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<body>
<h2 id="tophead">CUCC Expedition Handbook</h2>
<h1>Placeholder</h1>
<p>This is not the page you are looking for.
<p>This will be replaced with the information you want as soon as someone gets around to writing it. Why not find out how to do this yourself ?
<h1>Essential GPS information</h1>
<p>We have a regularly-updated file of all the cave entrances for the entire Schvartzmoosk&ouml;gel system (SMK).
This file also includes the tracks of the paths we regularly take: from Loser Alm car park to the col and to top camp,
and from top camp to Fisch Gesicht H&ouml;hle and to Tunnocks's, Balkonh&ouml;hle and Organh&ouml;hle.
<h3><a href="#down">Download the data from the expo server</a></h3>
<h3><a href="#up">Upload the data to your device</a></h3>
<h2 id="down">Download the GPS essentials file from the expo server</h2>
<p>
We regularly create a new version of this essential data as the expo progresses and as expoers discover new entrances and
devise new routes to reach them.
<p>
To get the most recent version you will need to ask someone who is competent in using the version control system
(it's in loser/gpx/ and is generated from the survex data by a script). A fairly recent copy (17 July 2018)
can be downloaded from here: <a href="essentials.gpx">essentials.gpx</a> (190K).
<h2 id="up">Upload the GPS essentials file to your device</h2>
<p>
This is where it gets tricky because every device and phone app does this differently.
<h3>Old Garmin handheld GPS devices</h3>
<p>
These can only import cave entrance locations (waypoints) and paths (tracks) using the Garmin communication protocol.
This means that you need special software on your laptop in addition to a USB cable that connects your laptop to the Garmin device.
<ul>
<li>On a Windows machine, use "GPSbabel for Windows" which has an easy to use graphical user interface:
<a href="https://www.gpsbabel.org/download.html">download GPS Babel</a>
<li>On a Linux machine the core gpsbabel command line utility is probably already installed;
but there is no simple, easy to use graphical interface.
Instead you must use other software such as QGIS or Viking (download using your usual Linux software installer)
which uses gpsbabel to talk to your device.
If this doesn't work then there are no useful error messages.
</ul>
<h3>Modern Garmin handheld GPS devices</h3>
<p>
Connect the GPS device to your laptop (or the expo laptop) using the USB cable. A folder will open on the laptop showing the contents
of the device.
You will see a subfolder called "GARMIN". Open the folder "GARMIN" and copy the file essentials.gpx which you
downloaded into that folder.
<h3>GPSessentials phone app</h3>
<p>
This should work the same way whether you have an iPhone or an Android phone, so long as you are using this app
<a href="http://www.gpsessentials.com/">www.gpsessentials.com</a>.
<p>
Visit the website and read the manual (top left, on the menu bar: "Manual") for how to do this.
Except that the manual doesn't tell you.
More documentation on this to follow...
<h3>Another phone app...</h3>
More documentation on this to follow...
<hr />
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<dd>You fall and break your leg &ndash; probably need a little help to get out of the cave ? How would you feel if everyone at this stage took the rescue guide into Hilde's bar and started reading about what to do ? Not a happy prospect, is it &ndash; so in the hope that it is <strong>not</strong> you who gets hurt, we suggest you read this <strong>now</strong> so you know what to do. It may well help you if it <strong>is</strong> you who gets injured, and may even help prevent that from happening. So don't skip it !</dd>
<dt><a href="1staid.html">First Aid</a></dt>
<dd>Info on expo first aid kits and caving first aid course.</dd>
<dt><a href="meteo.htm">Weather</a></dt>
<dd>Unpredictable in the mountains. Local thunderstoms with rapid run-off are the biggest danger.</dd>
</dl>
<h2>How do I...?</h2>
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<li><a href="lights.html">Charge my light</a> - at top camp and at base camp.</li><br>
<li><a href="phone.htm">Send a message to top camp</a> - or base camp.</li><br>
<li><a href="uploading.html">Upload my photos</a> - of people, landscape and cave entrances.</li>
<li><a href="essentials.html">Download GPS data to my device</a> - to find gcaves and not get lost.</li>
<li><a href="essentials.html">Download GPS data to my device</a> - to find caves and to not get lost.</li>
<li><a href="gpxupload.html">Upload GPS data from my phone (or device)</a> - where I found a new cave.</li><br>
<li><a href="stool.htm">Perform bodily functions up the mountain</a> - on a matter of stooling.</li>
<li><a href="charging.html">Charge a drill battery up the mountain</a> - cave exploration.</li><br>
<li><a href="bierbook.html">Record how much beer I've drunk</a> - from the base camp fridge.</li><br>
<li><a href="paperwork.html#nok">Record who my next of kin is</a> - & emergency medical details.</li><br>
<li><a href="placeholder.html">Set up my laptop for looking at cave surveys</a> - Survex, aven etc.</li>
<li><a href="placeholder.html">Set up my laptop for everything</a> - surveying, website management etc.</li>
</ul>
<h2>Where and How</h2>
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<dt>Camps</dt>
<dd><a href="../bcamps.htm">Base camp</a> and <a href="../tcamps.htm">History of high camps</a></dd>
<dt><a href="meteo.htm">Weather</a></dt>
<dd>Unpredictable in the mountains. Local thunderstoms with rapid run-off are the biggest danger.</dd>
<dt><a href="look4.htm">Prospecting</a></dt>
<dd>The printable <a href="/prospecting_guide/">new prospecting guide (slow to load)</a> is a list of all known cave entrances and is essential reading before you wander the plateau stumbling across holes of potential interest. <br><br>