# CUCC Expedition Handbook: Rigging

## CUCC Expedition Handbook

# Rigging Pitches in Austria

Although progress is achingly slow, there are some bits of a CUCC-specific rigging chapter for this expedition handbook. So far we have:

- Expedition Handbook: Rigging Guide
  - Introduction
  - Placing Bolts

As this doesn't cover very much, we recommend you look at Sherry Mayo's Rigging for alpine SRT (Beta version). This is aimed at users in Australia, but is based on York and Oxford U.C.C. practices in the Picos de Europa (N.Spain), which is in many ways similar to Austria. If you are reading this page from a local disc or CD (rather than over the net) you may find that there is a local copy of this guide.

It is intended to add rigging guides to the descriptions for each pitch series in CUCC's major caves - these will be graphical, and based on sketch rigging guides currently in various survey and log books. Look for the symbol

Rigging Guide

in the descriptions, for a link. This is the next major long-term upgrade for the website, and has hardly started yet. It is hoped to do the main routes in Kaninchenhöhle which will be needed for the 1999 expedition by early summer. The main routes down from the top entrances will follow as effort permits. To help this along, it is essential that rigging guides are drawn for any new rigging or rerigging each year. Ideally, this should be done by the person who did the rigging the next time he is at Base Camp (or even in the Top Camp log). It's also essential for future years to record any gear left in situ, so that we can keep the Fixed Aids list up to date.

- Expedition Handbook
  - Surveying guide - Overview
  - Prospecting guide – Overview
  - Rescue guide
  - Rigging guide
  - Photography guide
- Index to info/topics pages
- Full Index to area 1623
  - Area/subarea descriptions
- Back to Expedition Intro page
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