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<h1>Area 1623: Loser-AugstEck plateau</h1>

<p>Within the Austrian kataster, area 1620 is the Western Totes
Gebirge. Area 1623 is the Loser - Augst-Eck plateau, bounded to the SE
by path 234 from the Wildenseehutte down to Altausseer See, to the south
by the lake itself, then to the SW by the road to Blaa-Alm. The Western
edge is marked by the valley of Gr&uuml;ne Bichl, and the northern limit
is a rather arbitrary line across the limestone between the
Sch&ouml;nberg and Neid Augst-Eck, not far beyond Tunnockschacht, then
down to the Wildenseeh&uuml;tte. To the west and north of this line is
area 1626.</p>

<ul>
        <li>See <a href="/katast.htm">The Austrian Kataster areas</a> full description</li>

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<img src="/tinypix/wildkg.jpg"
 height="138" alt="Clearer View from Br&auml;ning Nase" />
 
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<p>Access to the area is relatively easy at its southern edge, as the <a
href="/handbook/tollrd.html">Loser Panoramastra&szlig;e</a> (a toll road) climbs the
southern slopes of Loser to reach a large parking area and self-service
restaurant at 1600m just below Augst See. 
<ul>
  <li><a href="/handbook/tollrd.html">Loser Panoramastra&szlig;e</a></li>
</ul>
From the car park - now called "Loser Alm" and formerly just known as the 
Bergrestaurant- good paths reach both the
southern slopes of Vd. Schwarzmooskogel, and also north to a col overlooking
the extensive pathless central plateau. Both the further reaches of the central
plateau and the areas around the Sch&ouml;nberg, Gries Kogel and Augst-Eck
ridges are remote - being large pathless areas of rough karren with little or
no water supplies except for snowmelt. The Stone-Bridge bivi site between the Hinter Schwarmooskogel and 
Neid Augst-Eck makes it practical to 
expore this area.</p>


<p>Within this area (1623), by far the majority of caves are above
1500m in an area from around Augst See, along the major ridge line of
Schwarzmooskogel towards Augst-Eck (forming a long strip on the SE of
  the area), and across the plateau west of Schwarzmooskogel.</p>

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<img src="/images/viewswcaves.jpg" width="800" height="600" alt="Same view of
Loser plateau looking SW with the caves visible." />
<p class="caption">Plateau visualisation from Aven - looking towards Br&auml;uning Nase and Loser with SMK system caves superimposed</p></div>


<p>There are approaching two hundred caves known at present in the area, so for
convenience, we have broken the area down into  smaller areas, with a number of
related caves in each. Some of these areas are natural - separated by clear
geographic boundaries like big cliffs, or areas of non-karstic rocks. Others
are more arbitrary, and are defined more by route of access than by any real
geographical distinction. Apart from a few caves found in the first couple of
years, CUCC's work has been confined to just the first four of these smaller
areas, though the map overlaps onto most of the others.</p>

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<li><a href="plateau.html">Main plateau over Schwarzmoossattel</a></li>
<li><a href="smkridge.html">Whole Schwarzmooskogel ridge area</a> which has four approaches:
<ul>
<li><a href="vianip.htm">The walk in to the "Nipple" area</a></li>
<li><a href="via201.htm">The walk in to the Stellerwegh&ouml;hle area</a></li>
<li><a href="via161.html">The walk in to the Kaninchenh&ouml;hle area</a></li>
<li><a href="viavsk.htm">The walk in to the Vord. Schwarzmooskogel area</a></li>
<li><a href="via204.html">The Steinbr&uuml;cken path</a></li>
</ul></li>
<li><a href="br-alm.html">Br&auml;uning Alm and Kunntal</a></li>
<li><a href="kratzer.html">Kratzer valley and area south of Schwarzmoossattel</a></li>
<li><a href="wilden.html">East of Hinterer Schwarzmooskogel to Wildensee</a></li>
<li><a href="remote.html">&quot;Further&quot; plateau and out to Augst-Eck</a></li>
<li><a href="egglgrub.html">Sommersitz and Egglgrube area</a></li>
<li><a href="loser.html">Loser and around Augst-see (access from Toll road)</a></li>
<li><a href="gschwand.html">Gschwandt Alm and area east of Blaa-Alm</a></li>
<li><a href="aausee.html">North of Altausseer-See and valley to Hochklapf</a></li>
<li><a href="augstb.html">Ramsau/Posern area: Augst Bach valley below Toll road</a> <i>(not shown on map)</i></li>
<li><a href="/handbook/tollrd.html">Loser Panoramastra&szlig;e</a> <i>(not shown on map)</i></li>
</ol>

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<img src="/maps/newmap.png" width="602" height="627" alt="Map of area 1623, with areas marked" usemap="#areas" ismap="ismap" />
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<img src="/images/viewsw.jpg" width="800" height="600" alt="Perspective view of
Loser plateau looking SW" />
<p class="caption">Plateau visualisation from Aven - looking towards Br&auml;uning Nase and Loser</p></div>

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