Recent content by pwhole

I got my email in my regular mailbox OK, and I've got pretty robust spam filtering :)

The top half of Lathkill Dale is managed by Natural England as a nature reserve, and then I believe it becomes part of the Melbourne estate near Over Haddon - I don't have the boundaries handy. But NE's team are very overstretched, and I doubt would have the authority to walk around kicking...

You know where we are too - it's not like ladders are flying out every weekend ;)

Fantastic shots mate ;)

I'm not on Facebook, perish the thought, but I haven't had chance to do much underground photography lately, other than phone recording of projects, and they're either not interesting enough to publish, or too interesting! But here's a little montage of three from the new mine.

I spend tons of time outdoors, but nothing. Spent Thursday wading through bracken in the Peak District and I've been out in sheep fields all day today. When I was a kid our family stayed in a caravan in Fife, which was infested with fleas, and everyone was covered in bites - except me. I think...

Another draughting hole opened, and another part of the big boulder choke to add to the list ;)

I've been reliably informed by John Barnatt that the scaffold rig at the top of the 125' pitch in Odin Mine was already in-situ on his first visit as a teenager in 1972. It's been used quite a bit recently as a top belay and proved to be solid, but there are plans for DCA (me) to resin-bolt this...

I've never even seen a tick in my life, never mind been bitten by one - unless I taste or smell funny, but nobody's ever mentioned that before.

To be honest, if we were below five or six floors, I did sometimes climb up the rope, as it was still less energy than climbing all the way to the top and abseiling back down. I tied the bucket to the end of the rope and just hauled it up on a jammer and pulley.

A few years ago I worked on a rope-access job painting a brand-new multi-storey car park lift shaft in Liverpool. The lifts weren't yet installed, and so we had to climb fifteen floors up the stairs, at least four times a day, for five weeks, carrying large buckets of very heavy mineral paint up...

Given where we'll need next some entrance pipe, I think we'll stick with plastic ;)

Having almost got stuck in a similar fashion yesterday, I can sympathise :ROFLMAO:

At last - the grid ref is pretty much bang-on, you just have to climb the slope to see anything. Nodrog was there, and is now happy ;) https://peakdistrictcaving.info/home/the-caves/magnesian/cadeby-pot

I'm sorry, I don't take the Sunday Times - or GB News for that matter :rolleyes: