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<h1>Approach via summit of Vorderer Schwarzmooskogel</h1>
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<p>Although relatively close to the
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<a href="../tollrd.htm">Bergrestaurant</a> in pure distance terms, the summit
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area of the <span lang="de-at">Vorderer Schwarzmooskogel</span> is an
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inaccessible location, hedged around with small cliffs and patches of dwarf
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pine.
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<p>There are three possible approaches, of varying merits, and which is used
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depends as much on the favoured starting point, as on anything else. From
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the Bergrestaurant itself, it is possible (though not easy) to follow the
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<a href="vianip.htm">Nipple path</a>, not as far as the Nipple itself, then
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hack up towards the summit, possibly via Schwabenschacht. However, this is
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only really useful if also visiting caves near this path.
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<p>A second approach, equally usable from the road or from <a
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href="../tcamps.htm#topcamp">Top Camp</a> is a direct assault of the small
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cliffs and dwarf pine from the Schwarzmoossattel, or slightly down valley.
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This appears to be the route used most frequently when the summit area caves
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were explored in the early eighties, but has not been used recently.
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<p>The "modern" approach is to follow the 161 approach, hacking off at
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either of two points, depending on whether caves east or west and north
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of the summit are the destination.
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<p><a href="../piclinks/vs1843.htm"><img alt="summit pic" width=140
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height=160 align=left hspace=10 vspace=10 src="../tinypix/vs1843.jpg"></a>
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For the north and west, a recently cairned path seems to be the most
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popular approach to the summit by walkers, and is clearly destined to
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become increasingly clear with traffic. Indeed, it is becoming an easy
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route for those approaching 161 and the col to get side-tracked onto.
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It ascends close to <a href="../handbook/survey/lasers.htm">laser point</a>
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0/1, and the small group of nearby entrances, the most obvious of which is
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the open shaft of <a href="156/156.html">1623/156.</a> This should be skirted on
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the left (uphill, east) side. Following the cairned route through various
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patches of pine leads to the summit, not obvious until you are almost upon
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it.
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<p>The route taken by early eighties surface surveys, to caves on the east
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side of the summit (and perhaps best
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for those based at Top Camp familiar with the route to
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<a href="161/top.htm">Kaninchenhöhle</a>), is to go along a traverse
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route marked with orange paint (by a French caving group, we believe), from
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the 161c entrance. This path leads below <a href="162.htm">162</a> and
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<a href="163/163.html">163</a> to lead eventually towards the
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<a href="40area.html">Eishöhle area</a>, between Kaninchenhöhle
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and <a href="41/41.htm">Stellerweghöhle.</a> This zone has various caves
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not explored by CUCC, and as such was neglected by us for many years.
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However, around 2000 it became clear that it was a critical area beneath which
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the much sought-after connection between the two biggest caves in the area must
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lie, and it received much attention from both CUCC and Arge for several years
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(although the connection was eventually found elsewhere). See, for example, the
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<a href="../years/2000/goals.htm">2000 Expo goals document</a>. This area can
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also be accessed via the <a href="vianip.htm">Nipple path</a>, which was the
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main access route for the CUCC explorations in Eishöhle.
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