SamT said:
Anyone got any top tips/advice/cool links/ etc.
getting excited :hyper:
Have a look at http://www.caving.tk
During the OCC trip there a couple of years ago we took to leaving some gear in tackle bags at the foot of the surface entrance pitch having walked to the entrance in normal clothes then changing into caving gear at the entrance.
Most were paranoid (me included!) and shoved our bags out of sight in rifts or whatever (after all the cave may be well known but is off the beaten track and an hour or so from the nearest car parking at La Moliere!). One guy left his bag in view and it disappeared with his clothes!
I found the traverse line tied to a tree had been tampered with and some bent tent pegs at the foot of the pitch. Some bastard had fished his bag out using our traverse line with bent tent pegs! :evil:
... and hadn't even bothered to tie it back properly (the figure of eight knot had been unthreaded and the loop was just shoved back into the hanger - some unobsevant cavers had already descended the pitch before me using the traverse line for safety! :shock:
We stayed at a Gite on the road up to La Moliere on a bend near the end of the road (Les Feyneys (I think that's how it is spelled?)) - on a previous trip with the WSG in 1990 I camped at La Moliere but that is no longer allowed.