SAFETY. Turn on location tracking in Google Maps (or OsmAnd) before you leave the car park and share your location with someone you know at basecamp and also with someone you know at top camp. This will show your last known location if you walk into an area of bad signal.
-We have a regularly-updated file of the wiggly tracks of the paths we regularly take: from Loser Alm car park to the col, top camp and Homecoming cave, -and from top camp to Fisch Gesicht Höhle and to Tunnocks's, Balkonhöhle and Organhöhle. +We have a file of the wiggly tracks of the paths we regularly take: from Loser Alm car park to the col, top camp and caves currently being visited.
[It also has the Austrian "kataster boundaries": these are not paths but separate areas with different mapping designations. These are the smooth, curved lines.] -The file also includes all the cave entrances for the entire Schvartzmooskögel system (SMK).
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+The file also includes all the cave entrances for the entire Schwartzmooskögel system (SMK).
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Don't be misled by the apparent simplicity of the above tracks. The plateau is very broken and is an unremitting extent of cliffs, holes and impassable dwarf-larch scrub ("bunde" as it is known on expo). @@ -29,14 +28,14 @@ col leading to the plateau is comparatively easy is it is an obvious path, and m
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or, if you can't get those to work
The most recent 2019 GPX file can be downloaded from here: -essentials2019.gpx (596K). +
The most recent GPX file can be downloaded from here: +essentials.gpx (596K). +
The most recent entrances-only GPX file can be downloaded from here: +entrances.gpx (60K). +
(There are also individual tracks downloadable here)
-Phones have a problem with a simple link like that. + This is easy on a laptop, but phone browsers make it difficult to download a simple link like that - just clicking will usually (unhelpfully) display it in the browser.
+ +You need to long-click and pick 'download file' or 'download link' (chrome). Then either: +
OSMand defaults to not displaying labels on the caves. Go to 'configure map', and turn on 'Point Labels (POI, Favourites)'.
+-This is where it gets tricky because every device and phone app does this differently. +This is where it gets tricky because every device and phone app does this differently.
This should work the same way whether you have an iPhone or an Android phone. -
We do not have a recommended app as there is nothing we have found which quite does quite what we need. We are using -www.gpsessentials.com and OsmAnd so try one of these first. If you discover a good app, tell everyone about it. +
We recommended OsmAnd as it is very capable, but you can use others.
-Visit the www.gpsessentials.com website and read the manual (top left, on the menu bar: "Manual") for how to do this. -Except that the manual doesn't tell you. +
The OsmAnd documentation says:
and this will need to be hand-edited into script-generated essentials.gpx file. -
The most recent 2019 GPX file can be downloaded from here:
-essentials2019.gpx (596K).
-This is actually entirely hand-edited from original tracks. The only survex data it uses is the entrances waypoints which are exported
-by the script which has been hand-edited in. It also has the kataster boundaries hand-edited in.
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The 17 July 2018 version -can be downloaded from here : essentials.gpx (190K). -(This is a symlink to loser/gpx/essentials.gpx). This works fine on laptops but most phones don't like this sort of link.
There are two scripts needed for this: