Are you sure you thought this was a good idea for a thread........?

Late night on a survey trip. Usual 2nd hand phone camera - lighting solely surveyor's headtorch.

Gang? Gang??

I was merely an observer to events, but they did enlarge and then excavate their way into a low streamway, They disappeared from view into the passage for quite a while. I was getting cold and left before they emerged, but seeing as how they were taking the full force of the stream throughout...

Bolt-climb in Yordas. Cheap 2nd hand phone, with lighting courtesy of others' 'throw everything including the kitchen sink at it' method.

On the theme of surface related caving photos - Here's a glimpse of one of the many unsung heroes of caving; in this instance dragging the new lid for F'ing Hopeless up onto Leck Fell the other day, without feeling the need to 'bang on' about it via BBC news or a YouTube channel...... ;)

I find that the days of stiff and unwieldy harnesses are a thing of the past since I started using this harness wash and conditioner, all in one convenient bottle.

You're paying for the will it?/won't it? adrenalin buzz.

So, have I got this correct? The older graffiti is important cultural artefact, but the newer graffiti is vandalism, and that people leaving loads of rubbish/detritus in an abandoned mine is disgraceful because it's spoiling the ambience created by all the scrap cars which had previously been...

Derigging exploratory traverse - North Pennines - 2nd hand phone & subject's caplamp