<!DOCTYPE html> <html> <head> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" /> <title>1623: Schwarzmooskogel ridge</title> <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href=/css/main2.css /> </head> <body> <!-- This file is hand-maintained. It used to be auto-generated from CAVETAB2.CSV by make-areaindices.py . --> <h1><span lang="de-at">Schwarzmooskogel</span> ridge</h1> <p>Exploration in the last few years of the last century showed that though a variety of different approach walks are needed to visit various parts of the long ridge on the SE side of area 1623, many of the significant caves form part of a single, very extensive, system.</p> <p>In the southern part, the <span lang="de-at">Vorderer Schwarzmooskogel</span> (1843m), the area is bounded on the west by steep scars into the <a href="kratzer.html"><span lang="de-at">Kratzer</span> valley</a> and to the south and southeast by the cliffs of <span lang="de-at">Weiße Wand,</span> below which lies <a href="aausee.html"><span lang="de-at">Altausseer See</span></a> and the <span lang="de-at">Hoch Klapf</span> valley to its NE.</p> <p>The ridge runs NNE, with a col at 1755m, before rising to the <span lang="de-at">Hinterer Schwarzmooskogel</span> at 1906m. To the west of this, the area slopes down to the bare karren of the <a href="plateau.html">plateau</a>. Steeper slopes to the east drop into the <span lang="de-at">Hoch Klapf</span> valley which marks the boundary with the adjacent kataster region 1624. There is no real boundary to the north or northeast - just a limit to how far we have yet looked. Currently this is some distance further NE beyond the summit of the <span lang="de-at">Nieder Augst-Eck.</span> Beyond this, they fall into the <a href="remote.html">remote plateau</a> or <a href="wilden.html"><span lang="de-at">Wildensee</span></a> areas, as listed here.</p> <p>The area is more densely covered with dwarf mountain pine than the plateau or other minor areas we have looked at, with a few "real" trees dotted about too. This tends to restrict <a href="../handbook/look4.htm">prospecting</a> to narrow corridors of access on established routes (these can hardly be described as paths).</p> <p>Five approaches are in use:</p> <ul> <li><span lang="de-at"><a href="via201.htm">Stogerweg</a></span> - path 201, for entrances low on the S and E side of the ridge</li> <li>The <a href="vianip.htm">"Nipple"</a> path to the entrances higher up the hill, and beyond this the Eishöhle area.</li> <li>Via the <span lang="de-at"><a href="viavsk.htm">Vd. Schwarzmooskogel</a></span> summit for entrances near it - several variants are possible here. This route has somewhat fallen out of use recently, and it has become more usual to take the 161 path then hack southwards along the crest of the ridge.</li> <li>An established <a href="via161.html">route</a> to <span lang="de-at">Kaninchenhöhle</span> and down the east side.</li> <li>A <a href="via204.html">route</a> from Top Camp across the plateau, via the large bare patch of limestone on the side of the Hinter (visible from Top Camp) across to <a href="/1623/204/204.html"><span lang="de-at">Steinbrückenhöhle</span></a>.</li> </ul> There are corresponding lists of caves in the areas covered by each walkin: <ul> <li><a href="41area.html">Stellerweg area</a> (access routes 1+2)</li> <li><a href="40area.html">Eishöhle area</a> (access route 2)</li> <li><a href="via161.html">161 area</a> (access route 4) - this roughly covers the area between the peaks of the Vorder and Hinterer Schwarzmooskogels.</li> <li><a href="via204.html">Steinbrücken area</a> (access route 5) - this covers more or less everything north of the peak of the Hinter, as well as the 161g and 161h entrances.</li> </ul> <hr /> <ul> <li><a href=" via201.htm">Stellerweg</a> area;</li> <li><a href=" br-alm.html">Bräuning Alm</a> description <li><a href=" walkin.htm">Walk-in</a></li> <li><a href=" plateau.html">Plateau</a> description</li> <li><a href=" areas.htm">Area descriptions</a></li> <li><a href=" kratzer.html">Kratzer</a>.</li> </ul> <hr /> </body> </html>