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The
Tennengebirge - 1997-2000
July 1997
a team of seven cavers (R. Kondratowicz - leader, M. Furtak, R. ¦wi±tek,
D. Oleksy, T. Ku¼nicki, F. Krakem - all from Speleoklub Bobry ¯agañ and
M. Francuz from Speleoklub Warszawski), laden with hope of making the
cave deeper, took out to the Tennengebirge. The greatest expectations
were related with a "big black hole" at -930 m. The cave was rigged in
a couple of actions. Unfortunately, this "a couple of actions" took 13
days. Never ending rain, snow and hail obstructed our work. During one
of the actions, on 1st of August, M. Francuz and D. Oleksy were cut off
by high water at - 820 m. At the same time R. ¦wi±tek and M. Furtak had
a similar problem in our substitute target - Czerwony Paj±k (P-19) in
the very tight Meander Topielców at - 200. Our expedition time was running
out and we did not get yet to the main exploration goal. In the last attempt
a team of two - T. Ku¼nicki and M. Furtak - made a traverse 15 m above
the bottom of the Piast shaft and reached Mostek Kapitañski, a place reached
earlier by M. Francuz and D. Oleksy who were forced to withdraw because
of a bolt driver failure.
Furtak and Ku¼nicki explored about 200 m of descending muddy galleries
and small shafts (10 Stycznia Series) reaching the depth of 1021 m. The
cave was deepened, but our satisfaction was not full. Moreover, a couple
of leads remained not checked higher in the cave. The bad weather hindered
the fulfilment of all our goals; even for derigging we had only 20 hours
left.
A year
later another expedition headed to the Tennen. The goals were the same
as in 1997, namely Bleikogelhöhle (P-35) and Czerwony Paj±k (P-19). We
started with Bleikogelhöhle, but several days of continuous work did not
bring the expected outcome, so after completing missing surveys and doing
some photographs we have moved with all our force to Czerwony Paj±k. This
cave lies at the feet of Klein Grisskogel and the entrance is at altitude
of 1750 m. Theoretically, P-19 may attain 1,000 m of depth, as the resurgences
Tricklfall and Dachserfall lie at altitude of 700 m. Moreover, several
unexplored entrances are known on the "Small Grisskogel", while
on the nearby "Big Grisskogel", at altitude of 1950 m lies cave
P-13 with a big entrance. Though leading to a snow chock after 20 metres,
it also has a side gallery where, like Cerberus, a huge choked boulder
guards the passage. 
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Entrance to P-35 cave, ph.
Rajmund Kondratowicz
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Speleoklub
"Bobry" ¯agañ has centred its exploration in the Tennengebirge-Ost massif in
the Salzburg Alps. It is in this area that the club from ¯agañ explored two
caves deeper than 1000 m: Meanderhöhle 
