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<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" />
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<title>CUCC Expedition Handbook: The Website</title>
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<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="../css/main2.css" />
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<body>
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<h2 id="tophead">CUCC Expedition Handbook</h2>
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<h1>Logbooks</h1>
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<p>As soon as possible after a trip finishes, a <b>hand-written write-up</b> of the trip is made in the nearest logbook:
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the base camp logbook or the top camp logbook.
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<ul>
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<li>Why the logbook is so important
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<li><a href="#type">Typing on the <em>Expo Laptop</em></a>
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<li><a href="#another">Typing on another laptop</a>
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<li><a href="#format">Formatting</a> a typed logbook entry
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</br></br>
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<li><a href="computing/logbooks-parsing.html">Importing</a> the logbook into troggle (nerds only) - and error checking
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</ul>
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<h3 id="why">Why the logbook is important</h3>
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<p>The logbook writeup is the oldest and most basic way of recording your trip but it must not be neglected. This is also where you put
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your speculations and ideas for what looks promising and what is obvious but doesn't go: things that are vital to future expoers. And please, please
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do lots of sketches in the logbook.
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<p>Always, always write the date, <em>your</em> name and the names of other people involved at the top of each entry.
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If you mention a cave location, please also write down the cave name somewhere. In 10 years no-one will know
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where "Lemon Snout" is.
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<p>
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<a href="/years/2018/logbook.html#t2018-08-03w"><img src="i/logbookpage.jpg" class="onright"></a>
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If this is all new to you, please now read
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<a href="survey/why.htm"><strong>Why we make surveys</strong></a>
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and
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<a href="datamgt.html">Cave data management</a>,
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and then the
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<a href="survey/index.htm">Survey Handbook</a>
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<h3>Interim rigging guide</h3>
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<p>The logbook is the place where we record the rigging of caves as we discover them.
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<p>When a cave is derigged,
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a good way of getting the rope lengths for your rigging guide is to
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leave the knots in ropes removed so they can
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be <b>measured</b>, but these days our caves are a bit deep
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and complicated for this to be feasible.
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Although a good survey and details of the belays
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can be used to estimate the length of rope needed, this is no substitute for
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measuring how much rope it actually took to rig.</p>
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<h3>The online logbook file</h3>
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<p>If you are at basecamp, then it is an excellent idea to
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<b>type the text of your logbook trip report</b> instead of writing it by hand - see <a href="#type">below</a>. But still do lots of drawings in the paper logbook.
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<p>The contents of both the topcamp logbook and the basecamp logbook are typed into the same
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"logbook.html" file for future use in tracking down leads and surveys. The drawings are scanned and stored in the same place, and hand-edited
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into the logbook.html file after expo finished. The typed notes are uploaded into the expo server database and
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correlated with survey data done on the same day or by the same people.
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<p>Recent logbooks:
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<ul>
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<li><a href="../years/2018/logbook.html">2018</a>
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<li><a href="../years/2017/logbook.html">2017</a>
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</ul>
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<p>All these scanned handwritten logbook entries are typed into a laptop (often the expo laptop)
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which is then synchronised the version control system.
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<p>The result is a webpage reporting who did what and what was done by whom on expo,
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e.g. see <a href="http://expo.survex.com/expedition/2018">the 2018 expo report</a>.
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<h3 =id="type">Typing just your trip report (at the <i>Expo Laptop</i>)</h3>
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<p>As handwriting can be very bad, please try to type the text, print it and stick it in the logbook, adding any sketches by hand.
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This will save someone (probably you) deciphering your handwriting and typing it up later.
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<p>These instructions assume that (a) you are sitting at the <em>expo laptop</em> and that someone who knows
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the password has logged in for you (as user "expo"), and (b) that you know nothing about the software
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systems used by expo.
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<ul>
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<li>You will type your trip report as plain text using a text editor.
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<li>You will be typing into a file called something like "logbook-mynewtrip.txt" in the folder "Downloads"
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<li>You will be asking someone nerdy to take this trip report and to edit it into the proper place later.
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</ul>
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<p>The first challenge is to find how to start up the text editor. The <em>expo laptop</em> is running debian Linux
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with the Gnome 3.2 desktop manager, so click on "Activities" in the top left corner.
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This will bring down a vertical menu of icons down the left hand side of the screen. Hovering
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over the icons brings up a label, and the one you want is at (or near) the bottom with the label "Text editor". Click on it.
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<p>If you are lucky this will bring up an empty window for a new file.
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<br />If you are unlucky it will bring up the previous person's file.
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<p>If it is a new file, save it to the Downloads folder (/home/expo/Downloads) using the "File->Save" menu
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item and give it a sensible name such as "logbook-mynewtrip.txt".
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<p>If it was someone else's file, save it using the "File->Save" menu. Then close the text editor ("File->Close").
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Then start it up again from the vertical icon menu as before.
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<p>Now type in your trip report using whatever format you like, but please leave a blank line between paragraphs.
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<h4>Adding your trip to the logbook online file</h4>
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<p>If you are using the <em>expo laptop</em> just edit this file (if you are on expo in 2025):
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<code>
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/home/expo/expoweb/years/2025/logbook.html
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</code>
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copy the format you can see other people have used;
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and other people will take care of synchronising it with the version control system.
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<p>
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<b>DO NOT</b> take a copy of the logbook.html file from the expo laptop,
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copy it by email or USB stick to another laptop, edit it there and then copy it back. That will
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<em>delete other people's work</em>.
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<p>If you are using your own laptop then you will need to either:
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<ul>
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<li>Just type up your trip as a separate file with a useful filename e.g. "logbook-myname-2018-08-03.txt", or just write it in an email, and send it to someone nerdish, or
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<li><a href="computing/basiclaptop.html">install and learn how to use</a> the version control software.
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And you will need to synchronise regularly (every day) to
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ensure that the updates from all the people entering trip data are OK and don't get overwritten by ignorant use of this software.
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</ul>
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<p>Logbooks are typed up and kept in the [expoweb]/years/[nnnn]/ directory as 'logbook.html'.</p>
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<h3 id="another">Typing on another machine</h3>
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<p>
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Rather than editing logbook.html when you type up your trip, it is a much better
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idea to type up <i>just your trip(s)</i> in a separate file, e.g. "logbook-mynewtrip.txt", and email it to a nerd if you are sitting at a different laptop.
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<h3 id="format">Format of the online logbooks</a></h3>
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<p>Do whatever you like to try and represent the logbook in html. The only rigid structure is the markup to allow troggle to parse the files into 'trips':</p>
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<code><pre>
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<hr />
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<div class="tripdate" id="t2007-07-12B">2007-07-12</div>
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<div class="trippeople"><u>Jenny Black</u>, Olly Betts</div>
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<div class="triptitle">Top Camp - Setting up 76 bivi</div>
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<div class="timeug">T/U 10 mins</div></pre></code>
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<p>Note: the ID's must be unique, so are generated from 't' plus the trip date plus a,b,c etc.
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when there is more than one trip on a day.</p>
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<p>Note: T/U stands for "Time Underground" in hours (6 minutes would be "0.1 hours").
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<p>Note: the <hr /> is significant and used in parsing, it is not just prettiness.
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<hr />
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</body>
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</html>
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