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<h1>Area 1626: <span lang="de-at">Rauher - Sch&ouml;nberg</span></h1>
<p>Within the Austrian kataster, area 1620 is the Western
<span lang="de-at">Totes Gebirge</span>. Area 1623 is the
<span lang="de-at">Loser - Augst-Eck</span> plateau (including CUCC's area)
and 1626 is the area to the north and northwest. Starting from
<span lang="de-at">Rettenbachtal</span> (the valley just beyond
<span lang="de-at">Blaa-Alm</span>, at the end of the left branch at the
start of the <span lang="de-at"><a href="../tollrd.htm">Loser
Panoramastra&szlig;e</a></span>), everything to the north and west of the
valley of <span lang="de-at">Gr&uuml;ne Bichl</span>, is in 1626. The
boundary then follows the ridge crest of
<span lang="de-at">Sch&ouml;nberg</span>, then a rather ill-defined line to
the <span lang="de-at">Wildenseeh&uuml;tte</span>. To the east here is area
1627, and the eastern border of 1626 turns north.
<p>There are a number of very significant systems within the area, only one
of which has been visited by CUCC, as they tend to be difficult of access, or
very much reserved to the Austrian cavers. The latter applies particularly
to <b lang="de-at">
<a name="55" href="../noinfo/1626/55.htm">Raucherkarh&ouml;hle</a></b>
with its many entrances near the <b lang="de-at">Ischler H&uuml;tte</b>,
accessible by paths from <b lang="de-at">Rettenbach</b>. This is well
illustrated on the <span lang="de-at">Landesverein f&uuml;r H&ouml;hlenkunde
in Oberosterreich</span> site with text in
<a href="http://alpha.aec.at/cave/cave.html" lang="en">English</a> or
<a href="http://alpha.aec.at/cave/" lang="de-at">German</a>.
<p>The other major systems lie around the high <b lang="de-at">Hintergras</b>
and <b lang="de-at">Feuertal</b> valleys north of the
<b lang="de-at">Sch&ouml;nberg</b> ridge line, and reached only by immense
and steep climbs up from the north to the <b lang="de-at">Ebenseer
Hochkogelh&uuml;tte</b>. The oldest and most extensive cave in this area is
<b lang="de-at"><a name="50" href="../noinfo/1626/50.htm">Ahnenschacht</a></b>,
visited by the <a href="../others/bec/index.htm">B.E.C.</a> in the late
sixties, and pushed by many other groups since.
<p>Both French and Belgian cavers, associated with the
<a href="../others/gsab/index.htm">GSAB</a> explored a series of deep
systems in the seventies - about the same time that CUCC first visited
Austria. These include
<b lang="de-at"><a name="117" href="../noinfo/1626/117.htm">Trunkemboldschacht</a></b>
-854m; the four entrances of
<b lang="de-at"><a name="120" href="../noinfo/1626/120.htm">Feuertalsystem</a></b>
-913m; and the smaller
<b lang="de-at"><a name="122" href="../noinfo/1626/122.htm">Ufoschacht</a></b>
or <b lang="fr-be">Gouffre Ovni</b>, -565m.
<p>Two expeditions by <a href="../others/luss/index.htm">LUSS</a> in the
late eighties explored caves on the 1623/1626 border, with all the
significant finds lying in the 1626 area. These included
<b lang="de"><a name="la11" href="la11.htm">Lungeh&ouml;hle</a></b> -375m;
<b lang="de"><a name="la12" href="la12.htm">Sternloch</a></b> -331m and
<b lang="de"><a name="la34" href="la34.htm">Ratselh&ouml;hle</a></b> -425m.
Their access route was either from <span lang="de-at">Grundlsee</span> or via
the Toll road - both ways around five hour walks-in.
<p>As you might expect, CUCC has visited only the most accessible cave in the
area, the resurgence of
<b lang="de-at"><a name="5" href="../noinfo/1626/5.htm">Nagelstegh&ouml;hle</a></b>,
which is a pleasant five minute stroll from the bar at Blaa-Alm.
<p>There are approaching two hundred caves known at present in the area, but
CUCC have very few details of most of these, so, apart from those mentioned
above, they are not included in these web pages at present.
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