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<title>CUCC 2003 Expedition Goals</title>
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<h2><center>CUCC Austria 2003 - Mission statement</center></h2>
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<p>This summer, Cambridge University Caving Club will be continuing its highly successful series of
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expeditions to the Loser plateau in Austria. This document sets out the principal goals of the 2003
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expedition.</p>
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<h2>Background</h2>
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<p>This summer sees CUCC's 27th expedition to the Loser plateau, which lies in the Totes Gebirge mountains,
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about 80km east of Salzburg. CUCC is the principal group exploring in the area, which continues to yield new
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discoveries.</p>
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<p>The principal known systems in the area are the southern Schwarzmooskogel system, comprising <a
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href="../../smkridge/41/41.htm">Stellerweghöhle</a> itself, the stunningly beautiful <a
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href="../../smkridge/40/cucc.htm">Schwarzmooskogel Eishöhle</a>, and a number of other smaller caves,
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much of which was explored by CUCC in the 70s and early 80s; and <a
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href="../../smkridge/161/top.htm">Kaninchenhöhle</a>, an extremely complex system discovered by CUCC in
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1989 which was the main focus of expeditions between then and 2000.</p>
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<p>For a long period these caves were known to approach each other very closely but a connection between
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them proved elusive. This was finally achieved by a German group last year, bringing the total length of the
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Schwarzmooskogelhöhlensystem to over 50km and its depth to 1030m, placing it in among both the world's
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deepest and longest caves.</p>
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<p> Over the last three years the principal focus of CUCC's work has been <a
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href="../../smkridge/204/204.shtml">Steinbrückenhöhle,</a> a cave lying to the north of the
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furthest known reaches of Kaninchenhöhle. This has quickly yielded over 5.3km of passage reaching a
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depth of 454m. As well as its considerable potential in its own right, it has a number of promising leads
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pointing in the direction of Kaninchenhöhle, in particular the Razordance streamway which is currently
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the deepest known point in the cave and is no more than 300m away from the Fuzzy Logic series in
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Kaninchenhöhle. This area of Kaninchenhöhle has a number of large unexplored leads which will be
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reexamined in more detail now that a connection to Steinbrückenhöhle seems possible.
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One of the deepest caves in the area is <a href="../../plateau/76.htm">Eislufthöhle</a>, which is to
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the southwest of Steinbrückenhöhle. This was actually one of the first caves explored by CUCC on
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the plateau, in 1977-9. Not all the leads were fully explored at the time, and it is intended to return
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there this year and finish off the exploration.
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<h2>Principal Goals for 2003</h2>
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The three main goals will be:
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<li>Completing the exploration of Razordance, at the deepest currently known point of
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Steinbrückenhöhle.
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<li>Continuing the exploration of Gaffered to the Wall, a pitch series explored last summer to a depth of
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220m and showing no sign of stopping
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<li>Reexploring Eislufthöhle.
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There are also a number of other aims. These are not the principal focus of the expedition, more things for
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people to do on rest days or if they are not keen on any of the above. They are detailed on <a href="priorities.html">this page</a>.
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<h2>2003 Expo Committee</h2>
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<ul> <li><b>Leader:</b> David Loeffler (Trinity)</li>
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<li><b>Treasurer:</b> Martin Green (Corpus Christi)</li>
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<li><b>Transport Organiser:</b> Mark Shinwell (Queens')</li>
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<li><b>Sponsorship Organiser:</b> Julia Bradshaw (ExCS)</li>
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</ul>
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<hr />
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<p align="right"><i>David Loeffler - Last updated 28/5/03</i></p> </body> </html>
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