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<tr><th width=20% align=left><font size=+2>136</font></th>
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<th width=60% align=center><font size=+2>Steinschlagschacht</font></th>
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<th width=20% align=right><font size=+2>2/S +</font></th></tr>
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<b>Altitude:</b> 1792m, Depth (to deepest point in 161) 534m<br>
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<b>Location:</b> 136a: E 36374, N (52)82219, H 1795m<br>
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136b:E 36378, N (52)82237, H 1789m<br>
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136c:E 36382, N (52)82251, H 1790m<br>
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136d:E 36388, N (52)82252, H 1792m<br>
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<br>135m on bearing of 66° from Vorderer Schwarzmooskogel summit or 123m
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East and 55m north of the summit.
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136b is 22m N of 136a, 136c is 28m N of 136a, 136d is 35m NNE of 136a.
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All entrances on same shelf. 136b &c are holes in shelf, 136d is large (15x10m) funnel-shaped hole just over 1m ridge (so not obvious from normal route).
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<p><a name="ent">Relocated</a> in 1996. From
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main summit, drop down east to a bare limestone shelf. Follow this ~NE for
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some way (c 200m) until a way down east again reaches a small group of
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holes/shafts/rifts (CUCC 1997-07, 209, 136c, 136b).
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Cross this area south, initially keeping close below a small cliff to
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your right. After passing 136b, 136a is a little off to the left (east) of
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the cliff at the south end of the karren shelf. (See area map in NotKH survey
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book p88-89). The entrance is in a depression and is
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marked by, and under, a large (3m cubicish) boulder with a faint (in
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1996) '136' painted on the S side, and a Tag.
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<p><center><a href="l/jh97-2.htm">
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<img alt="Photo - 58k" src="t/jh97-2.jpg" width=225 height=150
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hspace=20></a></center>
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<p>From Top Camp, proceed via the 161 approach up to the point
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(immediately past 1623/147) where a short climb down through the bunde
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drops onto a large, wide, grassy area perhaps 200m before reaching Vd1
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and 30m higher. Cross the grassy patch, contouring around the hill and
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then take the 3rd steep grassy bank up to the right, through some bunde
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(this is not the most obvious slope). Climb up to the limestone shelf
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above and then continue contouring around the hill at roughly the same
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level for a further 300m to the entrance.
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<p>1983 description is : shaft -194m. The bottom was reached in 1984, at
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depths variously estimated -240m, -260m and -285m, when the rift became too
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narrow. 1983 survey (which was never drawn up) only goes to -194m.
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<h3><a name="136p1" href="../../years/1997/index.htm">1997</a>
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rigging</h3>
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<p><a href="fullsize/136elv.png"><img alt="Elevation - 26k GIF" width=300
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height=709 align=left hspace=10 vspace=10 src="inline/136elv.png"></a><br>
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<center><a href="l/jh97-3.htm"><img alt="Photo - 57k"
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src="t/jh97-3.jpg" width=150 height=225 hspace=20></a>
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</center>
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<p>The rope (60m used in 1997, though this is not generous) for the first
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pitch is belayed to the 3m boulder. A short drop from the surface (c.3m)
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leads to the top of a steeply inclined boulder slope which is also very
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loose. The head of the main entrance pitch hang used to be immediately at the
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foot of this slope, however it has now been rigged from the right hand wall,
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out of the immediate line-of-fire from the boulder slope. A traverse line of
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around 10m at 30° is rigged on the right hand wall to reach the pitch
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head. The main hang is around 35m almost free-hanging, but for a minor
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deviation about 8m below the pitch head.
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<p><center><a name="p1" href="l/jh97-7.htm">
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<img alt="Photo - 38k" src="t/jh97-7.jpg" width=148 height=225 hspace=20></a>
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</center>
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<p>From the foot of the entrance pitch, a fairly narrow slot with a short
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climb down (c 1m) connects to a large boulder-strewn chamber. This chamber is
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entered from the top left corner (standing looking down the slope) and the
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main way on is around 10m down the slope, under a very large boulder towards
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the right hand wall. At the foot of the chamber are two large holes of around
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5m depth, one in each corner. One of these holes has a spit above it,
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suggesting it was descended in 1983/4, however no descent was made of either
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hole in 1997. It is speculated that these may connect to the second pitch at
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a lower point than that used as the pitch head in 1997.
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<h4><a name="136p2">Second</a> Pitch</h4>
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<p>Returning to the main route down, the head of the second pitch is a belay
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point on the right hand wall of the chamber immediately above a very large
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perched boulder at "floor" level. A 130m rope was initially used here, though
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some spare was later cut off. Beware of apparently sound footholds here as
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they have a habit of falling off down the next 70m or so of the pitch series!
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A rebelay is required just below the take-off point on the boulder to avoid
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rubbing the edge of the block on the way up. This rebelay is particularly
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awkward on the way up since the rope tends to pull into the crack between
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wall and boulder. The shaft continues down more or less vertically for a
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further 3 rebelays (50m) until the first substantial ledge is reached. (A
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deviation is required below the 3rd rebelay from the pitch head to avoid an
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otherwise serious rub just below the rebelay bolt).
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<p><center><a href="l/jh97-9.htm"><img alt="Photo - 55k"
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src="t/jh97-9.jpg" width=225 height=150 hspace=20></a><a href="l/jh9711.htm">
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<img alt="Photo - 60k" src="t/jh9711.jpg" width=150 height=225 hspace=20></a>
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</center>
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<p>From this ledge, a further pitch descends, rigged from two bolts on the
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left hand wall with an immediate deviation off the right hand wall.
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Traversing ahead over the pitch, it appears that there is a parallel shaft
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visible through an eyehole in the left hand wall. It is believed that this is
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the shaft described as being accessed by a "desperate step across" which was
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descended in 1984 and found to reconnect to the wet route lower down.
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<p>Descending from the ledge, a further substantial ledge is reached after
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c8m. On the way up it is advisable to cower under the overhanging wall of
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this ledge to avoid exposing yourself to rocks dislodged by people on the
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pitch above - the pitch head is especially loose.
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<h4><a name="3rdp">Third Pitch</a></h4>
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<p>From the ledge an awkward take-off to an almost immediate rebelay leads to
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a connection with a wet shaft - the main source of water below this point.
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The hang is fortunately almost dry, aided by a very wide rebelay about 12m
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below the ledge. A further 15m hang reaches another large ledge where water
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continues through a large slot in the floor at the foot of the pitch. It is
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at this point that the two routes diverge into <a href="#wetdream">Wet
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Dreams</a> (the way explored in 1983/4) and the <b>Eyehole Route</b>.
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<h3><a name="eyehole">Eyehole</a> Route
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(<a href="../../years/1997/index.htm">1997</a>)</h3>
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<p>The Eyehole Route is to-date the main route in 136, leading eventually to
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the 1997 connection with the <a href="fbl136.htm">Forbidden Land</a> in 161,
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and the 2½km <a href="chile.htm">Chile</a> series, found in 1999.
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<p>The eyehole is reached by means of a traverse over the slot in the floor
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(through which the water disappears) and is the obvious large hole on the
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right. A short horizontal rift, with a steeply-inclined hole in the floor,
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connects to the head of the fourth pitch series. This pitch series is about
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30m of dry shaft, broken by three ledges and landing on a much larger ledge
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with a couple of large boulders jammed in the exit rift. A 54m rope was
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sufficient in 1997. From the foot of the fourth pitch, the head of the fifth
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is only a few metres away over the jammed boulders.
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<p><a name="pitch4">The head of</a> the fifth pitch does an extremely good
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job of hiding the enormous cavern into which it breaks some 10m below. Do not
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be mistaken into believing that the floor, as it appears, is only 5m below
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your feet, nor that your light will be even remotely adequate for ensuring
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maximum exposure on the multiple hanging rebelays below. The pitch
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starts with a large Y-hang across the rift at the pitch head.
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<p><center><a href="l/jh9715.htm">
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<img alt="Photo - 21k" src="t/jh9715.jpg" width=150 height=225 hspace=20></a>
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</center>
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<p><a name="over5">An airy</a> traverse around the corner to the left
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(<a href="../../fixaid.htm#over5">rigged rope</a>) leads eventually to the
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<a href="#footlight">Footlights Traverse</a>. (The eyehole immediately
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opposite the pitch head connects with the climb around to the left).
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<p>Below the Y-hang is a large, mud-covered outcrop of rock, over which you
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must traverse before proceeding further to a very wide deviation, hated by
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those with short legs, just below the muddy "floor". A further 5m descent
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leads to a smallish ledge with another rock outcrop to cross to a hanging
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rebelay on the left-hand wall. This point is around 60m above the floor of
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the chamber and is where the <a href="#thegods">Gods' Traverse</a> begins.
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A 35m rope was sufficient to reach this point in 1997.
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<p><a name="theatre">Continuing</a> straight down from the rebelay, first a
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parallel shaft is reached and the wall of the chamber becomes convex,
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requiring another hanging rebelay 21m below the last. A further 24m hang
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drops to a boulder floor at the top of a huge chamber - <b>The Theatre</b>.
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The landing point for the main route into the Theatre is at the top of the
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steeply inclined floor.
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<p><center><a href="l/jh9719.htm">
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<img alt="Photo - 38k" src="t/jh9719.jpg" width=150 height=200 hspace=20></a></center>
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<p><a name="orchestral">Standing</a> at this point, looking down the slope of
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the floor, an opening at the bottom of the chamber of the left-hand wall
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leads to the <b>Orchestral Pit</b>. From the foot of the chamber up a short
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(c 8m) climb over mud and boulders and then up another (c 8m) climb on steep
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rock, leads to a small opening. (The rope has been left
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<a href="../../fixaid.htm#opit">permanently rigged</a> on this climb). On the
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right hand wall at the foot of the chamber is a boulder choke through which
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it is possible to climb down around 10m. No recommendable leads were found
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here. Immediately behind the landing point and around 30m higher up the wall
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is the connection to the <a href="fbl136.htm">Forbidden Land</a> (161) which
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must be reached via the God's Traverse.
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<p><a name="exitsl">Proceeding</a> up the 16m climb from the floor of
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the Theatre, a narrow opening leads to a precarious climb down the other
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side (c.5m) over the top of a large wedged boulder in a rift chamber, <b>Exit Stage Left</b>. There is an aven in the roof of this chamber, which can be
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descended as a pitch (the 30m continuation of Plughole Pitch) from the end of
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the <a href="#footlight">Footlights Traverse</a>. A second aven is reached by
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a short (c 3m) climb up opposite the entry climb. A small window (too small
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for human access) in the left hand wall of the chamber connects to the
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undescended pitch accessible from the <a href="#plughole">rock bridge</a> 18m
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down Plughole pitch, 26m above. Rocks can also be thrown in through a small
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gap in the boulder floor. This pitch continues below this level.
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<p>In the Orchestral Pit, a number of wet shafts connect from the ceiling in
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addition to a number of dry avens. The dry avens nearest to the Forbidden
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Land have been connected to an eyehole on the God's Traverse around 15m
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above the connection to <a href="fbl136.htm#ealgor">Elin Algor</a>. The
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floor of the Orchestral Pit has a number of pools and also a considerable
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amount of brown powdery mud, similar to that found in the horizontal areas of
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Kaninchenhöhle such as <a href="offffr.htm#mmudpie">Mississippi Mud
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Pie</a>, <a href="triasp.htm#triasp">Triassic Park</a> etc. , of which
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the majority of 136 is devoid. No leads were found in the Orchestral Pit.
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<h3><a name="thegods">The Gods'</a> Traverse
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(<a href="../../years/1997/index.htm">1997</a>)</h3>
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<p>The earlier (and lower) of two impressive traverse routes off the fifth
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pitch, The Gods' Traverse heads NE towards Kaninchenhöhle, to which
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it eventually connects.
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<p><a href="l/godst.htm"><img alt="Photo - 48k jpeg" width=150 height=200
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align=left hspace=10 vspace=10 src="t/godst.jpg"></a>
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<p>From the hanging rebelay 10m below the head of the 5th pitch (on Eyehole
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Route), a short (4m) descent with a swing leads to a small muddy sloping
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ledge, with precipitous drop. A bolt in the middle of the traverse "protects"
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a caver who teeters around the ledge and up a short (c.2m) climb over a
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corner bulge onto the main face of the traverse. This roughly horizontal
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section is about 12m in length across a slab of limestone inclined at 70 - 80
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°. Should your lighting equipment allow, you will be able to admire the
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enormous vertical rock-face which forms the opposite wall of the Theatre and
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the precipitous drop to the floor 40+ metres below. Hand holds (barring the
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rope) are non-existent on the second half of the traverse and most foot
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ledges were of the disposable type (single use only), now long gone. At the
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far end of the traverse 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. This is the final impressive overlook reached in
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<a href="fbl136.htm#ealgor">Elin Algor</a> from the Forbidden Land in
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Kaninchenhöhle in 1996. The whole of the pitch - traverse - pitch
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to this point was <a href="../../fixaid.htm#gods">left rigged</a>.
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<p>Back through the eyehole, a couple of pitches lead eventually to the
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Orchestral Pit.
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<h3><a name="footlight">Fifth pitch and Footlights</a> Traverses
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(<a href="../../years/1997/index.htm">1997</a>)</h3>
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<p>The later traverse route off the fifth pitch (starting at the pitch
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head, some 10m higher than the Gods'). This heads generally SW, and is
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in two sections, split by a 16m pitch. The lower section is strictly
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the Footlights traverse, but the name has been applied to the whole
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route, causing some confusion.
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<p>A short, unobvious (<a href="../../fixaid.htm#over5">roped</a>)
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traverse, <b>Service Duct</b>, starts from the left hand side of the Y hang
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at the head of the fifth pitch. It goes left round the corner into a
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window, then climbs up 3m above a deep hole to a lip into a chamber with
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a large hole in the steeply sloping floor that drops down near the start
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of <a href="#thegods">Traverse of the Gods</a>. Traversing to the right
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of this chamber, past an eyehole with a view back to the Y hang, a pitch (<b>Ventilation Shaft</b> p.16, 1 bolt rebelay, -5m) descends to the
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<b>Box</b>, a platform with a fine view to the left across the Theatre to
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the Gods' Traverse. Looking out and to the right from the Box is the
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start of <b>Footlights Traverse</b>.
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<p><a name="foottrav">This airy,</a> diagonal, section around and down the
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south-western corner of the Theatre, 30m off the floor was <a
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href="../../fixaid.htm#footl">left rigged</a> after the 1997 expedition, but
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in 1999 was deemed easy enough to rig afresh on each expedition, so the rope
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was taken off. Two bolt rebelays reach a Y hang, and descending from this a
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window can be reached by an entertaining pendulum to reach a rift in the
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wall. This window enters a choss-filled passage whose boulder floor is
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apparently suspended above a void (traverse line recommended). An old
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phreatic level was hypothesised to exist at a similar height to the
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connection with Elin Algor, and this seems to correspond roughly to that
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level, although at this point the morphology is a tall rift, passable at
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various levels, with many windows, climbs and pitches, difficult to explore
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exhaustively.
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<p><a name="plughole">The passage</a> leads, after a 3m climb up and a 2m
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climb down, to a narrow slot opening out into the spacious <b>Plughole
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pitch</b> below, which drops 18m to a rock bridge.
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<p>At the rock bridge the single shaft splits into three. An inlet enters
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from an aven and goes down an undescended clean-washed shaft [99-xx A]. This
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descends about 8m to a ledge where a slot drops at least 30m, past the choked
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floor at the bottom of the Footlights pitch (determined by rocks thrown in
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from two points below). This apparently does not connect (at least directly)
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with the Orchestral Pit - rocks were not audible from there. The second of
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the shafts is more like a 3m blind pit, of little interest.
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<p>The third, and biggest, of the dry shafts is a further drop of 30 m (bolt,
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tape deviation at -10m) and lands on the floor of
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<a href="#exitsl">Exit Stage Left</a> (originally reached by the 16m climb up
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from the Theatre).
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<p>Across the rock bridge, over a few boulders and through a smallish
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slot, is a short 5m pitch. This is the way on to
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<a href="chile.htm">Chile</a>, 1999's major find.
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<h3><a name="wetdream">Wet Dreams</a> (1983/4)</h3>
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<p>Wet Dreams is the original route, explored first in 1983/4, but named in 1997 in memory of the anticipated connection with 161 by this route. In fact
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no such connection has yet been found, but the shaft series has not yet been
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bottomed and so it's still a possibility.
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<p>Continuing from the foot of the <a href="#3rdp">third pitch</a> and
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crossing the traverse to the point where the Eyehole Route diverges, a dry
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hang is possible to the bottom of the rift down which the water disappears.
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At the foot of this 15m pitch is a narrow rift, leading quickly to a further
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12m pitch followed by another narrow rift to another pitch.
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<p><a name="pfantasy">Around</a> the head of this pitch, <b>Phreatic
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Fantasy</b> - so called because of the anticipated large sloping ramps
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expected from a previous cave description - are a number of small, clean and
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fairly uninteresting roof tubes, probably phreatic in origin. The shaft at
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this point becomes roughly vertical and descends in a number of sections a
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further surveyed 35m, becoming increasingly wet towards the bottom. From the
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surveyed limit a further pitch of around 30m (estimated) can be seen
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descending immediately below.
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<h4>1983 rigging</h4>
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<p>The split between Eyehole and Wet Dreams is about three quarters of the
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way down what the 1983 description had as a broken shaft of c 100m. This was
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in sections of 14m vertical, 24m sloping, 13m vertical to a ledge. Here a
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desperate step across (worse on exit) attained a parallel shaft which
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apparently connected back lower down. The main way dropped 9m sloping, 29m
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vertical, to a 9m slope and a final 3m vertical to what is assumed to have
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been the Phreatic Fantasy level - though the pitch lengths (mainly deduced
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from survey data) don't correspond well with the 1997 experience and this may
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be below the next pitch. 1983 figures put the next pitch as 17m sloping, then
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15m vertical to a bolt at -194m, which may be a similar point to that reached
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on this route in 1997, or not quite as deep.
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<h4>1984 series</h4>
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<p>A further drop is 5m to "a very bad bolt" and either 15m total, or a
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further 15m from the bolt, to a spray lashed ledge with only one small alcove
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in which to cower and brew up. A rift in the floor leads 6m to a rebelay and
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a final 20-25m pitch into a chamber with two ways off. One was very tight to
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an aven and small drop which stones indicate ends blind in mud floor after
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c10m. The main way was a squeeze past a very large boulder, down a 10m pitch
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to a stream which flows into the classic too-narrow draughting rift. Logbook
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describes this as -260m, which fits with the non-existence of a 30m
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"virtual" pitch which is believed to be the result of an ambiguity elsewhere
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in the 1984 log book.
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<p><b>Exploration:</b> CUCC 1983, 1984,
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<a href="../../years/1997/index.htm">1997</a>,
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<a href="../../years/1999/index.htm">1999</a>
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<br><b>Survey:</b> 1983 Surface survey from Vord. Schwarzmooskogel (p1843)
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<br>1997 Surface survey to 1623/147
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<br>underground survey, CUCC 1983 to -194m (unpublished ?), and a new one in 1997
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