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<h1>Cambridge University Caving Club
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Expedition Handbook</h1>
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<p>The pages which make up this handbook were originally based on the paper
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documents you might find lying around the Potato Hut or Top Camp.
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Increasingly, the web pages are becoming the master documents. They don't tell
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you everything you need to know about Expo, but there is a basic minimum here,
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with links to more detailed info when you need it.</p>
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<p>There are more sections each year, though only three are anything like
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complete at the moment:</p>
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<dt><a href="look4.htm">Prospecting</a></dt>
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<dd>The prospecting guide is essential reading before you wander the plateau
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stumbling across holes of potential interest. Vast amounts of work have been
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wasted in the past through inadequate recording. It isn't very much extra work,
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but ensures that your hard work gains some recognition in the future rather
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than making lots of tedious work and the cursing of your name... There is a
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separate page with pictures of surface landmarks for <a
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href="findit.htm">taking bearings</a>, and a new guide to getting a <a
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href="survey/gps.htm">GPS fix</a>.</dd>
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<dt><a href="survey/index.htm">Surveying</a></dt>
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<dd>Once the cave starts to get significant (ie. anything which requires
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getting changed or rigging), it needs good documentation. This is mostly a
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matter of doing a cave survey, a guidebook description and usually a surface
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survey. The first time you go to explore a poorly documented question mark, you
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will realise how important this is, and it also makes for having a pretty
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survey on your wall to support your bullshit. For 1998, the surveying guide has
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been split into easily digestible chunks, including pages specifically intended
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for people who <a href="survey/what.htm">haven't surveyed before</a>.</dd>
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<dt><a href="rescue.htm">Rescue</a></dt>
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<dd>You fall and break your leg – probably need a little help to get out of the
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cave ? How would you feel if everyone at this stage took the rescue guide into
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Hilde's bar and started reading about what to do ? Not a happy prospect, is it
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– so in the hope that it is <b>not</b> you who gets hurt, we suggest you read
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this <b>now</b> so you know what to do. It may well help you if it <b>is</b>
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you who gets injured, and may even help prevent that from happening. So don't
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skip it !</dd>
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<dt><a href="phone.htm">Phones</a></dt>
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<dd>How to use mobile phones on expo.</dd>
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<dt><a href="photo.htm">Photography</a></dt>
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<dd>This section is hardly even written, let alone useful :-)</dd>
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<dt><a href="rigit.htm">SRT Rigging</a></dt>
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<dd>This one's also minimal – but links to useful info on another site.
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There is (Jan 2000), however, in addition to the rudimentary page above, a few
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pages towards a full Austria-specific guide. The <a
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href="rig/index.htm">contents page</a> links to an <a
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href="rig/intro.htm">Introduction</a> and a useful section on <a
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href="rig/boltin.htm">placing bolts</a> and it may be useful to refer to the
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expedition <a href="../fixaid.htm">Fixed Aids</a> list to see what gear has
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been left in place from previous years.</dd>
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<dt><a href="update.htm">Updating the website</a></dt>
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<dd>This tells you how to use CVS to download and update the master copy of the
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website.</dd>
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<dt><a href="stool.htm">On a matter of stooling</a></dt>
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<dd>Seriously, this quite important. Do read this document, and when you have finished having a laugh, remember it.</dd>
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<dt><a href="vocab.htm">Useful vocabulary</a></dt>
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<dd>This is hardly a "section", but contains a possibly useful table of
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translations of climbing (mainly) and caving (some) terms into German, Spanish
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and French. It's here mainly because I had the material to hand and it would be
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silly not to make it available.</dd>
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<dt><a href="leader.htm">Checklist for expo leaders</a></dt>
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<dd>Whilst it will not often be the case that the expedition leader has not
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been before, in 1998 the entire expo leadership were neophytes. Despite much
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support from previous leaders, a few odd things got forgotten, like envelopes
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for survey notes. One of the good things they invented was an annual
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suggestions file for making things better next time. One of the suggestions was
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a handbook section telling them what to do! We hope that this checklist will
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become useful for "experienced" leaders as well as vital guidance for anyone
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new to the job. However, <b>do not rely on it being complete</b>, at least,
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not yet.</dd>
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<dt><a href="treasurer.html">How to be Expo
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Treasurer</a></dt>
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<dd>How expo accounting works in theory and practice, the treasurer's tasks,
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and how to accomplish them.</dd>
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<ul id="links">
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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></li>
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<li><a href="../areas.htm">Area/subarea descriptions</a>
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<ul><li> <a href="../1626/index.html">Adjacent area 1626</a></li> </ul>
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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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