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@@ -31,11 +31,13 @@ festering, <a href="#radio">Radio-fettling</a>,
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<a href="#tyrol">Tyrolean building</a>, <a href="#ferrata">Via-ferrata</a>, <a href="#surf">Windsurfing</a>...</p>
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<dl>
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<hr>
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<dt><b><a id="abseil">Huge Abseil</a></b></dt>
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<dd>Recommended by the local cavers, this 200m almost-a-free-hang cliff
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provides mind-bending sport, probably not to be repeated by any of those
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that had a go first time.</dd>
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<hr>
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<dt><b><a id="bier">Bier drinking</a></b></dt>
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<dd>
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<a href="../piclinks/phut1.htm"><img class="onleft" src="../tinypix/phut1.jpg" width="170"
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@@ -49,6 +51,7 @@ maintains a tally of bottled beers drunk, so that the right people get charged
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for it - and so we can report how many metric tons we got through each year.
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There is a corresponding Limonade tally.</dd>
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<hr>
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<dt><b><a id="brewery">Brewery tour</a></b></dt>
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<dd>
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<a href="festering/brewery.html"><img class="onright" src="../tinypix/brewery.jpg" alt="Brewery" /></a>
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@@ -57,6 +60,7 @@ There is a corresponding Limonade tally.</dd>
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Leoben (two hours' drive from Base Camp; accessible on the train too).
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<a href="festering/brewery.html">See the pictures</a>.</dd>
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<hr>
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<dt><b><a id="cake">Cake</a></b>
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</dt><dd>Austrians do pretty good cakes for pigging out on calorie-restoration
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days when veggie-slop just isn't enough. It's best to point and say "Ein
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@@ -64,6 +68,7 @@ stuck bitte" rather than try to ask for exactly what you want. One person's
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mega-sticky-chocolate-cake arrived as a cup of cocoa through trying to be
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too clever.</dd>
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<hr>
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<dt><b><a id="canoe">Canoeing</a></b>
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</dt><dd>
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<a href="../piclinks/ohshit.htm"><img class="onright" src="../tinypix/ohshit.jpg" width="170"
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@@ -76,11 +81,11 @@ women's K1 slalom at the 1972 Olympics) with an assortment of exCS "Victims".
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More relaxing is to paddle from Grundlsee back to <a
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href="bcamps.html">base camp</a>, but watch out for Hilde's weir (see picture).
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</dd>
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<hr>
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<dt><b><a id="canyonning">Canyoning</a></b></dt>
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<dd><p>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.</p> <p>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. <a href="https://www.descente-canyon.com/canyoning/canyon/21833/Strubklamm.html">Descent-canyon info</a>.</p>
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<p>Grabenbach is much closer (Bad Goisern) but more pitchy and technical.<a href="../logbookentry/2003-07-30/2003_s29">writeup here</a>. <a href="https://www.descente-canyon.com/canyoning/canyon/21824/Grabenbach.html">Descent-canyon info</a>.</p></dd>
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<hr>
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<dt><b><a id="cars">Car-fixing</a></b>
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</dt><dd>Owing to being mainly impoverished students, expo has an annual crop of
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shit cars which limp across Europe with unfeasably large loads and equally
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@@ -112,6 +117,7 @@ from CU 1992. This tale involves a Citroen van and a Volvo, also depicted below.
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</table>
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</dd>
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<hr>
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<dt><b><a id="cycle">Cycling</a></b>
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</dt><dd>Far more people seem to travel by bike in Austria than in the UK despite
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the obvious disadvantages of (a) ridiculous heat or (b) it pissing buckets
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@@ -122,7 +128,7 @@ ten minutes or it is (again) pissing buckets. Most people foolish enough to
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do it at all, only cycle <b>up</b> the toll road <b>once</b> (but there are
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exceptions, even to this rule).</dd>
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<hr>
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<dt><b><a id="dachstein">Dachstein climbing</a></b>
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</dt><dd><img class="onleft" src="../tinypix/dbahn.jpg" width="128" height="152" alt="Dachstein Seilbahn" />
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<div class="onright">
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@@ -144,6 +150,7 @@ stone-fall.</p>
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<p>It can be done in a day <a href="../years/1990/log.htm#dachstein">on
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foot from Hallstatt</a>, but only if you are <b>very</b> fit.</p></dd>
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<hr>
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<dt><b><a id="dinghy">Dinghy floating</a></b>
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</dt><dd><img class="onleft" src="../tinypix/dinghy.jpg" width="225" height="201" alt="Inflatable dinghy" />
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One of a plethora of festering activities centred around the conveniently
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@@ -151,6 +158,7 @@ nearby, but out of earshot of the campsite, lake (Grundlsee). Parking has
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become a problem if you have too much gear, but an inflatable dinghy is one of
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the most easily carried bits of kit, thus avoiding the parking meters. </dd>
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<hr>
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<dt><b><a id="dive">Diving</a></b>
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</dt><dd>There is not much scope for cave diving in CUCC's caves, though some has
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been done in nearby resurgences. However, for relaxing by the lake, a set of
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@@ -161,6 +169,7 @@ lorry which is "verboten".
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revealed not the hoped for resurgence, but a few bits of 50's vintage human
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remains. Still it got us a go in the Feuerwehr's big red rescue boat :-)</dd>
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<hr>
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<dt><b><a id="kite">Hang-gliding</a></b>
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</dt><dd><img class="onright" src="../tinypix/julian.jpg" width="170" height="143" alt="" />
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Not for the complete beginner is the mind-bending takeoff from a ramp at the
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@@ -169,6 +178,7 @@ thought that this was only for loonies, but now a small contingent of
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C.U.Hang-gliding Club have shown that it is even possible to land in a tree
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and survive.</dd>
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<hr>
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<dt><b><a id="fryup">High-frying</a></b>
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</dt><dd>
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<a href="../images/chips.jpg">
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the victim is set the task of getting a large hot pan of chips off. Needless
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to say, we survived....</dd>
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<hr>
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<dt><b><a id="hydro">Hydro-speeding</a></b>
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</dt><dd>Ideally, this means body-surfing down a river with a flat thing to
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ride on to protect chest and arms from rocks, and with fins (flippers
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@@ -192,10 +203,12 @@ to base camp. "Reasonable" water levels are required, and getting out
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to walk round the weir is strongly recommended. <i>"Interesting to find out
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how wet it can get before you hurt yourself or drown"</i> (Wookey).</dd>
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<hr>
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<dt><b><a id="ices">Ice creams</a></b>
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</dt><dd>Austrians do ice creams every bit as good as their sticky cakes - and
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with the advantage of Schlagobers to appeal to the calorifically-challenged.</dd>
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<hr>
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<dt><b><a id="mihs">Mohr-im-Hemd</a></b>
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</dt><dd>No, not the <a href="../1623/161/offffr.htm#mihemd">passage</a> in
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Kaninchenhöhle, but the death-by-chocolate pudding which it was named
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these delicacies and not throw up for at least five minutes.
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It has been done :-)</dd>
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<hr>
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<dt><b><a id="pedalo">Pedalo pedalling</a></b>
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</dt><dd><img class="onleft" src="../tinypix/pedalo.jpg" width="221" height="161" alt="Pedalo pic" />
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Used to occur from Fritz's jetty when <a href="bcamps.htm">base camp</a> was
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where there is also a handy gear shop and a <a href="#dive">diving</a> school
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to get bottles filled.</dd>
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<hr>
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<dt><b><a id="spudhut">Potato Hut</a> festering</b>
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</dt><dd>
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<img class="onright" src="../tinypix/phut94.jpg" width="205" height="147" alt="A merry evening in the Potato Hut" />
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curling on Hilde's ice - more usually a lake at the time of year of our
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visit.</dd>
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<hr>
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<dt><b><a id="radio">Radio-fettling</a></b>
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</dt><dd>Ever since we had a set of really excellent communications equipment
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on evaluation from Philips in 1990, until the advent of mobile phones on expo
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much a thing of the past, owing to the advent of <a
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href="comms/phone.html">mobile phones</a>.</dd>
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<hr>
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<dt><b><a id="rope">Ropewashing</a></b>
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</dt><dd><img class="onright" src="../tinypix/washit.jpg" width="161" height="192"
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alt="Ropewashing" />
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href="#tyrol">Tyrolean traverse</a> over the river is a sporting game.
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</dd>
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<hr>
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<dt><b><a id="salt">Salt-mining</a></b>
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</dt><dd>There are Salt Mines at both Hallstatt and Altaussee which are worth a
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visit. The latter were used as a stash for huge amounts of stolen art
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that it was the brave action of one of the local workers which saved them
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from being dynamited.</dd>
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<hr>
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<dt><b><a id="swim">Swimming</a></b>
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</dt><dd>Either in the river behind the Staud'nwirt or in one of the lakes, where
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the top metre or so gets quite warm in hot weather.</dd>
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<hr>
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<dt><b><a id="fester">Sunbathing</a></b>
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</dt><dd><img class="onleft" src="../tinypix/tcdoze.jpg" width="201" height="123"
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alt="Sunbathing" /> Can be done almost anywhere, when it doesn't piss down -
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more rays can be picked up at Top Camp in the unusual event of good weather and
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not caving.</dd>
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<hr>
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<dt><b><a id="sled">Tobogganing</a></b>
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</dt><dd><a href="../piclinks/tobog.htm"><img class="onright" src="../tinypix/tobog.jpg" width="143"
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height="170" alt="Tobogganing" /></a>
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long sleeves and trousers if you value your skin - doing so enables you to
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dispense with the brakes entirely.</dd>
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<hr>
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<dt><b><a id="tberg">Trisselwand ascent</a></b>
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</dt><dd><a href="../images/twand.jpg"><img class="onleft" src="../tinypix/twand.jpg"
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alt="" width="300" height="200" /></a> Of six expo attempts, four have
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a tyrolean traverse from Hilde's to some trees opposite can provide an
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awesome sense of exposure and not a little danger !</dd>
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<hr>
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<dt><b><a id="ferrata">Via-ferrata</a></b>
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</dt><dd>Expo 2007 found that a new via-ferrata had been put up on Loser, starting
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slightly above the level of the Loser Hut, about 60m along from the entrance to
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as a diversion of a couple of hours on the way up to the plateau. Others in the area have
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also been ticked off - including a couple of very long ones on the <a href="../logbookentry/2007-08-07/2007_s81">Dachstein Sudwand</a>.<p>There are 3 nice VFs on Predigstuhl, above Bad Goisern. Can be done as a round trip.</p></dd>
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<hr>
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<dt><b><a id="surf">Windsurfing</a></b>
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</dt><dd>Yet another lakeside activity - this one really is easiest if there is
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some wind, but as long as this is not too strong, it's a good game for total
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