Recent content by andrewmcleod

Fortunately I don't think you have to receive an email now to vote anyway, since you get your ballot ID from the JustGo system now? Just needs the link to the voting system which is https://vote.british-caving.org.uk/ and to get your ballot ID from https://britishcaving.justgo.com under 'MEMBER...

Well, actually that is exactly the purpose of a spam box - something you can sift through to find an email erroneously marked as spam. Otherwise, you wouldn't need a spam box at all. Many spam emails (or real emails with bad SPF/DKIM etc.) won't even end up in your spam box of course as they...

So: firstly, anything taken underground will eventually be destroyed. If you want your underground survey/description sheets to be decently robust, you need your own printer and laminator (and guillotine). You can get 125 micron laminating sheets (slightly thicker/better than 80 micron ones) by...

Stake Pot, Easegill The in-situ rope here is damaged at the Fall Pot end (on the first drop). It's hard to assess given that it is more mud than nylon now, but I'd assume it is cored.

Not only has dowsing been repeatedly shown not to work under any rigorous experimental conditions, we also have a good understanding of the psychological factors that both create the impression of dowsing (the ideomotor phenomenon) and the build belief in the results (confirmation bias etc.) :)

I don't know the reason the SMCC incorporated (although I would guess it's the same reason as the BEC) but the other three at least have significant non-caving-related potential liabilities which would fall outside of BCA insurance. The MCG is (I think based on brief googling) a CIO (i.e...

Typical aluminium alloys or pure aluminium has good corrosion resistance, but the high strength alloy used in carabiners has copper added which significantly reduces their corrosion resistance.

Tame by modern standards...

Is there a regional split possibly? I would imagine evening digs are often more practical in the Mendips then many in Yorkshire with longer walk-ins (at least considering surface/shallow digs)

Felt like more than 8mm in Ingleton yesterday - pretty much wet all day

I think I mostly manage to avoid the cold these days... although in a recent trip down White Scar, my nice sleeveless 5mm wetsuit (with a cheaper wetsuit top) was much less warm than I was expecting with a lot of flushing coming through from the 'rear' region... after coming out of the cave, I...

Pretty sure that solar watch will still have a (rechargeable) battery (or a super-capacitor or similar) and a quartz oscillator. Not that any of that is a bad thing (although I think I did eventually need to replace the battery in an old solar watch I used to have as I presume it wore out - this...

At least some Mendips cavers should, I imagine, be coming to RESCON this weekend?

Most (all?) of the major supermarkets do a cheap (50-60p) 30-odd gram vegan chocolate bar (usually in white or chocolate varieties) in the free-from section. A couple of these are my normal cave snack now (for normal trips). Probably not the best from a nutritional or sports performance point of...

Does that include the two anchors in the outcrop of rock in the field on the other side of the fence at the top? (the ones you'd never notice unless someone tells you they are there, but I assumed were better than the rusting metal stake at the top of the path) Are there any plans to add CNCC...