<!DOCTYPE html> <html> <head> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" /> <title> 1623: Stellerweg approach </title> <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="../css/main2.css" /> <!-- AERW walk-in descriptions, originally in expoweb/1623/... Move so that EditThisPage works and does not clash with cave data rendering --> </head> <body> <h1>Stellerweg area - walk-in</h1> <center><a href="../piclinks/bgwalk.htm"><img alt="Photo of start of walk-in" src="../tinypix/bgwalk.jpg" width=223 height=123></a> <a href="../piclinks/2011st.htm"><img src="../tinypix/2011st.jpg" width=155 height=86></a></center> <p>From the <a href="../handbook/tollrd.htm">Loser Panoramastraße</a> Bergrestaurant car park (bottom right of picture), take the path leading from the NE corner, which is slightly shorter, and soon joins the main path. Alternatively, follow the main touroid path, numbered 201, and marked with red and white paint at frequent intervals (heading up left of centre in the picture). Following this gently undulating path for ten to fifteen minutes leads to <a href="egglgrub.html">Egglgrube</a>. To the left is a valley containing several obvious sinkholes, with a junction path leading to <a href="br-alm.html">Bräuning Alm.</a> Ahead and to the right is a 10m cliff rising from the pasture to an area of karren and dwarf pine. <p>Follow the main path 201 straight ahead up a break in the small cliff and continue over karren which is well covered with Lärchen (dwarf pine, spuriously known as "Bunde" within CUCC). A T-junction is met, left leading into the <a href="kratzer.html">Kratzer valley</a> (an area explored by the German group), while right is the main path. This junction is easy to miss on the return in mist or at night. A few minutes further on, where a cave is marked by a large red Omega in the middle of the path (<a href="../1623/28.htm">1623/28</a>), there is a junction path to the left (route to <a href="vianip.htm">the Nipple</a>), and <a href="../handbook/survey/lasers.htm">Laser-fixed point 7/8</a> marked with a bolt. <p><center>Path 201 approaching Egglgrube <a href="../piclinks/2012nd.htm"><img src="../tinypix/2012nd.jpg" width=163 height=120></a> and beyond <a href="l/via201.htm"><img src="t/via201.jpg" width=149 height=120></a></center> <p>The main 201 path beyond 1623/28 leads after several minutes to a strongly draughting entrance on the left numbered <a href="../1623/32.htm">32</a>. To the left after this are routes to <a href="41.htm">41</a>, <a href="/1623/141.htm">141</a> and <a href="../1623/142.htm">142</a> and the original approaches to 143 and 144. The main path descends steeply for a while; <a href="../1623/115.htm">115</a> lies downhill to the right. Ahead, <a href="../1623/87.htm">87</a> lies up a valley to the left, and considerably further, paint marks lead left to <a href="../1623/109.htm">109</a> and <a href="../1623/113.htm">113</a> (Sonnenstrahlhöhle). 151-155 are also up left hereabouts. <p>If the main path is followed considerably further, it joins the path from <a href="aaussee.html">Altausseer See</a> through Hochklapfsattel into a 174m deep doline, around a kilometre long, and eventually to Appel Haus and the <a href="wilden.html">Wildensee</a>. Just near this junction it is possible to gain access to the Scarface (<a href="../1623/161/sftotp.htm">1623/161d</a>) entrance to <a href="../1623/161/top.htm">Kaninchenhöhle</a>, but the route is non-obvious and much obstructed by the dwarf pine - CUCC found this approach to be too hard and instead used an approach as for <a href="via161.html">161a</a>. Much futher on, high up to the left, on Roßkogel, is the area explored by LUSS (mainly in Kataster area <a href="../1626/index.html">1626</a>). <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>