This article from the BBC is pretty good without any of the sensationalism that we've seen in recent articles in Wales.
The Old Ruminator said:70,000 on instructor lead courses sounds rather a lot.
The Old Ruminator said:70,000 on instructor lead courses sounds rather a lot.
2xw said:The Old Ruminator said:70,000 on instructor lead courses sounds rather a lot.
Good if true. If 5 instructors from each caving area took 10 people a day you'd reach 70k in a year.
Not hard to imagine when you see the parking near longchurn some days!
Do you reckon only 140 a week Chris? Especially if you include scouts, outdoor centres and places like GoBelow
mikem said:That seems to be a case of the journalist trying to sensationalise, whilst the cavers are playing it down.
Mike
Pitlamp said:The article quotes Ari Cooper Davies, who is a regular contributor here. I'd be interested to learn if you were directly interviewed or whether they've just found stuff you've written online and quoted from that.
aricooperdavis said:I feel that the general message reflects how I feel pretty well anyway.
I've noticed that the BBC has a section on their website where it introduces a huge range of sports and how to get involved in them (I'll find a link in a sec EDIT: www.bbc.co.uk/sport/get-inspired/25416779 ), but caving isn't on there. Perhaps we can get enough people emailing to ask for it to be added to make it happen?