Recent content by ahinde

I miss understood the water diversion situation. The water is actually diverted from above the entrance taking it away to the huge shakehole to the West with the big dig in the bottom. This has considerably reduced the surface water intake to Quaking Pot. It is clearly nothing to do with YDNP...

I think a team have been doing track repairs around Ingleborough recently. I will have a run up there and check if water diversions are impacting the SSSI features ( caves). It is clearly not in cavers interests to divert water here. It would be useful to know how long this diversion has been in...

I have a warmbac one piece double lined suit that has most of the short-comings you mentioned Pitlamp. However, it is pretty indestructible in the leisurely type of caving I can manage.  When new 9 years ago it was a poor fit, but I have grown into it in an alarming way recently. One of the...

I claim my prize as the 100th voter ! :bounce: It is reassuring that David Rose is leading on this project. Having seen his update to BCA Council I think we can all relax a bit regarding the legal timetable.

I like to think that of the 170 plus BCA registered clubs - most of the large clubs made the effort to vote in the house of groups. There are a lot of micro clubs who are members of BCA to access regional permit schemes and unlikely to be engaged in BCA "politics". Similarly , the list of Mining...

I don't agree with New Stuff that a divergent vote would be an existential threat to BCA. On line voting for the AGM is a big step forward, even if it remains a painful and laborious 2 house system. This is though,our chance to support BCA and the new officers and members of Council who are...

At a recent BCA council meeting there was a debate introduced by the Insurance Manager about "associate member" clubs of BCA. ie small multi activity clubs who's members do not take BCA caver insurance. This arose because BCA insurance needs to be a membership benefit for all members to keep...

We used a 12v caravan water pump very successfully at Crackpot cave clean up, thanks to Fred Rattray and his battery array in a peli case. This borrowed equipment will hopefully be designed and built for the CNCC equipment store and will be paid for by the Stories in Stone project funded by HLF...

The on line booking system for the Hypogenic Caves field meeting suffered a glitch late last week. If you tried and failed to process your booking, please try again now as it is now fixed. Thanks to Dave Gibson. :clap2:

Alternative Fact Alert - The "new discovery" puts it in the top 50 longest caves in the country( not top 10 ). I apologise to the explorers for embarrassing them with my Kellyanne Conway stile outburst. It is no less a worthy cave for all that. Meanwhile - places on the Knock Fell Caverns trip...

This is a great opportunity to hear about a new cave discovery in the North Pennines which makes it into the top 10 longest caves in the country. ( not Hudgill ) Also -find out about where to find undiscovered maze caves , and how. Fantastic wildlife and scenery within the geology guided walks...

I think there may be an exposure of porcellanous bed at High Brae in Ribblesdale. I came across some samples whilst walling a gap on the lower wall of High Brae within the Ingleborough NNR. I later traced the source of the stone to an area of small cliff edges at SD 794734. It fractures in the...

The caves booked for this North Pennines field meeting have a fixed number of cavers permitted each day. If you want to be sure of getting a place on your first choice cave - please get your booking in ASAP via the BCRA website. First come First served. The choices are all remarkable caves in...

Well done Matt. I realise how difficult it can be to "get back in the saddle" when you have been brought down by  caving colleagues that you have always respected. It must be a bitter and deflating experience to see one's loyalty abused the way you have. It is a very brave decision that I am...

CNCC have received a project plan to clean up all the refuse and digging/banging paraphernalia from Jackdaw Hole. Does anyone know who this gear may belong too? If nobody owns up - the CNCC conservation vols will assist the applicant with removal and recycling of said waste. ( I remember Richard...