From Lackerbichl over Bräuning +
From Lackerbichl over Bräuning Kuntal towards Bräuning Alm and the Bräuning Wall.
Bräuning Alm is more conveniently approached by continuing on the @@ -31,41 +31,42 @@ group of huts serving the summer pasture of Bräuning Alm. Springs below the huts feed into sinks in the valley bottom, but these offer no significant cave.
-Looking up the small valley +
Looking up the small valley traversed by the route to Bräuning Alm
To the east of the pasture is an area of limestone scars, with another grassy area, used by CUCC for a brief top camp (camp 1) in 1977. There are a few entrances +href="handbook/tcamps.html">camp 1) in 1977. There are a few entrances in the limestone here, and more in the valley north of the huts, leading toward the col of Bräuning Sattel. Areas of scars between this valley and the ridge used by the path to the plateau have not been looked at in any detail by CUCC, but are thought to have been prospected by the Austrians with no results.
-The huts of Bräuning Alm from +
The huts of Bräuning Alm from the continuing walk up to the plateau, seen in evening light.
Egglgrube and Scharlingkar area
This area lies east of the Bergrestaurant, SE of the main Loser to @@ -45,25 +46,25 @@ Bergrestaurant.
Gschwandt - NW of the Loser-Bräuning wall
+ + +Gschwandt Alm
This is a comparatively out-of-the-way area with few known caves. It lies NW of the Loser to Bräuning Zinken ridge, below the cliffs of these peaks @@ -18,14 +18,14 @@ of the Rettenbach - the stream which takes the Naglsteg water and flows WNW to Bad Ischl.
Three approaches are possible, though one is much longer than the others, -unless you are based at CUCC's Top Camp, +unless you are based at CUCC's Old Top Camp, in which case it is by far the shortest!
-From the toll road, starting at the Loser +
From the toll road, starting at the Loser Hütte, a path heads west, parallel to and just above the road. It is joined by a track which leaves the road at Kehre 11, just above the ski area parking and bus stop. Immediately beyond the junction is the small -resurgence of 1623-6, worth knowing +resurgence of 1623-6, worth knowing about if you boil your radiator going up the toll road! The track continues west, dropping slightly to reach the top of a big ski lift coming up from the valley at Ramsau. A path now continues, following the contours round NW, then @@ -51,19 +51,19 @@ Alm.
- Areas (these are the sub-areas) -
- resurrect cavestab2.scsv to run the script, then make static, retire script. -
- Remove entirely and replace by static HTML pages. The noinfo/areapage_skeletons converted to static pages. Add a few links to caves in each area. +
- Downgrade the "areas" aspect of the documentation as we don't use these now
+
- Add links to these resurrected area guides from relevant other parts of the handbook
- Prospecting Guides & slippy map & GPS tracks
- This whole subsystem needs a good examination and possible rewriting. :expoweb:/noinfo/prospecting_guide_scripts
diff --git a/handbook/primer.html b/handbook/primer.html
index 35f5a216f..106673256 100644
--- a/handbook/primer.html
+++ b/handbook/primer.html
@@ -108,7 +108,7 @@ href="../1623/walkin.htm">a 40
minute walk (on good paths) to the edge of the plateau. From here it is a
one-and-a-half-hour slog across rough limestone pavements to the main slog across rough limestone pavements to the main Steinbrückenhöhle bivvy site.
The main bivvy has solar charging for lights and electric drills.
diff --git a/kratzer.html b/kratzer.html
index de5c531fe..3103df7b3 100644
--- a/kratzer.html
+++ b/kratzer.html
@@ -1,16 +1,16 @@
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1623: Kratzer area - - + + +Kratzer valley
The Kratzer valley is the main valley south from Schwarzmoossattel. However, @@ -51,39 +51,37 @@ some way before realising the error.
diff --git a/piclinks/wildkg.htm b/piclinks/wildkg.htm index a27e92c8a..f9b7abe96 100644 --- a/piclinks/wildkg.htm +++ b/piclinks/wildkg.htm @@ -1,7 +1,7 @@ - + - + Peaks beyond the Plateau @@ -9,14 +9,16 @@ Peaks beyond the Plateau
-This is a view from just above Top Camp out across the centre and eastern +
This is a view from just above Old Top Camp (to the left of the Sattel) +out across the centre and eastern half of the Loser-AugstEck Plateau, typical of the first view a new visitor gets (if the weather is good). The highest peak is the Schönberg, the highest point of which has a cross, and is in the centre (below "hö" in the picture. The peaks to its right are all lower but nearer. Bearings on the Kleine Wildkogel should state whether the right or left hand end of the -peak is being used (or take bearings on both !). Behind these peaks is the -adjacent 1626 kataster area.
+peak is being used (or take bearings on both !). Just in front these peaks is the +beginning of the adjacent 1626 kataster area. The bivvy used since 2000 is +out of sight to the right.Photo © Andy Waddington, 1995
diff --git a/plateau.html b/plateau.html index c7b72d785..a2c33dcab 100644 --- a/plateau.html +++ b/plateau.html @@ -1,16 +1,16 @@ - + - - - +1623: Main plateau area - - + + +The Loser Augst-Eck plateau
The area CUCC calls The Plateau is situated north of the @@ -30,7 +30,7 @@ width="219" height="138" alt="View from Bräning Nase" />
Access
-The route to the plateau takes between 25 and +
The route to the plateau takes between 25 and 45 minutes, depending on weather, load and fitness. This is to reach the start of the karren at the Schwarzmoosattel; it can take another hour or more to reach a particular cave.
@@ -73,199 +73,8 @@ href="handbook/look4.htm">Prospecting is time-consuming, and it's worth looking very carefully for a painted number or other signs of previous exploration (eg. bolts) before entering. -As Top Camp is on the southern edge of -this area, and routes to several major finds cross it, there has been a -significant number of recorded finds, since the earliest years of CUCC's +
There has been a very significant number of recorded finds on the plateau, since the earliest years of CUCC's work.
- -Around Top Camp and below Bräuning Wall
- - -Western plateau area
- - -| Number | Name |
|---|---|
| 181 | Plateau Schacht 90/11 |
| 182 | Bovistundpuderzuckerhöhle |
| 183 | Elchfalle |
| 184 | Shiruken |
| 1992-X01 | Olly's 1992 minus cave |
Eastern plateau area near 204 path
- - -| Number | Name |
|---|---|
| 80 | Schwa Schacht 80 |
| 81 | Schwa Höhle 81 |
| 82 | Bräuninghöhle |
| 83 | Schwa Schacht 83 |
| 84 | Schwa Höhle 84 |
| 85 | Schwa Höhle 85 |
| 86 | Schwa Schacht 86 |
| 107 | Gemshöhle |
| 145 | Wolfhöhle |
| 148 | Marilyn Monroe Höhle |
| 157 | Schwa Schacht 157 |
| 220 | Kennedy Alternative |
| 1987-02 | ? |
| 2001-MS-01 | Bogenhöhle |
Further plateau
- - -| Number | Name |
|---|---|
| 37 | Schachtgruppe beim Hinterer Schwarzmooskogel |
| 38 | Algenhöhle |
| 76 | Eislufthöhle |
| 89 | Schwa Schacht 89 |
| 97 | Schneewindschacht |
| 98 | Plateau Schacht 98 |
| 99 | Plateau Schacht 99 |
| 101 | Plateau Schacht 101 |
| 102 | Plateau Schacht 102 |
| 103 | Plateau Schacht 103 |
| 104 | Plateau Schacht 104 |
| 105 | Plateau Schacht 105 |
| 108 | Schwa-Höhle 108 |
| 111 | Plateau Schacht 111 |
| 112 | Plateau Schacht 112 |
| 173 | Plateau Schacht 90/3 |
| 174 | Plateau Schacht 90/4 |
| 175 | Plateau Schacht 90/5 |
| 176 | Plateau Schacht 90/6 |
| 177 | Tantalus Schacht |
| 178 | Plateau Höhle 90/8 |
| 179 | Plateau Schacht 90/9 |
| 200 | Verlorener Rucksack Schacht |
| 1996-05 | ? |
| 1998-X01 | ? |
| 1999-OB-01 | ? |
| 1999-OB-02 | ? |
| 2004-01 | ? |
| 2004-02 | ? |
| 2004-03 | ? |
| 2004-04 | ? |
| 2004-05 | ? |
| 2004-06 | ? |
| 2004-07 | ? |
| 2004-08 | ? |
| 2004-09 | ? |
diff --git a/remote.html b/remote.html index 5ffbf136e..a176a6aa2 100644 --- a/remote.html +++ b/remote.html @@ -17,17 +17,16 @@ area of limestone karren and dwarf spruce. Exploration is deterred by the lack of paths, almost complete absence of water supplies and possible places to camp and just general inaccessibility - there is still plenty of cave to -find nearer to Top Camp. +find nearer to Old Top Camp by the Schwarzmoossattel. -
CUCC have gone beyond their normal stomping ground on just one walk, -approaching from the Schwarzmoossattel and finding -the caves numbered 108 and 110. An area right at the far edge of the 1623 +
+An area right at the far edge of the 1623 area, described as "SE face of Kleines Augst-Eck", may prove to mean the SE face of Nieder Augst-Eck, -which should be included in the +which could be included in the Schwarzmooskogel to Wildensee area, but this is sufficently -uncertain that we treat it here.
+uncertain that we treat it here. This is the main area of CUCC exploration since 2000.Lancaster University Speleological Society held two expeditions (in 1987 and 1988) into an area on the very northern edge of 1623, and most caves they @@ -41,38 +40,40 @@ to be south of the rather ill-defined 1623/1626 "border".
The University of Bristol Speleological Society also held two small expeditions (in 1989 and 1990) into an area near the LUSS one. Unlike LUSS, they did not contact any member of CUCC (or, as far as we are aware, any of -the Austrian cavers) for information, nor have we been able to obtain many +the Austrian cavers) for information, nor had we been able to obtain many details of their finds. However, Dan Harries sent a copy of their report on -BS17, whose description is included here.
+BS17 Organhöhle, whose description is included here and which CUCC revisted in 2017. + +The list of caves below was up to date in about 1999.
Schwarzmooskogel ridge
Exploration in the last few years has shown that though a variety of @@ -76,317 +76,6 @@ recently discovered 161g and 161h entrances. -
East of Schwarzmooskogel/Augst-Eck ridge to Wildensee
Beyond the much-explored area containing Stellerweghöhle and the @@ -28,7 +28,7 @@ Wildensee hutte and Youth Hostel are in a relatively level area of mainly bare karren, separated from the bare rounded ridge of Augst-Eck by steeper wooded slopes. Although there is no path here, the map shows a ski route ascending from the huts to the Augst-Eck and Grieß kogel ridge, -from where it would be possible to return to the Toll +from where it would be possible to return to the Toll road across the plateau.Almost all the known caves of the area lie east of the Vorderer @@ -41,21 +41,21 @@ exploratory effort anywhere in the area.