Cave naming

[AndyF]

.. For instance, which of these would you prefer to visit?:

Fools Paradise
Highway to Hell
Road to Certain Death

Oh not, I've tunneled my way into an AC/DC concert....  8)




HEHE nearly a hero...

 

[Les W]

We named a passage in Draenen - CBYB passage. You'll never guess :tease:

 

[Brains]

Cadbury Crawl sounds almost inviting, unlike Colostomy Crawl...

 

[Cookie]

I think it was Xitu (go on,correct me someone) as well where there are three successive pitches called Gesellschaft, DeutscheGramophonGesellschaft and ThompsonsGesellschaft. So forward planning probably a good idea too.

Not having benefited from an education at Oxford, that is way beyond me. Can you explain? 

They are wot we educated types call PUNS, Cookie.

So you don't know either. 

 

[danthecavingman]

Egnaro Aven was named by Brian Hague I believe, Pitlamp may be able to shed some light. Apparently Brian and John Cordingley(?) were in Speedwell having come through from Treasury. Brian was lying on his back eating an Orange whilst looking up the aven and musing "I wonder where that goes?" Orange backwards is Egnaro and the rest as they say is history.......

Dan.

 

[Robert Scott]

We named a passage in Draenen - CBYB passage. You'll never guess :tease:

Cracking, Bentley's Yorkshire Beers

 

[Les W]

We named a passage in Draenen - CBYB passage. You'll never guess :tease:

Cracking, Bentley's Yorkshire Beers

Nice, but no cigar.

 

[Sid Weighells Dog]

Caught By Your Balls? :blink:

 

[AndyF]

We named a passage in Draenen - CBYB passage. You'll never guess :tease:

i thought that was just a welsh word for something

 

[Les W]

It was actually named at the time of it's discovery when after several hours of stomping down virgin passage we had decided to turn back for the third time.
One member of the group dropped down a hole in the floor and announced it was going, we shouted "Come Back You Bast*rd" hence the name.

 

[Huge]

Using something relevant to the trip or the build up to the trip, is a popular source of cave passage/chamber/pitch etc. names.

I named a passage in Draenen Fall Out, as I fell out of it! There were three people below 'spotting' me, saying things like 'It's OK, if you fall we'll catch you'. When I did fall they scattered and I landed on my bum in 6" of water in the main streamway.

I named another passage Headache because the guy I was exploring it with had a migraine, which cut the trip short.

We named a passage in Draenen - CBYB passage. You'll never guess :tease:

I assume this is in the Wyvern Series Les. I'm trying to put together a short history of exploration of Draenen for the wiki and haven't got much info on the Wyvern Series. All I've got is the date of the discovery of Wyvern Hall itself and the date of dropping The Didgeredoo pitch into Interesting Times. There's a lot of passage between the two and I could do with the date that the dig out of the chamber at the end of the inlet passage off Wyvern Hall, that led into the Wyvern main drag, went. I also assume that Come Back You B**st**d was found on this trip? Any other info welcome too!

 

[Mark]

One of Ben Benthams was a classic he named a filthy chamber he found "Gripsheets Tomb"

(anagram of pete smiths gob)

Which some might think quite apt?

 

[Walrus]

So... all I need to do now is actually go somewhere and find somthing new... how hard can it be?  :

 

[AndyF]

So... all I need to do now is actually go somewhere and find somthing new... how hard can it be?  :

HEHE tell me in ten years time....or go on an expedition

 

[wormster]

So... all I need to do now is actually go somewhere and find somthing new... how hard can it be?  :

HEHE tell me in ten years time....or go on an expedition

Try South America, loads to be found in the Andes

 

[SamT]

I always love and admire the thought that goes into naming bits of cave, (and rockclimbs moreso). There can be so many quirky variants that you either "had to be there" or "in the know" to understand. As you read around various areas or caves and get into thier history. all the names take on new relevancy. Its awesome.

Namraed sump was named by Tony Revell after Bob Dearman. Tony always goaded bob telling him that "When you croak it - I'll change it back.".

Ah well - looks like it will always be Namraed. 

Later that year - we (well bob actually insisted we) named the connection dug into the Full Moon series the Llever connection. Seemed appropriate.

 

[gus horsley]

I always love and admire the thought that goes into naming bits of cave, (and rockclimbs moreso).

Such as Mohammed The Mad Monk Of Mountwood Home For Mental Misfits?  Now sadly shortened to just "Mohammed".

 

[mrodoc]

Rob Harper had considerable expertise in giving places totally random names eg Attila the Hun's Sardine Cannery in Wookey 20.  Edmund's Chamber is named after Colin Edmunds who originally found it.  in the same place Traverse of the Vet was named after Rob and the 50 m of passage we found I called Beyond the Thunderdome referring the film of that name and the noise made by lobbing rocks 25 metres into the sump pool as we cleared the traverse.

 

[Duncan Price]

Rob Harper had considerable expertise in giving places totally random names eg Attila the Hun's Sardine Cannery in Wookey 20.  Edmund's Chamber is named after Colin Edmunds who originally found it.  in the same place Traverse of the Vet was named after Rob and the 50 m of passage we found I called Beyond the Thunderdome referring the film of that name and the noise made by lobbing rocks 25 metres into the sump pool as we cleared the traverse.

Attila the Hun's Sardine Cannery - now dug through at the end back into the main drag in 20 - a "collector's piece" to use a phrase.

Beyond the Thunderdome - also linked into Wookey 20 - 12 months ago.

 

[The Old Ruminator]

Its nice to have a theme running that corresponds to something well known and relating in time .

Hence at the 200th anniv of Dicken's birth in Reservoir Hole-

The Frozen Deep, Hard Times, Great Expectations all of which describe the part of the cave as well.
Skyfall was the same . Same year the film came out and rocks kept falling . One of which broke my arm.

Pickwick Passage was also used though I never got to use Mugby Junction both Dickens. ( My copyright ! ) The Old Curiosity Shop was already named elsewhere.

WISh You Were Here was a clever double meaning to incorporate Willie Stanton's initials by Peter Glanvill.

Resurrection, Ascension , and Heavens's Landing  carried on Willies Easter theme from Golgotha. Resurrection also said something about us being rather old and returning to digging.

I made up many names over the years at Fairy Cave Quarry including Withyhill and Hillwithy which signifies parts of the cave between Withybrook and Hilliers. Shatter Cave was not one of mine and I never liked it.

I wonder if purely personal names are really acceptable. I found Jonathan's Chamber the same month he was one year old. Well it's there now though I dont like WL Cave being the initials of the people that cleared the quarry debris from the entrance.