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< h1 > Expo Festering Guide< / h1 >
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< p > What to do for R& R when burnt out from too much caving, or when
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the weather is simply too hot or too awful to go up to the plateau?< / p >
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< p > Expo members often bring alternative sports equipment, or there are a wide
range of games which don't need any. Try:
< a href = "#abseil" > Abseiling< / a > off the stupidly huge cliff at Grundlsee,
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< a href = "#bier" > Bier drinking< / a > ,
< a href = "#brewery" > Brewery tours< / a > ,
< a href = "#cake" > Cake< / a > ,
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< a href = "#canoe" > Canoeing< / a > , < a href = "#canyonning" > Canyonning< / a > < a href = "#cars" > Car Fixing< / a > ,
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< a href = "#cycle" > Cycling< / a > , < a href = "#dachstein" > Dachstein-climbing< / a > ,
< a href = "#dinghy" > Dinghy floating< / a > ,
< a href = "#dive" > Diving< / a > , < a href = "#kite" > Hang-gliding< / a > ,
< a href = "#fryup" > High-frying< / a > , < a href = "#hydro" > Hydro-speeding< / a > ,
< a href = "#ices" > Ice creams< / a > , < a href = "#mihs" > Mohr-im-Hemd eating< / a > ,
< a href = "#pedalo" > Pedalo Pedalling< / a > , < a href = "#spudhut" > Potato Hut< / a >
festering, < a href = "#radio" > Radio-fettling< / a > ,
< a href = "#rope" > Ropewashing< / a > , < a href = "#salt" > Salt-mining< / a > ,
< a href = "#swim" > Swimming< / a > , < a href = "#fester" > Sunbathing< / a > ,
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< a href = "#yoga" > Yoga< / a > , < a href = "#fester" > Yoga< / a > ,
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< a href = "#sled" > Tobogganing< / a > , < a href = "#tberg" > Trisselwand ascent< / a > ,
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< a href = "#tyrol" > Tyrolean building< / a > , < a href = "#ferrata" > Via-ferrata< / a > , < a href = "#surf" > Windsurfing< / a > ...< / p >
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< dt > < b > < a id = "abseil" > Huge Abseil< / a > < / b > < / dt >
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< dd > Recommended by the local cavers, this 200m almost-a-free-hang cliff
provides mind-bending sport, probably not to be repeated by any of those
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that had a go first time.< / dd >
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< dt > < b > < a id = "bier" > Bier drinking< / a > < / b > < / dt >
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< dd >
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< a href = "../piclinks/phut1.htm" > < img class = "onleft" src = "../tinypix/phut1.jpg" width = "170"
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height="143" alt="" />< / a >
In the "early days" Expo used to drink Reininghaus Bier in the Bar
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Fischer in Altaussee, as we didn't have a good socialising tent (or potato
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hut) to drink the more economic bottled variety. Nowadays, bier comes dead
cheap, in crates, from the supermarket (and the preferred brand is < a
href="http://www.goesser.at/" lang="de-at">Gö sser< / a > ). Expo always
maintains a tally of bottled beers drunk, so that the right people get charged
for it - and so we can report how many metric tons we got through each year.
There is a corresponding Limonade tally.< / dd >
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< dt > < b > < a id = "brewery" > Brewery tour< / a > < / b > < / dt >
< dd >
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< a href = "festering/brewery.html" > < img class = "onright" src = "../tinypix/brewery.jpg" alt = "Brewery" / > < / a >
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< a href = "http://www.goesser.at/" > Gö sser< / a > kindly sponsored us in
2004 and gave us an excellent tour of their brewery at Gö ss, just outside
Leoben (two hours' drive from Base Camp; accessible on the train too).
< a href = "festering/brewery.html" > See the pictures< / a > .< / dd >
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< hr >
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< dt > < b > < a id = "cake" > Cake< / a > < / b >
< / dt > < dd > Austrians do pretty good cakes for pigging out on calorie-restoration
days when veggie-slop just isn't enough. It's best to point and say "Ein
stuck bitte" rather than try to ask for exactly what you want. One person's
mega-sticky-chocolate-cake arrived as a cup of cocoa through trying to be
too clever.< / dd >
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< dt > < b > < a id = "canoe" > Canoeing< / a > < / b >
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< / dt > < dd >
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height="143" alt="" />< / a >
on the lake is a pleasant way to cool off for all and sundry. There are also
white water rivers, from the easy (ie. they need a bit of rain) to the
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"sporting" delights of the Traun from Bad Aussee to Hallstatt - in a deep
valley nowhere near an escape route. This was first done by Vic Brown (6th in
women's K1 slalom at the 1972 Olympics) with an assortment of exCS "Victims".
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More relaxing is to paddle from Grundlsee back to < a
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href="bcamps.html">base camp< / a > , but watch out for Hilde's weir (see picture).
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< / dd >
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< dt > < b > < a id = "canyonning" > Canyoning< / a > < / b > < / dt >
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< dd > < p > Austria has some fine canyons but they tend to be pretty cold so find a wetsuit that fits. Strubklamm and Grabenbach are the two that have been done several times by expoers.< / p > < p > Strubklamm is great fun and can be entirely jumped, although most people will want to abseil at least a couple of the pitches. It's suitable for novice caver-canyoners. There is a long swimming canal at the end so can be cold, especially with the usual cast of thousands. It's quite a long drive as it's nearly all the way back to Salzburg.
< img class = "onleft" src = "https://expo.survex.com/expofiles/photos/2023/canyoning-grabenbach.webp" width = "128" height = "152" alt = "Grabenbach topo" / >
< a href = "https://www.descente-canyon.com/canyoning/canyon/21833/Strubklamm.html" > Descent-canyon info< / a > .< / p >
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< p > Grabenbach is much closer (Bad Goisern) but more pitchy and technical.< a href = "../logbookentry/2003-07-30/2003_s29" > writeup here< / a > . < a href = "https://www.descente-canyon.com/canyoning/canyon/21824/Grabenbach.html" > Descent-canyon info< / a > .
< a href = "https://canyon.carto.net/cwiki/bin/view/Canyons/StrubklammCanyon.html" > Strubklamm Canyon topo.< / a >
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< hr >
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< dt > < b > < a id = "cars" > Car-fixing< / a > < / b >
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< / dt > < dd > Owing to being mainly impoverished students, expo has an annual crop of
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shit cars which limp across Europe with unfeasably large loads and equally
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crap trailers, which provides for
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< a href = "../years/1995/log.htm#trailerepic" > epic< / a > travel. This usually
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results in at least one car being fettled at any time during expo, which
provides relaxing spectator sport for everyone else in
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< a href = "bcamps.htm" > base camp< / a > at the time. One chariot which was more
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reliable than most, until its eventual demise through old age and several
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visits to Austria was Rover Richardson (middle pic, below),
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who had the distinction of being older than his owner. For an account
of amazing persistence in the face of crap transport read
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"< a href = "../years/1991/driver.htm" > How (not) to drive round Europe< / a > "
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from CU 1992. This tale involves a Citroen van and a Volvo, also depicted below.
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< td > < a href = "../piclinks/trailr.htm" >
< img width = "170" height = "143" src = "../tinypix/trailr.jpg" alt = "" / > < / a > < / td >
< td > < a href = "../piclinks/rover.htm" >
< img src = "../tinypix/rover.jpg" width = "140" height = "116" alt = "" / > < / a > < / td >
< td > < a href = "../piclinks/wkmob.htm" >
< img src = "../tinypix/wkmob.jpg" width = "140" height = "111" alt = "" / > < / a > < / td >
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< td > The trailer responsible for the 1995 epic< / td >
< td > Rover Richardson< / td >
< td > Wookmobile II looking a bit the worse for wear< / td >
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< hr >
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< dt > < b > < a id = "cycle" > Cycling< / a > < / b >
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< / dt > < dd > Far more people seem to travel by bike in Austria than in the UK despite
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the obvious disadvantages of (a) ridiculous heat or (b) it pissing buckets
and (c) it's < b > very< / b > hilly. However, cycling < b > down< / b > the
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< a href = "tollrd.html" > toll road< / a > is very pleasant, or can be very exciting,
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depending on whether or not you are trying to break the club record of under
ten minutes or it is (again) pissing buckets. Most people foolish enough to
do it at all, only cycle < b > up< / b > the toll road < b > once< / b > (but there are
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exceptions, even to this rule).< / dd >
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< hr >
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< dt > < b > < a id = "dachstein" > Dachstein climbing< / a > < / b >
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< / dt > < dd >
< img class = "onleft" src = "../tinypix/dbahn.jpg" width = "128" height = "152" alt = "Dachstein Seilbahn" / >
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< img src = "../tinypix/dachx.jpg" width = "145" height = "285" alt = "" / >
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< p class = "caption" > Dave Brindle tops out in cloud< / p >
< / div >
< p > This is the fine peak with glacier visible from the
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< a href = "tollrd.html" > toll road< / a > on a clear day. Although the postcards
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would have you believe it is a 3k peak, this is really only 2994m, not that
this detracts from a fine day out. One look at the "via ferrata" up the
south-facing cliff is enough to convince everyone of the wisdom of investing
in a seilbahn ticket up to the glacier, where summer skiing is possible if
you are early enough. The climb itself is fun, and well-equipped with great
reinforcing bar handholds everywhere, which probably explains the drongo
density - a helmet or a suitable turn of speed are advised to avoid
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stone-fall.< / p >
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< p > The round trip up the eastern ridge VF, down the western side VF, down the glacier (if there is still any left) and back over the Steiner Scharte is one of the world's finest day-walks. < a href = "../logbookentry/2000-08-15/2000_s51" > In the right conditions (warm and sunny) you don't even need crampons or ropes, just cowstails< / a > , but taking some in case of poor conditions remains smart.
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< p > It can be done in a day < a href = "../years/1990/log.htm#dachstein" > on
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foot from Hallstatt< / a > , but only if you are < b > very< / b > fit.< / p > < / dd >
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< hr >
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< dt > < b > < a id = "dinghy" > Dinghy floating< / a > < / b >
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< / dt > < dd > < img class = "onleft" src = "../tinypix/dinghy.jpg" width = "225" height = "201" alt = "Inflatable dinghy" / >
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One of a plethora of festering activities centred around the conveniently
nearby, but out of earshot of the campsite, lake (Grundlsee). Parking has
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become a problem if you have too much gear, but an inflatable dinghy is one of
the most easily carried bits of kit, thus avoiding the parking meters. < / dd >
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< hr >
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< dt > < b > < a id = "dive" > Diving< / a > < / b >
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< / dt > < dd > There is not much scope for cave diving in CUCC's caves, though some has
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been done in nearby resurgences. However, for relaxing by the lake, a set of
scuba gear and wetsuit or Michelin-man drysuit are ideal. The water is clear,
and in Grundlsee lies an underwater habitat which is fun to visit, and an old
lorry which is "verboten".
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< a href = "../years/1989/log.htm#id1989-dive-1" > Diving in Altausseer See< / a >
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revealed not the hoped for resurgence, but a few bits of 50's vintage human
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remains. Still it got us a go in the Feuerwehr's big red rescue boat :-)< / dd >
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< hr >
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< dt > < b > < a id = "kite" > Hang-gliding< / a > < / b >
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< / dt > < dd > < img class = "onright" src = "../tinypix/julian.jpg" width = "170" height = "143" alt = "" / >
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Not for the complete beginner is the mind-bending takeoff from a ramp at the
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top of the < a href = "tollrd.html" > Toll-road< / a > . On early expos, everyone
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thought that this was only for loonies, but now a small contingent of
C.U.Hang-gliding Club have shown that it is even possible to land in a tree
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and survive.< / dd >
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< hr >
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< dt > < b > < a id = "fryup" > High-frying< / a > < / b >
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< / dt > < dd >
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< a href = "../images/chips.jpg" >
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< img class = "onleft" width = "160" height = "128"
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src="../tinypix/chips.jpg" alt="High-frying chips" />
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< / a >
This is a sort of Russian-roulette with the base
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camp barbecue. A large Dutch Oven is filled far too full with oil, perched on
the swinging barbecue above a large open fire and used to fry chips (at which
point it almost overflows onto said fire). A swinging barbecue is ideal for
getting lumps of meat off without getting burnt, but less than perfect when
the victim is set the task of getting a large hot pan of chips off. Needless
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to say, we survived....< / dd >
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< hr >
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< dt > < b > < a id = "hydro" > Hydro-speeding< / a > < / b >
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< / dt > < dd > Ideally, this means body-surfing down a river with a flat thing to
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ride on to protect chest and arms from rocks, and with fins (flippers
to you) to give some degree of control. Needless to say, CUCC's version
involved a body board or an inner tube on the river from Grundlsee down
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to base camp. "Reasonable" water levels are required, and getting out
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to walk round the weir is strongly recommended. < i > "Interesting to find out
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how wet it can get before you hurt yourself or drown"< / i > (Wookey).< / dd >
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< hr >
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< dt > < b > < a id = "ices" > Ice creams< / a > < / b >
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< / dt > < dd > Austrians do ice creams every bit as good as their sticky cakes - and
with the advantage of Schlagobers to appeal to the calorifically-challenged.< / dd >
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< hr >
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< dt > < b > < a id = "mihs" > Mohr-im-Hemd< / a > < / b >
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< / dt > < dd > No, not the < a href = "../1623/161/offffr.htm#mihemd" > passage< / a > in
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Kaninchenhö hle, but the death-by-chocolate pudding which it was named
after. The first challenge is to persuade the other attendees at the expo
dinner to pay for the game if you win. The second challenge is to eat ten of
these delicacies and not throw up for at least five minutes.
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It has been done :-)< / dd >
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< hr >
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< dt > < b > < a id = "pedalo" > Pedalo pedalling< / a > < / b >
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< / dt > < dd > < img class = "onleft" src = "../tinypix/pedalo.jpg" width = "221" height = "161" alt = "Pedalo pic" / >
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Used to occur from Fritz's jetty when < a href = "bcamps.htm" > base camp< / a > was
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at Altaussee, but is now more likely to be an excuse for a trip to Hallstatt,
where there is also a handy gear shop and a < a href = "#dive" > diving< / a > school
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to get bottles filled.< / dd >
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< hr >
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< dt > < b > < a id = "spudhut" > Potato Hut< / a > festering< / b >
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< / dt > < dd >
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< img class = "onright" src = "../tinypix/phut94.jpg" width = "205" height = "147" alt = "A merry evening in the Potato Hut" / >
< img class = "onleft" src = "../tinypix/bc94.jpg" width = "137" height = "109" alt = "Base Camp mess tent in the rain, 1994" / >
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(See also < a href = "#bier" > Bier Drinking< / a > .) Festering in the evenings, or
daytime in the rain, generally takes place in Hilde's "Potato Hut", so called
because it is the meeting place of the "Potato Club". This august local
organisation exists mainly to drink potato-derived alcohol, and engage in
curling on Hilde's ice - more usually a lake at the time of year of our
visit.< / dd >
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< hr >
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< dt > < b > < a id = "radio" > Radio-fettling< / a > < / b >
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< / dt > < dd > Ever since we had a set of really excellent communications equipment
on evaluation from Philips in 1990, until the advent of mobile phones on expo
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1999, expo hankered after a working set of CB-type radios. Top Camp to Base
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Camp is not line of sight, and thus needed a repeater, which (a) didn't work or
(b) worked all the time and flattened its battery or (c) cut in and out
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continuously during use or, very rarely, (d) worked perfectly. The temptation
to 'improve' it during time (d) resulted in hours being spent fettling it in
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states (a) to (c). For better (probably) or worse, this activity is now pretty
much a thing of the past, owing to the advent of < a
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href="comms/phone.html">mobile phones< / a > .< / dd >
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< hr >
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< dt > < b > < a id = "rope" > Ropewashing< / a > < / b >
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< / dt > < dd > < img class = "onright" src = "../tinypix/washit.jpg" width = "161" height = "192"
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alt="Ropewashing" />
OK, I admit, this is really caving, but it happens at < a
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href="bcamps.htm">base camp< / a > and is refreshing if it's hot. However, it can
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be a bit epic in the river if it is in flood, in which case a < a
href="#tyrol">Tyrolean traverse< / a > over the river is a sporting game.
< / dd >
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< hr >
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< dt > < b > < a id = "salt" > Salt-mining< / a > < / b >
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< / dt > < dd > There are Salt Mines at both Hallstatt and Altaussee which are worth a
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visit. The latter were used as a stash for huge amounts of stolen art
treasures by the Nazis, a fact that they keep strangely quiet about, given
that it was the brave action of one of the local workers which saved them
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from being dynamited.< / dd >
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< hr >
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< dt > < b > < a id = "swim" > Swimming< / a > < / b >
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< / dt > < dd > Either in the river behind the Staud'nwirt or in one of the lakes, where
the top metre or so gets quite warm in hot weather.< / dd >
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< hr >
< dt > < b > < a id = "yoga" > Yoga< / a > < / b >
< / dt > < a href = "i/yoga2023.jpg" > < img class = "onleft" src = "i/yoga2023.jpg" width = "201"
alt="yoga: Maddie, Merryn, Buck" />< / a > < dd > Depending on the enthusiasm, skill and training of other expoers, informal yoga classes
may be available. Very good for untwisting after caving or sleeping on a lumpy mat. < / dd >
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< hr >
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< dt > < b > < a id = "fester" > Sunbathing< / a > < / b >
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< / dt > < dd > < a href = "../tinypix/tcdoze.jpg" > < img class = "onleft" src = "../tinypix/tcdoze.jpg" width = "201" height = "123"
alt="Sunbathing" />< / a > Can be done almost anywhere, when it doesn't piss down -
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but usually combined with other activities at the side of the lake. However,
more rays can be picked up at Top Camp in the unusual event of good weather and
not caving.< / dd >
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< hr >
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< dt > < b > < a id = "sled" > Tobogganing< / a > < / b >
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< / dt > < dd > < a href = "../piclinks/tobog.htm" > < img class = "onright" src = "../tinypix/tobog.jpg" width = "143"
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height="170" alt="Tobogganing" />< / a >
There is a dry (metal trough) toboggan run worth a visit near Bad Ischl. Wear
long sleeves and trousers if you value your skin - doing so enables you to
dispense with the brakes entirely.< / dd >
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< hr >
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< dt > < b > < a id = "tberg" > Trisselwand ascent< / a > < / b >
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< / dt > < dd > < a href = "../images/twand.jpg" > < img class = "onleft" src = "../tinypix/twand.jpg"
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alt="" width="300" height="200" />< / a > Of six expo attempts, four have
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succeeded - in < a href = "../years/1984/twand.htm" > 1984< / a > and < a
href="../years/1990/log.htm#trissel">1990< / a > , and < a
href="../years/2007/logbook.html#t2007-07-29A">2007< / a > , and
2011< href = " . . / years / 20011 / logbook . html # trissel " > .
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An earlier attempt was thwarted by
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a wasps' nest, and the < a href = "../years/1992/log.htm#trissel" > 1992 attempt< / a >
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made the error of retreating from high up in what turned out to be quite an
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epic in a thunderstorm.< / dd >
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< dt > < b > < a id = "tyrol" > Tyrolean traverse< / a > < / b >
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< / dt > < dd > Has occurred towards the end of expo when large amounts of gear,
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particularly rope and pulleys, ends up down by the river for
< a href = "#rope" > ropewashing< / a > . If the river really is too epic to stand in,
a tyrolean traverse from Hilde's to some trees opposite can provide an
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awesome sense of exposure and not a little danger !< / dd >
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< hr >
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< dt > < b > < a id = "ferrata" > Via-ferrata< / a > < / b >
< / dt > < dd > Expo 2007 found that a new via-ferrata had been put up on Loser, starting
slightly above the level of the Loser Hut, about 60m along from the entrance to
LoserHö hle. It is short and steep, and has proved exceedingly popular with expo-goers
as a diversion of a couple of hours on the way up to the plateau. Others in the area have
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also been ticked off - including a couple of very long ones on the < a href = "../logbookentry/2007-08-07/2007_s81" > Dachstein Sudwand< / a > .< p > There are 3 nice VFs on Predigstuhl, above Bad Goisern. Can be done as a round trip.< / p > < / dd >
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< hr >
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< dt > < b > < a id = "surf" > Windsurfing< / a > < / b >
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< / dt > < dd > Yet another lakeside activity - this one really is easiest if there is
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some wind, but as long as this is not too strong, it's a good game for total
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beginners (unlike < a href = "#kite" > Hang-gliding< / a > , for example).< / dd >
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< / dl >
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< li > Back to < a href = "index.htm" > Expo Intro< / a > < / li >
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< li > < b > Pictures:< / b >
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