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of Katowice (Upper Silesia, Poland). Grutredhöhlensystem -823 m and Koboldschacht -677 m were discovered. The exploration of the second one was not finished then. In fact it was very difficult due to long, narrow and therefore exhausting meanders, which were split by deep vertical pitches. The exploration in this cave was undertaken once again by Sekcja Grotolazow Wroclaw (Lower Silesia, Poland) in August 1995. Twenty people participated in this expedition. The bivouac in the cave was set up at the bottom of 100 m deep pitch - Koboldhaus at -600 m level. It was fully supplied after two weeks of painful transports. This shows the scale of the problem. We started to explore a side, horizontal corridor - quite roomy and comfortable according to the standards of this cave. It was called Elephant-Run Yard. In the middle of this passage we climbed up a rapid R14 and entered a next passage, which continued to the south. It was almost horizontal and from time to time it was crossed by vertical pitches with showers of water. Pitches were too narrow at their bottoms to allow any further progress. We had to move on along the horizontal passage (Moria). The air flow was our guide. We moved over 400 m towards south and passed underground the main ridge of the massif. We stopped the exploration, because the supplies on the bivouac were exhausted. Simultaneously we were checking several entrances on the surface. In one of them, numbered W7, we were very successful. We had to remove a big boulder at - 20 m by pulley system. And there was a sequence of vertical pits. We arrived at -550 without any major obstacle and the cave did not finish. It was called Ogrschacht. The expedition planned for 1996 seemed to be very exciting. When the plans were drawn it seemed that a connection with Mndhöhle was quite possible. The entrance of this second cave was placed some 100 m higher. It has not been explored since 70's, because of an ice choke at the entrance. Therefore Ogrschacht was to be the main target. Only 8 people took part in this expedition due to difficulties with the permission from the Austrian authorities. At the beginning of the expedition, while the cave was still being rigged we checked side pitches at -400 m level. The progress there was not very promising and we abandoned these problems. Further investigation after the expedition proved, that this area was the closest to Mondhöhle. Our mistake was that all planes had not been prepared accurately enough before the expedition. The bivouac was set at -580 m at the bottom of Ogr's Bath P72. The sequence of pitches ended there. The bottom was filled with boulders. We managed to descent between them to the present deepest point in the cave - 614 m. There the space became too narrow to progress any further. Then we started to explore a slope which started upwards from bivouac. After 40 m high climb we entered a horizontal, dry passage which went due to the east. The main obstacle in progression was the narrowness, in places where the floor of dry mud was close to the ceiling. We had to dig through. A strong air flow indicated large spaces beyond. We made seven such "digthrough". The most exhausting was the third one. It required 14 hours of work. In the Hall Beyond 7 "Dig-through" the passage became broad once again. We climbed an overhanging rapid R12 and stopped over two pitches. When we drew the new corridors on the plan, it turned out that we were closer and closer to the other cave - Koboldschacht. We were 200 m above the southern horizontal passage (Moria) discovered in 1995. The horizontal difference was 100 m. We prepared for the last bivouac during this expedition. The connection seemed to be very easy. We would descend those pits and arrive in Moria. After a painful transport of equipment through the dig points we explored both of them. The left one ended after 30 meters, the right one went into too narrow meander, which headed after all in the wrong direction. Would this expedition be in vain? In the last moment we managed to get through the narrow fissure in the middle of the corridor. After a dozen of meters we entered a meander which looked very similar to the formations found in Koboldschacht. But at least it was much broader. We were astonished, that it went up towards Koboldschacht (eastwards). During this last assault we were not prepared to climb and did not have enough time to transport necessary equipment. So we had to give up in the front of the next difficult rapid. This would be the problem for the next expedition. The eastern part of the Göll massif seems to be promising once again. Three deep caves are placed close to each other - just under the main ridge. The connection would make a system over 900 m deep. And there would still be a possibility to explore at the bottom - in Koboldschacht. Thanks to the connection to Ogrschacht the route to this point would be much easier. The horrible meanders in the main part of Koboldschacht would be bypassed.

PS You can read more (and see pictures) from this expeditions on Epimenides Cave Page: Goll '95, Goll '96 & Goll '97, Ost Goll - Map, click for bigger one

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