This is a thread on memes. Isn't that obvious. Please start another thread yourself to talk about other issues that concern you. Thank you

Please take the hint about topic. Thank you.

I'll jump back in if I may and expand on the points I was making a few days ago. It is difficult to write good articles on UK caving activities with any frequency as just not that much happens across the regions. It is possible if you are an entertaining writer to publish interesting stuff on...

You'll never fill a bi monthly magazine like Descent with UK based content. There just isn't enough of it. On top of that some groups seem to prefer to keep their UK activities a closely guarded secret so that limits content even more. I love reading about foreign caving exploits myself and I...

Ditto, I had some which were damaged and contacted Suunto. Nothing worth doing to repair them I'm afraid. Put them on the scrap heap along with all those Disto Xs which can't be repaired either ;)

Katie may have that information. My guess is that it would be around 25% female max. We did a questionnaire at a CHECC forum AGM some years ago. I think it had about 100 respondents and showed 56% male, 31% female and the rest did not identify/answer.

Here they are, although they will also be with BCA somewhere. Probably attached to minutes. Shame this sort of stuff gets lost or no one thinks to continue it.

Yes, that does look more plausible.

Thanks for posting the ages graph. I'd be interested in the age trend of BCA members. I started the age demographic analysis when I was on council myself with a view to discovering whether the membership was aging. If this were so then BCA might be concerned that as cavers drop off the perch...

My guess, based on some guesses, guesses that there are about 6000 BCA members. Perhaps a few more 6300. Say 700 of those are DIMs and a couple of hundred CIMs haven't renewed yet. So 5400 divided by 140 equals 38.5714285714 :unsure: :)

Younger and less broken i reckon. You have first dibs

We're thinking of subcontracting it out ;). Dr Nobel could play a part but neither that nor a tirfor would help stabilise everything else which is loose and over head. It's a difficult one.

Hey all, guess what, it's me ;):):clap: Since it was introduced in 2016 this position has remained unfilled. The idea is to have someone on the CNCC committee to represent those who cave independent of the club structure. This is a significant number of cavers. I've no idea how many but 20%...

Well it won't hurt prospects but there is little to go at which the original explorers hadn't had a good look at. Epic bolting at Llean Bean and the Cumbrian, plus almost all other climbing leads. Impressive stuff when you consider most of it was done from Rift Pot. So to answer your question...