CUCC Expedition Handbook - Gear Tape

Gear tape colours for Expo 2018

Selected from CUCC Gear Tape for just those on expo with non-CUCC invitees added.

Colour - 1 Name Expo?
Purple EXPO communal property 2018
Purple George Breley (SUSS) 2018
none Typhon King (ULSA) 2018
Grey duct tape Ryan Boultbee (NUCC) 2018
Green Rachel Turnbull (ULSA) 2018
Fairies pattern Adelaide de Diesbach (SUSS) 2018
Galaxy pattern Michael Holliday (SUSS) 2018
Turquoise Rachel Turnbull (ULSA) 2018
White Philip Sargent 2019
Earth Frank Tully 2018
Yellow toughtags Christopher Holt 2018
Purple toughtags Cat Henry 2018
Red toughtags Adam Henry 2018

Colour - 2 Name Expo?
***, ? Jim Blackford (UBSS) 2018
***, ? Lisa Smith (UBSS) 2018
***, ? Dickon Hood (UBSS) 2018
***, ? Olly Hall (SUSS) 2018
***, ? Todd Rye (MUSC) 2018
***, ? Philip Withnall 2018
Grey, Green Manfred Wuits (Vienna) 2018
Grey, Black Adam Aldridge (ULSA) 2018
Black, Yellow Anthony Day 2018
Black, Yellow Nadia Raeburn-Cherradi (ULSA) 2018
Black, Green Jon Arne Toft 2018
Black, Red Luke Stangroom (ULSA) 2018
Black, Blue Chris Densham 2018
Brown, Blue Ruairidh Macleod 2018
Brown, Green Wookey 2018
Purple, Yellow Mark Shinwell 2018
Purple, Blue Lydia-Clare Leather (NUCC) 2018
White, Red Mike Butcher (ULSA) 2018
White, Red Philip Sargent 2019
White, Red Michael Sargent 2019
White, Blue Haydon Saunders 2018
Blue, Yellow Becka Lawson 2018
Blue, Earth Natalie (from Expo2008) 2018
Orange, Earth Ryan Boultbee (NUCC) 2018

Colour - 3 Name Expo?
Earth, Blue, Earth earth is thin Max Weiser (ULSA) 2018
Blue, White, Blue White is thin Radost Waszkiewicz 2019
Black, White, Black Reuben Harding 2019
Black, Red, Black Red is thin Paul Fox 2018
Yellow, Black, Yellow Tom Crossley 2019
Green, Red, Green Alex Sterling (NUCC) 2018
Red, Green, Red Alex Sterling (NUCC) 2018
Yellow, Blue, Green Jacob Puhalo-Smith (NUCC) 2018

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 gear tape (current gear tape page offline, so this is the legacy page).

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 especially your phone, phone cable, charger, charger-cable, laptop, mouse, mug/plate/cutlery - essentially anything you want to be reasonably sure to get back.