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<head><title>1623:71</title></head>
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<center><table border=0 width=100%>
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<tr><th align=left><font size=+2>71 a b</font></th>
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<th align=center><font size=+2>Fledermaushöhle</font></th>
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<th align=right><font size=+2>2/S/W +</font></th></tr>
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<p><b>Altitude:</b> 1600m<br>
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<b>Depth:</b> 90m<br>
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<b>Location:</b> West of Kratzer valley, off path to Schwarzmoossattel.
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<p>Entrance is in a fair-sized shakehole in the dwarf-pine-covered karren
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before Schwarzmoossattel.
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<p>Initial hands and knees crawl for 20m soon enlarges and descends past a
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couple of oxbows (one leading to within sight of daylight up an aven) to
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reach twin climbs of 8m, the easier being through a hole to the right. Soon
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afterwards is the first pitch, a sloping 8m. Below this, a pleasant passage
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with occasional bat-droppings leads to a short muddy crawl, an earth bank
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and a sizeable chamber. The next pitch, of 7m, is reached after more muddy
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passage, and may be climbed/jumped by a rift to one side, but is best rigged
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for the return.
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<p><center><a href="l/ca7.htm"><img alt="Photo - 34k" src="t/ca7.jpg"
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width=178 height=134></a><img alt="" src="../../icons/lists/tab64.gif">
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<a href="l/ca4.htm"><img alt="Photo - 22k" src="t/ca4.jpg"
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width=200 height=150></a></center>
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<p>Easy going continues past a right turn to a complex junction at several
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levels. The water can be followed down a rift to a drop into an impenetrable
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fissure. Back at the junction, a traverse and thrutch through lead to a
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small tube, which crosses a cross-rift and ends at a filthy sump. Left at
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the cross rift, however, a low crawl gives onto a greasy chimney climb of 4m
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with very little in the way of holds. At the foot of this, the water
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reenters, and soon develops acute verticality. The first 5m are technical
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and best rigged, but below that, the descent becomes more spiralling in
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mainly solid rock. After 30m, things become more shattered and muddy and the
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climb drops into water leading very quickly to a sump at -90m.
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<p>Shortly before the second pitch, a right turn leads into an inlet passage,
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over a slot to the main passage below, over a traverse and a false floor, to
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reach, eventually, an aven ascended for about 25m and continuing, but with
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no great prospects.
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<p>From the Chamber, a traverse can be entered from the top of the
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rock-slope. The level closes off after about 15m, but below a climb down, a
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pitch was excavated dropping into a larger passage which soon choked
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comprehensively.
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<p><b>Exploration:</b> Discovered by Karl Gaisberger in October 1975, but
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prevented from continuing by start of winter snows, so shared exploration
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with CUCC, 1976.
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<p><b>Survey:</b> <a href="../../jnl/1977/index.htm">Cambridge Underground
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1977</a>, facing page 46.
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<p><img alt="survey: 15k gif" width=560 height=650 src="71.gif">
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