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<tr><th align=left><font size=+2>1 a b</font></th>
<th align=center lang=de><font size=+2>Li&auml;gerh&ouml;hle</font></th>
<th align=right><font size=+2>2/(W) +</font></th></tr>
<tr><th></th><th align=center lang=de><font size=+2>= D´Li&euml;ger</font></th></tr>
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<p><b>Altitude:</b> East Entrance 812m West entrance 809m Length 306m, Depth
71m, extent NW-SE 160m
<p><b>Location:</b> At the foot of a gully cutting the southwestern end of
Steller, a major cliff band SE of the Loser - Br&auml;uning area. A couple
of hundred metres north of the Youth Hostel at the NE corner of Altausseer
See.
<p>If you follow the lakeside path (shortest approach from Altaussee on
north side of lake) there is a junction where the path to Hochklapfsattel
departs. A short way west of (ie. before) this junction is a bridge over a
normally dry stream bed. Follow the stream bed up for a short way until it
splits, then follow the apparently smaller branch to the right (east).
Scramble up rocks to the East Entrance. This is marked on the Alpine Club
1:25000 map.
<p>Although the Altitude given is 812m, it doesn´t seem that high, and 812m
is exactly 100m above lake level, which is a little suspicious. If you
accept instead the phrase "climb 70m higher" in the original kataster
description, the altitude comes out about 780 to 785m, which puts the final
sump at almost exactly the level of the lake.
<p><b>Map:</b> 28.1 cm E, 15.4 cm N, sheet 15/1
<p><b>Survey:</b> A4 survey in Mitt. der Sektion Ausseerland 18(4), Oct.
1980, facing p 86. This is dated 1935, 1960 and looks like a third
generation photocopy of a larger survey - the quality is very poor.
<p><b>References:</b> There are descriptions (in German) of dives in the
terminal sump in <a href="../../others/obsteier/dive1.htm"
lang="de-at">1985</a> and <a href="../../others/obsteier/dive2.htm"
lang="de-at">1988</a>. A further follow-up article is awaiting scanning in...
<p>Seasonally active cave. Ends in a 'Lake', which is a sump pool, apparently
higher than the level of Altausseer See, and close to the surveyed level of
the Stellerweg sump.
<p>Access to the final sump is guarded by short siphons in each of the two
passages going to the far end of the cave. These can be drained, but care
should be taken to ensure they are drained towards the entrance, otherwise
the final sump will become muddy. Visited by Mike Thomas and Pete Lancaster
in 1989, as far as the short sumps.
<p>A note on the geology : The north shore of the lake follows a large fault
with a big throw, so that this cave is in the same block of limestone as the
St&ouml;gerweg area caves. The Austrians think there is no hydrological
connection between this cave/resurgence and the lake level, since vauclusian
resurgences in the lake appear to be in a very different block of limestone
which has been down-faulted relative to the plateau. However, it seems more
likely that these risings are actually <b>on</b> the fault, and that the
lake level, and the level of the sumps in this cave and in <a
href="../../smkridge/41.htm">Stellerwegh&ouml;hle</a> are closely related.
<p><b>Exploration:</b> H&ouml;hlenforschervereinigung Altaussee, 19xx
<p>Sektion Ausseerland 1960
<p>Dived by Verein f&uuml;r H&ouml;hlenkunde in Obersteier in 1984 and 1985,
when the final sump went to about -20m. On the first occasion they spoiled
the visibility in the sump by not being careful enough about how they
drained the sump on the approach route.
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