle am Kratzer II | 1/T+ |
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Entrance: Recorded Alt: 1620m
- -Nominal area: 4 - Kratzer valley
- -Location: In upper Kratzer valley south of the col. Probably in the same entrance doline as Dr. Kerschner Höhle (Kat.35).
- - -| 45 | Dannerschacht | 1/S/E + |
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Entrance: Recorded Alt: 1610m
- -Nominal area: 5 - Schwarzmoos-Wildensee
- -Location: East of Vorderer Schwarzmooskogel. NE of the Eishöhle, and looking pretty difficult to get to.
- - -| 46 | Engelbrechthöhle | 1/T = |
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Entrance: Recorded Alt: 1635m
- -Nominal area: 5 - Schwarzmoos-Wildensee
- -Location: Near Dannerschacht Kat.45
- -Explorers: Engelbrecht, 1952
- - -| 47 | SCHWA höhle 47 | 2/T + |
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Entrance: Recorded Alt: 1612m
- -Nominal area: 5 - Schwarzmoos-Wildensee
- -Location: Near Dannerschacht Kat.45
- - -| 48 | SCHWA höhle 48 | 1/T + |
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Entrance: Recorded Alt: 1612m
- -Nominal area: 5 - Schwarzmoos-Wildensee
- -Location: Near Dannerschacht Kat.45
- - -| 49 | SCHWA höhle 49 | 1/T + |
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Entrance: Recorded Alt: 1618m
- -Nominal area: 5 - Schwarzmoos-Wildensee
- -Location: Near Dannerschacht Kat.45
- - -| 5 | Holzknechtbrünndlloch | 1/S(W) + |
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Length: 12m Depth: 8m
- -Entrance: Recorded Alt: 1230m
- -Nominal area: 9 - Gschwandt
- -Location: SW foot Loserstockes
- -Approach: reached by path west from Loser Hütte, past Augst A.H.
- -Entrance Description: Eine 1,5m grosse Schachtöffnung fü in einen stiefelförmigen Schacht, in dem ein Sickerwassergerinne früher von Holzknechten als Trinkwasserquelle genutzt wurde.'
- -Survey: Plan at 1:100 by Alfred Auer, 1968
- -Explorers: Höhlenforschervereinigung Altaussee, 1938
- - -| 50 | SCHWA höhle 50 | 1/T + |
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Entrance: Recorded Alt: 1620m
- -Nominal area: 5 - Schwarzmoos-Wildensee
- -Location: Near Dannerschacht Kat.45
- - -| 52 - a b | Sennerkeller & Sauloch | 1/S/W + |
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Length: 32m Depth: 15m Extent: 17.5m SW-NE
- -Entrance: Recorded Alt: 1490m
- -Nominal area: 9 - Gschwandt
- -Location: Gschwandalm, by the path.
- -Approach: Reached by walking all the way round Loser from the Loser Hütte.
- -Entrance Description: In a 15m by 6m wide rift is the 6m by 4m entrance to the Sauloch. This is in a steep-sided doline used as a dumping place for all sorts of refuse.
- -References: Mitt. der Sektion Ausseerland 19(3) July, 1981, p 49
- -Underground Description: To the north, an 11m long, 2m high and 0.5m wide meander passage leads off. Through the passage flows a small gutter, which might well end too tight just after the turn off to Sennerkeller, the water emerging at a small spring to the north of Sennerkeller in a karren field.
- -Survey: 1:250, Alfred Auer, 1968 (no copy available)
- -Explorers: Sektion Ausseerland, 1968
- - -| 6 | Quelle (Wasserloch) | 0/W + |
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Entrance: Recorded Alt: 1425m
- -Nominal area: 9 - Gschwandt
- -Location: 150m west of Augst A.H.
- -Entrance Description: a small unenterable resurgence
- -Explorers: Unexplored - Noted for Kataster: Sektion Ausseerland, 1968
- - -| 60 | Schacht I-IV bei Gschwandalm | 1/S = |
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Length: 40m Depth: 30m
- -Entrance: Recorded Alt: 1590m
- -Nominal area: 9 - Gschwandt
- -Location: 1 Km NE of Gschwandalm between spot heights 1537 and 1607m, below the path.
In a hollow is a 4m wide and 40m long rift containing a row of shafts (II-IV). The rift reaches -30m, where there is a melt-water pool. A little higher up the slope is a triangular opening 1.5m wide and 2.2m long. At -15m, this connects with the others.
- -References: Mitt. der Sektion Ausseerland 19(3) July, 1981, p 49
- -Explorers: Sektion Ausseerland, 1965, 1968
- - -| 61 | Gemsbockhöhle | 1/T + |
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Entrance: Recorded Alt: 1620m
- -Nominal area: 3 - Bräuning Alm
- -Location: NE of Bräuning Alm, north of the path to Schwarzmoossattel.
- -Explorers: Karl Gaisberger, 1975
- - -| 73 | Suppentellerschacht | 2/S = |
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Entrance: Recorded Alt: 1580m
- -Nominal area: 4 - Kratzer valley
- -Location: In Kratzer valley, some way up valley from Fledermaushöhle (Kat.71).
- -Underground Description: 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.
- -Explorers:
| 74 | Schneckenhaushöhle | 1/T + |
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Entrance: Recorded Alt: 1600m
- -Nominal area: 4 - Kratzer valley
- -Location: In Kratzer valley, down valley from Fledermaushöhle (Kat. 71), on true right some way above bottom of valley.
- -Underground Description: Sounds like a free-climb to a snow choke (very much like B5, which must be in virtually the same place ?)
- -Explorers: Edith Bednarik, 1977
- - -| 75 | Wisenthöhle | 2/T + |
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Entrance: Recorded Alt: 1680m Fix type: Surface survey Point: p75 Point description: none
-Lookup values for point data: Alt: 1661.23 N82184.77 E35665.72
Nominal area: 4 - Kratzer valley
- -Location: 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.
- -Marking: 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.)
- -Underground Description: 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...
- -Explorers: Edith Bednarik, 1977
- - -| 77 | Fichtenschacht | 1/S + |
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Entrance: Recorded Alt: 1500m
- -Nominal area: 7 - Egglgrube
- -Location: North of Scharlingkar. Some way east of the Bergrestaurant, above the cliffs. 500m west of Egglgrubenalm.
- -Explorers: Sektion Ausseerland/ Edith Bednarik, 1979
- - -| BS17 | Organhöhle | 2/S + |
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Length: 235m Depth: 295m
- -Entrance: Recorded Alt: 1950m Fix type: Coordinates probably read from map, converted from lat long assuming MGI datum Point: bs17 Point description: none
-Lookup values for point data: Alt: 2000.00 N85146.16 E37518.36
Nominal area: 6 - Far plateau
- -Location: About 300m along the north side of the ridge running east from Hohes Augst-Eck, about 50m from the summit of the ridge at the foot of a 5m cliff, a 1m diameter tube. [no surface survey info or coordinates].
- -References: The above description is adapted from the UBSS report in Newsletter Vol 6 No. 3, November 1990.
- -Underground Description: A deep and serious cave in a very remote location, with numerous Puits en bayonettes, from which rescue would be virtually impossible after a tortuous tube at -100m.
The 1m diameter entrance is followed by a walking sized phreatic passage with further entrances in the roof. This continues to a four-way junction. Straight on soon chokes at a boulder slope. Up to the left, the passage winds back to a further entrance. The way on is down to the right. The 5m high passage continues, passing low crawls on the left and right to a point where the roof lowers and the passage is split horizontally. The lower passage leads to an extensive series of low crawls whilst the upper passage continues to a squeeze past a debris cone with a distinct draught. Past the debris cone the passage splits again. The right hand passage chokes soon after a 12m pitch but the left hand passage carries on as a hands and knees crawl, crosses a blind 4m pit and soon reaches the first pitch.
A fine descent of 66m in a large shaft lands on a boulder ledge with the second pitch following on immediately. This descends 50m to a 15cm wide rift. Although there is a possible continuation beyond, this would require considerable effort to enter and was not pushed. A climb up to a window above the second pitch (krab and sling left rigged) gains a climb down to the boulder-strewn foot of an aven and a horizontal tube going off (not explored). 13m down the second pitch, Fledermaus ledge can be gained, with a passage leading off to Fledermaus pitch, named for the quantities of bat skeletons at its head. This 27m descent reaches about the same level as the base of the second pitch, and is blind except for a small slot in one wall. Traversing over Fledermaus leads to a small chamber with two tubes leading off, both draughting. The left tube becomes too tight, but a pitch can be seen beyond the constriction. The right tube is the Organ Grinder.
The Organ Grinder is 46m of exceedingly tortuous passage - nowhere extremely tight but twisting and turning, rising and falling, requiring a unique combination of contortions. It is best tackled feet first on the way in (head first on the way out) until a flat out crawl near the end which leads to the crux: a U-bend, best approached head first on the descent. This is even more difficult on the return, when it is best tackled feet first. UBSS's times to pass this passage varied from 10 minutes to 3½ hours, with an average of 20 minutes. There is just room to replace SRT gear before the following pitch. The return of an injured person through this tube would be almost impossible without extensive modification of the cave.
The third pitch descends 42m, passing two windows, to a floor with no way on. From the foot of the pitch, a 3m climb up to a ledge reveals two climbs down. One of thse is blind, but the other leads to an undescended pitch of c20m.
Both of the windows in the third pitch connect with Topher's pitch, and the lower one was rigged. From here the pitch is 86m with a large ledge near the bottom. At the foot, a window leads to an aven, whilst in the opposite wall, another window looks onto the fifth pitch, Toccata and Feuge (sic).
Toccata and Feuge is best descended from a ledge above the large ledge in Topher's pitch. Rigged mainly from flakes and threads, it drops in a series of steps, 39m in total. A small hole in the floor drops into a chamber with no passable way on - just two exits, both too tight. 10m back up the pitch, a ledge can be gained and is the start of the Rift Climb. This is a 40m descent, and is best rigged as a self-lined climb. The rift continues for some distance horizontally, but has not been followed. Below the Rift climb, the head of another pitch can be gained, but great care should be exercised in the Rift Climb and this following pitch (The Pitch of the Flying Boulders) as there are many loose rocks, which, when dislodged, fall the full depth of both pitches. From the bottom of Topher's Pitch to the head of PotFB, many fossils of "large bivalves and snails on sticks" protrude up to 25mm from the rock.
The PotFB was rigged from a thread and is somewhat awkward for 6m to a rebelay, after which it hangs free. The 32m descent lands in The Hall of the Flying Boulders, which again contains much loose rock, choking the floor level. However, a 2m climb up a mudbank leads to an impressive phreatic passage. A pit in the floor of this passage drops to a chamber with a deep well. Passing this, and a smaller side passage on he left, one soon reaches Another Bloody Pitch with a strong draught at the head. The side passage also joins this pitch. Another Bloody Pitch is 31m, but ends blind. A window part way down reaches a further shaft of 36m, also blind, but this is the deepest explored point, at -295m.
From the head of Another Bloody Pitch, a continuation of the phreatic passage can be seen, but will not be reached without a serious bolted traverse. It is thought that this is the main way on, at c260m depth.
- -Survey: Grade 3c survey on cover of UBSS Nls 6(3), 11/90
- -Explorers: UBSS 1990
- - -| BS19 |
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Entrance: Fix type: Coordinates probably read from map, converted from lat long assuming MGI datum Point: bs19 Point description: none
-Lookup values for point data: Alt: 1890.00 N85055.58 E37562.98
Nominal area: 6 - Far plateau
- - -| 13 | Knochenhöhle | 2/T + |
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Entrance: Recorded Alt: 1690m
- -Nominal area: 8d - Loser - Hochanger ridge area
- -Location: Above Dimmelwand, a rockface above the final section of the toll road.(West of Augstsee on Gschirr)
- -Explorers: Sektion Ausseerland, 1972
- - -| 14 | Schafkirche | 1/T + |
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Length: 36m
- -Entrance: Recorded Alt: 1670m
- -Nominal area: 8c - Around Augst See
- -Location: SW of Augstsee in the small scars forming the NE face of the small ridge running down to the Bergrestaurant from Loser Fenster, overlooking the lake.
- -Map: 25.3 cm E, 19.75 cm N, sheet 15/1 (named on map).
- -Explorers: Sektion Ausseerland, 1968
- - -| 16 | Pauli-Loch | 1/T + |
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Length: 40m
- -Entrance: Recorded Alt: 1690m
- -Nominal area: 8c - Around Augst See
- -Location: Below cliffs west of Augstsee.
- -Underground Description: Since the length is recorded as 40m, it is interesting to read that a maximum/ minimum thermometer and hygrometer were placed 50m from the entrance from June 1976 to September 1977. These showed that the temperature varied from 1 to 5°C, with a relative humidity between 94% and 100%. The cave yielded Pseudoscorpions of the species Neobisium blothrus aueri.
- -Explorers: Sektion Ausseerland, 1968
- - -| 17 | Bärenhöhle im Höllgraben | 1/T = |
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Entrance: Recorded Alt: 1380m
- -Nominal area: 8b - Ammerich and Höllgraben - below Dimmelwand and the last part of toll road
- -Location: In Höllgraben, which is a major gully starting below the Bergrestaurant and dropping down to Liägerhöhle at the NW end of the Altausseer See. Cave is below and South of Bergrestaurant, just at the top break of slope.
- -Explorers: Höhlenforschervereinigung Altaussee, 1949.
- - -| 18 | Gaisofen im Ammerei | 2/T + |
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Length: 284m (250m) Depth: 18m Extent: 164m
- -Entrance: Recorded Alt: 1440m
- -Nominal area: 8b - Ammerich and Höllgraben - below Dimmelwand and the last part of toll road
- -Location: 500m NE of Loser Hütte, north of Bärenhöhle (1623/17) in Ammereich, a small cliff band below the toll road.
- -Explorers: LVHK Wien, 1974
- - -| 55 | Schachthöhle west. Hochanger | 1/S/T = |
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Entrance: Recorded Alt: 1750m
- -Nominal area: 8d - Loser - Hochanger ridge area
- -Location: Almost on the saddle between Loser and Hochanger.
- - -| 56 | Hornsteinhöhle | 1/T + |
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Entrance: Recorded Alt: 1650m
- -Nominal area: 8c - Around Augst See
- -Location: West side of Augstsee.
- - -| 57 | Höhle unterhalb der Schafkirche | 1/S + |
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Entrance: Recorded Alt: 1660m
- -Nominal area: 8c - Around Augst See
- -Location: West side of Augstsee.
- - -| 58 | Höhle unterhalb ab Pauli-Loch | 1/T + |
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Entrance: Recorded Alt: 1670m
- -Nominal area: 8c - Around Augst See
- -Location: West side of Augstsee.
- - -| 59 | Bruchshutthöhle | 1/T+ |
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Entrance: Recorded Alt: 1680m
- -Nominal area: 8c - Around Augst See
- -Location: West side of Augstsee on map. Text says W Hochangerlift (presumed to be the ski lift which runs from near the Loser Hütte towards Loser Fenster) on Gschirr, which is itself unnamed on the map. Current surmise is that the map location is correct, that the cave is actually east of the lift, and that Gschirr is the ridge running down from Loser Fenster to the Bergrestaurant. However the map symbol implies that this is a shaft, and this location is actually unlikely for a shaft...
- - -| 62 | Dolinenhöhle | 1/T + |
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Entrance: Recorded Alt: 1620m
- -Nominal area: 8d - Loser - Hochanger ridge area
- -Location: Above Dimmelwand - cliff above last section of toll road.
- - -| 63 | Pseudoskorpionhöhle | 2/T + |
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Entrance: Recorded Alt: 1625m
- -Nominal area: 8d - Loser - Hochanger ridge area
- -Location: Above Dimmelwand.
- - -| 64 | Gr. Durchgangshöhle | 1/T + |
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Entrance: Recorded Alt: 1670m
- -Nominal area: 8d - Loser - Hochanger ridge area
- -Location: Above Dimmelwand.
- - -| 65 | Widderhöhle | 1/T+ |
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Entrance: Recorded Alt: 1645m
- -Nominal area: 8d - Loser - Hochanger ridge area
- -Location: Above Dimmelwand.
- - -| 67 | Biwakhöhle am Loser | 2/T + |
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Length: 55m
- -Entrance: Recorded Alt: 1670m
- -Nominal area: 8d - Loser - Hochanger ridge area
- -Location: Above Dimmelwand.
- -Underground Description: In October 1977, Karl Gaisberger collected the first examples of the Pseudoscorpion Neobisium hermanni to be found in the Totes Gebirge.
- - -| 69 | Schacht am Gschirr | 1/S + |
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Entrance: Recorded Alt: 1690m
- -Nominal area: 8d - Loser - Hochanger ridge area
- -Location: Text says West of Augstsee. Map shows it above Dimmelwand.
- - -| 7 | Bachschläg | 1/(W) + |
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Length: 3m
- -Entrance: Recorded Alt: 1550m
- -Nominal area: 8a - South face of Loser - reached from Loser Hütte path
- -Location: West of the Loser Hütte below the south face of Loser.
- -Approach: Reached from the path up Loser by diagonalling down to the head of the gully from the path as it starts to climb again at about 1600m.
- -Map: Location plan by Alfred Auer at 1:200, 1968
- -Entrance Description: A 1.8m wide by 1.2m high rock shelter, and an occasionally active rising. There is a noticeable gully below this, presumably carrying water in wet weather. "Bei Hochwasser entströmt ihm ein mächtiger Bach und stürzt als Wasserfall über zwei Geländstufen und durch einen Graben 200m zur Loserstraße herab, wo das Wasser nach einem Durchlaß im verkarsteten Gestein versickert."
- - -| 70 | Schneckenloch | 1/T + |
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Entrance: Recorded Alt: 1660m
- -Nominal area: 8d - Loser - Hochanger ridge area
- -Location: Above Dimmelwand.
- - -| 72 | Skeletthöhle | 1/T + |
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Entrance: Recorded Alt: 1720m
- -Nominal area: 8c - Around Augst See
- -Location: West of Augstsee.
- -Explorers: Sektion Ausseerland, 1976
- - -| 8 | Großes Loserloch | 2/T + |
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Length: 390m Depth: +20m -11m Extent: 140m SW-NE
- -Entrance: Recorded Alt: 1615m
- -Nominal area: 8a - South face of Loser - reached from Loser Hütte path
- -Location: At the south foot of Loser (visible from Altaussee).
- -Approach: Reached by traversing west from the Loser path as it draws level with the cliffs.
- -Map: 21.8 cm E, 17.75 cm N, OAV sheet 15/1
- -Entrance Description: Round 8m wide by 10m high entrance
- -Underground Description: The round 8m wide by 10m high entrance leads into an upper level, the Hauptgang, leading north then northeast to Regenhalle, a sizeable chamber apparently formed on a significant SW-NE joint. Immediately right at the start of the chamber, a boulder slope leads up into Teilungshalle, from where a wider slope drops left back into Regenhalle about halfway along. At the highest point of Teilungshalle, a SE-going passage quickly chokes with boulders, but appears to be heading directly for the end of Kleines Loserloch, perhaps 10m away.
Keeping to the right (SW) wall entering Teilungshalle, a rift leads SW. A passage left after 5m quickly ends too tight. A traverse to the left hand side bypasses a 5m shaft in the floor. 15m beyond, another lead on the left leads up into a small chamber, Kapelle. The continuing rift, Südwest-Kluft, gets narrower for c 25m until deemed impassable.
Back in Regenhalle, a narrow section along the joint between the two ways to Teilungshalle, gives access to a lower series via a sharp turn to the right, due south. This wide passage, Südwest-gang, passes under Teilungshalle, and turns SW directly under Südwest-Kluft. A narrow rift on the left parallels the main passage for some way. The main way develops into Gr. Dom, 12m wide, with a boulder slope up until the passage chokes comprehensively on a broad front, almost exactly below the cliff outside.
At the far (NE) end of Regenhalle, stright on enters a draughting boulder choke, but two ways up to the right lead into Stufengang, with a complex of little rifts and an extension NE to a low choked area.
- -Survey: A4 survey in Mitt. der Sektion Ausseerland 18(4), Oct. 1980, facing p 87: a plan by J Völlenkle of L.V.H.Linz, 1:250, 1972. As printed, this looks like about a 4th generation photocopy. Also includes Kat. 9
- -Explorers:
| 9 | Kleines Loserloch | 2/T + |
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Length: 72m Depth: +12.5 -7.5m Extent: 50m SW-NE
- -Entrance: Recorded Alt: 1622m
- -Nominal area: 8a - South face of Loser - reached from Loser Hütte path
- -Location: Just right (25m East) of, and above, Großes Loserloch.
- -Entrance Description: In a narrow rift in the cliff, there are two small entrances, the lower one is the normal way in, and an upper entrance to its left leads to passage which joins the normal way within 5m
- -Underground Description: The cave is essentially a single passage for c 60m going NE to a narrowing. To the left at this point is a small extension, with a blind pit to the SW, and a draughting boulder choke to the NE. This is c 10m from a corresponding choke in Teilugshalle of Großes Loserloch.
- -Survey: A4 survey in Mitt. der Sektion Ausseerland 18(4), Oct. 1980, facing p 87: a plan by J Völlenkle of L.V.H.Linz, 1:250, 1972. As printed, this looks like about a 4th generation photocopy. Also includes Kat. 8
- -Explorers: since 1932
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