From 0c56ff0718e4a0360c6387a8f079d3049fd0c254 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: edvin Date: Sun, 22 Feb 2009 18:32:58 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] [svn r8254] updating --- primer.htm | 19 ++++++++++--------- 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-) diff --git a/primer.htm b/primer.htm index 50194f686..57f1f7639 100644 --- a/primer.htm +++ b/primer.htm @@ -19,20 +19,21 @@ lang="de-at">Salzburg). The current main projects are:

Steinbrückenhöhle
the most major cave in the area not to have been connected to the master Schwarzmooskogel 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.
+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.
Eislufthöhle
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.
+reexploration was began in 2004, and continued in 2005, 2006 and 2007.
Schwarzmooskogel system
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.
+in exploration in the system itself since 2002, but we will be + returning in 2009 (via Kaninchenhöhle) to seek a connection + with Steinbrückenhöhle.

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 Steinbrückenhöhle bivvy site, or somewhat less to -the proposed bivouac site at Eislufthöhle.

+lang="de-at">Steinbrückenhöhle bivvy site (or somewhat less to +the bivouac site at Eislufthöhle).

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.

To get a feel for what trips are like, it is perhaps worth dipping into -one of the logbooks +one of the logbooks for recent years. To get an idea of what expo will be trying to achieve, there is a "mission statement" for the current year. And +href="years/2009/mission.html">mission statement" for the current year. And to see how much potential there is, a glance at the current Steinbrückenhöhle Question Mark list is a revelation. Leads are