<HTML lang=en><HEAD><TITLE>2000-09</TITLE> <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="../../css/main2.css" /> </head> <BODY> <DIV align=center> <CENTER> <TABLE border=0 width="100%"> <TR> <TH align=left width="30%"><font size=+1>CUCC 2000/09</FONT></TH> <TH lang=de><font size=+2>Hauchhöhle</font></TH> <TH align=right width="30%"><FONT size=+2>2/S/T x</FONT></TH></TR> <TR> </TABLE></CENTER></DIV> <p><table> <tr><td><B>Extent:</B></td><td>Dunno!.</td></tr> <tr><td><b>Location:</B></td><td>36468.57E, (52)83441.63N, 1784.79m altitude.</td></tr> </table> <p><b>Access route:</b> The arch-shaped entrance and gully are obvious from the route used in 2000 onwards from Top Camp to <a href="../204/204.shtml">Steinbrückenhöhle</a>. Shortly after crossing the large bare area of limestone slabs on the flanks of the Hinter, the path traverses directly around the right-hand side of the entrance gully. <P><B>Marking:</B> Tag. <h2>Description</h2> <p>The horizontal entrance slopes downhill for about 20m, passing beneath a skylight and a crawl to the left. The crawl leads to a drop into a rift, where there are three ways on. To the right closes down; to the left, there are crawls at two levels. The higher-level crawl chokes; the two crawls at the lower level unite and then reach a junction. To the left chokes; to the right leads to a chamber. This chamber can also be reached by going straight on from the aforementioned junction at the rift. <p>From this chamber, there are two ways on. <i>A small choss wall surrounds a vertical hole through which it is possible to drop down (tricky on the return) into a small chamber. From here, an awkward squeeze leads into a continuing crawl, which has not been pushed.</i> To the left is a crawl over choss which enlarges. <i>Straight ahead leads to an earthen-floored draughting crawl which has been dug, and needs further work to get through. Shortly before the crawl becomes flat-out, a tube leading up on the right becomes too tight.</i> After a short distance a tube on the right leads to the head of a pitch (not pushed; probably 15-20m) and continues to a choke. The head of this pitch draughts outwards significantly. <p>Back in the entrance passage, at the bottom of the slope there is an unpushed crawl to the left and a wriggle up over rubble into a chamber. From this chamber, the obvious way on is a pitch of approximately 15m, but there is a possible crawl above this (doesn't look promising). At the foot of the pitch, in large rift passage, a crawl on the left leads for about 15m before turning left and becoming too tight. Straight ahead, a crawl reaches a junction with continuations upwards, to the left, straight ahead, and to the right, none of which have been pushed. To the right is a further unpushed crawl. <p>Back in the rift chamber, an exposed, but easy-looking ascending traverse has not been pushed. There is a short climb down, after which a climb up is blind, and the continuing descent passes a narrow point before entering an ascending traverse in a rift which leads to a 5m pitch into a small chamber. <p>A noticable draught was blowing out of the entrance in 2002, accompanied by water vapour. <P><B>Exploration history:</b> CUCC 2000, 2002. <p><HR> <!-- LINKS --> <p><ul> <li><a href="../../index.htm">Back to Expedition Home page</a> <li><a href="../../indxal.htm">Full Index</A> by cave</a> <li><a href="../../areas.htm">Other areas</A> <li><a href="../index.htm"><SPAN lang=de-at>Schwarzmooskogel</SPAN> ridge area index</A> </ul> </BODY> </HTML>