Typical aluminium alloys or pure aluminium has good corrosion resistance, but the high strength alloy used in carabiners has copper added which significantly reduces their corrosion resistance.

Tame by modern standards...

Is there a regional split possibly? I would imagine evening digs are often more practical in the Mendips then many in Yorkshire with longer walk-ins (at least considering surface/shallow digs)

Felt like more than 8mm in Ingleton yesterday - pretty much wet all day

I think I mostly manage to avoid the cold these days... although in a recent trip down White Scar, my nice sleeveless 5mm wetsuit (with a cheaper wetsuit top) was much less warm than I was expecting with a lot of flushing coming through from the 'rear' region... after coming out of the cave, I...

Pretty sure that solar watch will still have a (rechargeable) battery (or a super-capacitor or similar) and a quartz oscillator. Not that any of that is a bad thing (although I think I did eventually need to replace the battery in an old solar watch I used to have as I presume it wore out - this...

At least some Mendips cavers should, I imagine, be coming to RESCON this weekend?

Most (all?) of the major supermarkets do a cheap (50-60p) 30-odd gram vegan chocolate bar (usually in white or chocolate varieties) in the free-from section. A couple of these are my normal cave snack now (for normal trips). Probably not the best from a nutritional or sports performance point of...

Does that include the two anchors in the outcrop of rock in the field on the other side of the fence at the top? (the ones you'd never notice unless someone tells you they are there, but I assumed were better than the rusting metal stake at the top of the path) Are there any plans to add CNCC...

I am a big fan of staples, but only when they are bombproof because if a staple fails, you are likely going to fall down the hole. At least with a ladder you can make a reasonable assessment of how crappy it is. So nice stainless (not critical) steps (i.e. expensive), ideally attached with...

Is that wrong-way-round bolt an 8mm throughbolt screwed into a spit? If so, I would probably trust that anchor more than the rest (as it's on a nice rusty maillon without so much obvious corrosion on the hanger, not a heavily-corroded aluminum carabiner with fuzzy hangers)...

Thread necromancy! Went down Grange Rigg today intending to get to the bottom but (as described above) discovered the Sledge Hammer Pot squeeze impassable, so no black book tick for me :( I'm hoping to get down Pay Sank at some point and get to the other side from there (which I think would...

Found a small AA-battery Fenix torch (very similar to the one I have on the side of my helmet as a backup, but an older model) in Grange Rigg today.

If we are posting full cars, then this is from the Dachstein 2023 which was less full than the Dachstein 2024 (where we had 4 people in the car and had to get the cargo net thing that stops stuff flying over the back seats): But if you want an actual bag photo, then there are disappointing few...

I wouldn't fancy using it with single-bolt rebelays or tricky traverses on 8mm throughbolts or knackered old spits in dubious rock though :P there's safety in stretch...