<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd"> <html lang="en" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="en"> <head> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf8" /> <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="/css/main2.css" /> <title>1623:76 -- Entrance Series</title> </head> <body> <table id="cavepage"> <tr><th id="kat_no">76 - main a b</th><th id="name">Eislufthöhle</th><th id="status">5/S/E +</th></tr> </table> <H1>Entrance Series</H1> Two snow plugged dolines (76 b & c) and a narrow shaft (76a) unite in a narrow rift leading to a windy lifelining position, <b>Draught Bitter</b>, at the head of a 72m shaft plugged with snow. Rigging <b>Plugged Shaft</b> between snow and rock, pitches in 1977 were 18m to a snow platform, 12m to a ledge, then 29m to a substantial ledge, <b>Yesterday's Terminus</b>. In 1979, with changed snow topography, and rigging for SRT, the drops were 11, 7, 17 and 19m to Yesterday's Terminus where a traverse out reaches a bolt for the final 13m drop onto a snow pile in a large aven chamber. </body> </html>