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<tr><th align=left><font size=+2>97</font></th>
<th align=center lang="de"><font size=+2>Schneewindschacht</font></th>
<th align=right><font size=+2>4/S/W +</font></th></tr>
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<p><b>Altitude:</b> 1639m, depth 265m.<br>
<b>Position:</b> E 35840.2 N (52)83041.3 (west edge of doline)<br>
<b>Marking:</b> "97" in red paint on doline wall
<p><b>Location:</b> Out on the plateau. Head across for the large erratic
boulders near <a href="76.htm">76</a> (aka 106), then away from the col
past the open shaft of <a href="105.htm">105</a>, turning left at a gap in
the scrub which leads down a bare karren corridor to some dolines. Step
across one and cast about for a large one with 97 in red paint.
<p>A moderately large doline, usually without snow, has a small triangular
opening at the SW end. This is the head of a 10m freeclimbable chimney,
followed by a 5m climb into a small chamber. Two ways on from the chamber
unite in a tiny crawl under a drip. A thrutch through (about the size of
Baptistry in Car Pot) is <b>The Nun's Cunt</b>, which ends abruptly at
<b>The Vestry</b>, where SRT gear can be put back on while perched above
the pitch which follows. Drops of 15m, 20m and 20m, <b>The Bottomless
Abbess</b>, lead to a traverse over a blind pitch of about 10m.
<p>The Bottomless Abbess continues with pitches of 15m, 30m, 15m and 15m to a
short horizontal section. This breaks out into the side of another shaft
where 15m and 10m pitches lead to a more complex area. A short pitch of 6m
leads to the <b>Priest's Hole</b> and a gently slanting ramp into a dry,
dusty, abandoned phreatic passage. This is interrupted by a large hole in
the floor, which would require bolts to cross.
<p>Down the hole, the 25m pitch starts unpromisingly, but soon bells out
into a magnificent trench passage. Traversing over a gully leads to a series
of short climbs and a fine last pitch <b>The Dissolution</b>. Here the water
sinks into an impenetrable crack.
<p>The entrance draughts strongly, but there is no air movement at the end,
the most likely way on being the traverse to reach the continuation of the
phreatic level at -190m. Unfortunately, the trip to this point is quite
severe, since the crawl would render rescue impractical and the Bottomless
Abbess rapidly becomes very wet after rain.
<p><b>Exploration:</b> CUCC 1977 - Team Enthusiast
<p><b>Survey:</b> grade 1 extended section, JTG, 1977.<br>
Surface survey grade 3, 1984, AERW+MM from laser 0/4 at
<span lang="de">Wolfh&ouml;hle</span>
<p><center><img alt="100 dpi elevation (710x1710)
30k gif" width=710 height=1710 src="others/97.gif"></center>
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