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1Kataster NumberKat Status CodeEntrancesUnofficial numberMultiple entrancesURLNameUnofficial NameCommentAreaNo InfoExplorersUnderground DescriptionReferencesUnderground centre lineUnderground drawn surveySurvex file to get length and deapthLengthDepthExtentEntrance nametag point in datasetother point in datasetdescription of other pointexact entrance in dataset (drip line/highest enclosed contour)Type of survey fixNorthingEastingAltitudeBearingsMapLocationApproachEntrance descriptionPhoto of locationMarking
212/(W) +a bnoinfo/aaussee/1.htmLi&auml;gerh&ouml;hleD'Li&euml;gerNo InfoH&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. 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. 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...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. 306m71mNW-SE 160mEast Entrance 812m West entrance 809m28.1 cm E, 15.4 cm N, sheet 15/1 Alpine Club 1:25000 mapAt 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.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<73>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. CUCC were shown some photographs of 1 & 2 in flood, when a truly enormous river emerges from both entrances and numerous impenetrable cracks. This explains the vegetation-free state of the twin river beds leading down towards Altausseer See.
320/(W) =noinfo/aaussee/2.htmWasserl&ouml;cherNo InfoUnexplored 810mCUCC were shown some photographs of 1 & 2 in flood, when a truly enormous river emerges from both entrances and numerous impenetrable cracks. This explains the vegetation-free state of the twin river beds leading down towards Altausseer See.
431/T(W) +noinfo/augstb/3.htmGellerofenAugstbach valley and villagesNo InfoOldest documentation is dated 1880. H<>hlenforschervereinigung Altaussee, 1937 Sektion Ausseerland, 1968Plan by Alfred Auer at 1:100, 1968 13.1m3.04m1015mThis is not marked on the Austrian<61>s map.at the SW foot of the Loserstockesreached from Altaussee above Posern. (I think this is below the toll road somewhere).The entrance is 7.5m wide by 1.2m high.<p>'Durch das 7,5m breite und 1,2m hohe, flachbogenf<6E>rmige Portal gelangt man zun<75>chst in eine kuppelf<6C>rmige Vorhalle, dann in einen durch Korrosionskolke ausgeformten Canyon. H<>hlenkarren, Bergmilchbildungen, eine Sickerwasserquelle und H<>hlenfauna fallen besonders auf.'
541/T(W) +noinfo/augstb/4.htmRitscherbachh&ouml;hleAugstbach valley and villagesNo InfoH<F6>hlenforschervereinigung Altaussee, 1937Plan at 1:100 by Alfred Auer, 1968 12.3m1.07m1015mNear <a href="3.htm">Gellerofen</a> (Kat. 3), at the SW foot of the Loserstockes.A 2.2m wide and 1.3m high entrance leads horizontally to "Bruchschutt und Sickerwassergerinne".
651/S(W) +noinfo/gschwand/5.htmHolzknechtbr&uuml;nndllochGschwandt - NW of the Loser-Br<42>uning wallNo InfoH<F6>hlenforschervereinigung Altaussee, 1938Plan at 1:100 by Alfred Auer, 1968 12m8m1230mSW foot Loserstockesreached by path west from Loser H<>tte, past Augst A.H.'Eine 1,5m grosse Schacht<68>ffnung f<> in einen stiefelf<6C>rmigen Schacht, in dem ein Sickerwassergerinne fr<66>her von Holzknechten als Trinkwasserquelle genutzt wurde.'
760/W +noinfo/gschwand/6.htmQuelleWasserlochGschwandt - NW of the Loser-Br<42>uning wallNo InfoUnexplored <20> Noted for Kataster: Sektion Ausseerland, 1968 1425m150m west of Augst A.H. a small unenterable resurgence
871/(W) +noinfo/loser/7.htmBachschl&auml;gSouth face of Loser - reached from Loser H<>tte pathNo Info3m1550mLocation plan by Alfred Auer at 1:200, 1968 West of the Loser H<>tte below the south face of Loser.Reached from the path up Loser by diagonalling down to the head of the gully from the path as it starts to climb again at about 1600m. A 1.8m wide by 1.2m high rock shelter, and an occasionally active rising. There is a noticeable gully below this, presumably carrying water in wet weather. <p>"Bei Hochwasser entstr<74>mt ihm ein m<>chtiger Bach und st<73>rzt als Wasserfall <20>ber zwei Gel<65>ndstufen und durch einen Graben 200m zur Loserstra<72>e herab, wo das Wasser nach einem Durchla<6C> im verkarsteten Gestein versickert."
982/T +noinfo/loser/8.htmGro&szlig;es LoserlochSouth face of Loser - reached from Loser H<>tte pathNo InfoFirst recorded in 1774<br> Explored since 1931<br> J V&ouml;llenkle of L.V.H.Linz, 1:250, 1972The round 8m wide by 10m high entrance leads into an upper level, the Hauptgang, leading north then northeast to Regenhalle, a sizeable chamber apparently formed on a significant SW-NE joint. Immediately right at the start of the chamber, a boulder slope leads up into Teilungshalle, from where a wider slope drops left back into Regenhalle about halfway along. At the highest point of Teilungshalle, a SE-going passage quickly chokes with boulders, but appears to be heading directly for the end of Kleines Loserloch, perhaps 10m away. <p>Keeping to the right (SW) wall entering Teilungshalle, a rift leads SW. A passage left after 5m quickly ends too tight. A traverse to the left hand side bypasses a 5m shaft in the floor. 15m beyond, another lead on the left leads up into a small chamber, Kapelle. The continuing rift, S&uuml;dwest-Kluft, gets narrower for c 25m until deemed impassable. <p>Back in Regenhalle, a narrow section along the joint between the two ways to Teilungshalle, gives access to a lower series via a sharp turn to the right, due south. This wide passage, S&uuml;dwest-gang, passes under Teilungshalle, and turns SW directly under S&uuml;dwest-Kluft. A narrow rift on the left parallels the main passage for some way. The main way develops into Gr. Dom, 12m wide, with a boulder slope up until the passage chokes comprehensively on a broad front, almost exactly below the cliff outside. <p>At the far (NE) end of Regenhalle, stright on enters a draughting boulder choke, but two ways up to the right lead into Stufengang, with a complex of little rifts and an extension NE to a low choked area. A4 survey in Mitt. der Sektion Ausseerland 18(4), Oct. 1980, facing p 87: a plan by J V<>llenkle of L.V.H.Linz, 1:250, 1972. As printed, this looks like about a 4th generation photocopy. Also includes <a href="9.htm">Kat. 9</a>390m+20m -11m140m SW-NE1615m21.8 cm E, 17.75 cm N, OAV sheet 15/1 At the south foot of Loser (visible from Altaussee).Reached by traversing west from the Loser path as it draws level with the cliffs. Round 8m wide by 10m high entrance
1092/T +noinfo/loser/9.htmKleines LoserlochSouth face of Loser - reached from Loser H<>tte pathNo Infosince 1932 The cave is essentially a single passage for c 60m going NE to a narrowing. To the left at this point is a small extension, with a blind pit to the SW, and a draughting boulder choke to the NE. This is c 10m from a corresponding choke in Teilugshalle of Gro&szlig;es Loserloch.A4 survey in Mitt. der Sektion Ausseerland 18(4), Oct. 1980, facing p 87: a plan by J V<>llenkle of L.V.H.Linz, 1:250, 1972. As printed, this looks like about a 4th generation photocopy. Also includes <a href="8.htm">Kat. 8</a>72m+12.5 -7.5m50m SW-NE1622mJust right (25m East) of, and above, Gro&szlig;es Loserloch. In a narrow rift in the cliff, there are two small entrances, the lower one is the normal way in, and an upper entrance to its left leads to passage which joins the normal way within 5m
11101/T =noinfo/gschwand/10.htmSpalth&ouml;hleGschwandt - NW of the Loser-Br<42>uning wallNo InfoH<F6>hlenforschervereinigung Altaussee, 1937 c1715m In NW face of Loser, overlooking Blaa-Alm.
12111/T =noinfo/gschwand/11.htmH&ouml;hle in der Loserwestwand 1Gschwandt - NW of the Loser-Br<42>uning wallNo InfoH<F6>hlenforschervereinigung Altaussee, 1937 60m c1715m In NW face of Loser, overlooking Blaa-Alm.an impressive 12m wide by 15m high entrance.
13120/T -noinfo/gschwand/12.htmH&ouml;hle in der Loserwestwand 2Gschwandt - NW of the Loser-Br<42>uning wallNo InfoH<F6>hlenforschervereinigung Altaussee, 1937 c1715m In NW face of Loser, overlooking Blaa-Alm.
14132/T +noinfo/loser/13.htmKnochenh&ouml;hleLoser - Hochanger ridge areaNo InfoSektion Ausseerland, 1972 1690mAbove Dimmelwand, a rockface above the final section of the toll road.(West of Augstsee on Gschirr)
15141/T +noinfo/loser/14.htmSchafkircheAround Augst SeeNo InfoSektion Ausseerland, 1968 36m1670m25.3 cm E, 19.75 cm N, sheet 15/1 (named on map). SW of Augstsee in the small scars forming the NE face of the small ridge running down to the Bergrestaurant from Loser Fenster, overlooking the lake.
16151/(W) +noinfo/egglgrub/15.htmMichel-GangEgglgrube and Scharlingkar areaNo InfoSektion Ausseerland, 1953 1500mBelow main path west of Egglgrube. (About 35m below the path as it contours east of Sommersitz)
17161/T +noinfo/loser/16.htmPauli-LochAround Augst SeeNo InfoSektion Ausseerland, 1968 Since the length is recorded as 40m, it is interesting to read that a maximum/ minimum thermometer and hygrometer were placed 50m from the entrance from June 1976 to September 1977. These showed that the temperature varied from 1 to 5&deg;C, with a relative humidity between 94% and 100%. The cave yielded Pseudoscorpions of the species <i>Neobisium blothrus aueri</i>.40m1690mBelow cliffs west of Augstsee.
18171/T =noinfo/loser/17.htmB&auml;renh&ouml;hle im H&ouml;llgrabenAmmereich and H<>llgraben - below Dimmelwand and the last part of toll roadNo InfoH<F6>hlenforschervereinigung Altaussee, 1949. 1380mIn H&ouml;llgraben, which is a major gully starting below the Bergrestaurant and dropping down to <a href="../aaussee/1.htm">Li&auml;gerh&ouml;hle</a> at the NW end of the Altausseer See. Cave is below and South of Bergrestaurant, just at the top break of slope.
19182/T +noinfo/loser/18.htmGaisofen im AmmereiAmmereich and H<>llgraben - below Dimmelwand and the last part of toll roadNo Info LVHK Wien, 1974 250m1440m500m NE of Loser H&uuml;tte, north of <a href="17.htm"> B&auml;renh&ouml;hle</a> (Kat.17) in Ammereich, a small cliff band below the toll road.
20191/T +noinfo/egglgrub/19.htmGamsofen im ScharlingkarEgglgrube and Scharlingkar areaNo InfoSektion Ausseerland, 1953 1450mSE of Egglgrubenalm, ie. follow the valley down from Egglgrube until some huts appear - the cave is then SE below a small cliff somewhere.
21201/T +noinfo/egglgrub/20.htmWindh&ouml;hleEgglgrube and Scharlingkar areaNo InfoSektion Ausseerland, 1953 1475mIn Scharlingkar. This is the band of cliffs SW of Wei&szlig;e Wand. The cave is SW of <a href="19.htm">Gamsofen</a> (Kat.19) and almost due south of the huts in Br&auml;ning Alm.
22212/S/T +noinfo/egglgrub/21.htmWindloch im EgglgrubeEgglgrube and Scharlingkar areaNo InfoH<F6>hlenforschervereinigung Altaussee, 1938 1510mSouth of Egglgrubenalm (it looks to be east of it on the map), north of <a href="19.htm">Gamsofen</a> (Kat.19).
23221/S xnoinfo/egglgrub/22.htmSpiralschachtEgglgrube and Scharlingkar areaNo InfoH<F6>hlenforschervereinigung Altaussee, 1939 1500mSouth of Egglgrubenalm. Not marked on Austrian<61>s map
24231/t/S =noinfo/egglgrub/23.htmSteinbockh&ouml;hleEgglgrube and Scharlingkar areaNo InfoH<F6>hlenforschervereinigung Altaussee, 1939 1500mEast of Egglgrubenalm near Wei<65>e Wand.
25241/S =noinfo/egglgrub/24.htmSchachth&ouml;hle bei EgglgrubenalmEgglgrube and Scharlingkar areaNo InfoSchauberger, 1938 1540mSouth of junction of paths near Egglgrube (ie. divergence of CUCC's routes to the col and to Stellerweg)
26252/T xnoinfo/egglgrub/25.htmMauskothh&ouml;hleEgglgrube and Scharlingkar areaNo InfoH<F6>hlenforschervereinigung Altaussee, 1938 1500mEast of Egglgrubenalm, very near <a href="23.htm">Steinbockh&ouml;hle</a> (Kat. 23).
27261/(W) +noinfo/br-alm/26.htmWasserschlinger IBr<E4>uning Alm and Br<42>uning KunntalNo InfoSektion Ausseerland, 1976 1542mIn Br<42>uning Kunntal, the large closed depression west of Br<42>uning Alm.
28271/(W) +noinfo/br-alm/27.htmWasserschlinger IIBr<E4>uning Alm and Br<42>uning KunntalNo InfoSektion Ausseerland, 1976 1542m In Br&auml;uning Kunntal, next to <a href="26.htm">Kat.26</a>
29282/t/S +noinfo/smkridge/28.htmAugsteckh&ouml;hleCaves in the same area - but not yet linkedNo InfoLVHK Wien, 1974 1630mNext to St&ouml;gerweg (path 201) just beyond <a href="../../egglgrub/index.htm">Egglgrube</a> and the branch path to <a href="../../kratzer/index.htm">the Kratzer valley</a>. ie. we pass it on the way to <a href="../../smkridge/41.htm">Stellerwegh&ouml;hle</a>. It is marked by a red-painted omega in the path, just where the junction path leading to The Nipple and the German bivouac leaves the main path, at which point there is also a laser-rangefound <a href="../../handbook/survey/lasers.htm">fixed point</a>.
30291/S xnoinfo/br-alm/29.htmSchwarzmooslochBr<E4>uning Alm and Br<42>uning KunntalNo InfoSchauberger, 1921 1560mNE of huts in Br<42>uning Alm
31301/S xnoinfo/br-alm/30.htmGrundloses LochBr<E4>uning Alm and Br<42>uning KunntalNo InfoLVHK Ober<65>sterreich, 1966 1570mNext to path towards Br<42>uning Alm from Egglgrube junction. (I think this may be the first walled open shaft on the true left of the valley below Br<42>uning Alm)
32312/T +noinfo/smkridge/31.htmElchh&ouml;hleMegalodontenh<F6>hleCaves in the same area - but not yet linkedNo InfoLVHK Wien, 1974Mainly horizontal and going northish under the path. A large phreatic tube in horizontally bedded limestone. Visited by Andy Waddington, Doug Florence with Karl Gaisberger on August 12th, 1978. Latter person collected a rare cave beetle from it (only the second specimen of this species collected in Austria, if we understood Karl correctly), which I think is now in the Natural History Museum in Vienna, having been pickled in Vodka borrowed from an expedition member. Name comes from discovery of Elk bones when first explored. In datasetcaves\031\031.svx263m+9/-18mp031No ideaSurface survey81035353941582mNext to St&ouml;gerweg (path 201) somewhat beyond <a href="28.htm">Augsteckh&ouml;hle</a> (Kat. 28). Located very near laser point 0/9.
33321/S +noinfo/smkridge/32.htmWindloch am St&ouml;gerwegCaves in the same area - but not yet linkedNo InfoLVHK Ober<65>sterreich, 1966 25mp032drilled hole above 1623/32 entrance (next to path)p032xNils81126357711567mObvious horizontal entrance right next to path 201 shortly before you hack off to Stellerwegh<67>hle. A major landmark for CUCC navigation, and also very useful for storing beer, this obvious 2m high entrance is right next to the path and blows a lot of cold air in summer.drilled hole
34331/T +noinfo/br-alm/33.htmSchichtgrenzenh&ouml;hleBr<E4>uning Alm and Br<42>uning KunntalNo InfoSektion Ausseerland, 1975 1570mSouth of Br<42>uning Alm. I think this is another of the fenced off shafts near the path north from the junction at Egglgrube.
35341/T +noinfo/kratzer/34.htmH&ouml;hle am Kratzer IKratzer valleyNo InfoSektion Ausseerland, 1973 1590mQuite a way east of Br<42>uning Alm in the top end of the Kratzer valley.
36352/S/T xnoinfo/kratzer/35.htmDr. Kerschner H&ouml;hleKratzer valleyNo InfoFound by Othmar Schauberger, 1921. Looked at for some years by F H<>tter, but always blocked by snow. In October 1976, G Graf managed to descend 30m in the shaft, the uppermost part of which was snow and ice free. The continuation of the way could not be found. In August 1977, 5kg of salt was dumped onto the snow blockage. In October 1977, after a long walk over the plateau, it was looked at again and successfully explored. Now, the Austrian's exploration details suggest that the cave was substantially unblocked in 1976 (to -30m in October), while CUCC's find was choked at -10m. Also, the description given of this cave in the local Climbing Guide (Krenmayr) sounds nothing like B5 at all, (he says, already explored in 1921, but today almost forgotten. Need Ice equipment) so the Austrian writing in the caver's magazine who said it was B5 may have been mistaken. Krenmayr gives length 250m, depth 100m. <p>This description by Karl Gaisberger is from the 1977 Exploration: <p>After climbing down 8m to where the shaft appeared blocked by snow, progress did not seem likely. I [translator] think "there was a spiralling way in the snow to a wall of ice columns". A very steep descent led into a passage with a snow cone. (This was still in the previous year's snow-free climb !). Pushing through a thin snow-wall through which the light glimmered, a direct way was established. Through a hole in the snow in a rubble-filled passage, the way soon branched. Both branches ended blind. <p>The lower level of the cave, described by O Schauberger, must be found on the opposite side of the snow-cone from the [Schluf?]. One now comes to a chamber complex where a sloping 10m shaft climbs down into the <b>Kristallhalle</b>. The walls here are covered with admittedly large, but superficially weathered calcite somethings (Kalzitdrusen). <p>From the Kristallhalle, through a narrow bit to a side-something with a pile of rubble, the <b>Tropfsteinhalle</b>. There is a single 60cm high stalagmite here. It shows a corroded appearance, indicating aggressive ground water. Tropfsteinhalle contains, so far, the most beautiful flowstone decorations in the Loser area. These include [plenty dictionary failure here] Sinterfahnen, Boden- und Deckenzapfen, sogar Excentriques. <p>In the area of the stalagmites, several dead pseudoscorpions (<i>Neobisium aueri</i>) were found. <i>There is some more description of the floor of the chamber (I think), but I can't make head nor tail of it.</i>250mGiven 100m in 1980.1630mJust SW of the col (Schwarzmoossattel), SE of Br<42>uning Nase. Surface shaft often blocked with snowThis hole supposedly has a CUCC painted number "B5" of 1976 vintage, which will probably be pretty faded. But the cave descriptions do not agree.
37361/S xnoinfo/kratzer/36.htmSchachtgruppe I - VKratzer valleyNo InfoH<F6>hlenforschervereinigung Altaussee, undated. 1680mAustrian kataster says Hinterbr&auml;uning, south of Br&auml;uning Nase, but this isn<73>t where their map shows it. Map shows it south east of Schwarzmoossattel, on east side of upper Kratzer valley below Schwarzmooskogel. <p>The cave was located on the ground by CUCC in 1990 and it is, in fact, just south of Schwarzmoossattel, which is almost due east of Br&auml;uning Nase. From the path leaving the col going south, hack off following the little stream down into the valley. This sinks into the northernmost of a group of three shafts below a small headwall facing east. <p>Number is in red on the headwall just south of the three entrances. <p>A group of five (presumably small) shafts. One of these was thought, by the Austrians, to be CUCC's 'B1' of 1976. This, however, is patently not the case, since the sequence B1-B4 goes up the valley, and B4 is about level, perhaps slightly lower than 36.A group of five (presumably small) shaftsNumber is in red on the headwall just south of the three entrances.
38370/S -noinfo/plateau/37.htmSchachtgruppe beim Hinterer Schwarzmooskogel"Middle" plateauNo InfoDiscovered by H<>hlenforschervereinigung Altaussee, undated.<p>Status is given as totally unexplored, so it could well be a CUCC hole by now, and have a different number. 1700mWest of Ht. Schwarzmooskogel. Well out onto the plateau, and hence, almost impossible to find or identify.
39381/T +noinfo/plateau/38.htmAlgenh&ouml;hle"Middle" plateauNo InfoH<F6>hlenforschervereinigung Altaussee, 1938Behind the entrance there is a single passage at right angles to it, with boulders (Blockwerk). Sketch by J. Gaisberger snr., 1938 33m1700mWest of Hinterer Schwarzmooskogel (exact location unknown) Possibly near <a href="37.htm">Kat.37</a> (q.v.)
40391/T +noinfo/kratzer/39.htmSCHWA h&ouml;hle 39Caves in the same area - but not yet linked or Kratzer valley location unclearNo InfoH<F6>hlenforschervereinigung Altaussee, 193818m1740mWest side of Vorderer Schwarzmooskogel according to text. Map shows it on S side, not far from the summit area. Later reference says it is above and south of <a href="36.htm">Kat.36</a>, however the kataster description of the location of 36 is also wrong... 2.2m wide by 1.2m high entrance leads in a gentle slope to where it becomes too tight.
41407//S/T/E xa b c d e f g h syessmkridge/40.htmSchwarzmooskogeleish&ouml;hleSchwarzmooskogelh&ouml;hlensystemCaves known or expected to link into the Stellerweg - Eish<73>hle and Kaninchenh<6E>hle systemsNo InfoThe main passages as far as Elephantengang were explored by 1938. Since then a variety of groups have worked here finding numerous extensions, of which Schneevulkanhalle is the most significant.<p> Until recently, it has been difficult to come close to a comprehensive survey or even a good estimate of the length of the system because of a lack of contact and some misunderstanding between the groups involved. However, in 1997 a chance encounter (at the International Congress) by Wookey with Denis Motte, of the <a href="../../others/gscb/index.htm">G.S.Clerval,</a> led to renewed contacts with one group who explored this area, and Thilo M&uuml;ller of ARGE has contacted the leaders of other groups and obtained all the rest of the 1980s information that survives. This is being merged into a coherent set of information which will guide necessary resurvey work to complete the picture. <ul> <li>Discovered and main passages explored in 1929 by Ausseer cavers, and surveyed in 1938 by O Schauberger and U Czornig. <li>Further exploration 1953, Sektion Ausseerland. <li>Wilfried Lorenz, Franz Lindenmayr with Nuremburg and Munich cavers discover the Schneevulkanhalle at the beginning of July 1978 (not yet connected to Eish&ouml;hle). <li>In Autumn 1983, Eish&ouml;hle was "1600m long with four entrances". <li>After several trips by the Germans in September to November 1983, the system was 2500m long with five entrances [<a href="../../others/muenchen/de/841642.htm" lang="de">Der Schlaz, 42</a>, also on site in <a href="../../others/muenchen/en/841642.htm">English translation</a>]. <li>More recently, Reinhard Kieselbach's (M&uuml;nchen/Nurnberg - VfHM) group have linked it to <a href="88.htm">L&auml;rchenschacht</a> (88) (itself 1885m long in April 1995, and apparently giving a combined length of 6km) which they also connected to <a href="../../smkridge/41.htm">Stellerwegh&ouml;hle</a> (5.75 km). <li>Our Current estimate of the cave length is 1,863km, from a total surveyed length of 2,463m (600m of the 974m long Schneevulkanhalle survey is not deemed to be part of the cave length).<br> The length comes from:<br> VfHM 1980s survey - 693m: Original part of cave plus extensions<br> VfHO 1991 survey - 374m: Schneevulkanhalle from 40e entrance<br> CUCC 1998-9 surveys - 751m: Heaven and Hell and persitence of vision SVH extensions<br> Arge 1999 surveys - 130m: K&ouml;nigsschacht and Gr&uuml;ner Eingang </ul> <p>Stellerwegh&ouml;hle in turn is connected to <a href="../../smkridge/78.htm">Schwabenschacht</a> which was over 7km at the time and exploration continues. This must make the combined system at least 19 km long. We have seen figures quoted as high as 25km, but this may involve some double-counting, given the uncertainties involved. Arge's estimate (entirely from extant survey data) was 22.7 km after summer 1999.<p>Schwarzmooskogeleish&ouml;hle is an extensive cave over 1600m long before 1983, extended to 2500m by a German group by 1985. The system is mainly horizontal, though tackle is needed to explore it fully, and crampons are necessary in parts, because of the substantial quantities of ice in the cave. Was extended by the Germans who worked in the area in the early eighties, who suggested then that there was potential for extension vertically. Subsequently linked via a 30m pitch to <a href="88.htm">L&auml;rchenschacht</a> (1623/88) which in turn was connected to the <a href="../../smkridge/41.htm">Stellerwegh&ouml;hlensystem</a>, giving no increase in depth if the laser-rangefound altitude is correct rather than the old kataster one, which seems likely. <h4>Translated brief guide</h4> <p>From 'L&auml;ngsten und Tiefsten Hohlen in &Ouml;sterreich', translated by Wookey and Thilo: <p>The cave is on the southeastern slopes of the Vorderen Schwarzmooskogel (1843) developed in Dachsteinkalk. From seven partly shaft-like entrance points, a huge, flat-floored level with impressive ice formations can be approached. The <b>Schneevulkanhalle</b> at the northern end is the biggest ice-bearing chamber in middle Europe. <p>Four entrances lead into the central area. A 40m shaft from the Top Entrance '<b>Oberen Eingang</b>' breaks into the ice-decorated '<b>Altausseer Halle</b>'. To the west from here via a 25m ramp accessing '<b>Schneehalle</b>' leads both to entrance 2 and the connecting gallery from the ice-bearing '<b>Thalhammerhalle</b>', that can be entered from entrances 3 and 4 too. South of the Schnee and Altausseer Halles, the '<b>Teufelberger Halle</b>' connects, the bottom of which contains an ice lake. A wide passage with side shafts goes southsouthwest to '<b>Hans-Pfandl-Halle</b>'. The east connected room, also reached by a 23m high chimney (entrance 7), is divided into two by a high block barrier. The '<b>Flusstunnel</b>' south from here ends blocked. <p>From the Altausseer Halle, a lofty passage with ice figures heads off NNE. The continuation is the '<b>Halle des Schiefen Turms</b>', where the '<b>Wahnsinnsch&auml;chte</b>' branches off on the west. It was thought that this was blocked by ice. However, over a wall of ice one reaches the 130 by 75 by 50 m Schneevulkanhalle, on the eastern wall of which rises a steep snowslope flowing from the '<b>K&ouml;nigsschachts</b>' (entrance 6). The chamber with its very impressive ice formations can also be reached via the '<b>Brennerbeselschluf</b>' (entrance 5). At its northern end a climb reveals the easterly-running '<b>Kalten Gang</b>' and the parallel '<b>Spinnenfriedhof</b>'. <h3><a name="svh">Schneevulkanhalle</a> trip:</h3> <p>The principal objective of both pushing and tourist trips is the huge ice chamber of Schneevulkanhalle, which requires some serious ice work to reach from the older entrances in the middle of the system. Instead, follow the description to the "new" entrance (Brennerbeselschluf, 40e), with a somewhat limited area to get changed, perched between the icy blast from the cave and whatever the Austrian weather is offering. <p>The entrance is not walk-in, and low crawling in the face of the icy draught starts at once. A small descending tube (somewhat muddy - irritating in crampons!) leads in about 20m to a short climb down into larger (walking/stooping) passage 'Ger&ouml;llgang. This goes downhill to a scramble up. This was totally ice-covered in 1997 and 1998, but not 1999 or 2000 and has a <a href="../../fixaid.htm#icy">fixed rope</a> (VfHO-installed), which may be buried in ice at somewhat critical points - a certain amount of care is needed if chipping it out with an ice-axe and gloves really are needed ! <p>Partway up this slope is a space on the left [<a href="../../smkridge/40/qm.htm#C000040-05" name="qC000040-05">C0000-40-05</a> A], including a pitch in the floor. At the far end of this space, a short crawl and a grovel down through boulders where a stream comes in from above both choke. The pitch is a c3, p20, p30 - the last part being very wet in early summer. Leading to <a HREF="#schotterland">Schotterland</a>. <p>Survey data also suggests a passage off to the right of the iceslope for 20m or so. <p>Above the scramble up is a short traverse, also rather interesting when covered in hard ice (and also protected by a fixed rope which had to be dug out in 1998). A steeply ascending passage to the L holds a quantity of particularly scrofulous rope (presumably a previous fixed rope). This can be climbed ~10m until it gets too vertical. It draughts. Beyond the ice is a steep snow/ice slope down into the huge Schneevulkanhalle. It is <b>strongly</b> recommended to equip this with a properly rigged SRT rope rather than anything less - the cave has seen a number of accidents, some <b>fatal</b>. Although the slope looks like soft snow, it is a layer of coarsely crystalline hard n&eacute;v&eacute; over solid ice. In parts it is almost impossible to kick steps into, whilst in others it offers only minimal purchase for crampon points. Conditions no doubt vary with the season as well as with position on the slope and the year. Tackle required: 50m rope, crampons. There is one bolt at the top, for a traverse line to two bolts off to the R in the roof where the snow-slope proper starts. Sometimes the traverse area is full of snow and an ice-screw or ice-axe rebelay/deviation (club first ? in 1989) may be needed. A deviation (from rock) at the head of the steep section was found adequate in 1998. <p><center><img alt="plan - 12k gif" width=600 height=540 src="i/40svh.png"></center> <p> The 50m K&ouml;nigschacht (40f) entrance is the source of the snow slope and comes in here. It is often full of snow but was open in 1999 and so was surveyed (by ARGE). <p>At the bottom is the main chamber from which the pitch does indeed look like a snow-covered volcanic cone. Most of the floor area is ice-covered and only a slight slope is necessary to make crampons vital here. Most of the chamber is filled with ice formations up to 15m high (end of season). Those with two ice-tools can climb almost anything in the chamber, though the formations are no doubt rather more spectacular and fragile in spring or early summer. Formation-ice can also shatter very easily as melting occurs between component crystals later in the season, so it is probably safer for climbers to stick to hard n&eacute;v&eacute;. Ways on are mostly reached by steeper slopes that definitely require ice-gear and can be quite unnerving approached from above. Note that the slopes are usually <b>hard</b> ice, ice-axe-braking after a slip is not an option - lifeline or don't fall ! <p><center><a href="l/istal.htm"><img alt="Photo of ice formations, 41k jpeg" width=150 height=200 src="t/istal.jpg"></a></center> <p>Starting from the pitch (facing outwards from the slope), heading round the chamber to the left leads over a large flat area of ice to where a gap between ice and rock [<a href="../../smkridge/40/qm.htm#C000040-01" name="qC000040-01">C0000-40-01</a> A] drops 10m (2 bolts, one added 1999) into large passage <a HREF="../../smkridge/40/cucc.htm#elephant">elephantengang</a>. <p>Right next to it is an icefall coming in from above [<a href="../../smkridge/40/qm.htm#C000040-02" name="qC000040-02">C0000-40-02</a> C] (Apparently explored by GSCB in early 80s for ~40m). 40m round the wall of the chamber is a rubble run-in, iced on the top half. This was climbed by Haines (1998) and Atkinson (1999), as well as the GSCB. At the top is a wet boulder choke that definately doesn't go, but the GSCB plan shows a narrow rift on the right marked 'tight'. <p>Halfway up this slope on the left is the narrow entrance to <a href="../../smkridge/40/cucc.htm#pov">Persistence of Vision</a>. <p>20m further round another couple of icefalls come in. Both are about 8-10m and vertical [<a href="../../smkridge/40/qm.htm#C000040-03" name="qC000040-03">C0000-40-03</a> A]. GSCB plan shows they have climbed up here to find a 20m pitch beyond into narrow rift. Their survey doesn't make it clear how it ends. CUCC bolted up the left side of the left icefall in 2000 to find an ice water duck leading to a pitch series (<b>Mission Impossible</b>). The duck was dry in 2001, but back again in 2002. <p>50m further round (downslope) the ice drops away steeply under the wall. A line is advisable for the descent. 20m down, the ice slope peters out giving way to sand and rocks. At the end here is a very strongly draughting hole [<a href="../../smkridge/40/qm.htm#C000040-04" name="qC000040-04">C0000-40-04</a> B]. This appears too tight, but survey data shows this is where Kalten Gang and Spinnefriedhof are (VfHM, 1984). To the right at the foot of the slope closes down with rocks and ice - it would probably connect with Plastic Hell. A few metres up from the bottom of the slope on the left hand (N) wall is a gap between the ice and rock leading into a large chamber [<a href="qm.htm#A199840-05" name="qA199840-05">A1998-40-05</a> B] (reported by Robert Winkler). <p>Back in Schneevulkanhalle, another 10m clockwise round the chamber is another, steeper iceslope. A rope is definitely needed for this. This is the way to <a href="../../smkridge/40/cucc.htm#phell">Plastic Hell.</a> <p>Beyond and above are more thin icefalls coming from high in the ceiling - trying to climb these would be bonkers - the debris from the collapse of some of them is all around. <h2><a name="schotterland">Schotterland</a> (Munich cavers 198? and ARGE 2000)</h2> <p>The foot of the piss-wet pitch opens out into very large triangular passage. You can go NE about 35m until it chokes (a good draught comes out of one hoplessly choked corner) or SW 20 to a T-junction. Right (W) is Kleiner keller. Left, ducking under the low wall, is Schotterland. <p>Kleiner keller is about 50m on huge passage to where the end is choked with glacial fill and a waterspout comes in the from the roof 3m up. A sling ladder makes it possible to ascend the waterspout - you can even doing it without getting very wet, as the spout is unusually well-concentrated, and thus avoidable. This comes into an E-W rift, with the water coming from the E end. It can be ascended in both directions at various traverse levels for about 30m, but the top appears choked at all points. The top is probably very close to the floor of Elephantengang.</p> <p>The old Munich cavers' data suggests that there is a passage off kleiner keller that we missed - which seems hard to believe, but maybe it is worth another visit?</p> <p>Schotterland is more enormous passage (10m wide) going SSE, presumably schotterland, due to the flooring of small rocks. A ramp goes up steeply on the L after 30m. It closes down after 40m. Ahead the passage slowly narrows until it chokes at the end - probably very close to the surface.</p>In datasetsmk-system.svx54000m1032mSSE of Vd. Schwarzmooskogel and ENE of a large basin in the hillside which often contains a lot of snow. Roughly a 450m NNE of <a href="../../smkridge/113.htm">Sonnenstrahlh&ouml;hle</a> - CUCC's furthest east permanent survey station.From the Bergrestaurant, take path 201, ignoring the left turn to the plateau at Egglgrube. Pass the junction path left to Kratzer and continue until a red upper-case Omega is seen in the middle of the path, marking Kat. 28 (we think). <p>There is a well-marked (cairns and red paint spots/arrows) branch path here. Follow this for about half an hour to the back of the limestone knoll known as "The Nipple" (and Weisse Warz and bunter's bulge). Things to note: first there is a wire traverse then you pass the lightninged tree in a sizeable valley. (Opposite this tree is the point you would turn left for Schwabenscacht). Shortly after that a pair of red arrows point in opposite directions. Go steeply uphill here doubling back slightly, rather than the more obvious straight on. Turn right about 40m beyond the nipple and head across the limestone for a narrow gully. After a hundred metres or so new red paint marks appear and take you to 40a. <p>A very large cave entrance, 20 minutes further on, was the German's (Munich) bivouac, and a few minutes later, a strongly draughting (out in summer) tube about 5m in diameter is the main entrance ("Hauptportal" - 40a). This was also the site of an old French bivouac, but must have been very cold. Continue along past some big holes and slightly downhill (one 5m step down). After about 180m(?) you reach the area of numerous entrances in a row There is the small Gr&uuml;ner Eingang (40s), 2 larger entrances ('Eistunnel' and 'Nichts50'), a small blocked entrance, and finally, where the path ends abruptly and unambiguously the "new" entrance (40e, Brennerbeserlschluf), also strongly draughting. This is between one and a half and two hours from the car park.
4240aentrance40a.htmNo InfoOberer Eingangp40ait is laser point 14laser point81700.929436459.49491689.6784mFrom the Bergrestaurant, take path 201, ignoring the left turn to the plateau at Egglgrube. Pass the junction path left to Kratzer and continue until a red upper-case Omega is seen in the middle of the path, marking Kat. 28 (we think). There is a well-marked (cairns and red paint spots/arrows) branch path here. Follow this for about half an hour to the back of the limestone knoll known as "The Nipple" (and Weisse Warz and bunter's bulge). Things to note: first there is a wire traverse then you pass the lightninged tree in a sizeable valley. (Opposite this tree is the point you would turn left for Schwabenscacht). Shortly after that a pair of red arrows point in opposite directions. Go steeply uphill here doubling back slightly, rather than the more obvious straight on. Turn right about 40m beyond the nipple and head across the limestone for a narrow gully. After a hundred metres or so new red paint marks appear and take you to 40a. A very large cave entrance, 20 minutes further on, was the German's (Munich) bivouac, and a few minutes later, a strongly draughting (out in summer) tube about 5m in diameter is the main entrance ("Hauptportal" <20> 40a).a strongly draughting (out in summer) tube about 5m in diameter
4340bentrance40b.htmNo InfoSchneeschacht
4440centrance40c.htmNo InfoReichenvaterschacht
4540dentrance40d.htmNo InfoUnterer Eingang
4640eentrance40e.htmNo InfoBrennerbeselschluf p40ep40exNils81993.39736625.8861642.286m
4740fentrance40f.htmNo InfoK<F6>nigsschachts p40f?Surface survey82042365871688m
4840gentrance40g.htmNo InfoEinstieg zur Hans Pfandl-Halle
4940hentrance40h.htmNo InfoEistunnel(Elephant)p40h?Surface survey81955365951646m
5040i88entrance88.htmNo InfoL<E4>rchenschacht (88)
5140j41aentrance41.htmNo InfoStellerwegh<F6>hle (41a)
5240k41bentrance41.htmNo InfoStellerwegh<F6>hle (41 b)
5340l41centrance41.htmNo InfoStellerwegh<F6>hle (?)
5440m115entrance115.htmNo InfoSchnellzugh<F6>hle (115)
5540n142entrance142.htmNo InfoSchwa-Schacht 142 (142)
5640o78aentrance78.htmNo InfoSchwaben-Schachth<74>hle (78a)
5740p78bentrance78.htmNo InfoSchwaben-Schachth<74>hle (78b)
5840q78centrance78.htmNo InfoSchwaben-Schachth<74>hle (78c)
5940r78dentrance78.htmNo InfoSchwaben-Schachth<74>hle (78d)
6040slast entrance40s.htmNo InfoGr<FC>ner Eingangp40s?Surface survey81895365671651m
61417//S/T/E xa byessmkridge/41.htmStellerwegh&ouml;hleCaves known or expected to link into the Stellerweg - Eish<73>hle and Kaninchenh<6E>hle systemsNo InfoLength of CUCC's part is approx 5.75 km, while the Germans had about 6 km in 88 in 1987, and the French (?) connected the Eish&ouml;hle (2.5 km or more) in the same year. This should make the system about 14-15 km all told before 1996. The Stuttgart group, <a href="http://arge.itvd.uni-stuttgart.de/">Arbeitsgemeinschaft H&ouml;hle und Karst Grabenstetten e.V.</a>, have, early in 1996, connected their cave <a href="78.htm">Schwabenschacht</a> (1623-78) into a passage in <a href="142.htm">1623/142</a>, one way into the system. This adds no new depth, but considerably increases the overall length. ARGE have also been doing much useful resurvey and some exploration, bringing their estimate of the total length to 22.7 km in 1999.As the <a href="41/41.htm">full guidebook description</a> is understandably quite big and is still evolving, just an overview is given here. <p>Sub-horizontal passages lead through steeply-hading rifts from this entrance. A lower route was originally explored by a German group before CUCC's first visit, and remains poorly documented and not fully explored. The higher route, explored by CUCC, leads past connections to <a href="142.htm">142</a>, another CUCC find. Passages trend downhill to reach the <b>Big Pitch</b> of 100m vertical. <p><a href="../noinfo/smkridge/88.htm">L&auml;rchenh&ouml;hle</a> connects at the bottom of the Big Pitch, and a streamway leads down. A roof passage connects to CUCC's <a href="144.htm">144</a>, and another leads on to smaller pitches to the <b>Big Rift</b>, dropping steeply down several pitches to reach <b>Junction Chamber</b> with connections to <a href="115.htm">Schnellzugh&ouml;hle</a> (115). <p>The route to 115 also leads to <b>Pete's Purgatory</b>, 800m of awful streamway to <b>the Confluence</b>, much more easily reached by large fossil passages starting with <b>Dartford Tunnel</b> from Junction Chamber. The Confluence is around half the depth of the system, and marks a transition to a single linear streamway leading to great depth, a feature currently unique in the known caves of the area. <p>The streamway is interrupted by a bypassable sump and several, mainly short, pitches, before a low-airspace canal appears to mark the end. However, a low duck can be passed to reach a deep and very wet shaft <b>Orgasm Chasm</b> which drops to the final muddy passage and short pitch to a dismal and deep rift sump. <p>The sump is 898m below the 41a entrance, and is at just about the same level as Altausseer See, in whose <a href="../aaussee/0.htm">underwater risings</a> the Stellerweg water is presumed to emerge. The scope for greater depth here seems minimal, but connections to various higher entrances have increased this to c971m, with perhaps a little more potential still to realise (optimistically up to 1058m).caves\041\041.svxFollow St&ouml;gerweg to <a href="../noinfo/smkridge/32.htm">Windloch</a> and then a hundred metres or so further. When the path starts to drop steeply, backtrack 10m (where there should be a permanent survey station 'P4') and start to hack up the hillside. Orange paint flashes on the rock should be visible, and will lead after 300m or so to a cave entrance at the head of a gully. If it isn't blowing the trees around in the cold air, it isn't the right place !
6241a40jentrancep41astation at entrance 41a, left side of main entrancep041axNils81244358271621mFollow St<53>gerweg to Windloch and then a hundred metres or so further. When the path starts to drop steeply, backtrack 10m (where there should be a permanent survey station 'P4') and start to hack up the hillside. Orange paint flashes on the rock should be visible, and will lead after 300m or so to a cave entrance at the head of a gully. If it isn't blowing the trees around in the cold air, it isn't the right place !
6341b40klast entranceNo Infop41bSurface survey81258358631635mThe upper entrance (41b) is in a large rift about 30m to the east of the lower (41a) which is a strongly outward-draughting tube in a shattered gully.Red writing
64421/S =noinfo/smkridge/42.htmWasserschachtCaves in the same area - but not yet linkedNo InfoSektion Ausseerland, 1952 1700mSSW of Vd. Schwarzmooskogel, not far (50m vertical) up the hill from Stellerwegh<67>hle, so we have probably rediscovered it and renumbered it.
65431/T+noinfo/kratzer/43.htmH&ouml;hle beim WackelsteinKratzer valleyNo InfoSektion Ausseerland, 1973 1650mSE of Br<42>uning Nase, apparently just below the path up to Schwarzmoossattel.
66441/T+noinfo/kratzer/44.htmH&ouml;hle am Kratzer IIKratzer valleyNo Info1620mIn upper Kratzer valley south of the col.
67451/S/E +noinfo/wilden/45.htmDannerschachtEast of Schwarzmooskogel/Augst-Eck ridge to WildenseeNo Info1610mEast of Vorderer Schwarzmooskogel. NE of the Eish<73>hle, and looking pretty difficult to get to.
68461/T =noinfo/wilden/46.htmEngelbrechth&ouml;hleEast of Schwarzmooskogel/Augst-Eck ridge to WildenseeNo InfoEngelbrecht, 1952 1635mNear <a href="45.htm">Dannerschacht</a> Kat.45
69472/T +noinfo/wilden/47.htmSCHWA h&ouml;hle 47East of Schwarzmooskogel/Augst-Eck ridge to WildenseeNo Info1612mNear <a href="45.htm">Dannerschacht</a> Kat.45
70481/T +noinfo/wilden/48.htmSCHWA h&ouml;hle 48East of Schwarzmooskogel/Augst-Eck ridge to WildenseeNo Info1612mNear <a href="45.htm">Dannerschacht</a> Kat.45
71491/T +noinfo/wilden/49.htmSCHWA h&ouml;hle 49East of Schwarzmooskogel/Augst-Eck ridge to WildenseeNo Info1618mNear <a href="45.htm">Dannerschacht</a> Kat.45
72501/T +noinfo/wilden/50.htmSCHWA h&ouml;hle 50East of Schwarzmooskogel/Augst-Eck ridge to WildenseeNo Info1620mNear <a href="45.htm">Dannerschacht</a> Kat.45
73511/T +noinfo/aaussee/51.htmH&ouml;hlen 1-3 in Wei&szlig;e WandN & NE shore of Altauseer SeeNo Info1330-1400mAt the bottom of Wei<65>e Wand west of Hochklapfsattel, some way below the St<53>gerweg path.
74521/S/W +a bnoinfo/gschwand/52.htmSennerkeller &amp; SaulochGschwandt - NW of the Loser-Br<42>uning wallNo InfoSektion Ausseerland, 1968 To the north, an 11m long, 2m high and 0.5m wide meander passage leads off. Through the passage flows a small gutter, which might well end too tight just after the turn off to Sennerkeller, the water emerging at a small spring to the north of Sennerkeller in a karren field. Mitt. der Sektion Ausseerland 19(3) July, 1981, p 49 1:250, Alfred Auer, 1968 (no copy available) 32m15m1490mGschwandalm, by the path.Reached by walking all the way round Loser from the Loser H<>tte. n a 15m by 6m wide rift is the 6m by 4m entrance to the Sauloch. This is in a steep-sided doline used as a dumping place for all sorts of refuse.Mitt. der Sektion Ausseerland 19(3) July, 1981, p 49
75531/T +noinfo/augstb/53.htmGellerli&auml;gerAugstbach valley and villagesNo Info"Horizontale, niedere R&ouml;hre mit Bruchschutt."Plan 1:100 by Alfred Auer, 1968 5m N-S 1020m12m east and 5m above <a href="3.htm">Gellerofen</a> (Kat.3)
76541/T =noinfo/augstb/54.htmSeeh&ouml;hleAugstbach valley and villagesNo InfoKarl Gaisberger, 1959 5m780mSouth of and well below <a href="3.htm">Gellerofen</a> (Kat.3), not marked on the Austrian<61>s map, but apparently just off the road in Augstbachtal. Must be almost in the village. <p>"Kleine H&ouml;hle mit einer Wasserlacke im Inneren."
77551/S/T =noinfo/loser/55.htmSchachth&ouml;hle west. HochangerLoser - Hochanger ridge areaNo Info1750mAlmost on the saddle between Loser and Hochanger.
78561/T +noinfo/loser/56.htmHornsteinh&ouml;hleAround Augst SeeNo Info1650mWest side of Augstsee.
79571/S +noinfo/loser/57.htmH&ouml;hle unterhalb der SchafkircheAround Augst SeeNo Info1660mWest side of Augstsee.
80581/T +noinfo/loser/58.htmH&ouml;hle unterhalb ab Pauli-LochAround Augst SeeNo Info1670mWest side of Augstsee.
81591/T+noinfo/loser/59.htmBruchshutth&ouml;hleAround Augst SeeNo Info1680mWest side of Augstsee on map. Text says W Hochangerlift (presumed to be the ski lift which runs from near the Loser H&uuml;tte towards Loser Fenster) on Gschirr, which is itself unnamed on the map. Current surmise is that the map location is correct, that the cave is actually east of the lift, and that Gschirr is the ridge running down from Loser Fenster to the Bergrestaurant. However the map symbol implies that this is a shaft, and this location is actually unlikely for a shaft...
82601/S =noinfo/gschwand/60.htmSchacht I-IV bei GschwandalmGschwandt - NW of the Loser-Br<42>uning wallNo InfoSektion Ausseerland, 1965, 1968Mitt. der Sektion Ausseerland 19(3) July, 1981, p 49 40m30m1590m1 Km NE of Gschwandalm between spot heights 1537 and 1607m, below the path. <p>In a hollow is a 4m wide and 40m long rift containing a row of shafts (II-IV). The rift reaches -30m, where there is a melt-water pool. A little higher up the slope is a triangular opening 1.5m wide and 2.2m long. At -15m, this connects with the others.
83611/T +noinfo/br-alm/61.htmGemsbockh&ouml;hleBr<E4>uning Alm and Br<42>uning KunntalNo InfoKarl Gaisberger, 1975 1620mNE of Br&auml;uning Alm, north of the path to Schwarzmoossattel.
84621/T +noinfo/loser/62.htmDolinenh&ouml;hleLoser - Hochanger ridge areaNo Info1620mAbove Dimmelwand - cliff above last section of toll road.
85632/T +noinfo/loser/63.htmPseudoskorpionh&ouml;hleLoser - Hochanger ridge areaNo Info1625mAbove Dimmelwand.
86641/T +noinfo/loser/64.htmGr. Durchgangsh&ouml;hleLoser - Hochanger ridge areaNo Info1670mAbove Dimmelwand.
87651/T+noinfo/loser/65.htmWidderh&ouml;hleLoser - Hochanger ridge areaNo Info1645mAbove Dimmelwand.
88661/T+noinfo/augstb/66.htmL&ouml;ckerwegh&ouml;hleAugstbach valley and villagesNo InfoH<F6>hlenforschervereinigung Altaussee, 1939 Plan at 1:100 by Alfred Auer, 1968 11.1mSW-NE980mSW side of Loserstockes, directly above Ht.Posern. 2.6m wide by 1m high entrance, "flachbogenf&ouml;rmige Portal f&uuml;hrt in eine 1939 von der H.V.A. ausgegrabene horizontal H&ouml;hle. Holoz&auml;ne Knochenfunde."
89672/T +noinfo/loser/67.htmBiwakh&ouml;hle am LoserLoser - Hochanger ridge areaNo InfoIn October 1977, Karl Gaisberger collected the first examples of the Pseudoscorpion <i>Neobisium hermanni</i> to be found in the Totes Gebirge.55m1670mAbove Dimmelwand.
90681/T +noinfo/aaussee/51.htm#68Kleine B&auml;renh&ouml;hleN & NE shore of Altauseer SeeNo Info1370mAt foot of Wei&szlig;e Wand west of Hochklapfsattel, just NNE of Kat.51
91691/S +noinfo/loser/69.htmSchacht am GschirrLoser - Hochanger ridge areaNo Info1690mText says West of Augstsee. Map shows it above Dimmelwand.
92701/T +noinfo/loser/70.htmSchneckenlochLoser - Hochanger ridge areaNo Info1660mAbove Dimmelwand.
93712/S/W +a bkratzer/71.htmFledermaush&ouml;hleKratzer valleyNo InfoDiscovered by Karl Gaisberger in October 1975, but prevented from continuing by start of winter snows, so shared exploration with CUCC, 1976. Initial hands and knees crawl for 20m soon enlarges and descends past a couple of oxbows (one leading to within sight of daylight up an aven) to reach twin climbs of 8m, the easier being through a hole to the right. Soon afterwards is the first pitch, a sloping 8m. Below this, a pleasant passage with occasional bat-droppings leads to a short muddy crawl, an earth bank and a sizeable chamber. The next pitch, of 7m, is reached after more muddy passage, and may be climbed/jumped by a rift to one side, but is best rigged for the return. <p><center><a href="l/ca7.htm"><img alt="Photo - 34k" src="t/ca7.jpg" width=178 height=134></a><img alt="" src="../../icons/lists/tab64.png"> <a href="l/ca4.htm"><img alt="Photo - 22k" src="t/ca4.jpg" width=200 height=150></a></center> <p>Easy going continues past a right turn to a complex junction at several levels. The water can be followed down a rift to a drop into an impenetrable fissure. Back at the junction, a traverse and thrutch through lead to a small tube, which crosses a cross-rift and ends at a filthy sump. Left at the cross rift, however, a low crawl gives onto a greasy chimney climb of 4m with very little in the way of holds. At the foot of this, the water reenters, and soon develops acute verticality. The first 5m are technical and best rigged, but below that, the descent becomes more spiralling in mainly solid rock. After 30m, things become more shattered and muddy and the climb drops into water leading very quickly to a sump at -90m. <p>Shortly before the second pitch, a right turn leads into an inlet passage, over a slot to the main passage below, over a traverse and a false floor, to reach, eventually, an aven ascended for about 25m and continuing, but with no great prospects. <p>From the Chamber, a traverse can be entered from the top of the rock-slope. The level closes off after about 15m, but below a climb down, a pitch was excavated dropping into a larger passage which soon choked comprehensively.no<a href="../../jnl/1977/index.htm">Cambridge Underground 1977</a>, facing page 46. <p><img alt="survey: 15k gif" width=560 height=650 src="71.png"> <hr>90m1600mWest of Kratzer valley, off path to Schwarzmoossattel.Entrance is in a fair-sized shakehole in the dwarf-pine-covered karren before Schwarzmoossattel.
94721/T +noinfo/loser/72.htmSkeletth&ouml;hleAround Augst SeeNo InfoSektion Ausseerland, 1976 1720mWest of Augstsee.
95732/S =noinfo/kratzer/73.htmSuppentellerschachtKratzer valleyNo InfoDiscovered by K Gaisberger and F H&uuml;tter in August 1973 (to -30m) Sektion Ausseerland, 1977 (Karl Gaisberger + Edith Bednarik)The first step is sprayed by meltwater, and the second step leads to -30m. A short rope leads to the next step. A rift follows an acute angle under the entrance way, some metres back. This section is very narrow, and over the narrow section pours a showerbath. Now a second squeeze leads to a fine pitch which bends back under the previous section. Then it gets complicated (the language, not the cave). It sounds like a series of either roomy or narrow wet pitches. Exploration appears to cease at -60m because of water down the neck and in the suit. It isn't clear if the cave actually stops at this point.1580mIn Kratzer valley, some way up valley from <a href="../../kratzer/71.htm">Fledermaush&ouml;hle</a> (Kat.71).
96741/T +noinfo/kratzer/74.htmSchneckenhaush&ouml;hleKratzer valleyNo InfoEdith Bednarik, 1977Sounds like a free-climb to a snow choke (very much like B5, which must be in virtually the same place ?)1600min Kratzer valley, down valley from <a href="../../kratzer/71.htm">Fledermaush&ouml;hle</a> (Kat. 71), on true right some way above bottom of valley. In the same entrance doline as <a href="35.htm">Dr.Kerschner H&ouml;hle</a> (Kat.35).
97752/T +noinfo/kratzer/75.htmWisenth&ouml;hleKratzer valleyNo InfoEdith Bednarik, 1977This entrance connects with a second shaft just down valley. The Austrian article describing the cave says it is about 60m long, but this did not appear to be the case in 1990, since it seems to choke very quickly - perhaps digging would now be required to get in.1680mJust south of Schwarzmoossattel, in the far upper reaches of Kratzertal. There is an obvious freeclimbable shaft/cave just down valley from the equally obvious shakehole/shaft labelled <a href="../../kratzer/b4.htm">B4</a>.It is numbered twice, once very faded and once very badly run (last seen 1996): both numbers are needed to deduce (with difficulty) that this is indeed "75".
98765/S/E +a b cyesplateau/76.htmEislufth&ouml;hle"Middle" plateauNo InfoCUCC 1977-79Two snow plugged dolines (76 b &amp; c) and a narrow shaft (76a) unite in a narrow rift leading to a windy lifelining position, <b>Draught Bitter</b>, at the head of a 72m shaft plugged with snow. Rigging <b>Plugged Shaft</b> between snow and rock, pitches in 1977 were 18m to a snow platform, 12m to a ledge, then 29m to a substantial ledge, <b>Yesterday's Terminus</b>. In 1979, with changed snow topography, and rigging for SRT, the drops were 11, 7, 17 and 19m to Yesterday's Terminus where a traverse out reaches a bolt for the final 13m drop onto a snow pile in a large aven chamber. A further 13m pitch, <b>Saved Shaft</b>, into a smaller aven chamber, <b>Boulder Chamber</b>, leads to an apparent end, but thrutch through boulders into top of rift/canyon. Hole in floor is 32m pitch into <b>Keg Series</b> (no draught) with further unexplored pitch below. Continuing traverse leads to climbs down then split pitch of 19m and 14m, <b>Follow-through Shaft</b>, dropping into side of abandoned canyon. Upstream to the left ends immediately while down canyon leads to head of a chamber, The Taproom, with a 5m climb down a big boulder under heavy drip/spray (handline useful). Also from the head of the chamber, passage leads back to a large unexplored hole in floor with lots of water entering from a high aven. 1977 terminus at -150m. <p>From chamber, scramble down in rift (rope useful owing to greasy rock and 120 metre drop) to reach head of large rift pitch below jammed boulder. Pitch drops in two sections of 10m and 35m, with stream out of reach in canyon, to ledge where stream bed is crossed (traverse line). Further pitch of 10m leads to straddle climb up to rocking boulder, then traverse forward to good belays for 48m pitch. This lands on <b>The Balcony</b> where water runs away from obvious way on into a tight immature drain. <p><center><a name="hgk" href="76/l/hotgk.htm"> <img src="76/t/hotgk.jpg" align=middle width=151 height=116 alt="HotGK.jpg (69k)"></a></center> <br><center>Ben with the Greene King pennant on the Balcony</center> <p>From the Balcony a 7m pitch drops into the <b>Hall of the Greene King</b>, a huge soaring aven chamber. The way on over a boulder floor leads under suspended boulders, one of immense size, to a 5m pitch down off the edge of a boulder. In the floor is a sharp canyon that loops round to a junction. Left leads to <b>Gents' Pitch</b> route, while right leads to a dry passage. After a few metres in the dry passage, there is a rift in the floor to the left, which is a muddy, broken pitch with sections of 3m, 12m and 18m into the main canyon (1978 route). Another few metres ahead, a bold step across the canyon leads to further passage which eventually degenerates and rejoins the main canyon upstream (right) of the bold step. <p><center><a name="p16" href="76/l/p16.htm"><img src="76/t/p16.jpg" width=143 height=170 alt="p16.jpg (58k)"></a>&nbsp; &nbsp;<a href="76/l/gents.htm"><img src="76/t/gents.jpg" width=143 height=170 alt="Gents.jpg (36k)"></a></center><br> <center>Julian Griffiths abseiling the 16.5m and Gents' pitches on the bottoming trip in 1979</center> <p>The 1979 route from the junction leads to a pitch of 16.5m, free hanging just clear of the wall, with an excellent takeoff. However the rope gets muddy from mud on clothing in a couple of trips, so care is required. Next drop is the Gents' pitch of 9.5m, which leads to a short streamway rejoining the main canyon from the 1978 route. The bottom of this pitch is a good place for cavers to perform ablutions with the mud on their ascenders, hence the name (all the explorers were male). The main passage now leads on with stream in floor and muddy ledges above until the <b>Fiesta Run</b> is reached. This awkward slanting rift pitch of 28m is so muddy that ladders are <b><i>de rigeur</i></b>. The name derives from the car crash which terminated exploration at this point in 1978. <p>A traverse forward on muddy ledges leads out over a huge shaft with the ominous sound of a waterfall below. Traversing further eventually leads to a further pitch of 5m to a col. Down another 10m on the side away from the main shaft lands on a solid floor in an abandoned rift. Forward leads through narrow passage with sharp rock to a point where thrutchy traversing is necessary to make further progress. A 23m broken pitch in sharp rock, with very bad rub points leads only to a tight crawl. This was pushed by Julian Griffiths to emerge at a drop with a large aven above, which remains unexplored at about -395m depth. <p>The main way on, however, is to drop back into canyon towards the ominous hiss of water in a very wide pitch where the stream seems to have hit a fault at right angles to the arriving passage direction. The middle section of this 28m pitch is huge, before narrowing to a ledge parallel to the new fault, and 'downstream' from the original direction of stream flow. From the ledge, a smaller shaft of 33m drops down the new fault rift to a boulder floor where the water sinks. The fault rift, <b>Madlmeier Schacht</b>, now drops in sections of 24 and 19m to the end of the rope in 1979. Here an exposed freeclimb of 5m with icy water flowing over the handholds is not really recommended - take a longer rope. Next pitch of 24m picks up the main water again 10m down, and final pitch of 17m from ledge drops to floor of rift chamber, but mud on floor precedes final muddy 10m pitch down a boulder wall to a deep and terminal rift sump at -506m. <p><a name="penult" href="76/l/penult.htm"><img src="76/t/penult.jpg" width=123 height=184 align=top alt="Penult.jpg (87k)"></a> Simon Farrow on the last 17m pitch of Madlmeier Schacht <p><a href="76/l/sump.htm"><img src="76/t/sump.jpg" width=121 height=187 align=top alt="Sump.jpg (37k)"></a> Julian Griffiths at the final sump - 1979 <p>There are a number of going leads in this cave and you're welcome to them.The exploration is written up in many places: <ul> <li><a href="../years/1977/report.htm#youth">Cambridge Underground 1978</a> <li><a href="../years/1977/771649.htm">Belfry Bulletin 354</a>, Nick Thorne <li><a href="../years/1978/report.htm#ropes">Cambridge Underground 1979</a> <li><a href="../years/1978/bcracc.htm">BCRA Caves &amp; Caving 2</a>, Andy Waddington <li><a href="../years/1978/npc79.htm">Northern Pennine Club Journal vol 3 no. 2, 1979</a>, Andy Waddington, Simon Farrow <li><a href="../years/1978/descnt.htm">Descent 40 (Jan/Feb 1979)</a>, Nick Thorne <li><a href="../years/1978/782034.htm">Belfry Bulletin 366 (Oct 1978)</a>, Nick Thorne <li><a href="../years/1979/report.htm">Cambridge Underground 1980</a> <li><a href="../years/1979/descnt.htm">Descent 44</a>, Nick Thorne <li><a href="../years/1979/792026.htm">Belfry Bulletin 378</a>, Nick Thorne <li><a href="../years/1979/bcracc.htm">BCRA Caves &amp; Caving 8</a>, Andy Waddington <li><a href="../years/1979/811412.htm">Speleo Krakow 1/2 Dec 1980</a>, Andy Waddington<br> This last, the only complete write up of 1977-79, appeared in Polish translation, and is published in the English original for the first time here.approx 506mOut on the plateau near some very large erratic boulders. Laser rangefound point 0/6 is between the three entrances<a name="scf" href="76/l/scf.htm"> <img src="76/t/scf.jpg" align=middle width=170 height=108 alt="SCF.jpg (73k)"></a> Simon Farrow at the entrance of 76 during the initial exploration in 1977 The entrance is prominently numbered 106 which is the number we had allocated to it, but a description of the cave was published in the Belfry Bulletin, which is seen by Alfred Auer, who allocated his own number to it in advance of our report.
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102771/S +noinfo/egglgrub/77.htmFichtenschachtEgglgrube and Scharlingkar areaNo InfoSektion Ausseerland/ Edith Bednarik, 19791500m North of Scharlingkar. Some way east of the Bergrestaurant, above the cliffs. 500m west of Egglgrubenalm.
103785/S/t/E xa b c d eyessmkridge/78.htmSchwaben(schacht)h&ouml;hleCaves known or expected to link into the Stellerweg - Eish<73>hle and Kaninchenh<6E>hle systemsNo InfoFred Vischer, 1980 (as far as 2/S/T)<br> Ongoing exploration by <a href="http://arge.itvd.uni-stuttgart.de/">Arbeitsgemeinschaft H&ouml;hle und Karst Grabenstetten e.V.</a> The cave is a complex of hading rifts and steep ramps with several deep points. The deepest point is near the southern limit of the system. A vertical series with pitches of 9m, 15m, 17m and 13m reaches N&auml;gschtmol-Meander (1992), where the survey legs are all very short. This climbs slightly before heading south and dropping, passing Alexander der Gro&szlig;e (a generally level side passage heading southwest to Leopardencanyon, apparently beyond the known passages in <a href="115.htm">Schnellzugh&ouml;hle</a>) to der gute Abgang (the good lead). A 7m pitch and more steep descents end at a point almost directly above the assumed line of Pete's Purgatory in Schnellzug, maybe a third of the way to the Confluence from where it is abandoned for the Purgatory Bypass. This small streamway lies perhaps 120-130m below Schwabenschacht's deep point, but it is known that several unsurveyed fossil phreatic passages lie above this upstream part of the Purgatory, so a connection could be quite close. <p> This description is now quite out of date as it does not include the its connection, nor entrances c,d and e.In datasetcaves\078\078.svx6.04km289mp78aEntrances a and b are actually on the SW side of Vorder SchwarzmooskogelApproached by the same route as for things to the east, as cliffs bar access from Kratzer. Follow the Stoger weg from Egglgrube, past the T-junction to Kratzer, and on until there is a red omega in the middle of the path (marking Kat. 28). Just before this, in a position with a better view, is a laser-rangefound point marked by a bolt with a painted circle round it. <p>Take the Eish&ouml;hle path, which starts from the omega, going left up the hillside. Follow this for a few minutes, past an awkward little traverse rigged with a steel cable and then a couple of minutes further. There is a very easily missed branch left just before the path traverses a ledge under an overhang in a cliff to its left in a relatively wide small valley. The landmark for this point is a dead (lightning) tree up on the right. <p>Take this left branch, and follow it (few landmarks, but it is a definite path, and there are cut branches in places). This path eventually climbs into impenetrable dwarf pine, to emerge at a small gravelly clearing and a doline, used as a bivouac site. The a and b entrances are just short distances away through the pine, the normally-used one being below a prominent larch tree. The other entrance is a long rift shaft. Both are impressive, though it is quite infeasible that anyone could ever have found them in the first place.
104aentrance78a.htmlHaupteingangp78bNils35731814301666mEntrances a and b are actually on the SW side of Vorder SchwarzmooskogelApproached by the same route as for things to the east, as cliffs bar access from Kratzer. Follow the Stoger weg from Egglgrube, past the T-junction to Kratzer, and on until there is a red omega in the middle of the path (marking Kat. 28). Just before this, in a position with a better view, is a laser-rangefound point marked by a bolt with a painted circle round it. <p>Take the Eish&ouml;hle path, which starts from the omega, going left up the hillside. Follow this for a few minutes, past an awkward little traverse rigged with a steel cable and then a couple of minutes further. There is a very easily missed branch left just before the path traverses a ledge under an overhang in a cliff to its left in a relatively wide small valley. The landmark for this point is a dead (lightning) tree up on the right. <p>Take this left branch, and follow it (few landmarks, but it is a definite path, and there are cut branches in places). This path eventually climbs into impenetrable dwarf pine, to emerge at a small gravelly clearing and a doline, used as a bivouac site. The a and b entrances are just short distances away through the pine, the normally-used one being below a prominent larch tree. The other entrance is a long rift shaft. Both are impressive, though it is quite infeasible that anyone could ever have found them in the first place.
105bentrance78b.htmlKlufteingang (E2)Nils81417357171659mEntrances a and b are actually on the SW side of Vorder SchwarzmooskogelApproached by the same route as for things to the east, as cliffs bar access from Kratzer. Follow the Stoger weg from Egglgrube, past the T-junction to Kratzer, and on until there is a red omega in the middle of the path (marking Kat. 28). Just before this, in a position with a better view, is a laser-rangefound point marked by a bolt with a painted circle round it. <p>Take the Eish&ouml;hle path, which starts from the omega, going left up the hillside. Follow this for a few minutes, past an awkward little traverse rigged with a steel cable and then a couple of minutes further. There is a very easily missed branch left just before the path traverses a ledge under an overhang in a cliff to its left in a relatively wide small valley. The landmark for this point is a dead (lightning) tree up on the right. <p>Take this left branch, and follow it (few landmarks, but it is a definite path, and there are cut branches in places). This path eventually climbs into impenetrable dwarf pine, to emerge at a small gravelly clearing and a doline, used as a bivouac site. The a and b entrances are just short distances away through the pine, the normally-used one being below a prominent larch tree. The other entrance is a long rift shaft. Both are impressive, though it is quite infeasible that anyone could ever have found them in the first place.
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109792/S +noinfo/smkridge/79.htmBadenerschachtCaves in the same area - but not yet linkedNo InfoVischer, 1980 1780m (c 1650m in older kataster)Vorderer Schwarzmooskogel.
110801/S +plateau/80.htmSchwa Schacht 80"Nearer" plateau northeast of the colNo InfoCUCC 1977 - Team GeriatricA straight pitch of 14m to a choke.14m p080Nils82468357521660m(1996) VSK nipple: 135&deg;, BW pt 1835: 043&deg; (this cannot possibly be right), Grieskogel: 007&deg;, HSK: 043&deg;Plateau just NE of col.From Schwarzmoossattel, drop onto the plateau, where an intermittent line of cairns leads from the Br&auml;uning wall camp (CUCC's <a href="../tcamps.htm#topcamp">Top Camp</a> from 1988) across to the right, leading to the 8x caves and <a href="145.htm">145</a>. Directly across a large clear area of karren, a large cairn used to mark the 8m by 5m entrance shaft, but this has apparently disappeared (1995) only to be rebuilt in 1996 - but is very vulnerable to demolition by winter snows. The shaft is otherwise invisible from a few metres away. The number 80, in red, is quite faded (1989) and is on the shaft wall facing the Br&auml;uning wall.
111811/T +plateau/81.htmSchwa H&ouml;hle 81"Nearer" plateau northeast of the colNo InfoCUCC 1977 - Team GeriatricA short section of horizontal passage 5m below the surface, with two entrances, but no way on. 15m. c 1670mPlateau just NE of col.
112824/S/T +plateau/82.htmBr&auml;uningh&ouml;hle"Nearer" plateau northeast of the colNo InfoCUCC 1977 - Team GeriatricVery obvious walking sized cave entrance leads to a boulder strewn passage (ice formations early in season) into an aven with daylight entering 20m above. A scramble over boulders leads to <b>Apfelschacht</b> - a 6m pitch with loose boulders at the head. This drops to a 3m climb and then a 20m pitch <b>Orangenschacht</b> with a trickle of water entering halfway down. From the foot, a fine keyhole passage imaginatively named <b>Schl&uuml;ssellochgang</b>, and a choice of routes. The most obvious way on is a 10m pitch, <b>Bierschacht</b> over a stalagmite flow to an awkward crawl, <b>Worm Passage</b>, which looked likely to end things. However, this opens out suddenly at a pitch head. <b>Nocheinbierschacht</b> is 15m, impressively free. At the foot, a vocal connection can be made with a phreatic passage above the third pitch which ends in a big hole. <p>Ahead is a phreatic tunnel which chokes, and a large black emptiness. This is descended for 25m in four 6m steps, <b>Viermalbierschacht</b>, to a ledge big enough for one and a bit people. The stream goes over this ledge into a large black void. This pitch, <b>Besoffene</b>, is 50m and hangs free for all but the last 8m in a very impressive shaft. From the foot, traverse above a steeply dropping stream canyon to a sloping platform from which a 17m pitch reaches the stream floor. This cascades over a further 6m pitch, below which a climb out of the stream reaches a rig point for a 30m pitch ending on a slope down to a sump at -216m.Cambridge Underground 1978, facing p 32<br> There is also an <a href="145/145.png">area plan</a> showing 82 in context with <a href="145.htm">145</a> and <a href="148.htm">148</a>. <p><img alt="survey: 28k gif" width=640 height=1300 src="others/82.png">-216m, +20p82tip of rock marked "82" at entranceSurface survey8257835867 1658mPlateau 430m from col, roughly NE.From Schwarzmoossattel, follow description to <a href="80.htm">80</a>. From here, a route leads directly towards Hinterer Schwarzmooskogel over fairly flat karren, becoming more shattered towards another cairn. Then there is a somewhat chaotic area. <p>Skirt this on the left to a small ridge running left-right. There is a cairn to the right across the chaotic bit. From the ridge, 82 is the obvious entrance directly ahead. Across the ridge to the right, more cairns lead initially towards 82, but then become misleading as they head up the hill to <a href="145.htm">Wolfh&ouml;hle</a> (145). <center><table border=0 width=90%> <tr><td rowspan=2><a href="others/l/82jont.htm"><img alt="Entrance" width=180 height=247 src="others/t/82jont.jpg"></a></td> <td><a href="others/l/82area.htm"><img alt="Entrance area view" src="others/t/82area.jpg" width=185 height=122></a></td></tr> <tr><td><a href="others/l/82stal.htm"><img alt="Photo of ice stal (27k)" src="others/t/82stal.jpg" width=113 height=145></a></td></tr> </table></center>"82" in red paint on boulder and on left of cave. 1998 tag "1623 82 CUCC 1977" on right inside cave entrance (not at survey point).
113832/S +plateau/83.htmSchwa Schacht 83"Nearer" plateau northeast of the colNo InfoCUCC 1977 - Team Geriatric13m freeclimb dropped onto a steep snowslope requiring a handline. This was descended for 10m to a steep boulder slope which funnelled down to a small hole through which stones dropped for a long time. The large amounts of scree made descent unwise. Above the boulder slope, a phreatic passage led quickly to a big hole in the floor. The hole is a fine free-hanging descent of 36m to a solid choke of boulders. The phreatic passage continues beyond the pitch, but was not reached, and trends uphill.55mp83exact point not recordedSurface survey82698359311669mPlateau, 200m north of <a href="82.htm">Br&auml;uningh&ouml;hle</a> (Kat. 82). This is not very obvious, since it is in an area of dwarf pine on a knoll south of the dry valley containing <a href="107.htm">Kat. 107</a>
114841/T +plateau/84.htmSchwa H&ouml;hle 84"Nearer" plateau northeast of the colNo InfoCUCC 1977 - Team GeriatricDraughting tube leads to a small chamber, further small tube leads off, unexplored since deemed impenetrable in shorts and T-shirt.c 1660mPlateau WNW of <a href="83.htm">Kat.83</a>
115852/t/S +plateau/85.htmSchwa H&ouml;hle 85"Nearer" plateau northeast of the colNo InfoCUCC 1977 - Team GeriatricLarge descending entrance leads to a series of free climbs ending too tight at -50m.p85east wall of dolineSurface survey82563358521658mPlateau, at southwest end of depression containing <a href="82.htm">Br&auml;uningh&ouml;hle</a> (Kat.82)large red painted number "85"
116861/S +plateau/86.htmSchwa Schacht 86"Nearer" plateau northeast of the colNo InfoCUCC 1977 - Team GeriatricRift descent of 25m until gap between snow and rock got too small.c 1670mPlateau, on higher ground just SE of <a href="82.htm">Br&auml;uningh&ouml;hle</a> (Kat.82)
11787A3/S +smkridge/87.htmSchacht 87A bei St&ouml;gerwegCaves known or expected to link into the Stellerweg - Eish<73>hle and Kaninchenh<6E>hle systemsNo InfoCUCC 1980,1987Horizontal entrance at base of small cliff at head of dry valley, leads over peaty infill to a pitch head. Cross first hole and descend second, 30m to large chamber. To left is unsurveyed inlet ending too small, while to right is head of very steeply descending phreatic-tube-like pitch of 15m vertically (20m+ of rope). This is a little thrutchy to start, but opens out, and ends in a short climb. <p><center><a name="p2" href="others/l/87a.htm"><img alt="(mono photo - 63k)" src="others/t/87a.jpg" width=134 height=200 hspace=10></a> Head of Second pitch <a href="others/l/87b.htm"><img alt="(mono photo - 41k)" src="others/t/87b.jpg" width=134 height=200 hspace=10></a></center> <p>A further 15m pitch follows, hanging clear of a wall made up mainly of boulders. A way on across the head of the final pitch appears too tight. Hole in floor is last pitch, of 33m, which has a boulder 10m high in it, and you can descend either side. Draught is lost into a small passage which you could reach by bolting, but it seems a little pointless. <p>There is a 1987 extension, but I can't make much sense of the logbook description.caves\087\087.svx111.5mp87first (of several) bolts used for rigging, LHS of entrance81147359871536mIn a dry valley leading up from the St&ouml;gerweg (path 201) shortly after the turn off for <a href="115.htm">Schnellzugh&ouml;hle</a>. In 2001 the hole was seen blowing a large quantity of vapour visible from some way off.<p><b>Note:</b> the 1987 logbook suggests we changed this to 87b and the cave that had mistakenly been numbered 88, here called 87B, we called 87, so we had better look into this.
11887B0 +Schacht 87B bei St&ouml;gerwegCUCC 1980, 1987caves\088\088.svxminimalcirca 1505m<i>In</i> Stogerweg - you literally step over it while walking along the path. <p>Numbered '88' in a fit of optimism while the explorer was getting changed to investigate this impressively draughting hole, it proved in fact to be only 1.2 metres deep and too tight. It appears to be above the inlet below pitch 1 in cave 87, and has been renumbered 87b, since the Austrians have allocated number 88 to L&auml;rchenh&ouml;hle. <p><b>Note:</b> the 1987 logbook suggests we changed this to 87a and 87 to 87b, so we had better look into this.
119883/S/T xnoinfo/smkridge/88.htmL&auml;rchenschachtCaves known or expected to link into the Stellerweg - Eish<73>hle and Kaninchenh<6E>hle systemsNo Info<ul> <li>First descent by <span lang="de">Reinhard Lemmer</span> in 1983, depth 40m, blocked by ice. <li><span lang="de">Reinhard Kieselbach, Franz Lindenmayr</span> and <span lang="de">K Peter</span> make second descent over a weekend in August 1985, finding the <b lang="de">Oberpf&auml;lzer Halle</b>. <li>In September, FHKF, VHM and HFG-KA returned, discovered <b lang="de">Frankenschnellweg,</b> and the way to the <b lang="de">Gro&szlig;er Ca&ntilde;on,</b> and surveyed. <li>In 1986, exploration continued to <b lang="de">Hall Dom,</b> connecting to <span lang="de">Stellerweg.</span> Also found <b lang="de">Geburtstagsgang,</b> which came out in <span lang="de">Gro&szlig;er Ca&ntilde;on.</span> <li>In 1987, the German groups were replaced by French (<a href="../../others/gscb/index.htm">GSCB,</a> GSD, ASCR) who found <b lang="de">Sandschacht,</b> heading N and E. A 5m climb from <span lang="fr">Puits Madonna</span> reached a passage with cairns and a definite connection to <span lang="de">Schwarzmooskogeleish&ouml;hle.</span> A through trip was done the next day by GSCB and GSD. <li>In 1988 surveys were tied together with an improved surface survey. </ul>Few details available, since we were for many years unable to obtain a survey. A figure of over 6 km long in 1987 was quoted, but this would appear to include the <a href="40.htm">Eish&ouml;hle</a>. Contact was finally made with the French group in 1997 and <span lang="fr">Denis Motte</span> has sent us a plan on 12 A3 sheets, dated April 1995, which gives the length as 1885m. The following description is made up entirely by looking at the survey, and should not be taken as reliable. It is hoped that we will do better after visiting the cave with a view to finding its connections with <span lang="de">Stellerwegh&ouml;hle</span> (<a href="../../smkridge/41.htm">1623/41</a>) and <a href="../../smkridge/144.htm">1623/144</a>. <p>Open shaft descends 5m to first rigging bolt, then short pitch to snow plug. The way out is to the NE, where the survey shows a couple of (inaccessible ?) question marks and a traverse over a pit. Narrow rift continues past another unexplored small passage to the right, and in 20m opens out into a sizeable chamber. The boulder floor drops away to the north (left) and ahead. Up right is a bouldery antechamber with the base of a ramp up SE. A short passage here chokes. <p>20m across the boulder slope, it is possible to descend the slope left into the main part of <b lang="de">Oberpf&auml;lzer Halle</b>, 15m wide and 30m long, now heading west, still descending over boulders. To the right is a 15m rift passage with an inlet. Ahead, the chamber narrows, but large bouldery passage continues with two or three big boulders (over 5m). To SW is a junction marking the start of <b lang="de">Jsartal</b>. Up a steep ramp to the right (NW) is unexplored, whilst left, south, goes directly below the entrance in a passage with a slot in the floor. After 25m is a widening and junction. Right curves round to end below an aven. Left goes quickly to another junction. Right soon chokes in boulders, whilst left ends quickly in an undescended rift pitch. <p>Back at the junction at the start of <span lang="de">Jsartal,</span> the main way SW soon traverses a large hole in the floor, then continues as a small canyon until 50m from the start is a junction in small passage. Right pops out immediately into the side of a ramp rising right (north) to a choke. Down ends in a pitch, which is best reached by the small passage left at the junction. This quickly doglegs and comes out over the pitch on the opposite side from the ramp. The pitch (undescended) is seen to be a widening in a deep floor canyon, which continues as <span lang="de">Jsartal</span> develops into an 8m wide rocky chamber through which the floor trench meanders. <p>After a short way, the trench abruptly ends, and a ramp up above it leads to a junction. Left continues up ramp, but not very far. Right traverses the ramp (another down-section soon ends), then heads west past another blind passage on the right, to break out into a larger passage ahead. Left (south) is the way to <span lang="de">Geburtstagsgang,</span> whilst right (north) eventually leads to the <a href="#fsw"><span lang="de">SchwarzmooskogelEish&ouml;hle</span> connection</a>. <h3 lang="de">Geburtstagsgang</h3> <p>Ascending a low ramp leads past various short side-extensions to <b lang="de">Schafott</b> - apparently a breakthrough point in 1986 ? Beyond this, small passage continues SW, with a mudbank on the left, for almost 50m until it widens out and descends a steep slope towards a floor trench. Left here a further ramp ascends east to a choke. The floor trench continues W, then NW, but would seem to be too narrow. Staying on the north side of the trench and heading NW (right from the point of entry) leads through mud and/or shingle deposits in a small zig-zag passage which meets first a small canyon which doesn't go, and then a T-junction over another canyon. <p>Right ends after ten metres or so, whilst left (west) meets another junction where a further trench comes in from the left (south). This also appears to be too small to follow, but would seem likely to connect with one or both of the trenches seen earlier. Ahead reaches a chamber, with a steep slope down left to yet another trench, but staying high gains the continuation of <span lang="de">Geburtstagsgang</span> continuing small with a narrow floor canyon. This now goes NW for 50m, to a T-junction. Right ends almost immediately, whilst left shortly pops out in bigger passage on a ledge overlooking a small stream. <p>Right in the canyon, 12m away, is bigger passage <span lang="de">(<a href="#gc">Gro&szlig;er Ca&ntilde;on</a>),</span> and the original way to Stellerwegh&ouml;hle, whilst ahead/left goes west, quickly picking up an inlet from the left and dropping 30m in <b lang="de">Ungarn Ca&ntilde;on</b>, a narrow way for 50m, to where exploration ceased. It is not clear, but this may well be a pitch, quite possibly into part of the <span lang="de">Stellerweg</span> system. <h3>To <span lang="de">Stellerwegh&ouml;hle</span></h3> <p>By going right at the start of <span lang="de">Ungarn Ca&ntilde;on,</span> large, bouldery passage is soon met at a T-junction. To the right is an alternative route from the entrance via <a href="#fsw"><span lang="de">Frankenschnellweg</span></a> and <span lang="de">Gro&szlig;er Ca&ntilde;on.</span> This route was found first, but the survey numbering suggests it was surveyed later and I might deduce that this is not the normal way. <p>Left in the bigger passage is over boulders, passing a short passage on the left. A hole in the floor of this appears to connect to <span lang="de">Ungarn Ca&ntilde;on.</span> Ahead, a slit in the floor is traversed (on the right ?) to reach a pair of large boulders. Up right here ends quickly in an unclimbable sediment wall. Continuing west, the trench reappears (now traversed on left) and soon expands to be a large hole in the floor. It is unclear from the survey how this is crossed, but on the far side, it would appear that a pitch of c 35m is descended, over jammed blocks. Rising steeply to the right (north) from (the foot ?) here is an unascended ramp, which seems likely to connect to unsurveyed passages below Roddick's Dive in <a href="../../smkridge/144.htm">1623/144</a>. <p>A continuation WNW from this point would appear to be part of the streamway below the <a href="../../smkridge/41/41.htm#bigpitch">Big Pitch</a> in <span lang="de">Stellerwegh&ouml;hle.</span> This in turn suggests that the 35m or so descent must be in the lower part of this shaft, and the ramp seen to the right starts some way above the foot of the pitch. <h3><a name="fsw"><span lang="de">Frankenschnellweg</span></a> and the way to the <a href="40.htm"><span lang="de">Eish&ouml;hle</span></a></h3> <p>From the junction at the west of <span lang="de">Jsartal,</span> large passage heads north for a short way to a T-junction. Right encounters two floor trenches, the right hand of which soon widens to a 3m deep blind pit. Across this is 25m of rising passage to a choke. Left soon swings round and heads north again, passong another short, blind ascending way on the left. A short section of floor trench is traversed and a short way beyond is <b lang="de">Brotzeitplatz</b>, where a large cross-rift goes a short distance left and right. <p>Ahead is <b lang="de">Frankenschnellweg</b>, a rifty passage with rounded roof, heading north with an initial floor trench. Thirty metres or so from <span lang="de">Brotzeitplatz</span> another cross-rift is met, this time at an angle. This is the start of a slightly mazey area. To the right is narrow for 30m to the edge of a wide shaft, <b lang="de">Regenschacht</b>, 4m deep. By traversing right on the near edge, a small passage is gained which circles all the way round to the far side, then ends in a small aven. <p>Ahead in <span lang="de">Frankenschnellweg,</span> another cross-rift is encountered less than 20m ahead. Right turns sharply back and connects to the <span lang="de">Regenschacht</span> passage about halfway along. Left is too narrow to follow, but lines up with another section of rift in the mazey area. Continuing north in <span lang="de">Frankenschnellweg,</span> the boulder floor changes and a steep slope down leads to the lip of a canyon at <b lang="fr">Puits du Sable</b>. Directly opposite is a short blind ramp up. Right is the way to <a href="#gg"><span lang="fr">Grand Galerie</span></a>, described below, whilst left is the start of <span lang="de">Gro&szlig;er Ca&ntilde;on.</span> <h3><a name="gc"><span lang="de">Gro&szlig;er Ca&ntilde;on</span></a></h3> <p>This is the deep rift reached at the end of <a href="#fsw"><span lang="de">Frankenschnellweg</span></a>, but it is not clear that this is the best way to get to it. Back at the start of the mazey area, the way left (SW) is boulder-floored rift which continues for twenty metres or so until a junction. Ahead chokes, but two ways right soon unite. The left way looks harder - a traverse over a trench, whilst the right way is boulder floored. Beyond the reunion is narrower, with a slot in the floor, and zig-zagging roughly NW, though clearly interrupted by a number of SW-NE joints. One of these can be followed for ten or fifteen metres, where it becomes too narrow, but lined up with a cross-rift in <span lang="de">Frankenschnellweg.</span> <p>After this joint, the next junction is effectively an oxbow on the left, where a bat was found during exploration. Ahead soon reaches the top of the <b lang="de">Gro&szlig;er Ca&ntilde;on</b>, some 40m downstream from the point reached in <span lang="de">Frankenschnellweg.</span> A descent to the bottom at this point is a 30m pitch. Directly across from the point of entry is a ramp up, with various sediment banks, leading to <a href="#sh"><span lang="de">Sophienhalle.</span></a> To the right goes back towards the <span lang="fr">Puits du Sable</span> and <a href="#gg"><span lang="fr">Grand Galerie</span></a> - see below. <p>To the left, <span lang="de">Gro&szlig;er Ca&ntilde;on</span> heads SW in a classic meander, or traversing rift. Give or take a couple of zags, this is straight for almost 100m, at which point it is interrupted by a bouldery chamber of about 10m diameter. Beyond, <span lang="de">Gro&szlig;er Ca&ntilde;on</span> continues S then SW again, getting wider. Boulders hide the trench, and the passage curves west. To the left is the way in via <span lang="de">Geburtstagsgang</span> and on to <span lang="de">Ungarn Ca&ntilde;on.</span> Ahead is the main way into <span lang="de">Stellerweg,</span> described above. It is not clear whether the stream below <span lang="de">Gro&szlig;er Ca&ntilde;on</span> goes on this way, or joins <span lang="de">Ungarn Ca&ntilde;on.</span> <h3><a name="gg"><span lang="fr">Grande Galerie</span></a></h3> <p>Upstream in <span lang="de">Gro&szlig;er Ca&ntilde;on,</span> most easily reached by the <span lang="fr">Puits du Sable,</span> ascending passage heads east, and soon develops into a very wide passage with a deep canyon floor. It looks as if this passage is done at the level of the bottom of the canyon, which leads up, passing an inlet on the right, to a large pool at the foot of <b lang="fr">Puits Madonna</b>. This is ascended to reach a similar level to the point of entry above <span lang="fr">Puits du Sable.</span> The continuation enlarges into <b lang="fr">Grande Galerie</b>, soon attaining impressive dimensions of 15m wide by 20m high. Question marks mark apparently inaccessible passages, two on the right and one on the left. <p>Beyond a couple of impressive boulders, a climb up leads to a smaller continuation. To the right is a hole in the floor with passage beyond, but left is a ramp up which soon rejoins the passage beyond the hole. The way gets bigger again, in passage first explored from <a href="40.htm"><span lang="de">Schwarzmooskogeleish&ouml;hle</span></a>, until after 50m, it ends at the foot of a thirty metre pitch from the other cave. <h3><a name="sh"><span lang="de">Sophienhalle</span></a></h3> <p>On the NW side of <span lang="de">Gro&szlig;er Ca&ntilde;on,</span> directly opposite the entry via the mazey area, or 40m downstream from the entry via <span lang="fr">Puits du Sable,</span> is a ramp up NNW. Right and left are walls of sediment, but the main way suddenly turns right, though still ascending steeply. The ramp eases and becomes more bouldery, now heading NE, suddenly to end at a widening above a deep undescended pit. A climb up on the right of this reaches the top of the far wall, in a large N-S collapse chamber, <b lang="de">Sophienhalle</b>. This shows clear bedding in the walls, and appears to have formed by spalling. Over the boulder floor, another steep wall precedes a ramp down to a choke. Dotted lines suggest a northward continuation, though whether this is above or below the ramp is unclear.Information from <a href="../../others/gscb/index.htm"><span lang="fr">Groupe Sp&eacute;l&eacute;ologique de Clerval - Baume les Dames</span></a>215m to connection below Stellerweg big pitch. p088p088xNils81391363111647m
120891/S +plateau/89.htmSchwa Schacht 89"Middle" plateauNo InfoCUCC 1979 A 25m shaft into a narrow rift of zero lateral extension. c 1630m Plateau
121901/S +plateau/90.htmBr&auml;u Schacht 90Around Top Camp and below Br<42>uning WallNo InfoCUCC 1977 - Team Enthusiast.Rift entrance in scrub leads to a loose, choked rift, 20m deep. 1996 sketch survey says 12.5m deep, 3m long (N-S) and 1.4m wide. West wall of shaft is 1.5m higher than east, and bolt plus red-painted number are at SE corner.CUCC 1996 <20> Wookey.20mp90Surface survey82353353731681mBr&auml;uning Wall pt. 1828: 247&deg;<br> Br&auml;uning Nase: 153&deg;<br> Vorderer Schwarzmooskogel (nipple): 097&deg;<br> Hinterer Schwarzmooskogel: 050&deg;<br> Sch&ouml;nberg: 346&deg;<br>Plateau - below Br&auml;uning Scharte - the large and dramatic breach in the Br&auml;uning Wall.Not located in search, 1989. Found 1996 and surveyed to. From Top Camp follow Br&auml;uning path on slope, about 80m along (from point above waterhole) to where it meets edge of large patch of dwarf pine (c 100m diameter) on a raised limestone shelf. There is another patch of pines on slope to left for c 30m. Entrance is close to corner of big patch, 21m from path. Follow joint through gap in pines about 5m past where limestone step meets path. This is the same joint as CUCC 1996 WK 02, CUCC 1996 WK 03 and 1623/159<br> Surface survey location sketch in not KH 1996 p 3red painted number "90" (1977), 1998 tag "1623 90 CUCC 1977"
122911/S +plateau/91.htmBr&auml;u Schacht 91Around Top Camp and below Br<42>uning WallNo InfoCUCC 1977 - Team Enthusiast.A snow-fed rift in open karren on a fault/joint aligned on 67&#176;. Choked at -20m (or plumb of -14m in 1996 to tiny snow plug).20mp9182472352711652mSch&ouml;nberg 347&#176;, HSK 054&#176;, VSK (nipple) 108&#176;, Br&auml;uning Nase 150&#176;, Br&auml;uning Wall pt. 1828 210&#176;, Br&auml;uning Wall pt. 1835 224&#176;<br>GPS: UTM 33T 0410171 5280908; UTM 33T 0410155 5280976; UTM 33T 0410177 5280894<br> Plateau - below Br&auml;uning Scharte.From Schwarzmoossattel, follow cairned path below the Br&auml;uning Wall, past <a href="../tcamps.htm#topcamp">Top Camp</a> (1988 on). Where this path meets the scree/snow slope from the wall, it turns right, out onto the plateau (this is the main path to Gschwandt-Alm, in frequent use). <p>100m from the right turn is a snow field on the right, with the sound of falling water at its lower edge. This is the entrance to 91. The bolt is at the NE end of the rift. <p><center><a href="others/l/91_93.htm"><img src="others/t/91_93.jpg" width=214 height=155></a><br><b>Entrance 91 looking north towards 93 and Sch&ouml;nberg</b></center>number in red (1977) on small scarp facing south, 1998 tag "1623 91 CUCC 1977"
123922/S +plateau/92.htmBr&auml;u Schacht 92Around Top Camp and below Br<42>uning WallNo InfoCUCC 1977 - Team Enthusiast.Pitch of 15m leads to a boulder thrutch and climbs down. More boulders lead to a final pitch of 30m to a solid choke at -90m.<img alt="grade 1 elevation: 12k gif" width=640 height=900 src="others/92.png">90m1645mPlateau - below Br&auml;uning Scharte. Not located in searches, 1989, 1998.Small, horizontal entrance in deep scrub draughts slightly and leads to an incredibly loose interior.
124931/S +plateau/93.htmBr&auml;u Schacht 93Around Top Camp and below Br<42>uning WallNo InfoCUCC 1977 - Team Enthusiast.Long rift on a joint (strike 246&#176;, dip 70&#176; towards SE) ending in choke at -35m. An adjacent shaft on the same joint but further east is bigger and more obvious, but chokes much nearer the surface. 35mp93Surface survey82485352691650mPlateau - below Br&auml;uning Scharte, north of Kataster <a href="91.htm">91</a>. rom Schwarzmoossattel, follow cairned path below the Br&auml;uning Wall, past <a href="../tcamps.htm#topcamp">Top Camp</a> (1988 on). Where this path meets the scree/snow slope from the wall, it turns right, out onto the plateau (this is the main path to Gschwandt-Alm, in frequent use). <p>100m from the right turn is a snow field on the right, with the sound of falling water at its lower edge. This is the entrance to 91 and from here, 93 is 20m further away from the Br&auml;uning Wall.<center><a href="others/l/91_93.htm"><img src="others/t/91_93.jpg" width=214 height=155></a><br><b>Entrance 91 on left, looking towards 93 and Sch&ouml;nberg</b></center>numbered in red (1977) on scarp facing south, 1998 tag "1623 93 CUCC 1977".(placed in middle of "9")
125941/S +plateau/94.htmBr&auml;u Schacht 94Around Top Camp and below Br<42>uning WallNo InfoCUCC 1977 - Team Enthusiast.A rift on a joint (strike 223&#176;, dip 70&#176; to SE) is a spiralling freeclimb to a choke at -35mp94Surface survey82540352481642m A little north of Kat.93.From <a href="91.htm">91</a> (q.v.), the karren slopes down at 10&#176;. About 50m down the slope on a bearing of 335&#176; is the large open shaft of 94, (visible from <a href="93.htm">93</a>, which is about 20m from 91). <center><a href="others/l/94x93.htm"><img src="others/t/94x93.jpg" width=218 height=160></a><br><b>Entrance 94 in centre, looking towards Sch&ouml;nberg</b></center>tag bolt (middle of "9")
126951/S +br-alm/95.htmBr&auml;u Schacht 95Br<E4>uning Alm and Br<42>uning KunntalNo InfoCUCC 1977 - Team Enthusiast. A 10m climb down to an unpushed and unpromising tube. 1585mSouth of Br<42>uning Alm, near camp 1 (1977) ?
127963/S +br-alm/96.htmBr&auml;u Schacht 96Br<E4>uning Alm and Br<42>uning KunntalNo InfoCUCC 1977 - Team Enthusiast.Open shaft of 15m leads to a descending rift. Next pitch of 25m, then a short climb, 6m pitch and 15m pitch into a chamber where the water sinks. The upper level of a small rift leads to an abandoned passage and a series of increasingly muddy freeclimbs to a final squeeze and 5m pitch into a sordid little sump.<img alt="grade 1 elevation: 13k gif" width=640 height=900 src="96.png">105mc 1600mIn grassy pasture east of Br&auml;uning Alm, next to CUCC's high-level camp of 1977 (<a href="../tcamps.htm#1977camp">camp 1</a>). <img alt="entrance photo - 16k jpeg" width=240 height=360 src="t/s109.jpg">number painted red in 1976, refreshed (probably in orange which elsewhere hasn't lasted well) in 1990.
128974/S/W +plateau/97.htmSchneewindschacht"Middle" plateauNo InfoCUCC 1977 - Team Enthusiast.The entrance is the head of a 10m freeclimbable chimney, followed by a 5m climb into a small chamber. Two ways on from the chamber unite in a tiny crawl under a drip. A thrutch through (about the size of Baptistry in Car Pot) is <b>The Nun's Cunt</b>, which ends abruptly at <b>The Vestry</b>, where SRT gear can be put back on while perched above the pitch which follows. Drops of 15m, 20m and 20m, <b>The Bottomless Abbess</b>, lead to a traverse over a blind pitch of about 10m. <p>The Bottomless Abbess continues with pitches of 15m, 30m, 15m and 15m to a short horizontal section. This breaks out into the side of another shaft where 15m and 10m pitches lead to a more complex area. A short pitch of 6m leads to the <b>Priest's Hole</b> and a gently slanting ramp into a dry, dusty, abandoned phreatic passage. This is interrupted by a large hole in the floor, which would require bolts to cross. <p>Down the hole, the 25m pitch starts unpromisingly, but soon bells out into a magnificent trench passage. Traversing over a gully leads to a series of short climbs and a fine last pitch <b>The Dissolution</b>. Here the water sinks into an impenetrable crack. <p>The entrance draughts strongly, but there is no air movement at the end, the most likely way on being the traverse to reach the continuation of the phreatic level at -190m. Unfortunately, the trip to this point is quite severe, since the crawl would render rescue impractical and the Bottomless Abbess rapidly becomes very wet after rain.grade 1 extended section, JTG, 1977.<br> Surface survey grade 3, 1984, AERW+MM from laser 0/4 at <span lang="de">Wolfh&ouml;hle</span> <p><center><img alt="100 dpi elevation (710x1710) 30k gif" width=710 height=1710 src="others/97.png"></center>265mp97west edge of dolineSurface survey83039358371641mOut on the plateau.Head across for the large erratic boulders near <a href="76.htm">76</a> (aka 106), then away from the col past the open shaft of <a href="105.htm">105</a>, turning left at a gap in the scrub which leads down a bare karren corridor to some dolines. Step across one and cast about for a large one with 97 in red paint.A moderately large doline, usually without snow, has a small triangular opening at the SW end."97" in red paint on doline wall
129981/S +plateau/98.htmPlateau Schacht 98"Middle" plateauNo InfoCUCC 1978 - Team Youth/LaddersAfter top of entrance shaft, it bells out, to land on a lightly boulder-covered floor after 29m. Tight thrutch to one side leads to second pitch of 17m to a flat rock floor with no way on.<a href="../years/1978/log.htm#1978-98-1">Logbook accounts</a>47mc 1630m Out on the plateau somewhat further than <a href="97.htm">97</a>, in a large sloping rockface.A small shaft in a large grike with very sharp rocks at the top
130991/S =plateau/99.htmPlateau Schacht 99"Middle" plateauNo Infop99Surface survey82904358711642m
1311001/S +plateau/100.htmPlateau Schacht 100Around Top Camp and below Br<42>uning WallNo InfoCUCC 1977, Team Youth, and again in 1990 by AERW An east-west rift with two obvious points of descent. The more easterly is about 6m deep and can be seen to end in a chamber. The more westerly is a 15m pitch, with a window communicating with the east hole. At base are boulders and a climb down. A crawl leads to an inlet where water appears and sinks into an impenetrable slot with very sharp rock. 18mp100Surface survey82401355211657mJust beyond the col, on the left. It is, in fact, extremely near Top Camp, virtually on one of the routes to the Schwarzmooskogel areas. red painted number, with 1998 tag "1623 100 CUCC 1977" in centre (M6 stud). <p>This cave was originally only numbered in carbide, so was unmarked for years. It was relocated in 1989, but was not numbered until 1993 since AERW didn't think to carry paint while trying to find old holes. The orange numer was fading and chipped in 1995, so was refreshed in red. The surface survey was to the centre of the middle digit of the number.
1321011/S +main ayesplateau/101.htmPlateau Schacht 101"Nearer" plateau - including holes found on "geologists' walk"No InfoCUCC 1977 - Team Youth (A.Waddington &amp; N.Thorne)Entrance is in a rift orientated 40&deg;-220&deg; and hading about 20&deg;. A 5m climb down leads to a horizontal passage going both ways, north leading out into the face of the scarp (101A). South (down dip) leads to a 4m pitch followed by a small crawl in a scree-floored phreatic tube, leading down dip, at about 30&deg;. This drops via a short climb into a meandering phreatic tube with a tiny stream slot fed by an aven on the left. Progress is by crawling in the roof tube, which goes for about 40m until a window in the right wall leads to the base of an aven. The continuing crawl is too small, while a climb down below the aven (undescended) appears to choke.~12mBr&auml;uning Scharte 218&deg;, Grieskogel 012.5&deg;, Br&auml;uning Nase 194.5&deg;, Lost Rucksack cairn 319&deg; (compass #439258: NPC2)Out on the plateau, near a large north-facing fault scarp on 125-305&deg;. Perhaps best located when looking for Wolfh&ouml;hle (which is nowhere nearby) in the mist (see <a href="../years/1984/log.htm#rescue">1984 logbook</a>). There was an OAV ski-tourers' marker pole due north of the col, from which the entrance is about 50m away on 35&deg;. Unfortunately, the pole was pretty much invisible from the approach route in 1977, and is now rotting on the ground, only visible from a metre away at best. However, the cave was relocated in 1998. It turns out to be very close to the faintly-marked path which leads past <a href="200.htm">Lost Rucksack Cave</a> towards <a href="../newcaves/cu9605.htm">CUCC 1996-05</a>, and is a short way south of <a href="173.htm">1623/173</a>. <p>(GPS: (cliff directly above 101A) GK 5410503 5283483 (FOM 9.2m))extremely faded numbers "101" and "101A" in red on upper and lower entrances. 1998 tag "1623 101 CUCC 1977" on upper entrance, southeast-facing (M6 stud).
133mainentrancep101tag Surface survey to entrance CUCC, 199882908356011633mBr&auml;uning Scharte 218&deg;, Grieskogel 012.5&deg;, Br&auml;uning Nase 194.5&deg;, Lost Rucksack cairn 319&deg; (compass #439258: NPC2)Entrance is in a rift orientated 40&deg;-220&deg; and hading about 20&deg;extremely faded numbers "101" in red. 1998 tag "1623 101 CUCC 1977" southeast-facing (M6 stud).
134alast entrance(GPS: (cliff directly above 101A) GK 5410503 5283483 (FOM 9.2m))extremely faded numbers "101A" in red
135102plateau/102.htmPlateau Schacht 102"Nearer" plateau - including holes found on "geologists' walk"No Info
136103plateau/103.htmPlateau Schacht 103"Nearer" plateau - including holes found on "geologists' walk"No Info
137104plateau/104.htmPlateau Schacht 104"Middle" plateauNo Info
138105plateau/105.htmPlateau Schacht 105"Middle" plateauNo Info
139106Number not allocated (see <a href=\
140107plateau/107.htmGemsh&ouml;hle"Middle" plateauNo Info
141108remote/108.htmSchwa-H&ouml;hle 108Far plateau to Grie<69> Kogel and Augst-EckNo Info
142109smkridge/109.htmSchwa-Schacht 109Caves in the same area - but not yet linkedNo Info
143110remote/110.htmKein Hubschrauber H&ouml;hleFar plateau to Grie<69> Kogel and Augst-EckNo Info
144111plateau/111.htmPlateau Schacht 111"Middle" plateauNo Info
145112plateau/112.htmPlateau Schacht 112"Middle" plateauNo Info
146113smkridge/113.htmSonnenstrahlh&ouml;hleCaves in the same area - but not yet linkedNo Info
147114wilden/114.htmVerlorenschacht 114East of Schwarzmooskogel/Augst-Eck ridge to WildenseeNo Info
148115smkridge/115.htmSchnellzugh&ouml;hleCaves known or expected to link into the Stellerweg - Eish<73>hle and Kaninchenh<6E>hle systemsNo Info
149116noinfo/smkridge/116.htmKleine Eish&ouml;hleCaves in the same area - but not yet linkedNo Info
150117noinfo/smkridge/117.htmStuttgarter-SchachtCaves in the same area - but not yet linkedNo Info
151118noinfo/smkridge/118.htmSchwa-Schacht 118Caves in the same area - but not yet linkedNo Info
152119noinfo/smkridge/119.htmSchwa-Schacht 119Caves in the same area - but not yet linkedNo Info
153120noinfo/smkridge/120.htmSchwa-Schacht 120Caves in the same area - but not yet linkedNo Info
154121-126Numbers 121-126 are allocated to the Germans, but there is no documentation available to suggest that caves have been found for these numbers.No Info
155127noinfo/smkridge/127.htmKleine Firnh&ouml;hleCaves in the same area - but not yet linkedNo Info
156128noinfo/smkridge/128.htmEnttauschungsschachtCaves in the same area - but not yet linkedNo Info
157129noinfo/smkridge/129.htmGro&szlig;e Firnh&ouml;hleCaves in the same area - but not yet linkedNo Info
158130noinfo/smkridge/130.htmC&auml;cilien-SchachtCaves in the same area - but not yet linkedNo Info
159131noinfo/remote/131.htmThomas-Eish&ouml;hleFar plateau to Grie<69> Kogel and Augst-EckNo Info
160132noinfo/remote/132.htmTropfsteinh&ouml;hle am AugsteckFar plateau to Grie<69> Kogel and Augst-EckNo Info
161133noinfo/remote/133.htmUnterstandh&ouml;hleFar plateau to Grie<69> Kogel and Augst-EckNo Info
162134noinfo/wilden/134.htmH&ouml;hlenruine bei der WasserstelleEast of Schwarzmooskogel/Augst-Eck ridge to WildenseeNo Info
163135smkridge/135.htmSchwa Schacht 135Caves in the same area - but not yet linkedNo Info
164136a b c dsmkridge/161/136.htmSteinschlagschachtCaves known or expected to link into the Stellerweg - Eish<73>hle and Kaninchenh<6E>hle systemsNo Info
165137smkridge/137.htmSchwa Schacht 137Caves in the same area - but not yet linkedNo Info
166138smkridge/138.htmSchwa Schacht 138Caves in the same area - but not yet linkedNo Info
167139smkridge/139.htmSchwa Schacht 139Caves in the same area - but not yet linkedNo Info
168140smkridge/140.htmSchwa Schacht 140Caves in the same area - but not yet linkedNo Info
169141smkridge/141.htmSchwa H&ouml;hle 141Caves in the same area - but not yet linkedNo Info
170142smkridge/142.htmSchwa H&ouml;hle 142Caves known or expected to link into the Stellerweg - Eish<73>hle and Kaninchenh<6E>hle systemsNo Info
171143smkridge/143.htmWei&szlig;e Warze Schacht ICaves known or expected to link into the Stellerweg - Eish<73>hle and Kaninchenh<6E>hle systemsNo Info
172144smkridge/144.htmTony's Second H&ouml;hleCaves known or expected to link into the Stellerweg - Eish<73>hle and Kaninchenh<6E>hle systemsNo Info
173145a b cplateau/145.htmWolfh&ouml;hle"Nearer" plateau northeast of the colNo Info
174146smkridge/146.htmTobogganschachtCaves in the same area - but not yet linkedNo Info
175147smkridge/147.htmSchwa H&ouml;hle 147Caves in the same area - but not yet linkedNo Info
176148plateau/148.htmMarilyn Monroe H&ouml;hle"Nearer" plateau northeast of the colNo Info
177149smkridge/149.htmPlateau Schacht 149Caves in the same area - but not yet linkedNo Info
178150smkridge/150.htmSchwa R&ouml;hrh&ouml;hle 150Caves in the same area - but not yet linkedNo Info
179151smkridge/151.htmSchwa H&ouml;hle 151Caves in the same area - but not yet linkedNo Info
180152smkridge/152.htmBananeh&ouml;hleCaves in the same area - but not yet linkedNo Info
181153smkridge/153.htmSchwa Schacht 153Caves in the same area - but not yet linkedNo Info
182154smkridge/154.htmSchwa Schacht 154Caves in the same area - but not yet linkedNo Info
183155smkridge/155.htmUnerforscht Schacht 155Caves in the same area - but not yet linkedNo Info
184156smkridge/156.htmSchwa Schacht 156Caves in the same area - but not yet linkedNo Info
185157smkridge/157.htmSchwa Schacht 157Pirat SchachtCaves in the same area - but not yet linkedNo Info
186158smkridge/158.htmDonner und Blitzen H&ouml;hleCaves in the same area - but not yet linkedNo Info
187159plateau/159.htmWinded HoleAround Top Camp and below Br<42>uning WallNo Info
188160plateau/160.htmPlateau Schacht 160Around Top Camp and below Br<42>uning WallNo Info
189161a b c d e fsmkridge/161/top.htmKaninchenh&ouml;hleCaves known or expected to link into the Stellerweg - Eish<73>hle and Kaninchenh<6E>hle systemsNo Info
190162smkridge/162.htmSchwa H&ouml;hle 162Caves in the same area - but not yet linkedNo Info
191163smkridge/163.htmSchwa H&ouml;hle 163Caves in the same area - but not yet linkedNo Info
192164plateau/164.htmPlateau Schacht 164Around Top Camp and below Br<42>uning WallNo Info
193165smkridge/165.htmSchwa Schacht 165Caves in the same area - but not yet linkedNo Info
194166-170Not CUCC numbersNo Info
19517190/1plateau/171.htmPlateau H&ouml;hle 90/1"Nearer" plateau - including holes found on "geologists' walk"No Info
19617290/2plateau/172.htmPlateau H&ouml;hle 90/2"Nearer" plateau - including holes found on "geologists' walk"No Info
19717390/3plateau/173.htmPlateau Schacht 90/3"Nearer" plateau - including holes found on "geologists' walk"No Info
19817490/4plateau/174.htmPlateau Schacht 90/4"Nearer" plateau - including holes found on "geologists' walk"No Info
19917590/5plateau/175.htmPlateau Schacht 90/5"Nearer" plateau - including holes found on "geologists' walk"No Info
20017690/6plateau/176.htmPlateau Schacht 90/6"Nearer" plateau - including holes found on "geologists' walk"No Info
20117790/7plateau/177.htmTantalus Schacht"Nearer" plateau - including holes found on "geologists' walk"No Info
20217890/8plateau/178.htmPlateau H&ouml;hle 90/8"Nearer" plateau - including holes found on "geologists' walk"No Info
20317990/9plateau/179.htmPlateau Schacht 90/9"Nearer" plateau - including holes found on "geologists' walk"No Info
20418090/10smkridge/180.htmSchwa Schacht 90/10Caves in the same area - but not yet linkedNo Info
20518190/11plateau/181.htmPlateau Schacht 90/11"Nearer" plateau - including holes found on "geologists' walk"No Info
20618290/12plateau/182.htmBovistundpuderzuckerh&ouml;hlePuffball and Icing Sugar CaveAround Top Camp and below Br<42>uning WallNo Info
20718390/13plateau/183.htmElchfalleAround Top Camp and below Br<42>uning WallNo Info
20818490/14plateau/184.htmShirukenAround Top Camp and below Br<42>uning WallNo Info
209185smkridge/185.htmZweijahreentstehungsh&ouml;hleCaves in the same area - but not yet linkedNo Info
210186kratzer/186.htmRosenkavalierh&ouml;hleKratzer valleyNo Info
211187smkridge/187.htmSchwa Schacht 187Caves in the same area - but not yet linkedNo Info
212188a b c dplateau/188.htmSkinrip Durchgange I-VIAround Top Camp and below Br<42>uning WallNo Info
213189plateau/189.htmPlateau Schacht 189Around Top Camp and below Br<42>uning WallNo Info
214190B9plateau/190.htmGlitterstompfB9 now known to be same as 190Around Top Camp and below Br<42>uning WallNo Info
215191smkridge/191.htmSchwa Schacht 191Caves in the same area - but not yet linkedNo Info
216192smkridge/192.htmSchwa Schacht 192Caves in the same area - but not yet linkedNo Info
217193smkridge/193.htmSchwa Schacht 193Caves in the same area - but not yet linkedNo Info
218194smkridge/194.htmSchwa Schacht 194Caves in the same area - but not yet linkedNo Info
219195smkridge/195.htmSchwa Schacht 195Caves in the same area - but not yet linkedNo Info
220196smkridge/196.htmSchwa H&ouml;hle 196Caves in the same area - but not yet linkedNo Info
221197B8, CUCC 1976/B8plateau/197.htmBemoost Tropfen H&ouml;hleMossy Dribble CaveAround Top Camp and below Br<42>uning WallNo Info
222198B11plateau/198.htmFuchsh&ouml;hleAround Top Camp and below Br<42>uning WallNo Info
223199smkridge/199.htmSt&uuml;rzender Felsbrocken H&ouml;hleTumbling Boulder HoleCaves in the same area - but not yet linkedNo Info
224200plateau/200.htmVerlorener Rucksack SchachtLost Rucksack Cave"Nearer" plateau - including holes found on "geologists' walk"No Info
2252011998/01smkridge/201.htmHaftefelle SchachtSki-skin shaftCaves in the same area - but not yet linkedNo Info
226202DominoschachtNo Info
227203SonnenscheinschachtNo Info
228204a b c d e fsmkridge/204/204.shtmlSteinbr&uuml;ckenh&ouml;hleCaves in the same area - but not yet linkedNo Info
229205smkridge/205.htmNordalpenschachtCaves in the same area - but not yet linkedNo Info
230206a b c d e f g7-Eingangsh&ouml;hleNo Info
23120796-WK2, Crapper H&ouml;hleplateau/207.htmPlumpskloh&ouml;hleNo Info
232208a b96-WK3plateau/208.htmQuallenh&ouml;hleNo Info
2332091996WK8 (maybe also CUCC 1996-08)smkridge/209.htmSchistock-AbsturzschachtDropped skipole holeNo Info
2342101998_03plateau/210.htmFettsack und Faulpelz h&ouml;hleLardy Festerers' CaveNo Info
235211?No Info
236212?No Info
237213?No Info
2382142000-03Segment caveNo Info
2392152000-05Rufverbindungsh&ouml;hleNo Info
2402162000-06Nichts 50No Info
2412172000-07Schneepfropfenh&ouml;hleNo Info
2422181996WK6Hammerkopfabsturtzh&ouml;hleNo Info
2432191996WK5TertaeingfesterNo Info
2442202000-04KennedyalternatureNo Info
245221?No Info
2462221996-04G&ouml;sserh&ouml;hleNo Info
2472231996-03EggenbergschachtNo Info
2482241996-02Toplesscayonh&ouml;hle No Info
24922590 ADAMJahrzehnschachtNo Info
2502261999OB03SkaschachtNo Info
2512271999OB04FaultienschachtNo Info
252228?No Info
253229?No Info
2542301999-04Verge&szlig;lichheith&ouml;hleNo Info
255231a b c d e f g h i2000-01smkridge/231/231.shtmlTraungoldh&ouml;hleCaves in the same area - but not yet linkedNo Info
256232smkridge/232/232.shtmlMoostunnelh&ouml;hleCaves in the same area - but not yet linkedNo Info
257233a b csmkridge/233/233.shtmlDreieingangabdrosselnh&ouml;hleCaves in the same area - but not yet linkedNo Info
258234a bsmkridge/234/234.shtmlFlinkameiseschachtCaves in the same area - but not yet linkedNo Info
259235smkridge/235/235.shtmlSchaukelfelsbrockenh&ouml;hleCaves in the same area - but not yet linkedNo Info
260A1kratzer/a1.htmCUCC 1976/A1Kratzer valleyNo Info
261B1kratzer/b1.htmCUCC 1976/B1Kratzer valleyNo Info
262B2kratzer/b2.htmCUCC 1976/B2Kratzer valleyNo Info
263B3kratzer/b3.htmCUCC 1976/B3Kratzer valleyNo Info
264B4kratzer/b4.htmCUCC 1976/B4Kratzer valleyNo Info
265B5kratzer/b5.htmCUCC 1976/B5probably = <a href=\Kratzer valleyNo Info
266B6plateau/b6.htmCUCC 1976/B6Around Top Camp and below Br<42>uning WallNo Info
267B10plateau/b10.htmCUCC 1976/B10Around Top Camp and below Br<42>uning WallNo Info
268LA25remote/la25.htmLUSS/LA25Far plateau to Grie<69> Kogel and Augst-EckNo Info
269LA26remote/la26.htmLUSS/LA26Far plateau to Grie<69> Kogel and Augst-EckNo Info
270LA27remote/la27.htmLUSS/LA27Far plateau to Grie<69> Kogel and Augst-EckNo Info
271LA30remote/la30.htmLUSS/LA30Far plateau to Grie<69> Kogel and Augst-EckNo Info
272LA35remote/la35.htmLUSS/LA35Far plateau to Grie<69> Kogel and Augst-EckNo Info
273LA37remote/la37.htmLUSS/LA37Far plateau to Grie<69> Kogel and Augst-EckNo Info
274LA38remote/la38.htmLUSS/LA38Far plateau to Grie<69> Kogel and Augst-EckNo Info
275LA40remote/la40.htmLUSS/LA40Far plateau to Grie<69> Kogel and Augst-EckNo Info
276BS1-16UBSS finds - no documentationNo Info
277BS17remote/bs17.htmOrganh&ouml;hleFar plateau to Grie<69> Kogel and Augst-EckNo Info
278BS18-nn?UBSS finds - no documentationNo Info
27988HGSCBNo Info
28088AFGSCB - now <a href=\No Info
281VSS188FGSCBNo Info
2821987/02No Info
2831989/01No Info
2841990-15No Info
2851996-01Ski-pole h&ouml;hleNo Info
2861996-05No Info
2871996WK4No Info
2881996-07No Info
2891996WK11No Info
2901996WK12No Info
2911999_OB_01No Info
2921999_OB_02No Info
2931999_MS_01No Info
2941999_MS_02No Info
2951999-10No Info
2962000-09smkridge/2000-09/2000-09.htmHauchh&ouml;hleNo Info
2972001-04Rock'n'Roll H&ouml;hleCaves in the same area - but not yet linkedNo Info
2982001-06Erb&auml;rmlichbaumh&ouml;hleCaves in the same area - but not yet linkedNo Info
2992001-07Hoffnungschacht\Caves in the same area - but not yet linkedNo Info
3002001-08SchneeoberlichtschachtCaves in the same area - but not yet linkedNo Info
3012001-09FunkberaterschachtCaves in the same area - but not yet linkedNo Info
3022001-10Gro&szlig;arbeith&ouml;hleCaves in the same area - but not yet linkedNo Info
3032001-11Schn&uuml;rsenkelschachtCaves in the same area - but not yet linkedNo Info
3042001-12UnnotiggewohnlichkeitschachtCaves in the same area - but not yet linkedNo Info
3052002-01smkridge/2002-01/2002-01.htmArtischockeh&ouml;hleNo Info