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 <title>Signpost at Br&auml;uning Alm / St&ouml;erweg junction</title>
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 <div class="centre"><img src="../i/signpost.jpg" alt=""
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 <p>A view from the junction of paths at where the way to Br&auml;uning Alm
 branches off from the St&ouml;erweg (route 201). Off right, out of the
 picture, is the continuing path 201 towards the Stellerweg area.  Ahead is the small valley
 full of choked sinkholes which leads up to Br&auml;uning Alm. The walk-in to
 the plateau goes down a slope then up right towards the Br&auml;uning Wall, seen on the
 skyline. </p>
 <p>Note that at this point one is leaving the main signposted paths and so
 "begehen auf eigene gefahr". Though in fact the path is fine until the Schwartzmooss&auml;ttel.
 <p class="caption">Photo &copy; Philip Sargent, 2017</p>
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 <li><a href="../../1623/walkin.htm">Plateau</a> walk-in</li>
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--- a/1623/walkin.htm
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@ -29,12 +29,16 @@ href="../noinfo/areapage_skeletons/br-alm.html">Br&auml;uning Alm.</a></p>
 <table class="imgtable">
 <tr><td><a href="../piclinks/2012nd.htm"><img src="../tinypix/2012nd.jpg" width="163"
-height="120" alt="" /></a></td><td><a href="l/almtal.htm"><img
+height="120" alt="" /></a></td>
 <td><a href="l/signpost.html"><img
 src="t/signpost.jpg" height="118" alt="" /></a></td>
 <td><a href="l/almtal.htm"><img
 src="t/almtal.jpg" width="155" height="118" alt="" /></a></td></tr>
 <tr class="caption">
 <td>
-Path 201 approaching Egglgrube</td><td>Valley to
+Path 201 approaching Egglgrube</td>
-Br&auml;uning Alm</td></tr></table>
+<td>Signpost at junction</td>
 <td>Valley to Br&auml;uning Alm</td></tr></table>
 <p>Take this left turn, up the west side of the grassy valley to a
 collection of six huts (seven from 1995) on level pasture near a number of
@ -73,10 +77,13 @@ Br&auml;uning Nase to the left. Ahead is the site of CUCC's <a
 href="../handbook/tcamps.htm#id1979camp">bivouac of 1979</a>, and, slightly beyond, the
 broad col of Schwarzmoossattel.</p>
-<p>The plateau lies directly ahead over this col, and may be reached by any
+<p><a href="../plateau.html">The plateau</a> lies directly ahead over this col, and may be reached by any
 of several routes through dwarf pine, with various amounts of scrambling.
 The whole area is pathless and very rough, though a few routes are marked
-with sporadic cairns.</p>
+by hunters with sporadic cairns. In recent years we have cairned a route
 (it is not a path) from just below the col (via a hidden climb down) to
 the Steinbr&uuml;cken top camp bivvy. Every year we repair the cairns and 
 place reflectors on them just for the period that expo is running.</p>
 <p>Following the path round to the left (WNW) soon leads to a big cairn and
 a short scramble down to the old <a href="../handbook/tcamps.htm#topcamp">Top Camp</a>, which
@ -91,7 +98,8 @@ reach the inaccessible pasture of <a href="../noinfo/areapage_skeletons/gschwand
 Alm</a> north of Loser.</p>
 <p>Turning right off the path shortly before old top camp cairned
-routes across the plateau lead eventually to the 76 bivouac and the Stone Bridge.</p>
+routes across the plateau lead eventually to the 76 bivouac location and then 
 the Stone Bridge (Steinbr&uuml;cken).</p>
 <hr />
--- a/handbook/essentials.html
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@ -7,7 +7,7 @@
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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.
@ -22,9 +22,10 @@ These are the smooth, curved lines.]
 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 
+<p><b>Don't be misled by the apparent simplicity</b> of the above tracks. The plateau is very broken and is
-extent of cliffs, holes and imapssable dwarf-larch scrub ("bunde" as it is known on expo). 
+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.
+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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-<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1" />
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 CUCC Expo Prospecting Handbook Issues
 </title>
@ -10,7 +11,7 @@ CUCC Expo Prospecting Handbook Issues
 <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,
@ -18,10 +19,21 @@ and even from week to week in the summer. Getting from one point to another
 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"
@ -43,13 +55,13 @@ in previous years. Hence it is very important that any cave which has been
 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>
@ -153,7 +165,7 @@ vaguely deprecated.</p>
 <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
@ -214,7 +226,7 @@ net pages) to other groups with a bona fide need.</p>
 <hr />
-
+<!--
 <h3>Revision history</h3>
 <p>(but only revisions to content, not typos and link bugs...)</p>
@ -246,5 +258,6 @@ bearings, with its pictures of peaks - linked with surveying document.</dd>
 provisional tagging of caves in accordance with current practice (those who
 disagree with current practice are asked not to shoot the messenger).</dd>  
 </dl>
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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 a car battery, which are mainly used for <a href="charging.html">charging lamps  and drill 
-and AA/AAA batteries (and phones). Much bigger flexi solar panels arrived in 2007 
+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. 
@ -67,7 +67,10 @@ All the circuits should be covered with plastic sheeting (There should be a cut
 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.
--- a/piclinks/2012nd.htm
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@ -16,8 +16,13 @@ grass slope with the shadows on the right of the photo. The approach to
 that cave lies on the main 201 path up that slope. The plateau approach
 goes over the grassy col and left to Br&auml;uning Alm directly behind
 the grassy hill in the centre. It then climbs the wooded slopes to the
-right of this to the low col just right of centre. Top Camp is behind
+right of this to the low col just right of centre. 
-Br&auml;uning Nase, the peak in the centre of the skyline.</p>
+<p>
 <a href="../plateau.html">The plateau</a> is reached via the visible col 
 (the Schwartzmooss&auml;ttel) to 
 the right of the Br&auml;uning Nase, the small sharp peak in the 
 centre of the skyline. The Schwartzmoosk&ouml;gel is the dark
 green pine-clad hill on the right.</p>
 <p class="caption">Photo &copy; Andy Atkinson, 1991</p>
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