<!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>1623-82</caveslug> <official_name>Bräuninghöhle</official_name> <area>1623</area> <area>1c</area> <kataster_code>4/S/T +</kataster_code> <kataster_number>82</kataster_number> <unofficial_number></unofficial_number> <entrance> <entranceslug>1623-82</entranceslug> <letter></letter> </entrance> <explorers>CUCC 1977 - Team Geriatric</explorers> <underground_description>Very obvious walking sized cave entrance leads to a boulder strewn passage (ice formations early in season) into an aven with daylight entering 20m above. A scramble over boulders leads to <b>Apfelschacht</b> - a 6m pitch with loose boulders at the head. This drops to a 3m climb and then a 20m pitch <b>Orangenschacht</b> with a trickle of water entering halfway down. From the foot, a fine keyhole passage imaginatively named <b>Schlüssellochgang</b>, and a choice of routes. The most obvious way on is a 10m pitch, <b>Bierschacht</b> over a stalagmite flow to an awkward crawl, <b>Worm Passage</b>, which looked likely to end things. However, this opens out suddenly at a pitch head. <b>Nocheinbierschacht</b> is 15m, impressively free. At the foot, a vocal connection can be made with a phreatic passage above the third pitch which ends in a big hole.</p><p>Ahead is a phreatic tunnel which chokes, and a large black emptiness. This is descended for 25m in four 6m steps, <b>Viermalbierschacht</b>, to a ledge big enough for one and a bit people. The stream goes over this ledge into a large black void. This pitch, <b>Besoffene</b>, is 50m and hangs free for all but the last 8m in a very impressive shaft. From the foot, traverse above a steeply dropping stream canyon to a sloping platform from which a 17m pitch reaches the stream floor. This cascades over a further 6m pitch, below which a climb out of the stream reaches a rig point for a 30m pitch ending on a slope down to a sump at -216m.</underground_description> <equipment></equipment> <references></references> <survey>Cambridge Underground 1978, facing p 32</p><p>There is also an <a href="145/145.png">area plan</a> showing 82 in context with <a href="145/145.html">145</a> and <a href="148.htm">148</a>.</p><p><img alt="survey: 28k gif" width="640" height="1300" src="others/82.png" /></survey> <kataster_status></kataster_status> <underground_centre_line></underground_centre_line> <notes></notes> <length></length> <depth>-216m, +20</depth> <extent></extent> <survex_file></survex_file> <description_file>1623/82.htm</description_file> <url>1623/82.htm</url> </cave> </body> </html>