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<tr><th id="kat_no">76 - main a b</th><th id="name">Eislufth&ouml;hle</th><th id="status">5/S/E +</th></tr>
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<h1>1970's Route</h1>
<p>A further 13m pitch, <b>Saved
Shaft</b>, into a smaller aven chamber, <b>Boulder Chamber</b>, leads
to an apparent end, but thrutch through boulders into top of rift/canyon.
Hole in floor is 32m pitch into <b>Keg Series</b> (no draught) with
further unexplored pitch below. Continuing traverse leads to climbs
down then split pitch of 19m and 14m, <b>Follow-through Shaft</b>,
dropping into side of abandoned canyon. Upstream to the left ends
immediately while down canyon leads to head of a chamber, The Taproom,
with a 5m climb down a big boulder under heavy drip/spray (handline
useful). Also from the head of the chamber, passage leads back to
a large unexplored hole in floor with lots of water entering from
a high aven. 1977 terminus at -150m.</p>
<p>From chamber, scramble
down in rift (rope useful owing to greasy rock and 120 metre drop)
to reach head of large rift pitch below jammed boulder. Pitch drops
in two sections of 10m and 35m, with stream out of reach in canyon,
to ledge where stream bed is crossed (traverse line). Further pitch
of 10m leads to straddle climb up to rocking boulder, then traverse
forward to good belays for 48m pitch. This lands on <b>The Balcony</b>
where water runs away from obvious way on into a tight immature drain.</p>
<div class="centre"><a name="hgk" href="l/hotgk.htm"><img src="t/hotgk.jpg"
width="151" height="116" alt="HotGK.jpg (69k)" /></a><p>Ben
with the Greene King pennant on the Balcony</p></div>
<p>From the
Balcony a 7m pitch drops into the <b>Hall of the Greene King</b>,
a huge soaring aven chamber. The way on over a boulder floor leads
under suspended boulders, one of immense size, to a 5m pitch down
off the edge of a boulder. In the floor is a sharp canyon that loops
round to a junction. Left leads to <b>Gents' Pitch</b> route, while
right leads to a dry passage. After a few metres in the dry passage,
there is a rift in the floor to the left, which is a muddy, broken
pitch with sections of 3m, 12m and 18m into the main canyon (1978
route). Another few metres ahead, a bold step across the canyon leads
to further passage which eventually degenerates and rejoins the main
canyon upstream (right) of the bold step.</p>
<div class="centre"><a
name="p16" href="l/p16.htm"><img src="t/p16.jpg" width="143"
height="170" alt="p16.jpg (58k)" /></a>&nbsp; &nbsp;<a href="l/gents.htm"><img
src="t/gents.jpg" width="143" height="170" alt="Gents.jpg
(36k)" /></a><p>Julian Griffiths abseiling the 16.5m and Gents'
pitches on the bottoming trip in 1979</p></div>
<p>The 1979 route
from the junction leads to a pitch of 16.5m, free hanging just clear
of the wall, with an excellent takeoff. However the rope gets muddy
from mud on clothing in a couple of trips, so care is required. Next
drop is the Gents' pitch of 9.5m, which leads to a short streamway
rejoining the main canyon from the 1978 route. The bottom of this
pitch is a good place for cavers to perform ablutions with the mud
on their ascenders, hence the name (all the explorers were male).
The main passage now leads on with stream in floor and muddy ledges
above until the <b>Fiesta Run</b> is reached. This awkward slanting
rift pitch of 28m is so muddy that ladders are <b><i>de rigeur</i></b>.
The name derives from the car crash which terminated exploration
at this point in 1978.</p>
<p>A traverse forward on muddy ledges leads
out over a huge shaft with the ominous sound of a waterfall below.
Traversing further eventually leads to a further pitch of 5m to a
col. Down another 10m on the side away from the main shaft lands
on a solid floor in an abandoned rift. From a large chamber, a
short free-climb leads down to an ante-chamber with an interesting
hole up in the left wall. Forward leads through narrow passage with
sharp rock to a point where thrutchy descending traversing is necessary
to make further progress. A 23m broken pitch in sharp rock, with
very bad rub points leads only to a tight crawl. Only two trips
reached this point, both with solo explorers well away from their
backup in the main route. The crawl was pushed only by Julian Griffiths
on hte first visit, to emerge at a drop with a large aven above,
which remains unexplored at about -395m depth. This route does not
appear to carry the draught which is lost before the deep point of
the main route.</p>
<p>The main way on, however, is not to traverse onwards, but drop
back into canyon towards the ominous hiss
of water in a very wide pitch where the stream seems to have hit
a fault at right angles to the arriving passage direction. The middle
section of this 28m pitch is huge, before narrowing to a ledge parallel
to the new fault, and 'downstream' from the original direction of
stream flow. From the ledge, a smaller shaft of 33m drops down the
new fault rift to a boulder floor where the water sinks. The fault
rift, <b>Madlmeier Schacht</b>, now drops in sections of 24 and 19m
to the end of the rope in 1979. Here an exposed freeclimb of 5m with
icy water flowing over the handholds is not really recommended -
take a longer rope. Next pitch of 24m picks up the main water again
10m down, and final pitch of 17m from ledge drops to floor of rift
chamber, but mud on floor precedes final muddy 10m pitch down a boulder
wall to a deep and terminal rift sump at -506m. This whole bottom
section is steamy and it is clear that the draught was lost some way
above.</p>
<p><a name="penult"
href="l/penult.htm"><img src="t/penult.jpg" width="123" height="184"
alt="Penult.jpg (87k)" class="aligntop" /></a> Simon Farrow on
the last 17m pitch of Madlmeier Schacht</p><p><a href="l/sump.htm"><img
src="t/sump.jpg" width="121" height="187" alt="Sump.jpg (37k)"
class="aligntop" /></a> Julian Griffiths at the final sump - 1979</p>
<p>There
are a number of going leads in this cave and you're welcome to them.</p>
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