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<tr><th align=left><font size=+2>144</font></th>
<th align=center><font size=+2>Tony's Second H&ouml;hle</font></th>
<th align=right><font size=+2>6/S/T x</font></th></tr>
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<p>NB. This name is the 1983 provisional name, which was intended to be
scrapped. <b>Wei&szlig;e Warze H&ouml;hle II</b> might be better, but this
cave really should have a proper name - after all, it was 284m deep before
the connection to the main system! It appears in Austrian lists just as
Schwarzmooskogelschacht. ARGE call it "Tony's Second H&ouml;hle", so we're
probably stuck with the name now.
<p><b>Altitude:</b> 1711.8m.
<p><b>Location:</b> The Nipple, (aka "Wei&szlig;e Warze") E 36101.3 N (52)81514.9
<p>This is the highest entrance to Stellerwegh&ouml;hle found by CUCC, and a
full description is included in the Stellerwegh&ouml;hle
<a href="41/144.htm">guidebook description</a>, just an overview is given
here.
<p>A predominantly vertical entrance series leads to a level of extensive
fossil phreatic development, <b>not fully explored</b>. The main passage,
<b>The Yellow Brick Road</b>, leads to the lip of a 25m pitch into a large
muddy chamber. From the bottom, a steeply dipping tube is followed down
until a canyon is reached from a boulder chamber. Most ways close down
quickly from here.
<p>Across the pitch from Yellow Brick Road is a large continuing passage,
gained by an obscure and somewhat exposed route in boulders. It soon leads
to a bolted climb, but a ramp down below drops to another large passage.
Right here, the draught is followed through winding passage until it emerges
20m up in a chamber. Backtracking leads to a squeeze and muddy crawls to the
bottom, from where a canyon develops, finally dropping into
<a href="41/41.htm">Stellerwegh&ouml;hle</a> below the Big Pitch via a 10m
chimney.
<p>There are a significant number of unpushed leads in the cave, but all are
expected to connect back to already known passage.
One may provide a connection to the northernmost reaches of
<a href="78.htm">Schwabenschacht</a> (1623/78).
<p><b>Exploration:</b> CUCC 1983, 1985
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