We have a regularly-updated file of all the cave entrances for the entire Schvartzmooskögel system (SMK). -This file also includes the tracks of the paths we regularly take: from Loser Alm car park to the col and to top camp, -and from top camp to Fisch Gesicht Höhle and to Tunnocks's, Balkonhöhle and Organhöhle. +
SAFETY. Everyone gets lost on the plateau. Don't get lost for long as this causes rescue plans to be initiated. +So get this essential data onto your phone (or handheld GPS). +
+We have a regularly-updated file of the wiggly tracks of the paths we regularly take: from Loser Alm car park to the col, top camp and Homecoming cave, +and from top camp to Fisch Gesicht Höhle and to Tunnocks's, Balkonhöhle and Organhöhle. -
[It also has the Austrian "kataster boundaries": these are not paths but separate areas with +different mapping designations. +These are the smooth, curved lines.] + +The file also includes all the cave entrances for the entire Schvartzmooskögel system (SMK).
+
+
+Don't be misled by the apparent simplicity of the above tracks. The plateau is very broken and an almost unbroken +extent of cliffs, holes and imapssable dwarf-larch scrub ("bunde" as it is known on expo). +You can be 5m from the route and have lost it entirely. + +
Either +
or +
Try this link + +Wikilocs +from where you can download a short version of the file (track and one waypoint at StoneBridge only) +or a Google Earth trail (you need to create a Wikiloc account first and be logged-in +when you click on this). Or here is another direct download link.
The most recent 2019 GPX file can be downloaded from here: +essentials2019.gpx (596K).
-We regularly create a new version of this essential data as the expo progresses and as expoers discover new entrances and -devise new routes to reach them. -
-To get the most recent version you will need to ask someone who is competent in using the version control system -(it's in loser/gpx/ and is generated from the survex data by a script). A fairly recent copy (17 July 2018) -can be downloaded from here: essentials.gpx (190K). -Phones have a problem with a simple link like that. So with a phone you may need to try this link - -Wikilocs -from where you can download a short version of the file (track and one waypoint at StoneBridge only) or a Google Earth trail (you need to create a Wikiloc account first and be logged-in when you click on this). Or here is another direct download link. - +Phones have a problem with a simple link like that.
This is where it gets tricky because every device and phone app does this differently. +
This should work the same way whether you have an iPhone or an Android phone. @@ -60,8 +84,10 @@ downloaded into that folder.
-These need the Garmin communication protocol to import cave entrance locations (waypoints) and paths (tracks). You can't do it by simply copyingfiles. -This means that you need special software on your laptop in addition to a USB cable that connects your laptop to the Garmin device. +These need the Garmin communication protocol to import cave entrance locations (waypoints) and paths (tracks). +You can't do it by simply copying files. +This means that you need special software on your laptop in addition to a USB cable that +connects your laptop to the Garmin device.
+We create a new version of this essential GPS data during expo and as expoers discover new entrances and
+devise new routes to reach them.
+
+To regenerate the most recent version which contains the cave entrances discovered during expo
+you will need to ask someone who is competent in logging into the server and running scripts.
+ The data is in the version control system repository ::loser:: in
+ The most recent track data will have been uploaded by an expoer into e.g.
+ and this will need to be hand-edited into script-generated essentials.gpx file.
+
+ The most recent 2019 GPX file can be downloaded from here:
+essentials2019.gpx (596K). Last year's (17 July 2018)
+can be downloaded from here : essentials.gpx (190K).
+(This is a symlink to loser/gpx/essentials.gpx).
+
+
If Expo was a programming language this would be its documentation page. For emergency deliveries, e.g. if all the batteries die and we need new ones in a hurry,
we have an Amazon account registered in Germany which can do next day delivery to Staudnwirt. Ask Wookey for details.
+ Put the basecamp phone number into your phone address book before you leave home.
+
This is (these days) pretty easy to arrange and has the advantage
of allowing for stopping off en route in Paris, Cologne, Frankfurt,
+Nerds only: getting the very latest GPS essentials file
+
+ loser/gpx/
+
+and is generated from the survex data by a script. It is best to do this on a laptop which has the entire ::loser::
+repo downloaded onto it (e.g. the expo laptop) rather than on the server itself as the server can run out of memory doing this.
+
+
+ expofiles/gpslogs/2019/MichaelSargent/col-to-homecoming-msargent-2019-07-14_18-38_Sun.gpx
+
+
+This is actually entirely hand-edited from original tracks. The only survex data it uses is the entrances waypoints which are exported
+by the script which has been hand-edited in. It also has the kataster boundaries hand-edited in.
+
+
diff --git a/handbook/index.htm b/handbook/index.htm
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--- a/handbook/index.htm
+++ b/handbook/index.htm
@@ -8,22 +8,28 @@
CUCC Expedition Handbook
Expedition Handbook
-First steps
-You've never been to expo? This is a place to start
+You've never been to expo? This is what you need to know before packing to come:
+
+Second steps
+Tis is what it's all about:
+
+
-
Comunication
Need to get in touch with someone? Look here.
@@ -34,15 +40,15 @@ Need to get in touch with someone? Look here.
-Computing
+Computing and Cave Surveying
This is a scientific expedition - the Austrian government allows us to wander around the plateau in exchange for cave surveys. Learn how to contribute!
@@ -65,19 +69,29 @@ This is a scientific expedition - the Austrian government allows us to wander ar
Things that are likely to be relevant at topcamp.
+
+
+Plateau waliking and caving info
+Things that are likely to be relevant on the plateau, looking for caves and surveying them.
+
+
-
+Basecamp info
Things that are likely to be relevant at basecamp.
@@ -92,7 +106,7 @@ Things that are likely to be relevant at basecamp.
History
-
diff --git a/handbook/travel.html b/handbook/travel.html
index 1d274b37e..2e1fedfc9 100644
--- a/handbook/travel.html
+++ b/handbook/travel.html
@@ -26,7 +26,8 @@ Austria. i.e. from Bad Aussee to the campsite
-
+
+
Kit by post
In these days of Amazon deliveries, you can get kit delivered directly to base camp at Gasthof Staudnwirt at the address above.
Make sure it's clearly marked "CUCC EXPO" as well as your name, then it will be clear to Karin (the Gasthof owner).
@@ -35,6 +36,9 @@ We don't want to create work for Karin by making her keep a lot of packages care
Contacting Expo to say when you are arriving
+By Train