<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01//EN"> <!-- Only put one cave in this file --> <!-- If you edit this file, make sure you update the website database --> <html lang="en"> <head> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8"/> </head> <body> <cave> <non_public>False</non_public> <caveslug>1623-97</caveslug> <official_name>Schneewindschacht</official_name> <area>1623</area> <area>1d</area> <kataster_code>4/S/W x</kataster_code> <kataster_number>97</kataster_number> <unofficial_number></unofficial_number> <entrance> <entranceslug>1623-97</entranceslug> <letter></letter> </entrance> <explorers>CUCC 1977 - Team Enthusiast.</explorers> <underground_description>The entrance is the head of a 10m freeclimbable chimney, followed by a 5m climb into a small chamber. Two ways on from the chamber unite in a tiny crawl under a drip. A thrutch through (about the size of Baptistry in Car Pot) is <b>The Nun's Cunt</b>, which ends abruptly at <b>The Vestry</b>, where SRT gear can be put back on while perched above the pitch which follows. Drops of 15m, 20m and 20m, <b>The Bottomless Abbess</b>, lead to a traverse over a blind pitch of about 10m.</p><p>The Bottomless Abbess continues with pitches of 15m, 30m, 15m and 15m to a short horizontal section. This breaks out into the side of another shaft where 15m and 10m pitches lead to a more complex area. A short pitch of 6m leads to the <b>Priest's Hole</b> and a gently slanting ramp into a dry, dusty, abandoned phreatic passage. This is interrupted by a large hole in the floor, which would require bolts to cross.</p><p>Down the hole, the 25m pitch starts unpromisingly, but soon bells out into a magnificent trench passage. Traversing over a gully leads to a series of short climbs and a fine last pitch <b>The Dissolution</b>. Here the water sinks into an impenetrable crack.</p><p>The entrance draughts strongly, but there is no air movement at the end, the most likely way on being the traverse to reach the continuation of the phreatic level at -190m. Unfortunately, the trip to this point is quite severe, since the crawl would render rescue impractical and the Bottomless Abbess rapidly becomes very wet after rain.</underground_description> <equipment></equipment> <references></references> <survey></p><ul><li>grade 1 extended section, JTG, 1977.</li><li>Surface survey grade 3, 1984, AERW+MM from laser 0/4 at <span lang="de">Wolfhöhle</span></li></ul><div class="centre"><img alt="100 dpi elevation (710x1710) 30k gif" width="710" height="1710" src="others/97.png" /></div><p></survey> <kataster_status></kataster_status> <underground_centre_line></underground_centre_line> <notes></notes> <length></length> <depth>265m</depth> <extent></extent> <survex_file></survex_file> <description_file>1623/97.htm</description_file> <url>1623/97.htm</url> </cave> </body> </html>