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<center><h2><a name="ent115">Schnellzugh&ouml;hle Entrance</a> 1623/115</h2>
<h3>(AKA Gemsescheissenh&ouml;hle)</h3></center>
<p><b>Location:</b> E 35849.2 N (52)81046.7 H 1479.5m<br>
<p>Depth to sump 740m
<h3>Location</h3>
<p>The entrance opens in the southern slopes of Vorderer Schwarzmooskogel,
reached by marked path number 201 from the Bergrestaurant and car park at
the top of the Loser Panoramastr&szlig;e. This is followed over Egglgrube,
past the Kratzer Valley and along the well-marked Stogerweg perched on the
hillside above Wei&szlig;e Wand. Shortly beyond the draughting hole of
1623/32 <a href="../../noinfo/smkridge/32.htm">Windloch</a>, the path drops
steeply down the hillside. The entrance is reached by steeply descending to
90m vertically below the Stoger Weg just beyond the point where it levels out
again. There is a permanent survey station ('P3') just at the junction.
<h3>Entrance series (1980)</h3>
<p>A large tube runs horizontally into the hillside [<a name="X0000-115-01"
href="qmlist.htm#X0000-115-01">X0000-115-01</a> X] (passing below a small skylight), until it
suddenly closes down to a steeply descending crawl full of loose stones
([<a name="X0000-115-02" href="qmlist.htm#X0000-115-02">X0000-115-02</a>], originally excavated) and strongly draughting out in summer. This drops into a small chamber with a
drip inlet which is the ideal place for a tin to collect water for carbide
lamps. Down the slope an 8m pitch (the hole opposite, [<a name="C1980-115-46"
href="qmlist.htm#C1980-115-46">C1980-115-46</a>], leads only to a blind passage) is
followed by a scramble down loose stones to a conclusive choke
[<a name="C1980-115-45" href="qmlist.htm#C1980-115-45">C1980-115-45</a>]. The main route lies in
following the draught up an obscure 8m climb, [<a name="C1980-115-47"
href="qmlist.htm#C1980-115-47">C1980-115-47</a>], on the right above the pitch (bolt aid
required for reascent, ladder recommended), to a sharp crawl through a small
tube.
<p><img alt="entrance series plan: 33k gif" width=800 height=1080
src="115p.png">
<h4><a name="derigel">Bell Pitch and The Hedgehog</a></h4>
<p>A climb down and a traverse to the left over blocks (avoiding the obvious
loose hole on the right) finds the head of the free hanging <b>Bell Pitch</b>
(20m) hidden behind a block. This lands on a boulder floor with two dry
trenches leading off: the right leads to a 7m ladder with unstable boulders
at the head. This lands in a sharp thrutchy tube, <b>The Hedgehog</b>, which
heads Southeast to emerge in a dry meandering trench which breaks out into a
large abandoned phreatic passage.
<p><img alt="entrance series extended section: 23k gif" width=1090 height=700
src="115x.png">
<p>Right (SW) becomes low over a silty mud floor [<a name="C1980-115-48"
href="qmlist.htm#C1980-115-48">C1980-115-48</a>]. Left (NE) is developed along the strike
through a chamber with an aven and on to a climb up. This is the start of a
series of traverses where a narrow trench cuts into a roller-coaster tube.
This ends at a short climb down to a junction where a larger tube is
intersected. Almost straight ahead, the large passage with a choked trench in
the floor reaches a larger hole down (<b><a id="bbungle">Baker's Bungle</a></b>) which is crossed
to a small rift leading to the head of <b>The Ramp</b>. The Ramp can
also be reached by an obvious traverse off, 10m down Baker's Bungle,
[<a name="C1980-115-49" href="qmlist.htm#C1980-115-49">C1980-115-49</a>]. This is the start
of 200m of continuous pitches to the <b>Big Chamber</b>. [Not the same Big
Chamber as in 142. Ed.]
<h3><a name="ramp">The Ramp and Inlet Pitches</a> (1981)</h3>
<p><a name="thecol">The</a> Ramp has formed where a deep vadose trench (now
abandoned) has cut down from a phreatic passage sloping at 45&deg;. The way
is down the ramp, initially on the near side, but crossing the trench to a
ledge system at the far end of which a better hang down a 45&deg; slope leads
back to the top of the trench. Across this is a slope to <b>The Col</b>; left
here leads to a vast black space to the Southeast [<a name="C1981-115-01"
href="qmlist.htm#C1981-115-01">C1981-115-01</a>], but loose boulders prevented exploration
of this route.
<p>The main way on follows right (south), down a series of sloping pitches,
largely against the wall and developed in a hading rift. The pitches become
more vertical as a prominent WNW-ESE joint or fault is reached. After passing
some loose boulders, a 26m pitch reaches the bottom of the rift where a small
stream joins the route. This can be followed up until a pitch is met.
Downstream, a short way above the water, a thrutch under and over chockstones
leads to a further drop.
<p><a name="inletp">A</a> short traverse (bolts) round two bends enables two
clean washed and fluted pitches (18, 19m) to be rigged. These are the first
of the <b>Inlet Pitches</b>. The rebelay between the pitches is at the level
of a damp ledge, but well out on the (true) left wall where it is usually
dry. From the large wet ledge now reached, a traverse out onto the right wall
(ledge, but line very useful) reaches the top of a 6m pitch avoiding the
rather broken and splashy final section of the rift pitch.
<p>The Inlet streamway rises rapidly in wet weather and makes the lower
pitches unpleasant but not impassable. The 6m pitch lands on a boulder floor
where the water flows down to the left, but right, avoiding the water (except
in wet conditions), a boulder slope reaches a 24m pitch from a large
chockstone. The pitch hangs free, landing on the floor near the centre of the
<b>Big Chamber</b>.
<p><a name="bigcham115">The Big Chamber</a> (115 final chamber) marks
the end of the initial vertical part of the cave, and the start of the
most extensive horizontal development at about 1200m asl. From here
<a href="off115.htm#offbigcha">several ways</a> lead on. Up the boulder
slope in the chamber leads to the site of a food dump where an inlet is
seen in wet weather. The two main ways on lie downstream. Following the
large abandoned passage above the streamway leads to the connection to
<a href="deepwy.htm#jncha">Junction Chamber</a>. The water itself can be
followed as <a href="off115.htm#petepurg">Pete's Purgatory</a>.
Both lead to the deepest parts of the system via the
<a href="deepwy.htm#confluence">Confluence</a>.
<h3><a name="purgbypass0">The Connection</a> (1981) - the start of Purgatory
Bypass</h3>
<p>The large abandoned tube may be followed West above the Purgatory by
crossing from ledge to ledge, or by climbing up from below some way
downstream of the chamber. Eventually <a href="off115.htm#C1981-115-06">further
traversing</a> becomes impractical as the ledge and tube give out, but
shortly before this, the low mud filled continuation [<a name="C1981-115-10"
href="qmlist.htm#C1981-115-10">C1981-115-10</a>] leads off to the right, Northwest, into a
mazy fossil phreatic area. The passage size increases in this, past one or
two passages right - the main way on being fairly obvious and marked by the
prints of previous explorers. A small vadose trench in the floor contains
only seepage water, but the route lowers to a crawl through a sandy floored
arch to a point where the route diverges. Slightly left (NNW), a short
thrutch emerges at <b>Connection Cairn</b>, but more sharply <a
name="C1981-115-11">right (uphill - NE)</a> is the easiest route through in a low,
wide sandy crawl rejoined by the original route on the left after forty
metres or so. The passage continues large, with a small vadose trench in the
floor and much mud infill. Following the large tube for a hundred metres or
so to its conclusion emerges about 10m up the side of <b>Junction Chamber</b>
with an excellent view, but no easy way down.
<p>The best route to reach the floor lies 50m back down the passage, where a
small hole in the right wall (coming from 115) leads to a horribly muddy
bedding plane crawl which pops out above a streamway which is followed up to
Junction Chamber by careful traversing.
<p>Junction Chamber is a nexus of routes where the entrance series of both
Schnellzugh&ouml;hle and the ramifications of Stellerwegh&ouml;hle join.
<a href="off115.htm#offjcha">Several other routes</a> can be followed for
varying distances - the main continuation of the Purgatory Bypass is
<a href="deepwy.htm#dartford">Dartford Tunnel</a>: the way to the
deeper parts of the system.
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<center><h2><a name="ent144">Top Entrance 1623/144</a> (1983-85)</h2></center>
<p><b>Location:</b> E 36102.3 N (52)81514.5 H 1712.0
<p>The entrance is 20m vertically below and 65m on a bearing of 94&deg; from
the small knoll (Bunter's Bulge in CUCC parlance,
<span lang="de">Wei&szlig;e Warze</span> to the <span lang="de">Munchen /
N&uuml;rnberg</span> cavers) at the end of the ridge running SSW from the
<span lang="de-at">Vorderer Schwarzmooskogel,</span> on which there is a
<a href="../../handbook/survey/lasers.htm">laser fixed point</a> 7/8.
<h3><a name="entser">Entrance Series</a> (1983, CUCC)</h3>
<p>The 7m entrance shaft narrows to a squeeze through a slot to loose
boulders. A passage left (SSW) here, <span lang="de">Geheimgang,</span> was
completely missed (or ignored) by CUCC, but meanders for a while before
heading off for maybe 100m to the SSW to a second entrance.
<p>To the right below the entrance slot is the head of a 9m pitch down to a
floor of large wedged blocks. A 16m pitch down through a slot lands on a
balcony at the start of a large shattered shaft, 13m wide in places. This is
passed by pitches of 15, 42, 5, 7 and 23m (belayed from a nipple on the
opposite wall). The cave closes down to a triangular slot 50cm wide, and a
13m hang against the wall drops into a short section of horizontal passage
with roof scalloping. This turns into a traverse as a small stream in a
canyon comes in from the left, and the route follows this down as a 28m pitch
to land in a pool. A short drop and an 11m pitch break into a level of
extensive phreatic development. There is an obvious path along the dusty
floor, the <b>Yellow Brick Road</b>. Following the stream down a series of
ramps leads to a large abandoned passage which has not been explored.
<p><a name="ybr">It seems</a> highly likely that the pitch at the end of
<a href="off41.htm#alice">Alice im Wunderland</a> in
<b lang="de-at">Stellerwegh&ouml;hle</b> will drop into the final 11m pitch
before Yellow Brick Road.
<p><img alt="survey fragment: 6k gif" src="144top.png" width=720 height=266>
<p>Across the Yellow Brick Road from the foot of the 11m pitch; up a boulder
slope and past a steep ramp down to the left, leads to a series of small
phreatic tubes which mostly close down. Straight ahead leads into a passage
almost filled with layered mud and with a strong inward draught. This breaks
out at the top of a large chamber, which is entered by a 25m pitch down a
layered mud wall. On the opposite side of the chamber, at the level of the
pitch head, a large passage is inaccessible, but is the main way on towards
<span lang="de-at">Stellerwegh&ouml;hle.</span>
<h3>The original route to -285m (1983)</h3>
<p>From the bottom of the 25m pitch, a 7m diameter tube slopes down at
60&deg; for 40m, forming a pitch with several rebelays. This turns vertical
at a 14m pitch which carries a small stream to a 10m pitch, after which the
stream vadose canyon gets too tight.
<p>By swinging off the 14m pitch half-way down, a continuation of the main
way is reached. This is a 10m abandoned passage with dusty blocks and layered
mud. After 20m this closes down in a small chamber. Dropping down 13m in
boulders leads to a very small canyon; a passage on the other side of the
chamber continues as a canyon for 30m, but filled with mud. The final route
out is a 1m diameter, almost circular, phreatic tube with a small vadose
trench in the floor. This continues up at 35&deg; for 70m until it meets a
very small trench which draughts out. The tube elbows back on itself, but
soon becomes choked with mud as the small invading stream disappears down a
crack. The draught in this area seems likely to be from the northernmost
deep part of <a href="../../noinfo/smkridge/78.htm">Schwabenschacht (1623-78)</a>, in which a
short passage, just 50m away from this 35&deg; ramp, is on almost exactly the
same line.
<p><img alt="survey fragment: 6k gif" src="144up.png" width=620 height=600>
<h3><a name="roddive">The Stellerweg Connection</a> (1985, CUCC)</h3>
<p>In the Yellow Brick Road, about 3m to the left of the passage leading to
the 25m pitch, the main way in the series of small tubes terminates after 4m
in a small hole, <b>Roddick's Dive</b>, which is best rigged with a 6m
ladder. This drops through an awkward and slippery restriction and down a
rock slab to an exposed muddy sloping landing. Care is required on the
descent and the return can be quite time consuming.
<p>Traversing across the mud around to the right leads after about 10m to a
2m climb up into a passage. This is the passage which can be seen across from
the 25m pitch. To the right, the pitch is encountered after about 5m. To the
left, the passage continues for 25m past a number of ramp tubes on the left.
The passage is then blocked by orange sand infill. The rift above the fill
has been entered by bolting (two bolts on the left hand wall), and rapidly
ascends and narrows. At its furthest point, there is an undescended small
hole in the floor down which water can be heard.
<p>Back at the infill, the way on is down the ramp tube on the left. This is
descended on a slope of about 45&deg; for 60m, until a large dry passage is
entered. To the left this becomes narrower, with steeply sloping soil ledges
and a narrow rift below. This direction has not been pushed, but is presumed
to be the same rift as that below Roddick's Dive, and probably the same as
that below the 11m pitch entering the Yellow Brick Road, all of which must
be very close to a connection into the adjacent
<span lang="de">Larchenschacht</span>
(<a href="../../noinfo/smkridge/88.htm">1623/88</a>)
<p align=center><img alt="survey fragment: 11k gif" src="144con.png"
width=560 height=920>
<p>To the right, the passage continues large over a broken rock floor with a
trench in the middle. At the point where the trench opens out, and drops for
about 2m, two ways on are possible. Descent into the first (unstable rock -
care!) leads to a rift between boulders and a climb back up into the passage,
above a hole. Alternatively, a traverse to the right leads to the same point.
<p>From here, the route follows a series of winding passages generally
floored with loose dry yellow or grey sand, with several short descents over
boulders. The draught is the best guide until the passage breaks out into a
chamber which is itself a large alcove about 20m up the side of a much larger
chamber.
<p>Back-tracking about 20m leads, via a squeeze, through sandy chambers to a
muddy low crawl to the bottom of the pitch. This is very draughty and damp.
Following the passage downstream, it develops into a vadose canyon with the
stream on the floor. After about 20m, another 10m pitch is reached, but by
following the steep wet tube on the right it is possible to pop out 3.5m
from the bottom of the pitch, from where a wide chimney reaches the floor of
the streamway below the <a href="41.htm#bigpitch">Big Pitch</a> in Stellerweg
at [<a href="qmlist.htm#C1980-41-33">C1980-41-33</a>].
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<center><h2>Stellerwegh&ouml;hle Guidebook: Main (41a/b) Entrance</h2></center>
<p align="right">Pete Lancaster and Andy Waddington
<p>41b : Alt 1638.0m<br>
41a : Alt 1624.5m
<h3>Location</h3>
<p>The entrances open in the southern slopes of <span lang="de-at">Vorderer
Schwarzmooskogel,</span> reached by marked path number 201 from the
Bergrestaurant and car park at the top of the <span lang="de-at">Loser
Panoramastr&szlig;e.</span> This is followed over
<span lang="de-at">Egglgrube,</span> past the
<span lang="de-at">Kratzer</span> Valley and along the well-marked
<span lang="de-at">Stogerweg</span> perched on the hillside above
<span lang="de-at">Wei&szlig;e Wand.</span> Shortly beyond the draughting
hole of 1623/32
<a href="../../noinfo/smkridge/32.htm"><span lang="de-at">Windloch</span></a>,
the path drops steeply down the hillside. The two entrances are found 50
vertical metres up the hillside, by following orange paint marks from a
clearly marked permanent survey station "P3".
<p><a name="X0000-41-00">The</a> upper entrance (41b) is in a large rift
about 30m to the east of the lower (41a) which is a strongly
outward-draughting tube in a shattered gully. Following this tube down leads
to a chamber with a snow bank, which is below the open shaft of the upper
entrance. The amount of snow varies from year to year, and may obscure the
lower ways on.
<p>Furthest right in the entrance chamber is an ascent to a point 20m above
the 41b entrance, and a choke near the surface.
<p>Almost opposite the point of entry, heading east, is a narrow ramp
down, <b lang="de">Extrablatt,</b> which leads to the
<a href="off41.htm#germanr">German Route</a>, apparently explored in 1972
(before CUCC's arrival in the area).
<p>The widest exit, roughly north, has holes in the floor and immediately
crosses a ramp. Up the wide ramp to the left leads to the main way on,
whilst down to the right connects with <span lang="de">Extrablatt</span> and
the German route. Straight on quickly opens out with two more ramps down right into the German route, whilst keeping high and left gives several ways
back up to the main route.
<h3>CUCC's <a name="C1980-41-00">main way</a> on (1980)</h3>
<p>The passage to the left in the entrance chamber was taken as the main way
on, found by CUCC in 1980. Depending on conditions, this may require an <a
name="C1980-41-01">ice traverse</a> above a ramp. The way is a fine arched
passage which is followed up dip until a <a name="C1980-41-02">right turn</a>
reveals a large 45&deg; ramp. This drops back into the straight on passage
from the entrance chamber, and continues down towards the German route.
Crossed by a traverse, the continuing way involves a step over a hole in the
floor, then three more descending ramps in a short distance, all of which go
to the same place as the first ramp. The whole of the cave in this entrance
series is of phreatic origin, developed along an inclined joint plane.
Although there are various ramps and small side leads, the main way on is
fairly obvious, following the easiest route across.
<p>The only significant lead on the left of this area is a connection to
the 1623/142 entrance. This leads in a few metres to the pitch descended
by CUCC from the far side, to reach a Dripping Chamber. Apparently this
can be passed by a traverse on the right.
<p>The main passage continues for 40m or so, crossing another small ramp,
blind both up and down, to a further traverse above a larger descending
ramp, <b>DIN-Rampe,</b> which descends for 50m until a pitch blocks the way
forward. Directly across this pitch is a window into the passage at the
start of the German Route.
<p><a name="p21">Crossing</a> the <a name="C1980-41-13">DIN-Rampe</a>, the
passage descends via a climb and traverse to a 21m
<a name="C1980-41-14">pitch</a>, but this may be bypassed by keeping right
and following the ramp down. At the bottom, left along the strike leads to
<b lang="de">Megalodonten-Schlinger</b>, the chamber reached from the foot of
the pitch. From here, a <a href="off41.htm#C1980-41-18">variety of
ways</a> are possible.
<p>Opposite the point of entry and heading north is a ramp up. The main routelies to the right a short way up this [<a name="C1980-41-21"
href="qmlist.htm#C1980-41-21">C1980-41-21</a>]. This brings one to a steeply
descending phreatic passage, <b>BUS,</b> with bridging climbs which are
followed by lined traverses across two ramps. Care is required here as severe
abrasion was noted on derigged ropes from these traverses, which had been in
regular use as direct aid in 1980. The next ramp [<a name="C1980-41-25"
href="qmlist.htm#C1980-41-25">C1980-41-25</a>] has no immediately obvious way
on at the other side and was descended using a ladder since it is far too
muddy to use SRT safely. To the right via a small pitch
[<a name="C1980-41-30" href="qmlist.htm#C1980-41-30">C1980-41-30</a>] is the
1980 route down the <b>Big Pitch</b>. It has become unclear whether the
route used in 1981 and subsequently is to the left on this first ramp -
[<a name="C1980-41-31" href="qmlist.htm#C1980-41-31">C1980-41-31</a>]. If
so, two small pitches lead to the best hang.
<p>Although there is no obvious way across the ramp which led to the Big
Pitch, it can be followed upwards, and shortly a way on becomes apparent,
heading north along the strike, and ascending slightly. This shortly
intersects another large ramp. The way across this continues as
<a href="off41.htm#alice"><span lang="de">Alice im Wunderland,</span></a>
whilst descending it to the right is the 1981 route to the Big Pitch. After
30m, the ramp splits. To the right seems to be the way used by CUCC, whilst
to the left is somewhat narrower and the way used by Arge. Both ways drop
into the same larger passage - to the right leads to a wide lip of the Big
Pitch. Straight ahead from the left (Arge) passage leads in a narrower
passage to the Big Pitch on its north side, here a 95m descent.
<p>Left in the passage reached from either version of the ramp is an
inlet passage explored by CUCC in 1984, ending in an aven below
<a href="../143.htm">1623/143.</a>
<p><a href="41bp.png"><img src="41bp2.png" width=535 height=575></a>
<h3><a name="bigpitch">The Big Pitch</a> (1980)</h3>
<p>The Big Pitch is 100m in a large elliptical shaft and wonderfully free and
airy until a rebelay 25m from the bottom (1980 rigging). It lands in a rift
with a small stream. An obvious route lies downstream, and can be followed in
a sharp passage, <b>Wet 'n' Wild,</b> until the stream disappears into a hole
[<a href="qmlist.htm#C1980-41-35">C1980-41-35</a>]. Climbing up, a higher
level can be followed for 90m, some of which is traversing above the canyon.
The water is regained after a 9m pitch which is quickly succeeded by a 20m
pitch. Narrow rift passages link this with a series of short (9, 5, 6, and
6m) pitches of which the last three have tight takeoffs. The last lands in a
bigger space with a bouldery floor.
<h3><a id="id41bigrift">The Big Rift</a> (1980-81)</h3>
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<p>A short climb up over boulders breaks out into a large dry rift <b>The Big
Rift</b> (100m high and 5m wide). A 7m gully (which needs care owing to loose
rock, though mainly small stuff) and 24m pitch are followed by a 6m pendulum
to the head of a 13m pitch which reaches the floor. A boulder strewn scramble
and 7m free climb down leads to a 16m pitch. 3m later is a 4m pitch from a
big boulder, then 8m forward to a 10m pitch. This ends is a 6m traverse to a
manky bolt for the next 17m pitch which reaches floor, again, and 8m along
this is another 17m pitch. These last two are wet in clean washed limestone,
with the roof lowering to 10m in places. Two short (2.5m) climbs down reached
the 1980 limit
[<a name="C1980-41-38" href="qmlist.htm#C1980-41-38">C1980-41-38</a>]
which proved to be another 17m pitch. This drops into
<a href="deepwy.htm#jncha">Junction Chamber</a> to join the route from
Schnellzugh&ouml;hle. The whole of the Big Rift becomes serious in the event
of a flood.
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<h1>Stellerwegh&ouml;hlen system (1623/41) Glossary</h1>
<p>This list will start to get unwieldy - so here are a bunch of
links to take you to roughly the right place alphabetically:<br>
<a id="AtoZ" />
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<dt>Alice im Wunderland<dd>(1998, Arge)
<dt><a href="deepwy.htm#confluence">And Another Pitch</a><dd>The wet, 9m,
second pitch in the streamway downstream from The Confluence (1981, CUCC)
<dt><a href="deepwy.htm#confluence">Another Pitch</a><dd>The 5m first pitch
in the streamway downstream from The Confluence, also known as The Twelve
Foot Climb, but not really climbable except in the dryest conditions (1981,
CUCC)
</dl><a name="B" href="#AtoZ">A-Z</a> | <a href="#exit">Links</a><dl>
<dt>Babylon<dd>Major Passage series upstream from 115 Big Chamber which
CUCC managed to miss almost entirely.
<dt><a href="115.htm#bbungle">Baker's Bungle</a><dd>First hole down at the
end of the phreatic passage below Bell Pitch in 115. This turned out not to
be a viable way on (1980, CUCC)
<dt><a href="115.htm#derigel">Bell Pitch</a><dd>20m first pitch in 155
entrance (1980, CUCC)
<dt><a href="115.htm#bigcham115">The Big Chamber in 115</a><dd>A large
chamber where the 115 entrance pitch series meets other streams which
combine into Pete's Purgatory. This is the first significant sub-horizontal
phreatic level, still incompletely explored (1981, CUCC)
<dt><a href="off41.htm#bigcham142">The Big Chamber in 142</a><dd>A Large
chamber reached by a 40m pitch from the point where
<span lang="de">Schwabenschacht</span> later joined 142. An alternative route
to the chamber can be gained from the foot of the 18m pitch in 142 (1982,
1985, CUCC)
<dt><a href="off115.htm#futser">Big Enough Chamber</a><dd>A 4m high (ie.
easily big enough to stand up) chamber in Futility Series (1982, CUCC)
<dt><a href="41.htm#bigpitch">The Big Pitch</a><dd>a 100m pitch in a huge
elliptical shaft, mostly free hanging by the preferred (1981) route. At the
end of the sub-horizontal entrance series of
<span lang="de-at">Stellerwegh&ouml;hle.</span> (1980, 1981, CUCC).
This is also the point at which the way in from
<span lang="de">Larchenschacht,</span>
<a href="../../noinfo/88.htm">1623/88</a> joins, and just downstream lies the
connection from <a href="144.htm">1623/144</a>
<dt><a href="41.htm#id41bigrift">The Big Rift</a><dd>a 100m broken shaft leading
from below the short pitches following the Big Pitch in
<span lang="de-at">Stellerwegh&ouml;hle</span> down to Junction Chamber. With
1980's rigging, this section of the cave is extremely flood-prone (1980,
1981, CUCC)
</dl><a name="C" href="#AtoZ">A-Z</a> | <a href="#exit">Links</a><dl>
<dt><a href="deepwy.htm#camp">Camp Chamber</a><dd>a sandy-floored side
passage on the left (south) near the end of Dartford Tunnel, continuing
unexplored as a traverse over what is assumed to be Pete's Purgatory. This
was the underground camp when the system was bottomed (1982, CUCC)
<dt><a href="115.htm#ramp">The Col</a><dd>a mud-floored saddle at the foot of
the Ramp pitches, enabling access at one side to the Rift, and at the other,
a view over unexplored black space threatened by hanging death (1981, CUCC)
<dt><a href="offdp.htm#rampant">Cologne Cathedral</a><dd>An impressively
large chamber, 15m diameter and at least 20m high, reached via Rampant
Passage above The Confluence (1982, CUCC)
<dt><a href="deepwy.htm#slit">Coming Soon</a><dd>The 7m ninth pitch in the
streamway below the Confluence (1982, CUCC)
<dt><a href="deepwy.htm#lakep">Commando Climb</a><dd>A 4m handline climb in
spray at the bottom of Letch Pitch in the streamway below the Confluence
(1981, CUCC)
<dt><a href="deepwy.htm#confluence">The Confluence</a><dd>The point in
Pete's Purgatory where a second stream joins from the right, resulting in an
increase in passage size to something reasonable. This tributary stream is
assumed to be fed mainly from <span lang="de-at">Stellerwegh&ouml;hle</span>.
Directly above is the remoter end of the Purgatory Bypass.
<dt><a href="115.htm#purgbypass0">The Connection</a><dd>Passages beyond
the 115 Big Chamber leading towards 41 at Junction Chamber (1981, CUCC/UBSS)
<dt><a href="115.htm#purgbypass0">Connection Cairn</a><dd>A marked junction
in low passage no longer on the main route from 115 to 41, where the
connection was first confirmed (1981, CUCC/UBSS)
</dl><a name="D" href="#AtoZ">A-Z</a> | <a href="#exit">Links</a><dl>
<dt><a href="deepwy.htm#dartford">Dartford Tunnel</a><dd>A major fossil
phreatic tube followed from Junction Chamber to the Confluence. Originally
explored most of the way by CUCC/UBSS in 1981, whose cairn was found in 1982
by CUCC exploration back from the Confluence.
<dt>Dazu<dd>Side passage left from Windloch beyondf Babylon (1999, Arge)
<dt><a href="deepwy.htm#slit">The Duck</a><dd>A swimming-depth canal with
10 cm airspace at -800m in the streamway below the Confluence (1982, CUCC)
</dl><a name="E" href="#AtoZ">A-Z</a> | <a href="#exit">Links</a><dl>
<dt><a href="offdp.htm#rampant">Echo Aven</a><dd>an aven estimated 30m high,
reached by dangerous climbs of 10 and 5m from <span lang="de">K&ouml;ln
Dom</span> (1982, CUCC)
<dt>Euphrates<dd>Right (west) at T-junction at end of Babylon (Arge)
</dl><a name="F" href="#AtoZ">A-Z</a> | <a href="#exit">Links</a><dl>
<dt>Fritz's Freeway<dd>
<dt><a id="futser" href="off115.htm#futser">Futility Series</a><dd>a series of generally uninspiring passages reached by a left turn in the traverse above the start of Pete's Purgatory. Mainly explored because of its tantalising draught which led to a choke c 100m fr
om the surface
</dl><a name="G" href="#AtoZ">A-Z</a> | <a href="#exit">Links</a><dl>
<dt><a name="germanr" href="off41.htm#germanr">German Route</a><dd>The
original route of exploration in
<span lang="de-at">Stellerwegh&ouml;hle,</span> never well-documented. Not
believed to be a useful way to depth, though it was supposed to go to -276m
by a way on now apparently lost (1954, SA; 1972, unknown ?)
<dt><a href="deepwy.htm#lakep">Grope Pitch</a><dd>The 17m sixth pitch in the
streamway below the Confluence (1981, CUCC)
</dl><a name="H" href="#AtoZ">A-Z</a> | <a href="#exit">Links</a><dl>
<dt><a href="115.htm#derigel">The Hedgehog</a><dd>an awkward catchy rift passage, negotiated mainly by crawling at one level or another, leading from Bell Pitch to the big phreatic passage leading on in 115 (1980, CUCC)
</dl><a name="I" href="#AtoZ">A-Z</a> | <a href="#exit">Links</a><dl>
<dt><a href="115.htm#inletp">Inlet Pitches</a><dd>Below the Ramp and the Rift
in 115, originally 18, 19 and 6m pitches in rift exposed to spray from an
inlet high above. Rebolted by power drill in 2000 by Arge to give an
all-weather route (1981, CUCC)
</dl><a name="J" href="#AtoZ">A-Z</a> | <a href="#exit">Links</a><dl>
<dt>Jade<dd>Passage of Warme Dusche Rampe (2000, Arge)
<dt><a href="deepwy.htm#jncha">Junction Chamber</a><dd>The chamber where
Stellerweg's Big Rift drops into the horizontal passages of
<span lang="de">Schnellzugh&ouml;hle,</span> and the key to the onward route
to great depth (1981, CUCC)
</dl><a name="K" href="#AtoZ">A-Z</a> | <a href="#exit">Links</a><dl>
<dt><a href="offdp.htm#rampant"><span lang="de">K&ouml;ln Dom</span></a><dd>
An impressively large chamber, 15m diameter and at least 20m high, reached
via Rampant Passage above The Confluence (1982, CUCC)
</dl><a name="L" href="#AtoZ">A-Z</a> | <a href="#exit">Links</a><dl>
<dt><a href="deepwy.htm#lakep">Lake Pitch</a><dd>The 9m fourth pitch in the
streamway downstream from The Confluence, landing in a large pool (1981,
CUCC)
<dt>Lampentot<dd>Side passage from Warm Duscher Rampen (1998, Arge)
<dt><a href="deepwy.htm#lakep">Letch Pitch</a><dd>The 22m fifth pitch in the
streamway downstream from The Confluence, with a rebelay ledge halfway
down (1981, CUCC)
</dl><a name="M" href="#AtoZ">A-Z</a> | <a href="#exit">Links</a><dl>
<dt><a href="deepwy.htm#confluence">Marlow Climb</a><dd>The 7m third
pitch in the streamway downstream from The Confluence, also known as
Yet Another Pitch (1981, CUCC)
<dt>Megalo-Schlinger<dd>
</dl><a name="N" href="#AtoZ">A-Z</a> | <a href="#exit">Links</a><dl>
<dt><a href="off115.htm#zwei">Nebukadnezar</a><dd>climbing passage off
SE from Tigris. Ascends to 155m above 115 Big Chamber leading (at 1450m
altitude) to within 15m of surface with a massive draught. Likely to lead to
a new entrance lower down east of 115, thus bypassing the Ramp, the Rift and
the Inlet pitches (2000, Arge)
<dt>Nutzlosigkeit<dd>German translation for what CUCC explored as
<a href="#futser">Futility Series</a>
</dl><a name="O" href="#AtoZ">A-Z</a> | <a href="#exit">Links</a><dl>
<dt><a href="deepwy.htm#orgasm">Orgasm Chasm</a><dd>The 90m shaft beyond
the duck in the main streamway below -800m.
</dl><a name="P" href="#AtoZ">A-Z</a> | <a href="#exit">Links</a><dl>
<dt><a href="off115.htm#futser">Pebble Beach Chamber</a><dd>A 12m high
chamber in Futility Series with interesting red flowstone (1982, CUCC)
<dt><a href="off115.htm#petepurg">Pete's Purgatory</a><dd>The unrelenting
narrow streamway taking the combined waters over 800m from the 115 Big
Chamber to The Confluence (1981, CUCC)
<dt><a href="deepwy.htm#jncha">Purgatory Bypass</a><dd>Collective name
for passages which bypass Pete's Purgatory to reach the Confluence. On the
usual route from 115, this includes all <a href="115.htm#purgbypass0">the
passage from Big Chamber,</a> as well as Dartford Tunnel (1981/2, CUCC)
</dl><a name="Q" href="#AtoZ">A-Z</a> | <a href="#exit">Links</a>
<p>There are no places beginning with a "Q" !
<p><a name="R" href="#AtoZ">A-Z</a> | <a href="#exit">Links</a><dl>
<dt><a href="115.htm#ramp">The Ramp</a><dd>this proved to be the correct way on just beyond Baker's Bungle in 115. Spotted at the end of 1980 expo, but not explored until 1981 (1981, CUCC)
<dt><a href="offdp.htm#rampant">Rampant Passage</a><dd>Large rising passage,
7m high and 2m wide, heading north from above the Confluence to Cologne
Cathedral (1982, CUCC)
<dt><a href="115.htm#id115rift">The Rift</a><dd>Below the Ramp and across the
col, the main 115 pitch series eventually hits a more vertical fault, forming
this split pitch (1981, CUCC)
<dt><a href="off41.htm#rodrunway">Rodent Runway</a><dd>The original
connection route from 142 to <span lang="de-at">Stellerwegh&ouml;hle</span>
hidden in boulders off the sloping chamber leading up to the Big
Chamber in 142 (1983, CUCC)
<dt><a href="144.htm#roddive">Roddick's Dive</a><dd>A drop through an
awkward and slippery restriction below the Yellow Brick Road in 144. Best
with some sort of protection, as the continuing descent of a rock slab
has an exposed and muddy landing (1985, CUCC)
<dt><a href="off41.htm#roofpcham">Roof Pendant Chamber</a>A phreatic passage
along the strike of the hading joints in 142, leading from Rodent Runway
towards the 21m pitch in <span lang="de-at">Stellerwegh&ouml;hle</span>
(1983, CUCC)
<dd>
</dl><a name="S" href="#AtoZ">A-Z</a> | <a href="#exit">Links</a><dl>
<dt>Schabernackschacht<dd>
<dt><a href="deepwy.htm#slit">The Slit</a><dd>The 22m eighth pitch in the
streamway below the Confluence (1982, CUCC)
<dt><span lang="de">Stalaglufth&ouml;hle</span><dd>The name used by CUCC in
conversation and the log books for the <a href="#germanr">German route</a> in
<span lang="de-at">Stellerwegh&ouml;hle</span> during its fruitless
re-exploration in 1980.
<dt><a href="deepwy.htm#lakep">Subtle Approach</a><dd>The 13m seventh pitch,
with an awkward takeoff, in the streamway below the Confluence (1981, CUCC)
</dl><a name="T" href="#AtoZ">A-Z</a> | <a href="#exit">Links</a><dl>
<dt>Tigris<dd>Left (east) at T-junction at end of Babylon (1999, Arge)
<dt>Treppengang<dd>Side passage from Vereinigungshalle by MP 21 (Arge)
<dt><a href="deepwy.htm#confluence">Twelve Foot</a><dd>The 5m first pitch
in the streamway downstream from The Confluence, also known as Another
Pitch, and not really climbable except in the dryest conditions (1981,
CUCC)
</dl><a name="U" href="#AtoZ">A-Z</a> | <a href="#exit">Links</a><dl>
</dl><a name="V" href="#AtoZ">A-Z</a> | <a href="#exit">Links</a><dl>
</dl><a name="W" href="#AtoZ">A-Z</a> | <a href="#exit">Links</a><dl>
<dt>Warm Duscher Rampen<dd>(Arge)
<dt>Wet'n'Wild<dd>(Arge)
<dt><a href="off41.htm#wigway">Wiggy's Way to 60' pitch</a><dd>A route
leading from very near the 1623/142 entrance and ending unexplored at
a pitch estimated at 20m (1983, CUCC)
<dt>Windloch<dd>NE-trending passage with strong gale, left near end of
Babylon (1999, Arge)
<dt>A Windy Day in Manhattan<dd>(1999, Arge)
</dl><a name="X" href="#AtoZ">A-Z</a> | <a href="#exit">Links</a>
<p>There are no places beginning with an "X"!
<p><a name="Y" href="#AtoZ">A-Z</a> | <a href="#exit">Links</a><dl>
<dt><a href="144.htm#entser">Yellow Brick Road</a><dd>The first level of
phreatic development in 144, about 180m below the entrance, a dusty-floored
passage sporting various ways off not pushed to a conclusion (1983, CUCC)
<dt><a href="deepwy.htm#confluence">Yet Another Pitch</a><dd>The 7m third
pitch in the streamway downstream from The Confluence, also known as
Marlow Climb (1981, CUCC)
</dl><a name="Z" href="#AtoZ">A-Z</a> | <a href="#exit">Links</a><dl>
<dt><a href="off115.htm#zwei">Zweistromland</a><dd>Main passage in Babylon,
reached via a canyon from 115 Big Chamber. Splits at end into Euphrates
and Tigris (latter to Nebukkadnezar-Rampe).
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<h2><span lang="de-at">Stellerwegh&ouml;hlensystem:</span> the way to the
bottom</h2>
<h3><a name="jncha">Junction Chamber to the Confluence</a></h3>
<p>Junction Chamber is a nexus of routes where ways in from
<a href="115.htm"><span lang="de">Schnellzugh&ouml;hle</span></a>
to the SW and
<a href="41.htm"><span lang="de-at">Stellerwegh&ouml;hle</span></a> to the NW
meet. The <span lang="de-at">Stellerweg</span> water joins another inlet from
the NE, to flow into an impassably narrow canyon below the point of entry
from 115. Directly opposite this point is a very greasy 10m climb up
(handline almost essential after any traffic has dampened the mud). This
gives access to a NE-trending large passage which is the continuation of that
on the other side of the chamber. The main way on
[<a name="C1981-41-18" href="qmlist.htm#C1981-41-18">C1981-41-18</a>] lies up
boulders off to the left soon after the greasy climb; this is the continuing
Bypass to reach the Confluence.
<h3><a name="dartford">Dartford Tunnel</a> (1981/82)</h3>
<p>Above the boulder climb, a very large passage leads on, turning left and
heading Northwest. Down the passage, <b>Dartford Tunnel</b>, is a steep
descent in a huge (10m diameter) boulder strewn pal&aelig;otrunk with much
layered mud and surge marks. After a hundred metres, it curves to the west,
the main passage section changes gradually as a choked trench develops in the
floor, and this is bridged by a large boulder, where care is required. By
this point, the direction is almost Southwest, just before a marked change of
character. The trench turns sharp left (SE) and is lost
[<a name="C1982-41-03" href="qmlist.htm#C1982-41-03">C1982-41-03</a>], while
the main passage turns abruptly right and develops into a high rift with a
flat mud floor.
<p>The rift continues Northwest, almost exactly parallel to the Big Rift
pitches in <span lang="de-at">Stellerweg,</span> though a long way below.
After about 50m, the roof suddenly lowers, and just beyond, a junction is
reached. Here the passage section changes to vadose canyon, still large.
Right is unproductive, but left carries on Southwest in a mud floored rift to
reach a 4m climb down.
<p>The main way continues past a small arch on the left, which leads to a
small chamber with a roof inlet
[<a name="C1982-41-08" href="qmlist.htm#C1982-41-08">C1982-41-08</a>].
A narrow trench
[<a name="C1982-41-07" href="qmlist.htm#C1982-41-07">C1982-41-07</a>] cuts
the floor, with the sound of a stream below. The main passage now descends
steeply, passing a small roof inlet
[<a name="C1982-41-09" href="qmlist.htm#C1982-41-09">C1982-41-09</a>] which
has washed the mud floor clean. The water flows down the passage for a few
metres until it has washed out the top of a narrow vadose trench with the
sound of a stream perhaps 10m below
[<a name="C1982-41-10" href="qmlist.htm#C1982-41-10">C1982-41-10</a>].
Carrying on down the dry passage, still Southwest, leads to the inscription
"CUCC/UBSS 1981" in mud on a boulder - the limit of exploration that year.
<p>On the left, the floor trench is joined by another canyon emerging from
under the far wall, and the mud floor of the tube assumes a steeper V-shaped
profile. This is the start of a traverse on dusty loose mud ledges on the
right (line useful). The passage widens and becomes easier to traverse,
parallel to the top of the vadose trench, with the sound of the stream
below [<a href="qmlist.htm#C1982-41-10">C1982-41-10</a>]. The trench is
crossed to a flat muddy ledge on the left, and then re-crossed as it
disappears under the left wall after a tight meander.
<p><a name="camp">Ahead is</a> a step up, best climbed on the right, but
below this, a low passage slopes down to the top of a deep trench. Above, the
climb soon leads to a junction with a sandy passage branching left to
<b>Camp Chamber</b> (care). This continues
[<a name="C1982-41-11" href="qmlist.htm#C1982-41-11">C1982-41-11</a>] as a
traverse above a stream (thought to be Purgatory).
<p><center><a href="l/camp.htm"><img alt="1982 camp - 9k jpeg" width=300
height=200 src="t/camp.jpg"></a><br><b>Andy Dolby in the camp,
1982</b></center>
<p>Beyond this turn off, the main way turns Northwest and descends steeply to
meet a deep stream canyon coming in from the right at the end of a traverse
across a steep mud slope. The ledge on the near side of the canyon becomes
too narrow to the left, so it is crossed (awkward) to reach a terrace sloping
steeply left. Down this soon reaches a corner where an easy 4m climb down
drops into the Confluence.
<h3><a name="confluence">The Confluence To The Sump</a> (1981/82)</h3>
<p>The climb down from the Bypass lands at the junction, <b>The
Confluence</b>, of the Purgatory water (explored in 1981) and an
<a href="offdp.htm#C1981-41-07">inlet</a>. Downstream in a passage only
slightly bigger than the Purgatory, a wet 4m climb precedes a 7m pitch,
followed shortly by the entry of a small
<a href="offdp.htm#C1982-41-16">cascade</a> from the left (right, on
survey?). Sixty metres downstream is a frothy round sump pool. This is
bypassed up a steep slope sharp left, where a 3m high muddy passage leads off
to a 7m pitch back down to the streamway. The streamway may be followed back
up to the downstream side of the sump, showing it to be less than 10m long.
Downstream, the canyon is now 1.5-2m wide and too high to see the roof. After
fifteen metres is a 3m climb, and a hundred metres further on, increasingly
interspersed with sporting cascades, <b>The Twelve foot climb</b> (p5, aka
"Another Pitch") is reached. Another twenty metres on is a wet 9m
pitch ("And Another Pitch") and a similar distance leads to the 7m
<b>Marlow Climb</b> (aka "Yet Another Pitch").
<p>The rush to depth now eases, and a hundred metres on, the passage lowers
to a sharp crawl and a couple of smooth steep climbs in a hading rift. Two
hundred metres from the last pitch, the verticality returns. The water can be
largely avoided on these pitches of 9m <b><a id="lakep">Lake</a></b>, 22m <b>Letch</b>, (with
rebelay ledge halfway and followed by <b>Commando Climb</b> 4m). A sharp left
turn marks the start of forty metres of canal, ending at the 17m <b>Grope
pitch</b>. After another fifty metres, the 13m <b>Subtle Approach</b> (with
awkward takeoff), marked the 1981 limit of exploration via Pete's Purgatory
[<a name="C1981-41-08" href="qmlist.htm#C1981-41-08">C1981-41-08</a>].
<p>A short length of streamway now leads to the 22m <b><a id="slit">The Slit</a></b>, and a
similar distance to the 7m <b>Coming Soon</b> which are both vertical. Sixty
metres of high rift develops into a canal. Soon, the water deepens and the
roof lowers until a low swimming duck. Beyond the 10cm airspace, the canal
continues sandy floored, then turns to break out at an awe-inspiring abyss
with the water thundering into the depths.
<p>The 90m shaft of <b><a id="orgasm">Orgasm Chasm</a></b> is passed by traversing out to the
left in a series of pitches which avoid the water only in fairly dry
conditions (11m to a ledge, 10m to a small alcove, 6m). A 42m free hang drops
past well displayed beddings to a bridge across the shaft where the route
divides, with the 22m pitch following the dry way down. This lands in a
boulder strewn chamber where the main water is again met. A run under this
leads to a small phreatic tube and a short climb down to the start of the
final pitch (12, 13, 14m) which corkscrews past ledges to a more vertical
section with a damp rebelay to land in a spray lashed chamber. A short wet
climb down leads to the final <a id="sump">sump</a>
[<a name="C1982-41-17" href="qmlist.htm#C1982-41-17">C1982-41-17</a>] in a
rift. There is a small tube above with no draught and blocked with boulders
[<a name="C1982-41-18" href="qmlist.htm#C1982-41-18">C1982-41-18</a>].
<p><center><a href="l/sump.htm"><img alt="final sump - 17k jpeg" width=400
height=292 src="t/sump.jpg"></a><br><b>Pete Lancaster conducting the usual
ceremony at the final sump in 1982.</b></center>
<p>This point was put at -898m by surveys at the time, but current figures
(late 1999, after much new survey in the upper levels) put the sump higher
(at 738m altitude) and the 41 entrance lower, giving a figure of -885m below
41, and -974m below the highest (144) entrance.
<p>The water was originally not thought to resurge in the nearby
<span lang="de-at">Altausseer See,</span> as the Austrians reckoned that
this was in a different block of limestone. However, the coincidence in
altitude with both the lake (at 712m) and a static sump in
<a href="../../noinfo/aaussee/1.htm"><span lang="de-at">Li&auml;gerh&ouml;hle</span></a>
does suggest some control over the local water table. Following the discovery
of <a href="../../aaussee/0.htm">underwater risings</a> in
<span lang="de-at">Altausseer See</span> in 1990, it now seems likely that
these are the resurgence for this water. Unfortunately, permission for dye
tests is quite hard to obtain, and the total flow from
<span lang="de-at">Altausseer See,</span> much larger than some other
possible resurgences, capped for water supply, would mean using a series of
staged tests with increasing amounts of dye, so the connection is likely to
remain unproven.
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<h1>Stellerwegh&ouml;hlen system History</h1>
<p>This history file is really intended to be a clickable index to
all the various trips write ups in the log books (ie. just CUCC trips)
for the whole of the Stellerweg system (ie. 41, 115, 142, 144 and also 143).
It is currently incomplete because the two logbooks detailing the earliest
explorations are missing.
<h3><a id="id1978">1978</a></h3>
<a href="../../years/1978/log.htm#id1978-41-1">08.12</a>
Karl Gaisberger, Andy W, Doug (1 hour) visit 41a collecting bugs
<h3><a id="id1980">1980</a></h3>
<p>trip list reconstructed from Journal report and personal log book entries
- some dates are by correlation with trips in other caves. Note that the link
to the 1980 logbook is not very useful, as the logbook is missing and there
is just some dummy info in the file. This also is why there are no other
links to trips in 1980.
<p>
<a href="../../years/1980/log.htm#id1980-41-1">07.30</a>
Andy W, Budge (3&frac12; hrs) enter 41a and find new way on at once<br>
07.30 Steve, Julian reach greasy ladder pitch above Big Pitch in 41<br>
07.31 Steve, Julian 15m down Big Pitch in 41 before light failure<br>
08.02 Julian, Nick bottom Big Pitch and find start of small pitches in 41<br>
08.02 Steve, Ben push on to head of Big Rift in 41<br>
08.02 Clive, Tim fail to reach front owing to mishap on Big Pitch in 41<br>
08.03 Nick, Budge check out 'obvious' way to German Route in 41<br>
08.04 Julian, Nick push down pitches in German route in 41<br>
08.05 Ben, Steve push to end of reasonable pitches in German Route in 41<br>
08.06 Clive, Julian rig into Big Rift in 41<br>
08.08 Steve, Julian hasty retreat from flood in Big Rift in 41<br>
08.10 Ben, Steve push on in Big Rift in 41<br>
08.11 Andy W, Julian (surveying to Big Rift), Steve, Tim (push down last two 17m pitches) (12&frac12;-13 hrs) and derig 41<br>
08.xx Julian, Budge survey from head of Big Pitch out to 41 entrance<br>
0x.xx Ken, Tim?, Clive?, Simon K find 115 and start first dig<br>
0x.xx+1 Clive, ?,? through first dig to hopeless choke in 115<br>
0x.xx+ First bolting trip in 115<br>
0x.xx+ Clive, ? Second bolting trip in 115 reaches hole across pitch head - blind, real way on found<br>
0x.xx Simon K, Ken push to head of Ramp in 115 but fail to spot way on<br>
0x.xx Derigging 115, and proper way on found
<h3><a id="id1981">1981</a></h3>
A 1981 trip list is pretty much impossible to reconstruct because of the
non-narrative nature of the published reports and the absence of the log
book. Stellerweg took "about a week" to rig to the previous limit, whilst
115 was rigged in one day. Several trips pushed into the depths via the
Purgatory from 115, and there were a number of 41/115 through trips.
Derigging 115 was done in three waves.
<p><!-- a href="../../years/1981/log.htm#id1981-115-1" -->0x.xx<!-- /a --> Rigging in to previous limit in 115<br>
0x.xx more trips<br>
0x.xx Pete, ? (11 hrs) push the Purgatory from 115, Pete ill on trip
0x.xx Chas., Clive O grade 3 survey from Confluence to 12 foot climb
<h3><a id="id1982">1982</a></h3>
<a href="../../years/1982/log.htm#id1982-115-1">07.27</a>
Dave, Ian 115 rigging wave 1 down Ramp (9 hrs)<br>
<a href="../../years/1982/log.htm#id1982-115-2">07.27</a>
Mike, Phil T 115 rigging wave 2 down into Rift pitches (8 hrs)<br>
<a href="../../years/1982/log.htm#id1982-115-S">07.27</a>
Chas, Andy D surface survey 113 to 115<br>
<a href="../../years/1982/log.htm#id1982-115-3">07.28</a>
Chas, Ian 115 rigging wave 1 in Rift pitches (8 hrs)<br>
<a href="../../years/1982/log.htm#id1982-115-4">07.28</a>
Andy D, Dave 115 rigging wave 2 to Big Chamber (11 hrs)<br>
<a href="../../years/1982/log.htm#id1982-115-5">07.29</a>
Pete, Phil T 115 through Purgatory and rig 3 streamway pitches (14 hrs)<br>
<a href="../../years/1982/log.htm#id1982-115-6">07.30</a>
Andy D, Chas 115 rig last three 1981 pitches and two new ones to The Slit (14
hrs)<br>
<a href="../../years/1982/log.htm#id1982-142-1">07.31</a>
Pete, Mike, Phil T prospecting, found 141, 142<br>
<a href="../../years/1982/log.htm#id1982-142-2">08.01</a>
Phil T, Mike push 142 and 141 (3 hrs)<br>
<a href="../../years/1982/log.htm#id1982-115-7">08.01</a>
Ian, Dave in 115 to Dartford Tunnel and new ground to Echo Aven, finding
the confluence from above without recognising it (10 hrs)<br>
<a href="../../years/1982/log.htm#id1982-115-8">08.01</a>
Tim, Phil S 115 tourist to Inlet Pitches (5 hrs)<br>
<a href="../../years/1982/log.htm#id1982-115-9">08.02</a>
Phil S, Chas surveying 115 Big Chamber area (7 hrs)<br>
<a href="../../years/1982/log.htm#id1982-115-10">08.02</a>
Mike, Phil T some rerigging and push 115 to Coming Soon (15 hrs)<br>
<a href="../../years/1982/log.htm#id1982-115-11">08.02</a>
Tim, Pete push 115 through duck to find Orgasm Chasm (16 hrs)<br>
<a href="../../years/1982/log.htm#id1982-142-3">08.04</a>
Doug, Mike in 142 for 4 hours, both lost each other<br>
<a href="../../years/1982/log.htm#id1982-115-12">08.05</a>
Phil S, Janet in 115 abortive Purgatory survey (c6 hrs)<br>
<a href="../../years/1982/log.htm#id1982-115-13">08.05</a>
Chas, Dave in 115 pushing Orgasm Chasm, spot Purgatory Bypass from the
Confluence, and use it to exit (16&frac12; hrs)<br>
<a href="../../years/1982/log.htm#id1982-115-14">08.05</a>
Phil T, Pete push Dartford Tunnel ramifications, finding Chas &amp; Dave's
arrows up from confluence (11 hrs)<br>
<a href="../../years/1982/log.htm#id1982-142-4">08.05</a>
Tim, Andy D, Mike in 142, find Big Chamber (5 hrs)<br>
08.08 Paddy, Dave in 115 sherpa gear for camp (not written up separately)<br>
<a href="../../years/1982/log.htm#id1982-115-15">08.08-9</a>
Tim, Phil T in 115 to establish camp 1 then push almost to duck (31 hrs)<br>
<a href="../../years/1982/log.htm#id1982-115-16">08.08</a>
Pete, Andy W survey 115 entrance series (6 hrs)<br>
<a href="../../years/1982/log.htm#id1982-115-17">08.10-11</a>
Mike, Andy D in 115 find Orgasm Chasm too wet, but camp anyway (28 hrs)<br>
<a href="../../years/1982/log.htm#id1982-115-18">08.10-11</a>
Pete, Andy W survey 115 streamway and Purgatory bypass centre line (21
hrs)<br>
<a href="../../years/1982/log.htm#id1982-115-19">08.11-12</a>
Chas, Dave 115 - the bottom (29&frac12; hrs)<br>
<a href="../../years/1982/log.htm#id1982-115-20">08.13-14</a>
Pete, Andy D survey and derig from bottom of 115 (32 hrs)<br>
<a href="../../years/1982/log.htm#id1982-115-21">08.14</a>
Mike T, Andy W survey 115 Ramp pitches and derig sherpa (6 hrs)<br>
<p>At this point, people writing in the log book lost track of either what
day it was, or what date it was. Dates here assume the latter.<p>
<a href="../../years/1982/log.htm#id1982-115-22">08.14-15</a>
Chas, Dave survey 115 streamway, photo, derig, bat removal (33 hrs)<br>
<a href="../../years/1982/log.htm#id1982-115-23">08.16-17</a>
Andy W, Andy D 115 finish Rift and Bypass surveys and sketch over bypass
centre line, then carry streamway tackle out (18&frac12; hrs)<br>
<a href="../../years/1982/log.htm#id1982-115-24">08.16-17</a>
Mike, Pete derig 115 from Lake Pitch to camp (31&frac12; hrs)<br>
<a href="../../years/1982/log.htm#id1982-115-25">08.18-19</a>
Dave, Andy D, Paddy, Chas derig 115 to surface (10 hrs)<br>
<a href="../../years/1982/log.htm#id1982-142-5">08.19</a>
Mike, Pete derig 142 (1&frac12; hrs)
<h3><a id="id1983">1983</a></h3>
<a href="../../years/1983/log.htm#id1983-142-1">07.25</a>
Mike T, Wiggy (4 hrs) pushing leads in 142 Big Chamber<br>
<a href="../../years/1983/log.htm#id1983-142-2">07.27</a>
Mike T, Dave B (no TU) surveying in 142<br>
<a href="../../years/1983/log.htm#id1983-142-3">07.27</a>
Becky, Wiggy (no TU) push pitch near 142 entrance to choke<br>
<a href="../../years/1983/log.htm#id1983-143-1">07.28</a>
Tony M, Nicky discover 143 &amp; 144 (not entered)<br>
<a href="../../years/1983/log.htm#id1983-143-2">07.30</a>
Tony M, Nicky (no TU) push both 143 and 144 a short way<br>
<a href="../../years/1983/log.htm#id1983-143-3">07.31</a>
Tony M, Nicky (no TU) push 143 to 3rd pitch<br>
<a href="../../years/1983/log.htm#id1983-142-4">08.01</a>
Wiggy, Gail, Phil S (no TU) pushed and surveyed odd bits in 142<br>
<a href="../../years/1983/log.htm#id1983-143-4">08.01</a>
Pete L, Dave B (5&frac12; hrs) take over 143 and bottom it<br>
<a href="../../years/1983/log.htm#id1983-144-3">08.01</a>
Tony M, Nicky (no TU) push 144 down a couple of pitches<br>
<a href="../../years/1983/log.htm#id1983-142-5">08.04</a>
Phil S, Gail (5 hrs) 142
<a href="../../years/1983/log.htm#id1983-144-4">08.04</a>
Pete L, Dave B (7 hrs) 144 down pitches until no more gear
<a href="../../years/1983/log.htm#id1983-142-6">08.06?</a>
Phil S, Julian, Naomi (5 hrs) connect 142 to 41
<a href="../../years/1983/log.htm#id1983-143-5">08.06</a>
Pete L, Chas (5 hrs) survey and derig 143
<a href="../../years/1983/log.htm#id1983-144-5">08.07</a>
Pete L, Dave B (no TU) bottomed 144
<a href="../../years/1983/log.htm#id1983-142-7">08.09</a>
Phil S, Gail (7&frac12; hrs) survey and derig 142 - 41
<a href="../../years/1983/log.htm#id1983-144-6">08.09</a>
Pete L, Dave B (16&frac12; hrs) tidy up, survey and derig 144
<h3><a id="id1984">1984</a></h3>
<a href="../../years/1984/log.htm#id1984-142-1">07.23</a>
Mike M, Bill, Brian D (4 hrs) in 142 to 41 to look for upward leads towards 143<br>
<a href="../../years/1984/log.htm#id1984-142-2">07.24</a>
Mike M, Brian D, Wiggy (10 hrs) 142 photo trip to Big Chamber then push in 41<br>
<a href="../../years/1984/log.htm#id1984-142-3">07.29</a>
Bill, Pete L, Mike M (8 hrs) 142 to 41 survey inlet towards 143<br>
<a href="../../years/1984/log.htm#id1984-142-4">07.30</a>
John, Brian, Wiggy (6 hrs) 142 photo trip and fail to reach 41 leads<br>
<a href="../../years/1984/log.htm#id1984-143-1">07.31</a>
Pete L, Mike M (4&frac12; hrs) rig 143 to look for connection<br>
<a href="../../years/1984/log.htm#id1984-143-2">08.02</a>
John P, Andy W (4 hrs) down 143 to hammer and shout<br>
<a href="../../years/1984/log.htm#id1984-142-5">08.02</a>
Bill, Wiggy (4 hrs) in 142 to listen and shout<br>
<a href="../../years/1984/log.htm#id1984-142-6">08.06</a>
Pete, John P (2 hrs) derig 142<br>
<a href="../../years/1984/log.htm#id1984-143-3">08.08</a>
Brian D, Wiggy (4&frac12; hrs) derig 143
<h3><a id="id1985">1985</a></h3>
<p>The logbook is pretty light on dates, and the photocopy is missing a few
title lines and T/Us, so this may be incomplete.<p>
<a href="../../years/1985/log.htm#id1985-144-1">07.29</a>
Brian D, Mike R, Chris S (1&frac12; hrs) start rigging 144<br>
<a href="../../years/1985/log.htm#id1985-142-1">07.29-30</a>
Mike M, Mark R, Gavin, Tina, Stef (6&frac14; hrs)
SRT practice in 142 and new connection to 41<br>
<a href="../../years/1985/log.htm#id1985-144-2">07.30?</a>
Chris S, Mike R (6 hrs) more rigging 144<br>
<a href="../../years/1985/log.htm#id1985-142-2">07.30</a>
Mike M, Gavin, Tina (8 hrs) survey in 142<br>
<a href="../../years/1985/log.htm#id1985-144-3">07.31</a>
Brian, Mark R, Stef (10&frac12; hrs) push 144 finding Roddick's Dive<br>
<a href="../../years/1985/log.htm#id1985-144-4">07.31</a>
?,? (11 hrs) join above and push extension in 144<br>
<a href="../../years/1985/log.htm#id1985-144-5">08.06?</a>
Mike R, Chris S, Stef (6&frac12; hrs) establish 144 food dump and push on<br>
<a href="../../years/1985/log.htm#id1985-144-6">08.07</a>
Mike M, Mark R, Chris S (18 hrs) made 144/41 connection and surveyed out<br>
<a href="../../years/1985/log.htm#id1985-144-7">08.08-09</a>
Mike R, Tina, Brian D (11 hrs), Gavin (9&frac12; hrs), Stef (8 hrs)
derigging in 144<br>
<a href="../../years/1985/log.htm#id1985-142-3">08.11</a>
Gavin, Mike R (8 hrs), Chris S, Tina (8&frac12; hrs)
survey 142 Big Chamber and Mg ribbon burn
<h3>1980-1996</h3>
<p>A large amount of exploration in <span lang="de">Schwabenschacht</span>
carried on in the interregnum by our friends from
<span lang="de">Stuttgart</span> - connecting to 142 near head of Big Chamber
pitch in May 1996.
<h3><a id="id1996">1996</a></h3>
<a href="../../years/1996/log.htm#id1996-142-1">07.16</a>
Wookey, <span lang="de">Thilo,</span> (5 hrs) ... Surveying connection from 78 to 142
<h3>Post-1996</h3>
<p>A considerable amount of resurvey work has been carried out in the system
by our friends from <span lang="de">Stuttgart</span>, along with quite a bit of new exploration. This culminated in the discovery of some huge trunk
passage completely overlooked by CUCC in 1981/2, which promises to produce a
new low-level entrance in 2000 or 2001. This is a continuing project
typically involving several short expeditions each year. CUCC liaises with
Arge, and there is a healthy exchange of survey data. However - we don't
yet document their finds on the site - it is hoped to provide English
translations of the cave descriptions some time, but it's unlikely we'll
ever list all the trips which explored the cave.
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<br>Simon Kellet outside the entrance of 1623/115,
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<br>Brian Derby in the Big Chamber of 142, discovered in August 1982 by
Tim Parker, Andy Dolby and Mike Thomas. This is entered by a 35m pitch
through the roof, just by the connection between 142 and
<span lang="de-at">Schwabenschacht.</span> Most apparent ways on from the
chamber choke, but one way out to the NE was found in 1985 to link back into
<span lang="de-at">Stellerwegh&ouml;hle.</span> The photographer's minion,
just visible at the bottom of the picture, is Phil Wigglesworth, the third
member of the photographic
<a href="../../../years/1984/log.htm#id1984-142-2">trip of 1984-07-24.</a>
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<br>Andy Dolby at the deep camp in 1623/115,
<span lang="de">Schnellzugh&ouml;hle</span> during the explorations of 1982.
The photo was taken on the second (and final) bottoming trip.
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<br>Pete Lancaster at the final sump in 1623/115,
<span lang="de">Schnellzugh&ouml;hle</span> during the explorations of 1982.
This was the second of only two trips (both camping underground) to reach
this point: 885m (1999 survey figures) below the original
<span lang="de-at">Stellerwegh&ouml;hle</span> entrance (and at -974m from
the highest entrance, linked in 1985).
<a href="../../../years/1982/log.htm#id1982-115-20">The trip</a> was a 32 hour
marathon of surveying, the odd bit of photography, and derigging the lower
streamway.
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<h3>Schnellzugh&ouml;hle entrance series side passages (1980)</h3>
<p>As the initial entry series is so obscure, the
<a href="115.htm#C1980-115-46">short dead ends</a> at the entrance are described
under the main route description.
<p>Where the <a href="115.htm#derigel">Hedgehog</a> emerges into the
abandoned phreatic tube, the way right becomes low over a silty mud floor
[<a name="C1980-115-48" href="qmlist.htm#C1980-115-48">C1980-115-48</a>], and shows little
promise.
<p>Where the way left ends its roller coaster progress by intersecting
another tube at a climb down above the ramp, the way left in the larger tube
is an inlet passage [<a name="C1981-115-00" href="qmlist.htm#C1981-115-00">C1981-115-00</a>] with
eight small dry cascades to a choke 30m up.
<p>The large hole down in the floor at this point <b>Baker's Bungle</b> was
taken as the obvious way on in 1980. It proves to be a blind rift pitch in
the narrow trench below the true way on. A traverse off, 10m from the top of
the pitch, was the route by which the correct way on was discovered at the
end of the 1980 trip, leading into the <a href="115.htm#ramp">Ramp</a> a
little lower down than the normal route.
<p>The trench below the Ramp has not been entered lower down. After crossing
it once, the pitch series regains it again at a point where it is wide enough
to be entered, at a rebelay where the crossing to the
<a href="115.htm#thecol">Col</a> departs. A possible route down the trench,
[<a name="C1981-115-02" href="qmlist.htm#C1981-115-02">C1981-115-02</a>], appears blind, and was
not pushed.
<p>The inlet in the bottom of the rift above the Inlet Pitches can be
followed up for a short way until progress is barred by an upward pitch.
It is possible that this water comes from the vicinity of the vast black
space seen from the bottom of the Ramp. Its speed of rising in wet weather
suggests a fairly direct route from the surface.
<p>It has been suggested that a traverse could be possible over the 24m pitch
into the Big Chamber [<a name="C1981-115-03" href="qmlist.htm#C1981-115-03">C1981-115-03</a>].
This would head ESE, possibly to meet the source of the inlet above the Big
Chamber food dump, but it seems likely that the walls diverge and this would
be too epic to contemplate.
<h3><a name="offbigcha">Big Chamber</a> (115 final chamber)</h3>
<p>The WNW-ESE joint or fault that has determined the form of the cave from
the Ramp down the <a href="115.htm#inletp">Inlet Pitches</a> appears to
"bottom out" here and continuations are largely sub-horizontal. As well as
the water falling down the 24m entry pitch, water comes from other sources in
the area. Following the main water up (N or NE?) beyond where the 115
waterfall comes in, leads 50m in a big passage to 50m of small vadose
streamway closing at an inlet sump [<a name="C1981-115-04"
href="qmlist.htm#C1981-115-04">C1981-115-04</a>]. It seems likely that the big passage is a
fossil downstream phreatic tube (fed by water from the <a
href="#futser">Futility Series</a>), cleared of fill by the invading small
stream.
<p>Up the boulder slope in the chamber leads to the site of a food dump where
an inlet is seen in wet weather; through a hole in the wall, a short crawl is
thought to emerge at an aven [<a name="C1981-115-05"
href="qmlist.htm#C1981-115-05">C1981-115-05</a>].
<p>Water flows over the boulder floor towards the start of <b>Pete's
Purgatory</b> - the first streamway CUCC found in Austria which was (just)
big enough to follow. Above this is a network of large and small phreatic
passages.
<h3><a name="petepurg">Pete's Purgatory</a> (1981)</h3>
<p>Following the combined waters in the 115 <a href="115.htm#bigcham115">Big
Chamber</a> downstream leads to 800m (taped, but not fully surveyed) of
unrelentingly narrow meandering vadose canyon. The passage is of uniform
size, never wider than 1m and in places sufficiently small to require
traversing above the squeeze or crawling at water level. There are few
features of interest, but a small drip inlet, an oxbow, and a series of
cascades permit some measure of progress to be judged. Eventually,
(typically two hours) the passage joins a similar sized stream at
<a href="deepwy.htm#confluence"><b>The Confluence</b></a>, where the dry
<a href="115.htm#purgbypass0"><b>Purgatory Bypass</b></a> via
<a href="deepwy.htm#jncha">Junction Chamber</a> joins the route from above.
<p>The large abandoned tube above the Purgatory is followed West, then NNW by
crossing from ledge to ledge, or by climbing up from below some way
downstream of the chamber. Eventually further traversing was given up as the
ledges give out shortly after the right branch into the
<a href="115.htm#purgbypass0">Purgatory Bypass</a>. However, this tube is
expected to continue as [<a name="C1981-115-06">C1981-115-06</a>], and should be checked.
It is possible (speculative) that this tube could be reached from
<a href="#C1981-115-16">one or more QMs</a> around <a href="#ccairn">Connection
Cairn</a>.
<h3><a name="futser">The Futility Series</a> (1982)</h3>
<p>The Futility Series branches left from the large tube above the Purgatory,
where it turns northwards soon after leaving Big Chamber, and where a large
boulder is jammed across the stream trench [<a name="C1981-115-09"
href="qmlist.htm#C1981-115-09">C1981-115-09</a>]. The way leads South in a large passage
past a ramp on the left which can be followed up a gully to two avens
[<a name="C1982-115-35" href="qmlist.htm#C1982-115-35">C1982-115-35</a>]. Soon, a small choked
passage in the floor on the right breaks into the 12m high <b>Pebble Beach
Chamber</b>, with a drip inlet down a red flowstone covered area. Beyond
this, boulders become more frequent in the passage until a climb up brings
one to <a name="bignfcham"><b>Big Enough Chamber</b></a> (4m high) with two
ways on.
<p>To the right, a 3m diameter tube soon becomes impassable as the sandy
floor rises towards the roof, with a strong draught at the end
[<a name="C1982-115-36" href="qmlist.htm#C1982-115-36">C1982-115-36</a>]. The passage is heading
SW towards the surface and at this point is about 100m from the valley side
below the 115 entrance. A dig was considered from the surface, but a suitable
site was not located on the surface surveying trip to find the nearest point.
Time prevented a dig in the cave, and the system has not been rigged since.
To the left from Big Enough Chamber, up a mud slope, a horizontal slot leads
to a larger passage with a stream which soon sinks into the sandy floor. The
passage ends abruptly at a choke just beyond some rippled mud formations
[<a name="C1982-115-37" href="qmlist.htm#C1982-115-37">C1982-115-37</a>].
<h3>The Connection area (1981)</h3>
<p>The low mud-filled continuation of the abandoned tube above the Purgatory
leads into a mazy fossil phreatic area. The passage size increases in this,
past one or two passages right. Both the original grade 1 sketch and the notes for the grade 5 survey show the first as a genuine question mark
[<a name="C1981-115-17" href="qmlist.htm#C1981-115-17">C1981-115-17</a>], but later descriptions
omit this. (It is shown on the published survey, although almost hidden by
the Ramp directly above). The second is a <a name="pboxbow">steeply rising
tube</a> to the right which loops back to connect at roof level with the
route (there are a few straws here).
<p><a name="ccairn">After</a> this junction a small vadose trench in the
floor contains only seepage water, but the route lowers to a crawl through a
sandy floored arch to a point where the route diverges. Left, the original
way explored in 1981, a short thrutch emerges at <b>Connection Cairn</b>,
which lies in a complex area above a vadose trench with water estimated to be
10m below [<a name="C1981-115-16" href="qmlist.htm#C1981-115-16">C1981-115-16</a>] (thought to be
the Purgatory, but almost equally likely to be the Stellerweg water or a
different stream entirely). Several passages lead off here [<a name="C1981-115-13"
href="qmlist.htm#C1981-115-13">C1981-115-13</a>], but one rises steeply upwards in a large
tube [<a name="C1981-115-12" href="qmlist.htm#C1981-115-12">C1981-115-12</a>], eventually to
reach the low wide sandy crawl which is the main route.
<h3><a name="offjcha">Junction Chamber area</a> (1981)</h3>
<p>Junction Chamber is a nexus of routes where the entrance series of both
Schnellzugh&ouml;hle and the ramifications of Stellerwegh&ouml;hle join. Two
streams, one from Stellerweg's <a href="41.htm#id41bigrift">Big Rift</a> to the
NW and one from the NE (the opposite side from the 115 passage), join and
drop into the deep slot which is traversed over on the entry route from 115.
The water downstream has not been followed [<a name="C1981-41-14"
href="qmlist.htm#C1981-41-14">C1981-41-14</a>], but the water is assumed to form part of
the inlet stream which enters at <a href="deepwy.htm#confluence"><b>The
Confluence</b></a>. A continuation traverse [<a name="C1981-41-15"
href="qmlist.htm#C1981-41-15">C1981-41-15</a>] above this stream may not exist, but maybe
should be checked.
<p>The inlet stream across Junction Chamber cannot be followed very far
upstream. Directly opposite the point of entry from 115, a very greasy 10m
climb up (handline essential for repeated use) gives access to a large
passage which is the NE-trending continuation of that on the other side of
the chamber. This soon leads to a trench in the floor into which no descent
has been made [<a name="C1981-41-19" href="qmlist.htm#C1981-41-19">C1981-41-19</a>]. Following
this above the water (thought to be the stream emerging on the NE of Junction
Chamber) gives onto a traverse which has not been pushed (sketching shows
continuation c 80m to two avens [<a name="C1981-41-20"
href="qmlist.htm#C1981-41-20">C1981-41-20</a>,<a name="C1981-41-21"
href="qmlist.htm#C1981-41-21">C1981-41-21</a>], both with inlets).
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<h2>Stellerweg area side passages</h2>
<p>This area comprises the entrance series to 1623/41 and the ramifications
of the linked entrance 1623/142, together with an apparently independent way
on in 41 itself. The passages are developed in a series of hading rifts of
considerable complexity, and only main routes through have been fully
surveyed, by two different groups, over a decade apart. Sometimes it is
clear where we have both surveyed the same passage, but in other places
it is far from obvious. If the description seems confusing, then so is the
cave!</p>
<p>The passages are described as seen from three main routes - the way
through 142, the main way through 41, and the German route through 41.
These routes are roughly parallel, and penetrate the hillside progressively
further to the east, or down the dip of the ramps. Some of these ramps
remain unexplored but probably connect the three routes in yet more
places.</p>
<h2><a name="ent142">New entrance</a> 1623/142 (1982-83)</h2>
<p><b>Location:</b> E 35772.8 N (52)81214.6 H 1615.6</p>
<p>This is reached by bashing up an indistinct gully from
<a href="../../noinfo/smkridge/32.htm"><span lang="de">Windloch</span>
(1623/32)</a> on the
<span lang="de-at">St&ouml;ger Weg</span> until an entrance marked P132 (sic)
in red paint is reached. Initially thought to be a possible higher entrance
to the system, it is actually a little lower than
<span lang="de-at">Stellerwegh&ouml;hle</span> itself.</p>
<p><a name="wigway">A small</a> tube at the entrance quickly leads to a short
drop and spiral round into the start of a hading rift, much like
<span lang="de-at">Stellerweg</span> on a smaller
scale. Down the first ramp on the right is "Wiggy's way to 60' pitch"
[<a name="C1982-142-19" href="qmlist.htm#C1982-142-19">C1982-142-19</a>],
while straight on leads for 15m to where a trench intersects the floor. Down
this to the left leads to a pitch
[<a name="C1982-142-20" href="qmlist.htm#C1982-142-20">C1982-142-20</a>].
The main way continues low past holes in the floor
[<a name="C1982-142-21" href="qmlist.htm#C1982-142-21">C1982-142-21</a>] on
the right, then over a rock into a small chamber with a cairn.</p>
<p><img src="142ent.png" width="650" height="870" alt="142 Entrance survey (12k PNG)" /></p>
<p>To the left up a slope is the <a href="#id142main1">main way</a>, but
various gaps on the right lead through a low section downhill
[<a name="C1982-142-22" href="qmlist.htm#C1982-142-22">C1982-142-22</a>].
To the left after 10m,
a crawl up leads to a ramp back to the main route, while up a 1m step to the
right, a crawl leads under a low arch and continues to intersect a ramp
[<a name="C1983-142-02" href="qmlist.htm#C1983-142-02">C1983-142-02</a>].
Up to the left leads to the noise of a stream
[<a name="C1983-142-03" href="qmlist.htm#C1983-142-03">C1983-142-03</a>],
with a further QM
[<a name="C1983-142-04" href="qmlist.htm#C1983-142-04">C1983-142-04</a>]
to the right of it, undescribed but shown on the survey. Down to the right
reaches an 8m pitch landing on jammed boulders, followed by a 19m pitch in a
dripping chamber. Arge's survey suggests that across this pitch (traverse
on left) leads in a few metres to the main way in 41. An unexplored passage
[<a name="C1983-142-05" href="qmlist.htm#C1983-142-05">C1983-142-05</a>]
leads south towards the entrance - this appears to choke very close to the
main 41 passage on the Arge survey. The dripping chamber is area is very
close to Stellerweg, but below the main route.</p>
<p>The <a id="id142main1">main route</a> from the chamber (with the cairn)
goes uphill to a low section, then keeps left round a choked depression in
the floor of a chamber. The way narrows below a tight lead on the left
[<a name="C1982-142-23" href="qmlist.htm#C1982-142-23">C1982-142-23</a>],
then enlarges at another ramp. Up and left is a way up to a tight rift
[<a name="C1982-142-24" href="qmlist.htm#C1982-142-24">C1982-142-24</a>].
Both of these ways up left seem to connect into
<span lang="de">Schwabenschacht</span>, while down the ramp is unexplored
but probably leads back down to the dripping chamber
[<a name="C1982-142-25" href="qmlist.htm#C1982-142-25">C1982-142-25</a>].
Another constriction leads to a "bad step" over a ramp to the right
[<a name="C1982-142-26" href="qmlist.htm#C1982-142-26">C1982-142-26</a>],
but none of the ramps are as awkward to cross as the lined traverses in
Stellerweg.</p>
<p><img src="142-41.png" width="750" height="650" alt="Survey (13k PNG)" /></p>
<p>A longer crawl continues, passing small holes to right
[<a name="C1982-142-27" href="qmlist.htm#C1982-142-27">C1982-142-27</a>]
and then left
[<a name="C1982-142-28" href="qmlist.htm#C1982-142-28">C1982-142-28</a>],
before a step down above another ramp to the right
[<a name="C1982-142-29" href="qmlist.htm#C1982-142-29">C1982-142-29</a>].
Straight on is a rift leading over a hole in the floor
[<a name="C1982-142-30" href="qmlist.htm#C1982-142-30">C1982-142-30</a>],
finally to emerge at the bottom of a small boulder chamber
<b lang="de">Vereinigungshalle</b> sloping up to the left.
At the top is a T-junction, left
[<a name="C1982-142-31" href="qmlist.htm#C1982-142-31">C1982-142-31</a>]
was soon blocked by a large boulder, which was passed by a short dig
from the far side, to provide the first connection from
<a href="../../noinfo/smkridge/78.htm"><span lang="de">Schwabenschacht</span></a> (1623/78).
To the right at the T-junction leads on until, after 20m, the floor drops
away into blackness
[<a name="C1982-142-32" href="qmlist.htm#C1982-142-32">C1982-142-32</a>],
which proved to be a 32m pitch into the <a href="#bigcham142"><b>Big
Chamber</b></a>.</p>
<p><img src="142bc.png" width="600" height="560" alt="Survey of the Big Chamber (14k PNG)" /></p>
<p><a href="l/142bc.htm" name="bigcham142"><img alt="photo - 12k jpeg"
width="215" height="296" class="onleft" src="t/142bc.jpg" /></a>The
imaginatively named <b>Big Chamber</b> is by far the largest chamber in the
<span lang="de-at">Stellerweg</span> part of the system, 90m long, 30m wide,
and 40m from the roof at the pitch to the lowest point of the floor. This is
at the South West end of the SW-NE aligned chamber, while at the other end,
the floor rises over boulders towards the arched roof. An extension to the
north at this end leads to a depression in the floor. The north side of the
chamber generally ends too low where the boulder floor meets the roof. A way
up at the NE end of the chamber
[<a name="C1982-142-34" href="qmlist.htm#C1982-142-34">C1982-142-34</a>] has
now been connected into <span lang="de-at">Stellerweg.</span> Descents into
boulders
[<a name="C1982-142-33" href="qmlist.htm#C1982-142-33">C1982-142-33</a>] are
possible at various points, but progress seems unlikely. Having said that,
Arge seem to have pushed an extension hereabouts to find
<b lang="de">Richie-Meander</b>.</p>
<h4 style="clear: both"><a name="rodrunway">Rodent Runway</a> - the original connection to
41 (1983)</h4>
<p>From halfway up <span lang="de">Vereinigungshalle</span> before the pitch
into the Big Chamber, an obscure route through boulders
[<a name="C1983-142-00" href="qmlist.htm#C1983-142-00">C1983-142-00</a>]
leads down to the head of a ramp. This passage is <b>Rodent Runway</b>,
after some remains of dubious taxonomy. Sketches show up to seven ways on
[<a name="C1983-142-01" href="qmlist.htm#C1983-142-01">C1983-142-01</a>]
off Rodent Runway. The route swings left across the strike of the ramp in
<a name="roofpcham"><b>Roof Pendant Chamber</b></a>, before intersecting
another, bigger ramp. Up eventually leads back to the Big Chamber at
[<a href="qmlist.htm#C1982-142-34">C1982-142-34</a>],
while down leads to <b lang="de">Megalo-Schlinger</b> at the foot of
<a href="41.htm#p21">the 21m pitch</a> in Stellerweg, emerging from
[<a href="qmlist.htm#C1980-41-17">C1980-41-17</a>].</p>
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<h2>Side passages in 41 entrance series</h2>
<p>The main route explored by CUCC in 1980 pursues a determined course into
the hill, passing numerous ramps and side passages, almost all of which were
left for subsequent explorers. The initial passage to the left just inside
the entrance crosses a ramp
[<a name="C1980-41-01" href="qmlist.htm#C1980-41-01">C1980-41-01</a>]
by a traverse (over ice in 1980) and leads up a ramp until this becomes
lower (but continues as
[<a name="C1980-41-02" href="qmlist.htm#C1980-41-02">C1980-41-02</a>])
and a way opens across the strike to the right. The route across this
immediately intersects a large 45&deg; ramp
[<a name="C1980-41-03" href="qmlist.htm#C1980-41-03">C1980-41-03</a>].
This is traversed over and a small uphill passage
[<a name="C1980-41-04" href="qmlist.htm#C1980-41-04">C1980-41-04</a>]
is passed on the left. Three more descending ramps
[<a name="C1980-41-05" href="qmlist.htm#C1980-41-05">C1980-41-05</a>,
<a name="C1980-41-07" href="qmlist.htm#C1980-41-07">C1980-41-07</a>,
<a name="C1980-41-11" href="qmlist.htm#C1980-41-11">C1980-41-11</a>]
are crossed in a short distance, with a small downhill passage after
the second of these
[<a name="C1980-41-08" href="qmlist.htm#C1980-41-08">C1980-41-08</a>].
A number of small unpushed passages lead off left
[<a name="C1980-41-06" href="qmlist.htm#C1980-41-06">C1980-41-06</a>,
<a name="C1980-41-09" href="qmlist.htm#C1980-41-09">C1980-41-09</a>,
<a name="C1980-41-10" href="qmlist.htm#C1980-41-10">C1980-41-10</a>,
<a name="C1980-41-12" href="qmlist.htm#C1980-41-12">C1980-41-12</a>].</p>
<p>The final ramp is the <a href="41.htm#C1980-41-13">main way on</a>, while
across it leads to the original route at the head of a 21m pitch. A possible
passage [<a name="C1980-41-15" href="qmlist.htm#C1980-41-15">C1980-41-15</a>]
over the pitch would require a bolted traverse, but would almost certainly
merely connect into Doppelbodenhalle. Below the pitch, a ramp
[<a name="C1980-41-16" href="qmlist.htm#C1980-41-16">C1980-41-16</a>]
leads down to a chamber <b lang="de">Megalo-Schlinger</b> from where many
ways lead on. These have since been looked at by Arge.</p>
<p>A joint plane
[<a name="C1980-41-18" href="qmlist.htm#C1980-41-18">C1980-41-18</a>]
down dip is obstructed by boulders and a climb down
[<a name="C1980-41-19" href="qmlist.htm#C1980-41-19">C1980-41-19</a>]
leads via a squeeze into a very small vadose canyon. These both appear
to lead into Warme Duscher Rampe, a passage which appears to end wide
but inconclusive on the Arge 1998 survey.</p>
<p>A ramp up
[<a name="C1980-41-17" href="qmlist.htm#C1980-41-17">C1980-41-17</a>]
under the old 21m pitch leads to the two connections to 142, one left to
<a href="#roofpcham">Roof Pendant Chamber</a> and the other straight on to
emerge at <a href="#C1982-142-34">C1982-142-34</a> in the Big Chamber.</p>
<p>A second ramp
[<a name="C1980-41-20" href="qmlist.htm#C1980-41-20">C1980-41-20</a>]
up NE then NW is <b lang="de">Doppelbodenhalle,</b> which emerges at
<b lang="de">Quickie-Rampe,</b> which appears complex at the point of entry.
It descends steeply to the right (ESE) and ends about 20m below the post-1981
route to the Big Pitch, heading in the same direction. It seems likely to
lead to another way into the same shaft, possibly with a shorter hang.</p>
<p>Down a ramp to the right at the start of
<span lang="de">Doppelbodenhalle</span> goes to a right turn,
[<a name="C1980-41-22" href="qmlist.htm#C1980-41-22">C1980-41-22</a>] and
seems to be an easier way into BUS than the way used by CUCC in the 1980s,
but the CUCC and Arge surveys don't seem to correlate well hereabouts.</p>
<p>The main route is a climb up a narrower ramp left off the start of
<span lang="de">Warme Duscher Rampe.</span> This brings one shortly into BUS,
a steeply descending phreatic passage and climbs which are followed by lined
traverses across two ramps
[<a name="C1980-41-23" href="qmlist.htm#C1980-41-23">C1980-41-23</a>,
<a name="C1980-41-24" href="qmlist.htm#C1980-41-24">C1980-41-24</a>].
These are both very steep and slippery, and would require rigging,
especially in view of the fact that they head towards the vicinity of the
100m <a href="41.htm#bigpitch">Big Pitch</a>.</p>
<p>It should be noted that some of these leads have since been pushed by
Arge, and rejoice in names such as Manhattan and Fritz's Freeway. This
description is thus somewhat out of date and rather remedial in that attempts
have been made to indicate the new passages by building description from a
survey on which many of the passages are not explicitly named, and survey
data commented in a language foreign to the writer...</p>
<p><a href="41bp.png"><img src="41bp2.png" width="535" height="575" alt="142 Big Pitch sketch (14k PNG)" /></a></p>
<p><a name="alice">Various routes</a> converge on the Big Pitch, but either
of two up-ramps, above the pitch heads, lead to a small junction chamber,
where a steep slope up on the left
[<a name="C1980-41-26" href="qmlist.htm#C1980-41-26">C1980-41-26</a>]
leads back to the ramp used to gain access. Other
ways [<a name="C1980-41-27" href="qmlist.htm#C1980-41-27">C1980-41-27</a>,
<a name="C1980-41-28" href="qmlist.htm#C1980-41-28">C1980-41-28</a>]
from this ramp remain inadequately described, but are probably the passage
explored by Arge, <span lang="de">Alice im Wunderland,</span> which trends
north, then NE for 100m, changing name to <span lang="de">bl&ouml;des
Eck</span> and ending at an unexplored pitch, which seems 99% certain to drop
into the <a href="144.htm#ybr">Yellow Brick Road</a> in 1623/144, probably
about a p20m.</p>
<p>Straight on from the above junction chamber, a small passage
leads after 20m to a small inlet on the left, also unexplored
[<a name="C1980-41-29" href="qmlist.htm#C1980-41-29">C1980-41-29</a>].
The water from this falls into a deep canyon below the passage ahead. A
descending traverse leads after 30m to the foot of an aven
[<a name="C1982-41-38" href="qmlist.htm#C1982-41-38">C1982-41-38</a>]
from where hammering at the bottom of a nearby pothole (entrance numbered
<a href="../143.htm">143</a>, 140m deep) can be clearly heard, though a voice
connection could not be achieved. The top of the aven is about 15m below the
end of 143, and perhaps 20m away horizontally. The connection would add no
new depth to the system.</p>
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<h2><a name="germanr">The German Route</a> in 41 (1954 or 1972?, 1980)</h2>
<p>From the snowbank in the entrance chamber, a narrow ramp down to the east,
Extrablatt, curves round left to meet a larger ramp coming down. This ramp
also comes from the entrance chamber, by a right turn from he north exit.
Continuing north from the junction, two more ramps from above also come from
the passage to the north of the entrance chamber. The CUCC sketch notes
a couple of ramps downwards too. The main way is a roped traverse over a
choked pot
[<a name="X0000-41-03" href="qmlist.htm#X0000-41-03">X0000-41-03</a>]
(reported to be 28m deep, though not descended by CUCC).
Heading north from this point, then keeping left, an ascending ramp is
DIN-Rampe, connecting back to the main route not far before Megalo-Schlinger.</p>
<p>Shortly beyond the choked 28m pitch (and presumably one of the unsurveyed
ways to the right on the Arge survey) is the head of a series of pitches
[<a name="X0000-41-04" href="qmlist.htm#X0000-41-04">X0000-41-04</a>],
best rigged from the far end of a further traverse. This series came to be
known as <b lang="de">Stalaglufth&ouml;hle.</b> The pitches were originally
reported to be 220m deep by the German explorers. Although the shafts
descended by CUCC are pretty much where we were led to believe the German big
shaft lay, there is a niggling suspicion that the Germans had in fact found a
route [<a name="C1980-41-39" href="qmlist.htm#C1980-41-39">C1980-41-39</a>]
from here to the <a href="41.htm#bigpitch">Big Pitch</a>, which would be a
much more convincing fit to the description we have.</p>
<h3>Stalaglufth&ouml;hle</h3>
<p>The first two drops are 6m and 18m to the floor of a rift. At one end of
this is a 20m pitch with a small outlet at its base (not explored)
[<a name="C1980-41-43" href="qmlist.htm#C1980-41-43">C1980-41-43</a>], but
in the other direction pitches of 2, 12 and 14m lead to an awkward traverse
above a canyon. The route turns left (straight on has not been pushed
[<a name="C1980-41-40" href="qmlist.htm#C1980-41-40">C1980-41-40</a>])
and soon drops down a 10m free climb to a low crawl which looks like a
dried out sump. Beyond this, the crawl continues unexplored
[<a name="C1980-41-41" href="qmlist.htm#C1980-41-41">C1980-41-41</a>] but
through a window to the right, a climb down and traverse (over an unexplored
hole [<a name="C1980-41-42" href="qmlist.htm#C1980-41-42">C1980-41-42</a>])
leads to a 14m pitch (sloping at the top) which lands in a chamber. Pitches
of 8, 12 and 6m follow in a rift until the route narrows at the head of a
pitch (estimated 6m) which has not been descended
[<a name="C1980-41-44" href="qmlist.htm#C1980-41-44">C1980-41-44</a>].</p>
<p>The route as described had survey cotton for some way, but there was no
sign of previous exploration at the end.</p>
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<h2>Connections below the Big Pitch</h2>
<p>From the lower part of the 100m pitch, a rift window is visible in the
opposite direction from the way on below. This rift pitch
[<a name="C1980-41-32" href="qmlist.htm#C1980-41-32">C1980-41-32</a>]
marks the entry from <b lang="de">L&auml;rchenschacht</b> (1623/88).</p>
<p>Unfortunately, the group that explored this cave, whilst being very keen
to hear from CUCC about our finds in the early eighties, were reluctant to
reveal anything of value about their explorations (which were not then
complete), so we have no written description from them. However, recent
improvements in dialogue mean that we have a survey of the cave, from which a
<a href="../../noinfo/smkridge/88.htm">description</a> has been built. The
further ramifications of this cave connect through to the
<a href="../../noinfo/smkridge/40.htm">Schwarzmooskogeleish&ouml;hle
(1623/40)</a> with a further 2.5km or more of passage.</p>
<p>Downstream in Wet 'n' Wild, about 10m from the Big Pitch, a climb up to a
passage on the left
[<a name="C1980-41-34" href="qmlist.htm#C1980-41-34">C1980-41-34</a>]
remains unexplored (and was not mentioned in the published description).
Downstream about 20m from the pitch, a chimney in the right wall
[<a name="C1980-41-33" href="qmlist.htm#C1980-41-33">C1980-41-33</a>]
marks the entry of the route from CUCC's highest entrance,
<a href="../144.htm">144</a>. The continuation of the rift can be followed
in a sharp passage until the stream disappears into a hole
[<a name="C1980-41-35" href="qmlist.htm#C1980-41-35">C1980-41-35</a>],
apparently reputed to be a sump, but in fact, no attempt to follow it has
been formally recorded, so this may be in error.</p>
<p>Above the hole, in the main way on after 90m (before regaining the water),
a large (2.5m+ diameter?) unexplored passage
[<a name="C1980-41-36" href="qmlist.htm#C1980-41-36">C1980-41-36</a>] with no
obvious draught comes in from the right. This may be the passage shown on the
Arge survey as turning right after 10m or so, then ending a similar distance
beyond.</p>
<p>After the 20m pitch, the 9, 5, 6 and 6m pitches are increasingly tight,
and it is thought likely that a much larger continuation could be found by a
(possibly heroic) traverse or pendulum from the vicinity of the 9m pitch -
though it has to be said that this QM
[<a name="C1980-41-37" href="qmlist.htm#C1980-41-37">C1980-41-37</a>] has not
actually been seen.</p>
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<h2>Stellerwegh&ouml;hlensystem: deep side leads</h2>
<h3><a name="offdford">Dartford Tunnel</a></h3>
<p>There are several small tubes leading off both right and left near the
start of <a href="deepwy.htm#dartford">Dartford Tunnel</a> [<a name="C1982-41-00"
href="qmlist.htm#C1982-41-00">C1982-41-00</a>], also downhill, but none of these
crawls/stoops have been pushed to a conclusion. There may also be high leads
to the left 40m [<a name="C1982-41-01" href="qmlist.htm#C1982-41-01">C1982-41-01</a>] and 60m
[<a name="C1982-41-02" href="qmlist.htm#C1982-41-02">C1982-41-02</a>] from the start.</p>
<p>Where Dartford Tunnel turns abruptly right (NW) and changes into a high
rift, there is a possiblity of a passage to the left, about 6m up the wall,
continuing the line of the rift in the opposite direction [<a name="C1982-41-04"
href="qmlist.htm#C1982-41-04">C1982-41-04</a>] to the SE. This NW-SE joint is parallel
with the Big Rift of Stellerweg, and seems to be a major influence in this
area.</p>
<p>The joint-guided rift ends abruptly at a T-junction where the main way
is left in SW-trending vadose canyon. To the right is also big passage,
leading Northeast to an aven with an inlet [<a name="C1982-41-05"
href="qmlist.htm#C1982-41-05">C1982-41-05</a>], but no way on. On the main way, at a 4m
climb down, a passage comes in from the right, also NE; this may be followed
to a low area of mud and boulders [<a name="C1982-41-06"
href="qmlist.htm#C1982-41-06">C1982-41-06</a>] with no continuation.</p>
<h3>Confluence Area (1982)</h3>
<p>Where the Purgatory Bypass finally intersects the canyon of the stream
entering at the Confluence, the main way is to the left on a ledge. No
attempt has apparently been made to follow the canyon to the right at high
level [<a name="C1982-41-12" href="qmlist.htm#C1982-41-12">C1982-41-12</a>], perhaps because
of its angle and lack of friction.</p>
<p>The main way crosses the canyon to a terrace, and drops down from here to
the Confluence from a corner. If, instead of dropping down here, the terrace
is followed round the corner to the right, it leads to a dry vadose trench in
the floor and then a traverse above the main streamway. <b><a id="rampant">Rampant
Passage</a></b> starts near this corner and rises as a large dry passage, 7m high
and 2m wide. This climbs 30m in its 65m length to emerge at a huge chamber,
<b>Cologne Cathedral (K&ouml;ln Dom)</b> approximately 15m in diameter and
apparently 20m high. A dangerous climb, c10, c5m leads to 25m of passage
ending in the huge 30m high Echo Aven [<a name="C1982-41-14"
href="qmlist.htm#C1982-41-14">C1982-41-14</a>]. It's not entirely clear whether there is
a way on [<a name="C1982-41-13" href="qmlist.htm#C1982-41-13">C1982-41-13</a>] in the roof of
K&ouml;n Dom.</p>
<p>Many of the passages in these levels contain dead bats, perhaps suggesting
a lower entrance, though this seems unlikely to be nearby. Some of the deeper
passages of <a href="../../noinfo/smkridge/78.htm">Schwabenschacht (1623/78)</a> are near this
area, perhaps 200m above the Confluence. The top of Echo Aven is near to
halfway to bridging this gap, which suggests the possibility of a connection
in the next few years.</p>
<p>The climb down from the Bypass lands at the junction of the Purgatory
water and an inlet [<a name="C1981-41-07" href="qmlist.htm#C1981-41-07">C1981-41-07</a>] which
can be followed upstream (ESE) in a passage similar to the Purgatory, until
soon after a 7m climb up, the streamway divides twice and becomes too small
to follow. This is thought to be the Stellerweg water, last seen in Junction
Chamber, but is likely also to include water from various inlets and floor
trenches seen in Dartford Tunnel, as there are no inlets in the Purgatory
itself.</p>
<h3>Stream Inlets below the Confluence (1982)</h3>
<p>Downstream of the Confluence, just after the first (4m) wet climb is the
entry of a dry inlet on the right, which leads back towards the Confluence,
but was not pushed to a conclusion [<a name="C1982-41-15"
href="qmlist.htm#C1982-41-15">C1982-41-15</a>]. Shortly downstream, below the 7m pitch,
the streamway feeding the cascade on the left [<a name="C1982-41-16"
href="qmlist.htm#C1982-41-16">C1982-41-16</a>] remains unexplored (this is shown on the
right on the survey, not the left).</p>
<p>Where the sump bypass drops back to the main stream, the continuing way up
is unexplored [<a name="C1981-41-22" href="qmlist.htm#C1981-41-22">C1981-41-22</a>]. Halfway
between the next 3m pitch and the Twelve Foot Climb, (50m from each) another
inlet enters from high up, this time on the right [<a name="C1981-41-23"
href="qmlist.htm#C1981-41-23">C1981-41-23</a>]. Much further on, another unexplored inlet
up on the left [<a name="C1981-41-24" href="qmlist.htm#C1981-41-24">C1981-41-24</a>], shortly
precedes the Subtle Approach Pitch.</p>
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<h2>Stellerwegh&ouml;hle Question mark list</h2>
<p>An attempt has been made to classify these chronologically, so that the
numbering of newly found QMs can start from 1 each year, and no QM ever
changes its number. Prefix X0000-41- indicates deduced pre-CUCC QM. Leads
found by CUCC are prefixed C&lt;year&gt;-41- under the system introduced
in 1999.</p>
<p>Key:</p>
<ul>
<li> <b>A</b> very good, go for it.</li>
<li> <b>B</b> needs effort, or less promising</li>
<li> <b>C</b> hard to reach (bolting etc.), or very unpromising</li>
<li> <b>?</b> quality unknown - poorly documented</li>
<li> <b>!</b> may not exist, or may be multiple - guess from sketches</li>
<li> <b>X</b> has now been pushed - may be ref. into description.</li>
<li> <b>*</b> allegedly pushed, but needs another look or survey</li>
</ul>
<p>Probably seriously incomplete, especially for 1983-85.</p>
<p><a name="X0000-41-00"></a><a href="41.htm#X0000-41-00">X0000-41-00 X</a> Entrance 41a/b [leads to CUCC and German routes &amp; all the rest :-]
<br /><a name="X0000-115-01"></a><a href="115.htm#X0000-115-01">X0000-115-01 X</a> Entrance 115 [led to choke dug by CUCC]
<br /><a name="X0000-115-02"></a><a href="115.htm#X0000-115-02">X0000-115-02 X</a> Stone-filled crawl inside 115 [led to rest of cave]
<br /><a name="X0000-41-03"></a><a href="off41.htm#X0000-41-03">X0000-41-03 *</a> Traverse pitch in 'German Route' [allegedly blind after 28m]
<br /><a name="X0000-41-04"></a><a href="off41.htm#X0000-41-04">X0000-41-04 X</a> Shaft at end in 'German Route' [led allegedly to -220m]
<br /><a name="X0000-41-05"></a><a href="off41.htm#germanr">X0000-41-05 C</a> Up left in first ramp crossed on 'German Route'
<br /><a name="X0000-41-06"></a><a href="off41.htm#germanr">X0000-41-06 B</a> Down right in first ramp crossed on 'German Route'
<br /><a name="X0000-41-07"></a><a href="off41.htm#germanr">X0000-41-07 C</a> Up left in second ramp crossed on 'German Route'
<br /><a name="X0000-41-08"></a><a href="off41.htm#germanr">X0000-41-08 B</a> Down right in second ramp crossed on 'German Route'
<br /><a name="C1980-41-00"></a><a href="41.htm#C1980-41-00">C1980-41-00 X</a> Left turn inside 41a entrance [led to <a href="41.htm#C1980-41-00">CUCC route</a>]
<br /><a name="C1980-41-01"></a><a href="off41.htm#C1980-41-01">C1980-41-01 C</a> First ramp traversed over in 41a CUCC route [probably to German Route 00-41-05]
<br /><a name="C1980-41-02"></a><a href="off41.htm#C1980-41-02">C1980-41-02 C</a> Uphill ramp where main way turns right along dip (must be near surface)
<br /><a name="C1980-41-03"></a><a href="off41.htm#C1980-41-03">C1980-41-03 C</a> Second ramp traversed in CUCC route [probably to German Route 00-41-07]
<br /><a name="C1980-41-04"></a><a href="off41.htm#C1980-41-04">C1980-41-04 C</a> Small uphill passage on left at corner after second traverse
<br /><a name="C1980-41-05"></a><a href="off41.htm#C1980-41-05">C1980-41-05 B</a> Third ramp traversed in CUCC route
<br /><a name="C1980-41-06"></a><a href="off41.htm#C1980-41-06">C1980-41-06 C</a> Small uphill passage to left by big boulders after third traverse
<br /><a name="C1980-41-07"></a><a href="off41.htm#C1980-41-07">C1980-41-07 B</a> Fourth ramp traversed in CUCC route
<br /><a name="C1980-41-08"></a><a href="off41.htm#C1980-41-08">C1980-41-08 B</a> Down passage to right after fourth ramp (probably to same place)
<br /><a name="C1980-41-09"></a><a href="off41.htm#C1980-41-09">C1980-41-09 C</a> Left (uphill) leads to T-jn. T-left
<br /><a name="C1980-41-10"></a><a href="off41.htm#C1980-41-10">C1980-41-10 C</a> T-right
<br /><a name="C1980-41-11"></a><a href="off41.htm#C1980-41-11">C1980-41-11 B</a> Fifth ramp down in CUCC route
<br /><a name="C1980-41-12"></a><a href="off41.htm#C1980-41-12">C1980-41-12 C</a> Uphill to left after fifth ramp
<br /><a name="C1980-41-13"></a><a href="41.htm#C1980-41-13">C1980-41-13 X</a> Last ramp down (serious traverse) [led to base of pitch, same as <a href="#C1980-41-14">C1980-41-14</a>]
<br /><a name="C1980-41-14"></a><a href="41.htm#C1980-41-14">C1980-41-14 X</a> Pitch after last ramp [led to <a href="#C1980-41-16">C1980-41-16/17</a>]
<br /><a name="C1980-41-15"></a><a href="off41.htm#C1980-41-15">C1980-41-15 B</a> Continuation of high-level over pitch
<br /><a name="C1980-41-16"></a><a href="off41.htm#C1980-41-16">C1980-41-16 X</a> Ramp down to chamber from pitch [led to way on to Big Pitch]
<br /><a name="C1980-41-17"></a><a href="off41.htm#C1980-41-17">C1980-41-17 X</a> Ramp up under pitch [led to <a href="#C1982-142-34">C1982-142-34</a> at <a href="off41.htm#C1982-142-34">NE end 142 Big Chamber</a>]
<br /><a name="C1980-41-18"></a><a href="off41.htm#C1980-41-18">C1980-41-18 C</a> Joint plane down dip from chamber below 1st pitch
<br /><a name="C1980-41-19"></a><a href="off41.htm#C1980-41-19">C1980-41-19 C</a> Climb down through squeeze from chamber below 1st pitch to vadose canyon
<br /><a name="C1980-41-20"></a><a href="off41.htm#C1980-41-20">C1980-41-20 B</a> First ramp up NE then NW from chamber
<br /><a name="C1980-41-21"></a><a href="41.htm#C1980-41-21">C1980-41-21 X</a> Second (narrow) ramp up from chamber [led to way on to Big Pitch]
<br /><a name="C1980-41-22"></a><a href="off41.htm#C1980-41-22">C1980-41-22 B</a> Right turn reached from down narrow ramp right from <a href="#C1980-41-21">C1980-41-21</a>
<br /><a name="C1980-41-23"></a><a href="off41.htm#C1980-41-23">C1980-41-23 A</a> First ramp down at corner below descent ramp from <a href="#C1980-41-21">C1980-41-21</a> (est. 25m drop)
<br /><a name="C1980-41-24"></a><a href="off41.htm#C1980-41-24">C1980-41-24 A</a> Second ramp down (nasty traverse, est. 25m drop)
<br /><a name="C1980-41-25"></a><a href="41.htm#C1980-41-25">C1980-41-25 X</a> Downhill in first huge ramp [routes to Big Pitch]
<br /><a name="C1980-41-26"></a><a href="off41.htm#C1980-41-26">C1980-41-26 B</a> Uphill in first huge ramp (two ways to same place)
<br /><a name="C1980-41-27"></a><a href="off41.htm#C1980-41-27">C1980-41-27 X</a> Right turn off uphill in first huge ramp [leads to second huge ramp]
<br /><a name="C1980-41-28"></a><a href="off41.htm#C1980-41-28">C1980-41-28 ?</a> Downhill in 2nd huge ramp - description fails around here but more in 82
<br /><a name="C1980-41-29"></a><a href="off41.htm#C1980-41-29">C1980-41-29 B</a> Uphill in small inlet (above second huge ramp ?)
<br /><a name="C1980-41-30"></a><a href="41.htm#C1980-41-30">C1980-41-30 X</a> Right via small pitch from descent of <a href="#C1980-41-25">C1980-41-25</a> [original way to <a href="41.htm#bigpitch">Big Pitch</a>]
<br /><a name="C1980-41-31"></a><a href="41.htm#C1980-41-31">C1980-41-31 X</a> Left via two small pitches from descent of <a href="#C1980-41-25">C1980-41-25</a> [new way to Big Pitch]
<br /><a name="C1980-41-32"></a><a href="off41.htm#C1980-41-32">C1980-41-32 X</a> Hole in wall near bottom of Big Pitch [reached from <a href="../../noinfo/smkridge/88.htm">1623/88</a>]
<br /><a name="C1980-41-33"></a><a href="off41.htm#C1980-41-33">C1980-41-33 X</a> Chimney in right wall 20m downstream from Big Pitch [way in from 144]
<br /><a name="C1980-41-34"></a><a href="off41.htm#C1980-41-34">C1980-41-34 A</a> Climb to passage on left 10m downstream from Big Pitch
<br /><a name="C1980-41-35"></a><a href="off41.htm#C1980-41-35">C1980-41-35 X</a> Downstream in sharp passage [main way on]
<br /><a name="C1980-41-36"></a><a href="off41.htm#C1980-41-36">C1980-41-36 B</a> Large (2.5m dia + trench?) passage on right (no draught, never entered)
<br /><a name="C1980-41-37"></a><a href="off41.htm#C1980-41-37">C1980-41-37 C</a> Possible roof traverse(s) above tight pitch(es)
<br /><a name="C1980-41-38"></a><a href="41.htm#C1980-41-38">C1980-41-38 X</a> Continuation of Big Rift [main way on 1981]
<br /><a name="C1980-41-39"></a><a href="off41.htm#C1980-41-39">C1980-41-39 ?</a> Area at start of Stalaglufth&ouml;hle - missed route on to Big Pitch ?
<br /><a name="C1980-41-40"></a><a href="off41.htm#C1980-41-40">C1980-41-40 C</a> Continuation of canyon after sloping traverse, end series, German route
<br /><a name="C1980-41-41"></a><a href="off41.htm#C1980-41-41">C1980-41-41 C</a> Continuation of 'dried out sump' crawl beyond window right
<br /><a name="C1980-41-42"></a><a href="off41.htm#C1980-41-42">C1980-41-42 C</a> Hole down traversed after climb down from window
<br /><a name="C1980-41-43"></a><a href="off41.htm#C1980-41-43">C1980-41-43 C</a> Tiny exit from chamber below 20m alternative pitch after initial p6m, p18m
<br /><a name="C1980-41-44"></a><a href="off41.htm#C1980-41-44">C1980-41-44 C</a> Tight drop at limit of German route 'Stalaglufth&ouml;hle'
<br /><a name="C1980-115-45"></a><a href="115.htm#C1980-115-45">C1980-115-45 C</a> Hopeless choke at bottom of initial passage in 115 (not the one dug)
<br /><a name="C1980-115-46"></a><a href="115.htm#C1980-115-46">C1980-115-46 X</a> Hole opposite initial 7m pitch [reaches blind roof passage]
<br /><a name="C1980-115-47"></a><a href="115.htm#C1980-115-47">C1980-115-47 X</a> Climb up on right in 115 initial passage [main way on, found at end]
<br /><a name="C1980-115-48"></a><a href="115.htm#C1980-115-48">C1980-41-48 X</a> Right at phreatic tube broken into by Der Igel [chokes, shat in]
<br /><a name="C1980-115-49"></a><a href="115.htm#C1980-115-49">C1980-41-49 X</a> Obvious traverse off 10m down blind Rift Pitch (Baker's Bungle) [way on]
<br /><a name="C1981-115-00"></a><a href="off115.htm#C1981-115-00">C1981-115-00 X</a> Inlet above Ramp at Baker's Bungle [up cascades, then ends]
<br /><a name="C1981-115-01"></a><a href="115.htm#C1981-115-01">C1981-115-01 B</a> Obvious (but lethally unsafe) black space ahead below Ramp
<br /><a name="C1981-115-02"></a><a href="off115.htm#C1981-115-02">C1981-115-02 B</a> Narrow rift below rebelay at the Col (crapped into)
<br /><a name="C1981-115-03"></a><a href="off115.htm#C1981-115-03">C1981-115-03 ?</a> Possible way on beyond pitch into Big Chamber (but probably not)
<br /><a name="C1981-115-04"></a><a href="off115.htm#C1981-115-04">C1981-115-04 ?</a> Aven at end of 60m upstream from Big Chamber, shown on survey. Description, however, says inlet sump.
<br /><a name="C1981-115-05"></a><a href="off115.htm#C1981-115-05">C1981-115-05 C</a> Aven beyond short crawl through hole in wall from food dump in 115 Big Chanber.
<br /><a name="C1981-115-06"></a><a href="off115.htm#C1981-115-06">C1981-115-06 B</a> Continuation traverse above Purgatory (too hard)
<br /><a name="C1981-41-07"></a><a href="offdp.htm#C1981-41-07">C1981-41-07 C</a> Upstream at the Confluence below Purgatory (thought to divide - all tributaries too small to follow)
<br /><a name="C1981-41-08"></a><a href="deepwy.htm#C1981-41-08">C1981-41-08 X</a> Downstream continuation at silly depth [way on 1982]
<br /><a name="C1981-115-09"></a><a href="off115.htm#C1981-115-09">C1981-115-09 X</a> Left turn from traverse level just downstream of Big Chamber [ends - may =81-41-05 - or is this way to Futility Series?]
<br /><a name="C1981-115-10"></a><a href="115.htm#C1981-115-10">C1981-115-10 X</a> Right where traverse gets too hard at <a href="#C1981-115-05">C1981-115-05</a> [into phreatic maze area]
<br /><a name="C1981-115-11"></a><a href="115.htm#C1981-115-11">C1981-115-11 X</a> Right from junction in phreatic maze after low arch [now Purgatory Bypass]
<br /><a name="C1981-115-12"></a><a href="off115.htm#C1981-115-12">C1981-115-12 X</a> Steeply rising continuation right from Cairn Junction [original link 41/115, joins C1981-41-11]
<br /><a name="C1981-115-13"></a><a href="off115.htm#C1981-115-13">C1981-115-13 A</a> Continuation left from Cairn Junction (may be several passages here)
<br /><a name="C1981-41-14"></a><a href="off115.htm#C1981-41-14">C1981-41-14 B</a> Follow stream below traverse right from <a href="deepwy.htm#jncha">Junction Chamber</a>
<br /><a name="C1981-41-15"></a><a href="off115.htm#C1981-41-15">C1981-41-15 ?</a> Continuation of traverse over stream (may not exist)
<br /><a name="C1981-115-16"></a><a href="off115.htm#C1981-115-16">C1981-115-16 C</a> Descent to the stream from Cairn Junction
<br /><a name="C1981-115-17"></a><a href="off115.htm#C1981-115-17">C1981-115-17 A</a> Left turn 16m
before 115 main passage, when coming from 41, mentioned in Journal, and quite clear on both sketch grade 1 of whole of this level and the grade 5 notes. <!-- at 41.Bypass.pt1.54 --> This is a genuine QM. *Unless* its the <a href="off115.htm#pboxbow">steeply rising tube</a> which loops back.</p>
<p>Some of these QMs are rather spurious - they only existed for a few days
during expo at most. On the other hand, the original survey notes are showing
up some more QMs, not yet formally in the list:</p>
<p>Hole down to sound of water at second junction with passage leading to
Cairn Junction <!-- 41.Bypass.pt1.41 --><br />
Hole to sound of water in Bypass well before Junction Chamber
<!-- 41.Bypass.pt1.39 --></p>
<p>There may be other QMs here - the descriptions/survey from each end (41
and 115) don't quite gel. We don't have the UBSS survey data for this
connection area, and once the main way on was open, this area was never
looked at again.</p>
<p><a name="C1981-41-18"></a><a href="deepwy.htm#C1981-41-18">C1981-41-18 X</a> Phreatic passage left from 15m climb up at Junction Chamber &quot;cucc/UBSS 1981&quot; [main way back to stream avoiding Purgatory]
<br />Other ways on from this passage (Dartford Tunnel) were not noted in 1981, so have 1982 numbers
<br /><a name="C1981-41-19"></a><a href="off115.htm#C1981-41-19">C1981-41-19 C</a> Descent to stream below traverse in passage right from Junction Chamber
<br /><a name="C1981-41-20"></a><a href="off115.htm#C1981-41-20">C1981-41-20 C</a> First big aven in passage right from Junction Chamber climb
<br /><a name="C1981-41-21"></a><a href="off115.htm#C1981-41-21">C1981-41-21 C</a> Terminal big aven in passage right from Junction Chamber climb
<br /><a name="C1981-41-22"></a><a href="offdp.htm#C1981-41-22">C1981-41-22 B</a> Continuation in sump bypass in lower streamway
<br /><a name="C1981-41-23"></a><a href="offdp.htm#C1981-41-23">C1981-41-23 B</a> Stream inlet on right between sump and 12' climb
<br /><a name="C1981-41-24"></a><a href="offdp.htm#C1981-41-24">C1981-41-24 B</a> Stream inlet on left just before Subtle approach
<br /><a name="C1982-41-00"></a><a href="offdp.htm#C1982-41-00">C1982-41-00 B</a> Downhill crawl on right at start of Dartford Tunnel
<br /><a name="C1982-41-01"></a><a href="offdp.htm#C1982-41-01">C1982-41-01 B</a> Inaccessible passage up on left, 40m down Dartford Tunnel
<br /><a name="C1982-41-02"></a><a href="offdp.htm#C1982-41-02">C1982-41-02 B</a> Another one 20m further on
<br /><a name="C1982-41-03"></a><a href="deepwy.htm#C1982-41-03">C1982-41-03 C</a> Possible penetration down tight rift in floor of Dartford Tunnel
<br /><a name="C1982-41-04"></a><a href="offdp.htm#C1982-41-04">C1982-41-04 B</a> Passage high on left at cross-rift where main route goes right <!-- 41.Bypass.pt1.22 -->
<br /><a name="C1982-41-05"></a><a href="offdp.htm#C1982-41-05">C1982-41-05 C</a> Aven in inlet at end of right turn where cross-rift hits T-junction <!-- 41.Bypass.pt1.20 -->
<br /><a name="C1982-41-06"></a><a href="offdp.htm#C1982-41-06">C1982-41-06 C</a> Passage right at 4m climb down in P.B. to low mud/boulder area <!-- 41.Bypass.pt1. -->
<br /><a name="C1982-41-07"></a><a href="deepwy.htm#C1982-41-07">C1982-41-07 !</a> Possible ways into vadose floor slots at various points along Purgatory Bypass, some with sound of stream. <!-- 41.Bypass.pt1. -->
<br /><a name="C1982-41-08"></a><a href="deepwy.htm#C1982-41-08">C1982-41-08 C</a> Wet aven in alcove to left in last section of Purgatory Bypass
<br /><a name="C1982-41-09"></a><a href="deepwy.htm#C1982-41-09">C1982-41-09 C</a> Aven on right a bit further on
<br /><a name="C1982-41-10"></a><a href="deepwy.htm#C1982-41-10">C1982-41-10 B</a> Ways down into stream rift below "cucc/UBSS 1981" traverse
<br /><a name="C1982-41-11"></a><a href="deepwy.htm#C1982-41-11">C1982-41-11 C</a> Continuation of Camp passage as traverse above Purgatory ?
<br /><a name="C1982-41-12"></a><a href="offdp.htm#C1982-41-12">C1982-41-12 A</a> Possible traverse right where descent to Confluence starts (hairy - mud.)
<br /><a name="C1982-41-13"></a><a href="offdp.htm#C1982-41-13">C1982-41-13 B</a> 25m+ climb up K&ouml;ln Dom (not attempted)
<br /><a name="C1982-41-14"></a><a href="offdp.htm#C1982-41-14">C1982-41-14 B</a> Echo Aven (reached by hard climb, another climb to go)
<br /><a name="C1982-41-15"></a><a href="offdp.htm#C1982-41-15">C1982-41-15 B</a> Roof passage from sharp left bend before 7m pitch below Confluence "Dry Purgatory" (entered, unclear if it ends)
<br /><a name="C1982-41-16"></a><a href="offdp.htm#C1982-41-16">C1982-41-16 B</a> Cascade inlet (on right on survey, on left in description) downstream of short sump in main streamway
<br /><a name="C1982-41-17"></a><a href="deepwy.htm#C1982-41-17">C1982-41-17 C</a> Terminal sump - but only an idiot would dive this.
<br /><a name="C1982-41-18"></a><a href="deepwy.htm#C1982-41-18">C1982-41-18 C</a> Small choked tube with no draught above final sump.
<br /><a name="C1982-41-38"></a><a href="off41.htm#C1982-41-38">Other QMs</a> around <a
href="#C1980-41-28">C1980-41-28</a> were found in 1982, but I've currently mislaid the
sketching of this area. Published descriptions are very confusing
hereabouts.</p>
<p>"132" discovered 31st July 1982, entered 1st August, only really pushed to
the pitch and the Big Chamber - "all" surveying done 1983. Properly called
1623/142, but may be 1623/115g in Austrian's books... There are stupid
numbers of QMs in here, all of which will probably link together. The
"survey" shows at least 31 QMs which must have been seen in 1982, and
fifteen more for 1983, but the sketching I have (which looks nothing like
the drawn up survey) suggests as many again. I am only including ones
mentioned in the description. Some of them may need turning into multiple
QMs.</p>
<p><a name="C1982-142-19"></a><a href="off41.htm#C1982-142-19">C1982-142-19 A</a> Down first ramp on right in 142 "Wiggy's way to 60' pitch"
<br /><a name="C1982-142-20"></a><a href="off41.htm#C1982-142-20">C1982-142-20 A</a> Down trench in floor 15m later to pitch
<br /><a name="C1982-142-21"></a><a href="off41.htm#C1982-142-21">C1982-142-21 B</a> Holes in floor right before chamber
<br /><a name="C1982-142-22"></a><a href="off41.htm#C1982-142-22">C1982-142-22 X</a> Through various gaps on right to low way [leads to huge batch of <a href="#C1983-142-02">C1983-QMs</a>]
<br /><a name="C1982-142-23"></a><a href="off41.htm#C1982-142-23">C1982-142-23 C</a> Tight lead on the left where main way narrows
<br /><a name="C1982-142-24"></a><a href="off41.htm#C1982-142-24">C1982-142-24 C</a> Way up/left to a tight rift from main way
<br /><a name="C1982-142-25"></a><a href="off41.htm#C1982-142-25">C1982-142-25 B</a> Down ramp from main way (one preceding "Bad Step")
<br /><a name="C1982-142-26"></a><a href="off41.htm#C1982-142-26">C1982-142-26 B</a> Down ramp - the "Bad Step"
<br /><a name="C1982-142-27"></a><a href="off41.htm#C1982-142-27">C1982-142-27 C</a> Small hole to right after the "Bad Step"
<br /><a name="C1982-142-28"></a><a href="off41.htm#C1982-142-28">C1982-142-28 C</a> Small hole to the left after the "Bad Step"
<br /><a name="C1982-142-29"></a><a href="off41.htm#C1982-142-29">C1982-142-29 B</a> Down ramp at step down in main way
<br /><a name="C1982-142-30"></a><a href="off41.htm#C1982-142-30">C1982-142-30 C</a> Hole in the floor of main way
<br /><a name="C1982-142-31"></a><a href="off41.htm#C1982-142-31">C1982-142-31 C</a> Left at T-junction up from boulder chamber (allegedly blocked by boulder, but apparently the connection point from <a href="../../noinfo/smkridge/78.htm">Schwabenschacht</a> - 6km not bad for a "C" lead :-)
<br /><a name="C1982-142-32"></a><a href="off41.htm#C1982-142-32">C1982-142-32 X</a> Right at T-junction [to pitch into 142 Big Chamber]
<br /><a name="C1982-142-33"></a><a href="off41.htm#C1982-142-33">C1982-142-33 C</a> Various ways down boulders in Big Chamber (judged unsafe)
<br /><a name="C1982-142-34"></a><a href="off41.htm#C1982-142-34">C1982-142-34 X</a> Way up at NE end of <a href="off41.htm#bigcham142">Big Chamber</a> [connects to <a href="#C1980-41-17">C1980-41-17</a>]
<br /><a name="C1982-115-35"></a><a href="off115.htm#C1982-115-35">C1982-115-35 C</a> Two avens above gully at first junction left in <a href="off115.htm#futser">Futility Series</a>
<br /><a name="C1982-115-36"></a><a href="off115.htm#C1982-115-36">C1982-115-36 A</a> Draughting sand-choked tube at end of Futility Series - near surface ?
<br /><a name="C1982-115-37"></a><a href="off115.htm#C1982-115-37">C1982-115-37 C</a> Choke in left passage from <a href="off115.htm#bignfcham">Big Enough Chamber</a></p>
<p>There are quite a few 1982 QMs in 144, none of which have yet been
extracted from the description.</p>
<p><a name="C1983-142-00"></a><a href="off41.htm#C1983-142-00">C1983-142-00 X</a> Obscure route right through boulders part way up to T-jn of <a href="#C1982-142-31">C1982-142-31</a> [to <a href="off41.htm#rodrunway">Rodent Runway</a>, thence to 41]
<br /><a name="C1983-142-01"></a><a href="off41.htm#C1983-142-01">C1983-142-01 !</a> c 7 unexplored leads off Rodent Runway
<br /><a name="C1983-142-02"></a><a href="off41.htm#C1983-142-02">C1983-142-02 !</a> c 4 ways off at start of route from <a href="#C1982-142-22">C1982-142-22</a>
<br /><a name="C1983-142-03"></a><a href="off41.htm#C1983-142-03">C1983-142-03 A</a> Way on "To stream" in route from <a href="#C1982-142-22">C1982-142-22</a>
<br /><a name="C1983-142-04"></a><a href="off41.htm#C1983-142-04">C1983-142-04 ?</a> Way just right of <a href="#C1983-142-03">C1983-142-03</a> - not in description, but appears on survey
<br /><a name="C1983-142-05"></a><a href="off41.htm#C1983-142-05">C1983-142-05 A</a> Continuation(s) of Dripping Chamber - end of route from <a href="#C1982-142-22">C1982-142-22</a></p>
<p>There is a suspicion that the passages of <a href="#C1982-142-22">C1982-142-22</a> have reached the German Route</p>
<p>1983 QMs are very vague 'cos the survey is so crap. There are also a few
QMs from 84, and I haven't even vaguely put in the QMs in 1623/144, of which
there are quite a large number, which belong here since the cave connects
(the linking-in point is <a href="#C1980-41-33">C1980-41-33</a>, which should have been a 1980 QM, but can't tell if it was actually noticed that year).</p>
<p>I count over 80 of those QM's as having no described continuation. Several
of these are groups of ways on which may or may not go to the same place. No
doubt some of these have been looked at, but not written up or surveyed. Most
of those will be fairly short. Equally, I suspect that quite a lot will have
been missed on the surveys, which would bring the numbers back up again.</p>
<p>A large proportion of these QMs can be reached without ANY rigging of
existing pitches. The survey of 142 is/was a shambles, and needs, at the
very least, someone to go in and do a lot of sketching, simply to tie down
what has been looked at. The more I think about it, the more I believe that
the shaft at the end of the German Route alleged to be 220m must have been a
way into the Big Pitch, and not what CUCC pushed in 1980. We have no
adequate survey of the German route, which would be handy to have (at least
for that part which doesn't need rigging), as we could then see if the QMs
in 142 and the CUCC route in 41 do indeed reach the German Route.</p>
<p>Initial impressions are that the further from the entrance a QM was, the
more likely it is to have been pushed (unlike 161 :-). This may simply mean
that people were less observant and less careful to note QMs lower down.</p>
<p>CUCC does now have survey data and a published plan, showing where
1623/88 (L&auml;rchenh&ouml;hle) connects to the big pitch. However, we
haven't yet generated any kind of passage description.</p>
<p>The QM situation in 142 is such that a chronological numbering is getting
silly. It may be impossible to identify the numbered QMs "in the
cave", in which case the thing to do is to delete that QM, and number
all new ones with C2000-142- (or whatever year it is) numbers.</p>
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<h2>Stellerwegh&ouml;hlensystem surveys</h2>
<p>Various low-grade surveys were published during the course of the
exploration, but these were mostly A4 format and of limited value. After the
cave was bottomed, A0-sized plan and elevations were prepared, and a reduced
version of these was published at A3 size with the 1983 issue of Cambridge
Underground. The <a href="../../years/1982/41gd.htm">descriptive
article</a> which accompanied this survey makes a great deal of the supposed
134&deg; error in one compass. The compass was subsequently found to be
in error by a much more believable 180&deg; which renders the published
survey wrong in one area.</p>
<p>The survey is, perhaps surprisingly, at its worst in that part of the cave
first explored. The main Stellerweg route was surveyed at grade 4 (after
correction for fridge north) in 1980 to the head of the Big Rift, but only by
measuring rope lengths on pitches after that (the expedition was very pressed
for time and manpower when this route was connected to 115 in 1981). Only a
cursory survey was done of the German route, as we expected to obtain a copy
of the original survey (from 1972 ?) - we are still waiting.</p>
<p>The survey of what became the "normal" route to the bottom is much
better, being to grade 5 all the way from the 115 entrance to The Confluence.
A short stretch from here to the 12' climb was not resurveyed in 1982, and
hence relies on 1981 data done with a Silva compass, for which only grade
3 is claimed. However, agreement between parts of the grade 3 survey and
the subsequent grade 5 one is pretty good, so there is no reason to expect
particularly poor quality here. From the 12' climb to the bottom was all
surveyed, in 1982, to grade 5 by the dedicated minority who were actually
hard enough to get this far down the cave (and stupid enough to push a low
airspace duck at -700m - they deserved it).</p>
<p>Thus, the depth quoted on the 1983 published survey is almost entirely
dependent on a grade 5 centre line which agreed well with other bits of
survey where these existed. There are no significant closed loops to
provide independent checks. The only known problem with the published
survey is the section of passage drawn 46&deg; out due to the "fridge
north" calibration cock-up.</p>
<p>After the high entrances of <a href="../143.htm">143</a> and
<a href="../144.htm">144</a> were explored, and the latter was connected
into Stellerweg, and considerably more exploration was done in
<a href="../142.htm">142</a>, including two connections into the main
system, a lot more survey data was available, all of it above the Big Rift in
Stellerweg. All these passages were drawn up, at a larger scale than the
original published survey, and with the fridge north error corrected.
However, this survey has never been published - CUCC stopped working in the
cave and the project petered out.</p>
<p>A significant part of the survey (all of 142 and the passages of 41 from
the entrance to the Big Pitch) is drawn up in machine-readable form, and
extracts from this appear in these pages in the descriptions of the
<a href="off41.htm#ent142">1623/142</a> and <a href="144.htm">1623/144</a>
entrances. An overview of the whole survey (at a reduced scale) is also on
the site <a href="hlevel.png">here</a>.
A lot more survey work is expected in the cave over the next few
years (and this has already started). One connection from
<a href="../../noinfo/smkridge/78.htm">Schwabenschacht</a> (1623/78) to the 1623/142 entrance
has already been made, and other connections seem likely. It is hoped that we
will also be able to obtain details of the other caves connected to the
system, and be able to draw up a full survey of what is already at least a
20km system.</p>
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