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@ -19,20 +19,21 @@ lang="de-at">Salzburg).</span> The current main projects are:</p>
<dt><span lang="de-at">Steinbr&uuml;ckenh&ouml;hle</span></dt>
<dd>the most major cave in the area <em>not</em> to have been connected to the
master <span lang="de-at">Schwarzmooskogel</span> system, and the principal
focus of CUCC's work since 2000. At the end of Expo 2006 it had been explored
to 544m in depth and 12km in length.</dd>
focus of CUCC's work since 2000. At the end of Expo 2008 it had been explored
to 622m in depth and 16km in length.</dd>
<dt><span lang="de-at">Eislufth&ouml;hle</span></dt>
<dd>originally explored in the very early days of CUCC expeditions in the late
seventies, to a depth estimated at 506m. The original explorers simply
concentrated on getting to the bottom and were not unduly concerned with
exploring side passages or with accurate surveying; hence a return and
reexploration was began in 2004, and will continue in 2005.</dd>
reexploration was began in 2004, and continued in 2005, 2006 and 2007.</dd>
<dt><span lang="de-at">Schwarzmooskogel</span> system</dt>
<dd>formed from the linkage of several caves into one system, 55km or so
long, and 1033m deep, of which around two-thirds of the length (and the highest
and deepest points) were explored by CUCC. CUCC has not been directly involved
in exploration in the system itself since 2002, but there are nonetheless plans
to return one day.</dd>
in exploration in the system itself since 2002, but we will be
returning in 2009 (via Kaninchenh&ouml;hle) to seek a connection
with Steinbr&uuml;ckenh&ouml;hle.</dd>
</dl>
<p>Over a hundred shorter caves have also been explored and
@ -105,8 +106,8 @@ are reached by a toll road (on which we have a deal which avoids paying each
time) which ascends 900m to a tourist car park from where it is around a 30
minute walk (on good paths) to the edge of the plateau. From here it is a
one-and-a-half-hour slog across rough limestone pavements to the <span
lang="de-at">Steinbr&uuml;ckenh&ouml;hle</span> bivvy site, or somewhat less to
the proposed bivouac site at <span lang="de-at">Eislufth&ouml;hle</span>.</p>
lang="de-at">Steinbr&uuml;ckenh&ouml;hle</span> bivvy site (or somewhat less to
the bivouac site at <span lang="de-at">Eislufth&ouml;hle</span>).</p>
<p>The plateau camps and and Base camp are linked by mobile phone, which are much
better for coordinating and reporting activities than the radios we used
@ -155,11 +156,11 @@ than a job not done at all. This is especially true of cave survey and passage
description, or, for prospecting, the recording of locations.</p>
<p>To get a feel for what trips are like, it is perhaps worth dipping into
one of the <a href="years/2000/log.htm">logbooks</a>
one of the <a href="years/2005/logbook.html">logbooks</a>
<a href="years/2001/log.htm">for</a> <a href="years/2003/logbook.html">recent
</a> <a href="years/2004/logbook.html">years</a>. To
get an idea of what expo will be trying to achieve, there is a "<a
href="years/2005/mission.html">mission statement</a>" for the current year. And
href="years/2009/mission.html">mission statement</a>" for the current year. And
to see how much potential there is, a glance at the current <span
lang="de">Steinbr&uuml;ckenh&ouml;hle</span> <a
href="smkridge/204/qm.html">Question Mark list</a> is a revelation. Leads are