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@@ -446,4 +446,5 @@ noinfo/1626/120.htm
 noinfo/1626/122.htm
 
 
+expofiles
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handbook/baseops.html

@@ -22,8 +22,10 @@ because (a) we pay the Gasthof for every person-night and (b) it is a legal requ
 because of tourist tax payments.
 <p>These records are kept in <a href="bierbook.html">two bound paper books</a> which are pre-printed and bound 
 (including the names of all expoers) before the expo begins.
-<p>Your next of kin, insurance and emergency contact details will need to be manually written onto your page of one of these 
+<p>Your next of kin, insurance and emergency contact details (and <b>your own phone number</b>)
-(<a href="bierbook.html">the bierbook</a>) on first arrival at base camp as a double-check that we have the latest correct information.
+ will need to be manually written onto your page of one of these 
+(<a href="bierbook.html">the bierbook</a>) on first arrival at base camp 
+as a double-check that we have the latest correct information.
 
 <h3>Base camp logbook</h3>
 <p>We have a hard-cover book where we record every caving or surface exploration trip that has departed or returned to base camp. This includes 
@@ -57,7 +59,7 @@ The tarp needs to be erected which extends from the end or, from 2018 the side,
 and rain-free area for piles of expo stuff and for people to lurk.
 <p>Part of the area next to the hut is the winter curling "rink" - a lower area of gravel which we can't use for 
  pitching tents  as it floods in heavy rain.
-<p>Another big job is connecting and configuring the WiFI router, the networking netbook, 
+<p>Another big job is connecting and configuring the WiFi router, the networking netbook, 
 the expo laptop (and extra screen and extra keyboard), the WiFi antenna, the printer, and the scanner. 
 These are installed on top of the wood burning stove which we don't use. We also install mains power extension cables with UK-style 
 sockets everywhere in the hut.
@@ -78,6 +80,14 @@ These show current important and urgent information: what needs to be brought up
 The top camp board also records who is out on which caving trips and when they are expected back; and also promising leads to be checked out
 in the coming days.
 
+<h2>Other stuff</h2>
+
+<h3>Washing machine</h3>
+<p>The Gasthof has a washing machine in the lobby of the gents toilet/washroom area (down the side of the building). 
+<p>You pay &euro;3 (2018) cash at the reception (access from the front of the building) to get the key. The key turns on the power to the machine. 
+Return key to reception when you are done.
+<p>Expo buys washing liquid (for washing things by hand) and Ariel washing-balls (for machine washing). These are kept in the potato hut.
+<p>The washing machine has many complicated options and is labelled almost entirely in German. You probably want "Speed" (30 minutes) or "Hygiene" (2 hours 40 minutes).
 
 <h3>Base camp bike</h3>
 <p>We also have <a href=bike.html>a bike</a> which we use for shopping when all the cars are up the toll road and there are only
@@ -85,8 +95,27 @@ a handful of people at base.
 
 
 <h2>Recycling</h2>
+<h3>Glass and glass bottles</h3>
+<p>At the back of the campsite, behind the potato huts, on the side-road, 
+are two glass collecting containers: one for white, clear glass and the other for coloured glass. 
+These are for the odd-shaped bottles, not the Gosser bottles (and similar) which we give back to the shop 
+and get a deposit back on them.
+
+<p>We generally leave the odd bottles (port in recent years, also schnapps)  beside the old potto hut until the pile gets 
+in the way and then someone takes the lot to the glass containers about 20m away.
 <h3>Plastic bottles</h3>
-<p>This is <b>not</b> the same as is the UK. Austrians recycle plastic bottles, but <b>no other forms of plastic</b>: 
+
+<p>This is <b>not</b> the same as is the UK. 
+<p><em>Some</em> of Austria is covered by <a href="https://www.ara.at/en/circular-economy/packaging-recycling/">
+the "yellow bin" scheme</a>, but apparently <b>not</b> the area we are in. 
+There are <a href="https://deutsch.info/en/essentials/austria">regional differences</a> in waste separation laws: <em>
+"Following consultations with the respective municipal governments,  
+Vienna, Lower Austria, <b>Salzburg</b>, and Carinthia focus on the separate collection 
+of plastic bottles (in some regions together with metal packaging), as plastic bottles 
+can be sent for recycling. Other types of light-weight packaging are collected 
+together with municipal solid waste"</em>, i.e. into the black bin bag.
+
+<p>In Bad Aussee, Austrians recycle plastic bottles, but <b>no other forms of plastic</b>: 
 <ul>
 <li>no egg cartons, <li>no plastic bags, <li>no film food packaging, 
 <li>no polythene milk bottles, <li>no PVC shampoo biottles, <li>no yoghurt pots, <li>no plastic cups; nothing. 
@@ -98,6 +127,9 @@ a handful of people at base.
 <p>There is a bin bag for aluminium and steel food and drink cans between the new and old potato huts. 
 We also put the bottle caps from Gosser beer in there.
 
+<h3>Batteries</h3>
+<p>There is a cardboard collection box for old batteries by the tills of most supermarkets. 
+There is certainly a collection point in the big Unimarkt in Bad Aussee.
 <h3>"Biom&uuml;ll" - food waste</h3>
 <p>There is a bin bag for food waste - putrescible waste - between the new and old potato huts. 
 This goes to composting or digestion, so no non-food items should go in here. 

handbook/caveentry.html

@@ -1,10 +1,12 @@
-<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01//EN">
+<html>
-<html lang="en">
 <head>
-  <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8"/>
+<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1" />
-  <title>Cave entry fields</title>
+<title>CUCC Expedition Handbook: Cave entry field</title>
+<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="../css/main2.css" />
 </head>
 <body>
+<h2 id="tophead">CUCC Expedition Handbook</h2>
+
   <h1>Cave entry page fields</h1>
   <p>There are a lot of fields on the 'new/edit cave' page and the 'new/edit entrance' page and
     some of them are a quite mysterious. This page explains what they mean, and how to enter new

handbook/cockup.htm

@@ -43,7 +43,7 @@ exploration by CUCC, so included as "one of ours".</td></tr>
 <tr><td><a name="x88">88</a></td><td>Numbered in red, but didn't go. Number
 reused by Austrians (for a significant cave explored by a German group).
 Allegedly this number was changed to 87A or 87B, but in fact this is not the
-case and this number needs to be removed.</td></tr>
+case and this number needs to be removed. [In 2018 the number has faded so badly that you can only just see that it once said "88".]</td></tr>
 
 <tr><td>106</td><td>This was a number which we were entitled to use, and
 which we applied to <a href="../1623/76/76.htm">Eislufth&ouml;hle</a>,

handbook/computer.html

@@ -60,17 +60,28 @@ Configuring these to be used via WiFi is yet to be done. Meanwhile, use a usb st
 
 <h3>Networking Hardware - experts only</h3>
 
-<p>The networking hardware is an Acer aspire netbook 192.168.200.1 (.200 on WiFi - 
+<p>The networking hardware is an Acer Aspire netbook which keeps us logged in to the Gasthof and does firewalling, plus a WNDR4000 router/AP
-this is the one to use for configuring using ssh) to manage the
-connection to the Gasthof WiFi (and a Mark Shinwell's script <pre>/root/fakenet/runfakenet
-</pre>to keep us logged in to the Gasthof) and firewalling, plus a WNDR4000 router/AP
 to provide local connectivity and local WiFi. The antenna which we use to connect to  the Staudnwirt WiFi 
 is a ~32cm long black stick mounted on a small shelf high above the sink/stove area and connected via a usb cable to the Acer netbook.</p>
+
 <p>The potato hut WiFi is running DHCP and allocating IP addresses of the form 192.168.200.x where x is 2, 3, 4, 5 etc.
+<p>The <em>Expo laptop</em> has fixed local address <a href="http://192.168.200.100/">192.168.200.100</a>. 
+It has a 2TB drive plugged into it by USB which holds the expo music collection and a local copy of /expofiles/
+<p>The router/WiFi device is on <a href="http://192.168.200.1/">192.168.200.1</a> as one might expect. 
 <p>The Gasthof WiFi - which you can still use - is "staudnwirt" and has no WiFi password. It allocates IP addresses in the range
 192.168.2.x etc. The antenna is now on the first-floor balcony within 
 sight of the tatty hut window.
 
+<p>The Acer Aspire netbook ("tclaspire3") is on 192.168.200.200 on WiFi. 
+This is the address to use for configuring it using ssh. So to manage the
+connection to the Gasthof WiFi you would use
+<pre>
+ssh expo@192.168.200.200
+</pre>
+to run Mark Shinwell's script 
+<pre>/root/fakenet/runfakenet
+</pre>
+
 <h3>Historical Note</h3>
 
 <p>Prior to 2018 we used to run an unconnected local network with our own DNS domain 

handbook/datamgt.html

@@ -0,0 +1,58 @@
+<html>
+<head>
+<title>CUCC Expo Handbook - Data Management</title>
+<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="../css/main2.css" />
+</head>
+<body>
+<h2 id="tophead">CUCC Expedition Handbook - Data Management</h2>
+
+<h1>Why cavers need effective data management</h1>
+
+<div style="text-align:left">
+<!-- Comment 
+Justified text is hard to read:
+https://designshack.net/articles/mobile/the-importance-of-designing-for-readability/
+https://designforhackers.com/blog/justify-text-html-css/
+-->
+
+<p>
+Cave exploration is more data-intensive than any other sport. The only way to "win" at this
+sport is to bring back large quantities of interesting survey, and possibly photos or scientific 
+data. Aside from the data collection requirements of the game itself, setting up a game (an 
+expedition) of cave exploration often involves collection of personal information ranging from 
+dates available to medical information to the desire to purchase an expedition t-shirt.
+<p>
+If an expedition will only happen once, low-tech methods are usually adequate to record 
+information. Any events that need to be recorded can go in a logbook. Survey notes must be 
+turned into finished cave sketches, without undue concern for the future expansion of those sketches.
+
+<p>
+However, many caving expeditions are recurring, and managing their data is a more challenging 
+task. For example, let us discuss annual expeditions. Every year, for each cave explored, a list 
+of unfinished leads (which will be called "Question Marks" or "QMs" here) must be maintained to 
+record what has and has not been investigated. Each QM must have a unique id, and information 
+stored about it must be easily accessible to future explorers of the same area. Similarly, on 
+the surface, a "prospecting map" showing which entrances have been investigated needs to be 
+produced and updated at least after every expedition, if not more frequently.
+
+<p>
+These are only the minimum requirements for systematic cave exploration on an annual expedition. 
+There is no limit to the set of data that would be "nice" to have collected and organized 
+centrally. An expedition might collect descriptions of every cave and every passage within every 
+cave. Digital photos of cave entrances could be useful for re-finding those entrances. Scans of 
+notes and sketches provide good backup references in case a question arises about a finished 
+survey product, and recording who did which survey work when can greatly assist the workflow, 
+for example enabling the production of a list of unfinished work for each expedition member. The 
+expedition might keep an inventory of their equipment or a catalog of their library. Entering 
+the realm of the frivolous, an expedition might store mugshots and biographies of its members, 
+or even useful recipes for locally available food. The more of this information the expedition 
+wishes to keep, the more valuable an effective and user-friendly system of data management.
+
+</div>
+<p><em>From "<a href="../../troggle/docsEtc/troggle_paper.odt" download>
+Troggle: a novel system for cave exploration information management</a>", by Aaron Curtis, CUCC.</em>
+<hr />
+
+
+</body>
+</html>

handbook/index.htm

@@ -58,12 +58,20 @@
 <dt><a href="meteo.htm">Weather</a></dt>
 <dd>Unpredictable in the mountains. Local thunderstoms with rapid run-off are the biggest danger.</dd>
 
-<dt><a href="look4.htm">Prospecting</a></dt>
+<dt><a href="datamgt.html">Cave data management</a></dt>
+<dd>The biggest surprise for new people on expo are the intense efforts on recording and managing cave data. This tells you why.</dd>
+
+<dt><a href="look4.htm">Prospecting Issues </a></dt>
 <dd>The printable  <a href="/prospecting_guide/">new prospecting guide (slow to load)</a> is a list of all known cave entrances and is essential reading before you wander the plateau stumbling across holes of potential interest. <br><br>
-Do now read <a href="look4.htm">how to do plateau prospecting</a>.<br><br>
+Do now read <a href="look4.htm">plateau prospecting: issues and explanations</a>.<br><br>
-Vast amounts of work have been wasted in the past through inadequate recording. It isn't very much extra work, 	but ensures that your hard work gains some recognition in the future rather than making lots of tedious work and the cursing of your name... <br><br>
+Vast amounts of work have been wasted in the past through inadequate recording. It isn't very much extra work, 	
-There is also a graphical <a href="prospecting_guide_short.html">prospecting map guide</a> which shows the caves and cave entrances we know about (This is currently broken in that it is not showing a map background so is rather incomprehensible unless you already know the plateau quite well.)<br><br>
+but ensures that your hard work gains some recognition in the future rather than making lots of tedious work 
-There is a separate page with pictures of surface landmarks for <a href="findit.htm">taking bearings</a>, and a new guide to getting a <a href="survey/gps.htm">GPS fix</a>.</dd>
+and the cursing of your name... <br><br>
+There is also a graphical <a href="prospecting_guide_short.html">prospecting map guide</a> which shows 
+the caves and cave entrances we know about (This is currently broken in that it is not showing 
+a map background so is rather incomprehensible unless you already know the plateau quite well.)<br><br>
+There is a separate page with pictures of surface landmarks for <a href="findit.htm">
+taking bearings</a>, and a new guide to getting a <a href="survey/gps.htm">GPS fix</a>.</dd>
 
 <dt><a href="survey/index.htm">Surveying</a></dt>
 <dd>Once the cave starts to get significant (ie. anything which requires getting changed or rigging), it needs good documentation. This is mostly a matter of <br><br>

handbook/look4.htm

@@ -3,13 +3,13 @@
 <head>
 <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1" />
 <title>
-CUCC Expo Prospecting Handbook
+CUCC Expo Prospecting Handbook Issues
 </title>
 <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="../css/main2.css" />
 </head>
 <body>
 <h2 id="tophead">CUCC Expedition Handbook</h2>
-<h1>Prospecting</h1>
+<h1>Prospecting - issues</h1>
 
 <p>Much of the area of the Loser Augst-Eck plateau is rough limestone
 pavement (<b>karren</b>), liberally covered with dense areas of dwarf pine,

handbook/update.htm

@@ -1,12 +1,17 @@
 <html>
 <head>
 <title>CUCC Expedition Handbook: The Website</title>
-<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="../../css/main2.css" />
+<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="../css/main2.css" />
 </head>
 <body>
 <h2 id="tophead">CUCC Expedition Handbook</h2>
 <h1>Expo Website Manual</h1>
-<p>The website is now large and complicated with a lot of aspects. This handbook section contains info at various levels: simple 'How to add stuff' information for the typical expoer, more detailed info for cloning it onto your own machine for more significant edits, and structural info on how it's all put together for people who want/need to change things. [This manual is now so big that it is being restructured and split up. Much of it is obsolete.]</p>
+<p>The website is now large and complicated with a lot of aspects. 
+This handbook section contains info at various levels: 
+simple 'How to add stuff' information for the typical expoer, 
+more detailed info for cloning it onto your own machine for more significant edits, 
+and structural info on how it's all put together for people who want/need to change things. 
+[This manual is now so big that it is being restructured and split up. Much of it is obsolete.]</p>
 
 <p>We have <a href="http://wookware.org/talks/expocomputer/#/">an Overview Presentation</a> on how the cave data, handbook and website are constructed and managed. It contains material which will be merged into this website manual.
 

handbook/website-history.html

@@ -5,22 +5,125 @@
 </head>
 <body>
 <h2 id="tophead">CUCC Expedition Handbook</h2>
-<h1>EXPO WebsiteHistory</h1>
+<h1>EXPO Data Management History</h1>
 
-<p>The CUCC Website was originally created by Andy Waddington in the early 1990s and was hosted by Wookey. The VCS was CVS. The whole site was just static HTML, carefully designed to be RISCOS-compatible (hence the short 10-character filenames) as both Wadders and Wookey were RISCOS people then. Wadders wrote a huge amount of info collecting expo history, photos, cave data etc.</p>
+<div style="text-align:left">
+<!-- Comment 
+Justified text is hard to read:
+https://designshack.net/articles/mobile/the-importance-of-designing-for-readability/
+https://designforhackers.com/blog/justify-text-html-css/
+-->
+<h2>History in review</h2>
+<p>
+Over 32 years, CUCC has developed methods for handling such information. Refinements in data 
+management were made necessary by improved quantity and quality of survey; but refinements in 
+data management also helped to drive those improvements. The first CUCC Austria expedition, in 
+1976, produced only Grade 1 survey for the most part (ref <a href="http://expo.survex.com/years/1977/report.htm">
+Cambridge Underground 1977 report</a>). In 
+the 1980s, the use of programmable calculators to calculate survey point position from compass, 
+tape, and clinometer values helped convince expedition members to conduct precise surveys of 
+every cave encountered. Previously, such work required hours of slide rule or log table work. On 
+several expeditions, such processing was completed after the expedition by a FORTRAN program 
+running on shared mainframe time. BASIC programs running on personal computers took over with 
+the release of the BBC Micro and then the Acorn A4. 
 
-<p>Martin Green added the SURVTAB.CSV file to contain tabulated data for many caves around 1999, and a script to generate the index pages from it. Dave Loeffler added scripts and programs to generate the prospecting maps in 2004. The server moved to Mark Shinwell's machine in the early 2000s, and the VCS was updated to subversion.</p>
+<p>In the 1990s, Olly Betts and Wookey began 
+work on "<a href="http://www.survex.com">Survex</a>", a 
+program in C for the calculation and 3-D visualization of centerlines, with 
+intelligent loop closure processing. Julian Todd's Java program "Tunnel" facilitated the 
+production of attractive, computerized passage sketches from Survex centerline data and scanned 
+hand-drawn notes.
 
-<p>In 2006 Aaron Curtis decided that a more modern set of generated, database-based pages made sense, and so wrote Troggle. This uses Django to generate pages. This reads in all the logbooks and surveys and provides a nice way to access them, and enter new data. It was separate for a while until Martin Green added code to merge the old static pages and new troggle dynamic pages into the same site. Work on Troggle still continues sporadically.</p>
+<p>Along with centrelines and sketches, descriptions of caves were also affected by improvements 
+in data management. In a crucial breakthrough, Andrew Waddinton introduced the use of the 
+nascent markup language HTML to create an interlinked, navigable system of descriptions. Links 
+in HTML documents could mimic the branched and often circular structure of the caves themselves. 
+For example, the reader could now follow a link out of the main passage into a side passage, and 
+then be linked back into the main passage description at the point where the side passage 
+rejoined the main passage. This elegant use of technology enabled and encouraged expedition 
+members to better document their exploration.
 
-<p>After expo 2009 the VCS was updated to hg, because a DVCS makes a great deal of sense for expo (where it goes offline for a month or two and nearly all the year's edits happen).</p>
+<p>To organize all other data, such as lists of caves and their explorers, expedition members 
+eventually wrote a number of scripts which took spreadsheets (or comma separated value 
+files, .CSV ) of information and produced webpages in HTML. Other scripts also used information 
+from Survex data files. Web pages for each cave as well as the indexes which listed all of the 
+caves were generated by one particularly powerful script, <em>make-indxal4.pl</em> . The same data was 
+used to generate a prospecting map as a JPEG image. The system of automatically generating 
+webpages from data files reduced the need for repetitive manual HTML coding. Centralized storage 
+of all caves in a large .CSV file with a cave on each row made the storage of new information 
+more straightforward.
 
-<p>The site was moved to Julian Todd's seagrass server (in 2010), but the change from a 32-bit to 64-bit machine broke the website autogeneration code,
+<p>Another important element of this system was version control. The entire data structure was 
+stored initially in a Concurrent Version System repository, and later migrated to 
+Subversion. Any edits to the spreadsheets which caused the scripts to fail, breaking the 
+website, could be easily reversed.
+
+
+<p>However, not all types of data could be stored in spreadsheets or survey files. In order a 
+display descriptions on the webpage for an individual cave, the entire description, written in 
+HTML, had to be typed into a spreadsheet cell. A spreadsheet cell makes for an extremely awkward 
+HTML editing environment. To work around this project, descriptions for large caves were written 
+manually as a tree of HTML pages and then the main cave page only contained a link to them.
+
+
+<p>A less obvious but more deeply rooted problem was the lack of relational information. One 
+table named <em>folk.csv</em> stored names of all expedition members, the years in which they were 
+present, and a link to a biography page. This was great for displaying a table of members by 
+expedition year, but what if you wanted to display a list of people who wrote in the logbook 
+about a certain cave in a certain expedition year? Theoretically, all of the necessary 
+information to produce that list has been recorded in the logbook, but there is no way to access 
+it because there is no connection between the person's name in <em>folk.csv</em> and the entries he wrote 
+in the logbook.
+
+
+<p>The only way that relational information was stored in our csv files was by putting 
+references to other files into spreadsheet cells. For example, there was a column in the main 
+cave spreadsheet, <em>cavetab2.csv</em> , which contained the path to the QM list for each cave. The 
+haphazard nature of the development of the "script and spreadsheet" method meant that every cave 
+had an individual system for storing QMs. Without a standard system, it was sometimes unclear 
+how to correctly enter data. 
+
+<p><em>From "<a href="../../troggle/docsEtc/troggle_paper.odt" download>
+Troggle: a novel system for cave exploration information management</a>", by Aaron Curtis, CUCC.</em>
+<hr />
+
+<h2>History in summary</h2>
+
+<p>The CUCC Website, which publishes the cave data, was originally created by 
+Andy Waddington in the early 1990s and was hosted by Wookey. 
+
+The version control system was <a href="https://www.nongnu.org/cvs/">CVS</a>. The whole site was just static HTML, carefully 
+designed to be RISCOS-compatible (hence the short 10-character filenames) 
+as both Wadders and Wookey were <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RISC_OS">RISCOS"</a> people then (in the early 1990s). 
+Wadders wrote a huge amount of info collecting expo history, photos, cave data etc.</p>
+
+<p>Martin Green added the <em>survtab.csv</em> file to contain tabulated data for many caves around 1999, and a 
+script to generate the index pages from it. Dave Loeffler added scripts and programs to generate the 
+prospecting maps in 2004. The server moved to Mark Shinwell's machine in the early 
+2000s, and the version control system was updated to <a href="https://subversion.apache.org/">subversion</a>.</p>
+
+<p>In 2006 Aaron Curtis decided that a more modern set of generated, database-based pages 
+made sense, and so wrote Troggle. 
+This uses Django to generate pages. 
+This reads in all the logbooks and surveys and provides a nice way to access them, and enter new data. 
+It was separate for a while until Martin Green added code to merge the old static pages and 
+new troggle dynamic pages into the same site. Work on Troggle still continues sporadically.</p>
+
+<p>After Expo 2009 the version control system was updated to hg (Mercurial), 
+because a distributed version control system makes a great deal of sense for expo 
+(where it goes offline for a month or two and nearly all the year's edits happen).</p>
+
+<p>The site was moved to Julian Todd's seagrass server (in 2010), 
+but the change from a 32-bit to 64-bit machine broke the website autogeneration code,
 which was only fixed in early 2011, allowing the move to complete. The
-data has been split into 3 separate repositories: the website,
+data was split into separate repositories: the website,
 troggle, the survey data, the tunnel data. Seagrass was turned off at
 the end of 2013, and the site has been hosted by Sam Wenham at the
-university since Feb 2014.</p>
+university since Feb 2014. In 2018 we have 4 repositories, see <a href="update.htm">the website manual</a></p>.
+
+<p>In spring 2018 Sam, Wookey and Paul Fox updated the  Linux version and the Django version to 
+something vaguely acceptable to the university computing service and fixed all the problems that were then observed.
+</div>
 Return to<br>
 <a href="update.html">Website update</a><br>
 <a href="expodata.html">Website developer information</a><br>

infodx.htm

@@ -66,7 +66,12 @@
   <li><a href="handbook/kitlist.html">Kit list</a></li>
   <li><a href="travel.htm">How to get to Expo</a></li>
   <li>Camps: <a href="bcamps.htm">Base camp</a> and <a href="tcamps.htm">High camps</a></li>
-  <li><a href="handbook/look4.htm">Prospecting Guide</a> - Expo handbook (<a href="/prospecting_guide/">Table</a> <a href="handbook/prospecting_guide.html">fancy clickable map</a>) </li>
+  <li><a href="handbook/look4.htm">Prospecting Issues</a> - Expo handbook 
+    <ul>
+      <li><a href="/prospecting_guide/">Table of caves</a> - prospecting guide</li>
+      <li><a href="handbook/prospecting_guide.html">Map with list of caves</a></li>
+      <li><a href="noinfo/katasterable-or-not">'Katasterable or not' list</li>
+    </ul>
   <li><a href="handbook/update.htm">Expo Website</a> - How the website and data
   repositories are accessed, and updated.</li>
   <li>Surveying:

years/2018/logbook.html

@@ -13,7 +13,9 @@
 <div class="triptitle">Balkonhoehle/264 - 1<sup>st</sup> rig</div>
 
 <p>
-Rigged entrance pitch as far as second deviation but found deviation tat (meant to be in-situe) had been removed along with hanger. Dickon spent 10+ minutes swinging to find bolt but it could not be found. Returned to surface leaving rope and rigging gear at last rigged Y-hang.
+Rigged entrance pitch as far as second deviation but found deviation tat (meant to be in-situe) 
+had been removed along with hanger. Dickon spent 10+ minutes swinging to find bolt but it could not be found. 
+Returned to surface leaving rope and rigging gear at last rigged Y-hang.
 </p>
 
 <div class="timeug">T/U: 4 hours</div>
@@ -23,7 +25,8 @@ Rigged entrance pitch as far as second deviation but found deviation tat (meant
 <div class="triptitle">Tunnocks - 1<sup>st</sup> rig</div>
 
 <p>
-Rigged Tunnocks to start of Caramel Catharsis (or thereabouts). In the words of Anthony: "Nothing to report, just tell everyone how great it was!"
+Rigged Tunnocks to start of Caramel Catharsis (or thereabouts). In the words of 
+Anthony: "Nothing to report, just tell everyone how great it was!"
 </p>
 
 <div class="timeug">T/U: 5 hours</div>
@@ -34,12 +37,14 @@ Rigged Tunnocks to start of Caramel Catharsis (or thereabouts). In the words of
 <div class="triptitle">Prospecting past Fisch Gesicht, beyond the ski pole line</div>
 
 <p>
-After the first spit had been set we realised that we'd forgotten the bolts, doh, so the tags for these caves have been hammered into cracks and only cucc-2018-ms01 has a hole drilled.
+After the first spit had been set we realised that we'd forgotten the bolts, doh, so the tags for 
+these caves have been hammered into cracks and only cucc-2018-ms01 has a hole drilled.
 </p>
 <p>
 <b>cucc-2018-ms01</b><br />
 Becka's phone GPS 33+ 410730 5274320 Alt 1698m Accuracy 4m<br />
-Description: Rubble slope with snow plug down to a jammed boulder. Wriggle down next to it to a 45° ramp down. This levels off to a tight squeeze down to a small chamber. Around 30m long with no draft.<br />
+Description: Rubble slope with snow plug down to a jammed boulder. Wriggle down next to it to a 45° 
+ramp down. This levels off to a tight squeeze down to a small chamber. Around 30m long with no draft.<br />
 Sketch: see notes and photo on Becka's phone at 09:30 on 13/7/18<br />
 Notes: tag hammered into crack near to placed spit<br />
 Photo: Becka's phone at 14:00<br />
@@ -47,14 +52,17 @@ Photo: Becka's phone at 14:00<br />
 <p>
 <b>cucc-2018-ms02 Blitz Baum Schacht (Lightening Tree Shaft)</b><br />
 Becka's phone GPS 33+ 410635 5283186 Alt 1724m Accuracy 4m (see also Mark's GPS)<br />
-Description: Around 30m NNE (say 020) from distinctive, large, dead tree struck by lightning. A 30m+ shaft, rocks rattle for several seconds. Hole ~5m long x 1m wide.<br />
+Description: Around 30m NNE (say 020) from distinctive, large, dead tree struck by lightning. A 
+30m+ shaft, rocks rattle for several seconds. Hole ~5m long x 1m wide.<br />
 Notes: tag hammered into crack on flat area on long side<br />
 Photo: Becka's phone and Mark's phone at 14:56
 </p>
 <p>
 <b>cucc-2018-ms03 Zufall Hoehle (Coincidence Cave)</b><br />
 Becka's phone GPS 33+ 410376 5283124 Alt 1714m Accuracy 3m (see also Mark's GPS)<br />
-Description: Squeeze through boulders then drop down c2 and along a tall, narrow rift for ~10m to head of ~7m pitch. Weak draft out. This was re-found by Dickon and Jon later the same day and they said there was also a phreatic tube visible from the pitch head. <br />
+Description: Squeeze through boulders then drop down c2 and along a tall, narrow rift for ~10m to 
+head of ~7m pitch. Weak draft out. This was re-found by Dickon and Jon later the same day and they 
+said there was also a phreatic tube visible from the pitch head. <br />
 Notes: tag hammered into above entrance boulders <br />
 Photo: Becka's phone and Mark's phone at 16:10
 </p>
@@ -73,10 +81,13 @@ Photo: Mark's phone at 17:00
 <div class="triptitle">Tunnocksschacht/258 - String Theory to Procrastination Rig</div>
 
 <p>
-In via usual route to head of String Theory. Found Three ropes (~35m, ~45m, ~60m). Used ~45m and ~35m to rig String Theory (Crossley Rigging). Found ~90m left at head of Procrastination. Used ~20m rope (brought in from top camp) to rig traverse and ~90m to rig pitch of Procrastination. (Densham rigging).
+In via usual route to head of String Theory. Found Three ropes (~35m, ~45m, ~60m). Used ~45m and ~35m to 
+rig String Theory (Crossley Rigging). Found ~90m left at head of Procrastination. Used ~20m rope (brought in 
+from top camp) to rig traverse and ~90m to rig pitch of Procrastination. (Densham rigging).
 </p>
 <p>
-Left tub of flapjacks, snickers, 4 curries with bothy bag at base of Procrastination. Also left 90m 9mm rope for Kraken with slings, snap gates, hangers and maillons.
+Left tub of flapjacks, snickers, 4 curries with bothy bag at base of Procrastination. Also left 90m 9mm 
+rope for Kraken with slings, snap gates, hangers and maillons.
 </p>
 <p>
 Returned to Top Camp ~5 mins before callout - blame my (Crossley's) slow rigging of String Theory. Brought ~60m rope out of cave.
@@ -87,7 +98,9 @@ Returned to Top Camp ~5 mins before callout - blame my (Crossley's) slow rigging
 <div class="trippeople"><u>Jon Arne Toft</u>, Dickon Morris</div>
 <div class="triptitle">Prospecting Kleine Wildkogel</div>
 
-<p>Prospected along side of Kleine Wildkogel along South edge heading West. Little but choked shafts for most of the day, but promising end of the day with two good leads. Conveniently, another team claimed to have discovered one of the better finds 2 hours before we found it. This is heavily disputed and questionable.
+<p>Prospected along side of Kleine Wildkogel along South edge heading West. Little but choked 
+shafts for most of the day, but promising end of the day with two good leads. Conveniently, another team 
+claimed to have discovered one of the better finds 2 hours before we found it. This is heavily disputed and questionable.
 </p>
 
 
@@ -98,7 +111,8 @@ Jon's phone DD 47.69781N 13.81647E<br />
 
 <p><b>CUCC 2018 DM02 -</b><br />
 Jon's phone DD 47.69756N 13.81331E<br />
-8m climb in narrow shaft. 8m climb in wide rift to snow plug. Squeeze past snow plug horizontally 10m leading to small chamber w ice formations. Small window with cobble floor leading to undescended 10m pitch. Rocks rattle at bottom. </p>
+8m climb in narrow shaft. 8m climb in wide rift to snow plug. Squeeze past snow plug horizontally 
+10m leading to small chamber w ice formations. Small window with cobble floor leading to undescended 10m pitch. Rocks rattle at bottom. </p>
 
 <p><b>CUCC2018 DM03 +</b><br />
 Jon's phone DD 47.69813N 13.80967E<br />
@@ -115,7 +129,8 @@ Large open shaft. 10m. Small rift at bottom leads on another inspected 10m drop.
 <p><b>CUCC2018 DM06 -</b><br />
 <b>*THIS CAVE IS A DUPLICATE OF CUCC2018 MS03, which was apparently explored by Becka 2 hrs earlier (or so she says)*</b><br />
 Jon's phone DD 47.69514N 13.80591E<br />
-Climb down boulder tickle 5m leads to 2m climb. Rift continues to 4m pitch into chamber, unpushed. Small passage in roof above pitch ledge to left continues 30m through narrow crawl to 4-way intersection. Unexplored further.</p>
+Climb down boulder tickle 5m leads to 2m climb. Rift continues to 4m pitch into chamber, unpushed. 
+Small passage in roof above pitch ledge to left continues 30m through narrow crawl to 4-way intersection. Unexplored further.</p>
 
 <p><b>CUCC2018 DM07 -</b><br />
 Jon's phone DD 47.69429N 13.80534E<br />
@@ -140,9 +155,12 @@ From here, an impressive pitch was observed(8m diameter) which a 27m rope was in
 descend. Probably 40m deep. Strong draft, predicted by the majority of 
 CUCC to be larger than Tunnocks <i>[citation needed]</i>.</p>
 
-<p>Surveyed out of cave, tag left on small shelf right under surface level. Lack of pencils led to ditching of DM06, though this is an interesting cave. DM06 still unexplored.</p>
+<p>Surveyed out of cave, tag left on small shelf right under surface level. Lack of pencils led to 
+ditching of DM06, though this is an interesting cave. DM06 still unexplored.</p>
 
-<p>Jon sprained ankle before cave entrance, the effects of which showed up shortly after arrival to top camp, and which subsided by the next day. Strange stuff which unfortunately led to me being unable to push further the next day. :-(</p>
+<p>Jon sprained ankle before cave entrance, the effects of which showed up shortly after arrival to 
+top camp, and which subsided by the next day. Strange stuff which unfortunately led to me being 
+unable to push further the next day. :-(</p>
 
 <div class="timeug">T/U: 3 hours</div>
 
@@ -173,7 +191,8 @@ the tourist boat. Photos taken [and posted to Facebook Expo2018 page].
 - Snake Charmer - Snake Bite - Lower Snake Bite  </div>
 <p>
 Snakebite lands in large rift passage with waterfall entering from LHS. Water drains
-down to Lower Snakebite (this starts with an awkward free climb next to water; themore obvious passage on L of this 
+down to Lower Snakebite (this starts with an awkward free climb next to water; themore 
+obvious passage on L of this 
 (as you face downstream) is main Snakebite passage (dry) that connects to Song of the Earth.
 <p>
 [many detailed diagrams - see scanned imageswhen done]
@@ -185,13 +204,14 @@ pitch following water down free climbs.
 
 <div class="tripdate" id="t2018-07-14a">2018-07-14</div>
 <div class="trippeople"><u>Philip Sargent</u></div>
-<div class="triptitle">Surface walk Stoger Weg/115 (Schnellzugh&ouml;hle></div>
+<div class="triptitle">Surface walk Stoger Weg/115 (Schnellzugh&ouml;hle)</div>
 <p>
 Found the entrance* - but it is 60m away from where the GPS says it should be.
 <p>
 Attempted to get to the location the GPS says it is but it's impenetrable bunde.
 <p>
-Stashed in 115 ent: 1 2-man tent, 2 karrimats, 1 litre water (a bit brown - filled in gents loo at berg restaurant), small bag muesli.
+Stashed in 115 ent: 1 2-man tent, 2 karrimats, 1 litre water (a bit brown - 
+filled in gents loo at berg restaurant), small bag muesli.
 <p>
 I rigged a smallwater collection poly sheet which may get 2-3 litres if we're lucky.
 <p>
@@ -201,8 +221,10 @@ rugged than the part closer to the carpark: many granny-stoppers.
 Photos taken from turn-off point [from Stoger Weg]: "a barely discernable trod" to cave.
 This "trod" is much more overgrown thanit was in 1982.
 <p>
-*POSTSCRIPT - on 17th July found a 1981 photo of the entrance which shows that the entrance I found wasn't the main entrance. 
+*POSTSCRIPT - on 17th July found a 1981 photo of the entrance which shows that the entrance 
-I had found the upper (smaller) entrance CUCC-PS01-2018 at N 47.66743 E 013.80945 alt. 1547m (WGS84 Garmin Venture Cx)
+I found wasn't the main entrance. 
+I had found the upper (smaller) entrance CUCC-PS01-2018 at N 47.66743 E 013.80945 alt. 1547m 
+(WGS84 Garmin Venture Cx)
 7
 <div class="timeug">T/U: 4 mins</div>
 
@@ -232,11 +254,34 @@ Out of rope so we surveyed out.
 
 <div class="timeug">T/U: 0 hours</div>
 
+<div class="tripdate" id="t2018-07-11">2018-07-11</div>
+<div class="trippeople"><u>Anthony Day</u>, Chris, Frank, Todd</div>
+<div class="triptitle">Prospecting/visiting known holes near Organh&ouml;hle</div>
+<p>
+Hacked out on the cairned path to Organh&ouml;hle to look at some holes
+found on a 2012 prospecting trip, and see whatever we could find:
+<ul>
+<li><b>2012-dd-06</b> ("Big-D-H&ouml;hle") - apparently surveyed last year, 
+but not in the dataset. Red survey stations visible but unknown how far it has been explored.
+<li><b>2012-dd-08</b> ("Shark tooth cave", due to popcorn formations that look vaguely likesharks' teeth). 
+A choked 5m round phreatic tube reported as carrying some draught in 2012. Poked around
+in two holes on the left (which connect) and another at the end without finding any way 
+on. Grade 2 survey completed.
+<li><b>2012-dd-10</b> - refound and tagged. Worth descending but especially promising.
+<li><b>2018-ad-01</b> - a ~15m shaft just around corner fom 2012-dd-10 photo'd and tagged; not especially promising.
+<li><b>2012-dd-02</b> - Tagged on our way home.Reported as draughting/windy in 2012, but doesn't look amazing.
+</ul>
+
+<div class="timeug">T/U: 0 hours</div>
+
+
+
 <div class="tripdate" id="t2018-07-18b">2018-07-18</div>
 <div class="trippeople"><u>Philip Sargent</u></div>
 <div class="triptitle">Solo walking in area of 115 entrances [and CUCC-PS01-2018]</div>
 <p>11:00-18:00 up the hill.
-<p>Found p115x the main "train tunnel" hole. Did a 200+ averaging GPS reading on p115x, Windloch, and cave 88 on the Stoger Weg.
+<p>Found p115x the main "train tunnel" hole. Did a 200+ averaging GPS reading on p115x, Windloch, and cave 88 
+on the Stoger Weg.
 <p>Carried safety gear from the entrance I found 4 days ago and stashed inside:
 <ul>
 <li>3l water in 3x 2l bottles
@@ -256,7 +301,8 @@ Proceed back along foot of karren slope and push aside
 3-4 branches of bunde to reach a "path".<br><br>
 Follow along this until you can descend steeply to the left (a few more branches of bunde) to  steep "rockery" scramble
 bank. Make your way with care down this and you should be able to see a truncated pine tree [4m high] on the
-other side of a small gully. (When seen from the other side, this pine tree has branches in the shape of a figure "4".) Descend and traverse round 
+other side of a small gully. (When seen from the other side, this pine tree has branches in the shape of a figure "4".) 
+Descend and traverse round 
 to the right and climb up to this pine tree across the gully.<br><br>
 Now follow "path" down and to the right across 2 areas of soil/grass/loose stones to eventually reach a big pine tree 
 with a bend in the trunk at ground
@@ -264,8 +310,10 @@ level and a small cairn on the bend in the trunk. Continue down right through bu
 see a large dead twisted tree root across a gully. Descend and get to this via via lush grass and flowers on steep slope and loose soil.
 <br><br>
 At the twisted dead tree root there is an obvious route leading to the right. At this point you are only 13m from p115x but
-you can't see it as it faces S. and you are approaching from the N. 10m on you pass a large anthill and then 3m further and you're there.<br><br>
+you can't see it as it faces S. and you are approaching from the N. 10m on you pass a large anthill and then 3m further 
-You may see a water collection poly sheet a lot earlier but use this route to get to it. (I did it 3x today and lots of other routes are worse.)
+and you're there.<br><br>
+You may see a water collection poly sheet a lot earlier but use this route to get to it. (I did it 3x today and lots of 
+other routes are worse.)
 <p>
 Oh yes, on first visit to <b>CUCC-PS01-2018</b> this morning I went in: climbing down a 30 degree straight tunnel. 
 Roof is solid rock and floor is blocks 
@@ -274,5 +322,68 @@ Continues deeper but I was in t-shirt and shorts. Slight cold outwards draft.
 </p>
 [Photos and GPS tracks and locations recorded.]
 <div class="timeug">T/U: 10 mins</div>
+
+<div class="tripdate" id="t2018-08-01a">2018-08-01</div>
+<div class="trippeople"><u>Philip Sargent</u></div>
+<div class="triptitle">Solo walking in Stumern Alm area</div>
+
+Attempt to reach Futility Series mythical potential entrance from below.
+
+Cycled to N.end of Altaussee lake (S.route). This took 1 hour from base camp.
+<p>
+Track up is very cyclable to a hut [Stumern Alm, 813m] where it stops & there is a steeply ascending 
+rough path (signposted to Appelhaus) up the Trisselwand side of the valley. I parked bike.
+<p>
+I decided to go directly up the Loser side: "Oh Yes", I thought, "10-15 minutes 
+and I'll be past those trees and into the clear grass/rock/scree area". 1 hour later
+I was in a rock shelter [wpt C05 942m], still in the trees, and I could now see that the track I should have been on was much higher,
+and I also had no easy safe way on up this side of the valley.
+<p>
+The geology is very promising though - at the hut the big face [Pfenningofen] is well-bedded with a couple of useful-looking faults.
+<p>
+I had got to within 600m horizontally of where I wanted to be to look for entrance, but also 600m too low.
+<p>
+Aborted cycle ride home in Bad Aussee for emergency ice cream.
+<p>
+Philip
+<p>
+PS Nettles! Flies !! aarghhh!!!
+
+PPS The better way to do this approach would be to take a jeep up the correct track (the one that says "No Bicycles") 
+all the way to the road head at Oberwasser Alm at 1353m, and then traverse round to the right area 
+above the tree line but below the bunde line.
+<p>
+Departed base camp 06:35, returned 13:05
+
+<div class="timeug">T/U: 0 hours</div>
+
+<div class="tripdate" id="t2018-08-03">2018-08-03</div>
+<div class="trippeople"><u>Philip Sargent</u></div>
+<div class="triptitle">"Lookfutile3"</div>
+<p>Walking and scrambling on the hillside/cliff below the main entrance to 115 (Schnellzugh&ouml;hle) 
+to try to find an entrance to the Futily Series (again).
+<p>Up at 6am with Luke and Rachel, hitched back to Bad Aussee at the end of the day and Wookey
+collected me from there.
+<p>On the mountain I finally got tot he right area where it was possible 
+to explore and make progress: several limestone cliffs and benches - all below bunde level - with 
+dappled shade of beeches and pine trees, lots of artfully arranged rocks & short grass & wild flowers.
+<p>Found several dripping slots but no sensible entrances in this area. I don't trust the altitudes (and sometimes the positions) from my GPS
+in this area - which on average is tipped 30 degrees from the vertical - i.e. it's really all just a broken cliff.
+Several game and hunters' tracks. Lots of rillen karren clambering.
+<p>After climbing up a little cliff - easy enough but something I didn't fancy reversing - I found myself in tick bunde. 
+After a bit I tried going underneath the bunde and found myself looking at a tiny entrance which 
+was giving a slight draft [N 47.66729 E013.80959 alt.1526m using my Garmin eTrex Venture Cx]. 
+It is almost possible to get into it but it is only 
+15m east of cucc-ps01-2018. NB it's not the choked pit, it's 5m east of the 
+choked pit, over the edge of a bunde-bedecked ledge.
+<p>I went into cucc-ps01-2018 for 6 minutes to get 20m in (it descends due west (270 M) at 30 degrees from the horizontal)
+vadose relic with lots of boulders. I got to a big rock I couldn't quite be sure of climbing back up. 
+Needs surveying and tagging.
+
+<p>Removed water-collection poly-sheet from 115 ent. Now only has 9 litres of water and some flapjack & museli in it.
+
+
+
+<div class="timeug">T/U: 0.1 hours</div>
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