From 835c0f58f617c8e6330bd0e33a7d020a47f2b114 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Expo on server Date: Wed, 28 Jun 2023 19:47:33 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] separate sections with lines - online edit of handbook/fester.html --- handbook/fester.html | 35 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++----- 1 file changed, 30 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-) diff --git a/handbook/fester.html b/handbook/fester.html index b4310d317..1eed358ce 100644 --- a/handbook/fester.html +++ b/handbook/fester.html @@ -31,11 +31,13 @@ festering, Radio-fettling, Tyrolean building, Via-ferrata, Windsurfing...

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Huge Abseil
Recommended by the local cavers, this 200m almost-a-free-hang cliff provides mind-bending sport, probably not to be repeated by any of those that had a go first time.
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Bier drinking
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Brewery tour
Brewery @@ -57,6 +60,7 @@ There is a corresponding Limonade tally.
Leoben (two hours' drive from Base Camp; accessible on the train too). See the pictures. +
Cake
Austrians do pretty good cakes for pigging out on calorie-restoration days when veggie-slop just isn't enough. It's best to point and say "Ein @@ -64,6 +68,7 @@ stuck bitte" rather than try to ask for exactly what you want. One person's mega-sticky-chocolate-cake arrived as a cup of cocoa through trying to be too clever.
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Canoeing
base camp, but watch out for Hilde's weir (see picture).
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Canyoning

Austria has some fine canyons but they tend to be pretty cold so find a wetsuit that fits. Strubklamm and Grabenbach are the two that have been done several times by expoers.

Strubklamm is great fun and can be entirely jumped, although most people will want to abseil at least a couple of the pitches. It's suitable for novice caver-canyoners. There is a long swimming canal at the end so can be cold, especially with the usual cast of thousands. It's quite a long drive as it's nearly all the way back to Salzburg. Descent-canyon info.

Grabenbach is much closer (Bad Goisern) but more pitchy and technical.writeup here. Descent-canyon info.

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Car-fixing
Owing to being mainly impoverished students, expo has an annual crop of shit cars which limp across Europe with unfeasably large loads and equally @@ -111,7 +116,8 @@ from CU 1992. This tale involves a Citroen van and a Volvo, also depicted below.
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Cycling
Far more people seem to travel by bike in Austria than in the UK despite the obvious disadvantages of (a) ridiculous heat or (b) it pissing buckets @@ -122,7 +128,7 @@ ten minutes or it is (again) pissing buckets. Most people foolish enough to do it at all, only cycle up the toll road once (but there are exceptions, even to this rule).
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Dachstein climbing
Dachstein Seilbahn
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It can be done in a day on foot from Hallstatt, but only if you are very fit.

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Dinghy floating
Inflatable dinghy One of a plethora of festering activities centred around the conveniently @@ -151,6 +158,7 @@ nearby, but out of earshot of the campsite, lake (Grundlsee). Parking has become a problem if you have too much gear, but an inflatable dinghy is one of the most easily carried bits of kit, thus avoiding the parking meters.
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Diving
There is not much scope for cave diving in CUCC's caves, though some has been done in nearby resurgences. However, for relaxing by the lake, a set of @@ -161,6 +169,7 @@ lorry which is "verboten". revealed not the hoped for resurgence, but a few bits of 50's vintage human remains. Still it got us a go in the Feuerwehr's big red rescue boat :-)
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Hang-gliding
Not for the complete beginner is the mind-bending takeoff from a ramp at the @@ -169,6 +178,7 @@ thought that this was only for loonies, but now a small contingent of C.U.Hang-gliding Club have shown that it is even possible to land in a tree and survive.
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High-frying
@@ -183,6 +193,7 @@ getting lumps of meat off without getting burnt, but less than perfect when the victim is set the task of getting a large hot pan of chips off. Needless to say, we survived....
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Hydro-speeding
Ideally, this means body-surfing down a river with a flat thing to ride on to protect chest and arms from rocks, and with fins (flippers @@ -192,10 +203,12 @@ to base camp. "Reasonable" water levels are required, and getting out to walk round the weir is strongly recommended. "Interesting to find out how wet it can get before you hurt yourself or drown" (Wookey).
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Ice creams
Austrians do ice creams every bit as good as their sticky cakes - and with the advantage of Schlagobers to appeal to the calorifically-challenged.
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Mohr-im-Hemd
No, not the passage in Kaninchenhöhle, but the death-by-chocolate pudding which it was named @@ -204,6 +217,7 @@ dinner to pay for the game if you win. The second challenge is to eat ten of these delicacies and not throw up for at least five minutes. It has been done :-)
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Pedalo pedalling
Pedalo pic Used to occur from Fritz's jetty when base camp was @@ -211,6 +225,7 @@ at Altaussee, but is now more likely to be an excuse for a trip to Hallstatt, where there is also a handy gear shop and a diving school to get bottles filled.
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Potato Hut festering
A merry evening in the Potato Hut @@ -222,6 +237,7 @@ organisation exists mainly to drink potato-derived alcohol, and engage in curling on Hilde's ice - more usually a lake at the time of year of our visit.
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Radio-fettling
Ever since we had a set of really excellent communications equipment on evaluation from Philips in 1990, until the advent of mobile phones on expo @@ -234,6 +250,7 @@ states (a) to (c). For better (probably) or worse, this activity is now pretty much a thing of the past, owing to the advent of mobile phones.
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Ropewashing
Ropewashing @@ -243,6 +260,7 @@ be a bit epic in the river if it is in flood, in which case a Tyrolean traverse over the river is a sporting game.
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Salt-mining
There are Salt Mines at both Hallstatt and Altaussee which are worth a visit. The latter were used as a stash for huge amounts of stolen art @@ -250,17 +268,21 @@ treasures by the Nazis, a fact that they keep strangely quiet about, given that it was the brave action of one of the local workers which saved them from being dynamited.
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Swimming
Either in the river behind the Staud'nwirt or in one of the lakes, where the top metre or so gets quite warm in hot weather.
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Sunbathing
Sunbathing Can be done almost anywhere, when it doesn't piss down - but usually combined with other activities at the side of the lake. However, more rays can be picked up at Top Camp in the unusual event of good weather and not caving.
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Tobogganing
Tobogganing @@ -268,6 +290,7 @@ There is a dry (metal trough) toboggan run worth a visit near Bad Ischl. Wear long sleeves and trousers if you value your skin - doing so enables you to dispense with the brakes entirely.
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Trisselwand ascent
Of six expo attempts, four have @@ -287,6 +310,7 @@ particularly rope and pulleys, ends up down by the river for a tyrolean traverse from Hilde's to some trees opposite can provide an awesome sense of exposure and not a little danger !
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Via-ferrata
Expo 2007 found that a new via-ferrata had been put up on Loser, starting slightly above the level of the Loser Hut, about 60m along from the entrance to @@ -294,6 +318,7 @@ LoserHöhle. It is short and steep, and has proved exceedingly popular with as a diversion of a couple of hours on the way up to the plateau. Others in the area have also been ticked off - including a couple of very long ones on the Dachstein Sudwand.

There are 3 nice VFs on Predigstuhl, above Bad Goisern. Can be done as a round trip.

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Windsurfing
Yet another lakeside activity - this one really is easiest if there is some wind, but as long as this is not too strong, it's a good game for total