From 3ab42e4fbea5d4ccd8d23fe39b7388211637af05 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Philip Sargent View across the plateau towards Hinterer Schwarzmooskogel (skyline
+to left). Bräuninghöhle (1623/82), found by CUCC in 1977, is the walk-in entrance about a third of the way up the diagonal from the bottom
+left corner. The 161a entrance is just over the skyline on the right.
+ For a better view of the plateau from a higher viewpoint see:
+ The steep north slopes of the Bräuning Nase can be climbed
-via a shallow gully. At the north end of its short ridge, by hacking through
+ The Hinter Schwarzmooskogel is the peak in the centre of the view,
+the Steinbrückhöhle Top Camp location is at the top left, but this photo was taken
+24 years before we established ourselves there in 2002.
+ This photo was taken from the steep north slopes of the Bräuning Nase
+which can be climbed
+via a shallow gully. At the north end of the Bräuning Nase short ridge, by hacking through
dwarf pine, Laser Point 0/7
can be found, in an entertaining position perched over the cliff down to the
-Schwarzmoossattel. The actual summit is at the south end of the ridge, and
+Schwarzmoossättel. The actual summit is at the south end of the ridge, and
views of the plateau from anywhere on the top are restricted by the clinging
pines. This view is from the ridge leading west from the Nase towards the
higher points of the Bräuning wall. Compare this 1978 shot with the more
recent (1996) view from the Bräuning Nase to
see how vegetation has changed since CUCC started to visit the area.
- This shot was taken ten years before we first camped on the plateau.
-Top Camp would eventually be sited just off the bottom of the picture left of centre. Behind this, an area of
+ This shot was taken ten years before we first camped on the plateau just over the col
+in 1988.
+Old (Schwarzmoossättel)Top Camp
+would eventually be sited just off the bottom of the picture left of centre. Behind this, an area of
limestone karren with noticeable diagonal scarps is the location of
1623/171 whilst to the right and nearer is
another patch of bare karren containing B11,
@@ -30,8 +41,6 @@ Hinterer Schwarzmooskogel is the peak on the skyline left of centre, and
Kaninchenhöhle's top entrance
lies just in from the right hand edge of the picture on the horizon.
- Above Top camp, the steep slopes of the Bräuning Nase can be climbed
+ This view of the far plateau from the Bräuning Nase shows the Hinter Schwartzmooskögl
+on the skyline to the right, and from the left: the Grösser Wildkögl
+(looking like a ridge), the
+Kleine Wildkögl (with a flat top) and the Greiskögl (the pointy one).
+The Augst-Eck is the imperceptibly low rise in the middle, on which we
+have had our Top Camp since 2002.
+
+
+
+ Above Old Top camp just beyond the col, the steep slopes of the Bräuning Nase
+can be climbed
via a shallow gully. At the north end of its short ridge, by hacking through
dwarf pine, Laser Point 0/7
can be found, in an entertaining position perched over the cliff down to the
@@ -28,8 +43,6 @@ Hinterer Schwarzmooskogel is the peak on the skyline on the right, and Kaninchenhöhle's top
entrance lies some way off the right hand edge of the picture on the horizon.
-
Photo © Andy Waddington, 1989
+
+
+
+
diff --git a/1623/others/l/nasev2.htm b/1623/others/l/nasev2.htm
index ed5beed82..efe4f1543 100644
--- a/1623/others/l/nasev2.htm
+++ b/1623/others/l/nasev2.htm
@@ -1,27 +1,38 @@
-
+
-
+
Photo © Andy Waddington, 1978
-
diff --git a/1623/others/l/nasevw.htm b/1623/others/l/nasevw.htm
index 884522ae0..eb3c01f2f 100644
--- a/1623/others/l/nasevw.htm
+++ b/1623/others/l/nasevw.htm
@@ -8,8 +8,23 @@ Loser Augst-Eck Plateau - view from Bräuning Nase
-
Photo © Andy Waddington, 1996
-
diff --git a/areas.htm b/areas.htm
index 07c15ddd5..3317ac9e5 100644
--- a/areas.htm
+++ b/areas.htm
@@ -18,6 +18,16 @@ 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 southern slopes of Loser to reach a large parking area and self-service @@ -28,10 +38,6 @@ 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. The Stone-Bridge bivi site between the Hinter Schwarmooskogel and Neid Augst-Eck makes it practical to expore this area.
-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 @@ -41,7 +47,7 @@ Schwarzmooskogel towards Augst-Eck (forming a long strip on the SE of
There are approaching two hundred caves known at present in the area, so for @@ -53,25 +59,6 @@ geographical distinction. Apart from a few caves found in the first couple of years, CUCC's work has been confined to just the first four of these smaller areas, though the map overlaps onto most of the others.
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