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<h2>1623/136 Steinschlagschacht: Forbidden Land</h2>
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<h3><a name="forbidden">Overview</a></h3>
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<p>Originally explored in 1996 via an extremely loose and unpleasant
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area of passages from <a href="fbland.htm#rhorror">Rocky Horror</a>
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in Kaninchenhöhle. This was seen as sufficiently dangerous that
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there were many refusals ever to go back, all subsequently rescinded in the
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pursuit of new passage trending so promisingly SW towards the Southern
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Schwarzmosskogelsystem. Fortunately, the area was reached (in 1997) by
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determined exploration in the 1983 discovery Steinschlagschacht, and is
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therefore now readily accessible. The passages are here described in the
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correct direction for future exploration from this route of access.
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<h3><a name="ealgor">Elin Algor</a>
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(<a href="../../years/1996/index.htm">1996</a>)</h3>
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<p>At the far end of the <a href="136.htm#thegods">Gods' Traverse</a> in
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Steinschlagschacht, a hanging rebelay just over the edge of the wall
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leads, with a wide swing, to a large eyehole on the opposite wall. A short
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(15m) pitch against the wall on the outside of the hole leads to a large
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muddy sloping ledge at the back of which is a hole into narrow traversy
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passage, Elin Algor, first discovered from the other end in 1996.
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<p>This soon enlarges and goes NE for 40m enlarging all the way, past an
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unexplored and unpromising pitch through boulders in the floor on the left
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[<a name="qC1996-161-94" href="qmtodo.htm#C1996-161-94">C1996-161-94</a> C], to a wide junction.
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Sharp left (back west) is <a href="#twerke">Tirolia Werke</a>,
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whilst straight on, the main Elin Algor passage followed for another 30m,
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reducing in size to where the continuation is reached by climbing up
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awkwardly through boulders to emerge in the floor. This can be bypassed by a
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pitch up (bolted) and a climb down beyond. Here, a rift can be followed under
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the main way for c20m, whilst the chossy rift above goes a similar distance
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to where there is a window (exactly head sized) to a pitch on the right
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[<a name="qC1996-161-82" href="qmtodo.htm#C1996-161-82">C1996-161-82</a> C].
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<p>Still heading NE, the rift enlarges and becomes less chossy. Twenty metres
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on, a 15m passage on the right leads to the foot of an impressive aven. A
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little further on, the passage opens out to 7m wide and 13m high. An obscure
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3m climb up on the left, followed by a traverse is the way into
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<a href="#pumph">Pump House</a> (the original entry point from 161) bypassing
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the obvious 6m pitch up. There is an aven in the roof here.
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<p>Ahead, easy going for 50m NE leads to a big sand cliff/slope into a large
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chambery thing. A 10m handline on the right (bolt RH wall) leads down into it. Traversing round to the right at the level of the handline bolt
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a steep (45°) loose muddy ramp ascends for 20-30m, turning left near the beginning. This ends at a small rift slope, mostly choked with mud and
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rocks, through which is a pitch of perhaps 20m. The pitch head needs some
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gardening and a smallish person [<a name="qC1999-136-nn"
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href="qmtodo.htm#C1999-136-nn">C1999-136-nn</a> C].
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<p>There are numerous ways off the chambery thing at the bottom of the
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handline, but it is not clear where the gale goes. To the right, between
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mudbanks, is the wet foot of a largish pitch. The water goes down an
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impenetrable crack. A chossy 10m climb up a mud bank on the left leads to a
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smallish tube at 'floor' level
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[<a name="qC1996-161-81" href="qmdone.htm#C1996-161-81">C1996-161-81</a> C].
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This was looked at in 1997: the tube is only about 4m long, but has 2
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right-angle bends making it very difficult for tall people. It emerges into
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the wall of a big shaft which couldn't be explored owing to lack of tackle
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[<a name="qC1997-161-40" href="qmtodo.htm#C1997-161-40">C1997-161-40</a> A].
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<p>There is a 15m diameter, 15m deep undescended pitch on the far side of
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the large chambery thing
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[<a name="qC1996-161-79" href="qmtodo.htm#C1996-161-79">C1996-161-79</a>
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A], with probably an aven at the far end.
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<p>On the left is a wet area where the water can be followed into a rift for
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some metres, unfinished
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[<a name="qC1996-161-80" href="qmtodo.htm#C1996-161-80">C1996-161-80</a> C].
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Above this, 10m of passage leads to a 4m pitch, bridged by a large rock.
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traversing the bridge leads to a squalid crawl over mud which gets too small
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without digging after 10m. Descending the pitch leads to about 80m of small
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winding draughting passage explored as far as a chossy pitchhead
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[<a name="qC1996-161-78" href="qmtodo.htm#C1996-161-78">C1996-161-78</a> A].
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<h3><a name="pumph">Pump House</a> and Hall of the Mounting Choss
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(<a href="../../years/1996/index.htm">1996</a>)</h3>
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<p>Above the climb from Elin Algor, a howling gale fills the 6m x 2m
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phreatic passage, <b>Pump House,</b> leading for 70m to emerge in the
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<b>Hall of the Mounting Choss,</b> a few metres (climbable) up its SE wall.
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<p><a name="hotmc">Hall of the Mounting Choss</a> is a very long, steep
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chamber, about 25m wide, 20m high and 80m long (above the rocks!). To the
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left of the point of emergence from Pump House, is an inaccessible hole
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(would need bolts)
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[<a name="qC1996-161-77" href="qmtodo.htm#C1996-161-77">C1996-161-77</a> C].
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Below this, at floor level, is the way into
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<a href="fbland.htm#wimpway">Whimper Way,</a> leading to 161. Further left,
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near the lowest (S) side of the chamber is another passage leading 5m to a
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closed 5m high solution aven. To the right of the point of emergence is
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another opening which quickly chokes with sand. There is a small, undescended
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rift pitch in the W corner
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[<a name="qC1996-161-76" href="qmtodo.htm#C1996-161-76">C1996-161-76</a> B].
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The various holes in the floor down through boulders have been fairly
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thoroughly checked and no ways on found.
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<p>At the top of the 40m slope there is a big aven in the N corner and
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a pair of pitches
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[<a name="qC1996-161-74" href="qmtodo.htm#C1996-161-74">C1996-161-74</a> A
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on the right and
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<a name="qC1996-161-75" href="qmdone.htm#C1996-161-75">C1996-161-75</a> A
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on the left]. The left hand hole has been descended and
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<a href="offfld.htm#hotmcp">still continues</a>. There is a secondary low
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point in the NE corner. Climbing down through the floor here leads back to
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Whimper Way (NE of the entry point). A 15m x 15m x 10m boulder can be passed
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by an 8m climb on the right. A harder 8m climb is also possible on the left.
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These gain another 60m of passage over large breakdown to a draughting choke
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of small rocks coming down from above
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[<a name="qC1996-161-71" href="qmtodo.htm#C1996-161-71">C1996-161-71</a> C].
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Just before this on the left wall there is a draughting crawl below an undercut [<a name="qC1999-136-nn" href="qmtodo.htm#C1999-136-nn">C1999-136-nn</a>.
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Above the huge boulder are steeply sloping QMs in the left hand wall
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[<a name="qC1996-161-73" href="qmtodo.htm#C1996-161-73">C1996-161-73</a> B].
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Protection is needed for the climb.
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<h3><a name="twerke">Tirolia Werke</a>
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(<a href="../../years/1996/index.htm">1996</a>)</h3>
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<p>Northwest at the wide junction in Elin Algor (to the right coming from
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161, left coming from Steinschlagschacht), <b>Tirolia Werke</b> soon turns
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west. Climbing down on the right at the start of the passage there is a good
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carbide fill pool. There is a small stream for the first 15m which then
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sinks. There is a small passage (to NW) just at the start, which has not been
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explored
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[<a name="qC1996-161-84" href="qmtodo.htm#C1996-161-84">C1996-161-84</a> C].
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An awkward 3m sand climb (<a href="../../fixaid.htm#tw5m">short handline</a>)
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leads into the first spot that shows the passage type round here. It is
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hading rift, with steep ramps on the right at many points. These have all
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been climbed to where they are steep enough to need gear/practically
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vertical, but have not actually stopped.
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[<a name="qC1996-161-85" href="qmtodo.htm#C1996-161-85">C1996-161-85</a> B
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and <a name="qC1996-161-86" href="qmtodo.htm#C1996-161-86">C1996-161-86</a>
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B], then steeper ramps
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[<a name="qC1996-161-87" href="qmtodo.htm#C1996-161-87">C1996-161-87</a> B
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and
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<a name="qC1996-161-88" href="qmtodo.htm#C1996-161-88">C1996-161-88</a> B].
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The passage continues for 70m to a 3m ladder pitch at an awkward narrow drop
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in the rift floor. Shortly before this pitch a 3m climb up on the right hand
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side leads to a largish chamber at the foot of an aven. There is a small
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tight wet lead in here
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[<a name="qC1997-161-39" href="qmtodo.htm#C1997-161-39">97-39</a> C], and
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there appears to be a parallel rift here (probably the same as that seen
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further along Tirolia Werke).
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<p>20m beyond this is a small opening low in the left hand wall leading to
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the <a href="offfld.htm#gravpit">Gravel Pit</a>. In the main rift, water can
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be heard behind the right hand wall, presumably in a parallel rift. Climbing
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down under boulders before the slipped wall on the right leads to an
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undescended 5m pitch
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[<a name="qC1996-161-91" href="qmtodo.htm#C1996-161-91">C1996-161-91</a> A].
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Traversing around this (long legs only) reaches a second pit
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[<a name="qC1996-161-92" href="qmtodo.htm#C1996-161-92">C1996-161-92</a> A]
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from which the parallel rift can be seen. There are others scrots under
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boulders here, back to the bottom of the main rift.
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<p>The rift size is severely reduced here as a large section of the right
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hand wall has slipped down. The next bit can be reached by a narrow rift
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straight ahead, or airy traversing up the ramp on the right. Beyond this last
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widening is a choss slope to a very uninviting boulder choke.
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Probably needs another look, draughty, but not terribly promising
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[<a name="qC1996-161-93" href="qmtodo.htm#C1996-161-93">C1996-161-93</a> C].
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