Curveball, having found an online AI image generator the obvious opportunity arises to create an AI/cybernetty image-related Wezzit guesstionaire shizzlethingie... So, easiest starter for zero points or praise is....

Interested to know what people are doing now we're properly, yes properly, into the C21st and have (hopefully) moved on from the days of balertwine, hemp, manly beards, and illiteracy. It has been seven years since a caver/IRATA chum first coined the expression (previously unknown to me) that...

Today it's the twentieth, yes twentieth, anniversary of joining this beloved forum. Wowsers. Unfortunately for everyone else I'm still not bored of it.

In May there's the 4th Interplanetary Cave Exploration Conference being hosted in the Canaries and I wonder whether any BCRA cavey types are attending. I'll be on the island for the duration but at Eur400 a ticket I don't think I'll be attending in person but will definitely be keen to read the...

Help required, please! I seem unable, due to being a numpty most likely, in locating on the BCA website the download links for Minutes and Reports. Can a kind soul provide guidance, ta muchly?

Help required, please! I seem unable, due to being a numpty most likely, in locating on the BCA website the download links for Minutes and Reports. Can a kind soul provide guidance, ta muchly?

The death of Nigel Taylor was sadly announced this morning. The Mendip Hills Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty (AONB) has lost a great champion and the ‘ecosystem of people’ in the area is now missing a key connection. The AONB Partnership, staff in the team and all the volunteers who help the...

This autumn is a decade since the spoof expedition docudrama Goatchurch Cavern: The Movie was made by chums Kev Speight, Bruce Blagden and me; it was mostly an exercise in tongue in cheek humour, heavily based on a film by international rock climbing God, Matt Helliker (Moonflower) from which...

I imagine this to be very 50/50 where the line is drawn. No bun fights, please. I'm just interested in peoples' adultish opinions. Do you think it's Righter or Wronger to Enforce the British Caving Association Caving Training scheme on Caving Club Members? After all, the training has been...

People enquire about caving. Get told to join a club. Clubs are shut. So then what?

Posts from https://ukcaving.com/board/index.php?topic=27342.0 split to this new Topic By a huge margin, yes. UN have already forewarned of ~200+m suffering starvation/famines from the economic knock-on effects, the latter still having to kick in with a vengeance in 1st world countries, as...

... so that's the death knell for caving clubs, I guess.

Liking the latest online video update from Spanish caving (FAE region), and their regular posts always remind me of the apparent void we have in this regard in the UK. There's not even a category on UKC for Training or Coaching (for any age group), for instance. https://youtu.be/oMjRCKJOxYU?t=4

Access is generally organised (to secure sites) via Access Control Bodies, whose primary concern is conservation of the cave, then secondarily, facilitating visits for interested parties. IPs may include led groups and some ACBs deny access to these, citing the primary reason above (separate...

Can anyone help define what a Responsible Caver is, please. What would the Bona Fides of an RC be? How would anyone else be able to check on the BFs of an RC? Who would be the judge of the RC status? Would it be ongoing, i.e. subject to updating/ongoing assessment? My guess is that as a...

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This topic has been moved to Insurance. http://ukcaving.com/board/index.php?topic=20219.0

This topic has been moved to National Access Discussions. http://ukcaving.com/board/index.php?topic=20151.0

.... and whereabouts, and how much fun might they be? :)