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<h2><center>CUCC Austria 2003 - Mission statement</center></h2>
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<p>This summer, Cambridge University Caving Club will be continuing our highly successful series of expeditions to the
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Loser plateau in Austria. Here we set out the principal goals for this year.</p>
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<p>This summer, Cambridge University Caving Club will be continuing its highly successful series of expeditions to the
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Loser plateau in Austria. This document sets out the principal goals of the 2003 expedition.</p>
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<h2>Background</h2>
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<p>This summer sees CUCC's 27th expedition to the Loser plateau, which lies in the Totes Gebirge mountains, about
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80km east of Salzburg. We are the principal group exploring in the area, which continues to yield new discoveries.</p>
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80km east of Salzburg. CUCC is the principal group exploring in the area, which continues to yield new discoveries.</p>
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<p>The principal known systems in the area are the southern Schwarzmooskogel system, comprising <a
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href="../../smkridge/41/41.htm">Stellerweghöhle</a> itself, the stunningly beautiful <a
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href="../../noinfo/smkridge/40.htm">Schwarzmooskogel Eishöhle</a>, and a number of other smaller caves, much of
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which was explored by CUCC in the 70s and early 80s; and <a href="../../smkridge/161/top.htm">Kaninchenhöhle</a>,
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an extremely complex system discovered by CUCC in 1989 which was the main focus of our expeditions between then and
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an extremely complex system discovered by CUCC in 1989 which was the main focus of expeditions between then and
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2000.</p>
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<p>For a long period these caves were known to approach each other very closely but a connection between them proved
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Schwarzmooskogelhöhlensystem to over 50km and its depth to 1030m, placing it in among both the world's deepest
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and longest caves.</p>
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<p> Over the last three years the principal focus of our expeditions has been <a
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<p> Over the last three years the principal focus of CUCC's work has been <a
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href="../../smkridge/204/204.shtml">Steinbrückenhöhle,</a> a cave lying to the north of the furthest known
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reaches of Kaninchenhöhle. This has quickly yielded over 4.7km of passage reaching a depth of 368m. As well as its
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considerable potential in its own right, it has a number of promising leads pointing in the direction of
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Kaninchenhöhle, in particular the Razordance streamway which is currently the deepest known point in the cave and
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is no more than 300m away from the Fuzzy Logic series in Kaninchenhöhle. This area of Kaninchenhöhle has a
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number of large unexplored leads which we shall be returning to now that the possibility of a connection to
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Steinbrühöhle seems possible.
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number of large unexplored leads which will be reexamined in more detail now
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that a connection to Steinbrückenhöhle seems possible.
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<h2>Principal Goals for 2003</h2>
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<h3>Steinbrückenhöhle</h3>
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<ul> <li>Continue the exploration of Razordance and other leads heading southwards</li> <li>Push the pitches leading
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off Swings and Roundabouts (Merry-Go-Round and Gaffered to the Wall series). (<i> This was one of the aims of last
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year's expedition, but due to poor weather conditions, this was not finished.</i>)</li> <li>Explore leads in the
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north-east end discovered in 2001 (Chocolate Salty Balls area)</li> </ul>
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<ul>
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<li>Continue the exploration of Razordance and other leads heading southwards</li>
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<li>Push the pitches leading off Swings and Roundabouts (Merry-Go-Round and Gaffered to the Wall series).
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<i>( This was one of the aims of last year's expedition, but due to poor
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weather conditions, this was not finished.)</i></li>
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<li>Explore leads in the north-east end discovered in 2001 (Chocolate Salty Balls area)</li> </ul>
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<h3>Kaninchenhöhle</h3>
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<li>Revisit deep pitches in Far North area</li>
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