1623-323 - Dropping Amphitheater Hoehle

Tue 11 Jul 2023
Honorata Bogusz



The Amphitheater Hoehle is named after its entrance which resembles an amphitheather. There are a couple of meters of an easy climb from the very top to the boulder where we started rigging. Rigging starts with an approx. 5-6m down climb, where we put a handline. It's followed by a traverse (10m ?) above the entrance to the first pitch. We rigged a Y-hang at the end of the traverse.

The first pitch is at least 20m deep and ends on a wide ledge filled with snow. The pitch goes a bit across, resulting in us putting 2 deviations on the way down. Beyond the ledge, there is a short (5m ?) traverse which leads to the second pitch.

We surveyed the cave to the end of that traverse with a few splays directed at the pitch below. Ash bolted the second pitch halfway down while Radost and I were surveying. The second pitch is slabby, drippy, and has ice patches on the sides. A stoney bridge lies underneath the traverse that leads to the second pitch. In total, we surveyed 70m of Amphitheather Hoehle on that trip.

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Survex files on this date:
    caves-1623/290/electric_toothbrush
    caves-1623/290/mudandbrot
    caves-1623/290/niceriftbadsound
    caves-1623/290/getrifty
    caves-1623/323/amphitheatre
    caves-1623/2023-mg-03/2023-mg-03
    caves-1623/310/310
    caves-1626/359/the_sound_of_water
Wallets on this date:
    2023#10 The Sound of Water ['watershed2-plan', 'watershet2-uselessnotes-2', 'watershed2-incavenotes-1', 'w…
    2023#11 2023-mg-02, "2023-mg-03|Salamander Hoehle", "1623-310|2023-MG-04" ['20230mg04notes', '20230mg03notesB', '20230mg03notesA', 'plan_HQ', 'elev', '20…
    2023#13 Amphitheater ['Ampitheatre_2023_09_11']
    2023#16 electric_toothbrush ['electric_toothbrush1-1p', 'Elevation_3[1]', 'Elevation_2[1]', 'Tunnel_elevati…
    2023#18 Redlight ['plan-mudandbrot-wascalled-endofradost', 'Mealy15july', 'end of radost plan', …
    2023#19 redlight ['nice rift bad sound plan', 'plan-nice-rift-bad-sound', 'nice rift bad sound e…
    2023#20 Mircale Maze ['get rifty ee', 'get rifty plan', 'plan-get-rifty']
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    plateau - walk in
    plateau - Garlic and reflectors
    Homecoming - Five and Flying
    1623-323 - Dropping Amphitheater Hoehle
    Homecoming - Watershed
    Fishface - Kresh Konnection exploring and rerigging