When I saw what happened to Chunky's jaw after taking a stumble into his neck-mounted Pixa (it went through his face), I now have a sincere aversion to having anything sizeable round my neck while caving.

Don't blame you, nobody should have to look at Bratch's face every time they open the forum 😂

The weather doesn't look prohibitively bad for a Swinsto trip per se, but regardless of the weather it's not an ideal trip for first timers if you're the only experienced member. The split pitch in particular can be tricky, I remember the take-off being a bit awkward when rigged as a...

https://hebdenbridgepicturehouse.co.uk/movies/il-buco As always, Hebden Bridge is the answer! Showing over the next couple of weeks.

My local cinema in my home town still plays the National Anthem before each showing. I remember my dad staunchly remaining seated as the rest of the cinema stood around us.

If you have a local independent cinema, it's always worth asking them if they'll request a copy from the producers for screening. I used to do that in my small-town cinema and sometimes they got stuff in. If they didn't have much interest for Blockbuster films midweek, they always used to screen...

YouTube trailer here I saw this last night at the Showroom in Sheffield. It's currently showing there at 20:45 every evening this week and I recommend anyone local goes to see it, I imagine it will do the rounds at independent cinemas across the UK as well. There is no dialogue, only...

I'm not much of a hunter, it seemed simple enough for me to find it. BCA Website -> News -> Agenda -> Read Agenda There's also a ticker on the home page that takes you straight to the agenda, and Googling "BCA caving agenda" took me straight there. Here's a link for anyone struggling...

Makes sense, even if it sounds like a funny headline. If we're going to start introducing carbon taxes to incentivise industry into making their processes more carbon-friendly, then this is no different to asking any other industry to adopt better approaches. From an agricultural point-of-view...

I can't speak from personal experience but it sounds like the far reaches of Redhurst Swallet in the Manifold region are a fairly challenging narrow trip. Though an extended period of very dry weather is required to get to Pink Chamber at the very end.

Ice Cream Trail in Rowter Hole Most of the connections in the (relatively) recently discovered Cussey Pot The connection between Perryfoot and Dr Jackson's Giant's-Oxlow connection Crusader Series in Oxlow

I'm pretty sure if social media and forums were about in previous decades, and the access to rescue reports was just as at-your-fingertips, you'd have seen just as much silliness back in the day. Unfortunately the constant news and media stream that we consume each day leads us to believe that...

In the past 5-or-so years my "generation" of student cavers graduated and we've gone into separate Dales clubs, I personally know about 5-10 young people who have gone into each of the NPC, BPC, and RRCPC, and there's been a fair few go into the TSG in the past few years as well. My own...

I originally thought you meant taking your daughter on the Langstroth Pot -> Cave through trip as a way to get back into caving, which would be a trial by fire to say the least! When you say "middle entrance" do you mean the one closest to the downstream end of the sumps? I've only ever been in...

Eureka!