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<center><h2><a name="ent144">Top Entrance 1623/144</a> (1983-85)</h2></center>
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<p><b>Location:</b> E 36102.3 N (52)81514.5 H 1712.0
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<p>The entrance is 20m vertically below and 65m on a bearing of 94° from
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the small knoll (Bunter's Bulge in CUCC parlance,
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<span lang="de">Weiße Warze</span> to the <span lang="de">Munchen /
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Nürnberg</span> cavers) at the end of the ridge running SSW from the
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<span lang="de-at">Vorderer Schwarzmooskogel,</span> on which there is a
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<a href="../../handbook/survey/lasers.htm">laser fixed point</a> 7/8.
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<h3><a name="entser">Entrance Series</a> (1983, CUCC)</h3>
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<p>The 7m entrance shaft narrows to a squeeze through a slot to loose
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boulders. A passage left (SSW) here, <span lang="de">Geheimgang,</span> was
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completely missed (or ignored) by CUCC, but meanders for a while before
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heading off for maybe 100m to the SSW to a second entrance.
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<p>To the right below the entrance slot is the head of a 9m pitch down to a
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floor of large wedged blocks. A 16m pitch down through a slot lands on a
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balcony at the start of a large shattered shaft, 13m wide in places. This is
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passed by pitches of 15, 42, 5, 7 and 23m (belayed from a nipple on the
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opposite wall). The cave closes down to a triangular slot 50cm wide, and a
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13m hang against the wall drops into a short section of horizontal passage
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with roof scalloping. This turns into a traverse as a small stream in a
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canyon comes in from the left, and the route follows this down as a 28m pitch
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to land in a pool. A short drop and an 11m pitch break into a level of
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extensive phreatic development. There is an obvious path along the dusty
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floor, the <b>Yellow Brick Road</b>. Following the stream down a series of
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ramps leads to a large abandoned passage which has not been explored.
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<p><a name="ybr">It seems</a> highly likely that the pitch at the end of
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<a href="off41.htm#alice">Alice im Wunderland</a> in
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<b lang="de-at">Stellerweghöhle</b> will drop into the final 11m pitch
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before Yellow Brick Road.
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<p><img alt="survey fragment: 6k gif" src="144top.png" width=720 height=266>
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<p>Across the Yellow Brick Road from the foot of the 11m pitch; up a boulder
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slope and past a steep ramp down to the left, leads to a series of small
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phreatic tubes which mostly close down. Straight ahead leads into a passage
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almost filled with layered mud and with a strong inward draught. This breaks
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out at the top of a large chamber, which is entered by a 25m pitch down a
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layered mud wall. On the opposite side of the chamber, at the level of the
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pitch head, a large passage is inaccessible, but is the main way on towards
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<span lang="de-at">Stellerweghöhle.</span>
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<h3>The original route to -285m (1983)</h3>
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<p>From the bottom of the 25m pitch, a 7m diameter tube slopes down at
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60° for 40m, forming a pitch with several rebelays. This turns vertical
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at a 14m pitch which carries a small stream to a 10m pitch, after which the
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stream vadose canyon gets too tight.
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<p>By swinging off the 14m pitch half-way down, a continuation of the main
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way is reached. This is a 10m abandoned passage with dusty blocks and layered
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mud. After 20m this closes down in a small chamber. Dropping down 13m in
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boulders leads to a very small canyon; a passage on the other side of the
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chamber continues as a canyon for 30m, but filled with mud. The final route
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out is a 1m diameter, almost circular, phreatic tube with a small vadose
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trench in the floor. This continues up at 35° for 70m until it meets a
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very small trench which draughts out. The tube elbows back on itself, but
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soon becomes choked with mud as the small invading stream disappears down a
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crack. The draught in this area seems likely to be from the northernmost
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deep part of <a href="../78.htm">Schwabenschacht (1623-78)</a>, in which a
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short passage, just 50m away from this 35° ramp, is on almost exactly the
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same line.
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<p><img alt="survey fragment: 6k gif" src="144up.png" width=620 height=600>
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<h3><a name="roddive">The Stellerweg Connection</a> (1985, CUCC)</h3>
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<p>In the Yellow Brick Road, about 3m to the left of the passage leading to
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the 25m pitch, the main way in the series of small tubes terminates after 4m
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in a small hole, <b>Roddick's Dive</b>, which is best rigged with a 6m
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ladder. This drops through an awkward and slippery restriction and down a
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rock slab to an exposed muddy sloping landing. Care is required on the
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descent and the return can be quite time consuming.
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<p>Traversing across the mud around to the right leads after about 10m to a
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2m climb up into a passage. This is the passage which can be seen across from
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the 25m pitch. To the right, the pitch is encountered after about 5m. To the
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left, the passage continues for 25m past a number of ramp tubes on the left.
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The passage is then blocked by orange sand infill. The rift above the fill
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has been entered by bolting (two bolts on the left hand wall), and rapidly
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ascends and narrows. At its furthest point, there is an undescended small
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hole in the floor down which water can be heard.
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<p>Back at the infill, the way on is down the ramp tube on the left. This is
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descended on a slope of about 45° for 60m, until a large dry passage is
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entered. To the left this becomes narrower, with steeply sloping soil ledges
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and a narrow rift below. This direction has not been pushed, but is presumed
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to be the same rift as that below Roddick's Dive, and probably the same as
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that below the 11m pitch entering the Yellow Brick Road, all of which must
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be very close to a connection into the adjacent
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<span lang="de">Larchenschacht</span>
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(<a href="../../noinfo/smkridge/88.htm">1623/88</a>)
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<p align=center><img alt="survey fragment: 11k gif" src="144con.png"
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width=560 height=920>
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<p>To the right, the passage continues large over a broken rock floor with a
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trench in the middle. At the point where the trench opens out, and drops for
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about 2m, two ways on are possible. Descent into the first (unstable rock -
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care!) leads to a rift between boulders and a climb back up into the passage,
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above a hole. Alternatively, a traverse to the right leads to the same point.
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<p>From here, the route follows a series of winding passages generally
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floored with loose dry yellow or grey sand, with several short descents over
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boulders. The draught is the best guide until the passage breaks out into a
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chamber which is itself a large alcove about 20m up the side of a much larger
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chamber.
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<p>Back-tracking about 20m leads, via a squeeze, through sandy chambers to a
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muddy low crawl to the bottom of the pitch. This is very draughty and damp.
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Following the passage downstream, it develops into a vadose canyon with the
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stream on the floor. After about 20m, another 10m pitch is reached, but by
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following the steep wet tube on the right it is possible to pop out 3.5m
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from the bottom of the pitch, from where a wide chimney reaches the floor of
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the streamway below the <a href="41.htm#bigpitch">Big Pitch</a> in Stellerweg
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at [<a href="qmlist.htm#C1980-41-33">C1980-41-33</a>].
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