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<h3>What EVERYONE needs to do</h3>
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<li>Install a GPS app on your phone.</li>
<li>Check <a href="computing/myphone.html">your phone</a> configuration.</li>
<li>Download the locations of key cave entrances, camps and other landmarks and the paths between them.</li>
<li>Modify <a href="computing/myphone.html">your phone</a> configuration for the plateau</li> (<em>important</em>).
<li>Learn how to use <a href="/handbook/survey/gps.htm">expo GPS with key cave entrances</a>, camps and other landmarks and the paths between them.</li>
<li>When walking on the plateau, turn on <b>location tracking</b> in Google Maps, or your GPS app, before you leave the car park and share your location with someone you know at base camp and/or top camp.</li>
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<p><b>Don't be misled by the apparent simplicity</b> of the tracks. The plateau is very broken and is an unremitting extent of cliffs, holes and impassable dwarf-larch scrub ("bunde" as it is known on expo). You can be 5m from the route and have lost it entirely. The <a href="/guidebook/walkin.htm">walk to and from</a>
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<p>This (nerds only) has been moved to a separate page: <a href="/handbook/essentials_make.html">regenerating essentials.gpx</a>.
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<a href="/handbook/computing/myphone.html">Your phone on expo</a> - Do not select the "high accuracy" location setting on your phone<br />
<a href="/handbook/essentials.html">GPS essentials on the plateau</a> - Safety information (this page)<br />
<a href="/logbookentry/2024-07-21/2024-07-21c">Photo GPS</a> - Is unreliable unless you follow procedure<br />
<a href="/handbook/survey/gps.htm">Locating entrances by GPS</a> - from the survey handbook section<br />
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<a href="/handbook/survey/gps.htm_edit">Locating Entrances</a> - expo recommended methods<br />
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