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@ -21,13 +21,16 @@ Cave Surveying training course slidepack</a>.
<li>This page outlines the rest of the process. Each part of it is documented separately.
</ul>
<h2>Process</h2>
<p>After 40 years or so, we have a well-defined process which you will need to learn.
<p>After 40 years or so, we have a well-defined process which you will need to learn.
Read <em>all</em> this list first, then follow
the instructions section by section which tell you how to
actually do these things.
<ul>
<li>Write up your trip in the <a href="../logbooks.html">logbook</a><br><br>
<li>Put notes in a new wallet
<li>Scan the notes
<li>Type in survey data (in the right place in the file system) in survex format.<br>
<li>Scan the notes (see <a href="#onlinew">below</a> for the filenames to use and <a href="#scan">how to use the scanner</a>)
<li>Type in survey data (in the right place in the file system) in <a href="#survexformat">survex format</a>.<br>
(This includes passage descriptions and open leads known as QMs: Question Marks).
<li>Run survex to create a centre-line printout
<li>Transcribe your sketches onto centre-line paper
@ -38,7 +41,7 @@ Cave Surveying training course slidepack</a>.
<ul>
<li>Create a new folder in the file system for the wallet data
<li>Create a new folder in the file system for the survex data
<li>Create a "new cave entry" in the website
<li>Create a "new cave entry" for the guidebook description
<li>Write the <b>full cave description</b> into the correct html files. <br>
(This will mean copying the passage descriptions from the survex files.)
<li>Update the index tick boxes on paper: as your wallet progresses through this process
@ -106,13 +109,17 @@ of what information is in the wallet and where the corresponding survey data is
<p>This is where the scanned (or photographed) copies of the survey notes are kept.
<p id="scan">To use the scanner attached to the <em>expo laptop</em>, select the "Simple Scan"
icon from the vertical menu of icons which you get by clicking on
"Activities" in the top lefthand corner of the screen.
<p>[Normal people should skip this, but nerds need to look here
for the <a href="onlinewallet.html">online wallet maintenance process</a>].
<p style="margin-left:20px">[ Normal people should skip this, <br>&nbsp;
but nerds need to look here
for the <a href="onlinewallet.html">online wallet maintenance process</a> ].
<p>If your initial backup photos of your notes were poor quality, use the
scanner in the potato hut to make better copies. Scan to JPEG format as .jpg files.
<p>Name the scanned pages "notes1.jpg", notes2.jpg" etc. This is important as a script detects whether these files exist
<p>Name the scanned pages "<em>notes1.jpg</em>, <em>notes2.jpg</em>" etc. This is important as a script detects whether these files exist
and if you name them something else it will hassle you unnecessarily.
<p>Scanned survey notes are voluminous and so are not kept in the version control system. Instead it is all kept
@ -124,10 +131,10 @@ and you will put all the scan files in the folder for your wallet, e.g. for 2018
</pre>
and tell someone nerdy when you have finished and they will
ensure that it is copied to the expo server.
[If you want to do this yourself, or are using your own laptop, then learn how to use Filezilla
[ If you want to do this yourself, or are using your own laptop, then learn how to use Filezilla
- as <a href="../uploading.html">documented for uploading your expo photographs</a>. The correct folder
on the expo server is the same as that on the expo laptop- because we set up the expo laptop to be like that.
But <em>only copy files to the server that you created yourself and which live in your own wallet folder</em>]
But <em>only copy files to the server that you created yourself and which live in your own wallet folder</em> ]
<h3 id="runsurvex">Storing your electronic survey files</h3>
<p>If you used a PDA instead of making notes on paper, you need to store your .topo files in the right place.
@ -141,9 +148,9 @@ e.g. for 2018#X16 it would be:
and tell someone nerdy when you have finished and they will
ensure that it is copied from the <em>expo laptop</em> to the expo server.
<p>[If all else fails, use the "Upload your photos" documented process and store
<p>[ If all else fails, use the "Upload your photos" documented process and store
the .topo files where you would have stored your .jpg photo files. Otherwise you can email all the .topo files
to a friendly nerd who will put them in the right place.]
to a friendly nerd who will put them in the right place. ]
<p><em>to be further documented - probably in a separate page</em>
<h3 id="survexformat">Typing in the survey data in survex format</h3>
@ -199,7 +206,23 @@ as the scanned notes, i.e. (for wallet #19) you would put them in:
<p>The tunnel (or therion) files should NOT stored in the same folder as the scanned notes. They should
be uploaded to the version control repository //tunneldata//.
<h3>The cave description and rigging guide</h3>
<h3>Interim rigging guide</h3>
<p>The logbook is the place where we record the rigging of caves as we discover them.
<p>When a cave is derigged,
a good way of getting the rope lengths for your rigging guide is to
leave the knots in ropes removed so they can
be <b>measured</b>, but these days our caves are a bit deep
and complicated for this to be feasible.
Although a good survey and details of the belays
can be used to estimate the length of rope needed, this is no substitute for
measuring how much rope it actually took to rig.</p>
<h3>Guidebook description and final rigging guide</h3>
<p>This is the last thing to do - typically after all exploration has been finished for the summer.
The rigging guide sections will have been written into the logbook, and the passage descriptions will
have been written into the survex files, with more lyrical descriptions written into the logbook for each trip.
<p><em>to be documented</em>
<p>Write a <b>passage descriptions</b> by copying and extending the descriptions
given in all the component .svx files.
@ -222,14 +245,7 @@ will file it in the right place. This will involve "creating a new cave" using t
<p>Complementing the passage description in vertical bits is a <b>Rigging
Guide</b>. This is usually easiest to do as a sketch, but include notes to
ensure that all bolts can be found again and any deviations and natural belays recognised.
<p>
One way of getting the rope lengths for your rigging guide is to
leave the knots in ropes removed at derigging so they can
be <b>measured</b>, but these days our caves are a bit deep
and complicated for this to be feasible .
Although a good survey and details of the belays
can be used to estimate the length of rope needed, this is no substitute for
measuring how much rope it actually took to rig.</p>
<p><em>to be completed</em>

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<body>
<h1>Stuff left at base camp 2018</h1>
<p>This inventory done Friday morning 17th August 2018 - to be updated.
<p>This inventory done Friday afternoon 17th August 2018 - to be updated.
<p>Some of this will be eaten over weekend as basecamp is packed up.
<h2>Food</h2>
<ul>
@ -27,6 +27,31 @@
<li>Entire Bier Tent, tables, crates of pans, plates and cutlery, cooking utensils
</ul>
<h2>Gear</h2>
<ul>
<li>Tarpaulins
<ul>
<li>unused, unopened white tarp 7x9m 110gsm
<li>small light-green tarp (tent extra groundsheet? Backup water-collector?)
<li>medium mid-green tarp (formerly top end of top camp bivvy ?)
</ul>
<li>2x Bosch drills
<li>3x Bosch drill batteries
<li>1x Bosch drill mains charger and bits in small red plastic tub
<li>9x tacklebags
<li>3x rope protectors
<li>1x 208 litre brown plastic box (not yet assembled) like the 3 up at top camp.
<li>2x small daysacks
<ul>
<li> 1 grey (Camping Sabbiadoro) event bag
<li> 1 dark-blue "Frontline" daysac (Cotswold Outdoor, &pound;25 with Cambridge receipt 15 Feb.2018) no gear tape.
</ul>
<li>2-man grey tent (poles, pegs, everything) - geartape purple
<li>3x blue foam karrimats - purple tape
<li>3x thin emergency orange polythene bivvy bags - no breathing holes - muddy & dusty - in a polybag with bits of karrimat, tarp.
<li>3x thick emergency orange polythene bivvy bags - no breathing holes - clean and unused - geartape purple
</ul>
<h2>Networking and computing - expected to be left but not finalised</h2>
<ul>
<li>LCD monitor</li>
@ -79,15 +104,14 @@ They are loaned to expo and belong to Wookey and Philip Sargent.
<h2>More gear - expected to be left but not finalised</h2>
<ul>
<li>2-man grey tent labelled Sargent (donated to expo)
<li>5x (?) anonymous foam karrimats
<li>yellow Speleo Narnia bag containing toddlers' sand playing toys
<br><br>
<li>4x 4-man bothy bags (survival and warm at pitch-heads)</li>
<li>1 empty 5kg gas cylinder</li>
<li>1 mostly empty 5kg gas cylinder</li>
<li>1 empty 11kg gas cylinder</li>
<li>1 part-used 11kg gas cylinder</li>
<li>2x 1-man bivvy bags (sleeping bag cover)</li>
<li>4x 4-man bothy bags (survival and warm at pitch-heads)</li>
<li>6x drybags</li>
<li>5x largish tacksack</li>
<li>1x small tacklesack</li>