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<h2 id="tophead">CUCC Expo Surveying Handbook</h2>
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<h1>In the UK</h1>
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<p>In an ideal world, we would have a beautifully drawn up survey and
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detailed guidebook descriptions of everything ready to show at the BCRA
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conference (mid-September). Although we are getting better, it is in fact a
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struggle to get these before next expedition ! Life is made particularly
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difficult when bits of data and description arrive in dribs and drabs,
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meaning a lot of piecemeal updating. By the time the majority of expo members
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are back in Cambridge, it is at least two months since the return home, all
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urgency has been lost and memories have faded. To avoid this, <b>think</b>:</p>
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<p>Did you have to leave Austria without finishing your sketching ? Use the
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post or visit Cambridge! Get hold of a centre line and draw up your survey
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as soon as possible - don't leave it to the start of next term when your
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memory will have faded. Some entirely nonsensical surveys <!-- the top of Kiwi
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Suit in the 2002 drawn up survey --> have been produced by surveys being drawn
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up by people other than the original explorers, in the pub, several months
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later</p>
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<p>Have you written a passage description ? If not, do it when you get home.
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If you can type it, so much the better, email it to any or preferably all of
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Martin Green <b><mjg54> at cam.ac.uk</b>, Mark Shinwell <b><mrs30> at cam.ac.uk</b>,
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David Loeffler <b><dl267> at cam.ac.uk</b>, Wookey <b><wookey> at aleph1.co.uk</b> and
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anyone else relevant.
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Failing that, send a disc to one of the above people (someone with email, at
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least) or whoever is in Cambridge doing the drawing up. If you have to write it
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on paper, photocopy it, send a copy to whoever has the survey book (to glue in)
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and to someone else who will take the trouble to type it up and circulate it.</p>
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<p>Have you got the survey book or the log book ? Photocopy it so there is a
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back up and get copies to other addresses before your house burns down. Get
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copies (or the original) to Andy, Wookey, whoever is doing the drawing up, or
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anyone who will volunteer to type in the logbook or cave descriptions.</p>
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<p>Have you got some good (even recognisable...) photographs ? Offer them
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to whoever is doing the BCRA lecture. Try to get them scanned and send
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jpegs to Andy, or even better, let Andy have 35mm negatives (not the
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prints) or slides to scan - he now has a Nikon scanner which does even
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better than the Photo-CD resolution used for the 1996 images..</p>
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<p>Have you some unique experience or amusing anecdote? Write an article
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for the exCS/CUCC mailing list, for the web site and/or the journal.</p>
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<p>Is the only copy of the survey data on your computer ? Get it backed up,
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preferably including copies to other people involved. Multiple disc failures
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have caused total loss of the Kaninchenhöhle dataset once already, and
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backup to another site saves almost infinite grief.</p>
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<p>Have you got the <b>only</b> copy of <i>anything</i> else ? Make backups
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and distribute them <b>now!</b></p>
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<p>Are you a complete computer nerd with too much spare time ? Incorporate
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all of the above into the web site :-)</p>
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<!-- If you've really got too much time on your hands: grovel through a
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handbook written five years ago by two beardy old lags which hasn't been edited
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since, update it all to be relevant to the current situation on the ground (or
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under it), and update the whole lot so it's consistent with current XHTML
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standards. While you should be revising for your exams. I ought to get 'mug'
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tattooed across my forehead. DL 2004.04.22. -->
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<ul id="links">
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<li><b>Expedition Handbook:</b>
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<ul>
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<li>Expo Handbook <a href="../index.htm">Introduction</a></li>
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<li><b>Surveying:</b>
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<li>Surveying <a href="index.htm">Overview</a> and index of
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topics</li>
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<li><a href="what.htm">What is a cave survey?</a></li>
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<li><a href="why.htm">Why am I doing this?</a></li>
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<li>Methods: <a href="how.htm">underground</a></li>
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<li>Pitfalls to avoid, <a href="hints.htm">hints'n'tips</a> to
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make life easier</li>
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<li>Methods: <a href="ontop.htm">surface</a></li>
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<li>Base Camp: <a href="getin.htm">getting it in</a> to the
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computer</li>
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<li>Base Camp: <a href="drawup.htm">drawing it up</a>, writing
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the description</li>
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</ul></li>
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<li><a href="../look4.htm">Prospecting guide</a></li>
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<li><a href="../rescue.htm">Rescue guide</a></li>
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<li><a href="../rigit.htm">Rigging guide</a></li>
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<li><a href="../photo.htm">Photography guide</a></li>
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</ul></li>
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<li><a href="../../infodx.htm">Index to info/topics pages</a></li>
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<li><a href="../../indxal.htm">Full Index to area 1623</a>
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<li><a href="../../areas.htm">Area/subarea descriptions</a></li>
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</ul></li>
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<li><a href="../../index.htm">Back to Expedition Intro page</a></li>
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<li><a href="../../../index.htm">Back to CUCC Home page</a></li>
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