<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0//EN"> <html lang=en> <head> <title> 1623:144 </title> </head> <body> <center><table border=0 width=100%> <tr><th align=left><font size=+2>144</font></th> <th align=center><font size=+2>Tony's Second Höhle</font></th> <th align=right><font size=+2>6/S/T x</font></th></tr> </table></center> <p>NB. This name is the 1983 provisional name, which was intended to be scrapped. <b>Weiße Wurze Höhle II</b> might be better, but this cave really should have a proper name - after all, it was 284m deep before the connection to the main system ! It appears in Austrian lists just as Schwarzmooskogelschacht... <p><b>Altitude:</b> 1711.8m. <p><b>Location:</b> The Nipple, (aka "Weißen Warze") E 36101.3 N (52)81514.9 <p>This is the highest entrance to Stellerweghöhle found by CUCC, and a full description is included in the Stellerweghöhle <a href="41/144.htm">guidebook description</a>, just an overview is given here. <p>A predominantly vertical entrance series leads to a level of extensive fossil phreatic development, <b>not fully explored</b>. The main passage, <b>The Yellow Brick Road</b>, leads to the lip of a 25m pitch into a large muddy chamber. From the bottom, a steeply dipping tube is followed down until a canyon is reached from a boulder chamber. Most ways close down quickly from here. <p>Across the pitch from Yellow Brick Road is a large continuing passage, gained by an obscure and somewhat exposed route in boulders. It soon leads to a bolted climb, but a ramp down below drops to another large passage. Right here, the draught is followed through winding passage until it emerges 20m up in a chamber. Backtracking leads to a squeeze and muddy crawls to the bottom, from where a canyon develops, finally dropping into <a href="41/41.htm">Stellerweghöhle</a> below the Big Pitch via a 10m chimney. <p>There are a significant number of unpushed leads in the cave, but all are expected to connect back to already known passage. One may provide a connection to the northernmost reaches of <a href="78.htm">Schwabenschacht</a> (1623/78). <p><b>Exploration:</b> CUCC 1983, 1985 <hr> <!-- LINKS --> <img alt=">" src="../../icons/lists/0.png"> <a href="index.htm#144">Schwarzmooskogel ridge area</a><br> <img alt=">" src="../../icons/lists/0.png"> <a href="../indxal.htm">Full Index</a><br> <img alt=">" src="../../icons/lists/0.png"> <a href="../areas.htm">Other Areas</a><br> <img alt=">" src="../../icons/lists/0.png"> <a href="../index.htm">Back to Expedition Intro page</a> </body> </html>