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    What size bag do I need to take kit on a plane

    You can wear your wellies on the plane - they slip on and off beautifully for security
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    Too Much " Foreign Stuff " In Caving Mags. and Journals ?

    A small part of me thinks it's a little bit of covid lag but I suspect if you go back through issues that might not bear out. I think this mirrors society at large and the decline in local news. We have a diminishing number of publications, and a diminishing number of contributors. I think it's...
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    Caving Memes

    [citation needed] You'd have thought property taxes affecting generational wealth are far more progressive than a tax that actively makes people from lower income backgrounds who succeed pay more than people who have lower earning potential but large amounts of inherited wealth.
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    Peak cavernTrenches, mud collapse

    Now that's an idea...
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    Derbyshire sport trips tier list

    You gave me a crisis of confidence compiling a subjective list - is my opinion valid 😂 I've managed to correct your list. PS I'm too fat for Derbyshire hall and too sensible for CoH
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    After The Show.

    I'd have to stop my persistent habit of swearing when interacting with cavers if anything I did was available online! I agree though I think there's a role for some of the presentations to be recorded, it sucks to have been a speaker at the event and not be able to attend half the talks I wanted...
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    Exeter (can probably make it to Bristol/Mendip) to Slough by Wednesday 14th?

    Small package (disto battery) for pick up to go to Greece
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    DistoX sharing for expeditions

    There are multiple surveying devices coming through: You have the SAP5 coming out - though I don't think for this expedition season though Phil may correct me on that. If push comes to shove though I'm happy for you to have my SAP4 (all fully integrated with Topodroid) if needed. It's also...
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    State of Play in the BCA

    It's almost as if there's a group of disenchanted volunteers who have been mismanaged or forced into a path of opposition. I didn't agree with many previous chairs and worked with many people who had opposite views to my own. About 90% of the work is uncontroversial. However this idea that 'the...
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    State of Play in the BCA

    Yeah it was somewhat flippant. My bad. I'm aware this statement was written specifically to trigger me rather than to communicate with the members. There are many problems with this statement: 1) 'Publications and Information Officer (P&I) role being vacant who would ordinarily have undertaken...
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    State of Play in the BCA

    Wow. Good to see the inabillity to admit your own shortcomings hasn't gone away. They kind of have to know what needs doing. The only reluctance I can see is working with a highly dysfunctional executive. We could fill all the positions if you step down
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    3D cave scanning in Devon

    It has been discussed before but would require significant increase in data storage capacity, I did offer to write a funding proposal for the registry but I suspect a standard format/resolution/file size would be needed first. I'm not sure scanning will replace 'traditional methods' -...
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    Nominations deadline for the AGM closing midnight Sunday 19th March

    Any news? I mean the lack of either the secretary or chair of the organisation offering even a simple explanation onto this thread/the website/anything anywhere is shameful. They should cop to the shoddy job they're doing but because it involves being held to account they pretend that talking...
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    Caves around Holyhead?

    There are 2 main geological formations on Cybi - the quartzite which is what Stuart is referring to and makes up the big lump of 'Holyhead mountain' and the alternating siltstone and sandstone that make up the South stack area and rhoscolyn which is where you can find many of the sea caves as...
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    Caves around Holyhead?

    There's karst on Môn but nothing on Cybi itself. If you want tourist trips there's a lot to pick from: - for caves I'd go on caves of North Wales; now on the Cambrian website https://cambriancavingcouncil.org.uk/registry/CoNW/CoNW.htm These are mostly in the East in the alyn and minera...
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