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<tr><th align=left><font size=+2>142</font></th>
<th align=center><font size=+2>Schwa H&ouml;hle 142</font></th>
<th align=right><font size=+2>6/T/S x</font></th></tr>
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<p>NB. this entrance to the main system really should have a name.
<p><b>Altitude:</b> 1615.1m
<p><b>Location:</b> Hack up the hillside behind <a
href="../noinfo/smkridge/32.htm">Windloch</a> (Kat.32).
The entrance was prominently numbered '132' in red but this
was finally changed in 1996 after the connection to
<a href="78.htm">Schwabenschacht</a> (1623-78)<br>
E 35770.4 N (52)81218.2
<p>Yet another entrance to <a href="41.htm">Stellerwegh&ouml;hle</a>, with
two points of connection, and also the first point of connection with
Schwabenschacht, a similar cave explored by <a
href="http://arge.itvd.uni-stuttgart.de/">Arbeitsgemeinschaft H&ouml;hle
und Karst Grabenstetten e.V.</a>. 142 contains a very large chamber,
imaginatively named <b>The Big Chamber</b> reached by a 34m pitch from a
point adjacent to the connection. A <a href="41/off41.htm#ent142">full
description</a> of 142 (but not 78) is one of the components of the
Stellerwegh&ouml;hle guidebook, just an overview is given here.
<p>Note: With apparent perversity, the Austrians have numbered this as 115e
in their Kataster. This is likely to give rise to immense confusion in the
long term as more caves are connected, and numbers on entrances cannot
readily be altered (owing to the obscurity of their location and
inaccessibility from within the system).
<p>After an initial small tube, the cave opens into passages very similar to
those in Schwabenschacht and the upper levels of Stellerwegh&ouml;hle.
Descent of some of the steep ramps to the right of the main way on may
provide further connections into the main cave (and one may have already done
so). However, staying high leads through tubes to an inobvious junction. Left
is the connection to 78, whilst right leads immediately to the head of a
pitch into the <b>Big Chamber</b> - a popular name in the system. A route
from this chamber leads to the foot of an 18m pitch in the entrance series of
<a href="41.htm">Stellerwegh&ouml;hle</a>, and a more obscure route through
boulders from the head of the Big Chamber pitch leads to the same place.
<p><b>Exploration:</b> CUCC 1982-85, Arge/CUCC 1996
<br>Survey: CUCC plan from surveys 1982-1985, here in several sections:<br>
<a href="41/142ent.png">Entrance area</a>; <a href="41/142bc.png">Big
Chamber</a>; <a href="41/142-41.png">Stellerweg connection</a>...
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