Pushing Hobnob hallway in Heimkehrhoehle Exploration in Homecoming this year has been happening along 3 distinct pushing fronts. Harry has given an excellent account for the exploration along Watershed (scroll up). Pushing has also been happening along a section of the cave called Second...

It has an activated Austrian SIM (with credit) in it, and we are able to send SMSs from the surface unit to mobile phones, so it doesn't seem to be a SIM issue. We actually finally received one of the messages (sent from an underground unit) this morning, around 12 hours after sending it. So it...

We're trying to get Cavelink set up for the CUCC expo to work with our top camp and base camp phones. We can send SMS text messages from the phone to be received by the surface and underground stations. However, we cannot send messages from the underground station to be received by the phone...

Reminder that we have a talk tomorrow at 7 PM. Come along to find more about our annual expedition to the Loser Plateau in Austria. The talk will be taking place at Cambridge Uni, and streamed on Zoom. There will likely also be rooms booked at Bristol and Leeds uni, so message me if you want...

Nat (2022 leader) will be giving a talk on the Totes Gebirge (CUCC) expo, summarising the last 5 expeditions, then focussing on what we achieved last year. Come along to find out more about our recent finds, and all the exciting areas of ongoing exploration we have - 7 pm on Tuesday 7th March...

Here's some figures and photos showing the SMK system, Fischgesicht and Balkonhöhle: Overall SMK system: The Schwarzmooskogel (SMK) system (right) shown in relation to the Schoenberg-Hohlenen (SH) system. 264 = Balkonhohle, 290 = Fischgesicht, 291 = Glückliche Schmetterlingshöhle. Credit: Nat...

The CUCC expedition begins this Monday (25th July), after a two-year hiatus. Over 5 weeks, we’ll see 40+ people congregating in Totes Gebirge, Austria, to continue exploring caves on the Loser Plateau. We’ll be reporting the progress of this year’s expo on this thread and (hopefully) sharing all...

CUCC?s Austria expedition has been running for over 40 years, discovering and exploring new cave on the Loser plateau in the Totes Gebirge region of central Austria. The main cave system explored here, the Schwarzmooskogel (SMK) system is now over 150km long, over 1000m deep, and still going...