1623 / 144 Tony's Second Höhle 6/S/T x

Surveys and Rigging Guides

Survey integrated into guidebook description

Underground Description

This is the highest entrance to Stellerweghöhle found by CUCC, and a full description is included in the Stellerweghöhle guidebook description, just an overview is given here.

A predominantly vertical entrance series leads to a level of extensive fossil phreatic development, not fully explored. The main passage, The Yellow Brick Road, leads to the lip of a 25m pitch into a large muddy chamber. From the bottom, a steeply dipping tube is followed down until a canyon is reached from a boulder chamber. Most ways close down quickly from here.

Across the pitch from Yellow Brick Road is a large continuing passage, gained by an obscure and somewhat exposed route in boulders. It soon leads to a bolted climb, but a ramp down below drops to another large passage. Right here, the draught is followed through winding passage until it emerges 20m up in a chamber. Backtracking leads to a squeeze and muddy crawls to the bottom, from where a canyon develops, finally dropping into Stellerweghöhle below the Big Pitch via a 10m chimney.

There are a significant number of unpushed leads in the cave, but all are expected to connect back to already known passage. One may provide a connection to the northernmost reaches of Schwabenschacht (1623/78).

Explorers

CUCC 1983, 1985

Notes

This name is the 1983 provisional name, which was intended to be scrapped. Weiße Warze Höhle II might be better, but this cave really should have a proper name - after all, it was 284m deep before the connection to the main system! It appears in Austrian lists just as Schwarzmooskogelschacht. ARGE call it "Tony's Second Höhle" , so we're probably stuck with the name now.

Entrances

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    Marking
    Paint (?)
    Findability
    Coordinates
    Location
    The Nipple, (aka "Weiße Warze")
    Approach
    1623.p144x is identical to 1623.p144
    Tag Location
    1623.p144x 47.67132N 13.81332E (UTM33 410919, 5280452), 1712m (SRTM is +39 m, distance from reference: 15m)

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Survex File(s)

All survexfiles for this cave (if any)
Primary survex file for this cave
Download .3d file 1623-144.3d
cave survex path '1623/144/'