CUCC Expedition Handbook - Cave Description

Adding Cave Descriptions

In the survex file

Description of FischGesicht trip on 2018.07.24 (click to open in editor)

Cave descriptions are written at the end of the survex block - between *begin and *end statements. Conventionally just after the QMs and before the *end .

The description is written as a single long line of text. In the online editor it is wrapped to fit the window. ;------------
;Cave description ;(leave commented-out)
; See 2017 description for details of GSH up to the 'p50'. Briefly, on the way to couldashouldawoulda a 22 m entrance crawl from the surface leads to a climb down and a junction. Left leads to easy c rawling passage for a short distance, then another junction where traversing over a shallow hole and down a stooping-height sandy passage to a sharp left turn and a sandy, easy 'squeeze' leading to a straighforward p10.
[from couldashouldawoulda_to_bathdodgersbypass.svx]

You can have several lines of description, as you can see if you follow the link above, but each one must be prefixed with a semi-colon otherwise the survex software will complain.

Technical Note: The syntax for a Cave Description, both the title and the text includes a leading semi-colon. So it is syntactically a "comment" so far as the survex software is concerned.


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