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CUCC Austria Cave Surveying Guide
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<h2 align=center>CUCC Expedition Handbook: Surveying<br>
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Why am I doing this ? The rationale for surveying what you find.</h2>
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<p>The main aim of the expedition is to explore new passages - to boldly
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explore what noone has seen before. Indeed, in many cases, what
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noone even suspected was there. This is the fun and excitement of
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expo, so why spoil it all by doing tedious activities like surveying ?
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<p>Once upon a time, none of the caves were explored. Anything you found was
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guaranteed virgin. Now, many of the obvious caves have been looked at. Some
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went, some didn't. The fact that you can come to Austria and be pretty sure
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of finding new passage to explore is all down to the folk who came before you
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recording what they looked at, both the stuff that went, and the stuff that
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didn't. Without detailed recording and surveying of the caves, it would
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rapidly become more difficult to find new passage, or to be sure that round
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the next corner wouldn't be a load of previous explorers' footprints.
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<p>A lot of work is involved in maintaining the lists of caves that didn't
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go, the lists of going leads, the cave surveys, the route descriptions and
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other documentation. In the very earliest years, this work was not regarded
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as a priority and we are still living with the problems which this created.
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In the UK this work is done by a dedicated few souls with a long-term
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commitment to the Loser plateau. To make their job easier, indeed, to make
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their job possible, and thus to ensure that future expeditions have new
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passage to find, those actually exploring the caves need also to survey them
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and to record what they looked at in a variety of other ways.
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<p>Of course, its also rewarding to have a big survey or a cave photograph on
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your wall and to be able to point to it and say "I found that !" Good
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documentation is also essential to ensure that the club appears competant
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when applying for Sports Council money and the like. Indirectly, surveying
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makes your holiday cheaper.
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<p><b>Surveying ethics</b>. <u>Survey what you find - don't leave it for
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someone else</u>. For horizontal stuff, it is usually most effective to
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survey into virgin passage. Don't run off finding loads of cave and then
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survey back - this leads to long nights and eventually to poor or incomplete
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surveys, and probably to missed call-outs. For vertical stuff, where rigging
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is time consuming and you don't find too much in one go, surveying back is
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probably warmer, but if you run out of time, energy, morale or lights, make
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sure you go back and survey before derigging or pushing more !
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<p>One great advantage of doing the surveying yourself is that a surveying
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party inevitably looks more closely at a passage than an exploration party.
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This means you are quite likely to find new going leads as a result of doing
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the survey. As evidence for this, at one time, the University of Leeds
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Speleological Association found more passage in Yorkshire each year than most
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other clubs put together. The reason - they had a program of systematically
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resurveying known caves, and invariably found previously overlooked ways on.
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