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<center><h2><a name="ent115">Schnellzughöhle Entrance</a> 1623/115</h2>
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<h3>(AKA Gemsescheissenhöhle)</h3></center>
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<p><b>Location:</b> E 35849.2 N (52)81046.7 H 1479.5m<br>
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<p>Depth to sump 740m
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<h3>Location</h3>
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<p>The entrance opens in the southern slopes of Vorderer Schwarzmooskogel,
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reached by marked path number 201 from the Bergrestaurant and car park at
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the top of the Loser Panoramastrße. This is followed over Egglgrube,
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past the Kratzer Valley and along the well-marked Stogerweg perched on the
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hillside above Weiße Wand. Shortly beyond the draughting hole of
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1623/32 <a href="../../noinfo/1623/32.htm">Windloch</a>, the path drops
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steeply down the hillside. The entrance is reached by steeply descending to
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90m vertically below the Stoger Weg just beyond the point where it levels out
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again. There is a permanent survey station ('P3') just at the junction.
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<h3>Entrance series (1980)</h3>
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<p>A large tube runs horizontally into the hillside [<a name="X0000-115-01"
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href="qmlist.htm#X0000-115-01">X0000-115-01</a> X] (passing below a small skylight), until it
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suddenly closes down to a steeply descending crawl full of loose stones
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([<a name="X0000-115-02" href="qmlist.htm#X0000-115-02">X0000-115-02</a>], originally excavated) and strongly draughting out in summer. This drops into a small chamber with a
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drip inlet which is the ideal place for a tin to collect water for carbide
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lamps. Down the slope an 8m pitch (the hole opposite, [<a name="C1980-115-46"
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href="qmlist.htm#C1980-115-46">C1980-115-46</a>], leads only to a blind passage) is
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followed by a scramble down loose stones to a conclusive choke
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[<a name="C1980-115-45" href="qmlist.htm#C1980-115-45">C1980-115-45</a>]. The main route lies in
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following the draught up an obscure 8m climb, [<a name="C1980-115-47"
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href="qmlist.htm#C1980-115-47">C1980-115-47</a>], on the right above the pitch (bolt aid
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required for reascent, ladder recommended), to a sharp crawl through a small
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tube.
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<p><img alt="entrance series plan: 33k gif" width=800 height=1080
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src="115p.png">
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<h4><a name="derigel">Bell Pitch and The Hedgehog</a></h4>
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<p>A climb down and a traverse to the left over blocks (avoiding the obvious
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loose hole on the right) finds the head of the free hanging <b>Bell Pitch</b>
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(20m) hidden behind a block. This lands on a boulder floor with two dry
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trenches leading off: the right leads to a 7m ladder with unstable boulders
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at the head. This lands in a sharp thrutchy tube, <b>The Hedgehog</b>, which
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heads Southeast to emerge in a dry meandering trench which breaks out into a
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large abandoned phreatic passage.
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<p><img alt="entrance series extended section: 23k gif" width=1090 height=700
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src="115x.png">
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<p>Right (SW) becomes low over a silty mud floor [<a name="C1980-115-48"
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href="qmlist.htm#C1980-115-48">C1980-115-48</a>]. Left (NE) is developed along the strike
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through a chamber with an aven and on to a climb up. This is the start of a
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series of traverses where a narrow trench cuts into a roller-coaster tube.
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This ends at a short climb down to a junction where a larger tube is
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intersected. Almost straight ahead, the large passage with a choked trench in
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the floor reaches a larger hole down (<b><a id="bbungle">Baker's Bungle</a></b>) which is crossed
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to a small rift leading to the head of <b>The Ramp</b>. The Ramp can
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also be reached by an obvious traverse off, 10m down Baker's Bungle,
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[<a name="C1980-115-49" href="qmlist.htm#C1980-115-49">C1980-115-49</a>]. This is the start
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of 200m of continuous pitches to the <b>Big Chamber</b>. [Not the same Big
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Chamber as in 142. Ed.]
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<h3><a name="ramp">The Ramp and Inlet Pitches</a> (1981)</h3>
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<p><a name="thecol">The</a> Ramp has formed where a deep vadose trench (now
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abandoned) has cut down from a phreatic passage sloping at 45°. The way
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is down the ramp, initially on the near side, but crossing the trench to a
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ledge system at the far end of which a better hang down a 45° slope leads
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back to the top of the trench. Across this is a slope to <b>The Col</b>; left
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here leads to a vast black space to the Southeast [<a name="C1981-115-01"
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href="qmlist.htm#C1981-115-01">C1981-115-01</a>], but loose boulders prevented exploration
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of this route.
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<p>The main way on follows right (south), down a series of sloping pitches,
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largely against the wall and developed in a hading rift. The pitches become
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more vertical as a prominent WNW-ESE joint or fault is reached. After passing
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some loose boulders, a 26m pitch reaches the bottom of the rift where a small
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stream joins the route. This can be followed up until a pitch is met.
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Downstream, a short way above the water, a thrutch under and over chockstones
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leads to a further drop.
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<p><a name="inletp">A</a> short traverse (bolts) round two bends enables two
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clean washed and fluted pitches (18, 19m) to be rigged. These are the first
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of the <b>Inlet Pitches</b>. The rebelay between the pitches is at the level
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of a damp ledge, but well out on the (true) left wall where it is usually
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dry. From the large wet ledge now reached, a traverse out onto the right wall
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(ledge, but line very useful) reaches the top of a 6m pitch avoiding the
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rather broken and splashy final section of the rift pitch.
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<p>The Inlet streamway rises rapidly in wet weather and makes the lower
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pitches unpleasant but not impassable. The 6m pitch lands on a boulder floor
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where the water flows down to the left, but right, avoiding the water (except
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in wet conditions), a boulder slope reaches a 24m pitch from a large
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chockstone. The pitch hangs free, landing on the floor near the centre of the
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<b>Big Chamber</b>.
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<p><a name="bigcham115">The Big Chamber</a> (115 final chamber) marks
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the end of the initial vertical part of the cave, and the start of the
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most extensive horizontal development at about 1200m asl. From here
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<a href="off115.htm#offbigcha">several ways</a> lead on. Up the boulder
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slope in the chamber leads to the site of a food dump where an inlet is
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seen in wet weather. The two main ways on lie downstream. Following the
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large abandoned passage above the streamway leads to the connection to
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<a href="deepwy.htm#jncha">Junction Chamber</a>. The water itself can be
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followed as <a href="off115.htm#petepurg">Pete's Purgatory</a>.
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Both lead to the deepest parts of the system via the
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<a href="deepwy.htm#confluence">Confluence</a>.
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<h3><a name="purgbypass0">The Connection</a> (1981) - the start of Purgatory
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Bypass</h3>
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<p>The large abandoned tube may be followed West above the Purgatory by
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crossing from ledge to ledge, or by climbing up from below some way
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downstream of the chamber. Eventually <a href="off115.htm#C1981-115-06">further
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traversing</a> becomes impractical as the ledge and tube give out, but
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shortly before this, the low mud filled continuation [<a name="C1981-115-10"
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href="qmlist.htm#C1981-115-10">C1981-115-10</a>] leads off to the right, Northwest, into a
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mazy fossil phreatic area. The passage size increases in this, past one or
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two passages right - the main way on being fairly obvious and marked by the
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prints of previous explorers. A small vadose trench in the floor contains
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only seepage water, but the route lowers to a crawl through a sandy floored
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arch to a point where the route diverges. Slightly left (NNW), a short
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thrutch emerges at <b>Connection Cairn</b>, but more sharply <a
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name="C1981-115-11">right (uphill - NE)</a> is the easiest route through in a low,
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wide sandy crawl rejoined by the original route on the left after forty
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metres or so. The passage continues large, with a small vadose trench in the
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floor and much mud infill. Following the large tube for a hundred metres or
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so to its conclusion emerges about 10m up the side of <b>Junction Chamber</b>
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with an excellent view, but no easy way down.
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<p>The best route to reach the floor lies 50m back down the passage, where a
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small hole in the right wall (coming from 115) leads to a horribly muddy
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bedding plane crawl which pops out above a streamway which is followed up to
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Junction Chamber by careful traversing.
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<p>Junction Chamber is a nexus of routes where the entrance series of both
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Schnellzughöhle and the ramifications of Stellerweghöhle join.
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<a href="off115.htm#offjcha">Several other routes</a> can be followed for
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varying distances - the main continuation of the Purgatory Bypass is
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<a href="deepwy.htm#dartford">Dartford Tunnel</a>: the way to the
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deeper parts of the system.
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