Recently there was long thread about the BCA. I can now post possible answers to some of the questions, such as "Why is the BCA still raising membership prices when there is a significant amount still left in its coffers?"
Resurrecting a dead thread - any doubt that this text and image are the product of AI hallucinations?
Gaping Gill is a natural cave in North Yorkshire, England. Yorkshire Vale is all rolling meadows thesaurus by stone walls, pockets of water and castles, abbeys, and villages scattered over the...
I've just come across this site: Dumbphone Finder, via https://www.wired.com/story/dumbphones-reddit-last-good-place/
(scroll down right to the end to select "Rugged")
With regards to rock climbing, I am a member of two mountaineering clubs and through them am covered by the BMC's insurance.
https://www.howdengroup.com/uk-en/british-mountaineering-council/clubs
(I do get a refund for the 2nd club's BMC fee)
A few years ago, a university climbing club went to a wall. A climber fell, his fall wasn't arrested, he fractured a vertebra and is now paraplegic. He sued the belayer for £200,000 and won his case. I understand the claim was paid by the BMC's insurers.
I've just posted over in free recycling an FX2 with LED insert. There's a photo comparing it with a Rude Nora on setting 3. Quite comparable, though more tightly focussed.
Free to a good home (though a donation to a rescue organisation would be appreciated). Lancaster / the BPC Dump / Gaping Gill winch meet or caver post.
Complete Speleotechnics FX2 set in working order. No guarantees about the life left in the battery packs, although swapping them for one or...
The Earby sump pump as used in Ireby Fell might be of interest
https://web.archive.org/web/20220630193337/http://earbypotholeclub.co.uk/?page_id=287
(Does anyone know why the domain is no longer registered?)
https://ukcaving.com/board/index.php?threads/sump-pumping.16765/
The Wessex seem...