diff --git a/1623/161/fbland.htm b/1623/161/fbland.htm index 76b3e7fd5..da6b56363 100644 --- a/1623/161/fbland.htm +++ b/1623/161/fbland.htm @@ -31,8 +31,8 @@
Much of the horizontal development on the eastern side of
Kaninchenhöhle is at a similar level and of a similar character to
passages in
-Schwarzmooskogeleishöhle,
-Larchenhöhle and the
+Schwarzmooskogeleishöhle,
+Larchenhöhle and the
Stellerweghöhle /
Schnellzughöhle systems, all of
which are connected together. From the southernmost point of Flat France,
diff --git a/1623/2011-01/rigging.svg b/1623/2011-01/rigging.svg
index adec55472..56fb9ab9e 100644
--- a/1623/2011-01/rigging.svg
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@@ -15,7 +15,7 @@
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As CUCC has not been responsible for the majority of the exploration in Eishöhle, the majority of the information concerning it is stored elsewhere. As CUCC has not been responsible for the majority of the exploration in Eishöhle, the majority of the information concerning it is stored elsewhere.
diff --git a/1623/41/41.htm b/1623/41/41.htm
index 40d6dc311..ab9acd190 100644
--- a/1623/41/41.htm
+++ b/1623/41/41.htm
@@ -22,7 +22,7 @@ Panoramastrße. This is followed over
Stogerweg perched on the hillside above
Weiße Wand. Shortly beyond the draughting
hole of 1623/32
-Windloch,
+Windloch,
the path drops steeply down the hillside. The two entrances are found 50
vertical metres up the hillside, by following orange paint marks from a
clearly marked permanent survey station "P3".
diff --git a/1623/41/deepwy.htm b/1623/41/deepwy.htm
index 91d199bd5..a29b02529 100644
--- a/1623/41/deepwy.htm
+++ b/1623/41/deepwy.htm
@@ -152,9 +152,9 @@ ceremony at the final sump in 1982.
Altausseer See, as the Austrians reckoned that
this was in a different block of limestone. However, the coincidence in
altitude with both the lake (at 712m) and a static sump in
-Liägerhöhle
+Liägerhöhle
does suggest some control over the local water table. Following the discovery
-of underwater risings in
+of underwater risings in
Altausseer See in 1990, it now seems likely that
these are the resurgence for this water. Unfortunately, permission for dye
tests is quite hard to obtain, and the total flow from
diff --git a/1623/41/off41.htm b/1623/41/off41.htm
index a804709dc..2634e7e54 100644
--- a/1623/41/off41.htm
+++ b/1623/41/off41.htm
@@ -30,7 +30,7 @@ places. Location: E 35772.8 N (52)81214.6 H 1615.6 This is reached by bashing up an indistinct gully from
-Windloch
+Windloch
(1623/32) on the
Stöger Weg until an entrance marked P132 (sic)
in red paint is reached. Initially thought to be a possible higher entrance
@@ -102,7 +102,7 @@ At the top is a T-junction, left
[C1982-142-31]
was soon blocked by a large boulder, which was passed by a short dig
from the far side, to provide the first connection from
-Schwabenschacht (1623/78).
+Schwabenschacht (1623/78).
To the right at the T-junction leads on until, after 20m, the floor drops
away into blackness
[C1982-142-32],
@@ -321,9 +321,9 @@ to hear from CUCC about our finds in the early eighties, were reluctant to
reveal anything of value about their explorations (which were not then
complete), so we have no written description from them. However, recent
improvements in dialogue mean that we have a survey of the cave, from which a
-description has been built. The
+description has been built. The
further ramifications of this cave connect through to the
-Schwarzmooskogeleishöhle
+Schwarzmooskogeleishöhle
(1623/40) with a further 2.5km or more of passage. Downstream in Wet 'n' Wild, about 10m from the Big Pitch, a climb up to a
diff --git a/1623/41/offdp.htm b/1623/41/offdp.htm
index 2927bd977..1cc9b2f67 100644
--- a/1623/41/offdp.htm
+++ b/1623/41/offdp.htm
@@ -58,7 +58,7 @@ Kön Dom. Many of the passages in these levels contain dead bats, perhaps suggesting
a lower entrance, though this seems unlikely to be nearby. Some of the deeper
-passages of Schwabenschacht (1623/78) are near this
+passages of Schwabenschacht (1623/78) are near this
area, perhaps 200m above the Confluence. The top of Echo Aven is near to
halfway to bridging this gap, which suggests the possibility of a connection
in the next few years.Elefantengang
diff --git a/1623/40/qm.htm b/1623/40/qm.htm
index 9fd45c684..7607eaf38 100644
--- a/1623/40/qm.htm
+++ b/1623/40/qm.htm
@@ -65,10 +65,10 @@ explored by many people over a long period, so shouldn't yet be too bad here.
QMs now explored
-
In much wetter weather, water emerges from flood risings on the north shore or much higher on the hillside. The closest to the lake, Wasserlöcher, is associated with a +href="noinfo/1623/2.htm">Wasserlöcher, is associated with a significant cave, Liägerhöhle. Another major stream +href="noinfo/1623/1.htm">Liägerhöhle. Another major stream course enters the lake further west, near some boat houses and places or refreshment at the end of the motorable road. This is normally dry, but apparently carries huge volumes of flood water from risings at about 1080m in diff --git a/fixaid.htm b/fixaid.htm index 7adec6f72..094307dbc 100644 --- a/fixaid.htm +++ b/fixaid.htm @@ -149,14 +149,14 @@ Pit
location | length | diameter | rope vintage | year left rigged | hangers | other info |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
climb up from + | ||||||
climb up from 40e to top of SVH pitch | 40m ish ? | 11mm dynamic | not recent | unknown | several | VfHO's rope, may need to be dug out of ice |
Up, Up pitch | about 12m | 1999 | ||||
Hooked on Classics traverse | 23m | 9 mm | 1994 | 1999 | 1 old bend, 3 new bends, 3 twists, 2 rings, 1 bollard, 4 maillons | |
18m climb after Hooked on classics | 20m? | 9 mm | ? | 2000 | 1 hanger | |
Mission Impossible climb from SVH | ?m | ? mm | ? | 2001 or 2002 | ~3 hangers | |
Mission Impossible climb from SVH | ?m | ? mm | ? | 2001 or 2002 | ~3 hangers | |
Too Across pendule | 30-50m? | ? mm | ? | 2001 | ~6 hangers | |
Up pitch in Gnivac Rift | 20-40m? | ? mm | ? | 2001 | ~4 hangers |
Adam Cooper (Selwyn 1987-90, Lights manager 1988-89)
Expedition 1988, 1989, 1990, 1993, 1997 - all in the
-Kaninchenhöhle
+Kaninchenhöhle
years.
Now publicity officer for the BCRA diff --git a/folk/l/alim.htm b/folk/l/alim.htm index d36a43b65..feaab7e13 100644 --- a/folk/l/alim.htm +++ b/folk/l/alim.htm @@ -9,7 +9,7 @@
Alistair Morris, expedition 1992, 93, 94, involved in the exploration -of France (from Toothless) +of France (from Toothless) below the 161b and 161c entrances to Kaninchenhöhle.
Andy Connolly, (Corpus Christi 1977-80)
-Expedition 1979 (worked in 1623/99 and
-helped in Eislufthöhle (1623/76),
+Expedition 1979 (worked in 1623/99 and
+helped in Eislufthöhle (1623/76),
1980 (Team Sunbeam - explorers of
-Sonnenstrahlhöhle 1623/113)
Took a major part in 1978 and 1979 expeditions which finally bottomed this cave at -506m. Tried to organise a change of area for 1980, but had underestimated the politics involved, so returned to Loser where he and Mike Burgess found a new way on just inside the entrance to -Stellerweghöhle, subsequently to +Stellerweghöhle, subsequently to become CUCC's deepest ever exploration. Missed 1981 owing to caving in Mexico and being at the International Congress of Speleology in the USA, then came along in 1982, 1984.
Next joined expo early on in the exploration of
-Kaninchenhöhle in 1989, and
+Kaninchenhöhle in 1989, and
again 1990, 1993, 1995 and 1996, 1998. Currently jointly holds the record for
expedition attendance with Mike Richardson (12
times), though hasn't done anything like as much caving on the last few
diff --git a/folk/l/beckal.htm b/folk/l/beckal.htm
index 4b2cbb063..0f60a5f29 100644
--- a/folk/l/beckal.htm
+++ b/folk/l/beckal.htm
@@ -10,16 +10,16 @@
alt="" />
Becka Lawson, (St. Catherine's 1986-89, Treasurer 1987-88)
Expedition 1987 (new route in Sonnenstrahlhöhle (1623/113), new cave
-Donner und Blitzen Höhle (1623/158));
+href="../../1623/113.htm">Sonnenstrahlhöhle (1623/113), new cave
+Donner und Blitzen Höhle (1623/158));
1988, 1989, 1996, 1997, 1999 all mostly working in Kaninchenhöhle; and 2000, 2001,
+href="../../1623/161/top.htm">Kaninchenhöhle; and 2000, 2001,
2003, 2004 to Steinbrückenhöhle. Becka also
+href="../../1623/204/204.html">Steinbrückenhöhle. Becka also
joined Arbeitsgemeinschaft Höhle und Karst Grabenstetten
e.V. on trips in 1998 and 1999, working in the Stellerweg system.
Photo taken at the entrance to Artischockehöhle during Expo +href="../../1623/249/249.html">Artischockehöhle during Expo 2003.
In 1999, he and Anthony Day along with Mick Thompson found the entrance -to Steinbrückenhöhle, +to Steinbrückenhöhle, which was to become the focus of the next several years' expeditions. In 2001 and 2002 -he was involved in pushing Razordance, +he was involved in pushing Razordance, finally reaching the bottom at a depth of 596m from the 204a entrance during the big push of 2007.
diff --git a/folk/l/hughs.htm b/folk/l/hughs.htm index 6736d0cf3..3e802e772 100644 --- a/folk/l/hughs.htm +++ b/folk/l/hughs.htm @@ -11,7 +11,7 @@ alt="" /> Hugh Salter (Robinson 1986-89, Training Officer 1987-89, formerly with ULSA)Photograph taken in the -Lost World of +Lost World of Kaninchenhöhle on Expedition 1997.
Mark returned to Austria in 2004, making several forays into Razor Dance in Steinbrückenhöhle. The photo on the right is Mark emerging from the Steinbrückenhöhle A entrance.
+Mark returned to Austria in 2004, making several forays into Razor Dance in Steinbrückenhöhle. The photo on the right is Mark emerging from the Steinbrückenhöhle A entrance.
From 1990-1997 Mark was an active cave diver, making several discoveries in the Yorkshire Dales. He participated in the 1992 CDG expedition to the Guiers Vif in the Chartreuse and in 1994 passed the sumps in Labyrintgrottan in northern Sweden.
diff --git a/folk/l/nicky.htm b/folk/l/nicky.htm index e372dfc7c..f589eec48 100644 --- a/folk/l/nicky.htm +++ b/folk/l/nicky.htm @@ -18,7 +18,7 @@ leading fell runner (although already a "veteran"!).Expeditions 1978 and 1983, the former as part of "Team Youth/ladders" exploring Gemsehöhle -(1623/107).
+(1623/107).Sandeep Mavadia (Expo 2006). President of Imperial College Caving Club; came to Austria as a guest when the IC summer expedition -was cancelled. Involved in exploration in Steinbrückenhöhle and Tunnockschacht.
+was cancelled. Involved in exploration in Steinbrückenhöhle and Tunnockschacht.Photo taken standing at the trig point at the summit of the Hinterer Schwarzmooskogel shortly before sunset.
diff --git a/folk/l/simonf.htm b/folk/l/simonf.htm index 2d3e525c9..f30e93ed1 100644 --- a/folk/l/simonf.htm +++ b/folk/l/simonf.htm @@ -12,7 +12,7 @@ alt="" /> Fitzwilliam 1975-78 (Committee 1976-7, President 1977-8).Photograph taken on exCS/CUCC trip in Ogof Ffynnon Ddu
diff --git a/folk/l/tinaw.htm b/folk/l/tinaw.htm index ce651ad05..0d51d6cc2 100644 --- a/folk/l/tinaw.htm +++ b/folk/l/tinaw.htm @@ -9,11 +9,11 @@
Tina White (CUCC 1984-).
Expedition 1985 (working in
-142,
-144 and
-152, all in the Stellerweg area),
+142,
+144 and
+152, all in the Stellerweg area),
1988, 1989, 1990, 1992, 1996, 1999 (like most people, occupied most of the
-time in Kaninchenhöhle).
+time in Kaninchenhöhle).
A tireless campaigner for more women on expeditions, and the most faithful
female expeditioner on the records (even came out twice one year, having
diff --git a/folk/l/tonym.htm b/folk/l/tonym.htm
index dd465e667..3b7389f83 100644
--- a/folk/l/tonym.htm
+++ b/folk/l/tonym.htm
@@ -10,14 +10,14 @@
alt="" />
Tony Malcolm, (Fitzwilliam 1977-?, Committee 1977-78, Secretary
1978-79)
-Expedition 1979 (worked in 1623/99 and
-helped in Eislufthöhle (1623/76)),
+Expedition 1979 (worked in 1623/99 and
+helped in Eislufthöhle (1623/76)),
1980 (Team Sunbeam - explorers of
-Sonnenstrahlhöhle 1623/113, the
+Sonnenstrahlhöhle 1623/113, the
Sunbeam was Tony's car, making 113 the only cave CUCC has (indirectly) named
after a car), 1983 (much time searching on VSK, eventually finding and
-exploring 143 and
-144 - now the highest entrance to the
+exploring 143 and
+144 - now the highest entrance to the
Stellerweg system).
Photo taken outside Eislufthöhle on the final
derig, 1979.
Wookey also edited
diff --git a/folk/l/wstead.htm b/folk/l/wstead.htm
index 48aa6590e..59481f25c 100644
--- a/folk/l/wstead.htm
+++ b/folk/l/wstead.htm
@@ -10,18 +10,18 @@
alt="" />
William Stead (CUCC 1986-89, formerly Oxford UCC)
Expedition 1990 (found
-Rosenkavalierhöhle as well as much work
-in Kaninchenhöhle, esp.
-Flat Battery),
+Rosenkavalierhöhle as well as much work
+in Kaninchenhöhle, esp.
+Flat Battery),
1997 in Kaninchenhöhle
-pushing Siberia,
-Lost World, and
-Gravel Pit.
+pushing Siberia,
+Lost World, and
+Gravel Pit.
William has also caved extensively with the OUCC in the Spanish Picos
and elsewhere, including the tragic Gouffre Berger trip in 1996.
Photo was taken at the equal deepest point of Kaninchenhöhle at
Splatdown - the bottom of
-Flapjack II.
Shaft bashing: -Shaft bashing: + - -Bolt placing: Bolt placing:
photos will make it to the web site quickly, without having to wait to make up a set of 100 for a Photo-CD :-) Experience has also shown that the final results are somewhat better as we have more control at the -scanning stage. See the Lost World +scanning stage. See the Lost World virtual tour.Since the above paragraphs were written, there has been a vast increase in diff --git a/handbook/rescue.htm b/handbook/rescue.htm index 65f3834d9..637a8e7b8 100644 --- a/handbook/rescue.htm +++ b/handbook/rescue.htm @@ -821,9 +821,9 @@ essential to avoid pulling the rescuee into danger or where he cannot be manoeuvred. Necks have been broken this way!
diff --git a/handbook/rig/boltin.htm b/handbook/rig/boltin.htm index 76be1df20..be84a785f 100644 --- a/handbook/rig/boltin.htm +++ b/handbook/rig/boltin.htm @@ -26,8 +26,8 @@ surface.Old-style hand-drilled spits are self-drilling; the spit sleeve functions both as a drill bit and as an anchor. Screw it firmly onto the driver and tap diff --git a/handbook/survey/lasers.htm b/handbook/survey/lasers.htm index fe6306923..65a3f0e80 100644 --- a/handbook/survey/lasers.htm +++ b/handbook/survey/lasers.htm @@ -59,23 +59,23 @@ being dodgy, but we have no real indication of why.
Tony Rooke just after the highest point of path 201 on the walk in to the CUCC exploration areas. -Stellerweghöhlensystem +Stellerweghöhlensystem lies beneath the hillside directly behind Tony, whilst the plateau is the sunlit area beyond the col on the left.
@@ -20,8 +20,8 @@ plateau is the sunlit area beyond the col on the left.These are the South-eastern slopes of the Vorderer Schwarzmooskogel, across which lies the route to the Schwarzmooskogeleishöhle -(1623/40). The view is from "The +(1623/40). The view is from "The Nipple" - a small limestone knoll in an otherwise featureless area SE of Vorderer Schwarzmooskogel, with an important fixed survey point.
@@ -23,7 +23,7 @@ Vorderer Schwarzmooskogel, with an important+src="../../1623/71.png">
Trip 5. Final surveying and derigging was completed with Steve being drafted in to prove that we hadn't made it all up. This final trip took just five hours.
The pot is about 220m deep, and it seems likely that the sump is perched or perhaps even a temporary sump in highish water. However, no bypass could be found so the depth is unlikely to be increased. No major phreatic development was reached. Such phreatic passages as were found all choked rapidly and the overall impression is of a larger than life Yorkshire pot cutting through old phreatic developments. Like Yorkshire too, heavy water makes the big pitches very serious and the fourth trip assumed epic proportios at times, with one pair ascending most of the big rift in darkness, including transferring prussiking gear on a tiny ledge over 50m of exposure.
- +Pitches :
1 - 6m Apfelschacht
2 - 20m Orangenschacht
3 - 10m Bierschacht
4 - 15m Nocheinbierschacht
5 - 25m Viermalbierschacht
6 - 50m Bessofene
7 - 17m
8 - 6m
9 - 30m
83: Found 200m north of 82. A 13m freeclimb dropped on to a steep snow slope requiring a line. This was descended for a further 10m to a steep boulder slope which funnelled down to a small hole through which stones fell free a long way. The large amounts of scree made the descent most uninviting. Back up the boulder slope, a phreatic passage was entered and quickly led to a big hole in the floor.
@@ -34,7 +34,7 @@84: A draughting tube WNW of 83 led to a small chamber. A further small tube led off, still draughting but it was deemed impenetrable by the caver concerned on account of him wearing only shorts and T-shirt.
85: Strangely, we had missed this although it was within 20m of 82 and we had walked past it every day on the way to the plateau. A descent of this turned out to be quite entertaining - a series of short free-climbs of varying complexity led to a depth of at least 50m with no tackle required anywhere. An impenetrable fissure barred further progress.
86: This was a rift on the high ground just SE of 82 and didn't look too promising as it seemed snow-plugged. Ladder was fed down and a descent made to -25m before the gap between the snow and the rock got too small.
- +None of our pots have accurate coordinates, a reflection partly on the recurrent low cloud and partly on our belief that we were sighting on a peak called the Bräuning Sattel. A 'Sattel', we later learnt, is a pass ! All our pots are marked in red paint.
@@ -42,7 +42,7 @@90: Rift entrance in scrub, just below talus and pasture. Chokes at -20m
91: Snow-fed rift in open lapiaz. Chokes at -20m
92: Distinct from its neighbours in several respects. Firstly, it was deep in scrub yet the entrance was not over-vegetated. Secondly, by virtue of its small horizontal entrance, it was unlikely to be blocked by thermoclastic scree. Thirdly it draughted slightly. With all these points in its favour, it was annoying to find that the interior was as loose as a dose of Delhi-belly. Everywhere we looked were vast, poised boulders, and one of our ropes was severed when NR dislodged a piece of wall by breathing too hard. It was not too much of a disappointment to find that it choked at -90m.
- +93: Long rift north of 91. Chokes at -35m.
94: A little further north still. A spiralling free-climb choking at -35m.
At this point we realized what we should have known from the start: in this area pots aren't worth bothering with unless they:
@@ -50,12 +50,12 @@So we abandoned the area under the Bräuning Wall. But before we go down to serious prospecting we decided to have a look at a pot recommended to us by Karl Gaisberger. In fact we had already been camping within 50m of it without noticing ! It was situated on a raised bank near the sink and huts on the west side of the Schwarzmoos Sattel, just off the path that we followed to reach the plateau from the car park. In fact Pot 96 was found first, but JG being an accountant, his tiny brain gets acutely perplexed by blunders in numbering.
95: A 10m climb to an unpushed and unpromising tube. Descended only for the sake of form and to restore numerical sequence.
96: An unusual pot in that the entrance was the only good clean shaft which we found in pasture. A series of short, solid pitches in a high rift led to an apparent end in a chamber where the water sank. However, the upper level of a small rift was found to lead to an abandoned passage. Several free-climbs, each muddier than the last, then a squeeze, brought us to a sordid little sump, although an air current (but not SP) seemed to vanish along an inaccessible passage above the final crawl. We were rather disappointed by the omens, as last year's major discovery, the Fledermaushöhle, had also ended in a sump. Would every pot end in a perched sump ? Well the next pot was to be a revelation. Depth 105m.
- +97: The pot that restored the status quo to Team Enthusiast (otherwise known as Team Ireland, Team Trials Marina, Team Thin Geriatric, Team Gunge etc., etc.) We had been looking for a hole which we could name Konstantinopolitanischerstraßenbahnführerinassistentineninexpeditionnenzehnhundertsiebenundsiebsigtropfsteineishöhlensystem, but it would have had to be at least 50 km long for the name to fit on the survey ! So we settled for the name Schneewindschacht instead. Within spitting distance of Eislufthöhle, it was distinguished by a narrow, draughting entrance, with an encouraging rustle of water within. (Incidentally, all the draughting holes we found this year blew OUT: we never came up with a reasonable explanation, despite much speculation about localised barometric inversion, water generated and ionised air currents, but just took it for granted that such holes were more promising than pots with no draught at all.)
Team Fat Geriatric jeered at us for applying Yorkshire tactics in the land of the big shaft, but we returned next day with a hammer and enlarged the entrance to passable proportions. Two climbs of 10m and 5m led to a chamber with two exits, of which NR chose the drier. A sordid grovel doubled itself and passed directly under the wetter hole, which dribbled ferociously through his tatty Spock-suit. Obviously a diver was needed ! JG obligingly continued along the grovel for a further 5m, finding it about as tight as Baptistry crawl with a constricted pitch head on the far side. 15m below, the explorers reached the head of a very deep-sounding rift, which was initially descended only to a ledge at 20m. Due to the awkwardness of the entrance crawl, it was necessary to remove all SRT gear and clip it to the pitch head before exiting, hence the name Vestry. The crawl itself, which henceforward was entered and left by the wet entrance, was baptised the Nun's C***: partly on account of the shape of the orifice, partly on account of its tightness, but mainly because it was so desperately in need of banging.
Discovery progressed slowly, largely because every pitch had to be bolted: also, it was essential to be off the lapiaz by nightfall or resign oneself to an overnight trip, thus denying oneself the statutory five glasses of Reininghaus at the Bar Fischer. The survey is fairly self-explanatory. Traversing over a 'Puits en baionnette' took one down the Bottomless Abbess to a point where the cave turned horizontal and stream-like for a short stretch. But it still went on down, dropping - rather surprisingly - into an abandoned series of dry, dusty phreatic tubes, which sloped down at a steady five degrees. The tantalising sight of a large cave-type passage leading off beyond a 3m ladder climb almost made it seem likely that a giant fossil system had been reached. Alas, it was impossible to traverse over to it, so SP was tied onto a piece of string and forced down the next pitch.
A fine clean shaft of 25m, it started unpromisingly, but soon belled out into a magnificent trench passage. Traversing over a gully led shortly to a succession of piddling little climbs and a final lovely pitch, The Dissolution. Here the water sank in an impenetrable crack, the draught having already vanished.
-An excellent pot - even if it would have been impossible to rescue anyone from - but why did it stop so soon ? And would the traverse have led to further pitches ? The answer is almost certainly yes. Still, there's the rest of the plateau to be looked at yet, so we probably won't return to the Schneewindschacht. Depth 265m.
+An excellent pot - even if it would have been impossible to rescue anyone from - but why did it stop so soon ? And would the traverse have led to further pitches ? The answer is almost certainly yes. Still, there's the rest of the plateau to be looked at yet, so we probably won't return to the Schneewindschacht. Depth 265m.
The 'Youth Section' comprised the three undergraduate members of the expedition present this year, Simon Farrow, Nick Thorne & Andy Waddington. We arrived a few days later than the bulk of the expedition and immediately started prospecting. It took us about two days of exploring small shafts in the karren with depths of 10-20m before we found a very promising area. Two shafts of 30 and 40m were descended, but these were of the large open type and inevitably choked. The shafts were numbered as found:
diff --git a/years/1978/log.htm b/years/1978/log.htm index 8924e7d76..526e88ce7 100644 --- a/years/1978/log.htm +++ b/years/1978/log.htm @@ -127,7 +127,7 @@ pitch was only about 35' from the ledge. Quite a nice shaft, but coming to nothing. John went up, then Mike came down. Then we derigged and went out.Previous trip/ -Guidebook description
+Guidebook descriptionPrevious trip/ -Guidebook description
+Guidebook descriptionFor our first attempt at caving abroad, Gemshöhle provided a good introduction with @@ -394,7 +394,7 @@ a collapsed chamber. Several possible routes through the boulders all proved fruitless, and an exit was made.
+src="../../1623/110.png">
Feeling thankful that a pot such a long, gruelling walk across the plateau had not 'gone', the two pioneers, now definitely wheezing, started diff --git a/years/1979/log.htm b/years/1979/log.htm index 72b7816c0..e0640d12a 100644 --- a/years/1979/log.htm +++ b/years/1979/log.htm @@ -588,7 +588,7 @@ Hotel for food and Fischer's for fizzy wine and beer.
Only problem, I hear, was removing the rock anchors from the wall. (Who is this man ?)
-Previous trip/Guidebook description
+Previous trip/Guidebook description
Pete Lancaster -
(for a current description, see here) +
(for a current description, see here)
Stoger Weg Area, Schwarzmoos Kogel, Totes Gebirge, Austria.
Total depth: 898m
@@ -249,7 +249,7 @@ resurge in the nearby Altausseer See, (alt. 712m).
P.S. The survey, while short, may be the best bit !
[Webeditor: the results of this particular survey trip may be seen on the -site in plan (33k gif, 800x1080) or extended section (23k gif, 1090x700)] +site in plan (33k gif, 800x1080) or extended section (23k gif, 1090x700)]
Next surveying trip / Pushing trip (same day - camp) / diff --git a/years/1983/143144.htm b/years/1983/143144.htm index 60708379e..ba189e4d5 100644 --- a/years/1983/143144.htm +++ b/years/1983/143144.htm @@ -85,8 +85,8 @@ stream disappears down a crack.
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