<!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>1623-115</caveslug> <official_name>Schnellzughöhle</official_name> <area>1623</area> <area>2a</area> <kataster_code>6/t/S/W x</kataster_code> <kataster_number>115</kataster_number> <unofficial_number>40m</unofficial_number> <entrance> <entranceslug>1623-115</entranceslug> <letter></letter> </entrance> <explorers>CUCC 1980-1985</explorers> <underground_description>This is the main entrance through which the majority of the <a href="41.htm">Stellerweghöhle</a> system was explored. See the separate <a href="41/115.htm#ent115">full guidebook description</a> for details, just an overview is given here.</p><p>The entrance leads to a non-obvious way on to the head of the short <b>Bell Pitch</b>, from where very awkward going leads out to a bigger passage to reach <b>The Ramp</b> a series of off-vertical pitches. The damper but technically easier <b>Inlet Pitches</b> drop to a Big Chamber, from where <b>Pete's Purgatory</b> starts, and leads in 800m of tortuous going to <b>The Confluence</b> and the larger streamway leading to the deepest point.</p><p>Better is the <b>Purgatory Bypass</b> which starts as dry fossil tubes, with a choice of routes to reach <b>Junction Chamber</b> where the <b>Big Rift</b> of <a href="41.htm">Stellerweghöhle</a> enters. Opposite, the huge fossil tube of <b>Dartford Tunnel</b> makes for easy progress to the Confluence, about halfway down the system. The continuing main streamway is interrupted by a bypassable sump and numerous pitches before a low airspace duck at the end of an unpromising canal leads to the spectacular <b>Orgasm Chasm</b>. Careful rigging avoids the water in this 140m shaft, ending in muddy passage and another short drop to a deep and terminal sump. </underground_description> <equipment></equipment> <references></references> <survey>CUCC's parts surveyed to Grade 5 but not all drawn up - see <a href="41/survey.htm">here</a></survey> <kataster_status></kataster_status> <underground_centre_line>In dataset</underground_centre_line> <notes>The Austrian Kataster has adopted a very perverse way of numbering things. Their numbers are as follows:</p><ul> <li>115a Stellerweghöhle entrance 41a</li> <li>115b Stellerweghöhle entrance 41b</li> <li>115c Stellerweghöhle entrance 41c ( where ? )</li> <li>115d Schnellzughöhle entrance 115</li> <li>115e unnamed entrance 142</li></ul><p></notes> <length>SMK system total 54000m</length> <depth>from entrance; SMK system total 1032m</depth> <extent>SMK system total 2812m</extent> <survex_file>smk-system.svx</survex_file> <description_file>1623/115.htm</description_file> <url>1623/115.htm</url> </cave> </body> </html>