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Can anybody help with the following? My wife and I have just started going to the gym . . .which is pretty boring but it does seem to be having some benefits. Anyway, there's a step machine that rotates towards you and you step up, just as if you were trying to go up a down escalator. The...

We found a black karabiner attached to a bolt on the second cascade in Sunset Hole today.

Yesterday we went to Bull Pot of the Witches to 'dive' the sumps that separate the upstream and downstream sections of the cave and come out from the upstream section via Gour Chamber; given the prolonged dry spell of weather that we are experiencing we were confident that the sumps would have...

Several days ago someone on the forum mentioned some lamps that resembled Fenixes but were about half the price and, as far as they as they could tell, just as good. I've tried to find this post but have failed to do so. I wonder if anyone could point me in the right direction?

I like my short cows tail to be really short, as I find that this helps when crossing a rebelay going down; however, it has the disadvantage that in some situations it is not long enough to reach, say, a traverse line. On such occasions I resort to the somewhat unsatisfactory method of clipping...

I have a small torch (a Fenix HM 50R) that uses 16340 batteries. The battery that came with the torch was rated at 700mAh, and I bought a couple of Nitcore 950-mAh spares for £10–45p each. Anyway, yesterday I came across these little beauties (pictured below) at £5–94p for 4 . . . that's ~3x...

Here's a snap of the Northern Lights as seen from near Kendal as photographed from near Kendal last night (what we actually saw were faint wispy cloud-like structures, in which the colour could just be discerned with the naked eye; this took a ~40-second time exposure to record).

According to the Observer TV programme listings for this week, on Friday / Channel 5 Sue Perkins, on a 'personal mission to experience hidden Thailand' goes up north 'for some terrifying caving' (sic) which, she says, has grown in popularity since 2018's Tham Luang cave rescue.

I seem to recall that when using 'old-fashioned' rechargeable batteries (Ni-Cad, etc) it was recommended that from time to time they should be more or less run down flat and recharged to keep them in good condition. Does the same apply to modern Li-ion batteries?

Fenix HM 70R About 18 months ago I wanted a new headtorch, and thought that the Fenix HM 70R seemed to have a good specification, though I was a bit put off by the fact that it takes a large battery – a 21700 / 5000-mAh thing, as opposed to the more common 18650. I then noticed that Fenix sell...

On a rather desultory bimble round Skirwith Cave we noticed that, not far from the waterfall (on the way out) there is a samll inlet that dribbles down the right-hand wall, with what appears to be a hole at the top (~5 m up) that would be big enough to get into; however, we couldn't climb up to...

Out caving in the evening these last two Wednesdays, we've noticed quite a number of baby/young hedgehogs on the roads (specifically, the road to Bull Pot Farm and the road up Kingsdale), one of which, unfortunately, had recently been killed. Could we suggest that when out on the narrow country...

We found 4 maillon rapides hanging off a bolt at the top of the first pitch of Sell Gill Hole a week or two ago.

So, this has nothing to do with caving, but I get the impression that there are several computer experts out there who might be able to help me. I have an iMac, and when I run Excel it always tries to open in Text Edit, which is not really a problem most of the time, but today I was doing some...

Well, given the dry weather we've been having recently, the sumps between the upstream end of the downstream part of Bull Pot of the Witches and the downstream end of the upstream part of the system have probably been open for some time, now. However, we only got round to popping down there...

I've been thinking of buying one or two cheap flahsguns (Neewer or Yongnuo) but every time I look on the Internet it directs me to Amazon, and I don't want to buy off them; does anybody know where else these flashguns can be obtained?

Miranda and I are planning a weekend in N. Wales in the near future, when we plan to go walking. However, it occurs to me that a ?Plan B? might be in order in the (extremely unlikely!!) event of inclement weather, and we?re wondering about mine exploration as our Plan B. We?ve both done a lot of...

On the subject of leaving caves rigged with ropes, we went to Aquamole Pot today to find that all the pitches were rigged, with a note at the top saying something on the lines of: ?Do not use these ropes, as they may be removed at any moment; this is not a joke?. If you ask me, the sooner they...

I've just come across this somewhat enigmatic article in our local paper ? doess anyone know any details?

I just tuned in the telly to watch the news, and caught the last few minutes of the last night of the proms; while the orchestra and singers were well separated, the audience (?prommers?) seemed to be crammed in like sardines in a tin; another ?super-spreader event?, or ?get real, we gotta live...