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cave_data/1623-115.html

@@ -45,9 +45,9 @@ code used in the Austrian kataster e.g '1/S +' - https://expo/.survex.com/katast
 
 <explorers>CUCC 1980-1985</explorers><!-- 'CUCC Expo' and year(s) of exploration. To distinguish from caves explored by foreign groups. Individual names can be given too if it was a small cave. -->
 <survex_file>caves-1623/115/115.svx</survex_file><!-- Name of top-level survey file for this cave. Relative to the 'loser' survex repository. So for most caves that's "caves-162x/cavenum/cavnum.svx". (e.g. caves-1623/204/204.svx -->
-<underground_description>This is the main entrance through which the majority of the <a href="41.htm">Stellerwegh&ouml;hle</a> system was explored. See the separate <a href="41/115.htm#ent115">full guidebook description</a> for details, just an overview is given here.</p>
+<underground_description>This is the main entrance through which the majority of the <a href="/1623/41/41.htm">Stellerwegh&ouml;hle</a> system was explored. See the separate <a href="41/115.htm#ent115">full guidebook description</a> for details, just an overview is given here.</p>
 <img width=70% src="/photos/2018/PhilipSargent/StogerWegCaves-20180718/IMG_20180718_131705967_HDR.jpg"><br />Photo July 2018, Philip Sargent.
-<p>The entrance leads to a non-obvious way on to the head of the short <b>Bell Pitch</b>, from where very awkward going leads out to a bigger passage to reach <b>The Ramp</b> a series of off-vertical pitches. The damper but technically easier <b>Inlet Pitches</b> drop to a Big Chamber, from where <b>Pete's Purgatory</b> starts, and leads in 800m of tortuous going to <b>The Confluence</b> and the larger streamway leading to the deepest point.</p><p>Better is the <b>Purgatory Bypass</b> which starts as dry fossil tubes, with a choice of routes to reach <b>Junction Chamber</b> where the <b>Big Rift</b> of <a href="41.htm">Stellerwegh&ouml;hle</a> enters. Opposite, the huge fossil tube of <b>Dartford Tunnel</b> 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 <b>Orgasm Chasm</b>. Careful rigging avoids the water in this 140m shaft, ending in muddy passage and another short drop to a deep and terminal sump.
+<p>The entrance leads to a non-obvious way on to the head of the short <b>Bell Pitch</b>, from where very awkward going leads out to a bigger passage to reach <b>The Ramp</b> a series of off-vertical pitches. The damper but technically easier <b>Inlet Pitches</b> drop to a Big Chamber, from where <b>Pete's Purgatory</b> starts, and leads in 800m of tortuous going to <b>The Confluence</b> and the larger streamway leading to the deepest point.</p><p>Better is the <b>Purgatory Bypass</b> which starts as dry fossil tubes, with a choice of routes to reach <b>Junction Chamber</b> where the <b>Big Rift</b> of <a href="/1623/41/41.htm">Stellerwegh&ouml;hle</a> enters. Opposite, the huge fossil tube of <b>Dartford Tunnel</b> 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 <b>Orgasm Chasm</b>. Careful rigging avoids the water in this 140m shaft, ending in muddy passage and another short drop to a deep and terminal sump.
 <p>
 <figure align=center>
   <a href='/1623/115/l/115-1982.html'><img src='/1623/115/t/115-1982.jpg' /></a>

cave_data/1623-142.html

@@ -46,7 +46,7 @@ code used in the Austrian kataster e.g '1/S +' - https://expo/.survex.com/katast
 
 <explorers></p><ul><li>CUCC 1982-85</li><li>Arge/CUCC 1996</li></ul><p></explorers><!-- 'CUCC Expo' and year(s) of exploration. To distinguish from caves explored by foreign groups. Individual names can be given too if it was a small cave. -->
 <survex_file>caves-1623/41-142.svx</survex_file><!-- Name of top-level survey file for this cave. Relative to the 'loser' survex repository. So for most caves that's "caves-162x/cavenum/cavnum.svx". (e.g. caves-1623/204/204.svx -->
-<underground_description>Yet another entrance to <a href="41.htm">Stellerwegh&ouml;hle</a>, with two points of connection, and also the first point of connection with Schwabenschacht, a similar cave explored by <a href="/others/arge/index.html">Arbeitsgemeinschaft H&ouml;hle und Karst Grabenstetten e.V.</a>. 142 contains a very large chamber, imaginatively named <b>The Big Chamber</b> reached by a 34m pitch from a point adjacent to the connection. A <a href="41/off41.htm#ent142">full description</a> of 142 (but not 78) is one of the components of the Stellerwegh&ouml;hle guidebook, just an overview is given here.</p><p>Note: With apparent perversity, the Austrians have numbered this as 115e in their Kataster. This is likely to give rise to immense confusion in the long term as more caves are connected, and numbers on entrances cannot readily be altered (owing to the obscurity of their location and inaccessibility from within the system).</p><p>After an initial small tube, the cave opens into passages very similar to those in Schwabenschacht and the upper levels of Stellerwegh&ouml;hle. Descent of some of the steep ramps to the right of the main way on may provide further connections into the main cave (and one may have already done so). However, staying high leads through tubes to an inobvious junction. Left is the connection to 78, whilst right leads immediately to the head of a pitch into the <b>Big Chamber</b> - a popular name in the system. A route from this chamber leads to the foot of an 18m pitch in the entrance series of <a href="41.htm">Stellerwegh&ouml;hle</a>, and a more obscure route through boulders from the head of the Big Chamber pitch leads to the same place.</underground_description><!-- Underground description. (description of approach and entrance goes in entrance file). For a small cave this will be the entire description. For larger caves it will be the front page of the description, or a short intro, containing links to other pages with the cave description in, or even nothing but a link. -->
+<underground_description>Yet another entrance to <a href="/1623/41/41.htm">Stellerwegh&ouml;hle</a>, with two points of connection, and also the first point of connection with Schwabenschacht, a similar cave explored by <a href="/others/arge/index.html">Arbeitsgemeinschaft H&ouml;hle und Karst Grabenstetten e.V.</a>. 142 contains a very large chamber, imaginatively named <b>The Big Chamber</b> reached by a 34m pitch from a point adjacent to the connection. A <a href="41/off41.htm#ent142">full description</a> of 142 (but not 78) is one of the components of the Stellerwegh&ouml;hle guidebook, just an overview is given here.</p><p>Note: With apparent perversity, the Austrians have numbered this as 115e in their Kataster. This is likely to give rise to immense confusion in the long term as more caves are connected, and numbers on entrances cannot readily be altered (owing to the obscurity of their location and inaccessibility from within the system).</p><p>After an initial small tube, the cave opens into passages very similar to those in Schwabenschacht and the upper levels of Stellerwegh&ouml;hle. Descent of some of the steep ramps to the right of the main way on may provide further connections into the main cave (and one may have already done so). However, staying high leads through tubes to an inobvious junction. Left is the connection to 78, whilst right leads immediately to the head of a pitch into the <b>Big Chamber</b> - a popular name in the system. A route from this chamber leads to the foot of an 18m pitch in the entrance series of <a href="/1623/41/41.htm">Stellerwegh&ouml;hle</a>, and a more obscure route through boulders from the head of the Big Chamber pitch leads to the same place.</underground_description><!-- Underground description. (description of approach and entrance goes in entrance file). For a small cave this will be the entire description. For larger caves it will be the front page of the description, or a short intro, containing links to other pages with the cave description in, or even nothing but a link. -->
 <equipment></equipment><!-- For a small cave, summary of gear needed to descend. For longer caves it could be blank, a table, or just refer to the description/topos. Leave blank if this info is in the description. -->
 <references></references><!-- References to documentation. Could be Journal articles or Logbook entries. Can be links if the docs are online. -->
 <survey>CUCC plan from surveys 1982-1985, here in several sections:</p><ul><li><a href="41/142ent.png">Entrance area</a></li><li><a href="41/142bc.png">Big Chamber</a></li><li><a href="41/142-41.png">Stellerweg connection</a>...</li></ul><p></survey><!-- Drawn-up surveys. Scans of paper surveys or images/PDFs of electronic surveys. Should include HTML to display current plan and elevation, with links to larger versions (See section on URLs and files). Could list links to multiple years of survey, or even a separate survey page if it's complicated enough. -->

cave_data/1623-152.html

@@ -46,7 +46,7 @@ code used in the Austrian kataster e.g '1/S +' - https://expo/.survex.com/katast
 
 <explorers>CUCC 1985 </explorers><!-- 'CUCC Expo' and year(s) of exploration. To distinguish from caves explored by foreign groups. Individual names can be given too if it was a small cave. -->
 <survex_file>caves-1623/152/152.svx</survex_file><!-- Name of top-level survey file for this cave. Relative to the 'loser' survex repository. So for most caves that's "caves-162x/cavenum/cavnum.svx". (e.g. caves-1623/204/204.svx -->
-<underground_description>A vertical entrance which leads, at a depth of -145m, into <a href="113.htm">Sonnenstrahlh&ouml;hle</a> below the Purple Pit, just before M&uuml;sli crawl (-198m from Sonnenstrahl entrance bolt). Entrance pitch <b>Scott</b> is 9m over snow, then a small tube leads down to a short climb down boulders to an 8m pitch <b>Virgil</b>, followed immediately by <b>Alan</b>, another 8m pitch landing in <b>Dump Chamber</b>. A long rift, <b>Boulder Alley</b> leads to a rock bridge and scramble down boulders into <b>Boulder Chamber</b> which ends in a 4m climb and pitches of 5m (<b>John</b>) and 4m (<b>Parker</b>) over boulders. A 5m pitch (<b>Mr. Tracy</b>) drops into the top of a very tall narrow rift. A slight widening allows a short climb down into the canyon, but is soon too tight - <b>Lady Penelope</b>. The rift continues until a fault is met and <b>The Good Pitch Venus</b> is 24m to <b>Behind the Drinks Cabinet</b>. A further rift leads to a 16m pitch which lands in Sonnenstrahlh&ouml;hle.</p><p>Boulder Chamber appears to correspond with the bouldery Opera House in Sonnenstrahlh&ouml;hle, while the Good Pitch Venus and following 16m pitch correlate with the Purple Pit.</underground_description><!-- Underground description. (description of approach and entrance goes in entrance file). For a small cave this will be the entire description. For larger caves it will be the front page of the description, or a short intro, containing links to other pages with the cave description in, or even nothing but a link. -->
+<underground_description>A vertical entrance which leads, at a depth of -145m, into <a href="/1623/113/113.htm">Sonnenstrahlh&ouml;hle</a> below the Purple Pit, just before M&uuml;sli crawl (-198m from Sonnenstrahl entrance bolt). Entrance pitch <b>Scott</b> is 9m over snow, then a small tube leads down to a short climb down boulders to an 8m pitch <b>Virgil</b>, followed immediately by <b>Alan</b>, another 8m pitch landing in <b>Dump Chamber</b>. A long rift, <b>Boulder Alley</b> leads to a rock bridge and scramble down boulders into <b>Boulder Chamber</b> which ends in a 4m climb and pitches of 5m (<b>John</b>) and 4m (<b>Parker</b>) over boulders. A 5m pitch (<b>Mr. Tracy</b>) drops into the top of a very tall narrow rift. A slight widening allows a short climb down into the canyon, but is soon too tight - <b>Lady Penelope</b>. The rift continues until a fault is met and <b>The Good Pitch Venus</b> is 24m to <b>Behind the Drinks Cabinet</b>. A further rift leads to a 16m pitch which lands in Sonnenstrahlh&ouml;hle.</p><p>Boulder Chamber appears to correspond with the bouldery Opera House in Sonnenstrahlh&ouml;hle, while the Good Pitch Venus and following 16m pitch correlate with the Purple Pit.</underground_description><!-- Underground description. (description of approach and entrance goes in entrance file). For a small cave this will be the entire description. For larger caves it will be the front page of the description, or a short intro, containing links to other pages with the cave description in, or even nothing but a link. -->
 <equipment></equipment><!-- For a small cave, summary of gear needed to descend. For longer caves it could be blank, a table, or just refer to the description/topos. Leave blank if this info is in the description. -->
 <references></references><!-- References to documentation. Could be Journal articles or Logbook entries. Can be links if the docs are online. -->
 <survey>? MISSING (grade 4)</survey><!-- Drawn-up surveys. Scans of paper surveys or images/PDFs of electronic surveys. Should include HTML to display current plan and elevation, with links to larger versions (See section on URLs and files). Could list links to multiple years of survey, or even a separate survey page if it's complicated enough. -->

cave_data/1623-161.html

@@ -109,7 +109,7 @@ framed.</p><h4>Overview</h4><p>The upper part of the system can be best thought
 development. The more recently found extensive horizontal development, being easier to traverse, is generally better connected. Although there 
 are various links between the vertical routes, a given destination will tend to have one 'obvious' approach. These areas are <a 
 href="france.htm">France</a>, the <a href="lhr.htm">Left Hand Routes</a>, the <a href="rhr.htm">Right Hand Routes</a>, the southernmost part of 
-the system reached via  <a href="136.htm"><span lang="de">Steinschlagschacht</span></a>, routes from <a href="sftotp.htm">Scarface</a> 
+the system reached via  <a href="/1623/136/136.htm"><span lang="de">Steinschlagschacht</span></a>, routes from <a href="sftotp.htm">Scarface</a> 
 entrance. So rapidly has exploration proceeded from Triassic Park that now more than half the total length is most conveniently reached via 
 161d.</p><p>The key to all the deepest and most remote parts of the system is the huge collapse chamber of Knossos. This was reached from the 
 161a entrance via the Right Hand Route, and now via the 161d <a href="sftotp.htm#id161d">"Scarface"</a> entrance through <a 

cave_data/1623-173.html

@@ -46,7 +46,7 @@ code used in the Austrian kataster e.g '1/S +' - https://expo/.survex.com/katast
 
 <explorers>Recorded CUCC 1990</explorers><!-- 'CUCC Expo' and year(s) of exploration. To distinguish from caves explored by foreign groups. Individual names can be given too if it was a small cave. -->
 <survex_file></survex_file><!-- Name of top-level survey file for this cave. Relative to the 'loser' survex repository. So for most caves that's "caves-162x/cavenum/cavnum.svx". (e.g. caves-1623/204/204.svx -->
-<underground_description>Lies along fracture line from <a href="172.htm">172</a> 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&deg;, shaft is c20m deep and 7m diameter.</underground_description><!-- Underground description. (description of approach and entrance goes in entrance file). For a small cave this will be the entire description. For larger caves it will be the front page of the description, or a short intro, containing links to other pages with the cave description in, or even nothing but a link. -->
+<underground_description>Lies along fracture line from <a href="/1623/172/172.htm">172</a> 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&deg;, shaft is c20m deep and 7m diameter.</underground_description><!-- Underground description. (description of approach and entrance goes in entrance file). For a small cave this will be the entire description. For larger caves it will be the front page of the description, or a short intro, containing links to other pages with the cave description in, or even nothing but a link. -->
 <equipment></equipment><!-- For a small cave, summary of gear needed to descend. For longer caves it could be blank, a table, or just refer to the description/topos. Leave blank if this info is in the description. -->
 <references></references><!-- References to documentation. Could be Journal articles or Logbook entries. Can be links if the docs are online. -->
 <survey></survey><!-- Drawn-up surveys. Scans of paper surveys or images/PDFs of electronic surveys. Should include HTML to display current plan and elevation, with links to larger versions (See section on URLs and files). Could list links to multiple years of survey, or even a separate survey page if it's complicated enough. -->

cave_data/1623-40.html

@@ -92,13 +92,13 @@ code used in the Austrian kataster e.g '1/S +' - https://expo/.survex.com/katast
   <letter>s</letter><!--Leave blank for single-entrance cave. If there is more than one entrace then the letter needs to be given. Generally matches the entranceslug ID.  -->
 </entrance>
 
-<explorers>The main passages as far as Elephantengang were explored by 1938. Since then a variety of groups have worked here finding numerous extensions, of which Schneevulkanhalle is the most significant.</p><p>Until recently, it has been difficult to come close to a comprehensive survey or even a good estimate of the length of the system because of a lack of contact and some misunderstanding between the groups involved. However, in 1997 a chance encounter (at the International Congress) by Wookey with Denis Motte, of the <a href="/1623/others/gscb/index.htm">G.S.Clerval,</a> led to renewed contacts with one group who explored this area, and Thilo M&uuml;ller of ARGE has contacted the leaders of other groups and obtained all the rest of the 1980s information that survives. This is being merged into a coherent set of information which will guide necessary resurvey work to complete the picture.</p><ul><li>Discovered and main passages explored in 1929 by Ausseer cavers, and surveyed in 1938 by O Schauberger and U Czornig.</li><li>Further exploration 1953, Sektion Ausseerland.</li><li>Wilfried Lorenz, Franz Lindenmayr with Nuremburg and Munich cavers discover the Schneevulkanhalle at the beginning of July 1978 (not yet connected to Eish&ouml;hle).</li><li>In Autumn 1983, Eish&ouml;hle was "1600m long with four entrances".</li><li>After several trips by the Germans in September to November 1983, the system was 2500m long with five entrances [<a href="/1623/others/muenchen/de/841642.htm" lang="de">Der Schlaz, 42</a>, also on site in <a href="/1623/others/muenchen/en/841642.htm">English translation</a>].</li><li>More recently, Reinhard Kieselbach's (M&uuml;nchen/Nurnberg - VfHM) group have linked it to <a href="88.htm">L&auml;rchenschacht</a> (88) (itself 1885m long in April 1995, and apparently giving a combined length of 6km) which they also connected to <a href="../../1623/41.htm">Stellerwegh&ouml;hle</a> (5.75 km).</li><li>Our Current estimate of the cave length is 1,863km, from a total surveyed length of 2,463m (600m of the 974m long Schneevulkanhalle survey is not deemed to be part of the cave length).<br />The length comes from:<br />VfHM 1980s survey - 693m: Original part of cave plus extensions<br /> VfHO 1991 survey - 374m: Schneevulkanhalle from 40e entrance<br />CUCC 1998-9 surveys - 751m: Heaven and Hell and persitence of vision SVH extensions<br />Arge 1999 surveys - 130m: K&ouml;nigsschacht and Gr&uuml;ner Eingang</li></ul><p>Stellerwegh&ouml;hle in turn is connected to <a href="78.htm">Schwabenschacht</a> which was over 7km at the time and exploration continues. This must make the combined system at least 19 km long. We have seen figures quoted as high as 25km, but this may involve some double-counting, given the uncertainties involved. Arge's estimate (entirely from extant survey data) was 22.7 km after summer 1999.</explorers><!-- 'CUCC Expo' and year(s) of exploration. To distinguish from caves explored by foreign groups. Individual names can be given too if it was a small cave. -->
+<explorers>The main passages as far as Elephantengang were explored by 1938. Since then a variety of groups have worked here finding numerous extensions, of which Schneevulkanhalle is the most significant.</p><p>Until recently, it has been difficult to come close to a comprehensive survey or even a good estimate of the length of the system because of a lack of contact and some misunderstanding between the groups involved. However, in 1997 a chance encounter (at the International Congress) by Wookey with Denis Motte, of the <a href="/1623/others/gscb/index.htm">G.S.Clerval,</a> led to renewed contacts with one group who explored this area, and Thilo M&uuml;ller of ARGE has contacted the leaders of other groups and obtained all the rest of the 1980s information that survives. This is being merged into a coherent set of information which will guide necessary resurvey work to complete the picture.</p><ul><li>Discovered and main passages explored in 1929 by Ausseer cavers, and surveyed in 1938 by O Schauberger and U Czornig.</li><li>Further exploration 1953, Sektion Ausseerland.</li><li>Wilfried Lorenz, Franz Lindenmayr with Nuremburg and Munich cavers discover the Schneevulkanhalle at the beginning of July 1978 (not yet connected to Eish&ouml;hle).</li><li>In Autumn 1983, Eish&ouml;hle was "1600m long with four entrances".</li><li>After several trips by the Germans in September to November 1983, the system was 2500m long with five entrances [<a href="/1623/others/muenchen/de/841642.htm" lang="de">Der Schlaz, 42</a>, also on site in <a href="/1623/others/muenchen/en/841642.htm">English translation</a>].</li><li>More recently, Reinhard Kieselbach's (M&uuml;nchen/Nurnberg - VfHM) group have linked it to <a href="/1623/88/88.htm">L&auml;rchenschacht</a> (88) (itself 1885m long in April 1995, and apparently giving a combined length of 6km) which they also connected to <a href="../../1623/41.htm">Stellerwegh&ouml;hle</a> (5.75 km).</li><li>Our Current estimate of the cave length is 1,863km, from a total surveyed length of 2,463m (600m of the 974m long Schneevulkanhalle survey is not deemed to be part of the cave length).<br />The length comes from:<br />VfHM 1980s survey - 693m: Original part of cave plus extensions<br /> VfHO 1991 survey - 374m: Schneevulkanhalle from 40e entrance<br />CUCC 1998-9 surveys - 751m: Heaven and Hell and persitence of vision SVH extensions<br />Arge 1999 surveys - 130m: K&ouml;nigsschacht and Gr&uuml;ner Eingang</li></ul><p>Stellerwegh&ouml;hle in turn is connected to <a href="/1623/78/78.htm">Schwabenschacht</a> which was over 7km at the time and exploration continues. This must make the combined system at least 19 km long. We have seen figures quoted as high as 25km, but this may involve some double-counting, given the uncertainties involved. Arge's estimate (entirely from extant survey data) was 22.7 km after summer 1999.</explorers><!-- 'CUCC Expo' and year(s) of exploration. To distinguish from caves explored by foreign groups. Individual names can be given too if it was a small cave. -->
 <survex_file>caves-1623/40/40.svx</survex_file><!-- Name of top-level survey file for this cave. Relative to the 'loser' survex repository. So for most caves that's "caves-162x/cavenum/cavnum.svx". (e.g. caves-1623/204/204.svx -->
 <underground_description>Schwarzmooskogeleish&ouml;hle is an extensive cave over 1600m long before 1983, extended to 2500m by a German group by 1985. The system is mainly horizontal, 
   though tackle is needed to explore it fully, and crampons are necessary in parts, 
   because of the substantial quantities of ice in the cave. Was extended by the Germans who worked in the area 
   in the early eighties, who suggested then that there was potential for extension vertically. 
-  Subsequently linked via a 30m pitch to <a href="88.htm">L&auml;rchenschacht</a> (1623/88) which in turn 
+  Subsequently linked via a 30m pitch to <a href="/1623/88/88.htm">L&auml;rchenschacht</a> (1623/88) which in turn 
   was connected to the <a href="../../1623/41.htm">Stellerwegh&ouml;hlensystem</a>, giving no increase in depth 
   if the laser-rangefound altitude is correct rather than the old kataster one, which seems likely.</p>
   <h4>Translated brief guide</h4><p>From 'L&auml;ngsten und Tiefsten Hohlen in &Ouml;sterreich', translated by Wookey 

cave_data/1623-41.html

@@ -50,10 +50,10 @@ code used in the Austrian kataster e.g '1/S +' - https://expo/.survex.com/katast
   <letter>b</letter><!--Leave blank for single-entrance cave. If there is more than one entrace then the letter needs to be given. Generally matches the entranceslug ID.  -->
 </entrance>
 
-<explorers>Length of CUCC's part is approx 5.75 km, while the Germans had about 6 km in 88 in 1987, and the French (?) connected the Eish&ouml;hle (2.5 km or more) in the same year. This should make the system about 14-15 km all told before 1996. The Stuttgart group, <a href="/1623/others/arge.html">Arbeitsgemeinschaft H&ouml;hle und Karst Grabenstetten e.V.</a>, have, early in 1996, connected their cave <a href="/1623/78.htm">Schwabenschacht</a> (1623-78) into a passage in <a href="142.htm">1623/142</a>, one way into the system. This adds no new depth, but considerably increases the overall length. ARGE have also been doing much useful resurvey and some exploration, bringing their estimate of the total length to 22.7 km in 1999.</explorers><!-- 'CUCC Expo' and year(s) of exploration. To distinguish from caves explored by foreign groups. Individual names can be given too if it was a small cave. -->
+<explorers>Length of CUCC's part is approx 5.75 km, while the Germans had about 6 km in 88 in 1987, and the French (?) connected the Eish&ouml;hle (2.5 km or more) in the same year. This should make the system about 14-15 km all told before 1996. The Stuttgart group, <a href="/1623/others/arge.html">Arbeitsgemeinschaft H&ouml;hle und Karst Grabenstetten e.V.</a>, have, early in 1996, connected their cave <a href="/1623/78.htm">Schwabenschacht</a> (1623-78) into a passage in <a href="/1623/142/142.htm">1623/142</a>, one way into the system. This adds no new depth, but considerably increases the overall length. ARGE have also been doing much useful resurvey and some exploration, bringing their estimate of the total length to 22.7 km in 1999.</explorers><!-- 'CUCC Expo' and year(s) of exploration. To distinguish from caves explored by foreign groups. Individual names can be given too if it was a small cave. -->
 <survex_file>caves-1623/41-142.svx</survex_file><!-- Name of top-level survey file for this cave. Relative to the 'loser' survex repository. So for most caves that's "caves-162x/cavenum/cavnum.svx". (e.g. caves-1623/204/204.svx -->
 <underground_description><p>This description dates from 1999.
-<p>As the <a href="41/41.htm">full guidebook description</a> is understandably quite big and is still evolving, just an overview is given here.</p><p>Sub-horizontal passages lead through steeply-hading rifts from this entrance. A lower route was originally explored by a German group before CUCC's first visit, and remains poorly documented and not fully explored. The higher route, explored by CUCC, leads past connections to <a href="142.htm">142</a>, another CUCC find. Passages trend downhill to reach the <b>Big Pitch</b> of 100m vertical.</p><p><a href="/1623/88.htm">L&auml;rchenh&ouml;hle</a> connects at the bottom of the Big Pitch, and a streamway leads down. A roof passage connects to CUCC's <a href="144.htm">144</a>, and another leads on to smaller pitches to the <b>Big Rift</b>, dropping steeply down several pitches to reach <b>Junction Chamber</b> with connections to <a href="115.htm">Schnellzugh&ouml;hle</a> (115).</p><p>The route to 115 also leads to <b>Pete's Purgatory</b>, 800m of awful streamway to <b>the Confluence</b>, much more easily reached by large fossil passages starting with <b>Dartford Tunnel</b> from Junction Chamber. The Confluence is around half the depth of the system, and marks a transition to a single linear streamway leading to great depth, a feature currently unique in the known caves of the area.</p><p>The streamway is interrupted by a bypassable sump and several, mainly short, pitches, before a low-airspace canal appears to mark the end. However, a low duck can be passed to reach a deep and very wet shaft <b>Orgasm Chasm</b> which drops to the final muddy passage and short pitch to a dismal and deep rift sump.</p><p>The sump is 898m below the 41a entrance, and is at just about the same level as Altausseer See, in whose <a href="/1623/0.htm">underwater risings</a> the Stellerweg water is presumed to emerge. The scope for greater depth here seems minimal, but connections to various higher entrances have increased this to c971m, with perhaps a little more potential still to realise (optimistically up to 1058m).</underground_description><!-- Underground description. (description of approach and entrance goes in entrance file). For a small cave this will be the entire description. For larger caves it will be the front page of the description, or a short intro, containing links to other pages with the cave description in, or even nothing but a link. -->
+<p>As the <a href="41/41.htm">full guidebook description</a> is understandably quite big and is still evolving, just an overview is given here.</p><p>Sub-horizontal passages lead through steeply-hading rifts from this entrance. A lower route was originally explored by a German group before CUCC's first visit, and remains poorly documented and not fully explored. The higher route, explored by CUCC, leads past connections to <a href="/1623/142/142.htm">142</a>, another CUCC find. Passages trend downhill to reach the <b>Big Pitch</b> of 100m vertical.</p><p><a href="/1623/88.htm">L&auml;rchenh&ouml;hle</a> connects at the bottom of the Big Pitch, and a streamway leads down. A roof passage connects to CUCC's <a href="/1623/144/144.htm">144</a>, and another leads on to smaller pitches to the <b>Big Rift</b>, dropping steeply down several pitches to reach <b>Junction Chamber</b> with connections to <a href="/1623/115/115.htm">Schnellzugh&ouml;hle</a> (115).</p><p>The route to 115 also leads to <b>Pete's Purgatory</b>, 800m of awful streamway to <b>the Confluence</b>, much more easily reached by large fossil passages starting with <b>Dartford Tunnel</b> from Junction Chamber. The Confluence is around half the depth of the system, and marks a transition to a single linear streamway leading to great depth, a feature currently unique in the known caves of the area.</p><p>The streamway is interrupted by a bypassable sump and several, mainly short, pitches, before a low-airspace canal appears to mark the end. However, a low duck can be passed to reach a deep and very wet shaft <b>Orgasm Chasm</b> which drops to the final muddy passage and short pitch to a dismal and deep rift sump.</p><p>The sump is 898m below the 41a entrance, and is at just about the same level as Altausseer See, in whose <a href="/1623/0.htm">underwater risings</a> the Stellerweg water is presumed to emerge. The scope for greater depth here seems minimal, but connections to various higher entrances have increased this to c971m, with perhaps a little more potential still to realise (optimistically up to 1058m).</underground_description><!-- Underground description. (description of approach and entrance goes in entrance file). For a small cave this will be the entire description. For larger caves it will be the front page of the description, or a short intro, containing links to other pages with the cave description in, or even nothing but a link. -->
 <equipment></equipment><!-- For a small cave, summary of gear needed to descend. For longer caves it could be blank, a table, or just refer to the description/topos. Leave blank if this info is in the description. -->
 <references></references><!-- References to documentation. Could be Journal articles or Logbook entries. Can be links if the docs are online. -->
 <survey></survey><!-- Drawn-up surveys. Scans of paper surveys or images/PDFs of electronic surveys. Should include HTML to display current plan and elevation, with links to larger versions (See section on URLs and files). Could list links to multiple years of survey, or even a separate survey page if it's complicated enough. -->

cave_data/1623-8.html

@@ -48,7 +48,7 @@ code used in the Austrian kataster e.g '1/S +' - https://expo/.survex.com/katast
 <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.</p><p>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, S&uuml;dwest-Kluft, gets narrower for c 25m until deemed impassable.</p><p>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, S&uuml;dwest-gang, passes under Teilungshalle, and turns SW directly under S&uuml;dwest-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.</p><p>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.  </underground_description><!-- Underground description. (description of approach and entrance goes in entrance file). For a small cave this will be the entire description. For larger caves it will be the front page of the description, or a short intro, containing links to other pages with the cave description in, or even nothing but a link. -->
 <equipment></equipment><!-- For a small cave, summary of gear needed to descend. For longer caves it could be blank, a table, or just refer to the description/topos. Leave blank if this info is in the description. -->
 <references></references><!-- References to documentation. Could be Journal articles or Logbook entries. Can be links if the docs are online. -->
-<survey>A4 survey in Mitt. der Sektion Ausseerland 18(4), Oct. 1980, facing p 87: a plan by J V&ouml;llenkle of L.V.H.Linz, 1:250, 1972. As printed, this looks like about a 4th generation photocopy. Also includes <a href="9.htm">Kat. 9</a></survey><!-- Drawn-up surveys. Scans of paper surveys or images/PDFs of electronic surveys. Should include HTML to display current plan and elevation, with links to larger versions (See section on URLs and files). Could list links to multiple years of survey, or even a separate survey page if it's complicated enough. -->
+<survey>A4 survey in Mitt. der Sektion Ausseerland 18(4), Oct. 1980, facing p 87: a plan by J V&ouml;llenkle of L.V.H.Linz, 1:250, 1972. As printed, this looks like about a 4th generation photocopy. Also includes <a href="/1623/9/9.htm">Kat. 9</a></survey><!-- Drawn-up surveys. Scans of paper surveys or images/PDFs of electronic surveys. Should include HTML to display current plan and elevation, with links to larger versions (See section on URLs and files). Could list links to multiple years of survey, or even a separate survey page if it's complicated enough. -->
 <kataster_status></kataster_status>
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 <notes></notes><!-- Normally empty, but place for anything else that should be noted, such as info on cave maybe being a duplicate, or lost -->

cave_data/1623-9.html

@@ -49,7 +49,7 @@ code used in the Austrian kataster e.g '1/S +' - https://expo/.survex.com/katast
 <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 Gro&szlig;es Loserloch.</underground_description><!-- Underground description. (description of approach and entrance goes in entrance file). For a small cave this will be the entire description. For larger caves it will be the front page of the description, or a short intro, containing links to other pages with the cave description in, or even nothing but a link. -->
 <equipment></equipment><!-- For a small cave, summary of gear needed to descend. For longer caves it could be blank, a table, or just refer to the description/topos. Leave blank if this info is in the description. -->
 <references></references><!-- References to documentation. Could be Journal articles or Logbook entries. Can be links if the docs are online. -->
-<survey>A4 survey in Mitt. der Sektion Ausseerland 18(4), Oct. 1980, facing p 87: a plan by J V&ouml;llenkle of L.V.H.Linz, 1:250, 1972. As printed, this looks like about a 4th generation photocopy. Also includes <a href="8.htm">Kat. 8</a></survey><!-- Drawn-up surveys. Scans of paper surveys or images/PDFs of electronic surveys. Should include HTML to display current plan and elevation, with links to larger versions (See section on URLs and files). Could list links to multiple years of survey, or even a separate survey page if it's complicated enough. -->
+<survey>A4 survey in Mitt. der Sektion Ausseerland 18(4), Oct. 1980, facing p 87: a plan by J V&ouml;llenkle of L.V.H.Linz, 1:250, 1972. As printed, this looks like about a 4th generation photocopy. Also includes <a href="/1623/8/8.htm">Kat. 8</a></survey><!-- Drawn-up surveys. Scans of paper surveys or images/PDFs of electronic surveys. Should include HTML to display current plan and elevation, with links to larger versions (See section on URLs and files). Could list links to multiple years of survey, or even a separate survey page if it's complicated enough. -->
 <kataster_status></kataster_status>
 <underground_centre_line></underground_centre_line><!-- 'In dataset' if it is in the survex dataset. Blank if not, or notes about status such as 'surveyed, but no entrance fix so not yet in dataset'. -->
 <notes></notes><!-- Normally empty, but place for anything else that should be noted, such as info on cave maybe being a duplicate, or lost -->

cave_data/1623-B10.html

@@ -52,7 +52,7 @@ code used in the Austrian kataster e.g '1/S +' - https://expo/.survex.com/katast
 <survey></survey><!-- Drawn-up surveys. Scans of paper surveys or images/PDFs of electronic surveys. Should include HTML to display current plan and elevation, with links to larger versions (See section on URLs and files). Could list links to multiple years of survey, or even a separate survey page if it's complicated enough. -->
 <kataster_status></kataster_status>
 <underground_centre_line></underground_centre_line><!-- 'In dataset' if it is in the survex dataset. Blank if not, or notes about status such as 'surveyed, but no entrance fix so not yet in dataset'. -->
-<notes>This was apparently relocated and reexplored by CUCC <a href="/years/1988/log.htm#id1988-B10-1">in 1988</a>, before they spotted the number. Shown as being near the foot of the Br&auml;uning wall, in the same area as <a href="159/159.html">159</a> and <a href="160.htm">160</a>. Not relocated, however, in a search in 1990, probably because it's further out onto the plateau than the 91,93,94 area where I looked. There are a couple of likely looking holes immediately north of the grassy area containing lower top camp, but no number was visible in 1998.</notes><!-- Normally empty, but place for anything else that should be noted, such as info on cave maybe being a duplicate, or lost -->
+<notes>This was apparently relocated and reexplored by CUCC <a href="/years/1988/log.htm#id1988-B10-1">in 1988</a>, before they spotted the number. Shown as being near the foot of the Br&auml;uning wall, in the same area as <a href="159/159.html">159</a> and <a href="/1623/160/160.htm">160</a>. Not relocated, however, in a search in 1990, probably because it's further out onto the plateau than the 91,93,94 area where I looked. There are a couple of likely looking holes immediately north of the grassy area containing lower top camp, but no number was visible in 1998.</notes><!-- Normally empty, but place for anything else that should be noted, such as info on cave maybe being a duplicate, or lost -->
 <length></length><!-- Cave length. Can be left blank and system should fill it in automatically from survey data (it doesn't yet) -->
 <depth></depth><!--Cave depth. Can be left blank and system should fill it in automatically from survey data (it doesn't yet)  -->
 <extent></extent>

cave_data/1626-120.html

@@ -62,7 +62,7 @@ code used in the Austrian kataster e.g '1/S +' - https://expo/.survex.com/katast
   <letter>d</letter><!--Leave blank for single-entrance cave. If there is more than one entrace then the letter needs to be given. Generally matches the entranceslug ID.  -->
 </entrance>
 
-<explorers></p><ul><li>Found in 1973 by <a href="/1623/others/gsab/index.htm"><span lang="fr">Groupe Sp&eacute;l&eacute;o Alpin Belge</span></a> under the name T3, but not pushed to any depth.</li><li>Rediscovered in July 1976 by <span lang="fr">J.M.Piron</span> and explored from 12th to 23rd of July by <span lang="fr">A.C.Toulon, S.C.Toulon, Lou Darbon &amp; Sp&eacute;l&eacute;o Ragaie</span> to a depth of 708m. Later sources refer to this group as 'an unheard of group of <span lang="fr">"Sp&eacute;l&eacute;os         Proven&ccedil;aux"'.</span></li><li>The same group in 1977 discovered the two lower entrances, using them to explore to the bottom at -913m.</li><li>The Austrian expedition of 1985 set out to connect <span lang="de">Feuertalsystem</span> to <a href="55.htm"><span lang="de">Raucherkarh&ouml;hle</span></a> and found a large horizontal passage, but no connection.</li></ul><p></explorers><!-- 'CUCC Expo' and year(s) of exploration. To distinguish from caves explored by foreign groups. Individual names can be given too if it was a small cave. -->
+<explorers></p><ul><li>Found in 1973 by <a href="/1623/others/gsab/index.htm"><span lang="fr">Groupe Sp&eacute;l&eacute;o Alpin Belge</span></a> under the name T3, but not pushed to any depth.</li><li>Rediscovered in July 1976 by <span lang="fr">J.M.Piron</span> and explored from 12th to 23rd of July by <span lang="fr">A.C.Toulon, S.C.Toulon, Lou Darbon &amp; Sp&eacute;l&eacute;o Ragaie</span> to a depth of 708m. Later sources refer to this group as 'an unheard of group of <span lang="fr">"Sp&eacute;l&eacute;os         Proven&ccedil;aux"'.</span></li><li>The same group in 1977 discovered the two lower entrances, using them to explore to the bottom at -913m.</li><li>The Austrian expedition of 1985 set out to connect <span lang="de">Feuertalsystem</span> to <a href="/1623/55/55.htm"><span lang="de">Raucherkarh&ouml;hle</span></a> and found a large horizontal passage, but no connection.</li></ul><p></explorers><!-- 'CUCC Expo' and year(s) of exploration. To distinguish from caves explored by foreign groups. Individual names can be given too if it was a small cave. -->
 <survex_file>caves-1626/120/120.svx</survex_file><!-- Name of top-level survey file for this cave. Relative to the 'loser' survex repository. So for most caves that's "caves-162x/cavenum/cavnum.svx". (e.g. caves-1623/204/204.svx -->
 <underground_description>From the <span lang="fr">Quelli</span> entrance, pitches p8, p19, p83, p33, p24, p17, p5, p33, p24, p9, p33, p27, p103 lead to -400m. Here one reaches a vast passage going up and downhill. The downstream passage emerges at the top of an 84m pitch. Below this a winding canyon interspersed with small pitches gives onto a 15m pitch and the end of exploration in 1976 at -708m.</p><p>The lower entrances lead by large phreatic passages to pitches which drop  into a further large horizontal level which undulates between -410m and -500m. At -497m, this links to the main vertical system from <span lang="fr">Quelli.</span> Using these lower ways in, exploration reached a sump at -913m in 1977. Following the large phreatic level away from <span lang="fr">Quelli</span> goes for about a kilometre before breaking into the side of a colossal shaft at -414m. This is a 211m pitch to a choke at -625m. There is a possible way on across this shaft, which is, however, 20m in diameter.</underground_description><!-- Underground description. (description of approach and entrance goes in entrance file). For a small cave this will be the entire description. For larger caves it will be the front page of the description, or a short intro, containing links to other pages with the cave description in, or even nothing but a link. -->
 <equipment></equipment><!-- For a small cave, summary of gear needed to descend. For longer caves it could be blank, a table, or just refer to the description/topos. Leave blank if this info is in the description. -->

cave_data/1626-55.html

@@ -136,7 +136,7 @@ code used in the Austrian kataster e.g '1/S +' - https://expo/.survex.com/katast
 
 <explorers></p><ul><li>Under the aegis of LVHK <span lang="de">Ober&ouml;sterreich,</span> 1961-present,</li><li>Austrian National expedition took place in 1965,</li><li>Both LVHK <span lang="de">Ober&ouml;sterreich</span> and LVHK <span lang="de">Steiermark</span> worked together in 1973.</li></ul><p></explorers><!-- 'CUCC Expo' and year(s) of exploration. To distinguish from caves explored by foreign groups. Individual names can be given too if it was a small cave. -->
 <survex_file>caves-1626/55/55-second-dataset.svx</survex_file><!-- Name of top-level survey file for this cave. Relative to the 'loser' survex repository. So for most caves that's "caves-162x/cavenum/cavnum.svx". (e.g. caves-1623/204/204.svx -->
-<underground_description>The labyrinthine system contains several levels of development, mostly southwards towards <a href="5.htm"><span lang="de">Nagelstegh&ouml;hle</span></a> (the probable resurgence at 850m). The current deepest point (a sump) has been reached by systematically traversing over pitches of 40 to 90m.</underground_description><!-- Underground description. (description of approach and entrance goes in entrance file). For a small cave this will be the entire description. For larger caves it will be the front page of the description, or a short intro, containing links to other pages with the cave description in, or even nothing but a link. -->
+<underground_description>The labyrinthine system contains several levels of development, mostly southwards towards <a href="/1623/5/5.htm"><span lang="de">Nagelstegh&ouml;hle</span></a> (the probable resurgence at 850m). The current deepest point (a sump) has been reached by systematically traversing over pitches of 40 to 90m.</underground_description><!-- Underground description. (description of approach and entrance goes in entrance file). For a small cave this will be the entire description. For larger caves it will be the front page of the description, or a short intro, containing links to other pages with the cave description in, or even nothing but a link. -->
 <equipment></equipment><!-- For a small cave, summary of gear needed to descend. For longer caves it could be blank, a table, or just refer to the description/topos. Leave blank if this info is in the description. -->
 <references></p><dl><dt>78.2012</dt><dd><cite>(GSAB) <span lang="fr">Sp&eacute;alp</span> 1 (June 1977) pp 33-49</cite>, <b>Totes Gebirge: <span lang="fr">Description des principaux gouffres de la zone ouest du massif</span></b>, <span lang="fr">Jean Claude Hans &amp; Etienne Degrave</span><br /><a href="/1623/others/gsab/en/782012.htm#id55">English Translation</a><br /><a href="/1623/others/gsab/fr/782012.htm#id55" lang="fr">En Fran&ccedil;ais</a></dd></dl><p>The description is translated mainly from reference 78.2012 by Andy Waddington and Jill Gates, with additional info on dates/lengths as cited.</references><!-- References to documentation. Could be Journal articles or Logbook entries. Can be links if the docs are online. -->
 <survey></survey><!-- Drawn-up surveys. Scans of paper surveys or images/PDFs of electronic surveys. Should include HTML to display current plan and elevation, with links to larger versions (See section on URLs and files). Could list links to multiple years of survey, or even a separate survey page if it's complicated enough. -->