The boat across the flooded chamber just before you enter Rhosydd is the problem. It has hung up, or sunk in the past. See a previous thread. There have been modifications to improve the reliability, but not something I'd be willing to trust being there and working, without an option to turn...

This is why third part insurance is so important for unincorporated clubs. In the even of a claim, then the lawyers will go for the richest people in the club and try and prove negligence on the part of the club, its officers and members to collect from those with the most assets. Many clubs...

Peak Caving Club have added some extra stainless thru bolts to protect a couple of exposed traverses in Snake Mine. Useful additions to the options for rigging here. The two Snake Mine topos have been updated to reflect the changes. One is over the top of the 140' shaft, for those heading...

One of the things that the insurance covers is liability insurance for clubs. For a non-incorporated club, which a majority are, being sued could mean financial ruin for officers and members. Say, on a club trip, some one gets a life changing injury, needing round the clock care and the club is...

The obvious question. Are they jackdaws?

Still using a steel D maillon for the harness. I have several unused in the cupboard, so probably enough to see me to caving retirement. Not averse to the various locking krab style ones. Every one I know who has switched has not gone back. I've never had problems with D maillons distorting...

Advanced level.

Peakdistrictcaving.info shows no site with "craig" as part of the name. Are you sure this is in the Peak District?

I've thought that Belper sounds like a particularly unpleasant intestinal disorder in cattle, which given the moderate rumbling sound heard there, may actually be the case. Stand back, that cows got a bad case of Belper!

Perhaps it was Baldrick in that day making the coffee.

There still is. http://www.customduo.co.uk/Pitlamp-modules-1/ Maybe not drop in, but modifiable. Mentions Speleotechnics in the same paragraph as Oldham, so it implies they will fit.

By Georges Méliès - Roger-Viollet, Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=3741590

They can turn the lights off for a lunar eclipse.

With the exception of lighting, it has been marginal gains with most caving equipment since the late '80's. In some cases, it has gone backwards. For example, PVC oversuits being much harder to get. The over/undersuit + wellies + srt combination was pretty well set over the course of that decade.

The safety section of the guide has been amended to replace a dead link and make it a bit clearer who to get in touch with regarding dodgy belays, artificial, or natural. Speaking of natural belays, the symbol used for tree belays has been replaced with a creative commons one that looks more...

Sid Perou's film about this rescue here: https://caving-library.org.uk/collections/sid-perou-film-40.php

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Then use the Braemoor French caving glossary to translate the caving specific words in to the appropriate English ones. https://braemoor.co.uk/crolles/vocab.shtml

Generally yes. Numbers on trips vary from two, or three to low teens, with an average of five, or six. Members and guests. This is out of a membership of over 40, with maybe a dozen most regularly active. Having a reasonable idea of numbers in the run up, we can alter plans. Perhaps scaling back...

CreweCPC plan a day trip, or weekend, roughly every other weekend. Done in advance by the meets secretary, up to a year ahead. We disorganise things by email list. Currently use groups.io, who imported all our users and data from the Yahoo group we had been using since 2003 when they shut down...