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<title>CUCC 2003 Expedition Goals</title>
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<h2><center>CUCC Austria 2003 - Mission statement</center></h2>
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<p>This summer, Cambridge University Caving Club will be continuing its highly successful series of expeditions to the
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Loser plateau in Austria. This document sets out the principal goals of the 2003 expedition.</p>
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<h2>Background</h2>
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<p>This summer sees CUCC's 27th expedition to the Loser plateau, which lies in the Totes Gebirge mountains, about
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80km east of Salzburg. CUCC is the principal group exploring in the area, which continues to yield new discoveries.</p>
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<p>The principal known systems in the area are the southern Schwarzmooskogel system, comprising <a
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href="../../smkridge/41/41.htm">Stellerweghöhle</a> itself, the stunningly beautiful <a
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href="../../smkridge/40/cucc.htm">Schwarzmooskogel Eishöhle</a>, and a number of other smaller caves, much of
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which was explored by CUCC in the 70s and early 80s; and <a href="../../smkridge/161/top.htm">Kaninchenhöhle</a>,
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an extremely complex system discovered by CUCC in 1989 which was the main focus of expeditions between then and
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2000.</p>
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<p>For a long period these caves were known to approach each other very closely but a connection between them proved
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elusive. This was finally achieved by a German group last year, bringing the total length of the
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Schwarzmooskogelhöhlensystem to over 50km and its depth to 1030m, placing it in among both the world's deepest
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and longest caves.</p>
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<p> Over the last three years the principal focus of CUCC's work has been <a
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href="../../smkridge/204/204.shtml">Steinbrückenhöhle,</a> a cave lying to the north of the furthest known
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reaches of Kaninchenhöhle. This has quickly yielded over 5.3km of passage reaching a depth of 454m. As well as its
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considerable potential in its own right, it has a number of promising leads pointing in the direction of
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Kaninchenhöhle, in particular the Razordance streamway which is currently the deepest known point in the cave and
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is no more than 300m away from the Fuzzy Logic series in Kaninchenhöhle. This area of Kaninchenhöhle has a
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number of large unexplored leads which will be reexamined in more detail now
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that a connection to Steinbrückenhöhle seems possible.
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<h2>Principal Goals for 2003</h2>
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<h3>Steinbrückenhöhle:</h3>
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<ul>
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<li>Continue the exploration of Razordance and other leads heading southwards</li>
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<li>Continue the pitch series leading off Swings and Roundabouts (Merry-Go-Round and Plan Not Interesting) explored in
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2002</li>
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<li>Explore leads in the north-east end discovered in 2001 (Chocolate Salty
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Balls area)</li>
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<h3>Kaninchenhöhle:</h3>
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<li>Revisit deep pitches in Far North area</li>
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</ul>
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<h3>Elsewhere:</h3>
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<li>Re-explore <a href="http://cucc.survex.com/expo/smkridge/2000-09/2000-09.htm">Hauchhöhle</a>, which lies above the hypothetical Steinbrückenhöhle - Kaninchenhöhle
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connection</li>
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<li>Explore any other undescended caves in this area</li>
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<li>Explore the many large unexplored entrances reported on the far side of the ridge behind the Steinbrücken
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bivvy site, which are believed to be at the same stratigraphic level as the principal horizontal development in
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Steinbrückenhöhle</li>
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</ul>
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<h3>Documentation and resurveying:</h3>
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<li>Surface survey to <a href="../../smkridge/2002-01/2002-01.htm">
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Artischockenhöhle</a> (discovered 2001)</li>
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<li>Sort out confusion over exact location of Hauchhöle, which appears to be listed twice in our indices under different numbers (2000-08 and 2000-09)</li>
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</ul>
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<h2>2003 Expo Committee</h2>
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<ul> <li><b>Leader:</b> David Loeffler (Trinity)</li>
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<li><b>Treasurer:</b> Martin Green (Corpus Christi)</li>
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<li><b>Transport Organiser:</b> Mark Shinwell (Queens')</li>
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<li><b>Sponsorship Organiser:</b> Julia Bradshaw (ExCS)</li>
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</ul>
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<hr />
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<p align="right"><i>David Loeffler, 19/1/03</i></p> </body> </html>
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