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<th align=center><font size=+2>Schwaben(schacht)h&ouml;hle</font></th>
<th align=right><font size=+2>5/S/t/E x</font></th></tr>
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<p><b>Altitude:</b> 1669m<br>
<b>Depth :</b> 289m<br>
<b>Length :</b> 6.04 km
<p><b>Location:</b> E 35727.5 N (52)81436.3 H 1664.8<br>
Actually on the SW side of Vorder Schwarzmooskogel, but approached by the
same route as for things to the east, as cliffs bar access from Kratzer.
Follow the Stoger weg from Egglgrube, past the T-junction to Kratzer, and on
until there is a red omega in the middle of the path (marking Kat. 28). Just
before this, in a position with a better view, is a laser-rangefound point
marked by a bolt with a painted circle round it.
<p>Take the Eish&ouml;hle path, which starts from the omega, going left up
the hillside. Follow this for a few minutes, past an awkward little traverse
rigged with a steel cable and then a couple of minutes further. There is a
very easily missed branch left just before the path traverses a ledge under
an overhang in a cliff to its left in a relatively wide small valley. The
landmark for this point is a dead (lightning) tree up on the right.
<p>Take this left branch, and follow it (few landmarks, but it is a definite
path, and there are cut branches in places). This path eventually climbs
into impenetrable dwarf pine, to emerge at a small gravelly clearing and a
doline, used as a bivouac site. The two entrances are just short distances
away through the pine, the normally-used one being below a prominent larch
tree. The other entrance is a long rift shaft. Both are impressive, though
it is quite infeasible that anyone could ever have found them in the first
place.
<p>The cave is a complex of hading rifts and steep ramps with several deep
points. The deepest point is near the southern limit of the system. A
vertical series with pitches of 9m, 15m, 17m and 13m reaches
N&auml;gschtmol-Meander (1992), where the survey legs are all very short.
This climbs slightly before heading south and dropping, passing Alexander
der Gro&szlig;e (a generally level side passage heading southwest to
Leopardencanyon, apparently beyond the known passages in
<a href="115.htm">Schnellzugh&ouml;hle</a>) to der gute Abgang (the good
lead). A 7m pitch and more steep descents end at a point almost directly
above the assumed line of Pete's Purgatory in Schnellzug, maybe a third of
the way to the Confluence from where it is abandoned for the Purgatory
Bypass. This small streamway lies perhaps 120-130m below Schwabenschacht's
deep point, but it is known that several unsurveyed fossil phreatic passages
lie above this upstream part of the Purgatory, so a connection could be
quite close.
<p><b>Exploration :</b> Fred Vischer, 1980 (as far as 2/S/T)<br>
Ongoing exploration by
<a href="http://arge.itvd.uni-stuttgart.de/">Arbeitsgemeinschaft
H&ouml;hle und Karst Grabenstetten e.V.</a>
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