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@ -13,11 +13,16 @@ Top camp: 00 43 664 582 5229 - incoming calls and texts only. <br>
Top camp: 00 43 664 871 6782 - what it uses to send texts and make calls (from 2018)
</b>
</pre>
<p>After many years of using complicated radio systems of varying degrees of complication and reliability, we have finally settled on a foolproof method for communicating callouts from top camp to base camp: mobile phones. Cheap Austrian pay-as-you-go mobiles have sufficiently good reception on the plateau for sending SMS messages, and even occasionally for conversation.</p>
<p>After many years of using complicated radio systems of varying degrees of complication and reliability,
we have finally settled on a foolproof method for communicating callouts from top camp to base camp: mobile phones.
Cheap Austrian pay-as-you-go mobiles have sufficiently good reception on the plateau for sending SMS messages,
and even occasionally for conversation.</p>
<p>For some years (including 2018) we have been using the "B-Free" mobile scheme provided by the A1 company.
We get reception even inside the Stone Bridge bivvy.
(In 2011 we tried using another provider which picked up the T-Mobile network,
however the reception was not as good as B-Free.)
<p>B-Free&nbsp;has an annual renewal of the SIM which gets you the phone number and connection (plus some credit). More credit comes in the form of a receipt with a printed code or a card with a scratch-off secret number.</p>
<p>B-Free&nbsp;has an annual renewal of the SIM which gets you the phone number and connection (plus some credit).
More credit comes in the form of a receipt with a printed code or a card with a scratch-off secret number.</p>
<h3>Robust phone<img src="t/ruggear-p860-explorer-02-th.jpg" align="right" margin="5px"></h3>
We use "feature phones" with real buttons not smartphones with touch sensitive screens.
The top camp phone is particularly robust Russian
@ -28,7 +33,7 @@ It has 2 SIM slots whcih is really useful when we fail to renew last-years SIM i
<p>This has to be done in less than 13 months otherwise it costs a more as you
essentially have to start from scratch (~&euro;10 for a new SIM with &euro5 of
credit). The phone cannot be used in the last month, but renewal is cheaper
than starting from scratch.</p>
than starting from scratch. "Renewal" is just a matter of buying another &euro;20 credit.</p>
<h3>Checking credit</h3>
<p>The simplest way (which doesn't require understanding a number read out to
you in German) is to dial <b>*101#</b> ("0 BALANCE" in the contacts list in the phone book). This doesn't actually make a
@ -63,7 +68,7 @@ possibly under the name "0 ADD CREDIT" or "_ ADD CREDIT")</li>
particular spot to check messages, try dialling the balance request
number (<b>*101#</b>) once there - this usually seems to trigger delivery of any
pending SMS messages.</li>
<li> Commonly used numbers are put at the top of the phone book in each phone
<li> Commonly used numbers are put at the top of the contact list ("phone book") in each phone
by prefixing the name with "0 " or "_", e.g. "0 ADD CREDIT", "0 BALANCE", "0 BASE CAMP" etc.
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@ -27,6 +27,11 @@ expo is here</a>.</p>
<p>The last bit: <a href="#lastbit">from Bad Aussee to the campsite</a>
<h3>Kit by post</h3>
In these days of Amazon deliveries, you can get kit delievered 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).
Please don't send stuff in this way before base camp has people staying at it.
We don't want to create work for Karin by making her keep a lot of packages carefully for us.
<h2>By Train</h2>
<p>This is (these days) pretty easy to arrange and has the advantage
of allowing for stopping off en route in Paris, Cologne, Frankfurt,
@ -41,7 +46,8 @@ expo is here</a>.</p>
spend a night in a city en-route and arrive the next day, or use the
night-train to Vienna.</p>
<p>If part of the train journey has a bus replacement service (as in 2018), it can be easier to simply
get the bus all the way from Salzburg (bus station is at the train station) to Bad Aussee, with a change at Bad Ischl.</p>
get the bus all the way from Salzburg (bus station is at the train station) to Bad Aussee, with a change at Bad Ischl.
See <a href="#salz">below</a>.</p>
<p>Use bahn.de for timetabling, and Seat61.com for good advice,
especially if you are not familiar with long-distance rail
@ -85,9 +91,13 @@ even if you don't actually get off the train there, just change ticket! Book ear
<p>There is a
<a href="http://fahrplan.oebb.at/bin/query.exe/en?revia=yes&existOptimizePrice=1&country=overseas&initialAvail=ON&S=Bad%20Aussee%20Postamt&Z=Bad%20Aussee%20Staudnwirt&start=1">
bus, 956</a> from Bad Ausee Bahnhof (Station) to 'Grundlesee', timed to meet train arrivals.
It should be there abou 15 mins after you get off the train.
It goes straight past the campsite and you can see the times of all the buses posted at the bus stop (a sign with a big "H" in green on a yellow background). Cost is &euro;2.40 (2018). Get off at stop named 'Staudnwirt Gallhof',
about 100m slightly downhill from, and before the bus reaches, the <a href="http://www.openstreetmap.org/?mlat=47.61616&mlon=13.81218#map=19/47.61616/13.81218">Gasthof/campsite</a>.</p>
It should be there about 15 mins after you get off the train.
It goes straight past the campsite and you can see the times of all the buses posted at the bus stop
(a sign with a big green "H" on a yellow background). Cost is &euro;2.40 (2018). Get off at stop named 'Staudnwirt Gallhof',
about 100m slightly downhill from, and before the bus reaches,
the <a href="http://www.openstreetmap.org/?mlat=47.61616&mlon=13.81218#map=19/47.61616/13.81218">Gasthof/campsite</a>.</p>
<p>To walk to the centre of town, turn right out of the
station and just follow your nose up the road (past playing
fields on the left, keeping left at the only junction, then
@ -99,11 +109,26 @@ about 100m slightly downhill from, and before the bus reaches, the <a href="http
<p>If you walk this far and now want to get the bus, you can also catch the 956 bus from here.
The bus stop you want is on the opposite side of the road from the Post Office building.
Take the 956 which is the only bus that goes to Grundlesee.
The jouney takes 6 minutes and 'Staudnwirt Gallhof' is the 4th stop.</p>
The jouney takes 6 minutes and 'Staudnwirt Gallhof' is the 4th stop.
However there are only 8 buses a day in July and August (outside school term).
They leave the Post Office (2018) at
06:38,
08:00,
10:25,
11:20,
12:25,
14:25,
15:20,
16:25,
and the last one is at 18:24. To get an up to date timetable, look online at
<a href="http://fahrplan.oebb.at/bin/query.exe/en?ld=19&L=vs_postbus&seqnr=3&ident=md.06573180.1532462020&REQ0HafasScrollDir=2">
http://fahrplan.oebb.at</a>.
<p>It's a little over 3km (2 miles) from the Post Office to Base Camp; to walk, take the exit
of the roundabout to the right, following signs to G&ouml;ssl. Now follow
the route description <a href="#roadbit">given below</a> for this section of road.</p>
the route description <a href="#roadbit">given below</a> for this section of road.
<b>On foot or by bike </b> ou can avoid walking along the bit of the road without fottpaths by taking the path labelled "Waldruhe" on the left just over the river bridge as you leave the town.
This path is on the other side of the river and is shady and cool in hot weather. The path rejoins the road about 250m from Staudnwirt.</p>
<p>There is a <a href="http://ausseerland.salzkammergut.at/detail/article/15763-narzissenjet.html">taxi service</a>
@ -180,14 +205,15 @@ a map</a> of the stopping points: the Gasthof is #14 and the train station is #2
town centre. Both routes meet up in the town centre at a peculiar three-way junction. There seem to be no obvious
rules here, except not to bump into anything.
<h4 id="#roadbit">Bad Aussee centre to Base Camp</h4>
<h4 id="roadbit">Bad Aussee centre to Base Camp</h4>
From the three-way junction, which is just by the Post Office ("Postampt"), follow the sign to
<b>G&ouml;ssl</b>, passing immediately through a very narrow section of road
with traffic lights to control the flow of traffic. The road crosses a
river, and shortly after swings left and then right, around a blind
corner, before leaving the town. After about 2 miles of pleasant
meandering through woods and meadows, look out for <b>Gasthof
Staudnwirt</b> on the left. <b>Base Camp</b> is <a href="http://www.openstreetmap.org/?mlat=47.61616&mlon=13.81218#map=19/47.61616/13.81218">in the field on the
Staudnwirt</b> on the left. <b>Base Camp</b> is
<a href="http://www.openstreetmap.org/?mlat=47.61616&mlon=13.81218#map=19/47.61616/13.81218">just behind the car-park on the
right</a>, opposite the Gasthof.</p>
<h2>By Air</h2>
@ -212,9 +238,9 @@ From the three-way junction, which is just by the Post Office ("Postampt"), foll
(M&uuml;nchen Hbf) from where you can take a train which stops at
Attnang-Puchheim. Now follow the description below from this point.</p>
<h3>Salzburg Airport to Bad Aussee</h3>
<h3 id="salz">Salzburg Airport to Bad Aussee - train</h3>
<p>Take a bus to the main railway station (Salzburg Hbf) and a train to
<p>Take a bus to the main railway station (Salzburg Hbf)for &euro;2.70 (2018) and a train to
<b>Attnang-Puchheim</b>. The train will probably be bound for
Wein (Vienna). Change at Attnang-Puchheim and get on a local
train to <b>Bad Aussee</b>. This train will probably be bound
@ -234,13 +260,17 @@ From the three-way junction, which is just by the Post Office ("Postampt"), foll
right-hand side. The train continues for a few minutes to arrive at Bad
Aussee.</p>
<p>If part of the train journey has a bus replacement service (as in 2018), it can be easier to simply
get the bus all the way from Salzburg (bus station is at the train station) to Bad Aussee, with a change at Bad Ischl.
If done as two tickets this is &euro;10:80 to Bad Ischl and then
&euro;6.40 from Bad Ischl to Bad Aussee (in 2018). There is often a long wait at Bad Ischl.
<h3>The Last Bit</h3>
<p>See 'Bad Aussee Railway <a href="#lastbit">station to expo campsite</a>' in Train section above</p>
<h2>By Bus</h2>
<p>Bus can be the cheapest way to get to expo (and probably the
<p>Bus can be the cheapest way to get to expo (and possibly the
lowest-carbon). Not as nice as the train, but
practical. It takes about 30 hours. International buses to
Linz (on the route to 'Vienna'/'Wien') exist, otherwise Munich (&pound;50)