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<h2 id="tophead">CUCC Expedition Handbook</h2>
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<h1>Base camp operations</h1>
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<p>Base camp - the potato hut - is where the expo as a whole is organised from.
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We do not have a centre of operations in the UK during expo.
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<p>Shopping for food and equipment during expo is centered at base camp,
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not least because this is where we have the beer fridge.
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<h2>Records kept at Base Camp</h2>
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<p>Obviously it is vital for safety that we know where everyone is and to ensure that
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callout times are set and cancelled for every caving trip.
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<p>We also have to keep formal, legal records of who is staying at the Staudnwirt Gasthof campsite and when
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because (a) we pay the Gasthof for every person-night and (b) it is a legal requirement
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because of tourist tax payments.
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<p>These records are kept in <a href="bierbook.html">two bound paper books</a> which are pre-printed and bound
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(including the names of all expoers) before the expo begins.
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<p>Your next of kin, insurance and emergency contact details will need to be manually written onto your page of one of these
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(<a href="bierbook.html">the bierbook</a>) on first arrival at base camp as a double-check that we have the latest correct information.
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<h3>Base camp logbook</h3>
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<p>We have a hard-cover book where we record every caving or surface exploration trip that has departed or returned to base camp. This includes
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sketched SRT rigging guides and some cave survey notes - in addition to those recorded in the waterproof underground surveying notebooks.
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<p>The text in the logbook is typed up trip by trip as the expo progresses (e.g. see the
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<a href="../years/2017/logbook.html">2017 logbook</a>). The sketches are scanned on the scanner in the potato hut.
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<h3>Base camp callout book</h3>
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<p>We have a hardcover book recording who has left base camp to go directly on a caving or surface trip, when they are expected back
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and the callout time: the time at which rescue preparations will begin if they have not returned.
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<h2>Communications with top camp</h2>
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Base camp and top camp both have phones using highly-reliable, low-bandwidth Austrian phone company SIMs.
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We use phone calls and text messages to coordinate callout times for
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caving trips. See <a href="phone.htm">these instructions</a> for using these and for renewing the SIM each year.
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<h3>Whiteboards</h3>
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<p>There is a whiteboard in the potato hut and another in the Steinbrückhöhle top camp.
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These show current important and urgent information: what needs to be brought up to top camp from base, what we have run out of and needs buying
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(hangers, custard powder, drill batteries...), what has broken and needs fixing, who is planning to come down the mountain.
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The top camp board also records who is out on which caving trips and when they are expected back; and also promising leads to be checked out
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in the coming days.
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<h3>Base camp bike</h3>
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<p>We also have <a href=bike.html>a bike</a> which we use for shopping when all the cars are up the toll road and there are only
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a handful of people at base.
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<h2>Computer, printer and scanner</h2>
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<p>We have a complex installation of internet-connected computer hardware and WiFi in the potato hut - all running on donated or loaned gear.
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This is primarily for recording the surveys of the cave we discover during expo. See <a href="computer.html">base camp computers</a> for more details.
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<h2>History of base camps</h2>
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<p>See our <a href="../bcamps.htm">photo gallery</a> of base camp through the years. We have been
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at Staudnwirt Gasthof since 1983.
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