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<h2 id="tophead">CUCC Expedition Handbook</h2>
<h1>Handbook Troggle - Beginners</h1>

<p><b>Intended audience:</b> All cavers who have never seen Troggle. 


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<h3>Background - why we are doing this</h3>
<a href="../trogintro.html#why">Troggle - Introduction</a> - Why we developed it<br>
<a href="../trogusers.html">Who needs to know What and When</a> (top half of the page only)<br>

<h3>Stage I - Basics - The 3 sources of Truth</h3>
<p>There are THREE (3) basic sources of data that troggle manages.
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<li>Open the page <a href="https://expo.survex.com/expedition/2023">Expo 2023</a> in a new tab in your browser (SLOW on first access).
<li>Scroll down to the second table with 4 columns with headings "Date", Logged trips.." etc.
<li>The important 3 columns are, for each day:
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<li>The <b>trips</b> or escapades recorded in the <a href="/handbook/logbooks.html">logbook</a>.
<li>The <b>surveys</b> recorded in <a href="/expofiles/documents/surveying/survex-guide.pdf">survex files</a>.
<li>The <b>raw data notes</b> scanned from survey notebooks and stored in <a href="/handbook/survey/walletintro.html">plastic wallets</a>.
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<li>The 4th source of data is the master list of <b>who</b> was on the Expo. This is shown in the top table calendar. The data comes from the <a href="/folk/index.htm">folk list</a>.
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<li>If you don't yet understand how expo uses any of the words above, click on the handbook links above and read the explanations.
<li>If you are completely puzzled, read the <a href="/handbook/intro.htm">Expo introduction</a> 
and <a href="/handbook/survey/index.htm">Cave surveying and data management</a>
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<h3>Stage II - How to find a lead</h3>
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<li>How to find everything anyone has ever discovered about Preztel Passage. Follow the story in the second half of 
<a href="../trogusers.html">Who needs to know What and When</a>
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<h3>Stage III - Explore what troggle produces</h3>
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<li>For what you can do with troggle: <a href="../trogreports.html">expo data management with troggle reports</a>.
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Go on to: <a href="../trogintro.html">Troggle intro</a><br>
Go on to: <a href="../trogdocm.html">Troggle - fixing things when the reports are incoherent</a><br>

Return to: <a href="../trogindex.html">Index of all troggle documents</a><br />
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