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    Tickets for Northern Explorers forum 2023 go on sale on 10th March

    Would love to come, but logistics - the fact we now live so far north, geriatricity and debility- make it I fear a bridge too far. Frustrating when at least two of the talks deal with holes we dug at half a century ago, which have now yielded spectacular finds (Draughting Hole and the NYM...
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    Breakthrough in Fairy Holes (Weardale)

    Excellent news, avidly followed from my distant armchair. Grateful that I did manage one trip half way into Fairy..... Hope you emerge from the wet sink at Wolfcleugh, on the west of the stream, which I don't think anyone has really had a go at. It looked grim but possible for the small and...
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    Hareshaw linn. Cave?

    Went in this a few years ago before it was gated. It is an old mine (maybe for iron ore). Got in 60m or so and it got very low and wet, but memory a bit hazy
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    I want to be a Hermit

    A trip to Lacy Caves are situated on the east bank of the River Eden,  an easy mile or so of walk south from Dunraven Bridge, where the Glassonby to Kirkoswald road come close to the river. It is all a bit like a municipal park ? boards with non-slip wire mesh crossing boggy bits, substantial...
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