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<title>Cambridge University Caving Club Expedition Handbook. 2001 Edition
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<div align=center><h2>CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY CAVING CLUB<br>
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EXPEDITION HANDBOOK</h2></div>
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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
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tell you everything you need to know about Expo, but there is a basic minimum
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here, with links to more detailed info when you need it.
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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:
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<dt><a href="look4.htm">Prospecting</a><dd>The prospecting guide is essential
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reading before you wander the plateau stumbling across holes of potential
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interest. Vast amounts of work have been wasted in the past through
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inadequate recording. It isn't very much extra work, but ensures that your
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hard work gains some recognition in the future rather than making lots of
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tedious work and the cursing of your name... There is a separate page with
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pictures of surface landmarks for <a href="findit.htm">taking bearings</a>,
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and a new guide to getting a <a href="survey/gps.htm">GPS fix</a>.
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<dt><a href="survey/index.htm">Surveying</a><dd>Once the cave starts to get
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significant (ie. anything which requires getting changed or rigging), it
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needs good documentation. This is mostly a matter of doing a cave survey, a
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guidebook description and usually a surface survey. The first time you go to
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explore a poorly documented question mark, you will realise how important
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this is, and it also makes for having a pretty survey on your wall to support
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your bullshit. For 1998, the surveying guide has been split into easily
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digestible chunks, including pages specifically intended for people who
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<a href="survey/what.htm">haven't surveyed before</a>.
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<dt><a href="rescue.htm">Rescue</a><dd>You fall and break your leg - probably
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need a little help to get out of the cave ? How would you feel if everyone at
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this stage took the rescue guide into Hilde's bar and started reading about
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what to do ? Not a happy prospect, is it - so in the hope that it is
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<b>not</b> you who gets hurt, we suggest you read this <b>now</b> so you know
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what to do. It may well help you if it <b>is</b> you who gets injured, and
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may even help prevent that from happening. So don't skip it !
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<dt><a href="photo.htm">Photography</a><dd>This section is hardly even
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written, let alone useful :-)
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<dt><a href="rigit.htm">SRT Rigging</a><dd>This one's also minimal - but
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links to useful info on another site. There is (Jan 2000), however, in
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addition to the rudimentary page above, a few pages towards a full
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Austria-specific guide. The <a href="rig/index.htm">contents page</a> links
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to an <a href="rig/intro.htm">Introduction</a> and a useful section on
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<a href="rig/boltin.htm">placing bolts</a> and it may be useful to refer to
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the expedition <a href="../fixaid.htm">Fixed Aids</a> list to see what gear
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has been left in place from previous years.
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<dt><a href="vocab.htm">Useful vocabulary</a><dd>This is hardly a "section",
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but contains a possibly useful table of translations of climbing (mainly) and
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caving (some) terms into German, Spanish and French. It's here mainly
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because I had the material to hand and it would be silly not to make it
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available.
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<dt><a href="leader.htm">Checklist for expo leaders</a><dd>Whilst it will not
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often be the case that the expedition leader has not been before, in 1998 the
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entire expo leadership were neophytes. Despite much support from previous
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leaders, a few odd things got forgotten, like envelopes for survey notes. One
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of the good things they invented was an annual suggestions file for making
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things better next time. One of the suggestions was a handbook section
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telling them what to do! We hope that this checklist will become useful for
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"experienced" leaders as well as vital guidance for anyone new to the job.
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However, <b>do not rely on it being complete</b>, at least, not yet.
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2001-08-15 21:34:35 +01:00
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<dt><a href="http://mrs30.quns.cam.ac.uk/expo/treasurer/">How to
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be Expo Treasurer</a><dd>How expo accounting works in theory and
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practice, the treasurer's tasks, and how to accomplish them.
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