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+

Rachel Turnbull at the entrance to Kein Hubschauber Höhle, 1623/108 - an 'insignificant draughting hole' a long way out on the plateau, lost 1976, refound 2017.

+
Photo © Becka Lawson, 2017 + + diff --git a/1623/110/l/entrancearea.html b/1623/110/l/entrancearea.html new file mode 100644 index 000000000..7e66df17c --- /dev/null +++ b/1623/110/l/entrancearea.html @@ -0,0 +1,15 @@ + + + + + +Kein Hubschauber Höhle entrance area + + + + +
+

Area containing the entrance to Kein Hubschauber Höhle, 1623/108 - the low hole to the right of the gear.

+
Photo © Becka Lawson, 2017 + + diff --git a/1623/110/t/entracearea.jpeg b/1623/110/t/entracearea.jpeg new file mode 100644 index 000000000..2c3869553 Binary files /dev/null and b/1623/110/t/entracearea.jpeg differ diff --git a/1623/110/t/entrance.jpeg b/1623/110/t/entrance.jpeg new file mode 100644 index 000000000..6bc401897 Binary files /dev/null and b/1623/110/t/entrance.jpeg differ diff --git a/1623/242/plan.png b/1623/242/plan.png old mode 100755 new mode 100644 diff --git a/1623/258/misc.html b/1623/258/misc.html index e32b18d44..c97a42a01 100644 --- a/1623/258/misc.html +++ b/1623/258/misc.html @@ -47,7 +47,7 @@ [2006-258-33-B] [2006-258-34-C] -

Pantin Sales

+

Pantin Sales Pitch

[Description needed - Ollie Stevens or Aaron Curtis] [2007-258-51-C] diff --git a/1623/264/ent.html b/1623/264/ent.html index afc45a3de..0672df759 100644 --- a/1623/264/ent.html +++ b/1623/264/ent.html @@ -1,18 +1,19 @@ -Balkonhöhle Underground Description -

Balkonhöhle Underground Description

+Balkonhöhle Underground Description + +

Balkonhöhle Underground Description

-

Entrance series

+

Entrance series

Horizontal entrance leads off from balcony part-way down cliff, access to balcony is from above using handline. Handline attached to bunder and two bolts 15m rope required. -Entrance immediately splits into two stooping passages, left leads to blind pitch. The right-hand passage (which draughts gently out) has a short pitch, onto col between two shafts, the smaller shaft with a wedged bolder drops into a larger shaft. Following down a further gully leads to the main hang of the pitch, landing on a loose ledge. A traverse along the ledge leads to a short pitch to a large chamber.

+Entrance immediately splits into two stooping passages, left leads to crapped out pitch. The right-hand passage (which draughts gently out) has a short pitch, onto col between two shafts, the smaller shaft with a wedged bolder drops into a larger shaft. Following down a further gully leads to the main hang of the pitch, with deviation 10m down, landing on a loose ledge. A traverse along the ledge leads to a short pitch to a large chamber.


Note: -The large pitch pitch becomes impassible in wet weather.
+The large entrance pitch becomes impassible in wet weather.
A 4 man bothy bag and brew kit is to be stored in the chamber at bottom of pitches.

-

Room with a view

+

Room with a view

At the bottom of the pitch series you will be at one end of a large chamber. Small passage leading down boulder slope under pitch leads to DigDug area. Heading toward the center you will climb around a large boulder. Behind boulder rubble cone spills onto short shaft, rubble slope, 30m shaft and blind pit.
Traverse around rubble cone at this point leads to slope and the main passage, a sandy floored orange rift heading left out of the end of the chamber. @@ -25,13 +26,8 @@ The main passage continues over some boulders to end in a large chamber with wat -

Start of Hiltaplenty

-

Accessed by turning left into low passage immediately after a short traverse past a deep hole on the main route away from the bottom of the entry series pitches. The passage continues as an easy crawl over dry, sandy mud. After a relatively short distance the passage reached a t-juction of almost standing height. Right leads to increasingly cramped and bouldery crawls whilst left almost immediately reaches Hiltaplenty pitch.

- - - -

Lemon Snout

+

Lemon Snout

After climbing up to the entrance, Lemon Snout appears as a tall, narrow rift passage with a rocky floor. A short way in the passage turns sharply left then right, with an awkward boulder to scramble around on the second corner. The rift continues sloping gently upward, after a short while the floor drops about a meter and it is advisable to continue by traversing on the obvious footholds. @@ -41,10 +37,40 @@ After the bridges the passage forks, with the larger route heading left, but mor A hole in the on the left route floor shortly after leads steeply down, but doesn't continue. Avoiding this you come to a slightly wider chamber with a cracked black mud floor, and then the rift closes up. -

Liar's Bakery

-

Natural High

-

Chasm passage

-

Leeds Bypass

-

Far Side

-

Turtlehead

- + +

Natural High

+ +Way on beyond the turning for Hilty a plenty leads to a muddy traverse +rigged off naturals is left rigged. Has it ever been dropped? No one +knows. + + +
+----Off the main trade route---- + +

Chasm passage

+ +After natural high, an up rope to the right hand side is followed +uphill to the right. Stompy sandy passage follows to a ledge. The far +side of the hole connects to the main trade route from the entrance. + +

Leeds Bypass

+ +Left at the top of the rope from Natural highs leads to big stomping +passage to the Leeds Bypass. The passage splits into a loop; the right +is taped off. The left slopes down (increasingly slippy). The next +right regains the loop and the next left is a downhill continuation of +the sdame sort of thing with a floor trench. Its getting a bit +slippy. A turn off on the left hand side (1 x 1m hole in thew left +hand wall) leads to the Dark Arts. + +

Dark Arts

+ +The main stretch of the darks arts in tall and narrow. It includes an +up pitch and is a combination of stooping, crawling climbing. This +section has been thoroughly tidied up. Probably do not return. + +

Far Side

+

Turtlehead

+ + diff --git a/1623/264/galatica_rift_pitch_rigging.svg b/1623/264/galatica_rift_pitch_rigging.svg new file mode 100644 index 000000000..b0d754011 --- /dev/null +++ b/1623/264/galatica_rift_pitch_rigging.svg @@ -0,0 +1,156 @@ + + + + + + + + + + image/svg+xml + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + 35 + + Galatica rift pitch rigging + + diff --git a/1623/264/galatica_rigging_topo.svg b/1623/264/galatica_rigging_topo.svg new file mode 100644 index 000000000..f34e389ef --- /dev/null +++ b/1623/264/galatica_rigging_topo.svg @@ -0,0 +1,602 @@ + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + image/svg+xml + + + + + + + Galatica rigging + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + 88 + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + Mud pillars + Cave Pearls + Shells + + diff --git a/1623/264/hiltiaplenty.html b/1623/264/hiltiaplenty.html index 4ec7e9f55..1e9a7ffcf 100644 --- a/1623/264/hiltiaplenty.html +++ b/1623/264/hiltiaplenty.html @@ -29,4 +29,69 @@ Descending the main chamber (which should be protected with the pitch rope), lea

Cornish fudge shop

-The cracked mud floored passage starts low before opening up however it does not go, so the passage should not be entered. \ No newline at end of file +The cracked mud floored passage starts low before opening up however it does not go, so the passage should not be entered. + +
+New version written on 2018 training weekend - needs merging + +

Start of Hiltiaplenty

+ +

Accessed by turning left into low passage immediately after a short +traverse past a deep hole on the main route away from the bottom of +the entry series pitches. The passage continues as an easy crawl over +dry, sandy mud. After a relatively short distance the passage reached +a t-juction of almost standing height. Right leads to increasingly +cramped and bouldery crawls whilst left almost immediately +reaches Hiltaplenty pitch.

+ + +

Hiltiaplenty pitches

+ +

Includes a Y hang with deviation near the top, followed by 4 belays +and two deviations. In 2017 it was left rigged. Below the pitches, the +left leads to a loop. Right leads to a chamber, left around a centre +pile of boulders. (Straight on through the chamber leads to a sandy +floored passage, down the slope leads to a dead end.) The passage +bears right, but the way on is under the left hand wall in a brief low +sandy crawl. It soon opens up again into a upperwards, wide, sloping +meander. Right again follows crawling and stooping passage to a T +junction with a 1.5m climb down. From there right leads to to Nothing +To See. Left leads to a muddy passage, the first hole on the right +hand side is the pitch to Bat Country. If your carry on past Bat +country, you get to another pitch on the right with also continues in +the Bat Country pitch. This is not rigged. Beyond this, it gets to an +aven, that has not been deemed worth climbing.

+ + +

Nothing To See

+ +

Becka Lawson officially deemed this shit. Horizontal maze gives many pitches that drop into Galatica. +Mud formations and cave pearls abound.

+ + +

Bat Country

+ +

Bat Country pitch is 40m with a rebelay half way down, rigged off a +natural back up. This lands into a spikey rift where the way on is +down hill (back on yourself), following a muddy crawl. Right at the T +junction follows down hill, turn off this passage left. Follow to a +ledge, P15, broken up by rebelays. This chamber follows a central +ridge to the far wall to meet a traverse to the right hand side. This +was derigged in 2017. A steep sandy floor goes left to the head of +another pitch (25m). Leads to obvious continuation. Galactical is a +small, obscure, narrow opening in a right hand wall.

+ + +

Galatica

+ +

Large chamber, approximately 15 x 45 x 40m, floor covered in boulders. Left leads to +sandy slope to roof. At bottom of pitch series, along the right hand +wall leads to a narrow and drippy rift that became too tight. At the +far right of the chamber, (derigged) a short wet pitch leads to a +small chamber. There is a very drippy wet way on.

+ + + + +-----END OF HILTY A PLENTY WRITTEN DURING TRAINING W/E ---- + \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/1623/264/i/icecock.jpeg b/1623/264/i/icecock.jpeg new file mode 100644 index 000000000..d11ebff34 Binary files /dev/null and b/1623/264/i/icecock.jpeg differ diff --git a/1623/264/l/icecock.html b/1623/264/l/icecock.html new file mode 100644 index 000000000..220183977 --- /dev/null +++ b/1623/264/l/icecock.html @@ -0,0 +1,13 @@ + + + + + +Balkonhoehleöhle: Icecock Aven formations + + + + +
Ice formations in Icecock Aven
+

+ diff --git a/1623/264/t/icecock.jpeg b/1623/264/t/icecock.jpeg new file mode 100644 index 000000000..a2401645a Binary files /dev/null and b/1623/264/t/icecock.jpeg differ diff --git a/areas.htm b/areas.htm index fffc8623a..1008fcc76 100644 --- a/areas.htm +++ b/areas.htm @@ -8,16 +8,15 @@

Area 1623: Loser-AugstEck plateau

-

Within the Austrian kataster, area 1620 is the Western Totes Gebirge. Area -1623 is the Loser - Augst-Eck plateau, bounded to the SE by path 234 from the -Wildenseehutte down to Altausseer See, to the south by the lake itself, then to -the SW by the road to Blaa-Alm. The Western edge is marked by the valley of -Grüne Bichl, and the northern limit is the ridge crest of Schönberg, -then a rather ill-defined line back to the Wildenseehütte. Within this -area, by far the majority of caves are above 1500m in an area from around Augst -See, along the major ridge line of Schwarzmooskogel towards Augst-Eck (forming -a long strip on the SE of the area), and across the plateau west of -Schwarzmooskogel.

+

Within the Austrian kataster, area 1620 is the Western Totes +Gebirge. Area 1623 is the Loser - Augst-Eck plateau, bounded to the SE +by path 234 from the Wildenseehutte down to Altausseer See, to the south +by the lake itself, then to the SW by the road to Blaa-Alm. The Western +edge is marked by the valley of Grüne Bichl, and the northern limit +is a rather arbitrary line across the limestone between the +Schönberg and Neid Augst-Eck, not far beyond Tunnockschacht, then +down to the Wildenseehütte. To the west and north of this line is +area 1626.

Access to the area is relatively easy at its southern edge, as the Loser Panoramastraße (a toll road) climbs the @@ -27,13 +26,23 @@ southern slopes of Vd. Schwarzmooskogel, and also north to a col overlooking the extensive pathless central plateau. Both the further reaches of the central plateau and the areas around the Schönberg, Gries Kogel and Augst-Eck ridges are remote - being large pathless areas of rough karren with little or -no water supplies except for snowmelt.

+no water supplies except for snowmelt. The Stone-Bridge bivi site between the Hinter Schwarmooskogel and Neid Augst-Eck makes it practical to expore this area.

-Perspective view of +<img src= -

Plateau visualisation by Pennine Software (still in early -development stages :-)

+

Plateau visualisation from Aven

+ +

Within this area (1623), by far the majority of caves are above +1500m in an area from around Augst See, along the major ridge line of +Schwarzmooskogel towards Augst-Eck (forming a long strip on the SE of + the area), and across the plateau west of Schwarzmooskogel.

+ +
+Same view of +Loser plateau looking SW with the caves visible. +

Plateau visualisation from Aven

+

There are approaching two hundred caves known at present in the area, so for convenience, we have broken the area down into smaller areas, with a number of diff --git a/handbook/computer.html b/handbook/computer.html new file mode 100644 index 000000000..6c971d13f --- /dev/null +++ b/handbook/computer.html @@ -0,0 +1,18 @@ +Cambridge University Caving Club Expedition Handbook. +

CUCC Expedition Handbook

+

Expo server in Potato Hut

+The expo server runs the tatty hut music system and is a core node of the survey data version control system. +

+The server is (2017) an Acer Aspire netbook. Plugged into it with cables are +

    +
  1. Printer +
  2. Speakers +
  3. Router +
  4. Expo laptop 'tunnock' +
+It serves it's own DNS domain name potato.hut and publishes WiFi as SSID "tattyhut" - which is NOT connected to the Internet. +

+Any laptop can be used to connect to the server via the "tattyhut" WiFi and then use the version control system to synchronise cave data. Many people prefer to use the expo laptop 'tunnock' as then they don't have to install any software on their own laptop. +

+At the end of expo the server is brought back to the UK and synchronised with the server expo.survex.com . + \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/handbook/tortoise/tortoise-win.htm b/handbook/tortoise/tortoise-win.htm index 895d7d8a0..9277049e8 100644 --- a/handbook/tortoise/tortoise-win.htm +++ b/handbook/tortoise/tortoise-win.htm @@ -9,7 +9,7 @@ 32-bit)? Here’s a quick guide which I hope explains how to sort it all out.

-

You first want to ascertain that both TortoiseHg and Putty are nicely installed. Then run Putty;

+

You first want to ascertain that both TortoiseHg and Putty are nicely installed. Then run Putty;

Putty:

Upon opening putty, you’ll be greeted with a screen similar to this;

diff --git a/handbook/update.htm b/handbook/update.htm index eb34c1c4e..a5b045e20 100644 --- a/handbook/update.htm +++ b/handbook/update.htm @@ -126,26 +126,26 @@ below for details on that.

expoweb (The Website)
- hg [clone|pull|push] ssh://expo@expo.survex.com/expoweb (read/write)
- hg [clone|pull|push] http://expo.survex.com/repositories/home/expo/expoweb/ (read-only checkout) + hg clone ssh://expo@expo.survex.com/expoweb (read/write)
+ hg clone http://expo.survex.com/repositories/home/expo/expoweb/ (read-only checkout)
troggle (The Website backend)
- hg [clone|pull|push] ssh://expo@expo.survex.com/troggle (read/write)
- hg [clone|pull|push] http://expo.survex.com/repositories/home/expo/troggle/ (read-only checkout) + hg clone ssh://expo@expo.survex.com/troggle (read/write)
+ hg clone http://expo.survex.com/repositories/home/expo/troggle/ (read-only checkout)
loser (The survey data)
- hg [clone|pull|push] ssh://expo@expo.survex.com/loser (read/write)
- hg [clone|pull|push] http://expo.survex.com/repositories/home/expo/loser/ (read-only) + hg clone ssh://expo@expo.survex.com/loser (read/write)
+ hg clone http://expo.survex.com/repositories/home/expo/loser/ (read-only)
tunneldata (The Tunnel drawings)
- hg [clone|pull|push] ssh://expo@expo.survex.com/tunneldata (read/write)
- hg [clone|pull|push] http://expo.survex.com/repositories/home/expo/expoweb/ (read-only) + hg clone ssh://expo@expo.survex.com/tunneldata (read/write)
+ hg clone http://expo.survex.com/repositories/home/expo/expoweb/ (read-only)
@@ -222,7 +222,7 @@ changes are pending) and then "hg commit" in the directory

Using Mercurial/TortoiseHg in Windows

Read the instructions for setting up TortoiseHG in Aled's Windows 101. -

In Windows: install Mercurial and TortoiseHg of the relevant flavour from https://TortoiseHg.bitbucket.io/ (ignoring antivirus/Windows warnings). This will install a submenu in your Programs menu)

+

In Windows: install Mercurial and TortoiseHg of the relevant flavour from https://tortoisehg.bitbucket.io/ (ignoring antivirus/Windows warnings). This will install a submenu in your Programs menu)

To start cloning a repository: first create the folders you need for the repositories you are going to use, e.g. D:\CUCC-Expo\loser and D:\CUCC-Expo\expoweb. Then start TortoiseHg Workbench from your Programs menu, click File -> Clone repository, a dialogue box will appear. In the Source box type

@@ -351,7 +351,7 @@ the end of 2013, and the site has been hosted by Sam Wenham at the university since Feb 2014.

-

Automation on cucc.survex.com/expo

+

Automation on expo.survex.com

Ths section is entirely out of date (June 2014), and awaiting deletion or removal

. @@ -361,7 +361,7 @@ university since Feb 2014.

Overview of the automagical scripts on the expo website

Script location Input file Output file Purpose /svn/trunk/expoweb/noinfo/make-indxal4.pl /svn/trunk/expoweb/noinfo/CAVETAB2.CSV many produces all cave description pages -
/svn/trunk/expoweb/noinfo/make-folklist.py /svn/trunk/expoweb/noinfo/folk.csv http://cucc.survex.com/expo/folk/index.htm Table of all expo members +
/svn/trunk/expoweb/noinfo/make-folklist.py /svn/trunk/expoweb/noinfo/folk.csv http://expo.survex.com/folk/index.htm Table of all expo members
/svn/trunk/surveys/tablize-csv.pl /svn/trunk/surveys/tablizebyname-csv.pl /svn/trunk/surveys/Surveys.csv diff --git a/images/seesw.jpg b/images/seesw.jpg deleted file mode 100644 index 6cca7a289..000000000 Binary files a/images/seesw.jpg and /dev/null differ diff --git a/images/sponsors/18650uk-logo.jpeg b/images/sponsors/18650uk-logo.jpeg new file mode 100644 index 000000000..e6d2f340d Binary files /dev/null and b/images/sponsors/18650uk-logo.jpeg differ diff --git a/years/2007/TunnocksLogo.jpg b/images/sponsors/TunnocksLogo.jpg similarity index 100% rename from years/2007/TunnocksLogo.jpg rename to images/sponsors/TunnocksLogo.jpg diff --git a/images/viewsw.jpg b/images/viewsw.jpg new file mode 100644 index 000000000..166108fbc Binary files /dev/null and b/images/viewsw.jpg differ diff --git a/images/viewswcaves.jpg b/images/viewswcaves.jpg new file mode 100644 index 000000000..a69805f6d Binary files /dev/null and b/images/viewswcaves.jpg differ diff --git a/index.htm b/index.htm index a99b14535..53e9962f3 100644 --- a/index.htm +++ b/index.htm @@ -11,42 +11,46 @@ -
-

CUCC in Austria 1976-2016

-

Welcome to the website of the Cambridge University Caving Club expeditions to Austria

-

Thanks to the 2016 sponsors:

- +

Many thanks to our generous sponsors who have helped make this possible:

+ + + +
18650.uk

We'd also like to thank the following organisations for their support:

- - - -
British Cave Research Association
- - + British Cave Research Association + UK Caving + Ghar Parau + +
-