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<h2 id="tophead">CUCC Expedition Handbook</h2>
<h1>Essential GPS information</h1>
<p><b>SAFETY</b>. Everyone gets lost on the plateau. Don't get lost for long as this causes rescue plans to be initiated.
<p><b>SAFETY</b>. Everyone <a href="../plateau.html">gets lost on the plateau</a>. Don't get lost for long as this causes rescue plans to be initiated.
So get this essential data onto your phone (or handheld GPS).
<p><b>SAFETY</b>. Turn on <b>location tracking</b> 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.
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The file also includes all the cave entrances for the entire Schvartzmoosk&ouml;gel system (SMK).</p>
<a href="http://expo.survex.com/expofiles/gpslogs/essentials/essentials2019.gpx"><img src="essentials-screenshot.jpg" alt="screenshot of the GPS file"></a>
<p><b>Don't be misled by the apparent simplicity</b> of the above tracks. The plateau is very broken and an almost unbroken
extent of cliffs, holes and imapssable dwarf-larch scrub ("bunde" as it is known on expo).
You can be 5m from the route and have lost it entirely.
<p><b>Don't be misled by the apparent simplicity</b> 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).
You can be 5m from the route and have lost it entirely. The <a href="../1623/walkin.htm">walk to and from</a>
col leading to the plateau is comparatively easy is it is an obvious path, and marked and signposted in the earlier section.
<h2>How to get this essential data onto your device</h2>

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<title>
CUCC Expo Prospecting Handbook Issues
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<h2 id="tophead">CUCC Expedition Handbook</h2>
<h1>Prospecting - issues</h1>
<p>Much of the area of the Loser Augst-Eck plateau is rough limestone
<p>Much of the area of <a href="../plateau.html">the Loser Augst-Eck plateau</a> is rough limestone
pavement (<b>karren</b>), liberally covered with dense areas of dwarf pine,
and interspersed with small cliffs, open shafts and snow patches. The latter,
in particular, can change the appearance of the plateau from year to year,
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may involve detours to avoid any of these obstacles, and the whole effect is
very disorientating. There are few landmarks recognisable from a distance or
from a variety of angles, and little chance to relate the ground to the
1:25000 Austrian Alpine Club map. Prospecting is either a matter of searching
1:25000 Austrian Alpine Club map. If you are only 5m off the route you may
have lost the way on.
<p>So walking on the plateau is difficult, and in bad weather (as in
July 2019) can be
seriously dangerous if attempted unaccompanied. The
<a href="../1623/walkin.htm">route to the plateau</a>
is deceptively safe and easy by comparison.
<p>Prospecting is either a matter of searching
for promising-looking caves with a draught, or shaft bashing many open holes
in the hope that one will go. This latter approach is often a waste of time,
but just a few of them lead to really significant finds!</p>
but just a few of them lead to really significant finds! Much of the
exploration now is beyond the Steinbr&uuml;cken bivvy in the area known as
<a href="../remote.html">the far plateau</a></p>
<p><b>Shaft bashing:</b>&nbsp;<a href="../1623/others/l/lrh0.htm">
<img src="../1623/others/t/lrh0.jpg" class="icon" width="143" height="173"
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looked at is marked and documented, to avoid duplication of effort. Very
small caves are usually marked with a simple painted cross to indicate that
they are worth no further effort, however, nowadays we are not allowed to
mark things with paint. More significant caves get a number, and a written
mark things with paint. More significant caves get a metal tag, a number, and a written
description. The aim is to link all such caves in to existing surface
surveys, which in turn are tied to a number of <a
href="survey/lasers.htm">fixed points</a> located by laser
theodolite/rangefinder from local trig. points.</p>
<p>The web pages contain as much description as we have of every cave we know
<p>The <a href="../caves">web pages</a> contain as much description as we have of every cave we know
about. To avoid any possibility of errors, this includes some info on caves
not explored by CUCC, though for reasons of Austrian Kataster politics, these
are not publicly accessible on the "live" web site.</p>
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<p>Anything longer than 10m needs a number, a survey of appropriate
accuracy, and location information (<a href="findit.htm">bearings from
entrance to known points</a> and description of route to entrance as a
entrance to known points</a>, entranc photos and description of route to entrance as a
minimum - <a href="survey/ontop.htm">surface surveys</a> are really required
for caves within a reasonable distance of existing known points, a <a
href="survey/gps.htm">GPS fix</a> is probably a convenient compromise in the
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<h3>Revision history</h3>
<p>(but only revisions to content, not typos and link bugs...)</p>
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provisional tagging of caves in accordance with current practice (those who
disagree with current practice are asked not to shoot the messenger).</dd>
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<H2>Summary</H2>
<p>Since 2003 the bivy site at Steinbr&uuml;ckenh&ouml;hle (the stone bridge) has had a number of solar panels
and a car battery, which are mainly used for charging lamp battery packs, drill
and AA/AAA batteries (and phones). Much bigger flexi solar panels arrived in 2007
and a car battery, which are mainly used for <a href="charging.html">charging lamps and drill
battery packs</a>, but also AA/AAA batteries and phones. Much bigger flexi solar panels arrived in 2007
and a second, larger, battery around the same time.</p>
<p>In 2018 two new PV panels were bought.
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To charge the (now rarely-used) Bosch 24V drill batteries, the four solar panels should be connected together with two pairs of serially connected solar panels connected together in parallel. Crocodile clips can then be used to connect to the battery terminals. Note that the battery will not stop charging, and may damage the battery if left to over charge.
<H2>Putting the (Lead-acid) batteries away</H2>
Store the batteries full, this means that you should stop discharging the batteries a few days before they are to be put away to allow them to charge. Grease the battery terminals, and place the batteries where they will stay dry, do not cover with anything that may get soggy and short the battery (e.g. cardboard box).
<p>Store the batteries full, this means that you should stop discharging the batteries a few days before they are to be put away to allow them to charge. Grease the battery terminals, and place the batteries where they will stay dry, do not cover with anything that may get soggy and short the battery (e.g. cardboard box).
<p>In 2019, as we had long feared, inexperienced and under-supervised cavers in a hurry dropped a lead-acid battery
several metres while putting it away. Fortunately no one was hurt. We now plan to try to run
power cabling in a much longer run to the PV panels and the bivvy so that the batteries need to bemoved as little as possible.
<H2>Thanks</H2>
On behalf on anyone using the system, thanks go to Earl Merson who provided most of the equipment, and more importantly carried a car battery up the hill. More thanks go to whoever carries it down again should it ever become knackered.