Thanks, I'll have a look at the spark. The £700 option is a little bit out of budget...

Question mainly for the rope access folks around here, or those familiar with rope access equipment. I have been a happy user of a Petzl Rig for 5 years or so now, and am very happy with it's function (auto locking, ability to belay and haul with it). The only gripe is the pin inside which...

As some of you may know I've been logging temperature in Mistral since 2016. I went last week to download my loggers, but I was unable to find one of them. It was located in the small chamber at the end of the entrance crawl, before you drop down into the last bit of crawl through to The Hobbit...

Found a lonely knee pad in Nettle Pot a few weeks ago. If anyone has lost one let me know and we can reunite it with its partner.

Hi, we can do this, heading down to the Mendips next weekend via South Wales this weekend, so as long as you can pass it over before Friday we can get it there :)

A reminder that the BCRA symposium and field meeting to Alderley Edge are on 8th and 9th October. More details can be found at https://forums.british-caving.org.uk/viewtopic.php?t=1637 the Symposium programme can also be found below. If you would like to attend please register via the google...

BCRA Cave Science Symposium 2022, hosted jointly with the Manchester Geological Association Symposium - Saturday 8th October, 2022 Field-trip - Sunday 9th October, 2022 Department of Earth and Environmental Science, University of Manchester SECOND CIRCULAR The British Cave Research...

Twas the end of the exped, when all through the hut Not a creature was stirring, except for *that* mouse. The ropes were all hung down in Pigpen with care; Ready for next year when the cavers are there. The cavers are nestled back home in their beds, While visions of pitches dance in their heads.

The last day of the exped, and we managed to squeeze in one last day of caving. We decided to revisit a cave we found earlier in the week, when we didn't have enough gear with us to explore - Ectoplasm cave. So, we hefted our rucksacks full of gear up the hill, it was a bit of slog, but the...

We're now at the mid-point of the expedition and people are starting to think about having a shower and washing their clothes... We've had some highs and lows so far. We had a spell of rainy weather which delayed plans, but 5 people have been 600m down in camp since Sunday/Monday pushing some...

Can anyone help- I'm trying to get our exped ropes from Cardiff (or somewhere near - could probably get them to Bristol for example) to somewhere in the North - ideally the Dales, Huddersfield, Sheffield or Nottingham areas, but could potentially pick up from other locations. Would need to...

Thanks Mike, that's a good one, thought actually one I haven't seen before. The one I was thinking of is a caving version and someone has forgotten their wellies - anyone good at sleuthing things out that can find it?

I went to introduce some newer caving friends to this now slightly vintage piece of caving humour and now I can no longer find it. Does anyone know if it still exists somewhere?

I do... but this is what I wear in the colder dry caves and is the limit of what I can wear and still move, hence why I can't wear more.

I thought about this, but a. good ones are expensive, b. especially if you want them to be OK in the presence of water, and c. probably wouldn't be durable enough for caving. But maybe one day this will be an option.