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<h1>Expo computing setup</h1>
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<p>If the internet is not working, the <b>first thing to check</b> is that<br>the black WiFi antennae are
still upright and have not been knocked sideways.
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log you out if you stop using it or whenever it thinks you have been on too long. Get instructions from the
Gasthof campsite reception.
<h3>Nerding</h3>
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<br><figcaption>Training weekend laptop in 2018</figcaption></figure>
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<p>Expo requires so much nerding that it is part of <a href="/years/2018/training-weekends.html#nerding">the pre-expo training</a>.
<h3>Expo laptop</h3>
<p>The <em>Expo laptop</em> in the tatty hut is a 2011 Dell Latitude E4200 laptop (on loan from Philip

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<li><a href="../2016/thingsfor2017.html">Things needed for 2017</a></li>
<li><a href="stuffbought.html">Things bought 2017</a></li>
<li><a href="sponsors.html">Sponsors 2017 </a></li>
<li><a href="training-weekends.html">Training Weekends/Mission</a></li>
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<p><span style="font-weight: bold;">Post-Expo Documentation</span></p>
<ul>
<li><a href="logbook.html">Logbook</a><a href="../../expofiles/writeups/2017/logbook.pdf">(PDF scan)</a></li>
<li><a href="logbook.html">Logbook</a>
<li><a href="../../expofiles/writeups/2017/logbook.pdf">Logbook PDF scan</a></li>
<li>Caver's Forum expo report Postings<a href="ukcaving/index.html">(local copy)</a>, <a href="http://ukcaving.com/board/index.php?topic=22020.0">(original on forum)</a></li>
<li><a href="topcamplist.html">Things left at Top Camp 2017</a></li>
<li><a href="krakencamplist.html">Things left at Kraken Camp 2017</a></li>

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<h2>See also: <a href="https://ukcaving.com/board/index.php?threads/rope-sponsor-entry-cucc-austria.22020/">UK CAVING ILLUSTRATED BLOG 2017</a> </h3>
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<div class="tripdate" id="2017_s01_blog">2017-05-23</div>
<div class="trippeople"><u>Rob Watson</u>, </div>
<div class="triptitle">Expo - Caving in the Schwarzmooskogelhohle System, Blog post 1</div>
<div class="bbWrapper"><b>Caving in the Schwarzmooskogelhohle System, Loser Plateau, Austria with CUCC, 1976?2017</b><br>
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Since 1976, CUCC have been visiting the Loser Plateau near Bad Aussee, Austria, to explore the Schwarzmooskogelhohle cave system. As of 2016, the cave is now over 120km long and over 1000m deep, making it one of the largest in Europe. The expedition is one of the largest and longest running student expeditions in the UK, and is one of the leading training grounds for students new to alpine caving to learn how to explore new alpine caves safely and scientifically.<br>
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<i>Frank Tully striding heroically towards Top Camp, with the Loser Plateau and Braunenzinkel in the background looking out towards the Dachstein Plateau in the far distance. Photo: Chris Densham.</i><br>
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There are a huge number of known entrances to the system, but there are four which stand out as key to understanding the history of exploration. The first major breakthrough came in 1983, when an entrance called Stellerweg (or entrance number 115/201) was pushed deep to find a sump close to the altitude of the resurgence in Alt Aussee lake, suggesting little potential for further exploration at this depth. Therefore, exploration began to focus on finding higher entrances to the cave system. In 1988, Kaninchenhoehle (161) was found and thus began extensive horizontal discoveries along with vertical gain, suggesting that connecting up entrances across the system was a viable exploratory goal. After potential from 161 began to wane, a new entrance was duly found: Steinbruckenhoehle (204), in 1999. In 2001 a new deep level called the Subway was pushed to find a streamway called Razordance ? a rarity in this cave system. In that year, we also established our current top camp bivvy site beneath a natural stone bridge next to one of the entrances to 204. Five years later in 2006, the entrance 258 was found, which led to a cave now known as Tunnocksschacht. This cave has been described as the ?corporation of Schwarzmooskogel? because it keeps absorbing the smaller caves around it and has so far been key to unlocking a number of phreatic levels in the system. <br>
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One of these caves was Balkonhoehle, which was re-discovered in 2014 and has been a focus of exploration alongside Tunnocks ever since (it was connected to Tunnocks in 2015). Recent exploration in Tunnocks has been focused on going to deeper phreatic levels in the cave, along a nylon highway of ropes down pitches such as String Theory, Procrastination, Number of the Beast, Inferno and Kraken, which have all been discovered in the last 5 years. In 2015, exploration of leads at the bottom of Kraken was becoming a bit much with 15?20 hour trips required if going on the bounce. Therefore, in 2016 it was decided that we would erect a camp in an excellent sandy site close to some water at the base of Kraken pitch (around ?650m). From here, exploration of deep phreatic levels proved extremely successful, with over 3.5km being found over the course of 7 camping trips (typically lasting 48 hours, though one ended up lasting longer than intended after an incident dubbed ?Indian Rope Trick?). One of these discoveries was an unprecedentedly large river passage ramping steeply down to a depth of -903m, and which is still not fully explored. Students made up a contingent of every camping trip.&nbsp; <br>
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<i>Wob Rotson, Katey Bender and Chris Densham at Underground Camp. Photo: Ian Peachey.</i><br>
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<b>The plan for this year<br>
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2017 holds a lot of promise for extensive vertical and horizontal discoveries in the cave system, and will run for 6 weeks from 9th July?20th August. We have a roughly triple-headed plan of attack for this year:<br>
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?Go back to Camp Kraken and push the deep leads. This is the main objective of the expedition, as we left the camp fully rigged from the year before and after this year it seems unlikely that we will return there. There is around another 200m of depth potential in this area before hitting the level of the sump in Stellerweg. In 2016, the camp was set up for 3 weeks, with a team always underground on a rota. We would aim to do the same again this year.<br>
?Head into blank space in Balkonhohle. This cave is an excellent place for novice alpine cavers to explore: it is not a long trip to most of the pushing fronts, the caving is very pleasant but the exploration still feels challenging and exciting. In 2016, an area of Balkonhohle called ?Hilti-a-Plenty? yielded excellent potential for big discoveries, with a vast black chamber, ?Galactica?, being discovered on a final push-and-derig trip.<br>
?Return to Organhohle. This cave was explored in the 1980s and 1990s over 2 trips by UBSS (who form a substantial exped contingent along with ULSA) and is in a different part of the plateau to Tunnocks. It is close to the Schoenberg system which is explored by German cavers annually. The deepest phreatic level explored here seems to offer potential for similar phreatic development to Tunnocks. The cave is more testing by most accounts than the other two objectives, and will require a separate camp near the entrance (less walking and also less strain on top camp), along with a sustained rebolting effort. Improvements in lighting and a focus on horizontal exploration this time should yield exciting discoveries.<br>
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<b>The long-term plan for exploration</b><br>
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The discovery of water at such great depths in Tunnocks has prompted a renewed interest in the streamways found in other parts of the system, namely in Stellerweg and Razordance/the Subway. In 2018, there is a tentative plan to return to the Subway, which will require some considered planning as it is quite deep in the cave.&nbsp; There has also been discussion of returning to 115 to rebolt and explore the cave again, as it is now a long time since it was visited with comparatively primitive kit. However, this will require quite a lot of resources and a willing team. Deep leads in other parts of Tunnocks, namely Champagne on Ice and Clayton?s Cock-up, would also merit further exploration to see if we can push them to a satisfactory conclusion, though this will require a lot of rope as both leads go to around -500m. <br>
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<i>Katey Bender in Das Lieden von der Erde (Song of the Earth), a huge river passage found last year. A full report of this trip is available <a href="https://ukcaving.com/board/index.php?topic=21209.0" class="link link--internal">here</a>. Photo: Ian Peachey.</i><br>
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<b>Why would CUCC?s expo benefit from the rope?</b><br>
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As can be seen, a lot of the current leads in this cave require vast amounts of string to rig them. Last year, a de-rigging team using the paella (Pulling An Extremely Long Length Altogether) technique removed well in excess of 1km of rope from Tunnocks alone in one trip. The expedition is also a focal point for novice university cavers to learn alpine caving techniques: this year, there are around 10 student cavers attending the expedition who have no prior alpine caving experience. To ensure the expedition is successful in both finding new cave and training new cavers, we would really benefit from additional resources so that a number of leads can be explored simultaneously and easily. Currently, the expedition has somewhere in the region of 1500m of rope, but another kilometre or so is likely to be required to fully achieve our objectives. As such, an additional 300m would be immensely beneficial. The amount of use and muddy conditions in these caves also mean that rope in this system wears particularly quickly, so we need to replace rope at a faster rate than, for example, when caving in the UK.<br>
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<i>Peachey and Katey with a pile of rope for just one of the 8 monster pitches which are required to reach Camp Kraken. Photo: Fleur Loveridge.</i><br>
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<b>What will we offer?</b><br>
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Our base camp in Bad Aussee has extensive computer facilities, with ?the Potato Hut? offering the opportunity for blogging throughout the expedition (though the survey geeks will be unhappy at further time not spent drawing up!). Members have written blogs in the past (eg <a href="https://daysyearoff.wordpress.com/2016/08/04/the-kraken-wakes/" target="_blank" class="link link--external" rel="nofollow ugc noopener">https://daysyearoff.wordpress.com/2016/08/04/the-kraken-wakes/</a>) and we have some quite budding photographers on the team. We hope you will consider us for sponsorship and look forward to hearing from you.<br>
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Website: <a href="http://expo.survex.com/" target="_blank" class="link link--external" rel="nofollow ugc noopener">http://expo.survex.com/</a><br>
Twitter: <a href="https://twitter.com/cucc_expo" target="_blank" class="link link--external" rel="nofollow ugc noopener">https://twitter.com/cucc_expo</a><br>
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<div class="timeug">T/U: </div>
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<div class="tripdate" id="t2017-07-11a">2017-07-11</div>
<div class="trippeople"><u>Rob Watson</u>, Luke Stangroom, </div>
<div class="triptitle">Tunnocks - Rigging trip #1: Entrance Series</div>
<br /><br />After a slow start at base camp, Luke, Brendan, Nathan and myself went up the hill so Brendan could have lunch. This done, we had to go caving, myself and Luke tasked with rigging Tunnocks, using Anthony’s 2015 rigging topo as a guide for the entrance series. The rig was very faffy and not much grease had been used on the derig last year which didn’t help. After much faff, we reached the snow slope which was sporting some very large icicles at the bottom. Out and back for 9pm.
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<div class="tripdate" id="t2017-07-11b">2017-07-11</div>
<div class="trippeople"><u>Nathan Walker</u>, Brendan Hall, </div>
<div class="triptitle">Balcony - rigging trip</div>
<br /><br />Rigged Balcony entrance series with 100m + 20m rope following <i>[Ed Nathanael’s]</i> 2016 rigging topo.
<div class="timeug">T/U: </div>
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<div class="tripdate" id="2017_s03_blog">2017-07-11</div>
<div class="trippeople"><u>Elaine</u>, </div>
<div class="triptitle">Expo - Food and prep. Blog post 2</div>
<div class="triptitle">Expo - Food and prep. and Traungold Stash</div>
<div class="bbWrapper">Drills batteries and computers have been fettled, Cambridge Sainsbury's has been bought out of couscous, milk powder and packet soups (apart from the mushroom flavour, yuk), and the CUCC expedition vanguard is now crossing the Alps. Unlike Hannibal, we are not furnished with elephants, although rumours abound of (inflatable) orcas and flamingos that may also have seen active service on a certain Irish caving expedition this year. <br>
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<div class="tripdate" id="2017_s04_blog">2017-07-15</div>
<div class="trippeople"><u>Rob Watson</u>, </div>
<div class="triptitle">Expo - Week 1, Blog post 3</div>
<div class="triptitle">Expo - Week 1</div>
<div class="bbWrapper">So, the first week of CUCC Austria 2017 is over. It has been a slightly uncertain ride, with not many experienced CUCC members being around to coordinate the youth. Luckily, The Professor <i>aka</i> Mark Dougherty showed us what he?s made of by motorcycling for 2 days from central Sweden to be here and show us all the ropes in between G?ssers (the beverage of choice in Austria, tasty and cheap). After Brendan, Nathan, Luke and George had arrived after dehydrating themselves and, in George?s case, sustaining an annoying ankle niggle Via Ferrataing in the Dolomites, Base Camp (the hut that ?keeps the computers dry?) was set up and supplies were brought up to the Top Camp, with more being dug out of their storage in a big iceplug. Brendan in particular enjoys these trips up to Top Camp as they give him a much-needed excuse to eat more than one lunch (for Brendan life is just a succession of lunches broken up by playing with spreadsheets in his role as CHECC Treasurer). The guys got on with setting up the bivvy, installing the water collection system and setting up the main tarp. <br>
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<div class="tripdate" id="2017_s05_blog">2017-07-18</div>
<div class="trippeople"><u>Elaine</u>, </div>
<div class="triptitle">Expo - Food, Blog post 4</div>
<div class="triptitle">Expo - Food on a budget as tight as a hipster's trousers</div>
<div class="bbWrapper"><u><b>On Calories.</b></u><br>
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Last year, a few days before setting off on a week-long hike, I found myself in a Canadian supermarket weighing up the pros and cons of different energy bars. ?Look,? I squealed excitedly to my companion, ?this one has almost a THIRD more calories per 100g! YES PLEASE!? ?CavingPig,? she laughed, ?that's the exact opposite of what any girl I know would say!?<br>
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Gender stereotypes aside, eating enough is a hugely important consideration for any sport, and caving expeditions are certainly no exception. When you could be expending upwards of 6000 calories a day, you need to consume as much food as you can force down, and preferably in a form that?s incredibly simple to prepare. Haute cuisine is the last thing on your mind when you?re feeling absolutely shagged after a 16-hour surveying mission, but in a bivouac two hours? hike from the nearest roadhead (or an underground camp several hours? journey further on from that), chips with everything just isn?t an option ? lightweight and compact is very much the order of the day. Throw into the mix the fact that as a student expedition, we?re on a budget as tight as a hipster?s trousers ? what?s a hard-up undergrad to do?<br>
Gender stereotypes aside, eating enough is a hugely important consideration for any sport, and caving expeditions are certainly no exception. When you could be expending upwards of 6000 calories a day, you need to consume as much food as you can force down, and preferably in a form that?s incredibly simple to prepare. Haute cuisine is the last thing on your mind when you?re feeling absolutely shagged after a 16-hour surveying mission, but in a bivouac two hours? hike from the nearest roadhead (or an underground camp several hours? journey further on from that), chips with everything just isn't an option ? lightweight and compact is very much the order of the day. Throw into the mix the fact that as a student expedition, we're on a budget as tight as a hipster's trousers ? what's a hard-up undergrad to do?<br>
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Instant porridge is a firm favourite. Comes in several flavours, can have syrup/spices added for extra taste sensations. Sprinkle over some optional Choco Muesli for an even wilder ride.<br>
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<u><b>Second breakfast</b></u><br>
Unless we?re being super keen and getting in a cheeky Alpine start, I like to make like a hobbit and treat myself to second breakfast. Usually noodles. Often turns into a game of ?guess the contents of the package? since the ingredient lists tend to all be in Asian languages I can?t read. Instant mashed potato with sponsorship pesto and/or wild chives growing round the bivi is another solid choice.<br>
Unless we?re being super keen and getting in a cheeky Alpine start, I like to make like a hobbit and treat myself to second breakfast. Usually noodles. Often turns into a game of ?guess the contents of the package? since the ingredient lists tend to all be in Asian languages I can't read. Instant mashed potato with sponsorship pesto and/or wild chives growing round the bivi is another solid choice.<br>
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<i>Sarah hits the cheesy peas.</i><br>
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<u><b>Drinks</b></u><br>
It?s so important to drink plenty while caving, since fluid loss will reduce performance more than any other factor. Yet with the temperature in the caves at 0?C?2?C on average, the urge to drink is often diminished, and dehydration can easily sneak up. A weak solution of around 6 tsp sugar and 1/2 tsp salt in a litre of water, flavoured to taste with some cordial, is excellent for keeping hydrated. We also get through veritable lakes of cup-a-soup, hot chocolate and tea (sometimes with milk powder added, sometimes with custard powder instead as a surprise when things aren?t labelled properly). Speaking of custard, purchasing the right type is highly important. You don't want ?custard powder? ? what you need is ?instant custard mix?. Otherwise you end up with lots of unhappy people in the bivi holding steaming cups of cornflour.<br>
It?s so important to drink plenty while caving, since fluid loss will reduce performance more than any other factor. Yet with the temperature in the caves at 0?C?2?C on average, the urge to drink is often diminished, and dehydration can easily sneak up. A weak solution of around 6 tsp sugar and 1/2 tsp salt in a litre of water, flavoured to taste with some cordial, is excellent for keeping hydrated. We also get through veritable lakes of cup-a-soup, hot chocolate and tea (sometimes with milk powder added, sometimes with custard powder instead as a surprise when things aren't labelled properly). Speaking of custard, purchasing the right type is highly important. You don't want ?custard powder? ? what you need is ?instant custard mix?. Otherwise you end up with lots of unhappy people in the bivi holding steaming cups of cornflour.<br>
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<u><b>Nightcap</b></u><br>
A wee nip of your preferred local schnapps is the perfect accompaniment to stargazing (the Perseids are peaking mid-Expo) or Dachstein TV (AKA lightning storms on the mountain opposite us). All in moderation, obviously ? would hate to be hungover and in control of a DistoX. Imagine the margin of error.<br>
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<div class="tripdate" id="2017_s07_blog">2017-07-20</div>
<div class="trippeople"><u>Brendan Hall</u>, </div>
<div class="triptitle">Expo - Photos, Blog post 5</div>
<div class="triptitle">Expo - ice waterfall in Ice Cock aven</div>
<div class="bbWrapper">Just checking I can remember how to post photos, hopefully it works...<br>
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<div class="tripdate" id="2017_s08_blog">2017-07-22</div>
<div class="trippeople"><u>Katey Bender</u>, </div>
<div class="triptitle">Expo - Elliott and Katey's first week on Expo. Blog post 6</div>
<div class="triptitle">Expo - Elliott and Katey's first week on Expo</div>
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We finally made it to Dover in time to catch the ferry after the one we?d booked, and after an uneventful overnight drive we arrived at base camp around 4pm on Saturday, July 15th.<br>
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All the rope magically disappeared from the van and everything that wasn?t new rapidly disappeared up the hill with the contingent of keen carriers; all the new rope (1km!) rapidly disappeared into the river to soak overnight. Chris Densham turned up about an hour after us so we celebrated the end of the drive with some schnapps and called it a night.<br>
All the rope magically disappeared from the van and everything that wasn't new rapidly disappeared up the hill with the contingent of keen carriers; all the new rope (1km!) rapidly disappeared into the river to soak overnight. Chris Densham turned up about an hour after us so we celebrated the end of the drive with some schnapps and called it a night.<br>
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The next day, after nursing a hangover (or four) we pulled the rope out of the river and started processing it ? stretched it, dried it off, and packed it into tackle sacks to carry up the hill. <br>
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Sunday evening we made the first of a couple of carries up the hill. As it turns out, 200m of rope is quite heavy; it was an ambitious first carry for me, but a good kickstart to the expo fitness regime. After the best intentions for a quick bounce carry on Monday morning followed by a shallow pushing trip in Balkonh?hle, Chris, Elliott and I ended up carrying in the morning then sitting in the sun all afternoon. This, however, was not a total loss as we managed to get all the kit sorted out for underground camp, meaning we were ready for the first camp the next day.<br>
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Despite our best intentions Elliott and I were allocated to the first underground camp to Kraken, planned for 2 nights ? entering Tunnocks on Tuesday and exiting Thursday afternoon, as there were thunderstorms expected Thursday late afternoon/evening. After last year?s experience being flooded in on the way up from a camping trip, Chris and I weren?t too keen on spending another chilly night at the bottom of a flooded pitch. A 600m descent saw Elliott and I at camp for about 4pm. On the final 40m free hang&nbsp; the rope had, in fact, hit the bottom ? we had been slightly concerned after some not-so-confident noises from the team that had rigged down to camp. After leaving the ten in situ at the end of last year we weren?t expecting an easy set-up; the zips to the tent corroded shut, the puddle in the bottom of the tent and a good layer of mold were somewhat worse than expected. However, we soon drained the puddle, found use for a Therion protractor as an excellent mold-scraping tool, and sacrificed our spare buffs to mop up the remains and the bivi was soon back to a state fit for human habitation. Chris joined us a few hours later having fettled the rigging on the way down; we lit a few tea lights, had some dinner and settled in for a good night?s sleep.<br>
Despite our best intentions Elliott and I were allocated to the first underground camp to Kraken, planned for 2 nights ? entering Tunnocks on Tuesday and exiting Thursday afternoon, as there were thunderstorms expected Thursday late afternoon/evening. After last year?s experience being flooded in on the way up from a camping trip, Chris and I weren't too keen on spending another chilly night at the bottom of a flooded pitch. A 600m descent saw Elliott and I at camp for about 4pm. On the final 40m free hang&nbsp; the rope had, in fact, hit the bottom ? we had been slightly concerned after some not-so-confident noises from the team that had rigged down to camp. After leaving the ten in situ at the end of last year we weren't expecting an easy set-up; the zips to the tent corroded shut, the puddle in the bottom of the tent and a good layer of mold were somewhat worse than expected. However, we soon drained the puddle, found use for a Therion protractor as an excellent mold-scraping tool, and sacrificed our spare buffs to mop up the remains and the bivi was soon back to a state fit for human habitation. Chris joined us a few hours later having fettled the rigging on the way down; we lit a few tea lights, had some dinner and settled in for a good night?s sleep.<br>
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Day 2 of underground camp saw us continue to the deepest passage in Tunnocksschacht ? Song of the Earth, pushed last year to -902m. Minimal rigging after most of the ropes were left in last year made for a quick descent and we soon reached the bottom of the cave. The deepest point of the cave is a mud sump with no way on, though we stopped off there to show Chris as he?d not been before and to take some photos. <br>
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<div class="tripdate" id="2017_s09_blog">2017-07-24</div>
<div class="trippeople"><u>Brendan</u>, </div>
<div class="triptitle">Expo - Calibrating Distos, Blog post 7</div>
<div class="triptitle">Expo - Calibrating Distos</div>
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<div class="tripdate" id="2017_s10_blog">2017-07-30</div>
<div class="trippeople"><u>Phil Withnall</u> </div>
<div class="triptitle">Expo - Perspective of a newcomer to expo, Blog post 8</div>
<div class="triptitle">Expo - Perspective of a newcomer to expo</div>
<div class="bbWrapper"><b><u>Perspective of a newcomer to expo</u></b><br>
[id is 'Flakey' but I think it is Philip Withnall - from survey of Galactica.]
[id is 'Flakey' = Philip Withnall]
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Having been caving for several years with CUCC, but having managed to successfully avoid Expo previously, 2017 was my first year in Austria exploring the caves of the L?ser plateau. I spent two weeks out there and, having returned home and had a few showers, here are some of my thoughts about the Expo experience.<br>
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I turned up on Expo shortly after the setup and rigging had been completed, meaning that some of my first trips were to the pushing edge of exploration. All of my trips this year were in Balkonh?hle (apart from a couple of trips down a new cave, found while prospecting; more on that below). This was more caving than I had done before on any trip: more depth, longer duration, and more technical SRT in one place at the same time. Good fun. While I was confident with my caving before arriving, there was the inevitable mismatch in prussiking fitness between me and those who had already been out on Expo for a week or two. A few trips down to Galactica (one of the lower areas in Balkonh?hle at the start of Expo) started to sort that out.<br>
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There were other skills which I hadn?t had the opportunity to practice before: surveying, and photography. Since a lot of Expo is about surveying, that was a critical skill to learn. Thanks to the patience of Luke, Nadia and Rachel, I got enough practice on a couple of trips to feel confident about surveying. Rachel and I surveyed the bottom of Galactica (a huge chamber found at the end of last year?s expedition which, unfortunately, is an almost complete dead end due to fill from fault breakdown). Later on, Nadia, Nathan and I started surveying a new cave. Exciting to do; less exciting to try and work out how to write up afterwards. Thankfully, various people at base camp were quite helpful in guiding me through writing up surveys and tying a new cave into the overall survey.<br>
There were other skills which I hadn't had the opportunity to practice before: surveying, and photography. Since a lot of Expo is about surveying, that was a critical skill to learn. Thanks to the patience of Luke, Nadia and Rachel, I got enough practice on a couple of trips to feel confident about surveying. Rachel and I surveyed the bottom of Galactica (a huge chamber found at the end of last year?s expedition which, unfortunately, is an almost complete dead end due to fill from fault breakdown). Later on, Nadia, Nathan and I started surveying a new cave. Exciting to do; less exciting to try and work out how to write up afterwards. Thankfully, various people at base camp were quite helpful in guiding me through writing up surveys and tying a new cave into the overall survey.<br>
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One of the downsides I found on Expo was that knowing the set of A-leads to investigate was hard; the information mostly resides in a few people?s heads, rather than on a list somewhere. It was only during my second week on Expo when we got a relatively up-to-date survey to look at at top camp. This made it a bit harder to take the initiative to lead trips to the pushing front. Hence I became a sheep; a situation I was happy with, given it was my first year at Expo.<br>
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Prospecting was another activity which I got some practice at, due to a few days where the weather forecast was terrible (and the weather reality was rather nice). Given a bad forecast, going down Balkonh?hle is inadvisable due to the potential for getting flooded in (the Entrance series drains a lot of water). Prospecting seemed a safer option, and the possibility for finding the long-sought second entrance to Balkonh?hle was attractive.<br>
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We didn?t manage to find a second entrance to Balkonh?hle, but we did manage to find another promising cave (nicknamed Bad Forecast; I?m looking forward to the Austrian translation) which we pushed to -100m in a large phreatic chamber. The entrance passage is about 100m long at 45?, running contrary to the dip of the surrounding plateau, and doesn?t seem to take water. So at least we?ve found a cave people can do in wet weather (so far), and something for people to push if they?re bored of Balkonh?hle or Tunnocks. And I think we?ve now surveyed enough of it that the name can?t be changed, so that?s one more pun set in stone.<br>
We didn't manage to find a second entrance to Balkonh?hle, but we did manage to find another promising cave (nicknamed Bad Forecast; I?m looking forward to the Austrian translation) which we pushed to -100m in a large phreatic chamber. The entrance passage is about 100m long at 45?, running contrary to the dip of the surrounding plateau, and doesn't seem to take water. So at least we?ve found a cave people can do in wet weather (so far), and something for people to push if they?re bored of Balkonh?hle or Tunnocks. And I think we?ve now surveyed enough of it that the name can't be changed, so that?s one more pun set in stone.<br>
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Weather was ever-present during my time on Expo: there was typically the threat of rain (also typically dismissed, correctly, by people). When there wasn?t rain, there was sunburn. A particularly entertaining two days of rain lead to us rebuilding the kitchen area of the bivvy, and me running out of reading material. Pro tip: bring more reading to top camp. Another pro tip: bring more interesting food; preferably things which can have the powdered custard from top camp added to them to increase their deliciousness. After much experimentation with various combinations of powdered food up there, I concluded that custard and smash is a timeless combination.</div>
Weather was ever-present during my time on Expo: there was typically the threat of rain (also typically dismissed, correctly, by people). When there wasn't rain, there was sunburn. A particularly entertaining two days of rain lead to us rebuilding the kitchen area of the bivvy, and me running out of reading material. Pro tip: bring more reading to top camp. Another pro tip: bring more interesting food; preferably things which can have the powdered custard from top camp added to them to increase their deliciousness. After much experimentation with various combinations of powdered food up there, I concluded that custard and smash is a timeless combination.</div>
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Blog Author: flakey
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Flakey [Phil W] said:<br><em>
One of the downsides I found on Expo was that knowing the set of A-leads to investigate was hard; the information mostly resides in a few people's heads, rather than on a list somewhere.
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There is supposed to be a list Flakey, but your fellow 2016 expoers did an exceedingly poor job of sorting out such things last year after expo finished, so one was not updated/generated properly. Nevertheless (despite not going in Balkonhoehle last year, so knowing very little about it) I did collect what info I could find and put it in the [qm.csv] list [ Now imported into: <a href="/cave/qms/1623-264">http://expo.survex.com/cave/qms/1623-264</a>] so there was a list of sorts.<br>
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I understand that a 3-line whip will be in place this year so no-one can leave if any docs or surveys are out of date. There will still be piles to do over winter, and I hope we can do a better job than last year, because, as you observe, it's a right pain if it doesn't get done.<br>
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<div class="tripdate" id="t2017-07-31a">2017-07-31</div>
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<div class="tripdate" id="2017_s11_blog">2017-08-02</div>
<div class="trippeople"><u>Rob W</u>, </div>
<div class="triptitle">Expo - Update, Blog post 9</div>
<div class="triptitle">Expo - Update 2 new caves</div>
<div class="bbWrapper">Quick stop press ahead of a fuller update in due course when I get some photos: we found 2 new caves in a previously totally unexplored area of the plateau which are both going big, leads at underground camp are still being explored, a new surface camp has been set up at Organhohle and we have now had 2 hospital visits. More to follow...</div>
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<div class="tripdate" id="2017_s13_blog">2017-08-04</div>
<div class="trippeople"><u>Wookey</u>, Phil W</div>
<div class="triptitle">Expo - UK Caving Blog post 10</div>
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Flakey [Phil W] said:<br>
One of the downsides I found on Expo was that knowing the set of A-leads to investigate was hard; the information mostly resides in a few people's heads, rather than on a list somewhere.
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There is supposed to be a list flakey, but your fellow 2016 expoers did an exceedingly poor job of sorting out such things last year after expo finished, so one was not updated/generated properly. Nevertheless (despite not going in Balkonhoehle last year, so knowing very little about it) I did collect what info I could find and put it in the [qm.csv] list [ Now imported into: <a href="/cave/qms/1623-264">http://expo.survex.com/cave/qms/1623-264</a>] so there was a list of sorts.<br>
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I understand that a 3-line whip will be in place this year so no-one can leave if any docs or surveys are out of date. There will still be piles to do over winter, and I hope we can do a better job than last year, because, as you observe, it's a right pain if it doesn't get done.</div>
Blog Author: Wookey [Not on on expo, just commenting on a post by Flakey on July 30th]
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<div class="tripdate" id="2017_s14_blog">2017-08-04</div>
<div class="trippeople"><u>Rob W</u>, </div>
<div class="triptitle">Expo -Achievemnets so far, Blog post 11</div>
<div class="triptitle">Expo - Dinner, Achievements so far</div>
<div class="bbWrapper">As the expo dinner approaches and the halfway point looms close, what exactly has CUCC expo 2017 achieved so far? Well, we?ve worked out one thing: deep Tunnocks is a stubborn beast that refuses to reveal its secrets easily. So far 5 camping trips have been completed, and the finale of last years? big find, Song of the Earth, ended in a huge chamber choked by mud and boulders, which George nearly became part of after having crawled into a boulder choke, only to pull on the ceiling and then nearly become encased in the cave. So, the chamber, named ?Big Lad?, is now dead, at least for a while. The other camping trips have turned some seemingly less promising leads near to Octopussy into howling chasms, most of which need dropping within the next week. Lots to do on that front. There is still some good windy phreatic passage to go at as well, after Densham, Nadia and Haydon descended a pitch to a very muddy floor only to miss some very draughty passage 5m above the floor. However, it was very very very muddy. So that was left as well.<br>
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<div class="tripdate" id="2017_s15_blog">2017-08-17</div>
<div class="trippeople"><u>Philip Sargent</u>, </div>
<div class="triptitle">Expo - Derigging begun, Blog post 13</div>
<div class="triptitle">Expo - Derigging begun</div>
<div class="bbWrapper">The expo is nearly over and derigging had begun when I left on Tuesday (15th August). Lots of interesting stuff found: ice-covered walls deep in Happy Butterfly (or was it Fishface?), an open, very long, traverse lead in Balkon, a new cave with lots of prospects in Good Morning, just near the rather distant Organh?hle bivvy. <br>
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<div class="tripdate" id="2017_s17_blog">2017-08-21</div>
<div class="trippeople"><u>Becka Lawson</u>, </div>
<div class="triptitle">Expo - Whiteboard, Blog post 14</div>
<div class="triptitle">Expo - Whiteboard</div>
<div class="bbWrapper">New to Expo 2017 - a whiteboard appeared mid-expo at Top Camp. We've had a whiteboard at Base Camp for many years now, and it gets well used, so why did it take us so long to realise that one would be even more useful at Top Camp?<br>
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<div class="tripdate" id="2017_s18_blog">2017-08-21</div>
<div class="trippeople"><u>Becka Lawson</u>, </div>
<div class="triptitle">Expo - Beyond my comfort zone, Blog post 15</div>
<div class="triptitle">Expo - Beyond my comfort zone</div>
<div class="bbWrapper"><div style="text-align: center"><b>Beyond my comfort zone</b>​</div><br>
It's been six hours since we left the quiet, calm space of the fossil level and started dropping down hundreds of metres of spray-lashed pitches. Six hours fighting hypothermia with not one alcove or sheltered ledge to escape the unremitting, icy gale. We're at the head of another 50m pitch with anchors going in for the final bag of rope but I can't wait any longer. I strip half naked to piss in the churning pool at the base of a waterfall then battle for ten minutes to get dressed again, my useless, numb fingers refusing to grip my central MR tight enough to turn it. Over 800m above me the sun is baking the limestone pavement. What am I doing here, struggling to hold it together? <br>
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<div class="tripdate" id="2017_s20_blog">2017-08-21</div>
<div class="trippeople"><u>Becka Lawson</u>, </div>
<div class="triptitle">Expo - End of Expo update, Blog post 16</div>
<div class="triptitle">Expo - End of Expo update</div>
<div class="bbWrapper"><div style="text-align: center"><b>End of Expo update</b>​</div><br>
Here's some photos (all by me, Becka Lawson) from the second half of expo and derigging and packing up at the end, written as I'm trying to distract myself from a scarily fast drive back to the UK on the German Autobahn. <br>
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<div class="tripdate" id="t2017-07-11a">2017-07-11</div>
<div class="trippeople"><u>Rob Watson</u>, Luke Stangroom, </div>
<div class="triptitle">Tunnocks - Rigging trip #1: Entrance Series</div>
<br /><br />After a slow start at base camp, Luke, Brendan, Nathan and myself went up the hill so Brendan could have lunch. This done, we had to go caving, myself and Luke tasked with rigging Tunnocks, using Anthony’s 2015 rigging topo as a guide for the entrance series. The rig was very faffy and not much grease had been used on the derig last year which didn’t help. After much faff, we reached the snow slope which was sporting some very large icicles at the bottom. Out and back for 9pm.
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<div class="tripdate" id="t2017-07-11b">2017-07-11</div>
<div class="trippeople"><u>Nathan Walker</u>, Brendan Hall, </div>
<div class="triptitle">Balcony - rigging trip</div>
<br /><br />Rigged Balcony entrance series with 100m + 20m rope following <i>[Ed Nathanael’s]</i> 2016 rigging topo.
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<div class="trippeople"><u>Rob Watson</u>, </div>
<div class="triptitle">Expo - Caving in the Schwarzmooskogelhohle System, Blog post 1</div>
<div class="bbWrapper"><b>Caving in the Schwarzmooskogelhohle System, Loser Plateau, Austria with CUCC, 1976?2017</b><br>
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Since 1976, CUCC have been visiting the Loser Plateau near Bad Aussee, Austria, to explore the Schwarzmooskogelhohle cave system. As of 2016, the cave is now over 120km long and over 1000m deep, making it one of the largest in Europe. The expedition is one of the largest and longest running student expeditions in the UK, and is one of the leading training grounds for students new to alpine caving to learn how to explore new alpine caves safely and scientifically.<br>
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<i>Frank Tully striding heroically towards Top Camp, with the Loser Plateau and Braunenzinkel in the background looking out towards the Dachstein Plateau in the far distance. Photo: Chris Densham.</i><br>
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There are a huge number of known entrances to the system, but there are four which stand out as key to understanding the history of exploration. The first major breakthrough came in 1983, when an entrance called Stellerweg (or entrance number 115/201) was pushed deep to find a sump close to the altitude of the resurgence in Alt Aussee lake, suggesting little potential for further exploration at this depth. Therefore, exploration began to focus on finding higher entrances to the cave system. In 1988, Kaninchenhoehle (161) was found and thus began extensive horizontal discoveries along with vertical gain, suggesting that connecting up entrances across the system was a viable exploratory goal. After potential from 161 began to wane, a new entrance was duly found: Steinbruckenhoehle (204), in 1999. In 2001 a new deep level called the Subway was pushed to find a streamway called Razordance ? a rarity in this cave system. In that year, we also established our current top camp bivvy site beneath a natural stone bridge next to one of the entrances to 204. Five years later in 2006, the entrance 258 was found, which led to a cave now known as Tunnocksschacht. This cave has been described as the ?corporation of Schwarzmooskogel? because it keeps absorbing the smaller caves around it and has so far been key to unlocking a number of phreatic levels in the system. <br>
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One of these caves was Balkonhoehle, which was re-discovered in 2014 and has been a focus of exploration alongside Tunnocks ever since (it was connected to Tunnocks in 2015). Recent exploration in Tunnocks has been focused on going to deeper phreatic levels in the cave, along a nylon highway of ropes down pitches such as String Theory, Procrastination, Number of the Beast, Inferno and Kraken, which have all been discovered in the last 5 years. In 2015, exploration of leads at the bottom of Kraken was becoming a bit much with 15?20 hour trips required if going on the bounce. Therefore, in 2016 it was decided that we would erect a camp in an excellent sandy site close to some water at the base of Kraken pitch (around ?650m). From here, exploration of deep phreatic levels proved extremely successful, with over 3.5km being found over the course of 7 camping trips (typically lasting 48 hours, though one ended up lasting longer than intended after an incident dubbed ?Indian Rope Trick?). One of these discoveries was an unprecedentedly large river passage ramping steeply down to a depth of -903m, and which is still not fully explored. Students made up a contingent of every camping trip.&nbsp; <br>
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<i>Wob Rotson, Katey Bender and Chris Densham at Underground Camp. Photo: Ian Peachey.</i><br>
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<b>The plan for this year<br>
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2017 holds a lot of promise for extensive vertical and horizontal discoveries in the cave system, and will run for 6 weeks from 9th July?20th August. We have a roughly triple-headed plan of attack for this year:<br>
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?Go back to Camp Kraken and push the deep leads. This is the main objective of the expedition, as we left the camp fully rigged from the year before and after this year it seems unlikely that we will return there. There is around another 200m of depth potential in this area before hitting the level of the sump in Stellerweg. In 2016, the camp was set up for 3 weeks, with a team always underground on a rota. We would aim to do the same again this year.<br>
?Head into blank space in Balkonhohle. This cave is an excellent place for novice alpine cavers to explore: it is not a long trip to most of the pushing fronts, the caving is very pleasant but the exploration still feels challenging and exciting. In 2016, an area of Balkonhohle called ?Hilti-a-Plenty? yielded excellent potential for big discoveries, with a vast black chamber, ?Galactica?, being discovered on a final push-and-derig trip.<br>
?Return to Organhohle. This cave was explored in the 1980s and 1990s over 2 trips by UBSS (who form a substantial exped contingent along with ULSA) and is in a different part of the plateau to Tunnocks. It is close to the Schoenberg system which is explored by German cavers annually. The deepest phreatic level explored here seems to offer potential for similar phreatic development to Tunnocks. The cave is more testing by most accounts than the other two objectives, and will require a separate camp near the entrance (less walking and also less strain on top camp), along with a sustained rebolting effort. Improvements in lighting and a focus on horizontal exploration this time should yield exciting discoveries.<br>
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<b>The long-term plan for exploration</b><br>
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The discovery of water at such great depths in Tunnocks has prompted a renewed interest in the streamways found in other parts of the system, namely in Stellerweg and Razordance/the Subway. In 2018, there is a tentative plan to return to the Subway, which will require some considered planning as it is quite deep in the cave.&nbsp; There has also been discussion of returning to 115 to rebolt and explore the cave again, as it is now a long time since it was visited with comparatively primitive kit. However, this will require quite a lot of resources and a willing team. Deep leads in other parts of Tunnocks, namely Champagne on Ice and Clayton?s Cock-up, would also merit further exploration to see if we can push them to a satisfactory conclusion, though this will require a lot of rope as both leads go to around -500m. <br>
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<i>Katey Bender in Das Lieden von der Erde (Song of the Earth), a huge river passage found last year. A full report of this trip is available <a href="https://ukcaving.com/board/index.php?topic=21209.0" class="link link--internal">here</a>. Photo: Ian Peachey.</i><br>
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<b>Why would CUCC?s expo benefit from the rope?</b><br>
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As can be seen, a lot of the current leads in this cave require vast amounts of string to rig them. Last year, a de-rigging team using the paella (Pulling An Extremely Long Length Altogether) technique removed well in excess of 1km of rope from Tunnocks alone in one trip. The expedition is also a focal point for novice university cavers to learn alpine caving techniques: this year, there are around 10 student cavers attending the expedition who have no prior alpine caving experience. To ensure the expedition is successful in both finding new cave and training new cavers, we would really benefit from additional resources so that a number of leads can be explored simultaneously and easily. Currently, the expedition has somewhere in the region of 1500m of rope, but another kilometre or so is likely to be required to fully achieve our objectives. As such, an additional 300m would be immensely beneficial. The amount of use and muddy conditions in these caves also mean that rope in this system wears particularly quickly, so we need to replace rope at a faster rate than, for example, when caving in the UK.<br>
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<i>Peachey and Katey with a pile of rope for just one of the 8 monster pitches which are required to reach Camp Kraken. Photo: Fleur Loveridge.</i><br>
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Our base camp in Bad Aussee has extensive computer facilities, with ?the Potato Hut? offering the opportunity for blogging throughout the expedition (though the survey geeks will be unhappy at further time not spent drawing up!). Members have written blogs in the past (eg <a href="https://daysyearoff.wordpress.com/2016/08/04/the-kraken-wakes/" target="_blank" class="link link--external" rel="nofollow ugc noopener">https://daysyearoff.wordpress.com/2016/08/04/the-kraken-wakes/</a>) and we have some quite budding photographers on the team. We hope you will consider us for sponsorship and look forward to hearing from you.<br>
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Website: <a href="http://expo.survex.com/" target="_blank" class="link link--external" rel="nofollow ugc noopener">http://expo.survex.com/</a><br>
Twitter: <a href="https://twitter.com/cucc_expo" target="_blank" class="link link--external" rel="nofollow ugc noopener">https://twitter.com/cucc_expo</a><br>
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<div class="trippeople"><u>Rachel Turnbull</u>, Peachey, Martin Green, Anthony Day,Chris Densham, Adam Henry, Mike Butcher, Adam A, Wookey, Cat Henry, Nadia, Haydon Saunders </div>
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Expedition began in earnest this weekend, where 12 expedition novices ventured to the YSS with a thirst for knowledge among other things, of course. The Helwith was made lively, with a pub full of cavers. Lively tales about the times caving didn't go to plan made up much of the discussion as it usually does. The weekend was attended by CUCC, ULSA, UBSS, NUCC, OUCC, RUCC, MUSC and some others. <br>
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Saturday began with Peachey recounting his advice on how not to die in the Alps. A man of many adventures recalled his misadventures and gave a refined kit list to minimise being very sad. The group split off here: expo freshers and expo refreshers. <br>
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Martin Green led a session on expedition-specific first aid with the freshers before Anthony Day gave a good introduction to surveying. <br>
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Rotating roles in 4 groups, they produced a not half-bad survey of Long Churns. Thanks to Chris Densham, Adam Henry and Mike Butcher for their roles in the resurvey of Alum. <br>
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Meanwhile Wookey took the refreshers on a whirlwind of survey processing, description writing and updating the expo website, a tool that all the leads for the next year are saved on.&nbsp; <br>
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Martin gave these guys more first aid advice before the freshers returned. <br>
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Cat Henry lead the group through "Ah, someone has hurt themselves in this cave-specific way" scenarios outside in the spring sunshine before we ran through the principles of rescue procedures. The first aid advice given by both Cat and Martin at the weekend was great, realising that caves are imperfect environments for eye removal and untensioning lungs. <br>
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All in time for dinner! Thanks to Nadia for all the food for the weekend. A brilliant vegetarian and economic menu. The day's surveys were drawn up and compiled and the real expedition training began.<br>
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Mission statement</b><br>
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CUCC?s summer expedition aims to introduce as many student cavers to safe alpine cave exploration as possible and ensure that the strong tradition of pioneering British cave exploration continues into the future in the SMK system. We will do this by continuing to explore virgin passage across the system in leads small and big, shallow and deep, with the long-term dream of creating an ?alpine super-cave? by connecting SMK system to the neighbouring Schoenberg system. This ?super-cave? would be over 250km long and 1100m deep: no other cave system currently known comes close to such magnitude considering both metrics simultaneously.<br>
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This year we have a very big team of explorers with a huge variety of experience, and this means we will have a great chance to pursue a lot of different objectives, building upon our extremely successful expedition <a href="https://ukcaving.com/board/index.php?topic=22020.0" class="link link--internal">last year</a>. However, our ability to achieve the ambitious programme outlined below will require very careful planning and a great deal of resources and dedication.<br>
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<b>Aims and objectives for 2018<br>
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Continue to push leads from Camp Kraken, Tunnockschacht</b><br>
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We found less cave in the deep part of Tunnocks, known as Hydra, last year than we might perhaps had hoped. The choking up of the big passage at the bottom of Song of the Earth in a massive chamber, Big Lad, quite early on meant we had plenty of time to follow up on lesser objectives from 2016. One of these, explored on the final camping trip of the 2017 expedition, ended with a tantalising echo which took a while to fade away. Named ?Beckoning Silence?, this lead holds high hopes for 2018. Further leads in the area require bolt climbing to access: due to faulty drill batteries and a lack of resources at the necessary times last year these were left unexplored. We also found a very substantial sump, the Loser Lido, which we hope to get some decent photos of after failing to do this last year. There is also a very very muddy phreatic tube that Densham found, proclaiming it to be another ?Tunnocks Master Cave? despite its flow being described as a ?shit-trickle?, which doesn?t sound that impressive. No one seems that keen to return to this for whatever reason... We aim to get as many novice campers down there as possible this year, and we aim to be more productive by camping for longer periods at a time and managing teams more efficiently (glances at the planning whiteboard from last year will reveal the haphazardness of camp planning at times).<br>
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<b>Push other mid-depth leads in Tunnocks towards a conclusion</b><br>
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Since 2013, two very interesting mid-level areas of Tunnocks have been intermittently explored: Champagne on Ice, found in 2014 and pushed again in 2016, and Claytons Cock-Up, found in 2013 and explored further in 2015. These areas of the cave still hold a lot of promise, but have often been neglected as they take longer to get to than other parts of the system and are not as easy to find as other parts of the cave. We aim to try and push both of these areas of the cave hard this year, but we will have to be very efficient with rope and gear if we wish to do this as both require a lot of rope and metalware to rig.<br>
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<b>Roam the Wild West</b><br>
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Last year something happened which hadn?t happened since we found Balkonhohle (for the 4th time) in 2014: two completely new caves were found and are still going very strong. These caves, Fisch Gesicht Hohle and Glucklich Schmetterlinger Hohle (GSH), are exciting for reasons beyond having silly names (?Fisch Gesicht? refers to Luke waking me up after a heavy night by slapping me in the face with a herring). They have gone very deep very quickly, they are extremely cold, they draught like hell and they are in the middle of nowhere on the West of the plateau. We hope to be able to connect the caves this year (they lie less than 200m apart) and we expect to be able to connect them into the system reasonably soon. This Western area of the plateau is also a key area to push for possible ways closer to the Schoenberg.<br>
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<i>New expo-goers Corin, Adam and Radost having a break in the sun before fishing for new cave in Fisch Gesicht. Photo credit: Alice Shackley aka 'Shacktivities'</i><br>
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Balkonhohle has for the last 4 years been a sort of ?training ground? for cavers new to the expedition due to the friendly and accessible nature of the leads there. This characteristic of the cave has started to slip away in the last two years, with the discovery of a number of much deeper shafts which have been quite cold and wet. We anticipate returning to at least two of these areas of the cave this year, Sloppy Seconds and Cathedral Kazam,&nbsp; and we hope that persistence with the deeper areas of Balkony will provide a compelling challenge for newer members of the expedition.<br>
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<i>Left, Adam bolting in Balkonhohle. After doing only 6 SRT trips before coming out on the expedition, he was by the end of it exploring virgin passage at a safe and independent level, though his surveying leaves a bit to be desired. Luke, right, has to take over this tedious duty, motivated to continue only by caramel wafers kindly donated by Tunnocks. Photo credit: Kristian Brook</i><br>
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<b>Further prospecting to the North near to Organhohle</b><br>
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To connect to the Schoenberg we require more cave to be found to the North of the plateau. We thought that a cave explored in the 90?s by UBSS might be a good place to start, but the team who went there found that this cave hadn?t much to offer that had not already been looked at. However, the area has a lot of prospecting potential, so will offer a place for people to head to for something slightly different, even if that is just drinking Whisky Gold?<br>
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<b>Conduct preliminary investigations for performing tracer testing work in Hydra </b><br>
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We are more than a little curious about the hydrology of this deep area of the cave, as there is more water here, in both sumps (Loser Lido) and active streamways (Song of the Earth), than has been found almost anywhere else in the cave. We are working with local Austrian cavers to design tracer tests to determine the fate of water in this part of the cave, for which we will need the relevant permissions set up and also to do a recce of all possible resurgences. We will not be able to perform the tests this year, but by next year we aim to have everything in place to carry out the work and hopefully collaborate with Austrian cavers to understand the drainage of the plateau?s caves in a more quantitative sense.<br>
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<i>Where we're at with the SMK system so far, in elevation view.</i><br>
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You might think that, after last years much-appreciated haul of rope from UKC and Spanset, that we would be able to rig our caves twice over. After careful calculation, we have produced the following chart, which shows our rope requirements to rig all the leads we hope to explore, and you will see that it is quite substantial. On top of this we will need pushing rope, and also surplus to replace rope retired this year (the ropes down to camp have been mostly left in, so we expect them to be pretty shagged at the end of this years expo). We really appreciated the addition to our rope stash from this cause last year and we feel no differently going into this year.<br>
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<i>Pie chart showing the rope required to rig leads in Tunnockschacht (TS), Balkonhohle (BH) and the Wild West.</i><br>
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As we demonstrated last year, we really enjoyed updating forum users on the progress of the expedition and are able to do so very easily with a huge variety of contributions from different members of the expedition. We feel that our expedition offers something very unique to the caving world and we really want to share this with you all again. We aim to take a lot more photos underground this year which will hopefully result in a great digital representation of how special the SMK system is to explore.&nbsp; <br>
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We are working hard to get everything ready for when the expedition kicks off in July, and we will update this page as we go. We will be caving around Bull Pot Farm next weekend so newer members of the expedition get to do as much caving as possible before heading out, and we have several other social media outlets that we will be updating as we go as well, so watch this space!<br>
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<div class="trippeople"><u>Rachel Turnbull</u>, Sophie </div>
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It?s important that, once you?ve gotten off the train in Bad Aussee, you know that your enormous and heavy bag is full of useful things. For example, useful things include hand jammers (a mistake I made in 2015) and unuseful things include a wetsuit, two bottles of port and a good book (a nod to 2017). Then, you need to know you have the fitness to carry it all up the hill to camp with two cement bags of smash. With this in mind, we met at Bull Pot Farm for a weekend I termed, ?generally getting better at caving?. For some people, this meant learning to rig, navigate or even rebelays! See the post above for our ?expedition specific training? weekend. <br>
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There were 29 expedition members from Cambridge, Leeds, Bristol, Nottingham, Manchester and Sheffield, showing off different SRT kit configurations and modifications made to make expedition-style caving easier. Such as adding gear loops to harnesses to attach hammers, drills and at least four tackle bags at all times. The average age of participants was 23, filled with a strong group of expedition goers. <br>
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The caving trips were chosen for their expedition attributes. Saturday morning saw a group head to the classic Juniper Gulf on the Allotment. It's a cave similar to the Balkonh&ouml;hle, with a long free hanging pitch towards the bottom of the cave, in a wide diameter shaft, coupled with exposed traverses. <br>
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<i>Sophie, rigging for the first time underground in Lancaster Hole.</i>​</div><br>
An experienced group took to Quaking Pot, to practise being truly miserable, although I will wait to ?learn on the job?. A group in Petersons to Pipikin expected more discomfort than was in fact experienced, and ran through the cave in good time. <br>
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Other groups, practised rigging in Pool Sink, mimicking (although much smaller) the multipitch setting found in Tunnockschacht. This is useful for being ready to ascend when you hear the ?pitch free? and not bumbling around tightening chest harnesses, vital in 2-4 ?C Alpine caves. <br>
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<i>Paul, first time expedition caver, in Easegill.</i>​</div><br>
Another group joined a party from Combined Services Caving Association for a tour of Lancaster hole, learning SRT on the way down and another from the group learning how to derig on exit. Many thanks to Paul, Lee, Chris and Matt.<br>
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<i>General faff was rehearsed, ready for the big event in Austria.</i>​</div><br>
Saturday night was notably a much quieter affair, suggesting, much to my hope, there was a challenge for everyone that day. <br>
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After an Alpine start on Sunday morning, the cavers grouped and fled underground. Once almost everyone left on the Sunday, we fought back the midges <i><b>(visitors to the farm beware)</b></i> and took some group shots.<br>
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Cheers to everyone who attended, cooked, cleaned and led groups. Just a month to go! <br>
There are more photos of the event on:<br>
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<div class="trippeople"><u>Rob Watson</u>, Wookey, Julian, Anthony Day, Becka, George, Thom, Julian</div>
<div class="triptitle">Expo - Nerding: the Art, the Science, the Truth</div>
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It is no secret that we on the CUCC exped (well, some of us) love geeky things like plots, maps, DATA and coding. We find that having a (semi)-consistent approach to organising and presenting cave survey data goes a long way in helping find new cave passage. Rather than trying to stab in the dark at where to find new cave, and the hows and whats that come with that (How do I get there? What kit will I need to push a lead?), having up-to-date records of what has been explored and what is a good prospect really makes exploring new cave efficiently much easier. Last year, however, we really let our guard down with this, which seems to have some correlation with the number of high-level nerds and survey wizards present (Arch-Mage Wookey and old hand Anthony Day were both absent). <br>
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With this in mind, we really had to turn it around this year, not least because all the easy leads have been explored now. We have therefore been conducting online 'Nerding Sessions' at convinient times, with operatives in Cambridge, Liverpool and Dublin all getting a slice of the action. I'll run through a little of what we have been doing, hopefully without boring the utter piss out of you all.<br>
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In the old days, when internet was slow and 'This Corrosion' was not a song that cast dread into the eyes of expo-goers, there was a general consensus that an offline, centralised server with a repository of data that could be pushed to a web-based repository (the <a href="http://expo.survex.com/index.htm" target="_blank" class="link link--external" rel="nofollow ugc noopener">expo website</a>) using a distributed revision control system (we use Mercurial) was the way forward, and this still serves us well today (pardon the pun). However, recently we have been using github to collaborate on updating things, and this has worked well mainly because some of us are thick and like user interfaces with nice pressy buttons. There is a scheduled battle to decide what the way forward will be for after this years expo, where Wookey and Julian will have numerous competitions such as 'who can commit the most files to the server in one minute' and 'what is the longest you can sit hunched over a tiny laptop in a camping chair under a gazibo in the rain coding when you could be caving?'<br>
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<i>The processing workflow for drawing up a survey: locate the relevant survex file and print out; draw up survey data in 3D from centre-line; digitise the drawing using Tunnel; collate many Tunnel drawings to form a coherent survey. Note that these images do not all represent the same bit of cave passage!</i><br>
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<div class="trippeople"><u>Rachel Turnbull</u>, Peachey, Martin Green, Anthony Day,Chris Densham, Adam Henry, Mike Butcher, Adam A, Wookey, Cat Henry, Nadia, Haydon Saunders </div>
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Expedition began in earnest this weekend, where 12 expedition novices ventured to the YSS with a thirst for knowledge among other things, of course. The Helwith was made lively, with a pub full of cavers. Lively tales about the times caving didn't go to plan made up much of the discussion as it usually does. The weekend was attended by CUCC, ULSA, UBSS, NUCC, OUCC, RUCC, MUSC and some others. <br>
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Saturday began with Peachey recounting his advice on how not to die in the Alps. A man of many adventures recalled his misadventures and gave a refined kit list to minimise being very sad. The group split off here: expo freshers and expo refreshers. <br>
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Martin Green led a session on expedition-specific first aid with the freshers before Anthony Day gave a good introduction to surveying. <br>
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Cat Henry lead the group through "Ah, someone has hurt themselves in this cave-specific way" scenarios outside in the spring sunshine before we ran through the principles of rescue procedures. The first aid advice given by both Cat and Martin at the weekend was great, realising that caves are imperfect environments for eye removal and untensioning lungs. <br>
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Peachey instructed the refreshers on croll to croll mid rope rescues, hauling procedures and passing rebelays and deviations with casualties in the YSS SRT wall. <br>
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<div class="triptitle">Expo - CUCC Expo 2018 Mission statement</div>
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Mission statement</b><br>
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CUCC?s summer expedition aims to introduce as many student cavers to safe alpine cave exploration as possible and ensure that the strong tradition of pioneering British cave exploration continues into the future in the SMK system. We will do this by continuing to explore virgin passage across the system in leads small and big, shallow and deep, with the long-term dream of creating an ?alpine super-cave? by connecting SMK system to the neighbouring Schoenberg system. This ?super-cave? would be over 250km long and 1100m deep: no other cave system currently known comes close to such magnitude considering both metrics simultaneously.<br>
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This year we have a very big team of explorers with a huge variety of experience, and this means we will have a great chance to pursue a lot of different objectives, building upon our extremely successful expedition <a href="https://ukcaving.com/board/index.php?topic=22020.0" class="link link--internal">last year</a>. However, our ability to achieve the ambitious programme outlined below will require very careful planning and a great deal of resources and dedication.<br>
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<b>Aims and objectives for 2018<br>
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Continue to push leads from Camp Kraken, Tunnockschacht</b><br>
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We found less cave in the deep part of Tunnocks, known as Hydra, last year than we might perhaps had hoped. The choking up of the big passage at the bottom of Song of the Earth in a massive chamber, Big Lad, quite early on meant we had plenty of time to follow up on lesser objectives from 2016. One of these, explored on the final camping trip of the 2017 expedition, ended with a tantalising echo which took a while to fade away. Named ?Beckoning Silence?, this lead holds high hopes for 2018. Further leads in the area require bolt climbing to access: due to faulty drill batteries and a lack of resources at the necessary times last year these were left unexplored. We also found a very substantial sump, the Loser Lido, which we hope to get some decent photos of after failing to do this last year. There is also a very very muddy phreatic tube that Densham found, proclaiming it to be another ?Tunnocks Master Cave? despite its flow being described as a ?shit-trickle?, which doesn?t sound that impressive. No one seems that keen to return to this for whatever reason... We aim to get as many novice campers down there as possible this year, and we aim to be more productive by camping for longer periods at a time and managing teams more efficiently (glances at the planning whiteboard from last year will reveal the haphazardness of camp planning at times).<br>
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<b>Push other mid-depth leads in Tunnocks towards a conclusion</b><br>
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Since 2013, two very interesting mid-level areas of Tunnocks have been intermittently explored: Champagne on Ice, found in 2014 and pushed again in 2016, and Claytons Cock-Up, found in 2013 and explored further in 2015. These areas of the cave still hold a lot of promise, but have often been neglected as they take longer to get to than other parts of the system and are not as easy to find as other parts of the cave. We aim to try and push both of these areas of the cave hard this year, but we will have to be very efficient with rope and gear if we wish to do this as both require a lot of rope and metalware to rig.<br>
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<b>Roam the Wild West</b><br>
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Last year something happened which hadn?t happened since we found Balkonhohle (for the 4th time) in 2014: two completely new caves were found and are still going very strong. These caves, Fisch Gesicht Hohle and Glucklich Schmetterlinger Hohle (GSH), are exciting for reasons beyond having silly names (?Fisch Gesicht? refers to Luke waking me up after a heavy night by slapping me in the face with a herring). They have gone very deep very quickly, they are extremely cold, they draught like hell and they are in the middle of nowhere on the West of the plateau. We hope to be able to connect the caves this year (they lie less than 200m apart) and we expect to be able to connect them into the system reasonably soon. This Western area of the plateau is also a key area to push for possible ways closer to the Schoenberg.<br>
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<i>New expo-goers Corin, Adam and Radost having a break in the sun before fishing for new cave in Fisch Gesicht. Photo credit: Alice Shackley aka 'Shacktivities'</i><br>
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Balkonhohle has for the last 4 years been a sort of ?training ground? for cavers new to the expedition due to the friendly and accessible nature of the leads there. This characteristic of the cave has started to slip away in the last two years, with the discovery of a number of much deeper shafts which have been quite cold and wet. We anticipate returning to at least two of these areas of the cave this year, Sloppy Seconds and Cathedral Kazam,&nbsp; and we hope that persistence with the deeper areas of Balkony will provide a compelling challenge for newer members of the expedition.<br>
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<i>Left, Adam bolting in Balkonhohle. After doing only 6 SRT trips before coming out on the expedition, he was by the end of it exploring virgin passage at a safe and independent level, though his surveying leaves a bit to be desired. Luke, right, has to take over this tedious duty, motivated to continue only by caramel wafers kindly donated by Tunnocks. Photo credit: Kristian Brook</i><br>
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<b>Further prospecting to the North near to Organhohle</b><br>
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To connect to the Schoenberg we require more cave to be found to the North of the plateau. We thought that a cave explored in the 90?s by UBSS might be a good place to start, but the team who went there found that this cave hadn?t much to offer that had not already been looked at. However, the area has a lot of prospecting potential, so will offer a place for people to head to for something slightly different, even if that is just drinking Whisky Gold?<br>
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<b>Conduct preliminary investigations for performing tracer testing work in Hydra </b><br>
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We are more than a little curious about the hydrology of this deep area of the cave, as there is more water here, in both sumps (Loser Lido) and active streamways (Song of the Earth), than has been found almost anywhere else in the cave. We are working with local Austrian cavers to design tracer tests to determine the fate of water in this part of the cave, for which we will need the relevant permissions set up and also to do a recce of all possible resurgences. We will not be able to perform the tests this year, but by next year we aim to have everything in place to carry out the work and hopefully collaborate with Austrian cavers to understand the drainage of the plateau?s caves in a more quantitative sense.<br>
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<i>Where we're at with the SMK system so far, in elevation view.</i><br>
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<b>Why do we need more rope?</b><br>
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You might think that, after last years much-appreciated haul of rope from UKC and Spanset, that we would be able to rig our caves twice over. After careful calculation, we have produced the following chart, which shows our rope requirements to rig all the leads we hope to explore, and you will see that it is quite substantial. On top of this we will need pushing rope, and also surplus to replace rope retired this year (the ropes down to camp have been mostly left in, so we expect them to be pretty shagged at the end of this years expo). We really appreciated the addition to our rope stash from this cause last year and we feel no differently going into this year.<br>
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<i>Pie chart showing the rope required to rig leads in Tunnockschacht (TS), Balkonhohle (BH) and the Wild West.</i><br>
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As we demonstrated last year, we really enjoyed updating forum users on the progress of the expedition and are able to do so very easily with a huge variety of contributions from different members of the expedition. We feel that our expedition offers something very unique to the caving world and we really want to share this with you all again. We aim to take a lot more photos underground this year which will hopefully result in a great digital representation of how special the SMK system is to explore.&nbsp; <br>
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We are working hard to get everything ready for when the expedition kicks off in July, and we will update this page as we go. We will be caving around Bull Pot Farm next weekend so newer members of the expedition get to do as much caving as possible before heading out, and we have several other social media outlets that we will be updating as we go as well, so watch this space!<br>
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<i>K Brook admires the Braunenzinkel and the Dachstein en route back to the Loser hutte carpark during one of many amazing sunsets. Photo credit: Shacktivities</i><br></div>
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<div class="trippeople"><u>Rachel Turnbull</u>, Sophie </div>
<div class="triptitle">Expo - Second 2018 Training Weekend</div>
Blog Author: RTurnbull<div class="bbWrapper"><div style="text-align: center"><span style="font-size: 24px">CUCC's Second 2018 Training Weekend</span>​</div><br>
It?s important that, once you?ve gotten off the train in Bad Aussee, you know that your enormous and heavy bag is full of useful things. For example, useful things include hand jammers (a mistake I made in 2015) and unuseful things include a wetsuit, two bottles of port and a good book (a nod to 2017). Then, you need to know you have the fitness to carry it all up the hill to camp with two cement bags of smash. With this in mind, we met at Bull Pot Farm for a weekend I termed, ?generally getting better at caving?. For some people, this meant learning to rig, navigate or even rebelays! See the post above for our ?expedition specific training? weekend. <br>
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There were 29 expedition members from Cambridge, Leeds, Bristol, Nottingham, Manchester and Sheffield, showing off different SRT kit configurations and modifications made to make expedition-style caving easier. Such as adding gear loops to harnesses to attach hammers, drills and at least four tackle bags at all times. The average age of participants was 23, filled with a strong group of expedition goers. <br>
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The caving trips were chosen for their expedition attributes. Saturday morning saw a group head to the classic Juniper Gulf on the Allotment. It's a cave similar to the Balkonh&ouml;hle, with a long free hanging pitch towards the bottom of the cave, in a wide diameter shaft, coupled with exposed traverses. <br>
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<i>Sophie, rigging for the first time underground in Lancaster Hole.</i>​</div><br>
An experienced group took to Quaking Pot, to practise being truly miserable, although I will wait to ?learn on the job?. A group in Petersons to Pipikin expected more discomfort than was in fact experienced, and ran through the cave in good time. <br>
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Other groups, practised rigging in Pool Sink, mimicking (although much smaller) the multipitch setting found in Tunnockschacht. This is useful for being ready to ascend when you hear the ?pitch free? and not bumbling around tightening chest harnesses, vital in 2-4 ?C Alpine caves. <br>
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<i>Paul, first time expedition caver, in Easegill.</i>​</div><br>
Another group joined a party from Combined Services Caving Association for a tour of Lancaster hole, learning SRT on the way down and another from the group learning how to derig on exit. Many thanks to Paul, Lee, Chris and Matt.<br>
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<i>General faff was rehearsed, ready for the big event in Austria.</i>​</div><br>
Saturday night was notably a much quieter affair, suggesting, much to my hope, there was a challenge for everyone that day. <br>
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After an Alpine start on Sunday morning, the cavers grouped and fled underground. Once almost everyone left on the Sunday, we fought back the midges <i><b>(visitors to the farm beware)</b></i> and took some group shots.<br>
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<i>A group photo</i>​</div><br>
Cheers to everyone who attended, cooked, cleaned and led groups. Just a month to go! <br>
There are more photos of the event on:<br>
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&nbsp; &nbsp; <a href="https://twitter.com/CUCC_Expo?lang=en" target="_blank" class="link link--external" rel="nofollow ugc noopener">Twitter</a>.</div>
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<div class="trippeople"><u>Rob Watson</u>, Wookey, Julian, Anthony Day, Becka, George, Thom, Julian</div>
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It is no secret that we on the CUCC exped (well, some of us) love geeky things like plots, maps, DATA and coding. We find that having a (semi)-consistent approach to organising and presenting cave survey data goes a long way in helping find new cave passage. Rather than trying to stab in the dark at where to find new cave, and the hows and whats that come with that (How do I get there? What kit will I need to push a lead?), having up-to-date records of what has been explored and what is a good prospect really makes exploring new cave efficiently much easier. Last year, however, we really let our guard down with this, which seems to have some correlation with the number of high-level nerds and survey wizards present (Arch-Mage Wookey and old hand Anthony Day were both absent). <br>
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With this in mind, we really had to turn it around this year, not least because all the easy leads have been explored now. We have therefore been conducting online 'Nerding Sessions' at convinient times, with operatives in Cambridge, Liverpool and Dublin all getting a slice of the action. I'll run through a little of what we have been doing, hopefully without boring the utter piss out of you all.<br>
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<b>The Great Battle of the Platforms</b><br>
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In the old days, when internet was slow and 'This Corrosion' was not a song that cast dread into the eyes of expo-goers, there was a general consensus that an offline, centralised server with a repository of data that could be pushed to a web-based repository (the <a href="http://expo.survex.com/index.htm" target="_blank" class="link link--external" rel="nofollow ugc noopener">expo website</a>) using a distributed revision control system (we use Mercurial) was the way forward, and this still serves us well today (pardon the pun). However, recently we have been using github to collaborate on updating things, and this has worked well mainly because some of us are thick and like user interfaces with nice pressy buttons. There is a scheduled battle to decide what the way forward will be for after this years expo, where Wookey and Julian will have numerous competitions such as 'who can commit the most files to the server in one minute' and 'what is the longest you can sit hunched over a tiny laptop in a camping chair under a gazibo in the rain coding when you could be caving?'<br>
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<i>Example of user interface for collaborating on survey data fixing on GitHub. Who will win the Great Battle?</i><br>
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<b>What needs doing - Drawing, Tunneling, Pulling, GUSing, Migrating, Crying...</b><br>
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We have recently been trying to get the survey in good shape so that we can actually use it to find things when we are caving (rather than just have a pretty picture - I know this is more important for some). This means it needs drawing up from the survey notes taken in the cave, then scanning back in, then tracing over in Julian's vector graphic cave mapping software called Tunnel (recently George and Thom have been very obedient Tunnel bitches). All the individual bits of the survey are then collated into a full survey in GIS software and bingo!<br>
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<i>The processing workflow for drawing up a survey: locate the relevant survex file and print out; draw up survey data in 3D from centre-line; digitise the drawing using Tunnel; collate many Tunnel drawings to form a coherent survey. Note that these images do not all represent the same bit of cave passage!</i><br>
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In addition to this, I have been scouring the database for QMs in order to form a QM list of leads to be pushed this year, which will hopefully allow our newer members who do not know the cave system as well to be more independent in their exploration. We are also hoping to produce a full prospecting map with surface and subsurface data present. Watch this space!<br>
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<i>The Liverpool team pleased with progress at the Hackspace.</i><br></div>
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<li><a href="stuffbought2019.html">Things bought 2019
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<li><a href="https://ukcaving.com/board/index.php?topic=25195.0">Pre-Expo Training Blog</a> on ukcaving.com
<li><a href="training-weekends.html">Pre-Expo Training Weekends</a> reformatted, our copy
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<h3>Expo reports</h3>
<ul>
<li><a href="../2019/logbook.html">Logbook</a> (<a href="../../expofiles/writeups/2019/logbook.pdf">PDF</a>)
<li><a href="logbook.html">Logbook</a>
<li><a href="../../expofiles/writeups/2019/logbook.pdf">Logbook scanned PDF</a>
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<a href="https://ukcaving.com/board/index.php?threads/cucc-austria-expedition-2019-blog.25249/">2019 UK caving blog</a> <br /><br />
Also check out our Facebook, Instagram and Twitter:<br />
<a href="https://www.instagram.com/cambridge_uni_caving_expo/?hl=en">www.instagram.com/cambridge_uni_caving_expo</a><br />
<a href="https://twitter.com/cucc_expo?lang=en-gb">twitter.com/cucc_expo</a><br />
<a href="https://www.facebook.com/CUCCEXPO/">www.facebook.com/CUCCEXPO</a><br />
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<div class="tripdate" id="t2019-06-24">2019-06-24</div>
<div class="trippeople"><u>Sarah Parker</u>, </div>
<div class="triptitle">pre-expo - 2019 CUCC Austria Expedition - rope sponsorship entry</div>
<br /><br />
[Posted before Expo on the UK Caving Rope Sponsorship blog]
<br /><br /><!-- blog post -->
CUCC's Austria expedition has been running for over 40 years, discovering and exploring new cave on the Loser plateau in the Totes Gebirge region of central Austria. The main cave system explored here, the Schwarzmooskogel (SMK) system is now over 150km long, over 1000m deep, and still going strong! The expedition aims both to document as much new cave as possible whilst introducing expo newbies to alpine expedition caving safely, providing them with the necessary skills of bolting, surveying etc.
<br /><br />With numbers slightly less this year, the expedition will only run for 4 weeks (compared to the normal 6 weeks) from the beginning of July, with cavers venturing to Austria from clubs including CUCC, UBSS, ULSA, SUSS, RUCC and more.
<h3>Last Year</h3>
In 2018, further progress was made in Balkonhoele with around 5.2km of new cave was discovered, including 2 new connections with the adjacent Tunnockschacht (Tunnocks). Leads were pushed deep in Tunnocks, where Camp Kraken was reestablished at ~700 m depth.
<div class="onright">
<figure>
<a href="../2018/i/the-donald-from-fb.jpg"><img src="/years/2019/../2018/i/the-donald-from-fb-small.jpg"></a>
<br /><figcaption>Anthony Day - key innovator of the Camp Kraken stooling <br />facilities. Personalised toilet roll had moral boosting <br />effects - click to enlarge. See <a href="https://www.instagram.com/p/BmKv_GHgYeg/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link">instagram</a>
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</figure>
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<br /><br />The recent 2017 discovery of Fischgesicht (Fish Face) Hoehle continued to be pushed, with some particularly nice phreatic passage discovered that could potentially connect the cave into the SMK system. 2018 also saw the discovery of a new cave, Heimkommen (homecoming) Hoehle, whose name is a reminder of the time football 'almost' came home. Over the course of the expo, 1.6km of passage had been discovered here, with promising and drafting leads left for this year.
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<a href="../2018/i/1623-290_fischgesicht-höhle_-_entrance_-_markshinwell.jpg"><img src="/years/2019/../2018/i/1623-290-ent-small-becka.jpg"></a>
<br /><figcaption>Fischgesicht - still going? <br /> click to enlarge</figcaption>
</figure>
</div>
<br /><br />More detailed reports of last years discoveries can be found on last year's ukcaving rope entry thread (<a href="https://ukcaving.com/board/index.php?topic=23424.0">ukcaving.com/board/index.php?topic=23424.0</a>) and eventually on <a href="http://expo.survex.com">the expedition website</a>.
<h3>This Year
</h3>
This year's aims are to continue pushing leads from Balkonhoehle, Fischgesicht and Heimkommen left in 2018 (shown).
<br /><br />Balkonhoehle provides ample opportunity for expo freshers and veterans alike to explore large amounts of passage every year - although it has got a bit harder than wandering down massive passage now. Since its re-discovery and the beginning of exploration in 2014, the cave has provided numerous promising leads, and large amounts of passage have been discovered year on year. Promising 'A' leads remain unexplored, and despite the fewer numbers and smaller expo length this year, Balkonheohle will undoubtedly provide a wealth of exciting new passage.
<div class="onright">
<figure>
<a href="../2018/smksystemplan.jpg"><img src="/years/2019/../2018/smksystemplan-small.jpg"></a>
<br /><figcaption>Map of caves, categorised by date of discovery <br /> credit K. Bender - click to enlarge
</figcaption>
</figure>
</div>
<br /><br />The phreatic passage discovered in Fischgesicht last year, and trending NE towards the main SMK system, provides another key aim for this year's expo: to continue pushing these leads to discover a connection.
<br /><br />Exciting leads remain in Heimkommen and will continue to be pushed by this year's contingent of cavers.
<br /><br />The ultimate long-term goal of the expedition is to connect the SMK system with the neighbouring Schoenberg system, resulting in a cave of epic proportions. To achieve this, prospecting for new cave entrances will continue, with focus on discovering new cave to the north of the Loser Plateau, attempting to bridge of the gap between the 2 systems.
<br /><br />A big thanks to all businesses who've sponsored the expedition (both past and present) and a further thanks is due to the Wilpernig family of Gasthof Staud'nwirt who allow a hoard of dirty English cavers to descend on their beautiful campsite every year!
<br /><br />We'll keep people updated with this year's news on this thread [UK Caving blog:
<a href="https://ukcaving.com/board/index.php?threads/cucc-austria-expedition-2019-blog.25249/">the other one</a>]. Also check out our Facebook, Instagram and Twitter:<br />
<a href="https://www.instagram.com/cambridge_uni_caving_expo/?hl=en">www.instagram.com/cambridge_uni_caving_expo</a><br />
<a href="https://twitter.com/cucc_expo?lang=en-gb">twitter.com/cucc_expo</a><br />
<a href="https://www.facebook.com/CUCCEXPO/">www.facebook.com/CUCCEXPO</a><br />
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<div class="tripdate" id="t2019-06-24">2019-06-24</div>
<div class="trippeople"><u>Sarah Parker</u>, </div>
<div class="triptitle">pre-expo - 2019 CUCC Austria Expedition - rope sponsorship entry</div>
<br /><br />
[Posted before Expo on the UK Caving Rope Sponsorship blog]
<br /><br /><!-- blog post -->
CUCC's Austria expedition has been running for over 40 years, discovering and exploring new cave on the Loser plateau in the Totes Gebirge region of central Austria. The main cave system explored here, the Schwarzmooskogel (SMK) system is now over 150km long, over 1000m deep, and still going strong! The expedition aims both to document as much new cave as possible whilst introducing expo newbies to alpine expedition caving safely, providing them with the necessary skills of bolting, surveying etc.
<br /><br />With numbers slightly less this year, the expedition will only run for 4 weeks (compared to the normal 6 weeks) from the beginning of July, with cavers venturing to Austria from clubs including CUCC, UBSS, ULSA, SUSS, RUCC and more.
<h3>Last Year</h3>
In 2018, further progress was made in Balkonhoele with around 5.2km of new cave was discovered, including 2 new connections with the adjacent Tunnockschacht (Tunnocks). Leads were pushed deep in Tunnocks, where Camp Kraken was reestablished at ~700 m depth.
<div class="onright">
<figure>
<a href="../2018/i/the-donald-from-fb.jpg"><img src="/years/2019/../2018/i/the-donald-from-fb-small.jpg"></a>
<br /><figcaption>Anthony Day - key innovator of the Camp Kraken stooling <br />facilities. Personalised toilet roll had moral boosting <br />effects - click to enlarge. See <a href="https://www.instagram.com/p/BmKv_GHgYeg/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link">instagram</a>
</figcaption>
</figure>
</div>
<br /><br />The recent 2017 discovery of Fischgesicht (Fish Face) Hoehle continued to be pushed, with some particularly nice phreatic passage discovered that could potentially connect the cave into the SMK system. 2018 also saw the discovery of a new cave, Heimkommen (homecoming) Hoehle, whose name is a reminder of the time football 'almost' came home. Over the course of the expo, 1.6km of passage had been discovered here, with promising and drafting leads left for this year.
<div class="onright">
<figure>
<a href="../2018/i/1623-290_fischgesicht-höhle_-_entrance_-_markshinwell.jpg"><img src="/years/2019/../2018/i/1623-290-ent-small-becka.jpg"></a>
<br /><figcaption>Fischgesicht - still going? <br /> click to enlarge</figcaption>
</figure>
</div>
<br /><br />More detailed reports of last years discoveries can be found on last year's ukcaving rope entry thread (<a href="https://ukcaving.com/board/index.php?topic=23424.0">ukcaving.com/board/index.php?topic=23424.0</a>) and eventually on <a href="http://expo.survex.com">the expedition website</a>.
<h3>This Year
</h3>
This year's aims are to continue pushing leads from Balkonhoehle, Fischgesicht and Heimkommen left in 2018 (shown).
<br /><br />Balkonhoehle provides ample opportunity for expo freshers and veterans alike to explore large amounts of passage every year - although it has got a bit harder than wandering down massive passage now. Since its re-discovery and the beginning of exploration in 2014, the cave has provided numerous promising leads, and large amounts of passage have been discovered year on year. Promising 'A' leads remain unexplored, and despite the fewer numbers and smaller expo length this year, Balkonheohle will undoubtedly provide a wealth of exciting new passage.
<div class="onright">
<figure>
<a href="../2018/smksystemplan.jpg"><img src="/years/2019/../2018/smksystemplan-small.jpg"></a>
<br /><figcaption>Map of caves, categorised by date of discovery <br /> credit K. Bender - click to enlarge
</figcaption>
</figure>
</div>
<br /><br />The phreatic passage discovered in Fischgesicht last year, and trending NE towards the main SMK system, provides another key aim for this year's expo: to continue pushing these leads to discover a connection.
<br /><br />Exciting leads remain in Heimkommen and will continue to be pushed by this year's contingent of cavers.
<br /><br />The ultimate long-term goal of the expedition is to connect the SMK system with the neighbouring Schoenberg system, resulting in a cave of epic proportions. To achieve this, prospecting for new cave entrances will continue, with focus on discovering new cave to the north of the Loser Plateau, attempting to bridge of the gap between the 2 systems.
<br /><br />A big thanks to all businesses who've sponsored the expedition (both past and present) and a further thanks is due to the Wilpernig family of Gasthof Staud'nwirt who allow a hoard of dirty English cavers to descend on their beautiful campsite every year!
<br /><br />We'll keep people updated with this year's news on this thread [UK Caving blog:
<a href="https://ukcaving.com/board/index.php?threads/cucc-austria-expedition-2019-blog.25249/">the other one</a>]. Also check out our Facebook, Instagram and Twitter:<br />
<a href="https://www.instagram.com/cambridge_uni_caving_expo/?hl=en">www.instagram.com/cambridge_uni_caving_expo</a><br />
<a href="https://twitter.com/cucc_expo?lang=en-gb">twitter.com/cucc_expo</a><br />
<a href="https://www.facebook.com/CUCCEXPO/">www.facebook.com/CUCCEXPO</a><br />
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<li><a href="https://trello.com/b/WddB62HI/expo-jobs">Trello: expo-jobs (External site)</a> (email expo leader for access)</li>
<li><a href="https://app.element.io/#/room/#expo:matrix.org">matrix chat rooms (External site)</a></li>
<li><a href="https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1tVRtxYa3IMRDnC5J6nUEBCbhYpqESv2Movyzp6c7dg4/edit#gid=0">Who and when planning page</a> (Google Docs)</li>
<li><a href="training-weekends.html">Training Weekends Logbook</a></li>
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<li><a href="https://ukcaving.com/board/">Pre-Expo Training Blog</a> on ukcaving.com (Fix to new URL)
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<h3>Expo reports</h3>
<ul><li>Voluminous and illustrated<a href="https://ukcaving.com/board/index.php?threads/cucc-austria-expedition-2022-blog.29712/"> UK Caving blog</a> of our expo
<li><a href="../2022/logbook.html">Logbook</a> (<a href="../../expofiles/writeups/2022/logbook.pdf">PDF scan</a>)
<ul>
<li><a href="logbook.html">Expo Logbook</a></li>
<li><a href="../../expofiles/writeups/2022/logbook.pdf">Logbook PDF scan</a>
<li>Voluminous and illustrated<a href="https://ukcaving.com/board/index.php?threads/cucc-austria-expedition-2022-blog.29712/"> UK Caving blog</a> of our expo
<li>Expo <a href="https://www.instagram.com/cambridge_uni_caving_expo/?hl=en">Instagram account</a>
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<div class="tripdate" id="2022_s01_blog">2022-07-23</div>
<div class="trippeople"><u>Sarah P</u>, </div>
<div class="triptitle">Expo - The CUCC expedition begins this Monday</div>
Blog Author: Sarah P<div class="bbWrapper">The CUCC expedition begins this Monday (25th July), after a two-year hiatus. Over 5 weeks, we’ll see 40+ people congregating in Totes Gebirge, Austria, to continue exploring caves on the Loser Plateau. We’ll be reporting the progress of this year’s expo on this thread and (hopefully) sharing all the exciting new finds and pretty photos.<br>
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<b>Expo overview</b><br>
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The expedition’s main cave system is the SMK (Schwarzmooskogel Höhlensystem) system. It is currently 136 km long and 1125 m deep, making it the 2nd longest cave in Austria and the 17th longest cave in the world. It is also one of only five caves in the world that is &gt;100 km long and &gt;1,000 m deep. It is therefore an immensely exciting system to explore. Further adding to the excitement of this expedition is the fact that Austria’s longest cave (Schönberg Höhlensystem) is also on the Loser Plateau, ~3 km away. Connecting these two systems would make one of the longest caves in the world; This is a long-term goal of the expedition.<br>
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<b>2022 aims</b><br>
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<i>Balkonh</i>ö<i>hle</i><br>
<br>
Exploration this year will continue in Balkonhöhle. Exploration of this cave began in 2014 and was connected to the SMK system in 2015. It represents the northernmost part of the SMK system. Exploration over the last few years has yielded a lot of exciting finds; a 130m long, over 40m wide and up to 100m high chamber (“Galactica”) and a 200 m deep pitch series (“Mongol Rally”) to name but two. In 2019, much of the exploration in this system was concentrated on a series of phreatic passages ~50m up from the bottom of Mongol Rally (~400 m deep in the system), called “Pitstop”. Numerous leads were pushed here (with names like “Medusa’s Maze”, “Hades’s Rift”, “Where’s the milk”, “Custard Cavalry”), but very few were killed. There is <i>a lot </i>of leads still waiting to be explored in Balkönhohle, including 42 A leads (the most promising ones), 44 B leads and 44 C leads. Many of these leads will extend the system northwards into unexplored space.<br>
<br>
<i>Fischgesicht</i><br>
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The other main focus for this year’s exploration is Fischgesicht (or Fish Face) and Glucklich Schmetterlinghöhle (Happy Butterfly), two closely located caves that were discovered in 2017. They are located ~ 500m west of the SMK system. Their location on the plateau, good drafts and the complexity of their passages means there is good potential for these caves to connect with the SMK system, and with one another. The connection between the two caves is thought to have been found in 2019, although not confirmed. In 2018, extensive phreatic cave was discovered at -250m in Fischgesicht, trending northeast towards SMK, towards a part of the SMK (“the Subway”) where a lot of unexplored leads remain. Connecting these caves into the SMK system would extend the system significantly westwards and towards the Schönberg Höhlensystem.<br>
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We’ll also be giving updates of the expo on out Instagram (<a href="https://www.instagram.com/cambridge_uni_caving_expo/?hl=en" target="_blank" class="link link--external" rel="nofollow ugc noopener">https://www.instagram.com/cambridge_uni_caving_expo/?hl=en</a>) and Facebook (<a href="https://www.facebook.com/CUCCEXPO" target="_blank" class="link link--external" rel="nofollow ugc noopener">https://www.facebook.com/CUCCEXPO</a>) pages.<br>
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<div class="trippeople"><u>Sarah P</u>, </div>
<div class="triptitle">Expo - UK Caving Blog figures and photos</div>
Blog Author: Sarah P<div class="bbWrapper">Here's some figures and photos showing the SMK system, Fischgesicht and Balkonhöhle:<br>
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<b>Overall SMK system:</b><br>
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<i>The </i>Schwarzmooskogel (SMK) system (right) shown in relation to the Schoenberg-Hohlenen (SH) system. 264 = Balkonhohle, 290 = Fischgesicht, 291 = <i>Glückliche Schmetterlingshöhle. Credit: Nat Dalton. </i><br>
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<b>Balkonhöhle:</b><br>
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Location of Balkonhöhle (1623/264) and Tunnockschacht (1623/258) in the SMK system, coloured by elevation (a.s.l) in top left and year of exploration in bottom right. Credit: Nat Dalton.<br>
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Number of unexplored leads in Balkon, by depth in the cave. QMA: more promising leads, to QMC: less promising leads. Credit: Rob Watson.<br>
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Hades' rift, in the Medusa's Maze region of <i>Balkonh</i>ö<i>hle. Photo credit: Harry Kettle. </i><br>
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Phreatic passage in Medusa's Maze. Passage beyond was unexplored at the end of the 2019 expedition. Photo credit: Harry Kettle.<br>
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<b>Fischgesicht:</b><br>
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Location of Fischgesicht (290) and Glückliche Schmetterlingshöhle (291) in relation to the SMK system. Also shown is Homecoming (359), a cave explored in 2018 and 2019.<br>
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Number of unexplored leads in Fischgesicht, by depth in the cave. QMA: more promising leads, to QMC: less promising leads. Credit: Rob Watson.</div>
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<div class="tripdate" id="2022_s01_blog">2022-07-23</div>
<div class="trippeople"><u>Sarah P</u>, </div>
<div class="triptitle">Expo - The CUCC expedition begins this Monday</div>
Blog Author: Sarah P<div class="bbWrapper">The CUCC expedition begins this Monday (25th July), after a two-year hiatus. Over 5 weeks, we’ll see 40+ people congregating in Totes Gebirge, Austria, to continue exploring caves on the Loser Plateau. We’ll be reporting the progress of this year’s expo on this thread and (hopefully) sharing all the exciting new finds and pretty photos.<br>
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<b>Expo overview</b><br>
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The expedition’s main cave system is the SMK (Schwarzmooskogel Höhlensystem) system. It is currently 136 km long and 1125 m deep, making it the 2nd longest cave in Austria and the 17th longest cave in the world. It is also one of only five caves in the world that is &gt;100 km long and &gt;1,000 m deep. It is therefore an immensely exciting system to explore. Further adding to the excitement of this expedition is the fact that Austria’s longest cave (Schönberg Höhlensystem) is also on the Loser Plateau, ~3 km away. Connecting these two systems would make one of the longest caves in the world; This is a long-term goal of the expedition.<br>
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<b>2022 aims</b><br>
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<i>Balkonh</i>ö<i>hle</i><br>
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Exploration this year will continue in Balkonhöhle. Exploration of this cave began in 2014 and was connected to the SMK system in 2015. It represents the northernmost part of the SMK system. Exploration over the last few years has yielded a lot of exciting finds; a 130m long, over 40m wide and up to 100m high chamber (“Galactica”) and a 200 m deep pitch series (“Mongol Rally”) to name but two. In 2019, much of the exploration in this system was concentrated on a series of phreatic passages ~50m up from the bottom of Mongol Rally (~400 m deep in the system), called “Pitstop”. Numerous leads were pushed here (with names like “Medusa’s Maze”, “Hades’s Rift”, “Where’s the milk”, “Custard Cavalry”), but very few were killed. There is <i>a lot </i>of leads still waiting to be explored in Balkönhohle, including 42 A leads (the most promising ones), 44 B leads and 44 C leads. Many of these leads will extend the system northwards into unexplored space.<br>
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<i>Fischgesicht</i><br>
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The other main focus for this year’s exploration is Fischgesicht (or Fish Face) and Glucklich Schmetterlinghöhle (Happy Butterfly), two closely located caves that were discovered in 2017. They are located ~ 500m west of the SMK system. Their location on the plateau, good drafts and the complexity of their passages means there is good potential for these caves to connect with the SMK system, and with one another. The connection between the two caves is thought to have been found in 2019, although not confirmed. In 2018, extensive phreatic cave was discovered at -250m in Fischgesicht, trending northeast towards SMK, towards a part of the SMK (“the Subway”) where a lot of unexplored leads remain. Connecting these caves into the SMK system would extend the system significantly westwards and towards the Schönberg Höhlensystem.<br>
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We’ll also be giving updates of the expo on out Instagram (<a href="https://www.instagram.com/cambridge_uni_caving_expo/?hl=en" target="_blank" class="link link--external" rel="nofollow ugc noopener">https://www.instagram.com/cambridge_uni_caving_expo/?hl=en</a>) and Facebook (<a href="https://www.facebook.com/CUCCEXPO" target="_blank" class="link link--external" rel="nofollow ugc noopener">https://www.facebook.com/CUCCEXPO</a>) pages.<br>
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<div class="tripdate" id="2022_s02_blog">2022-07-23</div>
<div class="trippeople"><u>Sarah P</u>, </div>
<div class="triptitle">Expo - UK Caving Blog figures and photos</div>
Blog Author: Sarah P<div class="bbWrapper">Here's some figures and photos showing the SMK system, Fischgesicht and Balkonhöhle:<br>
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<b>Overall SMK system:</b><br>
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<i>The </i>Schwarzmooskogel (SMK) system (right) shown in relation to the Schoenberg-Hohlenen (SH) system. 264 = Balkonhohle, 290 = Fischgesicht, 291 = <i>Glückliche Schmetterlingshöhle. Credit: Nat Dalton. </i><br>
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Location of Balkonhöhle (1623/264) and Tunnockschacht (1623/258) in the SMK system, coloured by elevation (a.s.l) in top left and year of exploration in bottom right. Credit: Nat Dalton.<br>
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Number of unexplored leads in Balkon, by depth in the cave. QMA: more promising leads, to QMC: less promising leads. Credit: Rob Watson.<br>
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Hades' rift, in the Medusa's Maze region of <i>Balkonh</i>ö<i>hle. Photo credit: Harry Kettle. </i><br>
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Phreatic passage in Medusa's Maze. Passage beyond was unexplored at the end of the 2019 expedition. Photo credit: Harry Kettle.<br>
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<b>Fischgesicht:</b><br>
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Location of Fischgesicht (290) and Glückliche Schmetterlingshöhle (291) in relation to the SMK system. Also shown is Homecoming (359), a cave explored in 2018 and 2019.<br>
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Number of unexplored leads in Fischgesicht, by depth in the cave. QMA: more promising leads, to QMC: less promising leads. Credit: Rob Watson.</div>
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