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Top camps - adding Organhohle bivvy

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<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1" />
<meta id="author" content="A.E.R.Waddington" />
<meta id="date" content="2000-09-07" />
<meta id="description" content="Cambridge University Caving Club's Advanced
expedition camps on the Loser Plateau" />
<title>CUCC's Austria Expeditions: High camps</title>
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high camp. Several people have been benighted on the plateau over the years
and rescues in 1989, 2007 and 2016 as well as numerous other incidents show the value of rapid assistance from Top Camp in
the event of a mishap underground.</p>
<p>The current (2002-2017) top camp is in "204 Steinbrückenhöhle" (see below).</p>
<p>From 2002 to 2016 our only top camp was in "204 Steinbrückenhöhle" (see below). In 2017 we (mostly UBSS)
established a bivvy camp very close to Organhohle (see below) which will be established more soundly in 2018.</p>
<p>The terminology of these camps has become very confused over
time, as the campsites have changed. At some time, virtually every
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<div class="centre"><a href="images/40bivy.jpg"><img src="tinypix/40bivy.jpg"
width="200" height="128" alt="40 bivvy" /></a></div>
<h3>204 bivvy ("The Stone Bridge")</h3>
<h3>204 bivvy Steinbruckhohle ("The Stone Bridge")</h3>
<p>Cavers working in 204 (<span
lang="de-at">Steinbr&uuml;ckenh&ouml;hle</span>) used the eponymous stone
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<p>This has been the main high camp since 2002; it has
been extensively reterraced to increase its capacity (as of 2003 it
could sleep 12 and by 2010 18 could be jammed in), the water
could sleep 12 and by 2017 22 could be jammed in), the water
collection methods refined, and a cooking area created, to give an
exceedingly comfortable bivvy site. A much larger single tarp covering
the whole length, used since 2015, has made it much drier at the back,
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<div class="centre"><a href="1623/others/l/76bivvyvw.html">
<img src="tinypix/76bivvy.jpg" /></a></div>
<h3><a id="id2017camp">2017</a> Organhohle Camp</h3>
<p>Sleeping 3 or 4, a bivvy with rainwater collection was established in a small
overhang very closeto <a href="http://expo.survex.com/noinfo/1623/bs17.htm">Organhohle</a> and Guten Morgen hohle. This is a further hour or two walk from
the main top camp at Steinbruckhohle; and would be very hard to establish without
the resources available at Steinbruckhohle. The usual route goes very close to Tunnocksschaft entrance and within view of the
entrance to <a href="http://expo.survex.com/1623/264/264.html">Balkonhohle</a> - and then rather a lot further and over the ridge with a view down to the Appelhaus area.
<p>When UBSS first explored Organhohle they approached from the other direction. See their write-up
in Descent (see page 18 of <a href="http://expo.survex.com/others/ubss/UBSS_NL_web_series2_v6_sv3.pdf">) for the horrendous walk
this involves.
<div class="centre"><a href="1623/others/l/76bivvyvw.html">
<img src="tinypix/76bivvy.jpg" /></a></div>
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