CUCC Expedition Handbook - Gear Tape

Gear tape colours for Expo 2024

Amelia Oliver          
Aila Taylor
blue
purple
pink
   
Becka Lawson
blue
yellow
     
Charlotte Payne          
Christian Kuhlmann
black
blue
     
Jacob Chuck
earth
red
     
James Waite
earth
pink
     
Jono Lester
green
yellow
green
   
Lucy Hyde
green
       
Marie Donovan
red
       
Martin Green
orange
orange
     
Nat Dalton          
Philip Balister
blue
green
red
   
Philip Sargent
white
red
     
Sarah Parker          
Sieds Lykles
red
white
blue
   
Tom Phillips
White
Black
Red
   
Wassil Janssen
black
white
black
   
Wookey
green
brown
     
Zac Woodford
white
black
white
black
red
Zac Woodford
_____
       
         
EXPO - common property
purple
       

Gear tape colours for Expo 2023

Adam Aldridge
gray
black
OR
Adam Baldock
brown
orange
white
Adam Erskine-Jones
green
   
Alice Kirby
red
green
blue
Amelia Oliver      
Ash Gregg      
Becka Lawson
blue
yellow
 
Ben Chaddock      
Buck Blake
purple
green
orange
Charlie Crossley
yellow
black
yellow
Charlotte Payne      
Chris Densham
black
blue
 
Christian Kuhlmann
black
blue
 
David Botcherby
purple
yellow
 
Ely Brookes-Hefetz      
Emily Mabbett      
Emma Caspers      
Frank Tully
earth
   
Hannah Collings
black
white
 
Harry Kettle
blue
orange
 
Honorata Bogusz
blue
white
blue
James Waite
earth
pink
 
Jana Podbelsek
orange
   
Janis Huns      
Joe Stell
black
white
 
Joel Stobbart
white
yellow
red
Jono Lester
green
yellow
green
Jonty Pine
blue
earth
 
Jonty Pine
purple
earth
 
Kai Trusson
rainbow
yellow
 
Lea Giguere-Richards
green
   
Lizzie Caisley      
Luke Stangroom
black
red
 
Mark Shinwell
purple
yellow
 
Martin Green
orange
orange
 
Merryn Matthews
green
   
Mike Butcher
red
white
 
Nadia Raeburn-Cherradi
brown
   
Nat Dalton      
Nathan Walker
definitely not rainbow
   
Oakem Kyne
red
white
red
Philip Balister
blue
green
red
Philip Sargent
white
red
 
Radost Waszkiewicz
blue
white
blue
Rob Hucknall
orange
   
Rob Watson
brown
   
Ruairidh Macleod
blue
brown
 
Sam Lee
yellow
   
Sarah Parker      
Tom Phillips      
Wassil Janssen
black
white
black
Will Kay
blue
green
 
Zac Woodford
white
black
white
     
EXPO - common property
purple
   

Gear-tape - labelling

It is almost essential (for caving generally, but particularly for Expo) to settle on a particular combination of colours of electrical insulation tape, and label absolutely everything you own with the stuff. The table above shows combinations already taken. For other CUCC colour combinations already in use see CUCC current colours and, if you are really keen on being unique, also check out older cavers' gear colours.


Personal gear-tape bag

Tape everything, not just your caving gear; while one karabiner looks much like another, it's equally true that one karrimat looks much like another. And one pack of cheese looks much like another (un-taped cheese is expo common property - beware). And especially your Decathalon rucksac, phone, phone cable, charger, charger-cable, laptop, mouse, mug/plate/cutlery - essentially anything you want to be reasonably sure to get back.

P.S. It is even worth gear-taping the bag holding your gear-tape:


Geartape lists for CUCC and previous expo years: CUCC, 2019, 2018, 2022.


Zac

Woodford would also like for it to be known that he has tough-tagged some of his equipment and written his initials "Z W somewhere on other pieces.