It helps if it is going to 'improve ' the site ie good drainage + safety esp in 20-50 years time !!!!! Also encourage the fact it may make the site much more interesting--ie as to what could be there . Sorry but 'digs 'can be a nightmare to man +beast when the shoring has gone use a concrete...

The answer is in maths!!--a warning of an unsafe rocks /flood risk or a new find TV show hits 1K people or so in UK Caving in a very short time, a write up in a club journal /newsletter has a hit of 1-2 hundred maybe much later ! Lots of times I have seen it happen for the best.

In the 1960-70s it was thought that radio could not work underground ,.one Red Rose member found long wave (ie Radio 4) did .On trips to Bull pot of the witches near the end he would turn it on very slightly !! What a lot of fun hard cavers would go ashen excuses to go out and the looked...

The last ladder was an awkward climb that you could pull a muscle on, not best after a long digging trip also a long way to fall if you went down the next bit It is .cemented in at the bottom to stabilise it a a bit . The other one makes the climb a lot easier a new cord on both would do well...

In the 1960s to us young lads ''he was the salt of the earth'' such was reliability etc each weekend we could go good trips or up the top of the mountains .We knew somehow we would get home for tea +medals!!!!!!!!! He also was involved in opening up Wretched Rabbit ,Sylvester, reopening of Top...

In 1967 six of us went down Penyghent Pot Me and two other RRCPC-Roger Calvert (an Elvis looking person )and Ian Wilkinson and 3 others Happy Wanders Caving Club?Can anyone say if they were there/know who was?!!! It was an unforgettable trip in the early days of home made wetsuits (that made us...

Sorry a mistake I do not know how I got this message on The very capable HANNAH RRCPC is organising I do think it will be a good do all the best

This was a HARD trip. On July 4 1897 severn set off with a cart horse up Kingsdale with1700ft of rope 200 ft of rope ladder lots of coils of telephone wire, flare lamps crow bars etc weighing many hundredweights which the severn then struggled up the fell .(as the report warns -this type of hole...

A look back:- yes it was horrible -with the pandemic Biblical weather lockdowns etc HOWEVER on refection taking care caving in the UK had (in no special order)   Excellent new discoveries by hard perstant work in Darbyshire-Cussy pot (Eylam) and a New mater cave The Dales -a major find on...

open sat +sunday for now so good to get a cavers breakfast very tasty  I did not know till recently i must have been in a cave!! Also a new survey to gloat over upstairs All good

Danger- report from RRCPC Lose rocks just below entrance pipe

For the record- A reliable verbal report from the 1970s (but lost) re Dunld Mill Hole (SD 5159 6762) shows a Dye test  of 8 hours(max dye ion 12 hours) to Nether Beck Farm (SD508 710 which is 500meters downstream of the rising 3 kilometres  and 30 m lower than the sump in Dunald Mill Hole! Sump...

Thai rescue  is on tv channel 91 PBS AMERICA this Monday 29 June 7-30 to 8-40 PM a documentary

BEWARE NASTY POTHOLES ON THIS ROAD mainly two at the "top "level bit before the small "hill"I mist the deep one but not its mate THAT COST A NEW TYRE :weep: ONLY JUST ROOM ON THE RIGHT TO MISS BOTH I have told the right pothole repair people and said that the road used a lot and for emergencyuse