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<title>1623:200 = CUCC 1993 01</title>
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<center><table border=0 width=100%>
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<tr><th align=left><font size=+2>200</font></th>
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<th align=center><font size=+2>Verlorener Rucksack Schacht</font></th>
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<th align=right><font size=+2>1/S +</font></th></tr>
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<tr><th align=left>= CUCC 1993 01</th>
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<th><font size=+2>Lost Rucksack Cave</font></th></tr>
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<p><b>Altitude:</b> 1647m, depth 45m<br>
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<p><b>Location:</b> E 35479, N (52)83052<br>
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700m north of Schwarzmoossattel.
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<p><b>Marking:</b>M6 stud with alloy tag "CUCC 1993 01" on flat rock NE of
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shaft. This will be replaced with the correct kataster number in due course.
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<p><b>Access Route:</b> From
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<a href="164.htm">164</a>, avoid <a href="189.htm">189</a> (easiest 15m to
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its right over a small ridge, but OK immediately on its right edge), then
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go roughly NNW (a few cairns - 1996 vintage orange paint has completely
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faded). This leads up onto the right edge of a ridge (the main part of
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which is deep Lätchen), passing right of the OAV ski marker pole.
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This is an easy walk above a short (climbable) cliff looking down onto <a
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href="../newcaves/cu9803">CUCC 1998-03</a>. When this easy walk is
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interrupted by a step down, head leftish over a series of limestone steps
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to reach a descent into a large broken area (near <a
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href="173.htm">173</a>). Climb steeply left up boulders to a large cairn,
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then along a sloping limestone shelf. Shortly ahead is an abrupt
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headwall, below which is the shaft of <b>Lost Rucksack Cave</b> (given
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temporary number CUCC 1993 01). The area could also be reached (with more
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difficulty) from the "central" plateau area towards <a
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href="76.htm">76</a>, and also via the "Geologists' walk" which passes
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much further left via <a href="171.htm">171</a> and <a
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href="172.htm">172.</a>
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<p><center><a href="../plateau/others/l/lrh.htm">
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<img alt="Photo of 1993 descent" src="../plateau/others/t/lrh.jpg"
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width=123 height=169></a><br>
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<b>Adam Cooper descending to place a bolt below the lip in 1993</b></center>
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<p>Found in 1993, it was intended to mark the cave but not descend. However
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Adam Cooper's rucksack (containing the rope), placed unwisely near the edge,
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made the first descent. Adam followed on a ladder to retrieve it, then placed
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a bolt for a further descent on rope. The shaft continued beside a snow
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plug, but was deemed unsuitable for further exploration in shorts. The
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find was not relocated in 1993, so exploration stopped. Found again in 1995
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whilst marking other known entrances, and probably seen again in 1996.
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<p>After a first descent placing a bolt again showed it unsuitable for
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exploration in shorts, a determined effort by Wookey in 1998 pushed the
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second pitch, between hanging death ice and snow to a definite choke.
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However, partway down this pitch was a window with a draught, leading to a
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third pitch (one bolt at takeoff, another just below). This was nn metres to
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a final choke.
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<p>The whole cave is formed on a fault which forms a SE-facing scarp on the
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surface. A short distance NE of the entrance, the fault line cuts a
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lower-lying area. The draught, which was mostly outward through the head of
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the third pitch during the final exploratory trip, periodically reverses for
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10-15 seconds. It would appear to be powered by surface breezes via various
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other small windows to the surface, most probably including ones lower down
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in the depression to the NE.
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<p><center><a href="others/200.png"><img alt="1998 survey 27k gif"
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width=645 height=662 src="others/200.png"></a></center>
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<p><b>Exploration:</b> Discovery and initial descent CUCC 1993 (Adam Cooper),
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bottomed in three trips in 1998 (Wookey, Andy Waddington).
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