News:

System of Hipman's caves - Elena Hipmanova

Mała w Mułowej - 400 * - Anna Antkiewicz

TMa3a w Mu3owej cave (the Czerwone Wierchy massif, the Western Tatra Mts.), which was discovered in Summer 2002, was explored also in spring and autumn 2003. The newly discovered series consists of several squeezes and pitches (one of them is 130 m deep). The new cave bottom is situated at the level of -397 m. The cave is still going.

* - To the time of publishing this paper, this cave was depened to -444.

News from Picos - Marek Jędrzejczak

Cavers from Speleoclub Wroc3aw traditionally explored the so-called Polish zone in the Picos de Europa. The cave D-9, discovered last year, was joined to Sistema del Canalon de los Desvios (new length 4800 m). The newly discovered cave A 38 was joined to Pozu del Porru de la Capilla (new length 1754 m). The "terminal" boulder chock in Pozu del Porru de los Garapozales was passed through. The new surveyed depth of this cave is -432 m, but some unsurveyed passages go down to about -480 m.

Expeditions:

Wonderful summer in the Leoganger Steinberge - Andrzej Ciszewski

A team of 19 cavers (mainly from KrakUw) traditionally led by Andrzej Ciszewski went to Austria to the Leoganger Steinberge massif. They searched for the connection between the highest-lying part of Lamprechtsofen and the caves located in the upper parts of Nebelsbergkar. A very good weather enabled effective exploration. During the expedition more than 3 km of passages were discovered and surveyed. One kilometre more remains unsurveyed. The cave CL-3 was the main goal of the expedition. A newly discovered series of spacious meanders and pitches leads to the terminal sump at the level of -705 m. A complex labyrinth was explored near a passage named Antygaleria. Fortunately, the ice chock in the entrance part of the formerly known cave PL-95/1 at 2388 m a.s.l., was partly melted out. After a very
narrow meander and several pitches, the cavers reached the passage named Galeria Osobliwości in CL-3 cave. Thus, the new depth of the cave is -748 m and its new length is 6,5 km. A small cave with very strong drought was found near Kuchelhorn (2500 m a.s.l.). It was named Krecia (Mole's cave). The cave was pushed down to -350 m and it is still going. At the end of the expedition a spacious pitch was discovered.
It is located at 2473 m a.s.l. The exploration stopped at -90 m in a narrow meander.

30 meters from happiness - Marcin Furtak

Three cavers from Żagań took part in the international expedition to the Kanin massif (Slovenia) in winter 2003. The cave Brezno pod Velbom was one of the main aims of the expedition. The cavers from Żagań from a few years have "collected" deep pitches. They tried earlier twice to descend the entrance pitch to Brezno pod Velbom (-501 m deep), but the high level of ice made it impossible. This time the pitch was open but for the lack of rope the Poles stopped 30 m over the pitch bottom. The very harsh weather made a second attempt impossible.

Salt caves in Romania - Stanisław Kotarba

Exploration:

New caves in Sudetes - Andrzej Wojtoń

Andrzej Wojtoń and Monika Daszkiewicz describe 10 new caves in the Sudetes (Western Poland). Two caves are of karst origin, while eight caves are developed along fissures in granitoids.

Kuźnica cave - Andrzej Górny, Mariusz Szelerewicz

A new cave was surveyed in the northern part of the Kraków-Wieluń Upland. The entrance part of this cave was formerly known as a rock-shelter. Now the cave, named Kuźnica, is 62 m long. The authors surveyed also other caves in the area.

Caves in the Polish Flysch Carpathians - Tomasz Mleczek

Tomasz Mleczek describes new maps of a few pseudokarst caves from the Polish Flysch Carpathians. W Tarnicy cave (the Bieszczady Mts.) is 16 m long. It was situated in Tarnica n the highest mountain of the Bieszczady range. A new length of Zbójecka Jama w Jaworzynie Kamienieckiej (the Gorce Mts.) is 48 m. Up to now, 36 caves have been found in the Gorce range.

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