Add writeup of not-finding-wk4 trip.

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OK, executive summary is that theshortlist of things that we ought to be able
to feed to Robert is:
B4 Has tag, survey (ol) and photo (crofton)
1996-WK-11 explored, surveyd, tagged, photoed
2002-AD-03 BergKäseHöhle. Descended and surveyed 2015. wallet 2015#55 Tagged
2002-AD-04 PG: needs survey. Seem to have 2012 survey data
2004-01 76 bivi cave - PG: lived in but no survey !! Seem to have svx refer wallet 2006#6 which has a passable plan and elev
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1992-X-01 allegedly refindable, but unmarked and undescended
1996-01 needs survey - coords are pre-SA and believed hopelessly wrong
1996-WK-4 unexplored but coords
1996-WK-11 exploration incomplete (probably chokes), needs survey
1996-WK-12 needs survey, needs retag (2005-89 as no letters in tag kit)
1996-X-01 documented as under 3m long - so should not need an Austrian number
1996-05 apparently a non-CUCC discovery but no evidence of exploration - should be done !
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2002-AD-04 PG: needs survey. Seem to have 2012 survey data
2002-OB-01 needs survey, tag and more push
2002-W-01 PG says needs survey, but location says "see sketch in survey notes"
2002-W-02 PG: needs survey and tag. Seem to have 2002 svx data
2002-W-02 PG: needs survey and tag. Has 2002 svx data and tag
2002-X-09 unmarked and undescended
2002-X-09b unmarked - just a rock shelter, cannot need a kataster number
2002-X-15 unmarked, needs survey and better description if over 10m

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<div class="tripdate" id="t2015-08-09a">2015-08-09</div>
<div class="trippeople"><u>Wookey</u>, Philip Balister, Sandy</div>
<div class="trippeople"><u>Wookey</u>, Philip Balister, Sandy Knapp</div>
<div class="triptitle">Document remaining wook-caves (wk12, wk11)</div>
<p>Wook foolishly recorded some entrances whilst wandering in the 1990s, before realising that it's
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<p>Still, objective of making wk11 katasterable achieved, and thinks muchly to Phil for helping carry the crap.</p>
<div class="timeug">T/U: Wook: 30mins</div>
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<div class="tripdate" id="t2015-08-11a">2015-08-11</div>
<div class="trippeople"><u>Wookey</u>, Sam Wenham</div>
<div class="triptitle">Search for remaining wook-cave (wk4)</div>
<p>Only one cave from the 1995/6 wanderings left:wk4, found when attempting to walk down from 161d to
the Stogerweg in 1995 to see if it was a better route than back over the col (it wasn't).</p>
<p>Wook and Sam set off at an unheard-of early 7am partly to get Luke up the hill in time to do
something before derigging, and to avoid the worst of the heat of the day, at least to start
with. As we walked past the Bla-Alm turnoff we were ahiled from up the hill, by ChrisD, Anthony,
Elliot and Michael who wanted to leave rope in our car. Key arrangments were made, updates given and
we carried on our way.</p>
<p>Not hard to follow the Eishöhle path, passing numerous caches of ARGE gear along the way (142,
the nipple, Eishöhle 40a). 216 has more cold air than I remember and 40h is transformed. The crawl
is now a 4-5m-high passage with the old bolts stranded in the ceiling - soon you won't need any ice
gear at all to get in. It was very nice to sit in the fridge as huge amounts of cold air spilled out
of the entrance, but soon enough we had to get on with the task at hand.</p>
<p>Found it remarkably easy to get down the hill about 100m back from 216, where there is a path
down past 40d. The tag on this entrance is a rather long way from the cave now, presumably due to
shrinking snowfield at the entrance. Carrying on down here got us to a nice traverse level below the
main cliff here, into a large grassy amphitheatre - very nice spot. This was only 50m from pwk4, but
this GPS point was before Selective Availabilty was turned off, so somewhat unreliable, potentially
compounded by the steep hilside. The actual point was at the edge of the grassy area, which wasn't
right, as it was on a shelf, with bunde either side, and a notable rectangular hole, hard to
traverse past, and directly above the hochlapf sattel.</p>
<p>The terrain South of the grassy amphitheatre seemed about right, but it's quite heavily
bunded. The cave should be on a nice easy route, as it was found when taking the easiest route down
the hill, but 3 hours of wandering round, bashing a lot of bunde, and trying to find every possible
traverse level, found no sign of the bloody hole. It just made us both very hot, scratched, and
tired. I now have a tracklog of a large number of places that this cave is not.</p>
<p>Surprised to find a red-paint marked path here (which leads to the stogerweg), and an arrow on
the stogerweg pointing to a slightly higher path in the same area. Aparently more people come this
way than you might think (hunters?).</p>
<p>Eventually we gave up, having given it our best shot, and trogged back along the stogerweg (which
is actually very easy to get to from this area using the paths. Took best part of 2hours to walk back to the carpark. We were really quite tired.</p>
<p>Reading the logbook entry for the original discovery, I wonder if it is perhaps lower down?</p>
<p>So, that was a very frustrating day. We can move this cave to the 'mostly lost' pile.</p>
<div class="timeug">T/U: 2 mins in 216</div>
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