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| LA11 | -Lungehöhle | -2/S + |
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| LA11 | Lungehöhle | 2/S + |
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Altitude: 1839m
-Location: 13° 50' 22" E, 47° 42' 26" N
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Altitude: 1839m
+ +Location: 13° 50' 22" E, 47° 42' 26" N
150m due south of Roß Kogel summit - to north of a snowfield. In a
-depression 90m due East of Sternloch and the Rock Shelter.
+depression 90m due East of Sternloch and the Rock Shelter.
A large rift gives an awkward 7m ladder climb down into a chamber leading to a boulder slope. Climb down in a rift for 8m (narrow at top) until a loose slope leads down to a 7m pitch where a small dry inlet enters. The pitch leads onto a rocking boulder wedged in a narrow rift and a tight squeeze down, The Jaws, forms the head of the next 16m pitch and the -start of Deep Throat Series. +start of Deep Throat Series.
The pitch lands in a small chamber with a short walking rift exit. Pitches of 14m, 8m and 10m follow in rapid succession. At the foot of the 10m pitch, a smooth, oval squeeze, The Cnut (spelling mistake), opens onto The Womb. This is a fine pitch of 41m in a spacious shaft, landing in a chamber 12m x 10m with a floor of large boulders of dubious -stability. +stability.
A rift to one side is a loose and narrow pitch of 17m to a ledge and much nicer drop of 10m. A large rift, The Large Intestine, follows. @@ -39,7 +37,7 @@ rift at roof level. A 14m pitch descends to the foot of the rift and a short section of sharp, suit-ripping rift leads to a chamber with an inlet up to one side. The suit ripping rift can be bypassed by a pendulum, but the rope left for this is now hanging inaccessible, so the original manoevre would -need to be repeated. +need to be repeated.
The exit from the chamber is too tight, but a 12m pitch up reaches a muddy solution tube at roof level, originally reached by an exposed traverse @@ -50,18 +48,18 @@ a pit in the floor necessitates a climb down, then back up of 5m. At this point, a traverse follows the roof of the rift while the floor cuts down sharply. A pair of 13m deep holes are crossed by fairly exposed traverses, and further traversing reaches the next pitch Fantasy, in a shaft -which is initially about 15m in diameter. +which is initially about 15m in diameter.
A drop of 46m, broken by ledges covered in loose boulders, lands on a large sloping ledge at a junction with a much larger shaft. The rubble needs -caution, as much of the rest of the pitch is in the firing line. +caution, as much of the rest of the pitch is in the firing line.
The next section is 58m with two deviations, close to a wall down which some water falls. The opposite wall is some 20-30m away, and to either side, no walls are visible. Below this section, a narrow saddle of rock splits the shaft, the left hand route (facing the water) being taken. A further 27m lands on an enormous (20m x 30m) flat ledge right across the shaft, with -pitches continuing both sides. +pitches continuing both sides.
The right hand (facing the water) shaft is the continuation of the route avoided at the rock saddle. A steep, muddy slope leads onto a 41m pitch and, @@ -70,31 +68,30 @@ required) descending 15m into The Dream Machine. This is a massive passage 30m wide leading through boulders the size of houses. After about 100m, a boulder pile with a large central boulder is reached. Beyond, the passage can be seen to continue, but scaling equipment will be required to -reach it. +reach it.
From the 30m x 20m ledge, the left hand shaft is undescended, but rock -tests indicate a similar depth to the right hand shaft, ie. about 50m. +tests indicate a similar depth to the right hand shaft, ie. about 50m.
-At the end of 1988, the depth is 354m with excellent potential. +
At the end of 1988, the depth is 354m with excellent potential.
-Stopped at -375m, no further details at present. +
Stopped at -375m, no further details at present.
-Exploration: LUSS 1987-9 +
Exploration: LUSS 1987-9
-References : +
References :
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- 87.1514
- Austria Reconnaissance Expedition 1987, Lancaster University Speleological Society -
- 89.1866
- Dead Mountains Expedition 1988, L.U.S.S. 24pp illus. +
- 87.1514
- Austria Reconnaissance Expedition 1987, Lancaster University Speleological Society +
- 89.1866
- Dead Mountains Expedition 1988, L.U.S.S. 24pp illus.
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- Austria Reconnaissance Expedition 1987, Lancaster University Speleological Society -
- 89.1866
- Dead Mountains Expedition 1988, L.U.S.S. 24pp illus. +
- 87.1514
- Austria Reconnaissance Expedition 1987, Lancaster University Speleological Society +
- 89.1866
- Dead Mountains Expedition 1988, L.U.S.S. 24pp illus.
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- 90.1341
- Dead Mountains Expedition, Ian Rolland, Underground October 1989 pp 4-9 (Army Caving Association) -
- 90.1342
- Dead Mountains Expedition 1989, Ian Rolland, Chelsea Speleological Society Newsletter 32(5) pp 56-9 +
- 87.1514
- Austria Reconnaissance Expedition 1987, Lancaster University Speleological Society +
- 90.1341
- Dead Mountains Expedition, Ian Rolland, Underground October 1989 pp 4-9 (Army Caving Association) +
- 90.1342
- Dead Mountains Expedition 1989, Ian Rolland, Chelsea Speleological Society Newsletter 32(5) pp 56-9
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| LA12 | -Sternloch | -3/S - |
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| LA12 | Sternloch | 3/S - |
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Altitude: 1850m
-Location: 13° 50' 20" E, 47° 42' 27" N
+
Altitude: 1850m
+ +Location: 13° 50' 20" E, 47° 42' 27" N
On flat col to the south of Roß Kogel, slightly above and to the west
-of a small but prominent rock shelter.
+of a small but prominent rock shelter.
A narrow slot (1m x 5m) with a small capping roof, soon bells out to a landing after 17m on a boulder-strewn ledge. The second pitch, Virgo, @@ -24,40 +22,40 @@ follows immediately, bolt belays giving a fine hang of 21m. Ways down through the boulder floor soon choke, but a step up into a small alcove reveals a small hole dropping into a rift. This is the take-off for Aquarius, an 85m shaft in six sections. Halfway down, the water -cascades in from the roof, usually in large quantities. +cascades in from the roof, usually in large quantities.
From the base of Aquarius, traversing forwards gains a drier hang for the next pitch of 16m. A pendulum 10m down avoids the worst of the water, which -continues down a clean circular shaft (see below). +continues down a clean circular shaft (see below).
The pendulum reaches W.C.S. series where two short drops in a rift lead to a bolt rebelay in a massive jammed boulder. Just below this, a window opens into a narrow shaft which is undescended. At the foot of the rift, a short section of hading rift gets wetter at the head of the next -pitch, whose 11m are always lashed by spray from somewhere above. +pitch, whose 11m are always lashed by spray from somewhere above.
A short traverse into a large alcove escapes the spray and facilitates a dry hang for FUDE, a 14m pitch with natural belays set well back and soft squidgy choss at the pitch head. Two climbs lead to a rift/ramp area where the way on is tight and thrutchy. Nil Desperandum soon drops to -the head of a short pitch and more climbs down into a chamber. +the head of a short pitch and more climbs down into a chamber.
The rift outlet is too tight, but a 5m climb up gains a bypass where a short traverse leads to Ardua, a pitch of 11m. Down the slope, the water sinks in boulders, but the way on is a slot in the wall behind a large boulder. This immediately bells out onto Astra, a 38m pitch where a pendulum onto and over a huge chocked boulder reaches bolts for the second -part of the pitch, a superb 25m drop down one end of a large rift. +part of the pitch, a superb 25m drop down one end of a large rift.
Climbing down at the far end of the rift, an area of breakdown is reached. Up the boulders, a rift enters from the right (presumed to be an inlet, but not explored), while water can be heard away to the left. However, the loose nature of this area, combined with the pitch below, -precluded anything more than a cursory examination. +precluded anything more than a cursory examination.
Under the boulders, a short pitch lands in a chamber where the water is rejoined shortly before it cascades over the lip of another large shaft, the -limit of exploration in 1987. +limit of exploration in 1987.
The pitch is 57m and quite wet, dropping into a sizeable chamber (50m x 10m and 40m high), The Planetarium. This chamber is formed along a @@ -65,29 +63,29 @@ fault, with breakdown littering the floor. At one end, under a large waterfall, is a pitch between the wall and the boulders. This drops 15m into an extremely loose boulder choke Religious Places, with no way on. No other route out could be found from the Planetarium, giving an overall depth -of 331m. +of 331m.
The wet way on from the bottom of Aquarius descends pitches of 7m and 27m. The latter is arguably the best pitch of the cave, hanging free for 23m beside a column of water. Unfortunately, the way on is a tiny impassable -rift. +rift.
-Exploration: LUSS 1987-8 +
Exploration: LUSS 1987-8
-References : +
References :
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| LA34 | -Ratselhöhle | -3/S + |
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| LA34 | Ratselhöhle | 3/S + |
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Altitude: 1835m
-Location: 13° 50' 30" E, 47&#id176; 42' 20" N
-Slightly to the right of a hillock visible from Sternloch
-( LA12) approx. 200m SE of
-LA11.
This is borderline 1626 or 1623
+
Altitude: 1835m
+ +Location: 13° 50' 30" E, 47° 42' 20" N
+Slightly to the right of a hillock visible from Sternloch (LA12) approx. 200m SE of LA11.
(This is borderline 1626 or 1623.)
Originally thought to be a choked shaft, it was noted as "worth another look" in 1987, but was not relocated in 1988. Closer inspection -with a ladder revealed parallel slots in the rift and a noticeable draught. +with a ladder revealed parallel slots in the rift and a noticeable draught.
The original entrance is a "walk-in" open shaft which leads on to a twisted vertical pitch of 17m, Parthos, into a sizeable chamber at the top of a rubble slope. The obvious small wriggle at the bottom of the slope leads to the Musketeers' Series, while a bolted climb leads to -the main way on. +the main way on.
The Musketeers' Series consists of stooping phreatic passages, with a 5m pitch, then a couple of climbs to the head of an 11m pitch, Aramis, @@ -34,7 +34,7 @@ way on is up a short climb to the head of a 5m+10m ramp, Porthos, down to a phreatic tube with a silted up floor. Digging in the silt revealed a tight rift rising up, but as this was too tight, the dig was abandoned. The water from Aramis descends a tight rift in the base of the phreatic -tube, but after 3m, this too became too tight. +tube, but after 3m, this too became too tight.
The climb up before the Musketeers' Series leads quickly to a T-junction. To the right, a winding ramp passage of decreasing size leads on and up with @@ -52,18 +52,18 @@ Digging boulders revealed a steeply inclined squeeze leading onto a pitch at the top of the Hillsborough ramp. The base of this pitch leads onto an inclined overhanging terrace with a hole at the back which drops 2m onto another inclined overhanging terrace. A 4m climb down from this ledge ends -at the top of the boulder ramp of Hillsborough. +at the top of the boulder ramp of Hillsborough.
The base of Hillsborough was blind until a dig in unstable boulders on the left hand side revealed a tight drop between two wedged boulders into another very sizeable ramp, Penistone Road. This ramp is convoluted and twists around open shafts and roof collapse to end in a huge chamber with a small muddy hole in the floor, The Hole in the Road. This way -on is blind. +on is blind.
An alternative route from the main ramp of Penistone Road leads down an old phreatic tube decorated with calcite frost and numerous small helictites -to a flat-out crawl to a 25m blind pitch. +to a flat-out crawl to a 25m blind pitch.
Near the bottom of the Hole in the Road, a 6m rope climb up the eastern wall, The Escalator, leads to a series of solution tubes. A 1m @@ -78,7 +78,7 @@ and is a muddy rift passage traversed at various levels. This leads to the head of a further series of disjointed shafts and the wet 77m pitch More than a Feeling. Here a 57m drop lands on a spray-lashed ledge and a further 20m drop gives way to a large boulder slope. Two wet 2m climbs lead -up to the head of a 7m pitch which leads to the base of the shaft. +up to the head of a 7m pitch which leads to the base of the shaft.
Through the small passage across the base of the shaft, a climb down through boulders leads to a rift streamway. Only a short way down is an 11m @@ -88,27 +88,26 @@ muddy rift passage leads to the head of a fault collapse chamber running away at an angle of 70°. Over 20m above the stream a distinctly dodgy rope climb/abseil leads to a point where a climb back around rejoins the stream. A further 8m rope climb leads to the last 19m pitch which drops into -a sump at a depth of 425m. +a sump at a depth of 425m.
-Exploration: LUSS 1987,1989 +
Exploration: LUSS 1987, 1989
-References : +
References :
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Altausseer See north shore vauclusian risings
+Altausseer See north shore vauclusian risings
A walk around Altausseer See reveals few streams flowing in to the lake, but a sizeable river flowing out, fuelling speculation that there were one or more underwater risings in the lake. CUCC were told that an area along the northern edge of the lake, below the cliffs of Steinwand, did not freeze over in winter, despite the rest of the lake being fit for -skating and curling for most of the season. +skating and curling for most of the season.
This part of the lake was dived by John Cordingley, Andy Goddard, Mike Thomas and Phil Murphy, members of the Cave Diving Group, in 1989. The dives were most notable for the discovery of a body and recovery of a right humerus, belonging to someone who had drowned in 1955, but the source of the water was also found. Water rises in many tiny blowholes in a 30m square -area at a depth of -36m, each blowing up sand up to 1.5m above the lake bed. +area at a depth of -36m, each blowing up sand up to 1.5m above the lake bed.
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Further dives by CDG with Hubert Gaisberger and Wolfgang Gasperl (divers from the local fire brigade) revealed no way into the system, but did recover the foot belonging to the leg. The very hung-over group also had -great fun with the fire-brigade's big red speedboat. +great fun with the fire-brigade's big red speedboat.
Although one of the divers suggested the name "Rancid dead person spring", it seems more appropriate to use "Steinwandquelle", as suggested -by John Cordingley. +by John Cordingley.
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N & NE shore of Altauseer See
-Altausseer See is a 2 km long glacier-carved lake south of the Loser +Altausseer See is a 2 km long glacier-carved lake south of the Loser plateau. Its north shore lies on a significant fault which marks the SE boundary of the block of limestone of which Loser is made. A number of small resurgences feed the lake, but in dry weather none of those -above the surface carry anything other than very local drainage. +above the surface carry anything other than very local drainage.
Within the lake are a number of underwater resurgences. These appear to lie on the fault itself, and explain why the deepest points of certain caves coincide with the level of -Altausseer See at 712m above sea level. +Altausseer See at 712m above sea level.
In much wetter weather, water emerges from flood risings on the north shore or much higher on the hillside. The closest to the lake, Kiler Lahn, a steep gully. We know of no documented caves in this gully, -which is in a rather inaccessible position. +which is in a rather inaccessible position.
To the northeast of the lake, ("behind" it, as seen from the village of Altaussee) a glacier-carved valley rises to the pass of Hochklapf Sattel. A @@ -38,14 +37,14 @@ href="../smkridge/via201.htm">Stögerweg path from the Stellerweghöhle area, which continues NE to Wildensee. There are a few caves west of this -path, below the cliffs of Weiße Wand. +path, below the cliffs of Weiße Wand.
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Augstbach valley and villages
+Augstbach valley and villages
-| 3 | -Gellerofen (= Göller Loch) |
| 4 | -Ritscherbachhöhle (am Lecker) |
| 3 | Gellerofen (= Göller Loch) |
| 4 | Ritscherbachhöhle (am Lecker) |
| 53 | Gellerliäger |
| 54 | Seehöhle |
| 66 | Löckerweghöhle |
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Bräuning Alm and Bräuning Kunntal
-Following marked path 201 (Stögerweg) from the Bergrestaurant +Following marked path 201 (Stögerweg) from the Bergrestaurant northwest, a signposted junction is met, below a ski-lift. Left here leads over the minor peak of Lackerbichl and on to Bräuning Alm. To the NW of this peak is the closed depression of Bräuning Kunntal, a doline deep enough to merit a ski-lift climbing out of it. Two small springs, below the rim to ENE and ESE, feed into a bog with no speleological -potential. +potential.
-From Lackerbichl over Bräuning Kuntal towards -Bräuning Alm and the Bräuning Wall.
From Lackerbichl over Bräuning +Kuntal towards Bräuning Alm and the Bräuning Wall.
Bräuning Alm is more conveniently approached by continuing on the main path to a further signposted junction at @@ -27,58 +26,42 @@ Egglgrube. Ahead, the path climbs a small scar, but left, posted to Bräuning Zinken, the path traverses above a small valley to reach a group of huts serving the summer pasture of Bräuning Alm. Springs below the huts feed into sinks in the valley bottom, but these offer no -significant cave. +significant cave.
-Looking up the small valley traversed by -the route to Bräuning Alm
Looking up the small valley +traversed by the route to Bräuning Alm
To the east of the pasture is an area of limestone scars, with another -grassy area, used by CUCC for a brief top camp -(camp 1) in 1977. There are a few -entrances in the limestone here, and more in the valley north of the huts, -leading toward the col of Bräuning Sattel. Areas of scars between this -valley and the ridge used by the path to the -plateau have not been looked at in any detail by CUCC, but are thought to -have been prospected by the Austrians with no results. +grassy area, used by CUCC for a brief top camp (camp 1) in 1977. There are a few entrances +in the limestone here, and more in the valley north of the huts, leading toward +the col of Bräuning Sattel. Areas of scars between this valley and the +ridge used by the path to the plateau have +not been looked at in any detail by CUCC, but are thought to have been +prospected by the Austrians with no results.
-The huts of Bräuning Alm from the continuing -walk up to the plateau, seen in evening light.
The huts of Bräuning Alm from +the continuing walk up to the plateau, seen in evening light.
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+A view from the junction of paths at Egglgrube. Off right, out of the picture, is the continuing path 201 towards the Stellerweg area. Off left is the arriving path 201 from the Bergrestaurant. Ahead is the small valley @@ -16,9 +17,9 @@ the plateau goes up here towards the Bräuning Wall, seen on the skyline. The 1977 high camp was on a flat grassy area behind the sunlight limestone in the centre of the view. The path crosses the wooded slopes above this, and reaches the plateau via the col of Schwarzmoossattel, just -where the skyline crosses the right hand edge of the photo. +where the skyline crosses the right hand edge of the photo.
-Photo © Andy Waddington, 1982 +
Photo © Andy Waddington, 1982
@@ -30,7 +31,7 @@ where the skyline crosses the right hand edge of the photo.
-This is a view of the huts of Bräuning Alm seen from the most -frequently used path approaching the Schwarzmoossattel and the plateau. The -nearest sunlit patch of pasture, to the left of the photo, was the site of -the 1977 high camp, situated here as the springs left of the huts were the -nearest water supply we had then discovered to the plateau. A few caves -nearby were explored, but most work was done by walking a further ten-fifteen -minutes to reach the plateau. +
This is a view of the huts of Bräuning Alm seen from the most frequently +used path approaching the Schwarzmoossattel and the plateau. The nearest sunlit +patch of pasture, to the left of the photo, was the site of the 1977 high camp, +situated here as the springs left of the huts were the nearest water supply we +had then discovered to the plateau. A few caves nearby were explored, but most +work was done by walking a further ten-fifteen minutes to reach the plateau.
-Photo © Andy Waddington, 1993 +
Photo © Andy Waddington, 1993
@@ -28,7 +27,7 @@ minutes to reach the plateau.
-Water sinking in the huge closed depression of Bräuning Kunntal -(left) rises from small springs on the near side of a broad grassy col at -Bräuning Alm (shepherds' huts, right of centre). Springs on the other -side of the col were the water supply for the 1977 high camp. There has been -little found of speleological interest in this area of pasture. CUCC's route -to the plateau passes the huts and ascends the rocky pine-covered slopes -behind, to the col to the right of the Bräuning wall. -Kaninchenhöhle is on the sunny slopes of the Hinterer Schwarzmooskogel -on the skyline to the right. +
Photo © Andy Waddington, 1990 +
Water sinking in the huge closed depression of Bräuning Kunntal (left) +rises from small springs on the near side of a broad grassy col at Bräuning +Alm (shepherds' huts, right of centre). Springs on the other side of the col +were the water supply for the 1977 high camp. There has been little found of +speleological interest in this area of pasture. CUCC's route to the plateau +passes the huts and ascends the rocky pine-covered slopes behind, to the col to +the right of the Bräuning wall. Kaninchenhöhle is on the sunny slopes +of the Hinterer Schwarzmooskogel on the skyline to the right.
+ +Photo © Andy Waddington, 1990
@@ -30,7 +30,7 @@ on the skyline to the right.
+
Steve Perry (in wetsuit !) descending the 15m entrance pitch of 1623/96, just a few yards from the 1976 top camp at Bräuning Alm. Note the three successive rope-protectors over the headwall and at the lip. I think the belay was a natural (perhaps with a wire belay) - not -a bolt in sight ! +a bolt in sight!
-Photo © Andy Waddington, 1976 -
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Photo © Andy Waddington, 1976
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+This is a view of the huts of Bräuning Alm seen from the most frequently used path approaching the Schwarzmoossattel and the plateau. Just visible in the pasture between limestone pavements left of centre are the two tents of the 1977 high camp, situated here as it was the only place with a water supply we had then discovered. A few caves nearby were explored, but most work was done by walking a further -ten-fifteen minutes to reach the plateau. +ten-fifteen minutes to reach the plateau.
-Photo © Andy Waddington, 1977 +
Photo © Andy Waddington, 1977
@@ -28,7 +29,7 @@ ten-fifteen minutes to reach the plateau.
+Tents of the 1977 advance camp on the pasture above Bräuning Alm. This is just off the path now used by CUCC on the walk-in to the current Top Camp at the edge of the plateau. The three cavers (Julian Griffiths, Nick Reckert and Steve Perry) are just getting ready for a trip into 1623/95, an -open shaft just behind the photographer. Note that all are in wetsuits ! +open shaft just behind the photographer. Note that all are in wetsuits!
-Photo © Andy Waddington, 1977 +
Photo © Andy Waddington, 1977
@@ -26,7 +26,7 @@ open shaft just behind the photographer. Note that all are in wetsuits !
+Tents of the 1977 advance camp on the pasture above Bräuning Alm, seen across the dry valley from the shepherds' huts. The path now used by CUCC on the walk-in to the current Top Camp at the edge of the plateau is visible in the foreground. Just left of this photo, it turns up the hill -above the old campsite. +above the old campsite.
-Photo © Andy Waddington, 1977 +
Photo © Andy Waddington, 1977
@@ -26,7 +26,7 @@ above the old campsite.
@@ -134,14 +134,14 @@ stone-fall.
One of a plethora of festering activities centred around the conveniently
nearby, but out of earshot of the campsite, lake (Grundlsee). Parking has
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. 
Not for the complete beginner is the mind-bending takeoff from a ramp at the
top of the 
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