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<p>In the summer of 2005, Cambridge University Caving Club is off to Austria for the 29th time on its annual summer expedition. As ever, there are many promising unexplored cave areas remaining, less major side passages to be ticked, and uncountably many caves waiting to be found. This document introduces the major work areas and the current state of exploration, and lists several specific projects on which it is hoped effort will be expended. Note that numbers given by cave names are those of the <a href="../../indxal.htm">Austrian Kataster for our area</a>.</p>
<h4>General</h4>
<p>For nearly thirty years CUCC has worked on exploring the Loser plateau, a vast expanse of limestone riddled with caves in the Totes Gebirge area of the Austrian Alps, roughly 80km ESE of Salzburg. Over this time CUCC has explored such notable caves as <a href="..//1623/161/161.html">Kaninchenh&ouml;hle (161)</a>, <a href="..//1623/41/41.htm">Stellerwegh&ouml;hle (41)</a> and <a href="..//1623/40/cucc.htm">Schwarzmooskogel Eish&ouml;hle (40)</a>, caves now connected to form a system 56km long and over a kilometre deep; more than half of this length was contributed by CUCC.</p>
<p>For nearly thirty years CUCC has worked on exploring the Loser plateau, a vast expanse of limestone riddled with caves in the Totes Gebirge area of the Austrian Alps, roughly 80km ESE of Salzburg. Over this time CUCC has explored such notable caves as <a href="/1623/161/161.html">Kaninchenh&ouml;hle (161)</a>, <a href="/1623/41/41.htm">Stellerwegh&ouml;hle (41)</a> and <a href="/1623/40/cucc.htm">Schwarzmooskogel Eish&ouml;hle (40)</a>, caves now connected to form a system 56km long and over a kilometre deep; more than half of this length was contributed by CUCC.</p>
<p>More recently, exploration of <a href="..//1623/204/204.html">Steinbr&uuml;ckenh&ouml;hle (204)</a> has been the main focus of expedition work. Since 1999 it has yielded 9.1km of passage and is over 500m deep. It is anticipated that it will eventually connect to the Schwarzmooskogelh&ouml;hlensystem. Along the line between Steinbr&uuml;ckenh&ouml;hle and Kaninchenh&ouml;hle lies <a href="..//1623/234/234.html">Hauchh&ouml;hle (234)</a>, the scene of significant exploration in 2004; its length was quadrupled to 619m, and there is still much to be done in it.</p>
<p>More recently, exploration of <a href="/1623/204/204.html">Steinbr&uuml;ckenh&ouml;hle (204)</a> has been the main focus of expedition work. Since 1999 it has yielded 9.1km of passage and is over 500m deep. It is anticipated that it will eventually connect to the Schwarzmooskogelh&ouml;hlensystem. Along the line between Steinbr&uuml;ckenh&ouml;hle and Kaninchenh&ouml;hle lies <a href="/1623/234/234.html">Hauchh&ouml;hle (234)</a>, the scene of significant exploration in 2004; its length was quadrupled to 619m, and there is still much to be done in it.</p>
<p>
<a href="..//1623/76/76.html">Eislufth&ouml;hle</a> was found on the second
<a href="/1623/76/76.html">Eislufth&ouml;hle</a> was found on the second
ever CUCC expedition to the area in 1977, when the explorers got
to -150m with the way on wide open. They pushed again in 1978, then in 1979
finally reached a sump at approximately -506m. They derigged and nobody
returned for a quarter of a century, until we took another look last
year. Starting with a list of 8 QMs gathered from old log books, the cave
now has 73 QMs and a <a href="..//1623/76/76_final_col_small.png">surveyed
now has 73 QMs and a <a href="/1623/76/76_final_col_small.png">surveyed
length of 1180m</a> (making it the third longest cave system CUCC has explored
in Austria!)
</p>
<p>
On the NW slopes of the Vord lies <a
href="..//1623/145/145.html">Wolfh&ouml;hle (145)</a>, a potentially similarly
href="/1623/145/145.html">Wolfh&ouml;hle (145)</a>, a potentially similarly
underexplored cave, in which a week-long joint
re-exploration with <a href="http://www.arge-grabenstetten.de/">Arge
Grabenstetten</a> (a German caving group) has been arranged, to investigate any
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<h4>Steinbr&uuml;ckenh&ouml;hle</h4>
<ul>
<li>The bottom of the pitch series of Gaffered to the Walls, was explored last summer to reveal a lot of deep horizontal development. Further exploration anticipated</li>
<li>The passage discovered in 2004 <a href="..//1623/204/swings.html#crestarun">Cresta Run</a>, located at the far end of Swings passage, ended at a pitch and a large amount of black void</li>
<li>The <a href="..//1623/204/rhino.html#unconformity">Unconformity</a> in Rhino Rift</a></li>
<li>There are a number of other leads in Steinbr&uuml;ckenh&ouml;hle which might merit exploration, including an undescended pitch (QM 01-38A) in the Chocolate Salty Balls area, known as 'The Eleven Second Rattle' - named after the sound heard on dropping rocks down it; another undescended pitch (01-68A) at the end of the Merry F***ing Christmas crawl; and many others (cf. the Steinbr&uuml;ckenh&ouml;hle <a href="..//1623/204/qm.html">question mark list</a>)</li>
<li>Pitch in <a href="..//1623/204/swings.html#merrygoround">Merry-Go-Round</a> with plausible connection to the <a href="..//1623/204/uworld.html">Underworld</a></li>
<li>The passage discovered in 2004 <a href="/1623/204/swings.html#crestarun">Cresta Run</a>, located at the far end of Swings passage, ended at a pitch and a large amount of black void</li>
<li>The <a href="/1623/204/rhino.html#unconformity">Unconformity</a> in Rhino Rift</a></li>
<li>There are a number of other leads in Steinbr&uuml;ckenh&ouml;hle which might merit exploration, including an undescended pitch (QM 01-38A) in the Chocolate Salty Balls area, known as 'The Eleven Second Rattle' - named after the sound heard on dropping rocks down it; another undescended pitch (01-68A) at the end of the Merry F***ing Christmas crawl; and many others (cf. the Steinbr&uuml;ckenh&ouml;hle <a href="/1623/204/qm.html">question mark list</a>)</li>
<li>Pitch in <a href="/1623/204/swings.html#merrygoround">Merry-Go-Round</a> with plausible connection to the <a href="/1623/204/uworld.html">Underworld</a></li>
</ul>
<h4>Hauchh&ouml;hle</h4>
<ul>
<li>Continuation of the <a href="..//1623/234/234.html#pie">Pie</a> series, where rope, time and drill ran out last year. A climb of dubious reversibility lead to a further climb, followed by a pitch, dropping to a chamberette with a rifty looking continuation</li>
<li>Continuation of the <a href="/1623/234/234.html#pie">Pie</a> series, where rope, time and drill ran out last year. A climb of dubious reversibility lead to a further climb, followed by a pitch, dropping to a chamberette with a rifty looking continuation</li>
</ul>
<h4>Eislufth&ouml;hle</h4>
<ul>
<li>The original 1970s route below The Taproom (at -140m) is still to be revisited</li>
<li>There are 2 good QMs just by the Taproom (a pitch noted on the <a HREF="..//1623/76/76upper.png">1979 survey</a> and a passage continuing across this
<li>There are 2 good QMs just by the Taproom (a pitch noted on the <a HREF="/1623/76/76upper.png">1979 survey</a> and a passage continuing across this
pitch, which could easily be bolted to with a drill).</li>
<li>The Keg Series is still going at -189m, having just broken through a
band of harder cherty rock</li>
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<h4>Odds 'n' Sods</h4>
<ul>
<li><a href="..//1623/239/239.html">Rock'n'Roll H&ouml;hle (239)</a>: Open lead over blind pit leading 204-wards</li>
<li><a href="..//1623/97.htm">Schneewindschacht (97)</a> probably deserves a revisit, due to its proximity to 76 and a phreatic level known to have a continuing traverse - we should at least check how bad the entrance squeeze actually is!</li>
<li>Prospecting for more cave. Recently acquired aerial photographs can lead one to believe that there are holes to the northwest of our current field of operations, heading towards the large systems <a href="..//1626/55.htm">Raucherkarh&ouml;hle (1626:55)</a> and <a href="..//1626/120.htm">Feuertalsystem (1626:120)</a>...</li>
<li><a href="/1623/239/239.html">Rock'n'Roll H&ouml;hle (239)</a>: Open lead over blind pit leading 204-wards</li>
<li><a href="/1623/97.htm">Schneewindschacht (97)</a> probably deserves a revisit, due to its proximity to 76 and a phreatic level known to have a continuing traverse - we should at least check how bad the entrance squeeze actually is!</li>
<li>Prospecting for more cave. Recently acquired aerial photographs can lead one to believe that there are holes to the northwest of our current field of operations, heading towards the large systems <a href="/1626/55.htm">Raucherkarh&ouml;hle (1626:55)</a> and <a href="/1626/120.htm">Feuertalsystem (1626:120)</a>...</li>
</ul>
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