| CUCC 2000/09 | Hauchhöhle |
2/S/T x |
|---|---|---|
| Extent: | Dunno!. |
| Location: | 36468.57E, (52)83441.63N, 1784.79m altitude. |
Access route: The arch-shaped entrance and gully are obvious from the route used in 2000 onwards from Top Camp to Steinbrückenhöhle. 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.
Marking: Tag.
The horizontal entrance slopes downhill for about 20m, passing beneath a skylight and a crawl to the left. The crawl leads to a small chamber, where there are two ways on. Left becomes two small; straight ahead has not been pushed but is a crawl.
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.
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.
A noticable draught was blowing out of the entrance in 2002, accompanied by water vapour.
Exploration history: CUCC 2000, 2002.