CUCC Expeditions to Austria: 1976 - 2022

Survex File: caves-1623/290/horrorbank

*begin horrorbank ; stations linked into other surveys (or likely to) *export 1 4 ; Cave: 290 ; Area in cave/QM: mourning the moths *title "horror bank" *date 2022.08.05 *team Insts Paul Walko *team Notes Wookey *team Pics Wookey *team Tape Paul Walko *instrument Paul Walko's distoX2 and Wookeys distoX2 ; Calibration: Bad Aussee, by Paul, July 2022, and Wookey in the cave, 5 mins before starting.. *ref 2022#22 ; Centreline data *data normal from to length bearing gradient ignoreall ;This survey started with Topodroid for 1st two legs, then switched to paper ;as topodroid was just too annoying ;legs 2->1 and 2->3 lost by topodroid and fished out of distoX2 later ;they are in wrong order and reversed in notes (added retrospectively with insufficient checking) ;eventually leg 1->2 found in topodroid but doesn't match moth2 survey well ;so left disconnected from start station. *begin *flags duplicate 2 1 3.58 24.5 12.3 ; leg found in topodroid *end 1 . 1.60 276.0 -24.4 1 . 1.01 2.9 -71.4 1 . 2.53 274.6 -8.4 ;possibly splays 2 . 4.71 90.8 76.6 2 . 3.16 291.7 -25.8 2 . 1.73 291.6 3.9 2 3 6.51 216.2 -54.2 3 4 2.81 218.6 -03.1 5 4 3.00 032.8 +38.5 5 6 25.91 142.4 -86.4 7 6 2.36 121.2 +5.6 7 8 2.19 261.5 -16 9 8 6.78 154.4 +65.7 9 10 13.93 345.1 -78.2 *flags duplicate 6 5 25.86 329.1 +86.0 ;----------- ;recorded station details ;RP=red point, PP=pink point, LHW/RHW=Left/Right Hand Wall ;Station Left Right Up Down Description ;1 0 1.73 4.71 1 RP LHW '8' ;2 - - - - RP roof rib ;3 0.9 1.38 6.45 2.19 RP floor rock ;4 1.1 0.4 6.9 1.6 RP pendule ;5 0.4 11.5 - - RP pendule ;6 2 0 - 4.2 PP wall 2m above getoff ;7 0.6 2 - 1.6 PP LHW ;8 0.1 0.7 - - PP LHW ;9 0 2.5 13 0.5 PP near rebelay ;LRUDs arranged into passage tubes *data passage station left right up down 1 0 1.73 4.71 1 ;RP LHW '8' 2 - - - - ;RP roof rib 3 0.9 1.38 6.45 2.19 ;RP floor rock 4 1.1 0.4 6.9 1.6 ;RP pendule 5 0.4 11.5 - - ;RP pendule 0.4m from hang bolt 6 2 0 - 4.2 ;RP wall 2m above getoff 7 0.6 2 - 1.6 ;PP LHW 8 0.1 0.7 - - ;PP LHW 9 0 2.5 13 0.5 ;PP near rebelay ;----------- ;Question Mark List ;Serial number grade(A/B/C/X) nearest-station resolution-station description ;QM1 A horrorbank.5 - QMA on the other side of the bridge which is half way down this pitch. Either require large swing out from exciting pitch or a traverse at top of this pitch to make a new pitch to go down far side of the bridge into a hole. ;QM2 C horrorbank.10 - QMC wet crawl at bottom. Looks aqueous. ;QM3 A horrorbank.5 - QMB windows/passages at SW end of rift, about 12m down, same level as bridge. ;------------ ;Cave description ;(leave commented-out) ; 10m pitch down from very cold windy passage, landing on boulder ; floor, leads to larger pitch of ~30m rigged from RH wall. Loose walls ; on initial descent got it the name 'horrorbank' (it was anticipated to ; be amazing so 'wankbank' was lined up, but then it was all loose and ; scary (and didn't go romping) so the name was adjusted. Drops into ; 3m x 8m rift pitch aligned NE/SW. Pitch split by saddle about 12m ; down. QMA on far side (later explored as 'moths2'). Holes visible at ; SW end of rift at same level (QMB). ; The bottom of the pitch is blind, but 4m up at the northern end is a ; nice ledge/window, easily accessible as it's just where the hang ; comes down. This drops into two ~10m pitches down to where a stream ; disappears into a rather sumpy-looking crawl. It can be followed for ; a few m before you'd have to get soaked to progress further. Not ; _actually_ dead but no-one wants to come here again. There is no wind ; at the bottom of the main pitch or these lower pitches. All the wind ; goes somewhere else. *end horrorbank

underground survey length: 92.93 metres
parent survex file caves-1623/290/290.svx for this cave
survex directory [SvxDir:caves-1623/290]
block horrorbank has parent block 290
block no_name-#358 has parent block horrorbank

2022-08-05 ['horrorbank', '']

Survex files on this date:
    caves-1623/290/horrorbank
Wallets on this date:
    2022#17 Survey superseded by later resurvey (hugtheplug) ['hugtheplug']
    2022#22 horrorbank ['elev2', 'notes2', 'notes1', 'plan', 'elev1']
Logbook trips on this date:
    Fischgesicht - Hug the plug and tasteful noods
    Balkonhöhle - N Pitstop
    290 - WhichCave - Rigging Amelia's Pitch
    Balcony - Happy Campers
    Balkonhöhle - first and last of the 2022 Balkon camps – Part 1a