diff --git a/handbook/kitlist.html b/handbook/kitlist.html index 0896d1ca9..1ab115a7c 100644 --- a/handbook/kitlist.html +++ b/handbook/kitlist.html @@ -1,8 +1,9 @@ + - + CUCC Expo: Kit List - + diff --git a/handbook/tcamps.html b/handbook/tcamps.html index b43537711..5afd46e71 100644 --- a/handbook/tcamps.html +++ b/handbook/tcamps.html @@ -1,9 +1,9 @@ + - + CUCC's Austria Expeditions: High camps - +

CUCC's high camps on Loser

@@ -12,7 +12,7 @@ expedition camps on the Loser Plateau" /> lang="de-at">Loser-AugstEck plateau, they have found it essential to camp nearer the caves than the base camps in Altaussee (1976-82) and Grundlsee -(1983 to present). The 1978 accident +(1983 to present). The 1978 accident demonstrated the foolishness of trying to conduct long explorations without a high camp. Several people have been benighted on the plateau over the years and rescues in 1989, 2007 and 2016 as well as numerous other incidents show @@ -35,22 +35,22 @@ exploratory purposes.

CUCC's first high camp was set up in 1977, on a site identified on the first visit in 1976. This was on an area of pasture above a small limestone scar from -Bräuning Alm. At +Bräuning Alm. At the time, the springs in the valley here were the only reliable water supply we had discovered. There were caves nearby, as well as ones on the plateau to explore, so the site proved very pleasant, until washed out in one (of many) mega-thunderstorm.

-Camp 1977   - - +Camp 1977   - - +Camp 1977

Views of 1977 Advance camp. @@ -65,7 +65,7 @@ all exploration was conducted by driving up from the valley. The difficulties and dangers of returning across the plateau in the dark led to some cavers doing "overnight" trips, in which the cave was descended in daylight, and exitted in daylight the next day. The risk associated with this approach was -that of falling asleep on the +that of falling asleep on the drive down, as Julian Griffiths demonstrated. Having stayed awake down all the seriously fatal hairpin bends, the car drove itself through a fence and down a 10m drop in the valley below. The mangled steering wheel, bent by a @@ -84,13 +84,13 @@ neither of the previous high camps were really of any use.

Schwarzmoossattel Top Camp

- - - + @@ -105,7 +105,7 @@ climbable shaft a short way beyond Schwarzmoossattel ("The Col"). As this was adjacent to one of the very few flat areas of grass, and right next to the path as well, this has made an ideal camp site, and was the normal -Top Camp from 1988 to 2001. Logbooks and Journal accounts at the time +Top Camp from 1988 to 2001. Logbooks and Journal accounts at the time referred to this as "Camp I", despite its not being the first high camp. A few references are to "Camp 3", which tried to reflect the chronology. Later it was known just as "Top Camp". In @@ -123,7 +123,7 @@ limestone on which the permanent survey station "VD1" is located, on the normal walk up to the 161 entrances on the col between the Vorderer and Hinterer Schwarzmooskogels. This was variously known as 'far campsite' or 'Camp -2', in the logbooks. +2', in the logbooks. A lack of water, sanitation, space and comfort led to this camp being abandoned.

@@ -147,7 +147,7 @@ gale coming out of it, and the floor is very flat. It is luxurious for 2, comfy for 3 and can sleep 4. Water is collected by putting a tarp. in a steep gulley opposite with a hose to a butt in the bivi - very effective.

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204 Steinbrückenhöhle ("The Stone Bridge") bivvy

@@ -168,22 +168,22 @@ collection methods refined, and a cooking area created, to give an exceedingly comfortable bivvy site. A much larger single tarp covering the whole length, used since 2015, has made it much drier at the back, and the place is now very civilised indeed. -See the bivvy rigging guide for tarp erection details.

+See the bivvy rigging guide for tarp erection details.

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76 Eislufthöhle bivvy

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In 2004-2007, the 76 Eislufthöhle +

In 2004-2007, the 76 Eislufthöhle re-exploration project necessitated a camp close to the 76 entrance. A bivouac was established in a convenient rock shelter nearby. This was also used in 2012,13,15,16. Camping on the nearby grassy bit, which has room for 2 small tents is a lot warmer than staying in the bivi cave.

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2017 Organhöhle Camp

Sleeping 3 or 4, a bivvy with rainwater collection was established in a small @@ -196,11 +196,11 @@ in Descent (see page 18 of UBSS newsletter) for the horrendous walk that this involves.

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