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<h1>Expo 2023</h1>
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<h2>2023 Mission Statement</h2>
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<h4>Caving targets 2023</h4>
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<p>To be written...
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<p><em>Updated: 15 October 2022</em>
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<h2>2022 - last year's Mission Statement</h2>
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<h4>Caving targets 2022</h4>
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<p>This year's aims are to continue pushing leads from <a href="/1623/264/264.html">Balkonhöhle</a>,
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<a href="/1623/290/290.html">Fischgesicht</a> and maybe <a href="/1626/359/359.html">Homecoming</a>. <br /><br />
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<img src="/expofiles/location_maps/20210402_overview.jpg" style="margins: 10px">
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<br><i>Overview - <a href="/1626/359/359.html">Homecoming Hole (359)</a>,
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<a href="/1623/258/258.html">Tunnocks (258)</a> and <a href="/1623/264/264.html">Balkonhöhle (264)</a> - credit Nat Dalton</i>
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<p><b><a href="/1623/264/264.html">Balkonhöhle (264)</a>:</b> many promising leads at multiple levels, allowing for
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meaningful exploration to be done by cavers of varying abilities. Medusa's Maze is a particularly exciting lead taking
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the SMK system into an area not traditionally explored by this expedition. Additionally, the system connects the
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previously explored Tunnocks system at convenient points (on the right of the map above) to push leads remaining there,
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allowing us to explore unfinished areas of Tunnocks without rigging the previous route, which was flood-prone. Big Lad
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chamber is in <a href="/1623/264/264.html">Balkonhöhle</a> is much deeper than the nearer parts of 359 and
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290.
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<p><b><a href="/1623/290/290.html">Fischgesicht (290)</a>:</b> The entrance was blocked by snow in 2019 and could not be
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excavated. Leads from 2018 are still yet to be explored including a 20x20 m large phreatic tunnel with strong draught
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leading in direction of the rest of SMK left unexplored at the opposite side of a 40 m pitch. It is also likely to
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connect to another significant find from 2017, <a href="/1623/291/291">Glucklich Schmetterlingerhöhle</a> ('Happy
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Butterfly Cave'; 291,), adding length to the system.
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<p><b>Second Camp:</b> An objective for this year is to establish a second top camp known as "Garlic Cave" (not marked on these maps), which is
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located further west than Stone bridge (Steinbrücke 204), as a base for those exploring Homecoming Hole and Fischgesicht.
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<p><b><a href="/1626/359/359.html">Homecoming Hole (359)</a>:</b> discovered in 2018 at the western extent of our
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current area. This is planned to be the focus of further expeditions, but if resources allow this cave will be pushed in
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2022.
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<p>The <a href="/expofiles/location_maps/20210402_overview.jpg">overview Schwartzmooskögl (SMK) system map</a> (above)
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shows where 359 and 290 are in relation to Steinbrückenhöhle top camp (204), Balkonhöhle entrance
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(264), Tunnoschacht (258) and the Loser Alm road-head restaurant and carpark.
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<p><b><a href="/handbook/tcamps.html#204">Top camp bivouac</a></b> site is at Steinbrücke (204).
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<p>See the <a href="/expofiles/location_maps/20210403_northernCaves.jpg">zoomed-in 258/264 area</a> showing the
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discovery history as well as the depth; and showing where Medusa's Maze is, NE of Big Lad. SMK has over 120 km of
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passages, nearly all originally explored by CUCC Expo.
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<img src="/expofiles/location_maps/20210402_westernCaves.jpg" style="margins: 10px">
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<br><i>Western area - <a href="/1626/359/359.html">Homecoming Hole (359)</a>,
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<a href="/1623/290/290.html">Fischgesicht (290)</a> and <a href="/1623/291/291">Happy Butterfly (291)</a> - credit Nat Dalton</i>
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<p>[The small cave due north of 290 and 291 on the map is <a href="/1623/110.htm">No Helicopter Hole (110)</a>. ]
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<p>The grid coordinates are UTM 33N - see Austrian kataster <a href="/handbook/survey/lasers.htm">G&K</a>.
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<p><em>Updated: 21 March 2022</em>
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