Recent content by paul

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    Carabiners - Uses & Preferences...

    Of course you can simply ignore them. Such discussions are what a Forum like this is for, and some people probably find them useful.
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    Progress capture pulley. Which one?

    Bear in mind that if you are using any progress capture device to belay anyone, you need to be able to quickly change over to lowering if you need to.
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    "Voice tube" for communication

    Sounds like the voice tubes they used on ships in the past. Seems like a good idea!
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    Best Ever Wildlife Song

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    Take care in Odin Mine.

    That must have happened recently as we were in Odin last week and the scaffold bar was fine.
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    Caving Memes

    Moderator comment: Caving meme? Please keep on topic.
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    Username changes

    colinfoord -> SquelchSquelchSquelch
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    BCRA online seminar tonight!

    I also think it was a very good presentation. I have been caving in Clare many times and it's nice to see cavers helping out with archaeology.
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    New Avanti leg loops slipping

    Yes - the purple Petzl harnesses were known to have the slipping issue.
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    Best ever bands that are still hanging around

    And it's Eric Clapton's 79th birthday today coincidentally - and he's another who is still playing.
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    Best ever bands that are still hanging around

    Peter Gabriel as a solo artist - bought a CD of his latest "I/O" which was released in December so still pretty current. Also U2 of course.
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    AI Wezzit

    Actually, the picture is cropped as shown without clicking on it. If viewed via a browser on a PC / laptop and clicked on, the filename and user name and date as above are still not shown (as a moderator myself) but if you click on the photo when viewed va a browser on an Android phone (maye...
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    Latitude of Clapham

    The Grid Reference Finder website can be useful for this. See https://gridreferencefinder.com/#gr=SD7446769279|Point_s_A|1 for an example. Right-click on the selected point on the map an you get location data like this:
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    2024 DCA Peak District Cave Exploration Prize

    Moderator comment: First post edited as requested.
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