Printed copies of the newsletter are off the press, and on their way to club huts outside of our region and other usual locations. For northern clubs with huts, please collect these at our meeting on Saturday (9:30am, Clapham Village Hall) if possible to save postage. Do you know any local...

We’re pleased to publish our 17th newsletter (June 2025). We well as providing a compilation of all news related to anchoring, conservation, training and access from the last six months, we also have some bespoke articles looking at the recent Dartmoor ruling, work to restore access to North...

**** CNCC Committee Meeting Saturday 21st June, Clapham Village Hall, 9:30am **** Reports and supporting documents for this Saturday's Committee meeting have now been added to our website, to supplement the agenda. https://cncc.org.uk/meetings/ We're pleased to be on course to co-opt three...

What a great initiative to help bring cavers together. For the caves of Easegill which feature on our online booking system (County, Lancaster, Cow, Top Sink, Pool Sink, Wretched Rabbit and a few others) we have blocked these out for the duration of the event. This does not mean you can't...

The responses to the consultation above are now in, and can be viewed on the YDNP website: https://www.yorkshiredales.org.uk/about/national-park-management-plan/partnership/the-new-management-plan-2025-2030/ In particular, the consultation report says that there were 38 organisational...

Our anchor installers are regularly underground across northern regions. In the last four years they have clocked up at least eight completely new anchoring projects (including several newly discovered caves), with others currently on-the-go, several anchor replacement projects, as well as...

A rather interesting article about how we deal with reports of defective anchors, including a recent example at Rumbling Hole... https://cncc.org.uk/article/how-do-we-deal-with-defective-anchors-20250511 Sorry about the choice of screen-grab Ian - we just couldn't resist! And a quick link...

Excellent work Badlad and team, and a great project to retain access to St George's Hall. Great to see the trademark 90-degree beautiful scaffolding that we've come to recognise from your (many) other recent discoveries, all done to the highest standard.

The full story of the work in Swinsto Hole and Simpson Pot is on our website, and the topos now contain additional guidance on use of the new anchors and chains to ensure the best results for a pull-through. https://cncc.org.uk/article/simpson-swinsto-re-anchoring-complete-20250428 The general...

At the end of March, we received a note via our website reporting form that a fencepost had come down surrounding Rumbling Hole, leaving the hole open to sheep. It was actually back in 1995 that CNCC arranged the fencing of all of the major open pots on Leck Fell, and since then it has been a...

Well done to all our volunteers who go this work done ahead of schedule and to a high standard. Our report, with a few additional photos and details here: https://cncc.org.uk/article/foxholes-restoration-20250425 Badlad, you ask a very fair question... why go to the effort (and cost to...

Following some lengthy discussion and considerations about the technical specifications, the chains were installed in Simpson Pot yesterday on Slit Pot, Slit Pot Overhead and Swinsto Great Aven routes to allow for more efficient pull-through on these pitches. One of the adaptations to the...

A bump to this thread - volunteers still needed - please PM Kay directly if you can help.

Hello all Last March we posted the following warning relating to Foxholes at Gaping Gill: We've managed to get permission from Ingleborough Estate to perform restoration work at the entrance on 8th and 9th April, to clear the collapse. We've already emailed our conservation volunteer mailing...

Thank you to everyone to came along to our AGM - about 43 people in total - including 7 online. This was a superb meeting in which we achieved a decisive mini-overhaul/modernisation of our constitution. On top of that there was considerable support to continuing the review process to see how we...