Moorhouse is back!

Iain Barker

Member
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Everybody remember this guy? He is leading trips of walkers down Giants and posting on the Sheffield forum as "Lohtse". Be ready!



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zippy

Member
scary  :eek:

And for the record, the "ZippyDeDoDah" that appears on the Sheffield forum is most definitely NOT me!!!

Z!
 

freefall

New member
He's not the only one to be wary about when doing Garlands.  I had a recent encounter with a CIC who initially seemed to know what he was doing, but then turned out to be a complete liability.

On the way down he criticized our rigging saying that one of our crabs was upside down (granted it was) and then proceeded to try to sell a CIC course to me.. So we set off on the round trip.

Getting back to Garlands we found that our only SRT kit had been taken.  This is strange.. but there are loads of people so we'll ask one of them about it.. We got the reply "oh yeah, we took it up. We'll send it back down when we're done." Erm.. That's quite strange. Bemused, we stood there for a further 15 minutes waiting for their group to finish faffing and get to the top.  There was A LOT of faff.  This ranged from tangling ropes to completely de-rigging our ladder.  Handy.

Eventually they decided to give us our ladder back, allowing us to get out of the cave, but in doing so rigged it in a different way to the way we had it.



What is the general consensus of this?  I don't like the idea that I can go on a trip and some apparent CIC can start messing around with my stuff.  I wouldn't touch someone else's rigging, and if I had to move their ladder to make it easier for me then I would put it back EXACTLY how they left it.

The CIC(s) in question also sent an email to the club criticizing our rigging etc, but not only that, he sent it to the health and safety guy at our student's union!  EVERYONE knows that university clubs are in jeopardy of being closed down, so why do that. That is completely below the belt.

More amusingly though, one of the members of our group was an IRATA level 3 with a LOT of experience caving, and I told the CIC this at the time.  Though apparently formal rope qualifications and experience are nothing compared to the knowledge and importance of the CIC.

I also found out in the car park later that they had de-rigged someone else's ladder too and not replaced it.  I find this behaviour completely inappropriate for a 'normal' caver, let alone a CIC.  It seems that every time I encounter them they make mistakes and are incredible slow, yes still have the audacity to criticize others.

Rant over.
 

underground

Active member
Sounds like CIC is also an acronym for 'complete and utter ar5ehloe' or 'criminially idiotic c*nt' in this case.

Can you name and shame this fool?
 

freefall

New member
I don't know names, but don't really want to start stirring anything now anyway as it as happened and nothing can be done about it.

I just think that if you want to criticize people then you tell them face to face and don't go straight to the top and risk club closure. Lame.

Anyway, i've heard about this Moorhouse chap though I don't know what he looks like.  Also, sounds like he's been watching way too much Thunderbirds..
 

underground

Active member
freefall said:
I don't know names, but don't really want to start stirring anything now anyway as it as happened and nothing can be done about it.
Maybe it has, but I'd rather it didn't happen to me if I met the same person underground.[/quote]
I just think that if you want to criticize people then you tell them face to face and don't go straight to the top and risk club closure. Lame.
Particularly when the guy is obviously not above criticism by a long shot. Someone with a piece of paper to bolster their over inflated ego by the sounds of it.

 

Cave_Troll

Active member
most CICs are friendly chaps / chapesses and would offer advice like "I see you've done XXX, had you considered YYY" rather than criticise your rigging, try to sell you a course and then complain about you to the SU. maybe he's after the job of training you once he's made them think you're unsafe?


on the Subject of Mr Moorhouse, i see this character has
+ signed one of his posts "andrew"
+ taken a group of sheffield walkers down Giants
+ has an avatar photo in desert combats like an ex member of the SAS
+ when asked "whats in your rucksack" replied "full MRT kit"

- he did have to cancel an overnight walk he was organising due to "being on duty". We have no details yet of what that "duty" is. If it was either as mountain rescue or the counter terrorism branch of the SAS i'd say its more evidence that this is indeed Mr Moorhouse

so yes it does look like the meds might have worn off
 

Bushman

New member
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Wow, I'm convinced! :eek:
Amazing what you can do on a computer these days!
 
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