CUCC Expeditions to Austria: 1976 - 2024

After Rob and Kai travered over the top of CMPU the day before, finding a phrease window, Botch, Kai and I got to reap the Horizontal rewards. Starting at the window we took the small phreatic tube on the left of the window.

We went through small tight section after a few meters and Kai exclaimed he had found mamouth bones just like he had dreamt he would. The bones turned out to be bat bones and appeard to be most of a full skeleton. These bones sit beside a rock pillar which has a junction. We choose the left passage again and marked the station with a 5 even though we knew in two legs we would be back for the other option. We were wrong!

The passage opened up to walking hieght rift with some flow stone and crystals in the ceiling. Next we got to a mud floor and a tight squeeze down a mud slope. We popped out into an even bigger rift which appeard to be phreatic at the top.

Traversing foreward we found a 40cm by 15cm diameter stalagtite with crystal like hairs of hellectites growing out of the side. Passage continued with a stream visable in the floor at times. I dropped the survey book. Botch with longer arm removed his helmet and got stuck in and just maganged to retrieve the book. Good, didnt want to redo the last 20 legs.

We got cold and stopped at a junction. The main Riift began to have a mud floor again and ascended upwards for 10m before turning a corner out of sight. On the right there was a small phreatic tube about 0.5m in diameter. At least 3m long unclear if it is promising.

Also there is another small rift on the left earlier on in the passage that I couldn't decided if it was too small to be a lead.