1623 / 2023-mg-03 Kalte Salamanderhöhle -

Underground Description

Cold Salamander Cave is formed along an obvious surface weakness going from SW to NE. In 2023 the most south westerly entrance (A), could be down climbed for 2m to a snow pile. This was descended with the aid of a handline into a significant chamber. A few metres to the North East another shaft (B) also entered but with a pitch down to the snow slope. The chamber is deorated with several 4m long icicles and a stationary Salamander.

To the North East of the chamber a bould strewn passage, skirted by ice flows and icicles.

The passage leads to more snow piles, produced from the two north easterly entance pitches (C and D). Carrying on a phreatic tube QM1 can be seen descending and becoming blocked with snow.

Explorers

Martin Green, Janis Huns, Zac Woodford

Wallets: scanned survey notes

There are 1 wallets with data for this cave:
2023#11

Notes

3 of these entrances have stations, but the station *fix p2023-mg-03 in loser/fixedpts/gps/gps23.svx p2023-mg-03 is not any of them (though it is close to 1623.2023-mg-03.9 which is the station at entrance 'c'). [Philip Sargent: I am guessing p2023-mg-03 is actually entrance 'd' since c and d are almost coincident (from the photo) ?]

Entrances

  1. Id letter: 'a' 2023-mg-03a Edit this entrance
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    1623.2023-mg-03.tag 47.69150N 13.81495E (UTM33 411076, 5282693), 1725m (SRTM is +38 m, distance from reference: 15m)
  2. Id letter: 'b' 2023-mg-03b Edit this entrance
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    1623.2023-mg-03.11 47.6915588N 13.8149371E (UTM33 411075, 5282700), 1724m (SRTM is +39m, distance from reference: 19m)
  3. Id letter: 'c' 2023-mg-03c Edit this entrance
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    1623.2023-mg-03.9 47.6916980N 13.8150993E (UTM33 411087, 5282715), 1722m (SRTM is +35m, distance from reference: 29m)
  4. Id letter: 'd' 2023-mg-03d Edit this entrance
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Survex File(s)

All survexfiles for this cave (if any)
Primary survex file for this cave
Download .3d file 1623-2023-mg-03.3d
cave survex path '1623/2023-mg-03/'