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  1. alanw

    Ribblehead to Hawes road closures

    The Ribblehead to Hawes road has long-term closure notices Jul 1 - Dec 1 https://one.network/?tm=GB143504881 (Cowgill is the very long term landslip on the road down to Dent)
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    Ingleton 1940's festival this weekend - 4/5/6 July 2025

    http://www.ingleton40s.co.uk/ The village will be very busy.
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    Horton Webcams

    As part of the improvements at Horton Station, as well as the footbridge, siding for the quarry and café, there are now three webcams. Two are pointing up and down the line, but the third has a good view of Pen-y-Ghent as it slowly pans from South to North-West and back. Webcam no. 3 Railcam...
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    Gaping Gill Winch meet August 2025

    Mention of digging buckets brought to mind that we often have a full bucket on the rope on its way up, one bucket at the bottom being filled and an empty bucket at the top waiting to be swapped with the one coming up. We could shave 1 minute off the 3 minutes round trip time if we had two more...
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    Gaping Gill Winch meet August 2025

    Despite the tickets not yet being on sale, there's already been one scam posting on Facebook offering 4 tickets because "my hubby is on call for work and wasn't able to get it covered".
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    Fairy Cave Quarry combination

    1-2-3-4-5? That's amazing. I've got the same combination on my luggage.
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    Red Arrows

    Flightradar24 tracking of Red Arrows Hawk
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    Tick prevalence in the UK

    https://phys.org/news/2025-04-lyme-disease-bacteria-pheasant-areas.html https://www.fwi.co.uk/news/tick-threat-grows-amid-rising-lyme-disease-cases
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    Red Arrows

    https://rafredarrows.co.uk/red-arrows-formation-route-map/
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    Very silly pics

    Search for "Blackbum, Lancashire"
  11. alanw

    SUSS Swaledale 2025 expedition report

    That grid reference is at the end of the stream at the bottom of this image. The OS 6" map of around 1900 shows "Snowden Gill" a couple of hundred meters to the north. https://maps.nls.uk/geo/explore/side-by-side/#zoom=16.2&lat=54.35547&lon=-2.10854&layers=6&right=LIDAR_DTM_1m
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    Keldheads Cave quarrying threat

    As mentioned in the June CNCC Newsletter (at https://cncc.org.uk/publications/) Tarmac are proposing to expand Wensley Quarry, near Preston-under-Scar. Keldheads Cave extends under the new extension. The BBC have a report. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cz9kpgyg832o As well as local...
  13. alanw

    Win a Rab Firewall Waterproof Jacket - worth £245!!

    Not really an entry, but prompted by Pete Hall's recollections of October 2008, here's a link to a previous discussion of two callouts on Ingleborough and a torrent flowing through the Gaping Gill winch tent in May 2008, whilst there was bright sunshine in the surrounding villages and Pay Sank...
  14. alanw

    A formation in Simpson's Pot

    There's more than one volume, perhaps 3? Plus "Junior Voices" and a Teacher's handbook. Possibly different revisions with different photographs? Or is my mind playing tricks with me? https://openlibrary.org/authors/OL1235604A/Geoffrey_Summerfield?q=voices My eye caught "Go no more a-roving" as...
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    A formation in Simpson's Pot

    There's a copy on archive.org. I looked earlier, and was 99% sure that it was going to be the book being referred to, but couldn't find any image of a speleothem in it. You'll need to login / register for free to view all of it. https://archive.org/details/voices0000unse_l4g6/
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    A question about the gym

    Steve Mould has a video on this subject
  17. alanw

    Friday joke - WARNING - contains swearing.

    Apparently when I was born the song was popular and I had such long hair the nurses nicknamed me Davy Crockett.
  18. alanw

    YWT proposes tree planting in Park Gill

    Park Gill is the stream you walk above to reach Dow Cave A new temperate rainforest in the Yorkshire Dales could prove to be a "vital oasis" for wildlife, people behind the scheme said. Trees would be planted on a 16-hectare (40 acre) site at Park Gill near Kettlewell, to encourage the growth...
  19. alanw

    Stalagmites in Spanish Cave Display Evidence of Extensive Human Modification

    Would this in Slit Pot be heritage? It's almost certainly post 1933, when the BPC started to be formed, and probably a lot more recent.
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