Picture gallery

All these pictures are linked to appropriate pages of the area and cave descriptions, but are also gathered together here for a visual tour of CUCC's caving area.

This page lists the titles and the size of the image (each is included in a small html page), with links, but there is also a series of pages with thumbnails of each picture. A list of these pages gives access to each one. Warning: they will take quite a while to load !

Surface - camps and expo activities

Seecamping Madlmeier - CUCC's basecamp 1976-82 (44k)
Mess tent at 1981 base camp (28k)
Basecamp 1982 with the first appearance of the ex-CPC beer tent. (45k)
Gästhof Staud'n'wirt the site of CUCC's base camp from 1983 (29k)
1988 base camp - festering at the end (39k)
Mess tent almost awash at 1994 base camp (10k)
Typical tackle pile at Base Camp (1995) (59k)
Deep Frying on an open fire at 1995 Base Camp (68k)
1995 Base camp mess tent (21k)
Carbide lamp designed by Martians - at Base Camp (44k)
Potato Hut supplies (61k)
Typing the survey in the Potato Hut (33k)
Bolting by hand after Drill failure (Driller Killer) (35k)
Drilling by power - Wookey shows the technique (54k)
Rope washing at the end of expo - river behind the Staud'nwirt (46k)

Surface - walks and approaches from the road to VSK

Loser Panoramstraße (51k)
The Bergrestaurant at the top of the toll road (20k)
Walk-in from Loser (78k)
Walk-in highest point, looking towards the col (55k)
Walk-in approaching Egglgrube (55k)
Walk-in - path 201 beyond Egglgrube (76k)
Bräuning wall from the Nipple (40k)
Vorderer Schwarzmooskogel summit
Route to non-CUCC entrances continuing from the Nipple (54k)

Vorderer Schwarzmooskogel southern area caves

Roof tube takeoff for 1823/87 second pitch (63k - mono)
Start of 1823/87 second pitch (41k - mono)
113 Entrance descent (67k)
113 entrance an airy rebelay - during derig 1980 (53k - mono)
113 entrance pitch snow slope from below (23k)
Simon Kellet at the bottom of Purple Pit where 1623/113 joins with 152 (58k - mono)
Schnellzughöhle (115) entrance (84k)
Surface surveying above Stellerweg caves (73k)
Proper respect for renewable ice-formations (49k)
The unclimbed ice column of QM C0000-40-03 in Schneevulkanhalle (107k)
Entrance to Persistence of Vision Series (52k)
Awkward start of Deviant Alternative way in to Persistence of Vision (60k)
Andy Atkinson emerges from Deviant Alternative (53k)
Wookey on the exposed climb of Up, Up in Persistence of Vision (63k)
Wookey on the exposed climb of Up, Up in Persistence of Vision (109k)

Surface - walks and approaches from path 201 to the plateau

Bräuning Kunntal (61k)
Bräuning Alm from Egglgrube path junction (60k)
High camp of 1977 with Bräuning Alm (40k)
High camp of 1977 - cavers (38k)
High camp of 1977 from walk-in (43k)
Walk-in - final stretch to the col (33k)
Top Camp upper site (71k)
Schönberg across plateau from near Top Camp (60k)
Other peaks over plateau from near Top Camp (69k)
1996 Top Camp lower site (87k)
Elevated view of plateau from Bräuning Nase (91k)

Caves on the plateau

B-11 from the ladder on first descent, 1976 (52k)
B-11 from the surface on second descent, 1994 (87k)
Plateau near 1623/82 - Bräuninghöhle (96k)
Ice Stal in Bräuninghöhle entrance (27k)
76 entrance Simon Farrow about to descend, 1977 (73k)
Hall of the Greene King in Eislufthöhle, 1623/76 (69k)
16.5 m pitch in Eislufthöhle, 1623/76 (58k)
The Gents' pitch in 76, Julian Griffiths in 1979 (36k)
Penultimate pitch of 76, at -490m on bottoming trip, 1979, Simon Farrow ascending (87k)
Julian Griffiths at the final sump of 76 at -506m (37k)
Gemsehöhle (66k)
Wolfhöhle (54k)
1623/173 (CUCC shaft 90/3) (96k)
Yorkshire Ripper - entrance of Puffball 1623/182 (95k)
Shell Pitch - Puffball (Bovist und Puderzuckerhöhle 1623/182) (75k)
Quark, Strangeness and Charm, Bovist und Puderzuckerhöhle, 1623/182 (94k)
Cloud Chamber, Bovist und Puderzuckerhöhle, 1623/182 (50k)
Crow's Nest, Bovist und Puderzuckerhöhle, 1623/182 (77k)
The Chimney, Bovist und Puderzuckerhöhle, 1623/182 (76k)
Bräuning Wall from plateau near B8 (52k)
Shaft bashing - Adam Cooper makes a reconnaissance (94k)
Shaft bashing - Adam Cooper makes a rope descent (86k)
Bolt placing for a safer descent on rope (80k)
1623/189 and 1623/164 - entrances on the plateau (87k)
1623/171 - entrance on the plateau (65k)
1623/171 in context (97k)
Painted number on 1623/171 (17k)
Robert the Wonder Caver (R Seebacher) at 1623/171 (95k)
1623/172 - entrance on the plateau (46k)
1623/174 (82k)
1623/175 (83k)
1623/175 with Sepp and Robert (66k)
1623/176 with Sepp and Robert (88k)
CUCC 1996-05 way out on plateau (44k)

Kaninchenhöhle and its approaches

Bräuning wall (53k)
Top Camp seen from the path to 161 (71k)
CUCC 1996-03 with view to Vord. (85k)

161a entrance

Kaninchenhöhle entrance area (1989 rescue) (39k)
Becka Lawson with broken leg at 161a (82k)
Becka nearing the top of 161a entrance (83k)
Hand Winch on Becka's rescue (105k)
Becka's stretcher being tyrolean'ed over loose boulders (32k)
Entrance pitch of Kaninchenhöhle (64k)
Automatic Doors (49k)
Automatic Doors from Big Sainsbury's (81k)
Big Sainsbury's (71k)
The Squeeze (Mark Fearon having a hard time) (89k)
Dewdrop Junction (108k)
Pitchhead in Drunk and Stupid (52k)

The Right Hand Route

Dreamtime pitch (64k)
Dreamtime rebelay on 30m last pitch (71k)
Chunnel Pitch (68k)
Bungalow Pitch (72k)
Knossos (67k)
Star Wars (22k)
Carrefour (63k)
Pitch in Flapjack (95k)
Splatdown - the Bottom Inspectors (73k)
Yapate Inlet (45k)
Yapate Inlet (33k)
Staircase 36 (43k)
Strange Acrossfall (54k)
Pipeless formations (63k)
The Bridge in Pipeless (53k)
1994 camp off Pipeless (85k)

France, Flat France, the new 161d entrance and Triassic Park area

The main France entrance, 161c (113k)
Francophobia rift, Penny Reeves (88k)
Start of approach walk to 161d Scarface entrance (62k)
Scarface (161d) entrance, showing howling gale (73k)
Scarface (161d) entrance (43k)
Shortage of Walls (79k)
Salt Lake City (portrait, 59k)
Salt Lake City (landscape, 35k)
Zombie Slime (39k)
Brownie's Cunt (59k)
Triassic Park (69k)
Triassic Park photographic party (81k)
Fear-On traverse over Interview Blues (68k)
Bugger, the up-climb which stopped Triassic Park exploration in 1995 (84k)

Puerile Humour Series and Iceland

Puerile Humour greasy handline climb (61k)
Andrew Ketley at Penguin Falls (42k)
Andrew Ketley in Puerile Humour (12k)
Julian Todd in Iceland (42k)

Wheelchair Access to the Lost World

Wheelchair Access pitch (45k)
Wheelchair Access way to the Ramp (25k)
Kein Zimmer Rift (33k)
Lost World 5m entry pitch (45k)
Lost World Pteramacsuit chamber (30k)
Lost World Bourneville Lake (28k)
Lost World Bourneville Chocolate Flats (20k)
Upstream Lost World downstream passage at far east (20k)
Lost World downstream tube (41k)
Downstream Lost World phreatic tube (35k)
Downstream Lost World tube (60k)
Downstream Lost World final chamber (28k)

Steinschlagschacht, Forbidden Land and Chile

Steinschlagschacht entrance scene (58k)
Steinschlagschacht entrance slope (57k)
Steinschlagschacht first pitch (38k)
Steinschlagschacht second pitch (55k)
Steinschlagschacht 2nd pitch rebelay (60k)
Steinschlagschacht Eyehole pitch (21k)
Steinschlagschacht Pitch into the Theatre (38k)
Steinschlagschacht Gods' Traverse (48k)
Oatso Simple in Chile (49k)
Oatso Simple - boulder slope towards Windy Bottom (97k)

Steinbrückenhöhle (1623/204)

Note that these are just images with no html page, at present
Main Entrance (22k)
First Pitch (103k)
Crystals in the rock wall (38k)
Earl in phreatic tube (96k)
Third Pitch (80k)
Ice stalagmite (21k)
Ice flow (131k)
Eroding Ice "flowstone" (54k)
Ice formations on an aven wall (54k)
Steinbrücke - the rock bridge after which the cave is named (69k)
Roof pendants and a dipping bedding (49k)
Second entrance (57k)
Another entrance (59k)

Other caves on the Schwarzmooskogel ridge, north of VSK and over to HSK

1623/180
Three photos of 1623/194
Two photos of 1623/195
A cave marked "-", surveyed to in 1999 ("MI5")

Surface and non-caving activities

Hang-gliding from the toll road ramp (15k)
Diving in Altausseer See (68k)
Pedalo at HallStatt (34k)
Climbing the Dachstein via the Seilbahn (45k) Canoeing over the Staud'nwirt weir (28k)
Toboggan run near Bad Ischl (21k)
Typical CUCC transport (1995): Broken trailer at base camp (25k)
Typical CUCC transport (1977): Yellow Peril being packed at Swanage (57k)
People - a selection, from 1977 to 1995 (104k)

About the pictures.

The video digitiser was an old HCCS H-1000, with software by Pennine Software (a custom version much modified from the release version). Most of the underground pictures (from Photo-CD), and a few of the surface ones, have had quite extensive processing to get detail out of the shadows, and reduce colour bias. Some of this was done with a custom-written program which was very slow indeed, and the results are not ideal. A lot of work has used Acorn's !ChangeFSI, which is particularly good for sharpening and scaling. More recently, David Pilling's ImageMaster software has been used, which is excellent for contrast modification and format conversion. All these run on an Acorn RISC PC. The webmaster now has a Nikon Coolscan transparency and negative scanner (2700 dpi) which runs on a 64Mb PC and is starting to give good results with a lot less post-processing required. Interestingly, results are a lot better from negatives than slides, especially for very high contrast subjects (which incoudes most underground shots). Expect a load more high-quality photographs to start appearing soon.