From cbe655c7993869a843a116103e7cf1f9b4db8d87 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: wookey Date: Wed, 17 Sep 2008 05:45:11 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] [svn r8026] Add file from expo --- noinfo/40new | 109 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 109 insertions(+) create mode 100644 noinfo/40new diff --git a/noinfo/40new b/noinfo/40new new file mode 100644 index 000000000..8555ea074 --- /dev/null +++ b/noinfo/40new @@ -0,0 +1,109 @@ +Information regarding Eishoehle is sensitive, not least since there were +suggestions of trying to develop it into a show cave. Be sure this description +of access does not fall into the wrong hands. + +From the Bergrestaurant, follow the normal route towards the plateau. After +passing through the wooden "gate" on the crest of the hill, the path descends +to a first set of signposts. Continue on the normal route, to the right, to +arrive at the second set of signposts in marshy ground, at Egglgrube. Here, +the normal route branches off left and traverses around to the shepherds' huts. +Do not take this left branch, but instead at Egglgrube continue straight ahead +on path 201, signed to Appelhaus. The path rises and falls, passing a less +distinct way off to the left (to the Kratzer valley). It is marked with the +red/white Austrian path markers. After some distance (approximately 10 +minutes), and some rocky sections, there is a bolt to watch out for in the +middle of the path. Close to this bolt is painted on the ground a red capital +omega, which is fading these days. (An old description notes this as likely +being "Kat. 28", whatever that is.) If you get to the point where there is a +steep descent directly down the hill, which I think is equipped with a wire, +then you've gone too far. + +At the red omega it is necessary to take a branch path off to the left, which +leads through a rocky vegetated gully with bunde sides and arrives after only +one or two minutes at an unmistakable wire traverse. To the right a +lightning-struck tree will be seen, which is a good landmark. Cross the +traverse and continue up the valley straight ahead. There is an indistinct +path to the left at one point which should be ignored (it goes to +Schwabenschacht). You eventually reach the head of the valley where it swings +right, and continuing uphill in that direction across blocks, you will reach a +point where a pair of red arrows with heads pointing in opposite directions are +painted on the wall on the left-hand side of the gully. Follow the left-hand +arrow which points up the continuation of the path, climbing up the face. + +The path climbs up some rocky sections and then enters bunde. After some time +and some more open sections affording good views of Altaussee (take note of the +route along this section as it's easy to miss where to duck back into the bunde +on the return journey) a large hole in the path is encountered, traversed on +the right-hand side. Continuing in the same general direction along the path +leads to a more open, grassy, higher area with a prominent elongated outcrop of +rock visible to the right-hand side. This is Weisse Warze, otherwise known as +Bunter's Bulge or the Nipple. There's something on top to mark this but I +can't remember offhand what it is. + +Austrian coordinates of Bunter's Bulge: + E 486041.35 / 36041.35 N (52)81523.06 alt 1733m + +WGS84/UTM coordinates of Bunter's Bulge: + E 410859.16 N 5280460.30 + +It is not necessary to climb onto the bulge. Instead, you should have it on +your right-hand side, and continue (in a small shallow valley) until you are +just about level with the northern end of it. At this point cross to the right +of the gully and work around that northern end of the bulge via a few gaps +between the bunde. A small hole in the ground is passed and then you can head +to the left, and downwards, to reach open limestone again in a sort of "quarry" +area. + +Strike diagonally out across the limestone following red paint flecks, which +are either straight lines indicating the direction of travel, or V-shaped +markers showing when to change direction. The route descends across the +benches and continues via a climb down to a lower level. After this there is a +vegetated section before it opens out again. Some twenty minutes or so from +Bunter's Bulge the route crosses a large hump-backed outcrop and then climbs +and descends over another sharp ridge (with a small hole connecting to 40a +visible in the main face) to reach a point where a short climb down and around +to the left (north-ish) drops you into the 40a shakehole with the gaping +entrance of Eishoehle before you. A plaque on the wall gives the name of the +cave and another one notes its Nature Reserve status. In the bottom of the +shakehole a small entrance gives access to the gear cave where kit remains from +CUCC's earlier Eishoehle explorations. + +Austrian coordinates of Eishoehle main entrance (1623/40a): + E 486458.17 / 36458.17 N 81700.42 alt 1689m + +WGS84/UTM coordinates of Eishoehle main entrance: + E 411279.54 N 5280628.61 + +To reach the "portal row" containing Elephantengang -- the entrance giving onto +the huge chamber of Schneevulkanhalle -- proceed as follows. Standing with the +40a portal behind you, take the small path to the left at the back left corner +(up the slope) of the shakehole. It continues over roots and contours around +the hillside. Staying at roughly the same level, continue passing a point +where there is a dodgy climb down and up again (with a gully to the right +leading to another Eishoehle entrance -- 40b I think) for somewhere in the +order of ten minutes until it is possible to drop down the hillside in a +straightforward gully, contour to the left a little, and then climb down an +incised inclined face for a couple of metres. Continuing to the left at the +bottom of the face drops down into an area with various entrances to the left +in the cliff face. Gruener Eingang (40s), actually not in the main face but +below, is reached pretty much where you arrive at the bench level here. +Continuing northwards along the bench leads to the large entrance of Nichts 50 +(not connected to Eishoehle) and then to Elephantengang, which is another large +entrance containing a snow plug and having a howling draught. This entrance +sometimes funnels down to a narrow gap between ice and rock, but in 2007 was +seen to be dramatically more open than usual. + +Reaching Elephantengang from the car park takes somewhere between 90 minutes +and two hours. + +Austrian coordinates of Elephantengang (1623/40h): + E 486625.89 / 36625.89 N (52)81993.40 alt 1642m + +WGS84/UTM coordinates of Elephantengang: + E 411453.46 N 5280917.83 + +Continuing past Elephantengang leads to a small blocked entrance and finally +the path terminates at 40e, Brennerbeserlschluf, which draughts strongly. +This entrance leads to the top of the snow slope in Schneevulkanhalle, which +requires rigging, as do earlier sections of the entrance. +