While rigging EDS for a Flowerpot through-trip today, I found a ~4m section of electron ladder strewn a few metres from the top of the shaft. The ladder isn't long enough to get down the shaft, but the cuts on the cable look quite clean (I.E. it doesn't look like it's frayed and snapped, then...

YouTube trailer here I saw this last night at the Showroom in Sheffield. It's currently showing there at 20:45 every evening this week and I recommend anyone local goes to see it, I imagine it will do the rounds at independent cinemas across the UK as well. There is no dialogue, only...

Before I do a cursory Google search and end up ordering something completely unsuitable from China, does anyone have any suggestions for power banks with USB charging ports that utilise 1 or more 18650 batteries that can be replaced? I'm thinking about using one to charge PDAs/phones on long...

I was in Winnat's Head on Friday night, and we noticed (it's hard not to notice) a significant boulder moving in the final choke below Fox Chamber, before the sump chamber (the choke with a handline in and the bold step onto a ledge, not The Slot). The boulder is well worn on one side so has...

Does anyone have any info on Redhurst Swallet? I've read the SSSI audit and CotPD entry which piqued my interest in the cave, but it doesn't seem very often visited due to its floody nature. I'd quite like to take a trip to Pink Chamber towards the end of summer if the weather permits, does...

Evening all, big news in Stoney Middleton is that a long overdue de-silting is taking place in the village. The local flood management group have been trying to get it done for years since the dam broke in 2007. The council removed debris from the stream but never did a desilting which has led...

If anyone is down Nettle at some point in the future, could you keep an eye out for the screw cap off the back of my Zebralight backup (pictured below) - I only noticed its absence on the way back to the car. There should be a rechargeable AA battery somewhere near it which might be easier to...

I've been keen to track down a copy; digital or otherwise, of the Serbian film "Speleonaut" adapted from Milutin Veljkovi?'s book "Under The Stone Sky" about his record breaking time spent underground. The film is just over a year old, and is in Serbian with English subtitles, does the...

I've bought a Pony cylinder from Gravesend but due to postage restrictions I cannot get it sent to me in Sheffield. If it could find its way to the SWCC by the 9th November I'd be able to collect it as I'm down there then. Alternatively to the TSG or even to my home in Sheffield would be...

Has anyone got any info/advice in nipping down the ButterTubs? Is this something that's worth doing, or usually done? Fancied something a bit different and I've always been keen to take a look down there.

Is there still pre-rigged rope in Peterson's Pot? I went down there a few months ago and it was all pre-rigged into Hall Of The Mountain King after roly poly passage (I know there's rigging in the entrance to do) I'm just checking if it's still there as I'm planning a morning trip down there...

Over the next few weeks visitors to P8 may notice a lot of old digging crap and a fair few green dig trays in strategic points in P8, this is part of a project SUSS is doing to remove all of Keith "Ben" Bentham's old broken digging kit out of his dig. If all goes to plan it will only occupy Mud...

The "Great P8 Cleanup" consists of shifting all the crap that can be found in Keith "Ben" Bentham's old dig out of P8. Preliminary work last Summer consisted of collecting all the old digging kit into one big pile and filling up as many old dig trays as we could in preparation for taking it all...

This is the second of the memorials sent to me by Brian Thomas. KEITH ALBERT DENNIS - in Memoriam. What a character!  As thin as a rake, as small as a slight simpleton.  He came up to Sheffield in September 1963 wearing clothes that were even ahead of Carnaby Street.  Keith was wrapped in a...

DR. ROBERT WILLIAM SMITH.        IN MEMORIAM. This memorial is presented in three sections. As the Life Members Secretary of Sheffield University Speleological Society I am in frequent contact with our older alumni members, I was recently contacted by Brian Thomas and asked to post a memorial...

This isn't strictly a digging or exploration trip but I figured a "cleanup" trip fits in this category more-so than the 'Sporting' section. A lot of SUSS Members were initially keen to help me in my endeavour to clean up Nettle Pot ? at one point we had about 8-10 people wanting to come and...

This is my entry for SUSS. It details a now infamous trip down P8, possibly my favourite cave in Derbyshire - though not my favourite trip as you will discover. It's written in the style of Geoffrey Chaucer's Canterbury Tales, just to spice things up. Enjoy: When, on Friday, Rostam calls, you...

http://www.swaygogear.com/the-last-swaygo-packs/ Sadly, Swaygo has had to stop producing their entire range of packs. Here is the announcement they have made: "The Last Swaygo Packs Swaygo Gear has lost it's [sic] source for reasonable quantities of pack material. Getting more, seems to be...