1623 / 188 a–d Skinrip Durchgange I-VI 1/T +

Surveys and Rigging Guides

It is not yet confirmed, but it seems likely that this is the same cave partially surveyed by Phil Underwood in 1997 entitled 'dodgy compost'.[I can't find any record of this, was it really 1997? - Philip S.]

Underground Description

From memory, the cave consists of two 3m deep surface shafts of diameter two meters, connected by c. 4m of 0.60m diameter horizontal phreas at the bottom. From the shaft nearer the Hinter-SMK the phreas continued for another 5-6m before I ran away as it was getting a bit tight. It could well be skinrip durchgang from the huge description given on the website, and I just never made it as far as the awkward climb. Survey is Grade II.

"and the total bastard pants gravel hypodermic foreskin up-your-thunk... There is a fun system of about six openings all in a line near the camp, all connected by cave, the last of which is very tricky to climb out of and in the middle of bunda."- Julian Todd (of course) logbook 1990-07-24a the description continuous in an invective vein and explains the name of the cave.

 

Explorers

CUCC 1990

References

Expedition 1990 report: list of caves

Notes

"Austria cave systems manual" has scribbled note "this number not CUCC's" so this probably should revert to number CUCC-1990-18?

Entrances

  1. Id letter: 'a' 188a Edit this entrance
    Marking
    Tag
    Findability
    Coordinates
    Location
    GPS of track and photos of tag is 7m west of the survey position "other". The GPS of the tag is now recorded as at Lat/Long. below.
    Approach
    Climb down from col as if going to Homecoming, then head NNW for 100m or so.

            

    Explorers
    CUCC 1990
    Location
    WGS84 Lat.: 47.6798710 N, Long.:13.8054290 E
    Other Station
    1623.p188 47.6798822N 13.8055263E (UTM33 410348, 5281413), 1629m (SRTM is +64m, distance from reference: 17m)
  2. Id letter: 'b' 188b Edit this entrance
    Findability
    Refindable
    Explorers
    CUCC 1990
  3. Id letter: 'c' 188c Edit this entrance
    Findability
    Refindable
    Explorers
    CUCC 1990
  4. Id letter: 'd' 188d Edit this entrance
    Findability
    Refindable
    Explorers
    CUCC 1990

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Survex File(s)

All survexfiles for this cave (if any)