Hidden Earth 2011
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Peter Burgess
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I saw your pics, Amy. But the cartoon prize went to one captioned "where cavers go in the winter" or something like that, showing a whole bunch of cavers curled up in a burrow like hibernating dormice.
kay
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I saw your cartoons and photos too. The cartoons look much nicer in the flesh than on ukc!
The photo salon is always of really high standard, with a big entry from world class photographers. It's very difficult to get even a merit. But it was interesting to see your pics, which were all displayed in a group and looked good together, and the chap talking about the photos in the final presentation made a special plea for everyone to enter photos, even if you think you have no hope of a prize, because of the enjoyment that everyone gets from looking at them.
The photo salon is always of really high standard, with a big entry from world class photographers. It's very difficult to get even a merit. But it was interesting to see your pics, which were all displayed in a group and looked good together, and the chap talking about the photos in the final presentation made a special plea for everyone to enter photos, even if you think you have no hope of a prize, because of the enjoyment that everyone gets from looking at them.
ogof addict
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Thanks to everyone involved in organising HE for making it a great weekend, and to everyone who went for generally being lovely people
thanks in particular to the person who found my boot :hug: it was hidden by Potholer :-[
thanks in particular to the person who found my boot :hug: it was hidden by Potholer :-[
Yes, it is the same here in the US. Someone suggested I should have entered the newcomer category and said I would have likely "cleaned up" there. But I was told I couldn't enter that not being a resident of the "Brit Isles" so therefore I am not a "Brit Isles Newcomer". I didn't see that in the rules anywhere but I didn't want to cause trouble so I stuck to the normal classes. Apparently I screwed up my entry somehow nonetheless so thanks to whoever helped fix that (I have no clue what I did wrong!).kay said:
SO WHERE ARE THE PICTURES??!?!!??!
Hat Stand called me from skype on his phone so I got to see an arial view (the Wessex display bottom of the image, where the speleoolympics were on the right...I think the BPC was top left, guessing he was up on some balcony thing!) so I kinda got to see it =) It made my day nonetheless to "be there" if only for about 10 minutes.
Oh, I want the funny stories too! Must be funny stories!
Wolfart
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Had the great pleasure of helping to display your work Amy, they were great,keep them coming 
.Perhaps next year you may be able to come with some more of them, you will have a great time,start saving your pennies( whoops :-[ nearly had a typo error there i'll leave you to work that out)
.Perhaps next year you may be able to come with some more of them, you will have a great time,start saving your pennies( whoops :-[ nearly had a typo error there i'll leave you to work that out)Peter Burgess
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Of all the stuff on display, I think the cave art presentations are for me becoming better and better each year. There was some really excellent work this year. I wish I had an artistic skill put to good effect!
Once again Hidden Earth was a superb event with barely a glitch across the whole weekend.
I'd just like to echo the thanks given above to Les, Wendy, the whole of the organising team, and of course the lecturers as well. I can only begin to imagine how much effort you all put in so that I can turn up, have a great weekend and go home at the end leaving (no doubt) a huge amount of clearing up to the very same people who slaved away setting it all up in the first place.
Many, many thanks.
I'd just like to echo the thanks given above to Les, Wendy, the whole of the organising team, and of course the lecturers as well. I can only begin to imagine how much effort you all put in so that I can turn up, have a great weekend and go home at the end leaving (no doubt) a huge amount of clearing up to the very same people who slaved away setting it all up in the first place.
Many, many thanks.
kay
Well-known member
Amy said:
It's an artificial "cave" - in teams of two you have to take two full tackle sacks through the system (and, I think, back again). There's a square see-through upward sloping crawl ending in a "duck" under a bar in a ball-pit, a bit further there's a sort of upward u-tube - go in it floor level, bend your body over a barrier at about chest height and under another at about ankle height which is only about two feet horizontally from where you came in, there's a very slippery tube sloping up at about 45 degrees, too long for normal human beings, so the first one through has to be pushed and then turn round and pull their partner ...
(The ferret, of course, being the only one of his species at the conference, ran the course without a partner)
Then of course there's the BCA cave, which is much more realistic, and very tight and contorted.
And of course ladder races, and prussiking races, and an SRT "assault course", all with prizes donated by various caving related companies.
But it'll all be there next year. Think of it as giving yourself an extra 12 months to raise the money.
Oceanrower
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I have some photos of aforesaid ferret in the spelio-olympics. Unfortunately I haven't a clue how to post them on here. Fastest time of the day was 1m 51sec. Fastest time for a man with a ferret was 6m 37sec. (Though we did let him off the tackle bags - didn't have one small enough for the ferret to carry.)
barrabus
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For information on how to post pictures on this forum click this link....Oceanrower said:
http://ukcaving.com/board/index.php?topic=7559.msg100149#msg100149
ogof addict
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Amy, this fantastic work by Rob Eavis was shown at HE, and will give you some idea of the level excellence of the photographers we have who display work at HE. i found the link on the Little Monkey website
ShAFF 2011 Arcteryx Adventure Shot Entry - Rob Eavis
ShAFF 2011 Arcteryx Adventure Shot Entry - Rob Eavis
