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1623:162
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<center><table border=0 width=100%>
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<tr><th align=left><font size=+2>162</font></th>
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<th align=center><font size=+2>Schwa Schacht 162</font></th>
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<th align=right><font size=+2>2/S +</font></th></tr>
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<p><b>Altitude:</b> 1746.1m, Depth 22 m (survey) or 33 m (text), Length
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156-159m.<br>
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<b>Location:</b> Vorderer Schwarzmooskogel, about halfway between
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<a href="161/top.htm">161</a> and
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<a href="../noinfo/smkridge/40.htm">Eishöhle</a>. Following the French
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traverse route along the shelf marked with orange paint from 161c will take
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you to just below 162 and <a href="163.htm">163</a>.<br>
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E 36497.3, N (52)82308.0
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<p>The <a href="../years/1988/log.htm">1988 log book</a> refers to this
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cave as "Adam's Hole (2)".
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<p>About 250m from survey point vd1. From vd1, head directly down the gully
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(bearing about 100°, for about 130m, then turn right, angle right and
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traverse below the bunde field on the right along the most obvious shelf
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(you should find the french path here) for another 130m or so. The cave
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entrance is a 1.5m × 2m hole in the wall to the right of the traverse shelf
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with a very cold draught coming out of it. It is one shelf above the French
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path and if you are at the wrong level you will miss it.
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<p>The cave takes a good couple of hours to explore thoroughly. Through the
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entrance is a large chamber with a 4m × 8m crater in it. A 3m climb down to
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the bottom gives access to a 3m climb back up to the right, leading into the
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cave and a crawl at the lowest point of the boulders leading into a choked
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bit of cave with small solutional stuff in the roof. It is also possible to
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traverse around the left edge of the crater to reach a triangular crawl
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which goes for about 10m before it gets too tight.
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<p>The entire floor of this cave consists of small rocks and boulders. There
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is no solid rock anywhere horizontal, except halfway down the pitch.
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<p>After climbing out of the hole there is another 5m deep choked hole
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beyond. Traverses round to both the left and right are possible, although a
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little care is required due to the low roof and loose floor.
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<p>To the right, rubble coming out of the bottom of a choked shaft almost
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blocks the passage but a crawl through to the left remains, with a strong
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wind blasting through the confined space. Beyond this constriction the
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draught is lost. The roof remains low on the other side, although it is
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possible to stand up off to the left where there is a 4m climb up to what
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looks like a way on but is actually blind. Moving around the boulder pile to
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the right leads to a big passage. There are a few large boulders 10m to the
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right with a 4m climb down between them leading to a tight choked rift. This
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was also dug into from the top passage by the extremely zealous original
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explorers! There is an alcove in front and a rubble slope up to the right.
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Round the corner to the right is another shaft-bottom rubble pile and a hole
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disappearing into the roof. At the top of the slope to the left is a 4m
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climb up through and around big wedged boulders to reach an impressive
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chamber 7m × 9m and 12m high. There is a possible climb up into an aven in
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the corner which probably doesn't go and has a couple of moves at the top
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which need protecting.
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<p>Back at the fork near the entrance, turning left and thrutching over a
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couple of rocks (another windy spot) leads to the head of a 17m pitch broken
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by a ledge 8m down. There is a bolt for a ladder hang on this ledge. Going
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off to the left allows a safe traverse past the pitch continuation to the
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bottom of a 6m high rift with some ice in it, slowly narrowing as it goes
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up.
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<p>At the foot of the pitch is what looks like an ancient phreatic remnant.
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It is about 40m long and 6m wide, and mostly full of rocks. To the left it is
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blocked at the end by the rubble coming out of the bottom of a big shaft. It
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is possible to work round the foot of this for about 3m to the left and 10m
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to the right.
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<p>Going the other way down the passage reveals a large snow column by the
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left hand wall. It is possible to climb up between the column and its
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containing shaft, presumably all the way to the surface, but no-one has
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managed it yet. Beyond this column the roof gets lower, apart from a couple
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of solutional avens and eventually a small shaft-bottom rock pile and a
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couple of small inlet tubes mark the end of the cave.
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<p><img alt="survey - 16k gif" width=649 height=505 src="others/162.gif">
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<p><b>Exploration:</b> CUCC 1988<br>
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<b>Survey:</b>1990 plan Cambridge Underground 1991
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